SANTA MARIA, Brazil (Reuters) – Brazilian police investigating a nightclub fire that killed 231 people detained on Monday the owners of the club and two band members w hose pyrotechnics show authorities say triggered the blaze. No charges were filed against the four men, but prosecutors said they could be held for up to five days as police press them for clues as to how the fire early Sunday morning could have caused so many deaths. Stunned residents in the southern city of Santa Maria attended a marathon of funerals beginning in the pre-dawn hours. … Asian shares up, cautious before Fed, U.S. data
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian shares rose on Tuesday after solid U.S. data, but investors remained cautious ahead of more U.S. economic reports and a Federal Reserve policy decision later in the week that may offer clues to the Fed's stimulus plans. The MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was up 0.3 percent. Australian shares rallied 0.8 percent to a fresh 21-month high led by shares in the financials sectors as the U.S. S&P 500 index closed above 1,500 for the first time since 2007. Australian markets were closed on Monday for a holiday. South Korean shares opened up 0. … Tesla CEO extends help to Boeing on battery issue
DETROIT (Reuters) – Elon Musk has long considered Tesla Motors Inc the bold, nimble answer to the auto industry's cautious culture. Now the electric car maker's top executive has extended his help to another industrial giant: Boeing Co . In a January 26 message on Twitter, Musk said he was in talks with the chief engineer of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner plane, which regulators have grounded indefinitely after a string of malfunctions ranging from fuel leaks to battery meltdowns. "Desire to help Boeing is real & am corresponding w 787 chief engineer," Musk wrote on the social media website. … Governments fall short in fighting defense corruption: survey
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – More than two-thirds of countries, including many of the world’s largest arms traders, have inadequate safeguards to prevent corruption in their defense sectors, a survey by an anti-corruption watchdog said on Tuesday. Germany and Australia are the only countries out of 82 surveyed by Transparency International UK with strong anti-corruption mechanisms, according to what the watchdog says is the first index measuring how governments counter corruption in defense. …
UK seeing 10,000 complaints on mis-sold insurance per week
LONDO N (Reuters) – Britain's financial ombudsman service is receiving up to 10,000 new complaints about mis-sold loan insurance each week, pointing to a further rise in the compensation bill for banks. Banks have already set aside 12 billion pounds to compensate customers wrongly sold policies meant to protect borrowers who lost jobs or became ill, and industry sources have told Reuters they expect the number to double. … Philippine dictatorship victims to be compensated
MANIL A, Philippines (AP) -- Almost four decades after he was arrested and tortured and his sister disappeared into a maze of Philippine police cells and military houses, playwright Bonifacio Ilagan is finally seeing his suffering officially recognized. Several Australian towns flooded, 4 people killed
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) -- Thousands of Australians huddled in shelters Tuesday as torrential rains flooded cities and towns in the northeast, killing four people and prompting around 1,000 helicopter evacuations. Brazil: Bar codes built into Rio de Janeiro's mosaic sidewalks will link visitors to info
RIO DE JANEIRO – Rio de Janeiro is mixing technology with tradition to provide tourists information about the city by embedding bar codes into the black and white mosaic sidewalks that are a symbol of the city.
American Airlines jet bound for Brazil makes emergency landing in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – An American Airlines jet bound for Brazil has made an emergency landing in Puerto Rico.
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