News Archive - 1 September 2015

>WASHINGTON Supporters of the international nuclear agreement with Iran moved within one vote of mustering enough support to protect the deal in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday when two more Democratic senators said they would support the pact.Senators Bob Casey and Chris Coons, known as Iran hard-liners, both...

>Coons, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, holds the Delaware U.S. Senate seat once held by Vice President Joe Biden. He was due to discuss his position on the Iran deal on Tuesday at the University of Delaware. To date, 31 Senate Democrats and two independents who...

>Bwin, up for sale since November, said it had received a revised offer from 888 and was evaluating it together with a proposal received from GVC Holdings. It did not give details of the new proposal. Bwin had previously accepted a 900 million-pound offer from 888, saying GVC's offer of...

>WASHINGTON Republican Jeb Bush offered his most direct assault on Donald Trump to date on Tuesday, retaliating for a series of personal insults with a review of his front-running rival's past record of supporting Democratic causes.In a Web video, the Bush campaign used Trump's own words in support of...

>WASHINGTON/NEW YORK An old friend of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton played an outsized role in advising her on U.S. politics and even her dealings with President Barack Obama's White House despite holding no formal government position.The State Department released emails on Monday that showed adviser Sid...

>The revamped logo, displayed as a Google Doodle on its homepage, spells 'Google' in a sans-serif typeface, similar to the one being used by Google's newly created holding company, Alphabet. (bit.ly/1EvU49a)The compact version of the logo, used to identify most of its apps, bids farewell to the little blue...

>TUEBINGEN SAP unveiled a new product on Tuesday that promises to help businesses make sense of a deluge of real-world data from retail transactions, transport systems and social media, hoping to persuade customers to switch from rival database suppliers.SAP HANA Vora, as the database query software will be known,...

>The upgrade by Instagram, which has more than 300 million users, is the latest move in the escalating battle for a young audience addicted to messaging with younger and hipper rival Snapchat, which has 100 million users and growing. The new features mean Instagram users can share pictures directly with...

>Sporadic shelling and shooting, which each side has blamed on the other, had ensured a steadily mounting death toll despite the ceasefire called as part of a peace plan worked out in Minsk, Belarus, in February. Government and separatist representatives agreed last week to strive to end all violations from...

>BUDAPEST/BERLIN Hundreds of angry migrants demonstrated outside Budapest's Eastern Railway Terminus on Tuesday demanding they be allowed to travel on to Germany, as the biggest ever influx of migrants into the European Union left its asylum policies in tatters.Around 1,000 people waved tickets, clapping, booing and shouting "Germany! Germany!...

>NEW YORK The Federal Reserve will probably only gradually raise interest rates, irrespective of whether it decides to take the first step a few months earlier or later, a top U.S. central banker said on Tuesday.The dovish president of the Boston Fed, Eric Rosengren, said a more modest...

>OTTAWA The Canadian economy shrank again in the second quarter, putting the country in recession for the first time since the financial crisis, with a plunge in oil prices spurring companies to chop business investment.The confirmation on Tuesday of a modest recession will figure heavily into the election campaign...

>WASHINGTON U.S. factory activity braked to a more than two-year low in August, but sturdy gains in automobile sales and construction spending suggested the economy remained on solid footing.The sharp slowdown in manufacturing, which has been hurt by a strong dollar and deep spending cuts in the energy...

>Wall Street slumped more than 2 percent on Tuesday, pushing all three major U.S. indexes into losses for the year after weak data from China added to fears that a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy will constrain global growth.The sell off was broad. All 10 major S&P...