Reuters: Top News

Flush so we don't blush, Taiwan city says - July 8, 2008

TAIPEI (Reuters) - A city in south Taiwan began training potty users this week to flush toilet paper instead of throwing it in the trash, to reduce 340 tonnes of stinky waste generated daily, local media and officials said on Tuesday.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2008-07-08T04011...

Anglicans still split over women bishops - July 8, 2008

LONDON (Reuters) - The Church of England's governing body confirmed on Monday it will ordain women bishops but also approved measures to accommodate traditionalist opponents.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2008-07-08T03020...

Mercenary Simon Mann gets 34 years in jail - July 8, 2008

MALABO (Reuters) - Mercenary Simon Mann was jailed for 34 years by a court in Equatorial Guinea on Monday for a failed 2004 coup plot in which he said former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's son was also involved.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2008-07-08T03272...

China targets Mongolians in crackdown - July 8, 2008

HOHHOT, China (Reuters) - In China's pre-Olympics crackdown on dissent two communities have received considerable global attention -- the Tibetans and the Muslim Uighurs of Xinjiang.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2008-07-08T02510...

Gels to protect women from HIV may help men more - July 8, 2008

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gels aimed at helping women protect themselves from the AIDS virus may end up helping men as much or more, researchers predicted on Monday.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2008-07-08T02333...

EU optimistic about G8 climate deal - July 8, 2008

TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - The Group of Eight leaders are set on Tuesday to take an "important step" forward on fighting global warming, the stickiest issue at their summit, a European Union source said.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2008-07-08T02131...

Firms' cashflow weakest in 16 years - July 8, 2008

LONDON (Reuters) - Falling sales in a weak home market have left firms facing their worst cashflow situation since records began in 1992, a survey from the British Chamber of Commerce showed on Tuesday.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2008-07-08T01553...

High prices nudge Europe nearer to GM food - July 8, 2008

ZURICH (Reuters) - Like many in Europe, Switzerland's Coop supermarkets do not specify whether goods are genetically modified -- none are. But a wave of food inflation may help wash away resistance to "Frankenstein foods".
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2008-07-08T01411...

Detained migrants cling to EU dream - July 8, 2008

PAVSHYNO, Ukraine (Reuters) - "Who paid money to be a prisoner" reads the graffiti on the wall of an illegal migrant detention camp in Ukraine where hundreds of Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Somalians and Vietnamese are being held.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2008-07-08T01262...

Russia seen to back Litvinenko murder - July 7, 2008

LONDON (Reuters) - The Russian state backed the murder in London of former KGB agent and Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko, according to British security sources quoted by the BBC on Monday.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2008-07-07T21220...