By Belinda Goldsmith CANNES, France (Reuters) - The Cannes film festival gets underway on Wednesday with Australian director Baz Luhrmann's 3D extravaganza "The Great Gatsby", a lavish production eclipsing more modest launches in recen... [Full Article]
By Belinda Goldsmith CANNES, France (Reuters) - The Cannes film festival may get some of its swagger back on Wednesday when it opens with Baz Luhrmann's lavish 3D period drama "The Great Gatsby", an opportunity to shed the caution of r... [Full Article]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Congress headed toward another showdown over the "fiscal cliff" on Tuesday as Republicans in the House of Representatives mounted a last-ditch effort to reshape a tax deal meant to prevent Washington from pushing ... [Full Article]
Good news for RIM (RIMM): It may win back a big government client that decided weeks ago to switch to the iPhone. The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) is planning to launch a pilot program next year that will test out RI... [Full Article]
A Palestinian spokeswoman says a bid to seek U.N. recognition of a state of Palestine in Israeli-occupied lands is a last-ditch attempt to rescue the troubled Mideast peace efforts. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Paul Ryan is preparing for the biggest speech of his career on Wednesday, when he will accept the Republican vice presidential nomination in front of a television audience of tens of millions of voters. Style experts hope h... [Full Article]
The first step in Google's (GOOG) plan for reviving Motorola was to lay off 4,000 workers and creating a DARPA-like research team focused on finding cutting-edge tech. The next step, unnamed sources have told Digitimes, will be to get the company to ... [Full Article]
CORRINGHAM, England (Reuters) - Workers at Coryton refinery, which is slated for closure, said on Wednesday they would hold protests to try to disrupt fuel supplies the weekend before the Olympic games begin in a last-ditch bid to save their jobs. Sh... [Full Article]
Australia's Girl Guides will no longer promise to serve the queen or uphold their duty to God, choosing instead to "be true to myself" and "serve my community and Australia". (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
Russian's desire to keep its last remaining ally in the Middle East collided head-long with the United States' desire to remove President Bashar Assad and replace him with a democracy at a pivotal United Nations-brokered conference Saturday... [Full Article]