US STOCKS SNAPSHOT-Wall St slides after weak private jobs data

NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Gold surged 2.5 percent on Thursday, its biggest daily rise since June, as physical buyers kept scooping up the metal at prices viewed as a bargain after bullion hit a two-year low on April 15.

Obama was thus left feeling "the heat Thursday after calling a powerful female official smoking hot" as the New York Daily News put it Reuters Washington: President Barack Obama has praised California's Indian-American Attorney General Kamala Harris not only ...

New York, May 3 : Most Americans get around 13 percent of their calories from added sweeteners, a new study suggests.

New York, Apr 18 : Both in Syria where conditions are daily worsening, and in Mali where security has much improved, a political solution is the only answer for long-term stability, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday in a news ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks dropped on Wednesday, retreating from their second-best daily performance of the year in the prior session after a batch of disappointing earnings reports and another drop in commodities. Bank of America Corp ( BAC.N ) ...

NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - The price of gold bullion tumbled another $125 per ounce on Monday in its biggest-ever daily loss, as investors liquidated bullish bets en masse after months of disappointment over the performance of the precious metal. In ...

New York, Mar 22 : The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Thursday that almost 90 percent of children deaths from diarrhoeal diseases are directly linked to contaminated water, lack of sanitation, or inadequate hygiene.

The New York Times prototypes a new site design for readability, while The Daily Mail mints money by actively thwarting it. The New York Times revealed a prototype of a new online article experience yesterday. Was it a bold technical experiment, a new ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who get a little more than the recommended daily amount of iron in their diets may be less likely to get a more severe form of premenstrual syndrome (PMS), according to a new study.