NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch was memorialized on Monday as an in-your-face, wisecracking leader who helped transform the city from a symbol of urban decay to the vital, glittering metropolis it is today. As Koch's cask... [Full Article]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google unit Motorola Mobility is not entitled to ask a court to stop the sale of Apple iPhones and iPads that it says infringe on a patent that is essential to wireless technology, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Wedn... [Full Article]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, dispatched to look for the chemical ingredients and environments for microbial life, has found traces of compounds containing carbon, an essential building block for life, scientists said ... [Full Article]
The United Nations says it is pulling out all non-essential international staff from Syria due to security issues in the civil war-struck Arab state. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
(Alison Frankel writes the On the Case blog for Thomson Reuters News & Insight http://newsandinsight.com. The views expressed are her own.) (Reuters) - Standard-essential patents aren't providing as much leverage in the smart-device wars as ... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Traditional English fabrics like felts, velvets, tweed and tartan hit the catwalks as Burberry and McQ by Alexander McQueen revealed their autumn/winter 2012 collections in extravagant shows at London Fashion Week. McQ creative dir... [Full Article]
Britain's chief scientific adviser voiced concern Wednesday at moves to abandon nuclear power after Japan's Fukushima crisis, saying it remains vital to combat global warming. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
An interesting article in today's WSJ discusses how patients with an exceptionally rare disease – in this case, spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) – used social networks to find each other, to organize, and ultimately to drive research... [Full Article]