WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA gave visitors to the National Mall in Washington a peek at a full-size mock-up of the spacecraft designed to carry U.S. astronauts back to the moon and then on to Mars one day.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA’s outreach to the public to drum up interest in the International Space Station started innocently enough with an online contest to name the station’s new living quarters.
LONDON (Reuters) - World Bank President Robert Zoellick announced a billion global trade liquidity program on Tuesday and urged G20 leaders to support the effort to reverse a sharp drop in trade due to the global economic crisis.
* U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.8 percent, Dow Jones futures 0.8 percent higher, and Nasdaq 100 up 1.1 percent at 0903 GMT.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama ordered General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC to accelerate their survival efforts and brace for possible bankruptcy, saying neither company had done enough to justify the taxpayer money they were seeking.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is heading for only a tepid recovery next year, and the central bank may need to buy even more assets to combat the growing threat of deflation, the OECD said on Tuesday.
BANGALORE (Reuters) - U.S. aircraft maker Boeing Co will deliver 100 planes worth billion over the next four to five years in India, the president of its Indian operations said on Tuesday.
LONDON (Reuters) - World stocks looked set on Tuesday to achieve their best monthly performance in more than six years in March, while commodity prices also rose and the Japanese yen fell.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Fortis NV outlined its future as a viable insurance group on Tuesday after plunging to a 28 billion euro ( billion) loss in 2008 due to writedowns on the carve-out of its banking activities.
TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) - Asian policymakers are preoccupied with China’s “war of nerves” over the U.S. dollar’s global status rather than the impact of the Fed’s debt buying on their vast dollar-linked savings, officials told Reuters.
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