CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) – World temperatures could soar by 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) by the 2060s in the worst case of global climate change and require an annual investment of 0 billion just to contain rising sea levels, studies suggested on Sunday.

LONDON (Reuters) – Human excreta could have a key role in securing future food security, helping prevent a sharp drop in yields of crops such as wheat due to a shortage of phosphorus inputs, a UK organic body said on Monday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two U.S. astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut back to earth from the International Space Station landed safely in Kazakhstan on Friday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks edged down in a low-volume session on Monday on worries Europe’s credit crisis will spread despite a weekend agreement to bail out Ireland.



TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) – Factories in Japan and South Korea cut output in October, adding to evidence of an Asia-wide slowdown and boding ill for the rest of the world that has relied on the region to…



BANGALORE (Reuters) – Google Inc is inching toward buying e-commerce coupon website Groupon Inc for as much as billion, the New York Times said on Tuesday.



NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Retailers from Amazon.com Inc to Target Corp offered steep online discounts to shoppers on Cyber Monday, aiming to win additional sales after a strong start to the…



TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese prosecutors will open an investigation into possible insider trading involving shares of Wal-Mart’s Japanese subsidiary Seiyu, the Nikkei business daily said on its website…



NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Starbucks Corp and Kraft Foods Inc began airing a messy divorce on Monday, fighting over who gets what in the dissolution of a partnership through which Kraft sells…



DETROIT/TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp will pay to fix about 650,000 Prius models worldwide for a coolant pump glitch that could cause the top-selling hybrid to overheat and lose power, the…


