HOUSTON (Reuters) – The Seaway pipeline began pumping crude from Cushing, Oklahoma, oil tanks to the heart of the U.S. refining industry in Houston on Saturday, marking a historic shift in the way oil flows across the United States. The first barrels went into the line about noon CDT (1700 GMT) Saturday and volumes...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Europe’s second largest lender Russia‘s Sberbank will see some certainty over the planned privatization sale after the new Russian government’s lineup is announced on May 21, CEO German Gref said on Saturday. Sberbank initially planned the sale of the 7.6 percent...
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chen Guangcheng, a blind activist whose campaign for justice in China threatened to upend relations between the world’s two superpowers, does not believe in waiting for miracles. For Chen, his extraordinary achievements over the past month – from his escape from...
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari arrived in Chicago on Saturday for a NATO summit to what could be a chilly reception if a hoped-for deal allowing trucks to again supply alliance troops in Afghanistan fails to materialize. While Western officials sought...
(Reuters) – The nation’s largest civil rights group, the NAACP, endorsed gay marriage on Saturday, giving a boost to the movement to legalize same-sex nuptials despite reservations expressed by some black ministers. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People passed the resolution...
WASHINGTON – There were a couple new faces in town at the annual Group of Eight summit, and a couple new allies for President Obama, who has been urging Europeans to follow America’s lead. And with 4 million jobs created in the United States...
Spectral Instruments may be a small company, but it has already designed several impressive cameras, including one called 1110 series that can capture the stars and the sun even in the middle of the day. The company’s products have been designed … Continue …