HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba will soon turn some small-scale manufacturing and retail services into cooperatives as the state retreats from minor businesses in an effort to boost the island's troubled economy, government and Communist Party sources said. The moves are the latest reforms by President ...

Hermine's path kept it away from major oil and gas installations in the Gulf of Mexico, and refineries in Texas were unaffected by the passage of the storm, operators said. The storm was expected to weaken during the next 48 hours and become a tropical depression later Tuesday.

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan has frozen the assets of leading shareholders and borrowers at Kabulbank, officials said on Tuesday, throwing graft-riddled Afghanistan's top private bank into crisis and sparking long queues of anxious investors. Afghanistan is one of the world's most corrupt ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Google Inc will launch its service to bring the Web to TV screens in the United States this autumn and worldwide next year, its chief executive said, as it extends its reach from the desktop to the living room. CEO Eric Schmidt said the service, which will allow full Internet ...

HERZLIYA, Israel (Reuters Life!) - Israeli start-up firm Tawkon has developed software to measure mobile telephone handset radiation aimed at helping users reduce exposure to emissions without giving up their phones. Tawkon's (pronounced talk-on) application is already available for Research In ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Silicon Valley technology giant Oracle Corp has hired Mark Hurd, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co who resigned amid a scandal, as president. Hurd, a close friend of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison will replace Charles Phillips, who has resigned, Oracle said in a ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan has frozen the assets of leading shareholders and borrowers at Kabulbank, the country's top private lender, after the resignation of two top directors triggered a crisis, officials said on Tuesday. The central bank on Monday ordered the assets of Kabulbank's former ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The hallucinogen psilocybin -- known by the street name magic mushrooms -- may help ease the anxiety that often accompanies late-stage cancer, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Cancer patients given a moderate dose of psilocybin -- a hallucinogen with effects similar to LSD -- ...

"It's become common wisdom that to advance your career you need to look for better jobs at different companies. But contrary to what most people say, research has shown that job-hopping may not be the best - or quickest - way to the top. In fact, moves within the same company produce a ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Millions of commuters across the British capital struggled to get to work on Tuesday as a 24-hour strike by workers on London's underground rail system crippled much of the network, hurting the city's convalescent economy. Passengers took to bikes, buses, walked, or made use of ...