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| Women's World Cup to be played on turf, FIFA insists | |  By Steve Keating OTTAWA (Reuters) - Next year's women's World Cup in Canada will be played on artificial turf despite threats of legal action from several top international players, an unmoved FIFA executive said after touring one of the host venues on Tuesday. With players threatening a lawsuit if forced to play on artificial pitches, resolute FIFA officials were unfazed as they began site inspections of the six Canadian venues that will host the June 6-July 5 competition. ...
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| Armed private contractor was allowed on elevator with Obama | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An armed private security agent was allowed on an elevator with President Barack Obama earlier this month in Atlanta, a Secret Service official said on Tuesday, in another case involving a security failure for the embattled agency. The incident occurred while Obama was visiting the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sept. 16, three days before a man with a knife jumped the White House fence in Washington and ran into the executive mansion. The White House intrusion has sparked sharp criticism of the agency responsible for protecting the president. ...
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| Tracy Morgan incredulous that Wal-Mart blames him for accident injuries | | Tuesday, September 30, 2014 11:41 PM | |
|  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comedian Tracy Morgan, who was injured in a road accident that caused the death of his friend, was incredulous on Tuesday that retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc blamed him and others in the vehicle for their injuries, saying they were not wearing seat belts. In a court filing on Monday in response to a lawsuit filed by Morgan and three other plaintiffs over the June 7 crash on the New Jersey Turnpike, Wal-Mart said the injuries were caused in whole or in part by their failure to wear an appropriate restraint device. ...
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| Insight - In al Qaeda attack, lines between Pakistan military, militants blur | | Tuesday, September 30, 2014 11:14 PM | |
|  By Syed Raza Hassan and Katharine Houreld KARACHI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Months after Owais Jakhrani was sacked from the Pakistan navy for radical Islamist views, he led an audacious mission to take over a warship and turn its guns on a U.S. naval vessel in the open seas. The early September dawn raid at a naval base in the southern city of Karachi was thwarted, but not before Jakhrani, two officers and an unidentified fourth assailant snuck past a patrol boat in a dinghy and engaged in an intense firefight on or around the ship. ...
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| JPMorgan to face U.S. class action in $10 bln MBS case | | Tuesday, September 30, 2014 11:08 PM | |
|  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday said JPMorgan Chase & Co must face a class action lawsuit by investors who claimed the largest U.S. bank misled them about the safety of $10 billion of mortgage-backed securities it sold before the financial crisis. U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken in Manhattan certified a class action as to JPMorgan's liability but not as to damages, saying it was unclear how investors could value the certificates they bought, given how the market was "not particularly liquid. ...
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| U.S. lawmakers rebuke Secret Service over White House breach | | Tuesday, September 30, 2014 10:40 PM | |
|  By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Secret Service faced scathing criticism on Tuesday for the agency allowing an intruder with a knife to run into the White House and the Washington Post reported a separate security lapse of an armed contractor with a criminal record who rode an elevator with President Barack Obama. Secret Service Director Julia Pierson acknowledged the agency charged with protecting Obama had failed on Sept. ...
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