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| R&B singer CeeLo Green booted from festival over online rape comments |
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 (Reuters) - The singer CeeLo Green has been removed from the lineup of an Alabama music festival, the latest fallout over online comments attributed to him about rape after he pleaded no contest last month to giving the drug ecstasy to a woman in 2012. The cancellation of Green's Oct. 4 performance at BayFest in Mobile was announced on Monday, and comes on the heels of similar cancellations by the Freedom LIVE concert in Washington, D.C., and the Gretna Heritage Festival in Louisiana. ...
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| Alstom unit paid $8.5 mln bribes to win contracts - UK prosecutor |
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 By Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) - The British subsidiary of French train and turbine maker Alstom paid around $8.5 million in bribes over a six-year period to win transport contracts in India, Poland and Tunisia, Britain's leading fraud prosecutor alleged on Tuesday. Alstom Network UK, which was charged with six offences of corruption and conspiracy to corrupt in July, allegedly paid bribes to win train infrastructure orders for the Delhi Metro and tram and infrastructure deals in Warsaw and Tunis between 2000 and 2006. ...
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| Wife of China dissident appeals to Obama and Kerry to aid reunion |
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 By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The wife of a prominent Chinese dissident appealed to U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday to make a public call for her husband to be allowed to travel to the United States, saying he was in "alarmingly poor health" and needed medical treatment. Human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng was released from jail in August after three years in prison, but remains under house arrest in China. His family and human rights groups say he was physically and psychologically abused by prison authorities. ...
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| Ebola seriously threatens Liberia's national existence: minister |
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 By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Liberia's national existence is "seriously threatened" by the deadly Ebola virus that is "spreading like wild fire and devouring everything in its path," the country's national defense minister told the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday. Liberia is worst hit by West Africa's Ebola epidemic and will likely see thousands of new cases in coming weeks, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday. More than 1,000 people have already died in Liberia. "Liberia is facing a serious threat to its national existence. ...
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| Ray Rice's wife rips media as video puts NFL on defensive |
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| By Steve Ginsburg REUTERS - Ray Rice's wife defended the former Baltimore Ravens running back on Tuesday after a video showed him knocking her out, and assailed the media for its handling of an incident that put the U.S. National Football League on the defensive. "I woke up this morning, feeling like I had a horrible nightmare, feeling like I'm mourning the death of my closest friend," Janay Rice wrote in an Instagram post. "But to have to accept the fact that it's reality is a nightmare itself. ... |
| Somalia to probe rape charges against African Union troops |
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| NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somali authorities said on Tuesday they would investigate charges that women and girls in the capital Mogadishu had been raped by African peacekeepers, a principal source of security in the war-torn country. A report released on Monday by the group Human Rights Watch documented the rape or sexual exploitation of 21 women and girls, all of them displaced from their homes, at peacekeeping bases run by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). ... |
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