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    Cyclists risk life and limb to beat Jakarta jams

    10:39am GMT

    JAKARTA - Traffic in Indonesia's capital snarls so badly during rush hour that even motorbikes face gridlock and to get ahead a group of commuters have taken up an extreme sport: cycling to work.

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    Foes of EU airline CO2 rules agree on tactics

    11:30am GMT

    MOSCOW - Countries opposed to an EU law forcing the world's airlines to pay for greenhouse gas emissions agreed on a basket of retaliatory measures, adding to a series of threats that have raised the prospect of the globe's first carbon trade war.

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    Boeing says flaw could affect 55 Dreamliners

    10:28am GMT

    SINGAPORE - About 55 Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner jets may have a recently discovered flaw in the fuselage, the company said on Wednesday, while reiterating that the world's first carbon-plastic passenger plane is safe to fly.

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    Rise in identity fraud tied to smartphone use

    11:31am GMT

    - Nearly 12 million Americans were victims of identity theft in 2011, an increase of 13 percent over 2010, according to a report released on Wednesday by the research firm Javelin Strategy & Research.

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    Rome expands cruise ship probe as bodies found

    11:32am GMT

    FLORENCE, Italy - Italian prosecutors placed four ship's officers and three company executives under investigation on Wednesday in connection with the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster as divers found eight more bodies on the wreck including that of a 5-year-old girl.

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    Rio seeks relief from revellers' relieving themselves

    22 Feb 2012

    RIO DE JANEIRO - An oil-led economic boom, hosting of the 2014 soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, and a plunge in violent crime are making Rio de Janeiro, called Cidade Maravilhosa, feel like the "Marvellous City" for the first time in decades.

    New Orleans lets the good times roll

    Feb. 22 - Revelers in New Orleans celebrate into the night in the biggest Mardi Gras celebration in the U.S. Tara Cleary reports.

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