Reuters Morning Digest: April 29, 2015

Click to View in Browser Wednesday, April 29, 2015 Indonesia executes drug traffickers, sparks anger from Australia, Brazil CILACAP, Indonesia (Reuters) - An Indonesian firing squad executed eight drug traffickers, including seven foreigners, in the early hours of Wednesday, sparking condemnation from Australia and Brazil who had made final, desperate pleas to save their nationals. 'Guerrilla gardening' takes root in hunger-hit Mali BAMAKO, Mali (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On the green banks of the Niger River in downtown Bamako alongside heavily guarded foreign hotels, a group of urban farmers busily weed and water vegetables on some of Mali's prime real-estate. Barclays takes extra $1.2 billion hit for potential forex settlements LONDON (Reuters) - Barclays set aside another 800 million pounds ($1.2 billion) on Wednesday to cover potential settlements for alleged foreign exchange manipulation, hitting profits and reflecting its struggle to put past problems behind it. Alibaba's Ma says freezing hiring after growing 'too quickly': report SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is freezing hiring for the rest of the year because it has grown "too quickly", Executive Chairman Jack Ma told staff. Motion capture on a whole new level PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES - Hanbyul Joo is working on his swing. But he's not at a baseball park, instead he's in a massive geodesic dome in the basement of a building at Carnegie Mellon University. As Joo swings, more than 500 cameras capture his motion on video.  Combined and processed, those videos make up the elements for the most advanced 3D reconstruction ever achieved. IOC in talks with fifth city over 2024 bid: Bach SYDNEY (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee is in talks with a fifth city in addition to Boston, Hamburg, Rome and Paris over a possible bid to host the 2024 Summer Games, Olympic chief Thomas Bach said on Wednesday. Singer Joni Mitchell still hospitalized, but not in a coma LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell remains hospitalized but alert and "has her full senses," her official website said Tuesday, denying various media reports that she had slipped into a coma. Professor in Texas fails entire class, school says no way -report (Reuters) - A professor at Texas A&M University's campus in Galveston has flunked his entire strategic management class amid claims of cheating and harassment, though university officials say the decision won't stick, the publication Inside Higher Ed reported. Related Video Wal-Mart banks on bricks and clicks in China Police enforce Baltimore curfew Great Debate Russia building nuclear reactors – and influence – around the globe More cops per person in Baltimore than most U.S. cities A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today » » MORE NEWSLETTERS - 3 Times Square New York, NY 10036 USA © Copyright 2015 Thomson Reuters Ensure delivery of Reuters Newsmails, add newsletters@email.reuters.com to your address book. Subscribe to other Reuters newsletters. Unsubscribe from this newsletter. Follow us on Twitter Friend us on Facebook