BitGou: Reuters Morning Digest: August 18, 2015

2015年8月18日星期二

Reuters Morning Digest: August 18, 2015

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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

China investigates top work safety regulator after Tianjin blasts

TIANJIN, China (Reuters) - Authorities are investigating the head of China's work safety regulator, the Communist Party's anti-graft watchdog said on Tuesday, a week after huge blasts in a warehouse storing hazardous chemicals killed 114 people in Tianjin.

Iraq's Maliki says report on fall of Mosul has 'no value': statement

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's former prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, on Tuesday condemned as having "no value" a parliamentary panel's findings on the fall of Mosul to Islamic State which called for him and other top officials to stand trial for negligence.

Home Depot quarterly sales rise 4.3 percent

(Reuters) - Home Depot Inc , the world's No.1 home improvement chain by revenue, reported a 4.3 percent rise in quarterly net sales, helped by a recovery in the U.S. housing market.

U.S. delays plans to cede oversight of Internet administrator to 2016

(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Commerce on Monday said it would delay plans to give up oversight of a non-profit agency that manages the Internet's infrastructure until September 2016.

Human bones in Pennsylvania thought to be from 1918 flu pandemic

SCHUYLKILL HAVEN, Pa. (Reuters) - Forensic archaeologists on Friday began excavating a highway embankment in eastern Pennsylvania, looking for more bones believed to be from impoverished victims of the worldwide Spanish flu pandemic in 1918.

Williams staves off Diyas test to set up Ivanovic meeting

(Reuters) - Venus Williams held off young challenger Zarina Diyas 7-6 (6) 6-4 on Monday to reach the second round of the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati, where she will meet Ana Ivanovic.

Bob Johnston, producer for Dylan and Johnny Cash, dies

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Bob Johnston, who produced Bob Dylan's celebrated "Blonde on Blonde" album and Johnny Cash's live "At Folsom Prison" in a career spanning more than 50 years, has died at age 83.

Seattle police pull over speeding car, help deliver baby

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Seattle police witnessed the "miracle of childbirth" when a patrolman pulled over a speeding car en route to an area hospital, and ended up helping a woman in labor deliver her baby girl, police said on Monday.