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Friday, October 12, 2012

Morning Digest: Biden comes out swinging at debate, clashes with Ryan

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10/12/2012
Reuters   Election 2012 Daily round-up of the day's top news from the campaign trail, the White House and all the   politics in between
Biden comes out swinging at debate, clashes with Ryan
DANVILLE, Kentucky (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden leaped to the attack against Republican challenger Paul Ryan in a lively debate on Thursday, aggressively defending the Obama administration's economic and foreign policies to try to regain momentum in the White House race..
EU wins 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, despite debt crisis
OSLO (Reuters) - The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its historic role in uniting the continent in an award meant as a morale boost for the bloc as it struggles to resolve its debt crisis..
Stock index futures point slightly higher
LONDON (Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a fractionally higher open on Wall Street on Friday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.2 percent, and contracts on the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq 100 up 0.1 percent at 4.28 a.m. EDT..
Grammys give Whitney Houston a glittering salute
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Whitney Houston was given a final sendoff by the Grammys on Thursday as Halle Berry, Britney Spears, Jennifer Hudson, Usher and other stars shared their memories and performed in homage to the late singer..
Armstrong unfazed by doping maelstrom
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Unrepentant and seemingly unconcerned, Lance Armstrong was going about his business as usual on Thursday as the cycling world was left reeling by the revelations about his alleged role as a doping ringleader..
Google in industry's "defining fight" with Apple, Schmidt says
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt expects more than a billion mobile devices around the world to be running its Android software within a year, intensifying a battle with Apple Inc that he called a "defining fight" of the industry..
Space shuttle Endeavour starts road trip to new Los Angeles home
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The retired space shuttle Endeavour sets off on Friday for a road trip unlike any of its previous journeys, one that will see it crawl through the streets of Los Angeles instead of hurtling through the solitary reaches of space..
Florida governor gives phone sex number for meningitis hotline
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - In an embarrassing mistake, Florida Governor Rick Scott gave out a phone sex hotline number to Floridians seeking information on a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak..
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