Morning Digest: North Korea demands recognition as nuclear arms state

	Click to View in Browser 04/23/2013 North Korea demands recognition as nuclear arms state SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea demanded on Tuesday that it be recognized as a nuclear weapons state, rejecting a U.S. condition that it agree to give up its nuclear arms program before talks can begin.. Irate Italian president begins talks on new coalition ROME (Reuters) - Italy's president launched urgent talks on Tuesday that could lead to a prime minister quickly being named after two months of post-electoral stalemate that has weighed on a stagnant economy and alarmed Rome's partners in the euro zone.. Stock index futures signal mixed open PARIS (Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a mixed open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.07 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.02 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.04 percent at 0935 GMT (5.35 am EDT). Backstreet Boys get Hollywood star ahead of world tour LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Boy band the Backstreet Boys - now all grown men - on Monday marked their 20th anniversary and their upcoming world tour by getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.. Bahrain says thwarted attacks, found petrol bombs before F1 race DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahrain security forces thwarted attacks and found caches of weapons including 1,000 petrol bombs in the run-up to last weekend's Formula One race, state media said as protests and sectarian tensions continued to simmer in the island kingdom.. Israel's Babylon in four-year Internet deal with Yahoo TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israeli translation software provider Babylon has signed a four-year cooperation agreement with Yahoo Inc in the Internet sector, including on mobile devices.. New U.S. rocket blasts off from Virginia launch pad (Reuters) - A privately owned rocket built in partnership with NASA to haul cargo to the International Space Station blasted off on Sunday for a debut test flight from a new commercial spaceport in Virginia.. "Penmanship" is now 'handwriting' as Washington state removes gender bias in statutes SEATTLE (Reuters) - Washington state's governor signed into law on Monday the final piece of a six-year effort to rewrite state laws using gender-neutral vocabulary, replacing terms such as "fisherman" and "freshman" with "fisher" and "first-year student.". Related Video Japanese activists depart for disputed islands Chileans demand water rights in massive Earth Day protest Great Debate Muzzling the online vigilantes Can Tsarnaev be ruled an 'enemy combatant'? 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 2010 Thomson Reuters Ensure delivery of Reuters Newsmails, add mail@nl.reuters.com to your address book. Details Subscribe to other Reuters newsletters. Unsubscribe from this newsletter. Follow us on Twitter Friend us on Facebook Forward to a friend