TEL AVIV, Jan 26 (Reuters) - With firewalls no longer seen as enough of a defence against security breaches, companies are looking at new tools to foil hackers trying to enter a computer network.
OTTAWA, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Canada's energy regulator is doing a poor job of monitoring pipeline firms, an official watchdog said on Tuesday in a report that could bolster support for government plans to reform how major oil and gas projects are approved.
WILMINGTON, Del, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Verso Corp, a leading U.S. producer of printing and specialty papers, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday to cut its debt in the face of falling demand for catalogs and magazines and cheaper imports.
* Hopes of dovish U.S. Fed lend some support (Updates market action, changes dateline, previous LONDON)
ANTWERP, Belgium, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Oil markets will fail to balance until as late as 2017, industry figures said on Tuesday, as increased production from OPEC offsets any decline from unconventional sources of crude.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Flush with cash and weapons, Islamic State is attracting huge numbers of foreign fighters to Iraq and Syria and withstanding U.S.-led air strikes that are failing to hit the right targets, a powerful Iraqi Shi’ite paramilitary leader told Reuters in an interview.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Amazon Payments' transaction volume surged in 2015, a sign that Amazon.com Inc's payment service is finally gaining traction after its inception nearly eight years ago.
MONTREAL, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged on Tuesday to require that environmental reviews of proposed oil pipelines consider greenhouse gas effects, and said it was not his role to be a cheerleader for such projects.
The commercial insurer, under pressure from shareholders, announced a series of measuers aimed at boosting profit and returning money to shareholders. Fred Katayama reports.
The commercial insurer, under pressure from shareholders, announced a series of measuers aimed at boosting profit and returning money to shareholders. Fred Katayama reports.
The commercial insurer, under pressure from shareholders, announced a series of measuers aimed at boosting profit and returning money to shareholders. Fred Katayama reports.
MILAN, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Shares in most of Italy's leading banks rebounded on Tuesday as investors bet a meeting between Italy and the EU would shed more light on a scheme to help lenders to offload bad loans.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is discussing imposing travel bans and asset freezes on at least two Libyans seen as blocking efforts by the United Nations to form a government of national unity, diplomatic sources said on Tuesday.
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech President Milos Zeman outraged government and opposition politicians alike on Tuesday by joking that only an election or Kalashnikov assault rifle could be used to get rid of Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka, his long-time political adversary.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has chosen Andrew Bailey, a Bank of England deputy governor, to lead its financial markets watchdog and strike a balance between restoring confidence in banks and asserting the independence of the embattled regulator.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has chosen Andrew Bailey, a Bank of England deputy governor, to lead its financial markets watchdog and strike a balance between restoring confidence in banks and asserting the independence of the embattled regulator.
BRUSSELS, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The European Union is discussing imposing travel bans and asset freezes on at least two Libyans seen as blocking efforts by the United Nations to form a government of national unity, diplomatic sources said on Tuesday.
PARIS (Reuters) - Students at five Paris high schools returned to class on Tuesday after thousands of them had to be evacuated following bomb threats in anonymous phone calls, the Paris education authority said.
LONDON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The Scottish government is seeking an urgent meeting with Britain's finance minister to urge him to lower taxes on energy companies after Scotland suffered heavy job losses due to persistently low oil prices.
FRANKFURT, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Chinese investor Fosun may sell its 28.6 percent stake in Anglo-German lender BHF Kleinwort Benson to French private bank Oddo & Cie after declaring defeat in its own pursuit of the bank last year.
LOS ANGELES - Activists in Los Angeles have urged television viewers to boycott next month's Oscars by tuning out until the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences implements changes.
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's four main party leaders will meet King Felipe for a second time next Monday and Tuesday to see whether any of them can muster enough support to form a government and break a six-week election deadlock, the palace said.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - An inquiry chaired by a British judge into the death in London of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko will seriously complicate Russian-British ties, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference on Tuesday.
ABUJA, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Nigeria's central bank kept its benchmark interest rate at 11 percent on Tuesday and left the naira exchange rate fixed despite a dive on the parallel market and complaints from businesses struggling to get dollars for imports.
BOSTON (Reuters) - Marvin Minsky, the artificial intelligence pioneer who helped make machines think, leading to computers that understand spoken commands and beat grandmasters at chess, has died at the age of 88, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said.
