Year: 2016

By Laurence Frost and Agnieszka Flak PARIS (Reuters) – Tougher European car emissions tests being introduced in the wake of the Volkswagen scandal are about to bring surprising consequences: bigger engines. Carmakers that have spent a decade shrinking engine capacities to meet emissions goals are now being forced into a costly U-turn, industry sources said, as more realistic on-the-road testing exposes deep flaws in their smallest motors. Renault , General Motors and VW are preparing to enlarge or scrap some of their best-selling small car engines over the next three years, the people said.

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The truth is simple, people are driven to eat biologically. Foods are not only tempting, but they provide some type of comfort and reward, and it tastes …
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By Arno Schuetze, Pamela Barbaglia and Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Bayer has short-listed India's Lupin and investor BC Partners as prospective buyers of medical skin cream assets in a potential 1 billion euro ($1.1 billion) deal, several people familiar with the sale told Reuters. Germany&039;s Bayer has for more than two years sought to narrow the focus of its healthcare division and its planned $66 billion Monsanto takeover has added urgency to that drive. Bayer has, however, said a debt package and cash call would suffice to finance the Monsanto purchase, its largest ever transaction.

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By Aukkarapon Niyomyat and Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who was the world&039;s longest-reigning monarch, died in hospital on Thursday, the palace said in an announcement. King Bhumibol reigned for seven decades after ascending the throne in 1946. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha addressed the nation shortly after the announcement of the king&039;s death to say an heir to the throne had been designated since 1972 and that the government would inform parliament of the choice.Prayuth did not identify the heir but King Bhumibol designated prince Vajiralongkorn the heir apparent when he invested him as the crown prince in 1972.

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The National Weight Control Registry estimates only 20 per cent of dieters lose weight successfully and they get back to eating the way they used to.
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Many people struggle to lose weight even when they have altered their diet. It can leave people feeling disheartened and questioning what they have …
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By Paola Totaro CAPE TOWN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Siphesihle Mbango was just six years old when her friend, Asenathi, begged her to go with her to the toilet then ran outside alone – and was never seen again. "We were at the crèche and she wanted me to go with her," but I told her I was busy, I was playing, I didn't want to go and she went out by herself," she said, at her home in a Cape Town slum. Part of Khayelitsha, one of the world&039;s five biggest slums, Endlovini is home to an estimated 20,000 people who share just 380 or so communal toilets.

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