By Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Audrey Mbugua will not say whether it was a razor blade, pills or carbon monoxide that she used to try to kill herself. Born a male in Kenya and given the name Andrew, she felt trapped in the wrong body and started dressing in women’s clothes while at university, attracting ridicule and rejection
Read moreBy Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Audrey Mbugua will not say whether it was a razor blade, pills or carbon monoxide that she used to try to kill herself.
Read moreBy Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Audrey Mbugua will not say whether it was a razor blade, pills or carbon monoxide that she used to try to kill herself. Born a male in Kenya and given the name Andrew, she felt trapped in the wrong body and started dressing in women’s clothes while at university, attracting ridicule and rejection. After graduation, Mbugua was jobless, penniless and alone.
Read moreBy Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) – has dropped its lawsuit against Microsoft Corp over alleged “massive” copyright infringement, announcing on Tuesday a plan to amicably bring Getty's photos to Microsoft's Internet search engine and devices.
Read moreBy Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) – has dropped its lawsuit against Microsoft Corp over alleged “massive” copyright infringement, announcing on Tuesday a plan to amicably bring Getty's photos to Microsoft's Internet search engine and devices.
Read moreBy Devika Krishna Kumar and Greg Roumeliotis (Reuters) – Business software maker Informatica Corp said it would be bought for about $5.3 billion by private equity firms Permira Funds and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), in the biggest U.S. leveraged buyout so far this year.
Read moreBy Devika Krishna Kumar and Greg Roumeliotis (Reuters) – Business software maker Informatica Corp said it would be bought for about $5.3 billion by private equity firms Permira Funds and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), in the biggest U.S. leveraged buyout so far this year. Informatica shareholders will get $48.75 per share in cash
Read moreBy Orhan Coskun and Asli Kandemir ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Twitter has complied with Turkey's request to remove photographs of a prosecutor held at gunpoint by far-left militants, an official said on Monday, and a ban on it ended hours after being imposed. YouTube, which authorities also banned after an Istanbul court ordered social media to remove any content showing the kidnapped prosecutor, remained blocked late on Monday as talks with it continued, the official said. Mehmet Selim Kiraz, the Istanbul prosecutor seen in the pictures, was later killed in a shoot-out between his hostage takers and police last week
Read more(This story corrects date of Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination in second paragraph to 1991) By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Indian politicians who make bigoted comments should be punished by their parties, activists said on Thursday, after a government minister became the latest parliamentarian to be accused of racism and sexism. Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Giriraj Singh has under fire for remarks made in reference to Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born leader of the opposition Congress party and widow of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, who was assassinated in 1991
Read moreBy Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – A March 27 tweet sent the same minute as news broke that chipmaker Intel Corp was in talks to buy Altera Corp appeared to come after very timely trades in Altera's options by several seconds, according to Thomson Reuters data.
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