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• Greeks delay bailout talks as Merkel demands action
  6 Feb 2012 at 5:35pm
  ATHENS/PARIS (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Greece Monday to make up its mind fast on accepting the painful terms for a new EU/IMF bailout, but the country's political leaders responded by delaying their decision for yet another day.
  
• Romney campaign takes aim at rival Santorum
  6 Feb 2012 at 5:53pm
  GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (Reuters) - Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney on Monday focused his campaign's firepower on Rick Santorum to head off the former senator's surge in two of three states with nominating contests this week.
  
• Syria bombards Homs; West scrambles for new strategy
  6 Feb 2012 at 6:07pm
  BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian forces bombarded Homs on Monday, killing 50 people in a sustained assault on several districts of the city which has become a centre of armed opposition to President Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian National Council opposition group said.
  
• With economy improving, Obama would beat Romney: poll
  6 Feb 2012 at 5:30pm
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama - bolstered by a stronger economic outlook and recent job growth - would win in a match-up against the two leading Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, a poll on Monday showed.
  
• Insight: Two firms flourish in frenzied MF Global aftermath
  6 Feb 2012 at 10:02am
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The mad rush to move client money out of MF Global Inc. after its collapse left two firms with the bulk of customer accounts, while other brokerages emerged with only minor gains from the chaos of carving up a multibillion-dollar business.
  
• Wall St edges lower after string of gains
  6 Feb 2012 at 5:28pm
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks closed slightly lower on Monday as lingering questions about Europe's debt crisis and corporate earnings overshadowed growing optimism about economic growth after a five-week rally.
  
• Analysis: Euro zone strugglers lack innovative knack
  6 Feb 2012 at 5:29pm
  LONDON (Reuters) - To get an idea of the economic mountain euro zone strugglers Greece and Portugal have to climb, consider this: per million inhabitants, they each filed fewer than eight applications with the European Patent Office in 2010.
  
• U.S. closes embassy in Syria, vows further pressure
  6 Feb 2012 at 5:37pm
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States closed its embassy in Damascus on Monday and President Barack Obama vowed to ratchet up pressure on Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to step down, even as world powers remained divided over how to end the crisis.
  
• U.N. nuclear talks in Tehran: frustrated hopes
  6 Feb 2012 at 4:05pm
  VIENNA (Reuters) - After two days of rare and intensive talks in Tehran, senior U.N. nuclear officials may have felt they were finally making headway towards getting Iran to address suspicions that it is bent on developing the ability to make atom bombs.
  
• Giants win Super Bowl thriller against Patriots
  6 Feb 2012 at 5:29pm
  INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - The New York Giants reclaimed the greatest prize in North American sports with a nail-biting 21-17 Super Bowl victory over the New England Patriots on Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium.