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Source: Reuters By Jason McLure Mon May 20, 2013 3:14pm EDT - Vermont on Monday became the fourth U.S. state to end legal penalties for doctors who prescribe medication to terminally ill patients seeking to end their own lives.

From ketchup to hot drinks, family-run investment firms are shaking up the consumer deals market, squeezing out private equity players and forcing them to change strategy.

Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, has today launched CheckpointA in New Zealand, a powerful online tax and accounting information service.

Victoria's Secret models pose together in February to unveil a new "Fabulous" collection at a store in New York.

Colombia aims to "internationalize" its capital markets further in the coming years, attracting more foreign companies to its stock market and bring in overseas investors seeking to tap into higher yielding emerging markets, the head of the stock exchange said on Monday.

A woman places her child under a mosquito net at a school where people who have been displaced by flooding have taken shelter, in Haiti's northern city of Cap Haitien, November 10, 2012.

From ketchup to hot drinks, family-run investment firms are shaking up the consumer deals market, squeezing out private equity players and forcing them to change strategy.

Toronto Police say they are reviewing allegations that the city's mayor, Rob Ford, was caught on video using cocaine.

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Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer is pictured in February. The company's board approved the purchase of Tumblr on May 19, 2013.

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Cast members Garrett Hedlund, Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan, directors Joel and Ethan Cohen, cast member Oscar Isaac, and musician T-Bone Burnett are pictured by journalists as they arrive to attend a news conference for the film 'Inside Llewyn Davis' during the 66th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes May 19, 2013.

The invention of the telephone is wrongly attributed to a Scot when in fact it was a little-known Italian, Antonio Meucci This month, newspapers around the world including the South China Morning Post reported that a wax-covered cardboard disc with the voice of Alexander Graham Bell engraved on it had been recovered in the Smithsonian collections ... (more)

Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank Ben Bernanke attends the Treasury Department's Financial Stability Oversight Council in Washington April 25, 2013.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights advocates across China took to the street to celebrate International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia on Friday Amy Li began her journalism career as a crime news reporter in Queens, New York, in 2004.

West Texas Intermediate crude advanced to a one-week high on signals that global economic growth will accelerate, bolstering fuel consumption.

Hedge funds and other big speculators in commodities have started selling gold in a big way, trade data showed on Friday, just a month after they had supported the precious metal amid a record tumble in its price.

Amy Li began her journalism career as a crime news reporter in Queens, New York, in 2004.

Gold fell, touching a 1-month low and closing down for a seventh straight session as the dollar hit its highest levels since 2008 after some Federal Reserve officials said the central bank should end its stimulus for the U.S. economy.

Steven A. Cohen's hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors told investors on Friday it would no longer cooperate "unconditionally" with the U.S. government's insider trading investigation.