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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Ike with winds near 125 miles per hour will likely reach the Bahamas early next week and South Florida by mid-week, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its 5 a.m. EDT report Friday. Ike weakened a bit overnight from a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 131 to 155 mph to a Category 3 hurricane with winds of 111 to 130 mph. The NHC expects Ike to b ...

As Google prepares to celebrate its tenth anniversary the company has an eye on its future and declared that for web users "the best is yet to come". "Internet search has just gotten started," Marissa Mayer, Google's head of search products, told the BBC. "The best search engine would be your friend, with a photographic memory about you and know what you know. "It would have access to the world of information and retrieve facts from anywhere in the context of what you know already." Cloud co ...

By Natsuko Waki LONDON (Reuters) - A wave of risk aversion hit financial markets on Friday, pushing world stocks to their lowest in more than two years and knocking European currencies and oil as fears intensified about the global economic slowdown. Safe-haven assets such as the yen and government bonds benefited after Wall Street had its steepest decline in more than two months as r ...

POTI, Georgia (Reuters) - The flagship of the U.S. Navy's Sixth Fleet dropped anchor off Georgia's Black Sea port of Poti on Friday, where Russian troops have been patrolling since last month's war with Georgia. The USS Mount Whitney, a sophisticated command warship based in Italy, is the third U.S. vessel to arrive on the Georgian coast with humanitarian aid for tens of thousands displaced ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - The prosecutor's office is investigating allegations that there was a CIA prison in Poland where al Qaeda suspects were questioned and guards might have used methods close to torture, the prime minister's top adviser said on Friday. Polish media reported earlier on Friday that a classified note written by the Polish secret service had proved the existence of a U.S. Centra ...

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - Five Islamist militants were killed on Friday in a missile attack by a suspected U.S. drone in Pakistan's North Waziristan region, the second such attack in as many days, security officials said. "Two drones were flying in the area. They fired three missiles," said a witness in the region, near the Afghan border, who declined to be identified. An intel ...

By Tabassum Zakaria KIEV (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney discusses the Georgia crisis on Friday with Ukrainian leaders, whose country is deeply divided over NATO membership and distracted by a domestic political crisis. Cheney is on a whistle-stop tour of southern Caucasus and Black Sea states designed to shore up support for U.S. allies there after Russia's five-day war  ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has spied on Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other Iraqi leaders, according to U.S. journalist Bob Woodward's fourth book on President George W. Bush, The Washington Post reported on Friday. "We know everything he says," one of Woodward's sources on the extensive spying operation is cited as saying in the book being released on Monday, the n ...

By Steve Holland ST. PAUL (Reuters) - Republican John McCain cast himself as an independent-minded reformer on Thursday and said he had the scars to prove it in a speech that promised Americans "change is coming" if they elect him on November 4. McCain accepted his party's presidential nomination in a packed convention hall, insisting he can pull off the kind of change that Democrati ...

"If Americans want straight talk and the plain truth, they should take a good close look at John McCain... a man tested and true, who's never wavered in his devotion to our country," she said, after arriving on stage flanked by their seven children. Her speech followed the convention's formal nomination of Mrs Palin - the Republican Party's first female vice-presidential candidate. Mrs Palin becomes only the second woman, the first being Democrat Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, to run for the US vi ...