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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ten additional states have joined the U.S. Justice Department’s lawsuit against Live Nation-Ticketmaster for monopolizing markets across the live concert industry, the department said on Monday. The Justice Department, along with a group of 30 states and the District of Columbia, filed the lawsuit in May to break up Live Nation [LYV.N], arguing the concert promoter and its Ticketmaster unit illegally inflated concert ticket prices and hurt artists. (Reporting by Ismail Shakil … Read more…

By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) – Mike Lynch, the tech tycoon missing after his luxury yacht sank off Sicily, spent more than a decade building Britain’s biggest software company and then almost as long again fighting fraud charges related to its multi-billion pound sale. Lynch founded Autonomy from his ground-breaking research at Cambridge University in 1996, and was lauded by shareholders, scientists and politicians when he sold it to Hewlett-Packard for $11 billion 15 years … Read more…

By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) – In the five weeks since U.S President Joe Biden abandoned his flailing reelection bid, the Democratic Party’s fortunes have changed dramatically, and this week the change will be on full display.  Vice President Kamala Harris, now the party’s candidate, is heading into the Democratic National Convention riding a historic whirlwind: her campaign has broken records for fundraising, packed arenas with supporters, and turned the polls in some battleground states in … Read more…

WARSAW (Reuters) – Suggestions that Ukrainian authorities supported by Poland were behind planning and executing the sabotage attack on Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022 are groundless, the Polish president’s aide said on Sunday. Germany’s former intelligence chief August Hanning told Die Welt this week he believed there were agreements between presidents of Poland and Ukraine to carry out the attack. “These are completely groundless insinuations,” Mieszko Pawlak, head of the international policy bureau at … Read more…

KYIV (Reuters) – Russia launched on Sunday its third ballistic missile on Kyiv in August, with preliminary data showing that all the air weapons were destroyed on their approach to the city, the military administration of the Ukrainian capital said. “This is already the third ballistic strike on the capital in August, with exact intervals of six days between each attack,” Serhiy Popko, the head of the Kyiv military administration, said on the Telegram messaging … Read more…

By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three of the 11 victims of the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who were exhumed on Friday, were found with gunshot wounds, the city said. Two of those three victims were found to have wounds from two different firearms and one had “evidence of possible burns,” the city said in an update of its investigation into the massacre. “The people we are searching for are not just names … Read more…

By Jasmine Patterson and Nicola Muirhead BERMUDA (Reuters) – Hurricane Ernesto was weakening as it closed in on Bermuda early on Saturday, downgraded to a Category 1 storm but still threatening the British island territory with powerful winds, a dangerous storm surge and potentially deadly flooding. The storm was slowly making its way toward the Atlantic archipelago, its center due to pass near or over Bermuda on Saturday morning, with the worst of the storm … Read more…

By Praveen Paramasivam SRIPERUMBUDUR, India (Reuters) – Foxconn’s chairman on Saturday defended its hiring practices after New Delhi ordered investigations following a Reuters report that the Apple supplier rejects married women from iPhone assembly jobs. “Foxconn hires regardless of gender, but women make up a big part of our workforce here,” Young Liu said during the opening ceremony for a hostel complex for its workers near Chennai in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. … Read more…