WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates near zero on Tuesday and renew its pledge to keep rates very low for a long time, but it could note a brightening economic picture and hint at being closer to dropping the vow. The Fed opened a one-day policy meeting at around 8 a.m., a Fed spokesperson ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak was shown on Egyptian state television on Tuesday, sitting and chatting to doctors at the German hospital where he underwent surgery 10 days ago. "He was upbeat and in very good spirits as usual," a German doctor said in a televised statement, adding no further daily laboratory tests were required. (Writing by Edmund ...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Use of genetic screening on heart patients helped cut hospitalizations related to the widely used blood thinner warfarin by nearly a third, according to a large study that marks a step forward in the fledgling field of personalized medicine. Researchers found that patients who received a test of two genes connected to warfarin sensitivity were 31 percent less ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Eight people died in two bombings five minutes apart on the main street of an Iraqi town south of Baghdad on Tuesday, nine days after an election Iraqis hoped would bring more stability and less sectarian conflict. Police said attackers attached so-called sticky bombs to two cars carrying passengers in the town of Mussayab, about 60 km (40 ...