Sept 22 (Reuters) - Those who think events in Syria cannot get worse are "dead wrong," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday. He's correct, of course.

MOSCOW, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Russia expressed concern to the U.S. Pentagon over an attack by a U.S. coalition on Syrian government forces on Saturday, Interfax reported on Thursday, citing the Russian defense ministry.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Siemens Corp and Siemens Medical Solutions, units of Siemens AG , have agreed to pay a $175,000 fine for failing to disclose corporate felony convictions to the Federal Communications Commission, the agency said on Thursday.

Seattle (Reuters) - Boeing Co is still studying whether to build a larger version of its best-selling 737 aircraft to counter runaway sales by rival Airbus of a large version of its competing plane, a senior executive said.

BRUSSELS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - A senior British official made clear during a meeting with ambassadors from European Union countries in London this week that his government wants a signal from the EU about what kind of Brexit deal it is willing to accept before triggering divorce talks, EU sources said.

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Thousands of Romanians protested on Thursday against the Senate’s decision to shut down a potential manslaughter investigation into a former deputy prime minister over the death of a police motorcycle outrider.

Sept 22 (Reuters) - A few days before the Russian parliamentary election, the Russian anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny released a video of the country house used by the prime minister - and former president - Dmitry Medvedev. Navalny and his colleagues had located Medvedev after he posted a photo on Instagram of his mushroom-picking excursion near the Volga River.

LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England policymaker Kristin Forbes said the latest economic data suggested Britain's economy would grow faster than the central bank had forecast last month, with momentum potentially carrying through into 2017.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - World stock indexes advanced and the Nasdaq hit a record high on Thursday while bonds rallied, a day after the U.S. Federal Reserve signaled an increasingly cautious approach to future U.S. interest rate increases.