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Tevez community order? | | Carlos Tevez may have escaped the clutches of the Premier League by joining Italian giant Juventus -- but the long arm of the law could yet bring the striker back to English shores. |
African artifacts in Australia | | Can a handful of ancient copper coins from a once-opulent but now abandoned corner of East Africa change what we know about Australian history? |
Els magic ahead of Muirfield | | Ernie Els gained the perfect confidence boost ahead of his defense of the British Open title by completing a wire to wire victory in the BMW International Open in Munich Sunday. |
Brazilian banks BNDES, Caixa face biggest exposure to EBX woes, BofA says | | SAO PAULO, July 1 (Reuters) - Brazilian state-run lenders Caixa Econmica Federal and BNDES have the largest loan exposure to debt-laden Grupo EBX, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said on Monday, as markets assess risks stemming from years of hefty borrowing by billionaire Eike Batista's mining and energy conglomerate. |
Shortfall in educated U.S. workers to worsen study | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. workers with advanced skills in areas such as math, science and healthcare are growing more scarce, with a shortfall of 20 million adequately educated workers expected by... |
Pakistan's commercial hub faces growing extortion menace | | KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - One afternoon a stranger called at Muhammad Faizanullah's stationery shop in Karachi, Pakistan's commercial capital, and wordlessly handed the man behind the counter two items a piece of paper with a phone number scrawled on it, and a bullet. |
Bed rest after IVF doesn't help | | NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Bed rest immediately after an in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure, despite being common practice, did not help women ultimately have a baby in a new study. |
Artist stirs privacy debate with portraits from DNA | | July 1 - DNA extracted from cigarette butts and bubble gum found on the streets of Brooklyn is being used by artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg to create realistic portraits of anonymous New Yorkers. The artist says her project is designed to spark debate about the use - or potential misuse - of DNA profiling in society. Ben Gruber reports. |
'Blast furnace' heat engulfs U.S. West into weekend | | PHOENIX (Reuters) - An "atmospheric blast furnace" engulfed the sunbaked U.S. West in dangerous triple-digit temperatures on Friday, forecasters said, raising concerns for homeless people and others unable to escape near record temperatures expected over the weekend. |
Family Mandela health in God's hands | | The former wife of Nelson Mandela visited him Sunday in the hospital where the ailing anti-apartheid icon is clinging to life, the South African Press Association reported. |
Brazilian banks BNDES, Caixa face biggest exposure to EBX woes, BofA says | | SAO PAULO, July 1 (Reuters) - Brazilian state-run lenders Caixa Econmica Federal and BNDES have the largest loan exposure to debt-laden Grupo EBX, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said on Monday, as markets assess risks stemming from years of hefty borrowing by billionaire Eike Batista's mining and energy conglomerate. |
Vodafone India offers $673 mln for licence renewal in 3 cities | | NEW DELHI, July 1 (Reuters) - Vodafone Group Plc's Indian unit, which is in a dispute with the government over the renewal of its licences in three key cities, is offering to pay 40 billion rupees ($673 million) for the extension of the permits, the company said in a letter dated June 18 to the telecoms ministry and seen by Reuters. |
Japan PM Abe hops and flips in voter-wooing game app | | TOKYO (Reuters) - It's a bird, it's a plane ... It's a cartoon version of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, hopping and somersaulting his way through the sky in a smartphone game app his party hopes will lure young voters ahead of a July 21 election. |
Clinton letters, Lewinsky clothing gifts up for auction | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A collection of items used in the investigation of former White House intern Monica Lewinsky's sexual encounters with then U.S. President Bill Clinton is being auctioned online, Nate D. Sanders Auctions said on Monday. |
Clip Air brings air travel by train | | June 19 - Swiss researchers have released futuristic designs for attachable modular aircraft that will allow passengers to board a plane at a railway station and disembark at their destination without ever setting foot in an airport. EPFL says its Clip Air project is no flight of fancy. Jim Drury reports. |
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