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| SP cuts Nokia rating further on Siemens venture buyout | | | LONDON, July 5 (IFR) - Standard Poor's downgraded Nokia further into junk territory on Friday, warning that the Finnish telecom firm's plan to take over Siemens AG's stake in their joint network equipment venture would strain its finances. |
| Former Oklahoma St QB Lunt Joining Illinois | | | Former Oklahoma State starting quarterback Wes Lunt is transferring to Illinois, returning to his home state after giving the Illini little consideration out of high school. |
| Nigella's Lawson's husband wants a divorce | | | Because he says his wife is no longer speaking to him, multi-millionaire Charles Saatchi informed celebrity chef Nigella Lawson that he has begun divorce proceedings in a statement to the Daily Mail. |
| Exports key to U.S. success | | | Jan 19 - In an exclusive interview with Reuters Global Editor-at-Large Chrystia Freeland, GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt says that the American consumer is no longer the driver of the global economy and that high-tech exports are the key to future growth of the U.S. economy. |
| Bomb kills police officer in Bahrain | | | A bomb explosion killed a police officer in a Shiite neighborhood in Bahrain over the weekend, state news media reported Sunday. Two more policemen were injured and taken to hospital. |
| U.S. Supreme Court asked to review leaked Verizon ruling | | | WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - A civil liberties group is taking the unusual step of asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ruling by a secretive intelligence court that authorized government access to millions of Verizon Communications Inc phone call records |
| Few Signs of a Taste for Diet Pills | | | Qsymia, a weight-reduction drug, had sales of only $4 million in the first quarter. Its manufacturer is trying to jump-start acceptance of the drug. |
| Ice melt speeding up, study finds | | | Two decades of satellite readings back up what dramatic pictures have suggested in recent years The mile-thick ice sheets that cover Greenland and most of Antarctica are melting at a faster rate in a warming world. |
| Gezi Park opens and closes in Turkey | | | July 8 - Shortly after a park at the center of protests in Turkey is reopened -- it is shut down over concerns about demonstrations. Deborah Lutterbeck reports. |
| F1 to change rules to help end tire chaos | | | Formula One's governing body is taking the unusual step of rewriting its own rulebook in the middle of the season in a bid to end the tire crisis threatening to undermine the sport. |
| Egypt seeks quick elections, in shock at more bloodshed | | | CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's interim head of state has set a speedy timetable for elections to drag the Arab world's biggest country from crisis, after the military ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi last week sparked a wave of bloody protests. |
| Terror on Jet Seeing Water, Not Runway | | | The pilot at the controls on Asiana Flight 214 was said to have had only 43 hours of experience flying a Boeing 777, and an airline spokeswoman said that it was his first time piloting a 777 into San Francisco. |
| Bits Blog The Price of Amazon | | | Bookselling was once a local business. Now Amazon has a larger market share of new and used printed books than any company has ever. That gives it extraordinary power. |
| A show of support for Mursi in Yemen | | | July 8 - Protesters in Yemen gather in the capital to show their support for Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). |
| Internet big boys take aim at Singapore's 'regressive' new rules | | | SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's move to tighten regulation of news web sites, already under fire from bloggers and human rights groups, has attracted criticism from an unexpected quarter - large Internet firms with a big presence in the city-state which say the new rules will hurt the industry. |
| White House hires Clinton healthcare expert for Obamacare push | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amid questions about the future of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, the White House has hired a widely respected policy expert from the Clinton administration to help coordinate final implementation of "Obamacare." |
| Governments to target tech giants' tax avoidance draft | | | BERLIN/LONDON (Reuters) - Western governments are set to target a range of tax loopholes used by technology giants including Apple, Amazon as part of an international drive to tackle corporate tax avoidance, a draft action plan seen by Reuters said. |
| Wall Street bounces back; Zynga cuts staff | | | June 3 - Summary of business headlines Market recovers some of Friday's sell-off as data suggest Fed has economic cover to keep buying; Zynga to slash jobs in bid to save up to $80 million per year; Merck drug shows early promise, stock gains. Conway G. Gittens reports. |
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