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Kohlberg to take Steinway Musical private in $438 mln deal
July 1 (Reuters) - Steinway Musical Instruments Inc said it would be acquired by private equity firm Kohlberg Co in a deal valued about $438 million.


PRESS DIGEST - China - July 5
SHANGHAI, July 5 (Reuters) - Chinese newspapers available in Beijing and Shanghai carried the following stories on Friday. Reuters has not checked the stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.


Court documents reveal a 'perilous' Mandela
Court papers lodged by members of former South African leader Nelson Mandela's family in a burial dispute reveal that his "health is perilous" and that fears his death is drawing near are justified.


NHL Free Agency 10 Players to Watch This Week
The puck has dropped on NHL free agency with a two-day negotiating window before players other than those whose contracts were recently bought out can sign Friday.


Scientists create human liver from stem cells
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have for the first time created a functional human liver from stem cells derived from skin and blood and say their success points to a future where much-needed livers and other transplant organs could be made in a laboratory.


Jim Kelly, Star of Martial Arts Movies, Dies at 67
Mr. Kelly added an Afro, swagger and a few memorable one-liners to martial arts movies in the 1970s.


Bats Triple Play Make Your Picks for Week 15
Put your predictive skills to the test each week of the baseball season.


Its the Economy The Half-Trillion-Dollar Depression
Mental health has become a huge economic issue. Can we hold it together?


Markets Wait for a Twitch Either Way in Jobs Data
The employment figures for June, which the Labor Department is set to report early Friday, will have broad implications for the market whether they are weak or strong.


Movie Review Absence Is Jimmy Lowerees Found-Footage Debut
In Absence, a young woman wakes up to find that shes no longer pregnant, and she doesnt know why.


FOREX-Sterling slides after BoE, euro falls before Draghi
* Sterling slides on BoE concern about rise in bond yields


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Our best photos from the last 24 hours.


Yoga Practitioners Gaze at Their Inner Selfies
Yoga aficionados gain followers on Instagram.


Turks gather for 20th anniversary of Madimak Massacre
Tens of thousands of people gathered across Turkey on Tuesday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Madimak Massacre, in which 37 people, mostly members of the Alevi sect, were killed when an angry mob set fire to their hotel.


Gadgetwise Blog QA Using Skype or FaceTime
Microsofts Skype service and Apples FaceTime system both allow users to make free video calls, and you can use both programs on an iPad.


Samsung estimates Q2 record profit, misses forecast
SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd missed quarterly earnings forecasts on Friday as it reported a 47 percent rise in April-June operating profit to a record 9.5 trillion won ($8.3 billion), reviving concerns for growth in its smartphone business.


Satellite tracking could be last hope for elephants in South Sudan
July 3 - Conservationists in South Sudan are using satellite technology to monitor and protect the region's threatened elephant populations. They say South Sudan's elephants are in danger of being wiped out in five years, if the current rate of ivory poaching is not curbed. Ben Gruber has more.


Vatican bank told of "clear failings" at meeting -source
VATICAN CITY, July 4 (Reuters) - A preliminary inquiry by the Vatican bank after the arrest of a Vatican prelate on suspicion of trying to smuggle huge sums of money into Italy from Switzerland found...


French agency spies on phone calls, email, web use, paper says
PARIS (Reuters) - France's external intelligence agency spies on the French public's phone calls, emails and social media activity in France and abroad, the daily Le Monde said on Thursday.


Britain's Low Bonar expects full-year revenue to rise to 400 mln stg
July 4 (Reuters) - Industrial textiles and fibres maker Low Bonar Plc said full-year revenue would rise to 400 million pounds ($610.32 million) as it anticipates a recovery in the European construction market and a more favourable euro-to-pound exchange rate in the second half.


Sports Briefing | Soccer Mexico Loses in Under-20 World Cup
Mexico was on the brink of an early exit from the Under-20 World Cup after losing to Paraguay in Gaziantep, Turkey.


Maduro rejects U.S. extradition request for Snowden
July 4 - If Edward Snowden winds up in Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro says he would reject a U.S. request to have the former intelligence analyst extradited. Deborah Gembara reports.


Superman flies in southern California
July 3 - A start-up company in California creates life-sized remote controlled superheroes that soar through the air. Elly Park reports.


Daredevil crosses a gorge near the Grand Canyon on tightrope
June 24 - Aerialist Nik Wallenda completes a high-wire walk across a section of the Little Colorado River Gorge near the Grand Canyon. Elly Park reports.


Zynga's new CEO to get pay package worth about $50 million
SAN FRANCISCO, July 3 (Reuters) - Don Mattrick, the head of Microsoft Corp's Xbox business who will replace Zynga Inc's founder Mark Pincus as chief executive next week, will get a hefty, largely stock-based compensation package of about $50 million in coming years, the company said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday.


Obamacare implementation delay no boon for hiring
(Reuters) - The Obama administration's decision to delay a key provision of the healthcare law, by giving employers an extra year to offer insurance coverage, is not expected to significantly impact...


Uniqlo brings fashion back to the source in Bangladesh
DHAKA, July 5 (Reuters) - On a bustling Dhaka street full of buyers looking for deals on export rejects and designer fakes, a flight of stairs leads up to an anomaly in a country known for producing international clothing brands - a global high street fashion store.


Global Soccer Spending Their Way Out of La Liga
While the best of Spanish soccer plays in Brazil, the rest of the Iberian country wonders how La Liga clubs can be allowed to pile up public debt before everything collapses into insolvency.


Murray into quarters without dropping a set
The feat has not been achieved since 1936 but with every victory, the pressure on Andy Murray to deliver a first British winner of the men's singles at Wimbledon since Fred Perry grows.


Gainey, Wagner Start Hot at Greenbrier Classic
The mustache is gone, and for one round at least, Johnson Wagner also didn't have to deal with playing bad golf.


Third of conifers under threat of extinction, study says
OSLO (Reuters) - A third of the world's conifers, the biggest and longest-lived organisms on the planet, are at risk of extinction, with logging and disease the main threats, scientists said on Tuesday.


U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan celebrate Independence Day
July 4 - Dozens of U.S. troops in Kabul marked the nations Fourth of July birthday with a very special start to their own lives - by getting sworn in as new American citizens. Mana Rabiee reports.


Islamist gunmen stage multiple attacks in Sinai
CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamist gunmen staged multiple attacks on security forces in Egypt's troubled Sinai Peninsula early on Friday, two days after the army overthrew elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, security sources and state television reported.


Lisicki overcomes adversity to walk tall
LONDON (Reuters) - Learning to walk again after a career-threatening injury helped Sabine Lisicki realize that anything is possible - even reaching a Wimbledon final.


UPDATE 1-Greece says on track to strike aid payout deal with lenders
ATHENS, July 4 (Reuters) - Greece expects to reach a deal with its lenders to free up the next tranche of bailout cash by Monday, its finance minister said on Thursday.


French agency spies on phone calls, email, web use, paper says
PARIS (Reuters) - France's external intelligence agency spies on the French public's phone calls, emails and social media activity in France and abroad, the daily Le Monde said on Thursday.


Study finds MERS virus has not yet reached pandemic potential
LONDON (Reuters) - The Middle East coronavirus that has killed 40 people since emerging late last year has not yet reached pandemic potential and may simply die out, according to new estimates of how easily it is transmitted.


Perry Captures 1st Major Title at Senior Players
Turns out, Kenny Perry had been going at this whole "trying to win a major thing" all wrong.


California's biggest community college loses accreditation
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's largest community college might be forced to close next year after regulators voted on Wednesday to strip City College of San Francisco of its accreditation.


Fiat puts faith in retro-style 500 model with new seven seater
MILAN (Reuters) - Italian car maker Fiat SpA unveiled a seven-seat version of its retro-style 500 model on Thursday, hoping to tap into demand for higher-end cars and stem losses from Europe's moribund mass-market.


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