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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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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