Latest worldwide news Sony suffers second box office letdown as it eyes partial spinoff | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sony, which is studying a partial spinoff of its studio at the urging of major shareholder Daniel Loeb, suffered its second box office misfire of the summer season when its action movie "White House Down" opened with ticket sales below industry forecasts. |
Croatia Joins European Union | | The Balkan country became the 28th member of the European Union on Monday as the trading bloc grapples with upheaval in the euro zone. |
Well A Bowl of Cherries | | The Recipes for Health columnist Martha Rose Shulman offers five new ways to make cherries a part of your meal. |
Mandela | | People across South Africa pray for their dear former leader, whom they call Madiba. |
Brotherhood's Cairo HQ ransacked in protest | | July 1 - The Cairo headquarters of Egypt's ruling Muslim Brotherhood is overrun and ransacked following a night of violence that killed at least eight people. Sunita Rappai reports. |
Opinionator An Orphan Jackpot | | Combine ill-thought-out government incentives with a misguided corporate tax system and what do you get? A blockbuster drug. |
Celebrity chef Paula Deen loses more deals, but book sales soar | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. celebrity chef Paula Deen saw more lucrative deals evaporate on Thursday despite her renewed apologies for using a racial slur, as retailer Target Corp and drug company Novo Nordisk A/S joined the list of sponsors distancing themselves from the doyenne of Southern cooking. |
Gay marriages resume in California after five-year hiatus | | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Same-sex couples - some in shorts and jeans, some in their work clothes - rushed to be wed in California on Friday after a court abruptly ended the state's five-year ban on gay marriage in the wake of landmark rulings at the Supreme Court. |
Well Why Smoking Rates Are at New Lows | | The smoking rate among adults in the United States has dropped again, an encouraging trend that experts on smoking cessation attribute to public policies like smoke-free air laws and cigarette taxes. |
FDA rejects Merck's insomnia drug | | July 1 (Reuters) - Merck Co Inc said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected the company's experimental insomnia drug, citing safety issues. |
Mortgages Making Green More Affordable | | A Senate bill known as the SAVE Act could make energy-efficient features more affordable to home buyers by allowing them to qualify for a larger loan amount. |
Social classes unite in protests | | During the past two weeks, millions of Brazilians have taken to the streets to protest years of dissatisfaction and discontent with their government. What started as a student mobilization transformed day by day to incorporate professionals, the middle class, and residents of the favelas, or slums. |
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. |
A Warm Welcome for Obama in Tanzania | | President Obama arrived in Tanzania on Monday, greeted by cheering throngs much larger and louder than those he saw in Senegal and South Africa. |
Snowdens Fate Is Up to Russia, Ecuador Says | | President Rafael Correa said it was up to Russia to decide what happens to Edward J. Snowden, the American intelligence leaker, but Russia maintains that Mr. Snowden is not its problem. |
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