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Shopping for Fans | | The hotelier Carlos Couturier goes looking for fans as the temperature in New York City creeps up to 90 degrees. |
La Eurocmara pide bloquear el acceso a datos europeos de EEUU | | BRUSELAS, 4 jul (Reuters) - El Parlamento Europeo pidi el jueves que se revoquen dos acuerdos que dan a Estados Unidos acceso a datos financieros y de viaje europeos a no ser que Washington revele la extensin de sus operaciones de espionaje electrnico en Europa. |
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. |
Phys Ed How Exercise Can Calm Anxiety | | Exercise leads to the creation of excitable brain cells, but it also creates neurons that can quiet parts of the brain and counter everyday stress, new research in mice shows. |
Bote Isle of Skye in Williamsburg | | The Caledonia Scottish Pub, a popular spot on the Upper East Side, has a spacious new branch in Williamsburg called Isle of Skye, serving more than 100 different kinds of whiskey. |
Real-life transformers take to skies | | Is it a plane? Is it a drone? Next time you look up and see vapor trails spreading across the sky, bear in mind that the aircraft you're looking at might just be both. |
James Bond watch with geiger counter sells for $160,000 | | LONDON (Reuters) - A watch adapted for the fictional British spy 007 in the James Bond movies sold for nearly 104,000 pounds ($160,000) at a pop culture auction on Wednesday after being bought, strapless, at car boot sale for 25 pounds. |
Bolivia jet flap | | President Evo Morales returned to Bolivia late Wednesday after his plane was delayed in Europe under suspicions that U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden had hitched a ride. |
Tevez to face community service? | | 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. |
Italy makes waves with sea power plan | | June 25 - A UK technology company is building the world's first sub-surface wave farm with machines designed to utilise the motion of the Mediterranean Sea for power generation. The first prototype generator - capable of powering 80 homes - is undergoing onshore tests before being towed out to sea to start work next month. Rob Muir reports. |
Czech Scandal Shines Light on Corruption | | A nexus of scandals has either dealt a blow to or highlighted the kind of graft that has permeated much of Eastern and Central Europe since the fall of Communism. |
New Leader May Only Be Figurehead, Experts Say | | Adli Mansour, the chief justice of the Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court who will succeed the ousted President Mohamed Morsi, has no prior presence on Egypts political or public scene. |
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