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| Rise in mortgage rates cuts into home buyer demand | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Expectations the Federal Reserve will slow its economic stimulus program by the end of the year pushed mortgage rates higher last week, sapping demand from potential home buyers,... |
| End of pop-up hotels? | | | Traditionally, hotels are built with the hope they'll have staying power. For a new breed of accommodation, however, long-term is passe. |
| Vettel breaks Canada duck | | | Sebastian Vettel leads from start to finish to claim the Canadian Grand Prix for the first time Sunday to extend his title lead as he searches for a fourth straight Formula One world championship. |
| Merkel says EU must not forget U.S. spying in push for free trade | | | BAD SALZUFLEN, Germany (Reuters) - Germany's Angela Merkel said on Saturday that Europe should push ahead with free-trade negotiations with the United States next week while making sure that concerns about America's secret surveillance of its EU allies are not swept under the carpet. |
| Economy needs immigrants | | | Joe Green says as immigration vote goes to the House, remember why we need immigrants, a self-selecting group of risk-takers that define America and feed its entrepreneurial ethos |
| Cracks Emerge as Egyptians Form Cabinet | | | Within hours of reports that Mohamed ElBaradei had been chosen as prime minister, Egypts powerful ultraconservative Islamist party said it would refuse to work with him. |
| Nigeria halves fuel debt to traders with $1.4 billion repayment | | | LONDON, July 5 (Reuters) - Nigeria has repaid $1.4 billion in mostly overdue debts to fuel traders after raising the money via an oil prepayment loan from international lenders, successfully concluding some of the most painful and lengthy debt talks in its history. |
| Japan's DoCoMo holds out to iPhone mania, but at what cost? | | | TOKYO, July 5 (Reuters) - NTT DoCoMo Inc, Japan's largest mobile provider and a pioneer of the mobile Internet, is one of just a few holdouts among the world's big mobile carriers not offering Apple Inc's iPhone to its 60 million customers. |
| Norway's Arctic idyll shivers at oil plans | | | SVOLVAER, Norway (Reuters) - Oil companies seeking new Arctic areas for exploration face a battle with environmentalists, fishermen and hotel owners over Norwegian islands where jagged snow-capped peaks rise sheer from the sea. |
| U.S. defends secrecy of unique surveillance court | | | WASHINGTON, July 5 (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Friday urged a secret U.S. court that oversees surveillance programs to reject a request by a civil liberties group to see court opinions used to underpin a massive phone records database. |
| BlackBerry investors to turn up the heat on management | | | TORONTO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - BlackBerry will likely face tough questions about its future at its annual meeting on Tuesday after dismal quarterly results last week triggered a 28 percent plunge in the Canadian smartphone maker's share price. |
| The grand slam that got away | | | Paris in the spring is the most romantic of all settings for a grand slam, but for some of the biggest names in tennis the French Open's red clay courts mean only heartbreak and shattered dreams. |
| Egypt PM dispute stalls government, Islamists call more protests | | | CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's political transition after President Mohamed Mursi was ousted by the military stumbled at the first hurdle, after the choice of liberal politician Mohamed ElBaradei as interim prime minister was thrown into doubt by Islamist objections. |
| Well A New Way to Make Pizza | | | This week, the Recipes for Health columnist Martha Rose Shulman turns to a summer weekend staple, the grill, to make pizzas. |
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