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| Turkish police detain Gezi Park protesters | | | July 8 - Riot police detained several protesters after using water cannon and smoke grenades to disperse protesters who tried to defy a closure order and enter an Istanbul park that was the center of protests against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan last month. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). |
| Anemic data raises growth fears | | | China's manufacturing sector weakened sharply in June, an indication that the country's growth slowdown has deepened as the government has refrained from stimulating the sluggish economy. |
| Did pilot have enough 777 experience? | | | A veteran pilot who had logged 43 hours flying a Boeing 777, was at the controls as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 flew into San Francisco. Is this significant in the investigation? |
| State seeks to halt animated re-enactment of Trayvon shooting | | | SANFORD, Fla., July 8 (Reuters) - Prosecutors asked a Florida judge on Monday to block the jury in the George Zimmerman trial from seeing an animated re-enactment of the shooting of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, saying the video distorts the events of that fatal encounter. |
| 'Lone Ranger' left in the dust at box office | | | Over the extended 4th of July weekend, a lot of Americans lit up the grill and spent time with family. A lot unfolded lawn chairs and watched a fireworks show. And a whole lot bought tickets to see Despicable Me 2. |
| Can Esther Duflo eradicate poverty? | | | Poverty and hunger are two plagues of human society that are usually synonymous with each other. Economist, Esther Duflo, is trying to change that old way of thinking about hunger. Foreign Policy magazine has ranked Duflo as one of its "Top 100 Global Thinkers," for "Poor Economics," a book she co-authored, which says that the impoverished may be suffering from hunger because of where they choose to spend their money. |
| Murdoch caught on tape | | | A secret recording of Rupert Murdoch obtained by Britain's Channel 4 News details his disgust over the hacking scandal. |
| Stocks add to job induced gains; Alcoa mixed | | | July 8 - Summary Wall Street rallied as the glow from Friday's job report continued but a downgrade of Intel held tech stocks close to the flat line; Profits at Alcoa beat but sales lag. Energy shares trade mixed in wake of Canada freight explosion. Conway G. Gittens reports. |
| Summer reading picks for financial advisers | | | (Reuters) - As people head for vacations this holiday week, we asked five financial advisers to recommend books suitable for the beach but still relevant to the wealth management industry. |
| Murray the man behind the mask | | | When Andy Murray dedicated a tournament win to a friend, it revealed an unexpected personal side to one of the more guarded men in sport. |
| When cooking can kill | | | For nearly half of the world's population, building and maintaining a fire is a daily -- and often deadly -- chore. |
| Thrill-seekers run with bulls | | | Thrill-seekers tested their bravery by running alongside fighting bulls through the streets of the Pamplona on Sunday. |
| UPDATE 1-"Monsters University" scares zombies to lead box office | | | June 23 (Reuters) - "Monsters University," the prequel to Pixar's 2001 animated blockbuster "Monsters, Inc.," scared up $82 million in weekend ticket sales to easily outdistance the week's other new movie, the big-budget apocalyptic thriller "World War Z," which came in with an impressive haul of $66 million. |
| Tropical Storm Chantal swirls toward eastern Caribbean | | | July 8 (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Chantal churned across the Atlantic Ocean toward the eastern Caribbean on Monday on a track that would put it over flood-prone Haiti and the Dominican Republic later this week, U.S. forecasters said. |
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