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| Ex-Glencore, Goldman oil trader to launch new commodity fund | | | NEW YORK, July 26 (Reuters) - A former energy trader at Glencore Xstrata Plc and Goldman Sachs Group Inc is launching a commodities hedge fund focused on trading price spreads between different crude oil and petroleum products, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. |
| Well Australians Are Getting Fatter | | | Australia may be known for its rugged outdoor lifestyles but recent statistics suggest a different reality. Australia and its equally outdoorsy neighbor, New Zealand, are now two of the fattest countries in the developed world. |
| Soldier back from Afghanistan learns dog is gone | | | After a 9-month deployment to Afghanistan, Lt. Brandon Harker returned to the United States expecting to reunite with his beloved yellow Labrador retriever, Oakley -- only to find the dog, whom he'd left with a "good friend," was gone. And now he's seeking the public's help in tracking him down. |
| Clowney, Jay-Z Talks Were Within NCAA Rules | | | A South Carolina spokesman says the school found no impermissible contact between All-American defensive end Jadeveon Clowney and Jay-Z, the rap mogul turned sports agency head. |
| Hungarian PM urges ethnic kin, scattered by history, to unite | | | BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orban, called on ethnic Hungarians around the world on Saturday to unite to build a strong nation, tapping into nostalgia for a country dismembered when Europe's maps were re-drawn nearly a century ago. |
| Crowdsourcing ideas in Mideast | | | Things are looking up for entrepreneurs in the Middle East as a new breed of crowdfunding is emerging to help bring life to innovative ideas from the region. |
| Florida's Morrison Arrested and Suspended | | | Florida linebacker Antonio Morrison has been suspended for at least the first two games of the regular season after being arrested for the second time in five weeks. |
| Qatar grounds a 787 as glitches pile up on Boeing jet | | | DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar Airways said on Friday it had taken one of its Boeing 787 Dreamliners out of service following what it described as a "minor" technical issue, as pressure mounted on the plane maker over possible new electrical problems with the advanced jet. |
| Mortgages Awaiting Foreclosure Relief | | | Foreclosure prevention advocates are urging Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to sign legislation into law to prevent the stem the growth of pending legislations. |
| Super freak to super stud? | | | How will Frankel, widely considered the finest thoroughbred every produced, perform in his new career at stud? |
| San Diego mayor to enter therapy over sex scandal, won't quit | | | SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Embattled San Diego Mayor Bob Filner on Friday defied calls to resign over a hail of sexual harassment allegations, but apologized to the women he offended and said he would take a two-week leave of absence to undergo intensive therapy. |
| RPT-Why China pays too much for medicines | | | July 26 (Reuters) - China has a drug problem. While most Western countries spend 10-12 percent of their healthcare budget on medicines, in China it is well over 40 percent, a disparity that goes to the heart of Beijing's crackdown on the industry. |
| Emmy Awards See who's nominated | | | The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, with help from "Breaking Bad's" Aaron Paul and this year's host, Neil Patrick Harris, has revealed the nominees for the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards. |
| Tuvan throat singer Kongar-ol Ondar dies at 51 | | | (Reuters) - Kongar-ol Ondar, a Tuvan throat singer credited with popularizing the centuries-old musical tradition of his homeland to Western audiences, died on Thursday after emergency surgery to treat a brain hemorrhage, friends said. He was 51. |
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