| Latest worldwide news | 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. |
| Transparency needed on spying | | | Sen. Al Franken says we can't debate the legality of domestic spying if it's a secret program authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. |
| Hedge funds bet wrong on US crude before slump, right on gold | | | * Funds put $3.3 bln into new crude longs before market fell * Bets on gold turned right as price rallies 3rd week in row By Barani Krishnan NEW YORK, July 26 (Reuters) - Hedge funds took huge positive bets on U.S. crude oil this week just before the market turned south but they had better luck going long on gold as the precious metal rallied, trade data and price charts showed on Friday. Positive wagers placed by money managers on contracts of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crud |
| Abe vows action after election wins | | | Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to move forward swiftly with his plans to revive Japan's staggering economy after weekend elections gave his Liberal Democratic Party control of the upper house of parliament. |
| Can a team win 79-0? | | | Two Nigerian matches that produced an incredible 146 goals are referred by the country's football authorities to the police as a "criminal matter." |
| Sequenom shares plunge on weak results, downgrades | | | (Reuters) - Shares of Sequenom Inc fell as much as 36 percent, a day after the life sciences company reported a jump in its second-quarter loss and prompted analysts to slash their ratings and price... |
| Well Anxiety Lingers Long After Cancer | | | A new analysis finds that within two years of a cancer diagnosis, the pervasiveness of depression in patients and their spouses tends to drop back, but only to be replaced with anxiety. |
| Kuwaitis head to the polls for sixth time since 2006 | | | KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwaitis voted for the sixth time in seven years on Saturday in a parliamentary election boycotted by the main Islamist and populist opposition, which may help liberals and independents win seats. |
| China state media says 18 more detained in GSK probe | | | BEIJING, July 27 (Reuters) - At least 18 more people have been detained in China in connection with a corruption scandal involving British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, state media reported, giving more details on a probe which has rocked the company. |
| Albert Hall seeks cool fix as promenaders wilt | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's heatwave has prompted the Royal Albert Hall to review its ventilation systems after soaring temperatures at the Summer season of Promenade concerts left both musicians and spectators "dripping with sweat". |
| Chipping Away at the Smartphone Leaders | | | The competition in high-end cellphones is stirring, and consumers are giving a new look to brands they once ignored, a factor Samsung acknowledged in its latest earnings report. |
| Carnegie Mellon robots aim to please | | | June 26 - Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are designing modern day butlers - service robots that will one day help people with tasks like fetching coffee and cleaning up the kitchen. Ben Gruber has more. |
| Modernizing the Maasai | | | A Maasai activist is helping his people adapt to the 21st century, starting radio stations and encouraging women to set up in business. |
| Siemens CEO to leave following profit warning | | | MUNICH (Reuters) - Siemens Chief Executive Peter Loescher is to leave the company, four years before the end of his contract, after the German engineering group this week issued its second profit warning this year. |
| Coronation treasures revealed | | | For the first time since the queen's coronation in 1953, the dress, robes, jewels, diamonds and uniforms worn on that day have finally been brought together again. |
| Accused Fort Hood shooter says he participated in war on Islam | | | (Reuters) - Accused Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Hasan said on Saturday that the United States military is engaged in a war with the Muslim religion, and he apologized for having participated in what he called "illegal and immoral aggression" against Muslims. |
| FACTBOX Eight 2Q earnings eye-openers | | | July 26 - Earnings releases from companies such as Apple, Amazon and Ford pointed out crucial trends and disappointing patterns. Heres a breakdown of them. |
| Hedge fund firm Lansdowne names new CEO | | | LONDON (Reuters) - One of London's largest hedge fund firms, Lansdowne Partners, has named Alex Snow, the former head of UK Investment Banking at Investec, as its new chief executive officer. |
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