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| Scientists smell success with durian wine | | | July 21 - Scientists in Singapore are turning their hands to wine-making, using the pungent-smelling durian as a replacement for grapes. They're still a long way from commercializing durian wine, but the researchers are confident that the so-called "King of Fruits" has potential for producing a wine that people will want to drink. Tara Cleary reports. |
| Ex-HSBC banker emerges as frontrunner for RBS top job FT | | | (Reuters) - Mark McCombe, the former head of HSBC's Hong Kong operations, has emerged as the external frontrunner for the top job at Royal Bank of Scotland , the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing three people close to the process. |
| Vodafone says would consider Verizon offer | | | LONDON, July 23 (Reuters) - The chairman of the world's second-largest mobile operator Vodafone said that the group would seriously consider any offer for its stake in its U.S. joint venture Verizon... |
| UK wants to restrict access to porn | | | Saying that "the darkest corners of the Internet" pose a real threat to children, British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday rolled out a plan that would, by default, block pornography on most computers, smartphones and tablets. |
| Henchman accuses Boston mob boss 'Whitey' Bulger of pedophilia | | | BOSTON (Reuters) - During the seven weeks of his trial, James "Whitey" Bulger has been called a murderer, drug dealer and, most galling to the former Boston mob boss, a "rat," for informing the FBI about other criminal gangs so he could operate with impunity. |
| Wildlife's worst enemy? Us | | | Mona Rutger got the call in October A bald eagle was flopping around on an airport runway after it had been clipped by a private jet. Unfortunately, it's something she sees all too often. |
| Apollo 11 rocket engines found? | | | Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos rescued sunken treasure in the Atlantic this year components of two F-1 rocket engines. Now he says he has verified that they are engines from Apollo 11, the first mission that took U.S. astronauts to the moon. |
| Moldovan doctors use household tools for surgery in leaked video | | | CHISINAU, July 23 (Reuters) - Doctors at a Moldovan state-run hospital used household tools, including an electric drill and pliers, to perform surgery in a video leaked to local press and published on the Internet, prompting outrage among the public and government officials. |
| RPT-UPDATE 2-US opens probe into steel pipe imports from 9 countries | | | WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department on Tuesday launched one of its biggest trade investigations in years into charges that manufacturers in South Korea, India and seven other countries are selling steel pipe used by oil and natural gas producers at unfairly low prices in the United States. |
| Man wanted in Algeria gas attack charged in New York | | | Federal prosecutors in New York on Friday charged a one-eyed veteran Islamist fighter with crimes related to a brazen attack on a gas facility in Algeria earlier this year that left 37 hostages dead, including three Americans. |
| Man wrestles shark | | | A man in Massachusetts wrestled a shark after trying to reel him in with a fishing rod for over an hour. |
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