| Latest worldwide news | Jason Sudeikis says he is leaving NBC's 'Saturday Night Live' | | | LOS ANGELES, July 24 (Reuters) - Longtime "Saturday Night Live" cast member Jason Sudeikis said on Wednesday he has left the NBC late-night sketch comedy show, joining fellow comedians Bill Hader and Fred Armisen out the door after the show finished its 38th season in May. |
| 2nd coaster closed | | | A roller coaster at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio has been temporarily closed as a precautionary measure after a woman died last week on a similar ride at the Six Flags in Arlington, Texas. |
| Former UBS bankers get prison terms for muni bid-rigging | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three former UBS AG bankers were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for deceiving U.S. municipalities by rigging bids to invest municipal bond proceeds, with the longest sentence at 27 months, a fraction of what prosecutors had sought. |
| Borscht Belt Sherwood Forest | | | When Things Were Rotten, a short-lived 1970s TV lampoon of Robin Hood that Mel Brooks helped create, returns as a DVD release. |
| Navratilova vs. Cash | | | Open Court's Pat Cash takes to the court with 18-time grand slam winner Martina Navratilova. |
| Mickelson savors 'greatest day' | | | They were tears of pride as Phil Mickelson conquers the greatest test in the game of golf by winning the British Open at Muirfield. |
| Death toll rises in landslide | | | A landslide the size of a small town has killed at least 18 people and toppled 11 buildings in southwest China, state-run media said, citing local authorities. |
| FDA accepts review of long-delayed Merck blood clot drug | | | July 24 - Merck Co. on Wednesday said U.S. regulators had accepted its marketing application for the blood clot drug vorapaxar, aimed at preventing heart attacks and strokes in patients who have already had a heart attack but who have no history of stroke. |
| UPDATE 3-Qualcomm quarterly revenue beats Street; stock up | | | SAN FRANCISCO, July 24 (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc posted third-quarter revenue that beat expectations and earnings that matched them to ease concerns about slower growth of smartphone sales and help push the leading mobile chipmaker's shares up more than 4 percent. |
| Red Sox, Pedroia Finalize 8-Year, $110M Deal | | | If the Red Sox thought the contract extension they gave Dustin Pedroia would keep him in Boston for the rest of his career, they may have actually underestimated the tenacity that made the diminutive second baseman a star. |
| China's Shenhua drains groundwater for coal project-Greenpeace | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - A project operated by China's largest coal miner, Shenhua Group, has reduced groundwater levels in a region of Inner Mongolia and discharged high levels of toxic wastewater, environmental campaign group Greenpeace said on Tuesday. |
| Former UBS Bankers Get Prison Terms for Muni Bid-Rigging | | | Three former UBS AG bankers were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for deceiving U.S. municipalities by rigging bids to invest municipal bond proceeds, with the longest sentence at 27 months, a fraction of what prosecutors had sought. |
| 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. |
| Lawyer Snowden can't leave yet | | | Contrary to Russian news reports, Edward Snowden has not yet received documents that would allow him to leave a Moscow airport's transit area, his lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told CNN. But she said the paperwork could be delivered at "any time." |
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