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News Feed Latest worldwide news Economic growth gauge at highest since April 2011 ECRI NEW YORK (Reuters) - A measure of future U.S. economic growth edged up last week to its highest level since April 2011, while the annualized growth rate held steady, a research group said on Friday. Soccer Australian National Team Seeks Competition in Asia Since becoming a member of the Asian Football Confederation, Australia has seen a rise in its soccer fortunes as its players take on a more technical aspect. For a New Generation, an Elusive American Dream In the Nicholson family, America is not delivering for a grandson as it did for his father and grandfather. Plan to Capture an Asteroid Runs Into Politics In a straight party vote, Republicans in the normally bipartisan House science committee vote down a NASA proposal and call for a Moon base. A Trail of Masterpieces and a Web of Lies, Leading to Anguish Investigators are still struggling to penetrate the fog of claims and counterclaims about what happened to seven paintings that were stolen by a Romanian criminal gang from a Dutch museum. Jacksons Earning Potential Is at the Heart of a Wrongful-Death Suit The wrongful-death suit against A.E.G. Live hinges on whether Michael Jackson or the company was responsible for hiring the doctor who administered the anesthetic that killed him. CNN to Produce Documentary on Hillary Clinton Two days earlier, NBC said it would make a four-hour mini-series on Ms. Clinton Netiquette Saying farewell So many folks manage to lose their netiquette heads when they scramble, legs flailing and akimbo, toward the denouement of events and life chapters. So here is the ultimate (get it?) digital-etiquette guide to a polite big finish. Ice melt speeding up, study finds Two decades of satellite readings back up what dramatic pictures have suggested in recent years The mile-thick ice sheets that cover Greenland and most of Antarctica are melting at a faster rate in a warming world. ArtsBeat Theater for a New Audience Sets Full Season at New Home The Theater for a New Audience has announced the full schedule for its inaugural season at the Center for Shakespeare and Classical Drama. Personal Health Understanding Eczema to Treat It New discoveries shed light on a skin condition that afflicts 15 million Americans. 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. UPDATE 3-Italian bus plunges off viaduct, 38 people killed * Bus slams into cars before crashing through road barriers Fidelity's early ETF strategy leans heavily on BlackRock BOSTON (Reuters) - Fidelity Investments disclosed on Friday its plans to use U.S. money manager BlackRock Inc as subadviser on a slate of 10 new sector-oriented exchange-traded funds. Briefly Education University Application Rates in U.K. Vary by Ethnicity State high school students with Chinese backgrounds are the most likely to apply to a British university, while white students are the least likely, according to a new report. Once a King of Romance, Now an Angry Militant Fadel Shaker, a Lebanese superstar singer who was called the king of romance, renounced his musical career to take up arms. Can humans beat machines in the workplace? July 18 - Automation could destroy as much as 70 per cent of todays jobs by 2020, according to Wired magazine. Amy Gardner looks at some of the ways humans are trying to modify themselves to beat machines. She meets a cybernetics professor who turned himself into a cyborg, and looks at the pros and cons of a cognitive enhancing drug. Snedeker profits from Mahan's new arrival It was a weekend that Brandt Snedeker and Hunter Mahan will never forget. Snedeker won his second PGA Tour event of 2013 as Mahan celebrated the birth of his daughter. Few Suitors to Build a New Marine One The bidding for the helicopter, as well as other recent contract troubles, suggests that the goal of creating sharper competition with government contracts is hard to achieve. On Gay Priests, Pope Francis Asks, Who Am I to Judge? If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? Francis was quoted as saying on Monday. Task Force Recommends Screening for Heavy Smokers A shift to CT scans from chest X-rays has the potential to save 20,000 lives a year, experts say. UPDATE 1-Valeant Pharma to save more from Bausch Lomb deal July 29 (Reuters) - Canada's Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc said it would cut 10 to 15 percent jobs after buying contact lens maker Bausch Lomb and added that cost savings may rise from... 'Wolverine' earns $55 million over weekend Sometimes even earning the No. 1 spot can be seen as a modest disappointment, or at least that's what the new narrative around The Wolverine (CinemaScore A-) would have you believe. Breaking Bread A Fascination With Sanitation Work (and the Rsum to Prove It) Robin Nagle is a chronicler of, and a zealous advocate for, the workers who perform some of the most essential but least heralded jobs in New York City. Single-sex golf clubs? Men-only golf club Muirfield is the home to 2013 British Open this week. CNN visited an exclusive female London establishment to find out what's dividing the sexes. In the Garden The Storm Erases, the Drawing Board Replaces Two landscape designers give guidance on how to repair a landscape after destruction from a storm. Inside Art Loss That Lingers, in Memory and Place Sophie Calles Last Seen series of photographs and texts, about the 1990 theft of 13 artworks from Bostons Gardner Museum, will be shown there this fall. Two Ad Giants Chasing Google in Merger Deal The merger of Omnicom and Publicis signals that advertising is now firmly in the business of collecting and selling the personal information of millions of consumers. Arkansas water park closes after rare meningitis confirmed LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - A popular Arkansas water park voluntarily closed after a 12-year-old girl who swam there was diagnosed with a rare case of parasitic meningitis, authorities said on Monday. Could robots solve Detroit's crisis? Detroit is in crisis, just as it was on the big screen in RoboCop. The film's writer says reality has almost caught up with his grim futuristic vision. Rambus asked about shredded records in Nvidia case * Appeals judge says Rambus doesn't know what was shredded Attackers kill 7 at Pakistani coast guard checkpoint Militants killed seven coast guard personnel and injured another seven in a predawn attack Saturday in southwest Pakistan, authorities said. Tigers Acquire Reliever Veras From Astros The Detroit Tigers added some help for their shaky bullpen Monday, acquiring reliever Jose Veras from the Houston Astros for minor league outfielder Danry Vasquez and a player to be named. Garry Davis, Man of No Nation Who Saw One World of No War, Dies at 91 Mr. Davis was a self-declared world citizen who tirelessly advocated to erase national borders and to end wars as part of the One World movement. Obama seeks second-term jolt with economic speech July 24 - President Barack Obama hits the road to push his vision for an expanded middle class, hoping to stave off partisan gridlock as economic issues loom. Karen Hendren reports. Music Review Bob Dylans Americanarama Tour Comes to Hoboken Bob Dylan, with the help of acts like Wilco and My Morning Jacket, brought sounds of honky-tonk country, bluesy rock and soul to his tour stop in Hoboken, N.J. Grapefruit-sized RadBall proposed for Fukushima clean-up July 11 - The world's largest floating power station is about to set sail from Tokyo bay for deployment off Fukushima, while officials struggle to clean up radioactive waste inside the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power station. Soon however, they may have a grapefruit-sized ball made of aluminium and tungsten to help them. Called RadBall, the device is designed to locate sources of radiation in difficult to reach places. Jim Drury has more. Sinclair to Buy TV Stations From Allbritton The deal will add seven stations to the Sinclair portfolio, including WJLA, the ABC affiliate in Washington, while providing more capital for Allbritton to invest in Politico. GLOBAL MARKETS-U.S. stocks fall, central bank meetings loom * Dollar under pressure at five-week low ahead of Federal Reserve QA Verifying Gmail on the Road If you do not have access to your cellphone for Gmails verification process, there is an option to print out a set of codes.

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