| Latest worldwide news | A View of the Heavens From Texas | | | Amateur astronomers gathered for the 34th Texas Star Party, which offered them a chance to gaze at a sky full of nothing but stars. |
| Study forecasts deadly consequences of global warming in New York | | | July 15 - Higher temperatures caused by climate change could cause a spike in heat-related deaths in New York City, according to researchers at Columbia University. They say that if current trends continue, the number of fatalities attribituble to hot weather could double over the next seventy years. Sharon Reich reports. |
| NHL Stars to Return to Olympics in Sochi in 2014 | | | After weeks of tough negotiations, the NHL and its players reached a deal with the International Ice Hockey Federation on Friday to put the season on hold again so the game's biggest stars can compete next year in the Sochi Olympics. |
| Southwest plane hit on its front landing gear, NTSB says | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. safety investigators said on Thursday that a Southwest Airlines jetliner that crashed at LaGuardia Airport in New York on Monday landed on its front landing gear before its main landing gear touched down on the runway, a landing Southwest said was "not in accordance with our operating procedures." |
| Study raises new concern about earthquakes and fracking fluids | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Powerful earthquakes thousands of miles (km) away can trigger swarms of minor quakes near wastewater-injection wells like those used in oil and gas recovery, scientists reported on Thursday, sometimes followed months later by quakes big enough to destroy buildings. |
| A View of the Heavens From Texas | | | Amateur astronomers gathered for the 34th Texas Star Party, which offered them a chance to gaze at a sky full of nothing but stars. |
| Why women don't make partner | | | The scales of justice are beginning to balance as an increasing number of women enter the legal profession. But female lawyers are still struggling to become partners at top firms. CNN asked six leading lawyers in the United States and Britain to tell us what can be done to make the law a more balanced profession |
| The royal baby is on the move | | | July 24 - Britain's Prince William, his wife, Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, and their newborn son departed Kensington Palace. Rough Cut (no reporter narration) |
| Gulf rig on fire as natural gas flows from ruptured well | | | July 24 - Footage shows a shallow-water drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana on fire after natural gas flowing from a ruptured well ignited, according to authorities. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). |
| Markets Slip Despite Positive Data | | | Wall Street was mostly lower as surprisingly strong economic figures out of Europe and upbeat earnings from Apple could not outweigh earlier concerns over China. |
| Lonza scraps generic drug venture with Teva | | | ZURICH/LONDON (Reuters) - Specialty chemicals maker Lonza posted a bigger than expected fall in first-half profit and said it was ending a generic drugs venture with Israel's Teva Pharmaceutical Industries by mutual agreement after misjudging how much it would cost. |
| 'Corpse flower' stinks as it blooms | | | July 22 - Visitors flocked to the U.S. Botanical Gardens for a whiff of the famous 'corpse plant' which emits a rotten flesh-like odor as it blooms. Deborah Gembara reports. |
| Tiny lab under the skin could stop drug cheats | | | July 18 - Amid yet more claims of illegal drug-taking by high-profile athletes, scientists in Switzerland say they may have found a foolproof way to prevent the use of banned substances in sports. They say their chip implant, designed to monitor naturally-occurring substances in the blood, could also be used as a weapon against drug cheats. Jim Drury reports. |
| The biggest tech tax havens | | | Most of the top 50 U.S. tech firms have established an overseas headquarters, not in the country where they do the most business, but where they can pay rock-bottom tax rates. A Reuters special report looks at which companies are saving what and where. |
| Super freak to super stud? | | | How will Frankel, widely considered the finest thoroughbred every produced, perform in his new career at stud? |
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