| Latest worldwide news | Football minds its language | | | English Premier League grounds are noted for their passionate atmosphere and fans sometimes overstep the boundaries of public decency. |
| Low chance of cyclone east of Melbourne, Florida -NHC | | | Aug 2 (Reuters) - A weak area of low pressure associated with the remnants of tropical storm Dorian, located just east of Melbourne, Florida, has a 30 percent chance of becoming a tropical cyclone in the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory. |
| Egypt's new national hero? | | | For many Egyptians armed forces chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is a hero, despite allegations about his past. |
| A fair World Cup deal for Brazil? | | | After some of the world's biggest corporations such as Apple and Google have come under pressure over aggressive tax avoidance strategies, now its FIFA's turn to defend its lucrative financial arrangements with 2014 World Cup hosts Brazil. |
| Shirtless Goes the City | | | Is a heat wave enough of an excuse for a man to leave his shirt at home? For some New Yorkers, the answer was yes. |
| Chinese Journalist Is Detained in Beijing | | | The journalist, Chen Min, who had pressed for the release of a prominent human rights activist, was called to a meeting with security officials in Beijing at around noon Friday. |
| Chinas Feud With West on Solar Leads to Tax | | | The tariffs could exceed 50 percent on materials imported from the United States and South Korea used to build solar panels, a move seen as retaliation for an American trade lawsuit. |
| Book Talk Susan Choi Returns to Probe Love, Youthful Selfishness | | | Author Susan Choi in her latest book starts with a graduate student's fascination with a professor when she arrives at a prestigious university in 1992. But the initial attraction is where similarities between "My Education" and usual tales of college love end. |
| Singer Randy Travis sent to physical therapy center | | | DALLAS (Reuters) - Country singer Randy Travis has been moved to a physical therapy facility from a Texas hospital, where he had spent several weeks recovering from a viral heart infection and stroke, his spokesman Kirt Webster said on Wednesday. |
| World's largest geyser puts on rare show at Yellowstone | | | (Reuters) - The world's largest geyser has exploded to life at Yellowstone National Park for the first time in eight years, sending a high-pressure burst of steamy water 300 feet into the air, a park official said on Thursday. |
| Forward Calendar - U.S. corporate bond new issues | | | Aug 1 (Reuters) - The following are lists of upcoming high-grade and high-yield corporate bond offerings in the United States. The information was gathered from Thomson Reuters U.S. new issues team,... |
| Inside the List | | | Shirley Joness tell-all memoir, at No. 9 on the hardcover nonfiction list, makes clear that her off-screen life has been anything but prim. |
| Michael Dell closes in on prize with sweeter $25 billion deal | | | NEW YORK/ROUND ROCK, Texas (Reuters) - Dell Inc and Chief Executive Michael Dell clinched a new $25 billion deal on Friday, boosting the bid and offering a special dividend in hopes of ending months of wrangling with opponents of the founder's proposed buyout of the world's No. 3 PC maker. |
| Kirilenko 'Time to Take a Shot to Win a Title' | | | When Andrei Kirilenko opted out of a $10.2 million contract with the Minnesota Timberwolves, the 32-year-old forward did so presumably looking for one last long-term deal of his career. |
| Bubba Watson on shaping shots | | | Defending Masters champion Bubba Watson talks family, Golf Boys, that playoff and shows us how he shapes those shots. |
| Clip Air brings air travel by train | | | June 19 - Swiss researchers have released futuristic designs for attachable modular aircraft that will allow passengers to board a plane at a railway station and disembark at their destination without ever setting foot in an airport. EPFL says its Clip Air project is no flight of fancy. Jim Drury reports. |
| Bats The Bullpen Takes a Hit | | | Josh Edgin was placed on the disabled list, and Bobby Parnell will be held out of at least two games this weekend against the Royals. |
| Fed's Bullard drop in jobless a step closer to QE exit threshold | | | BOSTON (Reuters) - July's drop in the unemployment rate takes the nation closer to a 7 percent threshold outlined by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as the point around which the central bank would likely end bond purchases, a top Fed official said on Friday. |
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