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| Bo Xilai's son speaks out | | | Just days before his father faces court in what's being billed as China's trial of the century, the son of former high-flying politician Bo Xilai has expressed hope that his father is able to "defend himself without constraints." |
| Legalization The Uruguay model | | | Views on marijuana are shifting, but nearly everywhere, it is too early to talk about substantive changes to drug policies. |
| Tech that will save your life in an apocalypse | | | When disaster strikes, survival can depend on a few basic needs. Access to clean water, shelter, warmth and sanitation is a matter of life of death in the days and weeks after an earthquake, tsunami, flood or tornado. |
| Syria evacuates most army buildings in Damascus residents | | | AMMAN (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad's forces appear to have evacuated most personnel from army and security command headquarters in central Damascus in preparation for a Western military strike, residents and opposition sources said on Wednesday. |
| TABLE-Foreign brokers set to sell Japanese stocks | | | TOKYO, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Following are orders for Japanese stocks placed through six foreign securities houses before the start of trade on Thursday. Japanese Stocks SELL 14.6 million shares BUY... |
| How did we get to military action? | | | The Pentagon says it's "ready to go" if it gets orders to carry out a military strike in response to Syria's suspected use of chemical weapons against its own people. Here's a quick-read cheat sheet about the Syrian civil war -- and how we got here. |
| Dozens killed in Bolivia prison fire, brawl | | | A prison brawl and fire has left 29 inmates dead and dozens injured in eastern Bolivia, state media reported. The incident at Palmasola prison in Santa Cruz started with a battle between two groups of prisoners. |
| "Most Wanted" app brings gamers into hunt for suspects | | | July 5 - Police in Warsaw have come up with an innovative way to enlist the public in their hunt for wanted criminal suspects, by incorporating a rogue's gallery of faces as part of a smartphone app which tests players' memory for faces. Jim Drury reports. |
| New York Times, Twitter hacked by Syrian group | | | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Media companies, including the New York Times, Twitter and the Huffington Post, lost control of some of their websites Tuesday after hackers supporting the Syrian government breached the Australian Internet company that manages many major site addresses. |
| 8 hurt in N.J. base explosion | | | At least eight people were injured Tuesday by an explosion at a naval weapons station in New Jersey, a Navy spokesman said. |
| COMMODITIES-Syria crisis sparks rallies in crude oil, gold | | | By Barani Krishnan NEW YORK, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Oil and gold prices surged for a second straight day on Wednesday as speculation of an imminent military strike on Syria raised worries about Middle East oil supplies and pushed safe-haven investors toward precious metals. Copper prices extended their downtrend as the looming Western-led strike on Syria made investors in base metals more cautious over risk. Concern about rising copper stockpiles in China also weighed on prices. In crop |
| Stocks lifted by oil, but unease remains | | | Aug. 28 - Summary Wall Street regains lost ground as Syria related concerns boost energy shares; Planned home buys fall for second month; Nintendo plays tough on pricing in bid to revive sales. Conway G. Gittens reports. |
| Filling up on petrol station offices | | | (Reuters.com) - Seeking a place to work out of the office that is quieter than a bustling coffee shop and provides drinks, printers, Wi-Fi and even petrol? |
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