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News Feed Latest worldwide news U.K. Utility Shares Fall After Pledge to Freeze Rates The head of Britains opposition Labour Party said that if his party won the election in 2015, it would freeze gas and electric rates for two years. Bruins Top Jets 3-2 in OT Loui Eriksson sent a high shot past goalie Ondrej Pavelec at 146 of overtime to give the Boston Bruins a 3-2 preseason victory against the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday. Sketch Guy A Time to Splurge, and a Time to Pinch Pennies People make their own choices on what they are willing to spend extra for. The important thing is having good reasons for these choices. A Cruise on the S.S. Brainstorm Unreasonable at Sea was a voyage that brought together start-up founders, inventors, corporate bigwigs and mentors. After Rout in German Elections, Social Democrats Consider Coalition With Merkel The defeated Social Democrats convened to decide whether to enter into talks with Chancellor Angela Merkels conservatives over a possible coalition, and what price to extract from her if they do. Tool Kit A Surge in Growth for a New Kind of Online Course Three major sites have emerged in the last couple of years to offer massive open online courses, greatly expanding the opportunity to take college classes. UPDATE 1-Violin Memory strikes sour note in market debut * IPO of 18 mln shares priced at $9 each (Add details, analyst comment; updates share movement) DealBook JPMorgan Urged to Pay More in Mortgage Deal Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, met with the attorney general to discuss a deal that would involve a fine of more than $7 billion, plus $4 billion in relief for struggling homeowners. The Lede Details of Conversation With Obama Deleted From Twitter Account in Rouhanis Name Excitement about a diplomatic breakthrough among President Hassan Rouhanis aides perhaps explains why a rapid-fire series of updates divulging details of his conversation with President Obama were posted on the @HassanRouhani Twitter account and then deleted a short time later. TBR Inside the List Keith Richardsx2019;s autobiography, x201C;Life,x201D; hits the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 1, unsurprisingly. Google introduces new 'Hummingbird' search algorithm MENLO PARK, California (Reuters) - Google Inc has overhauled its search algorithm, the foundation of the Internet's dominant search engine, to better cope with the longer, more complex queries it has been getting from Web users. Well Eating the Color Purple Even though its officially autumn, the summer crop of eggplant is still in full swing at farmers markets across the country. Antiques Newcomb Pottery Will Go on View at Tulane Women, Art and Social Change The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise, an exhibition opening at Tulane, tells the story of the Southern women who once toiled on exquisitely designed wares there. Violin Memory strikes sour note in market debut (Reuters) - Shares of flash storage provider Violin Memory , backed by Toshiba Corp , fell nearly 21 percent in their market debut, as investors remain skeptical about an intensely competitive data... T Magazine The Scene | Paris Fashion Week Rick Owens Scenes from the Paris Fashion Week photo diary of Alfredo Piola. Wedge Tells Mariners He Won't Return Seattle manager Eric Wedge has told the Mariners he will not return for next season. Obama speaks by phone to Iran's Rouhani, sees chance for progress Sept. 27 - President Barack Obama says on Friday he had spoken by phone with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and both men had directed their teams to work expeditiously toward an agreement on Iran's nuclear program. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). Golf Capsules Peter Uihlein came within inches away from shooting the first 59 on the European Tour when his eagle putt on the last hole veered left Friday in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. Australia shares top 5-year highs, cautious ahead of US deadlines SYDNEY, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Australian shares rose 0.3 percent on Friday, topping five-year highs hit last week after Wall Street broke a five-day losing streak, but investors remained cautious ahead... ArtsBeat Timothy Leary Video Games Unearthed in Archive Material unearthed in Timothy Learys archive at the New York Public Library show that the was an early adventurer in another arena video games. Irans Leader, Denouncing Holocaust, Stirs Dispute President Hassan Rouhanis condemnation of the Holocaust has set off a political storm, landing him in precisely the kind of tangled dispute he had hoped to avoid. Barroso Europe not out of crisis CNN's Richard Quest speaks with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso about the European financial crisis. Fitch SFR Spin-Off Plan Exposes Vivendi Holders to Event Risk (The following statement was released by the rating agency) LONDON, September 12 (Fitch) Vivendi's plan to split itself in two exposes bondholders to the risk that they will end up invested in SFR, the group's French telecom operations, rather than its better-performing media assets and Brazil's GVT, Fitch Ratings says. The credit impact on Vivendi's 'BBB' rating would depend mainly on how debt was allocated to the two separate companies in any proposed transaction. Vivendi could end 2013 The Politics of Black Masculinity The Op-Ed columnist Charles M. Blow on the difficulty of explaining the Zimmerman verdict to his sons. Young Cuban baseball pitcher believed to have left the island HAVANA (Reuters) - A promising young Cuban pitcher failed to show up for training this week and was widely believed to have left the island, which would make him the latest talented prospect to seek a lucrative Major League Baseball contract in the United States. Lawmakers hover as more homeowners rent rooms to visitors LONDON (Reuters) - For British student Carly Connor a trip to London for a city break would be impossible if she had to pay for a hotel so instead she rents a room in a Londoner's home. Interpol issues alert for 'White Widow' Interpol issues a red notice for Briton Samantha Lewthwaite, the so-called "White Widow," at the request of Kenyan authorities. After Rout in German Elections, Social Democrats Consider Coalition With Merkel The defeated Social Democrats convened to decide whether to enter into talks with Chancellor Angela Merkels conservatives over a possible coalition, and what price to extract from her if they do. Tasting the Green Circle Chickens In a blind tasting, Melissa Clark and two Dining editors sampled the chickens fed scraps from some of New Yorks best restaurants. Pictures From the Week in Business A $965 million loss at BlackBerry, a call to freeze the pension plan for Detroits municipal workers and plans by a big Chinese company to hold an initial public offering of stock in New York. Independence day penguins? For one weekend in September more than 155 million people in six neighboring countries in one continent pull out all the stops to honor the birth of their nations. UPDATE 1-Chipmaker RDA Microelectronics gets $15.50/ADS buyout offer Sept 27 (Reuters) - RDA Microelectronics Inc said China's state-owned Shanghai Pudong Science and Technology Investment Co Ltd offered to buy the shares of the chipmaker it does not already own at $15.50 per American depositary share. YouTube tries to fix its comments YouTube comments are rough. They dabble in all forms of trolling, bullying, racism, sexism and other offensive -isms, interspersed with endless spurts of nonsensical chatter. Any thoughtful comments are typically lost in a roiling sea of "LOLs," insults and spam. Italian pasta baron's anti-gay comment prompts boycott call ROME (Reuters) - Guido Barilla, chairman of the world's leading pasta manufacturer, prompted calls for a consumer boycott on Thursday after telling Italian radio his company would never use a gay... Jennifer Lawrence to Star in East of Eden Remake The Hunger Games director Gary Ross plans to make two movies based on the John Steinbeck novel. Liberia Warzone to paradise? 10 after the end of its ruinous civil war Liberia is hoping that peace and growing prosperity could bring tourists to its sandy beaches. Greenpeace Activists May Face Russian Piracy Charges Russian officials have opened a piracy investigation against Greenpeace members who scaled a Gazprom offshore oil platform in the Arctic. New Jersey Judge Rules State Must Allow Gay Marriage A New Jersey judge ruled Friday that the state must allow same-sex couples to marry in light of the United States Supreme Courts decision in June striking down the Defense of Marriage Act. Man evicted for 1964 Tokyo Olympics will be forced out again for 2020 Games Sept. 19 - A Tokyo resident whose home was flattened to make way for the enlarged 1964 Olympics stadium faces eviction again for the 2020 Games. Tara Cleary reports. Pilots fall asleep on long-haul flight to UK paper LONDON (Reuters) - Two pilots on a British airliner on a long haul flight fell asleep in the cockpit, leaving the packed jet travelling unsupervised on autopilot, Britain's Sun newspaper reported on Thursday.

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