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| Emmy Awards See who's nominated | | | The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, with help from "Breaking Bad's" Aaron Paul and this year's host, Neil Patrick Harris, has revealed the nominees for the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards. |
| North Korea honors country's war vets | | | The new leader of this isolated country has inaugurated a new veterans' cemetery, on the first of what are expected to be several days of elaborate ceremonies celebrating the 60th anniversary of the conclusion of the Korean War. |
| Mandela shows 'sustained improvement' | | | Former South African leader Nelson Mandela still is in critical condition at a Pretoria hospital but "shows sustained improvement," the office of South African President Jacob Zuma said Monday. |
| Marquez wins in Germany to go top | | | Both of his main rivals in MotoGP were injured and Marc Marquez took advantage. He won the German Grand Prix to grab the lead in the overall standings. |
| France to back legal argument in Argentina case against creditors | | | PARIS/BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - France will petition the U.S. Supreme Court to review Argentina's case in its decade-old legal battle with certain creditors, French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said on Friday, citing the importance of global financial stability. |
| Germany braces for heat wave | | | July 26 - German officials are warning locals to limit their time outside ahead of a heatwave this weekend which is forecast to bring record high temperatures. Deborah Gembara reports. |
| Consumer sentiment rises to highest level in six years in July | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. consumer sentiment rose in July to the highest level in six years as Americans felt better about the current economic climate, though they expected to see a slower rate of growth in the year ahead, a survey released on Friday showed. |
| Big Apple KOs Madison Square Garden | | | "The world's most famous arena," the current version of which opened in 1968, has been given 10 years to relocate, so New York can expand the almost-as-famous Penn Station, which sits below. |
| U.S. indicts hackers in biggest cyber fraud case in history | | | NEWARK, N.J./BOSTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors said on Thursday they have charged five men responsible for a hacking and credit card fraud spree that cost companies more $300 million and two of the suspects are in custody, in the biggest cyber crime case filed in U.S. history. |
| U.S kidnapper avoids death in plea deal | | | Ariel Castro, the man accused of holding three women for about a decade in a house in the U.S., agrees to a plea deal of life in prison plus 1,000 years to avoid a possible death sentence. |
| Review 'The Wolverine' | | | There's a reason Marvel conceived the X-Men as a team The menagerie of mutants are more interesting when they come in a pack. When the posse of super-powered outcasts was first brought to the screen by Bryan Singer in 2000, Hugh Jackman's mutton-chopped, adamantium-clawed Wolverine emerged as the stand-out super-freak. And Hollywood accounting being what it is, he was naturally granted his own solo encore in 2009's underwhelming X-Men Origins Wolverine, a silly spin-off that never quite came together. |
| Opposition mounts to Summers as possible Fed chief | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama could be months away from announcing his pick to replace Ben Bernanke at the Federal Reserve, yet critics are already making an unusual public effort to stop one contender in the race - former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. |
| Destin working on Mississippi gas plant for July 26/27 restart | | | July 26 (Reuters) - Destin Pipeline Co LLC said it continued to remove liquids from the Pascagoula liquid handling facility in Mississippi and estimates work will be completed late on Friday night or early Saturday morning, versus a previous estimate of Wednesday. |
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