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| Britains Recovery Picks Up | | | Gross domestic product grew 0.6 percent in the three months that ended in June, an uptick amid signs of improvement elsewhere in Europe. |
| The 30-Minute Interview Khashy Eyn | | | Mr. Eyn is the chief executive of Platinum Properties, a boutique brokerage firm that specializes in the downtown residential market of Manhattan, and now Miami. |
| Arming rebels Debate in progress | | | While the United States draws closer to providing some form of lethal assistance to the Syrian opposition, the debate over how extensive the package should be and the possible outcome are likely to follow any decision. |
| Mickelson savors 'greatest day' | | | They were tears of pride as Phil Mickelson conquers the greatest test in the game of golf by winning the British Open at Muirfield. |
| Man wrestles shark | | | A man in Massachusetts wrestled a shark after trying to reel him in with a fishing rod for over an hour. |
| Scientists smell success with durian wine | | | July 21 - Scientists in Singapore are turning their hands to wine-making, using the pungent-smelling durian as a replacement for grapes. They're still a long way from commercializing durian wine, but the researchers are confident that the so-called "King of Fruits" has potential for producing a wine that people will want to drink. Tara Cleary reports. |
| China's city of sinkholes | | | Four months after he built a new, two-story brick house in his village in northern China's Shandong Province, Xiao Guoqiang was alarmed to find a huge crack on the living room wall. |
| Inside SAC's Dell trade | | | The federal indictment charging "substantial" insider trading at SAC Capital Advisors details how information allegedly leaked by a Dell insider found its way to SAC's portfolio managers, who allegedly profited from it. Here's how the Department of Justice says it worked. |
| Bo Xilai indicted for corruption, abuse of power | | | For more than a year, Bo Xilai has been the elephant in the room in Chinese politics -- the central figure in one of the messiest political scandals to hit the ruling Communist Party in years. |
| Dance The Movement of Time | | | Mark Dendy likes bringing people together in celebration young people, old people, little people, big people, people of all kinds. |
| Team rebuilding world's first website | | | Twenty years ago, a team of researchers shared the Web with the world. Now they want to show a generation that grew up online what it was like in its earliest days. |
| Xerox profit beats estimates on restructuring | | | (Reuters) - Xerox Corp reported higher-than-expected second-quarter earnings on Thursday on growth in its services division and reiterated its full-year targets as its restructuring efforts showed signs of paying off. |
| 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. |
| All flights to and from Tunisia cancelled on Friday | | | TUNIS, July 26 (Reuters) - All flights to and from Tunisia will be cancelled on Friday after a general strike was called by the main labour organisation in protest at the killing of a prominent opposition figure, the civil aviation office said. |
| Spacewalkers leave space station for outside chores | | | CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Two astronauts left the International Space Station on Tuesday for a day of maintenance tasks, including installing a power cable needed for a new Russian laboratory due to be installed this year. |
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