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| Greinke and Dodgers Beat Cubs 6-2 | | | Zack Greinke came within one strike of his fifth career shutout, Hanley Ramirez and Yasiel Puig homered, and the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Chicago Cubs 6-2 Monday night, ending a two-game skid. |
| Kuchar and Woodland Share Barclays Lead | | | Matt Kuchar and Gary Woodland battled to a tie for the lead at breezy Liberty National and will be paired for a final-round Sunday duel at The Barclays, the opening event of the FedExCup playoffs. |
| Economix Blog Japans Women to the Rescue | | | Prime Minister Shinzo Abes effort to expand opportunities for women is not simply an exercise in political correctness but an economic necessity driven by demographics, an economist writes. |
| Marta seeks fair deal for women | | | "We are women and we have to be proud of that," Brazil star Marta tells CNN's "An Uneven Playing Field" documentary. "What really matters is the support you get in football regardless of the uniform you wear." |
| Some Microsoft insiders could be CEO candidates | | | SEATTLE, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has a stable of senior executives who could be contenders to succeed Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, even though outsiders have sparked the most discussion so far. |
| CNN on the ground in Damascus | | | CNN's Frederik Pleitgen reports from Damascus, Syria, where there are fresh allegations of a chemical weapons attack. |
| Bubba on shaping shots | | | Defending Masters champion Bubba Watson talks family, Golf Boys, that playoff and shows us how he shapes those shots. |
| India Ink Being Adoor Gopalakrishnan | | | Profile of the Indian film director who has over the past four decades explored expansive themes through 11 feature films and 22 documentaries, many of which have won awards. |
| Microsoft may look inside for next CEO | | | SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has a stable of senior executives who could be contenders to succeed Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, even though outsiders have sparked the most discussion so far. |
| Two to leave 'Parks and Rec' | | | Two residents of Pawnee will soon bid farewell Rob Lowe and Rashida Jones are exiting "Parks and Recreation" during the show's sixth season, EW has confirmed. (Buzzfeed first reported the news.) The pair will depart about halfway through the season, in the 13th episode. |
| Outcry Grows Against British Housing Plan | | | Help to Buy, in which the government either offers interest-free credit or guarantees part of the property loan, has come under criticism from those who say it could create a real estate bubble. |
| Petronas says no deal with Brazil's OGX until debt restructured | | | RIO DE JANEIRO/KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Petroliam Nasional Bhd, the Malaysian state oil company, said a final agreement to buy a stake in an oil field owned by Brazil's OGX Petrleo e Gas Participaes SA is being held up by the completion of OGX's debt restructuring plan. |
| Docs back boost to smoking age | | | Teenagers looking to buy cigarettes in New York may have to look elsewhere if a city council proposal is approved and signed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg. |
| 'Morning-after' pill limits blocked | | | An Oklahoma judge Monday blocked a new state law that would make girls under 17 get a prescription before buying emergency contraception, a limit already dropped by federal regulators. |
| Cheetah robot hits the ground running | | | Aug. 19 - 'Cheetah Cub' is a robot being developed by scientists in Switzerland, to one day assist in search and rescue missions. The machine does not yet have a head, but otherwise looks and runs like a cat, to go into places inaccessible or too dangerous for humans. Jim Drury reports. |
| Tango fans descend on Buenos Aires | | | Aug. 15 - Thousands of tango aficionados from around the world arrive in Argentina for the annual tango festival and world championships.Tara Cleary reports. |
| Grapefruit-sized RadBall proposed for Fukushima clean-up | | | July 11 - The world's largest floating power station is about to set sail from Tokyo bay for deployment off Fukushima, while officials struggle to clean up radioactive waste inside the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power station. Soon however, they may have a grapefruit-sized ball made of aluminium and tungsten to help them. Called RadBall, the device is designed to locate sources of radiation in difficult to reach places. Jim Drury has more. |
| Investing billions in the USA | | | It may be far from home but a South African company is powering its way into the U.S. energy landscape, hoping that its grand plan to introduce a once-shunned technology in the United States will pay off. |
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