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| How good is the iPhone 5S camera? | | | Very soon, you will be sick of slow-motion videos. They will fill up your Facebook, Instagram and Vine feeds. The amateur clips will show pets jumping and playing, objects falling and breaking, and people dancing about in glorious, high-quality slow motion. |
| U.S. SEC says big Ponzi scheme targeted investors in Japan | | | Sept 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said it has uncovered an "extensive and egregious" Ponzi scheme run by a Las Vegas executive who raised more than $800 million from thousands of investors, mainly from Japan, over nearly 15 years. |
| McQuaid Denies Telling Team Member Not to Cooperate | | | International Cycling Union (UCI) president Pat McQuaid denied on Thursday an allegation that he told an employee of a professional team not to cooperate with an investigation into disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong. |
| Golf helps rehab war vets | | | Medically retired veterans participate in a program that helps their adjustment back to civilian life through golf. |
| Meet the ocean's 'great ladies' | | | It might be better known for its extravagant superyachts, but this week Cannes will be a haven for some of the world's most iconic vintage yachts. Jump aboard for Regates Royales de Cannes. |
| Measures to beat power crunch the "new normal" for corporate Japan | | | TOKYO, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Automatic doors are blocked at offices, subway escalators are disabled and much of the headquarters of Japan's biggest utility sits in semi-darkness - all evidence of how a 2-1/2-year power crunch has forced companies to re-think their energy use. |
| Attack in Iraq leaves 10 dead | | | Attackers shot dead at least 10 people in a strike on government targets in the northern Iraqi city of Hawija on Wednesday, police said. |
| UPDATE 1-Electronic Arts says no 'NCAA Football' game next year | | | SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Electronic Arts said on Thursday that it will not offer gamers the next iteration from its college football video game series "NCAA Football" in 2014 and is evaluating the fate of the game franchise, which is mired in legal disputes with former college athletes. |
| Racing's $186 million man | | | Heavyweight champions share a variety of qualities -- but one that often exposes their true nature is the desire for more success as soon as it is achieved. |
| Chile to move ex-Pinochet agents to no-frills jail | | | SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean President Sebastian Pinera on Thursday ordered shut a prison where 10 former agents of dictator Augusto Pinochet are serving sentences for human rights violations, a move that came amid public anger over their relative comfortable conditions. |
| Pioneer for golf's money men | | | The PGA Tour can make instant millionaires at virtually every one of its tournaments -- but it was not always that way. It took golf pioneer Billy Casper almost 15 years to reach seven figures in the nascent days of the pro circuit. |
| Al-Shabaab's American allies | | | Of all al Qaeda's affiliated groups, the Somali terrorist organization Al-Shabaab has over the past several years had the deepest links to the United States. Some 15 Americans have died fighting for Al-Shabaab, as many as four of them as suicide bombers in Somalia, and an American citizen even took up a leadership role in the group. |
| Bloomberg on climate change | | | For the first time in human history, more than half the world's population is living in cities, which now produce approximately 70 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. That puts cities on the frontlines of the battle against climate change -- and more and more cities are leading the charge. |
| Key to football success? Luck | | | Football author Chris Anderson explains why football is a game of luck and why it's not the most expensive players that improve teams the most. |
| QMB is back, is economic growth? | | | Quest Means Business is relaunching, as U.S. economy enters a new phase. Five years after Lehman collapsed, the economy's vital signs are improving. So is the U.S. recovered? Watch CNNI at 2100 London time. |
| Norway's Arctic idyll shivers at oil plans | | | SVOLVAER, Norway (Reuters) - Oil companies seeking new Arctic areas for exploration face a battle with environmentalists, fishermen and hotel owners over Norwegian islands where jagged snow-capped peaks rise sheer from the sea. |
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