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Domenicali No rift with Alonso
Ferrari team principal Stefano Demenicali has rejected suggestions a power struggle between him and driver Fernando Alonso is the reason behind the Italian team's faltering Formula One season.


Second-Quarter G.D.P. Revised Sharply Higher
The Commerce Department said the United States economy grew at an annual rate of 2.5 percent in the second quarter, up from an earlier estimate of 1.7 percent.


A Minute With Ethan Hawke on acting, Selena Gomez and Shakespeare
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After taking time away to focus on family and stage acting, Ethan Hawke is getting back to film and stepping into the driver's seat in his latest role as a racecar driver trapped in a car and racing against time in the action-thriller "Getaway."


Russia sends warships to Mediterranean as Syria tension rises
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday it was sending warships to the Mediterranean, but denied it was beefing up its naval force there as Western powers prepare for military action against Syria.


Phillies 6, Mets 2 Glum After Injury, Harvey Gets Pep Talk From an Ace Whos Been There
The Phillies ace, Roy Halladay, spoke from experience when he offered encouragement to the Mets Matt Harvey, who was despondent over an injury to his pitching elbow.


Well U.S. Circumcision Rates Are Declining
The percentage of newborns who are circumcised in the United States declined to 58.3 percent in 2010 from 64.5 percent in 1979, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.


Benjamin Brittens Lost Score for Les Sylphides
A warehouse in Secaucus, N.J., yields crucial clues in the search for Benjamin Brittens lost score for the ballet Les Sylphides.


US municipal bond funds report $1.74 bln weekly outflows-Lipper
WASHINGTON, Aug 29 (Reuters) - U.S. municipal bond funds reported $1.74 billion of net outflows in the week ended Aug. 28, much lower than the $2.14 billion of outflows in the previous week,...


DealBook Nasdaq Blames a Surge of Data for Trading Halt
The Nasdaq OMX Group on Thursday attributed last weeks three-hour trading halt a surge of data that overwhelmed its server, in the stock market operators most detailed accounting yet of the market outage.


Buzz Aldrin on space tourism
Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin is one of the privileged few to have walked on the moon, but he hopes space tourism will be much more of an equal-opportunity experience.


Concert, Anyone? Music Returns to Queens Tennis Stadium
A Mumford Sons show in Forest Hills was the first music performance since 1997 at the former site of the United States Open.


McGinley Happy to Give Youth a Chance at Ryder Cup
European Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley has said he will not be afraid to blood inexperienced youngsters in his team for next year's contest.


Olbermann Set to Return to ESPN and Sports News
Sixteen years after an acrimonious parting, Keith Olbermann and the network are putting on happy faces for their reunion Monday on Olbermann on ESPN2.


Pakistan Overturns Conviction of Doctor in Bin Laden Hunt
A Pakistani judicial official overturned the conviction of a Pakistani doctor who helped the C.I.A. in the search for Osama bin Laden


Massive wildfire prompts new travel restrictions through Yosemite
* Firefighters battle to stop it reaching heart of Yosemite


26 killed in attacks across Iraq
Shootings and explosions throughout Iraq on Sunday killed at least 26 people and injured more than 52 others, police said.


Tradeweb and MarketAxess are bidders for BondDesk -sources
NEW YORK, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Institutional fixed-income trading platform providers Tradeweb and MarketAxess are among three bidders for BondDesk Group LLC in a deal that is expected to be valued up...


'Golden Bear' on tennis
CNN's Pat Cash meets golfing great Jack Nicklaus on the sidelines of Wimbledon.


In Fantasy Football, More Is More
Remaining open to drafting any player, no matter how much he may have doomed your team in the past, is perhaps the most overlooked trait of successful fantasy owners.


Swiss engineers bring acoustic solution to noise pollution
Aug. 29 - Swiss-based acoustic engineers are developing a sound tracking system they say will help regulators control traffic flow and reduce road noise. The World Health Organization says road noise is a major contributor to poor health in Europe but by monitoring traffic flow, the engineers think they can help. Tara Cleary reports.


Maasai lease ancestral land to elephants
Aug. 7 - Maasai communities in Kenya's Amboseli region have joined the fight to save endangered elephants by leasing their ancestral lands to conservationists. The agreement is designed to protect migratory routes used by the the elephants for thousands of years, giving them breathing room in an era of unprecedented human encroachment. Matthew Stock reports.


Design The Tortured History of Eileen Grays Modern Gem
The house that Eileen Gray built for her and her lover in the south of France in the 1920s is an architectural landmark that still is provoking vigorous debate.


City Room The Ad Campaign Speaking in Support of Weiner
A new ad from Anthony D. Weiner features the first time he has deployed surrogates not himself to make his campaign pitch.


Percent of depressed men comparable to women study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The proportion of men who experience symptoms of depression may be similar to the proportion of women with depression when doctors look for non-traditional symptoms, according to a new study.


Billabong shares plunge 15 percent after annual loss triples
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Shares in struggling Australian surfwear company Billabong International Ltd plunged 15 percent on Tuesday morning after its annual loss more than tripled and sales of its surf and...


Contracts to Purchase Homes Dropped Slightly in July
The National Association of Realtors said its index for pending home sales declined 1.3 percent in July, but stayed near its high for the last six and a half years.


India Ink Image of the Day August 29
Villagers navigating through the flooded Ganges River after heavy rains in Patna district of Bihar.


Meet F1's 'Mr. Consistency'
He may hate the attention off the track, but it's hard to avoid the media glare when you've been driving as well as Kimi Raikkonen this season.


U.S. reviews safety of Dakota crude-by-rail transport -official
WASHINGTON, Aug 29 (Reuters) - A regulator for U.S. rail and pipeline safety on Thursday said officials are reviewing crude-by-rail shipments from North and South Dakota.


McGinley to Start European Ryder Cup Qualifying
Europe captain Paul McGinley will take the first shot in the 2014 Ryder Cup qualifying process when he goes out in the opening group in the Wales Open at Celtic Manor on Thursday.


Personal Health Keeping Food-Borne Illnesses at Bay
People, not products, are the main cause of food-borne illnesses, and they can be avoided by following certain basic principles of food safety.


In Transit Blog Walkabout Cleanup of Costa Concordia, Finally; Rim Fire Threatens Yosemites Resevoir
A weekly capsule of travel news curated by our writers and editors.


Canvassing Central Park and Finding New Tenants
In the first such survey in a decade, scientists fanned out this week across the park in a bioblitz, an attempt to gauge the variety of plant and animal life there.


Theater Review The Amoralists Bring Cheaters Club to Abrons Arts Center
A new play from the Amoralists explores the Southern gothic world of graveyards, the dead, their souls and sex.


UPDATE 1-Aetna pulls out of another Obamacare health exchange
Aug 29 (Reuters) - Aetna Inc has decided not to sell insurance on New York's individual health insurance exchange, which is being created under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, the...


Syria How did we get here?
The Pentagon says it's "ready to go" if it gets orders to carry out a military strike in response to Syria's suspected use of chemical weapons against its own people. Here's a quick-read cheat sheet about the Syrian civil war -- and how we got here.


Israeli soldiers danced in West Bank
When a group of armed Israeli soldiers strode into a Palestinian club there this week, someone in the crowd there captured them on cell phone video and posted it to Youtube. But they didn't go in shooting.


Beau Biden, son of Vice President Joe Biden is in the hospital
Aug. 20 - Beau Biden, son of Vice President Joe Biden, is in a Houston hospital undergoing medical tests after feeling weak and disoriented. He suffered a stroke in 2010. Linda So reports.


Obama says more work needed to achieve ideals from King's 'Dream' speech
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is struggling to realize the vision that civil rights leader Martin Luther King described in his famous "I Have a Dream" speech 50 years ago, President Barack...


Surgeons shrink Indian child's head
Surgery saves the life of a girl whose skull had stretched to three times the average size.


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