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Fed Meeting Ends With No Sign of New Direction
The Federal Reserve announced no changes after the latest meeting of its policy-making committee and offered no indication how soon it might start to reduce its monthly bond purchases.


UPDATE 5-Ackman's Pershing Square takes $2.2 bln stake in Air Products
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss, Swetha Gopinath and Ernest Scheyder


Garbage piles up in Santiago
July 30 - With trash piling up as garbage collectors enter into their second day of strikes, the government examines options to prevent health risks. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.


Insight Fast-growing U.S. craft brewers struggle with worker safety
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Welder Mark Moynihan crawled down a narrow tube into a space the size of a car interior to seal the crack in the fermentation tank at Calhoun's Bar-B-Q Brewery in Knoxville,...


With Too Much Rain in the South, Too Little Produce on the Shelves
In deluged Southern states, the quantity, and quality, of fruits and vegetables are suffering.


Ramadan 'Super Bowl for ads?'
For those that live and work in the Middle East, Ramadan is a period of considerable downtime. In many countries, special laws require the working day is reduced to accommodate those fasting (observers are meant to abstain from food, water, cigarettes -- even gossip -- during the daylight hours of the month-long holiday).


Tsonga Withdraws From Rogers Cup
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France has withdrawn from the Rogers Cup tennis tournament due to a knee injury.


Shanghai locals declare war on heat
July 22 - Around 100 people use their water guns and buckets to fight one another and the heat in Shanghai's People's Square. Elly Park reports.


India Ink Dreams of a Mother
The struggles and ambitions of a domestic help in Delhi.


I Was Misinformed Cute and Cozy (for a Loaf of Bread)
A 1950s trailer who cared if there was no plumbing? That would be me, as it turned out.


Rising Animators Spring Into Motion
Rebecca Sugar, Minkyu Lee, Timothy Reckart, Justin Roiland and Jason Ruiz are five emerging talents making waves on film and in series television.


TV goes to the dogs with first channel for canines
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lonely, bored dogs left at home all day while their owners are at work could soon be getting some digital company - a TV channel with programming just for pooches.


N.F.L. Roundup With Do-Over in Oakland, Flynn Looks Increasingly Like a Starter
Matt Flynn received a second chance when the Raiders picked him up from Seattle in the off-season, and he is solidifying his role as the starting quarterback.


UK expected to avoid gas shortages in coming winter
* But low Norwegian production will push UK spot prices up


US STOCKS-SP 500 ends flat after Fed keeps easy money in play
* SP 500 comes close to breaking above 1,700, then pulls back


Congress finally votes to cut student loan interest rates
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. college students will likely pay a reduced interest rate of 3.86 percent on their student loans for the new school year, after lawmakers on Wednesday finally passed a compromise bill that would reverse a recent rate hike.


App Smart Using the Masses to Improve Apps
Crowdsourced mobile apps can provide new perspectives, but how much may depend on the size of the crowd weighing in.


For Airgas founder, time to savor rival's hedge fund headache
NEW YORK, July 31 (Reuters) - For Airgas Inc founder and Chairman Peter McCausland, there was a fair amount of schadenfreude in the air on Wednesday.


Trio of Golfers Share Western Amateur Lead
Georgia Tech's Seth Reeves, Stanford's Cameron Wilson and recent Southern California graduate Sam Smith each shot a 7-under 65 on Tuesday to share the first-round lead at the Western Amateur.


PRESS DIGEST - Financial Times - July 30
July 30 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Financial Times. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.


Chris Brown ordered booked on hit and run
Two charges against Chris Brown were dropped Tuesday, but the singer is still accused of hit and run after a minor traffic crash.


Super freak to super stud?
How will Frankel, widely considered the finest thoroughbred every produced, perform in his new career at stud?


Square Feet Chinese Investors Pursue U.S. Property Deals
Chinese investors have been buying marquee commercial properties in New York and other American cities, in many cases encouraged and aided by the Chinese government.


Italy police search offices, home of Telecom Italia director -source
ROME, July 31 (Reuters) - Italian financial police searched the offices and home of Telecom Italia board member Elio Catania on Wednesday as part of an investigation into possible insider trading, a source familiar with the probe told Reuters.


Good transfer business?
FIFA agent, Rawad Kassis talks to Pedro Pinto about the strategy behind football clubs spending millions on transfers.


FDA panel recommends over-the-counter use of Sanofi allergy drug
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sanofi SA's allergy drug Nasacort AQ is safe enough to be used without a prescription, a panel of advisors to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ruled on Wednesday.


Tennis baby new web star
The daughter of Bob Bryan, part of tennis' greatest double act in history, has become a social media phenomenon.


Haiti's 'Garden of Eden'
Living amid the garbage-strewn sewage canals, residents of Haiti's Cite Soleil endure a grim battle for survival every single day. But now, one man is transforming a garbage dump into a vibrant urban garden.


Egypt plans to clear pro-Morsy protests in Cairo
Egypt, in the throes of nationwide political tension, is taking action against demonstrators backing deposed President Mohamed Morsy


Clare OReilly, Ole Waldmann
The bride is a project manager at the California Ocean Protection Council; the groom is a product developer at Lam Research Corporation.


Art Audubons Words, Worthy of Show
John James Audubons writing is now getting equal billing with his hand-colored prints.


Madrid Zoo visitors uplifted by giraffes
July 23 - Madrid Zoo places a new viewing point in its African savannah habitat that takes visitors to new heights. Elly Park reports.


Tourist hot spot evacuated in oil spill
Waters off the island of Koh Samet turn black as 50,000 liters of crude oil leaks from a pipeline.


Garbage piles up in Santiago
July 30 - With trash piling up as garbage collectors enter into their second day of strikes, the government examines options to prevent health risks. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.


No time to rest on laurels for U.S. Open champion Rose
AKRON, Ohio (Reuters) - Winning his first major title at the U.S. Open in June has unquestionably been the golfing highlight of Justin Rose's career, but the Englishman said it also taught him the lesson of never resting on his laurels.


Reformist priest praises pope's new tone but wants more
CHICAGO (Reuters) - An Austrian priest who has stirred controversy in Europe with his challenge to Catholic church teachings on taboo topics suggested on Wednesday that women should be allowed to...


Preview Gold Cup Semifinal U.S. on a Roll
The United States mens national team, which has won nine straight games, faces Honduras in the Gold Cup semifinals on Wednesday night.


Actelion buys U.S.-based firm with cancer drug in development
ZURICH (Reuters) - Actelion said it will acquire Ceptaris, a privately held U.S.-based specialty pharmaceutical company developing a topical drug, Valchlor, to treat a form of cancer.


Election system needs an overhaul, but it's not that easy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Voters in Florida were still waiting to cast their ballots more than six hours after polls closed on Election Day, registered voters in Ohio were told they were not on voter rolls and new voter ID laws in Pennsylvania led to confusion at voting places.


Critics Notebook Mark Morris Directing Brittens Curlew River
Mark Morriss hope for his new production of Brittens Curlew River at Tanglewood More art, less artifice.


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