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| Detroit The city that 'used to be' | | | Heidi Ewing, filming her documentary about Detroit, found desperate people living on the margins, but also folks who are trying to make the city as vibrant as people say it used to be. |
| Gabon plans offshore oil round and transparency measures | | | GENEVA, July 31 (Reuters) - Gabon has told the World Trade Organization (WTO)that it will hold a licensing round for offshore oil blocks later this year, and that it will bring in new transparency requirements for its natural resources sector. |
| Wedeman What I saw in Egypt | | | CNN Senior International Correspondent Ben Wedeman talks about his experiences covering the Egyptian crisis. |
| EDF exits U.S. nuclear, ups earnings outlook | | | PARIS (Reuters) - French utility EDF, the world's biggest operator of nuclear plants, is pulling out of nuclear energy in the United States, bowing to the realities of a market that has been transformed by cheap shale gas. |
| 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. |
| No room for lecherous mayors | | | Ruben Navarrette says San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, now that seven women have come forward alleging he was sexually inappropriate, needs to step down. |
| Snowden's father "Russia is the safest place for my son" | | | July 31 - Edward Snowden's father says he's rejected an FBI offer to fly him to Moscow to meet with his son, adding he believes Russia has the "conviction" to withstand U.S. pressure to extradite the former government contractor. Deborah Gembara reports. |
| Cup Concern for Price Over Injured Oosthuizen | | | The decision by former British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen to take two months off golf to heal assorted injuries has given International captain Nick Price "concern" ahead of the October 3-6 Presidents Cup. |
| Missile Crisis II? Not exactly | | | The weapons seized on a North Korean ship in Panama are more suited to a Cold War museum than a 21st century arsenal, say experts. |
| Military Continues Crackdown in Egypt | | | As a top European Union official visited to mediate the crisis, the military arrested more Islamist leaders and reports emerged about the possibility of a state of emergency. |
| Hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay shows signs of weakening | | | GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - The hunger strike that began nearly six months ago at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba and spread to include two-thirds of its 166 prisoners has tapered off with a Ramadan pardon that has allowed some prisoners to be together during Islam's holy month. |
| UK's multitaskers take to Twitter to swap TV talk-report | | | LONDON, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Tweeting and texting while watching TV is supplanting the traditional water-cooler chat about the previous night's viewing among increasingly media-savvy Britons, the country's telecoms regulator has found. |
| Stolen 300-year-old violin found | | | British Transport Police said Tuesday they found a stolen 300-year-old Stradivarius violin worth more than $1 million, along with two bows valued at more than $105,000. |
| Paleontologists discover dinosaur tail in northern Mexico | | | MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A team of paleontologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a 72 million-year-old dinosaur tail in a desert in northern Mexico, the country's National Institute for Anthropology and History (INAH) said on Monday. |
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