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Sailing-Team NZ rule out any legal challenge to Oracle's win | | WELLINGTON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Team New Zealand have ruled out any legal challenge to Oracle Team USA's use of an automated stabilisation system that is suspected to have vastly improved their performance to successfully defend the America's Cup this week. |
Batman's crime-ridden Gotham metropolis comes to Fox TV | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Batman's crime-ridden gritty fictional metropolis of Gotham City will be the focus of a new Fox drama, the latest comic book-inspired series to tap superheroes' ability to draw audiences to both film and TV. |
Budget fight goes to weekend after Senate vote | | Sept. 27 - The U.S. Senate voted to approve a bill that would avert a government shutdown. The bill now heads to the House where Republican leaders say they will not approve the bill. Linda So reports. |
Off-balance, cliff-edge hotel | | It's awkward, possibly ingenious; designers hope to create a building that will make Lima an international sensation. |
Greek police arrest leader, lawmakers of far-right Golden Dawn | | ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police arrested the leader and more than a dozen senior members of the far-right Golden Dawn party early on Saturday after the killing of an anti-fascist rapper by a party supporter triggered outrage and protests across the country. |
Premier League Coverage Pays Off for NBC | | NBC Sports Group has gone big with covering Premier League soccer games as part of a three-year deal. The viewership numbers have shown that the formula for full-blown coverage has been working. |
Dell benefits from hot U.S. leveraged loan market | | LONDON (Reuters) - Dell is the latest company to benefit from the red-hot U.S. leveraged loan market as strong investor demand allowed the computer giant to cut funding costs on the $10.6 billion financing package backing its $25 billion buyout. |
Grooming the Champions of the Keyboard | | In a so-called gaming house in Alameda, Calif., professional video game players who have joined forces in a team spend their time honing their competitive skills. |
Pee-powered cell phone points to 'smart toilet' technology | | Aug. 13 - Does the call of nature hold the answer to a new form of renewable energy? Scientists in the UK are confident that it does. With backing from both the British government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the researchers have developed a method for charging mobile phones with human urine. Matthew Stock reports. |
Russian courts order activists held over Arctic oil protest | | MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Thursday ordered seven Greenpeace activists and a photographer held in custody for two months pending further investigation over a protest against offshore Arctic oil drilling, drawing criticism from the environmental group. |
Wild pigs menace suburban Atlanta | | ATLANTA (Reuters) - Wild pigs have descended on a suburban Atlanta neighborhood where they are scaring children, making a general nuisance of themselves, and acting as they if they own the place. |
'Rush' relives F1's death or glory days | | F1's wacky races run during the 1970s provided the sport with some of its most celebrated and reviled moments which are now the subject of two feature-length films released this autumn. |
Reporting Irans News, but Speaking for One Side | | In Irans news media landscape, which is divided into two camps, the hard-liners and reformists, the semiofficial Fars agency has emerged in recent years as the most influential conservative voice. |
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