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| Steady as he falls is key to victory for skydiving cameraman | | | OTTAWA, Illinois (Reuters) - Professional skydiver Brandon Atwood has a strange but essential job while hurtling toward Earth at more than 100 miles per hour He points a video camera attached to his helmet back up toward the sky while his teammates execute a complex aerial routine. |
| Have-Nots Squeezed and Stacked in Hong Kong | | | In a city with some of the highest living costs in the world, those at the bottom of the income ladder increasingly resort to cupboardlike living spaces, a dozen or more to an apartment. |
| Kipsang smashes marathon record | | | Moments after crossing the line, the new marathon world record holder Wilson Kipsang had just one thought on his mind -- "I can run faster". |
| 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. |
| Gods forbid India's temples guard their gold from government | | | THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, Sept 30 (Reuters) - India's Hindu temples are resisting divulging their gold holdings - perhaps nearly half the amount held in Fort Knox - amid mistrust of the motives of authorities who are trying to cut a hefty import bill that is hurting the economy. |
| Noses and hands hacked off | | | Horrifying new details reveal some of the victims of the Kenyan terror attack were tortured before they were killed. |
| Tokyo Electric sees profit without rate hike paper | | | TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Electric Power Co, the operator of the crippled Fukushima plant, will likely turn a profit for the first time in three years in the current business year, without raising electricity rates or restarting reactors, its president was quoted as saying on Sunday. |
| IKEA to sell solar panels from all UK stores | | | LONDON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - IKEA, the world's biggest furniture retailer, is to sell solar panels at its British stores, the first time it has offered the devices and marking an attempt to tap growth in the heavily subsidised green energy market. |
| Pence Drives in 3 in Giants 7-6 Win | | | Hunter Pence singled in the winning run with no outs in the ninth inning to give the San Francisco Giants a 7-6 victory over the San Diego Padres on Sunday. |
| Snoozing pilots | | | Cruising at 30,000 feet, pilots snoozed in the cockpit of a 300-passenger airliner en route to Britain last August, UK aviation authorities told CNN on Thursday. |
| NSA Some snooped on lovers | | | The National Security Agency's internal watchdog detailed a dozen instances in the past decade in which its employees intentionally misused the agency's surveillance power, in some cases to snoop on their love interests. |
| Panel Man-made warming 95% likely | | | A U.N. climate panel says in its latest report that it is more confident than ever that humans are responsible for at least half of temperature increases since the 1950s. |
| 'Don't get stuck in success' | | | Economist and author Noreena Hertz explains why it pays to not get stuck in your own success and make choices with your eyes wide open. |
| Vos goes solo to retain road race world title | | | FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - A brutal burst of acceleration helped Dutchwoman Marianne Vos to crush her rivals yet again to retain her cycling road race world title in awe-inspiring fashion on Saturday. |
| Singing doctor turns social media into treatment tool | | | Sept. 25 - A doctor in the UK has become a Youtube sensation while demonstrating the power of social media to help patients. Dr Tapas Mukherjee is now known as 'The Singing Doctor', with his version of 90s hit "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by the band Deep Blue Something, which he has adapted lyrically to help acute asthma patients treat their condition. Jim Drury went to meet him. |
| Well Eating the Color Purple | | | Even though its officially autumn, the summer crop of eggplant is still in full swing at farmers markets across the country. |
| 110 dead in Mexico storms | | | The death toll from widespread flooding in Mexico in recent days has increased to 110 people, the country's interior minister said Sunday. |
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