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| JJ receives private equity offers for diagnostics unit sources | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some of the world's largest private equity firms have made preliminary offers for Johnson Johnson's Ortho Clinical Diagnostics unit, which makes blood screening equipment and laboratory blood tests and could fetch around $5 billion, several people familiar with the matter said on Monday. |
| Chinese dissident Chen to join conservative U.S. think tank | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese dissident and legal rights activist who accused New York University of forcing him to leave this summer because of alleged pressure from the Chinese government, will be joining The Witherspoon Institute, a conservative think tank. |
| ArtsBeat Bloomberg Says City Opera Is On Its Own | | | Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Monday that neither the city nor his private foundation would step in to save New York City Opera, which has said it will file for bankruptcy protection without support. |
| Turkey's Gul lauds peaceful protests, condemns violence | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Peaceful anti-government protests that shook Turkey in the summer were a sign of the country's democratic maturity but they took a wrong turn by becoming violent, President Abdullah Gul said on Tuesday. |
| U.S. Supreme Court takes no action on climate change cases | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court took no action on Tuesday on petitions that could have it undertake a potentially wide-ranging legal review of the Obama administration's first wave of regulations aimed at battling climate change. |
| U.S. government partially shuts down | | | Oct. 1 - After hours of back and forth between House Republicans and Senate Democrats, the U.S. government shuts down after Congress fails to pass a bill to fund the government. Gavino Garay reports. |
| China typhoon survivors airlifted | | | Oct. 1 - Fishermen rescued from the South China Sea after a typhoon sank their boats are airlifted to hospital. Paul Chapman reports. |
| Africa's inspiring spray can art | | | Street art has forever been a vibrant tool of personal expression manifesting in a variety of unique ways. In Africa it comes in the form of beautifully painted shop fronts, alternative methods of political campaigning and striking murals designed to inspire. |
| Wild-Card Wizardry Hamilton, Salazar Could Be Key | | | Major league teams start spring training in February, grind through 162 games or 163, for Texas and Tampa Bay and if they're lucky, reach the playoffs. For wild cards, it's a chance to become a World Series champion. Or have a whole season's worth of work wiped out in nine innings. |
| Sex, lies and lithographs | | | The "Shahnameh The Persian Book of the Kings" is an epic poem that is as much a literary and cultural touchstone in Iran as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are to the Western Tradition. Now a new illustrated, English version is presenting the ancient tales to a new audience outside of Iran. |
| The Wimbledon greats | | | Open Court sifts through the archive to bring you some of its favorite interviews. |
| N. Korean defectors | | | "Pack your bags you're going to South Korea." These are the words nine young North Korean defectors had waited years to hear having traveled thousands of miles. |
| Fonterra, Danone in talks to resolve dairy recall dispute | | | WELLINGTON, Oct 2 (Reuters) - New Zealand's Fonterra , the world's biggest dairy exporter, said it is in talks to resolve a dispute with Danone over a contamination scare involving a Fonterra ingredient used by the French food manufacturer. |
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