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UPDATE 1-Police raid Quebec office of MMA Railway in disaster probe
July 25 (Reuters) - Police raided the Canadian offices of Montreal, Maine Atlantic Railway on Thursday in their investigation into the train crash earlier this month that destroyed the center of the small town of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, and killed 47 people.


For Nets Prokhorov, $183 Million Is No Object
Mikhail D. Prokhorov is showing his determination to win at any cost a high-profile trade helped raise the Nets payroll to $101 million, triggering a luxury tax bill of about $82 million.


Rocky Transition From Farm to Town in China
It is one of the largest peacetime population transfers in history the removal of 2.4 million farmers from mountain areas in central Chinas Shaanxi Province to low-lying towns.


Study raises new concern about earthquakes and fracking fluids
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Powerful earthquakes thousands of miles (km) away can trigger swarms of minor quakes near wastewater-injection wells like those used in oil and gas recovery, scientists reported on Thursday, sometimes followed months later by quakes big enough to destroy buildings.


Upper house poll backs 'Abenomics'
Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, pledges to keep his focus on the economy after his Liberal Democratic party wins a sweeping victory in elections for the upper house of parliament.


Weiner Admits to More Lewd Exchanges but Denies an Addiction
Anthony D. Weiner, who is running for New York City mayor, said he had inappropriate online contact with up to three women after leaving Congress.


Frayed Prospects, Despite a Degree
College graduates from two or three years ago are being overlooked often deliberately by recruiters eager to scoop up those from the latest graduating class.


Sports Briefing | Football Cowboys Players Could Be Witnesses in Brents Trial
Six current or former Dallas Cowboys players have been listed by prosecutors as potential witnesses for the intoxication manslaughter trial of the former lineman Josh Brent.


Al Fayed's reign at Fulham ends
Mohamed Al Fayed played a major role in cementing Fulham's spot in the Premier League. But now 84, Al Fayed sold the Cottagers to billionaire Shahid Khan to give the league another U.S. owner.


US STOCKS-Nasdaq likes Facebook's surge, but earnings curb Dow, SP
* Caterpillar, the Dow's biggest drag, falls for second day


Thai Protg Swaps Irons for Textbooks After Record Win
Phachara Khongwatmai has little time to celebrate his record-breaking triumph on the ASEAN PGA Tour as the 14-year-old Thai amateur golfer needs to catch up on his homework after taking a week off from school to compete in the event.


F.D.A. Grants Exclusivity to Plan B One-Step
The agency on Monday granted the maker of Plan B One-Step exclusive marketing rights for three years to sell the morning-after pill without a prescription for all ages.


Virginia Johnson, Widely Published Collaborator in Sex Research, Dies at 88
Ms. Johnson and William H. Masters helped make the frank discussion of sex in postwar America possible if not downright acceptable.


South Africa's Telkom agrees to wage deal with unions
PRETORIA, July 25 (Reuters) - South African fixed-line operator Telkom said on Thursday it had signed a wage agreement with unions that would increase its personnel costs by 6.8 percent over the next three years.


Disappointing mobile growth takes shine off Samsung Elec Q2 profit record
SEOUL, July 26 (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is under mounting pressure to produce eye-catching new smartphones after its mobile business shrank 3.5 percent in the second quarter, taking the gloss off a record $8.5 billion operating profit.


Fast track to driver road rage?
It may not be "High Noon," but the Red Bull team are facing a Shanghai showdown when their two drivers resume rivalries at this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix.


Why was doomed Spanish train going so fast?
MADRID, July 25 (Reuters) - Why was the train going so fast? Did the driver fail to heed speed limits on a sharp curve? Did brakes fail? What about the safety system meant to force the train or the driver to slow down if going too fast?


T Magazine On View | Los Angeles Architecture, As It Might Have Been
A new exhibition surveys a century of unrealized building projects and urban planning schemes for the city. Here are five of the most amazing.


DealBook SAC Capital Indicted on Fraud Charges in Insider Trading Case
The unusually aggressive move by federal officials, the culmination of an investigation that spanned a decade, could debilitate one of Wall Streets most successful hedge funds.


Irish watchdog won't probe U.S. firms over Prism
VIENNA (Reuters) - A watchdog in Ireland, home to the European headquarters of Apple and Facebook, says it will not investigate them for transferring personal data to a U.S. spy agency because they have signed up to EU privacy principles.


Nonpartisan Fact-Checking Comes to South Africa
A fledging Web site seeks to offer South Africa the kind of journalistic fact-checking that is a fixture in America with sites like FactCheck.org.


MLB Braun suspended for doping
Major League Baseball player Ryan Braun has been suspended without pay for the rest of the 2013 season for violating the league's drug policy, Commissioner Bud Selig announced Monday.


Froome wins Tour de France
Britain's Chris Froome wins the 100th Tour de France. CNN's Amanda Davies reports.


UPDATE 1-Obama warns House Republicans against 'deadbeat' budget tactics
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, July 25 (Reuters) - With a busy commercial port in Florida as his backdrop, President Barack Obama warned Republican lawmakers on Thursday that threatening a government shutdown or debt default jeopardizes the fragile U.S. economic recovery.


Mickelson's British Open Win Gives Couples a Cup Boost
United States captain Fred Couples says he is excited by how his Presidents Cup team is shaping up, with Phil Mickelson's brilliant victory at last week's British Open the highlight among several recent eye-catching displays.


Turbo and R.I.P.D. Open to Disappointing Results
Turbo and R.I.P.D. join After Earth, White House Down, Pacific Rim and The Lone Ranger as big-budget disasters of the summer.


Frayed Prospects, Despite a Degree
College graduates from two or three years ago are being overlooked often deliberately by recruiters eager to scoop up those from the latest graduating class.


Why is this guy a top thinker?
In the past, author and NYU professor, Clay Shirky's predictions haven't always come true, but it appears he was on the money in 2011. Foreign Policy Magazine named Shirky one of their "Top 100 Global Thinkers," for his musings on social media's impact on revolutions, which we saw come to full fruition in the Arab Spring.


Bernanke tells Congress Fed flexible on bond buying
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday the U.S. central bank still expects to start scaling back its massive bond purchase program later this year, but he left...


China's city of sinkholes
Four months after he built a new, two-story brick house in his village in northern China's Shandong Province, Xiao Guoqiang was alarmed to find a huge crack on the living room wall.


What to know when visiting Brazil
Brazil might be the biggest country most of the world doesn't know a whole heckuva a lot about. That's changing


UPDATE 1-Halliburton pleads guilty to destroying Gulf spill evidence
July 25 (Reuters) - Halliburton Co has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday.


Clowney, Jay-Z Talks Were Within NCAA Rules
A South Carolina spokesman says the school found no impermissible contact between All-American defensive end Jadeveon Clowney and Jay-Z, the rap mogul turned sports agency head.


The man who could have been Pele?
Seven decades before Neymar, a world away from Ronaldinho and Ronaldo, a predecessor to Zico and Socrates, there was a formidable striker who could have rivaled Pele. That man was Heleno de Freitas, a soccer superstar in the days before Brazil ruled the "beautiful game."


Baalbek Treasure beneath rubbish
A temple the size of several football fields, the biggest stone monolith ever carved. Regional strife may have scared travelers away from the Beqaa Valley but now could be just the time to go.


Monaco's F1 transformation
The most famous race in Formula One -- the Monaco Grand Prix -- brings a change of pace to Monaco's Mediterranean idyll.


Thai Protg Swaps Irons for Textbooks After Record Win
Phachara Khongwatmai has little time to celebrate his record-breaking triumph on the ASEAN PGA Tour as the 14-year-old Thai amateur golfer needs to catch up on his homework after taking a week off from school to compete in the event.


Player Ratings U.S. (3) vs. Honduras (1)
Player ratings from the Concacaf Gold Cup semifinal between the United States and Honduras in Arlington, Tex.


Bits Blog Online Marketer Settles Privacy Charges
PulsePoint agreed to pay $1 million to settle charges that the company had circumvented certain users privacy settings that blocked some targeted ads.


Hit political blogger Nate Silver on future of predictive modeling
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nate Silver is an oxymoron come to life the famous statistician.


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