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| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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