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| Louisiana agency sues big oil firms for hurting wetlands | | | NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A Louisiana agency sued 97 oil companies - including BP Plc, Exxon Mobil Corp, Chevron Corp and Royal Dutch Shell Plc - in state court on Wednesday for allegedly damaging hundreds of miles of sensitive wetlands by cutting through them with pipelines and transportation canals. |
| Bo Xilai indicted | | | For more than a year, Bo Xilai has been the elephant in the room in Chinese politics -- the central figure in one of the messiest political scandals to hit the ruling Communist Party in years. |
| Puffing peas is serious sport | | | July 15 - The annual World Pea Shooting Championships take place in the small English village of Witcham. Elly Park reports. |
| Police catch 'haiku' killer suspect | | | A 63-year-old man wanted in connection with the murder of five people in a remote Japanese hamlet has been captured after a manhunt involving more than 400 police. |
| A fair World Cup deal ? | | | After Apple and Google come under pressure over aggressive tax avoidance strategies, now its FIFA's turn to defend its lucrative financial arrangements with World Cup hosts Brazil. |
| On Rooftops, a Rival for Utilities | | | Big power companies say that incentives for solar power are robbing them of paying customers, setting up a fight for the future of renewable energy. |
| Awaiting birth of Mideast peace | | | While my esteemed colleagues are covering the extraordinary birth of an ordinary baby to a young, privileged British couple, I have the dubious fortune of being in Jerusalem awaiting the birth of the Mideast peace baby. |
| Egypt's new national hero? | | | For many Egyptians armed forces chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is a hero, despite allegations about his past. |
| Rebirth of Book by Aide to Carter | | | Kathleen Jordan, daughter of President Jimmy Carters chief of staff Hamilton Jordan, is shepherding her fathers memoir to publication. |
| Hedge funds bet wrong on US crude before slump, right on gold | | | * Funds put $3.3 bln into new crude longs before market fell * Bets on gold turned right as price rallies 3rd week in row By Barani Krishnan NEW YORK, July 26 (Reuters) - Hedge funds took huge positive bets on U.S. crude oil this week just before the market turned south but they had better luck going long on gold as the precious metal rallied, trade data and price charts showed on Friday. Positive wagers placed by money managers on contracts of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crud |
| Nadal's road to redemption | | | Rafael Nadal walked on to the clay court at the 2013 VTR Open in Chile not sure if this would be the beginning of a comeback or the end of a career. Rolando Santos was there for CNN with his camera to record what happened. |
| Human-powered helicopter flies into aviation history | | | July 11 - A team from Toronto has won the long-coveted Sikorsky prize by using human power alone to fly an aircraft. The team, called AreroVelo Inc., achieved the feat on June 13, securing a $250,000 prize that has been on offer for 33 years, but never before awarded. Rob Muir reports. |
| Review 'The Wolverine' | | | There's a reason Marvel conceived the X-Men as a team The menagerie of mutants are more interesting when they come in a pack. When the posse of super-powered outcasts was first brought to the screen by Bryan Singer in 2000, Hugh Jackman's mutton-chopped, adamantium-clawed Wolverine emerged as the stand-out super-freak. And Hollywood accounting being what it is, he was naturally granted his own solo encore in 2009's underwhelming X-Men Origins Wolverine, a silly spin-off that never quite came together. |
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