| Latest worldwide news | Born in Chicago | | | A look at the era explored in a new documentary film about black blues musicians. |
| Michael Phelps' golf growing pains | | | As a swimmer, his countless hours of training paid off handsomely -- earning him a record 18 Olympic gold medals. As a golfer, Michael Phelps is wondering what he's got himself into. |
| 100 arrested in Mafia crackdown | | | More than 100 people suspected of Mafia involvement were arrested Friday in Italy as police launched operations near Rome and in the country's southern Calabria region. |
| Cancer trial results slow to see light of day study | | | NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - U.S. law requires certain research results to be posted online within a year of a study's end date, but a new analysis found that only about half of cancer drug research results are made public after three years. |
| France Orders Strauss-Kahn To Stand Trial | | | French magistrates charged Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund, and 12 others with aggravated procurement in a group, or pimping. |
| Woods hunts Westwood in Open | | | Tiger Woods and Lee Westwood are in the hunt to end their major drought going into the final round of the British Open. |
| Low chance of cyclone east of Bermuda NHC | | | A surface low pressure system beneath an upper-level trough about 500 miles east of Bermuda has a 20 pct chance of becoming a tropical cyclone during the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest bulletin. |
| RPT-Smithfield's China deal spurs heparin heart drug safety concerns | | | WASHINGTON, July 25 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers are concerned a Chinese company's planned $4.7 billion acquisition of pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc could affect the safety and availability of heparin, a blood-thinner widely used in heart surgery and kidney dialysis that is derived from pig intestines. |
| Britain's Murray wins Wimbledon | | | Andy Murray ends Britain's 77-year wait for a Wimbledon men's singles champion by defeating World No.1 Novak Djokovic in straight sets. |
| Insight How Samsung is beating Apple in China | | | GUANGZHOU, China/SEOUL (Reuters) - Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook believes that "over the arc of time" China is a huge opportunity for his pathbreaking company. But time looks to be on the side of rival Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, which has been around far longer and penetrated much deeper into the world's most populous country. |
| 2 Editors Promoted at New York Times | | | Matt Purdy, the investigations editor, was named an assistant managing editor, and Marc Lacey, a deputy foreign editor, became an associate managing editor. |
| Defense Calls Mannings Intentions Good | | | A lawyer for Pfc. Bradley Manning tried to counter the prosecutions portrayal in his court-martial over leaking government documents, calling him a humanist and a whistle-blower. |
| Lucy Anderson, Robin Mookerjee | | | The bride is a bibliographer and cataloger of early printed books; the groom is an assistant professor and a chairman of literary studies at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. |
| U.S. mum on Dubai rape story | | | Nina Burleigh says the Norwegian woman put in a Dubai jail after she reported a rape can go home now, but how many Arab women are languishing in prison for going to the police? |
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