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World's wackiest race returns to London
July 15 - Britons get creative in the Redbull Soapbox Race that returns to London after a nine year hiatus. Elly Park reports.


T Magazine By Design | Josef Alberss Interaction of Color Goes Interactive
Fifty years after its publication, the influential color theorists seminal text has been repackaged as an iPad app that lets anyone experiment with its principles.


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.


Bryan brothers win Wimbledon
Men's Wimbledon doubles champions, the brothers Bryan, discuss their victory with CNN's Amanda Davies.


Delay in Disclosing Leaks at Fukushima Is Criticized
The lack of transparency by the operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company, in revealing that contaminated water from the site had been flowing into the ocean has renewed public frustration.


Ameriprise lands adviser in Georgia from Synovus
(Reuters) - Ameriprise Financial Inc said Thursday that it has landed Georgia-based adviser Michael Butler from Synovus Financial Corp.


Lakers' Steve Nash to Try Out for Inter Milan
Steve Nash believes Kobe Bryant is ahead of schedule in his recovery from Achilles' surgery, is hopeful that the Los Angeles Lakers will finally find the chemistry they lacked a year ago and is finding himself fueled by the memories of an injury-filled season.


Chinese Search for Infant Formula Goes Global
Fueled by distrust of domestic brands, Chinese parents are buying up foreign-made infant milk powder, and that has led to shortages in at least a half-dozen other countries.


Landing gear maker says hasn't been asked to join Southwest probe
July 26 (Reuters) - The United Technologies unit that makes landing gear said on Friday it had not been asked to participate in a U.S. investigation into Monday's crash of a Southwest Airlines jet at New York's LaGuardia Airport.


Weedkillers tied to depression in farmers
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Farmers who used weedkillers were more than twice as likely to be treated for depression than farmers who didn't use the chemicals in a new study from France.


Dance Review Licks Has Its New York Premiere at the Joyce Theater
At the Joyce Theater, Pilobolus is presenting Licks a new work created with Trish Sie and some other pieces from its acrobatic repertory.


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.


U.S. bans new home health, ambulance providers in three regions
(Reuters) - The U.S. government on Friday said it would temporarily ban new home health providers and ambulance suppliers from enrolling in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program in three areas of the country, citing the risk of fraud.


Parted by Korean War, united by hope
This South Korean couple has spent many of the past 60 years believing the other was dead. He was held prisoner by the North, she lived in the South.


Your First Dance Crush
Times readers share the inspiration that made them devote their lives or careers to dance.


ArtsBeat Darrell Jones and Joanna Kotze Win Bessie Awards for Choreography
The Bessie Awards on Wednesday announced 40 nominees in several categories and gave awards to Darrell Jones and Joanna Kotze.


EBRD New Issue-EBRD prices $1.0 bln 2018 bond
Borrower European Bank for Reconstruction and


Roundup Donovan Leads U.S. Into Gold Cup Semifinals
Assists are not an official statistic in the Gold Cup, but Landon Donovan set up three goals in a dazzling performance in a victory over El Salvador.


The Tile House
The home of George T. McDonald, Republican candidate in the New York City mayoral race, was built by Rafael Guastavino Jr., whose tiled vaulting system was used in Grand Central Terminal.


Doctor and Patient When the Patient Is Racist
Since Hippocrates, physicians have embraced the ideal of caring for all patients, regardless of who they might be. But what does the doctor do when the patient discriminates?


Bubba's $40K hovercraft
Bubba Watson's golf cart hovercraft will cost you $40,000.


Beating the 'French Open curse'
Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg and Pete Sampras explain why the French Open was so tough to win. Frederik Pleitgen reports.


G.M. Dismisses Executives as India Begins Investigating Recall of Vehicles
An inquiry started this week into the recall this week of 114,000 Chevrolet Tavera utility vehicles.


Bert Trautmann, Who Won Iron Cross and F.A. Cup, Dies at 89
Mr. Trautmann, who once played with a broken neck, said that his training as a paratrooper had made it easy to perform acrobatic dives as a goalkeeper.


Somali lawmaker's car bombed; 1 dead
At least one person was killed in Somalia's capital of Mogadishu on Wednesday when a bomb hidden in a lawmaker's car blew up, authorities said.


Breaking taboo, Mexico gov't aims to tax food, medicine
By Dave Graham and Miguel Gutierrez MEXICO CITY, July 26 (Reuters) - Mexico plans to boost its tax coffers by an extra $50 billion a year with an overhaul that aims to extend sales tax coverage, close tax loopholes and could impose charges on capital gains. Saddled with one of the weakest tax takes in Latin America, President Enrique Pena Nieto will present Congress with a plan by September to substantially improve revenues, including divisive measures to apply value added tax (VAT) to


Cowboys Defensive Tackle Brent, Charged in Fatal Crash, Retires
Josh Brent, 25, said doing the right things in life was more important as he prepared to defend himself against a manslaughter charge in a drunken-driving crash.


UPDATE 4-Under siege, JPMorgan to quit physical commodities
NEW YORK, July 26 (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase Co is exiting physical commodities trading, the bank said in a surprise statement on Friday, as Wall Street's role in the trading of raw materials comes under unprecedented political and regulatory pressure.


UPDATE 3-Competition, discount website drag on Expedia; shares tank
* Shares slide 25 percent in post-market trading (Adds analyst comment; updates shares)


Analysis Muirfield magic embellishes Mickelson's status
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Throughout his career, Phil Mickelson has richly entertained fans with his swashbuckling, sometimes high-risk, approach to golf and his dazzling skills around the green.


Swiss banks tout stability and secrecy to lure rich
GENEVA (Reuters) - Switzerland's banking industry is relying on its stability and expertise to ensure it has a bright future as a leading center for managing the assets of the rich, despite a...


UPDATE 2-Belgacom eases mobile pain with fixed-line growth
* Shares rise as much as 14.5 pct to three-month highs (Adds share price, analyst comment)


DealBook Activision in $8.2 Billion Deal to Buy Back Stake From Vivendi
The deal represents the latest corporate maneuver for Activisions chief executive, an entrepreneur who built the company into a giant with a market capitalization of nearly $17 billion.


Al Qaeda-linked prisoners escape
An al Qaeda group claimed responsibility Tuesday for coordinated attacks on two Iraqi prisons that a lawmaker said freed more than 500 inmates, including some senior members of the militant group.


UPDATE 2-Embraer shares fall on weak business jet outlook
* CEO sees economic concern sapping Legacy demand in China (Adds details from earnings, updates share price)


Planning for a generation that will live past 100
BOSTON (Reuters) - More than half of the babies born today may expect to live past the age of 100, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which forecasts the number of Americans over 65 doubling to 80...


Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions
July 26 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1330 GMT on Friday


Venezuela central bank to sell $180 mln in forex auction
CARACAS, July 26 (Reuters) - Venezuela's central bank said on Friday it would auction $180 million under its revamped currency exchange system known as Sicad, part of an effort to boost the flow of...


U.S. does not plan decision on Egypt coup
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration told Congress on Thursday it does not plan to make a determination on whether a military coup occurred in Egypt, avoiding a decision that would force the cut off of most of the annual $1.55 billion in U.S. aid.


Snedeker Takes Canadian Open Lead
Hunter Mahan gave up the lead in the Canadian Open when his wife went into labor, and Brandt Snedeker grabbed the top spot a few hours later Saturday.


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