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| Australia shares edge up, on track for weekly gain | | | SYDNEY, July 26 (Reuters) - Australian shares were slightly higher on Friday morning and on track for a weekly gain, with investors restrained by concerns about the slowing growth in China and ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy-setting meeting next week. |
| Motherlode Blog Princes Are for Fairy Tales | | | The message royalty sends to our children the one about meritocracy, just as much as the one about aesthetics is all the more suspect when it comes in flesh and blood, as with the newborn Prince of Cambridge. |
| Women tackle 'Everest of sailing' | | | Sailing around the world is one of the most grueling challenges on the planet, with muscle-bound skippers steering 20-meter yachts through everything from tropical cyclones to Antarctic storms. |
| Anglo American silicosis claimants turn to South African courts | | | JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A British court has thrown out a lawsuit against Anglo American South Africa brought by miners who contracted the deadly lung disease silicosis when they worked in South Africa, saying it did not have jurisdiction to hear the matter. |
| JPMorgan to exit physical commodities business | | | July 26 (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase Co said it was considering a sale or a spin-off of its physical commodities business, including its holdings of commodities assets and its physical trading operations. |
| Pioneering sex researcher dies | | | Virginia Johnson, the pioneering sex researcher who was part of the groundbreaking team Masters and Johnson, has died at age 88, her son, Scott Johnson, told CNN on Wednesday. |
| Syrian rebels ask Kerry to send U.S. arms quickly | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - The head of Syria's opposition told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday the country's situation was "desperate" and called for the United States to arm the rebels quickly and to push harder for a political settlement. |
| 10 smartphone habits to avoid | | | How annoying and rude and antisocial have we all become with our smartphones? We're embarrassing ourselves all over the place. Please stop. |
| SEC Coaches Weigh Talent vs. Potential for Trouble | | | The legal problems of current and former SEC players from ex-Florida and NFL tight end Aaron Hernandez to LSU running back Jeremy Hill cast a negative light on the league that has won seven consecutive national championships. |
| Real-life transformers take to skies | | | Is it a plane? Is it a drone? Next time you look up and see vapor trails spreading across the sky, bear in mind that the aircraft you're looking at might just be both. |
| Devils Sign Veteran Right Wing Jagr | | | The New Jersey Devils have signed veteran right wing Jaromir Jagr in a move to help plug the scoring gap left by the recently retired Ilya Kovalchuk, the National Hockey League (NHL) team said on Tuesday. |
| How should teens handle their summer-job money? | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Anchorage, Alaska, teen Grace Bolt isn't spending her summer lolling at the pool or in front of a video game controller - she's juggling a variety of jobs and cashing a variety... |
| Driver tossed in trees | | | Several people had to be rescued from their vehicles as Phoenix was swamped by flash floods. |
| Snowden dad 'He shared the truth' | | | Edward Snowden did the right thing by leaking U.S. intelligence and helping the American people see the truth, his father, Lon Snowden, said Friday on NBC's "Today." |
| Hacker Barnaby Jack dies in San Francisco | | | BOSTON (Reuters) - Barnaby Jack, a celebrated computer hacker who could force a bank ATM to spit out cash and sparked safety improvements in medical devices, has died in San Francisco. |
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