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News Feed Latest worldwide news QA Fitting More on a DVD How to squeeze more video onto a DVD, and choosing the best smartphone. Lotus hopeful on Raikkonen Eric Boullier, the Team Principal of Lotus F1, on the future of Kimi Raikkonen and the team's hopes for the remainder of the season. UPDATE 1-Iliad profits soar on French mobile growth * Winning price war as rivals cut costs to compete (Adds detail, background) ITC Nexus buys Accumetrics to gain blood-clot monitors Aug 30 (Reuters) - ITC Nexus Holding Co, which sells products to measure blood clotting in patients undergoing anticoagulation therapy, on Friday said it had acquired Accumetrics and its products... 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. Northern Iraq's investment boom Northern Iraq is enjoying an investment boom because of business prowess with gas and oil. Iraq war ghosts end UK plans to take part in Syria action LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron's plans to join a potential military strike on Syria were thwarted on Thursday night when Britain's parliament narrowly voted against a government motion to authorize such action in principle. Giant canyon found entombed under Greenland ice OSLO (Reuters) - A vast and previously unmapped gorge 800 meters (half a mile) deep has been found under ice in Greenland, comparable in size to parts of the Grand Canyon in the United States, scientists said. France Supports U.S. Call for Action Against Syria Washington gained backing from President Franois Hollande for a military strike on Syria, even after the British Parliament withheld its support. Stocks end worst month since May 2012 Aug. 30 - Summary Wall Street posts a modest Friday decline as Obama builds case for action against Syria; Apple starts iPhone trade program; Salesforce shines after earnings; U.S. shoppers weary. Conway G. Gittens reports. Apple rolls out iPhone trade-in program in U.S. stores SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc has launched a trade-in program in its U.S. retail stores for older models of its iPhone as it gears up for the launch of a new version of the smartphone, it said on Friday. Rocco Mediate Leads Champions Tour Event Rocco Mediate eagled two of the final four holes to take the first-round lead in the Champions Tour's inaugural Shaw Charity Classic. Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet of Soil and Strife, Dies at 74 Mr. Heaney, a widely celebrated Irish poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, is recognized as one of the major poets of the 20th century. Property Values What You Get for ... $625,000 A colonial with a surprising interior near Minneapolis, a stucco colonial in Pennsylvania and mountain views in Arizona UK says Snowden leaks hurt its national security, could expose spies * Documents were seized from Guardian reporter's partner at Heathrow Exclusive U.S. pension funds press Caesars' private equity owners NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some U.S. public pension funds are pressuring TPG Capital LP and Apollo Global Management LLC to share more of the fees they withdraw from loss-making casino operator Caesars... U.N. 82 child soldiers saved in DR Congo Scores of child soldiers, some of them as young as eight years old, have been rescued from an armed group in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the U.N. mission in the African nation said. Special Report Travel Asia High Hopes for China Cruises If Chinese take to cruising in the same way as North Americans and Europeans, they could provide as many as 40 million cruise guests a year, according to a 2010 market analysis by Royal Caribbean. Energy stocks lead FTSE lower as oil price falls LONDON, Aug 30 (Reuters) - British stocks dropped on Friday in a broad-based sell-off, led by energy shares as the price of oil fell after Britain's parliament rejected the idea of taking part in any... North Korea in grip of drugs epidemic, report claims North Korea's sanction-hit regime has long been accused of drug trafficking as a source of hard currency, but a new report claims drug producers are finding a ready market closer to home and that as many as two-thirds of North Koreans have used methamphetamines. Former Madoff employees want more details on affair allegations NEW YORK (Reuters) - Five former employees of Bernard Madoff responded on Thursday to government assertions that all but one of them and Madoff were involved "in romantic and/or sexual relationships"... Yosemite wildfire still raging, keeps tourists away SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Fire crews battling to outflank a monster wildfire inside Yosemite National Park made headway on Friday in confining flames to wilderness areas but were powerless to salvage the region's sputtering tourist economy at the end of its peak summer tourist season. CORRECTED-INSIGHT-To cut natural gas costs, Chesapeake pumps up royalty deductions (Corrects 13th paragraph, deleting reference to U.S. three-year gas supply needs and inserting instead U.S. gas consumption in 2012) Well Four Frittatas and a Terrine Crack some eggs to make these delicious and surprisingly-portable frittatas (and a terrine) inspired by the tastes of Provence from Martha Rose Shulman. The 30-Minute Interview Joseph A. Tahl Mr. Tahl is a founder and the president of Tahl Propp Equities, a privately held real estate investment, development and management company based in Manhattan. ArtsBeat Anatomy of a Scene Video of Getaway The director Courtney Solomon narrates a scene from his car-chase thriller with Ethan Hawke. Gonzalez Helps Nationals Rout Marlins 9-0 Jayson Werth and Ian Desmond each hit a three-run homer, leading Gio Gonzalez and the Washington Nationals to a 9-0 victory over the Miami Marlins on Thursday night. Designated Cheering Spectators Thrive at the Bolshoi Theater The practice of enlisting claqueurs spectators assigned to cheer and applaud during performances is alive and well at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. Top shareholder in Italy's Carige bank says open to new investors MILAN, Aug 29 (Reuters) - The top shareholder in Italian mid-sized lender Banca Carige, which needs to shore up its capital by 800 million euros ($1.1 billion) by the end of this year, said it was... U.S. Congress finds common ground Congress is a stalemated cesspool of government shutdown showdowns that could come straight from an Aaron Sorkin TV series. But on the issue of using military force in Syria, bipartisanship is coming from unexpected places. Taste of Persia NYC Inside the takeout counter tucked into a corner of a pizzeria in the Flatiron district. L'Oreal could sell Sanofi stake to fund acquisitions-CEO PARIS, Aug 30 (Reuters) - L'Oreal Chief Executive Jean-Paul Agon reiterated on Friday that the cosmetics group could sell its stake in drugmaker Sanofi to help fund acquisitions. Investors pull less cash from U.S.-based stock funds Lipper NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors in U.S.-based funds pulled $863.1 million out of stock funds in the latest week, down from massive outflows in the prior week even as the possibility of military action... Pro-Mursi protests spread to Egypt's provinces Aug. 30 - Pro-Mursi protests take place in the port city of Suez and in the deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi's hometown of Sharqiya. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). Red Burns, Godmother of Silicon Alley, Dies at 88 Ms. Burns helped to lead the movement for public access to cable television and started a New York University program to foster Internet wizards. Corner Office Never Duck Tough Questions, Says Drugstore.comx2019;s Chief Dawn Lepore, chairwoman and chief executive of Drugstore.com, says good leaders direct employeesx2019; energies toward the mission at hand. The New Old Age A Renewed Push for End-of-Life Discussions Representative Earl Blumenauer, Democrat of Oregon, still believes that doctors should be paid to discuss patient preferences at the end of life. Spain's brain drain problem Economic woes and research budget cuts push many of Spain's best scientists to look for work abroad. Al Goodman reports. DealBook Verizon-Vodafone Deal Would Be a Big Payday for Deal Makers Should Verizon Communications successfully buy out Vodafones 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless analysts suggest that the transaction would be valued at more than $125 billion it would consummate one of the largest takeovers on record. Laurentian Bank profit falls on higher provisions, costs Aug 30 (Reuters) - Laurentian Bank of Canada reported a 6 percent fall in third-quarter profit on Friday as its expenses rose and it set aside more money to cover bad loans.

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