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| Heat wave searing China | | | Record-breaking temperatures have been searing large swaths of China, resulting in dozens of heat-related deaths and prompting authorities to issue a national alert. |
| Court Train driver was on phone | | | The driver of a train that derailed in northwestern Spain last week, killing 79 people, was on a phone with railway staff when the train crashed, court officials announced, citing information from data recorders. |
| U.S. to close some embassies Sunday for security reasons | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. embassies that would normally be open this Sunday - including those in Abu Dhabi, Baghdad, Cairo - will be closed that day because of unspecified security concerns, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday. |
| As solar panels pile up, China takes axe to polysilicon producers | | | HONG KONG (Reuters) - Three quarters of China's solar-grade polysilicon producers face closure as Beijing looks to overhaul a bloated and inefficient industry, resulting in fewer but better companies to compete against Germany's Wacker Chemie AG and South Korea's OCI Co Ltd. |
| U.S. shutdown battle begins as Republicans kill spending measure | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A battle in Congress expected this fall over the budget and a potential government shutdown broke out early on Thursday as Republicans in the U.S. Senate effectively killed a $54 billion spending bill for transportation and housing projects. |
| Congo rebels face U.N. weapons deadline | | | Rebels in an unstable part of the Democratic Republic of Congo have until Thursday afternoon to hand in their weapons to U.N. peacekeepers or risk being disarmed by force. |
| UPDATE 4-TransCanada ramps up East Coast pipeline as Keystone stalls | | | CALGARY, Alberta, Aug 1 (Reuters) - TransCanada Corp announced plans on Thursday for Canada's largest pipeline, a 2,700-mile (4,400 km), $12 billion line to ship crude from the oil sands of Western Canada to the Atlantic, as its U.S.-bound Keystone XL project stalls in Washington. |
| How to nominate a CNN Hero | | | A CNN Hero's journey to global recognition begins with a nomination by someone who's been touched by their efforts. |
| Tourists flee Thai oil spill | | | A picture postcard beach on one of Thailand's most popular tourist islands is now the focus of frantic efforts to staunch a tide of oil sweeping ashore. |
| Al Qaeda's image makeover | | | Peter Bergen says al Qaeda's attempts to rework its image with happy videos, tugs of war and ice cream eating contests won't fool anybody. |
| Well The Limits of Cosmetic Surgery | | | A new study, the first to try to quantify attractiveness after a face-lift, brow lift or eyelid surgery, found a tiny but insignificant increase in attractiveness. |
| Apple pie warms Spain crisis | | | In the midst of Spain's economic crisis, entrepreneur Burton Novak opened a shop to to make and sell American-style pies and cakes. Two years on the pie shop has created seven jobs, in a nation with soaring unemployment. |
| Massive Weapons Depot Blast in Syria Kills 40 | | | Rebels sent a wave of rockets slamming into regime strongholds in the central city of Homs on Thursday, triggering a succession of massive explosions in a weapons depot that killed at least 40 people and wounded dozens, an opposition group and residents said. |
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