| Latest worldwide news | If mayors ruled the world | | | CNN's Hala Gorani, in for Christiane Amanpour, speaks with Benjamin Barber about the innovation of cities. |
| Wolff drives females forward | | | Susie Wolff says she will keep fighting to win a place on the Formula One grid -- but she won't rely on her sexuality to get there. |
| Children power playground toys | | | July 30 - Modern gaming techniques are taken to the playground as children compete to produce energy. Suzannah Butcher reports. |
| Goodbyes and Grief in Real Time | | | Scott Simon, the journalist and NPR host, posted Twitter updates from his mothers deathbed, connecting with a vast and supportive audience. |
| Prince George gets his own comic book | | | The new royal arrival has his spotlight in the media broadened after a California based comic book company writes his backstory. Rollo Ross reports. |
| Can a team win 79-0? | | | Two Nigerian matches that produced an incredible 146 goals are referred by the country's football authorities to the police as a "criminal matter." |
| Japan team wraps up USDA meeting on GM wheat situation | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Japanese delegation is completing talks with the U.S. Department of Agriculture aimed at restarting purchases of U.S. western white wheat, which were halted after the discovery of an unapproved genetically modified strain growing in Oregon. |
| TIMELINE-Dell's buyout a topsy-turvy affair | | | Aug 1 (Reuters) - The proposal by Michael Dell and Silver Lake to buy out and take private the world's No. 3 PC maker, Dell Inc, for $24.4 billion will be put to the test on Friday, when shareholders gather for a third time in Texas to cast their votes. |
| Delayed Berlin airport costs Germany dear | | | June 19 - Berlin's new international airport should have been open for a year, but may not start operating until 2017. The cost has doubled to 4.3 billion euros, mostly due to the delays. Joanna Partridge reports from Berlin on what's gone wrong, and looks at other large German infrastructure projects facing delays. |
| US STOCKS-Wall St jumps on data; SP 500 above 1,700 | | | NEW YORK, Aug 1 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks jumped on Thursday, pushing the SP 500 above 1,700 for the first time, as data suggested the economy is still improving and as the Federal Reserve kept its stimulus plan in place. |
| Legoland builds royal baby story | | | July 29 - Legoland Windsor presents a new attraction to celebrate the birth of Prince George in time for the school holidays. Tara Cleary reports. |
| Firestone Delight for In-Form Stenson | | | Resurgent Swede Henrik Stenson could hardly be in a more different position at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational since he most recently competed in the World Golf Championships (WGC) event three years ago. |
| Lloyds shares surge on sharp profit rise | | | Shares in Lloyds Banking Group surged on Thursday as it signalled that a resumption of dividend payments was on the horizon and the Group's CEO fuelled expectations that the government would sell its stake in the bank. |
| Japan buys almost 90,000 tonnes U.S. western white via tender | | | TOKYO, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Japan bought nearly 90,000 tonnes of U.S. western white wheat in a tender on Thursday, marking the first purchase of the variety by its top buyer after the discovery of a genetically modified (GM) version of the grain in Oregon. Purchases by Japan, the top customer of U.S. white wheat, may help further boost prices for the grade used to make confectionaries, as it joins South Korea and other big buyers in resuming imports that where halted after the GM discovery. |
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