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| Have-Nots Squeezed and Stacked in Hong Kong | | | In a city with some of the highest living costs in the world, those at the bottom of the income ladder increasingly resort to cupboardlike living spaces, a dozen or more to an apartment. |
| Tale of White Widow Fills British Press | | | While there is no evidence that Samantha Lewthwaite was involved in the Kenya mall attack, British newspapers remain fascinated with the woman they call the white widow. |
| Iran's president Europe, U.S sound 'different' | | | Western leaders have said Iran seems to sound different under the leadership of newly elected President Hassan Rouhani. On Friday, it was Rouhani's turn to return the compliment, saying European Union officials and U.S. President Barack Obama sound "different compared to the past." |
| UPDATE 2-Planned Parenthood sues Texas over abortion restrictions | | | Sept 27 (Reuters) - Planned Parenthood, the largest U.S. abortion provider, filed a lawsuit in federal court on Friday challenging part of a new Texas law which the group said will dramatically reduce access to safe abortions, especially in rural areas of the huge state. |
| How sensors make your phone "Star Trek smart" | | | Can your current smartphone be any smarter? Sure it can, if the device knows how to better understand its surroundings with the help of internal sensors. Qualcomm's Project Gimbal does just that for app developers. Here's a peek at how Paramount is using the technology. |
| Keeping busy tunnel tip-top | | | Atika Shubert looks at how engineers carry out maintenance on the Channel Tunnel, one of the world's busiest railway routes. |
| Can Esther Duflo eradicate poverty? | | | Poverty and hunger are two plagues of human society that are usually synonymous with each other. Economist, Esther Duflo, is trying to change that old way of thinking about hunger. Foreign Policy magazine has ranked Duflo as one of its "Top 100 Global Thinkers," for "Poor Economics," a book she co-authored, which says that the impoverished may be suffering from hunger because of where they choose to spend their money. |
| Working poor hit hard by Colorado flooding | | | EVANS, Colo. (Reuters) - Victoria Varela shook her head in disbelief as she surveyed the wreckage of the trailer she had fled minutes before flood waters rushed through her mobile home park in the hardscrabble town of Evans, Colorado destroying everything in its path. |
| Deadbeat dads get a second chance | | | Marcus Dixon refers to the tattoos on his face as the "art of war" an eye etched on his forehead, five stars down the left side of his face, and the words "don't cry" on his eyelids. |
| California solar policy costing all utility customers report | | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California's non-solar homeowners are paying a growing share of maintaining the power grid under a controversial state policy, while ratepayers with solar rooftops are paying less, a report commissioned by the state's utility regulator said on Thursday. |
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