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'DWTS' cohorts defend Hough | | Julianne Hough may have taken some heat for her Halloween costume, but those who know her say she didn't mean any harm. |
Russia Team Depleted | | Russia will send an inexperienced team when it faces Italy in the Fed Cup finals next week in Sardinia. |
Fernandez-Castano Survives Late Scare to Win in Shanghai | | Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano survived a late scare when he found two bunkers on the way to a double-bogey six on the last but the Spaniard had enough of a cushion to complete a one-stroke victory at the BMW Masters in Shanghai on Sunday. |
Autonomous RoboBee no flight of fancy | | Oct. 29 - Researchers from Harvard University say the tiny robotic bees they unveiled last year should be ready for work in the real world by 2023. Called RoboBees, the miniature drones are being developed by Harvard's School of Engineering and Wyss Institute, to assist in crop pollination and search and rescue. Ben Gruber reports. |
Bitcoin goes mainstream with ATM in Vancouver coffee shop | | VANCOUVER, Oct 29 (Reuters) - A silver and blue ATM, perched up next to the espresso bar in a trendy Vancouver coffee shop, could launch a new era for the digital currency bitcoin, offering an almost instant way to exchange the world's leading virtual money for cash. |
Home Prices Rise at Fastest Pace Since 2006 | | Home prices jumped 12.8 percent in August from a year earlier, but the price gains slowed in many cities from July, a sign that the spike in prices over the past year may have peaked. |
Tiananmen Square | | Chinese authorities have made a concerted effort to censor images and online accounts of a jeep that plowed into crowds in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, killing five and injuring 38, amid suggestions police are looking for suspects from the restive western region of Xinjiang. |
How impressive is the Chromebook Pixel? Very! | | I've been using a Chromebook Pixel for the past two days and a single phrase comes to mind blown away. Is it worth $1,299 or more? Take a look to see and then stack it up against your mobile computing needs. |
F.D.A. Shift on Painkillers Was Years in the Making | | The F.D.A.s move to tighten restrictions for prescribing painkillers is a rare victory by lawmakers from states hard hit by prescription drug abuse over well-financed lobbyists for business and patient groups. |
Apple shares steady as worries about margins ease | | Oct 29 (Reuters) - Apple Inc's shares rose slightly on Tuesday after the iPhone maker clarified its margin outlook by saying it would defer $900 million of revenue during the key Christmas holiday... |
U.S. Steel to partially shut Ontario mill | | TORONTO (Reuters) - United States Steel Corp said on Tuesday it will permanently shut down iron and steelmaking operations at its Hamilton, Ontario, mill at the end of this year. |
'Fat Albert,' 'He-Man' producer dies | | Lou Scheimer, a pioneer in Saturday morning and weekday afternoon television cartoons with hit shows such as "Superman," "Fat Albert" and "He-Man," has died at 84, according to his biographer. |
Ex-reporter claims hacking at Trinity Mirror paper-Sky | | LONDON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - A former reporter on a tabloid owned by Trinity Mirror has claimed the newspaper hacked into the phones of celebrities, Sky News reported on Thursday, potentially broadening a scandal that has so far largely affected Rupert Murdoch's News Corp . |
Veterans not a political chew toy | | Paul Rieckhoff says as another budget battle approaches, veterans refuse to be used again--as they were in the shutdown--as hostages of warring political parties |
Belafonte sues King estate, daughter over ownership of documents | | (Reuters) - U.S. singer and social activist Harry Belafonte has sued the estate of Martin Luther King Jr. in a dispute over ownership of documents that Belafonte said were given to him by the late civil rights leader and his wife, according to court documents filed on Tuesday. |
A year after Sandy, thousands still can't return home | | SEASIDE PARK, N.J./NEW YORK (Reuters) - A year after Superstorm Sandy inundated the East Coast with record flooding that left 159 people dead, residents of hard-hit New Jersey and New York shore communities still have a ways to go in rebuilding damaged homes. |
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