| Latest worldwide news | Queen's secret WWIII speech | | | CNN's Becky Anderson reports on the speech that was written for Britain's Queen Elizabeth in the event of World War III. |
| Tennis Federer to miss Rogers Cup | | | Roger Federer, hampered by a back injury in recent weeks, pulled out of the Rogers Cup in Montreal with the U.S. Open just around the corner. |
| QA Verifying Gmail on the Road | | | If you do not have access to your cellphone for Gmails verification process, there is an option to print out a set of codes. |
| Revulsion and disgust | | | Michelle Knight spoke at Ariel Castro's sentencing hearing. Martin Savidge psychologist Jeff Gardere are OutFront. |
| Illinois governor signs law allowing medical marijuana | | | CHICAGO (Reuters) - A law allowing marijuana to be used for medical purposes in Illinois was signed on Thursday by Governor Pat Quinn, making it the second most populous state in the country after California to permit medicinal use of the drug. |
| U.S. high court backs order on California prison crowding | | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Friday to excuse California from a lower-court order demanding that the nation's largest state prison system reduce its inmate population by about 10,000 convicts this year to ease crowding. |
| Berkshire Hathaway 2nd-quarter profit rises 46 pct | | | Aug 2 (Reuters) - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Friday said second-quarter profit rose 46 percent, reflecting gains from investments and derivatives and higher earnings from non-insurance businesses. |
| Breakingviews "Equality" in Big Ad merger? | | | July 29 - Publicis and Omnicom have formed a neat merger of equals, with co-CEOs and a parallel listing. But Breakingviews warns that paralysis or conflict could come later. |
| City Room Odes to Heat-Struck New York | | | Readers write their own over-the-top odes to the temperature in response to an article about the summer heat that was published in this newspaper in 1852. |
| Thief drives Seagulls' van so far away | | | A van loaded with keyboards, guitars, amps and drums used by the 1980s band A Flock of Seagulls was stolen from a southern California hotel over the weekend, police said. |
| Spanish train wreck driver got warnings before crash | | | MADRID (Reuters) - The driver of the Spanish train that derailed last week, killing dozens of passengers, had received three warning signals after taking a phone call minutes before the fatal accident, an examination of the black box showed on Friday. |
| Protesters clash with security forces | | | Thousands of supporters of Egypt's deposed president were able to protest mostly in peace in two of Cairo's squares after Friday prayers. But the relative calm was interrupted early in the evening when police fired tear gas at them |
| Surgery at hands of robot? | | | Every day, we happily entrust more of our lives to automated machines at home and in our cities. But you could be forgiven for blanching at the prospect of a four-armed robot bearing over you, scalpel glinting. |
| Well Back Pain Remains Overtreated | | | Conservative management is often recommended for back pain, but doctors are performing more CT and M.R.I. scans, prescribing more opiates and referring more patients to specialists, which may lead to expensive and ineffective surgeries. |
| Most Americans favor 'Stand Your Ground' laws Poll | | | (Reuters) - Most U.S. voters support the "Stand Your Ground" laws, although the question of whether to retreat or use deadly force in self defense divides Americans along gender, racial and political lines, a national poll found on Friday. |
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