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| Film Five Reasons to Go Mod | | | Like the Beatles, the Dave Clark Five experimented with filmmaking, including the 1965 John Boorman film Catch Us if You Can. |
| Uncle Prince Harry jokes about baby-sitting | | | July 26 - Britain's Prince Harry says his duty as new uncle to Prince George will include ensuring 'he has fun' and jokes about the high rates he charges as baby sitter. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). |
| Man of Steele in Charge at Canadian Open | | | American Brendan Steele took full advantage of ideal early scoring conditions to forge a one-shot lead after the opening round of the Canadian Open on Thursday. |
| Fort Tells of Spains Early Ambitions | | | The discovery of remains of a 16th century fort the earliest one built by Europeans serves as a reminder of Spains expeditions before Britains explorations. |
| Concerns Over China Push Stocks Lower | | | Wall Street indexes dropped as investors weighed a slew of mixed earnings reports and on concerns that an overhaul of Chinas industrial sector could cause a sharp slowdown. |
| The biggest tech tax havens | | | Most of the top 50 U.S. tech firms have established an overseas headquarters, not in the country where they do the most business, but where they can pay rock-bottom tax rates. A Reuters special report looks at which companies are saving what and where. |
| Single-sex clubs? Not just in golf | | | Men-only golf club Muirfield is the home to 2013 British Open this week. CNN visited an exclusive female London establishment to find out what's dividing the sexes. |
| Water crisis, over-population present stark choices for Kiribati | | | June 13 - Rising sea levels and a booming population are presenting the Pacific island nation of Kiribati with stark choices that could determine its survival. Migration from smaller islands and a lack of fresh water have some experts predicting dire consequences for the country and its people if action is not taken. Rob Muir reports. |
| Vettel leads Red Bull one-two in practice | | | BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel set an impressive pace as Red Bull dominated practice for the Hungarian Grand Prix on Friday with Pirelli's new tires looking very much to their liking. |
| 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. |
| Yacht envy Move over, Abramovich | | | At 590-feet long, the Azzam is the world's largest super yacht. The hulking vessel is significantly longer than a football field and larger than the US Navy's Arleigh Burke-class of destroyers. |
| Balloon crashes into lake | | | Two people suffered minor injuries when a tourist hot-air balloon crashed into a lake in the Netherlands. |
| BSkyB reports strong full year results | | | July 26 - BSkyB releases strong fourth quarter results, and announces a 500m share buyback. Newscorp has long wanted full control of the pay-TV provider, but looks unlikely to launch a bid anytime soon as the phone hacking inquiry continues. Kirsty Basset reports. |
| Consumer sentiment rises to highest level in six years in July | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. consumer sentiment rose in July to the highest level in six years as Americans felt better about the current economic climate, though they expected to see a slower rate of growth in the year ahead, a survey released on Friday showed. |
| State senator slams California for lack of oil drilling oversight | | | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California oil and gas regulators have failed to monitor practices used to access shale oil, including the injection of dangerous chemicals underground, a state senator said Thursday, urging passage of her proposed oversight legislation. |
| Carnegie Mellon robots aim to please | | | June 26 - Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are designing modern day butlers - service robots that will one day help people with tasks like fetching coffee and cleaning up the kitchen. Ben Gruber has more. |
| Top-Seeded John Isner Advances in Atlanta | | | Top-seeded John Isner figured he would struggle in his first match Thursday in the Atlanta Open. He had no idea he would barely beat 19-year-old wild-card entry Christian Harrison 7-6 (9), 4-6, 7-5 to avoid an upset and reach the quarterfinals. |
| Lawyer Snowden can't leave airport yet | | | U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has not received documents that would allow him to leave a Moscow airport's transit area, his lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told CNN. |
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