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News Feed Latest worldwide news Warriors Top Suns 91-77 for Vegas League Title Ian Clark scored 33 points and hit seven of 10 3-pointers to lead the Golden State Warriors to a 91-77 victory over the Phoenix Suns in the championship game of the NBA's Vegas Summer League on Monday night. Chicago's Elena Delle Donne Suffers Concussion Chicago's Elena Delle Donne suffered a concussion Wednesday and is questionable for the All-Star game this weekend. BRIEF-KKR's N. American fund raises over $8 billion July 26 (Reuters) - KKR Co LP's head of global capital and asset management Scott Nuttall on a conference call with analysts * NAXI has over $8 billion in committments * KKR has allocated... Nadal on historic win World Sport's Amanda Davies chats with 2013 French Open champion Rafael Nadal. In the Beginning Was the Word; Now the Word Is on an App With more than 100 million downloads, YouVersion, a free app that offers over 600 Bible translations, has found itself in the company of successful start-ups like Instagram and Dropbox. DealBook Voting Rule Change Is Seen as Crucial to Dell Founders Takeover Bid While more votes have been cast in favor of Michael S. Dell and Silver Lakes takeover proposal, the tally is not enough to win without a change in rules. Phil Woosnam, Pioneer of North American Soccer, Dies at 80 Mr. Woosnam played professionally in Britain before becoming the commissioner of the North American Soccer League. Explain Obamacare at last Dean Obeidallah says Obama's health care plan would attract broad support -- if only the public fully understood it Talk Mireille Enos The Killing Star Avoids the Police-Procedural Trap And the Hollywood-ingnue problem, too. Harlem Stage Prepares to Export Its Own Opera Harlem Stage is banking on Makandal its first opera commission and an ambitious, contemporary work revolving around the leader of an 18th-century slave revolt in Haiti to raise its international profile. Despite Two New Studies on Motives for Monogamy, the Debate Continues Two teams ended up with opposing conclusions in trying to solve the puzzle of why some mammals choose a single mate. Krzyzewski Begins Quest for Third Straight Gold Mike Krzyzewski thought he was done with USA Basketball. He said he was done, too. Talks Begin On Mideast, To Doubts On All Sides In making the revival of the Middle East talks his top priority, Secretary of State John Kerry is not only challenging the status quo in the region but also taking on the conventional wisdom in much of the American foreign policy establishment. U.S. regulators moving cautiously on mortgage reforms WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) - U.S. bank regulators, wary of upsetting the fragile housing market, are moving cautiously in fashioning dozens of new rules to prevent reckless underwriting and other... Mark Ronson on love for music CNN's Monita Rajpal meets Grammy award-winning Mark Ronson who has produced some of the biggest stars in the industry. ArtsBeat Jane Austen Bank Note Earns Huzzahs and Nitpicking Austen is to become only the third woman other than Queen Elizabeth II to appear on an English bank note. Newborn, pregnant women among 31 migrants drowned off Libya UNHCR ROME (Reuters) - A newborn baby and four pregnant women are among 31 migrants feared drowned off the coast of Libya after their boat suffered a puncture and sank while trying to reach southern Europe's shores, the U.N. refugee agency said on Monday. A Race to Save the Orange by Altering Its DNA Growers turned to genetics in hopes of building a tougher orange tree. But would the public accept genetically modified food? 'Brian dead' play costs McIlroy at Open Unconscious. Brain dead. Rory McIlroy was in a brutally reflective mood in the words he chose to describe his opening round in the British Open Virginia Johnson, Widely Published Collaborator in Sex Research, Dies at 88 Ms. Johnson and William H. Masters helped make the frank discussion of sex in postwar America possible if not downright acceptable. Servant was well-treated, say lawyers for Saudi princess in U.S. trafficking case SANTA ANA (Reuters) - Lawyers for a Saudi princess accused of holding a Kenyan servant a virtual prisoner in her California home portrayed the servant on Monday as so well-treated that she had access to amenities like a spa and pool and went shopping at local malls. Kuchar claims Memorial title There are only two multiple winners on the PGA Tour this season -- one of them is in top form ahead of the U.S. Open, and the other is Tiger Woods. UPDATE 1-Hartford Financial misses estimates as premiums stagnate * Second-quarter net loss $190 million, or .42 per share 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. The American dream in Mexico After awaiting reforms that may or may not come, thousands of young undocumented immigrants have abandoned their American Dream voluntarily or because they were deported. They still consider themselves DREAMers, but now they dream in Mexico. BMW eases path to EV ownership to gain 'meaningful' sales LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - BMW aims to win a "meaningful" segment of the electric car market with its i-series battery-powered models by offering luxurious styling and packages designed to help owners overcome the traditional hurdles to electric car ownership. Hudson's Bay CEO bets big on department stores with Saks buy NEW YORK/TORONTO (Reuters) - Richard Baker is doubling down on his attempt to revive big-name department stores with a $2.4 billion bid to buy Saks Inc, bringing the New York retailer into Canada and... Cibulkova and Radwanska to Meet in Stanford Final Dominika Cibulkova hopes her latest WTA Tour final goes better than her last. Agnieszka Radwanska would love to make her relive that nightmare. Wedding turns funeral Authorites want to know how a power boat carrying bride-to-be Lindsey Stewart and her fiance's best man slammed into a construction barge north of Manhattan, throwing them from the boat. Police UM's Henderson Appeared to Have Drugs The Oxford police chief says Mississippi guard Marshall Henderson appeared to be in possession of a small amount of marijuana and cocaine during a traffic stop in May. Indian lunar orbiter hit by heat rise Scientists have switched off several on-board instruments to halt rising temperatures inside India's first unmanned lunar spacecraft. Bloomberg Media Recruits a New Chief From The Atlantic Justin B. Smith, a president of the Atlantic Media Company who earned a reputation as an aggressive promoter of digital media, will be named chief executive of the Bloomberg Media Group. China restores its 'national' car China is reviving its former "national" car, the "Red Flag," as CNN's David McKenzie reports. Dropped off at Grandma's ... for good It's often the grandparents who step up when a parent dies or is unable to take care of a child for other reasons, such as incarceration, abuse or mental illness. But the sudden shift in responsibility can be incredibly stressful. Dance Review Yoshiko Chuma Brings Her Exotic Blend to La MaMa Yoshiko Chuma presented a multidisciplinary work at La MaMa last weekend that incorporated dance, violin, electric guitar, trombone and the making of a daguerreotype. The Haggler So You Thought You Canceled the Contract A customer of a security-alarm company says she thought she had ended her contract but then the bills kept coming. 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. German town raises ire for scheme using asylum seekers as porters BERLIN (Reuters) - A German town has halted a scheme offering asylum seekers 1.05 euros an hour to carry luggage at a station after rail operator Deutsche Bahn refused permission due to a public outcry and criticism that the project harked back to colonial times. Notable diamond heists It was just like a scene from the Alfred Hitchcock crime caper "To Catch a Thief." The same hotel. The sparkly jewels. The robbery. Exclusive EU to clear US Airways, American $11 billion merger - sources BRUSSELS (Reuters) - AMR Corp's American Airlines and US Airways will win EU approval for their $11 billion merger to become the world's largest carrier after agreeing to cede slots on a transatlantic route, three persons familiar with the matter said on Monday.

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