| Latest worldwide news | Snowden dad 'He shared the truth' | | | Edward Snowden did the right thing by leaking U.S. intelligence and helping the American people see the truth, his father, Lon Snowden, said Friday on NBC's "Today." |
| U.N. Syria death toll tops 100,000 | | | More than 100,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, as he called for a peace conference to stop the violence on both sides |
| Well Nightmares After the I.C.U. | | | Patients who have prolonged stays, getting intubated and sedated, may experience severe hallucinations, putting them at risk of PTSD for years to come, studies show. |
| Lance Armstrong on doping | | | In his first major cycling event since his doping admission, Lance Armstrong says he still anticipates fallout from the scandal that erased his Tour de France victories. But he's "a big boy" and can handle it. |
| Siemens CEO to leave following profit warning | | | MUNICH (Reuters) - Siemens Chief Executive Peter Loescher is to leave the company, four years before the end of his contract, after the German engineering group this week issued its second profit warning this year. |
| Cleveland Man Admits to Abductions | | | Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man accused of holding three women captive in his home for a decade, pleaded guilty to 937 counts, including rape and kidnapping. |
| Glory Days at the Abbey as Weir Turns Back Clock | | | It was approaching noon early into the second round of the Canadian Open on Friday when a blast from the past popped up on the leaderboard, sending a wave of excitement rolling across Glen Abbey Golf Club. |
| RPT-Why China pays too much for medicines | | | July 26 (Reuters) - China has a drug problem. While most Western countries spend 10-12 percent of their healthcare budget on medicines, in China it is well over 40 percent, a disparity that goes to the heart of Beijing's crackdown on the industry. |
| Is Zimbabwe ready for elections? | | | Zimbabwe has known only one leader in its entire 33-year history as an independent nation, and President Robert Mugabe hopes that doesn't change any time soon. |
| Call Me Mansion | | | Developers are repurposing the word mansion, using it to describe a luxurious lower-floor unit within a building. |
| Luxury jets for the long-haul | | | It's the billionaires' equivalent of lining up all night for the new iPhone. Multinational corporations and the ultra-rich are racing to get their hands on a Gulfstream 650, the newest and most envy-inducing private jet on the market. Order one tomorrow, plunk down $65M and you'll see your plane in 2017. |
| John Kerry meets with Arab League in Jordan | | | July 17 - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with members of Arab world as part of efforts to relaunch Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). |
| The Tile House | | | The home of George T. McDonald, Republican candidate in the New York City mayoral race, was built by Rafael Guastavino Jr., whose tiled vaulting system was used in Grand Central Terminal. |
| UPDATE 1-Father of fracking George P. Mitchell dies at 94 | | | HOUSTON, July 26 (Reuters) - George Phydias Mitchell, a petroleum engineer who transformed the natural gas industry by using hydraulic fracturing to pull the fuel out of shale formations, died of natural causes at the age of 94 on Friday. |
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