| Latest worldwide news | Hampton Reaches Quarterfinal at Stanford | | | Jamie Hampton took a few walks around the Stanford campus during the week, biding her time until she could get back on the court. A two-hour match helped her get right back into rhythm. |
| Publicis, Omnicom to merge to create advertising giant | | | PARIS (Reuters) - Publicis and Omnicom plan to merge to create the world's biggest advertising group, worth $35.1 billion, a tie-up that could spur rivals to do deals to keep pace with big changes from technology and the Internet. |
| 'Pink Panther' in Swiss jail break | | | Police in Switzerland hunted Friday for two inmates who escaped in a prison break staged by a pair of armed accomplices. One escapee is a member of the "Pink Panther" jewel-theft group, police say. |
| NBA Summer of Reunions for Coaches, Players | | | When Mike Brown first got into coaching in the early 1990s, veteran Bernie Bickerstaff would pull him aside for little chats on climbing the ladder in the NBA. One lesson stood out more than any other. |
| Recession hits profits at Croatian telecoms operator T-HT | | | ZAGREB, July 26 (Reuters) - First-half net profits at T-HT , Croatia's biggest telecoms operator, declined by nearly a third to 570 million Croatian kuna ($101 million) due the country's economic recession, the company said on Friday. |
| 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. |
| China's city of sinkholes | | | Four months after he built a new, two-story brick house in his village in northern China's Shandong Province, Xiao Guoqiang was alarmed to find a huge crack on the living room wall. |
| Kevin Tway Wins Boise Open | | | Kevin Tway won the Boise Open on Sunday for his first Web.com Tour title, beating Spencer Levin with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff. |
| As Europe struggles, companies focus on cost cuts | | | DAGENHAM, England, July 28 (Reuters) - Glistening chains on the turnstyles at Ford Motor Co.'s plant in east London illustrate how, even when companies unveil positive news about their European operations, it may not mean things are picking up in the economy. |
| The hot albums and festivals this summer | | | Summer is the best time for outdoor musical festivals and blasting music with all the windows open. We've done the legwork for you, and compiled what should be some of the best albums of the season, and the most tent-worthy festivals, organized by region. |
| RPT-INSIGHT-The poison pill in India's search for cheap food | | | MUMBAI/NEW DELHI, July 28 (Reuters) - Nearly a decade ago, the Indian government ruled out a ban on the production and use of monocrotophos, the highly toxic pesticide that killed 23 children this month in a village school providing free lunches under a government-sponsored programme. |
| Halliburton plea may help BP in spill liability battle | | | (Reuters) - BP Plc appeared to gain an edge in the battle over liability for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill on Friday, after Halliburton abandoned one of its arguments that tried to paint the British oil company as unconcerned about well safety. |
| Well Medical Procedures May Be Useless, or Worse | | | Many new techniques and medicines are either no more effective than the old ones, or worse, and many doctors persist in using practices that have been shown to be useless or harmful, a new analysis shows. |
| NASCAR's 'Bad Brad' | | | NASCAR champion Brad Keselowski talks to CNN's Carol Costello about winning and honoring the tradition of the sport. |
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