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| CANADA STOCKS-Telecoms gains, bank earnings take TSX higher | | | * TSX rises 97.51 points, or 0.77 percent, to 12,704.73 * Eight of 10 main index sectors advance * TD, RBC jump after results, dividend increases * Gold-mining shares climb despite bullion decline By John Tilak TORONTO, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index advanced on Thursday, led by gains in financials and telecoms, as bullish quarterly profit reports from major lenders and strong economic data from the United States drove the market. A jump in telecoms shares |
| Lotus hopeful on Raikkonen | | | Eric Boullier, the Team Principal of Lotus F1, on the future of Kimi Raikkonen and the team's hopes for the remainder of the season. |
| Twerk? Srsly? | | | Oxford dictionary had added 'twerk' as part of its quarterly update. |
| Russia's Pharmacy Chain 36.6 sells Veropharm stake | | | MOSCOW, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Indebted Russian drug store chain Pharmacy Chain 36.6 is selling its stake in drug producing unit Veropharm for 5 billion roubles ($151 million) as part of a business restructuring. |
| Shania Twain on new album | | | After launching her Caesars Palace residency last December with a series of sold-out dates, Shania Twain, country music's biggest-selling female artist of all time, is returning to Vegas for another series of dates that kick off October 15th and run through mid-December. |
| F1 chief Grand Prix of America is off | | | Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has revealed that the inaugural Grand Prix of America in New Jersey will not take place as planned next year because the organizers have not raised enough money to fund it. |
| UPDATE 1-Aetna pulls out of another Obamacare health exchange | | | Aug 29 (Reuters) - Aetna Inc has decided not to sell insurance on New York's individual health insurance exchange, which is being created under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, the fifth state where it has reversed course in recent weeks. |
| Golf Capsules | | | Masters champion Adam Scott won The Barclays on Sunday after everyone around him did their best to lose it. |
| Living With Cancer Is It Back? | | | The tunnel vision of cancer focuses me obsessively on myself. Perhaps all diseases bring egotism in their wake, for people in distress find it hard to think of anything else. |
| Salmonella in Spices Prompts Changes in Farming | | | The United States Food and Drug Administrations finding that imported spices are a surprisingly potent source of salmonella poisoning has prompted India to change how they are grown and harvested. |
| Water polo's school of hard knocks | | | Kicks and punches, flailing limbs, nail scratching and even inadvertent ripping off of bathing suits -- a lot goes on under the surface in water polo. "We're really friendly out of the water but as soon as we get into that pool anything is possible," says top goal scorer Rowena Webster of Australia. |
| UPDATE 2-Detroit seeks $350 million ground-breaking loan | | | DETROIT, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Detroit, which made the largest Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy filing in U.S. history, on Thursday filed a request for proposals for $350 million in unprecedented financing, the city emergency manager's office said. |
| Emirates aims for high flyers | | | For those that love the luxury of first class air travel but loathe the imposition of having to share it with others, Emirates thinks it has the aircraft for you. |
| Spitzer in dead heat with rival in NYC comptroller race poll | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - The race for New York City comptroller is now a dead heat between Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former New York governor, as a series of high-profile endorsements have apparently helped Stringer close the gap. |
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