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| Why women 'owe' Billie Jean King | | | When the winner of the women's singles at the U.S. Open picks up her check for $2.6 million -- buck for buck the same as the men's champion -- she might well reflect that, if not for Billie Jean King's pioneering efforts, those riches might not exist. |
| Angela Merkel Visits Dachau | | | Ms. Merkel, in a first visit to the Dachau concentration camp by a sitting chancellor, spoke to Holocaust survivors and emphasized the importance of learning from Germanys past. |
| Syria crisis | | | Syria will be called to account for its suspected use of chemical weapons, the U.S. warns amid increasing signs of coming military action against the Assad regime. |
| Motorsport Activists infiltrate Spa | | | Activists protesting against Arctic oil drilling infiltrated a Formula One race in Belgium Sunday, but the off-track incident did not stop Sebastian Vettel's march towards a fourth successive world title. |
| Tax charges for Bayern chief | | | He's been a principal figure in German football for decades, winning the 1974 World Cup as a player before becoming Bayern Munich's club president, but Uli Hoeness' world could come crashing down after being charged with tax evasion on Tuesday. |
| Occupy Bakery | | | An immigrant fights to change working conditions at a Manhattan bakery cafe. |
| Last Nixon Watergate tapes released | | | After he announced the resignations of four top officials in his administration in 1973, Richard Nixon swore he was done with talking about Watergate, according to the last batch of tapes released by the National Archives. |
| Government mortgage fraud lawsuit against BofA headed to trial | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. government lawsuit accusing Bank of America Corp of fraud in the sale of billions of dollars of toxic mortgage loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is on track to go to trial next month after a judge rejected the bank's bid to dismiss the case. |
| On With the Show | | | After an unpredictable Wimbledon, what kind of drama is in store for the United States Open, the final Grand Slam event of the year? |
| New father, new hope | | | Prince William has given his first official interview to CNN since the birth of his first child. The future king of Britain spoke about baby George, his wife Catherine, and what it's like to be a new father. |
| U.S. royals and their castles | | | American royalty doesn't have beheading power, but its dedication to extravagance would make Henry VII hurl a turkey leg in envy. |
| Protestor We are willing to die | | | Cairo -- I write this after several days that have disheartened me and many Egyptian people. Many Egyptians desire freedom and a better life, and we love democracy. Imagine standing in long lines under the sun, waiting to give your vote for a new leader and then you wake up and he is no longer president? |
| Seles turns novelist | | | Nine-time grand slam champion Monica Seles talks to CNN about tennis and her new novel. |
| White House lists two dozen leaders to meet with Obama on deficit | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two dozen business, labor and civic leaders, including the chief executives of major U.S. corporations such as Ford, IBM and Wal-Mart, will meet President Barack Obama to discuss how to control the federal deficit, said the White House on Monday. |
| Tropical Storm Fernand forms in Gulf of Mexico, oil ports open | | | MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A tropical depression strengthened into tropical storm Fernand on Sunday in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said, though the country's main oil exporting ports remained open according to the latest official report. |
| UPDATE 3-Entergy to shut controversial Vermont nuclear plant | | | HOUSTON/BOSTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Entergy Corp will shut the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, citing high costs tied to regulation and competition from cheap natural gas, bringing to an end a long battle with politicians and environmentalists seeking to close it. |
| Nikkei set to slide on Syria concerns, rising yen | | | TOKYO, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average is braced for a sharp fall on Wednesday, extending its losses into a third day on geopolitical uncertainty over a possible U.S.-led military strike against the Syrian government. Market players said the Nikkei was likely to trade between 13,100 to 13,400 after falling 0.7 percent to 13,542.37 on Tuesday. The benchmark is expected to breach its immediate support line of 13,270.72, a 23.6 percent retracement of the slide from its May h |
| Britain drafts military plans for Syria, recalls parliament | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron recalled parliament to debate Britain's response to a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria as he began to make the case for targeted military action to punish and deter President Bashar al-Assad. |
| Lattes say "I love you" with a photo | | | Aug. 13 - A Taiwanese coffee chain serves special lattes with couples' photographs printed on the foam, in celebration of China's 'Valentine's Day'. Jeanne Yurman reports. |
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