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| U.S. private sector adds 200,000 jobs in July ADP | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. private employers added 200,000 jobs in July, topping economists' expectations in an encouraging sign for the labor market recovery, a report by a payrolls processor showed... |
| U.N. Warns It Will Disarm Congo Rebels | | | In an uncharacteristically stern warning, the United Nations ordered individuals near the eastern city of Goma to turn in their weapons or be deemed an imminent threat to civilians. |
| Car sales stop short of estimates in July | | | Aug. 1 - GM,Ford and Chrysler reported sales that were below forecasts in July-hurt by low inventories of some popular cars.Truck sales remained strong. Havovi Cooper reports. |
| Ivanisevic's 'unsolved mystery' | | | A look back at the 2001 Wimbledon men's final when Goran Ivanisevic became the only wildcard to bag the men's title at noted postcode SW19 in one of the tournament's most dramatic matches. |
| Risks and rewards in West Bank city | | | High in the hills between Ramallah and Nablus in the West Bank sits a huge construction site its developers hope will transform the lives of Palestinians for generations to come. |
| ECB committed to low rates | | | Aug. 1 - The European Central Bank keeps interest rates at a record low, despite signs of a tentative recovery in the euro zone. Kirsty Basset reports. |
| China's Alibaba bans customers from using Tencent's WeChat | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Alibaba Group, whose expected IPO could value the e-commerce company as high as $100 billion, has banned its customers from using Tencent Holdings' popular WeChat mobile messaging app to do business on Alibaba sites like Tmall and Taobao. |
| China Reports Increase in Manufacturing | | | The manufacturing index, provided by the Chinese authorities, indicated that recent small-scale economic support measures in Beijing might be having some effect on demand. |
| UPDATE 1-Vodafone's Humm to lead new European unit | | | LONDON, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Vodafone is to merge its northern and southern European units into one division to be led by Philipp Humm, to help the mobile operator sharpen its new focus on rolling out internet services across the region. |
| Russia gives Snowden asylum, Obama-Putin summit in doubt | | | MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia rejected U.S. pleas and granted American fugitive Edward Snowden a year's asylum on Thursday, letting the former spy agency contractor slip out of a Moscow airport after more than five weeks in limbo while angering the United States and putting in doubt a planned summit between the two nations' presidents. |
| G. W. Stocking, 84; Studied Anthropologists | | | Professor Stocking was a historian of science who chronicled the norms, customs and tribal beliefs of modern anthropologists, documenting a history of racial bias and ethnocentrism. |
| 10 classes taught by pros | | | Olympic heroes, NBA stars, World Series of Poker champs, NASCAR legends and more will teach you the tricks of their trades. |
| Delayed Berlin airport costs Germany dear | | | June 19 - Berlin's new international airport should have been open for a year, but may not start operating until 2017. The cost has doubled to 4.3 billion euros, mostly due to the delays. Joanna Partridge reports from Berlin on what's gone wrong, and looks at other large German infrastructure projects facing delays. |
| Avatar Plans Now Include 3 Sequels | | | James Cameron and 20th Century Fox said they expected to begin production next year and release the first of three additional films in December 2017. |
| Obama rethinks Putin summit after Snowden granted asylum | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is rethinking whether to hold a summit in Moscow with President Vladimir Putin next month after Russia rejected U.S. pleas and gave temporary asylum to former American spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, the White House said on Thursday. |
| Wall Signs Contract Extension With Wizards | | | John Wall has missed about one-quarter of the games since he was the No. 1 overall pick in the N.B.A. draft. Yet the Wizards took the calculated risk of signing him to a contract extension. |
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