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| Senior UBS dealmaker to leave Swiss bank | | | LONDON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Simon Warshaw, a senior dealmaker at UBS who led the team advising Vodafone on a recent $130 billion deal, is leaving the Swiss bank after 27 years there. |
| Braces help avoid surgery in teens with scoliosis | | | NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In the first large-scale test of whether wearing a brace helps to prevent an already-curved childhood spine from twisting further, bracing was nearly twice as effective as a watch-and-wait approach at preventing kids from needing corrective surgery. |
| A.A.U. Coach Arrested on Drug Charge | | | Curtis Malone, the founder of the D.C. Assault program and one of the key power brokers in college basketball recruiting, was arrested after a yearlong investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration. |
| Green Rushes for 158 as Wildcats Top W. Michigan | | | Treyvon Green rushed for 158 yards and two touchdowns, quarterback Kain Colter ran for 106 yards and a score and passed for another, and No. 17 Northwestern beat Western Michigan 38-17 on Saturday night. |
| Inter Milan Punished for Racist Chanting | | | Inter Milan was ordered to play its next home game, against Fiorentina on Sept. 26, with one end of its stadium closed as punishment for racist chanting by fans. |
| Doesn't Germany envy itself? | | | Amid the eurozone crisis, Germany finds itself in a position that everybody seems to envy -- except the Germans themselves. |
| How to avoid a major choke | | | You are only a short putt away from a major championship and golfing immortality, but then dark visions appear and you start wondering, "What if I miss?" Even top golfers need help training their minds -- and they turn to Dr. Bob Rotella. |
| New "walking shark" species identified off Indonesia | | | Sept. 5 - A new species of epaulette shark has been discovered in waters off a remote Indonesian island. Officially called Hemiscyllium halmahera, the shark was first seen by divers in 2008 as it "walked" along the sea floor, but has only now been identified as a new species. Rob Muir reports. |
| Scott ups his bid for Player of the Year award | | | ATLANTA (Reuters) - A late birdie blitz by Adam Scott rocketed the Australian into contention for the elite Tour Championship on Thursday, and gave him timely momentum in his bid to earn the PGA Tour Player of the Year award. |
| Tepco to earmark $10 billion more to dismantle damaged reactors Nikkei | | | (Reuters) - Tokyo Electric Power Co's President Naomi Hirose told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that the utility would secure an additional 1 trillion yen ($10.05 billion) to pay for dismantling the damaged nuclear reactors at its Fukushima Daiichi plant, the Nikkei reported. |
| Cop said what over Whitney's body? | | | A police officer removed a sheet covering Whitney Houston's naked corpse and remarked, "Damn, she's still looking good, huh?" according to another officer at the scene. |
| U.S. government scales back Obamacare impact for 2014 | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Wednesday scaled back its projections for Obamacare's impact in 2014, saying the law would generate slower healthcare spending growth and provide coverage to only half as many of America's uninsured as anticipated last year. |
| Jets Hang On to Beat Oilers After 3-0 Lead | | | Michael Frolik had a power-play goal, Carl Klingberg also scored, and Eric Tangradi assisted on both in the Winnipeg Jets' 3-2 preseason win over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night. |
| 'Wild sport' meets 'strict square' | | | Where there's wind and water in Marseille, you are likely to find "Les Mouss" -- three brothers with a passion for windsurfing, and a love for their native south of France. |
| Car bombs in Baghdad; many dead | | | (CNN) -- A wave of car bombs in Baghdad on Tuesday evening left at least 18 people dead and dozens more wounded, police said. |
| APNewsBreak Texas Regent Talked to Saban's Agent | | | A few days after Alabama won the 2013 national championship, a University of Texas regent and a former regent talked with Nick Saban's agent about the possibility of the Crimson Tide coach replacing Longhorns coach Mack Brown, The Associated Press has learned. |
| Nigeria's stolen oil is sold and laundered abroad - report | | | ABUJA, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Stolen Nigerian oil worth billions of dollars is sold every year on international markets and much of the proceeds are laundered in world financial centres like Britain and the United States, a report said on Thursday. |
| Ena Hewitt | | | Ena Hewitt on how the experience of living in the settlement affected her children. |
| QMB is back, is economic growth? | | | Quest Means Business is relaunching, as U.S. economy enters a new phase. Five years after Lehman collapsed, the economy's vital signs are improving. So is the U.S. recovered? Watch CNNI at 2100 London time. |
| Field of dreams? | | | CNN's Amanda Davies gives the inside track on Sochi's preparations for February's Olympic Games with the Russian city facing a race against time to be ready. |
| Sochi -- Russia's field of dreams? | | | CNN's Amanda Davies gives the inside track on Sochi's preparations for February's Olympic Games with the Russian city facing a race against time to be ready. |
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