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| Merkel World's most powerful woman | | | Frugal, cold and boring -- those are just some of the words Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel has been called by her peers and the global press days before the German election. |
| Dog eats dog as Britain's tabloids bare all | | | LONDON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Fleet Street's finest jostled furiously at the start on Thursday of a government inquiry, trying to grab public attention with tales of shock and horror. |
| Scientists discover new legless lizard species in California | | | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California scientists have discovered four species of legless lizards hidden in unlikely habitats among central valley oil derricks, sand dunes at the end of a Los Angeles airport runway and other arid and desolate spaces. |
| Chelsea's exes problem | | | There's always something strange about bumping into an ex. Sometimes it can be satisfying -- perhaps they're looking a bit shabby, or have obviously fallen on hard times. |
| Citing shootings, Obama says must 'go back at' gun-control push | | | WASHINGTON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged supporters on Saturday to "go back at it" and pursue gun-control measures after mass shootings in Washington and Chicago in the past week put the spotlight back onto the problem of gun violence in the United States. |
| Autonomous quadcopter takes humans out of flying equation | | | Sept. 19 - A group of Austrian students has designed a quadcopter which flies autonomously using only the computing power of a smartphone. The reasearchers say the drone could one day be used for search and rescue scenarios or fighting fires without putting humans in harm's way. Jim Drury reports. |
| Classes canceled to deal with race issues | | | Oberlin College in Ohio suspended classes Monday after a student reported seeing a person resembling a Ku Klux Klan member near the college's Afrikan Heritage House. |
| Bo Xilai gets life | | | Sept. 22 - China's former rising political star Bo Xilai jailed for life. Paul Chapman reports. |
| Hardware heroes in our gadgets | | | Next time you marvel at the computer hardware in your hand, spare a thought for the tiny transistors contained within. Without them our modern gizmos wouldn't work. |
| 2 missing in Navy helicopter crash | | | Three crew members aboard a U.S. Navy helicopter that crashed in the Red Sea on Sunday were found alive and in stable condition, the Navy said. Two others remained missing. |
| Money flows into equity funds in September -TrimTabs | | | Sept 22 (Reuters) - Investors have pushed $48.9 billion into equity mutual funds and exchange-traded funds so far in September, approaching January's $66.3 billion record, data from research provider TrimTabs showed on Sunday. |
| Calls to end child marriage | | | The story was horrific An 8-year-old girl died from internal injuries suffered on her wedding night with a 40-year-old man. It caused outrage -- and numerous calls to end child marriage in Yemen. |
| Inside chemical weapons lab | | | CNN's Fred Pleitgen got exclusive access to the lab where evidence from the Syrian chemical attack was scrutinized. |
| CANADA STOCKS-TSX edges lower as market mulls over Fed stance | | | * TSX slides 4.62 points, or 0.04 percent, to 12,926.78 * Index had touched a two-year high in early dealings * Six of the 10 main index sectors advance * Gold-mining shares decline despite bullion jump By John Tilak TORONTO, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index closed slightly lower on Thursday as a drop in resource shares offset strength in utilities, telecoms and other high-yielding groups, with investors catching their breath a day after the U.S. Federal Reserve |
| Golf Swede pockets $11.4M jackpot | | | Henrik Stenson keeps his cool to collect the biggest paycheck of his career Sunday, landing a $10 million FedEx Cup jackpot along with the $1.44 million prize for winning the Tour Championship in Atlanta. |
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