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Bands unite for peace | | Two Israeli bands, one Jewish and one Arab, are joining together in "metal brotherhood" to spread a message of peace through rock 'n roll. |
Bearded Red Sox Rejoice Over Turnaround Season | | They went from 93 losses last year to 97 wins this season with a new manager and new players who helped transform a dysfunctional clubhouse with some frat-house bonding and a Boston Red Sox battle cry of "Fear the Beard." |
Severe Cup Cut for Oosthuizen and Schwartzel | | Good friends Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel can only hope that their matchplay strategy works out a lot better for the Internationals than their hairstyle plans at this week's Presidents Cup. |
Gunmen fire on sleeping students | | Under the cover of darkness, gunmen approached a college dormitory in a rural Nigerian town and opened fire on students who were sleeping. |
Roma Moves to First in Serie A | | Roma maintained its perfect start to the Serie A season in Italy with a 2-0 win at Sampdoria and took possession of first place after Napoli was held to a 1-1 draw at home against Sassuolo. |
Still no EBC action yet for euro zone | | Oct 2 - The ECB leaves interest rates unchanged, holding off any fresh policy action for now while it waits to see whether a fragile recovery strengthens. Ivor Bennett reports. |
Can Iraq ever escape cycle of violence? | | Iraq's violence is at its highest levels since 2007. The world seems oblivious but with unrest spreading though the region, this is why you should not ignore it. |
Murray wins Wimbledon | | CNN's Pedro Pinto talks to Andy Murray who made history by becoming the first British man to win Wimbledon since 1936. |
Afghans baulk at U.S. push for operations after 2014 spokesman | | KABUL (Reuters) - A U.S. bid to run unilateral counter-terrorism operations in Afghanistan after 2014 is threatening to derail a security pact between the two countries, an Afghan spokesman said, underlining Afghanistan's tenuous ties with its main backer. |
Cher talks tour, Miley and leather jackets | | Cher sits in a director's chair in one of the many rooms of her "Architectural Digest"-worthy home, perched high above a prime stretch of Malibu beach. She's talking about her infamous "Farewell Tour," an extended global trek that ran from 2002 to 2005, and was supposed to be her swan song as a touring artist. |
BP's well control exec says he was unprepared for U.S. Gulf blowout | | NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - BP's manager in charge of controlling the Macondo blowout in 2010 was never trained to permanently plug a ruptured oil well and said in court on Wednesday the British company was not fully prepared for the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. |
Colorado teen pleads guilty to dismembering 10-year-old girl | | DENVER (Reuters) - A Colorado teenager who confessed to abducting, killing and dismembering a 10-year-old girl last year pleaded guilty on Tuesday to first-degree murder, sexual assault and also to the botched kidnapping of a female jogger months before the killing, authorities said. |
PPI moves on from mis-selling | | Oct. 2 - The FCA has raised concerns about the quality of the handling of PPI complaints in firms. Thomson Reuters GRC Regulatory Intelligence Expert Mike Cowan discusses the latest angle from regulators. |
Well Statins Tied to Cataract Risk | | In one of the largest studies ever done on the subject, researchers have found that taking statins, the widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs, is associated with an increased risk for cataracts. |
'Homeland' season 3 10 things to know | | The second season of the Showtime hit "Homeland" ended with an explosive finale that left the CIA headquarters in shambles and a former war hero on the run, suspected of setting a bomb that killed 219 innocent people. |
Obama, congressional leaders still deadlocked on shutdown | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama met with Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress on Wednesday to try to break a deadlock that has shut down wide swaths of the federal government, but there was no breakthrough. |
From fashion model to mogul | | On the heels of London Fashion Week, CNN takes a look at how a new generation of supermodels are moving beyond the catwalk and making millions from their own brand. |
UK-built keyboard hailed as world's thinnest | | Sept. 9 - Scientists at British technology firm, Cambridge Silicon Radio, say they've devised the world's thinnest keyboard. Just half a millimetre thick, the device could be available to consumers within a year. Jim Drury has more. |
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