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| EU Commission renews bid to unblock GMO crop approvals | | | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission proposed on Wednesday that governments approve only the third ever genetically modified crop for cultivation in Europe, but took steps to avert an expected backlash from France and other GMO opponents. |
| UPDATE 3-Advertising, TV show licensing boost CBS profit | | | LOS ANGELES, Nov 6 (Reuters) - CBS Corp recorded a higher profit that met Wall Street expectations as the company collected more revenue from advertising and the licensing of television shows including hits "NCIS Los Angeles" and "The Good Wife." |
| 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. |
| CO2 injections likely culprit in Texas earthquakes -study | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Carbon dioxide injected into oil and gas wells may have caused a series of minor earthquakes in Texas long before the adoption of current hydraulic fracking, according to a study published on Monday in a national science journal. |
| Chasing 'theory of everything' | | | A massive new experimental facility -- the International Linear Collider -- might help us to realize Einstein's dream of uniting all the theories of physics into one overarching theory of everything |
| Phys Ed The Marathon Runner as Couch Potato | | | On an average workday, runners training for a marathon reported sitting for more than 10 hours a day, raising provocative questions about the growing prevalence of sedentary behavior and its accompanying health risks. |
| Who is at 'extreme' climate risk? | | | Nearly a third of the world's economic output will come from countries facing "high" to "extreme" risks from the impacts of climate change within 12 years, according to a new report. |
| Noodles revenue misses estimate, shares slip | | | Nov 6 (Reuters) - Noodles Co reported lower-than-expected quarterly revenue, hurt by a tepid consumer spending environment, sending the company's shares down 6.5 percent in extended trading. |
| Royal banquet for South Korean President | | | Nov. 5 - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh hold a gala state banquet in honor of South Korean President Park Geun-hye. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). |
| Carr Leads No. 16 Fresno St. Past Nevada 41-23 | | | Derek Carr threw for 487 yards to break the Fresno State career passing record and lead the 16th-ranked Bulldogs to eight straight wins to open the season for the first time since 1989 with a 41-23 victory over Nevada on Saturday night. |
| Scared of heights? Don't look here! | | | It must be one of the world's most terrifying sports, but "The Duke" of high-diving says it's also one of the most rewarding. "It's kind of like how your dog feels when he sticks his head out of the window," explains nine-time world champion Orlando Duque. "He's just so happy feeling the wind. That's how we feel." |
| Greatest photo bomb ever? | | | A locally famous sea lion named Pancho takes an opportunity to steal a fisherman's trophy mahimahi during a photo op! |
| London Zoo tiger cub drowns | | | Keepers at London Zoo are "distraught" after a newborn tiger cub -- the first Sumatran tiger born there for 17 years -- drowned in a pool at its enclosure. |
| Paul McCartney can't slow down | | | Paul McCartney has never dwelled in yesterday, even if he remembers it quite well. At 71, he's just released his 24th post-Beatles album, "New," and is generating music at a pace that puts artists a quarter of his age to shame. And in a remarkably candid cover story by Rolling Stone contributing editor Jonah Weiner (on newsstands Friday October 25) McCartney discusses the drive that keeps him creating fresh music as well as the memories of his Beatles bandmates that continue to shape his life today. |
| Beijing slashes car sales quota in anti-pollution drive | | | SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's capital, Beijing, infamous for its thick smog and heavy traffic, will slash the city's new car sales quotas by almost 40 percent next year, as it looks to curb vehicle emissions and hazardous levels of pollution, the city government website said. |
| Football New Brazil controversy | | | Brazil's ability to stage the 2014 World Cup has come into question once again following the cancellation of a high-profile football event which was supposed to take place in Rio de Janeiro next month. |
| TAKE A LOOK-Twitter likely to price IPO above target range - sources | | | Nov 6 (Reuters) - Twitter Inc is likely to price its hotly anticipated initial public offering later on Wednesday above an already bumped-up target range, sources familiar with the process said. To open stories, double click in the square brackets. LATEST STORIES gt; Twitter likely to price above expected $25 range - sources gt; T. Rowe, Morgan Stanley funds sitting on whopper gains gt; Early Twitter investors double down on consumer Web start-ups ANALYSIS g |
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