| Latest worldwide news | CANADA STOCKS-Financials boost TSX as Fed meeting comes into focus | | | * TSX rises 21.14 points, or 0.17 percent, to 12,669.04 * Seven of 10 main sectors advance * HBC jumps about 6 percent after Saks deal * Gold miners slip with price of bullion By John Tilak TORONTO, July 29 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index rose on Monday after strength in the financial sector offset declines in shares of natural resource companies, while investors were fixated on the U.S. Federal Reserve's plans for its stimulus program. The market also paid attent |
| Treated like a criminal? | | | Leading tennis player Victor Troicki believes he has been "treated like a criminal" after being hit with an 18-month ban for flouting doping regulations and plans to take his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. |
| Military death row All still alive | | | Ronald Gray raped and battered at least seven women. He killed four, and left the others for dead -- the bodies dumped around Fort Bragg and the neighboring city of Fayetteville, North Carolina, between 1986 and 1987. |
| Oman's first chocolatiers | | | Unlike many in Oman, Salma and Aisha Al Hajri are turning away from government jobs and heading into the private sector. |
| AP Source Tide Froze Football Staffer's Contract | | | Alabama has penalized director of football operations Joe Pannunzio for his role in the Miami scandal while a member of the Hurricanes' staff, according to a person familiar with the situation. |
| Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie arrive in Japan | | | Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie arrive in Japan with three of their six children ahead of World War Z premiere and speech by Jolie at Tokyo's United Nations University. Rough cut (no reporter narration) |
| Mars Science Lab launch delayed two years | | | NASA's launch of the Mars Science Laboratory -- hampered by technical difficulties and cost overruns -- has been delayed until the fall of 2011, NASA officials said at a news conference Thursday in Washington. |
| The man who could have been Pele? | | | Seven decades before Neymar, a world away from Ronaldinho and Ronaldo, a predecessor to Zico and Socrates, there was a formidable striker who could have rivaled Pele. That man was Heleno de Freitas, a soccer superstar in the days before Brazil ruled the "beautiful game." |
| The new age of the airship? | | | Once upon a time, the airship was hailed as the future of flight as glamorous, luxurious and fashionable as the Art Deco era which marked its heyday. |
| Pivot TV Pitches to Young Viewers | | | A channel for young people called Pivot, which will become available in 40 million homes on Thursday, aims for entertainment that inspires and compels social change. |
| GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks down, dollar at 5-week low ahead of Fed | | | NEW YORK, July 29 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell and the dollar hovered near a five-week low on Monday ahead of the Federal Reserve's two-day policy meeting, which will be closely watched for clues on when the U.S. central bank will begin to slow its bond-buying program. |
| Egypt's new national hero? | | | For many Egyptians armed forces chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is a hero, despite allegations about his past. |
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