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Well Medical Procedures May Be Useless, or Worse
Many new techniques and medicines are either no more effective than the old ones, or worse, and many doctors persist in using practices that have been shown to be useless or harmful, a new analysis shows.


Things I wish I'd known at 15
International day of the girl 'To my 15-year-old self'


Analysis China leaders play safe on reforms as growth sags
BEIJING (Reuters) - For all the strong rhetoric, China's latest policy actions suggest a shift in focus on the economy to mix relatively pain-free reforms that burnish Beijing's credentials for change with measures to prop up sagging growth.


T Magazine By Design | Josef Alberss Interaction of Color Goes Interactive
Fifty years after its publication, the influential color theorists seminal text has been repackaged as an iPad app that lets anyone experiment with its principles.


Well Cancer Risk Increases With Height
Height is associated with a greater risk of cancer for both men and women, new research shows.


Schwab executives see rate improvements; drop 'Talk to Chuck'
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Brokerage giant Charles Schwab Corp on Friday gave a cautiously upbeat assessment of client confidence and the outlook for interest rates, but warned investors against over...


Well Nightmares After the I.C.U.
Patients who have prolonged stays, getting intubated and sedated, may experience severe hallucinations, putting them at risk of PTSD for years to come, studies show.


Remade Jets Open Camp and Practice Restraint
Coach Rex Ryan said every player would have to earn his way, which is particularly true at quarterback by far the Jets most pressing issue.


Royals Beat White Sox 4-2 for 6th Straight Win
Alex Gordon hit a two-run homer in the 12th inning and the Kansas City Royals beat the Chicago White Sox 4-2 on Sunday for their sixth consecutive victory.


Bits Blog What Are Apples Amazing New Products?
Timothy D. Cook, Apples chief executive, alluded to amazing new products that the company will introduce in the fall and across 2014. What could these secret gadgets be?


Africa's resources can halt poverty
A decade after Angola emerged from devastating civil war, the sea front road that winds around the bay of its capital, Luanda, is now dotted with multi-million dollar condominiums, exclusive clubs, and boutique stores catering for the country's elite.


Rescued Florida sea turtle headed for Las Vegas casino "retirement"
MIAMI (Reuters) - An ailing 320-pound, green sea turtle, believed to be about 50 years old, was packed in a customized FedEx crate to be shipped to Las Vegas on Thursday to give it a better home at a luxury casino.


With Wife Going Into Labor, Mahan Withdraws From Canadian Open
Hunter Mahan, the tournament leader, was at 13 under after 36 holes and had yet to tee off in the third round.


Character Study The Art of War
Noriko and Ushio Shinohara, the subjects of a new documentary film, have been locked in marriage and a kind of creative combat for four decades.


US STOCKS SNAPSHOT-Wall St ends flat, but Amazon helps Nasdaq
NEW YORK, July 26 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks finished mostly flat on Friday, though a rally in Amazon.com shares a day after the online retailer's results helped boost the Nasdaq.


Check In Hotel Review Butterfly on Victoria in Hong Kong
This year-old, centrally located hotel has some kinks, but its prices could make a stay worth it.


Vodka maker eyes export markets
CNN's Isa Soares visits a family-run distillery in the UK that is shipping its potato vodka overseas.


An Afghan Media Mogul, Pushing Boundaries
Saad Mohseni has brought soap operas, sitcoms and reality TV to his native country, Afghanistan, and with them a modicum of normalcy. Now he is looking to expand to Egypt, Libya and Iraq.


Turning market hits "trend-following" quant funds
LONDON (Reuters) - The global equity pullback over the last month hit "trend-following" quantitative funds the hardest, but the strategy could remain the most profitable in the longer run, delegates...


Egypt's Brotherhood stands ground after killings
CAIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters stood their ground near a Cairo mosque on Sunday, a day after at least 72 were shot dead by Egyptian security forces, braced for a move against them by the army chief who ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.


Team rebuilding world's first website
Twenty years ago, a team of researchers shared the Web with the world. Now they want to show a generation that grew up online what it was like in its earliest days.


Gunman seizes millions of dollars worth of jewels from Cannes hotel
July 28 - Jewels worth millions of dollars were stolen from a Cannes hotel --- the latest and largest in a series of robberies in the French Riviera resort city. Deborah Gembara reports.


Philip Green's Hong Kong venture
Arcadia Group owner Philip Green talks to CNN's Monita Rajpal about bringing British high street fashion to Hong Kong.


Egypt to Take New Look at Syrian Ties
Egypts interim foreign minister sought to distance the new governments policy on Syria from that of former President Mohamed Morsi, who helped make the country a hub for Syrian opposition groups.


1,200 inmates break out of Libya prison
Libyan authorities are trying to round up a sea of inmates who escaped from a Benghazi prison.


A Burst of Violence in Cairo
The police and armed civilians opened fire Saturday on protesters against Egypts new military government, killing scores of people.


NEWSMAKER Carney on IMF, inflation how he got his new job
Incoming Bank of England governor Mark Carney explains where he differs with the IMF on austerity, central bank inflation targeting and how he was made Bank of England chief even though he's Canadian.


U.S. navy to recover bombs from Great Barrier Reef
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy said on Friday it would lead the effort to recover four unarmed bombs it was forced to drop in Australia's World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef marine park.


Hingis comes out of retirement for WTA event
Five-time grand slam singles winner Martina Hingis is to make a return to the WTA Tour later this month in a tournament in the United States.


Going to school, instead of work
A Nepalese girl has her sights on a medical career because of her mother's blindness. CNN's Fredricka Whitfield reports.


Sparta, by Roxana Robinson
Roxana Robinsons novel examines wars psychological wounds.


French Prosecutors Plan to Charge Strauss-Kahn With Pimping
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, will be tried on charges of pimping, French prosecutors in Lille said on Friday.


Smaller, paler Earth unveiled in new NASA photo
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A robotic space probe nearly 900 million miles from Earth turned its gaze away from Saturn and its entourage of moons to take a picture of its home planet, NASA said on Monday.


Sports Briefing | Basketball Delle Donne May Miss All-Star Game After Sustaining Concussion
Elena Delle Donne sustained a concussion in the Skys 82-78 loss to the Mystics and is questionable for the W.N.B.A. All-Star Game this weekend.


FOREX-Dollar pulls back in Asia ahead of Fed, hits one-mth low on yen
* Plenty of event risk ahead with ECB and BoE meeting, major data


Mexico clashes kill 22 , including police
Clashes between criminals and federal police left 22 people dead in Mexico, including two officers, authorities said.


Publicis CEO sees EPS boost from Omnicom deal
PARIS, July 28 (Reuters) - The merger of Publicis and Omnicom will boost adjusted earnings per share, and the new group will maintain its BBB+ credit rating, the head of the French ad group told a...


China's Sun cruises to 400m freestyle gold
BARCELONA (Reuters) - China's Sun Yang ticked the first box on the way to a possible treble of freestyle golds when he comfortably won the 400 meters at the world swimming championships on Sunday.


UPDATE 3-Publicis, Omnicom to merge to create advertising giant
PARIS, July 28 (Reuters) - Publicis and Omnicom plan to merge to create the world's biggest advertising group, worth $35.1 billion, a tie-up that could spur rivals to do deals to keep pace with big changes from technology and the Internet.


EU regulator finds no new safety issues with diabetes drugs
LONDON (Reuters) - European drugs regulators have found no new safety concerns with diabetes drugs known as GLP-1 and DPP-4 therapies after concluding a safety review of possible links to damage to the pancreas.


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