| Latest worldwide news | Snedeker Aims for First WGC Win at Firestone | | | Brandt Snedeker has yet to win one of the elite World Golf Championships (WGC) titles but the in-form American goes into this week's WGC-Bridgestone Invitational firmly installed among the favorites. |
| Boxing for a better life | | | Her gloves held high, Rita Mrwebi dances in the middle of a blue boxing ring. Eyes focused straight ahead, she unleashes a flurry of thudding jabs and powerful hooks. |
| WRAPUP 1-U.S. deepens scrutiny of banks' roles in commodities | | | WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - Wall Street banks face the prospect of increased scrutiny of their commodity businesses as U.S. regulators and lawmakers on Tuesday pressed for a closer look at their roles in owning warehouses and in trading everything from oil to metals |
| Crowdsourcing ideas in Mideast | | | Things are looking up for entrepreneurs in the Middle East as a new breed of crowdfunding is emerging to help bring life to innovative ideas from the region. |
| Archbishop orders Wonga inquiry | | | The Archbishop of Canterbury said he was "embarrassed" and "irritated" that the Church Commissioners had indirectly invested in Wonga, the payday lending firm that he has vowed to "compete out" of business. |
| Lyft cars get creative -- and a little weird | | | A car decked out with blinking disco lights and a fog machine is driving the streets of San Francisco at night. In the back are paying passengers belting out karaoke tunes. In the front is the at-least locally recognizable Lyft pink mustache outlined with LED lights. |
| Greece hopes for 2014 market return | | | July 30 - Greece's finance minister says in an interview he is hopeful Greece could return to markets as early as next year. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). |
| Kuchar claims Memorial title | | | There are only two multiple winners on the PGA Tour this season -- one of them is in top form ahead of the U.S. Open, and the other is Tiger Woods. |
| 10 best golf courses in Africa | | | For a reputedly impoverished continent Africa has a remarkable number of golf courses -- 828 courses in 50 countries with a little more than half of those, 450, located in South Africa. |
| Perfect timing Murray's triumph | | | Andy Murray tells CNN he was unable to sleep after his historic victory over Novak Djokovic to become Britain's first men's singles champion at Wimbledon since 1936. |
| White House lists two dozen leaders to meet with Obama on deficit | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two dozen business, labor and civic leaders, including the chief executives of major U.S. corporations such as Ford, IBM and Wal-Mart, will meet President Barack Obama to discuss how to control the federal deficit, said the White House on Monday. |
| Devils Forward Kovalchuk Abruptly Retires From NHL | | | New Jersey Devils forward Ilya Kovalchuk, a former number one draft pick who blossomed into one of the game's top snipers, is retiring from the National Hockey League (NHL), the team said on Thursday. |
| Asia demand drives up art sales with China, India targeted | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Increasing demand from Asian buyers boosted sales at major international auction houses Christie's and Sotheby's in the first half of 2013 with expectations of growing participation by Chinese and Indian collectors in the global art marketplace. |
| Can a team win 79-0? | | | Two Nigerian matches that produced an incredible 146 goals are referred by the country's football authorities to the police as a "criminal matter." |
| Monaco's F1 transformation | | | The most famous race in Formula One -- the Monaco Grand Prix -- brings a change of pace to Monaco's Mediterranean idyll. |
| 'Wolverine' claws past ghosts to claim weekend box office crown | | | LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - "The Wolverine," starring Hugh Jackman as Marvel Comics' sharp- clawed superhero, slashed its way to $55 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales to claim the box office crown in a summer that hasn't been kind to some other big-budget action films. |
| Tennis Sharapova injury blow | | | Maria Sharapova has been forced to pull out of the WTA Rogers Cup tournament in Toronto next month, still plagued by a nagging left hip injury. |
| Scientists smell success with durian wine | | | July 21 - Scientists in Singapore are turning their hands to wine-making, using the pungent-smelling durian as a replacement for grapes. They're still a long way from commercializing durian wine, but the researchers are confident that the so-called "King of Fruits" has potential for producing a wine that people will want to drink. Tara Cleary reports. |
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