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| Looking forward to Muirfield | | | Phil Mickelson won the Scottish Open to end a 20-year drought in Europe. With the British Open starting this week, it was perfect timing. |
| Driverless car steering course to road-readiness | | | June 11 - Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are putting the finishing touches on their version of a driverless car that, they say, lays the groundwork for computers to replace humans in the driver seat within a decade. Ben Gruber went for a ride. |
| Dodgers Win to Match Club-Record Road Streak at 12 | | | Mark Ellis extended his hitting streak to 13 games before both he and manager Don Mattingly were ejected, and the Los Angeles Dodgers matched an 89-year-old club record with their 12th straight road victory, beating the Chicago Cubs 6-2 on Friday. |
| Forest fires blaze near Athens | | | Aug. 2 - A fire outside Athens burns forest and olive groves and comes dangerously close to homes. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). |
| The 'crowd' kick-starts innovation | | | 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. |
| Fast track to driver road rage? | | | It may not be "High Noon," but the Red Bull team are facing a Shanghai showdown when their two drivers resume rivalries at this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix. |
| ABC Cocina | | | Inside the new restaurant by Jean-Georges Vongerichten, where the dishes are influenced by Spanish-speaking countries. |
| Lawmaker tightens screws on IRS with Treasury subpoena | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior Republican lawmaker on Friday issued a subpoena to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew seeking documents related to a nearly three-month old congressional probe of the Internal Revenue Service's treatment of conservative political groups. |
| The Week A New Shrew and Mice Memory | | | Recent developments in health and science news. Also this week cheetahs body temperatures while hunting and the effect of pesticides on honeybees. |
| Pictures From the Week in Business | | | Two big advertising companies merge, fast-food workers strike for higher wages and a former Goldman Sachs trader is found liable for fraud in a mortgage-backed security deal. |
| UPDATE 2-Rogers designs plan to thwart Verizon move into Canada | | | TORONTO, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Rogers Communications Inc , Canada's largest wireless company, is attempting to thwart Verizon Communications Inc's entry into the country by backing a private equity bid for two small carriers that the U.S. telecom giant wants to acquire. |
| Economix Blog Pick Your Own Judge | | | Rating agencies are in a funny market. To stay in business, they must appear credible to investors. But so long as that criterion is met, the agency that grades the easiest will make the most money. |
| SE Asia Stocks-Thai stocks fall on political concerns; Philippine drops on SM Investments | | | BANGKOK, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Thai stocks slid 1.6 percent on Friday on light volume, poised for their worst weekly loss since late June, as political concerns hit large caps such as PTT , while Philippine index hit a three-week low, led by a fall in SM Investments Corp. Thai benchmark SET index fell to 1,414.61 in the afternoon session, on track to post a weekly loss of about 4 percent, with trade volume at 44 percent of a full day average over the past 30 sessions. Broker Maybank Kim Eng |
| TD Ameritrade CEO Tomczyk signs new contract at $6.5 million a year | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - The chief executive of discount brokerage firm TD Ameritrade Holding Corp has signed a four-year employment agreement guaranteeing an annual base salary of $900,000 and target annual cash and stock incentives of $5.6 million through October 1, 2017. |
| Jackson's consultant helps defense in trial | | | A lawyer for Michael Jackson's estate gave an entertainment industry consultant permission to help AEG Live in its defense of the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the pop singer's mother, the expert testified. |
| Kirilenko 'Time to Take a Shot to Win a Title' | | | When Andrei Kirilenko opted out of a $10.2 million contract with the Minnesota Timberwolves, the 32-year-old forward did so presumably looking for one last long-term deal of his career. |
| Apple battling U.S., states over proposed e-book limits | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc is headed for a showdown with the U.S. government and dozens of states, which on Friday urged that tough new restrictions be imposed on the company for illegally conspiring to raise e-book prices. |
| Actress Lindsay Lohan leaves rehab after 90 days | | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Lindsay Lohan on Wednesday completed her 90-day stint in a rehabilitation facility to comply with court-ordered treatment for a reckless driving charge, but still faces more than year of weekly therapy sessions, a Los Angeles judge said. |
| 'The Spectacular Now' spotlights young love like it used to be | | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In a summer dominated by big budget, action-packed blockbusters geared toward young adults, the writers of "The Spectacular Now" wanted to harken back to the angst-ridden romance films of the 1980s and shine a spotlight on the complexity of young love. |
| F1 perfects formula for financial success | | | Christian Sylt is the co-author of Formula Money, an annual report examining all aspects of Formula One's finances with detailed data on teams, drivers, sponsors and races. Here, he answers key questions about F1's financial model. |
| TransCanada ramps up East Coast pipeline as Keystone stalls | | | CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - TransCanada Corp announced plans on Thursday for Canada's largest pipeline, a 2,700-mile, $12 billion line to ship crude from the oil sands of Western Canada to the Atlantic, as its U.S.-bound Keystone XL project stalls in Washington. |
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