| Latest worldwide news | WRAPUP 1-Brazil's EBX shrinks OGX down 17 pct; Batista leaves LLX | | | RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Shares of Brazilian energy company OGX Petrleo e Gs Participaes SA fell 17 percent on Wednesday after a newspaper report said its beleaguered controlling shareholder, Eike Batista, was considering a plan to swap $3.6 billion of the company's bonds for shares. |
| For James Harris, a Dream Fulfilled | | | Inspired by the I Have a Dream speech delivered by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., James Harris became the first black player to be a regular, full-time starter at quarterback in the N.F.L. |
| Well Four Frittatas and a Terrine | | | Crack some eggs to make these delicious and surprisingly-portable frittatas (and a terrine) inspired by the tastes of Provence from Martha Rose Shulman. |
| Water "the teeth" of climate change - World Bank | | | June 19 - Growing pressure over water remains the most worrying symptom of climate change, argues the World Bank President, while a projected 2C rise in temperature by 2030 could submerge Bangkok. |
| Rocky Transition From Farm to Town in China | | | It is one of the largest peacetime population transfers in history the removal of 2.4 million farmers from mountain areas in central Chinas Shaanxi Province to low-lying towns. |
| How CNN produced 'The City' | | | From Rio to Johannesburg, take a look at how CNN produced its latest special theme week,"The City". Interviewing five mayors in five cities over five days, here's what the production team got up to. |
| Back to racing school for rally star Loeb | | | Sebastien Loeb was a late starter in motorsport, but the French driver is happy to start all over again in his latest challenge after a decade of dominating the rally world. |
| U.S. royals and their castles | | | American royalty doesn't have beheading power, but its dedication to extravagance would make Henry VII hurl a turkey leg in envy. |
| Can Esther Duflo eradicate poverty? | | | Poverty and hunger are two plagues of human society that are usually synonymous with each other. Economist, Esther Duflo, is trying to change that old way of thinking about hunger. Foreign Policy magazine has ranked Duflo as one of its "Top 100 Global Thinkers," for "Poor Economics," a book she co-authored, which says that the impoverished may be suffering from hunger because of where they choose to spend their money. |
| FTSE hit by Syria concerns, energy stocks gain | | | LONDON, Aug 28 (Reuters) - The prospect of military action against Syria pressured Britain's top share index on Wednesday in a broad-based sell-off, but it also drove the price of oil higher which... |
| Singer's surprise kiss | | | One Direction singers Harry Styles and Zayn Malik distract CNN's Zain Verjee with a kiss during her live broadcast. |
| 'Golden Bear' on tennis love | | | Pat Cash meets golfing great Jack Nicklaus who explains why the golf swing is very similar to the basics of tennis. |
| Are chemical attacks the worst? | | | The U.S. and international effort to respond to a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria begs the question Why intervene now, and not earlier in the civil war? |
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