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| I am a Red Sox fanboy | | | Darren Garnick asks Is David Price right? Are reporters who never pitched beyond Little League just a bunch of starstruck hangers-on. Well, yeah. |
| Rocker Lou Reed of Velvet Underground dies at 71 | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lou Reed, the pioneering musician who fronted influential rock band The Velvet Underground and won mainstream acclaim with solo songs "Walk on the Wild Side" and "Perfect Day", died on Sunday aged 71. |
| Safety concerns keep inspectors from 2 Syria weapons sites | | | Inspectors overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons have visited 21 of the 23 sites they want to inspect by a Friday deadline, but security concerns have prevented visits to the remaining two, the world's chemical weapons watchdog said Monday. |
| Saudi drivers | | | Several women who publicly supported a campaign to defy Saudi Arabia's de facto ban on women driving fear they are being followed and investigated by the country's secret police. |
| Africa's inspiring spray can art | | | Street art has forever been a vibrant tool of personal expression manifesting in a variety of unique ways. In Africa it comes in the form of beautifully painted shop fronts, alternative methods of political campaigning and striking murals designed to inspire. |
| Discover Myanmar's treasures | | | After decades of a military junta rule, the south-east Asian country of Myanmar is opening up, and the government is working hard to welcome a plane loads of visitors from around the world. |
| Football Roma set Serie A record | | | AS Roma set a new Serie A record with their ninth straight win from the start of the season after a 1-0 victory at Udinese Sunday. |
| Obama, buoyed by election win, faces new battles | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama had little time to savor victory on Wednesday after voters gave him a second term in the White House where he faces urgent economic challenges, a looming fiscal showdown and a still-divided Congress able to block his every move. |
| China to monitor link between smog and health | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Health Ministry will set up a national network within five years to provide a way of monitoring the long-term impact of chronic air pollution on human health, state media said on Monday. |
| Credit markets see Morgan Stanley as less risky than Goldman | | | NEW YORK, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley is now seen in derivatives markets as less likely to default on its debt than Goldman Sachs, a reversal of long-term price trends that signals investors' confidence in the bank's efforts to make itself safer. |
| Rapper 50 Cent gets probation in domestic violence case | | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - American rapper 50 Cent on Monday struck a deal with Los Angeles prosecutors for three years' probation and 30 days of community service after allegedly kicking the mother of his child and destroying her property during a June altercation. |
| Gazan students create energy-saving hospital cleaning device | | | Oct. 23 - Engineering students in Gaza have designed a prototype ozone gas generator to sterilise hospital rooms, a difficult task in a country living with economic sanctions imposed by the surrounding state of Israel. Their device activates oxygen and transforms it into ozone gas by using an electric charge of 80,000 volts. Jim Drury reports. |
| Deadly storm hits UK, Europe | | | A major Atlantic storm pummeled southern England early Monday, knocking out power for tens of thousands of homes and blocking roads and railways with fallen trees. |
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