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In Dispute Over a Song, Marvin Gayes Family Files a Countersuit
The song Blurred Lines, which was a hit for Robin Thicke over the summer, infringes on Gayes copyright of Got to Give It Up, the lawsuit says.


Fracking Fight Focuses on a New York Towns Ban
A lawsuit against a zoning ordinance that effectively banning hydraulic fracturing in Dryden, N.Y., could decide the future of the oil and gas industry in the state.


Under fire in Iraq
(WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT) Oct. 31 - Several people are killed and dozens wounded in three explosions in a residential area in the northern Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmato. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.


Dyson Risks European Tour Expulsion for Shanghai Violation
Six-time winner Simon Dyson could be expelled from the European Tour following a rules violation at last week's BMW Masters, golf officials said on Thursday.


Stunning shots of vanishing tribes
A photographer has recorded the lives and customs of some the world's last authentic tribes, before they disappear.


Century-Old Adirondack Land Dispute Is on Statewide Ballot
A constitutional amendment would put more than 200 parcels in Township 40 in private hands, with the state getting new public land in exchange.


Well Eat Your Broccoli
Five ways to prepare broccoli, with cooking and without, to benefit from its many nutrients.


U.S. consumer confidence falls sharply in October
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. consumer confidence fell sharply in October as consumers turned gloomier in their outlook for the future, according to a private sector report released on Tuesday.


Contrite White House Spurns Health Laws Critics
While the secretary of health and human services apologized profusely for the troubled rollout of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama traveled to Massachusetts to offer a forceful defense of the law.


Snedeker's big battle
Brandt Snedeker explains his rare health issue ahead of his FedEx Cup title defense.


Syria meets deadline to destroy chemical weapons equipment
Oct. 31 - The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons says Syria has destroyed all of its declared equipment for producing chemical weapons. Sarah Irwin reports.


Theater Review | New Jersey A Review of The White Snake, Adapted From a Chinese Fable
A serpent transforms herself into a maiden and falls in love with a poor but upright man. Trouble follows.


Is Pinterest worth $3.8B?
Social media site Pinterest just received another $225 million in funding. The offering, led by Fidelity Investments, puts the company's valuation at a staggering $3.8 billion.


TABLE-Foreign brokers set to buy Japanese stocks
TOKYO, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Following are orders for Japanese stocks placed through six foreign securities houses before the start of trade on Friday. Japanese Stocks BUY 15.7 million shares SELL 12.9...


Libya's footballers in the firing line
Shootings, attempted assassinations and intimidation - welcome to Libyan football in 2013.


Google launches 'KitKat' software, sweetens features on range of phones
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Google Inc on Thursday unveiled the newest version of its Android smartphone software, aiming to allow more smartphone users access to its evolving menu of online services such as driving directions voice-activated search.


DSP Group sees weaker Q4 after Q3 profit beats estimates
JERUSALEM, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Multimedia chip maker DSP Group forecast weaker fourth-quarter earnings as it topped third-quarter estimates despite slowing demand for cordless telephones.


International Real Estate House Hunting in ... Portugal
The market in resort areas like Cascais has significantly improved over the last six months, partly because legislation and tax-saving incentives known as the golden visa are attracting wealthy foreigners.


In Transit Blog A Dubai Hotel With Villas Over the Water
Anantara Hotels has opened a resort in Dubai that has overwater villas and a spa that includes a Thai massage suite.


Pee-powered cell phone points to 'smart toilet' technology
Aug. 13 - Does the call of nature hold the answer to a new form of renewable energy? Scientists in the UK are confident that it does. With backing from both the British government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the researchers have developed a method for charging mobile phones with human urine. Matthew Stock reports.


TV Talk Midseason Renewals
The Times reporters Bill Carter and Brian Stelter discuss this weeks TV cancellations and renewals.


Baylor Climbs to No. 5 in AP College Football Poll
Baylor climbed to No. 5 in The Associated Press college football poll, the best ranking for the Bears in 60 years.


U.S. pending home sales fall by most in more than three years in September
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Contracts to purchase previously owned U.S. homes fell by the most in more than three years in September, a sign that a softer economy and a rise in mortgage rates are hurting...


Rare Roman eagle found underneath London
Becky Anderson looks at what is believed to be a rare Roman eagle statue that has been buried in London for centuries.


Dark Matter Experiment Has Detected Nothing, Researchers Say Proudly
Physicists based in a former mine in South Dakota said Wednesday that they had not found the particles thought to make up a quarter of the cosmos, but they took hope from how clearly they did not see anything.


Your Money Adviser New Guidelines Aim to Help Financial Caregivers
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has published a series of guides called Managing Someone Elses Money.


NSA denies Google, Yahoo hack
The National Security Agency's director flatly denies reports the agency secretly broke into links connecting Google and Yahoo data centers.


Breakingviews Danske's new broom begins deep clean
Oct. 31 - The Danish banks capital, leadership and even advertising have been questioned of late. A new CEO is correct to focus on more cost cuts and throttling back in Ireland, says Breakingviews.


The business of social brains
Neuroscientist Matthew Lieberman explains that we can make ourselves happier and more productive by building on our social intuition as new research reveals that our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental than our need for food or shelter.


Not your average steering wheel
Explore our interactive of one of F1's most important and complicated pieces if kit.


Raikkonen no-show fuels speculation
ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Kimi Raikkonen's strained relationship with his Lotus Formula One team was back in the spotlight on Thursday after the Finn failed to turn up for media interviews at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.


Roma win sets Italian record
Roma became the first team in Serie A history to win its opening 10 games of the season after a 1-0 victory over bottom feeder Chievo, a result that also restored the Giallorossi's five-point advantage at the top of the table over Juventus and Napoli.


Graphene is creeping into your home
Just under ten years ago, the Dutch-British physicist Andre Geim stumbled across a substance that would revolutionize the way we understand matter and win him and his colleague Kostya Novoselow the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics. It was graphene -- a one atom thin substance. The Professor of Physics at Manchester University talks to CNN about discovering the first ever 2-dimensional material.


Octonauts Series Adds Federal Partner in Ocean Awareness
An office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will collaborate with Octonauts, an animated preschool show about undersea adventuring.


Youre the Boss Blog Another Delay for Small-Business Health Exchanges? Depends on Whom You Ask.
The administration says SHOP will be fully functional by the end of November but that small businesses have other options in the meantime.


Torres Scores Late to Give Chelsea Win Over City
Chelsea seized on a defensive blunder in the 90th minute to beat Manchester City, 2-1, in the Premier League.


Vettel wraps up F1 title
Sebastian Vettel clinches a record equaling fourth successive world title Sunday with another superbly judged drive to win the Indian Grand Prix.


This Land A World Away, the Seventh Game; Close at Hand, Condemned Nazis
For two American chaplains at Nuremberg prison in Germany, the climactic end of the initial phase of postwar judgment coincided with Game 7 of the 1946 World Series.


Scores of Migrants From Niger Found Dead in Sahara
The 87 men, women and children were apparently stranded after a desperate search for water as they tried to make their way across the border to Algeria.


Russia Denies Reports It Spied on Group of 20 Officials
It rejected an Italian newspapers report that Russian spy agencies distributed special USB thumb drives to eavesdrop on participants at last months meeting in St. Petersburg.


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