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By By RICHARD SANDOMIR, on May 17th, 2013 The latest assault on the fraying broadcast sports model came Thursday when ESPN announced it would pay $825 million over 11 years for complete control of the tennis tournament.
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By Tom Sykes, on May 12th, 2013 Sunday 13:15 MT: Welcome to our coverage of day four of Harry’s tour to the US. Harry has kicked off proceedings at day two of the Warrior Games in Colorado
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By By FLOYD NORRIS, on May 6th, 2013 Bank of America has reached a deal with MBIA over disputes stemming from insurance coverage of mortgage-backed securities.
Continue reading DealBook: Bank of America and MBIA Agree to $1.7 Billion Settlement
By , on May 5th, 2013 
Malaysians go to the polls in what is widely seen as the most closely contested general election in their country’s history.
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By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Founded in 1999, the website enables restaurant-goers to find, rate and leave comments about the city’s 21,000 food outlets. It is now ready to upgrade its services and expand coverage to Taiwan, taking the total number of restaurants covered by the guide to 500,000. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Extra help on the way from OpenRice in exploring city’s 21,000 eateries
By , on May 2nd, 2013 
Voters across England, and in Anglesey, are going to the polls to decide the outcome of council elections and a by-election in the Westminster seat of South Shields.
Continue reading Polls open in England and Anglesey
By By ANNIE LOWREY, on May 1st, 2013 New results from an Oregon study found that Medicaid coverage reduced the rate of depression and made low-income adults more financially secure, if not healthier.
Continue reading Study Finds Health Care Use Rises With Expanded Medicaid
By David Frum, on May 1st, 2013 Columbia Journalism Review details the shameful story of how the false fetish of press neutrality enabled cranks and charlatans to promote the hoax that vaccines cause autism in children. Among the guilty: CJR itself. Kudos to them for the self-criticism.
Continue reading How ‘Balanced’ Press Coverage Enabled Vaccine Trutherism
By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Pentagon’s decision to use a commercial satellite operated by a Hong Kong-based and listed company was questioned by a US lawmaker who said the use of China’s Apstar-7 satellite “exposes our military to the risk that China may seek to turn off our eyes and ears”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Whitney Foard Small loved China and her job as a regional director of communications for a top automaker. But after air pollution led to several stays in hospital and finally a written warning from her doctor telling her she needed to leave, Small packed up and left for Thailand. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading China career boost can come with health risks
By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> When 21-year-old Zhu Ling, a talented and versatile senior at China’s prestigious Tsinghua University, suffered from what later turned out to be poisoning by thallium in 1995, the case won her and her family national media attention and sympathy. It’s been almost 19 years since Beijing Police closed the case without arresting any suspect, citing inadequate evidence. But now an online campaign is under way to force police to reopen the cold case and bring the culprit, or culprits, to justice. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading More questions than answers for poison victim Zhu Ling 18 years after case closed
By , on April 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two men in their early twenties lie face down in the snow with their hands tied behind their backs and heads doused with dark red paint. A dozen young men, some wearing surgical masks, smash a car with hammers and axes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Russian vigilantes post online videos of ‘spice’ busts
By , on April 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Fatigued by years of austerity and swayed by promises of debt relief, this windswept north Atlantic island of glaciers, geysers and volcanoes is returning to a centre-right government that ruled over its stunning financial collapse just five years ago. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Icelanders oust Social Democrats over austerity programmes
By , on April 27th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s southwestern Sichuan province stopped on Saturday to mourn the victims of a deadly earthquake that struck exactly a week ago, state media reported. The public mourning began with the sound of sirens at 8.02am, the moment the tremor struck, followed by three minutes of silent remembrance, the official Xinhua news agency reported. CCTV state television showed footage of mourners bowing in remembrance at one ceremony held in front of a black and white banner printed with words of condolence. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Sichuan mourns over 190 quake dead one week later
By , on April 26th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The renowned liberal Mao Yushi has for many years been a hate figure for Chinese leftists for his vocal criticism of Mao Zedong’s legacy. Outrage ensued when a leftist scholar was taken away by police on Thursday after interrupting a speech by the octogenerian economist in Shenyang. That outrage was, however, cut down by censors, when they deleted some of the more strongly worded posts on micro-blogs.Both the arrest and the censors’s deletions have left prominent leftists dumbfounded as they themselves had previously supported the government’s suppression of dissent. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Chinese leftists dumbfounded by lack of official support after Mao Yushi speech
By By JONATHAN BALES, on April 26th, 2013 Follow live updates during the first round of the N.F.L. draft on Thursday night. As expected, the Chiefs take Eric Fisher with the No. 1 overall selection.
Continue reading The Fifth Down: Live Coverage of the N.F.L. Draft
By , on April 25th, 2013 
One million schoolchildren in England are to be targeted by a measles vaccination plan aimed at curbing the growing threat of outbreaks.
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thousands of homes were destroyed and at least 47 people were injured after two earthquakes, at 4.8 and 4.2 magnitude, jolted Sichuan’s Yibin city on Thursday morning, said a government website. Yibin is about 300 kilometres from Yaan, where a 7-magnitude temblor on Saturday killed more than 190 people. The city has about 4.4 million residents, according to a 2010 census. Thursday’s twin quakes ocurred around 6am, according to a Sichuan government website. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading New quakes hit Sichuan’s Yibin city
By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Rubber Duck knows no frontiers, it doesn’t discriminate people and doesn’t have a political connotation. The friendly, floating Rubber Duck has healing properties: it can relieve mondial tensions as well as define them. -Florentijn Hofman The Dutch conceptual artist’s inflatable installation has made it to Hong Kong’s waters after waddling around the world, in Sydney, Auckland, Osaka, Sao Paulo, Hasselt and other places. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading ‘Friendly’ Rubber Duck makes a splash in Hong Kong
By , on April 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The European Union is an exclusive club many countries are vying to join. But Iceland, as it goes to the polls, is having severe second thoughts. The bid by the North Atlantic island nation to join the EU, launched in 2009, could be abandoned after Saturday’s general election if parties opposed to membership win, as opinion surveys suggest they will. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Malaysia in closely contested vote
Malaysians go to the polls in what is widely seen as the most closely contested general election in their country’s history.
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