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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Morning Digest: Romney stumbles on world stage but will it hit him at home?

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08/1/2012
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Romney stumbles on world stage but will it hit him at home?
WARSAW (Reuters) - Mitt Romney upset Londoners, Palestinians and U.S. journalists on his ill-fated tour abroad, but with voters focused on the economy at home it is unclear whether the Republican presidential challenger's fumbles will have a lasting effect on the November 6 election..
Assad praises troops but his whereabouts are mystery
(Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad told his troops on Wednesday that their battle against rebels would determine Syria's fate but his written message gave no clues to his whereabouts two weeks after a bomb attack hit his inner circle..
Stock futures signal higher open
Stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Wednesday, with futures for the S&P 500, the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq 100 rising 0.3 to 0.5 percent..
Olivia Munn finds success in busy film, TV career
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After nearly a decade of slowly and steadily rising in Hollywood, Olivia Munn is finding success on big and small screens with the HBO television drama "The Newsroom" and director Steven Soderbergh's movie "Magic Mike.".
Badminton furor questions spirit of Games
LONDON (Reuters) - The Olympics were reeling on Wednesday from a scandal involving women badminton players who "threw" matches to manipulate the draw, prompting jeers from the crowd and angering fans for undermining the spirit of the Games..
Twitter reinstates British journalist after outcry
(Reuters) - Twitter Inc reinstated a British journalist's account on Tuesday and apologized after an outcry over his suspension for posting an NBC-Universal executive's email address on the service threatened to tarnish the company's reputation..
NASA rover closing in on Mars to hunt for life clues
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA's Mars rover was on its final approach to the red planet on Sunday, heading toward a mountain that may hold clues about whether life has ever existed on Mars, officials said..
German trainee fined 227,000 euros for illegal Facebook party
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German court has handed a 20-year-old apprentice a 227,000-euro ($280,000) bill to cover police costs after he organized an illegal party through the Facebook social network in the southern German town of Constance..
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