Morning Digest: Armstrong ends fight against doping charges, to lose titles

	Click to View in Browser 08/24/2012 Armstrong ends fight against doping charges, to lose titles LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong said he would no longer fight doping charges by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which quickly said it would strip him of his titles and ban him from competitive cycling.. Norway jails "sane" Breivik for maximum term OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was jailed for a maximum term on Friday when judges declared him sane enough to answer for the murder of 77 people last year, drawing a smirk of triumph from the self-styled warrior against Islam.. Stock index futures signal slight gains PARIS (Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a slightly higher open on Wall Street on Friday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.03 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.09 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.04 percent at 0900 GMT.. Naked Prince Harry photos published by UK's Sun newspaper LONDON (Reuters) - The Sun tabloid on Friday published photographs of Prince Harry naked in Las Vegas, becoming the first British publication to defy a request from the royal family's lawyers.. Hall of Fame running back Van Buren dead at 91 (Reuters) - Hall of Fame running back Steve Van Buren, who won two National Football League (NFL) titles in an eight-year career with the Philadelphia Eagles, has died of pneumonia, the team said on Thursday. He was 91.. India faces Twitter backlash over Internet clampdown NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Indian government faced an angry backlash from Twitter users on Thursday after ordering Internet service providers to block about 20 accounts that officials said had spread scare-mongering material that threatened national security.. Mars rover Curiosity aces first test drive CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took a 16-minute drive on Wednesday, its first since reaching the Red Planet to search for habitats that could have supported microbial life.. Gibbons on helium sing like opera stars LONDON (Reuters) - Gibbons are jungle divas. The small apes use the same technique to project their songs through the forests of southeast Asia as top sopranos singing at the New York Metropolitan Opera or La Scala in Milan.. Related Video Art restorer ruins fresco while trying to fix it Stocks fall as Fed trigger dims Great Debate A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today   The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today   » MORE NEWSLETTERS - 3 Times Square New York, NY 10036 USA © Copyright 2010 Thomson Reuters Ensure delivery of Reuters Newsmails, add mail@nl.reuters.com to your address book. Details Subscribe to other Reuters newsletters. Unsubscribe from this newsletter. Follow us on Twitter Friend us on Facebook Forward to a friend