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Friday, August 24, 2012

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

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08/24/2012
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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..
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