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The NYT
- Special Report: French Open: A Puzzler in Paris: French Open or Roland Garros? May 23, 2013
  French speakers call the tournament Roland Garros. Native English speakers, despite repeated attempts to convert them, still overwhelmingly favor French Open. […]
- Special Report: French Open: A Puzzler in Paris: French Open or Roland Garros? May 23, 2013
  French speakers call the tournament Roland Garros. Native English speakers, despite repeated attempts to convert them, still overwhelmingly favor French Open. […]
- DealBook: Britain Fines JPMorgan’s Wealth Unit May 23, 2013
  British regulators fined JPMorgan Chase $4.7 million on Thursday for failings in its wealth management division. […]
- British Security Chiefs Meet After Killing May 23, 2013
  Prime Minister David Cameron called a session of cabinet ministers and security officials after an attack in south London that raised new fears of terrorism. […]
- China and Japan Show Signs of Economic Stress May 23, 2013
  A stock retreat spread around the world, with European markets down around 2 percent and Wall Street futures indicating a 1 percent drop at the opening. […]
- Special Report: French Open: A Stunning Upset That Changed 2 Players' Lives May 23, 2013
  Serena Williams was so dispirited by her loss to a wild card in the first round of the French Open last year that she ripped up her career-long playbook and joined forces with a coach outside her family. […]
- Malaysian Opposition Figures Are Detained May 23, 2013
  The arrests came two and a half weeks after elections that showed the governing party losing support with broad portions of the multicultural electorate. […]
- Pakistan Blast Kills 13 Officers in Restive Area May 23, 2013
  The province where the attacks took place, Baluchistan, has been the site of a separatist insurgency and violence by other militants. […]
- Survey Shows China Manufacturing Contracting May 23, 2013
  A survey shows China's manufacturing contracted this month, adding to signs a fragile recovery in the world's No. 2 economy is slowing. […]
- Well: What’s in Your Green Tea? May 23, 2013
  A new report from ConsumerLab.com shows that some bottled varieties of green tea appear to be little more than sugar water, while some green tea leaves are contaminated with lead […]
The Guardian
- European stock markets post heavy losses after Nikkei plunges 7% - live May 23, 2013
  FTSE 100 finishes 2.1% down after Japan's Nikkei suffers its biggest daily fall in over two years, but Japanese ministers say they aren't panickingGraeme Wearden […]
- Father of Muhammad al-Dura rebukes Israeli report on son's death May 23, 2013
  Report re-ignites war of words over death of 12-year-old al-Dura in Gaza in 2000 by claiming the incident was stagedIn a scrubby cemetery in central Gaza, where crumbling tombstones nestle in the sand amid wind-blown rubbish, Jamal al-Dura crouched at the grave of his son Muhammad to recite the Muslim prayer for the dead. With the youngest of his 11 children […]
- Obama to bring US drone programme out from 'legal shadows' of the CIA May 23, 2013
  President expected to move drone policy to Pentagon in major counter-terrorism speech outlining new legal guidelinesThe White House was due to announce a series of measures aimed at moving the controversial US drone killings programme out of the "legal shadows" on Thursday.In a major counter-terrorism speech billed as marking the end of an unfetter […]
- Second jewellery theft hits French Riviera during Cannes film festival May 23, 2013
  Necklace of 'high value' is taken from resort of Cap d'Antibes near CannesPolice say an expensive necklace was stolen overnight in the luxurious resort town of Cap d'Antibes, the second jewellery theft on the French Riviera during the Cannes film festival.A police official said on Thursday that the necklace was of "high value" b […]
- McDonald's joins forces with 136-year-old pasta firm in Italy May 23, 2013
  Fast-food chain will sell pasta salad from Friday in attempt to Italianise menu after deal with Parma-based BarillaOne is a famous Italian food brand that has been in the same family for four generations. The other is one of the biggest burger chains in the world. They may, as one Italian newspaper remarked on Thursday, be seen by purists as "the devil […]