Reports say more than 1, 300 passengers were aboard the train when it derailed shortly after midnight.

BBC: Cairo train derailment leaves 19 dead

There's nothing like when they announce you and they say, the No. 1 player in the world.

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Parts of a noncompete agreement he negotiated when he left Equity International will expire Sept. 1, say people familiar with the matter.

WSJ: Life After Zell

Russian authorities say more than 1, 500 people were hurt, mostly by flying glass, when the Chelyabinsk meteor exploded in spectacular fashion.

CNN: Planet of sound: Meteor blast resonated around Earth

It would be an understatement to say there's been a long build-up to the moment when Voyager 1 ventures into interstellar space: scientists thought the probe was on the edge back in 2010, and we've been waiting for the official milestone ever since.

ENGADGET: AGU study says Voyager 1 has reached interstellar space, but NASA remains skeptical

Stockmarkets obey a type of power law when the number of daily price-swings of 1% is, say, eight times the number of days seeing a 2% move, which is in turn eight times the number of 4% days.

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But, this month, when January sales were upwardly revised to 1.8% growth, they had little to say except that maybe February could have been stronger.

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Yet when growth is close to flat, the difference between, say, estimated growth of 0.1% (no recession on the popular convention) and -0.1% (one quarter contributing to a recession on the same convention) is actually within the known statistical margin of error.

BBC: UK economy: GDP figures explained by ONS