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July 19, 2015 SPORTS (MSM)

Golf-Life has new meaning for low-scoring Australian Leishman

By Tony Jimenez ST ANDREWS, Scotland, July 19 (Reuters) – Marc Leishman flirted with a record-equalling 63 at the British Open on Sunday and when the Australian just missed out he simply shrugged it off, perhaps because he has had more serious worries recently. Leishman thought he might lose his wife Audrey earlier this year when she developed myopathy, a disease where the muscles cease to function. “I feel like

July 19, 2015 TECH (MSM)

Buyers guide: The best VR headsets 2015

Intro 2015 is the year of Virtual Reality. Mobile-compatible headsets such as Samsung’s Galaxy Gear VR, Archos VR Glasses and Google Cardboard are available right now, while dedicated headsets such as HTC’s Vive and, hopefully, Oculus Rift are set to appear before the end of the year. These are all the virtual reality headsets that you need to know about, in order of excellence, as selected by our resident expert

July 19, 2015 TECH (MSM)

Updated: This obscure Dreamcast game revival is the biggest gaming Kickstarter ever

Update: The Shenmue 3 Kickstarter raised a whopping $6,333,295 (about £4,059,025, AU$8,587,639) – to be exact – nearly another million in its final hours just before the weekend. The extra push helped solidify the PS4- and PC-bound revival of the Dreamcast cult-classic adventure game. Across digital and physical for both PS4 and PC (and it’s several special editions), 66,282 copes of the game were paid for through the Kickstarter campaign

July 19, 2015 TECH (MSM)

Email spam levels drop below 50 percent for the first time in 12 years

49.7 percent of anything may sound like a lot, but it’s a historical low for spam email levels – it’s the lowest share recorded by Symantec since September 2003, so progress is being made. Back then, Tony Blair was the UK PM and Apple was about to release Mac OS X Panther. The world was still waiting for the final Matrix film and bopping along to the Black Eyed Peas’

July 19, 2015 SPORTS (MSM)

Golf-Latest British Open leaderboard

July 19 (Infostrada Sports) – Latest leaderboard in the third round from the British Open at the par-72 course on Sunday in St Andrews holesplayed rounds -10 Charl Schwartzel (South Africa) 12 67 72 Jordan Spieth (U.S.) 13 67 72 Dustin Johnson (U.S.) 4 65 69 Danny Willett (Britain) 5 66 69 -9 Steven Bowditch (Australia) 11 70 69 Anirban Lahiri (India) 11 69 70 Padraig Harrington (Ireland) 15 72

July 19, 2015 SPORTS (MSM)

Spieth into joint lead at Open

Jordan Spieth on Sunday brought closer to reality an historic third straight major title as he moved into the joint lead on ten under at the Open Championship with overnight leader Dustin Johnson and South African Charl Schwartzel. Johnson had been clinging to his one shot lead on ten under during the third round of the tournament before Spieth reeled off six birdies in 12 holes to move level and

July 19, 2015 SPORTS (MSM)

Spieth birdie blitz gives him joint lead at Open

By Martyn Herman ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) – Jordan Spieth roared up the British Open leaderboard in ominous fashion with a burst of birdies helping the American catch leader Dustin Johnson on Sunday. Apart from a bogey five at the ninth, Spieth was unstoppable while Johnson opened with four consecutive pars. Spieth responded to that setback with three consecutive birdies at the 10th, 11th and 12th to move into a

July 19, 2015 WORLD HEADLINES

Obama sends Iran deal to wary Congress, Israel urges rejection

By Gernot Heller and Doina Chiacu TEHRAN/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s administration sent a nuclear agreement with Tehran to Congress on Sunday and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged U.S. lawmakers to reject a deal he said would only feed an “Iranian terror machine”. In a first concrete sign of European determination to quickly rebuild economic and political ties with Iran after a 12-year standoff, German Economy Minister Sigmar