- Serena Williams won in straight sets over Carolyn Wozniacki to claim her third straight US Open in Flushing Meadows this weekend, her sixth total US Open title and 18th grand slam win.
- A meteorite appears to have struck near the Nicaraguan capital of Managua Sunday, leaving a nearly 40-foot crater close to the city's international airport.
- With ten days before Scotland's vote on independence from the UK, a poll finds for the first time that the campaign to split the country off has the lead.
- Appliance maker Electrolux has agreed to buy GE's appliance division for $3.3 billion, putting it on par with rival Whirlpool and giving both companies about a 40% North American market share each.
- "Project Liberty", the first US commercial plant to turn corn waste into fuel, has just opened its doors in corn-rich Iowa, where it will process up to 750 tons of corn waste a day into ethanol.
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