The Saudi Health Ministry said Sunday the 51-year-old man who died in Riyadh was also suffering from cancer and other chronic diseases, while tests of two new suspected cases involving two Saudi men in the southwestern province of Asir proved positive.

The new virus is related to SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, which killed some 800 people in a global outbreak in 2003. It belongs to a family of viruses that most often causes the common cold.

"Gary hit and was really impressive," Kuchar said. "I didn't hit and didn't show anything differently, but Gary was impressive swinging a baseball bat."

Woodland isn't too bad with a golf club in his hands, either.

Playing with Kuchar in the final group, Woodland ran off four straight birdies Saturday afternoon with another powerful display of his athleticism and shot a 3-under 68, giving him a share of the lead with Kuchar going into the final round at Liberty National.

"Man, that guy can play some golf," Kuchar said, knowing that Woodland was within earshot.

Kuchar, who played bogey-free on the back nine in blustery conditions for a 70, remains more polished. He already has two wins this year, at the Match Play Championship and Memorial, and he is a past champion at The Barclays.

For much of the day they were trading birdies along with a few bad breaks and wound up tied at 12-under 201.

Kuchar's from off the green on the reachable par-4 16th was stopped by a sprinkler, while Woodland putted his to close range for birdie. Woodland gave back the stroke on the next hole with a drive that plugged into the far end of the bunker, forcing him to blast it out sideways and costing him a bogey.

They are close friends and former World Cup partners.

But the final round at Liberty National doesn't belong to only them. Kevin Chappell broke the tournament course record with a 62 10 shots better than the average score on Saturday and was one shot behind.

"In the wind, if you would have told me someone was going to shoot 62 today, I would probably have laughed at you," Chappell said.

And very much in the mix was Tiger Woods, bad back and all. Woods was just hanging around for so much of the day, gingerly bending over to put his ball on a tee and retrieve it out of the cup. His fortunes turned with two strong shots on the par-5 13th led to birdie, he drove the 16th green for another birdie and finished with a 10-foot birdie putt and a 69. Woods was four shots behind, along with David Lynn, who also had a 69.

"It starts off great every day, and then it progressively deteriorates as the day goes on," Woods said of his lower back, which he hurt from what he said was a soft bed in his hotel room. "Hopefully, tomorrow it will be one of those days again. Fight through it and see if I can win a tournament."

The large group at 7-under 206 included 20-year-old Jordan Spieth, Bubba Watson, Jim Furyk, Justin Rose and Rickie Fowler.

Chappell's round was evidence that even in windy conditions, low scores are available. For the former UCLA Bruin, it was really was simple as making putts, most of them in that 10-foot to 15-foot range. There were a few par saves on the back nine, and six birdies on the front.

"I just really holed all the putts that you kind of expect to hold but you don't always hole," he said.

Kuchar and Woodland will be in the final group for the second straight day, and they certainly aren't strangers.

Kuchar represented the Americans in the World Cup two years ago in China. After scouting the Mission Hills course and seeing it was long, he picked Woodland as his partner. The Americans wound up winning their first World Cup title in over a decade.

Woodland is regarded as one of the best athletes on tour a promising baseball player in high school who first went to a Division II school to play basketball and then transferred to Kansas to play golf.

But he has disappeared since winning at Innisbrook two years ago, mainly from injuries to both wrists. He began working with Claude Harmon III in the spring, and he hired mental coach Julie Elion right before his season turned around by winning the Reno-Tahoe Open earlier this month.

"I've really let my game take over," Woodland said.

He surged into the lead during a four-hole stretch to close out the back nine a 5-iron into the par-5 sixth, a sand wedge to 10 feet for birdie on No. 7, a 4-wood for his second shot on the par-5 eighth for birdie, and a 6-iron for a fourth straight birdie on the ninth. Even on the 16th hole, which played 289 yards, Woodland has so much power than he went with a 2-iron and came up just short.

Kuchar caught up by playing bogey-free on the back nine with three birdies, starting with a superb shot on the 10th to 3 feet.

DIVOTS: Rory McIlroy had an even-par 71 and was six shots out of the lead. ... Aaron Baddeley shot 66, and at No. 119 in the FedEx Cup standings, stands a good chance of being among the top 100 players to advance to the second playoff event next week outside Boston. ...Greg Chalmers made a hole-in-one on the 135-yard 14th, with the Statue of Liberty in view to the right. In the next group, K.J. Choi almost made an ace. ... Lynn was squatting to read the line of his putt on the 10th green when he toppled backward and landed on his seat. Looking over, he made a motion that he had been drinking, and the gallery ate it up. ... Chappell has gone 25 consecutive holes without a bogey.

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In November, the new home consoles from Sony and Microsoft are going to vie seriously for consumer Christmas spending. The portable console market is facing a squeeze between the lavish marketing spending for impressive new tabletop consoles and the continuing growth ofgame app sales on smartphones and tablets.

The portable console game market is stuck on permanent nostalgia the current big hits like Animal Crossing and Luigis Mansion are retreads of hits that debuted years ago. In contrast, the mobile game app market is evolving vibrantly; new genres and sub-genres keep popping up as consumer tastes change and the overall demand slowly shifts from casual to mid-core games. This shift presents a major challenge for portable console gaming, as new tablet hits like Clash of Clans and Candy Crush Saga are starting to approach the complexity of Nintendos portable hits.

It is increasingly clear that the portable consoles are a sunset industry. Both Nintendo and Sony are basically making a final stand, trying toslow down declines ofproduct lines that have already peaked. The best talent in the gaming industry has already migrated to the app industry, where a major game can generate $50-100 million a month for a year or two.

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In a security message dated Tuesday, the U.S. Interests Section in Havana recommended visitors and U.S. citizens living on the island avoid untreated water, street food and under- or uncooked dishes such as ceviche.

"We urge you to follow public health recommendations and guidelines, such as safe food and water precautions and frequent hand washing to help prevent cholera infection," the diplomatic mission said in a statement published online.

The 51-year-old embargo against Cuba bars most American tourism to the island, but hundreds of thousands of Cuban-Americans make legal family visits each year and increasing numbers of U.S. citizens are visiting through licensed cultural exchanges.

According to the Pan American Health Organization there have been five confirmed cholera cases "associated with a history of travel to Cuba" in July and August: an Italian, two Venezuelans and two Chileans. At least three of them visited Havana.

Authorities last summer acknowledged a rare cholera outbreak originating in eastern Cuba after many years when it was unheard of on the island. They said at the time that the disease had run its course after afflicting 417 people and killing three.

In January the government announced 51 more nonfatal cases in the capital, but there has been no official word of new cases since then. Authorities did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.

In Havana, resident Carlos Rodriguez was not concerned.

"If there were to be cholera, the Health Ministry has an action plan with a super-strict system of isolating (infected) people," Rodriguez said. "So far I haven't had any news about there being cholera."

In the past, diplomats on the island have expressed dismay at what they called Cuba's lack of transparency on cholera statistics.

Tourism is a vital part of Cuba's wobbly economy, bringing in more than $2.5 billion in 2011 according to the most recent statistics available.

Cholera is a waterborne disease can kill its victims quickly through severe dehydration, but it is treatable if detected in time.

Cuba has a well-organized civil defense system and scrambled to fight last year's outbreak, with workers handing out chlorine and water purification drops and quarantining hospital patients with diarrhea. The government also mounted a campaign to raise awareness about good hygiene.

Meanwhile many Cuban doctors and nurses have experience diagnosing and treating cholera from aid missions in Haiti, where the disease has killed thousands in recent years.

"In Cuba, authorities maintain active and strict clinical-epidemiological surveillance of acute diarrheal diseases, studying every suspected case," the Pan American Health Organization said in its report.

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Associated Press journalist Milexsy Duran in Havana contributed to this report.

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Since winning a narrow minority government in the September 2012 provincial election, the PQ has stumbled several times and is now under pressure over media reports it plans to ban religious symbols and headgear in public life.

The CROP survey for La Presse newspaper put support for the PQ at 29 percent, up four points from a survey done by the same firm in June. The opposition Liberals rose two points to 40 percent, near the level needed to win a majority of seats in the province's legislature, the National Assembly.

The right-leaning Coalition Avenir Quebec was at 20 percent, down two points from June.

The PQ only holds 54 of the 125 seats in the National Assembly and must rely on opposition support to push through legislation.

The fragility of its hold on power could prevent it pushing through a proposal that reports say would seek to bar government workers from wearing religious items such as crucifixes, hijabs, niqabs, burquas, turbans and the Jewish kippa headgear.

The government - keen to carve out a distinct and secular Quebec identity that cuts back on public displays of faith - had promised before the 2012 election that it would introduce a so-called charter of Quebec values.

The government has not commented on a report on the religious-symbols proposal in the Journal de Montreal newspaper on Tuesday, which laid out what the newspaper said were leaked details of the plan.

The Liberals expressed doubts about the measures and said that even if they were approved by the National Assembly, they would most likely be challenged in court.

The Globe and Mail newspaper on Wednesday described the proposals as "absurd, hurtful and bullying" and said they smacked of something that hard-line Russian President Vladimir Putin would do.

Earlier this year the PQ backed a decision by the Quebec soccer federation to ban players from wearing turbans. The federation changed its mind after intense pressure, both from inside Canada and abroad.

The CROP poll also said 40 percent of Quebecers backed the idea of breaking away from Canada, while 60 percent were against. Previous PQ governments held referendums in 1980 and 1995 on whether to break away from Canada. Both failed.

The CROP Internet poll surveyed 1,000 adults.

(Reporting by David Ljunggren; Editing by Jeffrey Hodgson; and Peter Galloway)

Electricity storms already sparked dozens of wildfires across the West in recent days, sending fire crews scrambling, threatening communities and impairing air quality in some areas.

Near the central Idaho community of Pine, the lightning-sparked Elk Complex Fire had burned 141 square miles of sage brush, grass and pine trees in rugged, mountainous terrain by Monday.

A few miles to the south, another big fire, the Pony Complex, had burned nearly 225 square miles of ground amid escalating winds and temperatures. Though it's now about a third contained, downed power lines complicated efforts by firefighters to corral the flames.

Pine and neighboring Featherville were under mandatory evacuation orders Monday, a day after Elmore County sheriff's deputies went from house to house, knocking on doors to alert residents to clear out of the area.

But some people, including Pine resident Butch Glinesky, opted to stay and watch over their property in this rustic vacation area some 50 miles east of Boise.

"As much as they say we need to be out, I think we can always offer something," Glinesky said, watching as a crew from Colorado set up structure protection in his yard. "It's just, you know the area."

Residents' insistence on staying wasn't generally welcomed by federal officials, who expressed concerns about added traffic on the roads.

"People have a false sense of security," Boise National Forest District Ranger Stephaney Church told The Associated Press. "We can't do our job when they refuse to leave and we're diverting resources" to get them out of their houses.

Last year, the Trinity Ridge Fire burned several miles away, blackening nearly 228 miles and forcing hundreds to temporarily evacuate Featherville.

This year, fire officials say the Elk Complex has moved much faster, dipping in and out of ravines and torching ponderosa pine trees on ridge tops visible as bright orange smudges through the smoke cloaking the valley floor.

"Everything is behaving like it has no moisture at all," Church said.

The fire has destroyed several homes, fire officials said, though exactly how many had not yet been determined Monday.

Jeff Day, a game warden with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, said he toured a small settlement on the north side of a reservoir popular among boaters and anglers, called Fall Creek. There, he said, he'd seen several cabins burned to the ground, though the Fall Creek Resort was still intact.

Day said he believed all the people from Fall Creek had left by the time the flames arrived.

National Interagency Fire Center spokeswoman Madonna Lengerich said the road below the charred hillside was too dangerous to allow reporters; an assessment team was in the area, counting lost buildings, she said.

In north-central Washington state, a lightning-sparked wildfire grew to more than 9 square miles of dry grass and shrubs. Fire managers said the Milepost 10 Fire was 70 percent contained, and evacuated residents of 78 homes were allowed to return home late Monday. The fire was burning about eight miles south of Wenatchee, overlooking the Columbia River.

Meanwhile, mudslides were posing problems just south of the fire, where thunderstorms have dropped heavy rain at the site of another recent blaze. Three homes may have been pushed off their foundations, Chelan County, Wash. emergency officials said.

Mudslides also closed Highway 20 east of Rainy Pass on Washington's scenic North Cascades Highway.

In Utah, firefighters worked to contain several lightning-caused fires, including one near the Goshute Indian Reservation in Skull Valley that was threatening more than 20 structures and estimated at 10.5 square miles.

Most of Monday's fire growth was contained atop the Stansbury Mountains, away from homes, but crews feared overnight winds could push the blaze toward threatened properties, fire information officer Joanna Wilson said.

Idaho's fires, sparked by lightning last week, have led to the closure of more than 1,200 square miles of Boise National Forest land.

Firefighters helped residents near the community of Pine clear brush around their homes and filled large plastic "pumpkins," or pools, with thousands of gallons of water to spray from sprinklers to protect property.

Firefighters hope the Elk Complex Fire will be pushed by the wind toward the area charred by the Trinity Ridge Fire that moved so close to town a year ago; if that happens, there will be less dry fuel, given so much already burned a year ago.

For some residents, the fire activity this season seems more imposing than the flames of the Trinity Ridge Fire.

"It burned differently," said Kylie Rivera, who works in the kitchen at the Pine Resort and was taking pictures of a helicopter ferrying water between the reservoir and the flames.

"Last year, there were clouds, the fire didn't move so quickly," Rivera added. "This year, it's so clear and hot, they say the fire is creating its own weather. It's hard to control."

Along with Rivera, other employees who had opted to stay had their vehicles parked nearby, just in case they needed to make a break quickly, said Pine Resort owner Allen Kiester.

"All the help's got their trucks ready," Kiester said. "Their precious things are in their vehicles."

Out front, two fire engines stood ready to help if needed.

Kiester pointed to the tin roof of the resort, noting it won't burn, but conceded that having a wildfire in the neighborhood for the second straight year is bothersome.

"We don't need no more of this," Kiester said.

Manuel, who won his 1,000th career game as a big league manager in Atlanta on Monday in what has proved to be a dismal season for the Phillies since the All-Star break, will be replaced on an interim basis by third-base coach Ryne Sandberg.

"I did not resign and I did not quit," Manuel, 69, told a news conference at Citizens Bank Park. "I think it was an agreement.

"I think sometimes people forget how much I love to win. I think that goes unnoticed. I think sometimes I don't talk about it because I push it to my team and how important it is. Every day, I say our No. 1 priority is to win the game.

"When we get away from that, we get into trouble. I love everything about managing ... the last couple years to fall back, I get upset very much so. I want us to stay where we were at, I want to compete for a World Series every year."

Manuel was in the final year of his contract but his departure was hastened as the slumping Phillies lost 19 of their last 23 games, slipping to fourth place in the National League (NL) East, 20 1/2 games behind the pacesetting Atlanta Braves.

"It came down to a few things," said Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr., who became tearful after announcing Manuel's premature exit. "One, I wanted to make sure that if the decision was made Charlie would not be back, he should know.

"I didn't see any reason we should drag it out and let him sit for the next 40 games knowing he wouldn't be manager beyond this season. I didn't think that was fair to him.

"Additionally, it gives a chance to see what we have in Ryne Sandberg and how he can handle managing the Philadelphia Phillies."

The Phillies went 780-636 under Manuel, who won more games than any other manager for the franchise. The club won five consecutive NL East division titles from 2007-2011, two NL pennants and the 2008 World Series championship.

(Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes in Los Angeles; Editing by Ed Osmond)

Lenovo shares rose 2 percent to HK$7.71, outperforming the Hang Seng Index's0.3 percent gain.

Lenovo's April-June net profit was $174 million, beating a consensus estimate of $166.0 million.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have unraveled how a gene long associated with obesity makes people fat by triggering increased hunger, opening up potential new ways to fight a growing global health problem.

A common variation in the FTO gene affects one in six of the population, making them 70 percent more likely to become obese - but until now experts did not know why.

Using a series of tests, a British-led research team said they had found that people with the variation not only had higher levels of the "hunger hormone" ghrelin in their blood but also increased sensitivity to the chemical in their brains.

"It's a double hit," said Rachel Batterham from University College London, who led the study, which was published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation on Monday.

The discovery follows studies of blood samples from people after meals, combined with functional magnetic resonance imaging of volunteers' brains and cell-based studies looking at ghrelin production at a molecular level.

Batterham said the work provided new insights and possible new leads for treatment, since some experimental drugs are known to suppress ghrelin and could be particularly effective if targeted at patients with the obesity-risk variant of the gene.

Previous research has also shown that ghrelin can be reduced by eating a high-protein diet.

Steve Bloom of Imperial College London, who was not involved in the study, said the FTO gene only explained a small part of the obesity epidemic but the latest discovery was "an important step forward" in unraveling the various factors involved.

The prevalence of obesity is increasing worldwide at an alarming rate and both developed and developing countries are affected. Obesity is a major risk factor for diabetes, heart disease and certain cancers.

At least 2.8 million adults die each year as a result of being overweight or obese and more than 40 million children under the age of five were overweight in 2011, according to the World Health Organization.

Developing effective obesity drugs has been a challenge for drugmakers, although some new medicines are now coming through.

After a gap of more than a decade, two new obesity drugs - Vivus Inc's Qsymia and Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc's Belviq - were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last year.

Belviq's launch was delayed, however, pending a final classification on its risk of abuse and Qsymia's sales have been disappointing, triggering fierce criticism from Vivus's largest shareholder.

(Editing by Sophie Walker)