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View in Browser | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. Friday, July 17, 2015 Friday, July 17, 2015 nytnow.com » Enjoy this newsletter? The NYT Now app for iPhone is now completely free. It's the fastest way to catch up with the news throughout the day. Download now. A memorial in eastern Ukraine for the victims of Malaysia Airlines flight 17, which crashed a year ago today. Uriel Sinai for The New York Times Your Friday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN Good morning. Here's what you need to know: • Next step on Iran. President Obama meets today with Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, his first meeting with an Arab ally since the nuclear agreement on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia has expressed alarm over the deal, and a trove of documents has revealed its recent efforts to undermine Iran. • Tennessee shooting's aftermath. The F.B.I. is investigating the background of Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, a Kuwaiti-born American citizen who opened fire on Thursday at a military recruiting station and a second military site, killing four Marines and wounding a recruiter. Mr. Abdulazeez also died. The case is being handled as a terrorism investigation, though officials believe Mr. Abdulazeez acted alone. • A stormy session. The German Parliament is expected to vote today in support of further talks on a bailout plan for Greece that European leaders agreed on. But some conservative lawmakers don't want a third bailout. Several eurozone nations have to take up the agreement in their parliaments for final approval for negotiations to be granted. • Conviction for Colorado shooter. James Holmes faces a possible death sentence or life without parole in the punishment phase of his trial. The jury convicted him on Thursday of murder for his role in a 2012 mass shooting that left 12 dead and 70 wounded during a screening of a Batman film in Aurora, Colo. • A somber anniversary. Memorial services are held today in the Netherlands, Ukraine, and Australia for the nearly 300 victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down one year ago in a part of eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russian separatists. A Dutch inquiry into the 2014 downing is expected to be finished soon. • Much of the world has a holiday. About 1.5 billion Muslims are celebrating the first day of Eid al-Fitr, the three-day festival that comes at the end of Ramadan, the monthlong period of daytime fasting and of reflection. • Where the Democrats are. The full lineup of candidates for the Democratic nomination — Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, former Gov. Martin O'Malley of Maryland, former Senator Jim Webb of Virginia, and former Gov. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island — will speak today at the Iowa Democratic Party Hall of Fame dinner. MARKETS • Shareholders of a subsidiary of Samsung Group voted today in favor of a merger with another Samsung company, removing a major hurdle for a father-to-son transfer of power in the family that controls the conglomerate. • Google's revenue and profit both rose in the second quarter, outpacing Wall Street's expectations. • Two indicators of the U.S. economy's health are released this morning. The Labor Department reports the latest data on prices for consumers in June, while the Commerce Department releases data on housing starts. • Wall Street stock futures are mixed. European markets are lower, and Asian stocks nudged up as China's markets extended their recovery. NOTEWORTHY • A decision on "Deflate-gate." A decision could come as early as today from the N.F.L. commissioner, Roger Goodell, on the New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's appeal of a four-game suspension. Brady was suspended in connection with using underinflated footballs during an A.F.C. championship game. • Forty-five films and counting. Woody Allen's latest writing and directorial effort, "Irrational Man," is about a tormented philosophy professor. In other movies opening today: Ian McKellen plays an elderly Sherlock Holmes obsessed with a case he couldn't solve in "Mr. Holmes." And Amy Schumer plays a commitment-phobe in Judd Apatow's latest comedy, "Trainwreck." • A best-seller about a bookseller. "The Little Paris Bookshop" is the first international hit for the German novelist Nina George, who has written almost 30 books in 22 years. It debuts at No. 16 on our hardcover fiction best-seller list. • New to watch. The comedian Tig Notaro tries to find humor in her experiences of sickness and death in the 90-minute documentary "Tig" (streaming, Netflix). The last season of the Western drama "Hell on Wheels," set during the building of the transcontinental railroad, begins Saturday (9 p.m. Eastern, AMC). • Do you have to tip them? The Henn na Hotel, where robots handle the front desk, porter service, locker service and room cleaning, opens today in Nagasaki, Japan. BACK STORY The number of possible Rubik's Cube configurations is 43,252,003,274,489,856,000. Only one is right. But that isn't stopping any of the contestants in the Rubik's Cube World Championship, which begins today in São Paulo, Brazil. An Australian teenager, Feliks Zemdegs, is the defending champion. Here's his advice. And an American teenager, Collin Burns, recently set the world record of 5.25 seconds. (You have five seconds to watch him, right?) The toy was the invention of a Hungarian architect, Erno Rubik. He sought to make a puzzle based on three-dimensional geometry. He realized all the ways you could manipulate a cube after it was cut horizontally and vertically. Somehow, he saw a toy in this. The six-color cube arrived in the U.S. in 1980, and demand was bonkers. From 1980 to 1982, 100 million Rubik's Cubes were sold worldwide. There are even contests to solve it blindfolded, one-handed and under water. Over 350 million have been sold, making it by some counts the best-selling toy of all time. Your Morning Briefing is published weekdays at 6 a.m. Eastern and updated on the web all morning. What would you like to see here? Contact us at briefing@nytimes.com. Want to get the briefing by email? Here's the sign-up. ADVERTISEMENT FOLLOW NYTNOW @NYTNOW NYT Now app for iPhone Now the news keeps up with you Available on the App Store Get more NYTimes.com newsletters » | Sign Up for the Morning Briefing newsletter » ABOUT THIS EMAIL You received this message because you signed up for NYTimes.com's NYT Now newsletter. 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