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An Israeli Cabinet minister says his country will "settle the score" with the perpetrators of a bombing attempt in Bangkok, heightening the state of alert throughout Israel on Tuesday. An Iranian man carrying grenades blew his own legs off in the blast. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Tuesday the explosion, which wounded four civilians, was an attempted terrorist attack backed by Iran.

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Moody's put the UK, France and Austria on negative outlook late on Monday night, raising the prospect that the three countries would lose their triple A ratings due to exposure to the eurozone debt crisis. It is the first time that the heavily indebted UK has been placed on negative credit outlook by a big rating agency since the eurozone crisis erupted. George Osborne, the UK chancellor, said

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There is a large variation in the quality of HD platforms and services that is often unknown to consumers. Start watching, however, and you'll soon see the problems in a poor quality service. 'Blocky' pictures and images that stutter, even on so-called high definition video, can ruin the experience of watching a film. Display resolution is usually the factor used to determine how crisp a picture

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The United Nations human rights chief said Monday she is outraged by what she called the Syrian government’s serious violations of civilian rights. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, told the General Assembly she is very distressed that the continued ruthless repression and deliberate stirring of sectarian tensions in Syria might soon plunge the country into civil war.

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President Obama unveiled a $3.8 trillion budget request Monday that hikes taxes on the rich, spends new money on infrastructure and education, but does little to reform the entitlement programs that pose the biggest long-term threat to the federal budget. "We built this budget around the idea that our country has always done best when everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share

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Spain's Supreme Court on Monday dropped a case against the nation's best-known judge, Baltasar Garzon, saying the statute of limitations had expired on the alleged abuse involving some courses he taught at New York University years ago. The ruling comes just days after a seven-judge panel at the Supreme Court convicted him in a separate case for improperly ordering wiretaps while investigating

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Grammy Awards ceremony began Sunday on a somber note as host LL Cool J offered a prayer for Whitney Houston, the iconic singer who was found dead one night earlier. After introducing footage of Houston singing, "I Will Always Love You," one of her most well-known songs, at a previous Grammy ceremony, LL Cool J told the audience, "Whitney, we will always love you." The 48-year-old singer and

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The former president of the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, awaited arrest Thursday after a criminal court in capital city Male issued a warrant for him and his defense minister. Nasheed told reporters at his home he hopes the international community will respond quickly because he expects to be jailed soon. His wife and daughter fled to Sri Lanka, but the former

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With Mitt Romney's recent victory in Nevada, and Newt Gingrich's disappointing second place finish, it is time to consider other alternatives. And Tuesda, with little fanfare or intention, Rick Santorum is poised to potentially make the kind of breakthrough that could changed the 2012 presidential race. To be sure, at this point it is more theoretical than likely. Santorum trails in the

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Football fans around the world tuned into Super Bowl XLVI for an exciting game Sunday night. In this country alone, tens of millions watched the game. Before the game’s start, NBC's Matt Lauer sat down with President Obama for an exclusive interview during which the president told Mr. Lauer that he "deserved" a second term. Then, at halftime, viewers were treated to a Chrysler ad called, "

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New figures show more than 17 million mobile phones, music players, satnavs and other devices are sent straight to landfill. But the one in three adults who throws away one of the items would have received an average of £43.54 from a recycling centre, according to mobile phone provider O2. Despite containing harmful materials including lead and cadmium, it is not illegal to send the

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Despite all the big-money, celebrity-filled ads shown during Super Bowl Sunday, it was Doritos that came out top of the advertisers with one man and his very bad dog. The chips and dip maker was the most effective brand to advertise during the Super Bowl XLVI telecast with its "Crash the Super Bowl" spots, Brand Bowl 2012 said. Brand Bowl monitored 400,000 Twitter comments about the Big Game

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The newborn was given just a 15 per cent chance of survival after she was diagnosed with a condition that meant one side of her heart failed to fully develop. But the baby girl has now left intensive care and could be home with her parents Jo and James Carr by April after the operation to repair her heart was a success, according to the Daily Mirror. The couple were told they could terminate

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Authorities in the Dominican Republic called off their search for survivors Sunday after a small wooden boat carrying dozens of migrants capsized just off the coast, according to the U.S. Coast Guard, which had been helping in the search. At least 16 people died and more than 30 were missing from the Puerto Rico-bound boat, marina officials in the capital of Santo Domingo said. The migrants

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Early findings from a study on the effects of "metal-on-metal" devices suggest the implants could increase the risk of cancer and genetic damage. One patient who took part in the research, and was found to have abnormal cell changes to the bladder, said he was now desperate to have his implant removed because he feared for his long-term health. The British study is understood to have detected

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Pakistan's prime minister is headed to Qatar next week to discuss ways to bring peace to Afghanistan. Pakistani officials announced the trip to the Gulf emirate Saturday.  They said Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will meet with Qatari leaders about reconciliation efforts meant to end fighting between the Afghan government and the insurgent Taliban. The Afghan Taliban announced last moth

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Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard began military exercises Saturday in the country's south, the latest show of force after threats to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for tougher Western sanctions. Plans for new Iranian naval games in the Persian Gulf off the country's southern coast have been in the works for weeks. State media announced new maneuvers in southern Iran

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The loose organization of hackers known as Anonymous released Friday a recording of a telephone call between the FBI and Scotland Yard that it said it recorded surreptitiously. The group posted the 16-minute conference call on one of its websites. The FBI and Scotland Yard acknowledged that the released recording was intended to be a private conversation, but blamed no particular group. A U.S

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There's more evidence that the U.S. economy is improving. The U.S. Labor Department says private sector companies added 243,000 jobs in January, pushing the unemployment rate down to 8.3 percent from 8.5 in December. The latest reading lifted the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its highest close since before the 2008 financial crisis, and helped lift investor confidence around the world. For

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NATO's secretary-general says foreign forces in Afghanistan will remain on combat duty during the scheduled transition to Afghan security control in 2014. That statement by Anders Fogh Rasmussen came after U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said American forces' combat role will end next year, more than a year before the transition is supposed to be complete. Panetta's statement surprised

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The search giant had been planning to combine the 70 different privacy policies currently in force for its various services into a single document. It had recently been promoting the changes, which are still set to come into force on 1 March, with prominent adverts on its home page and whenever users logged in. In a letter to Google’s chief executive Larry Page, Europe’s ‘Data Protection

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The African Union is looking for fresh leadership after this week's contest for the AU Commission chairmanship ended without a winner. The normally secretive African Union held a surprisingly open election this week for the job of the continent's top diplomat. But in a bizarre turn of events, both candidates were defeated. The incumbent AU commission chief, Jean Ping of Gabon, eliminated the

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Indiana lawmakers passed tough human trafficking legislation this week -- just in time to prevent an event where thousands of young girls could get bought and sold for sex. “The Super Bowl is a huge human trafficking event,” said State Sen. Randy Head, (R-Logansport). “They’re running sophisticated rings -- trading girls from city to city.” Organized criminals are known to exploit young women

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Since last March, at least 16 Tibetans, mostly monks and nuns, have set themselves on fire in protest of Chinese government policies. Although initially these self-immolations were largely isolated to a Tibetan area in southwestern China, they have spread and grown in number. Between March and the end of September last year, four Tibetans set themselves on fire in protest. From October until

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Legendary cornerman Angelo Dundee, the man who helped motivate Muhammad Ali and many other boxing champs, died Wednesday, a source close to Ali said. He was 90. Dundee died Wednesday in Florida from natural causes, Dundee's son Jimmy Dundee told CNN affiliate WFTS. Dundee, known for being a supreme motivator, was inducted in the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1992. His biography on its

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the Security Council understands the "urgency" of the situation in Syria, as Arab and Western nations urge the Council to adopt a resolution calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down. After a meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres, Wednesday, Ban said that all violence in Syria must stop. "We cannot wait any longer until political

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Witnesses in Somalia say columns of Ethiopian troops have crossed into the country and are marching toward key al-Shabab strongholds, apparently opening a new military front against the Islamist militant group. A government official, who wished to remain anonymous, confirmed the reports to VOA on Monday, saying the soldiers had reached the town of Luq in the southwest Gedo region. The

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More than 100 people were injured when a strong earthquake shook coastal Peru early Monday, civil defense officials said. The magnitude 6.3 quake hit about 15 kilometers (9 miles) southeast of Ica, at a depth of 39.2 kilometers (24.4 miles), according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Civil defense officials reported that 119 people were injured and 40 homes were either damaged or destroyed. Power

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Afghan Taliban negotiators are meeting with U.S. officials in Qatar for a series of discussions aimed at building trust between the two sides ahead of the upcoming peace talks. Maulavi Qalamuddin, who once led the group's religious police, said Sunday the delegation includes several former officials, as well as a former secretary to the Taliban's leader, Mullah Omar. Qalamuddin said the talks

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Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, a long-time Italian politician who served as the European nation's president for much of the 1990s, has died, the Italian government announced Sunday. He was 93. Italy's current president, Giorgio Napolitano, fondly recalled Scalfaro's time as a member of parliament, interior minister and eventually president. "Scalfaro has been a leading figure of the democratic

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The exiled leader of the Palestinian Islamic faction Hamas met with Jordan's King Abdullah II on Sunday in his first official trip to Jordan since his expulsion in 1999. In a statement issued by Hamas, Khaled Meshaal expressed his appreciation to the king for supporting Palestinians. "Any future meetings between Hamas and Jordan open a new page between the two sides and serve the Palestinian

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Police in Bangladesh fired guns and used tear gas on protesters at opposition rallies in the southeast, killing at least four and injuring more than 200 others. Authorities say the shootings took place Sunday in two towns -- Chandpur and Laksmipur -- where Bangladesh Nationalist Party activists were demonstrating for the reinstatement of a caretaker voting system. Authorities say the

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U.S. Park Police on Monday enforced its push for Occupy protesters in the nation's capital to vacate two parks within sight of the White House or face arrest. Sgt. David Schlosser, a Park Police spokesman, said the Park Police had begun enforcing the camping ban Monday by reminding demonstrators of the regulation and encouraging them to pack up their stuff at McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza,

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Medical regulators are drawing up new advice for more than 30,000 Britons who have received “metal-on-metal” devices because of fears that they are even more dangerous than previously thought, a Sunday Telegraph investigation has found. Problems occur with such devices when friction between the metal ball and cup causes minuscule metal filings to break off, which can seep into the blood and

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A top Burmese official is promising the international community that his country's military-backed government is not done implementing democratic reforms. Trade Minister U Soe Thane told Reuters Saturday the process of reform "is not finished yet."  He said Burma's government is still looking at additional political changes as well as reforms in the economic sector. U Soe Thane made the

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The Arab League said Saturday it is suspending activities by its observer mission in Syria, as the Damascus government's crackdown against dissent intensifies. The decision to freeze the Arab League observer mission came in the midst of a broad government offensive on areas surrounding the capital, Damascus, and other major cities including Homs, Hama, Idlib and Deir ez Zor. Opposition videos

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U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday predicted a "robust debate" ahead with Republicans, and the party's eventual presidential nominee, about the economy and future of the country. The president spoke at an annual gathering of congressional Democrats following a cross-country trip to underscore themes of his State of the Union address. Cheers and a standing ovation greeted Obama in Cambridge,

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Senegal's highest court has ruled that Abdoulaye Wade can run for a third presidential term, sparking angry protests.   Reuters says a TV station in Dakar, the capital, says a police officer has died from head injuries suffered during clashes with protesters. Witnesses say demonstrators were setting tires on fire and overturning vehicles after the constitutional body announced its verdicts late

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In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, the heads of more than 50 new doctors' groups argue that the British Medical Association's policy of "blanket opposition" to the Health and Social Care Bill fails to represent GPs' views. They warn that previous reforms have not gone far enough and have consequently "paid the price of disengaging the frontline staff most needed to modernise the NHS". They

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U.S. citizens who were on the Costa Concordia and want to sue may be lost in the sea of fine print written on the back of their ticket vouchers, according to legal experts. Marc Bern, a senior partner with the New York-based Napoli Bern Ripka LLP, said he plans to file a single lawsuit on behalf of "a number of injured passengers" in Miami on Friday -- despite the cruise line's offer to pay

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According to the BCG report, mobile web access is the primary reason for the significant growth. The study assumes that half the world’s current population, or 3 billion people, will be online by 2016. Four out of five of those are likely to be going online via smart mobile phones. The UK already has one of the largest online economies in the world; the web currently accounts for approximately

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A draft settlement between states and mortgage companies that would let the nation's biggest banks pay out billions to compensate for a raft of foreclosures has public interest groups across the political spectrum hopping mad over a deal they say was forged behind closed doors and is being strong-armed by the Obama administration. The draft proposal, which was sent to state officials Monday for

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Vice President Biden is catching himself these days. The vice president, at a jobs event Thursday in New Hampshire, appeared to drift into a foreign accent while imitating a call center worker. But before he reached the end of the sentence, he went back to sounding like plain ole' American Joe. "How many times you get the call, 'I'd like to talk to you about your credit card'?" he asked the

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Defending his controversial reforms, Mr Lansley told an audience in Liverpool that Bevan himself had faced stiff opposition from the British Medical Association (BMA) when trying to set up the NHS. Admitting that "several health organisations oppose aspects of the reforms I believe are essential", Mr Lansley said "every important reform to the NHS ... has had its well-meaning critics". He

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New EU laws announced yesterday, which mean social networking sites and companies will be forced to delete inaccurate or embarrassing information about people online should be applauded. But they still don’t go far enough and solve what is the even bigger issue – how to control what other people write about you online. The digital right to be forgotten, as EU Commissioner for Justice, Viviane

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Jean-Claude Mas was detained by police at his home in Marseilles in southern France, according to a police source. Claude Couty, another executive from the French company, closed down in March 2010, was also held. The implant firm is at the heart of a scandal over breast implants, which were discovered to be faulty. A leading surgeon has claimed around one in 10 could have ruptured. Around

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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer came to greet President Barack Obama upon his arrival outside Phoenix Wednesday. What she got was a critique. Of her book. The two leaders could be seen engaged in an intense conversation at the base of Air Force One's steps. Both could be seen smiling, but speaking at the same time. Asked moments later what the conversation was about, Brewer, a Republican, said: "He

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Nick Nolte gave a critically-hailed performance as a Vietnam veteran-turned recovering alcoholic in last year’s MMA-inspired drama, “Warrior,” for which he received his third Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor this week. And while he was delighted by the news, Nolte, 70, said it wouldn’t have bothered him if his name wasn’t called out Tuesday morning. “It’s a good feeling, but either

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Heads of state at this year's African Union summit in Addis Ababa will be voting to elect new leaders to the continental body. While the AU typically promotes regional diversity in its leadership, one observer group says it would be better to favor countries that have best adhered to AU protocols. Each year, heads of African states select a new chairperson to head the African Union for a

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U.S. President Barack Obama says the world is united in its response to Iran, leaving the country "more isolated than ever" and its leaders facing "crippling" sanctions. The president said in an address to the nation Tuesday that he will not rule out any option for preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, but that the issue can be resolved peacefully. "But a peaceful resolution of this

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First-quarter profits more than doubled year-on-year to $13.1bn (£8.4bn), leading the company's share price to jump 6.65pc to $448.5 per share in early trading. At that price, Apple has a market cap of around $418bn, which would see it once again surpass oil giant Exxon to become the world's most valuable company. Exxon shares dipped on Wednesday to give it a market cap of $415bn. Sales of

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A man who said he was acting on a "spiritual message" from George W. Bush was apprehended Tuesday near the Dallas home of the former president. Secret Service agents stopped the man, who tried to get past the security gate leading into Bush's neighborhood about 4:00pm local time. He tried to follow a car that had entered the gate, myFOXdfw.com reported. Sources told the news website the man

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The head of Egypt's ruling military council said Tuesday he will partially suspend an unpopular and wide-ranging emergency law that became a focal point for demonstrations forcing the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak a year ago. But an opposition leader called the move by Supreme Council of the Armed Forces Marshall Hussein Tantawi little more than "a farce" designed to appease

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Did A-list actor Jim Carrey's daughter Jane get preferential treatment during her audition on 'American Idol'? Jane Carrey was one of the stars of Sunday night's special San Diego episode, earning herself a ticket to Hollywood with a pretty okay rendition of Bonnie Raitt's hit 'Let's Give Them Something to Talk About.' But now some are talking about how she didn't have to go through the same

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Rescuers searching the stricken Costa Concordia found a body on bridge 3 Tuesday, bringing the number of confirmed dead from the wreck to 16, civil protection officials said. The discovery leaves about 16 people still missing from among the roughly 4,200 aboard the cruise liner -- about 3,200 passengers and 1,000 crew members -- at the time of the collision with rocks off the island of Giglio.

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Japan's central bank on Tuesday downgraded its economic forecast for the current fiscal year, saying the world's third largest economy will likely shrink by four-tenths-of-one-percent because of the global economic downturn. The Bank of Japan had earlier predicted the country's gross domestic product would rise by three-tenths-of-a-percent in the year ending March 31. It now says Japan's

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China on Tuesday criticized human rights groups' accounts of a violent clash between Tibetan protesters and the Chinese police, accusing them of trying to "distort the truth." The dispute over what took place in a remote area of Sichuan Province comes at a sensitive time in China's relationship with its Tibetan population after a string of self-immolations by Tibetan protesters in recent months.

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Double-punched by two Indian Ocean storms, the southern African nation of Mozambique on Tuesday struggled with the destruction of a portion of its main national highway, cut-off communications and a reported death toll of 18, according to the nation's National Institute for Natural Disasters. Tropical Cyclone Funso is lashing the central portion of the country, causing flooding along the

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A survey by the Commons health committee found that councils were cutting social care budgets by an average of 6.6 per cent while raising charges for services such as home help. MPs warned that funding cuts were becoming “more urgent day by day” and said the Government needed to overhaul the social care system and raise funding. The report also warned that the government’s reforms of the NHS

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Scientists in the US who looked at 65 health elderly people, whose average age was 76, found those who did so tended to lower amounts of a destructive protein linked to Alzheimer's disease, than those who were less mentally active. The researchers at the University of California's Berkeley campus found they had less beta-amyloid, which are thought to cause Alzheimer's when they accumulate in

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Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis will relinquish their positions immediately, in a move that sees little-known German executive Thorsten Heins take the helm at the troubled company. Having made BlackBerry the indispensable device for business executives, lawyers and bankers who wanted to check their emails when not at their computers, the past five years have seen the Canadian company fail to

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The colorful founder of Megaupload -- a former hacker with a fleet of luxury cars, a multimillion-dollar mansion, and a cadre of celebrity pals -- denied charges of Internet piracy in a New Zealand court Monday. The 37-year-old was born Kim Schmitz, but legally changed his name to Dotcom as an homage to the business that made him big bucks. He faces extradition to the U.S. after an FBI

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Conflicting reports emerged Monday about whether the son of Libya's deposed leader would be tried there. A member of Libya's National Transitional Council said Saif al-Islam Gadhafi would be taken to a court in Tripoli soon, but a spokesman for the International Criminal Court said judges had not decided where a trial would be held. "The ICC judges have not made any decisions regarding this

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The founder of the shuttered file-sharing site Megaupload appeared in a New Zealand court Monday, as the U.S. Department of Justice seeks to extradite him and other company officials on criminal charges. But his lawyer insisted his client is innocent. The U.S. authorities shut down Megaupload last week and announced indictments against seven people connected to the site, accusing them of

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A top U.S diplomat has urged Taliban insurgents to denounce ties to international terrorists and support Afghan peace initiatives.  U.S special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman wrapped up two days of extensive talks with Afghan leaders in Kabul. Special American envoy Marc Grossman says the United States and Afghanistan are supportive of a Taliban move to open a political office

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The deputy head of Libya's National Transitional Council has stepped down, a day after anti-government protesters stormed the ruling body's offices in the eastern city of Benghazi. Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, one of the Council's highest-profile members, announced his resignation Sunday as thousands of university students demonstrated against him in Benghazi, where last week he was manhandled and had to

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Eliminating high school athletics during a school year is unusual, especially in a sports-loving state such as Texas. But that's exactly what's happening in this small ranching community where the school district is taking desperate measures to prevent a state-mandated closure due to poor academics. The Premont Independent School District is even deploying its superintendent, a constable and

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In the modern world, parenthood has become a fiercely complicated business, as demonstrated last week by the news that in three years British scientists – subject to permission by the regulatory authorities – will be able to create babies with “three biological parents”. To paraphrase Dickens, the popular prejudice runs in favour of two. The scientific detail is less flashily disturbing, and

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The party of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has won a sweeping victory in the country's parliamentary election, taking 47 percent of the seats in the new assembly. The head of Egypt's election commission, Abdel Moez Ibrahim, announced the final results on Saturday. The Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won 235 of the 498 seats in the People's Assembly, including a 108 in the

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In the mid to late 18th century, missionary schools were opened on Native American reservations in the U.S. The goal was to convert young people to Christianity and immerse them in Western culture. Native languages and culture were discouraged. Over decades, many grew up knowing little about their culture or languages. One Tsimshian tribesman has dedicated his life to keeping his native culture

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Two bombs went off at separate locations in the Northern Ireland city of Londonderry, police said Thursday. The Police Service of Northern Ireland said people had been moved from both areas after telephone warnings and there were no reports of injuries. One of the blasts was on Strand Road, near government offices and police headquarters. The other was near a tourist office at Foyle Street.

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President Barack Obama wants to make it easier for tourists from around the world to visit the United States. The president made the announcement on Thursday at one of America’s leading tourist destinations. “I want America to be the top tourist destination in the world,” said President Obama. He went to Florida’s Walt Disney World resort to announce a series of initiatives designed to make it

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In Columbia, South Carolina, stately homes from the 1800s show people's love for preservation and the church steeples stretch toward the sky show the focus on religion. These sights are as southern as the pitcher of sweetened iced tea and and plates of fried chicken found at The Palmetto Pig barbecue joint. Juan Torres, who works in the hospitality, hotel and tourism, industry, says people are

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Internet users in China are speaking out about a plan to eliminate anonymity on the country’s popular microblogs, saying that the move will limit their freedoms online. The plan, roughly outlined by senior propaganda officials in Beijing Wednesday, mandates that Chinese-based microblog operators obtain certified real names from their users upon registering new accounts. In a second phase,

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The health secretary today claimed officials from The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) supported “the principles” of his wide-ranging health Bill but remained unhappy about “pay, pensions and jobs”. His comments came as two of Britain’s leading medical unions became the latest bodies to declare all-out opposition to the reforms, calling for the Bill to be

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The search for 21 people still missing in the Costa Concordia shipwreck resumed Thursday amid reports the captain was seen dining with a mystery woman -- who may have been on board illegally -- shortly before the liner crashed off the Italian coast. The woman is believed to be Domnica Cemortan, a 25-year-old Moldovan, thought to be the same blonde woman seen dining with Capt. Francesco

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Short of announcing it outright, President Obama could not have signaled in stronger terms than he did Wednesday how little he cares for the plight of the American public. With the news that the White House is definitively rejecting approval of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, a project that has the potential to employ 20,000 Americans almost immediately, the president has made clear that he’

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Pakistan reiterated Wednesday that it will arrest former President Pervez Musharraf should he return home after three years of self-imposed exile. Musharraf, who has announced plans to return at the end of the month, would be taken into custody the moment he sets foot on Pakistani soil, in connection with the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Interior Minister Rehman Malik

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Every nerd in the world can be Laurie Penny or Johann Hari today. Many are trying, with websites going dark in protest against American anti-piracy laws called Sopa. Wikipedia’s blackout has already forced journalists and students into some perverse acts: such as checking facts, reading primary sources, and critically weighing up the opinions of experts. But these childish protests against an

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China's top Internet regulator says Beijing will soon require all users of microblogs to register under their real names to post comments online. Wang Chen, who heads China's State Council Information Office, said Wednesday increased Internet monitoring is necessary in order to prevent the spread of harmful information. "We must impose control and management measures on some phenomena on the

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A panel of Australian citizens is expected to set the tone Thursday for a planned constitutional referendum to better recognize the indigenous population that inhabited the vast continent long before Europeans settled there. The diverse group includes Aboriginal leaders, business executives, legal experts and members of the main political parties. It spent the past year crisscrossing Australia

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Marcus Trescothick, the former England cricketer, and Jonny Wilkinson, England’s 2003 Rugby World Cup winner, are supporting the campaign to get more people to talk openly about mental health problems. The Department of Health has provided £16 million for the Time to Change campaign, aimed at children in schools and youth clubs and via social networking websites. Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime

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A shortage of doctors deterred by long hours and poor pay means health providers are struggling to find cover — even turning to nurses to fill the gaps in some cases, according to an investigation by Pulse magazine. Doctors are paid between £50 and £120 for an out-of-hours shift. GPs reported that out-of-hours providers were leaving gaps in rotas. There was a particular shortage in the east of

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The Taliban will permit a program of polio vaccination in the volatile Afghanistan-Pakistan border area, their spokesman told CNN in an e-mail Tuesday, after consistent pressure over the issue. The statement comes a day after Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on the Taliban and other insurgents to allow the vaccination teams to help save children from a lifetime of paralysis. It marks the

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Egypt's top political parties have agreed to nominate a member of the Muslim Brotherhood as the nation's next parliament speaker, the first time in decades that an Islamist would hold that post. The Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party won more than 40% of the seats in recent elections and is expected to lead the country's first parliament chosen since the ouster of former President Hosni

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Syria has rejected a Qatari proposal to send Arab troops to the country to stop 10 months of unrest, saying such a move would worsen the situation and open the door for foreign interference. In a statement Tuesday, the Syrian foreign ministry says Damascus will oppose any attempt to undermine its sovereignty, and wants Arab nations to stop what it calls a media campaign against Syria. Qatari

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Locked in a long-running border dispute, India and China Tuesday agreed to set up a new system aimed at maintaining peace along their treacherous Himalayan boundary. Called a "working mechanism for consultation and coordination on India-China border affairs," the system will be composed of civilian, military and diplomatic officials from both sides, the Asian neighbors said in a joint statement

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Researchers concluded that the social networks shared by men and their female partners could have a link to erectile dysfunction. The study, from Cornell University, found that in middle aged and older men, when the woman gets on better with his friends than he does his sex life suffers. The phenonomon was dubbed "partner betweeness", in which a romantic partner comes between a man and his

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Maybe its Twitter's fault, but stars sure seem to be oversharing these days.We know their most intimate marital secrets, their health problems, their fertility problems, and how much money they made last year. What is impolite to discuss at the dinner table has become common celebrity Facebook fodder. In fact, it has gotten so bad that we've decided to count down the Top 5 topics that celebs

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Italian rescuers and divers continuing their perilous work Tuesday located a second "black box" and the remains of five people in the wreckage of the Costa Concordia cruise ship. Eleven people were confirmed dead after the ship ran aground late Friday off a Tuscan island. With nearly two dozen people still missing from the ship, which is lying on its side off Giglio, a judge allowed its

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A major target of the protest, SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act), has already been effectively halted by opposition from the White House, but Jimmy Wales, the cofounder of Wikipedia, said the blackout would go ahead anyway. The English version the website will be inaccessible from 5AM GMT on Wednesday until 5AM GMT on Thursday, he wrote on Twitter. Instead of a database of more than 3.8 million

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Ricky Gervais, who has hosted the Golden Globes three times, has ruled out the possibility of returning for a fourth. He took to his blog to make the announcement saying, "I've told my agent to never let me be persuaded to do it again though. It's like a parachute jump. You can only really enjoy it in retrospect when you realise you didn't die and it was quite an amazing thing to do." The

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The remaining five GOP presidential candidates will square off in a Fox News sponsored debate in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The Palmetto State’s critically important primary on Saturday, January 21st. The candidates will face questions from a panel, including me, my colleague Bret Baier and two fine print journalists, Gerald “Jerry” Seib and Kelly Evans of the Wall Street Journal. The

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging the Security Council to take "serious" action against Syria, where he says casualties from a 10-month opposition uprising have reached "unacceptable" levels. Speaking Monday on a visit to Abu Dhabi, Mr. Ban appealed to the Council to act in a "coherent" manner in resolving the Syrian crisis.  Western powers have been pushing the body for

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Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has been spending large amounts on airfare as a congressman, flying first class on dozens of taxpayer-funded flights to his home state. The practice conflicts with the image that Paul portrays as the only presidential candidate serious about cutting federal spending. Paul flew first class on at least 31 round-trip flights and 12 one-way flights since

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Last weekend, I was in a queue in Boots, waiting for the cashier, when I noticed a poster. “Important product recall,” it said above a picture of a hot water bottle. “We’ve discovered a potential safety problem with Boots hot water bottles, bought between October 2005 and January 2007.” It went on to explain that a small number of these bottles could split open. I’d imagine this would lead to a

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Asian markets moved lower on Monday unable to resist the downward trend of European markets that reacted negatively to the downgrade by rating agency Standard & Poor's of nine European nations. The agency stripped France of its prized triple-A status and downgraded the credit standings of eight other European countries, underscoring the systemic problems in the eurozone and signaling that the

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Let's face it: Airplanes are traumatic environments — the turbulence, the terrorists, the 2-year-olds — and we travelers are left to eat our way to comfort. (When else in life would you voluntarily eat sugar-dusted pretzels washed down with two cans of bloody mary mix?) And though we passengers tend to enjoy eating at regular intervals, airline meals often come at too high a caloric price. To

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A Russian space probe designed to boost the nation's pride on a bold mission to a moon of Mars came down in flames Sunday, showering fragments into the south Pacific west of Chile's coast, officials said. Pieces from the Phobos-Ground, which had become stuck in Earth's orbit, landed in water 775 miles west of Wellington Island in Chile's south, the Russian military Air and Space Defense Forces

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Armed tribesmen snatched a Norwegian U.N. official from the streets of Yemen's capital Sunday, demanding the release of a jailed tribal leader, Norwegian and Yemeni officials said. "We were informed by several official sources that a Norwegian citizen who works with the U.N. mission in Yemen was kidnapped early Sunday," Frode Andersen, a spokesman for the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, told CNN.

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