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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday the United Nations must act to end what she calls the Syrian government's "violent and brutal attacks on its own people." Russia opposes U.N. action and says the government in Damascus has agreed to talks in Moscow. In a written statement, Clinton said the U.N. Security Council must “make clear to the Syrian regime that the world community

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Strikes by trade unions in Belgium disrupted travel Monday on the Eurostar and Thalys international train lines, the companies announced, as European leaders gathered in the capital Brussels for an informal summit. Eurostar passengers trying to get to Brussels from London had to change from trains to buses in Lille, France, on Sunday night and Monday, the company announced. Eurostar "strongly

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Greece's finance minister angrily rejected a German plan for the eurozone to impose a budget overseer onto Athens in return for a new €130bn bail-out, saying it would improperly force his country to choose between "financial assistance" and "national dignity". Evangelos Venizelos said the proposal to create a European Union "budget commissioner" with the power to veto Greek tax and spending

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Tea Party or establishment. That's the name of the game in the battle for the Republican presidential primary nomination. But sometimes it's hard to determine who's who. Frontrunner Mitt Romney has never worked in Washington but has accumulated dozens of  endorsements from Republican officialdom. Newt Gingrich was House speaker for four years, and has lived in Washington ever since his 1999

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Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi hit the campaign trail Sunday ahead of by-elections seen as a key test of the military-backed government's commitment to reform. Thousands of cheering supporters lined the roads of several towns in the southern district of Dawei, as the Nobel Peace laureate made her first political trip outside Rangoon since her National League for Democracy party

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Authorities said Sunday they are investigating the "tragic" and "suspicious deaths" of a 40-year-old man and two 3-year-old girls, all related, whose bodies were found this weekend in a modest, ranch-style home in a community near Richmond. Sgt. Christ Whitley with the Hanover County Sheriff's Department said investigators haven't yet released a cause or motives in the deaths after the

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As rebel fighters battle Syria's military on the outskirts of Damascus, President Bashar al-Assad's allies in the capital continue to show strength with massive rallies in his support. Few are as unapologetic in their defense of the embattled leader as singer Rami Kazour, whose "God, Syria and Bashar" has become an anthem. Checkpoints block roads entering Damascus, but city-center traffic

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A Colorado lawmaker was suspended from her position as chair of the House Local Government Committee after apparently using a "get out of jail free" card to avoid a possible DUI, Fox31 reports. According to Denver Police, Rep. Laura Bradford, R-Grand Junction, was pulled over Wednesday night suspected of drunk driving. "The officer smelled an alcoholic beverage on her breath," Lt. Matt Murray

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Nestled among the few remaining businesses that dot a rundown highway in this dusty West Texas town stands what's become a surprise destination for marijuana-toting celebrities: the Hudspeth County Jail. Willie Nelson, Snoop Dogg and actor Armie Hammer have been among the thousands of people busted for possession at a Border Patrol checkpoint outside town in recent years, bringing a bit of

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Nigerian security forces killed 11 suspected Islamic militants Saturday in the northeastern city of Maiduguri. The militants belonging to Boko Haram died in a search operation, police said, a day after the group attacked a Mandawari police station in Kano province. Military forces have since cordoned off the area around the provincial capital of Kano, according to witnesses. Gunfire and tracer

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Two Palestinian parliament members suspected of involvement in Hamas activity were arrested in Jerusalem on Monday, Israeli police said. Khaled abu Arafeh and Mohamed Totah were arrested at a Red Cross compound where they had been conducting a sit-in for the past year and a half. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told CNN the two men, whom he described as Hamas activists and residents of

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Some military experts Friday called Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's proposed budget cuts "much ado about nothing," but others expressed concern about the potential of a shrinking U.S. military in the strategic Mideast and Asia. "The bottom line is that despite all the bells and whistles, this is much ado about nothing," said Lawrence Korb, a former assistant secretary of defense under the

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The Hospital Group recently made the decision to offer free removal of Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) implants, to women who had received them from the firm between 2001 and 2009. It offered the same patients implant replacement for the "subsidised price" of £1,500. However, now it has emerged that the firm is asking women to sign a ''Patient Agreement Form" for such deals waiving their right to

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Deaths mounted in Syria on Friday as world powers in the U.N.Security Council weighed a draft resolution calling on the country's president to step down. Soldiers and security forces killed 60 people on Friday, said the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, an opposition activist group. The group said the dead included three children, three women and three soldiers who had defected. Nineteen

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Partial results from November’s parliamentary elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo show President Joseph Kabila's party is losing seats in the legislature.  Results so far from Congo's Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) show President Kabila's PPRD party has won 58 seats in parliament, with opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi's UDPS party in second-place with 34.  The

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The screening of an anti-Muslim film for nearly 1,500 New York Police officers has sparked a call for the resignation of the city's police commissioner. A coalition of Muslim groups is calling for Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's dismissal. Kelly appears in the controversial documentary The Third Jihad, widely available on Youtube. It portrays even ordinary Muslims as suspects in a radical

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Medics managed to save him after a rare condition drained his body of virtually every drop while in the womb. Initially doctors feared the baby had been born stillborn as they were unable to find a heartbeat for 25 minutes. But after being given oxygen, gentle heart massage and a lifesaving blood transfusion he survived. He is now a healthy 15-month-old toddler to his mother Katy and father

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Just five per cent of the 1.1 million people in Britain who care for cancer sufferers have applied for an assessment from their council which would entitle them to claim financial and practical help, a poll shows. The survey conducted by Ipsos MORI for Macmillan Cancer Support, shows that half of the 386 cancer carers surveyed are not receiving any type of support, either formally through their

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In 2003 Barbra Streisand went to great efforts to suppress a photograph of her Malibu house that had been published online. The simple aim was to preserve her privacy from what she apparently regarded as voyeuristic interest in her private life. Yet the effect was quite the opposite; as soon as people heard of her attempts, the image went around the world far faster than it ever would have done

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Nearly a week after a spate of bombings and shootings in northern Nigeria killed more than 200 people, authorities are fighting to stay ahead of the militants blamed for the attacks. Hundreds of improvised explosive devices in soft drink cans have been found across the city of Kano, where the violence raged Friday, police said Thursday. An IED in a soft drink can exploded Thursday morning at a

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Arab League officials announced Thursday that they will present a palm for resolving Syria's months-long unrest to the U.N. Security Council on Monday. Meanwhile, Syrian opposition forces say government troops stormed the Damascus suburb of Douma in an attempt to crush rebel forces. Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby says he and Qatar's prime minister will jointly ask the U.N. Security Council to

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The United Nations says the situation in Somalia is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, and will remain so this year. Particularly hard hit are the so-called IDPs, or "Internally-displaced persons"  - thousands of Somalis who fled famine and brutal attacks by the feared al-Shabab militant group and languish in IDP camps throughout the capital. Seventy-year-old Khadija Abdirahman’s

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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will inject $750 million into the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates announced Thursday at the World Economic Forum. The donation comes in the form of a promissory note, not as cash, which the Gates Foundation said "gives the Global Fund the flexibility and authority to distribute funds efficiently based on

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Two adjacent buildings collapsed Wednesday night in the historic center of Rio de Janeiro, injuring at least four people, Mayor Eduardo Paes told reporters. It was not immediately clear what caused the collapses -- one a 20-story building and the other 10 stories -- nor was the extent of the casualties clear. Paes did not rule out the possibility of a gas leak, but other hypotheses included

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Last year, an astonishing milestone was passed: not a single Indian contracted polio. A disease that once ravaged both the developed and developing world has been restricted to a handful of countries, and to hundreds of cases rather than millions. Complete eradication will be difficult, but there is still a strong chance that polio could soon follow smallpox into the dustbin of history. For

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Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan, who has been under pressure to rein in escalating violence by a radical Islamic sect, has replaced the country's police chief. Jonathan's office announced Wednesday that Inspector-General Hariz Ringim has been placed on "terminal leave" until his retirement in coming months.  The president also approved the retirement of all Ringim's deputies. He named

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Demi Moore’s sudden hospitalization following a 911 call Tuesday has led the 49-year-old actress to seek professional help -- reportedly for substance abuse. "Because of the stresses in her life right now, Demi has chosen to seek professional assistance to treat her exhaustion and improve her overall health," Moore’s rep said in a statement. "She looks forward to getting well and is grateful

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The Government has come in for harsh criticism over its pledge to raise foreign donations in line with UN targets which will see the aid budget rise to £10.6 billion in 2014-15. But Microsoft founder Mr Gates urged Britons to be proud of the positive impact the donations were having on the world’s poorest people. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme he said even at a time of economic

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Don't worry, America. There's nothing that ails this country that can't be made right by a catalogue of piddling proposals that will be forgotten tomorrow--and oh yeah, more taxes on the rich. Such was the message of President Obama's State of the Union address. It made Bill Clinton's notoriously endless lists of poll-tested banalities look like artistry by comparison. It was light and

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A German national accused of setting one of the worst arson sprees in the history of Los Angeles entered a plea of not guilty during an arraignment hearing Tuesday. Prosecutors added 63 new counts of arson Tuesday, bringing to 100 the number of felony charges against Harry Burkhart in connection with 49 fires across the city around the New Year's holiday. The judge reset Burkhart's bail at

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An unemployed teenager charged Tuesday with firebombing two synagogues is an anti-Semite whose hatred of Jews guided his actions, authorities said. Anthony Graziano, of Lodi, was charged with the Jan. 11 attack on a Rutherford synagogue and the Jan. 3 firebombing of a synagogue in Paramus. He was being held on $5 million bail. The charges include nine counts of attempted murder, bias

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Turkey is reacting angrily Tuesday to the French Senate's approval of a law criminalizing the denial of genocide, including that of the Armenians at the end of the Ottoman Empire. "Guillotine to History" and "Guillotine to Thought," blared the front pages of two Turkish newspapers. "He massacred democracy," announced another newspaper, Hurriyet, next to a front-page photo of French President

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Vitamin D supplements are recommended for those people at risk of deficiency, including all pregnant and breastfeeding women, children under five, and the elderly, but 74 per cent of parents know nothing about them and more than half of healthcare professionals are also unaware, the BBC said. Dr Benjamin Jacobs, consultant paediatrician at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, described the

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A former dentist has pleaded guilty to Medicaid fraud for using sections of paper clips instead of stainless steel posts in root canals in an effort to save money. Michael Clair, who had a practice in Fall River, is scheduled to be sentenced next week. He pleaded guilty Friday to defrauding Medicaid of $130,000, assault and battery, illegally prescribing prescription drugs and witness

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A joint military task force in Nigeria arrested 158 suspected members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, security sources told CNN Tuesday, three days after a spate of bombings and shootings left more than 200 people dead in Nigeria's second-largest city. Some suspects resisted arrest and exchanged gunfire with the task force in the city of Kano, said security sources who asked not to

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Writing in a blog post, YouTube’s managers claimed that the amount of video uploaded to the Google-owned site had grown ten-fold since 2007. “Since the dawn of YouTube, we’ve been sharing the hours of video you upload every minute. In 2007 we started at six hours, then in 2010 we were at 24 hours, then 35, then 48, and now...60 hours of video every minute, an increase of more than 30 percent in

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Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc has fired his foreign minister for insulting comments he made about anti-government protesters, who have taken to the streets to demonstrate against spending cuts and other austerity measures. Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi wrote on his Internet blog last week that Romanians who work for a living will decide the country's future, not, in his words, the "

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Although many nations have welcomed Burma's ongoing political reforms, U.S. economic sanctions against the country remain in place. The measures are aimed at curbing the government's economic strength, but they can also directly affect normal citizens. A band of musicians in Rangoon found out it is also affected by the sanctions. Burma's loosened political and social controls have been a boon

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Two Iranian lawmakers on Monday ramped up threats that their country would shutter the strategic Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for oil sanctions on Tehran -- a warning that comes one day after the USS Abraham Lincoln passed through the iconic waterway. Lawmaker Mohammad Ismail Kowsari, deputy head of Iran's influential committee on national security, said the strait "would definitely be

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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan traveled to the northern city of Kano on Sunday as the death toll from Friday's coordinated attacks by the militant Boko Haram organization continues to rise. An estimated 170 people have now died, most of them police officers and soldiers, from the bombings and shootings at police stations and government buildings in Nigeria's second largest city. The

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U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney says he will release his tax returns for the past two years this week, saying it was a mistake for his campaign not to do so earlier.  The former Massachusetts governor said in an interview Sunday with Fox News that not releasing the returns has been a distraction and hurt him in Saturday's South Carolina Republican presidential primary which he

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told sailors aboard the country's oldest aircraft carrier that the U.S. is committed to maintaining a fleet of 11 of the formidable warships despite budget pressures, in part to project sea power against Iran. Panetta also told the crowd of 1,700 gathered in the hangar bay of the USS Enterprise that the ship is heading to the Persian Gulf region and will steam

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Before the polls even closed in South Carolina, the Republican presidential candidates were gearing up for another bruising battle in Florida -- recognizing that the race is unlikely to be wrapped up any time soon. Newt Gingrich, who Fox News projects has won the South Carolina primary, hit pause on that state's campaign Saturday to hold a telephone town hall with Florida voters. After polls

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is pushing ahead with talks aimed at bringing peace and stability to the country.  But his most recent efforts were not focused on the Taliban. Karzai told Afghanistan's parliament Saturday he recently met with representatives of Hizb-i-Islami, the radical militia headed by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.  Hizb-i-Islami operates on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border and

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A plane carrying the exiled former leader of Madagascar was forced to return to Johannesburg after authorities in his homeland closed the country's air space. Marc Ravalomanana, who has spent the past three years in South Africa, said he wanted to return home in order to implement a plan to restore democracy in the Indian Ocean island nation. But security forces in Madagascar had warned he

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The company grew its full year revenues by 29pc and saw quarterly revenues climb 27pc year-on-year to $10.58bn (£6.83bn), including $1.06bn from the UK. However, its operating profits grew much more slowly by comparison, climbing to $2.71bn, up just 6pc from $2.54bn in the same period last year. Earnings per share were $9.50, below Wall Street’s consensus predictions of $10.49. Chief executive

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The United States says its military forces in the Persian Gulf region are prepared to deal with any threat from Iran. Top Iranian officials have said they might close the Strait of Hormuz, a move that would disrupt world oil supplies. Ready for action at sea, the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet at Bahrain is among the massive military resources that the U.S. has permanently based throughout the region.

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Rick Perry dropped out of the presidential race Thursday and endorsed Newt Gingrich, a move that comes just two days before the South Carolina Republican primary. The Texas governor, saying he will return to his state "with pride," announced in South Carolina that "there is no viable path forward for me in this 2012 campaign." After surging to the front of the GOP field upon entering the race

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Syrian activists say opposition forces have wrested control of the town of Zabadani from government troops, but the authorities' tanks remain perched on its outskirts. "There was massive protests in Zabadani, so the Syrian Army tried to disperse them. But our troops were very organized and aggressive with a counter attack that left them fleeing and they withdrew completely out of the city,"

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Football Manager has been available on the iPhone for some time but this new version is updated for 2012 and comes with a few new features. It's now a universal app too, so it looks a lot better if you are playing it on the iPad. Fans will be familiar with the game itself. Though it is nowhere near as deep and expansive as the computer version, the 'handheld' edition still manages to pack a lot

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Thrust from obscurity to notoriety overnight, Capt. Francesco Schettino is the man at the center of the questions and recriminations over the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster. As transcripts emerge of his conversations with the Italian coast guard on the fateful Friday night the ship ran aground, the 52-year-old's every word is being pored over for clues as to what happened. A picture is

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SOPA stands for the Stop Internet Piracy Act. But it could stand for... Something On (which) Progressives (and Conservatives) Agree. Basically, SOPA is a Pandora’s box of proposed regulations that would inadvertently make it easier for our government to censor the Internet. Current laws already allow owners of copyrighted material to get that content removed from unauthorized websites. But SOPA

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Two tourists from Germany and one from Austria were among five people killed in an attack in Ethiopia, near the border with Eritrea, officials said Wednesday. The attack took place Monday in the Afar region and was carried out by gunmen who crossed the border, the Ethiopian Radio and Television Agency reported Wednesday. Defense forces attended to the wounded tourists, taking them to a hospital

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Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is formally a candidate to run for a parliamentary seat in an upcoming by-election. The Nobel Peace Prize winner registered her candidacy Wednesday to represent a district just outside the main city of Rangoon. She and her National League for Democracy party will contest the 48 parliamentary seats that are open in the April 1 vote.  Suu Kyi's decision

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The easiest way is to use the site’s mobile version. Representatives of Wikimedia have confirmed that it will stay live throughout the day, and although it’s designed for mobile devices such as phones and tablets, it can also be accessed on a computer via http://en.m.wikipedia.org/ Mobile device apps, too, are continuing to work with Wikipedia. The site’s own iPhone app, as tested today, is

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Users typically have a far larger number of friends on the social network than they are able to see in person regularly. The greater numbers of these distant friends mean that, collectively, they are more influential than a users’ close friends. Facebook has been eager to demonstrate that social networks do not create an ‘echo chamber’, where users only come into contact with the opinions of a

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They say that Roche, which makes the antiviral, has failed to supply them with full clinical trials data on the drug, despite repeated requests. The Department of Health invested heavily in Tamiflu after the avian flu scare in 2005. Derived from spice star anise, it ordered 14.6 million doses that year at a cost of £200 million. Trials have shown that it helps alleviate serious flu symptoms

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Violence has surged in Syria as Western members of the United Nations Security Council spar with Russia over how to stop the bloodshed from the 10-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian-based activist group Local Coordination Committees said Mr. Assad's security forces on Tuesday killed at least 30 people, 19 of them in the troubled central province of Homs. The group

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Russia built for Iran its first nuclear power plant, then refused to sell to Tehran the anti-aircraft missiles to defend it. A high-ranking Russian told reporters in Moscow on Tuesday that it “remains unproven” that there is a military component to Iran’s nuclear program. On the other hand, he added, Tehran’s decision to enrich uranium violates international resolutions designed to keep Iran

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According to reports, the education event, which Apple has scheduled for this Thursday in New York, will see the company announce a new way to create textbooks which can be viewed on an iPhone or iPad. Rather than become a textbook publisher, Apple will announce software for creating ebooks that is similar to its GarageBand music software. The software would make creating an ebook far simpler

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A member of Syria's Parliament has defected to Egypt and spoken of leaving behind a "ghost town full of horror." Imad Ghalioun has represented the city of Homs for five years. He defected with his immediate family two weeks ago after, he says, he convinced the al-Assad regime that he was traveling on business. Ghalioun told CNN that many senior officials want to defect but it may be harder now

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The race for new-energy dominance is officially on. Earlier this month two of China’s oil giants, Sinopec and Cnooc, as well as Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company, Saudi Aramco, announced they would all seek to buy the same 30 percent stake in American hydraulic-fracturing-services firm Frac Tech Holdings LLC. The announcements, arriving amidst great excitement about the potential of natural

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The digital encyclopaedia will voluntarily shut down for 24 hours tomorrow in a protest against internet piracy laws in the United States. Despite the likes of Twitter chief, Dick Costolo, refusing to shut down its global operation out of protest against the same act yesterday, Wales has defended the move to The Telegraph. He said: “The general sentiment seemed to be that US law, as it impacts

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British researchers found that supplements were potentially a "simple and effective" way to combat age-related eye diseases, such as macular degeneration. Effects in mice were seen in as little as six weeks. Scientists believe many people in developed countries lack vitamin D, which they think is essential to keeping a good blood supply flowing to the retinas. However, the RNIB cautioned that

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The president of a volatile Ethiopian regional state has been fired from his party leadership position after reportedly admitting involvement in a 2003 ethnic massacre. The leadership of the southern Gambella region is coming under increasing scrutiny for corruption and abusing the rule of law. Two privately-owned Ethiopian newspapers are reporting Gambella Regional President Omod Obang Olum has

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There is something very wrong about our attitudes to older people. We hear again and again about the “burden” of ageing, but we should be celebrating the fact that we are living longer. It is one of the great triumphs of the past century that we can expect to live longer than our grandparents, as a result of higher standards of living and better health care. So why are we so gloomy in the face

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Researchers from New York's Union College, claim that "exergames", such as Wii fit, that combine exercise with virtual reality environments and interactive videogame feature, provide more cognitive benefits for the older user than exercise alone, it is said. Lead investigator Dr Cay Anderson-Hanley said: "We found that for older adults, virtual-reality enhanced interactive exercise, or '

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Saudi Arabia can make up for any loss of crude oil production if sanctions are placed on Iran, the country's oil minister told CNN in an exclusive interview set to air Monday. "I believe we can easily get up to 11.4, 11.8 (million barrels a day) almost immediately, in a few days, because all we need is to turn valves," Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi told CNN's John Defterios. "Now to get to

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The new year opens with a healthy dose of revisionism concerning the value (or otherwise) of current medical advice – and on several fronts. First up, researchers at London’s St George’s Hospital (as reported in this paper last week) dispute the benefits of the common practice of taking an aspirin a day to keep the doctor away, on the notion that this reduces the risk of heart attack or strokes.

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North Korea has angrily denied allegations that it punished some of its citizens for inadequately mourning the death of its late leader Kim Jong Il. Kim died last month after 17 years of repressive rule over the secretive state, setting off deep uncertainty about North Korea's future. The North Korean regime commemorated his death with elaborately choreographed ceremonies broadcast on

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Debris from a Russian space probe that was intended to travel to a moon of Mars has apparently fallen into the Pacific Ocean off the southern coast of Chile. Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, had reported that the unmanned 14-ton Phobos-Grunt would enter the Earth's atmosphere on Sunday but that the exact time and location were unknown. Roscosmos said that only small fragments of the

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France's top diplomatic envoy met with Burma's leading opposition figure Sunday, as he became the latest Western official to visit the Asian nation following a series of fast-paced reforms. The trip comes shortly after the United States restored full diplomatic ties with Burma. The visit by French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe is the latest sign of Western approval of recent reforms by the new

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Iran's representative to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is warning his country's Arab neighbors against raising their crude output to replace Iranian oil in the event of Western sanctions. A Sunday report by the Sharq newspaper quotes Mohammad Ali Khatibi as saying Tehran would view any increase of crude production as an "unfriendly act."  He also said that if the other OPEC

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Only nine per cent of the 1,000 people polled in the Baynote study purchased something via a retailer’s page on Facebook. While 59 per cent of Americans bought a gift directly from a retailers’ website. Moreover, a large majority, 80 per cent, of shoppers said personal connections or recommendations on social networks had no influence on their Christmas shopping decisions. Interestingly mobile

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Taiwan's incumbent President Ma Ying Jeou was re-elected Saturday in an election seen as critical to the future of an economy that has boomed thanks to warmer ties with China. With all votes counted, the Central Election Commission said Ma, of the ruling Kuomintang Party, had 51.6%. Challenger Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party had 45.6% and James Soong of the People First Party

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Thousands of companies from around the world have descended on the western U.S. city of Las Vegas for the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show.  Their goal is to change the way you live. Las Vegas.  Bright lights, mega casinos and, for a few days, home to some of the most cutting edge technology on the planet. More than 20,000 new products are being launched, with the biggest buzz about very thin

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Another sign that the global economy is slowing: Chinese exports in December fell to their lowest levels in more than two years - while imports grew more slowly than expected. Sales of Chinese-made goods overseas have been one of the biggest drivers of China's phenomenal growth. But new data shows that export growth may already have peaked. Investment strategist Pu Yonghao at UBS Wealth

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President Barack Obama is asking Congress for authority to merge a series of federal agencies that deal with trade and commerce. Addressing reporters in the East Room of the White House, he said consolidating the U.S. Commerce Department with several other federal agencies would save money, boost global trade and make the government more efficient. "We live in a 21st-century economy, but we

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The United Nations refugee agency warns of growing insecurity in camps sheltering hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees in the Horn of Africa.  The UNHCR says the situation is particularly worrisome in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee complex, the largest refugee settlement in the world.    Nearly one-half million refugees, most of them Somalis, are living in Dadaab. The U.N. refugee agency says it is

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Nigeria's national strike entered its fifth day Friday as union officials called for a weekend suspension to allow protesters to go home and stock up on food and water. Throngs of protesters took to the streets, demanding government accountability and a return of fuel subsidies ended on January 1, a move that doubled gas prices and sent the cost of other goods skyrocketing. A union official

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Pakistan's prime minister is gathering the nation's top defense leaders together to respond to findings of a U.S. investigation into an airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, a spokesman said Friday. The meeting set for Saturday is the first gathering of the Cabinet's defense committee since Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani fired his defense secretary, a move that spiked tensions between

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Investigators in Texas were trying to understand late Thursday what led to an apparent murder-suicide inside a Helotes church earlier that day. Officers believe Manuel Rodriguez, 51, shot and killed 54-year-old Zeferina Castillo before turning the gun on himself, the San Antonio Express reported. The bodies of the pair were found Wednesday afternoon near the altar of Our Lady of Guadalupe

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After decades of trying, scientists may have finally found a way to make body armor out of spider silk. Aside from being very cool, this would mean ultra-lightweight, super-strong, flexible body armor that would provide highly improved protection for America’s soldiers and law enforcement officers. Right now, U.S. soldiers must wear very heavy, inflexible and cumbersome body armor for

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A drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region killed at least eight militants Thursday, Pakistani intelligence officials said. A suspected U.S. drone fired missiles at two vehicles in North Waziristan, the second attack by unmanned aircraft on militant targets this week following a lull. Both strikes occurred near Miranshah, a volatile region in the country's tribal belt that borders Afghanistan.

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Professor Mark Griffiths says psychotherapy or drugs may be the solution: "It is very important to make the distinction between people who are addicted to the internet, and those who have addictions online. "I believe it is a very different thing to be addicted to certain applications online, such as gambling, gaming, shopping or online sex - these are addictions on the internet, rather than to

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A new French report appears to erase suspicions that Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his associates triggered the events leading to the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Previous accusations froze French-Rwandan ties that only recently have warmed up. Commissioned by two French investigating judges, the report apparently dismisses a central French accusation behind the Rwandan genocide about the origins

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A group of prominent international scientists say the inability of world leaders to make progress on nuclear weapons reduction and proliferation, and continued inaction on climate change, has led them to move the hands of the Doomsday Clock one minute closer to midnight - the hour that symbolizes possible global destruction. Efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons continue to meet obstacles

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Users will now see these adverts, which appear in the form of ‘stories’ or posts about a product, in their news feeds labelled as ‘featured’. Marketers can only pay for these adverts to appear in a user’s feed if the user has already ‘liked’ the page. And the advertiser does not have the option to add its own additional message once the post is live. Facebook is rolling the initiative out

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Smart internet connected televisions offer the viewer the opportunity to download or stream content directly to their set without the need for a computer. "A lot of companies are competing in this 3D space, but I don't think consumers are caring so much about that," explained Bridget Carey of CNET. "What really matters is connected TV, it's connecting to the internet and it can do more things

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Mitt Romney stormed out of New Hampshire Wednesday with a historic achievement under his belt, having scored back-to-back wins in the first two nominating contests, and vowing to take that momentum into South Carolina. The former Massachusetts governor was able to pull off a commanding victory in the New Hampshire primary, winning with 39 percent of the vote with 95 percent of precincts

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Although the company did not demo any of the many new products it announced at its press conference at CES 2012, that was mostly because it had so many, and in the Samsung vision of the new world every one of them talks to each other. So a camera uploads all its images automatically online so you can see them directly on your television; your music is always available everywhere; your

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Despite these Olympic ticket reselling services being illegal, Google has pocketed money from the people behind these adverts, even though the digital promotions have now been taken down. The situation was brought to BBC 5 Live’s attention when a listener rang into its ‘Investigations’ show complaining about a scam site, called Live Olympic tickets, which was promoted at the top of the Google

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The programme, named If I Die, lets Facebook users record a final text or video message to be posted on the social networking site in the event of their death. Users appoint three friends to act as executors of their digital estate. They must each confirm the person has passed away for the last message to be released from its online vault and posted on the deceased's Facebook wall. The app's

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Chevrolet surprised the audience at the 2012 North American International Auto Show with a pair of compact concepts targeted at young buyers: the Code 130R and True 140S. Both are sporty, two-door four-seaters powered by a common 1.4-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine that delivers 40 mpg, but the similarities end there. The Code 130R is a rear-wheel drive mini muscle car with looks that

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Iran announced on Monday it had sentenced a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen to death for spying for the CIA, creating fresh grounds for hostility with Washington at a time when Tehran has responded to new U.S. sanctions with military threats. Iran's Revolutionary Court announced through Iranian media Monday that Amir Mirzaei Hekmati has been sentenced to death.  His crimes: cooperating with a hostile

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A 25-year-old man described as an Islamic extremist was arrested in an alleged plot to attack crowded areas in the Tampa, Fla., area with a car bomb, assault rifle and other explosives, authorities said Monday. The U.S. Department of Justice said Sami Osmakac, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in the former Yugoslavia, was arrested Saturday night. Osmakac, from Pinellas County, allegedly

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Unless governments in the Middle East stop offering "cosmetic changes" to calls for reform, they should brace themselves for another year of protests, Amnesty International warned Monday. The protests and bloodshed will continue unless governments and the international community ensure the demonstrators' demands are addressed, the rights group said in a new report. Protesters are not

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Venezuela's consul general in Miami has been declared to be persona non grata and must leave the United States, a State Department spokesman said Sunday. Spokesman William Ostick declined to comment on specific details behind the decision to expel Livia Acosta Noguera, who has headed Venezuela's consulate in Miami since March 2011. The Venezuelan Embassy in Washington was informed of the

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Arab League officials decided Sunday to bolster the alliance's fact-finding mission to Syria, where thousands have been reported killed by security forces despite ongoing international pressure to halt the violent suppression of popular unrest. In a statement, released after a meeting of officials in Cairo, the alliance once again "strongly condemned ... acts of violence against civilians." It

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No more Mr. Nice Newt? Newt Gingrich, after being walloped by negative ads in Iowa and finishing fourth, is planning a far more aggressive strategy to "contrast" himself against Mitt Romney in the run-up to the South Carolina primary. Voters will get a glimpse of Gingrich's post-Iowa tone during back-to-back debates in New Hampshire ahead of that state's primary on Tuesday. The former House

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