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Amazon may benefit as digital goods sales jump
Reuters
By Alistair Barr (Reuters) - Digital goods are the fastest-growing category online this holiday, led by e-books, suggesting Amazon.com Inc's strategy of blanketing the world with cheap e-readers and tablet computers may be producing some early gains. ...
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Indian courts challenge Facebook, Google content: report
Reuters
The spokesman told Reuters the company had not yet been officially notified of the courts' action. The courts and the other companies were not immediately available for comment. Earlier this month, Telecoms Minister Kapil Sibal urged Facebook, Twitter, ...
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Insight: Trenches and fear divide heart of Syria protest
Reuters
This piece is based on his account, relayed to a Reuters correspondent well known to him. Please note strong language in 12th paragraph) (Reuters) - When anti-government protests erupted in the Syrian city of Homs, police handed guns to government ...
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Another face of the US recession: homeless children
Reuters India
"There's sort of a Third World emerging right in our backyard. You know, we talk about developing countries but look at what's going on here," Bassuk said. To put a face to the breadth and depth of the homeless problem, a team of Reutersjournalists ...
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Telcos appeal against India's 3G roaming pact ban
Reuters
Bharti, Vodafone India, Idea criticise ban * Telecoms tribunal to hear carriers' appeal on Saturday * Bharti, Idea shares extend losses on Friday NEW DELHI/MUMBAI, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Leading Indian telecom firms Bharti Airtel, Vodafone's Indian unit ...
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Vito Russo: from "Celluloid Closet" to cinema star
Reuters
By Chris Michaud | NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than anything, Vito Russo loved the movies. More than 20 years after the gay activist and film historian's death, he is finally starring in one. Entitled simply, "Vito," the HBO documentary takes a ...
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Bombardier to Supply 90 New Electric Multiple Units to Deutsche Bahn for ...
Reuters (press release)
About Bombardier A world-leading manufacturer of innovative transportation solutions, from commercial aircraft and business jets to rail transportation equipment, systems and services, Bombardier Inc. is a global corporation headquartered in Canada. ...
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Canada Lithium (TSX:CLQ) (OTCQX:CLQMF) is Subject of StockPotentials Report by ...
Reuters (press release)
Although China produces only 11% of the world's lithium, Asia dominates the battery market, and currently makes 98% of the world's lithium batteries. Interestingly, Chile and Argentina supply about 55% of the world's lithium, primarily from brine. ...
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More than 40 dead in Damascus suicide bombings
The Age
Photo: Reuters Suicide bombers hit two security service bases in Damascus yesterday, killing more than 40 people, wounding more than 100 and casting a pall over the first day of work of an Arab observer mission intended to oversee an end to nine months ...
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The Age
Ex-nun writes of life under Mother Teresa
Reuters
By Elaine Lies | TOKYO Dec 23 (Reuters) - When she was 17 years old, Mary Johnson saw a photograph of Mother Teresa in a magazine and knew she had found her future. Within two years, she had become a nun with the Missionaries of Charity, the order that ...
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Madonna fan who stole, leaked 'Give Me All Your Love' track arrested
MLive.com
By Ashley C. Woods | MLive.com AP photoMadonna poses in the press room at the MTV Video Music Awards in September. Reutersreports that a 31-year-old Spaniard with the initials of "JMR" who is a "big Madonna fan" was arrested in the town of Zaragoza in ...
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MLive.com
Ex-nun writes of life under Mother Teresa
Moneycontrol.com
By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - When she was 17 years old, Mary Johnson saw a photograph of Mother Teresa in a magazine and knew she had found her future. Within two years, she had become a nun with the Missionaries of Charity, the order that Mother ...
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Moneycontrol.com
North Korea's dynasty enters third generation
Sydney Morning Herald
Photo: Reuters An iron hand still rules North Korea's hermit kingdom despite its ruler's death, writes Hamish McDonald. The life of Kim Jong-il may have ended, as it began, in the official hagiography surrounding the secluded dictator of North Korea, ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Arab League Delegates Arrive in Syria
New York Times
General Dabi told Reuters that the observers would work “with complete transparency.” Across Syria on Thursday, at least 35 people were killed, including 25 in the city of Homs and 7 in Idlib, near Jebel al-Zawiyah, according to the Local Coordination ...
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Brent crude ends higher, posts weekly gain
Yahoo!Xtra New Zealand News
NEW YORK, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Brent crude futures edged up on Friday, ending higher a fifth straight session, in thin preholiday trading as concerns about potential supply disruptions in Iran and Iraq and recent signs of a strengthening US economy...
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Paul denies he knew of controversial ad carrying his signature
The Hill (blog)
Ivers told Reuters that Paul took responsibility for the content being published under his name, even if he did not "embrace" the entirety of the content. The advertisement, which took the form of an eight page letter written in the voice of the Texas ...
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A gaunt George Michael returns to London from the hospital, thanking doctors ...
TheCelebrityCafe.com
Reuters reports that Michael is trying to find a way to thank the Austrian doctors that treated them, even wanting to hold a special performance just for them. "I've spent the last 10 days since I woke up literally thanking people for saving my life,...
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Crappy New Year! Stocks Will Fall 35% in 2012 Says Schoenberger
Yahoo! Finance (blog)
Reuters recently reported 2012 expectations showed an average anticipated return for the S&P 500 next year as a gain of about 7.5%, right smack in the middle of what you might call the cautiously optimistic camp. It's rare to come across professionals ...
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MarketWatch top 10 stories Dec. 19 - 23
MarketWatch
An autopsy conducted Sunday confirmed the cause of death, reports said, withReuters adding that the leader's son, Kim Jong-un, was at the head of a long list of officials making up the funeral committee.Kim Jong-un, believed to be in his twenties, ...
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Editorial: Egyptian women send a message to the military
Sacramento Bee
After footage by a Reuters photographer went viral on the Internet, women took to the streets of Cairo on Tuesday to protest the military regime that took power after the Arab Spring toppled Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. The video showed soldiers ...
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Rensselaer President Discusses the Importance of Communication in an ...
Your-Story.org (press release)
Video – Shirley Ann Jackson, president, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, recently discussed the importance of communication in today's interconnected global worldwhere people of different cultures must work together. Jackson, a theoretical physicist, ...
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Gordon Chang: Storm Clouds Darken Over China
NewsMax.com
Reuters said copper slipped on Monday in thin trading as signs that the property market was cooling in top metals consumer China, worsening the outlook for industrial metals demand and weighing on market sentiment. "Most of the big funds we saw were ...
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Kazakh leader to sack potential sucessor over riots
Telegraph.co.uk
“The workers' demands were in general justified,” Reuters quoted him as saying on Thursday. “The employer should not have forgotten that these are our citizens. They have not fallen from the Moon.” Most of the rioters on Dec 16 were former employees of ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Punishing the whistleblower?
Aljazeera.com
... video showing a US Apache helicopter in Baghdad gunning down civilians and aReuters journalist. Hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and internal war logs were also published on the Wikileaks website - and picked up by much of theworld's ...
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So, How's That Pullout Working?
Investor's Business Daily
Allawi says the confessions were fabricated by current Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and used a Reuters interview to compare Maliki to Saddam Hussein. "We have warned them that we don't have a political process which is inclusive of all Iraqis, ...
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Trailer of 'The Hobbit' has film fans buzzing
GMA News
The song is addictive. The rest is gorgeous. I love it," while Rachel Stark on Twitter wrote "So, so, SO excited about The Hobbit trailer! Thorin singing gives me chills...this seems so much darker than expected." - Reuters.
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The investment outlook for 2012
MindfulMoney
As a result, instead of predicting the top asset class for 2012, most experts have settled for predicting ongoing volatility in markets: Reuters reports that many are opting for the "uncertain and unsettled" model while a Russell Investments survey...
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Tech wrap: RIM's “BBM” trademark target of new legal ... - Reuters
By Reuters Staff
... it said were offensive to Hindus, Muslims and Christians, the PTI news agency said. Digital goods are the fastest-growing category online this holiday, led by e-books, suggesting Amazon.com Inc's strategy of blanketing the world with cheap e- readers and tablet computers may be producing some early gains. Sales of digital goods, which also include music and videos, are up about 30 percent this holiday season, compared to the same period last year, according to comScore data. ...
MediaFile
In ad for newsletter, Ron Paul forecast 'race war' | The Raw Story
By Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A direct-mail solicitation for Ron Paul's political and investment newsletters two decades ago warned of a “coming race war in our big cities” and of a “federal-homosexual cover-up” to play down the impact of AIDS. ...your news photos and videos with Reuters and Yahoo! Reuters Reporter Blogs. Mochila insert follows… Powered by Mochila. ReutersReuters.com brings you the latest news from around the world, covering breaking news in business, politics, ...
The Raw Story
NewsDaily: Insight: Trenches and fear divide heart of Syria protest
NewsDaily: Your best source for breaking news ... An injured protester is helped by others around him in a location provided as Homs April 22, 2011 in this still image taken from video. ... His observations and those of others in Homs, were related by a native of the city to a Reuters correspondent well known to him, after a three-day return visit last week. Reuters and .... To punctuate the gloom, people trade dark jokes about their city, as if to send messages about it to the outside world. ...
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Putin's time is running out: Russian protest leader (Reuters)
Reuters - Up to 1 million Russians are ready to take to the streets to protest against a disputed election and Vladimir Putin's "corrupt regime" is unlikely to hold on to power for more than two years, protest leader Alexei Navalny said on Friday....
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The top 8 liveblogs of 2011 « ScribbleLive Official Blog | Liveblog ...
By Dana
Clocking in a 285 pages, Reuters' live coverage of the Japan earthquake produced the world's longest news story. Reuters launched its liveblog ... UK news agency Press Association partnered with MSN UK to publish a week-long liveblog of all things Will and Kate. Reporters, embedded in celebrations and scone parties across the continent, provided a steady stream of photos and videos of onlookers while dissecting every detail of the royal couple's special day. Photographers kept...
ScribbleLive News
Coolest Pix Of Week 51 >> TotallyCoolPix
By admin
Week 51 saw the US military finally leave Iraq, a new earthquaske in New Zealand, but the big news was that North Korean's charismatic and much loved leader Kim Jong-Il passed the freedom torch to his more than capable son when he passed ...A fisherman stands on the frozen bank of the Yenisei River near Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, December 16, 2011. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin. Coolest Pix Of The Week 51. The Guinness World Records adjudicator Rob Molloy (R) ...
TotallyCoolPix
Jyoti Amge becomes the world's shortest woman | Video | Reuters.com
Video: Video Gallery ... Jyoti Amge becomes the world's shortest woman (1:49)... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia newsagency, ...
www.reuters.com/.../jyoti-amge-becomes-the-worlds-shortest-...
Without the BRICs, who will save the world? | Video | Reuters.com
And this, in turn, is fueling big declines in emerging-world currencies. ...REUTERS CORRESPONDENT, ANDY HO, SAYING: "The world economy in 2009 faced .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedianews agency, ...
www.reuters.com/.../without-the-brics-who-will-save-the-worl...
World has little stomach to take on Congo vote row | Reuters
KINSHASA (Reuters) - On the streets of Congo's capital Kinshasa earlier this week, ... during a video conference that there was no chance of extending theworld body's .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest internationalmultimedia news ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-congo-democratic-idUSTRE7BE0JH2...
World leaders bid farewell to Vaclav Havel | Reuters
PRAGUE (Reuters) - International leaders bade farewell on Friday to former Czech President Vaclav Havel, ... Related Video. Video ... Heads of states and government officials from around the world sit around the coffin of late former ....Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-czech-havel-idUSTRE7BM0KY20111...
World stocks, euro slide on euro zone worries | Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - World equity markets slid on Monday and the euro fell as investors turned cold on efforts in Europe to tighten euro zone fiscal rules to ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-markets-global-idUSTRE7BB02E2011...
French breast implant fears spread around world | Reuters
LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) - Fears over the safety of breast implants made by a now defunct French ... Quakes rattle NZ's tremor-plagued Christchurch | Video ...We're looking at 300000 to 400000 potential victims in the world," said Alexandra.... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia newsagency, ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-breast-implants-fears-idUSTRE7BL0N...
New Yemen cabinet meets; Nobel winner says Saleh ... - Reuters
SANAA/OSLO (Reuters) - Fighting overshadowed the first meeting on Saturday ...In mourning, hermit kingdom North Korea seals itself off | Video ... A Yemeni activist, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, said the conscience of theworld should ... State news agency Saba said Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-yemen-idUSTRE7B907420111210
Iran state TV airs confession of detained CIA spy | Reuters
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian state television on Sunday aired what it described as the ... World ». A man, who identifies himself as Amir Mirzayi Hekmati and ... In avideo with a voice-over in the channel's main news bulletin, pictures of Hekmati ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-iran-usa-spy-idUSTRE7BH0RX20111...
Italy's Monti faces key final vote on austerity | Reuters
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti faces a confidence vote on Thursday that he ... Speaker Boehner bows to pressure on tax deal | Video ....Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency,...
www.reuters.com/article/.../us-italy-idUSTRE7BK28I2011122...
Australian boy jailed for 13 years for murdering Indian ... - Reuters
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An Australian teenage boy was sentenced to up to 13 years jail on Thursday ... Speaker Boehner bows to pressure on tax deal | Video.... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia newsagency, ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-australia-indian-idUSTRE7BL0A8201...
Syria votes amid violence, activists say polls a sham | Reuters
Reuters Today: Toyota sees record sales in 2012 Thu, Dec 22 2011 ... RelatedVideo. Video .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest internationalmultimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology ...
www.reuters.com/article/.../us-syria-idUSTRE7B90F52011121...
World pays tribute to great European Havel | Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders hailed on Sunday late former Czech President Vaclav Havel as a humble hero ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-czech-havel-world-idUSTRE7BH0GU...
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