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Still painful, Sept 11 has few rewards for Hollywood
Reuters
The second tower of the World Trade Center bursts into flames after being hit by a hijacked airplane in New York in this September 11, 2001 file photograph. By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It was a disastrous attack that played out live on...
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James Murdoch rejects latest hacking accusations
Reuters
Former News of the World editor Colin Myler (L) and former News International legal manager Tom Crone sit before a parliamentary committee in London in this still image taken from a September 6, 2011 video by Parliament TV. LONDON (Reuters) - James...
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Curators make hard choices at 9/11 museum
Reuters
By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Curators are making hard choices at the museum memorializing the September 11, 2001 attacks at the site of the World Trade Center's toppled twin towers, aiming to convey the horror of the event without trespassing ...
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White teens sued by dead black man's family in Mississippi
Reuters
By Verna Gates BIRMINGHAM, Ala (Reuters) - The family of a black man who authorities say died after being beaten and run over in Mississippi filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Tuesday against a group of white teenagers over what the family calls a ...
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Writers take time to absorb Sept 11 impact
Moneycontrol.com
By Christine Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Norman Mailer once advised another author to wait 10 years before writing about the attacks of Sept. 11 because "it will take that long for you to make sense of it." The estimate by the prominent New York ...
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Telluride film fest concludes, Clooney honored
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Telluride Film Festival wrapped up on Monday after a long weekend of screenings, seminars and other programs, with George Clooney and Tilda Swinton receiving top honors. The 38th annual festival in the Colorado ski resort town ...
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Reuters
Americans Are The Coolest: World Poll (VIDEO)
Huffington Post
Americans came in as the coolest nationality in the world. Among the findings -- Spanish are considered the coolest Europeans, while Brazilians are ranked the coolest Latin Americans. What were the most uncool nationalities? Read the whole Reuters ...
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Felix Salmon's brain, Drudged: Meet Counterparties, a personal linkblog with ...
Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard
They've seen Reuters itself expanding into investigative reporting and commentary and video, news-y and opinion-y and silly. One thing that those experiments have in common is that they emphasize, implicitly, the voices and the personalities and, ...
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Activision Spares No Expense In Marketing Its Multibillion Dollar Franchise At ...
Forbes
I've been covering the video game space for almost 20 years for outlets like The Washington Post,Reuters, CNET, AOL, Wired Magazine, Yahoo!, Entertainment Weekly, NBC, Variety, Maxim, and Rosebud Magazine. I serve as EIC of Gamerlive.tv and co-founder ...
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Dell, Baidu Partner on Mobile, Tablet Devices
eWeek
Technology giant Dell and Chinese Web services company Baidu are teaming up to develop mobile phones and tablet devices involving Baidu's new mobile platform, according to a Reuters report. While Dell has not officially established a timeline for when ...
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Rogers admits it may be throttling games
CBC.ca
Ina Fassbender/Reuters Rogers has acknowledged that World of Warcraft is not the only online game or application that may be inadvertently targeted and slowed down by its network. However, the slowdown or throttling would only happen under specific ...
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CBC.ca
Witness to History: The photographers of 9/11 [video]
NorthJersey.com
... World Change: The Stories Behind the Photographs of 9/11.” “Not only were the images memorable because the event was so pyrotechnic, but the situation was not to be believed.” “I can't think of another day that was documented so well,” says Reuters ...
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FACTBOX - The life and death of pop star Michael Jackson
Moneycontrol.com
REUTERS - The trial of Michael Jackson's former physician, Dr. Conrad Murray who is accused of involuntary manslaughter in the pop star's death, begins on Thursday with jury selection. Here are some key facts about Jackson: * Jackson was born on Aug. ...
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Maple leaf's movie cred
Calgary Herald
REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT PROFILE) Freudian desire, marital dysfunction, dislocated lust and coming-of-age dramas are what we've come to expect from Canadian cinema. But a romantic comedy? Not so much. ...
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Gaddafi used torture squads against suspected rebels
National Post (blog)
Evidence gathered by Reuters in the provincial town of Khoms shows an organized system of repression with methods including delivering electric shocks to suspects' genitals, keeping them for weeks in baking heat with only a few sips of water a day, ...
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Kenya to get fourth undersea fibre optic cable next year
The Standard
By Macharia Kamau and Reuters Kenya will soon be hooked to yet another undersea fibre optic cable following the near completion of the laying of a France Telecom funded Lower Indian Ocean Network 2 (LION2). The ship laying the LION 2 — which is set to ...
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Big Cap Stocks Hitting 52-Week Lows as Markets Jitter Post Labor Day
Wall St. Cheat Sheet
Thomson Reuters Corporation (NYSE:TRI): Down 3.31% to $28.90. Thomson Reuters Corporation is an electronic information and solutions company that serves the global business and professional marketplace. The Company provides proprietary online systems ...
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Uruguay apologizes over alleged rape by UN peacekeepers. Full Article
Reuters India
By Malena Castaldi MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Uruguayan President Jose Mujica apologized to Haitian President Michel Martelly over the alleged rape of an 18-year-old Haitian man by Uruguayan UN peacekeeping troops in the poor Caribbean state, ...
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IBC Launch of Agama DTV Monitoring Solution v4.1 Extends Support for OTT ...
CisionWire (press release)
"Agama continues to focus on supporting the operators with video quality assurance and monitoring solutions to enable world class DTV service offerings while lowering operational costs. The extensions we introduce in v4.1, with for instance end-to-end ...
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Encyclopedia Of Life Announces New And Expanded Data
RedOrbit
“We faced the challenge that, the more information you gather, the more difficult it could become to use,” said Erick Mata, executive director of EoL, in a telephone interview with Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent for Reuters. ...
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RedOrbit
Regis Philbin sets final day for hosting "Live!"
Reuters
Talk show hosts Regis Philbin (L) and Kelly Ripa are shown on the set of their program ''Live! with Regis and Kelly'' September 6, 2011 in New York in this video frame grab released to Reuters September 6. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Television talk show host...
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9/11: 'There's not a day that we forget'
St. Louis Beacon
REUTERS/US Navy/Chief Photographer's Mate Eric J. Tilford/Handout/Files The remains of theWorld Trade Center shortly after the attacks. He estimates that he had walked several miles before he heard the shouts that the north tower -- where he had ...
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Deep divisions in Americans' views on race, faith
Reuters India
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans are sharply divided on issues from race to religion, often along generational and partisan lines, a survey concluded on Tuesday. The survey of nearly 2500 Americans by a pair of Washington think tanks found sharp ...
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Recommended: Sony hires Homeland Security official to help halt hacking
In-Game
By Winda Benedetti Sony wants the world to know that it won't be kicked around by hackers so easily again. With hackers taking down the PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment earlier this year and making off with personal information ...
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Sony's Head-Mounted 3-D Display
MIT Technology Review (blog)
"Before, watching a movie on a big screen was a pastime for the whole family," Sony vice president Shigeru Kato recently told Reuters, "but now there is a growing demand from people who want to enjoy videos on large-sized screens alone. ...
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Rapid Fire 2011-09-06
Defense Industry Daily
According to Reuters citing unnamed sources, Raytheon tasked JPMorgan Chase & Co with auctioning ELCAN Optical Technologies. Raytheon and JPMorgan didn't comment nor confirm. BAE begins showcasing its ADAPTIV “cloak” of hexagonal metal pixels meant to ...
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'A fear anyone can relate to'
Independent Online
REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo Los Angeles - Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh explores how a lethal virus is transmitted from one person to another, until the entire world is affected in “Contagion.” The film, which debuted over the ...
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Independent Online
Syrian city under siege as UN urges action and Red Cross visits Damascus jail
Al-Arabiya
(Photo by Reuters) By AL ARABIYA WITH AGENCIES Syrian soldiers opened fire in the restive city of Homs on Tuesday and armored vehicles rolled through its streets, activists said, as the UN secretary-general urged the world community to take action on ...
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Al-Arabiya
App finds restaurants using your smartphone
Vancouver Sun
By Natasha Baker, Reuters September 6, 2011 The app uses that information to calculate a "Likeness Score," which is the probability a user will enjoy a particular venue. Tired of digging through long-winded restaurant reviews to find a great meal? ...
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Giant 1000-kg crocodile caught in Bunawan, Philippines (video)
Edmonton Journal
REUTERS/Stringer (PHILIPPINES - Tags: ANIMALS SOCIETY) MANILA, Sept 6, 2011 (AFP) - A giant saltwater crocodile weighing more than a tonne was captured in a remote Philippine village following a spate of attacks on humans and livestock, officials said ...
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Unique Roman gladiator ruins unveiled in Austria
DAWN.com
Reuters Photo PETRONELL-CARNUNTUM: They lived in cells barely big enough to turn around in and usually fought until they died. This was the lot of those at a sensational scientific discovery unveiled Monday: The well-preserved ruins of a gladiator...
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DAWN.com
Knightley stars in film on birth of psychoanalysis
Victoria Times Colonist
By Mike Collett-white, Reuters September 6, 2011 David Cronenberg gives the victory sign at the A Dangerous Method première at the Venice Film Festival Friday. Canadian director David Cronenberg's latest movie, A Dangerous Method, explores the role a ...
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Adele says she wants five sons
Otago Daily Times
British singer Adele arrives at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles last month. (REUTERS/Danny Moloshok) Adele wants five sons because boys are nicer to their mothers than girls. The 23-year-old singer is currently single. ...
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Otago Daily Times
Analysis - Islamist videos, populists stir German worries
DefenceWeb (press release)
They show their opinion," Manfred Murck, head of the Hamburg branch of Germany's domestic intelligence service, told Reuters. "The tradition of terrorism is more or less a tradition of groups. But now we see that the group is not always necessary and ...
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DefenceWeb (press release)
Obama says infrastructure projects will generate jobs | Video - Reuters
Video. Jobs the focus for Obama and presidential hopefuls. Mon, Aug 15 2011 ... Thomson Reutersis the world's largest international multimedia news agency, ...
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