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Documentaries steal spotlight at Toronto Film fest
Reuters
U2's Bono and The Edge pose with director Davis Guggenheim at the gala presentation for the documentary film ''From The Sky Down'' at the 36th Toronto International Film Festival, September 8, 2011. By Cameron French TORONTO (Reuters) - They're not ...
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From Picasso to Elvis, Chinese buy up Western culture
Reuters
By Jordan Riefe LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The art world shook last February when a report by The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) revealed that China had overtaken the United Kingdom to become the world's second largest art market. ...
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For Sachs, US 9/11 response undercut war on poverty
Reuters
By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - World-renowned development economist Jeffrey Sachs has made it his mission to improve the lives of the world's poor, a job he believes has been made harder by the US response to the September 11, 2001, ...
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U.S. scrutinizes foreign defense M&A
Reuters
No doubt, the horrible events of that awful day altered life in America and the world forever. Ten years later, it's a question worth asking, even if there is no simple answer: What's changed since then? LONDON (Reuters) - The outlook for renewable ...
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Venice film festival nears end, contest wide open
Reuters
By Mike Collett-White VENICE, Italy, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The Venice film festival ends on Saturday with the award of the coveted Golden Lion for best picture, but critics struggled to name their favourite in a year that had plenty of good films but few ...
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Hong Kong director calls markets "casino" in new movie
Reuters
By Mike Collett-White VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - The world's stock markets are a casino in which everyone wants to, or has to, gamble in Johnnie To's latest drama "Life Without Principle" set amidst the recent financial turmoil. ...
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Iraq: Victim or beneficiary of September 11 attacks?
Reuters
By Waleed Ibrahim BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Ten years after the hijacked airliner attacks on the United States, Iraqis are swamped in the violent wake of a war launched on a tenuous premise and uncertain if they are headed to democracy or dictatorship. ...
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5 ways 9/11 didn't change Hollywood
msnbc.com
(Lucy Nicholson / Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation On March 10, 2011, Lindsay Lohan rejected a plea agreement offered by prosecutors that would have meant a guaranteed return to jail for the actress in her jewelry theft case. ...
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Photos: The Decade Since 9/11
National Journal
(Reuters/Pentagon; Reuters/Courtesy US News & World Report; Social Media Website viaReuters) View original. 18 Members of the public glance over as they walk past a member of a New York Police Department Hercules team on patrol near Penn Station in ...
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The world still thinks Americans are "coolest": Poll
The Express Tribune
PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE LONDON: They may be witnessing their global superpower influence decline in the face of challenges from other emerging players on the worldstage, but Americans have been voted the world's “coolest nationality” in aninternational ...
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The Express Tribune
Kiwis say 'Kia ora' to world
Independent Online
Performers participate in the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup at Eden Park in Auckland September 9, 2011. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen (NEW ZEALAND - Tags: SPORT RUGBY IMAGE OF THE DAY TOP PICTURE) THE WORLD received a traditional Maori welcome in ...
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Independent Online
Twin Towers Attack Anniversary: How the Media Is Covering
Hollywood Reporter
"What Took So Long?" asks TIME magazine in a report investigating why the WorldTrade Center site is still unfinished. Reuters took a different approach, with a piece on New Yorkers and their desire to move on from the attacks. ...
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Hollywood Reporter
7 surprising discoveries at the Gadhafi compound
CBC.ca
Still image taken from amateur video shows Muammar Gadhafi relaxing with his granddaughter at the Bab al-Aziziya compound. Reuters 2. Gadhafi home videos: Reuters has recovered video of Gadhafi, dressed in a white track suit top, playing with his ...
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9/11 conspiracy theories
Malaysia Star
A combination photo shows United Airlines Flight 175 impacting the south tower of theWorld Trade Center in New York in this Sept 11, 2001, file photo. Conspiracy theories comb such images for anything that will back up their ideas. — Reuters You just ...
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Malaysia Star
A captured beast that reminds us of a remote past
The Guardian
Photograph: Reuters A crowd of people have gathered in a woodland whose leaves are turned deep fresh green by the water-sodden air. They line up quietly, so the photographer can use their numbers to measure a monster. In front of them, chained flat to ...
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The Guardian
Obama pushes jobs plan
IT Business Net
By GrabNetworks Summary of business headlines: President Obama faces tough sell on pivotal jobs plan; ECB Board member to step down according to Reuters; Bank of America reportedly talking job cuts; A moment of silence at the NYSE for 10th Anniversary ...
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Encyclopedia's new chapter
Calgary Herald
By Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters September 9, 2011 2:33 AM The Encyclopedia of Life features information - including photos and videos - about a vast array of the plant and animal life on our planet.As an online resource, it's designed to appeal to users ...
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US Open - Djokovic Vs Tipsarevic - Match Highlights (VIDEO)
International Business Times
Picture - Reuters. In one of just two quarterfinals played on Thursday, as the bottom half of the men's draw has been delayed due to rain, world number one Novak Djokovic was adjudged the victor after fellow-Serb Janko Tipsarevic retired with a ...
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International Business Times
Dalet Speaks a New Language with Nexidia's Dialogue Search
MarketWatch (press release)
Dalet is traded on the NYSE-EURONEXT stock exchange (Eurolist C): ISIN: FR0011026749, Bloomberg DLT:FP, Reuters: DALE.PA. Dalet is a registered trademark of Dalet Digital Media Systems. All other trademarks and products mentioned herein belong to their ...
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Retiring boomers create pricey skills gap for manufacturers
Crain's Cleveland Business (blog)
Reuters reports, though, that questions remain about restrictions on labeling and the need for more studies. The Food and Drug Administration advisory panel chaired by the Clinic's Dr. A. Michael Lincoff, on Thursday voted 9-2 to recommend approval of ...
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Egyptians attack Israel embassy, envoy flees
msnbc.com
A furious wave of protest finally swept Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak from power, sending a warning to autocrats across the Arab world and beyond. (Yannis Behrakis /Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation A spokesman for Egypt's higher military...
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5 Reasons to Bid Up Sotheby's
Motley Fool
There are a handful of art funds that sell shares in collections assembled by portfolio managers, butReuters' Felix Salmon has dispatched the rationale for those funds better than I could, and saved me the work. Short version: The underlying assets ...
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Hitachi Data Systems Acquires BlueArc
TMC Net
Reuters described BlueArc as a “struggling California-based network storage company.” The acquisition appears to “take advantage of the yen's strength,” Reuters (News - Alert) added. “The yen hit a record high 75.94 yen to the dollar last month, ...
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Street Life: The 9/11 diaries
CNN
"HRH prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdul Aziz al Saud, chairman of Kingdom Holding Company, [told Reuters] Monday September 17 that he has great confidence in the economy of the United States of America. The Saudi self-made billionaire businessman ...
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Volkswagen says Porsche merger delayed
Reuters
Video WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, seeking to rescue a faltering economy and his own re-election prospects, began an uphill battle on Friday to win Republican support for a $447 billion jobs plan. | Video HONG KONG (Reuters) - US ...
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Reuters
Flashback to 2001: Taliban with a small “t” dream of Afghan jihad after 9/11
Reuters Blogs (blog)
Right after 9/11, Reuters editors asked correspondents with experience in Afghanistan and Pakistan if they wanted to go back there to report. Within days, I flew from Paris to Islamabad, a city I'd left 15 years earlier. Soon, I set up a temporary ...
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Reuters Blogs (blog)
Music Money Roundup: Lil Wayne, Birdman, EMI and Elvis
Forbes
As reported by Reuters earlier this week, Elvis Presley's estate has tapped a litigation-finance firm to sue Sony-backed Arista over German royalties. The suit alleges that the deal struck between Arista's precursor and The King's manager–a sale of ...
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Bieber goes Hollywood, Big Buff goes off his diet, and Bibi's wife faces new ...
Macleans.ca
she told Reuters. Speaking of misquotes, poet Maya Angelou says the one carved on the massive, new Washington monument to Martin Luther King Jr. makes him look like “an arrogant twit.” It reads: “I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness. ...
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Flash content will run on your iPhone
Washington Post (blog)
By Hayley Tsukayama (PICHI CHUANG - REUTERS) Adobe's latest release of its Flash Media Server comes with a quiet capitulation to Apple:You can now run Flash content without running Flash. Apple and its chairman, Steve Jobs, have famously spurned the ...
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War-themed video games stir controversy, showing not all 9/11 wounds have healed
San Diego Source (subscription)
In April of last year, WikiLeaks released classified footage of a 2007 incident in Baghdad involving a US Apache Helicopter that left 12 men dead, including two Reuters employees. At the time Julian Assange, the website's co-founder, charged, ...
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Syria braced for another Friday of protests
Ahram Online
Syrian opposition demonstrators living in Turkey wave their national flags during a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad outside the Syrian consulate in Istanbul, (Reuters). Syria braced for another Friday of demonstrations a day after ...
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Ahram Online
Toshiyuki Aizawa/Reuters
WSB Atlanta
That's gotta be some sort of testament to Apple's build quality, right?" PC World wrote. Here's one lingering question in all of this: If you spend a grand on a laptop, why would you risk getting carrot juice all over the thing?
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Jackson fans angry at tribute concert price cuts
Arab News
By REUTERS LOS ANGELES: Michael Jackson fans were up in arms on Thursday over reports that promoters of a planned tribute concert had slashed ticket prices and apparently offered 2-for-1 ticket deals to the October event. ...
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Sept 11 conspirators: Where are they now? Video
Bangladesh News 24 hours
London, Sep 09 (bdnews24.com/Reuters)- It took 19 men to hijack four airliners and crash them in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001, killing nearly 3000 people. But a much larger network of conspirators was involved in planning, ...
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US ISSUES 9/11 TRAVEL ALERT / CREDIBLE TERROR THREAT VS NY, WASHINGTON
Philippine Headline News
US officials, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said the threat involved Washington DC and New York City, which were targeted in al-Qaeda attacks a decade ago this Sunday that killed nearly 3000 people. A counter-terrorism official said ...
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Philippine Headline News
Net Insight Wins CSI Award for Best HDTV Technology Project
CisionWire (press release)
Net Insights Nimbra(TM) platform is the industry solution for video, voice and data, reducing operational costs by 50 percent and enhancing competitiveness in delivery of existing and new media services. More than 130 world class customers run mission ...
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Man dressed as Gumby tries to rob store
GMANews.TV
Gumby, a green humanoid figure who looks like an elastic stick of gum with limbs, was created in the 1950s by the late Art Clokey and his wife, Ruth. Gumby had a sidekick, the talking orange horse Pokey. - Reuters.
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