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REUTERS World News, Sep 20, 2011


World Atlas ice loss claim exaggerated - scientists
Reuters India
By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - The Times Atlas of the World exaggerated the rate of Greenland's ice loss in its thirteenth edition last week, scientists said on Monday. The atlas, published by HarperCollins, showed that Greenland lost 15 percent ...
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Wallabies still sweating on Pocock before US clash
Reuters UK
By Greg Stutchbury WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Australia flanker David Pocock had made "massive improvement" recovering from a back injury but it was still too early to tell if he would be available for the Wallabies' crucial rugby World Cup match against ...
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NSN to push cloud computing to telco gear market
Reuters
By Tarmo Virki, European Technology Correspondent HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) unveiled on Tuesday its new Liquid technology which promises to ease telecom network congestion and possibly change the market for such equipment for ...
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Lady Gaga leads MTV Europe award nominations
Reuters
LONDON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - US pop star Lady Gaga led the 2011 MTV Europe Music Awards (EMA) nominations on Monday with six, including best song for "Born This Way", best pop and live act and best female artist. In all four categories the 25-year-old ...
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Scientists find way to "disarm" AIDS virus
Reuters India
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found a way to prevent HIV from damaging the immune system and say their discovery may offer a new approach to developing a vaccine against AIDS. Researchers from the United States and Europe working ...
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Siemens, Reliance partner for India homeland security products
Reuters
Sept 19 (Reuters) - Siemens Ltd , the Indian unit of Siemens AG (SIEGn.DE), and a unit of Reliance Industries have signed an agreement to jointly develop homeland security applications in India, the companies said on Monday. ...
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Tech start-up targets emerging corporate mobile mkt
Reuters India
... (Reuters) - Venture capital-backed telecom gear startup SpiderCloud Wireless aims to tap into the emerging market of small wireless networks which can be used inside offices, shopping centers and stadiums. Telecom operators around the world are ...
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Analysis: 'Qwikster' service looks like branding misstep by Netflix
Vancouver Sun
By Paul Thomasch, Reuters September 19, 2011 (Reuters) - It's difficult to remember, harder to spell and may go down as one of the biggest brand blunders in recent memory -- meet Qwikster. Starting in a few weeks those familiar red envelopes that ...
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'Entourage' star says Lynch's lesbian joke wasn't fair
msnbc.com
(Mario Anzuoni / Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation "Amazing Race" creator Bertram van Munster and cast accept the award for outstanding reality competition. (Kevin Winter / Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation Actor Guy Pearce ...
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Radiohead to appear on hour-long “Colbert”; R. Kelly gives new album very R ...
Washington Post (blog)
(Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)- After Radiohead appears on the season premiere of “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, they'll spend an hour visiting with Stephen Colbert on Monday, Sept. 26. The band will perform four songs from “The King of Limbs” in ...
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Yemen, Libya and Middle East unrest - live updates
The Guardian (blog)
Reuters correspondents at the Bani Walid front described a chaotic rebel retreat after another day of inconclusive fighting. Refugees fleeing Sirte on Sunday told rebels that supplies of food, medicines and water were running low. ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Beetel GD 470 full touchscreen phone: Top 5 features
MSN India
Beetel has offered a new feature called Beetel World in the GD 470 handset. The 'Beetel World' packs in features such as Facebook, Snaptu, iBibo, Vuclip, Reuters, Hungama etc. In short, it packs in every kind of customized icon you may need to surf the ...
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The dark side of solar remains underneath bright marketing
GigaOm
The company was supposed to suspend its operation at the factory until it could come up with a proper way to dispose of its wastes (the Reuters story includes a video of the protest). Solar companies have been using the environmentally friendly image ...
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China s box office to grow to 36 2 bln this year - Bona Film
Moneycontrol.com
"China's movie industry will see sharp growth over the next so-called golden decade as we're producing many more movies now," Yu Dong, chairman and CEO of Bona Film, told Reuters in an interview. "China is now the world's second-largest market in terms ...
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Blake Shelton Credits The Voice With His Place in Pop Culture
Great American Country (blog)
“You don't see a lot of country artists end up in pop culture, but somehow Miranda and I are there for a minute,” Blake told Reuters. “When The Voice comes and goes, and Miranda and I being married are not interesting to talk about anymore, ...
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Himalayan Quake
Reuters India
By Biswajyoti Das GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Air force helicopters flew rescue workers to a remote Himalayan region on Tuesday in search of survivors of a powerful earthquake that killed at least 67 people in India, Nepal and the Chinese region of ...
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Newspaper Briefing, including 'Glencore and BP named as worst offenders at top ...
Proactive Investors UK
Copper price tumbles to 10-month low: The Reuters-Jefferies CRB commodities index, a benchmark basket of raw materials from crude oil to aluminium and wheat, declined 1.7% to a five-week low of 324.11. Copper, which is closely linked to industrial ...
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Afternoon Roundup: Today's Top Stories
Motley Fool
... from politicians and the business world, claiming Washington doesn't have a clear strategy on how to tackle the country's mounting debt. Medicare and Medicaid have been pointed to as a main cause for the increasing expenses. Read more at Reuters. ...
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Martin Scorsese picks up Best Directing Emmy for 'Boardwalk Empire' pilot
TheCelebrityCafe.com
“It gives you more license and much more freedom,” he told Reuters. Scorsese now joins an exclusive club of winners who have won an Oscar, a Grammy and an Emmy. He finally won the Oscar for Best Directing in 2006 for The Departed, which also won best ...
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Zara's winning ways
Independent Online
REUTERS/Nigel Roddis Zara Phillips put the pain of her husband's antics with a mystery blonde behind her yesterday as she won a prestigious horse riding event. Miss Phillips, who only married Mike Tindall seven weeks ago, beat strong competition from...
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Independent Online
Hughes's century a saviour
Brisbane Times
Photo: Reuters MICHAEL Clarke last night launched an impassioned defence of century-maker Phillip Hughes, whose hundred in the third Test against Sri Lanka has relieved the pressure on his place in the side and given Australia some hope of an unlikely ...
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Brisbane Times
Strauss-Kahn apology seen contrived
Independent Online
A Paris office worker, who gave his name as Jean-Marie, told Reuters Television: “It didn't seem very sincere, to be honest. It seemed prepared and a tad hypocritical.” Strauss-Kahn, widely known by his initials DSK, returned to France earlier this ...
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Independent Online
Dolores Hope, wife of Bob Hope, dies at 102
Palm Beach Post
By Reuters | Breaking news, Deaths | September 19, 2011 Dolores Hope, who was married to entertainer Bob Hope for 69 years and sang at his shows, has died at age 102. Hope family spokesman Harlan Boll says Hope died Monday at home in Los Angeles. ...
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Palm Beach Post
Occupy Wall Street protest, in photos and video
Daily Kos
Reuters: Protesters complaining about the unchecked power of the financial industry staged noisy demonstrations that slowed pedestrian traffic on Wall Street for a third day on Monday, vowing to continue "for as long as it takes" to achieve vague ...
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Daily Kos
Speed Trading Becoming Bigger, Stronger and more Prevalent
The Open Press (press release)
Netto has presented on behalf of Eurex, CME Group, The ICE, ISE, Interactive Brokers, ThomsonReuters, Profit-Loss Forex Conferences and Golden Networking as well as appearing regularly on CNBC, Forex TV, Fox Business Channel, The Money Show Video ...
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Commerce Resources (TSXV:CCE) Receives Updated Buy Recommendation from ...
CisionWire (press release)
Based on that earlier resource estimate, Fundamental believes the rare earth element resource located in the Ashram Zone is one of the world's largest NI 43-101 deposits outside of China. Of the 7 drill holes completed in the Ashram Zone, a couple were ...
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Murdoch in good times and bad | MediaFile - Reuters
By Sir Harold Evans
He apologized profusely enough for his soon-to-be-shuttered paper's most outrageous invasion of privacy, the hacking into voice mails left for Milly, and the hacker's erasure of messages to make room for more that the News of the World could milk for .... Here is a movie buff who saw immediately the force in director Marty Scorsese's plea to preserve the libraries of great movies decaying on old film – and acted at once at his Fox while other studio managements equivocated. Here is a ...
MediaFile
I left my part in San Francisco? | Oddly Enough Blog - Reuters
By Robert Basler
Blog Guy, I always come to you for my news about the movie industry. What's my ... Bottom right: Actor Brad Pitt smiles during the filming of zombie movie 'World War Z' in Glasgow, Scotland August 24, 2011. ... REUTERS photos by David Moir ...
Oddly Enough Blog
NewsDaily: News International to pay $4.7 million to settle hacking ...
19, 2011 (Reuters) — News International is expected to pay about three million pounds($4.7 million) to settle hacking claims by the family of murder victim Milly Dowler against the now defunct News of the World newspaper, sources close to ...
NewsDaily: Top Headlines
Guinness boasts 3000 new records
1 min
show off their natural assets and talents in London. Tara Cleary reports. ...business reuters news politics finance Guinness book ...
youtube.com
Inside the News: Stocks, euro tumble as default fears ...
4 min
Sept. 19 - Investors with little appetite for risk as political setbacks make Greek default fears mount sending world stocks and the ...
youtube.com
Libya: Cameron and Sarkozy visit Tripoli - video
3 min
Prime minister and French president arrive in Libyan capital to talk to National Transitional Council about aid and stability
guardian.co.uk
Sports Spread: Chelsea take on leaders Manchester ...
8 min
at the Old Trafford stadium. Also, Insider will discuss the latest action from the Rugby World Cup. ... business reuters news ...
youtube.com
Dramatic tsunami video
1 min
Mar 13 - Dramatic amateur video shows a tsunami hitting parts of northeastern Japan. Marie-Claire Fennessy reports
reuters.com
Liz Taylor jewels adorn Moscow
2 min
first stop on a world tour before a December auction in New York. Tara Cleary reports. ( Transcript ) ... Business Finance News ...
reuters.com
New video shows smoking reactors
1 min
Mar 25 - Japan's defence ministry releases video footage of smoking reactors at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant ...
reuters.com
Mercenary under attack in Libya
2 min
Feb 26 - Video appears to show Libyan protesters capturing African mercenary. Deborah Lutterbeck reports. ... news world ...
reuters.com
Our insect world
4 min
What is the truth between insecticides and Children's health?
vimeo.com
Deadly crackdown on protesters in Bahrain
1 min
crackdown on protesters in Manama, Bahrain-- a day after the government declared martial law to quell sectarian unrest. Jon ...
reuters.com

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