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REUTERS World News, Sep 21, 2011

Eleventh victim confirmed killed in Reno air crash
Reuters
LAS VEGAS, Sept 20 (Reuters) - An 11th person has been confirmed as killed in the crash of aWorld War Two-era plane at a Nevada air race last week, a lawyer for the family of the victim said on Tuesday. Federal safety investigators are trying to ...
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Transatlantic considering options with suitor Validus: report
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks ended little changed on Tuesday as investors waited to see if the Federal Reserve would offer more economic stimulus and if Greece made progress in talks to avoid a default. | Video WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack ...
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Reuters
US security agency opens to outsiders on cyber safety
Reuters
By Tabassum Zakaria ORLANDO, Fla., Sept 20 (Reuters) - Anthony Stramella, an official with the National Security Agency's Threat Operations Center, is more aware than most of how information from computers, telephones and other devices can be tampered ...
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Exclusive: Facebook seeks exec to build Hollywood, media ties
Reuters
By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook is looking to hire a big-name executive to cultivate relationships and strike deals with the film and music industries to bolster its media offerings. In recent months, Facebook had discussions...
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Reuters
Nikon to sell its first mirrorless cameras in Oct Full Article
Reuters India
By Isabel Reynolds TOKYO (Reuters) - Nikon unveiled its first mirrorless cameras on Wednesday, beating its arch rival Canon to the nascent market for small, interchangeable-lens cameras, where other manufacturers have met with mixed success. ...
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Google+ opens up, takes fight to Facebook
Reuters Canada
(Reuters) - Google Inc and Facebook trotted out a variety of new social networking features in back-to-back announcements on Tuesday, underscoring their intensifying competition for Web surfers. Google integrated its flagship search engine into its ...
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US calls online poker site a 'global Ponzi scheme'
Reuters India
Video The future of the music business is social, free -- and hopefully profitable. Full Article Rains are crucial to crop production in India. Slideshow By Grant McCool NEW YORK (Reuters) - US prosecutors made new allegations on Tuesday in a probe of ...
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"Royal wedding," "winning" deemed top TV words
Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Royal wedding" and "winning" (as in Charlie Sheen's catch-phrase) were the two most used phrases on television in 2011, according to a survey released on Tuesday. The rantings of the former "Two and A Half Men" actor beat "Arab ...
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Reuters
Disney, Cameron to create theme-park "Avatar"
Reuters India
... the first at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, as he speaks at a media briefing in Glendale, Calfornia September 20, 2011. A scene from ''Avatar'' is shown on screen background. By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Moviegoers pining for a ...
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Reuters India
Pirelli steps into luxury retail
IBNLive.com
By Antonella Ciancio MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's Pirelli, the world's fifth-largest tire maker, opened its first flagship store on Tuesday, targeting wealthy shoppers as resilient to downturn as its tires are in races. The group, which once showed ...
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Beyonce having fun showing off pregnancy
msnbc.com
(DreamWorks Pictures via Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation Beyonce shows off her moves at the World Music Awards at Earl's Court in London on Nov. 15, 2006. (Kieran Doherty / Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation In 2006, ...
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msnbc.com
'Ceasefire' halts Yemen fighting
BBC News
Manea al-Matari, a protester, told Reuters news agency: "We were walking back from prayers. All of a sudden a rocket hit close by from out of nowhere, and some people fell down. "And then a second one came and that's when we saw the two martyred. ...
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BBC News
IMF calls on Europe to get "act together" on debt
Reuters
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Forget New York drawl, get New Delhi accent!
Russia & India Report
... world's software is written here; many of the global car companies get their cars designed in engineering hubs based in Bangalore; the world's leading financial companies offshore their work to MBAs and chartered accountants in Mumbai;Reuters has ...
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Russia & India Report
Japan defence hit by cyber attack
BBC News
A report should have been made," a defence ministry spokesman was earlier quoted byReuters as saying. The online attacks - which are believed to be the first of their kind against Japan's defence industry - originated outside the company's computer ...
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BBC News
“Free press is the key to Myanmar reform”
DAWN.com
Reuters Photo BANGKOK: Army-dominated Myanmar must end “draconian”reporting laws and free jailed journalists to give credibility to promised political reform, a media rights group said on Tuesday. Myanmar's media remains among the world's most ...
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DAWN.com
Connect To Learn marks one year of progress
CisionWire (press release)
"The opportunities that mobile broadband technology can provide should be available to all children across the world. This is what we mean by 'Technology for Good,'" concluded Vestberg. Connect To Learn has raised more than USD 1 million to be used for ...
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Recommended: Wall Street protest enters fourth day
msnbc.com (blog)
A video posted on YouTube Monday appears to show police arresting at least one protester. "The elite corporate power have hijacked democracy," Alexander Penley, an international lawyer from New York, told Reuters. "The economic depression we are ...
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Content Marketing Institute Announces Partnership with Elite Content Marketing ...
Sacramento Bee
McMurry, with three offices in Arizona and New York, offers a complete line of marketing communications services to a variety of clientele, including The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co., CBS, Aon, Deloitte, HP, Verizon, UPS, Thomson Reuters and Amtrak, ...
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Home Room: Bouroullec Textile Field, PETA and porn, 2012 colors
Los Angeles Times
Apparently, the mayor may guard his private life, "swearing reporters secrecy before granting access to his homes," but photos of two "Old World and lavish" residences still popped up for public consumption on the website of his decorator, Jamie Drake. ...
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VIDEO: De La Hoya Demands Mayweather v Ortiz Rematch Before Pacquiao Showdown
IBTimes
Five-division world champion Mayweather had been set to face Pacquiao in 2010 until negotiations collapsed over the American's demand for random drug testing, Reutersreports. "I don't need Pacquiao," Mayweather told reporters after beating Ortiz in ...
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IBTimes
Sheen-less 'Two and a Half Men' pulls in record ratings
The Imperfect Parent
According to Reuters, Kutcher received high marks for his return to his sitcom roots, and the Los Angeles Times said Kutcher adds a young freshness to the show that could at some times feel “temperamentally middle-aged.” Sheen famously was released ...
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The Imperfect Parent
The War Against Witness
CounterPunch
Soon after the invasion, the hotel was indeed attacked, killing Couso as well as Ukranian Reuterscameraman Taras Protsyuk. Kinne didn't know if the soldiers responsible for the attack knew the hotel was a media hub. But after five years of learning ...
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The 10 Most Useful Travel Sites on the Web
International Business Times (press release)
Trip Advisor is the perfect choice because of the honesty and amount of reviews. Almost any hotel can be found on the site, and TripAdvisor reviews are often within the top Google search results for a hotel. REUTERS / Kacper Pempel.
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International Business Times (press release)
Government hires $90000-a-day 'cuts' consultant firm
CTV.ca
A Reuters report said 400 executives from such French firms as oil giant Total and carmaker Peugeot met with French officials in Paris last week to discuss the situation in the North African country. Reports indicate the same is happening in the United ...
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CTV.ca
Google's Best-Case Scenario at Their Antitrust Hearing
The Atlantic Wire
"It's never a positive to have to testify on antitrust on the Hill," analyst Colin Gillis toldReuters. "The best-case scenario is that things continue as they are." Want to add to this story? Let us know in comments or send an email to the author at ...
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The Atlantic Wire
Qwikster may be great brand blunder
Montreal Gazette
By PAUL THOMASCH, Reuters September 20, 2011 Justin Sullivan Getty Images file photo Netflix announced Monday it will spin off its DVD-by-mail service into a separate brand called Qwikster, keeping the Netflix name for its video streaming service. ...
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'Nato-backed charade won't last'
Emirates 24/7
Muammar Gaddafi relaxes with his family at the Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli in this still image taken from an exclusive undated amateur video obtained by ReutersSeptember 7, 2011. (REUTERS) Fugitive strongman Moamer Gaddafi denounced Libya's new ...
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Emirates 24/7
Beetel launches first touch
RadioandMusic.com
... AVI, and MP4 video formats and midi, amr, wav, mp3 music format. The device also includes Beetel World packed with a number of social networking and infotainment features such as facebook, snaptu, mig 33, yahoo, ibibo, vuclip, reuters, hungama, ...
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NSN to push cloud computing to telco gear market
ECNmag.com
(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 good. The technology from the world's No. ...
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Canadians among dead in Reno
The Sudbury Star
By QMI AGENCY, REUTERS Two Canadians are among those killed when a Second World War-era plane crashed at an air race in Reno, Nev., on Friday. According to the Reno Gazette-Journal, former Air Canada pilot George Hewitt, 60, and his wife Wendy, 57, ...
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African Union recognizes Libya's new rulers (Reuters) - News on ...
... rulers (Reuters). published about 2 hours ago. Reuters - The African Union (AU) said it was recognizing Libya's de fact ruling council, removing another diplomatic support for the ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi. Yahoo! NewsWorld News ...
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What Rupert did | MediaFile - Reuters
By John Lloyd
The crisis at the News of the World broke in July 2011. ... John Lloyd co-founded the ReutersInstitute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, where he is Director of Journalism. Lloyd has written several books, including "What ...
MediaFile
Munchau: “we are moving closer towards an involuntary ... - Reuters
By Edward Harrison
The root cause of the western world's debt problem is that the distribution of wealth and income in the last few decades has been so narrowly concentrated in a small segment of society, that states and consumers have had to borrow to keep .... Edward Harrison is the founder of Credit Writedowns and a former finance and technology executive and a regular commentator on BBC World News, CNBC Television, Business News Network, CBC Canada, Fox Television and RT Television. ...
Felix Salmon
NewsDaily: British editors appeal to government not to crush Fleet ...
By Michael Stott and Kate Holton
20, 2011 (Reuters) — British newspaper editors, in crisis after revelations of illegal phone-hacking and other ethical lapses, recognized on Tuesday that Fleet Street had to mend its ways but appealed to the government not to crush Britain's cherished free speech with draconian laws. ... Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire owner of the News of the World, closed down the newspaper, apologized and his company offered a 3 million pound ($4.5 million) damages payout in that one case. ...
NewsDaily: Top Headlines
Scientists find way to disarm AIDS virus | Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found a way to prevent HIV from damaging the ... Singapore scientists create world's smallest gear Mon, Sep 19 2011 ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-aids-hiv-disarm-idUSTRE78I5O82011...
Americans believe world is warming: Reuters/Ipsos - Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More Americans than last year believe the world is ... said about newsreports on the Republicans denying climate change science. .... Click on the *Intermediate* level tab, read the article, watch the short video at the ...
news.yahoo.com/more-americans-believe-world-warming-reut...

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