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Anonymous hackers access Greek ministry website
Reuters
| ATHENS (Reuters) - Hackers associated with the activist group Anonymous posted a protest against Greece's EU and IMF-inspired austerity policies on the website of the country's justice ministry Friday, a ministry spokeswoman said.
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Digital Domain Media Group Inc. : Digital Domain's Neil Huxley Directs Epic ...
Reuters
It's a world I am very familiar with," said Huxley. "It's a true warrior sport. It's explosive and amazing to watch. The nature of this kind of combat is no joke. It's the fastest growing sport in the world and they needed a show open to equal the ...
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Analysis: A sobering look at Facebook
Reuters
By Sarah McBride and Poornima Gupta | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - It's the year's hottest initial public offering, but some wealth managers find themselves having a hard time recommending Facebook to their clients. Theworld's biggest social network is ...
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US shuts 16 sports piracy websites pre-Super Bowl
Reuters
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Three days before Super Bowl XLVI, US prosecutors said they seized 16 websites that illegally streamed live sports and pay-per-view events over the Internet, and charged a Michigan man with running nine of those websites ...
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Komen move on Planned Parenthood sparks abortion row
Reuters
By David Morgan | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A decision by Susan G. Komen for the Cure to cut funding for Planned Parenthood erupted into a crisis over abortion rights on Thursday, fueling an angry public debate about the future of the leading breast ...
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TECHNICOLOR Acquires the Activities of Digital Post-production Specialist Duboi
Reuters
Our world class research and innovation laboratories enable us to lead the market in delivering advanced video services to content creators and distributors. We also benefit from an extensive intellectual property portfolio focused on imaging and sound ...
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Ferrari unveil 'aggressive' F2012, Massa warned
Reuters Africa
By Mark Meadows LONDON (Reuters) - Ferrari unveiled their 2012 Formula One car via the Internet on Friday after their usual glittering launch had been cancelled due to snow in Maranello, where driver Felipe Massa was given a frosty reminder that he ...
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InvestmentPitch.com Invites Attendees to Global Chinese Financial Forum's ...
Reuters
CONTACT : InvestmentPitch.com Barry Morgan, CFO            604-684-5524       bmorgan@investmentpitch.com Global Chinese Financial Forum Gilbert Chan             604-488-8878      gilbert@nai500.com This announcement is distributed by Thomson Reuterson behalf of Thomson Reuters ...
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Pfizer liable for pregnancy lawsuits after birth control recall
WTAQ
(Reuters) - Pfizer Inc is reaching out directly to women consumers to warn them about its US recall of one million packets of birth control pills as concerns mounted that a manufacturing error could raise the risk of unplanned pregnancies. The world's ...
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Egypt Tragedy Reignites Soccer Hooliganism Fears
Onislam.net
By Mike Collett-White and Nick Vinocur (Reuters) - In terms of global visibility there could hardly be a greater contrast between Wednesday's soccer disaster in Egypt which claimed the lives of at least 73 people and the world's worst recorded stadium ...
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Onislam.net
Deaths in Egypt's Suez after Port Said football unrest
BBC News
A witness quoted by Reuters said: "Protesters are trying to break into the Suez police station and police are now firing live ammunition." Throughout Thursday, al-Ahly supporters gathered outside the club's stadium in Cairo. A series of protest marches...
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BBC News
HuffPo's Television Venture
FINS
By Damian Ghigliotty Fresh on the heels of Thomson Reuters and The Wall Street Journal extending their online video via YouTube, AOL's Huffington Post is launching its own video service this summer, planning to stream 12 hours of live programming five ...
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Jessica Alba goes toxin-free with The Honest Company
Reuters
By Piya Sinha-Roy | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Working mom Jessica Alba is adding entrepreneur to her many titles, shifting from movie star to businesswoman with a venture that provides parents easy access to eco-friendly natural products for babies and ...
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Brent crude up more than $2 on US jobs, Iran warning
Yahoo!Xtra New Zealand News
NEW YORK, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Brent crude oil futures extended gains on Friday as a surprise surge in US jobs growth for January and other upbeat economic reports on both sides of the Atlantic plus a warning from Iran of retaliation against the West for ...
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VIDEO: England name uncapped trio for Six Nations opener
3News NZ
Only six players who started the World Cup quarter-final defeat to France last October survive for Saturday's (February 5) Six Nations game at Murrayfield, as centre duo Owen Farrell and Brad Barritt and number eight Phil Dowson make their debuts,...
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3News NZ
At Least 12 Dead in Latest Syria Violence
Voice of America
Amnesty International says the February 1982 siege, ordered by the father of Syrian President Bashar Assad, killed between 10000 and 25000 people.Video posted on the Internet claims to show Friday's marches in Homs and Damascus, as well as some in the ...
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Anonymous Hacks FBI, Scotland Yard Phone Call
The Epoch Times
British police told Reuters that they are investigating the incident. “We are aware of the video, which relates to an FBI conference call involving a PCeU (Police Central e-crime Unit) representative,” London's Metropolitan Police (MPS) said in a ...
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The Epoch Times
Steve Jobs turning over in his grave? Look-alike touts rival Android
Los Angeles Times
The man playing Jobs in the commercial is Taiwanese comedian and impersonator Ah-Ken, according to a report in Reuters. The commercial never explicitly uses Jobs name, but Ah-Ken is dressed in Jobs trademark black turtleneck and blue jeans, ...
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PRECIOUS-Gold falls 1 pct on strong US jobs data
Yahoo!Xtra New Zealand News
28 (Rewrites, updates comment, market activity, adds NEW YORK to dateline, second byline) By Frank Tang and Jan Harvey NEW YORK/LONDON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Gold fell around 1 percent on Friday, on pace for its biggest one-day loss in over a month, ...
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Sehwag or Kohli can lead the Test side: Azharuddin
Times of India
(Reuters Photo) NEW DELHI: In an exclusive interview, former Indian captain-turned-politician Mohammed Azharuddin speaks about coming to terms with losing his son, his involvement in politics and his advice to the beleagured Men in Blue.
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Invest in Saudi Arabia
MarketWatch
(Video: Reuters/Photo: AP) Saudi Arabia is also investing big in desalination plants and technologies. This could position, as many have said, water to become the next oil. Foreign investors couldn't invest in Saudi Arabia until August 2008, ...
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Janguar Land Rover to partner with Chery for China expansion
INAUTONEWS
“There is nothing new to say on this matter,” a spokesman for Tata Motors told Reuters. “Jaguar Land Rover is looking at a manufacturing partnership in China, and have been for two years. Beyond that, there is nothing to say.” Jin Yibo, a spokesman for ...
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INAUTONEWS
BBB Asks Charities To Explain Deworming Med Valuations
Forbes
The mass request is likely to heighten an issue already roiling the nonprofit world because of the implicit suggestion some big-name charities have used made-up numbers to make themselves look bigger and more financially efficient than they really are.
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Forbes
Yahoo India expands into five more Indian languages
Firstpost
Reuters “Yahoo claims that its Tamil site had witnessed a growth of 160% in page views in the last month and is currently the second in the market in terms of user base. Also, its Marathi site has recorded a growth of 135% in pageviews in the last ...
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Firstpost
Watchlist: A 'Three's Company' Reunion on Suzanne Somers's New Online Show
New York Times (blog)
(Others included Fremantle Media, Hearst magazines, Thomson Reutersand World Wrestling Entertainment.) Ms. Somers's series is its showcase production, with seven episodes posted since Dec. 30. The title “Suzanne Somers Breaking Through” is a reference ...
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Guest Post — Finding the people behind a revolution: Johnny West's Karama!
Crikey (blog)
Journeys Through the Arab Spring, a travel book by formerReuters Cairo correspondent Johnny West. This book was released straight to paperback without much fanfare, but it stood out to me because of what it is not: another dry historical analysis, ...
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Crikey (blog)
Rat Disguised As Skunk Gets Poisonous
Global Animal
Meet the African crested rat, or Lophiomys imhausi, a creature so large, flamboyantly furred and thickly helmeted it hardly seems a member of the international rat consortium. Yet it is indeed a rat, a deadly dirty rat, its superspecialized pelt ...
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Global Animal
Can Kazau Hirai Navigate Sony's Sea of Red?
Investorplace.com
Its 2001 mobile phone joint venture, Sony Ericsson, fell onto hard times after the 2007 release of the iPhone; the company posted consecutive net losses starting in 2008 and by 2010 had dropped to sixth place for world mobile phone sales.
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Goldman shooting its messenger may bring good news - Reuters
By Antony Currie
But by shooting its messenger, Goldman seems to be signaling that it thinks the worst news is at last behind it. « Previous Post ... Reuters Breakingviews is the world's leading source of agenda-setting financial insight. Breakingviews has ...
Breakingviews
World News - 3 die in Egypt clashes as anger at deadly riot spills ...
By Reuters
First for breaking news and analysis: Compelling world news stories from msnbc.com journalists and NBC News' network of correspondents and producers. ↓ About this ... A Reuters witness heard firing and found gun pellets on the ground.
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Fantastic news on jobs | Felix Salmon - Reuters
By Felix Salmon
For all the problems in the world — and the US economy could still be derailed if something nasty happens in Europe — things are moving very much in the right direction for the time being. ... Felix Salmon is the finance blogger at Reuters.
Felix Salmon
NewsDaily: Insight: Syria's Assad set for long conflict
By Mariam Karouny
"He spent the evening at a Damascus restaurant," he added, speaking privately to Reuters about the president's movements on January 28, when the appearance of forces flying flags of the Free Syrian Army at the very edge of the capital had some, ... a year ago, inspired by Arab Spring risings elsewhere to demand freedoms, and were met with the ferocity that is the mark of four decades of rule by Assad and his father, Syria has been virtually closed to reporters from the outside world .
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Taliban video highlights revenge on Pakistan military | Reuters
Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia newsagency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technologynews, headline ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-pakistan-military-video-idUSTRE80K...
Taliban vows to retake Afghanistan: report | Reuters
KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban, backed by Pakistan, remains confident despite a decade ... Egyptians incensed after 74 die in soccer tragedy |Video ..... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest internationalmultimedia news agency, providing ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-afghanistan-idUSTRE8100E52012020...
IAEA, Iran to meet again after good talks | Reuters
VIENNA (Reuters) - Senior U.N. nuclear inspectors plan another trip to Iran later this ... Job growth surges, jobless rate near 3-year low | Video ... World». Herman Nackaerts, head of a delegation of the International Atomic Energy ... One step has been taken forward," he told the semi- official Farsnews agency in Tehran.
www.reuters.com/.../us-iran-iaea-idUSTRE8100M220120201
World stocks dip as U.S. GDP falls short | Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - World stocks fell on Friday on news the U.S. economy grew more slowly than expected in the last quarter of 2011, while the euro rose on ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-markets-global-idUSTRE80Q03J2012...
Yemen's Saleh heads for United States | Reuters
ADEN (Reuters) - President Ali Abdullah Saleh was heading to the United States on Saturday, Yemen's state news agency said, a week after leaving for Oman ... After Florida win, Romney stumbles in comments on poor |Video .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest internationalmultimedia news agency, providing ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-yemen-fighting-idUSTRE80R0OR201...
Heavy fighting in Pakistan tribal areas kills dozens | Reuters
PARACHINAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani fighter jets bombed militant hideouts in tribal areas near the ... Related Video. Video .... ThomsonReuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-pakistan-fighting-idUSTRE8100EI201...
South Korea, Japan want U.S. to detail Iran sanctions | Reuters
TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea and Japan will soon meet U.S. officials in Washington ... "Soul Train" creator Don Cornelius commits suicide | Video ... Japan is the world's third biggest oil consumer, and South Korea is the fifth largest. ... Thomson Reuters is the world's largestinternational multimedia news agency, ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-korea-japan-iran-idUSTRE8100KW20...
Egyptians vote in Upper House elections on Sunday | Reuters
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptians vote Sunday in the first stage of elections for the upper house of ... Egyptians incensed after 74 die in soccer tragedy |Video .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest internationalmultimedia news agency, ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-egypt-parliament-vote-idUSTRE80R0...
Merkel to urge China to cut Iran oil imports: source | Reuters
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will use a planned visit to ... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedianews agency ... available on Reuters.com, video, mobile, and interactive television platforms.
www.reuters.com/.../us-germany-iran-idUSTRE80U0I720120...
Global food prices easing, volatility still high: World Bank | Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global food prices are set to decline further in 2012 as a weaker world economy dampens consumer demand while food supplies rise ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-worldbank-food-idUSTRE80U13V20...
Assange to appeal extradition to UK's top court | Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will appeal to Britain's ... released secret video footage and thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables about the wars .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largestinternational multimedia news ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-britain-assange-idUSTRE8100442012...
Egypt army fires general to boost image | Reuters
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's military leader has sacked the general responsible for ... Special report: Mormonism besieged by the modern age |Video .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest internationalmultimedia news agency, providing ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-egypt-army-idUSTRE80U0JT2012013...
Arab League suspends Syria mission as violence rages | Reuters
CAIRO/BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Arab League suspended its monitoring mission in ... A video uploaded by activists, purported to be from a rebel-held Damascus suburb, .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largestinternational multimedia news ...
www.reuters.com/article/.../us-syria-idUSTRE8041A82012012...
  
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