REUTERS World News, Sep 07, 2011

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... See all stories on this topic » Reuters

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... See all stories on this topic » Reuters

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 ... See all stories on this topic » Reuters

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic » 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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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, ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic » 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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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. ... See all stories on this topic »

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. ... See all stories on this topic »

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, ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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, ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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. ... See all stories on this topic » 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... See all stories on this topic » Reuters

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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. ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

'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 ... See all stories on this topic » 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 ... See all stories on this topic » 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? ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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... See all stories on this topic » 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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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. ... See all stories on this topic » 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 ... See all stories on this topic » 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, ... pilot.us.reuters.com/.../obama-says-infrastructure-projects-will...

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SPORTS, Athletics News, Sep 07, 2011

New Illinois athletics director Mike Thomas discusses goals, priorities Peoria Journal Star He made appearances at football, volleyball and soccer events over the weekend, and Thomas was scheduled for a meeting with the Illini basketball program later Tuesday after touching on his priorities during a meeting with the media. ... See all stories on this topic »

Indoor soccer, other sports coming to Duluth's Pioneer Park Duluth News Tribune People soon will be able to play soccer, baseball, lacrosse and other such warm-weather sports in comfort nearly year-round in Duluth. A 210-by-120-foot indoor athletic turf donated to the Boys and Girls Club of the Norhtland by the Minnesota Vikings ... See all stories on this topic »

Area Sports: Tickets, Middle school football, varsity soccer & volleyball Shelby Star The fifth quarter portion of the competition starts at 4 pm, followed by the regular contest at 4:30 pm Shelby 9, RS Central 0 – The Lady Golden Lions breezed past the Hilltoppers in South MountainAthletic Conference action Tuesday. ... See all stories on this topic »

'LSU Tiger Tracks' Features Football, Soccer Stadium LSUSports.net by Bill Franques, Sr. Associate SID BATON ROUGE - This week's edition of LSU Tiger Tracks, a program highlighting various aspects of the university and its athletic department, can be seen at 6:30 pm Wednesday on Cox Sports Television. ... See all stories on this topic »

Stephens earns Napa High's highest honor Napa Valley Register Stephens also had success in other sports. He was chosen All-County in both soccer (defender) andfootball (kicker) as a senior. Napa's win over Amador Valley was one of the biggest in school history. Amador Valley was 27-1 and ranked fourth in the ... See all stories on this topic »

KEISSER: Football would put LBSU in the black Long Beach Press-Telegram Even better: The plans to improve the athletic facilities on campus - already underway with lights coming soon to the soccer and intramural field - include a women's soccer stadium. It wouldn't take much to convert that idea into a slightly larger ... See all stories on this topic »

Tennessee Football: Will New AD Dave Hart Doom or Bless the Vols? Bleacher Report A second capital campaign is ongoing to endow athletics scholarships for all sports at Florida State.Within the Facilities Master Plan, the Soccer/Softball facility was the first new facility to be built and remains one of the nation's finest. ... See all stories on this topic » Bleacher Report

Lubonski never holds back in athletics or the classroom Edison Sentinel Lubonski's initial sports interest was soccer, which she played with her sisters and friends in their backyards for as long as she can remember. She first joined organized soccer at age 5 and literally hasn't stopped playing. She played travel soccer ... See all stories on this topic »

USU women's soccer: Molli Merrill named WAC Defensive Player of the Week Deseret News By Doug Hoffman, For the Deseret News LOGAN — Utah State women's soccer player Molli Merrill was named the Western Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week Monday. This is the fourth career WAC Player of the Week honor for Merrill and her ... See all stories on this topic »

Calvary Chapel drops boys soccer for season Bangor Daily News “It's a positive for us,” said GHCA athletic administrator Barrett Potter. “For us it was a win-win and for Hodgdon it was a win-win, because from working with them in the different sports, kids from both schools have access to sports that they ... See all stories on this topic »

District Buses For Football, Not Other Sports KMGH Denver But cross country, soccer and other fall sports players will drive themselves, or find other ways to get to their competitions, as a new district policy took effect with the new school year. "We certainly understand the challenges that everyone is ... See all stories on this topic »

2011-12 CTX Athletics Webcasting Schedule Kicks Off With Huston-Tillotson ... Concordia University Tornados Athletics The slate will feature over 100 contests encompassing seven varsity sports, including 20 basketball doubleheaders, 16 baseball and softball games, eight soccer doubleheaders and seven volleyball matches. Ken Weiss, a CTX alum, Keith Babola and Forever ... See all stories on this topic »

Sports schedule packed for athletic Oaklander Town Crier Newspapers “I have two brothers and we've always been very athletic,” she said. “We started with soccer first and then once school started I was participating in every sport I could.” She admits that soccer used to be her favourite sport, but now the Wilson has ... See all stories on this topic »

Bel Air girls beat Edgewood in volleyball Baltimore Sun While most of Tuesday's athletic contests were postponed by bad weather, some went on undeterred, including some boys and girls soccer and, obviously, the indoors sport of girls volleyball. teams found dry courts inside respective gyms to get in a few ... See all stories on this topic »

Lenape girls' soccer team dreaming of more championships | Philadelphia ... Philadelphia Inquirer "We try to keep the focus where it's supposed to be in high school athletics. And that's to enjoy the game, have fun, and try to get better every game. "We have high expectations, but we know nothing is coming easy to us. There are a lot of great teams ... See all stories on this topic »

Around The Oval Eleven Warriors Eleven Warriors is committed to keeping you informed of what's happening with thosesports that make Ohio State athletics more than just football and basketball. Around the Oval will be your weekly update on these teams. Welcome back to another week ... See all stories on this topic » Eleven Warriors

District 10 soccer garners statewide respect after successful seasons GoErie.com By TOM REISENWEBER, Erie Times-News One team to finally win a Pennsylvania InterscholasticAthletic Association girls soccer championship to earn District 10 the respect it deserved. Less than one year after the Lakers defeated South Park 3-0 in the ... See all stories on this topic »

Boise State Broncos Receive Invitation to Join SEC Bleacher Report As a conference contributor to athletics, Boise State has very little to offer to the SEC. Well, that's not entirely true either. They have a great women's soccer team and they dominated the WAC in tennis. Oh, and if you weren't aware, ... See all stories on this topic » Bleacher Report

Girls' soccer team head injuries examined in Cambridge Wicked Local But because the football team has significantly more players, girls' soccer still boasts the highest percentage of head injuries of all CRLS sports. School Committee member Patty Nolan requested last December that CRLS collect and report head injury ... See all stories on this topic »

Eight Public League squads bite dust | Philadelphia Inquirer | 2011-09-07 Philadelphia Inquirer The remaining C Division teams will play each other twice this season, said league soccer chairman and Frankford athletic director Jack Creighton. "I hope this is all," Creighton said, concerned that other programs might drop once students reported to ... See all stories on this topic »

Sports Roundup: Millers, Lakers Squeeze In Slate of Pre-Labor Day Contests Patch.com By Tom Carothers The Minneapolis Southwest and Washburn athletic teams got in an abbreviated schedule prior to a long weekend for the Labor Day holiday last week. The Southwest boys soccerteam, ranked second in Class AA, was upset on the road in a 3-2 ... See all stories on this topic »

Weather plays havoc with sports schedules Cleveland Daily Banner Five soccer, four volleyball, a pair of golf matches and a middle school football game have all been postponed. “Per school board policy, when we aren't in school, we don't play games,” commented Cleveland High athletic director Mike Collier. ... See all stories on this topic »

Clarifying what conference realignment means to the Big 12 and Missouri athletics Columbia Missourian But football, and the massive revenue it brings, drives the bus. Remember, the money the school makes on football gets poured back into the athletics department to pay for all of the sports that don't make money on their own, such as baseball or soccer ... See all stories on this topic »

Metro & state: MIAA inaugurates men's, women's lacrosse Detroit Free Press The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association will add men's lacrosse and women's lacrosse as varsity conference sports beginning next season. Competition will begin with the fall non-traditional season in 2012 and conclude with conference regular ... See all stories on this topic »

Bowdoin Announces Fall 2011 Webcast Schedule Bowdoin Athletics BRUNSWICK, Maine - The Bowdoin College Athletic Department is pleased to announce an extensive live video webcast schedule for the 2011 fall sports season. Encompassing 24 home events, the schedule includes all four Bowdoin home footballgames, ... See all stories on this topic » Bowdoin Athletics

Concussions and high school football: When it's safe to play again KTVB Headminder, the computer program Centennial uses, and has used for 10 years, costs the school around $600 a year to test all football and soccer players and wrestlers. It's paid for by parents who give $4 per kid for the entire year as part of athletic ... See all stories on this topic »

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