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Magnate grilled over power, influence

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

It was a rare sight for media watchers on Wednesday: Rupert Murdoch, the indomitable head of the News Corp. empire, called before a judicial inquiry to explain how his influence has shaped Britain's media and political landscape.
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US state abolishes death penalty

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy signs the repeal of the death penalty into law, making the state the 17th in the US to end capital punishment.
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Opinion: Can Obama rock youth vote?

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Will young American voters be as enthusiastic about President Obama's re-election as they were about his candidacy four years ago, when 66% of 18- to 29-year-olds favored him over John McCain?
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U.S. high court appears to back Arizona on immigration

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative justices who hold a majority on the U.S. Supreme Court appeared to endorse Arizona's immigration crackdown on Wednesday, rejecting the Obama administration stance that the federal government has sole power over those who illegally enter the United States.
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Supreme Court hears migrant law

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

US Supreme Court justices appear sceptical of challenges to a controversial Arizona immigrant law requiring immigrants to produce ID on demand.
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Syria violence rages, France tells U.N. to hurry

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian forces shot dead four civilians on a bus on Wednesday and fighting raged near Damascus, dissidents said, as international pressure mounted on President Bashar al-Assad to honor U.N.-backed ceasefire pledges to order his troops back to barracks.
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Plunge in durable goods orders clouds U.S. outlook

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Demand for long-lasting U.S. manufactured goods tumbled by the most in three years in March and businesses cut back on spending plans, suggesting the economy slowed as the first quarter drew to a close.
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Gingrich to end White House bid

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich will suspend his long-shot campaign next week, his spokesman tells US media.
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Russia frees ‘political prisoner’

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

A Russian man branded a political prisoner is freed after being pardoned by President Dmitry Medvedev - but opposition activists say he is only one of many.
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France raises Syria use of force

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

France says the UN Security Council should consider the use of force in Syria if a UN-backed peace plan fails to stop violence in the country.
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Marine discharged over Obama slur

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

A US Marine sergeant who criticised President Barack Obama as an enemy on Facebook is to face an other-than-honourable discharge.
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Interracial couples in U.S. at all-time high

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

The number of interracial couples in the United States has reached an all-time high, with one in every 10 American opposite-sex married couples saying they're of mixed races, according to the most recent Census data released Wednesday.
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Federal Reserve more optimistic

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

The Federal Reserve's interest rate setters raise their forecasts for US economic growth in 2012 but leave rates unchanged.
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"We don’t have that sort of power," Murdoch tells inquiry

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

LONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch is used to slipping into Downing Street by the back door for discreet meetings with prime ministers, but there was no such privacy on Wednesday when he faced a grilling about his political influence in the full glare of the world's media.
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Breivik: Insanity report is lies

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Anders Behring Breivik tells his Oslo trial that a psychiatric report finding him insane in relation to his 77 killings last July is a fabrication.
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Legal aid bill heading for assent

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Peers fail in a last-ditch attempt to amend those parts of the controversial bill cutting legal aid in England and Wales that apply to victims of domestic violence.
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Agency plea over climate warning

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Leading energy ministers have been told the world is on track for a temperature increase of 6C unless they change priorities.
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Prospect of ‘autism drug’ raised

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

The prospect of a drug to treat autism has been raised after symptoms of the condition were reduced in experiments on mice, performed by the US National Institutes of Health.
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Police: Madeleine McCann may be alive

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

The British girl who vanished in Portugal in 2007 may still be alive, UK authorities say. Police released an image that shows what she might look today at age 9.
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India girl ends child ‘marriage’

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

A young woman has her child "marriage" legally annulled in northern Rajasthan state, in what is thought to be the first case of its kind in India.
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Ocean driving Antarctic ice loss

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Most of the ice being lost from Antarctica is going as a result of warm water eating the fringes of the continent, a new study confirms.
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Hunt defends BSkyB takeover role

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt tells MPs he "followed due process" in the BSkyB takeover bid - but his special adviser quits over his contacts with News Corp.
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Eurozone leaders push for growth

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Eurozone leaders urge governments to focus on growth amid fears about the negative impact of austerity measures.
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GE annual meeting interrupted by 99 Percent protesters

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

DETROIT (Reuters) - Nearly 100 protesters affiliated with the "99 Percent" populist movement disrupted General Electric Co's annual shareholders' meeting on Wednesday in an attack on the largest U.S. conglomerate's low tax rate.
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Cuban ‘defector’ actors disappear

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Two young Cuban actors starring in a film about defectors, presented at the Tribeca Film Festival, disappear in Miami on their way to New York.
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Brown denies Murdoch ‘war’ call

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

UK ex-PM Gordon Brown denies he "declared war" on News Corporation, as claimed by Rupert Murdoch in evidence to a press standards inquiry.
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VIDEO: Polar bear cub rescued in Russia

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

A polar bear cub is getting used to life at the Yakutsk zoo in eastern Russia after ecologists found it on its own on the Arctic shore.
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Four top Kenyan judges dismissed

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Four senior judges in Kenya are declared unfit for office in a landmark ruling by a new committee investigating the impartiality of the judiciary.
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Queen reopens restored Cutty Sark

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Queen officially opens the Cutty Sark
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UK’s data breach fines dissected

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

A freedom of information request suggests public sector bodies are more likely to attract data breach fines than private firms.
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Breivik rails at psychiatrists for calling him insane

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

OSLO (Reuters) - The Norwegian on trial for killing 77 people in a bomb and gun rampage railed at psychiatrists who diagnosed him as psychotic, saying on Wednesday their report contained "evil, fictional inventions".
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VIDEO: Breivik says insanity report is lies

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Anders Behring Breivik has told his trial in Oslo that a psychiatric report finding him insane in relation to the 77 killings he carried out was a "lie".
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Libya bans faith-based parties

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Libyan authorities ban the formation of political parties based on religious principles, tribe or ethnicity ahead of elections scheduled for June.
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DeMint: Take politics out of tariff rules

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

If you have lived a happy, normal, American life, you have probably never heard of something so tedious and alien as a Miscellaneous Tariff Bill. I envy you. But strange as it sounds, the obscure MTB is at the heart of a very small -- but very significant -- fight for American freedom.
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German athlete exposes ‘stalker’

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Star German high-jumper Ariane Friedrich names an alleged stalker on Facebook, citing self-defence, and the move sparks a new debate about privacy.
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Day in pictures: 25 April 2012

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

24 hours of news photos from around the world
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Pixar to debut new Dolby system

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

The animated film Brave will premiere Dolby's Atmos system which allows sounds to be placed with more precision in theatres.
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‘Madeleine at nine’ image created

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

British police reviewing the evidence around Madeleine McCann's disappearance in Portugal five years ago issue an image of what she might look like now.
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Economy in double-dip recession

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

The UK returns to recession, after a sharp fall in construction leads to the economy shrinking by 0.2% in the first three months of 2012.
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VIDEO: Troops battle Mexico forest blaze

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Troops and firefighters are battling to contain wildfires that have engulfed parts of the La Primavera forest, near Guadalajara.
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Iran ‘undecided on nuclear bomb’

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

The head of the Israeli military says he does not think Iran will develop nuclear weapons, partly because international pressure is bearing fruit.
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Mein Kampf to reappear in German

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Bavaria plans to publish Hitler's manifesto, Mein Kampf, in German for the first time since 1945, before the book's copyright expires.
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Colombia anger at sex tourism taint

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Anger grows in Colombia at US sex scandal fallout
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VIDEO: Record jumpers on leap into unknown

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Felix Baumgartner, the adventurer planning to skydive from an altitude of 120,000 feet (36.7 km) this summer, has spoken about the prospect of reaching the speed of sound while falling.
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Jackson presents Hobbit footage

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Director Peter Jackson unveils 10 minutes of footage of The Hobbit to a mixed reaction at the CinemaCon convention in the US.
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Can Charles Taylor verdict heal the horrors of war?

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Will Charles Taylor verdict heal the horrors of Sierra Leone's war?
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VIDEO: Mass military drill in South China Sea

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Annual joint military exercises involving thousands of US and Philippine troops are taking place in the South China Sea.
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Songbirds gang up with neighbours

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Great tits are more likely to gang up against predators if neighbours they know are being threatened, say scientists.
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In Pictures: ‘World’s most endangered tribe’

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

The life of what may be the world's most endangered tribe
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Bo Xilai’s son defends lifestyle

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

The son of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai defends his lifestyle in a letter to his university and expresses "deep concern" about his family.
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VIDEO: Activists target child marriages

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Campaigners in Bangladesh are stepping up their efforts to put a stop to child marriages.
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VIDEO: Can California’s ‘desert miracle’ be saved?

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Why saving a disappearing inland sea may simply cost too much
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Aspirin ‘can cut cancer deaths’

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Bowel cancer patients who take aspirin daily could cut their chance of dying from the disease by about a third, experts believe.
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In pictures: Charles Taylor’s rebellions

April 25, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Images from West Africa's brutal rebellions
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VIDEO: Mining asteroids for gold and platinum

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Details have been emerging of the plan by billionaire entrepreneurs to mine asteroids for their resources.
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Can we count animal extinctions?

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Can we really count how many species are becoming extinct?
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New UAE crematorium caters for expats

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Inside the United Arab Emirates' first crematorium
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The terrible price of a Korean defection

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Losing a wife and family - the price of a Korean defection
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1st criminal charges filed in BP oil spill

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

The first criminal charges have been filed in connection with the BP Gulf oil disaster two years ago, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
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Wikileaks supsect switches lawyers

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Pfc. Bradley Manning returns to court Tuesday to push for all charges against him to be dropped.
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Apple infringes on Motorola Mobility patent: ITC

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Apple Inc infringed on a Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc patent in making its popular iPhones, iPads and other products, a judge for the International Trade Commission ruled on Tuesday.
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Hudson hears painful testimony about slain family

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

In this courtroom sketch, singer and actress Jennifer Hudson testifies Monday, April 23, 2012, in Chicago at the murder trial of William Balfour, charged in the October 2008 killings of her mother, brother and nephew. Looking on is Cook County Judge Charles Burns. Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson broke down in tears Monday while testifying at the trial of the man accused of killing her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in a jealous rage four years ago. (AP Photo/Tom Gianni)The trial of the man charged with murdering three of Jennifer Hudson's family members resumed Tuesday with the Oscar-winner shutting her eyes as a police officer described finding her dead family members.


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Satellites said to show Syria not abiding by truce

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

This image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed Monday, April 23, 2012, purports to show covered bodies before a funeral in Hama, Syria. Rebels seeking to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime launched three separate attacks on his security forces around Damascus on Tuesday, killing two ranking officers and rocking the capital with a booby-trapped car, activists and state media said. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video) TV OUT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIALSatellite imagery and other credible reports show that, despite its claims, Syria has failed to withdraw all of its heavy weapons from populated areas as required by a cease-fire deal, international envoy Kofi Annan's spokesman Ahmad Fawzi said Tuesday.


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Obama woos students, pushes low rate student loans

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

President Barack Obama speaks at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Courting college voters, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that Congress needs to keep the cost of college loans from skyrocketing for millions of students, taking an important election-year message to three states crucial to his bid to hold onto the White House.


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Company unveils plan to mine asteroids for riches

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

This computer-generated image provided by Planetary Resources, a group of high-tech tycoons that wants to mine nearby asteroids, shows a conceptual rendering of a spacecraft preparing to capture a water-rich, near-Earth asteroid. The group's mega-million dollar plan is to use commercially built robotic ships to squeeze rocket fuel and valuable minerals like platinum and gold out of the lifeless rocks that routinely whiz by Earth. One of the company founders predicts they could have their version of a space-based gas station up and running by 2020. (AP Photo/Planetary Resources)Space-faring robots could be extracting gold and platinum from asteroids within 10 years if a new venture backed by two Silicon Valley titans and filmmaker James Cameron goes as planned.


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En route to Tribeca, 2 Cuban actors go missing

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

In this undated film image released by Tribeca Film Festival, actors Javier Nunez Florian, left, and Analin de la Rua de la Torre are shown in a scene from, In a case of life imitating art, two Cuban actors have gone missing en route to their film's premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.


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Alleged armored truck shooter caught

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

A fugitive accused of stealing $2 million from an armored truck he was driving and killing his partner was caught early Tuesday in Florida, according to the FBI.
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Egypt comedian found guilty of offending Islam

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 11, 2005 file photo, Egyptian film actor and comedian Adel Imam, right, walks with Egyptian actress Laila Elwi, left, during the Second Dubai International Film Festival red carpet reception in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. An Egyptian court has sentenced Imam one of the Arab world's most famous comedic actors to three months in jail for offending Islam in some of his most popular films. Imam was also fined 170 dollars for insulting Islam in some of the roles he played. (AP Photo/Aziz Shah, File)An Egyptian court on Tuesday upheld a conviction against one of the Arab world's most famous comedians, sentencing him to jail for offending Islam in some of his most popular films.


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Feds: $40M settlement with NYC construction firm

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

A construction company whose projects included the stadium where the New York Mets play and the Sept. 11 Memorial agreed to pay up to $56 million in penalties and restitution after admitting a decade-long fraud that included routinely overcharging customers and ignoring minority hiring mandates, authorities announced Tuesday.
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U.S. charges ex-BP engineer obstructed spill probe

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

(Reuters) - A former BP Plc engineer was arrested and charged on Tuesday with trying to destroy evidence related to how much oil was spilling from the company's broken well in the Gulf of Mexico in April of 2010, the U.S. Justice Department said.
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What changes look like for the BCS

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

College football's new path to crowning a national champion should become a lot clearer in south Florida on Wednesday and Thursday.
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First charges filed over BP spill

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

A former BP engineer is accused in the US of obstruction of justice over the 2010 Gulf oil spill - the first criminal charge in connection with the disaster.
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Caretaker Dutch PM seeks consensus on cuts

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte, right, and deputy prime minister Maxime Verhagen, left, are seen in parliament in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday April 24, 2012.Rutte appealed to a polarized Dutch Parliament on Tuesday to help him get the economy back on track rather than let the country drift in political limbo until new elections. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)Caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte appealed to a polarized Dutch Parliament on Tuesday to help him make painful budget cuts rather than let the country drift in political limbo until new elections.


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Ex-Edwards aide back on the witness stand at trial

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Former presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. John Edwards, right, leaves a federal court with his daughter Cate, left, in Greensboro, N.C., Monday, April 23, 2012. A former aide to Edwards has taken the witness stand in his criminal trial to testify about his role in allegedly violating campaign finance laws to cover up an extramarital affair. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)The aide who helped former presidential candidate John Edwards hide his mistress's pregnancy is back on the witness stand, telling a jury about money that flowed from a wealthy supporter.


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Family of missing AZ girl allowed to return home

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Tucson Police Department shows Isabel Mercedes Celis, 6, whose parents say was missing from her bedroom when they awoke on Saturday, April 21, 2012. The girl's family was allowed to return to their Tucson home on Tuesday, April 24, a day after authorities kept them away as they searched for clues to her disappearance. (AP Photo/Tucson Police Department)The family of a missing 6-year-old girl was allowed to return to their Tucson home on Tuesday, a day after authorities kept them away as they searched for clues to her disappearance from her bedroom.


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More than $1M found in armored car heist arrest

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

This combination of two undated photos provided by the Pittsburgh police shows Garda Cash Logistics armored car guards Kenneth Konias Jr., 22, of Dravosburg, Pa., left, and his partner, Michael Haines, of East McKeesport. Konias, wanted on charges he stole more than $2 million from an armored car he was paid to guard in Pittsburgh, murdering Michael Haines in the process, was arrested Tuesday morning April 24, 2012, in Florida, an attorney and a federal prosecutor said. (AP Photo/Pittsburgh Police)An armored car guard accused of killing his partner in Pittsburgh and making off with more than $2 million was arrested in Florida on Tuesday after nearly two months on the run when someone called Pittsburgh police to report his whereabouts, authorities said.


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Judge blocks move to suppress key Powell evidence

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Steve Powell appears in a Pierce County Superior Court hearing, Monday, April 23, 2012, in Tacoma, Wash. Powell's attorney said Monday that investigators frustrated by their unsuccessful quest to find Powell's missing daughter-in-law pursued an A Washington judge on Tuesday cleared the way for the voyeurism trial of missing Utah mother Susan Powell's father-in-law, dismissing his request to suppress key evidence in the case.


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Murdoch testimony spotlights UK Olympics minister

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

James Murdoch arrives at the Levenson media inquiry to give evidence at the High Court in London, Tuesday, April, 24, 2012. _ Britain's broadcast regulator announced Monday it was investigating email hacking by Rupert Murdoch's Sky News, only minutes before the channel's head of news acknowledged that his station had broken the law and misled a senior judge. An Ofcom spokesman said Monday that the investigation would center on News Corp. executive James Murdoch's behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign spilled out into the public domain Tuesday, casting a harsh light on the government's Olympics czar.


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Town where Trayvon died in ‘limbo’

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

The rejection of the resignation plan for the embattled police chief in the Trayvon Martin case leaves the city in "limbo," the city manager said Tuesday.
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Spain breaks up trafficking ring

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Spanish police arrest 22 people and break up a gang trying to smuggle Iranians into Britain through the Canary Islands.
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MPAA chief: Hollywood must befriend Silicon Valley

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

The head of the Motion Picture Association of America says Hollywood and Silicon Valley must work together to protect intellectual property.
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Egyptians protest lawyer’s arrest in Saudi

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Egyptian protesters demonstrate in front of the Saudi Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 to demand the release of an Egyptian human rights lawyer detained in Saudi Arabia for allegedly insulting the kingdom's monarch. Arabic on the banner read, Hundreds of Egyptians protested outside the Saudi Embassy on Tuesday demanding the release of an Egyptian human rights lawyer detained in Saudi Arabia for allegedly insulting the kingdom's monarch.


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This could kill Rangers – McCoist

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Manager Ally McCoist warns that the Scottish FA's sanctions against Rangers could put the club out of business.
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US new-home sales off 7 percent in March

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

In a Friday, March 23, 2012 photo, sun streams through window cutouts in an unfinished home in Richmond, Va. Sales of new homes fell in March 2012 by the largest amount in more than a year, indicating that the U.S. housing market remains under strain despite some modest signs of improvement. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)Sales of new homes fell in March by the largest amount in more than a year, indicating that the U.S. housing market remains under strain despite some modest signs of improvement.


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Google offers 1TB cloud storage

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Google offers remote storage with 5GB of space for free, or up to 1TB for a charge, challenging Dropbox, Microsoft and others.
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Egypt disqualifies another presidential candidate

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

The state-run news agency says Egypt's election panel has disqualified another presidential hopeful because of a new law that strips former regime officials of the right to run for office.
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Google joins ‘cloud’ data storage trend

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Google on Tuesday launched a long-anticipated "Drive" service that lets people store photos, videos, and other digital files in the Internet "cloud."
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BP engineer arrested for destroying Gulf leak evidence

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

A man walks on the beach where oil is seen in the water in Orange Beach, Alabama, in 2010US authorities arrested a former BP engineer Tuesday for destroying evidence related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 and leaked millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.


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Bank of Greece: recession worse than expected

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Central bank governor George Provopoulos presents the annual report to the bank's annual general assembly in Athens, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. The Bank of Greece is forecasting a 5 percent contraction in the crisis-hit country's economy in 2012. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)The Bank of Greece warned Tuesday that the country faces a worse-than-expected recession in 2012, with the economy set to shrink 5 percent. It also urged politicians to make a swift return to cost-cutting measures after the May 6 general election or face "particularly harmful" economic consequences.


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Google launches storage service for personal files

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Google is hoping to build the world's largest digital filing cabinet in the latest attempt to deepen people's dependence on its services.
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State police probing Saints alleged wiretapping

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

A joint Louisiana state police and FBI task force is investigating allegations that the New Orleans Saints set up general manager Mickey Loomis' booth in the Superdome so he could listen in on opposing coaches.
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Stocks up, eurozone crisis stalks bond auctions

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

A floor trader talks on the phone at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Tuesday, April 24, 2012. Unsettling news about Europe's debt crisis and disappointing U.S. corporate earnings weighed on Asian stock markets Tuesday. Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost 0.2 percent at 20,591 after a higher opening. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)Stocks in Europe rebounded modestly Tuesday after sharp losses the day before on fears about the continent's debt crisis, helped by a late rebound on Wall Street. But markets struggled to hold gains and bond auctions for Spain and Italy showed that debt fears still stalk the eurozone.


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US women drawn with France, Colombia, North Korea

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Jerome Valcke, FIFA Secretary General, holds up a Canada ballot during the draw for the Women's 2012 Olympic Soccer tournament, at Wembley Stadium in London, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)With tension escalating between their governments, the United States and North Korea were drawn Tuesday into the same first-round group for this summer's Olympic women's soccer tournament.


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Oracle confronts Google’s Schmidt about Java

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google's former chief executive, Eric Schmidt, testified in court on Tuesday that he could not recall whether he was told in 2005 by people within his company that it had to pay for a license from Sun Microsystems to use the Java programming language.
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Romney eyes clean primary sweep

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney aims for a clean sweep in five US primaries, which could force dogged rival Newt Gingrich from the race.
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Driver ‘parks’ car in Paris metro

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

A confused driver ends up trapping his car on the steps of a metro station in Paris, after mistaking it for the entrance to an underground car park.
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Earnings boost Wall Street; Apple, Netflix curb Nasdaq

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose on Tuesday after strong earnings from big manufacturers and AT&T, but gains were capped on Nasdaq ahead of results from Apple and after a downbeat forecast from Netflix.
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Home prices seeing some signs of stability

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The housing market is seeing hints of stabilization, with February home prices rising for the first time in 10 months, according to a survey on Tuesday, while a measure of consumer confidence last month fell more than expected.
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Benetton steps down as fashion empire struggles

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Benetton courted new controversy with a campaign featuring world figures kissingItaly's Luciano Benetton handed over the reins of his fashion empire on Tuesday to his son, who must relaunch a struggling brand known for its controversial ad campaigns.


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Disney opera to get UK premiere

April 24, 2012 in Syndicated Posts, Top Global News

Philip Glass's opera about Walt Disney is to get its UK premiere at the English National Opera (ENO).