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The new facility, which is already under construction, will include buildings that are screened against external radio waves and can be used to test advanced new wireless projects for the home. Other experiments will look at the use of rare gases and innovative optical coatings. The company has already demonstrated new concepts for the ‘Android@Home’ brand, which would allow users of Google

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The Arab League has agreed to boost support for the Syrian opposition and urge the U.N. Security Council to form a joint Arab-U.N. peacekeeping force to try to end the Syrian government's increasingly deadly crackdown on an 11-month uprising. Arab League foreign ministers meeting in Cairo adopted a resolution Sunday calling on member states to provide the Syrian opposition with "open channels

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Doing so would save the NHS millions of pounds and help stem the problem of growing antibiotic resistance among bacteria. Studies have shown that antibiotics are widely over-prescribed. Sometimes they are given to combat a bad cold, caused by a virus, against which they have no effect. This tends to be because the doctor, who knows the science of the matter, is put under intense pressure by

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Norway has raised concern with the Indian government about its multibillion-dollar investment in the country's telecommunication sector, after India’s Supreme Court canceled licenses of mobile phone operators, including a Norwegian firm, citing irregularities in the licensing process. On Tuesday, Norway’s Information Technology Minister Rigmor Aasrud met her Indian counterpart, Kapil Sibal, in

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Iranian authorities are "intimidating and arresting people who they claim have connections with the BBC Persian service," the British broadcasting giant said Tuesday. The accusation comes a day after Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency said that "a number of people" secretly working for the BBC Persian service had been arrested. The BBC said that could not be true. The BBC "Persian language

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China strongly defended its veto of a United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria again Monday, saying its decision was ultimately aimed at avoiding more casualties. Monday's Foreign Ministry briefing was dominated by China's decision, along with Russia's, to block the resolution condemning Syria's crackdown on anti-government protesters and calling for President Bashar al-Assad to

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Romania's prime minister resigned Monday in the wake of weeks of public protests against austerity measures and a deadly spell of bitterly cold weather. The resignation makes Romania the sixth European country to see a prime minister fall amid the debt crisis sweeping European Union member states. Besides budgetary issues, criticism has also mounted over the government's handling of a recent,

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China said Monday it was forced to veto a United Nations vote on Syria because it was called before differences in the proposal were bridged, but denied playing spoiler and said it wants to see an end to violence there. China and Russia have drawn the wrath of the United States, Europe and much of the Arab world for the weekend veto, which they say blocked a U.N. attempt to end nearly 11 months

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A family of three huddled on the edge of an old-growth Oregon forest for six days, lost and cold, unable to signal search helicopters flying low and slow overhead. Without food, water or even warm clothing, Belinda and Daniel Conne, along with their 25-year-old son, Michael, survived by drinking water from streams and taking shelter in a hollowed-out tree. On Saturday, they managed to crawl to

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- In the nearly two years since a University of Virginia lacrosse player was charged with killing his ex-girlfriend, it's become easier for possible abuse victims to get a restraining order and students must tell the school if they've ever been arrested. Those are the most concrete policy changes since the May 2010 death of Yeardley Love, who played on the women's lacrosse

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Thousands of stadium workers set to serve at Super Bowl XLVI have been trained by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to spot terror threats at Sunday's big game, The New York Post reports. From parking-lot attendants to hot-dog sellers, the government has put some 8,000 employees and volunteers at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis through their First Observer training program.

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As international anger grows over reports of mass carnage at the hands of the Syrian regime, a U.N. Security Council draft resolution condemning Syria failed to be adopted Saturday after veto-wielding members Russia and China voted against it. Ambassadors from the other permanent members of the council -- the United States, France, and the United Kingdom -- said they were furious at Russia and

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The United Nations refugee agency says it is alarmed by reports of renewed atrocities committed against internally displaced Congolese.  The UNHCR says it has reports of IDPs (internally displaced people) in camps of North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo having been killed and tortured by so-called armed elements.  The U.N. refugee agency says armed groups have been

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The professional American football championship game, also known as the Super Bowl, will be played Sunday in the Midwestern city of Indianapolis, Indiana. The kickoff is scheduled for about 6:30pm EST, 2330 UTC.  The nation’s biggest annual sporting event attracts die-hard fans as well as casual observers. Sunday's NFL title game features a rematch of four years ago with the New York Giants

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Most people using the social network receive more interactions, such as ‘likes’ or being tagged in photos, than they give out on the site. A new study entitled: 'Why Most Facebook Users Get More Than They Give’, from Pew Internet, an American not-for-profit research firm, found that people ‘liked’ other Facebook members’ content an average of 14 times, while their own content was on average '

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Internet millionaire Kim Dotcom, also known as Kim Schmitz, has appeared in a New Zealand court, describing unwanted approaches from a forger, a fake prosecutor and various female inmates wanting to be pen pals. During a failed appeal against a decision last week refusing bail, Dotcom, in his signature black t-shirt and black zip-up vest, gave details of his arrest at his $NZ30 million rented

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Russia is the only country ferrying astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station and back since NASA retired its aging fleet. But Russia's space agency has experienced a string of mishaps in recent months. Some analysts are worrying about the reliability of the Russian space program. The November launch of the Phobos-Grunt probe from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Kazakh steppe was

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Despite money generated from advertising accounting for 85 per cent of Facebook’s revenues last year, and its net income in 2011 reaching $1billion, the company will have to radically change the way it cashes in on its users’ data to make good on its valuation, says digital agency heads. Charlie McGee, head of digital at Carat, a major UK advertising agency, thinks Facebook will follow Google’s

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A pilot project gets underway soon to test whether mobile phones can be used to help educate the poor. It’s estimated three quarters of the world’s poor have access to mobile phones. More and more people are downloading application software – better known as apps – to their mobile phones. They can be used to play games, navigate, surf the web, shop and much, much more. Now, a project announced

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Last month, Peter Ivan McNeal, who plays drums under the stage name Pete McNeal, was arrested in Los Angeles and charged with child sex abuse. The Hollywood musician was released on a $250,000 bail. In a preliminary hearing on Friday, McNeal appeared in court to hear a single felony count against him for oral copulation/sexual penetration of a child under the age of 10. The Los Angeles Police

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Sir Howard Stringer will step down as Sony CEO and president on April 1, the Japanese electronics giant announced Wednesday. In a widely expected move, Sony has appointed Kazuo Hirai, currently executive deputy president, to replace Stringer as president and CEO, a company statement said. Stringer is expected to become chairman of the company's board of directors in June, when current chairman

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As President Obama prepares to raise the debt ceiling -- after the Senate waived its opposition last week -- $5 trillion hikes evidently are no longer "unpatriotic" as Obama said they were in 2008 while describing former President George W. Bush's $4 trillion increase over eight years. The White House requested authority earlier this month to raise the debt ceiling to $16.4 trillion, up $1.2

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Retailers could be losing out on 21million potential customers, research from YouGov claims, after 59 per cent said they would either go elsewhere or shop online if they saw a queue in a shop. Overall, of the 59 per cent more than half said they would shop online rather than queue. Almost nine out of ten said insufficient staff numbers cause long queues, while 23 per cent said slow payment

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Are you and your partner graduates and prepared to answer a few online questions about your children? If so, Simon Baron-Cohen would like to hear from you. One of the country’s foremost researchers into the causes of autism, Professor Baron-Cohen wants to know what kind of degree you hold. If you are both graduates in the so-called hard sciences, such as engineering and computer science, then

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on African leaders to respect gay rights, and to accept the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. On a continent where homosexuality is outlawed in many places, the U.N. chief told Africa's leaders to end discrimination against gays and lesbians. He said laws against homosexuality violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. "Let

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Pakistan says its foreign minister is expected to travel Wednesday to neighboring Afghanistan to discuss the war against terrorism and political reconciliation efforts aimed at ending the Afghan armed conflict. The visit comes amid reports of fresh contacts between Taliban insurgents and U.S. officials. Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar will hold talks with her Afghan counterpart

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U.N. nuclear inspectors have begun a mission to Iran to investigate allegations of secret military dimensions to the Iranian nuclear program. The International Atomic Energy Agency team led by Herman Nackaerts arrived in Tehran on Sunday for a three-day visit. Before Nackaerts left the agency's headquarters in Vienna, he said he wants Iran to "engage" his team on the accusations that Iranian

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Syria's embattled government defended its capital from rebel fighters Sunday, with security forces deployed across the city and around 2,000 troops backed by tanks and armored vehicles launching an assault to retake suburban areas. Sustained fighting rocked at least four districts around Damascus, the country's largest city and seat of President Bashar al-Assad's power. The offensive pushed

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Truckloads of riot police canvassed Senegal's capital on Saturday, a day after violent clashes erupted after authorities ruled that the African nation's president could run for a third term -- and a popular musician could not run against him. The riots in Dakar began Friday, when 14 candidates were declared to be valid candidates in February's presidential election. That lineup included

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Media advocacy groups have condemned the murder of Somalia's Shabelle Media Network Director Hassan Osman Abdi, the network's third leader to be killed in as many years. Reporters Without Borders issued a statement Saturday expressing condolences to Abdi's family and his fellow journalists. The Paris-based group says Abdi is the first journalist to be killed in 2012 in Somalia, Africa’s

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A media report says the U.S. military plans to send a floating base for commando teams to the Middle East, where relations with Iran are tense and other nations are in the midst of political upheaval. The Washington Post newspaper on Saturday cited unspecified U.S. Navy documents saying the service plans to convert an aging warship into a staging base for the commandos, calling it a "mothership.

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As Mitt Romney tries to bring Newt Gingrich back to earth, the former House speaker is standing by his high-flying plans to ensure America is at the cutting edge of space exploration. And the issue, likely more important in the Florida election than any other primary-season contest, has exposed a deep divide between the two front-running Republican presidential candidates. While Gingrich is

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The German government wants Greece to cede sovereignty over tax and spending decisions to a eurozone "budget commissioner" to secure a second €130bn bail-out, according to a copy of the proposal obtained by the Financial Times. In what would amount to an extraordinary extension of European Union control over a member state, the new commissioner would have the power to veto budget decisions

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Twenty-six new exoplanets have been discovered by NASA scientists seeking to locate planets outside our solar system.  The alien planets were found orbiting stars in 11 newly discovered solar systems by the Kepler telescope, which the U.S. space agency operates. The exoplanets range in size from slightly larger than Earth to larger than the gas giant Jupiter in our solar system.  They were

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Police said a group of suspected militants attacked a police station in Nigeria's Kano province on Friday. Military forces have since cordoned off the area around the provincial capital city of Kano where the attack apparently occurred, according to witnesses. Gunfire and tracer rounds could be heard and seen during the incident, according to CNN personnel in the area. The attack appears to

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A Norwegian U.N. official snatched from the streets of Yemen's capital city of Sanaa by armed tribesmen nearly two weeks ago was released unharmed, officials said Friday. U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said the 34-year-old man arrived in good health at a safe haven in the capital. The victim was part of a team of U.N. election observers scheduled to oversee Yemen's presidential elections in

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The popular microblogging service Twitter has announced it has new technology enabling it to censor messages on a country-by-country basis in order to follow a range of laws around the world. The U.S.-based company announced on its blog this week that it has not yet used the technology, but that if it does, a message will appear to the user saying the Twitter posting -- known as a "tweet" --

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Egyptian activists have gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday, as the country continues to mark the first anniversary of the uprising that ousted former President Hosni Mubarak. A small group of protesters has camped out in the square since Wednesday, when massive crowds of Egyptians filled the streets - some celebrating the anniversary of the start of the protests, others calling for an

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The four remaining candidates for the U.S. Republican Party's presidential nomination met in a sometimes heated debate in Jacksonville, Florida, Thursday ahead of that state's January 31 primary. The debate quickly produced fireworks on issues like immigration and foreign bank accounts. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney reacted angrily to former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich

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Outgoing Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh remains in the Persian Gulf sultanate of Oman and it is unclear when his planned trip to the United States for medical treatment will take place. An official at the Yemeni embassy in Washington told VOA Thursday he has no information on when Saleh might arrive. Mohammed Albasha also denied an article in The Wall Street Journal saying the president's

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Clashes between rival militias. Allegations of detainee torture. Assaults on the headquarters of the National Transitional Council, which governs Libya. These are among the signs that Libya faces challenges on several fronts as it struggles to craft a new nation from the ashes of tyranny. Almost a year after the Libyan uprising erupted in the eastern city of Benghazi, the nation ruled by

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The trial of three people accused of killing four members of their family was on course to be in the jury's hands by the end of the week before being delayed Thursday morning by a bomb threat. Mohammed Shafia, 58; his wife, Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 42; and their son, Hamed, 21, are charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Shafia's three teenage daughters and his first wife

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Human Rights Watch says police in France are singling out ethnic Arab and African youths for unwarranted and sometimes humiliating identity checks. The rights group says this apparent ethnic profiling is further exacerbating an already tense relationship between authorities and minority youths. A young man who recounted being stopped and questioned by French police thinks it's because he's Arab

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Demi Moore was doing "whip-its" -- a type of nitrous oxide inhalant -- before she was rushed to the hospital earlier this week, TMZ reported. The troubled actress became semi-conscious and had symptoms of a seizure after inhaling a dangerous amount of nitrous oxide -- a gas typically inhaled by young people looking for a cheap high -- a friend told paramedics who attended the scene, the gossip

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At least 100 people died after taking what officials suspect may have been tainted heart medicine in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, the health ministry said Thursday. The government of Punjab province has sealed the pharmaceutical factory believed to have manufactured the medicine. "The medicine may be contaminated with some heavy metal which created an adverse drug reaction," said Dr.

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California is poised to vote on new rules that would require automakers to build cars and trucks by 2025 that emit about three-quarters less smog producing pollutants and also mandate that one of every seven new cars sold in the state be a zero emission or plug-in hybrid vehicle. The California Air Resources Board will begin hearing testimony Thursday in Los Angeles on its "Advanced Clean Car"

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Chrysler sales may be up in recent years, but there’s one used car from the company that can’t seem to find a new owner. A 2005 Chrysler 300C once owned by President Obama, has resurfaced on Ebay three years after it was first offered on the auction website. In December, 2007 the then-senator reportedly traded in the HEMI V8-powered luxury sedan for a Ford Escape Hybrid. Only 1,800 miles have

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Increasing violence between Chinese security forces and Tibetan protesters is raising alarm, just weeks before China's vice president is scheduled to visit the United States. The Tibetan exile administration based in India is calling for international intervention. The United States says it is "gravely concerned" about reports of violence against Tibetans in China's Sichuan province. A Tibetan

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Egyptian women, embattled for decades under autocratic rule, are among the tens of thousands pouring into central Cairo’s Tahrir Square to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the popular uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak. By early afternoon, Tahrir Square was packed with Egyptian women of all ages and backgrounds. Children stood side by side with their parents and grandparents

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The inspector general of police in Nigeria has been fired, aides to the Nigerian president said Wednesday. Hafiz Abubakar Ringim's firing comes amid a wave of violence linked to the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. The group has been blamed for months of widespread bloodshed, with churches and police stations among the targets. Security forces appeared to have hit back with a wave of

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The company is retiring around 2,000 blade servers from active service and has fitted each one with a transparent case, etched with the World of Warcraft logo, and a plaque bearing the signatures of the development team. World of Warcraft players choose a ‘realm’, one instance of the landscape containing a limited number of characters so popular locations are not swamped with hundreds of

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An experiment set up by Lewis Peckover, a 28-year-old web systems administrator, called attention to the problem last night. Peckover showed that O2 was providing websites with the mobile number of users who visited. The numbers were included as plain text in the header information sent by the phone to the website. As well as being a potential breach of the Data Protection Act, this raised the

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Japan has posted an annual trade deficit for the first time since 1980 after a year of struggling to adjust to a strong yen, a eurozone crisis and the impact of natural disasters. The Y2.49tn ($32bn) trade deficit represents a dramatic shift from the big surpluses that Japan has sustained over much of the past 50 years. Some analysts see it is an understandable blip. After the earthquake and

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An Oklahoma hospital in country singer Garth Brooks' hometown must return his $500,000 donation because it failed to build a women's center in honor of his late mother, jurors ruled Tuesday. Jurors sided with the country star in the breach-of-contract lawsuit he filed against IntegrisCanadian Valley Regional Hospital in Yukon. Brooks said he thought he'd reached a deal in 2005 with the

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The United States is urging the government of Sudan to open humanitarian access to an area of conflict where aid officials say people are running out of food.  The Obama administration is also pushing for an end to the conflict over oil revenues between Sudan and South Sudan. The U.S. special envoy for Sudan, Princeton Lyman, says Washington is “extremely concerned” about humanitarian

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The Academy Award nominations were announced this morning in Hollywood. Martin Scorsese's 3D adventure movie "Hugo," a fantasy tribute to French film pioneer George Melies, leads the list with 11 nominations, including one for Best Director, numerous technical categories and the most coveted of all, Best Picture of the Year. Actress and previous Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence announced the

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Gulf Cooperation Council members say they are withdrawing their observers from Syria, following Saudi Arabia's decision to pull out of the Arab League monitoring mission. The six-member GCC announced the move in a statement Tuesday. Saudi Arabia said it quit the mission because Syria has not implemented an Arab plan to end the bloodshed of a crackdown against a 10-month uprising against

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The 10-part series will begin in mid-March, according to a press release on the Wikileaks website, and its theme will be "the world tomorrow". Wikileaks said that "initial licensing commitments cover over 600 million viewers across cable, satellite and terrestrial broadcast networks" but it did not specify which networks would screen the programme. In the press release, Assange said: “This is

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The four remaining candidates for the Republican Party's presidential nomination met for a testy debate in Florida late Monday, just one week before a crucial primary vote in that southern state. There were a number of heated exchanges during the NBC debate between the two top contenders, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. It was a combative

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Radiation from an immense solar blast hit the Earth Tuesday -- forcing Delta Air Lines to redirect at least half a dozen airplanes that had been routed over the North Pole. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center -- the nation’s official source of warnings about space weather and its impact on Earth -- issued a geomagnetic storm warning Monday after a satellite witnessed an ultraviolet flash

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But no more. Research in Motion (RIM), the creator of the most influential business tool since the mobile phone - the BlackBerry - has hit the panic button. By replacing its founders and co-chief executives Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, RIM has acknowledged what the market has known for months if not years – BlackBerry is withering on the vine. Just three years ago RIM's share price was

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United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay is voicing "deep disappointment" that the U.S. government has failed to close its detention facility at Guantanamo Bay (Cuba), as President Barack Obama pledged on taking office three years ago. Pillay, in a statement Monday, noted the 10th anniversary of the prison opening and the third anniversary of Obama's inauguration promise to close the

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Yemen's embattled president was on his way to the United States for medical treatment Monday, officials said. President Ali Abdullah Saleh left Yemen on Sunday and stopped in Oman before continuing Monday on a trip to the United States, Yemeni government sources said. The purpose of Saleh's U.S. trip is a "private medical visit," the Yemeni Embassy in Washington said in a statement Sunday. "

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When an ill-fated Russian Mars probe fell to Earth over the weekend, the spacecraft's untimely demise set off a flurry of conflicting media reports and conspiracy theories. Russia's Phobos-Grunt space probe suffered a debilitating malfunction shortly after its November 2011 launch, which stranded it in low-Earth orbit for more than two months before it succumbed to gravitational forces and

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Contrary to common prejudice, there is nothing inevitable about the intellectual decline in later life so vividly, if controversially, portrayed in The Iron Lady. The ancients certainly thought not. From Sophocles (who wrote his masterpiece Oedipus at Colonus at the age of 89) to Cicero, in his poem De Senectute, they celebrated the wisdom that comes with experience and the peace and freedom

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Newt Gingrich has won the South Carolina primary, a surprising turnaround after his poor showings in previous contests. VOA's Suzanne Presto has more from Columbia, South Carolina. Newt Gingrich's supporters celebrated Saturday night. The candidate targeted President Barack Obama and complimented his Republican rivals. "If you look at the four of us, we are proof that you can come from a wide

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Just days after Mitt Romney seemed poised for a three-for-three streak in the opening presidential primaries, Newt Gingrich ensured the nomination fight will drag on after surging to a decisive victory in the South Carolina election Saturday night. The candidates head next to Florida, which is now expected to be a grueling contest ahead of the Jan. 31 vote -- one which will test Gingrich's

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Police in Croatia's capital clashed with nationalist protesters Saturday, on the eve of a crucial vote on the country's membership in the European Union. About 1,000 protesters, many of them independence war veterans, gathered in Zagreb's central square, carrying banners saying "No to EU'' or "I love Croatia,'' and chanting anti-EU slogans. Using loudspeakers, activists demanded postponement of

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After an illness during Jennifer Muzala's pregnancy which her family feared might kill her, they were so relieved when her third son was born without incident that they named him Lucky. Six months later, Jennifer returned to hospital with her son but this time, there was no happy ending. Lucky became one of 40 Zambian children who die each day because of diarrhoea. "Maybe he was one of those

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As the Africa Cup of Nations kicks off in Equatorial Guinea on Saturday, non-governmental groups are drawing attention to the poverty and and less-than-open government in the oil-rich African nation - and are calling on the European Union to adopt strict disclosure laws for oil companies doing business there. As co-host, with neighboring Gabon, of the 28th Africa Cup of Nations football (soccer

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Hollywood's top lobbyist and former Sen. Chris Dodd is threatening to cut off campaign funds to President Obama's re-election effort because of anger over the White House appearing to side with tech companies in a bitter fight over anti-piracy legislation. In an exclusive interview with Fox News, Dodd fired off a warning to Obama -- his former Senate Democratic colleague in this election year --

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Zimbabwe's public service unions' attempted one-day strike appeared to fizzle Thursday, with most workers reporting for duty.  However, union leaders are still hailing the action as a success, and still pressing their demand for increased wages. Tendai Chikowore, president of the Apex Council, which represents all of Zimbabwe's public sector unions, told reporters in Harare most public servants

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The recent discovery of a severed head, two hands and two feet in the Hollywood hills is near the home of actor Brad Pitt, and authorities have interviewed his bodyguard for possible leads, police said Thursday. "It's standard procedure for us to have our detectives canvass the neighborhood," Los Angeles Police Cmdr. Andrew Smith said. The bodyguard saw nothing unusual, he said. In an unusual

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry suspended his struggling presidential campaign Thursday and threw his support to Newt Gingrich, a development that could alter the dynamics of the Republican race just two days before the tightening South Carolina primary. "I believe Newt is a conservative visionary who can transform our country. We've had our differences, which campaigns will inevitably have, and Newt is

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Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner's demands for absolute editorial control has killed a deal with American Media Inc. (AMI) to create a Kardashian-devoted fanzine -- after she insisted on approval on all stories about her family across their titles. It was recently revealed the family was in talks with the publisher -- home to Shape, Star, National Enquirer and Radar Online -- to create a

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The first look inside one of Japan's tsunami-hit nuclear reactors showed radiation, steam and rusty metal surfaces scarred by 10 months' exposure to high temperatures and humidity. The steam-blurred photos taken by remote control Thursday found none of the reactor's melted fuel but confirmed stable reactor temperature and showed no major damage or ruptures caused by the earthquake last March,

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Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is reassessing a planned return home after the government warned he will be detained as soon as he sets foot in the nation, his political party said Thursday. Musharraf, who has been in exile for three years, was scheduled to return between January 27 and 30, the head of the party said Aides have advised him that the embattled government could use

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U.S. officials have uncovered an effort by Iran to help Syria mask its oil exports and evade an American and European embargo, in a potent new sign of Tehran's campaign to bolster Syrian President Bashar al Assad as his regime cracks down on public opposition. American officials investigating the Iranian operation said it was designed to quietly ship Syrian crude oil to Iran, where it can be

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The European Union planned new sanctions against Syria, spokesman Michael Mann said Wednesday, as opposition activists said government troops killed 21 more people in a months-long crackdown. European nations have been pushing for tough measures against Syria, where more than 5,000 people have been killed since demonstrations began in March 2011, according to the United Nations. The EU

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Syrian opposition activists say government forces have agreed to a cease-fire with rebels holding a mountainous town near Damascus and the Lebanese border. Activists in Zabadani say rebels of the Free Syrian Army and representatives of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad agreed to the truce late Tuesday after five days of fighting. The deal calls for pro-Assad forces to withdraw from the town and

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Greed on Wall Street set a new record, federal authorities said Wednesday as they unveiled a massive insider trading case charging a hedge fund co-founder with engineering a trade that earned a staggering $53 million in profits. The illegal trade -- the largest transaction ever prosecuted in Manhattan -- was part of a $78 million scheme involving at least seven financial industry professionals,

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Three anti-whaling activists were injured in a clash with Japanese whalers off the coast of Antarctica on Wednesday when the Japanese crew used grappling hooks against pursuit boats, the conservation group Sea Shepherd said in statement. The environmental group claims two of its crew from the anti-whaling ship Steve Irwin were struck in the shoulder with iron grappling hooks and one crewmember

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Nigerian authorities say their top suspect in a deadly Christmas Day bombing at a Catholic church in the capital, Abuja, has escaped police custody after being arrested at the Borno state governor's mansion in the capital. A police statement Tuesday said the suspect, Kabiru Sokoto, was being escorted to another police station outside of Abuja when "suspected gang members" attacked and freed him

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As authorities probe what caused the Costa Concordia luxury ship to run aground off the Italian coast Friday, killing at least 11 people, an inspection of several consumer review websites reveals a slew of allegations of safety issues on board the 5-year-old ship – including a reported hole in the boat's side and delayed safety drills. The ship, operated by Genoa-based Costa Cruises and owned by

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It's known that drinking during pregnancy leaves babies vulnerable to a spectrum of abnormalities called fetal alcohol syndrome. Now, a new study pinpoints the latter half of the first trimester as a critical time in the development of some of the syndrome's most telling physical characteristics. Study authors also stressed that their research illustrates there is no safe amount of drinking

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Another chance to make a first impression? Fresh off a rousing debate performance that had the Republican audience giving a standing ovation -- purportedly the first in a debate since Ronald Reagan in New Hampshire in 1980 -- Newt Gingrich may be reconsidering how far he can go in the GOP campaign. Holding a distant second place in several polls, Gingrich said Tuesday that he could stick it

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'Baseball Wives' star Anna Benson keeps her enemies close, and her husband closer. In 2004, she shocked Howard Stern by announcing on his radio show that if her husband, Major League Baseball pitcher Kris Benson, ever cheated on her, she'd sleep with everyone on the Mets (her husband’s team at the time) from the owner right on down to the batboy. Almost a decade later, Benson still insists

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The United Kingdom cannot deport a radical cleric linked to al Qaeda to Jordan because evidence obtained by torture could be used against him there, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in a landmark case Tuesday. Abu Qatada has been fighting to remain in the United Kingdom since he was first arrested under anti-terrorism legislation nearly a decade ago. He would be "at real risk of

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A senior North Korean party official dismissed concerns about Kim Jong Un's readiness to lead, saying he spent years working closely with his late father and helped him make key policy decisions on the economy as well as military affairs. In the first high-level interview with foreign journalists since Kim Jong Il's Dec. 17 death, Politburo member and Kim family confidante Yang Hyong Sop told

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President Obama is facing a new legal challenge to three recess appointments he made to the National Labor Relations Board earlier this month. Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation (NRWLDF), says the president's actions have created "a constitutional crisis." Mix, and others critical of the appointments, say Obama has stepped beyond the powers granted to the

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The field of Republican candidates vying to challenge President Barack Obama has shrunk with the withdrawal of former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman. From the beginning, Jon Huntsman’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination was considered a longshot.  Less well-known than other, better-funded competitors, the two-term governor and former U.S. ambassador to China did not compete in the Iowa

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One of the world's oldest cypress trees -- estimated to be 3,500 years old -- collapsed early Monday after catching fire in Seminole County, Fla. The 119-foot-tall bald cypress -- known as "The Senator" -- reportedly went up in flames after a nearby brush fire spread to Big Tree Park in Longwood, Fox affiliate WOFL-TV reports. Fire crews responded to the scene early Monday morning and deployed

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From the air you breathe to the foods you eat, hidden dangers may be lurking in your home, experts warn. Researchers at the Children's Environmental Health Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City offer some simple steps to help keep your children healthy and your home safe: • Test for radon. Levels of this invisible gas increase during the winter months. Be sure to inspect

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Nationwide, some 2,000 patients a year are being "neglected" by not being offered cardiac rehabilitation, which includes advice on how to change one's lifestyle to avoid another attack, according to research by Heart UK, the cholesterol charity. Across England, some 95 per cent of heart attack patients are being offered cardiac rehabilitation. However, that varies from 99.8 per cent at Royal

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U.S. President Barack Obama and his family volunteered at a Washington, D.C., school Monday, to honor slain civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. Obama painted a bookcase at the event, on the annual Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday. Afterwards, the president told reporters that King wanted to inspire everyone to make a difference in his or her community, saying there is "nobody who

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While far more Republican primary voters view Rick Santorum as the true conservative, Mitt Romney has become the clear leader in the race for the GOP nomination, according to a just-released Fox News poll. After Iowa and New Hampshire wins, Romney now garners the highest level of support from GOP primary voters nationally achieved by any candidate so far. And support for Santorum has nearly

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Pakistani intelligence officials say the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, may have been killed in a January 12 U.S. drone strike in the North Waziristan tribal region. The unnamed officials said Sunday they have intercepted wireless radio conversations of the Taliban fighters discussing whether their chief was killed in the attack.  Some of the overheard militants confirmed

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Italian rescuers are again searching for survivors inside the wreck of a luxury cruise ship that hit rocks and capsized off the coast of northern Italy. The search restarted Monday afternoon, hours after the Costa Concordia slipped on its rocky resting place in bad weather, sending divers fleeing to safety. Six people are known dead and 29 others still missing. The ship's owners, Costa

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A 23-year-old beauty queen from Kenosha, Wis., won the Miss America pageant Saturday in Las Vegas after singing opera and strutting in a white bikini and black beaded evening gown. Laura Kaeppeler also had to answer a question about whether beauty queens should declare their politics. "Miss America represents everyone, so I think the message to political candidates is that they represent

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Embattled Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari met with Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani -- a sign that, some say, shows tensions between Pakistan's civilian and military leadership are cooling down. The two met on Saturday to discuss the "current security situation," presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar told CNN. A second meeting between civilian and military leadership took place

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