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Attempting to the fill void that sites such as MySpace have left, YouTube is now attempting to become the de facto place people visit online when they want to watch music videos The new advertising campaign, which will run across music related websites, such as Last.fm, and on billboards throughout the UK over the next six weeks, features music content from Jessie J, Lana Del Rey and Ed Sheeran

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China's vice president, Xi Jinping, has met with President Barack Obama at the White House. Obama and China's next president pledged to keep working to strengthen bilateral relations, but also to speak candidly about key differences. It was the first White House visit for Vice President Xi Jinping, who is expected to become head of China's Communist Party Central Committee this year, and next

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Two dozen vials of E. coli were left in the refrigerator of two Arkansas college students when they vacated their apartment are now being tested by state health officials, though the bacteria isn't thought to pose a health threat. The bizarre discovery Friday set off a storm of panic, as state and federal agencies sent HazMat teams to the apartment complex in Jonesboro, Ark. Two of the vials

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Syrian security forces have resumed their crackdown on the protest hub of Homs and other cities, a day after authorities in Damascus rejected an Arab League plan calling for U.N. peacekeepers. Activists said tank fire and artillery shelling hit two rebel-held Sunni Muslim neighborhoods in Homs that have spearheaded the 11-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. Opposition groups also

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Greece may get its next installment of European Union bailout funds this week, after the country's parliament approved more austerity measures. As the country cleans up from massive riots protesting the cuts, however, Greece's financial future is far from certain. Stock markets rose Monday following the Greek Parliament's approval of new austerity measures. The cuts are one condition for Greece

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Doctors are starting to see the first signs of problems, including repetitive strain injury (RSI), from those who spend hours a day on the devices. A spate of cases has raised fears that "iPad hand" could be the new "Blackberry thumb" - a condition suffered by people who repeatedly use the roller ball scroller on their smartphone. Technology commentators have hailed the iPad as a pleasure to

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The head of Media Matters for America -- now out coordinating a new super PAC to help President Obama get reelected -- is operating his nonprofit organization in close coordination with the Obama White House, a new investigative report out Monday says. David Brock, according to the Daily Caller, has collected a $250,000 annual salary for his work at MMFA, which includes daily screeds against

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The ‘male mother’, who is believed to be in his 30s, was able to carry a child after taking female hormones to reverse the effects of his female-to-male sex change treatment. The Daily Telegraph understands that the man, whose identity has not been disclosed, is from the West Midlands and is in a long-term relationship. It is not clear whether his partner is male or female. The revelation has

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Lucy Prebble, who is best known for her financial satire Enron, attacked the popular stereotype of teenage gamers as "chubby automatons" who spend their days shooting virtual enemies and eating crisps. The award-winning writer said playing video games requires more involvement and creative input than reading a book or watching a film - and also offers more opportunities to be active and

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Reports that the crime-busting deputy mayor of a Chinese city had gone on "medical leave" sparked a frenzied response on social media Wednesday, amid speculation that he had sought asylum at a U.S. consulate. Wang Lijun, a former police chief and now vice mayor of Chongqing in southwestern China, had suffered "immense mental stress" caused by overwork, city officials reported on Sina Weibo,

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Facebook has started rolling out sponsored stories onto photos and it is making me and many others feel uneasy. We knew when Facebook announced its intention to float last week, that there would become a growing pressure on the site’s founder and chief, Mark Zuckerberg, to ramp up the network’s commercial offering. Going public automatically puts a business under a certain level of strain to

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There is no shortage of location-based social apps. Foursquare and Gowalla were the flagship apps and big names such as Facebook have joined in but there are plenty of those too. One of those, Spottd, comes from London-based Floxx. The idea is that you use the app to tell people about interesting places or just to remember a place for later. It could be a restaurant or a museum or even just a

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The president of the Maldives has resigned after members of the nation's police forces joined with opposition protesters. The resignation of Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed followed weeks of popular street protests in the capital, Male, culminating in a mutiny by certain factions of the country's police. Saying he did not wish to rule with “an iron fist,” Nasheed announced his decision to

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An Egyptian scholar says calls by Egypt’s military administration for a presidential election are a calculated attempt to dilute a groundswell of pro-democracy demands to hand over power to a civilian government. The military announced that nominations for presidential candidates will be accepted beginning March 10, a month earlier than planned. Monday's protests in Cairo Said Sadek,

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Supermodel Gisele Bundchen had no qualms in telling friends who she thought was to blame for her husband Tom Brady's New England Patriots' Super Bowl defeat. His receivers. Standing at an elevator after the game with some other Patriots' wives and hangers-on, Gisele was videotaped -- over the loud taunts of heckling New York Giants fans -- saying "I can't believe they dropped the ball so many

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An unpublished Scottish author, Michael Crossan, who is a great fan of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, was actually the person behind the account. He told the Scotland on Sunday, that he set up the account because he wished that McCarthy, his great hero, had a presence online. “I had looked for McCarthy and he wasn’t there. I dodnt think he would be, but I thought it would be amazing if he

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Yemen'shighest military authority Sunday announced its willingness to open channels of dialogue with al Qaeda in hopes of reaching a long-term cease-fire agreement. The military committee was formed as part of the power transfer deal in November. Spokesman Ali Saeed Obaid told CNN that the new Yemeni military leadership is opening its hands and will seek new solutions with al Qaeda fighters.

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Mitt Romney has won the Nevada Republican presidential caucuses, Fox News projects. He becomes the first 2012 GOP candidate to win two consecutive elections, after having defeated Newt Gingrich in the Florida primary earlier in the week. With 21 percent of precincts reporting, Romney has 39 percent of the vote. Gingrich with 27 percent is still in a close race for second against Ron Paul who

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The commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, U.S. Marine Corps General John Allen, says the plan for a transition to full Afghan security control is intact after the announcement that American troops will largely end their combat duties next year, rather than the following year as had been widely expected. General Allen took command of international forces in Afghanistan last July. Since

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Iranian forces began a series of airborne war games Saturday aimed at improving combat preparedness, the semiofficial Fars News Agency reported. The drills by the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps are code-named Hamiyan-e Vellayat, or Supporters of Religious Leadership, and are taking place in the southern province of Fars, FNA said. They are among a series of specialized war games involving the

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Look around most living rooms and the chances are there’s a Sony product somewhere: whether it’s a television, a DVD player, an ageing video recorder or a hifi, the Japanese corporation has dominated consumer electronics for decades. Recently, however, the company has struggled. Led until this week by Welshman Sir Howard Stringer, Sony has battled floods in Japan, a fire at its main warehouse

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Pressure is building on Google. On Friday, the European Union asked Google to the delay the rollout of its new privacy policy, scheduled for March 1, until the E.U. can work out whether it is in line with Europe's data protection laws. This issue is also gaining traction on Capitol Hill where lawmakers met behind closed doors on Thursday with Google executives about its controversial plan to

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Drugs used to sedate children for surgery could have subtle effects on the developing brain, believe doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. They found repeated exposure to anaethesic while young appeared to more than double the chance of developing ADHD. Specifically, those who had undergone anaesthesia at least two times by the age of three were more than twice as likely to have

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Activists report at least 12 deaths as protests and clashes rippled across Syria Friday while the United Nations Security Council struggled to craft a resolution to help end the bloodshed. Opposition activists said tens of thousands of people took to the streets in cities and towns across the country to mark the 30th anniversary this week of a bloody crackdown on the city of Hama.  Amnesty

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The United Nations has announced the famine in southern Somalia is officially over, but warns that millions of people are still in crisis. The head of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) told reporters in Nairobi Friday the next 100 days will be crucial. FAO's new Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva delivered what he called “good news” following his trip this week to southern

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In the letter, the 27-year-old Harvard University graduate grandly draws comparisons between Facebook and the invention of the printing press for changing the way the world communicates. He also sheds light on an arguably tougher goal – to force a change in the behaviour and expectations of publicly listed companies. Mr Zuckerberg is nothing if not ambitious. "We've always cared primarily about

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Prince William has arrived in the Falkland Islands for a routine deployment as part of a four-man search and rescue crew, Britain's Ministry of Defence said Thursday. The prince will begin his Royal Air Force search and rescue duties after undergoing briefings and a familiarization flight, the ministry said in a statement. A six-week deployment to the Falklands is conventional for search and

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More deaths were reported in Eastern Europe on Thursday as the region continued to shiver in the grip of unusually frigid weather. The coldest temperatures continued to chill the Eastern European countries of Romania, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, where Thursday was the coldest day yet for many. In Ukraine, 65 people have died since the bad weather started this week, according to the Ukranian

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which campaigns on online civil liberties issues, said it was “troubled” that legitimate files on the website were put at risk by action against pirated films, music and television shows. “EFF is troubled that so many lawful users of Megaupload.com had their property taken from them without warning and that the government has taken no steps to help them,”

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You may idly wish you could hear what others are thinking yet write off telepathy as science fiction. But one day, the ability to read people’s minds may not be a talent reserved for psychics and the X-Men. A group of neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, reported they may have come up with a scientific way to read people’s minds.Led by post-doctoral researcher Brian Pasley

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The Republican presidential campaign rolled westward Wednesday, Mitt Romney riding herd after his Florida primary victory, Newt Gingrich looking for a new stake and a top party leader insisting the long trail won't necessarily hurt the GOP in the race against President Barack Obama. Already the television ads were showing up in states that vote next, caucuses in Nevada on Saturday, in Minnesota

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Talking at the annual Midem music conference, in Cannes today, Mikael Hed, the chief executive of Rovio, said: “Piracy may not be a bad thing: it can get us more business at the end of the day." He admitted that the games company, which is based in Finland and experienced huge success with the Angry Birds brand, learned from the music industry’s mistakes when thinking about how to deal with

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A trader accused of fraud over a $2.3 billion loss in unauthorized trading reported by Swiss banking giant UBS pleaded not guilty in a London court Monday. The trader, Kwaku Adoboli, was ordered held in custody, and his trial was scheduled to begin September 3. Adoboli faces a charge of fraud by abuse of position between January and September 2011, and he also faces two counts of false

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The sensible precaution of making a living will or an advanced directive means that doctors need not struggle to keep alive those who feel it is time to move on. Now doctors in Scotland, as reported in this paper last week, have extended this principle to “inappropriate” hospitalisation. This is a particular hazard for the frail and elderly in residential care or living at home. Their condition

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The U.S. Defense Department cannot account for about $2 billion it was given to cover Iraq-related expenses and is not providing Iraq with a complete list of U.S.-funded reconstruction projects, according to two new government audits. The reports come from the office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. The Iraqi government in 2004 gave the Department of Defense access to

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He wants to offer financial incentives to hospitals that move onto 24-hour, seven-day rolling weeks, rather than winding down at weekends. NHS trusts would be left to decide whether they wants to pass on the money to doctors, nurses and other staff prepared to work on Saturdays and Sundays. Mortality rates in hospitals are up to 20 per cent higher at weekends, when many treatment centres close

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Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum canceled his Sunday morning campaign events and planned to spend time with his hospitalized daughter. "Rick and his wife Karen are admitting their daughter Bella to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia this evening," spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a statement Saturday night, adding "Rick intends to return to Florida and resume the campaign schedule as

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The African Union has inaugurated a new headquarters with tributes to China's rise in Africa, and to the political prisoners who died in the jail that once occupied the site. The new $200 million Chinese-built headquarters was officially opened by China's senior political adviser Jia Qinglin, standing in for Premier Hu Jintao. In a speech to an audience of heads of state and African diplomats

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Iranian lawmakers have finalized a draft bill requiring the government to immediately halt crude oil sales to Europe in response to the bloc's decision to ban the purchase of Iranian oil, a member of parliament said Saturday. Nasser Soudani said the legislature's energy committee completed its work on the bill Saturday and that parliament will debate and vote on it during an open session on

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The Arab League has suspended its monitoring mission in Syria because of a sharp spike in violence, the group said Saturday, the same day opposition activists reported at least 98 deaths. Among those killed by government security forces were three children, one woman and 11 military defectors, according to the Local Coordination Committees of Syria (LCC), an opposition group that organizes and

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta says he is concerned about a Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. find al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. Panetta told the CBS-TV program 60 Minutes, Shikal Afridi provided key intelligence that was "very helpful" in the successful May 2 Navy SEALs raid on bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad.  Panetta's interview will be broadcast Sunday. Pakistan has

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The disease claims 10,000 lives a year in Britain - almost as many as breast cancer, which kills 12,000 annually - but receives just a fifth of the research funding. Three prostate cancer charities have just released a report, The Forgotten 10,000, written by a panel of experts calling for more funding and better co-ordinated care. Dr Heather Payne, a consultant oncologist at university College

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An Ethiopian court on Thursday sentenced three journalists and two opposition political activists to long prison sentences for terrorism-related offenses.  Exiled internet blogger Elias Kifle was sentenced in absentia to life in prison.  Kifle is editor of the U.S.-based Ethiopian Review website, which regularly features scathing criticisms of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's government. A

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NASA's prolific planet-hunting spacecraft has hit the jackpot again, discovering 11 new planetary systems with 26 confirmed alien planets among them. The findings nearly double the number of bona fide planets found outside our solar system by the Kepler space observatory. "Prior to the Kepler mission, we knew of perhaps 500 exoplanets across the whole sky," Doug Hudgins, Kepler program

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Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, rejected accusations by Mr Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, who said that the internet company was a “piracy leader”. Mr Murdoch claimed earlier this month via his Twitter account that Google allowed links to appear on its search results to illegal copies of films such as Mission Impossible - the Ghost Protocol.

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The treaty, which must still be ratified by the European parliament, has been mired in controversy over its secret drafting. It aims to prevent counterfeiting and piracy, and introduces tougher sanctions on copyright theft. It has already been the subject of street protests in Poland, where politicians put on masks to support hacker group 'Anonymous'. The Anonymous group itself says it is now

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The United States and South Korea are to hold two military exercises on the Korean peninsula soon. They will be the first such war games since the recent change of leadership in North Korea. There had been speculation one or both of the joint U.S.-South Korean military drills might be postponed or called off this year. But on Friday, the U.S. and South Korea militaries announced the annual

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I begin typing this article with trepidation, knowing with certitude that anything short of fulsome and unqualified praise for Rep. Ron Paul, the GOP’s libertarian candidate in the presidential primaries, will provoke scores of angry emails and Tweets from Paul’s famously fervent supporters, all accusing me of harboring (elite media) bias against their blunt-talking and unassailable hero.

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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer says she meant no disrespect when she pointed a finger at President Obama during an intense discussion on an airport tarmac. But the Republican governor says the Democratic president showed disrespect for her by abruptly ending their conversation. Obama, for his part, responded in an interview with ABC News that the encounter with Brewer "is a classic example of things

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The U.S. Defense Department says the Obama administration will propose to Congress that U.S. ground forces be cut by 100,000 as part of nearly $500 billion in defense budget cuts during the next decade. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters at the Pentagon Thursday that the administration will request a 2013 defense budget of $525 billion. That is $6 billion less than the request

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The sluggish U.S. economy produced mixed signals Thursday about how fast it is advancing. The U.S. government reported that orders for durable goods, those designed to last at least three years, surged three percent in December, suggesting that manufacturing is a strong segment of the national economy.  Orders for cars, commercial airplanes, machinery, communications equipment and primary

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Transform Cosmetic Surgery Group and The Hospital Group, which together are thought to have given about 10,000 women implants made by Poly Implant Prosthese (PIP), announced the u-turn on their websites. Both are offering free consultation and removal for women who received PIP implants as former clients from 2001 - but not free replacement The change means the firms have essentially agreed to

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Freed hostages Jessica Buchanan and Poul Thisted arrived at a U.S. base in Sicily Thursday, a day after being rescued in a U.S. military raid in Somalia, a spokesman for the base said. The pair are now at Naval Air Station Sigonella, said the base's public affairs officer, Lt. Tim Page. U.S. special operations forces parachuted into Somalia from airplanes in the early hours of Wednesday

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While mobile phones have been getting smarter at a rate of knots, the home phone is basically as it was five years ago. Adding address books and making the handsets wireless is about all the progress most manufacturers have made, and even then very few people use those address books anyway. While call quality has improved, thanks to DECT, being able to hear the person you’re speaking to should

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Delivering a keynote speech at the annual Oxford Media Convention, Richards said it was no longer possible to control what content people were watching at a particular time in the digital age. where video-on-demand streams dominate. However, he did say, citing some new Ofcom research, that people were still most concerned about protecting children from inappropriate content and wanted more

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Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich and their surrogates exchanged harsh attacks Wednesday as a new poll showed them in a statistical dead heat in Florida six days before the Sunshine State's primary in the Republican presidential race. The CNN-Time-ORC International poll indicated that Gingrich surged after his 12-point victory in Saturday's South Carolina primary, but his momentum appeared to be

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In his answers to prosecutors, defense attorneys and a judge, the captain of the ill-fated cruise ship Costa Concordia admitted he made a "mistake" in colliding with rocks off the Italian island of Giglio. However, in statements made during a phone conversation with a friend earlier this month, Capt. Francesco Schettino said managers pressured him to steer the ship to the area where the

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Russia's protest movement grew and got organized with speed that startled many in the political establishment. The country's uncensored Internet allows people to communicate, coordinate and raise money for rallies, all through their computers. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is running for president in elections March 4. His campaign website photos show him skiing, skating and fighting in a judo

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U.S. Special Forces parachuted overnight into Somalia from fixed-wing planes, then advanced on foot to a compound holding two kidnapped international aid workers and freed them, U.S. officials said Wednesday. The nine gunmen holding the hostages -- an American and a Dane -- were killed, the officials said. Jessica Buchanan, 32, and Poul Thisted, 60, had been held since October 25, when they

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Research in Motion, the company that makes BlackBerry phones and Playbook tablet computers, has a new CEO at last. The previous incumbent, Mike Lazaridis (who becomes vice chairman) saw RIM lose more than 70 per cent of its value from a peak of $80bn. The new man, Thorsten Heins, is an engineer who joined RIM from Siemens four years ago and has been unnerving investors further by insisting that

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Demi Moore was hospitalized Monday night, with sources telling TMZ the actress was suffering from substance abuse. Paramedics responded to a 911 call placed at 10:45pm PT and after assessing Moore's condition, transported her from her home in Los Angeles to a local hospital. She has reportedly been moved to a facility to seek treatment for substance abuse, sources told the entertainment

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Newt Gingrich, who surged ahead in the South Carolina Republican presidential primary after raucous response from the crowds attending two debates there, on Tuesday threatened to quit participating in any future debate if the audience is silenced. The threat came after Gingrich ripped the format of a Florida debate Monday night in which the moderator insisted the audience withhold applause or

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A company spokesman said that Sony’s products accounted for 26 per cent of the UK market in October, the most recent period for which independent data is available. Sony also claims it has had a successful Christmas, but conceded that it was likely to have been beaten on tablet sales by aggressively priced BlackBerry Playbooks. The 26 per cent claim is based on share of the total Android

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Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem has strongly criticized the Arab League's latest initiative for ending Syria's 10-month opposition uprising, calling it a "plot" to internationalize the crisis. Speaking at a news conference Tuesday, Moallem said his counterparts at the 22-member Arab League approved a plan they knew Syria would reject as a violation of its sovereignty. The initiative

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Following a successful trial at Charing Cross station, TfL has confirmed that Wi-Fi access will be provided at 120 stations throughout the Tube network, enabling travellers to go online when waiting at platforms. Wi-Fi services will be unavailable when passengers are travelling from station to station within Tube carriages. The assertion that access will be available in advance of the London

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Tehran has shrugged off a new European Union ban on the purchase of Iranian oil, with officials declaring that the country can find new markets for its oil. Some commentators are declaring that Iran should cut the flow of crude even before the new measures go into effect in July, to punish Europe, while others say the embargo is a "gift" which will allow the country to diversity its economy.

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Mitt Romney started the day in Florida Tuesday with a detailed explanation of his tax returns but benefiting from a strong performance in a debate the night before in which he went on the offensive against Newt Gingrich, calling the former speaker a failed leader who resigned in "disgrace." After getting trounced in South Carolina's Republican presidential primary election -- and expressly

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The race for the Republican U.S. presidential nomination is now focused on Florida, a sprawling southern state set to host the 18th debate between the remaining candidates on Monday night. The two apparent leaders in the contest to pick a nominee to oppose President Barack Obama, a Democrat, in the national election in November are one-time venture capitalist Mitt Romney, a former governor of

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The United Nations says there is enough fresh water for everyone on earth.  Yet nearly 1.6 billion people still face water shortages, due to inadequate infrastructure, uneven distribution and wasteful practices.  There’s an organization in California, called WellDone, that is working to lessen this global water crisis, by implementing new approaches to an old problem. Much of the work goes on

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While it is sometimes said men can't take pain as well as women, because they don't go through childbirth, researchers found that not to be the case. When they looked at the pain scores of more than 72,000 patients, across 47 common health problems, they discovered that on average women reported feeling more pain in 39 of them. Atul Butte from Stanford University in the US, the senior author

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The French Senate voted late Monday to criminalize any public denial of what new legislation calls the Ottoman Empire's genocide of Armenians, triggering fresh condemnation from modern Turkey. Relations between France and Turkey have already deteriorated since the National Assembly -- the lower house of the French parliament -- voted to approve the bill in December. The Turkish government

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Four Kenyan officials, including Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, will stand trial on human rights violations that are alleged to have occurred after the 2007 election, the International Criminal Court ruled Monday. Kenyatta and Cabinet Secretary Francis Muthaura are accused of crimes against humanity. Former Agriculture Minister William Ruto and radio journalist Joshua Arap Sang face

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Mammograms, which are offered to women aged 50 to 70 every three years, lead to needless diagnoses and damaging treatment, it has been claimed. It comes after it emerged hundreds of breast cancer survivors may be at greater risk of the disease returning after a surgeon was found to be leaving some breast tissue in tact when operating for cosmetic reasons. Breast surgery also came under the

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Health officials have identified 573 cases of A (H1N1), up from 333 instances on Thursday. The strain represents 90 per cent of influenza cases in the country, the health ministry said in a statement yesterday. Authorities brushed aside suggestions of a new health emergency. In 2009, an outbreak of the same swine flu strain in Mexico and the United States, quickly became a global pandemic,

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The group Human Rights Watch released its annual World Report Sunday, painting a bleak picture of conditions across much of Asia. HRW said Burma's human rights situation remained dire last year, despite the transition to a military-backed civilian government.  The report accuses Burma's military of rape, torture and the killing of civilians in ethnic minority conflict zones, marring the

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Kim Schmitz legally changed his surname to Dotcom at some point over the last decade, a homage to the technology that made him a millionaire and that has now landed him in a New Zealand jail. The 38-year-old Internet entrepreneur was arrested Thursday at his birthday celebration inside a 25,000-square-foot mansion in Auckland. When police entered the property, Mr. Dotcom fled to a safe room,

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Talks on restructuring Greek debt continued Saturday, with negotiators reporting some progress made toward reaching a deal with the nation's private creditors. The negotiations with Institute of International Finance (IIF), which represents the private sector investors who own Greek government bonds, began Wednesday. IIF spokesman Frank Vogl said Saturday: "Progress was made late yesterday and

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The United Nations says Cambodia is refusing to permit a Swiss investigating judge to take his place on the tribunal trying suspected Khmer Rouge war crimes, blocking at least two pending cases. A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday the U.N. has been formally notified of Cambodia's decision not to appoint Swiss magistrate Laurent Kasper-Ansermet to the court. The

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Voting will be over in a few hours in the Republican presidential primary in  South Carolina. The race turned tense in the past two days, as new opinion polls suggest former congressman Newt Gingrich could defeat former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. Just a week ago it appeared Romney, who won last week's key primary election in New Hampshire, would easily triumph in South Carolina. But

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A new poll from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce reveals an increasingly frustrated small business community worried about the impact President Obama’s health care law may have on their bottom line. Nearly three-quarters, or 74 percent, say the new law is causing an impediment to job creation. Brad Close, vice president of Public Policy for the National Federation of Independent Business, said: "

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As many as 32 tourists who were trapped in South Africa's Kruger National Park after torrential rains and flooding have been rescued, park officials said Thursday. At least 70 other tourists, including Italians and Britons, and 10 staff members who were trapped in the rising waters had already been evacuated from washed-away cars and flooded camps at the safari destination, the officials said.

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The Afghan government will investigate reports of civilian casualties in a recent NATO bombing, the office of President Hamid Karzai said Thursday. Karzai has appointed a delegation to investigate the bombing in Kunar province. According to reports, four children, a woman and a man were killed in the incident, the president's office said. NATO forces led by the United States have been

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An eventful day jolted the Republican presidential campaign Thursday, as the candidates prepared for a key debate. Frontrunner Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, faced new challenges, as polls showed rival Newt Gingrich cutting into his lead two days before the South Carolina primary election. Part of the Gingrich gain, some political analysts say, is the result of his strong

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Military officials in Bangladesh say they have uncovered a plot by religious extremists to overthrow the government. Brigadier General Muhammad Masud Razzaq shared details of the attempted coup with reporters Thursday, calling it a "heinous conspiracy" to topple Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Razzaq said the coup had been planned abroad and that two retired military officers have already been

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Burma’s political reforms and new ceasefire agreements with ethnic armed groups are raising hopes that the country will also be able to reduce illicit opium cultivation. Ron Corben reports from Bangkok. This week Burma’s government signed another peace agreement with an armed ethnic army. Leaders reached a deal with the Shan State Army, a militia based in the northern Shan State where much of

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"Shame on you, shame on you," shouted protestors, as officials met to discuss plans to restart Japan's nuclear plants for the first time since last year's Fukushima disaster. About 20 demonstrators carrying anti-nuclear signs disrupted the closed meeting of government agency representatives and energy officials who were there to review the stress-test results for two idled reactors and pave the

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Laura Linney is talking seriously about the business of being funny. “I think the role of comedy and comics is to help deal with situations when they are overwhelming,” asserts the award-winning actress and executive producer of The Big C. “And when comedy tickles the truth, that’s when – at least for me – it’s the funniest.” Still, it’s hard to imagine many situations more overwhelming, or

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The European Union is launching legal action against Hungary over new legislation passed in Budapest, which the EU claims breaks European law. The Hungarian laws covering regulation of the central bank, the judiciary and the governments' data protection office took effect on New Year's Day. EU officials say the new laws threaten the independence of those institutions.  It’s the latest

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Garth Brooks appeared before a friendly crowd Tuesday -- the jurors who will hear his claim that an Oklahoma hospital refused to name a building for his late mother after he gave it $500,000. Nearly everyone in the jury pool raised their hands when Brooks' lawyer asked whether they had heard of the country music star. Eight of the 18 selected for possible duty acknowledged they were fans, and

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MOSCOW -- A deal with Washington to assuage Moscow's concerns about U.S. missile defense plans in Europe is still possible, but time is running out, Russia's foreign minister said Wednesday. Sergey Lavrov reaffirmed that Moscow will take retaliatory action if moves by Washington to deploy missile shield components around Europe pose a threat to Russia. The U.S. says its planned missile shield

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An Iranian non-profit company says it will honor U.S. President Barack Obama's request that Iran return a drone that crashed there last year. But instead of the actual drone, the company says it will send miniature toy versions. A lot of them. "We plan to send a full squadron of 12 to the White House for President Obama as a present," said Reza Kioumarsi, a spokesman for the Aaye Art Group, a

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A new book claims that the eldest son of North Korea's late leader Kim Jong Il believes the impoverished regime is in danger of collapse and that his young half-brother, chosen to lead after Kim's death, is merely a figurehead. The book by Tokyo-based journalist Yoji Gomi went on sale Wednesday. He says it is based primarily on email exchanges he had with Kim Jong Nam over many years. The book

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An apparent smoke bomb was thrown over the fence of the White House as hundreds of Occupy protesters massed outside the gates. The crowds were dispersed Tuesday night and the White House was all clear. U.S. Secret Service spokesman George Ogilvie says there were no arrests in the incident. The Obamas were at dinner celebrating Michelle Obama's birthday, but they have since returned to the

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A recent visit by the commander of Iran's elite Quds force to Damascus is the strongest sign yet that Iran is supplying weapons to aid Bashar Assad's crackdown on the Syrian people, a senior Obama administration official said Tuesday. While the U.S. has long believed Iran is helping drive the deadly crackdown on dissent in Syria, the official says the visit by Quds Force Commander Ghassem

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President Barack Obama says the United States will consult closely with Jordan to advance peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.  The president met Tuesday in the White House with Jordan’s King Abdullah. After the meeting, President Obama thanked the Jordanian monarch for hosting Israeli and Palestinian negotiators in three meetings this month. The president said he would stay in

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The pilot of the plane where a Texas model accidentally walked into its spinning propeller told investigators that he told the woman to walk behind the airplane, according to the newly released preliminary National Transportation Safety Board report, MyFoxDFW.com reports. The NTSB report did not name the pilot or the passenger. But the pilot was identified by authorities as Kurt Anderson, and

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South Korea, the world's fifth largest importer of oil, says more discussions are necessary before it can make a decision on cutting purchases of Iranian crude oil.  The United States is hoping its ally will join the sanctions campaign meant to put pressure on Iran to rein in its nuclear program. The South Korean government finds itself in a dilemma regarding Iran. As a meeting got underway

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British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years. Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, University of London, said Tuesday that he stumbled upon the glass slides containing the fossils in an old wooden cabinet that had been shoved in a "gloomy corner" of the

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The world's biggest websites are calling for a day of dramatic action Wednesday against a piracy-prevention lawsuit that many fear will reshape the Internet as we now know it. Google is the latest site to throw its weight into Wednesday's battle against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives designed to crack down on sales of pirated U.S. products

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Kazakhstan's president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, says his party's landslide victory in Sunday's parliamentary elections is a sign of support for his government after last month's deadly anti-government protests. But observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Monday criticized the election, saying it excluded any real opposition.  The OSCE report said the polls did

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