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First Reported 15 hours ago - Updated 35 mins ago - 86 Documents

Fears US church Koran burning will stoke backlash

Plans by a Florida church to burn the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11 fueled fears Tuesday of a backlash which could endanger troops in Afghanistan, as US officials also sought to stem a wave of anti-Islam sentiment.The White House added its voice to ... [Published 20 mins ago by Sydney Morning Herald]

Entities: Qur'an, David Petraeus, Terry Jones, Anti-Islam, Islam

First Reported 18 hours ago - Updated 30 mins ago - 188 Documents

Rob Oakeshott

New government

One won the war, the other the peace, and now the rules have changed for both major parties. JULIA Gillard has been gifted the second chance that Kevin Rudd never had and, with it, an extraordinary opportunity to change the way politics is played and ... [Published 30 mins ago by WA Today.com.au]

Entities: Rob Oakeshott, Julia Gillard, Tony Windsor, Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbott

First Reported 4 hours ago - Updated 33 mins ago - 49 Documents

Iraqi soldier kills 2 U.S. troops

BAGHDAD -- An Iraqi soldier sprayed gunfire at American troops guarding one of their commanders as he visited an Iraqi military base on Tuesday and killed two of them, the first U.S. servicemen to die since President Barack Obama declared an official ... [Published 33 mins ago by Washington Post]

Entities: United States, Iraqi Security Forces, Military/Armed Forces

First Reported 14 hours ago - Updated 43 mins ago - 40 Documents

Tropical Storm Hermine raises flash flood alert in southern Texas

Tropical Storm Hermine made landfall in Mexico on Monday before crossing southern Texas today. Forecasters warned that the storm could dump heavy rain on the region, prompting local officials to distribute sandbags to help residents prepare for possible ... [Published 29 mins ago by SmartBrief]

Entities: Tropical Storm Hermine, Mexico, Flooding

First Reported 18 hours ago - Updated 56 mins ago - 23 Documents

Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand

Strict standards to thank

The devastating earthquake which hit Christchurch on Saturday caused much less damage to modern buildings and bridges than similar quakes which hit Kobe, Japan in 1995 and Haiti earlier this year.And that's due to the exacting standards of New Zealand's ... [Published 18 mins ago by Sun Live]

Entities: Christchurch (New Zealand), Earthquake, Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand

First Reported Sep 06 2010 - Updated 2 hours ago - 19 Documents

Meat eaters have higher death rate

Sep 2010, 5:01 PM EDTCaitlin Hagan(CNN) - Not all proteins are equal when it comes to the health of dieters eating low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets.Animal-based proteins and fats are associated with increased mortality rates, including increased cardiovascular ... [Published 15 mins ago by WTHI]

Entities: Dieting, Protein, Mortality, Morbidity

First Reported Sep 06 2010 - Updated 2 hours ago - 42 Documents

Can non-stick pans raise cholesterol?

Thatâ€™s the question that a team of West Virginia scientists have been left asking, after a recent study uncovered a possible link between the chemicals used in the coating of non-stick pans and cholesterol levels. They say that further research is needed ... [Published 2 hours ago by Women's Fitness]

Entities: Chemical, British Heart Foundation, Acid

First Reported 5 hours ago - Updated 41 mins ago - 15 Documents

Body found at golf course identified

Detectives identified a young Brighton man whose severely-burnt body was found at a golf course. ... [Published 15 mins ago by Leighton Buzzard Today]

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First Reported 15 hours ago - Updated 31 mins ago - 46 Documents

Samsung Corp

Samsung's Orion chip promises mobile boost

Samsung has given details on its next-generation chip for mobile devices, codenamed Orion.The chip, announced on Tuesday, is designed for high-performance, low-power mobile applications on devices such as tablets, netbooks and smartphones.Orion will be ... [Published 23 mins ago by ZDNet UK]

Entities: Samsung Corp, Hummingbird, Smartphone, Intel Corporation

First Reported 12 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 32 Documents

Circle K

Couche-Tard says Casey's battle has been more challenging than it expected

LAVAL, Que. - Alimentation Couche-Tard conceded Tuesday that its attempt to acquire Casey's General Stores has been unexpectedly challenging despite its best efforts to woo the U.S. convenience store operator."If I was a dating a girl with her first name ... [Published 15 mins ago by Canadian Press]

Entities: Alain Bouchard, Tender Offer, Toronto stock exchange, Circle K, Alimentation Couche Tard Inc

First Reported 8 hours ago - Updated 32 mins ago - 31 Documents

Steve Jobs

For Google TV, a Sharp Turn Away From Apple TV (PC World)

As part of recent a demonstration of Google TV, Eric Schmidt said something that would probably make Steve Jobs cringe. "Once you have Google television, you're going to be very busy," the chief executive of Google said at the IFA conference in Berlin, ... [Published 26 mins ago by Yahoo! News]

Entities: Google TV, Apple TV, Steve Jobs

First Reported 9 hours ago - Updated 36 mins ago - 28 Documents

Toronto stock exchange

Record high gold not enough to offset TSX loss

The S&P/TSX composite index lost 42.94 points to 12,101.98.The gold sector helped to moderate weakness in other areas of the market as the price of bullion gained $8.20 to an all-time high of US$1,259.30 an ounce.Oil lost 51 cents to US$74.09 a barrel ... [Published 13 mins ago by Ottawa Business Journal]

Entities: Toronto stock exchange, Canadian Dollar, Us 1 Industries Inc

First Reported 6 hours ago - Updated 38 mins ago - 35 Documents

Medics assist a girl injured in a car bomb attack in Kohat, ...

(Reuters) - Medics assist a girl injured in a car bomb attack in Kohat, Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province after brought at Lady Reading Hospital for treatment in Peshawar September 7, 2010. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz ... [Published 15 mins ago by Yahoo! Canada]

Entities: Kohat (Pakistan), Car bomb, Peshawar

First Reported 16 hours ago - Updated 33 mins ago - 29 Documents

Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie meets flood victims in NW Pakistan

Angelina Jolie (R) visits displaced at KandaroISLAMABAD (Mansoor Jafar)Famous Hollywood actress and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie met flood victims in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday to bring more international attention to their suffering ... [Published 27 mins ago by Al Arabiya]

Entities: Angelina Jolie, Pakistan, Flooding, Mohib Banda, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (...

First Reported 18 hours ago - Updated 39 mins ago - 34 Documents

Fresh rains claim 50 lives

Storms ravage Guatemala, Mexico:GUATEMALA: Major storms ravaging Guatemala and southern Mexico since the weekend have killed at least 48 people and caused damage worth hundreds of millions of dollars, officials said.In Mexico, at least three people died ... [Published 39 mins ago by Sri Lanka Daily News]

Entities: Guatemala, Solola (Guatemala), Mudslide, Mexico

First Reported 14 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 55 Documents

Mark Andrews

UK woman slams police sentence

A woman injured by a policeman has slammed the six-month sentence he received.06:16 AMChurch vows Koran burning06:16 AMFrench protest over retirement06:16 AMCrisis restricts media coverage06:13 AMFrench workers stage mass protest06:07 AMEngland cruise ... [Published 1 hour ago by BigPond News]

Entities: Mark Andrews, Police Officer, United Kingdom, Melksham (United Kingdom)

First Reported 15 hours ago - Updated 53 mins ago - 38 Documents

Boris Johnson

Mayor says Strike is a Failure

Despite 10,000 members of the RMT and TSSA originally expected to walk out for 24 hours as part of a row over plans for changes to hundreds of jobs at London Underground - only sixty percent of trains have been affected according to Transport for Lon ... [Published 53 mins ago by LBC 97.3]

Entities: London Underground Ltd, Boris Johnson, James O'Brien, London, Transport for London

First Reported 21 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 24 Documents

Dan Goodwin

'Spider Dan' arrested after skyscraper climb

SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco police arrested a man who scaled the exterior of a 58-story downtown skyscraper Monday and unfurled an American flag at the top.Police told KCBS radio that the man was veteran skyscraper climber Dan Goodwin. The 54-year-old ... [Published 16 mins ago by MSNBC]

Entities: Dan Goodwin, San Francisco (United States), Sears Holdings Corporation, Vulnerability, Acts of Terrorism

First Reported 10 hours ago - Updated 35 mins ago - 28 Documents

Benjamin Netanyahu

VIEW: Israeli-Palestinian negotiations -S P Seth

VIEW: Israeli-Palestinian negotiations —S P SethAs a victim of the Holocaust, Israel is treated as a special state, not subject to normal international rules and conventions. As a result, it has never felt the kind of pressure to conform to international ... [Published 35 mins ago by Daily Times]

Entities: Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Peter Beinart, Spiritual leader

First Reported 19 hours ago - Updated 47 mins ago - 32 Documents

LAPD chief defends deadly shooting

Guatemalan immigrant turned violent when some demonstrators threw bottles at officers, set trash cans on fire and refused to disperse. Television news footage showed people tossing the bottles and plastic crates at officers in riot gear late Monday near ... [Published 47 mins ago by StarBanner.com]

Entities: Los Angeles Police Department, Quash, Plastic, Immigration

First Reported 22 hours ago - Updated 33 mins ago - 44 Documents

Strike on the "Tube" causes London commuter havoc

LONDON (Reuters) - Millions of London commuters struggled to get to and from work on Tuesday as a 24-hour strike by workers on the capital's underground rail system disrupted much of the network, hurting the city's convalescent economy.Passengers took ... [Published 1 hour ago by thestar.com.my]

Entities: London, Layoffs, Transport for London, London Underground Ltd

First Reported 11 hours ago - Updated 27 mins ago - 21 Documents

Orszag column blindsides White House

The White House was blindsided Tuesday by former budget director Peter Orszag’s dramatic break with President Obama on tax policy.Orszag, in a column in The New York Times, called for all of the Bush-era tax cuts to be extended for two years, including ... [Published 21 mins ago by The Hill]

Entities: Peter R Orszag, Robert Gibbs, White House, Taxes

First Reported 19 hours ago - Updated 56 mins ago - 30 Documents

Pension strikers stage mass protest in France

More than 1 million French workers have taken to the streets to challenge president Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to raise the retirement age to 62, the centrepiece of his reform agenda.The interior ministry reported the turnout at rallies across the country ... [Published 56 mins ago by ABC Online]

Entities: France, Paris, François Fillon

First Reported 14 hours ago - Updated 43 mins ago - 17 Documents

NATO: Handover to Afghans Will Start in 2011

WASHINGTON - NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Sept. 7 said he hoped U.S.-led troops would begin handing over responsibility to Afghan security forces sometime next year.The secretary-general said he expected that the alliance would unveil plans at ... [Published 23 mins ago by DefenseNews.com]

Entities: Handover, NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Blogs

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Chips: The Street’s Worries Intensify; Downgrad... [Published 31 mins ago by All Things Digital] By Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron’s, Tech Trader DailyThe Street’s fretting over weakening demand in the chip sector is intensifying.In short, signs of weak PC demand, combined with fears of a slowing recovery in IT spending, indications of ...
Former Google China Head–and Now Start-up Whisp... [Published 31 mins ago by All Things Digital] Last Friday, former Google China head Kai-Fu Lee (pictured here) dialed up BoomTown from that country for a chit-chat interview about his life since leaving the search giant one year ago and plunging into the world of incubation, recruiting and early-stage ...
Toshiba's New Tablet: Success or Faileo? [Digit... [Published 31 mins ago by All Things Digital] Add Toshiba to the list of consumer-electronic manufacturers developing a tablet for Google’s Android OS. The device, which is to be called the Folio 100 , will run Android 2.2 (Froyo) and will feature a 10.1-inch multitouch display, a 1.3 megapixel front-facing ...
Piper Jaffray: Android Army's Victory Over iPho... [Published 32 mins ago by All Things Digital] The battle for dominance in the smartphone market will shake out in the next five years and when it’s finished, Google (GOOG), not Apple (AAPL), will emerge the victor. That’s the outlook from Piper Jaffray which sees Google’s Android OS aggressively ...
HP Sues Former CEO Over Oracle Gig (Read the Co... [Published 32 mins ago by All Things Digital] And, like clockwork, here’s Hewlett-Packard’s suit over Mark Hurd’s new gig at Oracle –and not 24 hours after the appointment was announced.Filed Tuesday in a California state court, the suit accuses HP’s recently ousted CEO of breach of contract and ...

Audio/Video

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Shampoo ad stuns viewers [Published 1 hour ago by CNN.com - Video]
Should John Lennon's murder be paroled? [Published 1 hour ago by CNN.com - Video]
CNN News Update (9-7-2010 4 PM EDT) [Published 1 hour ago by CNN News Update]
Woods selected for Ryder Cup [Published 1 hour ago by Reuters Video: Top News]

Press Releases

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Scotiabank expande plataformas globales [Published 36 mins ago by PR-Canada.net]
Tool to Repair Damaged Word Files Will Now Work... [Published 1 hour ago by PR-Canada.net]
1 in 5 admit to ‘looking forward’ to inheritance [Published 1 hour ago by Your Story]
Switch between four separate computer systems s... [Published 1 hour ago by Your Story]
WFP / School meals in Cape Verde / A national s... [Published 1 hour ago by PR-Canada.net]