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BBC
- Apec leaders make free-trade vow
- Leaders from Asia-Pacific nations meeting in Peru pledge not to raise trade barriers in the face of...
- Dalai Lama urges Chinese contacts
- The Dalai Lama asks Tibetan exiles to improve their contacts with ordinary Chinese as they press for...
- Beheadings in Guatemala jail riot
- A fight between rival gangs in a Guatemalan prison leaves seven inmates dead, five of them beheaded,...
- Venezuela set for 'critical' vote
- Venezuelans are set to vote in municipal elections to choose new state governors and over 300 mayors...
- Fresh spacewalk in vexed mission
- International Space Station astronauts try to resolve the latest of a series of glitches that have p...
Christian Science Monitor
- Iran: Will talks happen under Obama?
- A period of reestablishing relations with Iran's partners seems likely. Also expect contacts with lo...
- How deep a recession?
- The housing-bubble collapse makes recovery hard to predict.
- Doubt greets IMF bailout offers
- The fund seeks to soften effects of the financial collapse, but many Asian leaders - citing bad advi...
- US airstrikes put Pakistan's leaders on defensive
- It summoned the US ambassador Thursday to formally complain after an attack hit deep inside Pakistan...
- California Supreme Court to hear challenges to gay-marriage ban
- Opponents argue that the ballot initiative amounts to a revision of the state constitution.
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CNet News
- YouTube lives it up
- Video-sharing site offers its first live stream of an event--one designed to celebrate itself and ma...
- Blogging from 25,000 feet
- CNET's Kent German and Kara Tsuboi catch a ride on Virgin America's debut of its in-flight Wi-Fi ser...
- Google gunning for IE with Chrome OEM deals
- Search giant is ready to take on Microsoft's browser with OEM deals to increase Chrome's availabilit...
- Kernel vulnerability found in Vista
- Flaw in operating system's networking could allow rootkits to be hidden or denial-of-service attacks...
- Verizon workers fired over Obama records breach
- Employees, who had been placed on paid leave earlier this week during Verizon's investigation, are n...
CNN Live
- Obama economic team starts to take shape
- Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, who lost out to New York Federal Reserve President Timot...
- Mall shooting kills 1; suspect sought
- One man died and another was in serious condition Saturday evening after they were shot at a shoppin...
- Astronauts complete marathon spacewalk
- Astronauts from the shuttle Endeavour finished their third spacewalk Saturday after nearly seven hou...
- Bush touts free trade, sounds parting note
- President Bush, in what could be his final overseas trip as president, called on international leade...
- Maldives' first president dies
- Ibrahim Nasir, credited with ushering in independence to the Maldives as prime minister and then ser...
New ComputerWorld
Digg: Frontpage News
- Video Game "O Faces" Captured with RED Camera
- British photographer Robbie Cooper used stills from the video taken by his RED camera to show that l...
- $1m holiday is a 'special offer'
- It is the perfect way to see off those credit crunch blues: by embarking on the world's first $1 mil...
- The 20 greatest car chases in movie history
- Cars have appeared in the movies since the very beginning of cinema, but the chase is a comparativel...
- Sunday Brunch Idea (PIC)
- This way you don't have to eat lunch or dinner.
- Cheerleaders' Parents Sue In Nude Photos Incident
- Parents of two Bothell High School cheerleaders have sued the Northshore School District, alleging s...
Engadget
- Pasen is dead, long live Pasen's new REI-16 PMP
- To say that we've been underwhelmed by Pasen's offerings thus far would be like calling the Meizu M8...
- G1 multi-touch a reality, integrated headphone jack still just a dream
- When reviewing the G1 we found a lot to like, but a lot to dislike too. We knew that some of its sho...
- iPhone firmware 2.2 gets QuickPwn and PwnageTool, of course
- In case you haven't noticed the trend, when Apple releases a new iPhone / iPod touch firmware, it ha...
- Canon EOS 5D Mark II spotted for sale in the wilds of Shanghai
- It looks like that hint at a release date we got earlier this summer turned out to be right -- well,...
- On Virgin America's inaugural GoGo WiFi flight: this post published from 35,000 feet
- So I took a little a break from working on gdgt to get on Virgin America's inaugural Aircell GoGo Wi...
ESPN
Guardian Unlimited
- Darling to slash VAT and spark Xmas spree
- Alistair Darling will make a high-risk bid to lead Britain out of recession tomorrow, when he is exp...
- Ofsted's child abuse report was misleading
- A 'misleading' figure included in a major government watchdog report has led to a false and vastly i...
- Somalia sinks deeper into a state of total disintegration
- Zam Zam Abdi fled Mogadishu after being threatened with death by the hardline Islamist militia - the...
- Top British terror suspect killed in US missile strike
- A British man suspected of close links to al-Qaeda's leadership and involvement in a high-profile bo...
- Washington's elite abuzz as Obamas settle on a school
- At last it's official. One of the gravest and most consequential decisions Barack Obama will make in...
Motley Fool
- The Fool's Look Ahead
- HPs, RVs, and TVs will take to the field next week.
- Don't Buy These Stocks Today
- They may look cheap, but are they?
- What the Best Money Managers Are Doing Now
- And what that means for you.
- How to Become a Billionaire
- Follow the model of the masters.
- Don't Make a Million-Dollar Mistake
- It's not too late to make your million.
New York Times
- Obama Vows Swift Action on Vast Economic Stimulus Plan
- Barack Obama offered the outlines of a plan to create or save 2.5 million jobs by investing in publi...
- Clinton-Obama Détente: From Top Rival to Top Aide
- Few are predicting that a new relationship born of mutual respect and self-interest will grow into a...
- The Reckoning: Citigroup Pays for a Rush to Risk
- Much of the damage inflicted on Citigroup was caused by errant, high-octane trading and lax oversigh...
- New Suspect in Sports Doping Is, No Joke, Viagra
- The drug may create an unfair advantage dilating blood vessels, increasing oxygen-carrying capacity.
- The Nation: Is Steel’s Revival a Model for Detroit?
- A dying industry found new life after emerging from bankruptcy.
PoliticsCentral.com News
- The Glenn and Helen Show: Brian Anderson on Media Freedom
- Brian Anderson is the author of South Park Conservatives, and now he's got a new book out with Adam...
- The Glenn and Helen Show: Adam Shepard on Making it from Scratch
- Can you still make it from scratch in America? That's the question that Adam Shepard asked himself i...
- The Glenn and Helen Show: T. Boone Pickens on Wind Energy
- T. Boone Pickens is an oilman, a takeover expert, and a longtime observer of the American scene. He'...
- The Glenn and Helen Show: Carla Howell on Ending the Income Tax in Massachusetts
- Like many states, Massachusetts has an income tax. But in Massachusetts, people are trying to do som...
- The Glenn and Helen Show: Kathleen Parker on Why Men Matter
- They used to say that it was a man's world, but you don't hear that much any more. Women outnumber m...
Rolling Stone
Salon
- I Like to Watch: The super friends of "Heroes" scramble to save the world -- and their show -- from annihilation, while "The Shield" prepares for a heart-stopping finale!
- Last weekend, with the Southland engulfed in a fiery apocalypse, local residents were forced to stay...
- Get over it, Clinton haters
- Obama's choice of rival Hillary Clinton for secretary of state shows his political wisdom. And the v...
- Tuning out the brain-dead megaphone
- Pundits claim we're a center-right nation -- but polls show voters elected Obama to enact his progre...
- NFL Week 12: Big-game picks
- It's rivalry week on campus, but as great as Auburn-Alabama might be, how can it compete with Texans...
- The bad mom bench
- You try and try, but sometimes, you just may have to give up your Parent of the Year tiara. Members...
Scientific American
- New computer model gives particle physics another thumbs-up
- The Standard Model of particle physics, that old workhorse of a theory, has dodged another bullet. T...
- Obama's cell phone hacked, privacy issues murky
- Verizon Wireless today apologized to President-elect Barack Obama after discovering that employees h...
- A Flight to a Continent Dressed in White
- Editor's Note: Marine geophysicist Robin Bell is leading an expedition to Antarctica to explore a my...
- Space station urine recycling system still on the fritz
- Turning urine into drinkable water apparently isn't so easy. At least not in space. As the space shu...
- Hope for Rabies Victims: Unorthodox Coma Therapy Shows Promise
- Four years ago, Jeanna Giese, now 19, became the first person to survive rabies without a preventive...
Slashdot
- Zimbra Desktop Vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle Attack
- tiffanydanica writes "For all the flack Mozilla gets about its new security warnings for https sites...
- Scientists Add Emotions To Robotic Head
- DeviceGuru writes "Claiming that service-class robots will one day be pervasive, researchers at the...
- How to Deal With an Aging Brain?
- An anonymous reader writes "I'm sure this is something all older Slashdotters are aware of: as I get...
- Google to Track TV Viewers More Closely
- GalacticNoob writes "According to this post, Google is about to launch a TV advertising program that...
- Taking a Look at Nexenta's Blend of Solaris and Ubuntu
- Ahmed Kamal writes "What happens when you take a solid system such as Ubuntu Hardy, unplug its Linux...
Slate
- Slate V: Summary Judgment on Twilight, Special and Bolt
- Mark Jordan Legan sums up what critics are saying about the big weekend movies: Twilight, Special, a...
- Why all those Great Depression analogies are wrong.
- It's difficult to avoid the comparisons between the current sad state of financial affairs and the G...
- Eric Holder will have his hands full at the Justice Department.
- The U.S. Justice Department faces an internal crisis in morale and a public crisis in credibility. A...
- Obama taps Timothy Geithner as Treasury chief; Clinton looks likely to take State job.
- Transition is in the air: the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the LA Times all lead w...
- How much can an incoming president change White House décor?
- Ever since Barack and Michelle Obama toured the White House on Nov. 11, the press has been speculati...
Washington Post
- Obama Sets Sweeping Jobs Goal
- On Monday, he is expected to name ex-Treasury chief Lawrence Summers as top economic adviser.
- Regulator Failed to Rein In Banks� Risky Practices
- By allowing lenders to spin out of control, the Office of Thrift Supervision stands out among agenci...
- In Arab World, Mistrust of Clinton
- Some in region worry pro-Israel senator would be more hawk than dove if named secretary of State.
- Bulgaria Arms Kurds in N. Iraq
- Large munitions shipments, unauthorized by Baghdad, raise fears of Kurd expansion in region.
- Nonprofits Adapt to Lean Times
- Crumbling economy is increasing demand for services while reducing funding and resources.
Wired News
- How Biology and Technology Shape Sex and War
- The authors of the new book "Sex and War" talk with Wired Science how biology and technology have sh...
- Excerpt: Science Defines Future of War
- The future of war is filled with poison gas, germ warfare and nuclear weapons. Each technological ch...
- Gallery: The First Decades of Seeing the Unseen
- : Photo courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtWhat are the social consequences when science all...
- Murder-For-Hire Plot Unfolds in Text Messages
- When Tonia Mullins decided to hire a hit man to kidnap and murder her lover's wife, she didn't scour...
- Judge Considers Throwing Out Lori Drew Case
- A federal judge will rule Monday on whether the case against a 39-year-old woman accused in a deadly...
Wonkette
- Obama Is Hiring 2.5 Million of You Slobs!
- Here's your presidential boyfriend's weekly "video blog," which is we guess what we will be seeing f...
- Bidens Will Be Forced To Live In Filthy D.C.
- Joe Biden used to have a nice life. He did his work at the Senate, and then he took a relaxing train...
- It's Unofficially Official: Hillary Clinton Is Secretary of State
- Oh hey Friday slow news day, etc.! The various news outlets keep insisting that Hillary Clinton has...
- Who Will Bail Out Our Vital Weather-News Industry?
- Holy Jesus God do you know how bad this recession is? So bad that one of the most recession-proof in...
- Obama Picks Some Nobody For Treasury
- Well this is terribly disappointing! After a veritable two weeks of post-election speculation about...
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