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AP – Police in southern Mexico say a crowd of villagers chased down a group of alleged kidnappers, freed their victims and shot the three men to death.
Read More: Mexican villagers kill 3 suspected kidnappers
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Reuters – A Canadian captive admitted throwing a grenade that killed a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan during an interview eight years ago that an FBI agent described on Wednesday as “comfortable” and “friendly,” once the hood and handcuffs were removed.
Read More: Omar Khadr's interrogation was "friendly": FBI
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AP – Britain’s final TV election debate Thursday saw Prime Minister Gordon Brown scrap for his political future in the most combative showdown of the campaign, trading sharp exchanges with his two chief rivals a day after an embarrassing campaign gaffe.
Read More: Brown loses gamble in final TV debate
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AP – The Argentine presidency’s campaign against media criticism inspired a symbolic “people’s trial” Thursday against some of the nation’s leading journalists.
Read More: Argentine journalists accused in 'people's trial'
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OneWorld.net – UNITED NATIONS, Apr 27 (IPS) – The
blockbuster, critically acclaimed film ‘Avatar’ portrays the ruthless
plundering of a pristine ecosystem on a distant planet by greedy
corporate interests – a scenario that is all too familiar to many
indigenous communities here on Earth.
Read More: 'Avatar' Director: 'A Complete Reboot of How We See Things'
(OneWorld.net)
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AFP – A giant NASA science balloon crashed during take-off in Australia Thursday, destroying its multi-million-dollar payload, toppling a large car and narrowly missing frightened observers.
Read More: Giant NASA balloon crashes in Australia
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Time.com – Violent crime is rare in the People’s Republic because of a ban on guns but that has not stopped a recent string of assaults on children
Read More: China's Alarming Spate of School Knifings
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The Christian Science Monitor – Irate demonstrators burned tires and blocked traffic in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday after U.S.-led forces killed an armed relative of an Afghan lawmaker during a night raid on her home, according to military and Afghan officials.
Read More: Afghanistan war: US night raid sparks protest over civilian deaths
(The Christian Science Monitor)
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AP – The screams of the 4-year-olds inside the kindergarten could be heard out in the street. When people ran in to investigate, they found what one witness said was a scene “too horrible to imagine” — blood everywhere as a knife-wielding man slashed 28 children, two teachers and a security guard Thursday in the second such school attack in China in two days.
Read More: Man stabs 28 children at kindergarten in China
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AP – 1. “Deliver Us From Evil” by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
Read More: WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERS
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AP – Broadway has chosen its Ray Charles.
Read More: Dixon set to play Ray Charles in Broadway musical
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Playbill – Tony Award-winning actor Chuck Cooper, Amari Cheatom, Michael Sibbery, Sam Numrich and Dion Graham will lead the cast of the Todd Almond-Marcus Gardley musical On the Levee for Lincoln Center Theater’s developmental initiative, LCT3.
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AP – “Avatar” director James Cameron is helping to build a high-resolution 3-D camera on the next-generation Mars rover.
Read More: Cameron helping build 3-D camera for Mars rover
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AP – Colombian singer Shakira visited Phoenix on Thursday, meeting with the city’s police chief and mayor over concerns that a sweeping new state law cracking down on illegal immigration will lead to racial profiling.
Read More: Shakira visits Phoenix over tough immigration law
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AP – Paris Hilton should return up to $1 million she was paid for the 2006 box-office bomb “Pledge This!” because she didn’t plug the film enough, an attorney for the movie’s investors told a federal judge Thursday.
Read More: Film investors: Paris Hilton owes $1M restitution
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Reuters – Language software maker Rosetta Stone Inc’s trademark infringement lawsuit against Google Inc has been dismissed by a federal judge.
Read More: Rosetta Stone suit vs Google dismissed
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AP – Roman Polanski’s lawyers asked a judge Thursday to unseal secret testimony by the original prosecutor in the director’s 33-year-old sex case to help Swiss authorities decide his extradition case.
Read More: Polanski lawyers seek sealed prosecutor testimony
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Reuters – “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” the 26-year-old New Line franchise that gave grisly new meaning to the phrase “you snooze, you lose,” is the latest horror entry to go the reboot route courtesy of Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes.
Read More: "Nightmare" a sleep-inducing retread
(Reuters)
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AP – John Edwards’ mistress said on Thursday’s episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that she doesn’t believe she destroyed the former presidential candidate’s marriage.
Read More: Hunter says she didn't wreck John Edwards' home
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AP – In his first post-”Tonight” show interview, Conan O’Brien said that if he had been in Jay Leno’s shoes, he would not have taken back the show less than a year after publicly handing it off to someone else.
Read More: O'Brien: I wouldn't have done what Jay Leno did
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AP – Activision Blizzard Inc., currently embroiled in a legal shootout with two of its former game developers, has locked up the makers of “Halo” in an exclusive 10-year deal.
Read More: Activision locks up `Halo' creators for 10 years
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HealthDay – THURSDAY, April 29 (HealthDay News) — New research could change the
way scientists view the causes — and potential prevention and
treatment — of Alzheimer’s disease.
Read More: New Finding Could Mark Shift in Alzheimer's Research
(HealthDay)
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Reuters – Children whose mothers had low exposure to sunlight during their first three months of pregnancy may have a higher risk of developing multiple sclerosis later in life, a study in Australia has found.
Read More: Sun-shy mothers may raise MS risk in babies: study
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AP – The next time Stephen Quake is prescribed a drug, he says he won’t worry about having a bad reaction. The Stanford University professor will simply consult his genome to see if there are any warning signs in his DNA.
Read More: Doctors use gene sequence to predict health risks
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HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, April 28 (HealthDay News) — The Action to Control
Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) study was abruptly halted in 2008
when researchers noticed an increase in deaths in the group of type 2
diabetics who were being intensively treated to bring their blood sugar
levels down to near-normal levels.
Read More: Tight Blood Sugar Control May Not Harm Diabetics
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AP – People with a common, obesity-related liver disease that has no known treatment got a surprising benefit from vitamin E pills, researchers reported Wednesday.
Read More: Vitamin E shows promise for treating liver disease
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AP – A sex offender who infected at least 13 women with the AIDS virus should be locked up indefinitely under a civil law meant to keep the most dangerous offenders out of communities even after they complete prison sentences, the state said Wednesday.
Read More: NY wants man who spread HIV locked up indefinitely
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Reuters – The more obese a woman is when she becomes pregnant, the greater the likelihood that her baby will be born with a heart defect, a U.S. government study finds.
Read More: Mothers' obesity tied to newborn heart defects
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Reuters – A California college professor who sequenced his own genome has had it analyzed — and discovered he has a high risk of dropping dead of a sudden heart attack, as well as a high prostate cancer risk.
Read More: Gene scan shows man's risk for heart attack, cancer
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AP – Men in Iceland and women in Cyprus have the lowest risk of dying worldwide, a new study says.
Read More: Adult death rates lowest in Iceland, Cyprus
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AP – Six in 10 Americans — about 175 million people — are living in places where air pollution often reaches dangerous levels, despite progress in reducing particle pollution, the American Lung Association said in a report released Wednesday.
Read More: Report: Most Americans still live in unclean air
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HealthDay – THURSDAY, April 29 (HealthDay News) — Among men with erectile
dysfunction, those who also have low testosterone levels face a higher
than normal risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, a new study has
found.
Read More: Low Testosterone Raises Heart Death Rates in Impotent Men
(HealthDay)
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Reuters – Obesity and smoking may each raise a person’s risk of potentially dangerous blood clots in the veins, but certain other suspected risk factors seem to have no impact, a new study finds.
Read More: Obesity, smoking may raise blood clot risk
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AP – Fears of swine flu helped boost vaccination for ordinary seasonal flu last year, with a record 40 percent of adults and children getting the vaccine, federal health officials said Thursday.
Read More: Swine flu fears push seasonal shots to record high
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HealthDay – THURSDAY, April 29 (HealthDay News) — The type of drug treatment
used to prevent organ rejection in kidney transplant patients doesn’t
affect cancer risk, a new study finds.
Read More: Cancer Risk After Kidney Transplant Unaffected by Type of Drug
Treatment
(HealthDay)
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AP – Palm Inc. a pioneer in the smart phone business that couldn’t quite make the comeback it needed, has agreed to be bought out by Hewlett-Packard Co. for about $1.4 billion in cash.
Read More: HP is Palm's Silicon Valley savior in $1.4B deal
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Ben Patterson – Google’s mobile platform has a ways to go before it can even think of surpassing the smartphone market share of RIM or Apple, but Android’s been buoyed by a flurry of good news that points to greener pastures — although a recent hiccup with Google’s would-be flagship phone, the Nexus One, should give the big brains in Mountain View a moment of pause.
Read More: Top 5 bright spots for Android — plus a dark cloud
(Ben Patterson)
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AFP – A 21-year-old Californian man was identified on Thursday as the person who found and sold an Apple iPhone prototype to the technology blog Gizmodo.
Read More: Apple iPhone prototype finder identified
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PC World – Symantec announced two new acquisitions–PGP Corporation for approximately $300 million, and GuardianEdge Technologies for around $70 million. Purchasing these two established encryption providers will enable Symantec to take a more comprehensive approach to protecting data.
Read More: Symantec Embraces Encryption with New Acquisitions
(PC World)
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AP – For iPhone users who’ve been wondering whether their devices will support Flash technology for Web video and games anytime soon, the answer is finally here, straight from Steve Jobs: No.
Read More: Steve Jobs attacks Adobe Flash as unfit for iPhone
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Reuters – Delighted at his cyber success, Venezuela’s new Twitter convert President Hugo Chavez on Thursday invited Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Bolivian President Evo Morales to join the micro-blogging site too.
Read More: Chavez exhorts Fidel, Morales to Twitter
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NewsFactor – Sony Computer Entertainment is under fire by PlayStation 3 owners. A class-action suit has been brought against Sony for removing Linux support from PS3 consoles in its latest upgrade.
Read More: Sony Sued for Removing Linux Support in PS3 Upgrade
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Christopher Null – Every taxi passenger wonders from time to time if the driver is taking a certain route so he can pad the fare. Turns out he probably is — and even if he’s not, he’s got plenty of other tricks he can use to charge you extra.
Read More: Cabbies overcharging passengers millions of dollars
(Christopher Null)
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AP – Baidu Inc., which operates China’s most popular Internet search engine, said Thursday its first-quarter profit jumped 165 percent on a rise in revenue and numbers of advertising customers.
Read More: Search engine Baidu's Q1 profit jumps 165 percent
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Reuters – Microsoft Corp said on Thursday its “Courier” tablet PC, vaunted by some as a potential rival to Apple Inc’s iPad, will not be launched as a product, at least not in its current form.
Read More: Microsoft shelves Courier, but may re-emerge
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AP – McAfee Inc.’s revenue in the first quarter jumped but net income fell 30 percent from last year as the company absorbed bigger charges for restructuring and accounting for employee stock compensation and income taxes.
Read More: McAfee rev rises, but net falls on charges
(AP)
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Macworld.com – Kerio Connect 7, an upgrade to Kerio Technologies’ alternative to Microsoft Exchange for SMBs, now fully supports the iPad.
Read More: Kerio Connect business server now supports iPad
(Macworld.com)
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 Telegraph.co.uk |
Brown loses gamble in final TV debate
The Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, England — Britain's final TV election debate Thursday saw Prime Minister Gordon Brown scrap for his political future in the most combative showdown of the campaign, trading sharp exchanges with his two chief rivals a day after an … Brown touts economy in final election debate Media Talk: Bigotgate British leaders clash over economy in final TV debate |
Read More: Brown loses gamble in final TV debate – The Associated Press
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US forces kill MP's relative in botched night raid
Times Online American special forces have raided the home of a prominent Afghan woman MP, killing one of her relatives in an operation that provoked public protests yesterday. The incident occurred as a Pentagon report suggested that there was tenuous support for … Afghans protest death of lawmaker's relative in nighttime raid Afghans protest after lawmaker's relative is killed in raid Afghanistan forces face four more years of combat, warns Nato official |
Read More: US forces kill MP's relative in botched night raid – Times Online
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 Stuff.co.nz |
Shanghai Puts on a Green Face
New York Times BEIJING — At the heart of the Shanghai World Expo, opening this weekend, there is an apparent, and glaring, contradiction. Taking “Better Cities, Better Life” as its theme, and making the promotion of sustainable urban development … Shanghai ready to welcome world to Expo Netizens could obtain "online Expo passports" On eve of Shanghai Expo 2010, China finds 'soft power' an elusive goal |
Read More: Shanghai Puts on a Green Face – New York Times
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