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Reuters – A fire at a Toronto transformer station knocked out power to much of the city on Monday, snarling traffic in the midst of a blistering heatwave, but appearing to have little impact on financial markets.
Read More: Toronto hit by blackout after transformer fire
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AFP – India’s largest phone operator Bharti Airtel said Tuesday it will invest 600 million dollars in Nigeria’s mobile market following a huge recent acquisition deal spanning 15 African nations.
Read More: India's Bharti Airtel plans heavy investment in Nigeria
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OneWorld.net – NAIROBI, Jul 5 (IRIN) – “Crowd-sourcing” is a new buzzword in the world of
humanitarian information. The combined power of mobile phones, mapping
technology and social networking can enable citizens in crisis to seek
help, facilitate aid deliveries, bear witness to abuses and hold
governments and aid agencies more accountable, advocates say.
Read More: Finding Space for Crowd-Sourcing in Humanitarian Response
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Time.com – Bronislaw Komorowski’s victory in Poland’s presidential election opens the way for stronger ties with the E.U.
Read More: Poland: Komorowski's Election Win May Help Boost E.U. Ties
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AFP – Amnesty International called Tuesday for the release of an activist charged with endangering Zimbabwe’s economic interests by highlighting abuses at diamond mines.
Read More: Amnesty demands release of Zimbabwe diamond activist
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AP – Hundreds of protesters, led by a government minister, laid siege to the U.N. compound in Colombo on Tuesday, refusing to let workers out in an effort to force the world body to cancel its investigation of alleged abuses committed during Sri Lanka’s civil war.
Read More: Sri Lanka protesters lay siege to UN compound
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AP – An American soldier suspected of leaking a military video of an attack on unarmed men in Iraq was charged with multiple counts of mishandling and leaking classified data and putting national security at risk, the U.S. Army said in a statement Tuesday.
Read More: US soldier linked to Iraq attack video charged
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AP – Thousands of Italian farmers and farm activists massed at Italy’s border with Austria on Tuesday to protest the importation of what they called sub-quality foods pretending to be from Italy.
Read More: Italy farmers protest import of "blue" mozzarella
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AP – She said he wasn’t intimate. He said she wasn’t faithful. She called him a fame whore. He called her jealous. For weeks, the nasty break-up of “The Bachelor” couple Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi has been fought in the tabloids. In their latest round of sparring, the pair were back in front of the reality TV cameras where it all began.
Read More: 'Bachelor' flap shows ugly side of public breakups
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AP – Rowdy crowds waiting in line for a July Fourth pool party featuring Sean “Diddy” Combs forced the event to be shut down before the rap and fashion mogul had a chance to enter.
Read More: Unruly crowd undoes NJ party featuring Diddy
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AP – Jimmy Buffett says Gulf Coast residents have every right to be mad about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, but he’s hoping a free beach concert will help lift spirits.
Read More: Buffett hopes to boost Gulf spirits with concert
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AP – Singer Cesare Siepi, who performed hundreds of times at the Metropolitan Opera and was well known for the role of Don Giovanni, has died at the age of 87.
Read More: Former Met Opera singer Cesare Siepi dies at 87
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Reuters – U.S. DVD rental service Netflix Inc said it has signed a deal with media company Relativity Media LLC to stream major theatrical movies to Netflix customers before they are shown on premium pay-television channels.
Read More: Netflix inks movie deal with Relativity Media
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AP – Lindsay Lohan arrived about 10 minutes early at a Beverly Hills courthouse on Tuesday for a probation revocation hearing that could end with the actress either headed for jail or her next movie role.
Read More: Lindsay Lohan probation revocation hearing begins
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Reuters – French architect Jean Nouvel has brought a vivid splash of red to London’s Serpentine Gallery with an asymmetric structure featuring red table tennis tables among activities on offer to visitors.
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AP – “The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years” (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26), by Sonia Shah: At age 7, author Sonia Shah visits her grandmother in southern India. She must take anti-malaria pills, and she lies in a stuffy cage of netting — mosquitoes perched menacingly above — while her local cousins sleep nearby, unencumbered in the warm breeze.
Read More: `Fever' urges governments to fight malaria locally
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AP – British media reports say George Michael has been arrested after a car crash in London.
Read More: George Michael arrested in London after car crash
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Fashion Wire Daily – One thing that folks here in Paris always insist gives haute couture a certain validity is that its ideas and inventions eventually translate into real fashion trends, which millions of women end up wearing without ever realizing from where the initial thought came.
Read More: Christian Dior's Tulip Couture
(Fashion Wire Daily)
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HealthDay – TUESDAY, July 6 (HealthDay News) — High concentrations of a
blood plasma protein called clusterin may influence the development,
severity and progression of Alzheimer’s disease, English researchers
report.
Read More: New Alzheimer's Clues Identified
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Reuters – Even if you’re past your prime and have a hard time getting an erection, you might still need to worry about unprotected sex, according to U.S. doctors.
Read More: Viagra-popping seniors lead the pack for STDs
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The Christian Science Monitor – Liu Pifeng is a wealthy man. The founder of a prosperous corporate law firm in this provincial capital, he drives the sort of black Chrysler sedan that proclaims personal success in China.
Read More: A prosperous lawyer aids China's migrant workers
(The Christian Science Monitor)
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AP – The first stage of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul is expected to provide coverage to about 1 million uninsured Americans by next year, according to government estimates.
Read More: First health overhaul provisions start to kick in
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HealthDay – (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of ClinicalConnection.com:
Read More: Clinical Trials Update: July 6, 2010
(HealthDay)
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HealthDay – TUESDAY, July 6 (HealthDay News) — While more Americans are
being screened for colon and breast cancer than ever before, millions
aren’t getting the tests and thousands are dying needlessly as a result,
according to U.S. health officials.
Read More: CDC: Thousands die each year over lack of cancer screening
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AP – More older Americans are getting tested for colon cancer, with nearly two out of three getting recommended screenings.
Read More: Colon cancer screenings up, breast rate stalled
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AP – The European Union has approved a new chewable form of cholesterol blockbuster Lipitor for children 10 and up with high levels of bad cholesterol and triglycerides, a type of blood fat, Pfizer said Tuesday.
Read More: Pfizer gets EU approval for kids' cholesterol drug
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AP – Routine screening for osteoporosis should include all younger postmenopausal women who have at least the same chance of a bone break as an older woman, a government task force said Monday.
Read More: Task force urges bone-density tests for more women
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Reuters – Children and teenagers who smoke marijuana may have a somewhat heightened risk of developing depression, a new study suggests — though whether the drug itself is to blame is not clear.
Read More: Early pot smoking, depression may be linked
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HealthDay – MONDAY, July 5 (HealthDay News) — Too much time spent watching
television and playing video games can double the risk of attention
problems in children and young adults, new research finds.
Read More: Too Much Screen Time Can Threaten Attention Span
(HealthDay)
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Reuters – A taste of cow’s milk during the first two weeks of life may protect a child from later developing an allergy to the milk’s protein, a new study suggests.
Read More: Early exposure to cow's milk has benefits: study
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AFP – Lab work on mice has opened up a novel way of closing a gateway to the AIDS virus, according to a study published on Friday.
Read More: Stem-cell work closes a door to AIDS virus
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Reuters – Measuring children’s neck circumference could provide a quick, simple way to screen them for weight problems, a new study suggests.
Read More: Neck size could help ID childhood obesity
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Ben Patterson – Once the darling of the youth set and a regular on the red carpet (Paris Hilton, anyone?), the Sidekick has gradually fallen behind the times, and T-Mobile has just announced that it’ll stop selling the handset as of Friday. But while the carrier is holding out hope for the “next chapter” of the brand, maybe it’s time to simply give the Sidekick the 21-gun salute it deserves.
Read More: T-Mobile's Sidekick to ride off into the sunset
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AP – The US government is expected to take over control of the central information website on the Gulf oil spill response that has been run jointly by various agencies and BP for the 2 1/2 months since the rig explosion.
Read More: US to take more control of spill response website
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Macworld.com – Unified Color Technologies has launched HDR Expose, software for creating and editing high dynamic range images.
Read More: Unified Color Technologies launches HDR Expose
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AFP – A bunch of bored Israeli troops may have to face the music over a YouTube clip showing them doing a flash mob-style dance in full combat gear while on patrol in the West Bank city of Hebron.
Read More: Israel army not amused as troops dance on patrol
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PC World – Malware and spam developers understand that the easiest way to lure a user into clicking on a link, opening a file attachment, or reading a message is to target hot topics that those users are already interested in and discussing around the proverbial water cooler.
Read More: Natural Disasters and Global Warming Fuel the Malware Flames
(PC World)
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AP – The world’s largest technology companies have been on a buying spree, spending billions to snap up smaller companies. And often the buyers say they’re doing it for their customers — businesses, hospitals, schools and government agencies.
Read More: Tech customers question industry's takeover spree
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Ben Patterson – High-end gaming on just about any PC or Mac, all streamed to your system through a tiny desktop client? That’s the promise of OnLive, a remarkable but controversial new “in the cloud” gaming service that launched this month. I’ve been playing big-name titles like Batman: Arkham Asylum, Unreal Tournament III and Red Faction: Guerrilla on my middle-of-the road MacBook Pro for almost a week now and have some hands-on impressions.
Read More: Hands-on review: OnLive's 'in the cloud' gaming service
(Ben Patterson)
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AP – Netflix is adding to the group of movies that its subscribers can watch online or over Internet-connected devices at the same time as they would have appeared on premium pay TV channels such as HBO or Showtime.
Read More: Netflix adds to online movies with Relativity deal
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AP – Todd Atwood says he doesn’t worry too much about accidents when walking down the street using his iPhone to make calls, send text messages or check his e-mail.
Read More: Tech firms aim to keep wayward walkers on path
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PC World – MySQL users now have another choice for support besides Oracle, which acquired the open-source database through its purchase of Sun Microsystems.
Read More: SkySQL Joins Ranks of MySQL Support Providers
(PC World)
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AFP – The Philippine Supreme Court is joining social networking sites Facebook and Twitter so that it can swiftly announce its decisions and answer any criticism, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
Read More: Philippine Supreme Court gets on Facebook, Twitter
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Appolicious – While I often claim this weekly free app roundup has something for everyone, this week’s list will certainly appeal to those young at heart, as gamers and music fans will delight in G4, ReBounce and HiDef Radio.
Read More: Newly released G4 tops Free iPhone Apps of the Week
(Appolicious)
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 The Hindu |
Stifling dissent?
BBC News With a state of emergency extended, there have been suggestions that underground groups are getting prepared to use violence in Thailand. The details are unspecific and hard to verify, but pose a stark warning for the government to … Thailand Extends State of Emergency Thailand's state of emergency is extended, criticized Thailand extends state of emergency |
Read More: Stifling dissent? – BBC News
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 Sydney Morning Herald |
Kaczynski's 47% Support May Slow Polish Deficit Cuts
BusinessWeek July 6 (Bloomberg) — Jaroslaw Kaczynski's stronger-than- expected performance in losing the July 4 presidential election may revitalize the opposition, damping optimism for government plans to reduce the budget … In Poland, Loser Could Still Play the Spoiler Poland: Komorowski's Election Win May Help Boost E.U. Ties Instant View: Komorowski wins Polish presidency |
Read More: Kaczynski's 47% Support May Slow Polish Deficit Cuts – BusinessWeek
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 Kansas City Star |
Israeli Military Announces Indictments in Gaza War
New York Times JERUSALEM — The Israeli military said Tuesday that it had indicted “a number of” officers and soldiers for their actions during Israel's three-week offensive in Gaza in the winter of 2008-9, including a staff sergeant accused of … Netanyahu meets with Obama Obama: Israel serious about peace Israeli soldier faces manslaughter charge in Gaza incursion |
Read More: Israeli Military Announces Indictments in Gaza War – New York Times
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 Daily Mail |
Charles Manson acolyte Leslie Van Houten up for parole
CNN By the CNN Wire Staff Leslie Van Houten, shown at a parole hearing in 2002, goes before California's parole board for the 19th time onTuesday. Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Leslie Van Houten, a member of the notorious Manson family, goes before a … Big Push to Get Charles Manson Follower Leslie Van Houten Out of Prison Manson follower faces parole board for 19th time Leslie Van Houten: Charles Manson Follower Up For Parole? |
Read More: Charles Manson acolyte Leslie Van Houten up for parole – CNN
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 New York Daily News |
Justice Dept. to sue, seek injunction on Ariz. immigration law
Washington Post The federal government is suing to stop Arizona's new immigration law, setting the stage for a clash between the federal government and state over the nation's toughest immigration crackdown. (July 6) By Jerry Markon The Justice Department has decided … Feds to file lawsuit over Arizona immigration law Feds to challenge Arizona immigration law US to Challenge Arizona Immigration Law |
Read More: Justice Dept. to sue, seek injunction on Ariz. immigration law – Washington Post
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 Daily Mail – Charleston (blog) |
Chrysler Ad an Appeal to the Tea Party?
CBS News Chrysler won the ire of the Tea Party movement when it borrowed billions of dollars from the federal government, but it may be trying to win the Tea Partiers back with a new ad that largely borrows from the movement's themes. An ad called "Freedom" for … Tea party movement's energy, anger make it target for admakers Frustrated Tea Party Supporters Describe Themselves as 'Just Average Folks' Texas GOP Incorporates Some Tea Party Positions |
Read More: Chrysler Ad an Appeal to the Tea Party? – CBS News
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