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Resolution of Chen crisis indicates possible maturation in US-China relationship - Washington Post - 12 mins
Washington PostFor two nations whose exchanges are perennially fraught with tension and distrust, the arrival of blind activist Chen Guangcheng in New York during the weekend marked a tidy conclusion to a month-long diplomatic drama and an encouraging sign for ...Daily MailChina Digital TimesScotsman - -
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Pakistan blocks Twitter over contentious tweets - Rome News Tribune - 15 mins
Rome News Tribuneby ZARAR KHAN,AP ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter for much of Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials.CNETForbesTimes of India -
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A closer look at NATO protesters and police van - Chicago Tribune - 15 mins
Chicago TribuneA video-recorded confrontation between a NATO protester and a moving Chicago police van was cited across social media as an example of police violence. But a close examination of various news footage, as well as protester cellphone videos posted on ...ReutersWashington PostChicago Sun-Times - -
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Dwyane Wade shows flashes of old self as Miami Heat even series against ... - SportingNews.com - 37 mins
SportingNews.comNDIANAPOLIS—For a while there—parts of the second quarter, all of the third, some of the fourth—it looked like the Miami Heat's Dwyane Wade was 24 again. Remember it? The 2006 NBA Finals against the Dallas Mavericks, Wade slithering into the lane, ...BloombergCBSSports.comHouston Chronicle -
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Parents make appeals before webcam case sentencing - 6abc.com - 39 mins
6abc.comJane Clementi, right, and her husband, Joseph Clementi, left, attend a symposium on use and misuse of social media at Rutgers University, Monday, Nov. 14, 2011, in Piscataway, NJ Their son, Tyler Clementi, was in his first weeks as a student at Rutgers ...San Antonio ExpressNew York TimesSalon
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Robin Gibb of Bee Gees dies at 62 - New York Daily News - 39 mins
New York Daily NewsRobin Gibb, one of three brothers who sold hundreds of millions of records as the Bee Gees but had mixed feelings about the group's “disco” image, died Sunday in England. He was 62. His representative Doug Wright announced in a statement that Gibb ...MTV.comSeattle Post IntelligencerRollingStone.com
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Rare eclipse crosses Asia - USA TODAY - 45 mins
USA TODAYBy ERIC TALMADGE, AP TOKYO – Millions of Asians watched as a rare "ring of fire" eclipse crossed their skies. Ng Han Guan, AP A partial annular eclipse takes place over Beijing, China. Ng Han Guan, AP A partial annular eclipse takes place over Beijing, ...Fox NewsLos Angeles TimesSpace.com - -
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Italy quake kills 7; survivors huddle in tents, cars - CNN - 47 mins
CNNA rescuer walks near the town hall in Sant'Agostino village after a powerful earthquake shook Italy's industrial and densely populated Northeast early on Sunday, May 20. Finale Emilia, Italy (CNN) -- Thousands of survivors huddled in tents or in their ...Washington PostSydney Morning HeraldIndian Express -
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker slams Obama campaign attack on Romney's work for Bain ... - Washington Post - 2 hours, 30 mins
Washington PostMayor Cory Booker of Newark, a close ally of President Obama in the upcoming election, slammed the president's campaign Sunday for ads attacking Mitt Romney's work for the Bain Capital private equity firm. Booker, who noted that many of his ...New York TimesAlaska DispatchPolitico (blog) - -
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Lockerbie bomber al-Megrahi dies in Libya after long battle with cancer - msnbc.com - 2 hours, 31 mins
msnbc.comAbdel Baset al-Megrahi, the man convicted of blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland, died after a long illness. NBC's Richard Engel reports. By NBC News, msnbc.com and news services Updated at 3:30 pm ET: TRIPOLI - The former Libyan intelligence ...The AustralianScotsmanMirror.co.uk - -
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Conservative donors slow to back Romney's campaign - The Guardian - 2 hours, 35 mins
Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney and his party raised a sizable $40 million last month from donors who want him to replace President Barack Obama. But even as Romney solidifies his position as the eventual GOP nominee, many supporters who backed his primary ...
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Greece Crisis Threatens To 'Open Door To Hell' - Sky.com - 2 hours, 4 mins
Greece's former finance minister has told Sky News that if Greece reneges on its bailout deal with the EU and the IMF it will "open the door to hell". Sky News last interviewed George Papaconstantinou two-and-a-half years ago. In December 2009 he told how Greece could survive independently and ...
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More activists charged related to NATO summit - The Guardian - 4 hours, 37 mins
Associated Press= CHICAGO (AP) — Prosecutors on Sunday charged two more activists with crimes tied to the NATO summit, accusing one of boasting that he could blow up a downtown Chicago bridge and that he concealed some explosives in a hollowed-out Harry Potter novel. But defense attorneys said ...
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London 2012: Tom Daley takes gold in Eindhoven - BBC News - 5 hours, 42 mins
Tom Daley marked his return to the scene of his first European title with a stunning personal 10m platform best score to seal his second continental crown in Eindhoven, Netherlands. He was just 13 when he announced his arrival on the global stage ahead of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. He thinks his ...
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Facebook's future has more than just money riding on it - The Guardian - 9 hours, 31 mins
It may have taken Nasdaq (possibly borrowing the London mayoral computer systems) a couple of hours to work out how much Facebook shares cost. But it took the market less than 60 minutes to test the will of Facebook's underwriters, pulling the shares down to the opening $38 to see if there was ...
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Chelsea win first Champions League title - BBC News - 12 hours, 12 mins
Chelsea have beaten Bayern Munich in a dramatic penalty shoot-out at the Allianz Arena to win the Champions League for the first time. Thousands of fans made the journey to Germany to watch the match and many more filled the pubs of London. Tim Allman reports ...
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Raleigh Chopper designer Alan Oakley dies from cancer - BBC News - 15 hours, 43 mins
The man who designed Raleigh's iconic Chopper bicycle has died after a battle with cancer. Alan Oakley, 85 and from Nottingham, home of the bike manufacturer, died on Friday. His wife Karen told the BBC she had managed his illness "right up until the last few weeks". Mrs Oakley confirmed the now ...
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Armed forces mark Diamond Jubilee - The Guardian - 2 days, 14 hours, 44 mins
Six massed bands led servicemen and women from the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force in the uplifting musical pageant. Joined by other members of the royal family on a dais in the Quadrangle of Windsor Castle - her favourite residence - the Queen smiled and muttered comments to her husband during ...
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Is the BBC's £1 billion revamp of Broadcasting House good news for radio? - Daily Telegraph - 3 days, 20 hours, 3 mins
BBC history is being made today. Tim Davie, director of audio and music, is breaking through a wall between old Broadcasting House and neighbouring New Broadcasting House to be greeted by George Entwistle, director of vision, (the “tele” from his title was dropped a while ago) and Helen Boaden ...
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Figures show fall in cancer deaths - The Guardian - 6 days, 16 hours, 24 mins
Statistics published by Cancer Research UK show that cancer deaths in people aged between 50 and 59 dropped from over 21,300 in 1971 to under 14,000 in 2010. For men, the cancers which have seen biggest fall in death rates are stomach, Hodgkin's lymphoma, testicular and lung, while for women the ...