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Rubber bullets fired at SA miners

SOURCE: BBC

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South African miners shot with rubber bullets Industrial relations remain volatile in South Africa's key mining sector Ten South African...
Video emerges of Pope Francis reportedly performing an exorcism

SOURCE: The independent

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Pope Francis appears to have been captured on video performing an exorcism in St Peter's Square. The astonishing footage, taken...
Manchester United Top Table for Premier League TV Earnings

SOURCE: International Herald Tribune

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Football champions Manchester United topped the table for English Premier League television income in 2012-13, raking in almost 61 million...
Yahoo buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion, vows not to screw it up

SOURCE: DAWN

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Tue May 21, 2013 Yahoo Inc. will buy blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, giving the Internet pioneer...
Nabucco gets European member support

SOURCE: United Press International

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Governments in central and southern Europe issued a joint declaration from Romania expressing support for the planned Nabucco natural gas...
Cowboys' QB Romo out at least 3 weeks after surgery to remove cyst

SOURCE: The Dallas Morning News

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McCarthy/Staff Photographer Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo looks on from the sidelines after his tipped pass was recovered by Chicago...
Terminal teen whose farewell song became web hit dies of cancer

SOURCE: Fox News

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Published May 21, 2013 Associated Press A Minnesota teenager whose farewell song "Clouds" became an Internet sensation with nearly 3...
Tunisian government deems Ansar al-Sharia illegal organization

SOURCE: United Press International

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Tunisia's Interior Ministry declared Ansar al-Sharia an illegal organization that will be barred from activities of the Salafist movement of...
McGinley raises Ryder Cup picks from two to three

SOURCE: Reuters

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News Related Topics Paul McGinley of Ireland smiles near the Ryder Cup during a news conference after being named the...
Kelly Rowland joins The X Factor USA

SOURCE: BBC

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Facebook tells Newsbeat it will not rush a review of violent content after beheading videos were removed from the site....
Best Buy Sales Fall Short of Expectations

SOURCE: The New York Times

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Best Buy Co Inc reported weak quarterly sales on Tuesday and warned that a slew of investments to entice shoppers...
Sergio Garcia Rips Tiger Woods, Says He Has Been Lying To The Media ...

SOURCE: BusinessInsider

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Richard Heathcote/Getty Images The feud between Sergio Garcia and Tiger Woods continues to escalate. Yesterday Tiger said simply, "No," when...
Group: More Afghan women jailed for 'moral crimes'

SOURCE: Fox News

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Afghanistan An international rights group says the number of Afghan women and girls jailed for "moral crimes" has risen...
Police shut down, search Ugandan newspaper offices

SOURCE: United Press International

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Ugandan police closed down the offices of the Daily Monitor after it ran a series of articles about the president...
Moyes move is big boost - Allardyce

SOURCE: BBC

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Sam Allardyce Sam Allardyce says Manchester United's decision to appoint David Moyes as Sir Alex Ferguson's successor is "a huge...

Death toll being lowered in Oklahoma City suburbs

Posted by: Robert Weller

Oklahoma City :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 07:59:17 -0700 | disasters-news

MSNBC reported Tuesday that morning that officials said they have may have counted some bodies twice, and the death toll may be much lower from Monday's tornado in Oklahoma City's suburbs. Spokeswoman Amy Elliott of the medical examiner's office had...

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Amid scandals, Obama gets slight bump in polls

Posted by: Punditty

Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 02:30:55 -0700 | political-news

Isn’t a scandal supposed to lower a president's poll numbers? And aren’t multiple scandals occurring simultaneously supposed to drop those numbers even lower? Maybe so, but the three high-profile scandals currently dogging President Barack Obama and his administration seem...

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Republican nitpicking on replay: Palin slams Obama when someone held her umbrella?

Posted by: VeronicaS

Wasilla :: AK :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 03:17:06 -0700 | political-news

The Republican nitpicking has sunk to a new low as “umbrella-gate” joins last week’s succession of scandals. While President Barack Obama was sliced and diced over Benghazi-gate, IRS-gate and AP-gate, Republicans like Sarah Palin took to Twitter to slam the...

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Ray Manzarek, keyboardist for The Doors, dead at 74

Posted by: Punditty

Rosenheim :: Germany | updated 2013-05-21 07:36:06 -0700 | entertainment-news

Ray Manzarek, who co-founded The Doors with Jim Morrison in 1965, died Thursday of bile duct cancer at a clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, the New York Times reported. He resided in Napa, Calif. Manzarek’s keyboard introduction to the 1967 Summer...

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Police officer, not intruder, killed Hofstra University student during standoff

Posted by: Phyllis L. Smith Asinyanbi

Uniondale :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 06:41:36 -0700 | disasters-news

Andrea Rebello, 21, a Hofstra University student, was killed by a police bullet at an off-campus house in Uniondale, N.Y. as a masked intruder held a loaded gun to her head then aimed at the officer, according to Nassau County...

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Obama rocked by scandal - America, please!

Posted by: Harold Michael Harvey, J. D.

Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 08:10:02 -0700 | political-news

When I was a college student a long, long time ago, Richard Nixon was president of the country. Back in that day the popular slang on my college campus was “You are a scandalous.” Anyone attending Tuskegee University in the...

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John Kerry begins his visit to Middle East to revive peace talks

Posted by: saleh1966

White Center :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 07:38:20 -0700 | political-news

US Secretary of State John Kerry starts Tuesday his fourth tour to the Middle East since he has been appointed at the beginning of February. He will visit Oman, Jordan, Palestinian territories and Israel. During his visit, Kerry will discuss...

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Google+ unveils its sexy new look, and yes, it's impressive

Posted by: Aby Sam Thomas

New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 06:50:55 -0700 | business-news

You can say what you want about Google+, but you have to admit—the guys at Google are just not the quittin’ kind. Despite having had a lot of ridicule and brickbats thrown its way, Google is not giving up on...

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Yahoo promises to not 'screw up' Tumblr

Posted by: Elaine Cheung

New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 08:05:38 -0700 | business-news

Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer and the Yahoo board have agreed to buy the blogging site, Tumblr, for $1.1 billion. Rumors of the deal have been circulating throughout last week when the Wall Street Journal reported a meeting between Mayer...

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Star Trek star declares 'no such thing as people of color'

Posted by: Herbert Dyer, Jr.

Burbank :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 00:43:19 -0700 | entertainment-news

During an interview with BET, which was meant to tout her role in the new film "Star Trek Into Darkness," Zoe Saldana was asked how she viewed her larger, real life role as a “role model” for struggling black actresses...

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Chinese cyberattacks resume, but there is a solution

Posted by: Dava Castillo

Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 06:35:21 -0700 | political-news

Last February, cyberattacks against companies and media organizations by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Unit 61396 were exposed, and they retreated from the networks they had infiltrated at least for a few months. Now, however, the New York Times...

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Beware scams using PayPal: Clever rip-off artists want your money

Posted by: PrairieDogPress

Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 07:54:58 -0700 | business-news

Beware of scams by morally corrupt people, who willingly prefer to use their knowledge and computer savvy to steal money rather than earn a living legitimately like everyone else. PayPal is one of the latest tools used by creative thieves....

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Opening of problem-plaugued new bay span may be delayed

Posted by: Nathan Salant

Berkeley :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 03:40:36 -0700 | technology-news

California Gov. Jerry Brown admitted Monday that recently identified equipment problems could force delays in the planned Labor Day weekend opening of the new $6.4 billion eastern span of the Bay Bridge. Brown's statement that he was unable to predict...

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North Korea, in brazen defiance, fires sixth missile in three days

Posted by: Nina Rai

Pyŏngyang :: North Korea | updated 2013-05-21 08:01:03 -0700 | political-news

North Korea launched a sixth short-range missile into the Sea of Japan on Monday, after a series of similar tests conducted during the weekend; brazenly defying international censure and sanctions against tests; also ignoring warnings from United Nations chief Ban...

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Yahoo announces overhaul of Flickr, offers everyone a free terabyte of storage

Posted by: Joe Kukura

Sunnyvale :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 08:05:38 -0700 | technology-news

An epic day for Yahoo today -- hot off the heels of announcing they've acquired Tumblr, Yahoo then announced a complete overhaul, beautification and facelift of the Flickr platform. Built into the this Flickr relaunch is the single most generous...

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