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 UK News

• Lockerbie bomber documents to be released
• Assange due to fight extradition bid
• Pregnant teenager 'was stabbed'
• 'Road map for talks' in Egypt
• Police service 'to lose 10,000 officers'
• Amanda Holden loses baby
• Ex-Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore dies
• Belgian Marathon Man Runs Into Record Books
• Elton's a 'gibbering wreck' father
• Celebrities in charity desert trek

 BBC England

• Asbo replacement to be unveiled - 5 hours agoNew plans for tackling anti-social behaviour, including the abolition of Asbos, are due to be announced by the coalition government.
• Minister visits Kent Pfizer site - 1 hour agoThe Universities and Science Minister David Willetts is to visit the Pfizer plant in Kent, which is due to close.
• Woman in court over fatal blaze - 1 hour agoA 49-year-old woman is to appear in court charged with manslaughter and arson after two people died in a fire at a block of flats in south-east London.
• New jobs created by call centre - 55 minutes agoA new call centre based in Sunderland aims to create 250 jobs by the end of the year.
• Driver dies in M40 tanker crash - 43 minutes ago

BBC Home

• Egypt protesters unmoved by talks - 51 minutes agoTalks between Egypt's government and opposition groups on ending the country's political crisis fail to convince anti-Mubarak protesters camped in Cairo.
• New Thai-Cambodia border fighting - 2 hours agoCambodia and Thailand exchange fire across their border for a fourth day in a disputed area around an 11th-Century temple.
• Assange extradition battle begins - 1 hour agoWikileaks founder Julian Assange is to begin his court battle against extradition from the UK to Sweden, over sexual offences allegations.
• Australian fires rage near Perth - 45 minutes agoTwo bushfires raging out of control on the outskirts of Perth in Western Australia destroy at least 59 homes and damage others.
• Packers win thrilling Super Bowl - 5 hours ago

Reuters

• Sanofi, Genzyme takeover talks enter final stretch  - 1 hour agoPARIS/BOSTON (Reuters) - France's Sanofi-Aventis and U.S. biotech Genzyme are closing in on a major trans-atlantic drugs merger, but a deal is taking longer than expected, sources close to the matter ...
• BP in talks to buy stake in Reliance gas block - report  - 2 hours agoMUMBAI (Reuters) - BP is in talks with Indian energy major Reliance Industries to buy a 30 to 45 percent stake in the D6 hydrocarbon block in a basin off India's east coast, the Mint newspaper reporte...
• Thai and Cambodian troops clash for fourth day  - 2 hours agoBANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai and Cambodian troops clashed for a fourth straight day Monday over a disputed border area surrounding a 900-year-old Hindu temple as Cambodia urged the U.N. Security Council t...
• WikiLeaks' Assange fights extradition to Sweden  - 9 hours agoLONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will try to persuade a judge on Monday to block his extradition to Sweden to face trial for sex crimes, arguing he could end up facing execution in ...
• UK to Israel: help us curb Iran with Palestine deal  - 12 hours ago

 San Jose Mercury
Roadshow: Hybrids now on road don't need smog check - 1 hour ago

• Warm weather temps 'shatter, obliterate' records across the Bay Area - 3 hours agoOutdoor sports bar in San Jose lures Super Bowl fans to have their game and enjoy the sunshine, too
• Government Watch: This week's meetings from around Silicon Valley - 8 hours agoSANTA CLARA COUNTYWhat: Board of SupervisorsWhen and where: 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, Board of Supervisors' chambers, 70 W.
• Woman's body found in 'state of advanced decomposition' in south San Jose - 13 hours agoCoroner determining whether foul play involved
• San Jose: Warm home to 35 year old snowball - 15 hours agoOn Saturday '“ 35 years later '“ Betty Shamus, now a great-grandmother, opened up her Whirlpool freezer to half-delighted, half-mystified guests to bring forth her unique and nostalgic treasure '“ a s...
• Roadshow: Is saving Caltrain 'socialism'? - 23 hours ago

Afghanistan Sun

• Australia can not guarantee safety of returned Afghans - 9 hours agoThe ABC has reported Afghanistan has told Australia's government it cannot guarantee the safety of Afghan deported from ...
• Karzai seeks to reassure West on corruption - 17 hours agoAfghan President Hamid Karzai sought Sunday to reassure Western investors that he was serious about fighting rampant corruption as the annual Munich Security Conference drew to a ...
• Taliban kill four people in northwest Pakistan on suspicion of spying for US - 1 day agoThe Taliban have killed four people in northwest Pakistan after accusing them of spying for the United States, local officials have ...
• Iraqi, Afghan vets find stress relief in Ala woods - 2 hours ago

Jurist - US Legal News

• Mississippi federal judge dismisses health care challenge - 1 day ago[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi [official website] on Thursday dismissed [opinion, PDF] a lawsuit challenging the health care reform law [HR 3590 te...
• US-Russia nuclear arms treaty enters into force - 1 day ago[JURIST] The US and Russia on Saturday formally inaugurated the New START treaty [materials, PDF; JURIST news archive], an agreement intended to reduce nuclear arms in both countries. At the security ...
• Federal judge upholds detention of Yemeni at Guantanamo - 1 day ago[JURIST] A federal judge on Thursday upheld the detention of Mashur Al Sabri [summary of evidence, PDF], a Saudi-born Yemeni citizen who was captured between Afghanistan and Pakistan and detained as a...
• Cuba to free 2 more political prisoners - 1 day ago[JURIST] The Cuban Roman Catholic Church [official website] announced Friday that Cuban officials have agreed to release two more political prisoners. The agreement includes allowing Angel Moya to sta...
• Federal appeals court upholds terrorism conviction of Florida doctor - 1 day ago

RAW Story

• Iraqis protest government for more services, water, food - 4 hours agoBAGHDAD - Hundreds of Iraqis took part in scattered demonstrations on Sunday, calling for an improvement in basic services and the resignation of local government officials as unrest sweeps much of th...
• Clinton concerned over early exit for Egypt’s president - 5 hours agoWASHINGTON – The timetable of President Hosni Mubarak's departure lies with the Egyptian people but his early departure could raise electoral complications, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said ...
• Climate science is a ‘religion,’ Washington Post columnist claims - 6 hours agoA Washington Post columnist recently attacked a Nobel Prize winner by claiming that the scientific consensus that backs climate change is essentially a religious institution. "Look, if Godzilla appear...
• Pollutants threaten giant aquifer under Mexico - 6 hours agoWASHINGTON – Pharmaceuticals, pesticides, chemical run-off from highways and many other pollutants infiltrate the giant aquifer under Mexico's "Riviera Maya," a new study shows. The report published i...
• Hackers infiltrate Italy government website in anti-Berlusconi protest - 8 hours ago

 EV Worldwire

• VW Reported Ready to Launch 95 MPG Hybrid - 1 day agoReports indicate Volkswagen will us twin-cylinder 800cc diesel engine from its XL1 concept car to power UP hybrid thought to be launched by 2013.
• BMW, PSA Form Hybrid Vehicle Joint-Venture - 1 day agoGerman and French companies will co-develop new components and systems for future hybrid vehicles, with first to be installed in 2014.
• BMW Will Not Restrict Sales of Electric Megacity to Leases Only - 1 day agoCompany will announce details of new Megacity sub-brand on 21 February 2011.
• Saietta Electric Cycles Offer Blistering Acceleration - 1 day agoS model sells for $16,200 and offers range of 50 miles with 0-60 mph acceleration in 4 seconds. R model doubles range.
• IBM Pursuing Powerful Lithium Air Battery - 1 day ago

No Quarter

• Obama Lectures Egypt On “Free And Fair Elections”?? (& Open Thread) - 6 hours agoIs he for real? It isn’t enough that he is insisting upon the overthrow of Egypt’s leader, but oh-my-gosh, where does HE come off lecturing ANYONE about how they should “listen to their people” (Um, ...
• Long Surprise - 10 hours agoListenEditor’s Note: Catch Larry Johnson on John Batchelor’s syndicated radio show TONIGHT at around 10:05 to 10:35 p.m. ET. You’ll find programming details and “how to listen” instructions at the ...
• A Super Super Bowl Story - 15 hours agoIt is Super Bowl Sunday and I’m in final prep for a party I’m hosting tonight. But I’m also a slave to the blog and want to ensure it is well fed as well. Don’t know if you caught the story of the 1...
• Kirsten Powers: “Americans’ Naivete About Egypt” - 16 hours agoIn case you are not familiar with Kirsten Powers, she has an impressive resume, as stated at The Daily Beast : Kirsten Powers is a columnist for The Daily Beast. She is also a political analyst on Fox...
• Obama’s Egypt Debacle - 1 day ago

 Global Post

• Frank Wisner's law firm, Patton Boggs, has advised the Egyptian military - 4 hours agoFrank Wisner, a U.S. envoy sent to Cairo, draws questions over his employment by a law firm that has advised the Egyptian military. read more
• American hikers' trial begins in Iran - 6 hours agoIran begins the trial of three American hikers found along the Iran-Iraq border. The three plead not guilty to charges of espionage. read more
• Egypt: Mubarak regime offers compromises, protests continue in Cairo - 9 hours agoProtesters hold "day of martyrs" as sense of normalcy begins to return to Cairo. read more
• Egyptian regime offers concessions - 13 hours agoEconomy starts to return to normal as VP Omar Suleiman meets with opposition. read more
• London Underground: A guide to lying low - 16 hours ago

 Yahoo! News

• YAHOO! SEARCH - 3 days agoThis is the fifth chapter of a nine-chapter serial story to be published weekly in NeXt. The story takes place in the 1920s during Prohibition, when alcohol was illegal. It explores the life of gangst...
• In Down Economy, Is It Time to Abandon Career Dreams? - 1 day agoYahoo! News asked readers to share their experiences of unemployment and job-hunting. Below is a story from a reader.
• Yahoo blames Microsoft for Windows Phone 7 data bug - 3 days agoMicrosoft's implementation of email retrieval settings on Windows Phone 7 is to blame for Yahoo Mail customers using...
• Ronald Reagan Made My Life Easier - 5 days agoRonald Reagan would have been 100 years old on Sunday. To mark the date, Yahoo! News asked readers to compare their lives today with their lives during his presidency. Below is an essay from a reader.
• Consumers Need to Start Thinking Like IT Pros - 4 days ago

Green Life

• Daily Roundup: February 4, 2011 - 2 days agoOther Earths: NASA scientists, using the Kepler satellite, discovered more than 1,200 "possible" planets. New York Times Emasculated: Oysters no longer play a significant role in most mari...
• San Francisco's First Green Film Festival Opens Mar. 3 - 2 days agoFilm-loving travelers (and Bay Area greenies) take note: San Francisco’s first Green Film Festival opens Mar. 3 at the stately — and LEED-certified — Bently Reserve. The event will include panels, wor...
• "We Children Will Do it Ourselves": A 13-Year-Old Calls for Climate Action - 2 days agoAdults: It's time to stop talking and start planting. Or at least start listening. Because 13-year-old Felix Finkbeiner and thousands of other kids around the world aren't accepting any more excuses a...
• Movie Review Friday: Babies - 2 days agoEscape to the movies with one of our  Movie Review Friday  selections. Each week we review a film with an environmental theme that's currently in theaters or on DVD. Babies (2010) Avail...
• Daily Roundup: February 3, 2011 - 3 days ago

Gawker

• Anonymous Hackers Pay Back FBI Snitch with 50,000 Leaked Emails [Hackers] - 46 minutes agoRight now you can download a 4.7 gigabyte file full of about 50,000 emails stolen from a computer security expert named Aaron Barr. That's what h...
• Man Runs 365 Marathons in 365 Days [Exercise] - 58 minutes agoOn Saturday, 49-year-old Belgian runner Stefaan Engels completed his 365th marathon. In a row. That's 9,569 miles in seven different countries, a...
• AOL Buys Huffington Post for $315 Million [Breaking] - 1 hour agoClick to view AOL just bought news site Huffington Post for $315 million—$300 million in cash. HuffPo founder Arianna Huffington will become edi...
• Groupon's Stupid Tibet Ad Is Also Unfunny [Video] - 2 hours agoWho is in charge of decision-making at Groupon? Because not only did the discount site turn down $6 billion from Google last year , they also p...
• Mass Evacuation in Paris over Unexploded WWII Bomb [France] - 3 hours ago

MercoPress

• Brazil and UK ready to sign huge defence contract, say media reports - 10 hours agoBrazil with a defence market described as “one of the fastest growing in the world” will be signing a defence agreement with the UK which should open the way for a deal worth “b...
• Geithner visits Brazil to discuss economic and financial cooperation - 11 hours agoUnited States Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner will visit Monday Brazil to discuss economic cooperation. Geithner is scheduled to return on the same day.
• Droughts could turn Amazon basin from greenhouse gas eater to source of gases - 11 hours agoA long-lasting drought that affected the Amazon Rain Forest last year was worse than the once-in-a-lifetime drought that the region suffered in 2005, and a team of British and B...
• Inflation, an old scourge, plagues Argentina again, says NY Times - 11 hours agoArgentina is in the midst of a consumption boom, but inflation that old Argentine plague, has once again fully surfaced, writes the New York Times Alexi Barrionuevo from Buenos ...
• Inflation in Uruguay picking up pushed by health and food prices - 11 hours ago

 Florida Oil Spill Law

• Tragic: 22 y/o has seizure at Gulf Forum — Brain lesions after swimming off Florida Panhandle (VIDEOS) - 4 hours agoFox8: "My parents throughout the summer had told me not to get in the water," said 22-year-old Paul Doom. Still Doom said he spent a lot of time last summer swimming in the Gulf of Mexico off Navarre...
• No one is catching ‘sea bob’ shrimp says employee at Lousiana’s largest shrimp buyer — “No one knows why” - 16 hours agoGrand Isle Businesses Battered by BP Oil Disaster, NRDC’s Rocky Kistner, February 5, 2011: Karen Hopkins ... Read more
• Oil disaster’s health effects “will be felt for GENERATIONS” warns scientist (VIDEOS) - 17 hours agoBP oil spill’s health effects will be felt for generations, scientist warns, The Times-Picayune, February ... Read more
• “Chemicals”? 1000s of dead fish clog Florida shore — “Never saw this before in my life” (VIDEO) - 18 hours agoDead Fish Wash Up At Sebastian Inlet State Park, WPBF, February 4, 2011: “I saw the ... Read more
• “Wall to wall man-of-war” in Florida: “I’ve never seen this many ever — I’ve been out here for 24 years” says lifeguard (VIDEOS) - 22 hours ago

 Media Monitors

• Obama needs to choose between Hillary and Egypt - 0 minutes ago"It’s time for Obama to get a grip. He can’t be for Hillary and the Egyptian people. The president needs to make a choice. Egyptians are intent on taking control of their own destiny and Hillary appea...
• The Insanity with Security Gadgets must End - 0 minutes ago"It is high time for Secretary Napolitano’s office to stop the insanity with scan machines which serve no purpose other than costing American government and its people billions of dollars."
• The Egyptian Uprising - Facts and Fiction - 0 minutes ago"If history repeats itself in Egypt, it will lead to a new polity in the Turkish mold not a replay of the Iranian Revolution. Unfortunately, Hillary and Obama have apparently fallen victim to the cana...
• The Pharaoh and His Antique Hats - 0 minutes ago"A million hands waved flags in unison for Pharaoh to step down. The people decided that the days of tyranny had ended. And Pharaoh could no longer drive them into the sea. His dungeons were full of p...
• Rumsfeld Overheard: "War Lies Are Cool Now" - 0 minutes ago

 Voltaire

• Egypt's Revolution: Creative Destruction for a 'Greater Middle East'? - 1 hour agoControverting majority opinion, F. William Engdahl maintains there is nothing spontaneous about the mass protest movements in Arab countries and sees them as a replay of the US-orchestrated colour rev...
• UN human rights expert Richard Falk under fire for 9/11 comments - 1 day agoAn advocacy group affilitated with the American Jewish Committee, in league with the U.S. State Department, has whipped up a campaign to get law Professor Richard Falk sacked by the UN for his skeptic...
• Speeches by Ali Khamenei dealing with revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt - 2 days agoAyatollah Khamenei the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution led Tehran's Friday prayers today. Speaking to an impressive gathering of the faithful and revolutionary people of Tehran, Ayatollah Kha...
• Egypt: Speeding police vehicle plows into protestors (video) - 3 days agoThis afternoon, barely a few hours after Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq's \"apologies\" for yesterday's fatal clashes between undercover police and anti-government demonstrators in Cairo, Egyptian police...
• Egypt: Joint statement by Heads of State and Government of France, UK, Germany, Italy and Spain - 3 days ago

  Kerkuk

• Iraq Bulletin - 2 days agoAs a result of bomb attacks carried out with fitted elaborate mechanisms going off in various areas of Baghdad, several civilians lost their lives and numerous others were injured.
• Mubarak says he 'wants to go' - 2 days agoEgyptian president tells ABC News he is "fed up" but fearful about the consequences were he to resign immediately
• National Conversations, Productive Dialogues at the Turkmen Solidarity Meeting - 3 days agoITF Turkey Representative, the distinguished Dr. Hicran Kazancı brings the Turkmen personalities living in Turkey under a single roof titled "Turkmen Solidarity Meeting", shares the projects under the...
• ITF EU Representative attended the Delegation for relations with Iraq Meeting at the European Parliament - 4 days agoIraqi Turkmen Front EU Representative attended the Delegation for relations with Iraq Meeting at the European Parliament
• Turkmen Solidarity Meeting - 5 days ago

 Transcend Media

• TRANSCEND: Ideas and Insights - 9 hours agoIn this interview Galtung gives his views on a wide range of topics including the banality of diplomacy, as revealed by WikiLeaks, and the root causes of the 9/11 attacks. With his usual frankness, h...
• (French) Moubarak Degage! - 9 hours agoLes dictateurs ne dictent pas, ils obéissent aux ordres- Michel Chossudovsky "Il ne suffit pas d'abattre la marionnette, le problème, c'est le marionnettiste"
• FAQ: The Palestine Papers - 9 hours agoWhat are these papers? Why are they in English? We answer the most common questions.
• Egypt’s Transformative Moment: Revolution, Counterrevolution, or Reform - 9 hours agoSince the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 there have been two further transformative events that have reshaped in enduring ways the global setting. When the Soviet empire collapsed two years later, th...
• Aussie Human Rights Award for Julian Assange - 9 hours ago

BPS Research Digest

• When death is an aphrodisiac - 13 hours agoFeeling frisky? What effect do thoughts of death have on a typical person's desire for sex? The short answer is that it depends. Armed with insight from terror management theory and attachment t...
• Bribing kids to eat their greens really does work - 4 days agoTry bribing him with a sticker Some experts have warned that bribing children to eat healthy foods can be counter-productive, undermining their intrinsic motivation and actually increasing disli...
• Closing our eyes affects our moral judgements - 6 days agoWe experience emotion more intensely with our eyes closed The simple act of closing our eyes has a significant effect on our moral judgement and behaviour. Eugene Caruso and Francesca Gino , who...
• Apocalyptic climate change warnings can be counter-productive - 1 week agoMany people believe implicitly that the world is fair, that bad things by and large don't happen to good people. When presented with evidence to the contrary, they ignore or downplay it. According to ...
• Introducing the forthcoming Occupational Digest - 1 week ago

 Top Documentary Films

• Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists - 2 hours agoIf ever there was a troubled subject that could be opened up by Louis Theroux’s brilliant brand of Gonzo journalism, then it is the acrimonious dispute between Jewish settlers and the Palestinian p...
• Do We Really Need the Moon? - 14 hours agoThe Moon is such a familiar presence in the sky that most of us take it for granted. But what if it wasn't where it is now? How would that affect life on Earth? Space scientist and lunar fanatic Dr...
• Invisible Worlds - 1 day agoRichard Hammond's Invisible Worlds is a BBC television documentary programme presented by Richard Hammond that features state-of-the-art camera technology used to focus on what humans cann...
• Search For The First Human (Sahelanthropus Tchadensis) - 1 day agoSahelanthropus Tchadensis is one of the oldest known species on the human family tree. This species lived sometime between 7 and 6 million years ago in West-Central Africa (Chad). Walking upright m...
• Who is Peter Joseph? - 2 days ago

Red Tape Chronicles

• Told in tweets, Egypt conflict riveting, confusing - 2 days agoOnce you look, it's hard to look away. The tweets seem to come right from the center of the conflict in Egypt: "Despite the blood and the pain, spirits here are sky-high. People singing the anthem &...
• Lawsuit: iPhone users systematically overcharged - 5 days agoEver get the feeling that the itemized charges on your cell phone bill aren't quite right? A new class-action lawsuit filed against AT&T claims that often, they aren't -- and the mistakes could be cos...
• Buy a new car and get $5,000? - 1 week ago Brad Benson during Super Bowl XXI Here's a proposition you don't hear every day: Buy a new car, put no money down, and walk out of the dealership with a check for $5,...
• Judge throws out ban on online ammo sales - 1 week agoGun rights supporters won a major legal victory last week when a California judge struck down as unconstitutional a law that they say would have effectively banned online sales of handgun ammunition j...
• Why buying coffee with your iPhone matters - 2 weeks ago

 Frontier Post

• Egyptian VP bows down to pressure Freedom of expression allowed, release of detenus ordered and emergency laws to go; opposition rejects concessions - 11 hours agoCAIRO (AP): Egypt?s vice president met a broad representation of major opposition groups for the first time Sunday and agreed to allow freedom of the press, ...
• Democracy ensures good governance: CJ - 11 hours agoISLAMABAD (APP): Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said that whenever a country is ruled by the chosen representatives under the ...
• ?Trio banned on solid evidence? - 11 hours agoDUBAI (Agencies): Haroon Lorgat, the ICC chief executive, has said the bans imposed on Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir by the ICC?s independent ...
• Ben Ali?s political party banned Monitoring Report - 11 hours agoTUNIS: The Tunisian caretaker government on Sunday banned the former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali?s political party, and has also stopped its political ...
• How not to spend, spend yourself out of office Lahore Notebook Rahim Sheikh - 11 hours ago

Press Core

• The Federal Reserve gangsters intentionally caused the 1907, 1920 and 2007 banking crisis - 18 hours agoAmericans have been scammed for TRILLIONS FROM THE FEDERAL RESERVE by charging them interest to print “money,” when the U.S. government USED TO PRINT MONEY FOR FREE WITHOUT CHARGING INTEREST! JFK,...
• Cold fission fuel cell to supply the cleanest and most abundant fuel of the future. - 2 days agoA Canadian owned entrepreneurial company called FuelReducer is working on developing new energy technology that will drastically reduce our dependency on oil. FuelReducer’s H2O – Water for Fuel Proj...
• The deadly truth about the U.S. genetically modified foods – reproductive genocide. - 2 days agoThe World Health Organization has a Task Force on the Regulation of Male Fertility. In 1990 a paper was published in Lancet, a well-regarded British medical journal detailing the use of testosterone...
• Why life and health insurance are ponzi schemes. - 3 days agoA Ponzi scheme is best summed up in the phrase “rob Peter to pay Paul,” meaning: use one investor’s money to pay the returns of another investor. The money in a Ponzi scheme flows through a central ...
• How to protect your savings. - 3 days ago

Cageprisoners

• Executing the Evidence - 15 hours agoThe ACLU's Denny LeBoeuf examines the case of  Guantanamo prisoner  Abd al-Rahim Abdul al-Nashiri who was tortured at a CIA 'black site' in Pol...
• Bush trip to Switzerland axed over protest fears - 17 hours ago  The United Israel Appeal scrapped a plan to showcase President George W. Bush at a Feb. 12 gala in Geneva amid reports that human rights groups were poised to protest and file a torture compla...
• Court OKs Yemeni's detention - 17 hours ago  A federal judge on Thursday has upheld the detention of a Saudi-born Yemeni at Guantánamo who was captured along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan in December 2002.
• Cameron’s lack of understanding provides no way forward for Muslims - 1 day agoIn somewhat of a Borg -esque speech by David Cameron at a security conference in Germany – a worrying trend is developing that completely ignores the reality of Muslims in the UK.
• Sunset Democracies - 2 days ago

 Yahoo! Politics

• Egypt VP meets opposition, offers new concessions (AP) - 6 hours agoAP - Egypt's vice president met with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and other opposition groups for the first time Sunday and offered sweeping concessions, including granting press freedom and rollin...
• Reagan: Great Communicator Inspires Democrats, Republicans (Time.com) - 1 day agoTime.com - A century after his birth and 30 years after he took office, President Ronald Reagan's optimistic vision and complex conservatism inspire and haunt Republicans and Democrats alike
• Game day at the White House (Politico) - 2 days ago

Yahoo! Business

• Asian stocks near 3-year highs on U.S. data (Reuters) - 1 hour agoReuters - Asian stocks pushed toward a near three-year peak on Monday as the U.S. job market showed further signs of recovery, highlighting a brighter economic outlook, while the dollar eased against ...
• Sanofi, Genzyme takeover talks enter final stretch (Reuters) - 46 minutes agoReuters - France's Sanofi-Aventis and U.S. biotech Genzyme are closing in on a major transatlantic drugs merger, but a deal is taking longer than expected, sources close to the matter said on Monday.
• Nasdaq hackers another blow to investor confidence (Reuters) - 11 hours ago
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• Tim Geithner Met With Jon Stewart in Apparent Effort to Pump More Jokes into Nation's Economy (michellemalkin.com)
• Amazon rainforest hit by second 'once in a century drought' in five years (dailymail.co.uk)
• 2 severe Amazon droughts in 5 years alarms scientists (eurekalert.org)
• "Obama Needs to Choose Between Hillary and Egypt" and related posts (dissidentvoice.org)
• Hillary to Egypt Protesters: I order you to let our torturer manage transition to "democracy" (emptywheel.firedoglake.com)
• Again Hillary and President Obama try to bully the Egyptian People with their own agenda (iflizwerequeen.com)
• "Constructive diplomatic advice to Hillary on Egypt: shut up" and related posts (aidwatchers.com)
• CODEPINK's Response to the Controversy in Cairo (alternet.org)
• Hillary Clinton toughens her words on Egyptian situation (shortformblog.com)
• Rocky Kistner: Grand Isle Businesses Battered by BP Oil Disaster (huffingtonpost.com)
• "IRAN: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says Egyptian uprising is an Islamic 'awakening'" and related posts (latimesblogs.latimes.com)
• JSLeFanu: Ron Radosh " The New American Fans of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Beware the latter day Richard Falks (pajamasmedia.com)
• Iran's unrest comments "cross all red lines": Egypt (reuters.com)
• ( Compared to an invasion ? )
• Egyptians rising up against servitude to US: Leader - Tehran Times (news.google.com)
• Iran's leader hails "Islamic" uprising in Arab world (reuters.com)
• Iranian opposition bids to hold pro-Egypt rally (reuters.com)
• Hundreds march against government in Jordan (msnbc.msn.com)
• "Richard Falk - preposterous, but still a UN Rapporteur. Go figure..." and related posts (simplyjews.blogspot.com)
• Turkmen Wants to Be A Member of WTO (freaknewsdaily.com)
• Turkmen leader "not very bright" - leaked U.S. cable (reuters.com)
• MTS goes to court over Turkmen licence suspension (reuters.com)
• Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists (milkandcookies.com)
• Louis Theroux: a timeline (telegraph.co.uk)
• BBC America March Highlights: 'Modern Monarchy,' 'Louis Theroux,' 'James May's Road Trip' & More (tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com)
• Louis Theroux: 'I'm not that comfortable doing polemic' (guardian.co.uk)
• Louis Theroux has a little work done (mya.co.uk)
• Louis Theroux Meets Jewish and Christian Ultra-Zionists (barthsnotes.wordpress.com)
• Were our earliest hominid ancestors hunted by saber-toothed tigers? [Mad Paleontology] (io9.com)
• RAPatton: BBC News - Sabretooth cats threatened most ancient human ancestor (bbc.co.uk)
• Father of Us All? (time.com)
• Is Facebook a Ponzi Scheme? One Blogger Says Yes (observer.com)
• Rights Groups Claim Bush Canceled Trip to Switzerland Due to Threat of Torture Prosecution (jonathanturley.org)