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• Arizona shooting suspect charged
• Please help find Jo's killer, say family
• Beckhams expecting fourth baby
• Kate's final birthday as a commoner
• Labour set for by-election victory - polls
• Voting underway on South Sudan independence
• CEOP to probe grooming of teenage girls
• CCTV Shows Mum Drop Girl On Train Track
• "Tangled" takes overseas box office crown 
• Caine Classic Tops Sky Movie Fans Poll

 BBC - England

• Man charged with murdering baby - 3 hours agoA man is charged with murdering a 14-month-old boy who died at an east London hospital after suffering an abdominal injury.
• Undercover officer switches sides - 1 hour agoThe trial of six green campaigners collapses after an undercover policeman who had infiltrated their group offers to give evidence on their behalf.
• Father drowned in 'roughest' sea - 12 hours agoA lifeboat volunteer describes the treacherous conditions in which crews attempted to rescue a father who had gone into the sea to save his dogs.
• MP backs Yeates case DNA testing - 13 hours agoAn MP backs calls for the DNA screening of all men in Bristol as part of the hunt for the murderer of Jo Yeates.
• Virgin 'won't pay' fees over snow - 1 hour ago

BBC - Home

• Arizona shooting suspect charged - 1 hour agoUS prosecutors charge 22-year-old Jared Loughner with trying to assassinate a congresswoman and killing two other government officials.
• Iran plane crashes 'killing 72' - 4 hours agoAn Iranian passenger plane with more than 100 people on board crashes in the country's north-west, killing 72, Iranian media report.
• Fourteen dead in Tunisia clashes - 3 hours agoAt least 14 people are killed as Tunisian police fire on crowds during the latest protests over unemployment.
• South Sudan votes on independence - 11 hours agoHuge numbers of southern Sudanese vote amid scenes of jubilation in an independence referendum expected to split Africa's biggest country in two.
• Chavez criticises 'interference' - 2 hours ago

Reuters

• Tunisian government says 14 killed in clashes  - 1 hour agoTUNIS (Reuters) - Fourteen civilians have been killed in clashes with Tunisian police, official media and the government said, in the worst violence in the country for decades.
• Cameron seeks jobs pledge from business chiefs  - 2 hours agoLONDON (Reuters) - Private sector bosses will promise on Monday to create thousands of jobs, boosting Prime Minister David Cameron's hopes that business will be able to pick up the slack from a shrink...
• U.S. brings attempted assassination charge in Arizona  - 2 hours agoTUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - The U.S. government charged a 22-year-old man with attempted assassination of a congresswoman on Sunday while doctors expressed optimism that the wounded lawmaker, Gabriell...
• At least 70 killed in Iranian passenger plane crash  - 4 hours agoTEHRAN (Reuters) - At least 70 people were killed and 35 injured when an Iranian Boeing 727 passenger plane crashed in bad weather in north-western Iran on Sunday, the head of the Iranian Red Crescent...
• Germany wants tough legal action in dioxin affair  - 8 hours ago

 San Jose Mercury News

• 3 people dead in San Jose nightclub shooting - 56 minutes agoA double homicide at San Jose's Mexicali Club on Saturday night turned into a triple homicide Sunday morning when the body of a third man was found in a black SUV just a block behind the nightclub. A ...
• Tully Road-101 construction takes off this week - 2 hours agoDemolishing of old overpass will begin Friday.
• 3 people dead in San Jose nightclub shooting - 6 hours agoA nightclub shooting that left two dead in San Jose on Saturday night claimed a third when a passerby on Sunday morning noticed a body in a black SUV on 12th Street not far from the Mexicali Club.
• San Jose homicides jump to three in new year - 10 hours agoTwo men were shot to death in a San Jose bar Saturday night. In addition, a San Jose jewelry store owner who was stabbed last month died Saturday from his injuries, raising the homicide total to 21 fo...
• The big squeeze is on in California classes - 11 hours ago

 Afghanistan Sun

• 54 drug smugglers held in Afghanistan - 9 hours agoAfghan police have confiscated over 700 kg of narcotics and apprehended 54 people on charges of drug trafficking, the interior ministry said Sunday.
• Five civilians killed in Afghanistan - 15 hours agoFive civilians including a child have been killed and three others wounded in the latest violence in southern Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.
• Suicide attacker targets Afghan public baths - 4 hours agoA suicide attack has occurred inside a public bathhouse in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province.
• 'Combat Barbie' set for Afghanistan - 1 hour ago

 Jurist - US Legal News

• Rights coalition seeks to block additional provisions of Arizona immigration law - 5 hours ago[JURIST] A coalition of six rights groups filed a petition [ACLU materials] in the US District Court of Arizona [official website] on Friday seeking to block to additional elements of the Arizona's re...
• Massachusetts high court rules against banks in crucial foreclosure case - 5 hours ago[JURIST] The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court [official website] issued a decision [text, PDF] on Friday ruling against banks in two foreclosure cases that could have important implications on sim...
• Obama signs law barring transfer of Guantanamo detainees to US for trial - 5 hours ago[JURIST] President Barack Obama on Friday signed a bill barring the transfer of Guantanamo detainees [press release] to the US for trial. The Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act of 2011 [HR...
• Arizona federal judge killed in shooting, congresswoman in critical condition - 5 hours ago[JURIST] Chief Judge John M. Roll of the US District Court of Arizona [official website] was shot and killed when a gunman opened fire [press release] at a public constituent event held outside of a s...
• Amended citizenship requirement bill introduced in US House - 5 hours ago[JURIST] US Rep. Steve King (R-IA) [official website] on Wednesday introduced legislation [HR 104 materials] designed to restrict the automatic grant of citizenship to children born on US soil. The bi...

RAW Story

• Clinton gathers support for more Iran sanctions - 1 hour agoABU DHABI - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dismissed on Sunday Israeli assessments of delays in the Iranian nuclear program and called for more work on sanctions to bring Tehran to heel. Clinton, ...
• Winter storms threaten Southern states, weather service warns - 3 hours agoWASHINGTON - Severe winter storm warnings were posted by the National Weather Service on Sunday for a belt of states ranging from Texas and Oklahoma in the west across the south to Georgia and the Car...
• Warming to devastate glaciers, Antarctic icesheet: studies - 5 hours agoGlobal warming may wipe out three-quarters of Europe's alpine glaciers by 2100 and hike sea levels by four metres (13 feet) by the year 3000 through melting the West Antarctic icesheet, two studies pu...
• Republicans banish ‘civil rights’ and ‘civil liberties’ from House subcommittee - 6 hours agoCongressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) blasted Republicans for planning to change the name of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties to the "Constitution Subcommittee." "On...
• Economists foretell of US decline, China’s ascension - 7 hours ago

EV Worldwire

• Renault Executives Suspected of Leaking Secret Battery Blueprints - 1 day agoLe Figaro reports France's DCRI investigating possible link to Chinese industrial espionage.
• Ford, Best Buy to Offer Home Charging Station for Electric Cars - 1 day agoGeek Squad agent will conduct a quick electrical audit to ensure the residence can support the 240-volt charging station.
• Ford Previews 'Flagship' Ford Focus Electric Car - 1 day agoThe Focus Electric to launch in 2011 and is designed to offer enough range to cover the majority of daily driving habits of Americans, say Ford.
• Ford CEO to Unveil Focus Electric at CES - 3 days agoThe new Focus Electric is the company's first global electric production car and one of a family of five electrified vehicles
• Clean Air Cars? Who Cares? - 3 days ago

No Quarter

• How Palin Is Responsible For Rep. Giffords Being Shot - 10 hours agoOr, as I like to call it, “Palin Derangement Syndrome On Steroids.” No doubt, you have already heard or read that many in the media made the leap that Gov. Sarah Palin is responsible for this assassin...
• Suspected Shooter Total Whack Job - 1 day agoLeave it to desperate politicians to spin Congresswoman Giffords shooting today as a political act born of tea party angst. Horseshit. Here’s the YouTube channel for the nut roll reportedly in custo...
• Celebrating the Death of Arizona Democrat Giffords - 1 day agoGot your attention? Arizona Democrat Gabrielle Giffords was shot and killed while meeting with constituents in Tucson, Arizona today. (Note, reports are all over the place. Some say she’s dead, oth...
• Nancy Pelosi’s Descent into Madness - 1 day agoWe now have proof that Nancy Pelosi’s plastic surgery has inflicted significant medial harm. Apparently her skin has been pulled so tight over her face that the blood supply to her brain is constrict...
• Up, Up, And Away… - 1 day ago

Global Post

• Iran: Plane crash kills at least 70 during emergency landing (VIDEO) - 42 minutes agoAn IranAir jet carrying 106 people crashes in Iran during a snowstorm. read more
• Analysis: Could WikiLeaks start a war? - 8 hours agoIt's not black and white, but it wouldn't be the first time leaked cables led to hostilities. read more
• Telling Swiss secrets: A banker's betrayal - 8 hours agoPart 1: A UBS insider blows the whistle on Swiss banking. read more
• Foreign press makes own conclusions in Gabrielle Giffords shooting - 9 hours agoInternational news outlets quick to blame Arizona attack on guns and the Tea Party. read more
• How the world media covered Gabrielle Giffords shooting - 9 hours ago

Yahoo! News

• D-Link Media Player Offers Yahoo TV to Older DTVs - 2 days agoYahoo Connected TV brings a range of Internet content and services to most TVs with network connections, but what if your HDTV (like my 2007 plasma model) predates the connected set era? D-Link at CES...
• Entire Prime Minister Office on holiday? - 3 days agoDear Temasek Review, A. I have sent 2 copies of my earlier email [Subject: Query on when a ballot becomes "spoiled", what are the rules on markings on the BACK of ballot paper?] to: LEE Seng Lup [Head...
• Internet Explorer add-on annoys - 17 hours agoQuestion: Dean: When I tried to log on to my computer in Internet Explorer I got the following message: Internet Explorer has encountered a problem with an add-on and needs to close. File yt.dll. Comp...
• Lucinda Breeding: Bambi question turns newsroom on its antlers - 19 hours ago

Green Life

• Daily Roundup: January 7, 2011 - 2 days agoWithout a Doubt: New Mexico's new head of energy and natural resources will likely be Harrison Schmitt, a climate skeptic. Meantime, the state's governor, Susana Martinez, a Republican, has ended two ...
• Running Barefoot: Freeing Your Sole? - 2 days agoCould the theory behind barefoot running actually have some merit? For years, mega shoe companies such as Nike and Adidas have profited off  runners’ reliance on fancy (and often expensive) footwear. ...
• In 2011, See a National Park for Free - 2 days agoOutdoor enthusiasts have long had John Muir , the founder of the Sierra Club and the father of the National Park Service, to thank for America's 394 federally protected parks. This year, nature lovers...
• Movie Review Friday: The Extra Man - 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 available on DVD. Seen a good eco-flick la...
• Daily Roundup: January 6, 2011 - 3 days ago

Gawker

• Was the Arizona Shooting the Product of a Three-Year-Old Grudge? [Crime] - 2 hours ago22-year-old Arizona shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner planned ahead. According to court documents, police found evidence of an assassination pl...
• Facebook Fraudster Impersonates Dead Soldier to Pick Up Women [Scams] - 3 hours agoAn anonymous New Yorker has been exposed for using pictures of 24-year-old Army Ranger Sgt. Roberto Sanchez to flirt with women on Facebook. Sanc...
• Florida Bank Failure Is First of the Year [Economy] - 5 hours agoWe're just one week into the New Year and guess what? We have our first bank failure ! The First Commercial Bank of Florida was closed by the FDI...
• Charges Filed Against Arizona Shooting Suspect [Update] - 5 hours agoFeds have filed five charges against Jared Lee Loughner , the suspect in yesterday's shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others: ...
• All Smokers Will Die or Quit By the Year 2045 [Studies] - 6 hours ago

 Rag Blog

• Glenn W. Smith : Gabrielle Giffords and The Blood of Eden - 9 minutes agoJackson Pollock's The Deep. Oil and enamel on Canvas (1953).The Blood of Eden:Our escalating political violenceBy Glenn W. Smith / The Rag Blog / January 9, 2010I caught sight of my reflectionI caught...
• James Noland : Sarah Palin and JFK's Houston Speech - 3 days agoJohn F. Kennedy, then a candidate for president of the United States, speaks before a group of Protestant ministers at Houston's Rice Hotel, September 12, 1960. Photo from AP.Palin wrong about JFK:Ken...
• Glenn W. Smith : Aristotle and the Cyberpoke - 3 days agoPhoto of cyberpoke by Willie Pipkin / DogCanyon.Making real connections:Aristotle and the cyberpokeBy Glenn W. Smith / The Rag Blog / January 6, 2011Democratic political consultant and progressive Tex...
• Alan Waldman : My 10 Favorite Films of 2010 - 3 days agoScene from City Island with Emily Mortimer, Andy Garcia. Image from Rotten Tomatoes.City Island tops the list:My 10 favorite films of 2010By Alan Waldman / The Rag Blog / January 6, 2011Many people b...
• Lamar W. Hankins : 'Death Panel' Hysteria Gets New Life - 3 days ago

MercoPress

• Chile recognized Palestine as an independent state - 2 days agoChile has recognized Palestine as an independent state, Foreign Minister Alfredo Moreno said Friday, following in the footsteps of several other Latin American countries.
• LAN launched a new flight between Easter Island and Lima - 2 days agoThe first flight of the new route from Lima to Easter Island’s Mataveri airport landed safely this week, making Easter Island a more accessible tourist destination.
• Falkland Islands: SAAS stoppage, director claims partners pressured - 2 days agoTHE planned increased use of containers for the shipment of fish, meat and wool received a blow this week with the news that the Islands’ only shipping service to South America ...
• India-Russia: Friends Forever - 2 days agoIt all began in 1955 with Indian Prime Minister Nehru’s maiden visit to the erstwhile Soviet Union and Khrushchev's reciprocal trip to India same year. Since then, Indo-Russian ...
• Barcelona: Argentine private medevac plane arrested with 900k on cocaine - 3 days ago

Florida Oil Spill Law

• BP cleanup worker, age 25, needs high-risk open heart surgery after being infected with bacterial endocarditist — “If he doesn’t have it, he will die” - 12 hours agoMan raising money for heart surgery , Panama City News Herald, January 07, 2011: The 25-year-old Bayou George resident was born with a hole in his heart… His wisdom teeth… became impacted and inf...
• Dispute: Shrimper’s nets covered in liquid oil — Official says no, it’s gooey unweathered tar (VIDEO) - 13 hours agoOiled shrimp nets , WEAR ABC 3, January, 7 2011: Patti [owner of Joe Patti's Seafood] says a friend with a shrimping boat is working for NOAA in that area and told him his nets came out of the water...
• “Silent Dread”: Florida fisherman deal with anxiety of knowing fish populations collapsed after Exxon Valdez disaster — “This oil spill isn’t over” - 15 hours agoThis oil spill isn’t over, not yet it isn’t , Pensacola News Journal, January 9, 2011: People are still suffering, but their despair has receded from our view — just as the oil that floated in such ...
• ‘Leak’ shuts down BP’s trans-Alaska oil pipeline — “Looking for secondary releases” - 16 hours agoLeak at Pump Station 1 shuts down pipeline , Anchorage Daily News, January 8th, 2011: The 800-mile trans-Alaska oil pipeline remained shut down late Saturday after crews discovered a leak at Pump St...
• Liquid crude oozing from just below the surface — Storm will take oil “far inland” says official (VIDEO) - 1 day ago

Media Monitors

Saudi social fragility exposed in quest to "modernize""The growing disconnect between the American-aspirational elite and a population that grows more conservative in response to the moral shocks like Israel’s massacre in Gaza and US military action in A...

It is not Pakistani culture, but the toxic culture of 'freedom', which promotes rape"Had those Pakistani men been practising Muslims, such an act would have been highly unlikely. Maybe it is the wider community that needs to consider integrating with the Muslims and adopt our values....

Hi, Joe!"If a serious inquiry committee investigates the financing of the extreme right, it will discover that much of it comes straight from the pocket of the American taxpayer. That is one of the great scan...

Militarization of Energy Policy: U.S. Africa Command and Gulf of Guinea"The Pentagon has forged both bilateral and regional military partnerships with every African nation except for Eritrea, Ivory Coast, Libya, Sudan and Zimbabwe....What began in the Gulf of Guinea has ...

EU's superpower ambitions unlikely to materialize

  Voltaire

• Militarization Of Energy Policy: U.S. Africa Command And Gulf Of Guinea - 9 hours agoAfrica has become a new strategic priority for the United States, which is eyeing oil from the region centered on the Gulf of Guinea as a supplement or even replacement for the Persian Gulf. Deploymen...
• Afrocentricity International calls for cessation of interventionist actions in Ivory Coast - 2 days agoWhen black Americans no longer believe in Obama and Sarkozy!
• What would Einstein say? - 2 days agoIn a Reflection published on August 25, 2010 under the title of “The Opinion of an Expert”, I mentioned a really unusual activity of the United States and its allies which, in my opinion, underlines t...
• Cuba Announces Cabinet Reshuffle - 2 days agoA reshuffle of some cabinet posts was announced on Thursday by the Cuban Council of State in a note broadcast and published by local media.
• Gates renewing "targeted killings" team - 3 days ago

Will Pitt's Facebook Notes
Is a 3rd War of Independence Brewing? - 1 day ago
The seeds of rebellion to tyrannical authority resided in the minds and hearts of men well before the war of independence began...   Will the Federal Reserve Cause a Civil War? http://curiouscapitalis...

 BPS Research

• Physical distance boosts the success of computer-based negotiation - 2 days agoA sense of physical distance encourages more abstract thought  Negotiations that take place over computer, without face-to-face contact, have more chance of success when those negotiating think ...
• Extras - 3 days agoEye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut : Thermal imaging as a lie detection tool at airports . 'In comparison to their younger counterparts, older adults generally reported a...
• Why are we less willing to help the victims of man-made disaster? - 4 days ago

Top Documentary Films

• Lost Land of the Jaguar - 8 hours agoSeries combining stunning wildlife with high octane adventure. A team of explorers search the depths of the last great unspoilt jungle on the planet. Cameras follow the team every sweaty step of th...
• Earth 2100: The Final Century of Civilization? - 20 hours agoInteresting propaganda from ABC. Planet at Risk: Experts Warn Population Growth, Resource Depletion, Climate Change Could Bring Catastrophe in Next Century. It's an idea that most of us would rathe...
• Born Rich - 1 day agoFirst-time filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 23-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune, captures the rituals, worries and social customs of the young Trumps, Vanderbilts, Newhouses ...
• Garbage Warrior - 1 day agoImagine a home that heats itself, that provides its own water, hat grows its own food. Imagine that it needs no expensive technology, that it recycles its own waste, that it has its own power sourc...
• Innocents Betrayed - 2 days ago

Red Tape Chronicles

• Craigslist 'robberies by appointment' turn violent - 2 days agoThe sleepy suburban neighborhood in Bogota, N.J., looked safe when Michael pulled up to meet the man who had offered to buy his MacBook after seeing an ad on Craigslist. And everything seemed perfectl...
• Court: No warrant needed to search cell phone - 5 days agoThe next time you're in California, you might not want to bring your cell phone with you. The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that police can search the cell phone of a person who's been arreste...
• Ten things Web users should fear in 2011 - 1 week agoAs in the real world, cyberspace has bad neighborhoods.  But unlike the real world, risks in cyberspace are not easy to spot -- and the location of those digital bad neighborhoods can change all the t...
• The Women of Twitter: Behind those sexy tweets - 2 weeks ago“The CADJPY is testing the rising trend line dating back to Nov. 2,” announced the blonde bombshell in a low-cut bikini top, discussing with seeming gravitas and authority technical levels for the val...
• Mobile broadband the next big hacking risk? - 3 weeks ago

 Yahoo! Politics

• Authorities charge man, 22, with assassination try (AP) - 55 minutes agoAP - Authorities on Sunday charged a 22-year-old man described as a pot-smoking loner with trying to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing others at a political event, revealing that he had ...
• Members focus on comity, safety of staff and family (Exclusive to Yahoo! News) - 3 hours agoExclusive to Yahoo! News - By Fawn Johnson National Journal Republicans and Democrats are abandoning partisanship -- for now. Saturday's massacre by a gunman in Tucson, Ariz., that left six dead and w...
• Analysis: It's a stretch to link shooting to Palin and heated rhetoric (The Daily Beast) - 1 day ago

Yahoo! Business News

• Earnings to set tone, upside seen limited (Reuters) - 10 hours agoReuters - Investors head into this week on the defensive as the potential for U.S. equity gains could be limited even if earnings begin on a strong note.
• DuPont close to deal for Danisco: report (Reuters) - 9 minutes agoReuters - Chemicals maker DuPont is close to a deal to buy Danish food ingredients and enzymes company Danisco for more than $5 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
• Detroit auto show to open with newfound optimism (Reuters) - 1 hour ago

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