Reuters - More bad news for U.S. cable network MTV's controversial new drama "Skins:" The show attracted only about half the viewers it did from its premiere last week.
[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:35:55 GMT]
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AP - A surfer who nearly drowned after being pummeled and washed through rocks by a big wave in Northern California is expected to recover, hospital officials said Tuesday.
[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:58:41 GMT]
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AP - Thousands of curious onlookers are flocking to central Indonesia to look at a "crop circle" in a rice field following rumors it was formed by a UFO.

[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:57:17 GMT]
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AP - Oprah Winfrey has discovered she has a half-sister — a Milwaukee woman who was given up for adoption by Winfrey's mother nearly 50 years ago, when the talk show host was eight years old.

[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 04:23:31 GMT]
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AP - Very few students have the advanced skills that could lead to careers in science and technology, according to results of a national exam released Tuesday that education leaders called alarming.
[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:51:06 GMT]
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Reuters - A German foundation rejected Monday an Egyptian request to return the 3,400-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti, a sculpture which draws over one million viewers annually to a Berlin museum.
[Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:41:41 GMT]
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Reuters - Yahoo Inc warned revenue will again slide this quarter as traffic to the Internet portal drifts elsewhere and the company begins sharing search revenue with Microsoft Corp followed that with a declaration it is preparing its biggest year of hiring ever in 2011.

[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:29:44 GMT]
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AP - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin vowed revenge Tuesday for the suicide bombing that killed 35 people at a Moscow airport — a familiar tough-on-terrorism stance that has underpinned his power but also led to a rising number of deadly attacks in Russia.

[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:13:14 GMT]
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Reuters - If only every daytime talk show host had a long-lost half sister.
[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:45:15 GMT]
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AP - "Jersey Shore" is headed to the Motherland. The popular MTV reality TV series starring a group of hard-partying Italian-Americans will film its fourth season in Italy, the network said Tuesday.

[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:27:51 GMT]
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AP - A second wave of falling home prices is battering some cities that had escaped the worst of the housing market bust.

[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:01:17 GMT]
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Reuters - A U.S. judge sentenced the first former Guantanamo detainee to face a civilian trial to life in prison on Tuesday, denying defense calls for leniency over his treatment by CIA interrogators.
[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:59:12 GMT]
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Fashion Wire Daily - There was a major new departure by Giorgio Armani in his latest haute couture collection, a jet propelled take off into outer space, and a powerful re-launch of the retro futurism of the '60s in a path-breaking show in Paris Monday, Jan. 24.

[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:20:00 GMT]
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Reuters - Tucson shooting rampage suspect Jared Lee Loughner pleaded not guilty on Monday to federal charges of attempting to assassinate U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords and attempting to murder two of her staff members.
[Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:50:50 GMT]
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NewsFactor - Google introduced a new beta service Tuesday as the first step in the development of a technology that promises to let users print from any device running any operating system or browser, and without installing printer drivers or other special software. Initially, however, the new Google Cloud Print service is primarily aimed at smartphones that support HTML5, such as handsets running Android 2.1 or higher as well as Apple devices running iOS 3 or above.
[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:54:42 GMT]
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AP - There's a sign at the top of the road leading into Richard Childress Racing trumpeting next month's season-opening Daytona 500.
[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:51:48 GMT]
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AP - A popular female gorilla thought to be 46 years old has died at an Ohio zoo.

[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:11:42 GMT]
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AFP - US President Barack Obama may soon announce plans to expand Afghan security forces by roughly 70,000 over current targets by year's end as a US troop drawdown looms, a senior US senator said Tuesday.

[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:17:25 GMT]
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AP - Taco Bell officials on Tuesday rejected claims made in a lawsuit that the meat in their tacos, burritos and other products is not all beef. Taco Bell President Greg Creed said in a statement that the lawyers who filed the lawsuit got their facts wrong and that Taco Bell plans to take legal action against those making the allegations. He did not explain specifically what type of legal action Taco Bell might take.
[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:13:30 GMT]
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AP - In the run-up to the 2006 midterm election in which Republicans lost control of the House, the Bush administration repeatedly broke the law by using federal funds to send Cabinet secretaries and other high-level political appointees to congressional districts of GOP candidates in tight races, according to a government report.
[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:51:21 GMT]
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