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Charles Dickens: His 10 most memorable characters
To celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens, here is a tribute to 10 of his most unforgettable characters.
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Extradition fight: Who is Julian Assange, why is Sweden seeking him?
A British court is hearing a final appeal from Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks whistleblower site, to avoid extradition to Sweden to face sex crime allegations. Here are four questions about the man and the case.
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20 iPhone tips and tricks everyone should know
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10 best picture books for children
In "100 Best Books for Children," Anita Silvey recommends picture books for children ages 2 to 8. Some of these titles have excited the eye for decades, while others are more recent additions to the canon. But all make excellent bedtime reading.
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Quadrantid meteors and 11 other big skywatching events of 2012
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Australia Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigns in leadership rift (+video)
Australia Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said today he could not work with Prime Minister Gillard amid 'soap opera' reports that she intended to fire him as foreign minister for disloyalty.
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John Glenn's first spaceflight was fraught with risks and unknowns
Before Glenn completed three laps of Earth on Feb. 20, 1962, no American had spent more than 15 minutes in space.
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Global News Blog
What eurocrisis? Hamburg to build $500 million concert hall
Hamburg, Germany aims to build one of the acoustically best concert halls in the world, admist one of Europe's worst economic crises in recent history.
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The Daily Reckoning
Greek crisis 101: How to make money off your debts
Greece's debt issues are unavoidable, even with the intervention of foreign governments.
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How a black hole survived the destruction of its galaxy
The Hubble telescope has spotted the remains of a destroyed galaxy, whose sole remains consist of a black hole and a cloud of gas, which has spawned a cluster of new stars.
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Latin America Monitor
Venezuela's opposition unites around Capriles. Can he beat Chavez?
A record turnout of nearly 3 million people voted in Venezuela's opposition presidential primary yesterday, selecting Henrique Capriles Radonski as the candidate.
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Europe's Internet revolt: protesters see threats in antipiracy treaty
Anger over proposed antipiracy treaty ACTA was expected to bring thousands to Europe's streets today. Supporters say it will better protect intellectual labor, while opponents see free speech threats.
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How Japan, US may break 18-year deadlock over Okinawa base
Japan and the US agreed this week to relocate thousands of Marines from Okinawa. But the issue of what to do with Futenma airbase remains.
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Ancient Antarctic lake thought to harbor prehistoric life, Hitler clones
In its reporting on the efforts of a Russian drilling team to reach a subglacial lake in Antarctica, Russian state media has revived an old conjecture about a secret Nazi cloning facility on the southern continent.
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Charles Dickens: His 10 most memorable characters
To celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens, here is a tribute to 10 of his most unforgettable characters.
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Seven Syrian embassies attacked by anti-Assad protesters
From London to Australia, mobs attacked Syrian embassies to protest the reported killing of civilians in Homs by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
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Kinect for Windows: Can a video game toy become the future of PCs?
Microsoft's Kinect for Windows will add motion controls to laptops and desktops.
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Going green: View my world-class collection of hotel towel cards.
My global collection of towel cards tells guests how to be green (and save the hotel money) in a dozen instructive, chic, bossy, relieving, euphemistic, paranoid, minimalistic, and earnest ways.
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Extradition fight: Who is Julian Assange, why is Sweden seeking him?
A British court is hearing a final appeal from Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks whistleblower site, to avoid extradition to Sweden to face sex crime allegations. Here are four questions about the man and the case.
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20 iPhone tips and tricks everyone should know
With hundreds of iPhone features and 500,000 iOS apps, it's easy to miss some of Apple's best tricks. Here are 20 of our favorite.
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Africa asks itself: Where is the aid money?
African nations pledged five months ago to do more to help each other when famine and disaster strike. But so far, they haven't come up with the promised cash.
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Backchannels
Graphic images flood out of Syria. Why no world uproar?
Grainy videos depict the violence that has killed at least 6,000 Syrians, but the prospects for international intervention appear dim. Is the world inured to the ubiquitous images?
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Is the cyberwarfare arms race for real? Survey of world experts says it is.
A majority of the word's top cybersecurity experts surveyed say a cyberwarfare arms race is in full swing. US readiness lags behind that of some smaller countries, the survey found.
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Scientists reveal secret of humongous mammals
How did some mammals get so big? A new study calculates the rate at which mammals evolved from mouse-sized to elephant-sized.
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Stocks fall. Greece weighs on markets.
Stocks are down in Asia and Europe ahead of a key European summit. S&P futures are also lower. Investors shun stocks as concerns linger about Greece's long-term solvency.
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Mises Economics
Beware of China's housing bubble
The housing frenzy has driven prices so high, so fast, that a crash on the scale of the real estate collapse in Japan in the 1990s is a virtual certainty in China
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The Daily Reckoning
Economic tales from the Southern Hemisphere
South Africa and Australia are booming, but the gap between rich and poor is vast.
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Somali pirate captors move US hostage after SEAL raid
After the US Navy SEAL rescue of American and Dane hostages this week, Somali pirates say they will move other hostages around, and will kill hostages if they are attacked.
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Titan: mile-wide dunes on Earth's frozen twin intrigue scientists
Some dunes on Titan – a Saturn moon seen as a chillier version of early Earth – are huge. Scientists now have suspicions about what's going on, but they don't yet know how Titan's version of sand formed.
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Rafael Nadal tops Roger Federer in Australian Open semifinal
Nadal will have the opportunity to capture an 11th major title on Sunday night when he plays the winner of Friday's semifinal between defending champion Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray.
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