By Jim Finkle (Reuters) – Twitter Inc unveiled technology to boost security for its users, following a spate of attacks on accounts of prominent media outlets including the Associated Press, the Financial Times and The Onion. The micro blogging site, which transmits some 400 million messages a day, said on Wednesday that it had begun [...]
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By Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Public backlash against deadly overseas drone strikes may undermine promising uses of such technology for anything from disaster response to mail delivery, a top U.S. industry group said as it launched a lobbying effort to “demystify” unmanned planes. The Aerospace Industries Association wants to prevent misperceptions and regulatory roadblocks [...]
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Jakarta (ANTARA) – Pihak Polda Metro Jaya menduga penyebab puluhan anggota Brimob yang keracunan adalah akibat menyantap nasi bungkus yang sudah basi kiriman dari Polres Metro Jakarta Timur. “Sumber nasi kotak dari Polres Metro Jakarta Timur, sedang diselidiki oleh dokter sudah mensinyalir ada makanan basi,” kata Kepala Bidang Humas Polda Metro Jaya, Komisaris Besar Polisi [...]
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LA RUANA, Mexico (AP) — The farm state of Michoacan is burning. A drug cartel that takes its name from an ancient monastic order has set fire to lumber yards, packing plants and passenger buses in a medieval-like reign of terror. The Knights Templar cartel is extorting protection payments from cattlemen, lime growers and businesses [...]
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Stadion Wembley akan kembali menghelat partai puncak Liga Champions. Sepanjang sejarahnya, duel Bayern Munich vs Borussia Dortmund akhir pekan ini bakal jadi yang ke tujuh digelar di stadion keramat itu. Wembley merupakan salah satu stadion tertua di dunia yang mulai beroperasi sejak diresmikan oleh Raja George V pada 28 April 1923. Berkapasitas 82.000 (awalnya 127.000) [...]
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By Masayuki Kitano and Hideyuki Sano SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Japanese government bonds plunged on Thursday, taking yields to their highest in a year and leading a selloff in bonds globally after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke‘s remarks sparked worries of a reduction in U.S. monetary stimulus. Bernanke‘s comments, suggesting the Fed’s massive bond purchases could [...]
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T.C. Worley for The New York Times Top, the old, tall beach roses behind the author’s garage. Bottom, the plot, now cleared, will become a vegetable garden. I am the Lorax. I speak for the shrubs. The vow lacks gravity, doesn’t it? Dr. Seuss’s brownish and mossy eco-warrior never made a fuss about the sanctity [...]
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Dear Dr. Don,I am making payments on a Parent Plus loan that is under my mother’s name. Unfortunately, I will be the only one continuing to pay for this loan. Since the loan is under my mother’s name, I am unable to deduct it on my taxes. Still, I’m wondering if she would be able [...]
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In movies and TV a secret pregnancy is always revealed after the woman declines a cocktail. The assumption being, of course, that responsible, educated moms-to-be would never partake in alcohol while they’re expecting for fear of hurting their unborn child. Trouble is, the research on drinking during pregnancy has never been clear-cut. And now, two [...]
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BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets fell Thursday, weighed down by a contraction in China’s manufacturing that adds to signs a shaky recovery in the world’s No. 2 economy is slowing. HSBC Corp. said its preliminary Purchasing Managers Index fell to a seven-month low of 49.6 in May from April’s 50.4. Numbers below 50 indicate [...]
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