Harry Potter Fans Salivate Over J.K. Rowling's New Site, 'Pottermore' (Time.com)

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• Harry Potter Fans Salivate Over J.K. Rowling's New Site, 'Pottermore' (Time.com)
• Tepco to request loans from Japanese life insurers: paper (Reuters)
• VIDEO: Angelina Jolie meets Syrian refugees
• Japan suspends waste water nuclear operation (AFP)
• VIDEO: Forty years of the US 'war on drugs'
• VIDEO: Angelina Jolie meets Syrian refugees
• Former Zambian President Frederick Chiluba dies (AP)
• Myanmar blames Kachin rebels for fighting (AP)
• Radiation spike halts Fukushima clean-up
• "The Economy" Not Acceptable Answer to Your Request for a Raise
• S Korea troops fire at passenger plane
• Apple's iCloud and the Dilemma of the Walled Garden
• France and Germany agree on aid for Greece
• South Korean troops shoot at civilian airliner by mistake (Reuters)
• Australia PM slides in polls (AFP)
• South Korean troops shoot at civilian airliner by mistake
• Welcome to Dante's Soma
• Man in the news - Lewis Hamilton (AFP)
• Gunfight kills 2 in Mexico border city (AP)
• Obama overrides lawyers in Libya war debate: report (AFP)

Harry Potter Fans Salivate Over J.K. Rowling's New Site, 'Pottermore' (Time.com) Posted: 17 Jun 2011 10:05 PM PDT Time.com - Just when you thought it was safe to read other books

Tepco to request loans from Japanese life insurers: paper (Reuters) Posted: 17 Jun 2011 11:08 PM PDT Reuters - Tokyo Electric Power Co (9501.T) will ask major life insurers, including Nippon Life and Dai-ichi Life (8750.T), for hundreds of billions of yen in additional loans as it faces big bills in restoring control over a crippled nuclear plant and paying for fuel costs for thermal plants, Japan's Asahi newspaper reported on Saturday.

VIDEO: Angelina Jolie meets Syrian refugees Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:52 PM PDT Actress and UNHCR goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie has visited camps along Turkey's border with Syria, where she met refugees who have fled the country since the beginning of the unrest.

Japan suspends waste water nuclear operation (AFP) Posted: 17 Jun 2011 10:31 PM PDT AFP - Tokyo Electric Power Co. halted an operation to clean highly contaminated waste water at a crippled Japanese nuclear plant due to higher-than-expected radiation levels.

VIDEO: Forty years of the US 'war on drugs' Posted: 17 Jun 2011 02:17 PM PDT Forty years on, America's 'war on drugs' has cost the country $1tn, seen huge numbers jailed, and is now prompting renewed questions.

VIDEO: Angelina Jolie meets Syrian refugees Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:52 PM PDT Actress and UNHCR goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie has visited camps along Turkey's border with Syria, where she met refugees who have fled the country since the beginning of the unrest.

Former Zambian President Frederick Chiluba dies (AP) Posted: 17 Jun 2011 09:56 PM PDT AP - State television says Zambia's first democratically elected president, Frederick Chiluba, who became increasingly autocratic during his 10 years in office, has died. He was 65.

Myanmar blames Kachin rebels for fighting (AP) Posted: 17 Jun 2011 10:15 PM PDT AP - Myanmar's government has blamed ethnic Kachin rebels for starting a week of fighting along the country's northeastern border with China.

Radiation spike halts Fukushima clean-up Posted: 17 Jun 2011 09:53 PM PDT Operator of Japan's stricken nuclear power unable to remove pools of radioactive water at risk of spilling into the sea.

"The Economy" Not Acceptable Answer to Your Request for a Raise Posted: 17 Jun 2011 09:36 PM PDT

S Korea troops fire at passenger plane Posted: 17 Jun 2011 09:45 PM PDT Troops shoot at jet flying from China with 119 people on board after mistaking it for a N Korean aircraft.

Apple's iCloud and the Dilemma of the Walled Garden Posted: 17 Jun 2011 09:18 PM PDT "The Cloud" is certainly the buzz-phrase du jour as the behemoth IT companies rush to offer remote s

France and Germany agree on aid for Greece Posted: 17 Jun 2011 09:08 PM PDT Leaders of European powers say they are united behind new bailout package for Greece.

South Korean troops shoot at civilian airliner by mistake (Reuters) Posted: 17 Jun 2011 10:32 PM PDT Reuters - South Korean marine Corps troops fired at a commercial aircraft flying near the tense sea border with North Korea, misidentifying it as one of the communist North's jet fighters, but no damage occurred, military sources said on Saturday.

Australia PM slides in polls (AFP) Posted: 17 Jun 2011 08:32 PM PDT AFP - Australian leader Julia Gillard took another slide in the polls, with voters deserting her party in unprecedented numbers and strongly preferring Kevin Rudd, the man she deposed 12 months ago.

South Korean troops shoot at civilian airliner by mistake Posted: 17 Jun 2011 10:32 PM PDT SEOUL, Jun (Reuters) - South Korean marine Corps troops fired at a commercial aircraft flying near the tense sea border with North Korea, misidentifying it as one of the communist North's jet fighters, but no damage occurred, military sources said on Saturday.

Welcome to Dante's Soma Posted: 17 Jun 2011 08:26 PM PDT Why Dante's Soma when this is a tech column? Simple. This is a tech column about how technology chan

Man in the news - Lewis Hamilton (AFP) Posted: 17 Jun 2011 07:45 PM PDT AFP - Love him or loathe him, there is nothing that stops Lewis Hamilton seizing Formula One's headlines.

Gunfight kills 2 in Mexico border city (AP) Posted: 17 Jun 2011 09:07 PM PDT AP - A gunbattle between soldiers and suspected cartel gunmen left two suspects dead Friday in the northern Mexico border city of Matamoros, authorities said.

Obama overrides lawyers in Libya war debate: report (AFP) Posted: 17 Jun 2011 08:13 PM PDT AFP - President Barack Obama overruled two senior government lawyers in deciding that he had the authority to continue US military operations in Libya without Congressional approval, The New York Times reported.

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