Stross and Doctorow Collaborate on Singularity Novel

Stross and Doctorow Collaborate on Singularity Novel


Stross and Doctorow Collaborate on Singularity Novel

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 10:52 PM PDT

Sci-fi authors Charles Stross and Cory Doctorow have collaborated on a post-singularity novel.


Polish PM's party expected to win Sunday election (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 10:41 PM PDT

Reuters - Poles are voting in a parliamentary election on Sunday, likely to give the ruling center-right Civic Platform four more years in power to press on with gradual economic reforms and closer ties with the European Union.


'Secret memo made case for Awlaki killing'

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 10:38 PM PDT

US media says memo argued it would be lawful to kill Yemen-based cleric only if it were not feasible to take him alive.


Europe's ailing Dexia faces 'bad bank' split

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 10:47 PM PDT

Negotiations over troubled assets taking place between France and Belgium as embattled bank Dexia looks for state help.


Polish PM's party expected to win Sunday election

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 10:41 PM PDT

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poles are voting in a parliamentary election on Sunday, likely to give the ruling center-right Civic Platform four more years in power to press on with gradual economic reforms and closer ties with the European Union.


Sympathy for an Assassin: The Worrisome Protests in Pakistan (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 09:10 PM PDT

Time.com - Judges quake as hundreds of people pour into the streets to protest a possible death sentence for the murderer of the governor of Punjab


A glance at main parties in Poland's elections (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 10:10 PM PDT

AP - A glance at the main parties expected to reach the 5 percent threshold of votes for entering parliament in Poland's Sunday election:


IAEA team in Japan; Fukushima starts thyroid tests (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 10:14 PM PDT

A boy is taken by his mother to Fukushima Medical University Hospital for a thyroid test in Fukushima, northern Japan, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011. Local doctors began a long-term survey of children for thyroid abnormalities, a problem associated with radiation exposure. Officials hope to test some 360,000 people who were under the age of 18 when the nuclear crisis began in March, and then provide follow-ups throughout their lifetimes. Japanese on the board reads: a thyroid test entrance. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREAAP - Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived in the Japanese city of Fukushima on Sunday to observe the massive decontamination effort following the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.



Abbas Takes Palestinian Statehood on the Road (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 09:10 PM PDT

Time.com - The President of the Palestinian Authority starts a tour to drum up support for U.N. membership among countries critical to the Security Council vote


Venture Capitalist Mark Suster On Getting An MBA

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 09:19 PM PDT

It?s funny, yesterday I was on Twitter when I noticed Mark Suster tweet out a post that he wrote two years ago. It?s about whether or not an MBA is necessary for working in startups or venture capital. I remember reading it not long after I tabled my HBS application and started at True/Slant at ...


China's Jiang appears in public after speculation (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 10:27 PM PDT

China's retired President Jiang Zemin waves as he attends a ceremony commemorating the centennial anniversary of the 1911 revolution that overthrew imperial rule on the mainland at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011. Jiang, 85, has made a rare public appearance at the ceremony months after speculation that he had died or was close to death. (AP Photo/Minoru Iwasaki, Pool)AP - Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin made a rare public appearance at a Beijing ceremony on Sunday, months after speculation that he had died or was close to death.



Polish ties with Germany, Russia at stake in vote (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 05:44 PM PDT

AP - Poles will vote in parliamentary elections that will determine whether the country continues on its conciliatory course with Russia and Germany, or whether it returns to a more combative stance with those historic foes.


Death toll from Philippine typhoons hits 101 (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 07:54 PM PDT

Reuters - The death toll from the two strong typhoons that cut across the north of the Philippines' main island and left behind widespread flooding has risen to 101, the national disaster agency said Sunday.


Estate Of Al Davis Could Face Huge Tax Bill On Oakland Raiders

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 07:53 PM PDT

The Davis family could face estate taxes in the hundreds of millions of dollars.


Death toll from Philippine typhoons hits 101

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 07:54 PM PDT

MANILA (Reuters) - The death toll from the two strong typhoons that cut across the north of the Philippines' main island and left behind widespread flooding has risen to 101, the national disaster agency said Sunday.


VIDEO: Iran's rivers run dry in drought

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 07:25 PM PDT

Iran was hit by one of the worst heatwaves on record in 2011, causing some of the country's largest rivers to run dry.


Plan under way to pump fuel off stranded ship

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 07:40 PM PDT

Experts hope to siphon about 1,500 tonnes of heavy fuel off container ship Rena to prevent environmental disaster.


VIDEO: Iran's rivers run dry in drought

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 07:25 PM PDT

Iran was hit by one of the worst heatwaves on record in 2011, causing some of the country's largest rivers to run dry.


Poles vote in parliamentary elections

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 06:49 PM PDT

The vote will determine whether PM's Civic Platform party gets another term after four years of strong economic growth.


VIDEO: Shakira opens Euro 2012 stadium

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 06:41 PM PDT

The Colombian pop star Shakira and Ukraine's President, Viktor Yanukovych, have opened a 70,000-seat stadium in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.


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