VIDEO: Euro 2012: Fans euphoric in Madrid |
- VIDEO: Euro 2012: Fans euphoric in Madrid
- VIDEO: Zuma: 'No mine nationalisation'
- Mexico returns former ruling party to power
- Earth's rotation slows, breaks Internet
- Ingram Micro To Buy Brightpoint For $9 A Share In Cash
- Arms trade treaty negotiations begin, Syria casts shadow
- Leftist candidate won't concede Mexico presidency
- NATO says 3 service members killed in Afghanistan
- Arms trade treaty negotiations begin, Syria casts shadow
- Dozens quit Japan's ruling party in blow to PM
- Holy Mini-Y2K! 'Leap Second' Also Took Down Major Sites This Weekend
- Wait, You Mean Apple's Siri Won't Kill Google Search After All?
- Ozawa Leaves Japan's Ruling Party
- Many Japan lawmakers quit DPJ, but government keeps majority
- Venezuela's Chavez, Capriles launch presidential race
- China court: Apple pays $60M to settle iPad case
- Revolt in Japan ruling party, but government keeps majority
- China court: Apple to pay $60M to settle iPad case
- Mexican old guard leads, ruling party concedes
- The Terrifying Texas GOP Platform
| VIDEO: Euro 2012: Fans euphoric in Madrid Posted: 01 Jul 2012 07:02 PM PDT Spain have won the Euro 2012 football championship, much to the delight of thousands of supporters who had gathered in central Madrid to watch the game.
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| VIDEO: Zuma: 'No mine nationalisation' Posted: 01 Jul 2012 10:58 PM PDT In an interview with the BBC, President Jacob Zuma has said the nationalisation of South Africa's mines has not been introduced as a new policy.
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| Mexico returns former ruling party to power Posted: 01 Jul 2012 10:33 PM PDT Mexico's old guard sailed back into power after a 12-year hiatus Sunday as the official preliminary vote count handed a victory to Enrique Pena Nieto, whose party was long accused of ruling the country through corruption and patronage.
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| Earth's rotation slows, breaks Internet Posted: 01 Jul 2012 10:35 PM PDT There?s nothing like a slowdown in the earth?s rotation to ruin a Saturday night. System administrators around the country were called away from dinner dates and gaming sessions on Saturday after an extra second was added to the evening by the world?s timekeepers, causing widespread failure among computers that keep the world?s websites online. Among ...
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| Ingram Micro To Buy Brightpoint For $9 A Share In Cash Posted: 01 Jul 2012 10:29 PM PDT Ingram Micro on Sunday announced that it has agreed to acquire wireless sector distribution specialist Brightpoint??for $9 a share in cash, or about $840 million, including assumption of net debt. Brightpoint had closed at $5.41 on Friday. Ingram said the deal ?will create a leading global provider of device lifecycle services and solutions for the ...
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| Arms trade treaty negotiations begin, Syria casts shadow Posted: 01 Jul 2012 10:05 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Delegates from around the world gather in New York on Monday for the start of month-long U.N.-hosted negotiations to hammer out the first-ever binding treaty to regulate the global weapons market, valued at more than $60 billion a year. Arms control campaigners say one person every minute dies as a result of armed violence around the world and that a convention is needed to prevent illicitly traded guns from pouring into conflict zones and fueling wars and atrocities. Most U.N. member states favor a strong treaty. ...
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| Leftist candidate won't concede Mexico presidency Posted: 01 Jul 2012 09:43 PM PDT
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| NATO says 3 service members killed in Afghanistan Posted: 01 Jul 2012 10:01 PM PDT A man in an Afghan police uniform on Sunday shot and killed three foreign troops in southern Afghanistan, the U.S.-led coalition said in a statement.
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| Arms trade treaty negotiations begin, Syria casts shadow Posted: 01 Jul 2012 10:06 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Delegates from around the world gather in New York on Monday for the start of month-long U.N.-hosted negotiations to hammer out the first-ever binding treaty to regulate the global weapons market, valued at more than $60 billion a year.
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| Dozens quit Japan's ruling party in blow to PM Posted: 01 Jul 2012 09:30 PM PDT A powerful member of Japan's ruling party and dozens of his followers have decided to quit the group and will likely form their own rival bloc, dealing a blow to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.
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| Holy Mini-Y2K! 'Leap Second' Also Took Down Major Sites This Weekend Posted: 01 Jul 2012 09:45 PM PDT It was a bad weekend for the internet. First an electrical storm in the D.C. area took down Amazon?s cloud??Friday night causing hours of outright outages for many major sites and performance disruptions a full day later. Then, at 8 PM EDT, Saturday night, a regularly scheduled ?leap second? caused further havoc. Leap seconds are ...
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| Wait, You Mean Apple's Siri Won't Kill Google Search After All? Posted: 01 Jul 2012 09:15 PM PDT Just a few months ago, some folks were suggesting that ?s voice assistant Siri would??kill Google?s search by offering a more natural way for people to find what they want online?without annoying ads, either. Honestly, the notion sounded at best??rather ahead of itself at the time. But now, it seems???s search service?specifically aided by its ...
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| Ozawa Leaves Japan's Ruling Party Posted: 01 Jul 2012 09:55 PM PDT Japanese ruling-party heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa is leaving the party along with 51 other lawmakers, undermining Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's grip on power.
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| Many Japan lawmakers quit DPJ, but government keeps majority Posted: 01 Jul 2012 09:32 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese political heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa and 51 other lawmakers will quit the ruling party over a plan to increase the sales tax, an aide said on Monday, although the government will retain its majority in the powerful lower house of parliament. Forty lower house members and 12 in the upper chamber will resign from the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the aide told reporters. That will bring down the ruling party's numbers in the 480-member lower house to 249 from 289. ...
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| Venezuela's Chavez, Capriles launch presidential race Posted: 01 Jul 2012 09:45 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO DE YURUANI/MARACAY, Venezuela (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez shook off his health problems to lead a massive rally on Sunday while opposition rival Henrique Capriles took to remote regions for the formal launch of Venezuela's presidential race. Unable to repeat the frenetic campaigning of past elections due to his struggle with cancer, a fist-pumping Chavez nevertheless made a rare appearance at a rally in central Venezuela to underline he is fit enough for the October 7 vote. ...
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| China court: Apple pays $60M to settle iPad case Posted: 01 Jul 2012 10:22 PM PDT Apple has paid $60 million to settle a dispute in China over ownership of the iPad name, a court announced Monday, removing a potential obstacle to sales of the popular tablet computer in the key Chinese market.
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| Revolt in Japan ruling party, but government keeps majority Posted: 01 Jul 2012 11:10 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese political heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa, one of the key figures behind the ruling party's rise to power, led dozens of lawmakers out of the party on Monday, but the government will retain its majority in the powerful lower house of parliament.
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| China court: Apple to pay $60M to settle iPad case Posted: 01 Jul 2012 08:22 PM PDT A Chinese court says Apple has agreed to pay a local company $60 million to settle a dispute over ownership of the iPad name.
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| Mexican old guard leads, ruling party concedes Posted: 01 Jul 2012 09:11 PM PDT
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| The Terrifying Texas GOP Platform Posted: 01 Jul 2012 08:19 PM PDT I named this blog Pragmatic Economics in part because of my desire to avoid politics. That's why my tag line is, "I want to explain how things work, not what you should believe." However, I am so distressed by the 2012 platform released by the Texas Republican Party that I find it impossible not to ...
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