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Arkansas weatherman found in hot tub with naked dead man wearing 'dog collar'
An Arkansas weatherman didn't predict he would wake up in a hot tub with a naked dead man, but that's exactly what police say happened.
-NY Daily News
Drunken elk rescued from Swede's apple tree
"My neighbour recognised it as the animal that almost ran into her car earlier in the day. She was pretty sure the elk was already under the influence," said Johansson.
-The Local
Calls For Lockerbie Bomber To Return To Jail
Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al Megrahi should be "behind bars" once a new government replaces Muammar Gaddafi's regime, Nick Clegg has said.
-Sky News
The family’s mansions turn out to be not so grand
TRIPOLI, Libya - His name of choice was the Brother Leader, though his nearly 42 years of rule were rarely brotherly, and his leadership left one of the world’s most richly endowed countries in shambles.
-boston.com
Oz Boy's Close Shave With 100mph Train
A boy who crossed a railway track to speak to a girl on the other side has had a narrow escape after being pinned against the platform wall by a 100mph train.
-Sky News
Calderon: Mexico casino fire deaths ‘act of terrorism’
Calling a deadly fire at a casino “an act of terrorism,” Mexican President Felipe Calderon and his top law enforcement officials vowed Friday to capture the gangsters responsible for the deaths of 52 people who perished in a fire set by gunmen at the Casino Royale in Monterrey.
-Washington Post
Woman punched, knocked out, by man after traffic crash in Alachua County
A Gainesville woman was knocked unconscious by an unidentified man after being rear-ended by another car Thursday afternoon, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
-Jacksonville.com
Roman-Age Gold Mine Revived by Crisis-Era Prices Draws Astur
Astur Gold Corp. (AST), a Canadian company developing what it sees as western Europe’s largest untapped gold field, expects to win a mining license in 2012 for the site on Spain’s northern coast last exploited in Roman times.
-Bloomberg
Woman leaves 4-year-old boy at Houston fire station
A 4-year-old boy was handed over to Houston firefighters Wednesday morning by a woman who said she could no longer care for him.
-NewsOK.com
Gibson Guitar CEO says wood is properly imported
The head of Gibson Guitar Corp. said Thursday that the company is being unfairly targeted after a raid by federal authorities at factories in Memphis and Nashville.
-NewsOK.com
Martin Luther King memorial made in China
It is perhaps a fitting tribute to racial co-operation. However, the decision to outsource to China the carving of a new national memorial to Martin Luther King has raised eyebrows in the United States.
-The Telegraph
Winter departs a month early
South-eastern Australia has escaped the grip of winter one month early this year, with Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide all enjoying spring-like weather.
-The Sydney Morning Herald
New diet book for kids, Maggie Goes on a Diet, causes a stir
Here’s a book you may not want to get in the children’s section for back to school-Maggie Goes on a Diet. Author Paul A. Kramer tells a tale of poor little 14 year-old, chubby Maggie in this picture book for young girls. As the story unfolds, Maggie begins to focus on dieting and wham, she’s popular. The theme here kids is if you want to be popular, get thin.
-New Jersey On-Line
Venezuela’s Chavez says he may undergo more chemotherapy, calls treatment ‘preventive’
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday that he may undergo another round of chemotherapy next week.
-Washington Post
Google to pay US $500m in drug ad inquiry
In one of the biggest settlements of its kind in US history, Google Inc. has agreed to pay $500 million to the Justice Department and admitted that the company’s advertising service helped online pharmacies sell prescription drugs illegally.
-boston.com
Tobacco debt to state is $8.1M
Mississippi will get $8.1 million, plus millions more, after a judge ruled R.J. Reynolds shortchanged the state in its landmark tobacco settlement when the company failed to report profits from the sale of 7.8 billion cigarettes made for Star Tobacco.
-ClarionLedger.com
Zoo mystery: How did apes and birds know quake was coming?
Her name is Iris, and with her straight, elegant, red-orange hair she is beyond dispute the prettiest orangutan at the National Zoo. She’s calm, quiet, unflappable. “Iris lives the life of a queen,” says great-ape keeper Amanda Bania.
-Washington Post
Outcry over airline's 'breast checks'
ASPIRING flight attendants in South Korea have accused Indonesia's national airline of making them strip nearly naked and have their breasts handled in medical check-ups.
-The Sydney Morning Herald
Mystery Man Wakes On Beach Without Memory
Police have appealed for help in identifying a man who claims he woke up on a beach with no memory of himself or his family.
-Sky News HD
A tale of two Koreas and Russian gas
North Korean leader Kim Jong-II wants Moscow to build a pipeline across his country so much that he may soon ride his private train to Russia to discuss the project. The eccentric Communist dictator may soon be visiting Russia to discuss issues of mutual concern for both countries, according to South Korean news reports on 19 August
-New Europe
Three-year ordeal is over: Vancouver man freed from Mexican jail
A Mexican judge has released a Canadian man who spent three-and-a-half years languishing behind bars in Mexico without trial – most of them in Guadalajara's harsh Puente Grande penitentiary.
-Guadalajara Reporter
Mayan Secrets to Be Revealed by Mexican Government in ’2012′ Doc
The Mexican government is releasing state-held secrets about the end of the Mayan calendar to the makers of a documentary, “Revelations of the Mayans 2012 and Beyond,” TheWrap has learned.
-The European Union Times
Vatican set to hold conference on the Existence of Aliens
The Vatican is now preparing us for the big message the US government and NASA are planning to announce soon. This is in anticipation to more disclosure and shocking news soon to be released little by little. Father Jonathan Morris, a corresponded of Fox News channel was the first to report this official conference which is set to be hold soon (an exact date is not yet known) and its results will be given to the public.
-The European Union Times
Wingwalker dies after fall at Michigan air show
A wingwalker at an air show near Detroit plunged about 200 feet to his death on Sunday as he tried to climb onto a helicopter in mid-air, in the third fatal air performance accident this weekend, officials said.
-Baltimore Sun
Microsoft Office 365 suffers first major outage
Microsoft's cloud-based software Microsoft Office 365 on Wednesday experienced its first major outage since its introduction in late June.
-English.xinhuanet.com
Israel's Iron Dome system reassures nation on Gaza
Ashkelon, Israel, A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas took hold on Monday, ending four days of rocket attacks and air strikes across the Gaza border that brought the sides to the brink of a major military conflict for the second time in five months.
-The Christian Science Monitor
Lithuanian Mayor Flattens Car With Tank
A Lithuanian mayor has taken extreme measures to crack down on the rich who keep parking illegally in his town - by crushing their vehicles with a tank.
-Sky News
Japan - Fiscal hawk leads race to replace Naoto Kan
A SURPRISINGLY wide field of candidates headed by Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda is vying to replace outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
-The Australian
China-Philippines relations to develop through presidential visit
China said on Monday that the upcoming visit by Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III is believed to promote the further development of bilateral relations.
-English.xinhuanet.com
Scared Mexicans try under-the-skin tracking devices
QUERETARO, Mexico — Of all the strange circumstances surrounding the violent abduction last year of Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, the Mexican power broker and former presidential candidate known here as “Boss Diego,” perhaps nothing was weirder than the mysterious tracking chip that the kidnappers allegedly cut from his body.
-Washington Post
No U.S. Trip for Students From Gaza, Hamas Says
The Islamist group that governs Gaza barred a group of students this week from traveling to the United States for a year of study, officials of the group, Hamas, said.
-New York Times
3 killed in East End as storm floods streets
A woman and two children were killed and an elderly woman was missing Friday night after a flash flood -- with rushing water 9 feet deep in some places -- swept over Washington Boulevard in Highland Park/Lincoln-Lemington during rush hour.
-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
'Southbound smuggling': drugs go from U.S. to Mexico and back
In an unusual twist, federal authorities say they have busted a ring in which prescription drugs were smuggled out of Southern California and into Mexico, where they were sold at Tijuana pharmacies, mostly to young Americans who then brought them back across the border.
-SignOn San Diego
The illegal cure for cancer: Study says club drug ecstasy may hold cure for cancer
Scientists are saying that ecstasy-an illegal drug largely connected with hardcore clubgoers-can actually treat several forms of cancer.
-NYDailyNews.com
Global economic slowdown may prompt Brazil to reassess policy
On a day when U.S stock indexes plunged, Brazil’s Central Bank President Alexandre Tombini said policy makers will reexamine the impact of a slowdown in the global economy on Latin America’s largest country when they meet later this month.
-The Miami Herald
Iranian officials sentence American hikers Joshua Fattal, Shane Bauer to 8 years in prison: report
An Iranian court sentenced American hikers to 8 years in prison, a state TV website said, according to Reuters.
-NYDailyNews.com
Clinton panel announces major new Haiti project
The Haiti reconstruction panel co-chaired by former U.S. President Bill Clinton announced a major new project Wednesday to rebuild part of the capital damaged by last year's earthquake.
-The Miami Herald
Israel says it deeply regrets Egypt troop deaths
Israel's Defense Minister says Israel deeply regrets the deaths of Egyptian troops killed during a shootout between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants.
-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Tensions boil after Egypt-Israel border clash
Furious over a murky Israeli military operation that left five Egyptian security personnel dead at the border, top Egyptian politicians on Friday demanded a full investigation and urged a swift government response, including summoning the Israeli ambassador and halting natural gas exports.
-The Miami Herald
Warren Buffett’s Taxing the Rich Won't Solve Deficit, Says Tax Foundation
Taxing millionaires and billionaires more – a position advocated by billionaire Warren Buffett and President Barack Obama – won’t make much of a dent in the national debt or the record federal budget deficits, a new study finds.
-CNSNews.com
US nuclear plant to be completed
A plan to complete work on a US nuclear reactor at a half-built plant in Alabama has been approved, more than 20 years after construction was halted.
-BigNewsNetwork.com
Boeing's 747-8 cargo jet gets FAA approval
After a year and a half of flight tests, Boeing's largest airplane ever, the 747-8 jumbo, received the Federal Aviation Administration's approval to enter service as a cargo jet, Boeing announced Friday.
-Seattle Times
North Korea offers to reopen repatriation talks with US
North Korean officials have reportedly offered to reopen talks with the US government over the repatriation of the remains of US soldiers killed in the Korean War. North Korean officials indicated Friday that they had accepted a request by the US to reopen talks on repatriating the remains of soldiers killed in the Korean War.
-BigNewsNetwork.com
Archbishop: New York Times, Newsweek, CNN, MSNBC Not ‘Trustworthy’ on Religion
The news outlets CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, and MSNBC do not “provide trustworthy information about religious faith,” said Philadelphia’s incoming Archbishop, Charles Chaput, at the Catholic World Youth Day ongoing this week in Madrid, Spain.
-CNSNews.com
Russia plans for a post-Soviet union
Friday marks the 20th anniversary of the KGB-inspired coup that aimed to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev, the reformist Soviet leader, and replace him with a clique of army generals, security men and communist party reactionaries. It was a bungled adventure that collapsed after three days and ended up burying communism and breaking up the Soviet Union into 15 sovereign states.
-The Financial Times
Unions, industry unite on China
UNIONS, Labor MPs and the steel industry are calling on the Gillard government to help the United States in its campaign to persuade China to float its currency and alleviate pressure on local manufacturers.
-The Sydney Morning Herald
AT&T Kills $10 Texting Plans, Pushes Unlimited Options
In the midst of ongoing controversy over the company's proposed acquisition of competitor T-Mobile, AT&T has confirmed reports that the company has revamped its text messaging plans, cutting out its popular $10 Messaging 1000 plan entirely and forcing customers to choose between a $20 unlimited plan or pay 20 cents per message.
-InformationWeek
Letterman threat on Al Qaeda website is no laughing matter
Letterman threat, by a blogger on an Al Qaeda message board, is being investigated by the New York Police Department and the FBI. The talk show host and comedian had joked about Al Qaeda leaders killed in US attacks, reportedly prompting the Letterman threat.
-The Christian Science Monitor
Turkish jets hit Kurdish rebels again in northern Iraq
Turkish warplanes have hit rebel Kurdish bases in northern Iraq for the second night, the separatists and Turkish media say.
-BBC
Iran, Russia meet to discuss "step-by-step" nuclear proposal, S-300 missiles: lawmaker
A senior Iranian lawmaker said Wednesday that the objectives of Iranian and Russian officials' recent meeting is to discuss the Russians' "step-by-step" approach proposal to resolve Iran's nuclear stand-off and Iran-Russia's S- 300 missiles deal, the local Mehr news agency reported.
-English.xinhuanet.com
Internet jihadist calls on Muslims to cut off David Letterman's tongue
David Letterman has become terror target No. 1. The new threat comes from a frequent poster on Islamic jihadist forums, Umar al Basrawi, who implored American Muslims to "cut the tongue of this lowly Jew and shut it forever," according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, a non-profit that monitors online jihadists.
-New York Post
Brain-eating amoebas blamed in three deaths
It's eerie but it's true: Three people have died this summer after suffering rare infections from a waterborne amoeba that destroys the brain.
-CNN
New fighter jet to bolster Russian air force
Russia's new stealth fighter jet made its public debut Tuesday, according to state-run news source RIA Novosti.
-CNN
The Mennonite Rapes: In Bolivia, a Trial Tears Apart a Religious Community
Katarina Wall remembers little about the worst night of her life. She recalls waking up in her bed, seeing a man on top of her and feeling her arms too heavy to lift in resistance. The next thing she knew, it was morning — but her pajamas were torn, and the sheets beneath her and her sleeping husband were stained with blood from her vagina. "It was like a terrible dream," Wall, 36, tells TIME in her native Low German, weeping as she stands outside a courthouse in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
-Time
Tampa Student Arrested in Alleged School Bomb Plot
Tampa Police say they have thwarted a student's "catastrophic" plot to blow up a school on the first day of classes.
-FOX News
Cloudy Days for Solar—But the Sun Hasn't Quite Set
In some ways, the days are bright right now for solar power. The average price of solar modules has fallen 30% this year, continuing a steep reduction from the year before. New installations more than doubled last year, enough to make solar a $60 billion market. If you're in the market for rooftop solar panels for your home—or just want to see solar power better compete with electricity from fossil fuels—those are all good things.
-Time
Google maps out its master plan
Google's biggest deal in its 13-year history will transform it from a pure software company that operates the world's most widely used search engine into one that also makes smartphones and tablets.
-The Australian
France, Germany Propose 'True European Economic Government'
With the sovereign debt crisis deepening, the leaders of France and Germany announced that they would seek a "true European economic government" made up of all the heads of state of eurozone countries but led by European Union President Herman Van Rompuy.
-NPR
Lollapalooza band gets equipment back, says thanks with doughnuts
A band that played Lollapalooza hopes it won't be taken the wrong way, but they plan to send five dozen doughnuts to the detectives who helped recover about $80,000 worth of instruments and equipment stolen the day after the festival.
-Chicago Tribune
Galveston man bites woman's neck, claims to be vampire
A man claiming to be a vampire was in the Galveston County jail today after attacking a woman over the weekend.
-HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Normandy Beach Faces New Invasion ... Of Wind Turbines
The shores of Normandy were once invaded by Allied troops, but now face an invasion of wind turbines.
-FOX News
Dell cuts 2012 sales forecasts, shares dive
Dell Inc slashed its 2012 revenue forecast as the outlook for technology spending this year weakened, sending its shares more than 7 percent lower. The personal computer maker on Tuesday lowered its estimate for full-year revenue growth to just 1 to 5 percent, from 5 to 9 percent previously, adding that sales this quarter would likely stay flat.
-Chicago Tribune
Google agrees to acquire Motorola Mobility
In Google’s largest acquisition to date, the company announced Monday that it has agreed to acquire Motorola Mobility. The $12.5 billion deal will help the company bolster its leading Android platform.
-The Washington Post
Christie's courtship of business pays off in contributions
Since taking office last year, Gov. Chris Christie has aggressively wooed businesses by cutting red tape, boosting tax incentives, trimming taxes — and giving their leaders a front-row seat when discussing key policy decisions.
-nj.com
Terror group blocking aid to starving Somalis
The starvation of tens of thousands of people in Somalia — including 29,000 children — is being worsened by Islamist jihadists who are creating a catastrophe by blocking aid groups from getting food and and water to the suffering, according to interviews with aid groups, diplomats and experts.
-USA Today
Double-dippers swamp Hamilton County
Hamilton County employees are retiring in such large numbers that the county already has used up all of the $1.3 million set aside this year to cover pension costs. Almost half of that money has gone to employees who immediately returned to work and began collecting both a salary and a pension - a practice known as "double-dipping."
-cincinnati.com
Chinese military chief visits Israel for first time
After years of rocky relations, Israel welcomed China's military chief Sunday for the first such visit, giving the Jewish state an opportunity to increase its profile with the economic giant that is seeking to strengthen its foothold in the Middle East.
-USA Today
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