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Japan Court Rejects Samsung Patent Claim Against Apple
A Japanese court Thursday rejected a claim by Samsung that Apple stole its technology, in the latest round of a global legal battle between the smartphone giants over patents.The Tokyo District Court...
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Eight-Year-Old Girl Filmed Driving 60 MPH On Icy Road In Russia
Police are investigating after a video emerged of an eight-year-old girl driving a car at 60mph on a snowy road as her parents look on from the passenger seats.Police in St Petersburg have begun an...
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Here's What Apple Shareholders Thought Of Tim Cook's Performance Yesterday
(Reuters) - Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday acknowledged widespread disappointment in the company's sagging share price but shared few details about its secretive product pipeline and touched only...
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Chinese Boss Orders Employees To Do His 12-Year-Old Daughter's Homework
A Chinese boss ordered nine employees to do his 12-year-old daughter's homework, a report said, as office tyranny meshed with a parent's desire to see his child score well in the competitive school...
View ArticleThe Utter Fragility Of The Eurozone: Even Democracy Is A Threat
“I’m appalled that two clowns have won,” said Peer Steinbrück about the Italian election, referring to former comedian, now hot politician, Beppe Grillo, head of the 5 Star movement, and former Prime...
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Gay Marriage Lawyers Are Writing A 'Dramatic' Book About Their Supreme Court...
NEW YORK (AP) — The bipartisan legal team leading the fight for gay marriage has a book deal.Democrat David Boies and Republican Theodore B. Olson have signed with Viking for "A Just Cause: Law, Love,...
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Indonesian Mother Kills 9-Year-Old Son Over 'Small Penis'
An Indonesian woman drowned her nine-year-old son in the bath, claiming she was worried that his "small penis" would affect his prospects for the future, a police spokesman said Thursday.The...
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Obama And Congressional Leaders Have One Big Final Meeting Before The...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A fiscal deadline all but blown, President Barack Obama says he once again wants to seek a big fiscal deal that would raise taxes and trim billions from expensive and ever growing...
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Judge Crushes New Jersey's Dreams Of Legalizing Sports Betting
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A federal judge upheld a 21-year-old law prohibiting sports betting in all but four states, dealing a setback to New Jersey's attempts to revive its struggling casino industry by...
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Massive Gun Profits Make Firearms Nearly Impossible To Control [INFOGRAPHIC]
It’s all “Guns ‘N Roses” for the multi-billion dollar firearms industry, still blossoming in the United States. With strong lobbies, like the National Rifle Association, guns ‘n ammo are big business...
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The Most Famous Part Of The Berlin Wall May Get Demolished To Build Condos
Worldcrunch is a new global news service that for the first time delivers the best foreign-language journalism in English.BERLIN - "Tear down this wall!" Ronald Reagan famously implored in Berlin in...
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Broke Public Pensions Are Splurging On A Big Conference In Hawaii
That state and local government pension funds are going broke isn’t a new problem. That it’s much worse than reported by those pension funds isn’t a new problem either.Last June, when Moody’s Investors...
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Gatwick Airport Officials Stopped A Man Carrying Nearly 210 Pounds Of...
British border officials have seized 94 kilogrammes (207 pounds) of dried caterpillars from a man who claimed they were "for personal consumption", the Home Office said.Officials at Gatwick Airport,...
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China's Government-Run Auction House Is Unstoppable
Editor's note: This is part of GlobalPost's two-part series about China's Poly Group. Read Part 2 about Poly's powerful art auction house.TAIPEI, Taiwan — In Huang Hung-jen’s plush office in old-money...
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These Are The Best Tax Breaks For Retirement Savers
The federal government encourages saving for retirement by giving tax breaks to people who save in specific ways. There are several types of tax perks for retirement savers, each with special rules and...
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New York Man Charged With Chopping Up His Mother
A New York man was charged Thursday with stabbing his mother, then chopping her into small pieces, prosecutors said.Bashid McLean, 23, was charged with murder and attempting to cover up the crime by...
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9 Reasons You Should Care About The Sequester
For most of the past two months, politicians and pundits have predicted that, like the government's previous artificial fiscal disasters, sequestration was going to be resolved at the last minute. But...
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These 10 Airports Are Redefining How We Travel
Traveling is super fun. What isn't? The airport. Airports are awkward pauses that delay adventures. Yet, they're essential.More than four-fifths of U.S. citizens have flown on a commercial airplane,...
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10 Asian Hotels With Captivating Views
Legendary travel stories usually come with a heaping serving of blood, sweat and tears: miles traveled, discomforts withstood, challenges endured. Effort is rewarded, expenditure recompensed.For some...
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Rare Sharks Found In Australian Waters For The First Time
A rare shark couple found for the first time off the coast of Australia may force a rethink of the species' range.Two years ago, a sport fisherman caught a pair of rare sharks off Rottnest Island in...
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