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President Obama Meets With Troops On Christmas Day At Hawaii Marine Corps Base
KANOEHE BAY, Hawaii (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and wife Michelle thanked U.S. troops for their service on Wednesday during a Christmas Day visit to Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kanoehe...
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Right-Wing South Africans Still Fear 'Racial Apocalypse' After Mandela's Death
In South Africa, right-wing prophesies that Nelson Mandela's death will be followed by a racial apocalypse refuse to be quashed by events.Ever since the mostly peaceful transition to majority rule in...
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WWII Veteran Known For Greeting Thousands Of Returning Troops Dead At 91
A veteran of World War II well-known for greeting thousands of troops leaving for or returning from war in the Middle East has died at the age of 91, Bangor Daily News reports.Bill Knight, a 32-year...
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Serena Williams Named AP's 'Athlete Of The Year' For Third Time
Serena Williams easily wins 2013 AP Female Athlete of Year honors; adds to '02, '09 AP awardsSerena Williams likes to make one thing clear: She is never satisfied, no matter how many matches and...
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A Visit To A Controversial War Shrine Has China And South Korea Furious At Japan
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited a shrine on Thursday that is seen by critics as a symbol of Tokyo's wartime aggression, infuriating China and South Korea and prompting a...
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China Is Pretty Sure That Its Economy Grew 7.6% This Year
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's economic growth is likely to come in at 7.6 percent this year, according to a cabinet report cited by the official Xinhua news agency, just above the government's target of...
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Turkey's Opposition Party Leaders Warn The Prime Minister Is Trying Rule...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's opposition accused scandal-hit Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday of trying to rule via a secretive "deep state", after a cabinet reshuffle that would tighten...
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The Right Way To Exercise Outside In The Winter
Nose dripping. Eyes watering. Cold air freezing your throat, filling your lungs and drifting from your mouth in the form of an exhausted little cloud. Exercise outside in the wintertime, and you’ll...
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Europe Is Closed, China Tumbled, Japan Hit A 6-Year High
Japan's Nikkei rallied 1.0% to 16,174, a six-year high.China's Shanghai Composite, however, tumbled 1.6% to 2,073 as investors continue to be nervous about potential credit market problems.European...
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Israel To Free Palestinian Prisoners And Build More Settlements
Israel will announce plans for new settlement construction next week, coinciding with the release of a third batch of Palestinian prisoners as part of peace talks, an official said on...
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Google And Apple Are Gearing Up For The Voice-Activated Smartphone Battle
Smartphones will be talking to their users and the tech giants Google and Apple are determined to have the edgeGoogle has predicted its dominant web search engine will mean it will beat Apple in the...
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22 Books You Must Read To Understand Finance
Winter is always a good time to stay in and catch up on a little finance reading.In case you missed them, we've compiled a list of 22 classic works that every Wall Streeter should read.These are the...
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ANALYST: Pickup Truck Sales Are Confirming US Small Business Confidence
ConvergEx Group chief market strategist Nick Colas believes the rise in sales of pickup trucks in the U.S. is one of the most important charts of the year."Demand for these vehicles is as pure a...
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A Complete US Withdrawal From Afghanistan Would Be 'A Complete Catastrophe'...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For years, U.S. officials have pointed to the improvements in the everyday lives of Afghans made possible by billions of dollars in aid from the United States and elsewhere.In...
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What It Takes To Be A Special Effects Engineer
Sanjay Bakshi has spent a lot of time with monsters. He knows precisely how their hair moves as they terrorise humans, how their eyeballs swivel when they sight their prey, and how their fangs gnash...
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Egypt's Former Ruling Party Is Now A 'Terrorist Organization'
CAIRO (Reuters) - The Egyptian government intensified its crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday, formally listing the group as a terrorist organization after accusing it of carrying out a...
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If You Want A Job At Twitter, Prepare To Answer This Baffling Question About...
Michael Kozakov is a computer science student at the University of Toronto, and he has also interned at Amazon. But a few weeks ago, he also applied to work at Twitter.Luckily for us, he wrote a blog...
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Head Of Japan's Second Largest Bank Stepping Down Over Mob Loans Scandal
TOKYO (Reuters) - Mizuho Financial Group <8411.T> chairman Takashi Tsukamoto will quit in March to take responsibility for a scandal over loans to organized crime, and the bank will restructure...
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10 Things In Tech You Need To Know This Morning
Good morning!If you celebrated Christmas yesterday, we hope you had a wonderful holiday. If not, we hope you had a wonderful Wednesday.It's December 26th and there's only a few days left of 2013, but...
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Here's How Mechanical Hearts Work
Last week a French company installed the first artificial heart that is designed to replace a real heart by mimicking natural rhythms with biological materials and sensors.The new heart, installed by...
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