Foreign Policy
Ban's gloomy report on Syrian observer mission
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon informed the U.N.
Security Council on Friday afternoon that the U.N. monitoring mission in Syria will be up to full
strength next week, but that Syrian forces continue to shell Syrian towns and
that "most elements" of the U.N. six-point peace plan have yet to be
implemented.
In a 13-page report to the U.N. Security Council, Ban said
that the U.N. in...
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perez hilton
Alec Baldwin Thinks Harvey Weinstein Is 'A F***ing Douche Bag'
Alec Baldwin doesn't hold back!
The actor is FURIOUS at Hollywood heavyweight Harvey Weinstein because he refused to participate in a documentary about film financing that he's currently shooting at the Cannes Film Festival.
Alec arrived at the Calvin Klein IFP party on May 17 with fiancée Hilaria Thomas and immediately started bashing the Oscar-winning [...]
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AllThingsDigital
Security Firm AnchorFree Lands $52 Million From Goldman Sachs
AnchorFree, maker of a popular VPN application, raises some serious capital.
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TechCrunch
Happy Mother’s Day: Punchbowl Partners With Amazon For Digital Gift Cards
When party-planning service Punchbowl expanded into digital greeting cards last fall, it emphasized creating a beautiful experience, just as it did with its party invitations. But CEO Matt Douglas says that for some users, a key piece was still missing — you often don't just want to send a card, but a gift too.
That's where the company's new integration with Amazon.com comes in. Punchbowl is n...
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ElPais
Revolució a la rereguarda
Els 75 anys dels Fets de Maig generen nova bibliografia sobre la Guerra Civil
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Huffington Post
'The Voice' Season 2: 12 Most Memorable, Shocking, Envelope-Pushing Moments (VIDEO)
Everyone wants to compare NBC's "The Voice" and Fox's "American Idol," but we think it's no contest. Sure, they're both singing competitions with notable judges, huge talent and even bigger weekly ratings, but that's about where the similarities end. "The Voice" Season 2 proved that the show isn't just a flash in the pan; this singing competition is in the business of entertaining viewers. "Ido...
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physorg
Record for Swedish Crown Princess Victoria
Political leaders such as Barack Obama and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt may be popular among Swedes. However, they are not as popular as Swedish Crown Princess Victoria, according to the results of the latest SOM survey - University of Gothenburg, Sweden - which were presented Tuesday during the seminar Focus on the Leaders.
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Goal.com
"Som i serem", el lema del Camp Nou en un impresionante mosaico
Ambiente impresionante en el coliseo catalán para recibir este Clásico entre Real Madrid y Barcelona
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BoingBoing
Cigar Box Guitars book photo gallery
Here's a gallery of photos from David Sutton's new book: Cigar Box Guitars: The Ultimate DIY Guide for the Makers and Players of the Handmade Music Revolution. (David kindly invited me to write the forward to the book.) Part DIY guide, part scrapbook – this book takes you behind the music to get a glimpse [...]
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The Guardian
Anti-gay adverts on London buses blocked by Boris Johnson
Mayor steps in to stop London buses carrying Christian group's 'offensive' ads that claim therapy can stop people being gayBoris Johnson, the Conservative mayor, has pulled an "offensive" Christian campaign advertising "gay conversion" which was due to appear on London's buses next week.Revelations that adverts asserting the power of therapy to change the sexual orientation of gay people were d...
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science blogs
Kommentar von Aladin bei "Dies und das - Teil I" (Primaklima) am 10.04.2012
@Vennecke
Tu doch nicht so,m als würdest Du ein Wort von dem verstehen, was Du da verlinkt hast.
Denn würdest Du, hättest Du nicht.
:-)
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Daily Mail
From a fluffy-tailed Mulberry to floral Prabal Gurung, top fashion designers reinvent the Easter Bunny
In an effort to bring the holiday's symbolic fluffy-eared critter to life, designers including Mulberry, Prabal Gurung and Peter Som have delivered their own quirky and often adorable interpretations of the fictitious animal.
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Goal.com
SOM - Le président de la Fédération assassiné
Le président de la fédération somalienne de football, Saïd Mahmoud Nour, a péri ce mercredi dans un attentant suicide.
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Som Seif formally announces BlackRock exit
But said hes young and will eventually get back in the game
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Scientific American
Anthropologists love Scientific American
In its 166+ year history, Scientific American has changed and evolved in different directions many times. There were periods when it was a densely-packed, jargony, almost unreadable publication aiming for a small niche of super-geek readers, and there were periods (like the last couple of decades, fortunately for all of us) when the magazine went back to its original mission of being a premie...
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Los Angeles Times
R. Kelly set to revisit 'Trapped In the Closet'
Ready for more salacious drama, singsong monologues and hilarious antics from Sylvester, Twan and Pimp Lucius? Good, because Grammy-winning R&B king R. Kelly is finally revisiting his cult classic “Trapped in the Closet.”
The singer’s campy hip-hopera originally began as a five-video series to accompany the melodramatic segment of songs on his 2005 disc, “TP.3 Reloaded.” Fan demand made th...
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Barrons
Mobile World Congress: A Roundup of Roundups
Because you can never hear too much about the Mobile World Congress telecom show in Barcelona, Spain from the Street, herewith some wrap-ups from some folks who were there the last few days: Nomura Equity Research’s Stuart Jeffrey writes that the biggest talk at the show was what Samsung Electronics‘s (005930KS) will offer up in [...]
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Mashable
WikiLeaks Release Shows U.S. May Charge Julian Assange [REPORT]
Nestled in Monday’s WikiLeaks cache of 5 million emails from security company Stratfor was a nugget of particular importance to the secret…
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Hoy
Miles de personas vuelven a la calle en Valencia
Miles de personas se han manifestando en la tarde de este miércoles contra los recortes educativos y la actuación policial, después de las últimas protestas estudiantiles llevadas a cabo en Valencia que se han saldado con decenas de detenidos, tras una pancarta portada por jóvenes con el lema 'Som el poble, no l'enemic' (Somos el pueblo no el enemigo), en presencia de tres furgones de la Policí...
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science blogs
CAM, placebos, and the new paternalism [Respectful Insolence]
Three and a half years ago, I bought a new car. The reason why I mention this as a means of beginning this post is because that car had something I had never had in a car before, namely Sirius XM satellite radio preinstalled. Curious, I subscribed, and I now barely listen to regular radio anymore. A couple of years after I had bought the car, a new channel was added to the lineup, a channel cal...
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National Post
Secret U.S.-Taliban talks may see Guantanamo prisoners given to Afghanistan
After 10 months of secret dialogue with Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents, senior U.S. officials say the talks have reached a critical juncture and they will soon know whether a breakthrough is possible, leading to peace talks whose ultimate goal is to end the Afghan war.
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siliconindia
World Getting Tougher for IT Industry: Som Mittal
Given the global economic scenario and the drop in India's GDP growth, the Indian IT industry needs to observe the situation carefully and reflect upon the kind of work it is doing, Nasscom President Som Mittal said.
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Video: Are ETFs being unfairly criticized?
Claymore's Som Seif on why investor education is important
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Hoy
LAS FAMILIAS DE LAS VÍCTIMAS 300, una cifra incómoda
Capilla ardiente en el Palacio de la Almudaina. Ante los dos féretros, y desde la sima de su dolor, Antonio Salvá ya supo que la justicia era la exigencia irrenunciable. ¿Perdón? ¿Reconocimiento del daño causado? ¿Por parte de quién, cómo y para qué? Las palabras pueden ser una impostura, no tienen consistencia; las sentencias, sí. El padre del joven guardia civil Diego Salvá miró los ataúdes d...
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DieZeit
Volleyball: Olympia-Traum lebt: DVV-Frauen besiegen Serbien
Toyama (dpa) - EM-Revanche geglückt, Olympia-Traum intakt: Mit einem Sieg im Fünf-Satz-Krimi gegen Europameister Serbien haben die deutschen Volleyball-Frauen beim Weltcup in Japan das Tor zu den Som...
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