| San Jose Mercury News - 7 minutes ago By Brandon Bailey and Mike Swift Google showed it's serious about its place in the mobile phone business Monday, announcing a $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility. |
| San Jose Mercury News - 1 hour ago Demonstrators angry over BART's cell phone blackout last week disrupted service at four busy San Francisco stations during the evening commute Monday, stranding thousands of passengers but causing no serious damage. |
| CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Monday broadly attacked the Federal Reserve, accusing the central banking system of manipulating currency for political gain. |
| Military forces loyal to Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi have fired a Scud missile for the first time in the country's six-month conflict, US defence officials say. |
| Chicago Tribune - 32 minutes ago By La Velle Neal III, Minneapolis Star-Tribune As the Twins finished off their 9-6 victory over the Tigers, Landon Thome held one of the most precious baseballs ever - his dad's. |
| People Magazine - 5 hours ago Her show has just been cancelled and her marriage crumbled in 2009, but Kate Gosselin doesn't seem to have regrets about her tumultuous past few years. |
| New York Times - 3 hours ago The Mar Afram Syriac Orthodox Church in Kirkuk, Iraq,was one of many targets of violence across the country on Monday. By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT BAGHDAD - A chilling series of fatal attacks across Iraq on Monday sent a disheartening message to the Iraqi ... |
| Thousands of Palestinian refugees have been forced to flee a camp in the Syrian port of Latakia amid shelling by government troops, the UN says. |
| Evening News and Tribune - 42 minutes ago BY MAUREEN HAYDEN CNHI INDIANAPOLIS - Thirty-six hours after she rushed toward victims trapped under a collapsed stage at the Indiana State Fair, nurse Joy Travis returned to the fairgrounds to say a prayer. |
| Chicago Sun-Times - 24 minutes ago Summer Camp students from Chatfield Public Schools try to help up US President Barack Obama after they posed for a picture in front of the school in Chatfield, Minnesota, August 15, 2011 during his three-day bus ... |
| Boston Herald - 1 hour ago PLYMOUTH, NH - Mitt Romney, now facing the prospect of a hard-charging Texas Gov. Rick Perry in the top tier of the GOP presidential pack, ramped up his campaign yesterday after spending much of the summer coasting on his front-runner ... |
| Los Angeles Times - 2 hours ago Hundreds gathered in Los Angeles on Monday night for a chance to address a federal task force that will propose changes to a controversial immigration enforcement program. |
| Bloomberg - 12 minutes ago A Qantas Airways Ltd. airplane takes off from Sydney domestic airport, in Sydney, Australia. Photographer: Ian Waldie/Bloomberg Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Sean Fenton, who helps manage about $1.1 billion at ... |
| Bloomberg - 7 hours ago Howard Schultz, president and chief executive officer of Starbucks Corp., speaks during the company's annual meeting in Seattle on March 23, 2011. |
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| Economic Times - 22 minutes ago BERLIN: There is no one whose thoughts officials in Europe would rather read than German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who meets Tuesday at the Elysee Palace with France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, as they struggle to find a lasting solution to the ... |
| Techtree.com - 1 hour ago Remember TabCo? The comany that promised to bring us the most innovative tablet has finally revealed its identity. Surprisingly, the company turned out to be Fusion Garage (FG). |
| Reuters - 35 minutes ago SAN FRANCISCO, August 15 (Reuters) - A contract at the heart of a lawsuit seeking half ownership of Facebook does not mention the social networking giant and has nothing to do with it, Facebook said in a court filing. |
| Entertainment Weekly - 21 minutes ago Week two, season two, rose lovers, and all is right with the world -- Brenchel is back together on Big Brother, the Red Sox are in first place (at press time, that is), and season two of Bachelor Pad is a ... |
| AceShowbiz - 3 hours ago When speaking candidly about sexuality in a recent magazine interview, the Maroon 5 singer also slams 'American Idol' which he believes pushes contestants to stay in the closet if they're gay. |
| USA Today - 5 hours ago Flying back to America from Bulgaria, where he had just filmed the new Conan the Barbarian movie, director Marcus Nispel was stopped by a customs agent and asked to declare just one thing: Who is the new Conan? |
| USA Today - 37 minutes ago Rick Rypien was found dead in his home on Aug. 15. He was a popular fourth-line center in his six seasons with the Vancouver Canucks for his willingness to drop the gloves, even against bigger players. |
| New York Times - 39 minutes ago By AP HOUSTON (AP) - The Jets overcame seven sacks to put themselves in position to win their preseason opener against the Houston Texans on Monday night, only to have a potential winning pass slip through a receiver's fingers in the end zone. |
| NCAA president Mark Emmert won't stand in the way of Texas A&M jumping to the SEC. AP AUSTIN, Texas -- The 2011 conference realignment tilt-a-whirl produced three distinct headlines Monday. |
| A standout pitcher, outfielder and quarterback at Gardner Edgerton High just outside Kansas City, Starling would have had to wait three years before being drafted again if he declined to sign with his hometown team. |
| Boston Globe - 1 hour ago Radioactive sulfur from the damaged Japanese nuclear plant spiked in March, according to researchers. (Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Ap) Associated Press / August 16, 2011 WASHINGTON - A spike in radioactive sulfur from the damaged Japanese nuclear ... |
| International Business Times - 3 hours ago Tropical plants, long thought to greatly reduce the man-induced increase in global carbon dioxide levels, may not have such a big net reduction effect after all. |
| The first global camera-trap survey of mammals, carried out by the Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network (Team) at Conservation International, has recorded rare glimpses of 105 species, including this image of the elusive jaguar captured ... |
| International Business Times - 50 minutes ago By IB Times Staff Reporter | Aug 16, 2011 12:44 AM EDT The annual Perseid meteor shower was observed around the world by the sky-watchers on Friday night and Saturday morning despite the full moon light, which is called 'Grain Moon' or 'Green Corn ... |
| Los Angeles Times - 9 hours ago Viruses are tricky for a host of reasons: There are many different types, so a drug that fights one may not fight another. They use our cells' own machinery to replicate, so often drugs that would fight them would be toxic to our bodies. |
| New York Times - 12 hours ago Picture This: Cancer: Understanding how cancer begins and then grows is fundamental to one day preventing the disease. Here, we explain three new theories for how cancer may form. |
| Just 15 minutes of exercise a day can boost life expectancy by three years and cut death risk by 14%, research from Taiwan suggests. |
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