There is a minor victory today for those opposed to the Anti-Counterfeiting trade Agreement, or ACTA. ACTA has been referred to by many as SOPA’s bigger, meaner brother. The European Union has suspended the ratification of ACTA and referred it to the Court of Justice. The European Commission decided today “to ask the European Court [...]
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If one didn’t know better, one would almost certainly think that something huge was about to happen in the world of banking and finance. Over the past few weeks, a slew of high-level resignations have occurred around the world. On Wednesday, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said he would be stepping down, raising the possibility [...]
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Here are your top stories for this Saturday, February 18, 2012: – ICE agent dies after shooting at another agent – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony Shadid dies in Syria – German president Christian Wulff steps down – Pilot under drug probe
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Here are your top stories for this Thursday, January 12, 2012: – Mitt Romney attacked by Republican rivals – U.S. says it had no role in deadly Iran bombing – Joran Van Der Sloot enters guilty plea in Peru murder case – Germany tosses out old Christmas trees
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Here’s some unusual footage that was captured in Germany just a couple of days ago. In the video below, someone with a video camera captures not one, but three UFOs hovering in the skies over Germany. As two girls pass by, they ask what the man is filming. When he tells them that there are [...]
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Something big is about to happen right at the center of our own galaxy. The normally tranquil region surrounding the massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is being breached by a giant gas cloud that is destined to be ripped, shredded, and devoured. Many galaxies have a massive black hole at [...]
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Here are your top stories for this Tuesday, December 6, 2011: – Barack Obama seeking payroll tax cut extension – U.S. Postal Service says mail delivery slowing down – France and Germany want euro changes – Elderly passenger says she was strip searched by TSA
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A cleaning lady made a monumental mistake this week when she accidentally destroyed a piece of art worth more than $1 million. The cleaning person removed what she thought was a “stain” from the piece, but it wasn’t really a stain. The piece of art, titled “When It Starts Dripping From The Ceilings”, features a [...]
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To celebrate the end of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, one soldier stationed in Germany decided to call his dad in Alabama and tell him the hardest thing anyone may ever have to tell a parent, that he’s gay. The soldier, known only as AreYouSuprised, has been running a YouTube page and a Twitter account where he frequently discusses being [...]
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Astronomers on Monday announced the discovery of 50 new planets circling stars far beyond our own sun, including one so-called “Super-Earth” that is the right distance from its star to possibly have water. “If we are really, really lucky, this planet could be a habitat” like Earth, said Lisa Kaltenegger of the Max Planck Institute [...]
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