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Google to acquire Frommer’s travel guidebooks

YoopyaAug 13, 20120

(Reuters) – Google Inc is buying the Frommer’s travel guidebooks, the Web search giant’s latest move to amass a trove of content that could help

Colombia indigenous leader killed in Cauca province

YoopyaAug 13, 20120

An indigenous spiritual leader has been killed in south-western Colombia amid mounting tension between his tribe and left-wing rebels. Lisandro Tenorio, a traditional healer of

South African platinum mine union riots ‘kill nine’

YoopyaAug 13, 20120

Nine people have been killed in clashes between rival unions at a South African mine owned by leading platinum producer Lonmin, police have said. The

Egypt president sweeps out army rulers

YoopyaAug 13, 20120

By Edmund Blair CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi has driven back the biggest challenge to civilian rule by dismissing top generals and tearing

Syria crisis: Rebels ‘shoot down’ warplane

YoopyaAug 13, 20120

Syrian rebels have produced footage of a man they claim is the captured pilot of a fighter jet that went down in the east of

Sudan court drops terrorism charge on US resident

YoopyaAug 13, 20120

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – A Sudanese court dropped charges of forming a terrorist organisation and released two men, one a U.S. resident, on Monday, in one

Sect: Nigeria forces killed civilians, not fighters

YoopyaAug 13, 20120

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – The Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram denied on Monday that 20 of its fighters had been killed in a raid by

Congo athlete and coaches go missing after Games

YoopyaAug 13, 20120

DAKAR (Reuters) – A Congolese judo competitor and three other members of the central African country’s Olympic delegation have gone missing in London since the

Conjunctivitis rules Italy’s Balotelli out against England

YoopyaAug 13, 20120

(Reuters) – Italy forward Mario Balotelli has withdrawn from manager Cesare Prandelli’s squad for Wednesday’s friendly against England due to conjunctivitis, the Italian football federation

No immediate lift for Romney from picking Ryan

YoopyaAug 13, 20120

(Reuters) – Republican Mitt Romney received no immediate boost to his White House bid by naming U.S. Representative Paul Ryan as vice presidential running mate,