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Microsoft takes $6.2 billion charge, slows Internet hopes

YoopyaJuly 3, 2012

by YoopyaJuly 3, 20120

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp admitted its largest acquisition in the Internet sector was effectively worthless and wiped out any profit for the last quarter, as

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Syria army presses rebels; Assad regrets shootdown

YoopyaJuly 3, 2012

by YoopyaJuly 3, 20120

(Reuters) – The Syrian army pressed its offensive against rebels on Tuesday, bombarding the suburban Damascus city of Douma, while President Bashar al-Assad said he

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Exclusive: U.S. probes Chesapeake, rival over possible collusion

YoopyaJuly 3, 2012

by YoopyaJuly 3, 20120

(Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is probing Chesapeake Energy Corp and Encana Corp for possible collusion after a Reuters report showed that top executives

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Special Report: Crisis forces “dismal science” to get real

YoopyaJuly 3, 2012

by YoopyaJuly 3, 20120

(Reuters) – As economics teachers struggle to make sense of a post-crisis world, they may have an unlikely army of helpers: ants. In September 2008,

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Insight: Under siege: “Stop and frisk” polarizes New York

YoopyaJuly 3, 2012

by YoopyaJuly 3, 20120

(Reuters) – Telly Hudgins has been stopped and frisked by the police too many times to count in the Brownsville, New York, public housing project

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Insight: Voice of Mumbai attacks points finger at Pakistan

YoopyaJuly 3, 2012

by YoopyaJuly 3, 20120

(Reuters) – Forty-eight hours into the bloody assault on Mumbai in November 2008, smoke was billowing from the wreckage of the Taj Mahal hotel and

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Insight: Florida man sees “cruel” face of U.S. justice

YoopyaJuly 3, 2012

by YoopyaJuly 3, 20120

(Reuters) – Quartavious Davis is still shocked by what happened to him in federal court two months ago. “My first offense, and they gave me

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Best evidence yet found for “God particle:” U.S. physicists

YoopyaJuly 3, 2012

by YoopyaJuly 3, 20120

(Reuters) – Physicists at a U.S. laboratory said on Monday they have come tantalizingly close to proving the existence of the elusive subatomic Higgs boson

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Islamists destroy cultural sites in Timbuktu, Mali

kiemtarJuly 2, 2012July 2, 2012

by kiemtarJuly 2, 2012July 2, 20120

ISLAMIST rebels say they will continue to destroy historic sites in Mali’s northern city of Timbuktu before they implement strict Shariah law, as Mali’s government

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Peaceful transition in Syria a far cry

kiemtarJuly 2, 2012

by kiemtarJuly 2, 20120

Russian and Chinese officials insist Syrians alone must decide. Beirut: As the Syrian killing fields swelled, representatives of the major powers met in Geneva on