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/ 14 February 2011
In a major Grammys upset, rock band Arcade Fire won the coveted album of the year on Sunday, helping reduce contender Eminem to also ran status.
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/ 13 February 2011
The South African Sevens rugby team scored a 19-14 victory over Australia in the early hours of Sunday morning.
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/ 13 February 2011
Punk pioneers the Ramones, British actress and singer Julie Andrews and jazz drummer Roy Haynes were among the stars who received Grammys on Saturday.
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/ 10 February 2011
Google and Facebook, plus others, have held low level takeover talks with Twitter that give the internet sensation a value as high as $10-billion.
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/ 10 February 2011
A suicide bomber killed up to 27 Pakistan army recruits at a parade ground on Thursday, an attack the Taliban said was vengeance for US drone strikes.
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/ 10 February 2011
US President Barack Obama will outline his plan on Thursday for expanding high speed wireless internet service to 98% of Americans.
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/ 9 February 2011
JP Morgan Chase said in a court filing on Tuesday that it had no legal obligation to figure out that the Ponzi king’s investment scheme was a fraud.
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/ 9 February 2011
Nokia wakes up to find itself on fire, a mobile app helps to save Catholics from said fire and New Yorkers try to find ways to monetise their sewage.
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/ 9 February 2011
A US study suggested early stage breast cancer patients who have a small amount of lymph node removed fare as well as those with extensive surgery.
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/ 9 February 2011
Tottenham Hotspur and David Beckham’s Los Angeles Galaxy are planning closer ties that could lead to players crossing the Atlantic in both directions.
Toyota scored a victory after its electronic throttle systems were cleared of blame for defects but it still needs to restore its reputation.
Donald Rumsfeld, defence secretary under George Bush, says that attempts to prosecute the ex-president are a misguided response to US public policy.
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/ 8 February 2011
Tura Satana — who gained cult status for her role in the 1965 Russ Meyer movie <i>Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!</i> — has died of heart failure.
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/ 8 February 2011
Tura Satana — who gained cult status for her role in <i>Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!</i> — died on Friday of heart failure. She was aged 72.
The United States said on Monday it will recognise South Sudan as the world’s newest nation as it moved to taking the north off a terrorism blacklist.
Activists vowed on Monday that former US president George Bush will face a torture case against him wherever he travels outside the United States.
US President Barack Obama said on Monday he wanted to lower the corporate tax rate and pay for it by eliminating tax loopholes.
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/ 7 February 2011
AOL has agreed to purchase the <em>Huffington Post</em> for $315-million, the United States internet company announced on Monday.
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/ 6 February 2011
British chef Jamie Oliver won’t be cooking another course of his reality TV show in Los Angeles schools after a filming permit was revoked.
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/ 5 February 2011
Sarah Palin said on Friday an explosion of government spending and debt under President Barack Obama had put the US on "the road to ruin".
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/ 5 February 2011
Hackers repeatedly entered the network of the company that runs the Nasdaq stock market in the past year, but the platform was not compromised.
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/ 4 February 2011
The Empire State Building announced it would meet all its electricity need with wind power.
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/ 4 February 2011
Global food prices tracked by a UN agency hit their highest level on record in January, a problem set to worsen after a massive snowstorm in the US.
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/ 3 February 2011
Injured South African photographer Joao Silva will try on his first pair of prosthetic legs in Washington on Monday, his friend Greg Marinovich said.
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/ 3 February 2011
A survey of oyster habitats around the world released on Thursday found that they are disappearing fast and 85% of their reefs have been lost.
Millions of Americans dug out from an epic winter storm on Wednesday that buried more than a third of the United States in drifting snow.
President Barack Obama’s Democratic allies in the US Senate on Wednesday defeated a Republican push to repeal his landmark healthcare overhaul.
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/ 3 February 2011
Former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld concludes in his new autobiography the war in Iraq has been worth the cost, a newspaper reports.
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/ 2 February 2011
Children aren’t the only ones being lavished with expensive birthday parties. Pet owners are also marking their dog’s special day with celebrations.
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/ 1 February 2011
News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch is to unveil <em>The Daily</em> on Wednesday, a digital newspaper for the iPad.
The White House energy and climate adviser is due to step down in the next few weeks, a departure seen as a collapse.
The trouble with being so good for so long is that it makes the bad times look even worse. Tiger Woods never looked worse at Torrey Pines.