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cybernanga writes "A group of researchers in South Africa has developed a filter that can purify water straight from the bottle. The filter sits inside a tube fitted on top of a bottle and purifies water as it is poured on a cup. From the article: 'The designer behind the filter, Dr Eugene Cloete, from the Stellenbosch University in South Africa, says the filter is only as big as an ordinary tea bag. He says the product is cost-effective and easy to use. "We are coming in here at the fraction of the cost of anything else that is currently on the market," says Dr Cloete on BBC World Service.'"

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msnbc.com
Weakened Eta declares ceasefire
Financial Times
Eta, the violent Basque separatist group, on Sunday announced it had ceased “armed attacks” and was ready to negotiate and take part in democracy to achieve independence for the Basque country that straddles the ...
Basque separatist group announces ceasefireCNN International
Factbox: Key facts about Basque separatist group ETAReuters
Basque separatist group Eta 'declares ceasefire'BBC News
The Guardian -UPI.com -AHN | All Headline News
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Sky News
Vatican: stoning in Iran adultery case 'brutal'
The Associated Press
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican raised the possibility Sunday of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to save the life of an Iranian widow sentenced to be stoned for adultery. In its first public statement on the case, which has attracted worldwide ...
Vatican says in touch with Iran over stoning caseAFP
Iran Stoning Woman 'Faces 99 Lashes'Sky News
Vatican closely following Iran stoning caseReuters Africa
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty -CNN -UPI.com
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The Hindu
Barak: Israel unlikely to extend current settlement curbs
Jerusalem Post
By AP Defense Minister says he does not believe the freeze will be canceled entirely, leaves option for compromise with Palestinians to continue talks, Abbas threatens to leave negotiations if freeze expired. JERUSALEM — A slowdown in West Bank ...
Israeli PM Says Conditions Ripe for PeaceVoice of America
Barak: Israel unlikely to extend current settlement freezeHa'aretz
Israel's Netanyahu offers regular talks with AbbasCNN
The Associated Press -The Australian -Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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The Guardian
Barak: Israel unlikely to extend current settlement curbs
Jerusalem Post
By AP Defense Minister says he does not believe the freeze will be canceled entirely, leaves option for compromise with Palestinians to continue talks, Abbas threatens to leave negotiations if freeze expired. JERUSALEM — A slowdown in West Bank ...
Israeli PM Says Conditions Ripe for PeaceVoice of America
Barak: Israel unlikely to extend current settlement freezeHa'aretz
Israel's Netanyahu offers regular talks with AbbasCNN
Ynetnews -The Australian -The Associated Press
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Telegraph.co.uk
Report: Iran pays $1000 for each US soldier killed by the Taliban
msnbc.com
Iran is paying Taliban fighters $1000 for each US soldier they kill in Afghanistan, according to a report in a British newspaper. The Sunday Times described how a man it said was a "Taliban treasurer" had gone to collect $18000 from an Iranian firm in ...
Taliban threaten to attack Afghan polling stationsThe Associated Press
Taliban paid bounties for killsThe Australian
Report: Tehran pays Taliban for every US casualtyYnetnews
Reuters -New York Times -The Guardian
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The Hindu
New Zealand Earthquake Reconstruction Likely to Cost About $1.4 Billion
Bloomberg
The South Island city of Christchurch was placed under a state of emergency after the quake struck on Sept. 4. Photographer: Joseph Johnson/Getty Images New Zealand faces a NZ$2 billion ...
New Zealand Quake Damage Could Cost $1.4 BillionWall Street Journal
NZ cleans up after quake that tore new fault lineDenver Post
New Zealand region nervous after powerful quakeCNN International
Stuff.co.nz -Reuters -Voice of America
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theodp writes "Network analysis uses data about your social network interactions to make assumptions and predictions about your behavior. The Economist notes the upside for companies looking to sell products. But don't forget about the downside, warns Adrian Chen, of living in a world where network analysis is used by financial firms to determine risky borrowers by looking at social ties, or by Internet businesses to determine which customers are more equal than others (nice to see Microsoft's back on the forefront of some tech!). So, did Mom envision Social Network Analytics when she gave you that you-are-the-company-you-keep lecture?"

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FOXNews
Republican New School Flexes Clout Ahead of November
FOXNews
July 31: House Minority Whip Rep. Eric Cantor presents US Senate candidate Marco Rubio during Rubio's campaign event in Fort Lauderdale. Democrats aren't the only incumbents in trouble this November. With a crop of feisty, fresh-faced ...
Speaker-in-waiting Boehner balances GOP factionsThe Associated Press
NC campaign season revs with GOP optimism brimmingCharlotte Observer
Democrats Plan Political Triage to Retain HouseNew York Times
Boston Globe -Detroit Free Press -International Business Times
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New York Daily News
JetBlue: Flight attendant's big exit was for good
WALA-TV FOX10
JetBlue Airways says that there will be no second exits for famed flight attendant Steven Slater — who captured the nation's imagination with his profanity-laced loudspeaker tirade and jump down a plane's emergency chute, beer in hand. ...
JetBlue Attendant Loses JobWBKO
Flight attendant, JetBlue say farewellCNN (blog)
Flight attendant's big exit was for goodThe Age
IndyPosted -New York Daily News -Online Athens
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Stuff.co.nz
Suicide Bombers Target Baghdad Recruitment Center
Voice of America
At least two suicide bombers attacked a military recruiting center in Baghdad Sunday, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 20. Iraqi military officials say the first suicide bomber detonated a minibus packed with explosives near the ...
At Least 7 Dead in Baghdad AttackNew York Times
Suicide car bomb explodes in Baghdad kills 8The Associated Press
Iraqi soldiers, civilians killed in attack on military baseCNN International
Wall Street Journal -Xinhua -AFP
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theodp writes "In this article Vivek Wadhwa laments that short shrift is paid to management training these days at many high-tech firms. You can't be born with the skills needed to plan projects, adhere to EEOC guidelines, prepare budgets and manage finances, or to know the intricacies of business and IP law, says Wadhwa. All this has to be learned. Stepping up to address the problems of 'engineering without leadership,' which may include morale problems, missed deadlines, customer-support disasters, and high turnover, are programs like UC Berkeley's Engineering Leadership Program and Duke's Masters of Engineering Management Program, which aim to teach product management, entrepreneurial thinking, leadership, finance, team building, business management, and motivation to techies."

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Telegraph.co.uk
A new blowout preventer has been placed on the capped well
CNN
(CNN) -- A blowout preventer that may hold important forensic evidence as to why it failed, triggering the world's largest accidental oil spill, has been brought to the surface of the Gulf and placed on a vessel, officials said Saturday night. ...
Key oil spill evidence raised to Gulf's surfaceThe Associated Press
BP hikes asset sale target after oil spill: reportAFP
Damaged blowout preventer raised to Gulf surfaceUSA Today
Voice of America -New York Times -Reuters
all 1,844 news articles »

The Guardian
Netanyahu to cabinet: We must learn lessons from the past
Jerusalem Post
By JPOST.COM STAFF PM debriefs ministers on direct talks meetings in Washington; says "creative thinking" is key for progress in peace talks with Palestinians. Creative thinking and original solutions are key to the success of the peace process and the ...
Barak: Israel unlikely to extend current settlement freezeHa'aretz
Israel's Netanyahu offers regular talks with AbbasCNN
Israel unlikely to extend current settlement curbsThe Associated Press
Xinhua -Jewish Telegraphic Agency -BBC News
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Telegraph.co.uk
Key oil spill evidence raised to Gulf's surface
The Associated Press
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — Investigators looking into what went wrong in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are a step closer to answers now that a key piece of evidence is secure aboard a ship. Engineers took 29 1/2 hours to lift the 50-foot, 300-ton blowout ...
New blowout preventer placed on Gulf wellCNN
Damaged blowout preventer raised to Gulf surfaceUSA Today
BP oil well declared to be no longer a threat to gulfLos Angeles Times
Bloomberg -AFP -Reuters
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Telegraph.co.uk
'Don't give up,' plane crash survivors tell trapped miners
CNN International
Uruguayan survivors of an aircraft that crashed in the Andes in 1972 stand with relatives of the trapped miners. Copiapo, Chile (CNN) -- For months, the men waited in isolation, struggling to survive. They forced themselves to eat the flesh of dead ...
Relatives describe emotions as they awaited news of Chilean minersCNN
At Chile mine, help comes in many formsLos Angeles Times
Crash survivors back Chile minersBBC News
New York Daily News -The Hindu -UK Today News
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jamie passes along this excerpt from DiscoveryNews: "f you thought the geysers and overblown threat of a supervolcanic eruption in Yellowstone National Park were dramatic, you ain't seen nothing: deep beneath Earth's surface, the hot spot that feeds the park has torn an entire tectonic plate in half. The revelation comes from a new study (abstract) in the journal Geophysical Research Letters that peered into the mantle beneath the Pacific Northwest to see what happens when ancient ocean crust from the Pacific Ocean runs headlong into a churning plume of ultra-hot mantle material."

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CBC.ca
Troubled Afghan bank faces another day of queues
AFP
KABUL — Customers of Afghanistan's biggest bank queued again Sunday in the hope of withdrawing their savings, though lines were shorter days after corruption allegations appeared in US newspapers. Security appeared to have been stepped up at the head ...
Ex-bank executives say their dismissals caused panic withdrawals in KabulWashington Post
Afghans pull money from major bankAljazeera.net
Long lines at troubled Kabul BankBBC News
The Associated Press -CNN -Wall Street Journal
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Daily Mail
Buinaksk bombing shows militants still have powers - Dagestan's president
RIA Novosti
MAKHACHKALA, September 5 (RIA Novosti) - The suicide bombing in the North Caucasus city of Buinaksk has shown that militants in the region still have powers for attacks, Dagestan's President Magomedsalam Magomedov said. "The republic's law enforcement ...
Suicide bomber targets Russian military unitCNN
Dagestan car bombing kills fiveBBC News
5 killed, 39 injured in Dagestan suicide bombingAFP
RFI -Bloomberg -One News Page
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Kansas City Star
'Hamas may accept a peace agreement with Israel'
Jerusalem Post
Palestinian negotiator Erekat says that if "core issues" are resolved during direct talks, the group could be willing to cooperate." Hamas may be willing to accept a peace deal with Israel should the ...
One dead in Israeli raids on GazaBBC News
Palestinians: Endgame peace deal could bring Hamas-ruled Gaza back into the foldHa'aretz
At least one Palestinian killed in Israel's raid on Gaza tunnelsMonsters and Critics.com
The Associated Press -NewsyStocks.com -Aljazeera.net
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