Corbella: Layton's Amateur Hour show sure to entertain

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Calgary Herald - Licia Corbella - ‎1 hour ago‎
NDP Leader Jack Layton used to preside over just a side show; now that he's presiding over Her Majesty's loyal Opposition, he's the backup act and the spotlight will be on him and his MPs more than ever before, ...
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Elephants should leave Toronto Zoo, report advises

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Globe and Mail - Patrick White - ‎27 minutes ago‎
In the flesh, the Toronto Zoo's elephants are grey, but a new report paints them white. The paper, written by zoo staff for a board meeting next week, backs the controversial idea of shipping the zoo's three elderly elephants - Iringa, Toka and Thika ...
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Mounties involved in Dziekanski death face perjury charges

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The Canadian Press - James Keller - ‎30 minutes ago‎
VANCOUVER - The four Mounties who confronted Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver's airport and repeatedly stunned him with a Taser, later telling a public inquiry they were afraid the Polish immigrant was about to attack them with a stapler, ...
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Richelieu flood victims promised federal help

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CBC.ca - ‎4 hours ago‎
(Note:CBC does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of external links.) Federal Natural Resources Minister Christian Paradis has promised federal support for flood victims while touring the Richelieu River valley, hours after the province ...
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Sri Lanka coach calls for IPL window

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AFP - Mel Gunasekera - ‎11 hours ago‎
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka's interim coach Stuart Law on Friday said cricket administrators should schedule a window for Indian Premier League fixtures to stop players choosing club over country. Law, who has stepped in to fill the job left by outgoing coach ...
Law calls for IPL window SkySports

Darusman Report tarnishes Lanka's image - Army Commander

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Ceylon Daily News - Sri Abeyratne - ‎6 hours ago‎
Army Commander Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya said that the controversial Darusman Report ruins and tarnishes the image of Sri Lanka since it is biased and incorrect. The Army Commander was addressing Army personnel at the Welikanda Security ...
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Australia accepts as Sri Lanka's ambassador third accused war criminal

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TamilNet - ‎27 minutes ago‎
Australia has accepted as Sri Lanka's High Commissioner former Navy commander Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe, according to some press reports. Admiral Samarasinghe was commander of the Navy during the final phase of Sri Lanka's war, including the final ...
Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe appointed as the High Commissioner to Australia Asian Tribune

Umpires appointed for impending Sri Lanka tour

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Keith Prowse - ‎8 hours ago‎
Cricket hospitality guests may have heard that the men charged with ensuring the impending matches between England and Sri Lanka run smoothly have been named. The England and Wales Cricket Board (EBC) yesterday (May 4th 2011) revealed the three umpires ...
Strauss vows to remain in charge for next two Ashes series The Independent

Help Is On The Way For European PSN Customers

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Escapist Magazine - ‎6 hours ago‎
Sony is working on an identity theft protection plan for its European customers similar to the one announced for the US but says the process is taking longer because of all the individual countries involved. PlayStation Network users in the US got some ...
Free Games Offered as a PSN Welcome Back in Europe 1UP.com

Payrolls data drive European shares higher

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Reuters - Joanne Frearson, Will Waterman - ‎8 hours ago‎
LONDON (Reuters) - European shares rallied on Friday after better-than-expected April US nonfarm payroll data improved investor confidence about the recovery and fund managers tipped equities for further progress. ...
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Ministers Meet to Study Fixes on Greek Debt

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New York Times - Stephen Castle, Landon Thomas Jr - ‎1 hour ago‎
New moves to prevent the huge burden of Greek debt from overwhelming the country's economy were discussed Friday during an unannounced meeting of a small group of European finance ministers, including those from ...
Video: Media report sparks Greek euro exit fear euronews
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European telecoms groups feel the pain

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Financial Times - Andrew Parker - ‎8 hours ago‎
Leading European telecoms companies provided a batch of disappointing results on Friday, underlining how they are getting hurt by economic, competitive and regulatory pressures. Deutsche Telekom and Telecom Italia both ...
Telekom continues to Entertain Broadband TV News

Probing Link to Bin Laden, US Tells Pakistan to Name Agents

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New York Times - Helene Cooper, Ismail Khan - ‎28 minutes ago‎
WASHINGTON - Pakistani officials say the Obama administration has demanded the identities of some of their top intelligence operatives as the United States tries to determine whether any of them had contact with Osama ...
Video: News Wrap: Al-Qaida Confirms Bin Laden's Death, Warns of New Attacks PBS News Hour
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U.S. threatens new action unless Syria stops killings

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Reuters - Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Yara Bayoumy - ‎1 hour ago‎
Credit: Reuters IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT OF THE VIDEO FROM WHICH THIS STILL IMAGE WAS TAKEN. Protesters march through the streets in Homs May 6, 2011 in this still image taken from video uploaded on a social media website.
Video: 'Bashar or chaos': Syrian regime's new mantra AFP
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Amnesty International accuses Gadhafi regime of war crimes in Misurata

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Montreal Gazette - Simon Denyer - ‎4 hours ago‎
A Libyan woman attends a rally against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi near a court house in Benghazi May 5, 2011. TRIPOLI, Libya - The Libyan army committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in ...
Video: Libyan refugees flee fighting on western front AFP

In Europe, Disquiet Over Bin Laden and US

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New York Times - Steven Erlanger - ‎May 5, 2011‎
PARIS - No European government has condemned or criticized the killing of Osama bin Laden by American commandos, but the questions raised about the changing details of his death sharpened considerably after the White House revealed ...
Video: Raw Video: Protest Against bin Laden Killing The Associated Press
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Myanmar row, Thai-Cambodia spat cloud ASEAN summit

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AFP - Martin Abbugao - ‎2 hours ago‎
JAKARTA - Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meet in Indonesia on Saturday under the cloud of conflict on the Thai-Cambodia border and ongoing rights abuses in Myanmar.
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Yemenis continue protest rallies

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Xinhua - Yang Lina - ‎1 hour ago‎
SANAA, May 6 (Xinhua) -- Protest rallies demanding Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's immediate ouster continued on Friday amid a growing fuel crisis that rocked the fragile impoverished country.
Video: Yemen's Saleh vows to resist 'outlaw' protesters‎ Al Jazeera
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I am with Kanimozhi, says Khushbu

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NDTV.com - ‎1 hour ago‎
Kanimozhi, who is DMK chief and Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi's daughter, has been charged with corruption and accepting a bribe in the 2G scam case. She has applied for bail and a special court will continue hearing her bail plea tomorrow. ...
Video: 2G scam: 'Prepared for worst,' says Kanimozhi NDTV.com
2G case will not effect alliance with DMK: Congress iNewsOne

2G scam: Kanimozhi bail plea deferred till Saturday

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Times of India - ‎2 hours ago‎
Besides Kanimozhi, daughter of Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi and a stakeholder in Kalaignar TV, the court will also take decision Saturday on the bail pleas of the other accused, Kalaignar TV chief Sharad Kumar, Asif Balwa and Rajiv B. ...
Video: 2G scam: 'Prepared for worst,' says Kanimozhi NDTV.com
Kanimozhi pins entire blame on A Raja, files bail plea Hindustan Times

Tigers' war is over but controversial benefactor won't give up fight for justice

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Sydney Morning Herald - ‎28 minutes ago‎
But for Professor John Whitehall, the University of Western Sydney's foundation chair of paediatrics and child health, ''collaborating'' with Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers is nothing to hide from. ''People called them terrorists,'' Whitehall says. ...
Sri Lanka Guardian - GlobalPost

France Expels 14 Libyan Diplomats

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Voice of America - ‎3 hours ago‎
France announced plans to expel 14 Libyan diplomats on Friday, a day after Britain ordered two Libyan officials to leave. The French foreign ministry says the diplomats, who back Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, have been declared "persona non grata. ...
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French Sports Minister Chantal Jouanno says national team coach Laurent Blanc ...

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The Canadian Press - John Leicester - ‎2 hours ago‎
PARIS — France's sports minister said Friday that national soccer coach Laurent Blanc is not a racist and that she does not, for now, think he should resign over allegations he discussed with other coaches whether to limit training for young players ...
FFF race-row comission meet on Thursday RTE.ie

France doles out new "palace" label to top hotels

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Reuters - Jacky Naegelen, Paul Casciato - ‎5 hours ago‎
France's Small Business and Tourism Junior Minister Frederic Lefebvre (L) poses with Didier Le Calvez (R), director of Hotel Le Bristol, as they hold a plaque ''Palace'' at the Hotel Le Bristol in Paris May 5, 2011. By Astrid Wendlandt and Elisabeth ...

France expels 14 Libyan diplomats loyal to Gadhafi

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Seattle Post Intelligencer - Jamey Keaten - ‎3 hours ago‎
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, talks to British Foreign Secretary William Hague, right, with French Foreign Minister Alain Marie Juppé, left, during a diplomatic meeting on how to support rebels fighting the ...
Video: Libyan refugees flee fighting on western front AFP
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'Black, white, and Beur' - France owes its footballing success to a rich ...

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Goal.com - ‎1 hour ago‎
By Robin Bairner Perhaps more than any country in western Europe, France is infused with a remarkable melting pot of culture. The nation's colonial history has invited citizens from every corner of the globe into the republic, and though this has been ...

Strong Job Report Shows US Economy Gaining Steam

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New York Times - Christine Hauser - ‎1 hour ago‎
Seth Wenig/AP By CHRISTINE HAUSER The United States economy added far more jobs than expected in April as the recovery continued to pick up steam.
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$22.75 million price tag on Ford plant

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St. Thomas Times-Journal - ‎11 hours ago‎
By QMI AGENCY Ford's St. Thomas Assembly Plant -- slated to close this fall -- has gone up for sale for $22.75 million and already there's "solid interest" in the area's largest piece of commercial real estate to ever hit the market.
For sale! Auto plant Toronto Star
Ford plant in St. Thomas on the block CHCH News

NS Power proposes rate hike stabilization

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CBC.ca - ‎37 minutes ago‎
Nova Scotia Power is proposing a plan that spreads out increases in power bills over a few years, instead of imposing a steep increase next year.
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End of an era : Wek leaves GMP trading desk

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Globe and Mail - Boyd Erman - ‎56 minutes ago‎
It's the end of an era at GMP Securities, as perhaps the street's most famous trader leaves the role of running the GMP desk.
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Western Canadian cities to lead growth

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Vancouver Sun - Derek Abma - ‎5 hours ago‎
The strongest economic growth this year will be seen in western Canadian cities, the Conference Board of Canada said Thursday, although Vancouver doesn't make the top five.
Saskatchewan and Alberta lead growth Calgary Herald

Bootup: Amazon founder invests in Canadian fusion outfit

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Financial Post - Jameson Berkow - ‎1 hour ago‎
Today in technology: Jeff Bezos puts millions of dollars behind a BC company developing nuclear fusion power, Sony is reportedly at risk of yet another cyber attack and the Wall Street Journal launches a whistle blowing website to rival WikiLeaks.
Fusion upstart fully funded CanadianBusiness.com (blog)
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Melnyk strikes deal to end legal dispute with OSC

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Globe and Mail - Janet Mcfarland - ‎14 hours ago‎
Eugene Melnyk's long-running legal problems with the Ontario Securities Commission came to an end Thursday when the Biovail Corp.
Victoria Times Colonist - National Post (registration) - BusinessWeek

Climate shifts 'hit wheat yields'

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BBC News - Mark Kinver - ‎2 hours ago‎
Shifts in the climate over the past three decades have been linked to a 5.5% decline in global wheat production, a study has suggested.
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Sony Faces Weekend Hack Attack, Report Claims

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PCWorld - Sarah Jacobsson Purewal - ‎1 hour ago‎
Sony can't seem to catch a break these days when it comes to hack attacks. Sony is still recovering from the recent network breach that shut down its PlayStation Network and Qriocity service and ...
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RIM Needs More Than A Band-Aid

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InformationWeek - Gina Smith - ‎1 hour ago‎
A couple of episodes ago on BYTE Wireless Radio (www.byte.com), we pronounced the RIM Playbook not ready for primetime in the enterprise.
Video: How to turn a website into a PlayBook app in 3 minutes! CrackBerry
Microsoft, RIM make strange bedfellows National Post (registration)
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Listen to tunes, make a call, read a book — all on a sheet of paper

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Vancouver Sun - Kim Covert - ‎May 4, 2011‎
A prototype of a thinfilm flexible computer, dubbed a "paper computer" developed by researchers at Queen's University.
Computer's flexible future? The Kingston Whig-Standard
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Seas could rise up to 1.6 meters by 2100: study

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Reuters - Alister Doyle, Pete Harrison - ‎May 3, 2011‎
OSLO (Reuters) - Quickening climate change in the Arctic including a thaw of Greenland's ice could raise world sea levels by up to 1.6 meters by 2100, an international report showed on Tuesday.
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Pro-athiest bus ads have disappeared

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Kelowna Capital News - Kathy Michaels - ‎3 hours ago‎
Kelowna buses are sporting a bit less atheism and a touch more mystery this week. For the better part of the last four weeks, advertisements spanning the broad side of two buses proclaimed: “There's probably no ...
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Australian Privacy Act feels revamp pressure

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Register - Natalie Apostolou - ‎16 hours ago‎
The Australian government may consider expediting significant reforms to the Privacy Act as a result of the Sony data breaches. The Australian Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim has already opened an ...
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Lights, Camera, Conversation — The prize is right

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The Hindu - Baradwaj Rangan - ‎2 hours ago‎
Ever since the first Tamil movie was made, there have been a number of firsts, long before KB — as he's known — knew he wanted to make movies. But those films, today, are curios. They don't walk like us. They don't talk like us. ...

Tamannaah returns to telugu films

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Rediff - ‎7 hours ago‎
Is it because you were busy with Tamil films that such a gap happened? Yes, since I was busy with Tamil films, I didn't commit to anything in Telugu. I wanted to do something I believed in. I had signed two projects with Geetha Arts after Happy Days. ...

Another love story from 'lover boy' Jayam Ravi

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Rediff - ‎May 5, 2011‎
So I am really happy that I have achieved something in Tamil films. Do you feel you are trapped in the lover boy image? Would you like to do different roles? I am too young to be trapped in any image. I am at an age where a lover boy image suits you. ...

Manasalogy Audio Release

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Super Good Movies - ‎May 5, 2011‎
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Hansikaa Motwani busy with Tamil movies

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Indian Express - ‎Apr 28, 2011‎
Hansikaa Motwani has recently made her entry into Tamil films, with the Dhanush-starrer Mappillai, the remake of the Rajinikanth film of the same name. The actress now has some big films in her kitty. While Hansikaa is currently shooting for the ...

Bang Bang Club not picture perfect

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Montreal Gazette - ‎1 hour ago‎
By T'Cha Dunlevy, GAZETTE FILM CRITIC May 6, 2011 8:53 AM MONTREAL - Watch the trailer to The Bang Bang Club, and you get the impression it's a slick rock 'n' roll buddy movie about four photographers covering the violent last days of apartheid.
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Super Sizing Hollywood: Spurlock tackles movie ethics

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Vancouver Sun - Katherine Monk - ‎5 hours ago‎
"If he were alive today, who would Jesus have as a corporate sponsor?" It's a question Morgan Spurlock hadn't heard before; nothing the gonzo documentary filmmaker had even pondered.
Morgan spurlock sells out! Montreal Gazette
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