Syria army quits base on strategic Aleppo road

affiliate marketing BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Syrian army abandoned its last base near the northern town of Saraqeb after a fierce assault by rebels, further isolating the strategically important second city Aleppo from the capital.But in a political setback to forces battling to topple President Bashar al-Assad, the United Nations said...

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‘We’re Apple, And You’re Suckers,’ Says iPad Mini Parody Ad

affiliate marketing The new iPad mini was released Friday, and Jimmy Kimmel doesn’t seem very enthusiastic about it.[More from Mashable: The Top 250 Movies of All Time in Less Than 3 Minutes [VIDEO]] affiliate marketing In a parody iPad mini commercial that aired on Jimmy Kimmel Live...

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Watch: Cancer Touches Everyone: Dogs and Humans

affiliate marketing Home > Video > Health > Health NewsCancer Touches Everyone: Dogs and Humans affiliate marketing Cancer Touches Everyone: Dogs and HumansTwo Million Dogs hopes to eradicate cancer through education and research.Magic Johnson’s HIV Announcement: Nov. 7,...

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Chuck Lorre slams Romney, GOP with “Big Bang Theory” vanity card

affiliate marketing (Please note profanity in second-to-last paragraph))LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – That Chuck Lorre – what a card. affiliate marketing No, seriously; what a card.The “Big Bang Theory” and “Two and a Half Men” honcho – who’s used the vanity cards at the end of his...

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Anthony Scianna’s Storybook Ending

affiliate marketing Francesco Nazardo for Bloomberg BusinessweekA typical Friday night at FairyTail LoungeTo enter the FairyTail Lounge, a one-year-old New York nightclub opened by three former commodities traders, guests pass through a sparkle-splattered door into a small room so shimmery it looks like it was painted by Tinker Bell....

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Syrian rebels kill 28 soldiers, several executed

affiliate marketing BEIRUT (Reuters) – Anti-government rebels killed 28 soldiers on Thursday in attacks on three army checkpoints around Saraqeb, a town on Syria’s main north-south highway, a monitoring group said.Some of the dead were shot after they had surrendered, according to video footage. Rebels berated them, calling them “Assad’s...

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Researchers Predict Twitter Trends With 95% Accuracy [STUDY]

affiliate marketing Researchers at MIT say they’ve created an algorithm for Twitter that predicts trending topics better than the site’s existing equation.[More from Mashable: Explore Obama and Romney’s Most Engaging Tweets With This Map] affiliate marketing Associate Professor Devavrat...

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The Sandy 15? Superstorm comfort-eating on menu

affiliate marketing Jamie Sanders went to the grocery store in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy with good intentions. Cucumbers and apples were on her list.But her local supermarket hadn’t gotten any new supplies — and with the prospect of working in her Upper East Side apartment for several days ahead, she joined the hordes of East...

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RBS sees PPI bill rise by £400m

affiliate marketing 2 November 2012 Last updated at 05:28 ETRoyal Bank of Scotland has set aside a further £400m to cover the cost of claims for mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI). affiliate marketing It takes the bank’s total charges for PPI mis-selling to £1.7bn.The figures...

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Mexico’s Day of Dead brings memories of missing

affiliate marketing MEXICO CITY (AP) — Maria Elena Salazar refuses to set out plates of her missing son’s favorite foods or orange flowers as offerings for the deceased on Mexico‘s Day of the Dead, even though she hasn’t seen him in three-and-a-half years.The 50-year-old former teacher is convinced that Hugo Gonzalez Salazar, a university...

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RIM says its new BlackBerry phone in testing

affiliate marketing TORONTO (AP) — BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion said Wednesday that its much-delayed new smartphones are now being tested by 50 wireless carriers around the world.The Canadian company called it a key step as it prepares to launch the new BlackBerry 10 software and phones in the first quarter of next year. affiliate...

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Insight: Crunching the numbers to boost odds against cancer

affiliate marketing FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Software engineers are moving to the fore in the war on cancer, designing programmes that sift genetic sequencing data at lightning speed and minimal cost to identify patterns in tumors that could lead to the next medical breakthrough.Their analysis aims to pinpoint the mutations in our genetic...

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“The Details” Review: airless all-star comedy is devilishly dull

affiliate marketing LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – The devil is in “The Details,” but only in that this smug and airless comedy feels like 91 minutes in hell. The first few minutes promise a Rube Goldberg whirligig of bad behavior, unhappy coincidences and plain old rotten luck, but all writer-director Jacob Aaron Estes (“Mean Creek”) can...

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Shell CFO says weak Europe economy “all around us”

affiliate marketing LONDON (Reuters) – Europe‘s top oil company Royal Dutch Shell is seeing signs of a weak European economy “all around us,” the company’s finance director Simon Henry said during a third-quarter results conference call on Thursday.He was making the comment in the context of strong refining margins in the quarter, which...

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Syrian air force on offensive after failed truce

affiliate marketing AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian warplanes bombed rebel targets with renewed intensity on Tuesday after the end of a widely ignored four-day truce between President Bashar al-Assad‘s forces and insurgents.State television said “terrorists” had assassinated an air force general, Abdullah Mahmoud al-Khalidi, in a Damascus suburb,...

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Holiday gadgets: Microsoft phones, Google gadgets

affiliate marketing NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft launched its new Windows phone system and Google unveiled new devices under its Nexus brand. Both part of an effort to grab more of consumers’ holiday-shopping dollars.Last week, Microsoft started selling its Windows 8 operating system and Surface tablet computer. Apple announced new iPads...

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Man with ‘bionic’ leg to climb Chicago skyscraper

affiliate marketing CHICAGO (AP) — Zac Vawter considers himself a test pilot. After losing his right leg in a motorcycle accident, the 31-year-old software engineer signed up to become a research subject, helping to test a trailblazing prosthetic leg that’s controlled by his thoughts.He will put this groundbreaking “bionic” leg to the...

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Ratings: ‘The Voice’ rises as NBC takes night

affiliate marketing LOS ANGELES, Oct 30 (TheWrap.com) – “The Voice’s” first-ever knockout round Monday raised the singing competition’s ratings enough to give NBC a win for the night, according to preliminary numbers.While preemptions for coverage of Hurricane Sandy and power outages render the ratings for all of the networks approximate,...

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Heseltine issues growth challenge

affiliate marketing 31 October 2012 Last updated at 04:55 ETLord Heseltine, the former Conservative party deputy prime minister, has challenged the government to take bolder action to stimulate the economy. affiliate marketing In a new report, commissioned by Downing Street, he says...

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