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| Egypt extends detention of hunger strike Canadians | | | CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's army-backed authorities have extended the detention of two Canadians held without charge since political clashes in mid-August as officials investigate a small remote control airplane and other items found in the pair's hotel room. |
| Tale of White Widow Fills British Press | | | While there is no evidence that Samantha Lewthwaite was involved in the Kenya mall attack, British newspapers remain fascinated with the woman they call the white widow. |
| Hans Zimmer plays the piano of the future | | | Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer plays the 'Seaboard keyboard' -- a tech forward interpretation of the piano, which attempts to reimagine what a keyboard can do. Its inventor believes that it opens up the expressive potential of the instrument, and serves to counter the 'direct and unbending' nature of notes played on a piano. |
| Grapefruit-sized RadBall proposed for Fukushima clean-up | | | July 11 - The world's largest floating power station is about to set sail from Tokyo bay for deployment off Fukushima, while officials struggle to clean up radioactive waste inside the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power station. Soon however, they may have a grapefruit-sized ball made of aluminium and tungsten to help them. Called RadBall, the device is designed to locate sources of radiation in difficult to reach places. Jim Drury has more. |
| Why we still love Archie | | | Bob Greene says Victor Gorelick has spent 55 years ushering the eternal hapless teenager through his cartoon life in Riverdale--" a world the way we might like it to be" |
| Why India needs its own Oprah | | | In India, many women are obsessed with lightening their skin. CNN writer Moni Basu recalls her own family's pressures to not get "too dark." |
| Grunge rock hero Kurt Cobain's childhood home for sale | | | OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - The childhood home of the late grunge rock hero and Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain has been put up for sale in Washington state, with his family asking $500,000 for the property, more than seven times its assessed value. |
| Doctor gives free weekend surgeries | | | In Cameroon, there is only one doctor for every 5,000 people, according to the World Health Organization. Seeing his father and so many of his countrymen suffer, Georges Bwelle was determined to do something about it. |
| Japan Sept PMI shows manufacturing expanding at fastest since 2011 quake | | | TOKYO, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Japanese manufacturing activity expanded in September at the fastest pace since a record earthquake and nuclear disaster in early 2011, a survey showed on Monday, suggesting the economy has been able to stage a full recovery due to strong domestic demand and recovering exports. |
| Indians Clinch Wild Card With 5-1 Win Over Twins | | | As he dived through the clubhouse on a makeshift slip-and-slide drenched with beer and champagne, a euphoric Nick Swisher could only think about how far his Cleveland Indians had come, and how quickly they got there. |
| Guangzhou moves on labor camps | | | China's third-largest city Guangzhou -- capital of China's richest and most progressive province Guangdong -- has announced it has taken the first concrete steps in unbolting the country's often reviled "Re-education Through Labor" (RTL) system. |
| Giant duck conquers Taiwan | | | Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman's giant rubber duck tours arrives in Taiwan, is expected to draw 3 million spectators. |
| Well Eating the Color Purple | | | Even though its officially autumn, the summer crop of eggplant is still in full swing at farmers markets across the country. |
| Ballmer goes out punching at last Microsoft employee meeting | | | SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer took his farewell bow before thousands of applauding employees on Thursday with a typically loud and emotional performance at his last companywide meeting, talking up the software giant's prospects and taking swipes at rivals. |
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