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| Sebelius finds a silver lining in Obamacare 'data hub' | | | WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, besieged by bad news about the new government health care website, sought on Saturday to highlight a portion of the complex system that she said is working well. |
| Can a case boost your iPhone 5's WiFi? Check the Linkase | | | The Linkase for iPhone 5 boasts up to a 50 percent boost in Wi-Fi signal strength thanks to a small electromagnetic waveguide extension. Does it work? See for yourself in these mobile speedtests where Wi-Fi is usually terrible. |
| Guantanamo lawyers want Obama to declassify CIA prison program | | | FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - Attorneys for five Guantanamo prisoners charged with plotting the September 11, 2001, attacks have asked President Barack Obama to declassify the CIA program that subjected the defendants to interrogation techniques that have been described as torture. |
| Currents | QA A Blueprint for Misery | | | The artist Michael Elmgreen, on his design with Ingar Dragset of an apartment for a fictional failed architect at the Victoria and Albert Museum. |
| Telecom Italia shares fall on dividend concerns | | | MILAN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Shares in Telecom Italia fell nearly 5 percent in late morning trade on Friday amid market concerns the phone company could scrap its dividend to fix its heavily indebted balance sheet. |
| Phys Ed How Music Can Boost Our Workouts | | | Making music and not just listening to it while exercising makes the exercise easier, a remarkable new experiment finds, suggesting that the human love of music may have evolved, in part, to ease physical effort. |
| Roma dad Why did police take child? | | | A Roma man talks to CNN about having his son taken by police, despite having a birth certificate. The seizure exposes what many say is the discrimination faced by the Roma community. |
| Saudi driving campaign gathers speed | | | Saudis have been awaiting October 26 anxiously. Organizers of an online campaign are hoping the date will mark a turning point in the history of Saudi Arabia, as women across the kingdom take their husbands, brothers or fathers' car keys and drive themselves across town in a show of independence, defiance and solidarity. While the issue of women driving is an important one in and of itself, some Saudis view it as just the latest in a series of struggles that have shaped the political trajectory of Saudi Arabia. |
| Stars Too Much for Flames 5-1 | | | Alex Chiasson and Jamie Benn each scored two goals to lead the Dallas Stars to a 5-1 victory over the Calgary Flames on Thursday. |
| Cilic ban reduced by CAS | | | Former top-10 player Marin Cilic had his doping ban reduced to four months Friday, leaving the Croatian with a sense of "justice" but the head of tennis' world governing body seeking answers. |
| Xinhua Journalist admits faking stories | | | A Chinese reporter who was arrested last week on suspicion of damaging a business' reputation has confessed to releasing fabricated stories about the company for money and fame, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Saturday. |
| Kurdish fighters seize Syrian border post from Islamists | | | BEIRUT (Reuters) - Kurdish militants seized a Syrian border post on the frontier with Iraq early on Saturday, fighters and monitors said, after three days of clashes with an al Qaeda-linked group which had held the crossing since March. |
| Snatched away U.S. kids 'living a tragedy' | | | When Ronald Soza dropped off his teenaged kids at school one recent morning, the family thought it would be a day like any other. They had no idea Soza was about to be deported. Every year immigration officials snatch thousands of undocumented parents, leaving their American kids to fend for themselves. |
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