Saturday, August 25, 2012

IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 25/08/2012





Deadly shooting near the Empire State building
Multiple People Shot In Front of the Empire State BuildingA gunman has shot multiple people near the Empire State Building in the Midtown area of Manhattan, according to several news reports.



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Lance Armstrong to be stripped of his Tour de France titles
File photo of Radioshack team rider Lance Armstrong of the U.S. posing on the Champs Elysees in Paris during the final parade of the 97th Tour de France cycling raceIn the end, Lance Armstrong quit. And no matter how fiercely he writes his statements or fires rockets on Twitter or demands we continue to buy into the fantasy that in a world of doping cyclists he alone was clean and rode faster and stronger, he still quit on Thursday night.



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Court finds Norwegian mass killer Breivik sane
Norwegian mass killer Breivik gestures as he arrives in the court room at Oslo CourthouseA Norwegian court found Anders Behring Breivik sane on Friday and gave him a maximum jail term for murdering 77 people in a shooting and bombing last year.



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Mitt Romney says big businesses are 'doing fine'
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney shakes hands during a campaign event at Watson Truck and Supply, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012, in Hobbs, N.M. (AP Photo/Hobbs News-Sun, Todd Bailey)Mitt Romney tonight said that big businesses are “doing fine,” using similar language that the presumptive nominee has hammered President Obama for using to describe the private sector earlier this year. “I’m going to champion small business.



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Court rules Samsung didn't violate Apple's iPhone design
An employee poses as he holds Apple's iPhone 4s and Samsung's Galaxy S III at a store in SeoulSamsung's Galaxy smartphone looks very similar to Apple's iPhone, but the South Korean firm has not violated the iPhone design, a Seoul court ruled on Friday.



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GOP group to honor Mrs. Sheldon Adelson in Tampa
Adelson and wife Miriam are pictured after attending U.S. Republican Presidential candidate Romney's foreign policy remarks at Mishkenot Sha'ananim in JerusalemCasino mogul Sheldon Adelson has made headlines by writing enormous checks to help Republicans, including Mitt Romney, and blasting President Barack Obama's record on Israel.



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Ill. police: Teenager held 2 years escapes captors
Members of the Madison County tactical response team take a two-year-old child to a waiting ambulance Thursday evening, Aug. 23, 2012 in Washington Park, Ill. The child was rescued after a teenage girl reported missing more than two years ago escaped from a home and went to police, saying her child was still in the house. The girl reported that she was raped by her captor, got pregnant and had a baby, police said. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, J.B. Forbes) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUTA teen girl reported missing more than two years ago told police she escaped a home in southwestern Illinois where she had been held captive.



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Syrian forces strike Aleppo as West pressures Assad
France voiced support for a partial no-fly zone over SyriaSyrian forces blitzed areas in and around the northern city of Aleppo on Friday, activists said, as Western powers sought to tighten the screws on embattled President Bashar al-Assad.



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Romney touts Bain experience in Wall Street Journal editorial
President Obama Tries to 'Akin-nize' Romney-RyanAfter months of negative attacks from Democrats, Mitt Romney argues in a new editorial that his experience at Bain Capital will help him in the White House.



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Air crews make dent in massive Calif. wildfire
Fire crews drop water unto the Ponderosa Fire from a helicopter near Mineral, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012. The Ponderosa Fire was 57 percent contained, with full containment expected early next week. The blaze threatened 900 other homes Thursday as it burned a new front to the south. More than 2,500 firefighters are battling the wildfire, which grew to 44 square miles in the hills about 25 miles southeast of Redding. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)Air tankers and helicopters flew repeatedly into a deep rim rock canyon to douse the spearhead of a massive wildfire in Northern California and stop it from driving into a nearby mountain community and Lassen Volcanic National Park.



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Drone attacks kill 16 in Pakistan: officials
US drones have struck with three missile attacks in two days in Shawal district, in North WaziristanMissile-firing U.S. drone aircraft killed at least 16 people on Friday in an attack in northwest Pakistan, two Pakistani intelligence officials.



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Police investigating reported threat against Akin
Handout image of U.S. Congressman Todd AkinU.S. Capitol Police are investigating a reported threat against Rep. Todd Akin, the Missouri congressman in hot water for his comments about rape.



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Tropical Storm Isaac heads for Haiti, Dominican Republic
Tropical Storm Isaac is seen in the Caribbean on August 23, 2012. REUTERS/NOAATropical Storm Isaac moved toward the Dominican Republic and Haiti, continuing its march across the Caribbean after unleashing heavy rain on Puerto Rico.



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Former U.S. ambassador Ryan Crocker charged with drunken driving
US Secretary of Defense Panetta speaks with Commander of ISAF General Allen and US Ambassador to Afghanistan Crocker upon his arrival at Kabul International AirportFormer U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan Ryan Crocker is facing drunken driving and hit-and-run charges in Washington state, authorities said.



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Bain documents reveal tax-dodging techniques
Bain Documents: Romney Offshore Investments Used 'Blockers' To Avoid TaxesThe private equity firm founded by Mitt Romney made use of arcane techniques in several of its Cayman Islands-based funds to avoid U.S. taxes, according to a trove of Bain Capital's private audit and finance records.



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Holmes made threats, was barred from campus
Colorado shooting suspect Holmes sits with public defender Brady during his first court appearance in AuroraThe prosecution in the James Holmes mass murder case said on Thursday that the suspect's school life is linked to the July 20 shootings that killed 12 people during a midnight screening of the new Batman movie. Karen Pearson, a lawyer with the Arapahoe County District Attorney's office, said during a hearing [...]



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