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Thai protesters give blood to pour on streets
(AP)
 AP - Anti-government protesters started donating their own blood Tuesday as part of a plan to splatter the Thai government headquarters in a symbolic sacrifice to press their demands for new elections.
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:00:53 GMT
| CAPITAL CULTURE: Indonesia remembers young Obama
(AP)
AP - Somewhat bluntly, Barack Obama's former teacher sums up the neighborhood thinking when the future American president turned up with his family in Indonesia's capital more than 40 years ago.
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:01:54 GMT
| China without Google: 'a lose-lose scenario'
(AP)
AP - China without Google — a prospect that looks increasingly likely — could mean no more maps on mobile phones. A free music service that has helped to fight piracy might be in jeopardy. China's fledgling Web outfits would face less pressure to improve, eroding their ability to one day compete abroad.
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:14:47 GMT
| Palestinian unrest erupts in east Jerusalem
(AP)
 AP - Masked Palestinians have hurled rocks at Israeli police and burned tires in disputed east Jerusalem.
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:15:30 GMT
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NCAA selection chairman defends field (AP)
The coaches handled the snubs with class. The pundits weren't nearly as kind. And not surprisingly, the man responsible for what is widely regarded as one of the worst NCAA tournament at-large fields ever defended the decisions and predicted another fantastic version of March Madness. "When I reflect back, I feel good about the work we did and the field we put out there," Dan Guerrero,...
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:40:09 PDT
| Report: Phils float Howard-Pujols deal (AP)
Albert Pujols for Ryan Howard? Let's just say the MVP sluggers don't plan to pack their bags anytime soon. Talk of a megatrade kept baseball buzzing Monday following an ESPN report the Philadelphia Phillies were thinking about asking the St. Louis Cardinals if they'd like to swap star first basemen.
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:06:05 PDT
| Iowa fires Lickliter after 3 seasons (AP)
Iowa athletic director Gary Barta saw the Hawkeyes rack up loss after loss in an often half-empty arena and decided he'd seen enough. Even though coach Todd Lickliter was at Iowa for only three seasons, Barta felt he couldn't afford to bring him back for a fourth. The Hawkeyes fired Lickliter on Monday, ending a brief and disappointing tenure that included three losing seasons in a row and...
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:04:22 PDT
| Beckham sidelined for about 6 months (AP)
David Beckham's left Achilles' tendon was totally torn, and the doctor who performed the surgery said the England midfielder is expected to be out of action for about six months. "He is doing well and the operation lasted just under an hour. It went very well," Dr. Sakari Orava told The Associated Press after the operation.
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:49:22 PDT
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Jackson estate in record deal worth up to $250 mln
(AP)
 AP - Even in death, Michael Jackson is breaking new records.
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:16:42 GMT
| China without Google: 'a lose-lose scenario'
(AP)
AP - China without Google — a prospect that looks increasingly likely — could mean no more maps on mobile phones. A free music service that has helped to fight piracy might be in jeopardy. China's fledgling Web outfits would face less pressure to improve, eroding their ability to one day compete abroad.
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:14:47 GMT
| Wavering Dems in Obama's sights on health vote
(AP)
 AP - Days away from a make-or-break vote on his health care overhaul, President Barack Obama is turning up the pressure as only presidents can, as Democratic leaders make a desperate scramble for votes.
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:26:59 GMT
| Asian stocks mixed ahead of Fed statement
(AP)
 AP - Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday as investors held back ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's latest assessment of the world's largest economy.
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:40:03 GMT
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Scientists go 'gaga' to find creatures beneath 600 feet of ice
(AP)
 AP - In a surprising discovery about where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish frolicking beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet.
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:05:53 GMT
| Aide: Karzai 'very angry' at Taliban boss' arrest
(AP)
 AP - The Afghan government was holding secret talks with the Taliban's No. 2 when he was captured in Pakistan, and the arrest infuriated President Hamid Karzai, according to one of Karzai's advisers.
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:13:47 GMT
| New HIV infections increasing among homosexuals
(AP)
 AP - New HIV infections are increasing among homosexuals, drug users and prostitutes who don't seek help because of laws that criminalize these practices, the head of the U.N. AIDS agency said Monday.
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:55:40 GMT
| U.S. history textbooks could soon be flavored heavily with Texas conservatism
(The Newsroom)
 The Newsroom - The nation’s public school curriculum may be in for a Texas-sized overhaul, if the Lone Star state’s influential recommendations for changes to social studies, economics and history textbooks are fully ratified later this spring. Last Friday, in a 10-to-5 vote split right down party lines, the Texas State Board of Education approved some controversial right-leaning alterations to what most students in the state—and by extension, in much of the rest of the country—will be studying as received historical and social-scientific wisdom. After a public comment period, the board will vote on final recommendations in May.
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:17:46 GMT
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