| Shots fired at New Jersey police station overnight Posted: 12 Aug 2014 01:32 PM PDT  WEST DEPTFORD, N.J. (AP) — An early morning drive-by shooting left the outside of a southern New Jersey police station riddled with bullets, but no officers were injured, authorities said Tuesday.
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| Pavey, mother of 2, wins 10,000 at Euros at 40 Posted: 12 Aug 2014 01:16 PM PDT  ZURICH (AP) — Jo Pavey won the first major title in her career at 40 and as a mother of two. The British veteran took the lead in the last lap to outkick two Frenchwomen chasing her and claim the gold medal in the 10,000 meters at the European championships on Tuesday.
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| Spotify's Top 10 most streamed tracks Posted: 12 Aug 2014 01:00 PM PDT  The following list represents the most viral tracks on Spotify, based on the number of people who shared it divided by the number who listened to it, from Monday, August 4 to Sunday August 10 via Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and Spotify.
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| U.S. appeals court questions San Jose bid for Oakland A's Posted: 12 Aug 2014 12:44 PM PDT  By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court appeared skeptical on Tuesday about the city of San Jose, California's attempt to win a court order allowing the Oakland A's baseball team to move to Silicon Valley. San Jose sued Major League Baseball and league Commissioner Bud Selig last year, seeking permission for the A's to relocate there. At a hearing on Tuesday before a three-judge panel in San Francisco, attorneys for the city argued that the antitrust exemption is narrow and should not apply to issues like the location of franchises. "I don't see it," Judge Richard Clifton said.
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| Here are the 10 trailers you need to watch from the Xbox One Gamescom event Posted: 12 Aug 2014 12:12 PM PDT  Microsoft took Gamescom by storm on Tuesday morning with a huge showing of games coming this fall and early next year. Most, if not all of the games had been announced at previous events, but many of the attendees in Cologne, Germany will be the first to go hands-on with some of the biggest Xbox One games of the year, including Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Dozens of trailers were shown on stage, but we've gather the 10 that you have to see before the day is over right here on BGR. We got our first look at actual gameplay from the mysterious Quantum Break, a look at one of the beautiful revamped Halo multiplayer maps, a detailed explanation of
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| Nadal to decide this week on fitness to defend U.S. Open Posted: 12 Aug 2014 11:55 AM PDT  (Reuters) - Rafa Nadal will decide by the end of this week whether he is fit enough to defend his U.S. Open title after suffering a right wrist injury that ruled him out of two tune-up events, the Spaniard's spokesman said on Tuesday. "He went for a check (up) today in Barcelona and (the) imagery looks as predicted.
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| 9Lenses and HP – a match made in the cloud Posted: 12 Aug 2014 11:38 AM PDT Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are increasingly feeling pressure to migrate to the Cloud, but are often left alone to ponder the important questions, such as, "What Cloud is right for me?" Faced with this very situation, ISV 9Lenses chose HP as its strategic partner for the Cloud – and the rest is history. |
| Pfizer to help 23andMe unravel genetic ties to bowel disease Posted: 12 Aug 2014 11:07 AM PDT  By Ransdell Pierson (Reuters) - Home genetics company 23andMe on Tuesday said it hopes to uncover gene mutations linked to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) by enrolling 10,000 people with the hard-to-treat malady and examining DNA from their donated saliva samples. The privately held company, founded in 2006 by Anne Wojcicki and backed by Google Inc, said U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc will support its latest research effort. ...
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| Wife of detained American asks for mercy for him Posted: 12 Aug 2014 10:50 AM PDT  CINCINNATI (AP) — The wife and three children of an American man charged with "anti-state" crimes in North Korea are asking for mercy for him.
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| Scientists remove encrustation on Confederate sub Posted: 12 Aug 2014 10:16 AM PDT  NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Scientists have started the long job of removing the encrustation from the hull of Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley.
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| Iraq isn't Syria: Congress on board this time Posted: 12 Aug 2014 09:57 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Little of the impassioned debate that fractured lawmakers last year over possible military intervention in Syria is happening now as American war planes strike extremist targets in Iraq.
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| WHO backs use of experimental Ebola drugs in West Africa epidemic Posted: 12 Aug 2014 09:41 AM PDT  By Kate Kelland and Stephanie Nebehay LONDON/GENEVA (Reuters) - People infected in the West Africa Ebola outbreak can be offered untested drugs, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, but scarce supplies raise questions about who gets priority in the epidemic of the virus, which has no proven treatment. Liberia said it planned to treat two infected doctors with an unproven Ebola medicine called ZMapp, the first Africans to receive the drug, while a Spanish priest, who the Health Ministry in Madrid said had also been given ZMapp, died. The West Africa Ebola virus epidemic - the world's largest and deadliest so far - has killed at least 1,013 people in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. There are no licensed treatments or vaccines for Ebola, but several biotech companies and research teams have been working on potential drugs.
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| Spanish priest dies of Ebola amid ethics debate Posted: 12 Aug 2014 09:24 AM PDT  MADRID (AP) — A Spanish priest being treated for Ebola died Tuesday in Madrid despite having received an experimental drug while the World Health Organization announced it is ethical for unproven drugs and vaccines to be used amid an unprecedented outbreak in West Africa.
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| Bischoff to become chairman of JPMorgan in Europe Posted: 12 Aug 2014 09:08 AM PDT  By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Win Bischoff, chairman of Britain's accounting watchdog the Financial Reporting Council, will also become chairman of JPMorgan Chase's European arm from January, the investment bank said on Tuesday. His appointment to JPMorgan comes at a time when British lawmakers are keen for the FRC to scrutinize the accounts of banks more closely. The FRC said that the UK government's business ministry, which appointed Bischoff to head the accounting watchdog, was aware at the time that he might take up a post at JPMorgan. Bischoff's appointment at the bank has been approved by the banking sector's two main regulators, the Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority, the FRC said.
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| Clooney's fiancee opts not to join UN Gaza probe team Posted: 12 Aug 2014 08:47 AM PDT  Hollywood star George Clooney's fiancee Amal Alamuddin has declined her nomination to join a commission probing Israel's Gaza offensive, the head of the UN Human Rights Council said Tuesday. In a statement, Baudelaire Ndong Ella said that the Lebanese-born British lawyer had cited "prior professional commitments and regrets that the commission will not benefit from her expertise in the field". Ella, who this year holds the rotating presidency of the top United Nations rights forum, had on Monday named Alamuddin to the three-member commission of inquiry. The commission will be led by Canadian international lawyer William Schabas, and also include Doudou Diene of Senegal, who has previously served as the UN's watchdog on racism and on post-conflict Ivory Coast.
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| Vettel 'worn out', Red Bull fighting back, says Horner Posted: 12 Aug 2014 08:31 AM PDT  (Reuters) - Sebastian Vettel is "worn out" after winning four consecutive world drivers' titles to enable Red Bull to reign supreme in Formula One, according to his team chief Christian Horner. Briton Horner said that exhaustion was a part of the explanation for the 27-year-old German's loss of form in a season dominated by Mercedes and in which his new Red Bull team mate Australian Daniel Ricciardo has out-performed him. Ricciardo, 25, has won twice to climb to third with 131 points after 11 of the year's 19 races, trailing only the Mercedes duo Nico Rosberg of Germany (202) and Briton Lewis Hamilton (191). A graduate, like Vettel, of Red Bull's 'junior' team, Toro Rosso, Ricciardo has out-performed his team mate 6-5 in qualifying and 9-2 in race results.
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| Review: A family is tested in 'No Safe House' Posted: 12 Aug 2014 08:14 AM PDT  "No Safe House" (New American Library), by Linwood Barclay
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| U.S. job openings at more than 13-year high in June, hiring rises Posted: 12 Aug 2014 07:57 AM PDT  U.S. job openings increased to their highest level in more than 13 years in June and hiring picked up, pointing to some reduction of slack in the labor market. Job openings, a measure of labor demand, increased to a seasonally adjusted 4.67 million, the Labor Department said in its monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey on Tuesday. Hiring, which is being closely being watched for signs of a pick-up in job growth, rose to its highest level since February 2008. The report is one of the indicators being closely watched by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and other policymakers at the U.S. central bank.
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| AP PHOTOS: Planting rice traditionally in Myanmar Posted: 12 Aug 2014 07:40 AM PDT  NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — Flooded paddy fields stretch along both sides of the highway leading to Myanmar's capital where thousands of farmworkers, mostly women, uproot sprouts and then gently tap them on their feet to remove mud from the roots. Others walk through the mist, balancing sprouts on bamboo poles.
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| Year after Cairo carnage, Sisi turns page on Arab Spring Posted: 12 Aug 2014 07:23 AM PDT  A year after a bloody Cairo crackdown, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has tightened his grip on Egypt, crushed the Muslim Brotherhood, jailed top opponents and turned the page on the Arab Spring, critics say. On August 14, 2013, after Sisi ousted Egypt's first freely elected president, Mohamed Morsi, the security forces launched a crackdown on thousands of his supporters at protest camps in Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda squares that left hundreds dead. Police said eight policemen also died in Rabaa, from a total of 42 policemen killed across Egypt that day. The crackdown was launched after thousands of pro-Morsi supporters refused to end their sit-ins despite repeated warnings by the interim authorities installed by Sisi, who at the time was army chief.
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| Don’t even think of paying Apple to repair your broken iPhone screen Posted: 12 Aug 2014 06:48 AM PDT  Apple may be offering in-store repairs for your cracked iPhone screen but that doesn't mean you should take them up on their offer when you can do just as good a job yourself. CNET has published a terrific new video by Bill Detwiler, who shows you how easy it is to replace your cracked iPhone screen in just four easy steps. To lay the groundwork for your iPhone screen replacement, first you'll need to procure a replacement screen (duh) and then make sure you have all the right tools, including "a few thin prying tools, tweezers, Phillips 000 screwdriver, suction cup, and a special pentalobe screwdriver." Once you've done these preparations, replacing your screen should take no time at all: First you
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| ITF rules on Israel and Ukraine Davis Cup venues Posted: 12 Aug 2014 06:31 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — The International Tennis Federation ruled Tuesday that Davis Cup matches will be moved out of Ukraine and Israel because of security issues in both countries.
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| Ukraine: Russia aid can enter with Red Cross role Posted: 12 Aug 2014 06:14 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — A convoy of 280 Russian trucks reportedly packed with aid headed for eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, but Kiev said it would only allow the goods through under the close supervision of the international Red Cross.
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| Obama, Clinton to attend Martha's Vineyard party Posted: 12 Aug 2014 05:56 AM PDT  EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama will spend a bit of his summer vacation with Hillary Rodham Clinton, a get-together that comes amid signs that the former secretary of state is seeking to distance herself from Obama's foreign policy ahead of a possible 2016 White House bid.
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| Shots fired at police station in West Deptford, N.J. Posted: 12 Aug 2014 05:40 AM PDT  Authorities are searching the person who opened fire on the West Deptford Township police headquarters early Tuesday.
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