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Volkswagen sees growth in sales, profit in 2010 - Volkswagen AG, Europe’s biggest car maker, expects to grow its deliveries, sales revenue and operating profit this year, as it forecast a “slight recovery”...
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Reuters: Top News

We don't want proxy wars in Afghanistan, Karzai says - ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Afghanistan does not want a proxy war between Pakistan and India or anybody else fought on its soil, Afghan President Hamid Karzai sa...
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Between the Lines

Through app stores, SMBs customize tools and pave way for enterprise - As apps targeted at small businesses start to grow in online marketplaces, it could help bring businesses into the cloud.
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Daily Kos

Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up - Your one stop pundit shop. Marleine Bastien, noting the commemoration of International Women's Day on Monday, says of Haiti: Women are the backbone of ...
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Yahoo! Technology

Virgin Media to trial broadband over telegraph poles (Reuters) - Reuters - British cable operator Virgin Media is testing a new technology to deliver ultrafast broadband over telegraph poles which could allow it to exten...
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Engadget

AT&T completes 100-Gigabit Ethernet field trial using new Cisco gear, proves it does care - Remember those network investments that AT&T was talking up just days before Time Warner slipped over an offer for help? Looks as if the firm wasn't kiddi...
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New York Times

New Strike Paralyzes Greece - For the second time in a week, a general strike Thursday closed public services, halting all flights and most transport across the debt-plagued country.
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Gizmodo

Motorola Replacing Google Search With Bing On Chinese Android Phones [Google] - [image: Click here to read Motorola Replacing Google Search With Bing On Chinese Android Phones] Cynics will likely say China's forcing Motorola to inclu...
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Yahoo! News

Volcker rule gets lift in Senate amid reform talks (Reuters) - [image: Chairman of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board Paul Volcker testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committ...
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Dems Close In on Health Bill - White House launches final effort to win over skittish lawmakers as Obama continues campaign-style events • *White House Pitches Talking Points to House Dem...
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Reuters: Most Read

BP to pay Devon $7 billion for oil fields - LONDON (Reuters) - London-based oil major BP has agreed to buy Brazilian, Azeri and Gulf of Mexico assets from Devon Energy for $7 billion, as the U.S. pro...
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HuffingtonPost.com

Cenk Uygur: Obama Administration Misunderstands Capitalism - On Wednesday, Kathleen Sebelius went into chide the health insurance companies. Or at least that's what she was supposed to do according to the notes...
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Boing Boing

Exhausting the entire problem space of animated teddy-bears, cars, people and pigeons - Animator/composer Cyriak just posted this surreal video featuring infinite giant teddy bears climbing out of the sea at the Worthing shore and crossing the...
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IATA Slashes Airline-Loss Forecast - The International Air Transport Association said it expects the airline industry to incur a $2.8 billion loss in 2010, half the $5.6 billion previously exp...
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Gawker

Bar Rafaeli Should Dump Leo and Date a Nice Jewish Boy, Says Bubbe Mafia [The Chosen] - [image: Click here to read Bar Rafaeli Should Dump Leo and Date a Nice Jewish Boy, Says Bubbe Mafia] Israeli nationalist organization Lehava "provides as...
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Gawker

Bar Rafaeli Should Dump Leo and Date a Nice Jewish Boy, Says Bubbe Mafia [The Chosen] - [image: Click here to read Bar Rafaeli Should Dump Leo and Date a Nice Jewish Boy, Says Bubbe Mafia] Israeli nationalist organization Lehava "provides as...
1 hour ago
Gizmodo

Opera Mini 5 Browser Beta Out Now For Android [Browsers] - [image: Click here to read Opera Mini 5 Browser Beta Out Now For Android] The latest beta version of Opera Mini for Androids is now out as of today, with...
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TIME.com: Specials

10 Ideas for the Next 10 Years - A thinker's guide to the most important trends of the new decade
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BBC News | Technology

dot.Rory - New skirmishes in war of Daily Mail v the internet
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R. Kelly's throat problems delay tour - R. Kelly has postponed his forthcoming European tour due to a throat problem.
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CNET News.com

Google tries to make its RSS reader fun, too - The Net giant unveils Google Reader Play, an attempt to put an easy-to-use, entertaining interface on its feed-reader Web application
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CNN.com

Eatery charged with serving whale meat - Federal authorities have charged a trendy Santa Monica sushi restaurant with serving whale meat -- an investigation that was spurred by the team behind the...
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VentureBeat

Sony pulls out the stops for God of War III launch party (video) - Just after Sony debuted its new motion controller tonight, the Japanese company threw a big God of War III launch party. The game has been in the works f...
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Techmeme

Motorola partners with Microsoft, will use Bing search and maps ... (Nilay Patel/Engadget) - Nilay Patel / Engadget: *Motorola partners with Microsoft, will use Bing search and maps on Chinese Android phones* — Uh, whoa. When we heard Google's...
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TIME.com: Top Stories

Is Hong Kong Getting Any Closer to Real Democracy? - Hong Kong's mini-constitution under China promises eventual democracy for the city state, but little progress has been made over the past decade, despite m...
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Seeing Shadows -
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TIME.com Top Business Stories

The Subprime Lending Business Survives, Even Thrives - In the wake of the credit crisis banks have greatly scaled back lending to subprime borrowers. But other lenders have quickly stepped in, making high inter...
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TIME.com: Top Stories

Schumer vs. Durbin: An Early Fight to Replace Harry Reid - In a Senate that is already near paralyzed by partisan rancor, the maneuverings of two Democrats plotting to possibly succeed the Majority Leader are threa...
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ReadWriteWeb

Kiwis to Bring $900M in Bandwidth-Building Cables to New Zealand - For obvious reasons, we care about what goes on in various parts of the world, particularly New Zealand and other areas that are underserved in terms of ...
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Mashable!

Opera Mini 5 Beta Comes to Android - Opera Mini 5 Beta was first introduced about 5 months ago, but owners of Android-based smartphones had to wait until now to get their hands on Opera’s ni...
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WhoWhatWear.com

What Was She Wearing: Answers! - [image: image] Though we've been glued to our computers watching the live-streaming F/W 10 shows from New York, London, Milan, and Paris for the past few we...
2 hours ago
SFGate: Technology

A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle's technology blog (sfgate.com/blogs/tech) / Users won't need a console to play OnLive's games - OnLive, a new cloud-gaming system, will be available June 17 and will launch with about five titles. The service is a unique take on video gaming because i...
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ESPN.com

Lee throws 3 to stop Rangers in Mariners debut - Cliff Lee was solid in his Mariners debut against the Rangers on Wednesday.
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TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories

Q&A: How To Never Look Fat Again: Dressing Thinner - In her new book, Charla Krupp has solutions for everything from muffin top to Buddha belly -- without dieting
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GigaOM

Why Digg Digs Cassandra - Digg, the San Francisco-based social media company, is dropping MySQL and instead betting its future on Cassandra, an open-source data store. It’s just the...
2 hours ago
TMZ.com

Corey Haim/Andrew Koenig Connection - Filed under: Corey Haim In an ironic twist of fate, Corey Haim was fired from a movie in late 2008 because of an alleged drug issue -- a movie that also st...
2 hours ago
TechCrunch

Lucid Imagination Raises $10 Million For Apache Search Technology - Lucid Imagination, the startup that commercially distributes the open source Apache Lucene and Apache Solr search technology, has raised $10 million in S...
2 hours ago
Deadspin

Finally, A Basebrawl With Two Separate Felony Assaults [Baseball] - [image: Click here to read Finally, A Basebrawl With Two Separate Felony Assaults] How often does SportsCenter tease a bench-clearing brawl, only to dis...
3 hours ago
paidContent

The Day Abu Dhabi Became an Unlikely Crossroad For Search Wars - At the powerhouse Abu Dhabi Media Summit here at Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, two of the biggest third-party search deals are being negotiated behind the sce...
3 hours ago
BBC Sports

Beckham lauds 'world best' Rooney - David Beckham hails Wayne Rooney as one of the world's best players after he fires Man Utd into the Champions League quarter-finals.
3 hours ago
Times Online

Confusion over fate of kidnapped British boy Sahil Saeed - British diplomats are checking reports that Sahil Saeed, the five-year-old British boy kidnapped in Pakistan, has been rescued amid confusion over his fate.
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The Guardian World News

True colours? - • Former United player wears scarf of anti-Glazer campaign • 'I'm a United fan and I support the club. I always will' David Beckham attempted to distance ...
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Google News

AP Top News at 1:17 am EST - The Associated Press - CBS News *AP Top News at 1:17 am EST* *The Associated Press* ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Democrats claimed momentum Wednesday in their drive to enact the sweeping h...
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Sportsfrog.com

Big East Tourney – A Closer Look – Quarterfinals - Game 1 – #8 Georgetown (21-9) vs. #1 Syracuse (28-3) Georgetown rolled to a 69-49 win in their second round contest against South Florida, holding the peri...
4 hours ago
Yahoo! Entertainment

CW eyeing dance, weight-loss competition series (Reuters) - Reuters - The CW is developing two competition series using popular unscripted subject matter: dancing and weight loss.
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Internet News

CA Acquires Cloud Vendor Nimsoft for $350M - CA makes another cloud computing acquisition, picking up IT performance and availability monitoring software vendor Nimsoft in all-cash deal.
4 hours ago
E! Online

Kristen Stewart on Joan Jett: "We're Both Ridden with Tics" - [image: Kristen Stewart]Put down the flea collar; it's not as bad as it sounds. In one of her more relaxed interviews, Kristen Stewart didn't talk about he...
5 hours ago
Ars Technica

feature: Why new hard disks might not be much fun for XP users - A rather surprising article hit the front page of the BBC on Tuesday: the next generation of hard disks could cause slowdowns for XP users. Not normall...
5 hours ago
PC World

Apple's iPhone App Contract Nails Developers - iPad and iPhone developers beware: Apple reserves the right to kill an app at any time with no reason. [image: Add to digg] [image: Add to Reddit] [image: ...
5 hours ago
Bits

Battery Ventures Raises a Fresh $750 Million - Battery Ventures' new, $750 million fund is the latest sign of a revival in Silicon Valley.
5 hours ago
Forbes.com: News

Phantom's Revenge - Andrew Lloyd Webber is back.
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Washington Post Politics

Patton Boggs is in negotiations to purchase the Breaux-Lott Leadership Group - Washington's biggest lobbying firm is on the verge of getting even bigger. Patton Boggs LLP, which rang up nearly $40 million in lobbying last year, is in ...
5 hours ago
Wired Top Stories

March 11, 1985: ConnNet Lets the Public Jack In, X.25 Style - A Connecticut telephone company starts the first local, public packet-switching network. It paves the way for the always-on internet access we know today.
5 hours ago
Washington Post Technology

Fairfax County crime report - The following incidents were recently reported by the Fairfax County Police Department. For more information, call 703-246-2253.
5 hours ago
WSJ.com: Digits

Battery Ventures Raises New $750 Million Fund - In a grim climate for venture-capital fundraising, there have been only a few positive glimmers. One of those glimmers: Battery Ventures has closed a new $...
6 hours ago
NYT > Personal Tech

Phone Smart: Putting All Your Conversations on the Small Screen - Smartphones allow you to access all of your social networks and messaging services through a single app.
6 hours ago
Stylelist Feeds

My Body, My Style Video: Tall Women's Clothing - An Office Outfit - Filed under: Fashion, How to Wear Office ensembles are tough to master, no matter what your body shape. Fortunately for all you tall, curvy women out ther...
6 hours ago
TV by the Numbers

$2,500 A Night Lets You Live the Jersey Shore Life, Or At Least Sleep In The Same House - For those wanting to relive the antics of DJ Pauly D and Co. a little longer, the house’s owners have opened its doors to renters for as much as $2,500 a n...
6 hours ago
People.com Latest News

Heidi Montag: Husband Spencer Pratt Is No Longer My Manager - In an unusual move, the reality star replaces her husband with a Malibu psychic to guide her career
6 hours ago
People.com Latest News

Heidi Montag: Husband Spencer Pratt Is No Longer My Manager - In an unusual move, the reality star replaces her husband with a Malibu psychic to guide her career
6 hours ago
USATODAY.com

Minority births expected to outnumber white births soon - Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become ...
7 hours ago
TUAW

HP attacks Apple iPad over Flash - Filed under: iPad During CES 2010, HP gave the public a slight tease of its upcoming slate device. The touchscreen device, which runs Windows 7, sports a...
7 hours ago
Computerworld

Selecting an Open Source Operating System - There's a large selection of free and open source (FOSS) operating systems available these days, and choosing the right one for any given circumstance can ...
7 hours ago
L.A. Times Tech Blog

As Twitter improves website, app makers push tweets in other directions - Twitter engineer Alex Payne upset a flock of third-party developers recently when he boasted about new features the company plans to roll out to its website....
8 hours ago
Wired Science

Ear Infections Could Cause Long-Term ‘Lazy Ear’ - Some folks who don’t seem to listen may just have a lazy ear. A new study in rats shows that short-term hearing impairments at any stage of life can lead t...
8 hours ago
GossipCenter

Jessica Simpson: Lovely at the Late Show - Hot on the promotional trail, Jessica Simpson was spotted making her rounds in New York City on Wednesday (March 10). The “Dukes of Hazzard” damsel gave ...
8 hours ago
TIME.com Top Arts Stories

Pacquiao-Clottey Fight: One Bout Away from Mayweather? - Boxer Manny Pacquiao is preparing for what fans hope will be an interim fight against Joshua Clottey -- that is, if the Floyd Mayweather Jr. camp will agre...
8 hours ago
FT.com - IT

FDI forecast - A gradual recovery in foreign direct investment in central and eastern Europe is likely by 2013, according to a new study, writes Vanessa Houlder in London...
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Top Stories - Google News

KC board approves plan to close 26 schools - Kansas City Star - CBS News *KC board approves plan to close 26 schools* *Kansas City Star* After the meeting ended, Christine Taylor-Butler (left), a district parent, gives ...
9 hours ago
Wired: This Day In Tech

March 11, 1985: ConnNet Lets the Public Jack In, X.25 Style - 1985: The nation’s first local, public packet-switching network opens for business. Can ISPs be far behind? Hooking in to the world’s network of interconne...
9 hours ago
Nerd World

The Daily Dose - Wednesday, Mar. 10, 2010 Today in Techland: Lev brought us part one of his awesome Mark Millar interview, and the boys' conversation with Bioware, the mind...
9 hours ago
Lifehacker

From the Tips Box: Application Shortcuts, Dry-Erase Planners, and Odor-Free Garbage [From The Tips Box] - [image: Click here to read From the Tips Box: Application Shortcuts, Dry-Erase Planners, and Odor-Free Garbage] Readers offer their best tips for making ...
9 hours ago
Autoblog

Spy Shots: Best look yet at forthcoming Mercedes-Benz C-Class update - Filed under: Spy Photos, Sedan, Mercury, Luxury *Mercedes-Benz C-Class spy shots - Click above for high-res image gallery* Our spy photographers have just...
9 hours ago
AppleInsider

Intel 'Gulftown' CPU announcement fuels rumors of new Mac Pro - Intel this week previewed its forthcoming 32nm Core i7-980X processor, a six-core CPU codenamed "Gulftown," and a new rumor has suggested the chip could fi...
11 hours ago
Style on HuffingtonPost.com

Laetitia Casta Then & Now: France's Most Beautiful Woman Returns To The Runway (PHOTOS, VIDEO) - Aside from one breasty appearance at the Cesar Awards in February, it's nice to see French supermodel Laetitia Casta return to the runway, as she...
11 hours ago
Silicon Alley Insider

Bill Gates Loses Forbes' 'World's Richest' Title To Carlos Slim (MSFT, NYT, AMX) - [image: seinfeld-gates-tbi.jpg] Bill Gates is no longer the richest man in the world, according to the annual Forbes list of billionaires. That title no...
11 hours ago
COED Magazine

Maria Menounos Flaunts Dangerously Sexy Curves - Here’s the always stunning Maria Menounos dropping some mesmerizing cleavage. Is that a vision of perfection or what? Seriously, everything about this litt...
11 hours ago
Guardian.co.uk

Microsoft loses appeal in $290m patent case - Suffering under an injunction against versions of Word that deal with particular forms of XML, Microsoft sallies forth once more against i4i Remember Mic...
11 hours ago
People.com Celeb Photos

Paula Patton’s Sexy Red Carpet Bump - The Precious costar wraps her growing curves in everything from shiny minis to glam gowns
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ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog

New numbers on Kobe Bryant in crunch time - [image: Kobe Bryant] Jesse Garrabrant/NBAE/Getty Images The Celtics are among Kobe Bryant's seven 2009-2010 victims. Through the years, there have been ma...
12 hours ago
Boy Genius Report

More gestures coming in the next iPhone OS? - We know, we know, you’re sick of future iPhone OS rumors… but one more couldn’t hurt right? The folks over at 9to5Mac have been exploring the new iPhone 3....
12 hours ago
The Official Google Blog

Now playing: Apps Script for Google Docs - The Google Apps team here in New York City is a hotbed of movie fanatics. But while planning a recent movie night, we realized we spend too much time organ...
12 hours ago
Google Blog

Now playing: Apps Script for Google Docs - The Google Apps team here in New York City is a hotbed of movie fanatics. But while planning a recent movie night, we realized we spend too much time organ...
12 hours ago
BBC News | World Edition

Money man - A look at Mexican Carlos Slim - the world's richest man
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MediaMemo

Can You Make a Living From Viral Videos? The OK Go Gives It a Shot. - A band that's well-known for making great videos--but not for selling much music--splits from EMI, which doesn't seem that upset about it.
13 hours ago
Brainstorm Tech: Fortune Magazine

ComScore: Android gains on the iPhone - Google's U.S. smartphone market share has more than doubled, while Apple's has stalled Wonder why Google's (GOOG) Android makes Steve Jobs nervous? Check ...
13 hours ago
Telegraph

Charles Allen joins EMI Music after surprise departure - EMI Music chief executive Elio Leoni-Sceti has stepped down just 18 months after joining the record label, to be replaced by former ITV boss Charles Allen.
13 hours ago
Wired: Tech Biz

Apple Beware: Dell (With A Little Help From Amazon and Google) is Taking on iTunes - The formidable triumvirate of Amazon, Dell, and Google is apparently poised to give iTunes the first serious run for its money just as the iPad is about to...
14 hours ago
TotalBeauty.com

Hayden Panettiere's New Long Red Hair -- Love It or Hate It? - Our favorite "Heroes" star got a makeover ... so what do 'ya think? Do you like the red hue and extensions? What's the deal with extensions anyway -- pract...
15 hours ago
MTV

Michael Lynche's 'This Woman's Work' Brings Kara To Tears On 'American Idol' - Simon Cowell dubbed it 'the best performance we've had of all these live shows so far.' By Gil Kaufman *Michael Lynche* *Photo: Fox* Praise from t...
18 hours ago
InStyle.com - This Just In

Jennifer Aniston's New Beauty Venture - Find out what the Bounty Hunter star plans to launch later this year.
18 hours ago
Smashing Magazine

Uncovering Toy Cameras and Polaroid Vintage Effects (With Photoshop Tutorials) - Since its emergence, the *digital photography* market has gradually supplanted the traditional one. APN and digital SLR cameras entered our lives, an...
20 hours ago
White House Photo Blog

Buds -
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FOXNews.com national

Fake Dentist Charged With Shooting Death of Patient - A Russian-speaking immigrant who police say may have been practicing dentistry without a license for years in Oregon has been charged with murder in the sh...
22 hours ago
NPR: 7AM ET News Summary Podcast

NPR Hourly Newscast - A brief update of the top news of the hour
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FOXNews.com world

Arab League Calls for Ending Support of Mideast Peace Talks - The Arab League has recommended withdrawing support for indirect talks between Palestinians and Israelis due to recent announcements of new settlement buil...
1 day ago
Twitter Blog

Trust And Safety - As Director of Twitter's Trust and Safety team, a big part of my job is focused on the detection and prevention of spam and abuse. A couple weeks ago, Biz ...
1 day ago
Celebrity Skin

Oscars Breast Dressed: Who Wore Cleavage Best? (PHOTOS) - Most of the stars kept it classy at the Oscars, but at the Vanity Fair after party lots of cleavage came out to play. Who wore it well and who needs to cov...
2 days ago
InStyle.com: Parties

03/06: The 2010 Film Independent Spirit Awards -
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Facebook Blog

Facebook Neighbors Reunite Dog with Owner - The following is part of our "Your Stories" series on different ways Facebook is used across the world. If you have a story you'd like to share with us, plea...
5 days ago
The Economist

Return to Tibet: Outward calm - Across the region, an array of tactics for keeping the peace ON THE plane out of Lhasa, I sit next to a Nepali businessman who frequently visits Lhasa to...
5 weeks ago
Celebrities

Will Forte Gives A Dramatic Reading Of Tommy Lee’s Autobiography - *Finally, Tommy Lee is funny.* Related posts: 1. Christopher Walken Performs A Dramatic Reading Of Lady Gaga’s ‘Poker Face’ 2. Molly Sims Debu...
4 months ago

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