| Diver Searched for Ferry Victims by Touch in Muddy Water
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 Divers trying to retrieve bodies from the sunken South Korean ferry are finding the job "extremely difficult," feeling their way through the ink-black water with their hands as they work their way through rooms in the capsized ship.
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| Obamacare another failure: Healthcare.gov claims users' passwords change it's just a 'bug'
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 The US government health insurace website has reset passwords of all its registered users. According to a statement published on the healthcare.gov website, the reset was conducted to protect people's accounts from the Heartbleed bug that has recently surfaced on the web. The Heartbleed security flaw is a bug believed to affect two out of every three Web servers, according to the Electronic Freedom Foundation. The Voice of Russia talked to Shoshana Weissmann, Founder of Network Red, a Republican campaign website, and contributor to PolicyMic, a platform for analysis on the news, policy and culture.
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| Facebook Receives U.S. Antitrust Approval For Oculus Deal
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 The U.S. government has approved Facebook's $2 billion acquisition of Oculus VR, following the Federal Trade Commission's examination of the deal. The FTC has determined -- not all that surprisingly -- that the deal would not violate U.S. antitrust laws. This will allow the two companies to move forward in combining forces, though Facebook previously promised that Oculus would "continue to operate… Read More
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| Replace Letterman With Colbert Before It's Too 'Late'
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 CBS would be wise to replace David Letterman with Stephen Colbert as soon as contractually possible because it seems that the "Late Show" host is just phoning it in. Besides CBS will make a lot more cash with Colbert.
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| Sacked Moyes thanks Ferguson for Man Utd opportunity
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| Sacked Manchester United manager David Moyes thanked his predecessor Alex Ferguson on Wednesday for having given him the opportunity to lead the Premier League club.
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Then Manchester United's manager David Moyes listens to a question during a news conference at Old Trafford in Manchester, northern England in this March 18, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Phil Noble/Files
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| Blair accused of 'simple-minded' analysis of Islamist threat
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 Tony Blair was accused of "embarrassingly simple-minded analysis" today after delivering a speech on the global danger posed by Islamist movements across the Middle East. The former prime minister used an address in London to argue that political Islam is a common thread that underpins threats from across the region, from Libya to Iran. He said that while, at one level, "the ideology coming ...
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| Two Bolts in Kane-Toews Calder territory
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 By Allan Muir The NHL announced this morning that forwards Tyler Johnson and Ondrej Palat, of the Lightning, and Nathan MacKinnon, of the Avalanche, are the three finalists for the 2013-14 …
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| Wealthy childless Chinese seek US surrogates
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 Chinese couples who are unable to have children are going to ... America. By hiring American surrogates, they get around a ban on surrogacy in their own coutnry, as well as the country's birth limits. The practice - a new version of Chinese "birth tourism" - offers a solution to rising infertility in China, and even the added bonus of US citizenship for babies born in the States.
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