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Associated Press This is a BlackBerry device from 2002 in San Francisco. There is talk that the fate of Research In Motion, the company that fathered the BlackBerry in 1999, is no longer certain as its flagship property rapidly loses market share to flashier phones like Apple's iPhone and Google's Android-driven models.
RIM sinks, but patents, network have value
WATERLOO, Ontario — Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the BlackBerry, is in steep decline. The company, once the crown jewel of the Canadian technology industry, is now worth 1 percent of Apple...
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Nigeria plane crash hit all social classes
LAGOS, Nigeria — Engines out, the pilot of the doomed Nigerian commercial airliner looked for somewhere to put down the aircraft, desperate for open space but finding only a sea of tin roofs and na...
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Tobias was renowned as an anthropologist
JOHANNESBURG — Anthropologist Phillip Tobias, internationally renowned as an authority on human evolution and remembered for his love of humanity, died Thursday, South Africa's University of the Wi...
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Associated Press A Hoary-throated Spinetail perches on a branch in March near the Takutu River on the border between Brazil and Guyana. Ninety types of Amazon birds have been added to a list of species at risk of extinction.
Group: Amazon birds risk extinction
RIO DE JANEIRO — The list of Amazon bird species facing danger of extinction has risen sharply because their rainforest habitat is being slashed to make room for cattle ranching and agriculture, a ...
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Associated Press Free Syrian Army members fire at targets Thursday as they train on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria.
UN monitors shot at near site of Syrian killings
BEIRUT — U.N. observers came under fire Thursday as they tried to reach the site of the latest reported mass killing in Syria — about 80 people, including women and children who were shot or stabbe...
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Associated Press Felix Guirola climbs onto his self-made 11-foot tall bicycle while people help steady it as he prepares to take it for a ride in May in Havana, Cuba.
Man’s super-tall bike a new sight in Havana
HAVANA — Many people would be leery of cycling through chaotic downtown Havana, sharing its narrow, potholed streets with the darting scooters, incorrigible jaywalkers and hulking 1950s Detroit cla...
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Associated Press French President Francois Holland (right) and British Defense Ministry Philippe Hammond (left) take part a ceremony commemorating the 68th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France began in 1944, on Wednesday in the British war cemetery of Ranville, western France.
Statue marks D-Day anniversary
SAINTE-MARIE-DU-MONT, France — With World War II-era military planes darting overhead and Normandy’s Utah Beach visible in the distance, a bronze statue emerged from beneath a camouflage parachute,...
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II holds a bouquet of flowers as she returns to Buckingham Palace after attending a service of thanksgiving and a lunch in honour of the Diamond Jubilee in London,Tuesday June 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Carl Cort, Pool)
After jubilee success, monarchy faces future
LONDON — There were six figures on the balcony, three generations of royalty — and one large absence. Queen Elizabeth II’s appearance at Buckingham Palace with her family on Tuesday capped a tri...
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Al-Qaida No. 2 dies in drone strike in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A U.S. drone strike in northwest Pakistan has killed al-Qaida’s second-in-command, officials from both countries confirmed Tuesday, the most significant victory so far in the ...
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Black bear euthanized after eating Canada murderer
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Canadian conservation officers have euthanized a black bear that ate the remains of a convicted murderer. British Columbia Environment Minister Terry Lake said Mond...
Jun 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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