Koranic teachers arrested over child begging (Reuters)

Reuters - Senegalese security forces have arrested seven Koranic teachers for forcing children to panhandle, a police official said on Friday, days after the West African state announced a crack down on public begging.

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UN: Climate funds shouldn't divert poverty aid (AP)

AP - The U.N.'s climate chief says poor countries are right to expect that any funding they receive to combat global warming be kept separate from development aid or poverty relief.

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WordPress upgrades free app for blogging on the go (Appolicious)

Appolicious - The free WordPress for Android app was upgraded thanks to feedback from faithful users. Updates include fixes to numerous, annoying bugs like unexpected app crashes, log-in issues and more.Most notable in the recent upgrade is a new comment feature, which displays comments in real time as comments arrive in your Droid notification bar.

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Apple Browsing Share Tops Linux, Android Steals Share Everywhere (PC World)

PC World - More people browsed the Internet last month with a device running Apple's mobile operating system, iOS, than used Linux to do so. That's a first for Apple, according to NetMarketShare, a firm that produces metrics on the market share of browsers, operating systems and search engines.

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Long-lived Dutch might be bad news for insurers (Reuters)

Reuters - The Dutch are set to live longer -- good news for them but bad news for insurers that are expected to suffer from higher capital requirements and tighter profit margins as a result.

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Google Settles Privacy Lawsuit Over Buzz (PC World)

PC World - Google is spending US$8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed over the rollout of its Google Buzz social-networking service.

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John Lennon's toilet sells for $14,740 at auction (Reuters)

An undated handout image shows a toilet belonging to late Beatle John Lennon. The toilet fetched 9,500 pounds ($14,740) at auction on August 28, 2010, around 10 times its estimate, the sale organisers said. BRITAIN-LENNON/ REUTERS/The Beatles Shop/HandoutReuters - A toilet that belonged to late Beatle John Lennon fetched 9,500 pounds ($14,740) at auction on Saturday, around 10 times its estimate, the sale organizers said.




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German party mistakenly hands out porn pens to kids (Reuters)

Reuters - To sweeten their first day at primary school German children are normally given a cardboard cone filled with sweets, but schoolchildren in Essen this year opened their cones to find pens which project erotic images.

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Mobile users still wary of being found, survey says (Ben Patterson)

Ben Patterson - Feel the need to "check in" on Foursquare or Facebook every time you saunter into a restaurant, browse the goods at your neighborhood grocery store, or cram into a rock concert? Well, if you, you’re still in the minority — and you’re also probably a guy below 40 — according to the latest research.

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Politician raffles breast implants (Reuters)

Venezuelan opposition candidate for a National Assembly position, Gustavo Rojas, campaigns in the low income neighborhood of Antimano in Caracas August 27, 2010. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia RawlinsReuters - A Venezuelan politician is offering breast implants as a prize in a raffle to raise funds for his parliamentary election campaign.




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Chrome Browser Updated After Two Years of Growth (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor - Google's Chrome browser is now two years old, and the youngster -- and its proud parent -- are celebrating its steady rise in popularity. According to Net Applications, Chrome had 7.5 percent of the browser market in August -- putting it in third place behind Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox, and above Apple's Safari.

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Mass Extinction Threat: Earth on Verge of Huge Reset Button? (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Mass extinctions have served as huge reset buttons that dramatically changed the diversity of species found in oceans all over the world, according to a comprehensive study of fossil records. The findings suggest humans will live in a very different future if they drive animals to extinction, because the loss of each species can alter entire ecosystems.

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Permission to laugh at election -- for now (Reuters)

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva laughs as he waits for Kuwait's Prime Minister Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah in Brasilia, July 22, 2010. REUTERS/Ricardo MoraesReuters - Brazil's election is a laughing matter again, at least for now.




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Exercise Can Counteract Obesity Genes, Says Study (Time.com)

Time.com - A new study finds people who are genetically predisposed to obesity may benefit most from physical activity

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'Top Chef's' Short Ribs Get NASA Twist for Spaceflight (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Angelo Sosa's short ribs are destined for the International Space Station.

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Ping Surpasses 1 Million Users (Mashable)

Mashable - In less than two days, Apple's Ping music social network has surpassed the 1 million user milestone.

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Biotech salmon safe for eating: FDA (Reuters)

Reuters - A biotechnology company's genetically engineered salmon are as safe to eat as other Atlantic salmon, U.S. regulators said as they weighed approval of the first DNA-altered animal for Americans' dinner plates.

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Man bites police over a pet peeve (Reuters)

Police guard the entrance to a store in Barendrecht, near Rotterdam December 4, 2002. REUTERS/Guido BenschopReuters - Police arrested an 82-year-old man after he bit and kicked officers who had arrived to mediate in a dispute with a neighbor over a domestic pet.




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Clams befouling Tahoe invade Adirondack lake in NY (AP)

In this Aug. 30, 2010 photo, Dan Marelli, of Tallahassee, Fla., a biologist and scuba diver specializing in mollusks, holds Asian clams found in Lake George, in Bolton Landing, N.Y. Scientists consider the clams arrival a stroke of bad luck that could cause ecological and economic harm. They hope to smother the rapidly reproducing mollusks before they spread. (AP Photo/Mary Esch)AP - A thumbnail-sized clam blamed for clouding the azure bays of Lake Tahoe high in the Sierra Nevada has now turned up in a mountain-ringed Adirondack lake renowned for its limpid, spring-fed waters.




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Disk Storage Still Bouncing Back, IDC Says (PC World)

PC World - The market for enterprise disk storage systems grew strongly in the second quarter, continuing to recover from a slump brought on by the economic slowdown of 2008 and 2009, research company IDC said on Friday.

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