(Reuters) – Astronomers have discovered the largest known structure in the universe – a group of quasars so large it would take 4 billion years to cross it while traveling at speed of light.The immense scale also challenges Albert Einstein’s Cosmological Principle, the assumption that the universe looks the same from every point of view, researchers said.The findings by academics from Britain’s University...
Give Lance another chance?
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Japanese airlines ground Boeing 787s after emergency landing
Label: Health TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's two leading airlines grounded their fleets of Boeing 787s on Wednesday after one of the Dreamliner...
France to stay in Mali until stability restored
Label: BusinessBAMAKO/DUBAI (Reuters) - France pledged on Tuesday to keep troops in Mali until stability returned to the West African country, raising the specter of a long campaign against al Qaeda-linked rebels who held their ground despite a fifth day of air strikes. Paris has poured hundreds of soldiers into Mali and carried out 50 bombing raids since Friday in the Islamist-controlled northern half...
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Apple drags on S&P, Nasdaq; Dell jumps after report
Label: WorldNEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended lower on Monday as worries over demand for Apple products drove down its shares and investors braced for earnings disappointments. Running counter to that was Dell Inc's stock which jumped 13 percent to about a five-month high at $12.29 after Bloomberg reported the No. 3 personal computer maker is in talks with private equity firms...
AP source: Lance Armstrong tells Winfrey he doped
Label: TechnologyAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Lance Armstrong has finally come clean.After years of bitter and forceful denials, he offered a simple "I'm sorry" to friends and colleagues and then admitted he used performance-enhancing drugs during an extraordinary cycling career that included seven Tour de France victories.Armstrong confessed to doping during an interview with Oprah Winfrey taped Monday, just a couple of...
Ohio gas prices tick up amid recovery hopes
Label: WorldCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio gas prices are higher to start the new work week.The average price for a gallon of regular gas in Ohio was $ 3.24 in Monday’s survey from auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wright Express. That’s 5 cents higher than a week ago.Ohio’s prices are still below the national average of $ 3.30, which is about the same as last week.The lowest average price in Ohio...
Are gun curbs just symbolism?
Label: LifestyleSTORY HIGHLIGHTSGun violence recommendations are expected from Vice President Biden on TuesdayThe proposals are expected to contain substantive and symbolic ideas to curb gun violencePresidents use symbolism to shift public opinion or affect larger political or social changeWashington (CNN) -- The pictures told the story: Vice President Joe Biden looked solemn, patrician and in control as he sat at...
City prepared to pay $33 million in two cop misconduct cases
Label: HealthChicago Tribune reporter David Heinzmann on news that Mayor Rahm Emanuel seeks to settle two notorious cases of alleged police misconduct. (Posted Jan. 14th, 2013) ...
France keeps up Mali air strikes, African troop plan advances
Label: BusinessBAMAKO (Reuters) - France kept up its air strikes against Islamist rebels in Mali as plans to deploy African troops gathered pace on Tuesday amid concerns that delays could endanger a wider mission to dislodge al Qaeda and its allies. France has already poured hundreds of troops into Mali and carried out days of air strikes since Friday in a vast desert area seized last year by an Islamist...
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