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Russia Boosts Interest Rates To 17 Percent Amid Currency's Slide

Monday, December 15, 2014

Russia's central bank raised its interest rate to 17 percent from 10.5 percent in an early Tuesday decision that comes as the ruble continues its year as the world's worst-performing major currency.

"This decision is aimed at limiting substantially increased ruble depreciation risks and inflation risks," the Bank of Russia ...

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Chinese Man Cleared Of Rape, Murder 18 Years After His Execution

Monday, December 15, 2014

In 1996, China executed an 18-year-old man named Huugjilt for the rape and murder of a woman in a public toilet. But Monday, Chinese authorities cleared the ethnic Mongolian of the crime and offered a rare apology to his family.

The official Xinhua news agency reported that Huugjilt was ...

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Dr. Kent Brantly: Lessons Learned From Fighting Ebola

Monday, December 15, 2014

"We run the risk of going from hysteria to a sense of indifference," says the now-recovered physician. "And I think that is even more dangerous than our fear."

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Denmark Claims Part Of The Arctic, Including The North Pole

Monday, December 15, 2014

Denmark, together with Greenland, today will claim around 350,000 square miles of the continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean, in an area around the North Pole that is slightly larger than the size of Texas and Oklahoma combined.

"The submission of our claim to the continental shelf north of ...

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Socialists Don't Sit Around — And Other BMJ Christmas Articles

Monday, December 15, 2014

It seems there are fewer armchair socialists — or their right-wing counterparts — than there are armchair centrists according to a study published in BMJ, the former British Medical Journal, as part of its annual tongue-in-cheek Christmas edition.

The authors from Australia's University of Sydney used European Commission

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From Australia To France, Another Bad Day For Uber

Monday, December 15, 2014

Uber's troubles are mounting. The ride-sharing service was criticized in Australia after its "surge pricing" kicked in, quadrupling fares for some customers trying to flee the area in Sydney where a gunman took hostages in a cafe.

Here's a screenshot that one customer sent to Mashable with details ...

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Are Men Idiots Who Do Stupid Things? Study Says Yes

Friday, December 12, 2014

A new study shows what at least some of us might have suspected for a long time: Men are idiots and do stupid things.

That's the premise of the authors' Male Idiot Theory. The study, published in BMJ, the former British Medical Journal, looked at past winners of the ...

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Tamir Rice's Death Ruled A Homicide By Medical Examiner

Friday, December 12, 2014

The death of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old Cleveland boy who was shot last month by a police officer, has been ruled a homicide by the Cuyahoga County medical examiner.

Tamir suffered gunshot wounds to the torso and suffered injures of "major vessel, intestines and pelvis," the examiner's report said.

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Vatican, Citing 'Delicate Situation,' Rejects Dalai Lama Meeting With Pope

Friday, December 12, 2014

Pope Francis won't meet privately with the Dalai Lama because of a "delicate situation," the Vatican's spokesman said today, in an apparent reference to the Holy See's relations with China.

The Dalai Lama, who is in Rome for a meeting of Nobel Peace Prize winners, had requested a ...

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Coming Soon To Iowa: Driver's License On A Smartphone App

Friday, December 12, 2014

A smartphone app will soon serve as an official driver's license for many Iowans.

"We are really moving forward on this," Paul Trombino, director of the state's Department of Transportation, told Gov. Terry Brandstad during an agency budget hearing this week. "The way things are going, we may be the ...

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Bill Cosby's Latest Accuser: Supermodel Beverly Johnson

Friday, December 12, 2014

Former supermodel Beverly Johnson has become the most famous person yet to accuse comedy legend Bill Cosby of drugging her.

Johnson, the first black woman featured on the cover of Vogue, told ABC News that it happened in the 1980s, and that she knew she had been ...

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Lost Disney Film, Featuring Oswald The Lucky Rabbit, Found In Norway

Friday, December 12, 2014

Before Mickey Mouse, there was Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

Only 25 seconds of Empty Socks, a Walt Disney cartoon featuring Oswald, was thought to exist. But archivists at Norway's National Library conducting an inventory at the library's vault in Mo i Rana, in the Arctic Circle, found an almost ...

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Officer Buys Eggs For Woman Caught Shoplifting To Feed Family

Thursday, December 11, 2014

The act of kindness in Tarrant, Ala., was caught on video. The story garnered so much attention that donations of money, food and clothes poured in from around the world.

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Kalettes, Broccoflower And Other Eye-Popping Vegetables For 2015

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Does a cross between Brussels sprouts and kale sound like your vegetable dream come true? Maybe so, if you're someone who's crazy for cruciferous vegetables and all the fiber and nutrients they pack in.

Meet Kalettes, a hybrid of the two that looks like a small head of ...

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Kentucky Says Noah's Ark Theme Park Won't Get Tax Breaks

Thursday, December 11, 2014

A Christian group in Kentucky that is building a Noah's Ark theme park says it will legally challenge the state's decision to withdraw its offer of tax breaks for the project.

"We have been working on this project with Kentucky for more than two years, so this just-received denial ...

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'Unknowable' If CIA Methods Elicited Useful Information, Agency's Chief Says

Thursday, December 11, 2014

CIA Director John Brennan defended his agency's actions after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and said while it is "unknowable" whether the CIA's interrogation techniques against terrorism suspects provided useful information, the agency did not mislead the Bush White House about its activities.

Brennan's comments, at a rare news ...

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'Pineapple Express' Brings Winds, Rain To Northern California

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Power outages, canceled ferry services, flight delays: Those are some of the effects of one of the windiest and rainiest storms in recent years to make their way across Northern California.

The National Weather Service issued flood warnings along the West Coast. Some parts of Northern ...

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Fidel Castro Awarded China's Confucius Peace Prize

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has been awarded the Confucius Peace Prize, China's version of the Nobel Prize.

The Global Times, an official newspaper, said Castro, 88, was selected for the prize because he did not use force while dealing with international disputes, especially against the U.S. The newspaper ...

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Stocks Are Battered As Oil Hits Another 5-Year Low

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Today was another big day for energy news: Oil prices fell to a new five-year-low, below $61 per barrel on world markets; the U.S. said its supplies of crude oil increased last week; and OPEC said it expected lower demand next year.

The news prompted a selloff on Wall ...

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Uber's Troubles Mount Even As Its Value Grows

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Uber, the ride-sharing service that is growing in value, is also watching its troubles mount.

It's latest woes are in California where, as NPR's Laura Sydell tells our Newscast unit, the attorneys general of San Francisco and Los Angeles counties are suing Uber. Here's more from Sydell's report:

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