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News Feed Latest worldwide news Oil producer Pacific Rubiales could buy Petrominerales -sources BOGOTA, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Toronto-listed oil company Pacific Rubiales, Colombia's second-biggest producer of crude, could buy rival Petrominerales next Monday, two sources familiar with the situation told Reuters on Friday, after shares in the companies had been halted. Japans Leader Gives No Ground in Islands Dispute Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan said he was open to dialogue with China about disputed islands in the South China Sea but that Japan owns them. Benchmark's Bill Gurley on network effects and local commerce What the VC firm learned from eBay. Op-Ed Contributor Have a Nice Day, N.S.A. How Brazilians are using humor to fight back against American surveillance. Television Review Betrayal, With James Cromwell, Has Debut on ABC An extramarital affair primes the drama in Betrayal, a new series on ABC featuring the legal aftermath of a murder. Op-Ed Contributor My State Needs Obamacare. Now. Kentucky couldnt afford not to implement Obamacare. Bits Blog Developing Countries Surge in Mobile Broadband, U.N. Finds By the end of this year, the number of mobile broadband connections worldwide will rise to 2.1 billion, nearly three times the total of fixed-line subscriptions. New York town finds 850 snakes in man's home NEW YORK (Reuters) - Authorities in the New York town of Shirley found 850 snakes, including two illegal 6-foot-long (2-meter) Burmese pythons, in the home and garage of an animal control officer suspected of dealing in the reptiles, local media reported. Art Review The Mets Balthus Cats and Girls Is Strangely Refreshing An exhibition on the French painter Balthus at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, focusing on his somewhat disturbing predilection for girls and cats, is a rather strange, even refreshing exercise. Your Money A Guide to the New Exchanges For Health Insurance Details on the Obama administration health care plan are scheduled to be disclosed next week, but its never too early to examine the basics. Music Review We Have an Anchor, a Film With a Live Score Indie-rockers provide the live score for We Have an Anchor, a film by Jem Cohen, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Is Rihanna right about Phuket? Rihanna recently tweeted about a visit to a sex show in Phuket. Phuket-based publisher Alan Morison says her visit highlights just how bad the island's main nightlife strip has become. Miss World Pageant or pornography? Demeaning, exploitative, degrading. Beauty pageants have been called lots of things. Virginia Tech Shuts Down Georgia Tech, 17-10 Logan Thomas ran and passed for touchdowns in the first half. Hungry City Kura in the East Village At Kura in the East Village, Norihiro Ishizuka prepares sushi with a genial smile and a generous hand. Penney to raise up to $932 million in share sale, lowers cash forecast (Reuters) - J.C. Penney Co Inc on Friday cut its forecast of year-end cash reserves as it expects to raise up to $932 million in a share sale, suggesting that the retailer is burning through cash faster than expected. Girls flee bombs, start over in U.S. Blair Brettschneider didn't experience war or genocide as a young girl in suburban Michigan. She has never received a death threat, and she has never seen a family member murdered. But the 49 teenagers she helps every week have. Recipes for Health Balkan Eggplant and Chile Pure A delicious spread that works well with warm pita bread or toasted pita triangles. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Gains a Big Audience While The Voice Keeps Rolling The ratings Tuesday night again show that the networks, this time ABC, can introduce a new show and get a big audience to watch it. Terrorists seeking 'soft' targets? A document found on the body of an al Qaeda operative killed two years ago contains chilling plans that take on new significance after the Nairobi mall terror attack. U.S. approves first artificial pancreas system for diabetics (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first artificial pancreas system for diabetics that reads blood sugar levels and automatically shuts off the flow of insulin. City crushes United in derby David Moyes' first Manchester derby ends in crushing defeat Sunday as his United team suffers an embarrassing 4-1 loss away to English Premier League title rival City. ND LBs Grace, Smith Face Comparisons With Te'o At first glance, Notre Dame linebackers Jaylon Smith and Jarrett Grace don't appear to have a lot in common other than being starters the 22nd-ranked Fighting Irish are counting on to help slow No. 14 Oklahoma's offense. Well Married Cancer Patients Live Longer The burdens of cancer treatment take a greater toll on single patients than married patients, a new study shows. Last year's top ten The top 10 Heroes In their own words GM won't tackle pension talks with UAW until 2015-exec NEW YORK, Sept 27 (Reuters) - General Motors Co will wait until its next round of labor talks in 2015 before negotiating with the United Auto Workers about the automaker's U.S. blue-collar pension obligation, GM's vice chairman said on Friday. U.S. road bridge drops 2 feet A bridge in Green Bay, Wisconsin has begun to sag, forcing officials to close it indefinitely for repairs. Group claims to have hacked iPhone 5S A group of hackers in Germany says it has found a way to bypass the fingerprint-sensor security system on the new iPhone 5S. Judge tosses lawsuit opposed to Sirius takeover by Liberty Media (Reuters) - The board of Sirius XM Radio Inc did not breach its duty to shareholders by allowing a takeover by Liberty Media Corp without demanding it pay a premium for the stock, a Delaware judge ruled on Friday. ArtsBeat Video Reviews of Don Jon, Muscle Shoals and Metallica Through the Never Times critics on Metallica Through the Never, Muscle Shoals and Don Jon. Temporary government funding bill clears Senate hurdle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Friday overcame Tea Party-backed roadblocks and advanced a bill that would avert a government shutdown by funding federal agencies beyond October 1. DEALS-MA flat so far this year, even with mammoth Verizon deal * U.S. MA up 35 pct, Europe down 24 pct, Asia dropped 8 pct The advert that changed a life Some people take many years to find their calling -- but for Adam van Koeverden, it was right in front of him in black and white. On a small section of his local newspaper, the boy who would become an Olympic champion saw his future flash before him. Penney reported to see no need to raise cash, shares jump (Reuters) - J.C. Penney Co Inc Chief Executive Myron Ullman told investors he does not see the need to raise cash this year, CNBC reported, reversing a sharp fall in the retailer's shares. Special Report Pimco shook hands with the Fed - and made a killing NEW YORK (Reuters) - Through the second half of 2011, debate raged in financial markets over whether the U.S. Federal Reserve would embark on a third round of massive bond purchases, known as "quantitative easing," to shore up an anemic economy. Pacific Investment Management Co wasn't waiting to find out. Belgian museum tells tale of huddled masses steaming to America ANTWERP, Belgium (Reuters) - They were the ships that took Albert Einstein and Irving Berlin to America, two of the millions who set out from Europe around the turn of the 20th century hoping to... Do black tech entrepreneurs face institutional bias? Wayne Sutton has been asking venture-capital investors and Silicon Valley executives a question that's not often broached here in the epicenter of the technology industry The Learning Network Text to Text | The Scarlet Letter and Sexism and the Single Murderess In the third example of our new Text to Text feature, we pair a passage from The Scarlet Letter with a recent Op-Ed article that, together, invite discussion on societal attitudes toward female sexuality. Vestas Joins With Mitsubishi for Offshore Turbines The venture will develop Vestass 8-megawatt offshore turbines, each of which can power roughly 8,000 households. Al-Shabaab 'Lord of Flies' with guns Somali teens may be lured into Al-Shabaab by the promise of food and security.

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