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A new Warning Sign (to me at least) Around Brockport PA - just saw a yellow warning sign stating... "Warning Convicted child molester ahead on left" Never seen that before

Interesting article from TIME (well I found it interesting :)) What It Will Take to Finish the Job in Afghanistan - Yahoo! News

BERLIN (Reuters) – A resourceful baby penguin took advantage of Germany's wintry weather to give her minders the slip and embark on a tour of the zoo before waddling into the lions' den. A visitor spotted the African penguin, born in September, taking a stroll in the lion enclosure but the...

BBC news Jan 6 The amount of junk e-mail being sent across the globe has seen a dramatic fall in recent months. The volume of spam has dropped steadily since August, but the Christmas period saw a precipitous decline. One security firm detected around 200 billion spam messages being...

BBC News Jan 6 President Obama is to name bank executive and former commerce secretary William Daley as the next White House chief of staff, an official has said. More BBC News - William Daley to be next White House chief of staff

BBC News Jan 6 The US is to send an additional 1,400 marines to southern Afghanistan in an effort to counter a Taliban offensive, a Pentagon official has said. The marines are now being notified of the deployment and are scheduled to leave within several weeks, the defence department said...

AOL News Jan 5 You know you're dealing with a special household when a domestic argument turns into a case of gang assault. But witnesses in Pakistan say that's what happened to polygamist Mian Ishaq, who was beaten up by his first and second wives for allegedly conducting a secret wedding...

Sky News Jan 6 A real-life Superhero dressed in tights, a mask and a black and gold lycra suit, says he is helping to make the streets of Seattle safer by scaring away criminals The man, called Phoenix Jones, wears a bullet proof vest, and also has stab protection as well as being armed...

BBC News Jan 6 A new generation of smart packaging - which flags up when food is going off - is being developed in Glasgow. Researchers from Strathclyde University (Scotland) are working on indicators made from "intelligent plastics" which change colour when food loses its freshness...

BBC News Jan 5 Tablets look set to hog the headlines at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Industry watchers expect 100 or more of the portable gadgets to be shown off at the four-day technology extravaganza. About 120,000 people are expected to visit the 150,000 sq m...

BBC News Jan 5 The companies involved in the BP oil spill had made decisions to cut costs and save time that contributed to the disaster, a US panel has found. In a 48-page report, the presidential commission wrote that the failures were "systemic" and likely to recur without industry and...

MEMPHIS (Reuters) – A blast ripped through an ammunitions plant in southwestern Tennessee on Wednesday, killing one worker and forcing the evacuation of neighboring industrial businesses, authorities said. The blast at the Kinematics Research plant in Oakland occurred during a midafternoon...

BBC News Pink Floyd have ended a legal battle with their record company EMI and signed a new contract with the label. The rock group recently won a court ruling against the label over whether a deal signed in the pre-download age could be applied to digital sales. "All legal disputes...

BBC News Jan 5 A pilot's spilled coffee has been blamed for accidentally activating a hijacking alert and prompting a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Germany to stop in Canada on Monday. The pilot of Flight 940 triggered an emergency code after spilling coffee on radio equipment...

BBC News Jan 4 The Federal Reserve will continue with its $600bn (£385bn) stimulus programme as it is not convinced by recent signs of a strengthening recovery in the US economy, meeting notes have revealed. The Fed acknowledged the improving outlook, but said the programme - dubbed QE2 -...

AOL Jan 5 WASHINGTON -- It's Constitution Week on Capitol Hill. As the newly divided Congress files into town, incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner is making sure the tea party knows Republicans heard their message about the need to adhere to the nation's founding document. He...

BBC News Jan 5 US carmakers have reported strong sales for December, confirming the auto industry's steady recovery during 2010. Chrysler said sales for the month rose by 16% against a year earlier, while General Motors posted sales growth of 7.5%. Ford said sales rose by 7%. Japan's...

BBC News Jan 5 The White House is telling US agencies to create "insider threat" programmes to ferret out disgruntled workers who may leak state secrets, reports say. The move follows the leaking of thousands of secret US cables to the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks. An 11-page...

AOL News Jan 4 It has taken 73 years to finally pass a meaningful bill to ensure the safety of America's food supply, which President Barack Obama made law tonight. The bill will assure Americans that they won't wind up in a hospital just because they sat down for a meal, Health and Human...

AOL News WYALUSING, Pa. -- It looks like Jean Stevens will be reunited with the two people she loved so much that she wanted them to keep her company after they died. The 91-year-old widow who lived with the embalmed corpses of her husband and twin sister -- until authorities found out and...