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MTV.comKaty Perry Turns 'Today Show' To A Candy LandBillboardKaty Perry turned Rockefeller Center into a real life candy land for her "Today Show" performance early this morning (Aug. 27) to promote her new CD "Teenage Dream" w...

CBC.caThe Fed Still Has AmmunitionBarron'sBEN BERNANKE SPOKE SOFTLY Friday in Jackson Hole and reminded everybody that the Federal Reserve still has big sticks it can use to combat deflation and counter a renewed downturn in the economy. ...Bernanke Says ...

The HinduChile turning to high-tech to aid trapped minersWashington PostCOPIAPO, CHILE - As 33 Chilean miners entered their fourth week trapped in a collapsed mine, experts from around the world gathered on this remote hillside to attempt what all conside...

CNN (blog)NASA helping in historic rescue of trapped Chilean minersWashington PostA new video showing the trapped Chilean miners and the space where they're sheltering has been released. It gives the fullest picture yet of conditions for the 33 men co...

Kansas City StarFrance: Roma Policy ChallengedNew York TimesA United Nations-backed committee of experts sharply criticized France on Friday for deporting large groups of Roma and said the government in Paris should do more to combat what it called a grow...

The HinduVideo of the Trapped Chilean Miners Stirs a Country's EmotionsNew York TimesSAN JOSÉ MINE, Chile — Huddled around a television set in a dining tent, relatives laughed, smiled and clapped on Friday as they watched the first video images of the...

New Zealand HeraldPutting Google Realtime to Real-World UseReutersGoogle added new functionality to its real-time search engine, and moved it from an obscure feature buried in the options on the left pane of the standard Google search, to its own Web site...

Kansas City StarFrance denies UN criticism over Roma's rights abuseXinhuaPARIS, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- France rejected on Friday UN's racism and discrimination watchdog's criticism over its Roma policy, saying human rights are guaranteed in the c...

msnbc.comRoma reveal a rootless EuropeFinancial TimesLast week in Lille a Catholic priest announced that he was praying that French president Nicolas Sarkozy would have a heart attack. The priest, Arthur Hervet, who has since retracted his words, is passi...

Kansas City StarUN Urges France to Stop Collective Deportation of RomaVoice of AmericaPhoto: AP A UN Watchdog Group is urging France to stop the collective deportation of Roma, also known as Gypsies. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimin...