World News Update

1. After revealing unknown nuclear enrichment facility near Qum, Iran and US meet in Geneva for nuclear talks.
2. Harry Potter has something in common with a story about gay penguins, censorship.
3. Cluster of hundreds of dinosaur eggs from Cretaceous accidentally called “Jurassic treasure trove”.
4. Happy 60th Birthday, Red China.
5. Turns out, sustaining multiple concussions a year is a bad thing, NFL studies show.
6. Death count for US-Mexico border crossings increases to it’s highest in three years.
7. Move over Lucy, “Ardi” takes place as oldest human-anscestor skeleton.
8. Green Day, yes, that Green Day opens a musical on Broadway.
9. Good Theater’s “The Little Dog Laughed” gets a good Portland Phoenix review.

World News Update

1. Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad drafts document that pushes statehood, infastructure for Palestine.
2. Some aboreal treelines advancing as planet warms, study says.
3. Wikipedia to launch controls on editing certain pages.
4. CIA used mock executions, electric drills, firearms and other “enhanced” interrogation techniques on terrorist subjects investigation reports.
5. Iran puts hundreds of opposition leaders on mass trail under the pretext of destabilizing the government and trying to start a coup.
6. North and South Korea to hold talks to re-unite families separated by the Korean War.
7. One dies, two rescued after being swept into the sea while hundreds crowded Thunder Hole in Acadia Park to watch huge waves from Hurricane Bill.

World News Update

1. Bill Clinton goes on a solo mission to N. Korea to secure the release of two US reporters.
2. Remember how cool Pandora was? Not for long as it teams up with Clean Channel, yeah you know that Clear Channel.
3. Heath Ledger directed Modest Mouse video to premiere.
4. One reporter and two accompanying tourists have been arrested in Iran after straying accross the Iraqi-Iranian border.
5. Someone investigates GE and GE throws money at them.
6. A Canadian family fails to realize that uploading home videos of their 7-year-old driving a car full of people to YouTube may be used as evidence against them.
7. Praying father allowed diabetic girl to die, opting to put God before a doctor.
8. Protests in Sudan as woman is tried for wearing “indecent clothing” after caught wearing trousers in public.

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1. NASA defends it’s next-generation moon rocket plans.
2. Iran just can’t seem to help itself when it comes to toeing the oppressive police-state line as armed government forces descend on a public mourning for the victims of the post-election violence.
3. Recently discovered Mac flaw could leak scrambled data.
4. Saudi man forced into hiding after talking about using Bluetooth to pick up chicks in Jeddah on live TV.
5. Red Sox’s World Series victories could be tainted by Ortiz/Ramierez perfomance-enhancing drug use.
6. Nanotechnology succesfully kills ovarian cancer in mice. Human trials may be less than a year away.
7. Senators threaten to reduce federal highway funding to states that do not ban texting and driving. iPhone and Blackberry users in a spectacular show of solidarity rapidly tweet protests and complaints while driving with one knee down the interstate.
8. Hugo Chavez, everyone’s favorite demon-sniffing* South American socialist president, pulls his ambassador from neighboring Colombia over a weapons dispute.
9. A girl, from her mother’s wombe untimely ripp’d*, discovered alive by NH police. (PS: Holy shit.)
10. Pelosi accuses insurance companies of trying to kill a government run health plan, calls insurance companies “villains” and says they’ve been “immoral all along.”
11. Men at Work face plagarism case and no, it’s not for the phrase “and men chunder.”

World News Update

1. Pyongyang calls Hillary Clinton ‘a funny lady’ and says ‘sometimes she looks like a primary schoolgirl.’
2. Califonia’s senate decides to pull an all-nighter to figure out this whole $28,000,000,000.00 budget deficit thing.
3. China breeds live mice from skin cells.
4. Iran’s opposition leader unveils new broad-based political front that will give the opposition to the June elections legal status.
5. Khameneni, Iran’s Supreme Ayatollah, orders the dismissal of current vice presidential choice.
6. Three people escape Bruges jail in hijacked helicopter.
7. Britain’s Prince William spends entire day being cool with a bunch of homeless kids on a mountain.
8. N. Korea has stepped up the execution of Christians.
9. Ireland realizes it doesn’t have a law against blasphemy and quickly passes one.
10. Bill Gates criticises the U.S. for not adopting a national identity card.
11. Two lobstermen get into a turf-war shootout, ruin it for everyone else.

World News Update

1. Iran, still holding a British ambassador for trial, warns the West not to interfere.
2. Protesting unfair wages a strike sets to halt South Africa’s preparations for the 2010 World Cup.
3. This woman does not know what she is running from, or where she is running to for that matter.
4. A War of the Roses begins in Portland with someone snatching 100 blossoms from Deering Oaks Park.
5. Good ol’ Al Franken (D-MN) is sworn in as a US Senator.
6. £50,000 a year to act like a witch and live in a “Wookey” hole.
7. The phrase “Pigs in a Blanket” probably won’t translate into other languages well.