Merkel phones pope over Holocaust denier

German Chancellor Angela Merkel phoned Pope Benedict XVI Sunday over a Holocaust denier whom the pope welcomed back into the Roman Catholic Church last month. Neither side seems to have shifted its position over Bishop Richard Williamson, who, shortly before the pope lifted his excommunication, denied the Nazis had systematically murdered six million Jews during World War II

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Scores killed in Australia’s ‘worst fires’

At least 108 people have been killed in Australian wildfires that the country’s public broadcaster Sunday called the worst in the nation’s history. Kendra Jackson, leading senior constable of Australia’s Victoria state police, told CNN the latest death toll Sunday. The number of dead is now far higher than the toll of 75 in the Ash Wednesday fires of 1983

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NEW YORK DOLLS Putting Finishing Touches On New Album Recordings

NEW YORK DOLLS Putting Finishing Touches On New Album Recordings NEW YORK DOLLS are reportedly putting the finishing touches on the recordings for their new album with legendary producer Todd Rundgren and are scheduled to begin mixing next week. The CD, which is being tracked at Rundgren’s studio on the island of Kauai, marks the […]

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New Advanced API and Implementations with Popular Mapping Platforms

HopStop.com Introduces New Advanced API and Implementations with Popular Mapping Platforms HopStop.com, today announced the full release of HopStop FreeAPI, a free service for developers. The Company also released code samples of HopStop’s mass-transit routing integration with Google, Yahoo and MapQuest maps. Using HopStop’s proprietary routing and mapping platform, web developers can now seamlessly integrate […]

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Google search inoperable, reporting unfounded errors

Google search inoperable, reporting unfounded errors Chicago (IL) – TG Daily observed significant problems with Google’s servers today. Whereas Google News was affected yesterday, today it is the main Google search engine at www.google.com. Users searching for anything will find that all returned pages include a warning that the site may harm their computer. This […]

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Google flags entire Web as ‘malware’

A major hiccup at Google this morning caused the entire Internet to be flagged as malware. The problem appears to be centered around the Google Safe Browsing API — even that returned a “This site may harm your computer” warning (see screenshot below) — the security diagnostics service that powers Firefox’s malware blocking service. There […]

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Google taking security a little too seriously?

Google taking security a little too seriously? It looks like Google is marking all of its search results with the warning “This site may harm your computer.” If you click on a Google result link in spite of the warning, you get an interstitial page with an additional warning: “Warning – visiting this web site […]

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Google Malware Warnings in Every Result?

Google Malware Warnings in Every Result? There seems to be a problem with Google (News – Alert) today. I started my Saturday morning browsing the Web and couldn’t open any pages from Google’s search as a “Warning – visiting this web site may harm your computer!” message continually came up. After moving over to Yahoo! […]

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Philadelphia Auto Show

The Philadelphia International Auto Show is excited to welcome a variety of new components to its 2009 event including a special display from DUB Magazine, a classic race car museum and an expanded vintage vehicle display. Tons of the hottest modified celebrity vehicles will be featured at the display, including cars owned by boxing champ […]

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Portfolio Diet is Compatible with Recession

Portfolio Diet is Compatible with Recession A series of University of Toronto research studies have shown that sticking to something called the “portfolio diet” (no, it’s not a Vanguard thing) can lower cholesterol, potentially keeping people off cholesterol-lowering perscription drugs. It’s also very recession-friendly. Is it a coincidence that a diet that keeps people off […]

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