Advocates Push Craigslist to Drop Adult Services Outside of U.S.
National organizations are demanding that Craigslist remove its adult services section from its websites outside the U.S. after the company stopped posting the section on its U.S. site.



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Latest Google Doodle an Animated Mystery
For a dozen years, Google Inc. has been occasionally swapping its everyday logo for a "doodle," a sketch celebrating holidays, inventions, artists and sporting events, and showcasing designs from contest-winning students.



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Google, Apple Battle to Bring Web to Your TV
It's Apple versus Google in a growing battle for the living room -- and consumers could reap all the benefits.



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A Whistle Too Far? It's War Within WikiLeaks
Dissent and infighting may be the new order of business at WikiLeaks, as a rape investigation into the whistle-blowing website's outspoken frontman Julian Assange threatens to tear the site apart.



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Big Brother, for Sons and Daughters: The Risk of Family Monitoring
As they head off to school, a growing number of students are being carefully tracked -- not only their classroom grades, but also their precise locations.



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Can Snail Mail Prevail? U.K. Makes Digital Postage
The U.K.'s Royal Mail has released the world’s first intelligent stamps. Adding a high-tech twist to traditional snail mail, the new stamps are designed to interact with smartphones using a custom application, linking them to special online content.



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Amid Egypt's Resorts, an Ancient City Is Unearthed
Today, it's a sprawl of luxury vacation homes where Egypt's wealthy play on the white beaches of the Mediterranean coast. But 2,000 years ago, this was a thriving Greco-Roman port city, boasting villas of merchants grown rich on the wheat and olive trade.



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Indonesian Volcano Belches Out Strongest Eruption Yet
An Indonesian volcano shot a towering cloud of black ash high into the air Tuesday, dusting villages 15 miles away in its most powerful eruption since awakening last week from four centuries of dormancy.



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Galactic 'Supervolcano' Erupting With X-Rays
A galactic "supervolcano" in the massive galaxy M87 is erupting, blasting gas outwards. The cosmic volcano — driven by a giant black hole in M87's center — is preventing hundreds of millions of new stars from forming.



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Red Rain From Space May Hold Alien Life
Alien life may already exist on Earth -- us.



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Best Late-Summer Sky Watching
As the summer night sky draws near its close, there are still many cosmic objects that may beckon skywatchers equipped with a small telescope, binoculars or their own two eyes. Here's the top 10. By Joe Rao, Space.com.



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Scientists Say New Turtle Species Found
Scientists say they've found a new species of turtle in the Pearl River, and they've named it, aptly enough, the Pearl map turtle.



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Craigslist Shuts Down Adult Services Section
Craigslist has apparently closed the adult services section of its website, two weeks after 17 state attorneys general demanded it shut down the section.



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7.0 Quake Shakes New Zealand Awake
A strong 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck close to New Zealand's second-largest city of Christchurch early Saturday local time, wreaking havoc on buildings, roads and infrastructure.



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NASA Wants to Plunge a Probe Into the Sun
NASA is developing an ambitious new mission to plunge a car-sized probe directly into the sun's atmosphere, boldly going where no spacecraft has gone before.



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