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Marine sensed imminent attack
CNN - 17 Sep 2012 20:32
U.S. Marine Greg Buckley Jr., deployed to Afghanistan, sensed that an attack was imminent and that it would come from within, after haunting words from an Afghan trainee.
Cartoonist began career as POW
CNN - 17 Sep 2012 17:50
"Cartoons are about doom and disaster -- and you don't get more doom and disaster than in a German prisoner of war camp," says Mike Peyton, the man uniquely hailed as the world's greatest yachting cartoonist.
Jolie visits Syria refugees in Iraq
CNN - 17 Sep 2012 15:33
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie visited a Syrian refugee camp in Baghdad and met senior government officials Saturday on a visit to Iraq in her role as a special envoy for the U.N.'s refugee agency.
Smartphones for the 'SuperStupid'?
CNN - 17 Sep 2012 13:29
On Monday, I wrote a story arguing that smartphones have the potential to make us "superhuman." Commenters on the article sure didn't like that phrasing.
Cellphones target poverty in India
CNN - 17 Sep 2012 13:28
In Juanga, India, a village of less than 3,000 inhabitants, the adults typically work as farmers on small plots of land earning less than $2 a day. They live in extended families in two or three roomed bamboo thatched mu...
How mobile phones changed Africa
CNN - 17 Sep 2012 13:20
A little over a decade ago there were about 100,000 phone lines in Nigeria, mostly landlines run by the state-owned telecoms behemoth, NITEL. Today NITEL is dead, and Nigeria has close to 100 million mobile phone lines, ...
The choreography of an Apple event
CNN - 17 Sep 2012 13:15
When Apple CEO Tim Cook takes the stage Wednesday in San Francisco, presumably to introduce the world to the iPhone 5, everyone knows what's going to happen.
Handheld device that saves lives
CNN - 17 Sep 2012 13:10
I have been fortunate to have lived and experienced two worlds: My childhood in India -- which in many parts is a world of poverty, infrastructure problems, and a paucity of qualified health-care personnel, a world of ma...
Watching TV in a two-screen world
CNN - 17 Sep 2012 13:10
The next time you pause to watch TV -- anything from the morning news to a prime time drama -- try an experiment: Watch the show in its entirety without interacting with another device.
In pictures: Murray mania in Dunblane
BBC - 17 Sep 2012 10:52
Crowds turn out to greet US open champion
The Scot who shot the American Civil War
BBC - 17 Sep 2012 04:45
President to prisoners by Alexander Gardner