Retailers are hoping tech products will boost back to school sales.

American retailers slammed by the recession are hoping high tech will help them make the grade as kids head back to school.

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President Barack Obama criticized Massachusetts police after arresting a prominent black Harvard University professor at his own home -- weighing in on an escalating debate over the treatment of minorities by police.

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Two northern New Jersey mayors and several rabbis were arrested on Thursday in a federal investigation into public corruption and international money laundering.ShotlistStory
As part of a two-year federal corruption and money-laundering investigation, two northern ...   more »

Online Banking Made Simple
Author: Timothy Hamlett

If you want to handle your banking really simply, then
online banking is the way to go. Traditionally you may have
been used to doing your banking by ...   more »

Should You Use Online Banking?
Author: Timothy Hamlett

When it comes to banking on the internet, there is now a
whole range of choice when it comes to setting up your
account. But there is ...   more »

Are You Brainstorming... Or Blame-Storming?
Author: Michael A. Verdicchio

The inspiration for this article came from a TV commercial
I saw recently. The premise was a group of people from one
phone company discussing the ...   more »

The Dow Industrials pass 9,000 for the first time since January on strong earnings and home resales.

The Dow passes 9,000 for the first time since January on better-than-expected earnings and June home resales that ...   more »

BURBANK, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 07/23/09 -- There are few operations to get up and running that are as complex as a computer system. The hardware involved -- CPUs, monitors, hard drives and network cabling ...   more »

Rising fuel prices, drought, falling water levels -- clean wind energy is one way to go, says Kenya's power generator.


NGONG, KENYA (JULY 17, 2009) REUTERS - At the top of the Ngong hills in ...   more »

Billionaire Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte says he expects to be "like a kid in a candy store" during his trip to an upcoming ISS mission, for which he is paying tens of millions ...   more »

A gold beer stein, extreme volcano surfing, and a texting champion.

"And Finally..." The best of Reuters Oddly Enough.

This week we're recapping some of the best odd and offbeat stories we missed recently. So, ...   more »

A Good Business Name Must Be Bold: Oh, Really?
Marcia Yudkin

Visit just about any blog of a high-priced naming consultant, and
they’ll tell you with oracular confidence that a business name,
to succeed, must ...   more »

Weezy is America's Most Wanted
Lynda Belcher

I can remember when I first heard Lil Wayne spit. He was still
with Cash Money then and he was rapping on a song with Juvenile
and B.G.

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LOS ANGELES, July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, today repudiated Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Al Sharpton for their ...   more »

New 10-Question Survey Among Shortest Since First Census in 1790

WASHINGTON, July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The U.S. Census Bureau has begun printing 2010 Census questionnaires as the agency continues preparations for next year's count of the ...   more »

Small Business Owners Can Get the Most Out of Their Verizon Wireless Phones

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless offers devices that with the addition of the right application can make a ...   more »

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez belittles a Colombian plea for him to stay out of their affairs, as a spat over Colombian plans to allow the United States to use its military bases continues.

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7 Tips on How to Maintain a Healthy and Happy Interracial Relationship
Clarence Lee

Relationships are hard - each and every one of them, everywhere,
and with everybody. Inter-racial relationships are even harder.
This is ...   more »

Ethiopian "golden" girls, Meseret Defar and Tirunesh Dibaba prepare for the World Athletics championships.

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA REUTERS - Ethiopia's top women distance runners, Meseret Defar and Tirunesh Dibaba, have been doing their daily work-out ...   more »

A serious of fires across Europe cause death and evacuations.

Residents in the Marseille region of France flee as bush fires threaten to engulf their homes.

350 people were asked to move out.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE ...   more »

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fueled by mobile penetration into the rural market and by uptake of 3G services, China's telecommunications market will generate $187 billion by 2014, surpassing Japan to become the largest ...   more »

British tabloids report that Omer Bhatti has applied for DNA testing to determine whether he is indeed the son of the King of Pop.

OSLO, NORWAY (JULY 23, 2009) REUTERS - Media speculation continues over ...   more »

Eggs have been found in the Galapagos Islands-based cage of the lone surviving giant Pinta island tortoise. 120 days are needed to verify whether the eggs are fertile.

SANTA CRUZ, ECUADOR (JULY 20, 2009) GALAPAGOS ...   more »

Parkinson's sufferers look to a new deep brain stimulation device that gives patients greater control of their movements.


NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, REUTERS - For sufferers of Parkinson's disease, even the simplest ...   more »

New photo posted to PhotoNews.


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British singer Amy Winehouse deliberately punched a woman after a ball last September, a London court heard on Thursday (July 23).
Alleged victim Sherene Flash told the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court that she had ...   more »

The U.S. Government has asked for the extradition of 11 Israelis who are suspects in a lottery fraud case.

JERUSALEM (JULY 23, 2009) REUTERS - Israeli prosecutors on Thursday (July 23) sought court approval to ...   more »

WASHINGTON, July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ten years ago, on July 23, 1999, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched aboard the space shuttle Columbia and deployed into orbit. Chandra has doubled its original five-year mission, ushering ...   more »

Online Classes See a Surge in Interest During the Struggling Economy

To Help Students Finance College Courses, eLearners.com Offers the Debt-Free College Guide, a Comprehensive Database With More Than 300 Financing Options

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Officials react to the ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, who set new borders for Abyei and left control of the Heglig oil field with the national government in Khartoum.

ABYEI, ...   more »

NEW YORK, July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time on record, total remuneration for Directors of the top 200 companies has halted its upward climb, dropping 2.4 percent over the past year to an ...   more »

CORPORATES AND CARBON: Pfizer is researching new ways to reduce its carbon footprint and opting for the use of the least environmentally damaging chemicals in its laboratories.


Pfizer, most notably known for providing medication for ...   more »

Police drop charges against Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates after he was arrested for breaking into his own home.


CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES (JULY 16, 2009) NBC - Authorities in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Tuesday ...   more »

China's Zhonghui Mining Group plans to invest about 3.6 billion US dollars in copper mining, exploration and refining in Zambia's mineral-rich Copperbelt and North-Western provinces.

CHINGOLA, ZAMBIA REUTERS - A Chinese firm plans to invest ...   more »

NEWTON, Mass., July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- In honor of the recent Nude Recreation Week, TripAdvisor is bringing opportunities to go "au naturel" out into the light, from a massive skinny-dip to relaxing sans suit on ...   more »

New photo posted to PhotoNews.


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U.S. President Barack Obama makes a prime-time appeal for healthcare and says reform in that area is central to rebuilding economy.


WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES (JULY 22, 2009) POOL - President Barack Obama said on ...   more »

A pre-Incan mummy and eight other skeletons have been dug up from an ancient burial site in the middle of Lima, Peru's capital, and archeologists said on Wednesday (July 22) squatters had been living above ...   more »

Bhimtal Lake, in Bhimtal town in India's northern in Uttarakhand state, dries up following scanty rainfall and human encroachment.


BHIMTAL, UTTARAKHAND, INDIA (JULY 23, 2009) ANI- The famous Bhimtal Lake, a perennial lake in Bhimtal ...   more »

A flooding at a coal mine in northeastern China traps 23 miners underground.

JIXI CITY, HEILONGJIANG PROVINCE, CHINA (JULY 23, 2009) CCTV - A rescue operation is underway in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province, where 23 ...   more »

VW boards meets after Porsche SE directors axe CEO and approve Qatar talks.


STUTTGART, GERMANY (JULY 23, 2009) REUTERS - Porsche's board of directors in an all-night meeting endorsed talks to sell a stake to ...   more »

Clint Eastwood receives the "Order of the Rising Sun" from the Japanese government for bringing Japan and United States closer through his "Iwo Jima" war movies.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (JULY 22, 2009) NTV ...   more »