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Business
7:01 am
Mon April 30, 2012

Barnes & Noble, Microsoft Team Up In E-Publishing

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Microsoft is committing $300 million to the venture with Barnes & Noble. They are working to create a new subsidiary of the bookseller. The two companies are hoping to energize sales of the Nook tablet.

Asia
6:23 am
Mon April 30, 2012

Wealthy Australian To Build 21st Century Titanic

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Clive Palmer says he wants to build Titanic II to sale from London to New York. Like the builder of the original, Palmer says, "It is going to be designed so it won't sink."

Europe
6:12 am
Mon April 30, 2012

Paragliding Centenarian Regains World Record

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Peggy McAlpine wasn't happy when she lost her world record. The Scottish woman was 100 when she became the oldest person to paraglide. That title was recently taken away by an American woman. So at age 104, McAlpine took the the skies again and regained the record.

Asia
4:23 am
Mon April 30, 2012

China Restricts Social Media After Dissident Escapes

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Blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, seen in this image from a YouTube video, escaped last week after 19 months under house arrest. Searches for his name are banned on China's Twitter-like services.
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Bo Xilai attended a March plenary session of the National People's Congress in Beijing shortly before he tumbled from power.
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Originally published on Mon April 30, 2012 8:13 am

China is clamping down on social media as it grapples with a crisis over the escape of a high-profile dissident, apparently to U.S. protection. The case presents new difficulties for a Chinese leadership already struggling to deal with the scandalous downfall of a powerful politician, and it complicates U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to Beijing this week.

Yet China's use of social media in dealing with these two recent crises has been a study in contrasts.

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Middle East
4:18 am
Mon April 30, 2012

Egypt Recalls Its Ambassador From Saudi Arabia

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Originally published on Mon April 30, 2012 6:03 am

Saudi Arabia is considering Egypt's request to restore diplomatic ties after the kingdom recalled its ambassador over the weekend. Relations between the two Arab countries are at their lowest point in three decades.

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