UPDATE 3-Cricket-South Africa leave NZ batting in disarray again

(Adds quotes)* New Zealand close day two on 47 for six* Hosts declare on 525 for eight* We are being outclassed, says Kiwis coachPORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, Jan 12 (Reuters) - New Zealand collapsed again against South Africa's pace attack when they staggered to 47 for six in their first innings in reply to the hosts' 525 for eight declared on the second day of the second test at St. George's Park...

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Tennis-Revised Australian Open men's singles draw

MELBOURNE, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Revised Australian Open men'ssingles draw after final qualifying (prefix denotes seeding;w-indicates wild card; q-denotes qualifier):1-Novak Djokovic (Serbia) v Paul-Henri Mathieu (France)Ryan Harrison (U.S.) v Santiago Giraldo (Colombia)q-Arnau Bruges-Davi (Spain) v Felciano Lopez (Spain)Viktor Troicki (Serbia) v 31-Radek Stepanek (Czech Republic)20-Sam Querrey (U.S.)...

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Tennis-Revised Australian Open women's singles draw

MELBOURNE, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Revised Australian Openwomen's singles draw after final qualifying (prefix denotesseeding; w-indicates wild card; q-denotes qualifier):1-Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) v Monica Niculescu (Romania)Eleni Daniilidou (Greece) v Karolina Pliskova (CzechRepublic)q-Luksika Kumkhum (Thailand) v Sofia Arvidsson (Sweden)Jamie Hampton (U.S.) v 31-Urszula Radwanska (Poland)21-Varvara...

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UPDATE 1-NBA-Timberwolves overcome lost Love to clip Hawks

* Rubio returns for Timberwolves* Hawks lose third straightJan 8 (Reuters) - The Minnesota Timberwolves coped with the absence of head coach Rick Adelman and All Star forward Kevin Love to beat Atlanta 108-103 on Tuesday, ending a near seven-year winless run against the Hawks.Timberwolves coach Adelman missed the game for personal reasons, while Love is out indefinitely after reinjuring his right...

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Timberwolves overcome lost Love to clip Hawks

(Reuters) - The Minnesota Timberwolves coped with the absence of head coach Rick Adelman and All Star forward Kevin Love to beat Atlanta 108-103 on Tuesday, ending a near seven-year winless run against the Hawks.Timberwolves coach Adelman missed the game for personal reasons, while Love is out indefinitely after reinjuring his right hand last week, but the home team still had enough beat the Hawks...

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Microsoft's Ballmer, group to pay $500 mln for NBA's Kings-report

SEATTLE, Jan 9 (Reuters) - A group of investors including Microsoft Corp CEO Steve Ballmer and hedge fund manager Chris Hansen is close to a deal to buy the Sacramento Kings professional basketball team for $500 million and move the National Basketball Association franchise to Seattle, Yahoo Sports reported on Wednesday.The Maloof family is close to agreeing to sell the Kings to the Ballmer group,...

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NBA-Knicks' Anthony banned one game for approaching Garnett

Jan 9 (Reuters) - New York Knicks All-Star forward Carmelo Anthony has been suspended one game by the National Basketball Association (NBA) for approaching an opposing player on multiple occasions after a recent game, the league said on Wednesday.Anthony confronted Boston Celtics forward Kevin Garnett in the arena tunnel near the players' locker rooms and again in the parking garage following New...

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Huawei unveils two new quad-core Android phablets

Huawei (002502) on Monday took the wraps off its colossal Ascend Mate and Ascend D2 smartphones at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Ascend Mate is the larger of the two and is equipped with a 6.1-inch 720p display, a 1.5GHz in-house quad-core processor, an 8-megapixel rear camera and a massive 4,050 mAh battery. The smaller Ascend D2 features a 5-inch 1080p display with a class...

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Diminishing Returns: The Cold, Hard Truth for CES Smartphones

Sony has a new flagship phone at CES called the Xperia Z, and it is pretty decent. The company has another one, called the Xperia ZL, that’s also fairly nice. They’re both roughly as okay as the flagship Ascend D2 phone that Huawei was showing off in another part of the room.If my descriptors seem lacking, that’s intentional. The truth is that none of these phones seem markedly better than last year’s...

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Iranian Bank Hackers, the Fate of the Dreamliner, and a Poetic Inauguration

Behind the New York Times pay wall, you only get 10 free clicks a month. For those worried about hitting their limit, we're taking a look through the paper each morning to find the stories that can make your clicks count.RELATED: Wheelchairs, Miguel Cabrera, and 'Impressionism and Fashion'Top Stories: Recent online attacks on U.S. banks, which were responsible for "transforming the online equivalent...

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Rosa Rodriguez Pens New Book Helping Parents and Daughters Plan for the Important Celebration

The Quintessential Guide to Planning a Sweet 16.Brooklyn, NY (PRWEB) January 10, 2013Party planning can be quite overwhelming, especially when it’s in preparation for something as important as a Sweet 16 birthday party. The popularity of MTV’s “My Super Sweet 16” has raised not only the excitement for the celebration, but also expectations. To help plan for one’s Sweet 16, Rosa Rodriguez has penned...

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Hollywood's 'Golden Age Theater' Arrives in Las Vegas for One Performance Only

Performance of L. Ron Hubbard’s science fiction thriller “Tough Old Man” taking place at Church of Scientology Las Vegas on Saturday, January 12 at 1:00 PMLos Angeles, CA (PRWEB) January 10, 2013The Golden Age Theater located in Hollywood, California has sent a team of popular actors to perform the science fiction thriller written by master storyteller L. Ron Hubbard. It is called “Tough Old Man”—...

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JazzMyApp.com - Pinterest for Mobile Apps

The team behind mobile9 launched JazzMyApp.com to be the Pinterest for mobile applications. It is designed for users to share and discover trending apps with a click of a button.Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (PRWEB) January 10, 2013JazzMyApp (http://www.jazzmyapp.com/) - the Pinterest for mobile applications - lets users easily share and discover awesome apps with a click of a button.With over a million...

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FACTBOX-Soccer-African Nations Cup finalists South Africa

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Factbox on African Nations Cup finalists and hosts South Africa ahead of this year's tournament from Jan. 19 to Feb 10.Previous appearances African Nations Cup finals: 7Best performance: Winners in 1996; Runners-up in 1998FIFA world ranking Dec 2012: 87Coach: Gordon Igesund was appointed last June after the country's poor start to the 2014 World Cup qualifiers. He...

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FACTBOX-Soccer-African Nations Cup finalists Morocco

Jan 9 (Reuters) - Factbox on African Nations Cup finalists Morocco ahead of this year's tournament in South Africa from Jan 19 to Feb 10:Previous appearances in African Nations Cup finals: 14Best performance: Winners in 1976; Runners-up in 2004FIFA world ranking Dec 2012: 74thCoach: Rachid Taoussi was appointed in September to replace former Belgian international Eric Gerets after Morocco had lost...

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FACTBOX-Soccer-African Nations Cup finalists AngolaJan 9 (Reuters) - Factbox on African Nations Cup finalists Angola ahead of this year's tournament in South Africa from Jan. 19 to Feb. 10: Previous appearances in African Nations Cup finals: 6 Best performance: Quarter-finalists in 2008 and 2010 FIFA world ranking Dec 2012: 84th Coach: Gustavo Ferrin made his name in youth soccer, starting at Defensor Sporting in his native Uruguay and then taking his country's under-17 and under-20 teams to world championships. His only previous senior job was at Montevideo-based Defensor Sporting, where he was responsible for a turnaround in fortunes in 2004. He took over as Angola coach in June from Lito Vidigal, who was fired after the team failed to reach the quarter-finals of the last Nations Cup in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. Key players: Djalma Campos (Kasimpasa). Age: 25. Pos: Forward After scoring only one goal for Portuguese champions FC Porto he was sent on loan to Turkey where he is again struggling to find the back of the net. He has been more effective with the national team where he plays as a foil to Manucho. His father Abel Campos played at Benfica and also for Angola. Manucho (Real Valladolid). Age: 29 Pos: Forward Two quick goals in the vital qualifying tie against Zimbabwe in October allowed Angola to squeak into the finals and confirmed Manucho's status as their lead striker. His three goals made him joint top scorer at the 2012 finals in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. At Real Valladolid last month he scored twice against Real Madrid. Zuela (Apoel Nicosia). Age: 29 Pos: Defender Zuela was born in Luanda and brought up in Portugal but most of his career has been spent at clubs in Greece, Russia and now Cyprus. Three years ago he went to Wigan Athletic on trial but did not prove successful. Can play at full back, centre defence or as a defensive midfielder.

Jan 9 (Reuters) - Factbox on African Nations Cup finalists Angola ahead of this year's tournament in South Africa from Jan. 19 to Feb. 10:Previous appearances in African Nations Cup finals: 6Best performance: Quarter-finalists in 2008 and 2010FIFA world ranking Dec 2012: 84thCoach: Gustavo Ferrin made his name in youth soccer, starting at Defensor Sporting in his native Uruguay and then taking his...

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Abound Resources Community Bank Survey Reveals That Regulations, Rates, and Economic Recovery Dampen Optimism

Abound Resources, a leading bank consulting firm, released the results of its recent survey of community bank executives.Austin, Texas (PRWEB) January 08, 2013Abound Resources, a leading bank consulting firm, released the results of its recent survey of community bank executives. The results highlight that community bank CEOs are much more pessimistic going into 2013 than they were going into 2012....

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Rosacea Care Company, One of First Out of the Gate With Sea Buckthorn, Will Introduce New Products Featuring the Remarkable Ingredient in 2013

The Rosacea Care Company, one of the first to use Sea Buckthorn in the treatment of rosacea and sensitive skin, will introduce new products featuring the ingredient this spring. The soothing and healing qualities of Sea Buckthorn, which contains contains high concentrations of Vitamins C and E as well as flavonoids and oils rich in essential fatty acids, have proven to be an effective approach to...

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Pwnie Express Participates in Department of Energy Cyber Security Workshop

Pwnie Express, Leader in Innovative Pentesting Products Joins Leaders in Government and Academia at Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory to Discuss Cyber Security.Oak Ridge, TN (PRWEB) January 08, 2013Vermont-based Pwnie Express, leader in innovative penetration testing products, will be a Silver Sponsor at this year’s Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop...

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India's top cop calls for rape crackdown

nts and other AP reporting, Bikram Singh …more RELATED CONTENT  Enlarge PhotoIn this image taken from video …Enlarge PhotoStudents shout slogans during a …NEW DELHI (AP) — India's top law enforcement official said Friday that the country needs to crack down on crimes against women with "an iron hand" to prevent attacks such as the fatal gang rape of a student on a New Delhi bus last month.That...

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India rape victim's friend recounts ordeal

NEW DELHI (AP) — The companion of a woman who was gang-raped aboard a bus in New Delhi recounted in a television interview for the first time Friday how the pair was attacked for 2 1/2 hours before being thrown on the side of the road, where passersby ignored them and police debated jurisdiction issues before helping them.The Dec. 16 attack has outraged Indians and led to calls for tougher rape laws...

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India gang-rape victim's friend recounts attack

NEW DELHI (AP) — Passers-by refused to stop to help a naked, bleeding gang-rape victim after she was dumped from a bus onto a New Delhi street, and police delayed taking her to a hospital for 30 minutes, the woman's male companion said in an interview. It was his first public account of the gruesome attack that killed the 23-year-old student and prompted demands for reform of a law enforcement culture...

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Samsung Galaxy Muse is like an iPod Shuffle that Syncs with Your Phone

In perhaps the most awkwardly titled tech press release ever, Samsung Mobile announced the launch of the new Samsung Galaxy Muse, a device which appears to have nothing to do with "CORRECTING and REPLACING and ADDING MULTIMEDIA" but everything to do with being a music player crossed with a smartphone accessory.​Say goodbye to iTunes?While most handheld music players (and smartphone or tablets with...

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Facebook, Google tell the government to stop granting patents for abstract ideas

Facebook (FB), Google (GOOG) and six other tech companies have petitioned the courts to begin rejecting lawsuits that are based on patents for vague concepts rather than specific applications, TechCrunch reported. The agreement, which was cosigned by Zynga (ZNGA), Dell (DELL), Intuit (INTU), Homeaway (AWAY), Rackspace (RAX), and Red Hat (RHT), notes the only thing these abstract patents do is increase...

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Verizon Offering $5 Shared 4G Plan for Samsung Galaxy Camera

Imagine the powerful Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone, except that it can't make phone calls and its backplate has been replaced by a digital camera -- handgrip, zoom lens, and all. That's basically the Samsung Galaxy Camera in a nutshell, and whether it's a small, awkwardly-shaped Android tablet or a digital camera that you can play Modern Combat 3 on depends on how you look at it.When the Galaxy...

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Selling flak jackets in the cyberwars

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When the Israeli army and Hamas trade virtual blows in cyberspace, or when hacker groups like Anonymous rise from the digital ether, or when WikiLeaks dumps a trove of classified documents, some see a lawless Internet.But Matthew Prince, chief executive at CloudFlare, a little-known Internet start-up that serves some of the Web's most controversial characters, sees a business...

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Merry Christmas, America-Haters?

When TNT was preparing its annual special "Christmas in Washington" with the president of the United States, you'd think the last star musician they would consider to join the official caroling would be Psy, the South Korean rapper. What on Earth is Christmasy about this man's invisible-horse-riding dance to his dorky disco-rap hit "Gangnam Style"? It's not exactly the natural flip-side to "O Holy...

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Canada's seven-month budget gap narrows to C$10.6 billion

 Canada's federal budget deficit narrowed in the first seven months of the fiscal year to C$10.57 billion ($10.68 billion) from C$13.90 billion in the same period last year as personal and corporate income tax revenues rose and debt charges were lower.The monthly shortfall in October was C$1.68 billion, compared with a gap of C$2.13 billion a year earlier, the Department of Finance said in a...

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"Fiscal cliff" creates waiting game for payrolls firms

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - At payroll processing businesses across the United States, the "fiscal cliff" stalemate in Washington means uncertainty over tax-withholding tables just days before the start of 2013.The U.S. Internal Revenue Service still has not issued the tables for next year that show how much money employers should hold back from workers' paychecks to cover federal income taxes.Payroll...

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Future of state estate taxes hangs on U.S. "fiscal cliff"

(Reuters) - Falling off the "fiscal cliff" is a bad thing, right?Not necessarily for some state governments that could begin collecting more in estate taxes on wealth left to heirs if the United States goes over the "cliff," allowing sharp tax increases and federal spending cuts to take effect in January.In an example of federal and state tax law interaction that gets little notice on Capitol Hill,...

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Exclusive: Profits up, but Britain gets less tax from big firms

LONDON (Reuters) - Big companies in Britain now pay less tax than they did 12 years ago despite a big jump in profitability, a Reuters analysis of official data shows. Tax campaigners say the trend is the clearest signal yet that tax avoidance has blossomed under a more business-friendly strategy at the UK tax authority Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC).Large companies' payments of corporation...

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House sets Sunday session as "fiscal cliff" deadline nears

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives will return to Washington on Sunday night, just over a day before income tax rates are set to spike higher, in a last-ditch chance to avert the year-end "fiscal cliff."Senior Republican aides confirmed that House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday told members to be back in Washington in time for a 6:30 p.m. EST (2330 GMT) legislative session on Sunday.The...

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Merry Christmas, America-Haters?

When TNT was preparing its annual special "Christmas in Washington" with the president of the United States, you'd think the last star musician they would consider to join the official caroling would be Psy, the South Korean rapper. What on Earth is Christmasy about this man's invisible-horse-riding dance to his dorky disco-rap hit "Gangnam Style"? It's not exactly the natural flip-side to "O Holy...

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