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Georgie has a voice-assisted touchscreen and offers a variety of apps to help complete tasks such as catching a bus, reading printed text and pinpointing location

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Georgie, the first smartphone designed for blind people, has been recently launched in UK. Georgie, as the device is known, has a voice-assisted touchscreen and...
Microsoft is abandoning the joint venture that owned MSNBC.com after 16 years

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Microsoft is abandoning the joint venture that owned MSNBC.com after 16 years, freeing the world's largest software maker to build its own online news...
Every extra weekly hour spent by children in front of a TV could add 0.5 mm to their waist circumference and reduce muscle fitness

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Children who watch TV an increased number of hours between the ages of two and four years old risk larger waistlines by age 10. A...
Preparations for London 2012 are intensifying with the opening ceremony just 11 days away

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Thousands of Olympic athletes and officials are to begin arriving in London, as questions remain about recruitment of security staff. Preparations for London 2012 are...
Hillary Clinton has arrived in Israel for talks expected to focus on Iran, the peace process and Egypt

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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in Israel for talks expected to focus on Iran, the peace process and Egypt. Hillary Clinton will...
Syrian capital Damascus has seen some of the heaviest fighting of the conflict so far

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According to reports from activists and residents, the Syrian capital Damascus has seen some of the heaviest fighting of the conflict so far. Mortar and...
North Korean military chief Ri Yong-Ho has been removed from all official posts

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North Korean state media has announced that military chief Ri Yong-Ho has been removed from all official posts. As well as being head of the...
Hillary Clinton was targeted by protesters who threw tomatoes and their own shoes at her motorcade during a visit to Egypt

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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was targeted by protesters who threw tomatoes and their own shoes at her motorcade during a visit to...
Everybody In Our Family won the best movie award at the 18th Sarajevo Film Festival

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Romanian black comedy Everybody In Our Family directed by Radu Jude won the Heart of Sarajevo prize Saturday at the end of the nine-day...
Radu Jude’s Everybody In Our Family is the biggest winner at Sarajevo Film Festival

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Sarajevo Film Festival Proudly Presents Award Winners for 2012:   Feature Film Jury: Kornél Mundruczó (president of the jury), Frederic Boyer, Ada Condeescu, Eva Diederix and Igor...
Oscar-winning actress Celeste Holm died Sunday aged 95

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Oscar-winning actress Celeste Holm died Sunday aged 95, a relative said. Celeste Holm had been hospitalized about two weeks ago with dehydration after a fire...
Julia Roberts was all sweetness and smiles in Hawaii with her adorable daughter Hazel

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Julia Roberts was all sweetness and smiles in Hawaii with her adorable daughter Hazel. Julia Roberts enjoyed a walk along the beach in Kauai while...
Robert Russell said he had never given up searching for the 1967 Austin-Healey, which was stolen in 1970

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Robert Russell from Texas has recovered a vintage sports car he spotted being sold on eBay 42 years after thieves stole it from him,...
A jury in San Francisco upheld claims by Mformation Technologies Inc that RIM infringed patents it took out in 1999

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Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has been ordered to pay $147 million in damages after losing a patents case. A jury in San Francisco...
Fighting in Syria has become so widespread that the conflict is now in effect a civil war

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Fighting in Syria has become so widespread that the conflict is now in effect a civil war, says The Red Cross (ICRC). The change in...
Hillary Clinton has met the head of Egypt's top military council, Field Marshal Mohamad Hussein Tantawi

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Hillary Clinton has met the head of Egypt's top military council, Field Marshal Mohamad Hussein Tantawi, on the second day of her visit to...
National Front is to sue Madonna after showing Marine Le Pen with a swastika during her concert in Paris

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French far-right National Front is to sue Madonna after an image at the singer’s concert in Paris showed party leader Marine Le Pen with...
M.C. Hammer reveals that Whitney Houston's father once tried to get the singers to marry

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M.C. Hammer reveals that Whitney Houston's father once tried to get the singers to marry in an exclusive interview with In the Mixx host...
Sage Stallone’s body laid undiscovered for at least three to four days before being found Friday in his Los Angeles home

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Sage Stallone’s body laid undiscovered for at least three to four days before being found Friday in his Los Angeles home, according to new...
A Russian hacker has discovered an easy way to get in-app purchases on the iPhone and iPad for free

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A Russian hacker has discovered an easy way to get in-app purchases on the iPhone and iPad for free. The process is potentially damaging for...
In the wake of a security breach at Yahoo a Slovakian IT security company has released a list of the most commonly used passwords for hacked accounts

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Despite security warnings a shocking number of internet users continue to use some of the most blatant letter and number combinations. In the wake of...
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir and South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir meet for the first time since border dispute

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Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir and South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir have met for the first time since a border dispute brought their countries close...
Bruce Springsteen and Sir Paul McCartney had the plug pulled on them after over-running at Hard Rock Calling in London's Hyde Park

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Bruce Springsteen and Sir Paul McCartney had the plug pulled on them after over-running at Hard Rock Calling in London's Hyde Park. Headline act Bruce...
Russian spacecraft Soyuz TMA-05M carrying a three-man crew has blasted off for the International Space Station

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Russian spacecraft Soyuz TMA-05M carrying a three-man crew has blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS). The Soyuz rocket set off from Kazakhstan at...
Roger Roberts, 82, from Aberystwyth, graduated in economic and social studies in international politics on Tuesday

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Roger Roberts, one of the oldest people to graduate from Aberystwyth University in UK, has died just three days after picking up his degree. Roger...
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