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With Facebook, Silicon Valley unearths the lost art of the IPO
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 PST
Too many entrepreneurs start companies with the goal of selling them. I'm hoping Facebook inspires people in Silicon Valley to think bigger.

Nissan design regains coherence with Invitation concept
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 PST
Nissan's recent vehicles have either been boring or shown off disjointed designs. The Invitation, a small car with a dynamic design, changes all that.

Brightcove looks to raise $55 million in IPO
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 PST
Brightcove hopes to raise $55 million, just one of many tech firms gunning to go public.

The 404 987: Where we get nailed for intentional grounding (podcast)
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 PST
Twitter reports that football fans sent roughly 10,000 Tweets in the final three minutes of last night's game, but that wasn't enough to overthrow the all time record for tweets-per-second. Guess which film roped in 25,088 tweets per second last December? Hint: it wasn't made in America.

iLuv's slightly different take on a Kindle Fire case
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 PST
iLuv's Portfolio Stand is one of the better Kindle Fire cases we've come across.

For watching the Super Bowl, my TV beat my iPad
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 PST
Streaming the big game was a possibility this year, but I didn't use it. Here's why.

Bone conduction goggles let you ski and speak
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 PST
Trying to connect with friends while hitting the slopes? The Buhel SpeakGoggle G33 lets you do it without the hassle of wires or ambient noise.

Kissinger: Smooching robot for virtual make-out sessions
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 PST
The Kissinger kissing robot concept from Lovotics lets people virtually smooch with each other. Big silicone lips on each animal-shaped device register and replicate lip movements for long-distance affection.

Samsung flubs its Apple Super Bowl dis
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 PST
Samsung's big Super Bowl ad for the Note may have brought on a few chuckles, but it failed in one big way, says CNET's Josh Lowensohn.

Facebook photos: Deleted today, still there tomorrow
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 PST
Facebook photos still exist on the company's servers even after deletion and can apparently still be accessed, Ars Technica reports.

Apple HDTV to cost $1,499?
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 PST
Best Buy appears to be circulating a customer survey that provides specific details about an Apple HDTV. Is this an indication of an impending launch for the elusive Apple display?

Rdio redesigns Android app
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 PST
Rdio, the music subscription service, has redesigned its Android app in a major way.

JVC nightstand pulls double duty as iPhone dock
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 PST
This fancy bedside table packs powerful speakers, so you can blast your tunes while recharging your iPhone or iPod.

Should HTC blow up Sense?
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 PST
HTC's iconic user interface has helped it sell a boatload of Android smartphones and tablets. But it's starting to feel stale.

Sony PlayStation Vita free to play at select GameStop stores
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 PST
More than 3,000 GameStop stores across the United States are now offering playable demo units of the Sony PlayStation Vita, which will be released in the U.S. later this month.

Startup Secret 31: Always be closing
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 PST
The startup CEO has to do everything, but there's one thing especially that only the CEO can do.

Superslim Samsung Galaxy S III could drop in May
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 PST
The successor to the wildly popular Samsung Galaxy S II could measure in at just 7 millimeters, claims one Korean outlet.

Poll: Which 2012 TVs do you most want CNET to compare?
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 PST
CNET editors ask readers which 2012 HDTVs they'd like to see reviewed and compared with one another.

Samsung's Galaxy Note phablet now ready for preorder
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 PST
AT&T is now offering the unique Samsung Galaxy Note device for $299.99 preorder.

Honeywell slaps Nest Labs with lawsuit over thermostat
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 PST
Thermostat maker Honeywell alleges Nest Labs has infringed seven thermostat-related patents and is seeking to prevent Nest Labs and Best Buy from continued sales of the Learning Thermostat.

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Shrunken Intel process boosts SSD performance
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
The new 520 Series more than doubles 510's IOPSIntel has announced a boosted follow-on to its510SSD: the 520 Series, with more than double the IOPS performance and a top-end model with almost twice the capacity.


Symantec: 'NetBackup 7.5 speeds backup 100X'
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Cuts 25-hour chore down to 15 minutesSymantec says backup is a multi-point product mess, with big data blowing backup-window timing out of the water, and so it has souped up both BackupExec and NetBackup to cover more backup and restore use cases. The sexy news – well, as sexy as backup news can be – is that the latest release of NetBackup is said to be 100 times faster, theoretically shrinking a 25-hour backup window to 15 minutes.


Cisco recalls suicidal UCS blade servers
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Goodness gracious, great MOSFETs afireCisco Systems warns that its high-end B440 blades for its "California" Unified Computing System have a potentially disastrous defect that could result in one or more board failures, and emit a flash of light that could perhaps give system administrators heart attacks.


Resellers smack down Microsoft's 'single-digit' price rise claim
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Channel sources: Volume licensing lift will be closer to 20 per centMicrosoft says that a planned overhaul of volume licensing pricing due in the summer will be capped at single digit percentage rises.


Anonymous releases law firm's emails about Haditha killings
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Hacked lawyers who defended Marine over Iraqi deathsAnonymous has leaked a trove of emails relating to the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians at Haditha after hacking into a law firm's systems.


Avast false alarm hits Steam's weekend gamers
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
'I am sworn to carry your burdens'Freebie anti-virus scanner Avast falsely identified an executable associated with the popular Steam gaming platform as a Trojan on Sunday.


iPhone 4 incapable of handling Siri, says chip chap
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Coughup for 4$ or somehow stagger on without blabberwareSiri won't run on iPhone 4 because the phone's chip can't handle it, an analyst at theLinley Grouphas said. The news is a blow to iPhone 4-ers hoping for an upgrade to the voice-activated virtual assistant and is also a surprise to anyone familiar with theI-hacked-my-iPhone-4-to-run-Siristories.


UK gov rejects call to posthumously pardon Alan Turing
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Wartime codebreaker's 'absurd' conviction must standThe UK government has turned down a call to posthumously pardon Alan Turing.


Android dominates first-time smartphone buyer biz
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Apple strong in upgrade arenaPunters picking their first smartphone are more likely to select an Android handset. When they come to upgrade, however, there's a good chance they'll defect to the opposition.


An NT-powered Windows Phone? Not so fast...
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
MS mulls partying like it's 1996....Sources close to Microsoft haveconfirmedthe veracity of last week's Windows Phone leaks – but say no decision has been taken to base the mobile platform on the Windows 8 kernel.


Google tells French watchdog 'non' on privacy tweak halt
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
'At no stage did any DPA suggest pause was necessary'Google has rejected calls from the European Union's watchdog to delay imminent changes to the Chocolate Factory's privacy policy.


Printed jaw lets woman swallow again
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Let's eat, Grandma3D printing techniques have been taken to jaw-dropping heights after an 83-year-old woman was given a replacement mandible. She becomes the first patient ever to be fitted with a printed lower jaw.


Apple kicks China's most popular browser out of iTunes
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Bans Qihoo apps from its store ...Qihoo, maker of the most popular web browser in China, has had all of its products kicked out of iTunes, though it's far from clear which breach of the rules is responsible.


Apple tells authors: All your<strike>books</strike>iBook files are belong to us
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
But you can export them as PDFs if you wantIn a legal rewrite pushed out Friday, Apple has made its iBooks publishing agreement sound slightly less evil by clarifying just what you can do with the content you create on itsiBook Authorsoftware.


Ofcom proposes fall in BT Openreach charges to rivals
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Just wait for that nice Brussels man to agreeUpdatedBT will be forced to cut the prices of the access charges it applies to the company's broadband and telephone lines when leasing them out to other providers, Ofcom said today.


Windows Phone 8 to get NFC, HD and Skype
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Rumours confirmed, details emergeFollowing a leaked video which showed Windows Phone top dog Joe Belfiore listing the features adorning the next version of Windows Phone, beta testers have come clean on what we should expect.


BTJunkie closes shooting gallery
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
'My life is officially ruined'Popular torrent search engine BTJunkie – nothing to do with BT – is voluntarily closing, according to a notice posted on the site, without offering a reason. The site has indexed other torrent trackers since 2005, and was thefifthmost popular Torrent site.


Schools IT supplier RM swings to full year loss after sales dive
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
We knew about gov budget cuts but we didn't reallyget it...Ailing specialist education IT supplier RM has admitted it reacted too slowly to government budget cuts in schools after revealing massive losses in fiscal 2011 ended 30 November.


Job-seeking Marriott hacker gets 30 months' porridge
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Nabbed and jailed after Secret Service stingA job-seeking Hungarian hacker who tried to land work with Marriott by hacking into the hotel chain's network before "offering" to sort out the resulting mess has been found guilty of hacking and attempted extortion and jailed for 30 months.


Google and Facebook remove 'offensive' content from Indian sites
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Internet firms comply with court orderFacebook and Google have removed content from Indian domain websites in response to a court order to get rid of "objectionable content".


Scientists weave battery into clothing
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Uses jumper leads?Scientists charged into the fashion industry this week, unveiling a flexible battery that can be woven into fabric and used to boost the juice of everyday gadgets.


Apple vs Amazon in ereader format smackdown
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
iBooks enlists kiddies on the EPUB3 frontFormat wars are a mixed blessing for consumers. Whether it's Betamax versus VHS or Blu-Ray versus HD-DVD, the consumer ultimately wins because companies have to advance superior technologies. But problems arise if the format you backed loses the war - and your device becomes next year's expensive doorstop.


Analyst touts iPad 'transformer' after CEO confab
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Dual dock ports, clip-on keyboard for laptop-like use?Will the Apple iPad 3 be an 'homage' tothe Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, complete with clever clip-on keyboard accessory? One financial analysts comments, posted after a meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook, suggests it might be.


MPs rattle telcos to help kill extremist material online
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
ISPs once again asked to police interwebsUpdateInternet service providers must do better at removing violent material from websites, a group of MPs thundered today.


Samsung Series 7 Chonos 15.6in Core i7 notebook
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
NOT a MacBook cloneReviewSurely someone is having a laugh. Having read nothing but five-star reviews of this luxury notebook on other sources, I find myself surprised to be staring at a four-star product on my desk. Four stars is pretty good, you know, but that’s one less than five.


Amazon lures Microsoft WinPhone chief with Kindle
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Etailer claims third Redmond scalpMicrosoft's man rallying developers and partners to buy into Windows Phone isreportedlyjumping ship to help push Amazon's cross-platform Kindle push.


Apple TV surfaces on Best Buy
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Spec leak - or fishing expedition?US electronics retailer Best Buy has begun asking punters if they'd be interested coughing up $1499 for a 42in HD TV from Apple.


Micron grabs almost-retired COO for chief
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Mark Durcan will take over as CEO after death of Steve AppletonChip-maker Micron Technology has named a new CEO following thedeath of Steve Appleton on Fridayin a plane crash.


iOS 5 'crashes more apps' than Android
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Is it an upgrade problem, or a user problem?Recent data has shown that iOS apps crash more often than apps running on the Android platform.


IT budgets plunge in North America, Europe
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Rise in the East and Latin AmericaIf you were expecting for IT spending to go up this year and for new projects to get going – and perhaps to get a pay raise – the consensus is building that this is not going to happen. That's the bad news. The good news would seem to be that instead of being asked to do more with less, IT shops will be asked to do a lot more with a tiny bit more dough. But it's not that simple, so don't jump to conclusions.


EMC server flash rival slams VFCache
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Fusion-io thinks Lightning misses targetEMC's VFCache server cache doesn't quite hit the mark. Although it validates server flash use, caching is not enough.


Twitter snaps up Google Asia exec
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Service could be set for greater expansion in the regionMicro-blogging phenomenon Twitter is stepping up its efforts at international expansion and has pinched a senior Google executive in a clear sign the company could be looking to target Asia in the coming months.


PSN renamed Sony Entertainment Network
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
SEN-sible name change?The PlayStation Network is to undergo a major rebranding this week when it is integrated into an all-new Sony Entertainment Network.


Boffins find prehistoric croc species with 'mate-attracting' skin helmet
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
'Shieldcrocs' mingled with dinosaursBone-bothering US boffins have identified a new species of prehistoric crocodile, nicknamed "Shieldcroc" because of a flat ornamental skin shield on its ginormous head.


Motorola: refurb tablets shipped with former owners' data intact
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
WhoopsMotorola Mobility has admitted that some refurbished Xoom tablets were sent out to their new owners with previous users' data still present in the gadgets' memory banks.


Facebook's IPO unveils plans to invade China
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Social network would love to tap thatNot content with almost total domination in Western markets, social networking behemoth Facebook could be planning an assault on China if it can just do a deal with the authorities there, its latest regulatory filing has revealed.


New dole system is 'digital by default', like it or not
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Claimants who do not comply will be 'nudged' by 'back office' workersUniversal credit – the government's"new and improved"benefits system – will be the first major government service to be digital by default.


Doctors sick of anonymous-coward NHS feedback commentards
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Welcome to the internet, docA leading GP has declared that the general public are too rude about doctors on the internet in a complaint that may amuse those of us more familiar with the culture of "Internet feedback".


Huawei-Symantec sneaks out of US back door
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Has it been booted out?Huawei-Symantec, thejoint venturebetween Huawei and Symantec, has effectively stopped trading and is leaving the United States.


Hackers may be able to 'outwit' online banking security devices
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Investigators probe malware threat to 2-factor authenticationHackers may already able to use malware to outwit the latest generation of online banking security devices, security watchers warn.


MYSTERY as QLogic hurls InfiniBand from train
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Regstorage desk baffled in the case of the fibre fracasCommentStorage networking and InfiniBand supplier is giving up on InfiniBand and selling that business line to Intel for $125 million.


Indian court grabs back 122 GSM licences from operators
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Firms devalue to the tune of $25bnIndia's Supreme Court has ruled that the 2G licences awarded in 2008 were not fairly distributed, and has snatched 122 of them back from the operators who were using them.


EMC crashes the server flash party
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Lightning strike with thunder to followThe perfect server flash storm hitting storage arrays has generated EMC's well-signalled Lightning strike; VFCache has arrived, extending FAST technology from the array to the server. Project Thunder is following close behind, promising an EMC server-networked flash array.


CA wins copyright wrangle against ISI
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Don't nick the source code kidsComputer Associates has won a protracted legal battle against Sydney based software company Independent Systems Integrators ( ISI).


TV giant HBO invests $AU10m in Quickflix
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
'Hug it out b***h' downunderAmbitious Australian IPTV company Quickflix has secured an international investment coup with a $AU10 million cash infusion from Home Box Office (HBO).


Some coral reefs growing in a warming world
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 GMT
Cooler, marginal reefs don’t mind warmer waterWhile Austraia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef has been suffering bleaching and damage, the combined impact of warmer oceans agricultural runoff, a few thousand kilometers to the west, coral growth seems to be enjoying the changing climate.


Boffins embed electronics into fibres
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 GMT
Hope for cheaper telecoms kitUniversity of Southampton and Penn State researchers have demonstrated a technique to embed electronics into optical fibres, which if commercialised would enable simpler and cheaper telecommuniations kit.


Hollywood gathers to pick over Limewire’s corpse
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 GMT
Whip? Check. Dead horse? Check.Movies studios are moving on the defunct Limewire, filing a complaint in a US Federal Court to take their cut from the company’s copyright infringments.


Can Sony's new supremo make the sacrifices to save his biz?
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 GMT
We drill into the uphill battle ex-Playstation boss Hirai facesCommentWhen Faultline first began following Sony in 2003, it was worth $36 billion on the stock market. At the time Apple was worth $9.8 billion and it was about to launch the iTunes Music Store. We said that Sony should buy Apple and put Steve Jobs in charge.


Tame the gas monster with sensors, suckers and a spiffy new fan
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 GMT
More performance-tuning for your home and officePart 3I'm pleased to say that what with the relatively warm 2011 and our conservation efforts we had the lowest consumption of electricity and gas at home of any year yet, a bit over 1,500kWh ('units') of electricity and under 4,000kWh of gas. (A typical UK household is nearer 3,300kWh 'leccy and 18,000kWh gas.) With our solar PV exports we were just carbon-negative for power by my calculations.


A List Apart:
Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need

With a mobile-first responsive design approach, if any part of the process breaks down, your user can still receive a representative image and avoid an unnecessarily large request on a device that may have limited bandwidth. But with several newer browsers implementing an “image prefetching” feature that allows images to be fetched before parsing the document’s body, some of the web's brightest developers are abandoning responsive images in favor of user agent detection, at least as a temporary solution. For us standardistas, UA detection leaves a bad taste in the mouth. More importantly, as the number and kinds of devices continue to grow, UA detection will quickly become untenable—just as browser detection did back in the bad old days before web standards. What's really needed, argues Mat Marquis, is a new markup element that works the way the HTML5 video element works. Sound crazy? So crazy it just might work.

Pricing Strategy for Creatives

Strategic pricing helps your brand and helps you to make more money. Issuing a price is like handing out a business card—it’s a great branding tool, but be careful about what it says to your market. Beginning relationships with customers at a high price makes the statement:“we’re good at what we do and we know it.”Fighting with a competitor over a low price says“I’m uncertain about my abilities, so I’ll take what I can get.”Failing to use a considered pricing policy will leave you treading water in a sea of design mediocrity, allowing you to just stay afloat while you sell commodities. Jason Blumer explains how to become strategic about your pricing—including three things you can do immediately to kick-start your journey toward strategic pricing.

Building Twitter Bootstrap

Bootstrap is an open-source front-end toolkit created to help designers and developers quickly and efficiently build great stuff online. Its goal is to provide a refined, well-documented, and extensive library of flexible design components created with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for others to build and innovate on. Today, it has grown to include dozens of components and has become the most popular project on GitHub, with more than 13,000 watchers and 2,000 forks. Mark Otto, the co-creator of Bootstrap, sheds light on how and why Bootstrap was made, the processes used to create it, and how it has grown as a design system.

An Important Time for Design

Design is on a roll. Client services are experiencing a major uptick in demand, seasoned design professionals are abandoning client work in favor of entrepreneurship, and designer-co-founded startups such as Kickstarter and Airbnb are taking center stage. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the fact that design has a massive role to play in the evolution of the web and the next generation of web products. The result, says Cameron Koczon, is that designers have now been given a blank check—one that lets web designers band together as a community to change the way design is perceived; change the way products are built; and quite possibly change the world.

A Pixel Identity Crisis

The pixel has long been the atomic particle of screen based design: a knowable, concrete unit of measurement. But layouts based on the hardware pixel are fast becoming an endangered species. Even the introduction of a new, W3C standard reference pixel, although it promises stability in the long-term, can't help us navigate the current chaos. Consider the two"standard"pixel definitions and 500"standard"viewports your user's Android device may support. To create designs that transcend platform differences—the promise of the web and standards—you must normalize pixels across devices. Scott Kellum shows how math and media queries can keep you sane and help you design consistently across platforms.

What I Learned About the Web in 2011

As the year draws to a close, we asked some A List Apart readers to tell us what they learned about the web in 2011. Together their responses summarize the joys and challenges of this magical place we call the internet. We need to continue to iterate, to embrace change, and challenge complexity to keep shipping. Above all, we must continue to reach out to one another, to teach, to support, to help, and to build the community that sustains us.

Say No to SOPA

A List Apart strongly opposes United States H.R.3261 AKA the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), an ill-conceived lobbyist-driven piece of legislation that is technically impossible to enforce, cripplingly burdensome to support, and would, without hyperbole, destroy the internet as we know it. SOPA approaches the problem of content piracy with a broad brush, lights that brush on fire, and soaks the whole web in gasoline. If passed, SOPA will allow corporations to block the domains of websites that are“capable of”or“seem to encourage”copyright infringement. Once a domain is blocked, nobody can access it, unless they’ve memorized the I.P. address. Under SOPA, everything from your grandma’s knitting blog to mighty Google is guilty until proven innocent. Learn why SOPA must not pass, and find out what you can do to help stop it.

Getting Started with Sass

CSS’ simplicity has always been one of its most welcome features. But as our sites and apps get bigger and become more complex, and target a wider range of devices and screen sizes, this simplicity—so welcome as we first started to move away from font tags and table-based layouts—has become a liability. Fortunately, a few years ago developers Hampton Catlin and Nathan Weizenbaum created a new style sheet syntax with features to help make our increasingly complex CSS easier to write and manage—and then used a preprocessor to translate the new smart syntax into the old, dumb CSS that browsers understand. Learn how Sass (“syntactically awesome style sheets”) can help simplify the creation, updating, and maintenance of powerful sites and apps.

The ALA 2011 Web Design Survey

The profession that dares not speak its name needs you. Digital design is the wonder of the world. But the world hasn't bothered to stop and wonder about web workers—the designers, developers, project managers, information architects slash UX folk, content strategists, writers, editors, marketers, educators, and other professionals who make the web what it is. That’s where you come in. Take the survey!

Expanding Text Areas Made Elegant

An expanding text area is a multi-line text input field that expands in height to fit its contents. Commonly found in both desktop and mobile applications, such as the SMS composition field on the iPhone, it’s a good choice when you don’t know how much text the user will write and you want to keep the layout compact; as such, it’s especially useful on interfaces targeted at smartphones. Yet despite the ubiquity of this control, there’s no way to create it using only HTML and CSS, and most JavaScript solutions have suffered from guesswork, inaccuracy, or a lack of elegance 
 until now.

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Syria artillery onslaught on Homs
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
The fiercest attack yet - involving heavy artillery - rocks the Syrian city of Homs, as the US closes its Damascus embassy over security concerns.

Abbas to head interim government
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas says he will head a unity government between Hamas and Fatah ahead of elections in the West Bank and Gaza.

Europe's big freeze tightens grip
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
The Arctic conditions sweeping Europe tighten their grip, with more deaths reported in Poland and Ukraine, taking the toll to well over 200.

Romania spy chief 'to be new PM'
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Romania's intelligence service chief Mihai Razvan Ungureanu is nominated as prime minister after Emil Bloc resigns amid widespread austerity protests.

Deadly quake hits the Philippines
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
At least 15 people die and 29 are missing after a 6.7 magnitude earthquake strikes islands in the central Philippines.

Deaths in Lahore factory collapse
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
An illegal medicine factory collapses in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, killing at least nine people, including women and children, officials say.

US tightens Iran bank sanctions
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
US President Barack Obama places new sanctions on Iran, blocking government assets held in the US, including the Iranian Central Bank.

Mars cooperation near collapse
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
US space agency officials let their European counterparts know that it is now highly unlikely that America will participate in joint missions to the Red Planet in 2016 and 2018.

Vatican summit tackles sex abuse
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Roman Catholic leaders meet to draw up guidelines on how the church should deal with the sexual abuse of children by priests.

Delay in Greece bailout meeting
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Government talks in Greece to try to agree new austerity measures needed to secure bailout funds and avoid defaulting on its debts, are delayed.

Woman runs for Mexico presidency
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Mexico's governing conservative party selects its first woman candidate to run in the country's presidential election.

China stressesTibet stability
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
The Tibetan regional government warns its officials to maintain stability in the area or face dismissal or criminal charges ahead of the Tibetan new year.

Transplant jaw made by 3D printer
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
An 83-year-old woman is fitted with a jaw made by a 3D printer in what doctors say is the first operation of its kind.

SA 'resurrected singer' detained
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
A South African man who claims to be a famous Zulu musician who apparently died in 2009 is in custody until DNA tests determine his identity, police say.

Egypt 'to try foreign NGO staff'
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 GMT
Egypt says it is to try 43 people - including Americans and other foreigners - over the alleged illegal funding of non-governmental organisations.

Giants' Manning silences critics
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Eli Manning is full of praise for his team-mates after leading the New York Giants to their second Super Bowl win over the New England Patriots in four years.

Brazil privatises three airports
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
The Brazilian government privatises three airports, including the country's largest in Sao Paulo, in sales valued at $14bn.

Panama's Gen Noriega in hospital
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Panama's jailed ex-leader Manuel Noriega is moved from his prison cell to hospital, suffering hypertension, and having possibly had a stroke.

Somalia moves to evict squatters
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Somalia starts a major operation to remove tens of thousands of people who have been squatting in government buildings in the capital.

Ghana 'lucky' to be in last four
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Ghana admit they are lucky to have reached the Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals, after being gifted an extra-time winner by Tunisia.

China in EU carbon scheme 'ban'
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
China tells its airlines not to pay charges to the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme, aimed at cutting carbon emissions.

Pakistan PM Gilani in Qatar talks
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Pakistani PM Yousuf Raza Gilani is travelling to Qatar where officials indicate he will discuss peace efforts in Afghanistan.

Contador given two-year drug ban
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Alberto Contador is handed a two-year ban for a doping offence - and is stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title.

Radical cleric Qatada given bail
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Radical cleric Abu Qatada is granted bail following a hearing at the UK's Special Immigration Appeals Commission.

US and Israel 'in unison' on Iran
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
The US is working closely with Israel to use diplomacy to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, President Barack Obama says.

BBC accuses Iran of intimidation
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 GMT
The BBC's Director General, Mark Thompson, accuses the Iranian authorities of intimidating those working for its Persian service.

Queen commemorates 60-year reign
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
The Queen visits a school in Norfolk and there are gun salutes around the UK as she marks the 60th anniversary of her accession to the throne.

Schools and roads affected by ice
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Drivers are being warned of black ice and some schools are closed, after the snow that fell across much of Britain at the weekend.

Gas price rises as freeze bites
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
The price of gas increases sharply around Europe as below-freezing temperatures lead to a surge in demand.

HTC profits up but outlook poor
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Taiwan smartphone maker HTC reports a 57% jump in annual profits, but it predicts a downbeat start to trading this year.

Euro crisis 'could damage China'
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
A eurozone recession could almost halve Chinese growth this year, according to a report by the International Monetary Fund.

Capello opposes FA Terry decision
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
England coach Fabio Capello says he disagrees with the Football Association's decision to strip John Terry of the national team's captaincy.

Pakistan seal England whitewash
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
England slump to a 71-run defeat in the third Test in Dubai to suffer a series whitewash by Pakistan for the first time.

Red Bull launch new car for 2012
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Red Bull launch their new car for the forthcoming season, to be driven by world champion Sebastian Vettel and team-mate Mark Webber.

Madonna 'brassy' at Super Bowl
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Madonna "rose to the occasion" to give "a shot of female brass" to the Super Bowl in her 12-minute half-time show, reviewers say.

Phil Spector death case settled
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
The mother of the actress Phil Spector murdered has settled a wrongful death case against the music producer, according to her lawyer.

Radcliffe beaten at US box office
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Chronicle, a film about teenagers with super powers, beats Daniel Radcliffe thriller The Woman in Black to top the North American film chart.

VIDEO: Breivik appears in Oslo court
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and mass shooting in Norway, has appeared in court in Oslo.

VIDEO: Palestinian duo agree interim deal
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said he will head a Palestinian unity government, after a second meeting with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal.

AUDIO: Syrian activists targetted in Lebanon
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Paul Wood reports from Beirut on pressure on Syrian dissidents in the Lebanon

VIDEO: Snow-covered scenes across Europe
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
The Arctic conditions sweeping Europe have tightened their grip, with more deaths reported in Poland and Ukraine, taking the toll to well over 200.

VIDEO: Factory collapse traps many in Pakistan
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
A factory has collapsed in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore with many people, including women and children, feared trapped.

VIDEO: Evacuation from Queensland floods
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Floods continue to threaten Queensland in eastern Australia, with the town of St George expected to be worst hit.

VIDEO: Film makers killed in helicopter crash
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Two renowned film makers who worked with James Cameron have died in a helicopter crash just outside Sydney.

VIDEO: End of an era for Colombia carts
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Horse-drawn carts will disappear from the streets of Colombians from 2013

VIDEO: One-minute World News
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Watch the latest news summary from BBC World News. International news updated 24 hours a day.

India's love affair with Charles Dickens
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
India's love affair with Charles Dickens

Avoiding Syria's secret police
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
The Syrian activists daring to evade the secret police

In pictures: Chinese mark Lantern Festival
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Images from celebrations marking the end of Chinese new year

VIDEO: The art of boxing
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
The champion female fighter on the art of winning

In pictures: Making charcoal from Liberian rubber trees
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Pictures reveal how charcoal keeps Liberia cooking

In pictures: Deep sea discoveries
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Scientists find two species of colourful worms

People problems plague Gulf start-ups
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 GMT
Staffing issues plague Gulf start-ups

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Gisele Curses After Pats Loss
Mon, 6 Feb 2012 EST
An emotional Gisele Bundchen seemed to criticize husband Tom Brady's teammates as she left the luxury suites at Lucas Oil Stadium to meet Brady after the Patriots Super Bowl loss to the New York Giants.

Pats' Super Bowl Defeat Likely To Rank Among Worst Losses
Mon, 6 Feb 2012 EST
There are many stories of heartbreak in the annals of New England sports, all of them equally painful in a region where fans elevate professional sports to near religion status. Yet another Patriots' loss to the hated New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI will surely be long remembered as one of the most stinging defeats.

NFL, NBC Apologize For 'Middle Finger Malfunction'
Mon, 6 Feb 2012 EST
For all the pomp and excess of Madonna's Super Bowl halftime show, it is likely to be a single extended middle finger by guest singer M.I.A. that is most remembered.

Rioting Students To Face Judge After Super Bowl Melee
Mon, 6 Feb 2012 EST
More than a dozen people are expected to face charges Monday after University of Massachusetts students in Amherst erupted in a riot after the New England Patriots fell to the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI.

Photos: When You Lose A Super Bowl Bet...
Mon, 6 Feb 2012 EST
Patrick Cronin had a Super Bowl bet with a co-workers in Newton over the outcome of the game.

Patriots Fan Photos
Sun, 5 Feb 2012 EST
The Patriots are one game away from the Super Bowl. Share your Patriots fan photos with our u Local community.

Blizzard Of '78 Remembered In Viewer Photos
Mon, 6 Feb 2012 EST
The blizzard of 1978 is still the storm by which all others are measured.

Images: America's Most Stressful Jobs
Mon, 6 Feb 2012 EST
Think your job's stressful? Careercast.com ranks the jobs that make blood pressures rise the most.

Most Overlooked Tax Deductions
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 EST
Cut your tax bill to the bone by claiming all the breaks you deserve -- including some you may not know about.

Viewers' Tattoo Photos
Sun, 5 Feb 2012 EST
Got ink? Share it with us. Upload photos of your body art to our uLocal section, along with information on where you got your tattoo and what it means to you.

Images: Biggest Losers In Super Bowl History
Wed, 1 Feb 2012 EST
We all remember the biggest winners of football's big game, but for every big winner, there was a big loser. Check out the Super Bowl's Top 10 all-time losers:

4 More Stranded Dolphins Returned To Water
Mon, 6 Feb 2012 EST
Four more dolphins have been safely returned to the waters off Cape Cod. That puts the number of dolphin strandings during the past three weeks to well above 100.

Man Rescues Mom From Snowmobile Crash
Mon, 6 Feb 2012 EST
A man rescued his mother from a snowmobile accident in northern New Hampshire after she lost control of the machine and landed in a stream.

Inmate Walks Away From Halfway House
Mon, 6 Feb 2012 EST
Police are searching for a missing inmate who walked away from her halfway house in Concord, N.H.

Man Dies In Route 128 Rollover
Mon, 6 Feb 2012 EST
State police say a 30-year-old Peabody man has died in a single-car rollover on Route 128 in Danvers that also injured the passenger.

BostonChannel.com - Entertainment:
NFL, NBC Apologize For 'Middle Finger Malfunction'
Mon, 6 Feb 2012 EST
For all the pomp and excess of Madonna's Super Bowl halftime show, it is likely to be a single extended middle finger by guest singer M.I.A. that is most remembered.

Jason Segel Gets Pudding Pot
Sat, 4 Feb 2012 EST
Actor Jason Segel has been honored as Man of the Year by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

Former 'Ugly Betty' Star To Discuss Education In Mass.
Sat, 4 Feb 2012 EST
Former "Ugly Betty" star America Ferrera is coming to Massachusetts to discuss how education helped her become successful and the importance of helping those in need.

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Charles Murray’s‘Coming Apart: The State of White America’
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
The political scientist Charles Murray has a new book,“Coming Apart,”which depicts members of white elites as hypocrites living in a bubble and the white working class as succumbing to moral decay.

Books of The Times: Anne Sebba on Duchess of Windsor, Scotty Bowers on Himself
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Anne Sebba looks at the Duchess of Windsor in a new biography; Scotty Bowers’s memoir reveals Hollywood’s sexual secrets.

New Music: A New Album From Paul McCartney
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
“Kisses on the Bottom,”an album of standards by Paul McCartney, is a jaunty tip of the hat to the pop music of his parents’generation.

Music Review: Super Bowl—No Longer an Upset: Madonna Acts Her Age
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Madonna, 53, danced her way back toward worldwide visibility Sunday as the halftime attraction for the Super Bowl, with a giant supporting cast and a downright benign stance.

Television Review:‘Smash,’on NBC, With Debra Messing and Anjelica Huston
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
“Smash,”NBC’s series about backstage Broadway, comes with New York and Hollywood names off screen (Steven Spielberg, Therese Rebeck) and on (Debra Messing and Brian d’Arcy James).

NBC Spends Millions on the Buildup to‘Smash’
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Estimates are that NBC has spent as much as $25 million promoting“Smash,”a new series that the network hopes will be the hit it desperately needs.

Television Review: Steven Van Zandt in Norwegian Netflix Series‘Lilyhammer’
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
“Lilyhammer,”starring Steven Van Zandt as a wiseguy in witness protection in Norway, is the first original series on Netflix and is available via streaming video.

The Carpetbagger: May the Best Actor Get the Most Attention
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
The contenders in the best-actor Oscar race aren't campaigning, unless you count all those television and press appearances this week.

The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Terry Moran
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
"Nightline" anchor Terry Moran shares his Oscar ballot.

The Carpetbagger: Animators and Art Directors Pick Their Winners
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
"Rango," "Hugo," "Harry Potter" and "Dragon Tattoo" took home specialty awards over the weekend.

ArtsBeat: Won't Somebody Please Think of the Children? 'Simpsons' Toys Banned in Iran
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
An Iranian official said on Monday that dolls modeled on characters from "The Simpsons," including Bart, Homer and the other members of that Fox cartoon clan, were unacceptable displays of foreign culture and would be banned along with other popular Western toys.

ArtsBeat: Abel Ferrara Says He's Making a Film About Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Abel Ferrara, the director of "King of New York" and "Bad Lieutenant," said he had cast Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani to play Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Anne Sinclair in a film about their lives during a notorious sex scandal. But Mr. Ferrara's producer was less certain that this would be his next project.

ArtsBeat: Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin to Close
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
After 15 years, Deutsche Guggenheim, an outpost of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in the headquarters of Deutsche Bank in Berlin, is closing at the end of the year.

Music Review: Prism Quartet and Music From China at Weill Recital Hall
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
The Prism Quartet and Music From China performed new pieces by Lei Liang, Fang Man, Huang Ruo and Bright Sheng at Weill Recital Hall on Friday night.

Music Review: Collegiate Chorale Sings Tippett and Bruckner at Carnegie
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
The Collegiate Chorale presented Michael Tippett’s oratorio“A Child of Our Time”and Bruckner’s Te Deum at Carnegie Hall.

Music Review: Rossini Double Bill by Julliard Opera at Lincoln Center
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
The Juilliard Opera presented some rarely heard Rossini, two of his earliest one-act comic operas,“La Cambiale di Matrimonio”(“The Marriage Contract”) and“La Scala di Seta”(“The Silken Ladder”).

54 Below, Restaurant-Nightclub Under the Former Studio 54
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
The nightspot named 54 Below, a 160-seat space, is scheduled to open in early June with a two-week engagement by Patti LuPone.

Music Review:‘Biophilia’Live at the New York Hall of Science
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
The first night of Björk’s six-show residency at the New York Hall of Science included a live spectacle for the album“Biophilia,”with towering pendulum harps, multimedia visuals, Tesla coils and an Icelandic choir.

ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Big Ideas in Small Spaces
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 GMT
Reviews of three productions at very small theaters in London, notably the two-character drama "Constellations," starring Sally Hawkins and Rafe Spall.

Dance Review: Ratmansky’s‘Russian Seasons’From New York City Ballet
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
New York City Ballet’s program“Àla Russe”included“Russian Seasons,”“Allegro Brillante,”“Zakouski”and“Stravinsky Violin Concerto.”

Bridge: Houston Lone Star Regional’s Bracketed Teams - Bridge
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
The Houston Lone Star Regional ran from Jan. 20 to Sunday. The diagramed deal,from a bracketed knockout teams, featured an instructive point.

John H. Davis, Chronicler of Kennedys and Others, Dies at 82
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Davis’s eight books included tomes on the Kennedys, the Guggenheims, the Gambinos and the Bouviers, to whom he was related.

Steven Leiber, Dealer in Artists’Ephemera, Dies at 54
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Leiber founded a San Francisco gallery that is a prime source for brochures, posters, fliers and the like produced by artists.


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The Week Ahead: Feb. 5—11
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 GMT
A selection of cultural events this week.

‘The Alan Lomax Collection From the American Folklife Center’
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 GMT
The vast collection of music, film, videotapes and photographs collected by the folklorist and ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax is being digitized for wider dissemination.

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John H. Davis, Chronicler of Kennedys and Others, Dies at 82
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Davis’s eight books included tomes on the Kennedys, the Guggenheims, the Gambinos and the Bouviers, to whom he was related.

Steven Leiber, Dealer in Artists’Ephemera, Dies at 54
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Leiber founded a San Francisco gallery that is a prime source for brochures, posters, fliers and the like produced by artists.

Robert B. Cohen Dies at 85; Founded the Hudson News Chain
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Cohen was president of the Hudson County News Company, a newspaper distributorship, when it went into the retail field in the mid-1970s by taking over a newsstand at the Newark airport.

Una Mulzac, Harlem Bookseller With a Passion for Black Politics, Dies at 88
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 GMT
Known for a bold and cantankerous personality, Ms. Mulzac built Liberation Bookstore over four decades into a Harlem landmark.

Ben Gazzara, Actor of Stage and Screen, Dies at 81
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Gazzara’s long acting career includedplaying Brick in the original“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”on Broadway and roles in influential films by John Cassavetes.

Roger Boisjoly, 73, Dies; Warned of Shuttle Danger
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Boisjoly wrote a portentous memo six months before the Space Shuttle Challenger’s explosion, warning that if it was too cold, seals connecting sections of the shuttle’s rocket boosters could fail.

Dorothy Gilman, Spy Novelist, Dies at 88
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 GMT
Ms. Gilman was best known for her“Mrs. Pollifax”series of books about a widow who goes to work as a secret agent.

Gianpiero Moretti, Modernizer of Racecar Steering Wheels, Dies at 71
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Moretti started his automotive accessories company Momo in 1966, and it expanded to make an array of racing products.

Dr. Richard K. Olney, A.L.S. Researcher, Dies at 64.
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 GMT
Dr. Olney, a leading researcher of A.L.S., commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, learned in 2004 that he himself had it.

Camilla Williams, a Lyric Soprano, Is Dead at 92
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 GMT
Miss Williams made her debut at the New York City Opera in 1946 to rave notices. She was the first black woman to secure a contract with a major United States opera company.

Angelo Dundee, Trainer of Boxing Champions Like Ali and Leonard, Dies at 90
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Dundee gained acclaim as a brilliant cornerman, whether healing cuts, inspiring his fighters to battle on when they seemed to be reeling or adjusting strategy between rounds.

Clare Fischer, Arranger and Keyboardist, Is Dead at 83
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Fischer was influential in jazz and arranged pop and R&B compositions for the likes of Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson, Prince and Celine Dion.

Don Cornelius,‘Soul Train’Creator, Is Dead
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Cornelius was the smooth-voiced television host who brought black music and culture into America’s living rooms when he created the dance show“Soul Train.”

Mike Kelley, Influential American Artist, Dies at 57
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Kelley’s art mined the abjection and gross-out anarchy associated with youth culture.

Wislawa Szymborska, Nobel-Winning Polish Poet, Dies at 88
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 GMT
Ms. Szymborska was a gentle and reclusive Polish poet who won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Dorothea Tanning, Surrealist Painter, Dies at 101
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 GMT
Ms. Tanning, a versatile artist, began as a Surrealist in the 1930s and, later, after many other incarnations, also added poet and author to her roster of achievements.

Anthony J. Bevilacqua, Retired Cardinal in Philadelphia, Dies at 88
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 GMT
After 15 years as archbishop, Cardinal Bevilacqua saw his accomplishments tarnished by accusations that he covered up sexual abuse by priests.

John Rich, Director of‘All in the Family,’Dies at 86
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Rich, who won Emmys for his work on“All in the Family”and“The Dick Van Dyke Show,”broke interracial boundaries with a simple kiss.

Samuel S. Vaughan, Publisher and Author, Dies at 83
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Vaughan, known for a decorous manner and democratic instincts, worked with a wide range of writers, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, William F. Buckley Jr. and Fannie Flagg.

Paavo Berglund, Finnish Conductor, Dies at 82
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Berglund was renowned for his interpretations of Sibelius’s symphonies and tone poems.

Frank Cioffi, Philosopher and Critic of Freud, Dies at 83
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Cioffi’s scathing critique of Sigmund Freud’s work was one of the opening salvos in the bitter debate in recent decades over the legitimacy of psychoanalytic theories.

Patricia Neway, Operatic Soprano Who Won a Tony, Dies at 92
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 GMT
Ms. Neway, who won a Tony for“The Sound of Music,”was also heroine of Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera“The Consul.”

Joseph Brooks, Who Refined Lord&Taylor, Dies at 84
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Brooks became chief executive in 1975 during a recession, and was convinced that expansion was the cure for lagging sales.

John F. Baker Jr., Who Saved 8 G.I.’s in 1966, Dies at 66
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 GMT
Mr. Baker received the Medal of Honor for saving eight fellow soldiers during the Vietnam War while under heavy fire.

Jonathan Idema, Con Man and Afghan Bounty Hunter, Dies at 55
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 GMT
Mr. Idema gained notoriety in post-invasion Afghanistan as a swaggering hunter of terrorists, then ignominy when he was imprisoned for taking Afghans hostage and torturing them.

Oscar Luigi Scalfaro Dies at 93; Led Italy in’90s
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Scalfaro was Italy’s president during seven tumultuous years marked by a corruption scandal that brought down an entire political class.

Homai Vyarawalla, Indian Photojournalist, Dies at 98
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 GMT
Ms. Vyarawalla was hailed as the first Indian woman to work as a photojournalist and for chronicling the country’s march toward independence.

Joseph Mattioli, the Founder of Pocono Raceway, Dies at 86
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Mattioli, tired of the daily grind, bought a spinach farm in northeast Pennsylvania in 1960 and transformed it into one of the primary stock-car racetracks.

Kevin H. White, 82, Boston Mayor During Busing Crisis, Dies
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. White served four terms as mayor, much of it during a period of economic stagnation and racial unrest over court-ordered desegregation of the city’s schools.

Robert Hegyes, 60, of‘Welcome Back, Kotter,’Is Dead
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Hegyes played Juan Epstein, a remedial student with a slouch and a towering Afro.

Dick Kniss, Bassist for Peter, Paul and Mary, Is Dead at 74
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Kniss also helped write one of John Denver’s biggest hits,“Sunshine on My Shoulders.”

Eiko Ishioka, Costumer of the Surreal, Dies at 73
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 GMT
Ms. Ishioka, who won a 1992 Academy Award in costume design for“Bram Stoker’s‘Dracula,’”came to be known as one of Japan’s, then the world’s, foremost art directors.

Rudi van Dantzig, Provocative Dutch Choreographer, Dies at 78
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. van Dantzig’s mix of idealism and protest gave the Dutch National Ballet an international profile.

Winston Riley, Jamaican Music Producer, Is Dead at 68
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Riley helped to popularize Jamaican music globally through early hits like“Double Barrel”by Dave and Ansell Collins and later ones like Buju Banton’s“Stamina Daddy.”

Nicol Williamson, a Mercurial Actor, Is Dead at 75
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 GMT
Mr. Williamson was a Scottish-born actor whose large, renegade talent made him a controversial Hamlet, an eccentric Macbeth, an angry, high-strung Vanya and, on the screen, a cocaine-sniffing Sherlock Holmes.

Ian Abercrombie, Elaine’s Boss on‘Seinfeld,’Dies at 77
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Abercrombie, a veteran British actor, also had numerous film and voice-over roles.

Theo Angelopoulos, Greek Film Director, Dies at 76
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 GMT
Mr. Angelopoulos was a renowned director whose films explored the human condition in general and the condition of modern Greece in particular.

James Farentino, Dashing Leading Man, Dies at 73
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 GMT
Mr. Farentino was a handsome actor who in his nearly 100 roles on stage, screen and television often defied the stereotype of the leading man, even though he fit the picture.

Wesley E. Brown, Oldest Judge in Nation’s History, Dies at 104
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 GMT
Judge Brown’s work ethic and a hale constitution kept him climbing the stairs to his fourth-floor courtroom past his 100th birthday.

Gerre Hancock, St. Thomas Church Organist, Dies at 77
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Hancock was the organist and master of the choristers at St. Thomas Church in Manhattan for more than 30 years.

Kazimierz Smolen, Director of Auschwitz Memorial Site, Dies at 91
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Smolen, who was a survivor of Auschwitz, was director of the memorial site there for 35 years.

Dick Tufeld, Robot Voice in TV’s‘Lost in Space,’Dies at 85
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 GMT
Mr. Tufeld possessed one of Hollywood’s most often-heard disembodied voices, especially from the 1950s through the 1970s.

Charla Krupp, Self-Help Author on Women’s Looks, Dies at 58
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 GMT
The author dispensed down-to-earth style tips.

Ben Gazzara, a Life on the Stage
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 GMT
An intense actor, Ben Gazzara’s career included his role as Brick in the original“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”on Broadway.

Angelo Dundee, a Trainer of Boxing Champions
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 GMT
Angelo Dundee, in more than 60 years in professional boxing, gained acclaim as a brilliant cornerman, whether healing cuts or inspiring his fighters to battle when they seemed to be reeling.

Remembering Don Cornelius
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 GMT
The producer and television host who created“Soul Train”was found dead in his Los Angeles home on Wednesday.

Joe Paterno, the Face of Penn State
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 GMT
Under Paterno’s leadership, Penn State won two national championships and became a college football powerhouse.

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