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Friday, September 21, 2012

Morning Digest: Pakistani protesters clash with police on Muslim "Day of Love"

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Pakistani protesters clash with police on Muslim "Day of Love"
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Demonstrators clashed with police in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday as anger over insults to the Prophet Mohammad boiled over despite calls from political and religious leaders across the Muslim world for peaceful protest..
Iraq blocks Syria-bound North Korean plane, suspects weapons cargo
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq has denied permission to a North Korean plane bound for Syria to pass through Iraqi airspace on Saturday because it suspects it could be carrying weapons, a senior official said on Friday..
Stock index futures signal gains; Apple eyed
PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Friday, with December futures for the S&P 500 up 0.21 percent, for the Dow Jones up 0.33 percent and for the Nasdaq 100 up 0.21 percent at 0930 GMT..
Penny Marshall advises budding directors: Drop the ambition
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pioneering film director and producer Penny Marshall has some advice for future filmmakers: Take some chances and don't be a slave to Hollywood ambition..
Manning on target as Giants stomp Panthers
(Reuters) - New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning delivered another razor sharp performance, and running back Andre Brown ran in a pair of touchdowns, as the defending Super Bowl champions steamrolled the Carolina Panthers 36-7 in Charlotte on Thursday..
Google shuts once-feted China music download service
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Google Inc said on Friday it will shut its once-popular China music download service next month, in a sign of how far the fortunes of the world's biggest search engine have fallen in China..
Space shuttle Endeavour lands piggyback in California
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, California (Reuters) - The space shuttle Endeavour, carried piggyback atop a jumbo jet, landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California on Thursday at the tail end of a cross-country trip to Los Angeles to begin its final mission as a museum exhibit..
Blowhard silencer, dead-fish brain science win spoof Nobel prizes
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Psychologists who discovered that leaning to the left makes the Eiffel Tower seem smaller, neuroscientists who found brain activity in a dead salmon, and designers of a device that can silence blowhards are among the winners of Ig Nobel prizes for the oddest and silliest real discoveries..
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