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In other news Tuesday, Israel and Hamas announced a deal to exchange some 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for Israeli Sgt. Gilad Shalit, who was captured by the militant Islamic group in 2006. Also, thousands of Egyptians protested overnight against the ruling military's actions during demonstrations.

To celebrate the royal wedding of Prince William of Wales and Catherine Middleton on April 29, 2011, Google Earth have launched 3D buildings and trees for central London. This tour will show you Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, and many other famous places along the route the couple will take to and from their wedding.

Engineers at Japan's Fukushima plant continue work on emptying highly radioactive water from one of the nuclear reactors. The latest tests show that radiation levels in the sea near the damaged facility have spiked.

Airline in Europe flew just 5,000 of their 24,000 scheduled flights on Sunday, Eurocontrol, the Euoprean air navigation and safety organizations, said.

The agency said Monday that through the night, air space over much of Europe remained closed. It said that by the end of Sunday more than 63,000 flights will have been canceled since April 15.

NNTP Protocol newsgroup browser for XOOPS 2.3 or later. This newsgroup browser allows you to connect your xoops to any NNTP Protocol news service, including mime type parser and clear text browsing.

You can cross post, reply and make new posts to your Usenet or NNTP service on your own server. Based on PNews the GNU PHP newsgroup browser this title will allow you to access some of the older areas of the internet before the website.

Newgroups are the orginal forums, these are available to most people and offer the enticement of older areas and protocols of the internet.

NEW YORK - Over more than a decade, consumers became accustomed to the sweet, steady flow of free news, pictures, videos, and music on the Internet. Paying was for suckers and old fogeys. Content, like wild horses, wanted to be free.

Now, however, there are growing signs that this free ride is drawing to a close.

Newspapers are weighing whether to ask online readers to pay for at least some of what they offer, as a handful of papers, including The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, already do. Indeed, in the next several weeks, industry executives and analysts expect some publications to take the plunge.

It's tough out there. There is no shortage of information on the web, and no shortage of tools with which to consume it, whether you're on your couch, at your desk, or on foot somewhere in between.

As a card-carrying member of the digital revolution, you should therefore be well-versed in the available news media at your disposal.
Hacking though the weeds to find the most interesting and relevant things for you remains the primary challenge in this day and age.

ScienceDaily (Nov. 10, 2009) The search for the holy grail of regenerative medicine -- the ability to "grow back" a perfect body part when one is lost to injury or disease -- has been under way for years, yet the steps involved in this seemingly magic process are still poorly understood.

Now researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified an essential cellular pathway in zebrafish that paves the way for limb regeneration by unlocking gene expression patterns last seen during embryonic development. They found that a process known as histone demethylation switches cells at the amputation site from an inactive to an active state, which turns on the genes required to build a copy of the lost limb.

The iPhone is set to be turned into a pocket-sized movie studio, according to people familiar with the matter. The next generation will be a one-stop studio for recording, editing, viewing and sharing your own videos, according to Business Weeks Peter Burrows.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - With earnings of $110 million in 2008, Madonna topped Forbes' list of Hollywood's hardest working mothers, followed by actresses Reese Witherspoon and Gwyneth Paltrow. more...