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Local attorney Mark Merin holds up photographs of UC Davis police officers from a November 18, 2011 Occupy demonstration. ©REUTERS/Brian Nguyen US college to pay students over pepper spraying A California college has agreed to pay 21 students $30,000 each in compensation for a police pepper spraying incident that sparked a storm last year.
28 September 2012
Alleged anti-Muslim filmmaker detained The alleged filmmaker behind the video that sparked protests across Muslim countries was arrested and detained without bond Thursday, as a US judge said she feared he would try to flee.
28 September 2012
©REUTERS Global sales of 'smart devices' surging: study Global sales of so-called smart connected devices -- computers, smartphones and tablets -- rose sharply in the past quarter, driven by smartphones and tablets.
28 September 2012
New York, New York - Ahmadinejad bids farewell Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he would have fond memories of his annual trips to New York, as he wrapped up his last trip to the Big Apple as his country's leader.
27 September 2012
Luxury car sales drag in US: Lexus Sales of luxury cars across the United States have not kept pace with non-luxury vehicles but Lexus still expects to hit its target this year.
27 September 2012
Obama eyes US voters in Arab Spring defense President Barack Obama delivered an unapologetic defense of American values and his under-fire Arab Spring policy, speaking to US voters from a world stage at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.
27 September 2012
Road cleared for self-driving cars in California California Governor Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed a bill clearing the way for self-driving cars to jockey with human-operated vehicles to test the technology on the state's roads.
27 September 2012
West Nile Virus. Photo courtesy of graphicshunt.com US West Nile deaths, infections rise at slower pace The number of West Nile virus deaths and infections continued to rise in the United States last week, but at a slower pace.
27 September 2012
French leader urges UN to back African force for Mali French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday urged the global community to help defuse a crisis in Mali by giving UN backing to a West African-led military intervention.
26 September 2012
Cleve Foster. ©REUTRS Man executed in Texas for killing immigrant An American man convicted of killing a Sudanese immigrant was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday in Texas after the US Supreme Court rejected his fourth appeal for a stay of execution.
26 September 2012
Vampire squid. Photo courtesy of thescenepoetic.edublogs.com Revealed: Secrets of the Squid from Hell Biologists on Wednesday said they had unlocked secrets about the vampire squid, a mysterious creature that feeds on the decaying dead in the unlit depths.
26 September 2012
Global warming slows down world economy: report Climate change caused by global warming is slowing down world economic output by 1.6 percent a year and will lead to a doubling of costs in the next two decades.
26 September 2012
Screenship of maps.google.com Google offers virtual dives in world's coral reefs Google late Tuesday began letting users of its online mapping service take virtual scuba dives to explore precious living reefs being surveyed by scientists.
26 September 2012
Obama: Benghazi attack more than a 'mob' action US President Barack Obama said Monday that the attack on the US consulate in Libya's Benghazi was clearly more than a "mob action," amid lingering dispute about the nature of the assault.
26 September 2012
Victoria Nuland. Photo coutesy of bamdadkhabar.com US 'deeply troubled' by fate of Vietnamese bloggers The US voiced concern Monday at the jailing of three Vietnamese bloggers for "anti-state propaganda" and urged that they be freed.
26 September 2012
iPhone 5 sales top five million, but shy of forecasts The new iPhone 5 broke records in its launch weekend with sales above five million, Apple said Monday, but the figures were below some forecasts and pressured the company's share price.
26 September 2012
World must stand together against extremists: Clinton In a round of intense diplomacy in the wake of violent anti-US protests, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met a series of Muslim leaders Monday and urged people to work together against extremists.
26 September 2012
Obama to lead international assault on Syria at UN US President Barack Obama will lead Western demands for action on the Syrian civil war at the start of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.
25 September 2012
Pakistan-US gingerly seek to repair ties US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday as the two nations inch towards repairing vital ties severely damaged by a series of crises.
25 September 2012
A large Oscar statue. ©REUTERS/Fred Prouser Iran pulls movie from Oscars race over US anti-Islam film Iran announced on Monday it was yanking its entry in the Oscars race because of the "intolerable insult" of the US-made anti-Islam film that has angered Muslims in several countries.
25 September 2012

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