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Twitter index: Tweeps try their hand at trading basketballer Carlos Boozer
May 11th, 2012
Tweeps are listing on Friday the numerous things they would trade American basketball player Carlos Boozer for if they had a chance after his less than fantastic on-court performance during Thursday night's game. (Source: AFP Relax News) -
Twitter was amused earlier today by reports of a Saudi Arabian sheikh dooming Twitter users to a loss of "this world and his afterlife." What to an American observer seems like inexplicable hyperbole may actually be an escalation of attempts to crackdown on a key tool for dissent. (Source: The Atlantic Wire)... [Full Article]
BANGKOK (AP) - World stock markets were mixed Friday as investors digested a slew of disappointing data from the U.S. ahead of the release of a key measurement of the country's economic outlook. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
MILWAUKEE (AP) - It might not be unusual for schoolchildren to write to the president or vice president. But one Wisconsin boy got an unexpectedly personal response. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks edged higher in early trading on Wall Street, led by gains for financial companies, putting markets back at record levels. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
PARIS (AP) - Carlos the Jackal, the flamboyant terrorist and self-proclaimed revolutionary who was once one of the Cold War's most wanted men, is appealing his life sentence for orchestrating bombings in France two decades ago. Carlos, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, is serving two life sentences in France for a triple murder in 1975... [Full Article]