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Canon announces two new, zoomy PowerShots
Blog: Canon announced two new PowerShot A-series cameras with 6x zoom lenses and optical image stabilization.

National Lampoon to launch women's Web site network
Blog: The comedy brand will be expanding its Web presence through 8228, a network of gossip and entertainment sites for women.

Duffield clocks in with Workday financials beta release
Blog: On-demand enterprise applications company Workday releases financials beta.

Canon barrage
Blog: Canon announces a slew of new cameras, from the heavyweight EOS-1Ds Mark III to new featherweight PowerShot SD series models.

Crew prepares shuttle for early landing
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New Zealand refuses Guantanamo detainees (AP)

Strong quake strikes off Philippines (AP)

Zimbabwe's deputy president promotes traditional food, denies starvation (AFP)

Paltrow runs into Jolie-Pitt paparazzi
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Startup Tilera celebrates coming out party at Hot Chips (InfoWorld)

Gateway to Better Hiring (BusinessWeek Online)

Skype says crash followed Windows security update (InfoWorld)

E-voting predicament: Not-so-secret ballots
Open-records laws in Ohio mean anyone can follow the machines' paper trail to see who voted for which candidates.Image: Ohio's e-voting problems

Volvo C30 to get 52 mpg
Blog: C30 'Efficiency' version lives up to name, and Volvo says other 2008 models will also see fuel-sipping improvements.

HBO renews cult favorite "Conchords" (Reuters)

Pete Doherty arrested after V Festival (Reuters)

`Grease' opens with TV-chosen stars (AP)

11 hurt at filming of Tom Cruise movie (AP)

Finances worry Kiwis, not personal safety
How safe it is to shop on the internet worries New Zealanders more than personal safety issues.

Boomers dispatch Tall Blacks 79-67
New Zealand have a mountain to scale in the Oceania Olympic basketball qualifying series after they were outplayed 79-67 by Australia in game one.

NASA's gold record turns 30: are the aliens listening to Chuck Berry yet?
Blog: It was thirty years ago today that NASA launched Voyager 2 into space with an analog, 12-inch gold disc. The record has music and images from Earth.

iRobot suing for PackBot patent infringement
Blog: Robotic FX Negotiator robot infringes on PackBot patents, former employee broke confidentiality agreements, iRobot alleges.

Are floating homes the future of housing?
From the Epic of Gilgamesh, composed in Mesopotamia 4,000 years ago, to Evan Almighty -- Hollywood's 2007 take on the Noah's Ark story -- floods and their catastrophic effects have long provided inspiration for storytellers.

Governors killed in Iraq (AP)

Body is found in bear cage at Serb zoo (AP)

11 hurt at Tom Cruise film shoot
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'High School' sequel smashes ratings records
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Skype outage caused by download update (AP)

RF Micro to Buy Sirenza for $900 Million (PC World)

Image: Illustrating Ohio's e-voting problems
Chart created by two Ohio residents shows how to reconstruct a supposedly secret ballot.

The false choice of a la carte TV
FCC chairman wants to give TV watchers a fairer shake, but FreedomWorks' Peter Suderman says he's going about it all wrong.

Supreme Court grants bail to Bollywood actor Dutt (Reuters)

Amanpour's `God's Warriors' airs on CNN (AP)

Study: 2008 campaign is top news story (AP)

Souths claw their way back into top eight
South Sydney are back in the NRL top eight and looking finals-bound for the first time since 1989 after coming from behind to beat Manly 24-18 at Telstra Stadium tonight.