UN Chief Ban Ki-moon says the Arab League plans to revive its mission to Syria and accuses Damascus of stepping up “war on its own people”.

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Arab Syria mission ‘may resume’

The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that posed unacceptable risks to patients, government documents show. Read full article > >

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FDA workers sue agency over monitoring personal e-mails

Microsoft cheers the demise of its browser while Google appears to have broken its own rules to promote its browser.

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Microsoft celebrates death of IE6

The UK’s financial regulator will criticise its own role in a report into the circumstances surrounding the collapse of the Royal Bank of Scotland, the BBC learns.

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FSA ‘to admit to bank failings’

The Greenbelt Native Plant Center on Staten Island safeguards local species of plants, and Ed Toth is its own Johnny Appleseed.

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New York City Native Plant Center’s Seed Is for the Future

Purchased thousands of copies of its own paper.

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WSJ Fudged Circulation Numbers

At his presser today, Obama was asked by a reporter whether his new jobs tour has devolved into little more than a Truman-style political campaign against a “do nothing Congress.” In response, he essentially called on the media to take a stand on whether the GOP is really offering any real jobs plan of its own: Read full article > >

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Obama to media: Stop pretending the GOP has a real jobs plan

Search firm Google eyes Facebook and Twitter as its own social network is opened up for anyone to join.

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Google+ opens service to everyone

Football at academically rigorous University of Chicago, which was abandoned from 1939 to 1969 for being an “infernal nuisance,” is thriving again, in its own measured terms.

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At the University of Chicago, Football and Higher Education Mix

The corner of Massachusetts that has its own currency

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BerkShares

The hand-held controller for the new system is equipped with its own screen.

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Critic’s Notebook: Nintendo Unveils Successor to the Wii

Google unveils its hotly anticipated laptop, running on its own operating system and optimised for the internet.

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Google unveils Chrome OS laptop

Click’s Spencer Kelly and Bill Thompson discuss what it takes for a government to cut off the internet in its own country.

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VIDEO: Closing the net ‘frighteningly easy’

At Loft 107 in Williamsburg, graduates of rehab share a comfortable loft with its own cook.

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Seeking Sobriety in Brooklyn

Budget impasse produces its own inefficiency as federal bureaucracy tries to live paycheck to paycheck.

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As budget impasse drags on, government agencies operate in limbo