Starbucks, the popular American coffee retailer, plans to open its first store in India in September through a joint venture with Tata Global Beverages.

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Starbucks Plans to Begin Populating India at Last

US actor Harry Morgan, best known for playing Colonel Sherman Potter in the popular series Mash, dies at the age of 96.

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Mash star Harry Morgan dies at 96

Spain’s conservative leader Mariano Rajoy says the country’s voice must be respected again, after a resounding election win for his Popular Party.

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‘No miracles’ warns Spain victor

European stock markets fall again despite a resounding victory for Spain’s centre-right Popular Party in the country’s election.

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NEW YORK — The “Shrek” spinoff “Puss in Boots” landed on all fours, opening with an estimated $34 million to lead the box office. The DreamWorks 3-D animated film, distributed by Paramount Pictures, proved the popular character voiced by Antonio Banderas was a big enough draw outside the “Shrek” franchise. Read full article > >

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‘Shrek’ spinoff ‘Puss in Boots’ scratches up $34M debut, lands on No. 1 spot on all fours

BEIRUT — The sudden escalation of tensions between the United States and Iran threatens to reignite old feuds and exacerbate new ones across a region already dangerously destabilized by the tumult of the Arab Spring. From Tunisia to Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Bahrain and Syria, the popular revolts underway since January have drawn new battle lines in a part of the world long associated with confrontation, pitting the ruled against their rulers and raising hopes that the struggle for greater freedoms by ordinary people will give birth to a new, improved Middle East. Read full article > >

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More than the popular protests, Western sanctions have threatened President Bashar al-Assad’s government, which relies on its economic successes as a source of its legitimacy.

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Washington’s crowded local-news market got a new entrant on Thursday: HuffPost DC , an offshoot of the popular news and commentary site that will focus on the metropolitan area. HuffPost DC launched Thursday with stories about potential commuting delays caused by the renovation of a Metro escalator at Dupont Circle next year, problems at local animal shelters and reaction to an ongoing criminal investigation of alleged gang activity at a shopping center in Falls Church. Read full article > >

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Republicans and Democrats are no longer fighting over whether to tackle the popular entitlement programs — Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security — but how to do it.

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Benefits Programs Face Bipartisan Effort to Cut Them

Perhaps it is because the ouster of Moammar Gaddafi will come months after the fall of Tunisia’s Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak , or maybe it is fatigue generated by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but the Libyan revolution seems subject to a higher standard of success than the uprisings that preceded it. A curious conventional wisdom has emerged in the commentary on Libya’s revolutionaries. “We don’t know who these people are or what comes next,” the popular reasoning goes, “so we can’t let ourselves be too enthusiastic about them, their goals or their achievements.” Read full article > >

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Amazon moved aggressively to fulfill its new ambition to publish books as well as sell them, announcing that it had signed Timothy Ferriss, the popular self-help guru.

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Amazon Set to Publish Pop Author

T-Mobile customers will be able to use iPhones, as Apple began selling unlocked models of the popular smartphone online Tuesday. The phones, which require micro-SIM cards, are compatible with both AT&T and T-Mobile networks. Before T-Mobile users…

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Actor and singer Roy Skelton, best known for voicing puppets George and Zippy in the popular children’s programme Rainbow, dies aged 79.

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Best-selling author Jennifer Worth, who wrote the popular Call the Midwife trilogy, dies aged 75.

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The wife of former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said she is closing down her popular French blog.

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