Antigovernment protesters managed to gather a third huge crowd in the center of the Russian capital, undeterred by arctic cold.

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Protesters Throng Frozen Moscow in Anti-Putin March

By midafternoon on Saturday, the police estimated that 15,000 protesters had gathered in the center of Moscow as organizers hoped to mount the largest anti-Kremlin demonstration since the fall of the Soviet Union.

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Thousands Protest in Moscow, Russia, in Defiance of Putin

In the center of Guadalajara around a monument.

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Some 26 Bodies Dumped in Mexico

The sixth studio album from Rihanna, the most consistent pop star of the last five years, places her squarely at the center of that genre: making dance music of R&B and pop.

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New Music: ‘Talk That Talk’ by Rihanna – Music Review

New Hampshire is at the center of the 2012 Republican presidential race today, as Texas Gov. Rick Perry travels to the state to formally file as a candidate for the first-in-the-nation primary and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Texas Rep. Ron Paul also make campaign stops in the state. Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney: Unstoppable in New Hampshire?

The Swiss banking giant said unauthorized trades in index futures were at the center of rogue trading that led to a $2.3 billion loss.

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UBS Says Trading Losses Were Closer to $2.3 Billion

The movie series in Bryant Park holds the cinematic sweet spot — in the center of the borough at the center of the city — and has spawned its own obscure cultural traditions and iron-clad rules of etiquette.

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Hold On to Your Brie: A Movie-Night Ritual That Starts in a Sprint

Steve Jobs officially launched Apple’s new free iCloud service on Monday, which will replace its $99 a year MobileMe document-sharing plan. “We are going to move the digital hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud,” Jobs said at Apple’s…

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Steve Jobs Unveils Apple’s iCloud

At the center of an international sex scandal, the lawyer for the woman who accused International Monetary Fund Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault said she is “traumatized” by the whole incident. “There is no way in which there is any…

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Lawyer: Hotel Maid ‘Traumatized’

The deaths of former government officials in Benghazi, the center of the Libyan resistance, appear to be rooted in vengeance and have raised the specter of a death squad.

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Killings and Rumors Unsettle a Libyan City

Each decade after tabulating the decennial census, the U.S. Census Bureau calculates the exact geographic mean center of the country’s population. No, really. According to government demographers, the center is determined “as the place where an imaginary, flat, weightless and rigid map of the United States would balance perfectly if all 308,745,538 residents counted in the 2010 Census were of identical weight.” Read full article > >

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Officials move physical center of the U.S. population farther west

Bahrain tore down the monument at the center of Pearl Square in a symbolic end to the popular protests put down by the government.

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Bahrain Tears Down Monument as Protesters Seethe

SENDAI, JAPAN – In the center of this city, the economic hub of northern Japan , the traffic lights and vending machines are still working.

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Japan earthquake, tsunami leave scenes of destruction in northeastern city of Sendai

Ms. Russell was the actress at the center of one of the most highly publicized censorship episodes in movie history, the delayed release of the 1940s western “The Outlaw.”

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Jane Russell, Star of Westerns, Dies at 89

First lady Michelle Obama found herself at the center of an unlikely breast-feeding debate this week when three prominent conservative women criticized her for encouraging the creation of a “nanny state.”

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Mother’s milk stirs political debate