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BBC
Arab League halts Syria mission: The Arab League says it is suspending its controversial monitoring mission in Syria because of the upsurge in violence.
IMF issues austerity cuts warning: Inappropriate spending cuts could "strangle" growth, so austerity measures should be tailor-made by each country, the head of the IMF warns.
US fears for Bin Laden 'informer': The US defence secretary says he is concerned about a Pakistani doctor arrested for providing intelligence for the US raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.
Cruise ship fuel pumping delayed: Preparations to pump fuel from the wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia are suspended, as divers find a 17th body.

CBC
Shafia murder trial jury begins deliberations:

A jury in Kingston, Ont., has begun deliberations in the case of three Montrealers accused of murdering four family members in June 2009.

What the Shafia jury did not hear:

A jury considering the case of three people accused of killing half of their family over honour absorbed mountains of evidence over about 10 weeks, but they weren't privy to all the details of the trial.

Retirement income changes won't be sudden, government says:

Whatever changes the government makes to retirement income won't happen overnight, Minister of State for Finance Ted Menzies said Friday.

New York Times Science
Political Science | The Question of Space: For a Moon Colony, Technology Is the Easy Part: Could America build a lunar base during an eight-year Newt Gingrich presidency, as Mr. Gingrich promised this week? The obstacles would lie in money and politics
Wildlife Activists Follow Lone Wolf’s Trek Into California: The young male, tracked with a GPS unit, is believed to be the first gray wolf in California in decades, raising hopes that the endangered species may once again thrive there
Study Finds Virus to Be Fast Learner on Infecting: Researchers report that viruses deprived of their usual channel for infiltrating the E. coli bacterium evolved a different route into the cells in little more than two weeks
After Homelessness, Honors From a National Science Fair: Samantha Garvey with her teacher Rebecca Grella. Ms. Garvey, 18, a semifinalist in the Intel Science Talent Search, is newly homeless.Samantha Garvey, an 18-year-old senior in Long Island, was named a semifinalist in the Intel Science Talent Search for her work with mussels
Internet Criticism Pushes China to Act on Pollution: Under popular pressure, Chinese officials have begun to track the most pernicious measure of urban air pollution and promise to set new health standards and publish data on air pollution


Visualizing Science

Light comes in lumps. Using electronic amplification techniques one sees that with extremely faint illumination the image degrades into spots corresponding to individual photons. (See Advances in Biological and Medical Physics V. 1957, 211-242, or Hecht and Zajac “Optics” Addison-Wesley, Menlo Park, California pg. 9)

Recent Interesting Articles on the arXiv
Higher-order QCD corrections for the W-boson transverse momentum distribution
Super-Higgs in Superspace
Cosmic string evolution with a conserved charge
Techni-dilaton at 125 GeV
The Fermi scale as a focus point of high-scale gauge mediation

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