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    (Reuters) - Sonia Bovio, tired but unable to sleep after her long journey from Phoenix to London last week, settled into her hotel room and was fiddling around on her laptop. One inadvertent click later, a file downloaded and she realized she had made a big mistake.
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    CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An Obama administration plan to cut the cost of spaceflight services faces a key test on Saturday when a privately owned rocket lifts off for a practice run to the International Space Station.
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    EDINBURGH (Reuters) - The 77 people killed by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway last year have been commemorated in a display of specially commissioned jewellery which opened on Friday at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
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    NEW YORK (Reuters) - The mysterious cloak and dagger world of international espionage and its real-life heroes and villains are exposed in a new exhibition, the first to be sanctioned by U.S. intelligence agencies.
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    BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Airways International Pcl may set up a new budget carrier to tap strong demand in the regional no-frills sector and the group is on track to achieve its net profit target this year after a strong first quarter, its president said on Friday.
  • Exploitation, loneliness in sex tourism film at Cannes May 18, 2012
    CANNES, France (Reuters) - Just who exploits and who is exploited in the sex tourism industry is the question asked in director Ulrich Seidl's "Paradise Love", a powerful and unsettling exploration of female loneliness and economic imbalance in Africa.
  • London flame bound for Britain May 18, 2012
    ATHENS (Reuters) - The Olympic flame was heading to Britain from a rainswept Athens on Friday to light a 70-day torch relay leading to the opening of the Games in London on July 27.
  • NATO summit in Chicago sends some brides fleeing May 18, 2012
    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Debbie and George Sevilis were supposed to get married on Saturday, May 19. Everything was booked. They had saved the date.
  • 48 hours in Hatay, Turkey May 18, 2012
    HATAY, Turkey (Reuters) - With thousands of refugees now taking shelter in Hatay after fleeing violence just across the border in their Syrian homeland, Turkey's panhandle province has been in the news over the past year for all the wrong reasons.

  • Reuters On the Road: Meet the Queen of the City May 18, 2012
    May 18 - Vanessa Vallely, the Pearly Queen of the City of London, tells Insider why her reign is an important one for the financial square mile.
  • Speed flyers descend Europe's most active volcano May 17, 2012
    Mar. 17 - Two Italian speed flyers and their team become the first gliders to descend Mount Etna. Kilmeny Duchardt reports.
  • Ancient city of Jericho boasts new, eco-friendly walls May 15, 2012
    May 15 - Developers in the West Bank's Jericho, the world's lowest lying city, are building an the first ever eco-housing project in the Palestinian territories.The homes are designed to offset searing summer temperatures and put a modern face on the ancient city. Joel Flynn reports.
  • Afghan cinema's fading star May 17, 2012
    May 17 - War, neglect and lack of funding has brought Afghanistan's home-grown cinema and movie industry to the brink of oblivion. Paul Chapman reports.
  • Jubilee biscuits set to sell like hot cakes May 15, 2012
    May 15 - Diamond Jubilee biscuits are expected to be in high demand over the coming weeks as the UK gears up to celebrate 60 years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Tara Cleary reports.
  • Cats put the cream into Viennese cafe May 14, 2012
    May 14 - Austria's first cat cafe, where customers can have drinks while playing with cats, opens in Vienna. Tara Cleary reports.
  • Denver zoo embraces the power of dung May 13, 2012
    May 13 - The Denver Zoo is vying to become the greenest zoo in the world with the installation of a new energy system run entirely on waste. Using a process called gasification, engineers at the zoo have developed a technique they say will convert animal dung and human trash into enough energy to run the zoo's new 10 acre elephant exhibit. Ben Gruber reports
  • Sleeping on the job during the Olympics May 10, 2012
    May 10 - With the London 2012 Olympic Games just a few months away some companies are taking extreme measures to ensure their staff don't get caught up in the travel chaos that threatens to disrupt journeys to and from work. Hayley Platt reports.
  • Reuters on the Road: Blottr boosts people-powered news May 10, 2012
    May 10 - Blottr founder Adam Baker takes the taxi challenge to talk about his citizen journalism service where anyone can capture and report the news.
  • Designs meet film art at the Met May 8, 2012
    May 8 - The Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute brings designers Elisa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada together for the department’s annual exhibit. Tara Cleary reports.

 

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