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Today's Most Popular News: iPhone alarm glitch leaves users fuming Thousands of dead birds picked up in Ark. town Expedia stops selling American Airlines tickets Navy to investigate lewd videos shown on carrier GOP agenda: Major impact may be on 2012 election How to beat the market? Only stay a day at a time Magnitude-7.1 quake shakes southern Chile Visitors snap up 100 trillion Zimbabwe bank notes Blood test to spot cancer gets big boost from J&J Schwarzenegger's next act: return to LA, go green Fossilized Bird Brains May Yield Secret of First Flights Zsa Zsa Gabor back in LA hospital for leg surgery Obama signs Sept. 11 first responders bill Relief flights help flood-affected Australian city Mexican cartel announces 1-month truce Senator proposes permanent US bases in Afghanistan Barron's sees stock market rise Swedish actor Per Oscarsson feared killed in fire Some Hotmail users report missing e-mails Apple's absence to be felt at CES gadget show iPhone alarm glitch leaves users fuming Sun, 2 Jan 2011 08:26 pm PST AFP - The bells weren't ringing for many iPhone users this New Year's weekend, when thanks to a glitch the alarms on Apple's iconic mobile phones failed to go off, causing many to oversleep. Full Story Top Thousands of dead birds picked up in Ark. town Sun, 2 Jan 2011 07:03 pm PST AP - Environmental service workers finished picking up the carcasses on Sunday of about 2,000 red-winged blackbirds that fell dead from the sky in a central Arkansas town. Full Story Top Expedia stops selling American Airlines tickets Sat, 1 Jan 2011 11:45 am PST AP - Expedia Inc. has stopped selling tickets on American Airlines flights, the latest twist in a simmering pricing dispute between American and travel websites. Full Story Top Navy to investigate lewd videos shown on carrier Sun, 2 Jan 2011 05:05 pm PST AP - The Navy said Sunday it will investigate "clearly inappropriate" videos broadcast to the crew of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in which a top officer of the ship used gay slurs, mimicked masturbation and opened the shower curtain on women pretending to bathe together. Full Story Top GOP agenda: Major impact may be on 2012 election Sun, 2 Jan 2011 04:25 pm PST AP - The Republican agenda for the new Congress that convenes Wednesday may have a greater impact on the 2012 elections than on the lives of Americans in the next two years. Full Story Top How to beat the market? Only stay a day at a time Sun, 2 Jan 2011 11:05 am PST AP - It's one of the truisms of financial planning: trying to perfectly time the market is a fool's errand. For long-term gains, the advice goes, you should buy index funds and hold them indefinitely. Warren Buffett likes to say that his preferred holding period is "forever." Full Story Top Magnitude-7.1 quake shakes southern Chile Sun, 2 Jan 2011 06:57 pm PST AP - A magnitude-7.1 earthquake shook southern Chile on Sunday, prompting tens of thousands to flee the coast for higher ground amid fears it could generate a tsunami like the one that ravaged the area last year. Full Story Top Visitors snap up 100 trillion Zimbabwe bank notes Sun, 2 Jan 2011 11:07 am PST AP - Western visitors to Zimbabwe are looking for zeros. They're snapping up old, defunct Zimbabwe bank notes, most notably the one hundred trillion Zimbabwe dollar bill, as an economic souvenir. Full Story Top Blood test to spot cancer gets big boost from J&J Sun, 2 Jan 2011 09:24 pm PST AP - A blood test so sensitive that it can spot a single cancer cell lurking among a billion healthy ones is moving one step closer to being available at your doctor's office. Full Story Top Schwarzenegger's next act: return to LA, go green Sat, 1 Jan 2011 12:09 pm PST AP - The Terminator always said he'd be back. Full Story Top Fossilized Bird Brains May Yield Secret of First Flights Sat, 1 Jan 2011 09:15 am PST LiveScience.com - Overwhelming evidence suggests birds evolved from dinosaurs some 150 million years ago, but one of the missing pieces to the evolutionary puzzle is how such birds took to the air. Full Story Top Zsa Zsa Gabor back in LA hospital for leg surgery Sun, 2 Jan 2011 11:23 pm PST AP - A representative for Zsa Zsa Gabor says she is back in a Los Angeles hospital to have part of her leg amputated. Full Story Top Obama signs Sept. 11 first responders bill Sun, 2 Jan 2011 06:41 pm PST AP - President Barack Obama said Sunday he was honored to sign a bill to provide aid to survivors of the Sept. 11 attacks and first responders who became ill working in the ruins at the World Trade Center. Full Story Top Relief flights help flood-affected Australian city Sun, 2 Jan 2011 10:21 pm PST AP - Military flights rushed Monday to restock an Australian city before it is cut off by floodwaters that have turned a huge swath of the Outback into a lake, while police confirmed two more deaths in the crisis. Full Story Top Mexican cartel announces 1-month truce Sun, 2 Jan 2011 06:58 pm PST AP - A letter purportedly signed by La Familia drug cartel announcing a one-month truce circulated Sunday in the western state of Michoacan. Full Story Top Senator proposes permanent US bases in Afghanistan Sun, 2 Jan 2011 11:37 am PST AP - A leading GOP lawmaker on U.S. military policy says he wants American officials to consider establishing permanent military bases in Afghanistan. Full Story Top Barron's sees stock market rise Sun, 2 Jan 2011 01:37 pm PST Reuters - Wall Street strategists are bullish about the market's prospects in 2011, expecting stocks to rise an average of 10 percent, with big-cap shares like Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N), Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) and Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) leading the way, Barron's reported on Sunday. Full Story Top Swedish actor Per Oscarsson feared killed in fire Sun, 2 Jan 2011 10:08 am PST AP - A house fire appears to have killed actor Per Oscarsson, a giant of Swedish cinema who won a best actor award at Cannes in 1966 and appeared in films based on Stieg Larsson's "Millennium" trilogy, and his wife, police said Sunday. Full Story Top Some Hotmail users report missing e-mails Sat, 1 Jan 2011 02:56 pm PST AP - Some users of Microsoft Hotmail are starting off the new year scrambling to get back e-mails of old. A chorus of frantic users has posted complaints on Microsoft's online forum that all of their messages have disappeared. Full Story Top Apple's absence to be felt at CES gadget show Sun, 2 Jan 2011 09:02 pm PST AP - What do you call it when you have 120,000 people and an elephant in the room? Full Story Top

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