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Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez holds a Venezuelan flag as he greets his supporters from the Miraflores presidential palace balcony in Caracas, Venezuela. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd / AP)

Sir John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka win Nobel Prize

The duo had been tipped for the prize thanks to their research in nuclear reprogramming, a process that instructs adult cells to form early stem cells which can then be used to form any tissue type.

Telegraph.co.uk

Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine

Yahoo! News

The 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine

Scientific American

Language learning makes the brain grow

Researchers at the Swedish Armed Forces Interpreter Academy observed that specific parts of the brain grow when students learn a new language.

ScienceDaily

Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez wins 3rd term

President Hugo Chavez scored an election victory that could extend his rule to 20 years, after a bitterly fought race against a youthful rival who has galvanized Venezuela’s opposition.

NBCNews.com

Fireworks and partying in the streets after Chavez re-election win

YouTube

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Plane, bus, or car: US Venezuelans cast vote against Hugo Chávez

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Fox News Latino

Meningitis outbreak spreads in US as number of confirmed infections hits 91

The number of people who have contracted a rare and deadly form of meningitis from a contaminated steroid injection has almost doubled.

Guardian

Economic recovery ‘on the ropes’

Economic data and confidence indicators have deteriorated across the leading developed and emerging economies, apart from the U.S., which is on the brink of the presidential election.

CNN

Global slowdown hurts developing countries

Indian Express

NATION

Stateless, stranded on American Samoa

For many of us, no matter where we go, we‘ll always have a home and we’ll always be from somewhere. But what if that somewhere no longer existed?

NPR

Samoan PM hails improving relations with American neighbor

Radio Australia

California governor takes action as gas prices keep rising

Gov. Jerry Brown is taking action in an effort to drive down the cost of gasoline as California drivers cope with record-breaking prices at the pump.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Below the poverty line: poverty in US

Last month, the U.S. Census Bureau released the latest official poverty figures, putting the number of poor people at 46.2 million, or 15 percent of the population.

Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

What is poverty?

Povertyusa.org

POLITICS

Obama and Romney: taking the campaign one day at a time

For the staff working on the presidential campaigns it can become all about “winning the day.” A good media moment for either President Obama or Mitt Romney can fire up staffers, interns and volunteers.

Christian Science Monitor

Obama touts donations as Romney doubts jobs in reset race

Mitt Romney worked to undercut a better-than-expected jobs report, and President Barack Obama touted his largest monthly fundraising haul as the candidates grappled for advantage in a tight race.

BusinessWeek

BUSINESS

Business hiring calms concerns about fiscal cliff

Business hiring is holding up, allaying concerns about a U.S. economic downdraft in the face of a looming fiscal cliff. Companies added an average 121,000 workers a month in the third quarter.

Bloomberg

Social media poses a threat to the card making industry

Say it’s your birthday or you’ve just had a baby or got engaged. If you’re like many Americans, your friends are texting their congratulations, sending you an e-card or clicking “Like” on your Facebook wall.

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

Birds still at risk from lead poisoning despite shotgun laws

Lead poisoning is still a major cause of death among swans, ducks and other waterfowl despite legislation aimed at restricting the use of toxic lead pellets by shotgun owners, a study has found.

The Independent

Ivory worship

Elephant poaching levels are currently at their worst in a decade, and seizures of illegal ivory are at their highest level in years.

National Geographic

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Tech for the body on road to cyborgs?

Speakers at a symposium on body-enhancement technology raised the idea that we may converge with our technology until a superhuman entity emerges.

The Age

SpaceX rocket on 1st cargo flight to International Space Station

The SpaceX rocket, the first commercial flight to the International Space Station, has lifted off carrying an unmanned cargo capsule.

CNN

Special section:

Space X to Space Station

SPACE.com

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly face off in blockbuster debate

The debate between Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart at George Washington University was billed as “The Rumble In the Air-Conditioned Auditorium."

Rolling Stone

Deaf British community minds its language

The first U.K.-wide survey into how British sign language is used by deaf people of different ages has found a seismic shift has taken place.

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Minneapolis enjoys a day of dignity

As Vikings fans imbibed at food trucks and grills near the Metrodome, north Minneapolis residents and the homeless enjoyed free corn on the cob, sloppy joes and rap music.

Star Tribune

Auburn schools thankful for the donations they received

Donations from a garden center, a church, and Target stores have helped Julia Bancroft Elementary School improve its look and the Mary D. Stone Elementary School fill important needs.

Auburn Daily Voice

Glitch led to dream house

A wrong set of keys unintentionally led Philadelphian couple Greg and Mary Berzinsky to their beloved home.

Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

Huawei and ZTE pose security threat, warns US panel