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Obama Elbowed Gets 12 Stitches After Basketball Game

November 27, 2010

US President Barack Obama received 12 stitches in his upper lip after being socked in the mouth by an errant elbow during a holiday basketball game with friends and family, the White House said in a statement. Spokesman Robert Gibbs said the surgery was done Friday at the White House. Doctors hoped to leave a [...]

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Nearly Half of US Voters Don’t Want Obama in 2012

November 23, 2010

Nearly half of the voters in the US say President Barack Obama does not deserve a second term in 2012, revealed a poll result in the Washington Times Tuesday. The nationwide telephone survey of 2,424 registered voters was conducted by Quinnipiac University, an independent polling institute. According to the poll, 49 percent of those surveyed [...]

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Twitter Reaches Another Milestone With 20 Billionth Tweet

August 3, 2010

Online social networking website Twitter set yet another milestone Sunday with a message posted by a Japanese user becoming the 20 billionth tweet of the four-year old website. User “GGGGGGo_Lets_Go” from Tokyo tweeted something hard to translate. The graphic designer said it was part of a conversation between him and someone else about a third [...]

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Massive Asteroid Could Hit Earth in 2182

August 3, 2010

A massive asteroid might crash into Earth in 2182, scientists have warned. The asteroid, called 1999 RQ36, has a one-in-thousand chance of actually hitting the Earth at some point before the year 2200, but is most likely to hit on Sep 24, 2182. The asteroid was first discovered in the year 1999 and is more [...]

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