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Yahoo! News: Top Stories
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 AP - The U.S. closed its Syrian embassy and Britain recalled its ambassador to Damascus Monday in a dramatic new Western push to get President Bashar Assad to leave power as diplomatic efforts to resolve one of the deadliest conflicts of the Arab Spring collapsed.
 AP - Josh Powell's note was simple and short, a farewell to the world after two years of being scrutinized in the media, hammered by police and questioned by judges, prosecutors and social workers, living his life under a microscope since the day his wife vanished.
 AP - Tax reform sounds like a good idea to lots of people, but where to start? Eliminate the popular deduction for home mortgages? End the write-off for charitable contributions? How about expanding the Social Security payroll tax?
 AP - A simple trip to the store in Iran these days offers a crash course in life under Western economic sanctions.
 AP - Greece's coalition government on Monday caved in to demands to cut civil service jobs, announcing 15,000 positions would go this year, amid mounting international pressure to agree on austerity measures needed to secure major new debt agreements.
 AP - A judge on Monday sentenced a South Dakota inmate to death for killing a prison guard by bashing him with a pipe and covering his mouth with plastic wrap during a failed escape attempt.
 AP - President Barack Obama's call to shrink the military, shut bases and cancel weapons to meet the demand for budget cuts tests the resolve of lawmakers who came to Washington determined to slash the deficit.
 AP - The right-wing extremist who has admitted killing 77 people in Norway's worst peacetime massacre told a court Monday that he deserves a medal of honor for the bloodshed and demanded to be set free.
 AP - After months of wavering, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas took a decisive step Monday toward reconciliation with the Islamic militant group Hamas, a move Israel promptly warned would close the door to any future peace talks.
 AP - Phone company Verizon Communications Inc. will challenge Netflix and start a video streaming service this year with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks.
 Reuters - German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Greece on Monday to make up its mind fast on accepting the painful terms for a new EU/IMF bailout, but the country's political leaders responded by delaying their decision for yet another day.
 Reuters - Republican Newt Gingrich vowed on Sunday to press ahead with his struggling presidential bid after a big loss in Nevada, saying he will focus on drawing a contrast with "timid" rival Mitt Romney.
 Reuters - Syrian forces bombarded Homs on Monday, killing 50 people in a sustained assault on several districts of the city which has become a centre of armed opposition to President Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian National Council opposition group said.
Reuters - bolstered by a stronger economic outlook and recent job growth - would win in a match-up against the two leading Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, a poll on Monday showed.
Reuters - The mad rush to move client money out of MF Global Inc. after its collapse left two firms with the bulk of customer accounts, while other brokerages emerged with only minor gains from the chaos of carving up a multibillion-dollar business.
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Protesters are angry with police handling of a deadly riot at a soccer stadium last week in which 80 people died.
    
Intense blasts echo through the Syrian city of Homs after a weekend bloodbath ended in hundreds of deaths, activists say.
 
Questions linger about the motivations of China and Russia, who vetoed a U.N. Security Council draft resoultion on Syria.
 
Front-runner Mitt Romney's criticisms suggest he's concerned that the conservative Rick Santorum could perform well in this week's GOP presidential contests.
 
Julian Zelizer says the former Massachusetts governor has put together a campaign that raises money effectively and has avoided many pitfalls
 
David Frum: After a bad defeat in the Nevada and possible humiliation ahead, the best option for Newt Gingrich's future might be Mitt Romney's defeat.
 
The United States has moved to block assets of Iran's government and financial institutions, saying they had engaged in "deceptive practices," President Barack Obama's administration announced Monday.
 
A person of interest in his wife's disappearance set his home on fire, killing himself and his two sons, police say. Just prior, he had e-mailed his lawyer.
 
Three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador has been stripped of his 2010 title and retroactively banned from cycling for two years following Monday's ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
 
Mexico's conservative ruling party has picked a former education secretary as its nominee for the nation's top job. If she wins, she will become Mexico's first female president.
 
TIME.com: Top Stories
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Animals, beer, women in bikinis, aging actors -- all the things that one would expect from Super Bowl commercials were present and accounted for this year. TIME grades the ads of Super Bowl XLVI
The Mainstreaming of Hamas Continues as Palestinian Unity Gains Steam
The Corporate Tax Rate Is Lowest in Decades; Is Business Paying Its Fair Share?
The breach among the Permanent Five members of the U.N. Security Council in Saturday's vote on Syria's increasingly bloody power struggle could have profound implications for Syria's immediate future.
Flight delayed for another three hours? Just breathe deeply.
While the Komen episode generated an immediate response by Planned Parenthood's supporters, legislative attacks against the organization last year resulted in barely a social media pee
At least three giant-telescope projects are now under way, and the biggest of them, the European Extremely Large Telescope, is finally breaking ground in Chile
The readers of TIME.com are choosing the BEST Best Picture of All-TIME. Come back every day to vote on a different match-up, and take a look at the full bracket.
Your tweet near the end of Super Bowl XLVI may have very well been lost amid a sea of other tweets
Downton Abbey Watch: The Ballad of Sad Lady Edith
Mitt Romney's Poverty Problem
Whether called the Falklands or Las Malvinas, the south Atlantic islands are once again the center of a diplomatic row as the 30th anniversary of a brief war approaches
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Twenty Years After Reforms, Meet the Children of the New India
Breaking News: CBS News
Top Breaking News Stories from CBSNews.com
Opposition says regime forces shelling residential areas, makeshift clinic in restive city of Homs after U.N. roadblock
     
Attorney for Susan Powell's parents says boys had started talking about mother's disappearance before deadly explosion Photos
  
An exclusive CBS News investigation finds new home buyers left holding the bag for two-month extension of payroll tax cuts
  
13 have been killed in five days of violence; Pro-democracy blogger among those wounded by police gunfire in Cairo
  
Still regal and not slowing down, Britain's monarch has reigned through wars, prime ministers, weddings and divorces
  
In effort to dissuade riders on tops of trains, roof passengers to be swatted with brooms drenched in putrid concoction
  
Iran's Central Bank hit with new penalty for "deceptive practices," "unacceptable risk" posed to global financial system
  
Washington blasts charges that indicted NGO workers funded or supported anti-government protests
  
At least 43 people dead according to military as 6.9-magnitude temblor levels buildings, triggers landslides
  
President says outside groups to blame for likely negative tone of upcoming campaign
  
Calif. school cancels classes, officials to meet with parents after arrests of 2 teachers suspected of lewd acts with students
  
Alberto Contador banned for two years after sport's highest court finds the Spanish cyclist guilty of doping
  
Ohio woman called Colorado man by accident, and he took it from there, getting her help over a thousand miles away
  
Stomach virus has stricken people on a third U.S. cruise ship, with a vessel sailing from New Orleans delayed by norovirus
  
The Chrysler ad during Sunday's Super Bowl was intended to be apolitical, but it could give fodder to both sides of the political debate
  
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The United States has whisked its remaining diplomats out of Syria and suspended operations at its embassy in Damascus as violence there continues to increase, U.S. officials told ABC News.
The president said Iran's financial institutions have acted deceptively
The man accused of killing dozens of people -- many of them teenagers -- in dual terror attacks in Norway gave what was described as a fascist salute in court today before saying he deserves a "medal of honor" for the 2011 massacre.
Egypt refers 19 Americans working for nonprofits to trial.
Arizona police begin labor-intensive search of landfill for body of 5-year-old girl
What's most striking about Japan's nuclear exclusion zone, is what you don't see. There are no people, few cars, no sign of life, aside from the occasional livestock wandering empty roads.
The CDC says more than one in five kids and teens ride in cars as others smoke.
Former University of Virginia lacrosse player George Huguely V pleaded not guilty today six charges, including first-degree murder, in the 2010 death of his ex-girlfriend Yeardley Love. Jury selection began today for the trial that is expected to last through next week.
Karen Smith from Shelton, Wash., was shocked when she opened a package and found a red velvet pouch containing the dog tags of U.S. Army veteran Randal L. Irwin, who died last year, and a small inscribed urn. Smith said the mix-up happened after the original package was...
Forget Madonna ? the most memorable moment of Sunday?s Super Bowl halftime show came when M.I.A. threw up her middle finger and uttered an expletive to the audience of millions, recalling the raciness of Janet Jackson?s 2004 ?wardrobe malfunction? and rendering The Material Girl tame...
Second only to M.I.A. and her middle finger, the other Super Bowl halftime performer who caused America?s collective jaw to drop was this guy ? a toga-clad tightrope dancer who defied the laws of gravity and wedgies while bouncing to Madonna?s ?Music.? Equal parts Will...
A review of a decade of research said online dating sites have no 'credence' to their claims.
Uggie, the famous pooch who captivated audiences as the dog in the Oscar-nominated film, ?The Artist,? is retiring from the big screen. Reports surfaced that the 10-year-old Jack Russell terrier developed a mysterious shaking syndrome, but his trainer, Omar von Muller, says his age is the...
Reuters: Top News
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ATHENS/PARIS (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Greece on Monday to make up its mind fast on accepting the painful terms for a new EU/IMF bailout, but the country's political leaders responded by delaying their decision for yet another day.
  
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Republican Newt Gingrich vowed on Sunday to press ahead with his struggling presidential bid after a big loss in Nevada, saying he will focus on drawing a contrast with "timid" rival Mitt Romney.
 
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian forces bombarded Homs on Monday, killing 50 people in a sustained assault on several districts of the city which has become a centre of armed opposition to President Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian National Council opposition group said.
 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama - bolstered by a stronger economic outlook and recent job growth - would win in a match-up against the two leading Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, a poll on Monday showed.
 
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The mad rush to move client money out of MF Global Inc. after its collapse left two firms with the bulk of customer accounts, while other brokerages emerged with only minor gains from the chaos of carving up a multibillion-dollar business.
 
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks edged lower on Monday as investors found little reason to extend a five-week rally on lingering uncertainty over whether Greece would accept the terms of a bailout.
 
LONDON (Reuters) - To get an idea of the economic mountain euro zone strugglers Greece and Portugal have to climb, consider this: per million inhabitants, they each filed fewer than eight applications with the European Patent Office in 2010.
 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States closed its embassy in Damascus on Monday and President Barack Obama vowed to ratchet up pressure on Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to step down, even as world powers remained divided over how to end the crisis.
 
VIENNA (Reuters) - After two days of rare and intensive talks in Tehran, senior U.N. nuclear officials may have felt they were finally making headway towards getting Iran to address suspicions that it is bent on developing the ability to make atom bombs.
 
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - The New York Giants reclaimed the greatest prize in North American sports with a nail-biting 21-17 Super Bowl victory over the New England Patriots on Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium.
 
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