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	08/23/2011
Good afternoon John LATEST NEWS More than 100 arrested in new Sri Lanka "Grease Devil" clash COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan authorities on Tuesday arrested more than 100 people that threw rocks at police and soldiers who stopped them from chasing men thought to be "grease devils," or nighttime prowlers who have sparked an island wide spate of deadly violence. | Full Article Is Facebook "required reading?" August 23, 2011 11:49 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - British youngsters are ditching Dickens, Shakespeare and Keats for Facebook and Twitter, with one in six failing to read a single book in a month, according to a survey. | Full Article Woman, 90, beats back burglars with cane August 22, 2011 11:24 AM ET BERLIN (Reuters) - A feisty 90-year-old German woman chased away three would-be burglars from her rural farmhouse with her cane, police said on Monday. | Full Article Ferry runs aground after captain stuck in toilet August 22, 2011 11:29 AM ET HELSINKI (Reuters) - A Finnish ferry has run aground while its captain was stuck in the bathroom. | Full Article Snake that crashed funeral up for adoption August 22, 2011 11:24 AM ET PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - A 6-foot (1.83-meter) long tropical snake that showed up uninvited at a Pennsylvania memorial service in May has been nursed back to health and put up for adoption, an animal rescue official said on Friday. | Full Article US TOP NEWS Libya rebels enter Gaddafi house: report August 23, 2011 12:31 PM ET TUNIS (Reuters) - Libyan rebels have entered Muammar Gaddafi's house after breaking into his vast Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli on Tuesday, al-Jazeera television reported, citing sources. | Full Article Strauss-Kahn sexual assault case dismissed, appealed August 23, 2011 12:33 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York judge dropped all criminal sexual assault charges against ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Tuesday after prosecutors lost faith in the credibility of his accuser. | Full Article S&P replaces president with Citibank exec after U.S. downgrade August 23, 2011 07:59 AM ET SYDNEY/BANGALORE (Reuters) - The chief of Standard & Poor's will step down next month, to be replaced by a senior Citibank executive, in a move announced a few weeks after the credit rating agency downgraded U.S. government debt and sparked a row with Washington. | Full Article World stocks rally on Fed hopes, dollar down August 23, 2011 12:35 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - World stocks rose and the dollar fell on Tuesday as dismal U.S. data spurred hopes the Federal Reserve may offer more economic stimulus. | Full Article Special report: In Libya, the cellphone as weapon August 23, 2011 11:26 AM ET MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - When Muammar Gaddafi's government shut off the cellphone network in Misrata in the early days of Libya's uprising, it wanted to stop rebel forces communicating with each other. But the power of a modern phone goes beyond its network. | Full Article BUSINESS NEWS Wall St extends gains; S&P, Nasdaq up 2 pct BofA shares drop, debt insurance costs jump Regional factory index sputters, home sales fall U.S. bank earnings up, FDIC questions for how long Primary Global CEO tied to insider case: filing RELATED VIDEO Stuntman aims high in tightrope walk Fur flies at European convention Twitter through the eye of an artist A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today. Your daily briefing on the latest tech developments from around the world from Reuters expert tech correspondents. Register Today. The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day.. Register Today. » MORE NEWSLETTERS TECHNOLOGY NEWS Exclusive: Apple suppliers building cheaper, 8GB iPhone Full Article Malware targeting Android devices jumps 76 percent in Q2: McAfee Microsoft partners with China firm on cloud-computing China Telecom says still in talks with Apple on iPhone Nintendo jumps on talk of 3DS add-on, revamp Universal Display to license OLED technology to Samsung unit - 3 Times Square New York, NY 10036 USA © Copyright 2010 Thomson Reuters Ensure delivery of Reuters Newsmails, add mail@nl.reuters.com to your address book. Details Subscribe to other Reuters newsletters. Unsubscribe from this newsletter. Follow us on Twitter Friend us on Facebook Forward to a friend