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	05/19/2011
Good afternoon John LATEST NEWS In a first, Venezuela suspends driver's license CARACAS (Reuters) - Car-friendly Venezuela, where gasoline is almost free and troublesome highway rules rarely imposed, has suspended a bus driver from the roads for a year in the first case of a suspended license in the OPEC nation. | Full Article Police comb city for mullet-wearing bandit May 19, 2011 10:52 AM ET CHICAGO (Reuters) - You can probably guess what he's not spending his loot on. | Full Article "Planking" goes viral despite death, injury May 19, 2011 10:42 AM ET SYDNEY (Reuters) - Planking, the Australian craze of lying face down stiff in often bizarre places for a photo op, claimed another victim when a man was critically injured after being thrown from the roof of a moving car when his planking went bad. | Full Article Obama 2012 using birth flap as fund-raising tool May 19, 2011 10:42 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is having some fun -- and raising some money -- from a flap over whether Obama was born in the United States. | Full Article Students consider prostitution to pay for school? May 18, 2011 12:55 PM ET BERLIN (Reuters) - One in three university students in the German capital would consider sex work as a means to finance their education, a study from the Berlin Studies Center said on Wednesday. | Full Article US TOP NEWS Obama: U.S. to promote reform in Mideast, North Africa May 19, 2011 12:36 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Thursday the top U.S. priority across the Middle East and North Africa is to promote reform and that it will oppose the use of violence and oppression against protesters. | Full Article Jobless claims fall, regional manufacturing slows May 19, 2011 10:46 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits fell last week, but other data on home sales and regional factory activity suggested the economy remained on a moderate growth path. | Full Article Strauss-Kahn arrives at court for bail hearing May 19, 2011 11:59 AM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who is charged with trying to rape a hotel maid, arrived at a New York court building on Thursday for a bail hearing. | Full Article LinkedIn share price more than doubles in NYSE debut May 19, 2011 11:53 AM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - LinkedIn Corp's shares more than doubled to $103.00 in their public trading debut on Thursday, a jump reminiscent of the heyday of investors' love affair with Internet stocks in the late 1990s. | Full Article Al Qaeda releases posthumous bin Laden audio recording May 19, 2011 07:59 AM ET CAIRO (Reuters) - Al Qaeda released a posthumous audio recording by Osama bin Laden in which he praised revolutions sweeping through several Arab countries, and called for more Muslim "tyrants" to be toppled. | Full Article BUSINESS NEWS Wall Street flat on data; LinkedIn soars in debut Glencore's record IPO makes muted debut U.S. to suffer if debt limit not raised: White House West's oil agency urges OPEC: pump more, or else BlackRock buying back all its shares held by BofA RELATED VIDEO End of the world as we know it...on May 21 French "Spiderman" scales new heights Couples do the fertility dance 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 Verizon to offer family data plans Full Article Google, Apple not unassailable in smartphone race Amazon says e-books now outselling paper books Inventories to cap phone market growth: Gartner Baidu, China sued in U.S. for Internet censorship European start-ups shy away from IPO frenzy - 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