CNN's Maggie Lake talked to Harvard University professor Larry Summers about the reprieve in the Eurozone debt crisis.
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Tonya Cooley (far left) and the cast of 'Real World Chicago'. (MTV)
Tonya Cooley, a cast member on several of MTV’s “Real World/Road Rules” challenges, has filed a lawsuit against MTV, Bunim/Murray Productions, and cast members Kenneth “Kenny” Santucci and Evan Starkman alleging that she was raped while cameras were rolling for 2009’s “The Ruins” season of MTV’s long-running reality competition game show, according to an online report.
TMZ.com reports that Cooley alleges in her lawsuit that Santucci and Starkman “took another male participant’s toothbrush and rubbed the toothbrush around plaintiff’s genitals, including rubbing her labia and inserting the toothbrush into plaintiff’s vagina” while she was unconscious.
Even more shocking, Cooley claims that “producers not only knew about the rape, they even replaced the toothbrush, but never told her what happened,” according to TMZ.
Cooely squarely places blame on the producers of the series, who allegedly encouraged male cast members to “inappropriately touch female cast members’ bodies, including in intimate areas,” TMZ reports.
Cooley, who first appeared in MTV’s “Real World: Chicago” in 2002 is suing for unspecified damages.
When reached by Fox411.com, a representative for Bunim-Murray Productions would not comment on TMZ’s report, explaining that they don’t comment on pending litigation.
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When was the last time you saw a Blackberry and just stood amazed at the gorgeous design aesthetic? Yeah, we can’t remember, either. The next time somebody asks that question, I’ll be looking back to that point when I first saw this phone: the Blackberry Porsche Design P’9981.
Yes, the sexiest Blackberry to come out in a while wasn’t thought up
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Lookee here, it’s the other new Windows Phone-packing Nokia handset. No, not that one, this is the Lumia 710 — you know, the budget phone with the 3.7-inch LCD and those colorful backplates. The Mangoriffic phone appears to have made its way through the FCC, with the ID on the filing matching up with listings on the Finnish phonemaker’s site. Don’t get too excited, however — while this and the product page are certainly enough to get some stateside Nokia fanatics’ blood pumping, the company has given us word that the Lumia is not destined for our shores, sadly — at least not in any official capacity.
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There is no shortage of storylines heading into the final game of the Fall Classic.
On Friday night, the Texas Rangers will either hoist their first ever World Series trophy, or the St. Louis Cardinals will triumph for the 11th time in their storied history – good enough for 2nd most all-time.
Even if Game 7 is the most boring game in the history of baseball, this postseason will be remembered as one of the most exciting in history of the sport. Including the Cardinals' 10-9 win on Thursday, there have now been a record 13 one-run games in this year's playoffs.
The teams with the best regular season records in their respective leagues (as well as my picks to meet in the World Series) – the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees – were knocked out in the 1st round.
To make matters even more exciting, both the Yankees and Phillies lost their decisive Game 5 by one run in their home parks. In fact, three of the four Division Series match-ups went to a decisive final game. Only the Rangers advanced with a game to spare.
The Championship Series didn't disappoint either. The Rangers' Nelson Cruz hit the first game-ending grand slam in postseason history in an 11-inning Game 2 triumph over the Detroit Tigers.
Cruz dealt another crushing blow to Detroit with a three-run home run in the 11th inning of Game 4.
After losing Game 1 to the Milwaukee Brewers, the Cardinals had star first baseman Albert Pujols to thank after his memorable four hit, five RBI performance evened the series.
Quite remarkably, that performance was not even close to what Pujols accomplished in Game 3 of the World Series. The Dominican launched three home runs, drove in six runs and finished with a total of five hits – all three stats tying a World Series record.
The Cardinals weren't done tying records. Their remarkable Game 6 comeback was just the third time a team that was one out from World Series elimination came back to win the game.
Will that incredible triumph propel the Cardinals to their first Series title since 2006? We'll have to wait and see. To neutral observers it really doesn't matter. This postseason has already provided us with drama we may never see again.
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The iPhone 4S may have its first significant early life issue, according to many users, and even possibly Apple itself. Many users are reporting seeing very poor battery life with iPhone 4S devices, and on Friday the Guardian received word that Apple was contacting affected users directly to get to the bottom of things.
Problems with the 4S battery go beyond just the advertised changes, which acknowledge that the iPhone 4S won’t get as much standby time from a full charge than either the iPhone 4 or the iPhone 3GS. 3G talk time and other use cases are supposed to last longer with the 4S’s new battery, however, which a teardown revealed is higher capacity than the one in the iPhone 4.
Users who are having problems aren’t seeing just a small drop in standby time, however. Some users are reporting between 10 and 20 percent battery burn per hour while the phone is in standby mode. That’s well off the usual, which is closer to around 1 percent an hour, or even less. In fact, we’re treading well into Android territory here, where battery life is a known failing of most devices.
Solutions people are suggesting vary from performing a full backup and restore, to switching off Siri, to not using wireless sync. But in many cases, these solutions don’t seem to be helping. Some argue that it’s an issue with 3G data, as users who depend more on Wi-Fi don’t seem to be as affected in some cases.
The Guardian reports that some iPhone 4S users who’ve posted about the problem on Apple’s discussion boards are receiving calls from Apple engineers looking into the problem. It’s a good sign that Apple is investigating, but according to one person who was contacted, an engineer admitted “they aren’t close to finding a fix.”
My own iPhone 4S seems to have comparable, if not better battery life when compared to my iPhone 4. I’ve managed to get as much as two full days of standby time along with five or six hours of usage. I tend not to be away from Wi-Fi for very long, however, and I have noticed that the phone runs hot and battery seems to drain more quickly when I’m actually browsing in Safari using a 3G connection.
What about you? If you’ve upgraded to the iPhone 4S, are you having problems with battery life? Maybe iOS 5 is the culprit, and you’re seeing problems even on an iPhone 4 or 3GS? Let us know in the comments.
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Courtney Stodden now … and then. (YouTube/Celebuzz)
In a few short years, Courtney Stodden went from a cute little teenage girl …. to a 16-year-old who looks like she’s 36 … to a 16-year-old who looks like she’s 36, married to a 51-year-old.
Now 17, she and actor Doug Hutchison, the aforesaid 51-year-old, who once acted across Tom Hanks, are going to be starring in their own reality show about, what else, being the very interesting couple that they are.
RELATED: Hutchison Ignores New Child Bride at FedEx Store.
Celebuzz.com published a bunch of “before” photos of Stodden, and the transformation is striking, to say the least.
PHOTOS: Stodden Before & After.
This is Stodden a few years ago, when she was “12 or 13,” growing up in Washington state.
Who could have predicted that she would turn into this, married to this, with dogs like these, living in Hollywood?
And perhaps most strange, it is all with the blessing of her mother, who had to approve of the marriage for it to be legal, then moved to Los Angeles to manage Stodden as her daughter embarks on her reality star – and singing – dreams.
RELATED: Mom Approves of May-December Marriage.
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There’s nothing better than unplugging on a Sunday afternoon with a newspaper and a cup of Joe, which is exactly what AU Optronics hopes to facilitate with its 6-inch Rollable Organic TFT E-paper. We’ve heard rumblings about the foldable photovoltaic device before, but the company has finally delivered a working prototype that is completely solar powered and elastic enough to make even Gumby jealous. Made of organic TFTs, the SVGA e-paper has an amorphous silicon PV battery, which turns natural or indoor light into solar energy without requiring a power plug. The only downside? Unlike the dead tree variety, wrapping presents in this stuff is a no-go. Check out the extended PR after the break.
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Creeping from the periphery in Africa’s east and west, Islamist militant groups now pose serious security challenges to key countries and potentially even a threat to the continent’s new success.
The biggest story in Africa south of the Sahara over the past few years hasn’t been plague, famine or war but the emergence of the world’s poorest continent as one of its fastest growing – thanks to factors that include fresh investment, economic reform, the spread of new technology, higher prices for commodity exports and generally greater political stability.
Nigeria and Kenya, the most important economies in West and East Africa respectively, are pillars of the change in Africa as well as having the largest and most easily accessible markets for foreigners.
Both now face growing battles with Islamist groups; Kenya throwing troops into neighbouring Somalia in pursuit of al Shabaab fighters, Nigeria struggling with bombings and shootings by its homegrown Boko Haram sect.
Kenyan forces have pushed into southern Somalia to drive back al Qaeda-linked militants blamed by Nairobi for a string of border incursions and kidnappings, including the abductions of foreign tourists from coastal resorts which have damaged one of Kenya’s most important industries.
Shabaab has in return called for all out war on Kenya and “huge blasts” by its unknown number of supporters there. Grenade attacks this week have killed one person, wounded more than 20 and jangled nerves in Nairobi, where more than 200 people died in an al Qaeda bombing of the U.S. embassy in 1998.
Killings by Nigeria’s Boko Haram sect (whose name means Western education is sinful) had been largely confined to a remote corner of the semi-desert northeast and ignored by much of the country until bombings struck the capital Abuja a few months back. A suicide car bombing on the U.N. headquarters in August killed 24 people.
Boko Haram is now by far the biggest security headache for President Goodluck Jonathan in Africa’s most populous nation – which, if estimates of population and the Muslim-Christian balance are to be believed, might have more Muslims than any country in the Middle East.
While Islam in Africa has traditionally co-existed comfortably with other religions, more heavily Muslim regions are often relatively marginalised economically and politically and that leaves plenty of ground for radicalism to sprout.
Nigerian elections this year showed how starkly the largely Muslim north; arid, poor, less well educated, lacking in resources and facing the decline of its few industries was divided from the more prosperous and dynamic south, home to Africa’s biggest energy reserves and booming factories.
Changing that is a huge task for President Jonathan and could be complicated still further by a heavy security response to Boko Haram.
Getting sucked into a foreign war against a Somali enemy which drove out Ethiopia’s far more experienced army in 2009 is just what Kenya doesn’t need at a time it is already in the doldrums due to drought, soaring inflation and a plummeting currency. Although the growth outlook of 4 percent may still sound healthy by Western standards, that has been cut from earlier expectations.
It is not only the cost in lives and money that count.
Counter insurgency wars – even in regions distant from the main centres of business – can do nothing for foreign investor sentiment starting to warm to Africa. They drain resources that might better be used improving infrastructure or education and lead to a greater role for security establishments at the heart of power and policy making, rarely a recipe for success in post-independence Africa.
Beyond the biggest countries, poorer neighbours may be at greater risk. A flood of weapons across the Sahara desert from Libya’s civil war – as well as hundreds of thousands of now unemployed former migrant workers – could further destabilise West Africa’s Sahel countries, already prey to kidnappings and attacks by al Qaeda’s regional offshoot.
Overall, optimism for Africa remains strong. Businesses draw comparisons with China and India in past decades and eye a market of a billion consumers with money to spend on more than just basic survival.
Whether or not the threat of Islamist militant groups can be contained to the margins, the extra strain could certainly be felt in a continent where many have only recently seen good reason to believe in a better future.
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It’s quite possible that this leaked image from the Toyota’s Modellista parts division catalogue is the new Toyota FT-86. While the image looks very similar to the original concept car first revealed, although earlier reports suggested that it wouldn’t, Toyota has not yet verified or commented on the questionable image at this time.
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