Congoo Daily Briefing - Entertainment News

'Abba concert' set for September
BBC - 3 Hours ago
Abba have not played a concert in the UK since 1979 Abba's songwriting team Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus are to take part in a concert featuring some of their biggest hits in London later this year. Add Comment

How Jackson's "Thriller" changed the music business
Reuters Canada - 13 Hours ago
By Gail Mitchell and Melinda Newman LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - In early 1984, when Epic Records executives presented their slate of upcoming releases at the convention in Hawaii of parent company CBS Records,

Jackson's talent changed the music world Times Colonist

How Jackson's 'Thriller' changed the music business (Reuters) Yahoo! News Australia

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Big Brother gives Sree the boot
BBC - 72 Minutes ago
Sree had previously said he wanted to leave the show Sree Dasari has been evicted from the Big Brother house after aspiring politician Halfwit survived the public vote for a fourth week. The 25-year-old Add Comment

Celebrity Gossip

Madonna to pay special tribute to Michael Jackson
Xinhua News Agency - 5 Hours ago
BEIJING, July 4 (Xinhuanet) -- Singer Madonna will perform at O2 Arena in London--the same arena where Michael Jackson was to stage his comback concerts, to pay special tribute to the late King of Pop.

Johnny Depp pays tribute to Michael Jackson at 'Enemies' premiere Hello!

Will Johnny Depp play Michael Jackson in a new bio-pic? St. Petersburg Times

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Celebrity deaths often a challenge for L.A. police
CTV.ca - 2 Hours ago
Los Angeles police officer Carlos Carrillo stretches out police tape near the entrance to the Los Angeles County Coroner's building Friday, June 26, 2009, where the body of Michael Jackson was taken for Add Comment

THR Veteran Steve Brennan Dies
Ireland Film and Television Net News - 3 Hours ago
Steve Brennan, a 20-year veteran reporter and editor at The Hollywood Reporter, died Thursday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after a year long battle with cancer. He was 57. Brennan was

Hollywood Reporter veteran Steve Brennan dies Broadcast Newsroom

Hollywood Reporter veteran Steve Brennan dies (Reuters) Yahoo! News Australia

5-a-side Celebrity Football at the Hop Farm Festival!
Subba Cultcha - 10 Hours ago
Having already confirmed the likes of Paul Weller, The Fratellis, Pigeon Detectives, The View, Editors, Doves, Ash, Etienne De Crecy Live, 2 Many DJs and Scratch Perverts, the Hop Farm has already established

Hop Farm announce 5-a-side Celebrity Football tournament Music-News

Personal finance

Personal Installment Loans, No Credit Check Loans
TMC Net - 7 Hours ago
Do you need a loan payment, credit, but you've got questions? If so then you are probably looking for no credit check personal loans. These are not easy to find because everyone wants to check your credit.

Is Using A Personal Loan To Pay Off Credit Cards A Good Idea? UPublish.info

No credit check motorcycle title loans, cash for motorcycle title TMC Net

IBM Reinvents the 401(k)
BusinessWeek - 7/3/2009
Back in January 2008, IBM (IBM) replaced the last of its pensions with a new-and-improved 401(k). The plan came with plenty of enticements, befitting a company that earned more than $10 billion on $99 Add Comment

The missing skill: personal financial management
The Skills Portal - 23 Hours ago
One of four training workshops on the schedule of the Second Annual National Secretaries Conference (NSC 2009) will address Personal Money Management for Office Professionals. The conference takes place Add Comment

Personal Care Giant Invests In Northwest Site
Invest in England's NorthWest - 14 Hours ago
Personal care products manufacturer PZ Cussons is to open its new manufacturing and research centre in the northwest today (July 1st). Despite opinions that it might choose an overseas location, the company Add Comment

US banking

Autonomy Corp Wins $15M Compliance Solutions Order From US Bank
Wall Street Journal Online - 8 Hours ago
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Autonomy Corp Wins $15 Million Compliance Solutions Order From US Bank Morningstar.com

Autonomy Corp Wins $15 Million Compliance Solutions... (DJ) Easy Bourse

PNC matches hailed a success
Radio Fiji - 11 Hours ago
IRB Oceania General Manager William Glenwright Taken from / By: FBCL The International Rugby Board says the Fiji has hosted one of the most successful international tournaments in the Oceania Region. Add Comment

Quebecor World Gains Court Approval
Canadian Printer Magazine - 102 Minutes ago
Next hearing will be July 13 to iron out final exit details. Quebecor World Inc. received good news from the Quebec Superior Court and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York,

Quebecor World plans approved in Quebec, N.Y. Toronto Star Online

BRIEF-Quebecor World gets approval for U.S., Canadian restructuring plans FinanzNachrichten.de

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BoA to pay US govt $713m
Finance 24 - 3 Hours ago
Why not follow us on twitter. You can receive regular updates with regards to what is pertinent in the world of business and finance. Charlotte, North Carolina - Bank of America Corp says its board has Add Comment

Blogging

GOD IN GOVERNMENT : The Best From This Week's Blog
Washington Post - 6 Hours ago
Signs of Media Savvy at the Vatican Pope Benedict XVI is expected to delay the release of his encyclical on the global economy, poverty and the worldwide financial crisis until just before the G8 summit Add Comment

Topic Selection a Key to Profitable Blogging
TMC Net - 48 Minutes ago
Blogs may have originated as a means of online journal writing and community building, but the use of this model wonï¿½t accomplish much for the online entrepreneur. Unless your cats are far cuter than Add Comment

Tweba turns Twitter into a social marketplace
TechNews.AM - 3 Hours ago
With so many startups capitalizing on the Twitter platform these days, itâ??s not surprising that some are crossing into the domain of established sites. One prime example is young marketplace company Add Comment

Why is #moonfruit trending on Twitter? Itâ??s the rebirth of a startup
TechNews.AM - 3 Hours ago
Spam In Twitter Trends, Again (Update: Not Really Spam) less than a day ago Add Comment

Online content

Smash Hits returns for Jacko issue
Thelondonpaper - 3 Hours ago
SMASH HITS, the well-loved pop magazine which captivated teenagers for three decades, is to return for a one-off special celebrating the life of Michael Jackson. The publication folded in 2006 after nearly

Smash Hits resurrected for Jackson St Helens Reporter

Smash Hits to return for Michael Jackson special Telegraph

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Video website Joost cuts service and jobs
Gulf News - 7 Hours ago
New York: Joost, an early pioneer in bringing popular TV shows and movies to the web, is dropping its consumer service, cutting jobs and losing its high-profile chief executive as it struggles to find Add Comment

Live Nation And Microsoft To Offer Content To Music Fans Through Windows Internet
Music Industry News Network - 7 Hours ago
Live Nation announced it has entered into a sponsorship deal with Microsoft to provide music fans access to exclusive digital content when they download new customized versions of the recently launched

Live Nation Explores Microsoft Encore

YouTube Video Makers: Drill Your Message Home With YouTube Annotations
Montana's News Station - 8 Hours ago
Christopher Ming Ryan (The Way We Watch) shows you how easy it is to use text annotations on your uploaded videos on YouTube. NEW YORK, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Christopher Ming Ryan, an executive producer

YouTube Video Makers: Drill Your Message Home With YouTube Annotations Christopher AV Video

Iran

Miliband defends Iran embassy staff - PA
Guardian Unlimited - 3 Hours ago
The Foreign Office has defended British Embassy staff in Iran against threats to put them on trial for alleged involvement in anti-government protests. Foreign Secretary David Miliband said he was seeking

Britain seeks clarification on trial threat to embassy staff in Iran China.com

Miliband seeks urgent 'clarification' over Iran embassy staff Africa Leader

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Iranian hardliner calls opposition leader U.S. agent
CTV.ca - 2 Hours ago
TEHRAN, Iran -- A top aide to Iran's supreme leader called the country's main opposition figure a U.S. agent and said in an editorial Saturday he should be tried for committing crimes against the nation.

Iranian hardliner calls opposition leader US agent The State

Iranian hard-liner calls opposition leader U.S. agent Journal-Gazette

British embassy employee in Iran charged
Washington Post - 113 Minutes ago
TEHRAN -- The lawyer for a detained Iranian employee of the British embassy in Tehran says his client has been charged with 'acting against national security.' Lawyer Abdolsamad Khorramshi says his client

British embassy staffers confessed, Iran clergyman claims (Roundup) Monsters and Critics

Outrage after Iran clerics put British Embassy staff on trial Mirror.co.uk

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British Embassy Local Staff to be tried in Iran
People's Daily Online - 119 Minutes ago
A top Iranian cleric said Friday that some local staff of the British embassy in Iran will be put on trial for alleged instigating post-election unrest in the country. 'In these developments, their embassy

UK embassy staff to face trial in Iran Cape Argus

British Embassy staff face Iran trial Evening Echo

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Iraq

Biden: Commitment to Iraq Contingent on Progress
Washington Post - 6 Hours ago
BAGHDAD, July 3 -- Vice President Biden warned Iraqi officials Friday that the American commitment to Iraq could end if the country again descended into ethnic and sectarian violence. Biden delivered

Progress to prevail in Iraq, says Biden Africa Leader

U.S. Commitment to Iraq Is Contingent on Progress, Biden Warns Washington Post

France Hopes to Jump-Start Arms Sales With Iraq
Washington Post - 11 Hours ago
PARIS, July 3 -- France, which was an important weapons supplier to Saddam Hussein, has set out to revive its once-flourishing arms sales and training relationship with the new Iraqi government put in

France to Jump-Start Arms Sales Washington Post

France Hopes to Jump-Start Its Arms Sales With New Iraqi Government Washington Post

10. Oil Firms Thwarted in Iraqi Bidding
Moscow Times - 2 Hours ago
By Anatoly Medetsky / LUKoil said Wednesday that it would be interested in bidding again for the rights to develop an Iraqi oil field a day after its offer placed third in a tender for West Qurna-1. The

Oil firms battle for right to bid on YPF Shanghai Daily

On visit to Iraq, Biden warns ethnicviolence will turn US away
Boston Globe - 5 Hours ago
BAGHDAD - Vice President Joe Biden told Iraqi leaders yesterday that he and President Obama were committed to helping them resolve their political differences, but he warned that the United States would

Biden's visit to Iraq raises questions about Iraq's future (McClatchy Newspapers) Yahoo! News

In Iraq, Biden warns against new violence Philadelphia Inquirer

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Crime & Punishment

Shopian case: Court orders exhumation of bodies of two women
The Hindu - 5 Hours ago
Srinagar, July 4 (PTI) Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Saturday directed exhumation of the bodies of two women allegedly raped and murdered in Shopian last month to collect their DNA samples subject to

Shopian rape case: HC orders exhumation of womens' bodies Indian Express

Exhume bodies of Shopian rape victims: HC Times of India

Zeppelin jail break foiled
Telegraph - 57 Minutes ago
Spanish police have foiled an elaborate bid to free an Italian drug trafficker from jail using a remote-controlled Zeppelin. It is thought the inmate, identified by police as 52 year-old Giulio B, would Add Comment

The Girl from Monaco: Murder Trail with a Difference
Los Angeles Times - 79 Minutes ago
For the movies to be good or bad, it is casting that plays a major role. Presented by Magnolia Pictures and directed by Anne Fontaine, The Girl from Monaco is again a romantic comedy with some Hitchcockian Add Comment

'Double jeopardy' thug jailed for life after confessing murder of girlfriend to
Mail Online UK - 2 Hours ago
A callous and calculating killer was jailed for life yesterday for a murder that he had been acquitted of seven years earlier in a landmark double jeopardy case. Mario Celaire, 31, thought he had cheated

Killer Jailed Under New Double Jeopardy Laws Clyde 2

Killer Jailed Under Double Jeopardy Laws Sky News

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US politics

Palin to step down as Alaska governor: Report
Manorama Online - 83 Minutes ago
Washington, July 4: Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who was catapulted to national prominence as the Republican vice presidential candidate last year, will resign later this month, she said Friday. She also

Palin resigns as Alaska governorÂ The Times South Africa

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin resigns in surprise move Asiaone

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Mrs. Obama bringing glamor to Moscow this weekend
Washington Post - 113 Minutes ago
MOSCOW -- Michelle Obama brings her superstar glamor to Moscow this weekend as she accompanies her husband on his summit with the Russian president. But the American first lady, who has wowed publics

Michelle Obama bringing glamor to Moscow Durham Herald-Sun

Michelle Obama brings glamour to Moscow LiveNews

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Obama cites his agenda in holiday address
Washington Post - 3 Hours ago
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama sought to rally support for his domestic initiatives, while Sen. John McCain called for Americans to support Iranian election protesters. The one-time presidential Add Comment

Obama: Nation needs July 4th's 'unyielding spirit'
Washington Post - 3 Hours ago
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama sought to rally support for his domestic initiatives, while Sen. John McCain called for Americans to support Iranian election protesters. The one-time presidential

Obama, McCain Summon "Spirit" of July 4th to Push Causes NBC Connecticut

Obama calls for July 4th spirit to tackle issues Gulf News