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Red Sox Beat Yankees, Keep Wild Card Lead

Red Sox batter Ellsbury watches the ball as he follows through on his swing after he hit a three-run home run against the Yankees in the 14th inning of the second MLB American League baseball game in New York
The Boston Red Sox kept their noses in front in the American League wild card race after Jacoby Ellsbury's three-run homer in the 14th inning gave them a 7-4 win over the New York Yankees in the second game of a double header on Sunday.
Gold bullion

Gold Price Recovers, Rising from Overnight Collapse

Gold prices recovered from huge overnight losses Monday before paring losses to about 1 percent. Still in the last three days the precious metal has now lost more than 9 percent of its value in its biggest three-day drop since 1983.
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Nudist

Nudist Sympathizers Protest SF Cover-Up Law

San Francisco's clothed residents never really had a problem with a neighbor roaming around naked or with public nudity being legal. Being an epicenter of liberal activism and tolerance, SF residents never really bothered to ask nudists to stick to some basic 'etiquette' like putting a towel down on a park bench before they sat.
Sarah Shourd looks up at Josh Fattal as he delivers a statement about his release from detention in Iran with Shane Bauer at a news conference in New York September 25, 2011

U.S. Hikers Back Home From a World of 'Lies and False Hope'

From the very start, the only reason we've been held hostage is because we're American - These are the words of Josh Fattal, one of the three American hikers who were arrested by the Iranian forces while hiking in the Kurdish region along the Iraq-Iran border in July, 2009.

Despite 10M Units, Galaxy S2 Still Lags iPhone

Consumer electronics giant Samsung said this weekend that its popular Galaxy S2 smartphone sold over 10 million units globally, making it the most-sold Android phone in the world, but it still has a ways to go before it catches up to Apple.
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iPhone 5 Contender Galaxy S2 Hits 10M Units

Consumer electronics giant Samsung said on Sunday that its venerable Galaxy S2 smartphone reached 10 million units sold globally, making it the most sold Android phone and positioning it for a bout with Apple.
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U.S. Returns Paintings Looted by Nazis to Poland

A pair of 19th century paintings by Polish Impressionist Julian Falat, looted by the Nazis nearly seven decades ago, were returned to Polish authorities on Thursday in a ceremony in New York.
U.S. Budget

As Gridlock Grips Capitol Hill, Government Shutdown Nears

With less than six days until a possible U.S. Government shutdown, considerable differences remain between Democratic and Republican proposals to fund disaster relief. The GOP wants any Hurricane Irene disaster relief funds to be offset by cuts to other programs. Democrats say doing so would hold disaster victims hostage to partisan politics.
Jeb Corliss

Daredevil Jeb Corliss Flies Through a Mountain [PHOTOS AND VIDEO]

Stuntman Jeb Corliss successfully completed a high-risk wingsuit dive through a 100-ft. wide arch in China's Tienman Mountain on Saturday.Corliss jumped from a helicopter 6,000 feet above the ground, and raced through the air at high speed towards a perilously narrow gap in the mountain. An expectant crowd gasped and cheered as the 35-year old made it through with room to spare.An earlier attempt was aborted after the smoke canisters on his wingsuit malfunctioned. The suit allows him ...

Tablet Wars 2011: Amazon, B&N to Tackle iPad, Each Other

The Apple iPad tablet isn't even two years old, but it owns almost three-fourths of the global market for tablet computers. HP's TouchPad couldn't take it down. That product lasted just two months before a $99 fire sale brought buyers rushing in for the discontinued product. But now it appears there are two serious threats to the iPad's runaway success: new tablets forthcoming from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
NASA's UARS

NASA: 26 UARS Components Could Have Fallen on Earth's Surface [VIDEOS]

NASA said 26 components of its Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), weighing a total of 1,200 pounds, could have survived the fiery fall and landed on the surface of the Earth. The space agency said the UARS fell back to Earth between 11:23 p.m. EDT on Friday and 1:09 a.m. Saturday.
Tampa Bay Rays' Reid Brinac (15) jumps into the the arms of his teammates after hitting a walk off home run against the New York Yankees

Wild Card Races Heat Up as Cardinals, Rays Win

The St. Louis Cardinals kept the heat on Atlanta in the race for the National League's wild card berth on Saturday with a 2-1 win over the Chicago Cubs that came courtesy of a walk and a wild pitch in the ninth inning.

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