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Gloves off as Egypt's election race heats up

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Egyptians are facing a blizzard of posters and TV adverts seeking their votes in the first free parliamentary election in decades but some campaigners are turning to tricks like tearing down rival posters in a race where every vote counts.
Rohan Gunatillake displays his new Buddhify app, in an undated photo.

Buddhify Web App Promotes Calmer Urban Experience

For a lot of people the day begins amid the chaos of a transit pressure-cooker. Agitated workers wedge onto trains or buses to make the stressful commute to work and arrive feeling frazzled, a state that only worsens as the day wears on.
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In God We Trust: Why a Resolution Now?

In God We Trust was officially reaffirmed as the official national motto of the United States on Wednesday by the House of Representatives. Why did the Republicans bring this vote up now, and was it a good idea?
Gaga in India

Lady Gaga: India Tour Wins Over Bollywood, May Inspire Charity Foundation

Lady Gaga has taken India by storm, as Bollywood stars like Shah Rukh Khan join local newspapers, business moguls and fans in adoration after the singer's performance at the F1 after-party, her words of praise for the Indian people, and her unexpected skill with the sitar. Gaga's experience touring Indian orphanages, meanwhile, may have inspired her to form a charity for disadvantaged children.
A woman smoking a cigar arrives at the Partagas factory in Havana for a visit during the ongoing annual Cuban cigar festival

When a Cigar is Just a Cigar: A Woman in a Man's World

I am the only woman in the establishment and yet I barely notice, so at home do I feel. I've just perched myself in one of the lounge's lion-armed chairs, newspaper in hand, when, from across the room, a man bellows, Rocky Patel; toro; 1992; a Nicaraguan blend. I used to like those. Good smoke.
Michele Bachmann

Tea Party Group to Michele Bachmann: Time to Quit Race [FULL TEXT]

It's time for Michele Bachmann to go, writes Ned Ryun, president of American Majority, in an official statement echoed by the majority of the Tea Party organization. Bachmann's floundering campaign and recent focus on social issues have alienated former supporters, who now argue the GOP candidate is not an adequate spokeswoman and has no chance of winning the primary.
Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi, head of the Ennahda party

Tunisia's Ghannouchi too liberal for some Islamists

Tunisian Islamist leader Rachid Ghannouchi is seen by many secularists as a dangerous radical, but for some conservative clerics who see themselves as the benchmark of orthodox Islam -- he is so liberal that they call him an unbeliever.
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Director, actors face fear head-on in Martha Marcy

Martha Marcy May Marlene may be drawing attention as the movie with the weird title, or the movie with the other Olsen sister in it. But there's a lot more to first-time Sean Durkin's creepy, unsettling drama than those obvious hooks.
The dead body of Muammar Gaddafi

Gaddafi unburied, Libyans face test of new era

As Muammar Gaddafi lay still unburied, Libya's outgoing premier said the coming days posed a crucial test of resolve for the new men of power, who are wrangling over the body, and about a formal end to the war.
GOP presidential candidates former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (L) and Texas Governor Rick Perry debate illegal immigration as they take part in the CNN Western Republican debate in Las Vegas, Nevada

Romney on attack at Republican debate

A confident Mitt Romney criticized his Republican rivals and fended off attacks on Tuesday at a feisty debate that could help reinstall him as the party's presidential front-runner.

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