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News Corp. Investors Berate Murdoch at Meeting

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News Corp. Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch showed defiance in the face of angry shareholders at its annual meeting on Friday as they slammed the media company for poor corporate governance and said he should give up the chairman role.
Marcellus shale exposure above Marcellus, N.Y.

New York Gas Drillers Face Road Blocks Despite End of Drilling Ban

The end of a drilling ban in New York was meant to be a new dawn for energy companies. After years of waiting, they would finally be able to exploit the richest deposit of natural gas in the country. But as companies delve into new regulations for drilling in New York, they're discovering a bitter reality: half the land they had leased for drilling may now be out of bounds.
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Moammar Gadhafi was captured by Libyan rebel Mohammed El Bibi

Moammar Gadhafi: 6 Weird Facts from the Tyrant's Dossier

Libyan tyrant Moammar Gadhafi's four-decade long rule came to an end on Thursday as the autocratic ruler was killed by Libyan rebels he once ridiculed as rats. An autocrat who was condemned for tyrannizing his own people and sponsoring terrorism out of the country, Gadhafi will be remembered not only for his cruelty, but also for being an unmatched weirdo.
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Liquidnet Sued by Wedbush over Trade Secrets

Liquidnet Inc, a U.S. venue where institutions anonymously trade public stocks, was sued by Wedbush Securities Inc for allegedly stealing trade secrets to start a rival business trading shares of private companies.
Litzlberg am Attersee by Gustav Klimt a painting for Sotheby's upcoming Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in New York is seen in a handout photo. Public exhibition of the works will be from October 28 to November 2. The auction will be held o

Klimt painting expected to sell for $25 million

A landscape painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt that had been stolen by the Nazis is expected to fetch more than $25 million when it is sold at auction next month, Sotheby's said on Thursday.
Actress Elizabeth Olsen

Elizabeth Olsen steals show in horror flick

While it lacks the gory monsters of The Thing and the gotcha scares of Paranormal Activity 3, Martha Marcy May Marlene may be the most terrifying movie opening in theaters this month. It slowly but assuredly packs on the dread and the discomfort in a style that Roman Polanski would admire, resulting in the kind of movie you can feel tensing up the base of your spine.
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5 Things to Know About NYC's New MTA Chief

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Thursday picked a Joseph Lhota, an executive at Madison Square Garden and a former top aide to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, to run one of the biggest transportation agencies in the world.
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Clinton Issues Blunt Directive to Pakistan

The United States, in perhaps its strongest language since the war on terrorism started 10 years ago, warned Pakistan that it would face serious consequences if it continued to tolerate safe havens for extremist organizations that kill Americans.
File image of the Nasdaq Composite stock market index seen inside their studios at Times Square in New York

Exclusive: Nasdaq Hackers Spied on Directors

Hackers who infiltrated the Nasdaq's computer systems installed malicious software on the exchange's computers that allowed them to spy on scores of directors of publicly held companies, according to two people familiar with an investigation into the matter.

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