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• Nuance offers mobile users non-typing choices (Reuters)
• Europe set for landmark launch with robot freighter (AFP)
• BAFTAs 2011 - As It Happened (AFP)
• Ukrainian group makes bare breasts political weapon (AFP)
• Nearly 1,000 Tunisian migrants reach Italy overnight (Reuters)
• 'The King's Speech' sweeps board at BAFTAs (AFP)
• 'The King's Speech' wins best film BAFTA (AFP)
• Mother fails to find Swiss twins in Corsica (AFP)
• Greek police arrest suspected Lebanese militant (AP)
• News on first Nokia Windows Phone within days (AFP)
• In Vietnam War love story, a medallion comes home (AP)
• Somali pirates hijack ship with 23 crew members (AP)
• Tunisians landing by boatload on Italian island (AP)
• Given the choice, Swiss vote to keep their guns (AP)
• Missing twins' mother in Corsica to assist search (AP)
• Thousands of Italian women in Berlusconi protest (AP)
• Human chain protests against far right in Dresden (AP)
• Britain under pressure to trace Mubarak's money (AP)

Nuance offers mobile users non-typing choices (Reuters) Posted: 13 Feb 2011 05:02 PM PST Reuters - Dragon Dictation software maker Nuance launched a mobile application in Europe on Monday that lets users speak, trace or handwrite instructions to their phone instead of typing.

Europe set for landmark launch with robot freighter (AFP) Posted: 13 Feb 2011 03:25 PM PST AFP - A robot freighter is poised to blast into the skies on Tuesday in the heftiest liftoff in Europe's space programme that will also bring its tally of launches to a historic 200.

BAFTAs 2011 - As It Happened (AFP) Posted: 13 Feb 2011 03:23 PM PST AFP - As widely predicted, Tom Hooper's British film 'The King's Speech' swept the board with seven BAFTAs including best film at Sunday evening's awards ceremony -- but David Fincher grabs the best director award for 'The Social Network'.

Ukrainian group makes bare breasts political weapon (AFP) Posted: 13 Feb 2011 02:57 PM PST AFP - The doors of an old car fly open, and four young women with bare breasts step out with protest signs, preparing to chant slogans.

Nearly 1,000 Tunisian migrants reach Italy overnight (Reuters) Posted: 13 Feb 2011 02:46 PM PST Reuters - Nearly 1,000 people escaping turmoil in Tunisia landed on an Italian island overnight on Sunday after the government declared a wave of illegal immigrants a humanitarian emergency.

'The King's Speech' sweeps board at BAFTAs (AFP) Posted: 13 Feb 2011 02:41 PM PST AFP - British film "The King's Speech" warmed up for the Oscars Sunday by picking up the coveted BAFTA gong for Best Film while Colin Firth, who plays the film's stammering monarch, collected Best Actor.

'The King's Speech' wins best film BAFTA (AFP) Posted: 13 Feb 2011 01:36 PM PST AFP - British film "The King's Speech" warmed up for the Oscars Sunday by picking up the coveted BAFTA gong for Best Film while Colin Firth, who plays the film's stammering monarch, collected Best Actor.

Mother fails to find Swiss twins in Corsica (AFP) Posted: 13 Feb 2011 12:59 PM PST AFP - The mother of Swiss twins whose father said he murdered them before killing himself left Corsica late Sunday after a desperate, against-the-odds search to find them alive.

Greek police arrest suspected Lebanese militant (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2011 12:58 PM PST AP - Greek police say they have arrested a Palestinian man suspected of belonging to an al-Qaida-inspired militant group in Lebanon.

News on first Nokia Windows Phone within days (AFP) Posted: 13 Feb 2011 12:33 PM PST AFP - The target release date of the first Nokia smartphone to use Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system could be set within days, with the company aiming to have it on the market this year, senior executives said Sunday.

In Vietnam War love story, a medallion comes home (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2011 11:54 AM PST AP - It was a love token worn through the blood-drenched rice paddies and jungles of the Vietnam War.

Somali pirates hijack ship with 23 crew members (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2011 11:22 AM PST AP - Somali pirates hijacked a ship with 23 crew, and a Danish warship freed a hijacked Yemeni fishing vessel that had been held for nearly a year, maritime authorities said Sunday.

Tunisians landing by boatload on Italian island (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2011 11:11 AM PST AP - Hundreds of Tunisians landed on a tiny Sicilian island by the boatload Sunday, swelling the numbers of illegal migrants arriving on Italian shores in less than a week to well over 4,000.

Given the choice, Swiss vote to keep their guns (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2011 10:44 AM PST AP - Neutral Switzerland is among the best-armed nations in the world, with more guns per capita than almost any other country except the United States, Finland and Yemen.

Missing twins' mother in Corsica to assist search (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2011 10:36 AM PST AP - The mother of the twin Swiss 6-year-old girls who disappeared two weeks ago is in the French Mediterranean island of Corsica to assist with the search for her daughters.

Thousands of Italian women in Berlusconi protest (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2011 10:00 AM PST AP - More than 100,000 Italian women and their supporters turned out across the country to protest against Premier Silvio Berlusconi, saying his dalliances with young women humiliate the sex as a whole and degrade female dignity.

Human chain protests against far right in Dresden (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2011 09:42 AM PST AP - Thousands of people formed a human chain in Dresden to protest against a far-right march Sunday on the 66th anniversary of the Allied bombing of the city in World War II.

Britain under pressure to trace Mubarak's money (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2011 05:44 AM PST AP - Britain's government is under pressure to trace and freeze the assets of deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak

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