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The Post reports : “Blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng, who emerged at the center of a diplomatic row between the U.S. and China, left Beijing on a United Airlines flight bound for Newark, N.J. , Saturday afternoon after Chinese officials and American d Full Article at The Washington Post

BioLite Women in Ghana testing the BioLite home cooking stove. The stove includes a charging facility for cellphones and other mobile devices. BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — When their prototype cooking stove passed its first trial with flying colors in Ghana, the Full Article at The New York Times

Facebook is now officially a public company, scads of new millionaires are on a Silicon Valley spending spree, and media outlets near and far have yet to pipe down about the IPO, likely one of the most anticipated in history. But is the long-term viabili Full Article at PC World

NARANGI, India — Dozens of dredging boats scour the bottom of the Vaitarna creek all day, as workers build pyramids of excavated sand in the villages along its banks. By night, thousands of trucks clog a narrow highway to deliver the sand to construction Full Article at The Washington Post

Accuracy is generally an important consideration in computer chips, but a team of researchers led by Rice University are touting a new "inexact" chip (dubbed PCMOS) that they say could lead to as much as a fifteen-fold increase in efficiency. Their lates Full Article at Engadget

May 19, 2012, 5:41 am By THE NEW YORK TIMES “The morning I arrived in Trivandrum, the capital of the south Indian state of Kerala, I met my friend Vinita, a Hindu, who promised to accompany me on a visit to the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple, a place that is Full Article at The New York Times

Neither Drew Franklin nor Arturo Viscarra has ever eaten at one of the Fojol Bros.’ three colorful, cross-cultural food trucks. Despite this fact, the two roommates have, in the course of a week, transformed one of the District’s most popular mobile vend Full Article at The Washington Post

Every Wednesday morning at 11 Eastern time, two experts play for an hour at bridgebase.com with juniors from around the world. These sessions are arranged by Valerie Westheimer of New York City and Paula Mittleman of Boynton Beach, Fla. I played this wee Full Article at The New York Times

Shah Rukh Khan arrives on the red carpet before a screening of the film "My Name is Kahn" during the 5th Rome International Film Festival in Rome on October 31, 2010. UPI/David Silpa License photo MUMBAI, May 18 (UPI) -- Mumbai cricket officials imposed Full Article at United Press International

India's richest family has released photos of what is believed the world's most expensive house, a 27-story behemoth worth more than $1 billion. Vanity Fair's next issue will feature images from Mukesh Ambani's 27-story home. (Image courtesy Vanity Fair) Full Article at United Press International

WASHINGTON, May 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) and Bancoldex have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to work together to facilitate trade between the United States and Colombia. Ex-Im Bank and Ba Full Article at PR Newswire

Special Series From the rise of a new private sector–and the billionaires that sustain and exploit it–to the beginning of a vast national identity database, articles in this series examine the messy and maddening road to progress in India. About India In Full Article at The New York Times

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke with USA TODAY earlier this week about her time at the State Department as she nears the end of her self-imposed four years there. She highlighted her travels, including her recent trip around the world wit Full Article at USA Today

WASHINGTON, May 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following tip sheet was released today by the U.S. Census Bureau: 2010 Census Coverage Measurement Results — The Census Bureau will brief the media on the release of 2010 Census Coverage Measurement Full Article at PR Newswire

The summer travel issue of T kicks off in Oslo, Scandinavia’s next capital of cool , with the city’s model-movie star couple as our guide. Next stop is the French department of the Gers , where the joie de vivre includes plenty of Armagnac and foie gras. Full Article at The New York Times

BY the time we reached the first rest stop, a Burger King in Cle Elum, in central Washington State, I was suffering two anxieties: That I would kill the guru, and that if I didn’t, he would ignore me for the next 3,000 miles. He’d been as quiet as a stat Full Article at The New York Times

For the generation that grew up in India in the 1980s, television was synonymous with Doordarshan, the national broadcaster. In the absence of cable television, which came to India a decade later, children grew up with limited television programs. This m Full Article at The New York Times

IRVINE, Calif. , May 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: QTWW ), a global leader in natural gas, hydrogen and hybrid electric vehicle technologies, today announced that it has signed a supply agreement with Full Article at PR Newswire

The sea-green mural at Lasanaa, an arts center here, has familiar elements of Nepali art: images of snowy Himalayan peaks and curlycue whorls representing wind in Buddhist thangka tapestries. Amy Yee Ashmina Ranjit, founder of the arts center Lasanaa in Full Article at The New York Times