Finland's national conciliator says that a two-week port strike that shut down most of the country's foreign trade has ended after unions and employers accepted a new labor contract.

Telx Group Inc., a company that operates data centers in the U.S., plans to raise $100 million through an initial public offering.

Boeing will speed up production plans for its 777 and 747 models in anticipation of greater demand from commercial airlines in a couple of years.

Authorities say a herd of bison in southeastern Poland is at risk from tuberculosis after one recently died of the disease.

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It appears that today might be the end of a very long road to health care reform. There's been a lot of debate on the subject really leading back before the election. The mainstream sounds like an echo chamber, so I'm hoping you guys have better insight. Will this bill do what the administration claims to do, or is it as bad for the future of America as Fox says?

It's conceivable that Republicans could win the House, but the wave metaphor that so many prognosticators tend to use is not very apt. There is plenty of enthusiasm among Republican voters, but the anti-party sentiment is driving some large portion of it.

Tonight, Jon Stewart opened The Daily Show with what was probably one of his greatest segments ever: a complete and utter destruction of everything Glenn Beck stands for and propagates. And Stewart did it as Beck. Inside, the full segment.

A new method for sustainable pest control using “super-sexed” sterilized male insects to copulate with female in the wild is being developed by agricultural researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The scientists are hoping to provide a new way of eliminating pests without the use of chemicals.

The Fed knew the risks, but didn't want to compromise growth. Guess who suffered?

To be a successful con artist, apparently all it takes is some laziness and a stunningly retarded idea.

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Insane video for their new song 'I Feel Better'. Directed by Peter Serafinowicz.

I am currently hip-deep in Final Fantasy XIII, and I can say with confidence that it has more Roman numerals than any Final Fantasy game I've ever played.

Midge Hough makes a touching appeal to Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL) to stop blocking HCR. Midge lost her 24 year old daughter, Jenny and her unborn baby after they were not able to get health insurance because pregnancy is considered a 'pre-existing condition'. Dems who are wavering about HCR need to remember this bill is pro-life by definition.

epee1221 writes "The Clay Mathematics Institute has announced its acceptance of Dr. Grigori Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture and awarded the first Millennium Prize. Poincaré questioned whether there exists a method for determining whether a three-dimensional manifold is a spherical: is there a 3-manifold not homologous to the 3-sphere in which any loop can be gradually shrunk to a single point? The Poincaré conjecture is that there is no such 3-manifold, i.e. any boundless 3-manifold in which the condition holds is homeomorphic to the 3-sphere. A sketch of the proof using language intended for the lay reader is available at Wikipedia."

Modding artist, hardware sculptor and warranty wrecker, Ben Heck, told us that if the leaked Slim motherboard is legitimate, not only does he see no place for memory cards (lending even more credence to USB storage for data transfer), but he dropped on us the idea that it may also have an internal hard drive.

Thermal imaging, or infrared thermography, makes it possible for us to "see" the amount of heat given off by everyday household objects. In the image above, a tea bag is lifted out of a hot cup of tea. The colours show temperature variation. The temperature scale runs from white (warmest) through yellow, orange, red, purple and black (coldest)

On Saturn's giant moon Titan, it is so cold that water is frozen as hard as granite. And yet there is a complete liquid cycle of methane and ethane. Scientists wonder whether there could also be life.

Could Nintendo's Mario be swapping power blocks for the chalkboard?