Coptic Church Chooses Pope Who Rejects Politics

Tara Todras-Whitehill for The New York TimesCoptic clergymen at a ceremony on Sunday for choosing a pope. CAIRO — A blindfolded 6-year-old reached into a glass bowl on Sunday to pick the first new Coptic pope in more than 40 years, a patriarch who promises a new era of integration for Egypt’s Christian minority as it grapples with a wave of sectarian violence, new Islamist domination of politics,...

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Google's Android software in 3 out of 4 smartphones

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Colts follow Luck's lead past Miami 23-20

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Andrew Luck and Ryan Tannehill put on a memorable show for Chuck Pagano on Sunday.The rookie quarterbacks traded jab for jab, hook for hook and TD pass for TD pass. When the duel finally ended, it was Luck who had the records — and another win for his ailing coach.Luck threw for 433 yards and two TD passes, breaking Cam Newton's single-game passing record (422 yards) for a rookie...

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Chelation Therapy Shows Slight Benefit in Heart Disease Clinical Trial

LOS ANGELES — To the surprise of many cardiologists, a controversial alternative therapy proved beneficial to people with heart disease, reducing the rate of death and cardiovascular problems in a clinical trial, researchers said on Sunday. The benefit of the treatment, known as chelation therapy, barely reached statistical significance, and there were questions about the reliability...

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Fight Growing Over Online Royalties

The debate playing out in Washington has echoes of a presidential race. One side says businesses will suffer unless the government steps in to lower costs. The other accuses jet-set industrialists of a ploy that will cheat the middle class. These attacks, however, are not between candidates for the White House. They are being made in a battle over the obscure but increasingly vital issue...

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Gays in Pakistan Move Cautiously to Gain Acceptance

Max Becherer for the International Herald TribuneHIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT Ali, a gay man who lives in Lahore, is in a support group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Pakistanis. “The gay scene here is very hush-hush,” he says. LAHORE, Pakistan — The group meets irregularly in a simple building among a row of shops here that close in the evening. Drapes cover the windows. Sometimes members watch...

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Google's Android software in 3 out of 4 smartphones

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NYC Marathon runners fill unexpected free time

NEW YORK (AP) — Sue Johnson refuses to give New York City any more money.She preferred to shell out for the change fee to move her flight home to Pittsburgh up by 24 hours — leaving on the day she was supposed to run the New York City Marathon.Many of the runners who had descended on the city from all over the globe worked out their frustrations with a jog Saturday through Central Park, site of a...

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Opinion: Seeing Things? Hearing Things? Many of Us Do

HALLUCINATIONS are very startling and frightening: you suddenly see, or hear or smell something — something that is not there. Your immediate, bewildered feeling is, what is going on? Where is this coming from? The hallucination is convincingly real, produced by the same neural pathways as actual perception, and yet no one else seems to see it. And then you are forced to the conclusion that something...

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Google Casts a Big Shadow on Smaller Web Sites

Annie Tritt for The New York TimesJeffrey G. Katz, the chief executive of Wize Commerce, seen with employees. He says that about 60 percent of the traffic for the company’s Nextag comparison-shopping site comes from Google. In a geeky fire drill, engineers and outside consultants at Nextag scrambled to see if the problem was its own fault. Maybe some inadvertent change had prompted Google’s algorithm...

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