
For Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, it was quite a week — from birthday, to IPO, to I DO.
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A day after the historic Facebook IPO, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status Saturday to "married."

(Reuters) - Google said on Saturday that Chinese authorities have approved its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings, the last regulatory hurdle to a deal that would allow the world's No. 1 Internet search engine to develop its own line of smart phones. Google, which will be the newest entrant to the handset market, announced plans for the acquisition last year in a bid to secure Motorola's valuable patents and pave the way for a pairing of Google's Android mobile software and Motorola's handset business. U.S. ...
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MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Alberto churned slowly toward the South Carolina coast on Sunday where heavy rain and dangerous surf are expected from the beach resort of Myrtle Beach south … [Read More...]
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OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - The United States on Sunday marks the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln signing the Homestead Act, the law that gave away 270 million acres of land … [Read More...]
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A climber on Alaska's Mount McKinley died in a 1,100-foot fall that started with an effort to retrieve a sliding backpack during an attempt to ascend North … [Read More...]
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(Reuters) - The nation's largest civil rights group, the NAACP, endorsed gay marriage on Saturday, giving a boost to the movement to legalize same-sex nuptials despite reservations expressed … [Read More...]
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The Lockerbie bomber dies, a powerful earthquake hits northern Italy — and more in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion … [Read More...]
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Facebook debuts on Wall Street, the world gets a new glimpse of Trayvon Martin, and more in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion … [Read More...]
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BOSTON -- Barack Obama's opponent four years ago was a Republican who repressed his moderate and liberal instincts, who insisted he was a conservative, who seemed to be suffering from a … [Read More...]

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Dominicans formed orderly lines at voting stations across the country Sunday as they chose a new president from a field that includes a brash former president whose last term ended with an … [Read More...]

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of the 1988 bombing of a PanAm flight over Lockerbie, died of cancer on Sunday aged 60, leaving many questions on the attack … [Read More...]
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BRINDISI (Reuters) - A bomb attack which killed a teenage girl and wounded 10 other people in the southern Italian town of Brindisi was probably done by an individual operating alone, a … [Read More...]

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Pakistan blocked Twitter on Sunday, accusing the microblogging site of refusing to remove posts promoting a Facebook competition involving caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. … [Read More...]
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The chiefs of Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd are used to running the show at their global tech empires, but they will be in for a different experience … [Read More...]
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Mark Zuckerberg got married, everyone! A day after taking Facebook public, Zuck tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan and announced it the only way he knows how: through … [Read More...]
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