A five-wicket burst by Stuart Board puts Nottinghamshire in control, but Marcus Trescothick stands firm to give Somerset hope.

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Melbourne Storm are stripped of two championships in Australia’s National Rugby League for breaching strict salary cap rules.

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One of the longest running franchises is about to hit the modern gaming scene one again with it’s newest installment, Super Street Fighter IV. New additions to the gameplay including tag-team matches and a hoard of new characters adds a fresh breeze to an otherwise fantastic formula.

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Filmmakers have begun using digital cameras that allows actors and actresses on screen to reach out and pickpocket the audience. But not Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan. He thinks it’s just a fad.

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Sara Chan writes “In a landmark ruling, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has decided that researchers at a university must make all their data available to the public. The decision follows from a three-year battle by mathematician Douglas J. Keenan, who wants the data to do his own analysis on it. The university researchers have had the data for many years, and have published several papers using the data, but had refused to make the data (more…)

In 2008, a San Francisco softball team came to Seattle to compete in the Gay Softball World Series. The team, named D2, made it all the way to the championship game. And that’s when people started asking questions. Now the players are suing, because they were disqualified for (allegedly) having more than two heterosexual players.

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Ars covers the settlement of the RCN P2P throttling class-action lawsuit, which lets the company walk away without admitting guilt, without paying affected users, and without any meaningful restraint on their network management practices. “[The] settlement is due to be finalized on June 4. … The case has largely flown under the radar. Yesterday, a notice … was issued that alerted RCN customers to the settlement, and one Ars reader was aghast at (more…)

The centuries immediately preceding the Great War were thought to be one of the most peaceful eras in Republic history. As he dives deeper into the galaxy’s history, Master Gnost-Dural discovers new evidence that suggests the dark influence of the Sith Empire was seeping into the Republic even then.

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Top 5 first-round upsets in the NBA postseason since 1980.

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A pregnant 10-year-old, allegedly raped by her stepfather, has become the latest lightning rod in the country’s heated abortion debate.

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