Charlotte-area hospitals compete for your business in many ways, as you
can see from interstate highway billboards that advertise both high-tech
and high-touch services.Both of Charlotte's hospital systems, Carolinas HealthCare System and
Presbyterian Healthcare, and some of the community hospitals outside
Mecklenburg County, are regularly named to national "best" lists for
various services.

As Silvio Berlusconi grapples with the greatest crisis the Italian rnrepublic has ever seen, a member of his extended family has gone on a rnlong retreat to Medjugorje. Ania Golędzinowska, the Polish girlfriend ofrn Paolo Enrico Beretta, the Italian prime minister’s nephew (he is the rnson of Silvio Berlusconi’s late sister, Maria Antonietta), has moved to rnthe town in Bosnia and Herzegovina to lead a life of prayer.

Users can stream any video in the Vevo catalog, can create video playlists, view video premiers, charts,
original programming and more. However, some functionality is not
available, such as leaving user comments. But other things like sending
links to videos via Twitter, Facebook and e-mail, and links to buy songs
on iTunes are still there. One interesting added feature is a
location-based element that lets users see what other users are watching
in a given area.

While the United States marks 10 years after the attacks in New York rnthat led to two wars and fundamental changes in how Americans view theirrn security, Croatia solemnly remembers the 1991 incursion of Serbian rntroops and shelling of one of their most beloved cities,Dubrovnik . Thatrn started a two-year war on their own soil.

Think of the defining image of the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa – the idea that unites Egypt with Tunisia, Bahrain and Libya.
It has not been, in itself, the celebrations of Hosni Mubarak's fall
nor the battles in Tahrir Square in Cairo. Nor even the fact of Mohammed
Bouazizi's self-immolation in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid,
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TOKYO—A Japanese supercomputer built by Fujitsu Co. grabbed the title of world's best-performing machine from a Chinese
competitor, returning Japan to the top of the computer arms race for
the first time in seven years.

Installed at Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research and
also known as Riken, the Japanese government-funded "K Computer"
performs more than 8 quadrillion (8,000 trillion) calculations per
second. K Computer is a play on the Japanese word "kei" for the number
10 quadrillion, which will be the number of calculations the machine
aims to handle once it is completed in 2012.

* Bloomberg reports that Skype fired several high-ranking executives -- including vice presidents David Gurle, Christopher Dean, Russ Shaw,
and Don Albert -- suggesting the Internet calling company may have done
so to avoid even pricier employee payouts once the Microsoft acquisition
deal goes through. (Bloomberg)

SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)--The end of the dot-com era is over--welcome to the dot-anything age.

The organization that regulates the world's Internet domain names
Monday approved changes that will allow companies and individuals to
potentially register any name they like in almost any language as domain
suffixes, a step that could change the way users navigate the Web.

Not-for-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers,
known as ICANN, said the aim for a much more open, albeit infinitely
messier, approach to domain name registration will spur a new rush of
innovation. An identifying suffix--currently limited to predominantly
two or three-letter tags such as .com, .org or .uk --could also be a
helpful branding tool for corporations, especially banks keen to boost
their online security credentials. It may also provide entrepreneurs an
opportunity to generate new business by selling second-level domains.