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BofA U.S.-wide foreclosure halt draws calls for more (Reuters)
Failure in My Pocket: Gaming's Tortured History of Handheld Convergence
Glitch hits online lottery sales
US given month for Mid-East talks
NFL reviewing allegations involving Brett Favre (AP)
Bank of America stops US foreclosures for review (AP)
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Posted: 08 Oct 2010 03:01 PM PDT

BofA U.S.-wide foreclosure halt draws calls for more (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 02:46 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. lawmakers pushed for the country's largest mortgage lenders to suspend foreclosures in all 50 states after Bank of America Corp announced on Friday it would temporarily halt evictions nationwide.

Failure in My Pocket: Gaming's Tortured History of Handheld Convergence

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 02:44 PM PDT

Everybody likes playing videogames on a handheld device, and everybody likes being able to access the Internet from their pocket. So doesn't it make total sense to put them all together into one superdevice?

Glitch hits online lottery sales

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 02:41 PM PDT

A technical problem stops people in the UK from buying lottery tickets online, on the night the Euromillions' jackpot hit £112m.

US given month for Mid-East talks

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 02:39 PM PDT

Arab League ministers give the US the one month to rescue deadlocked direct talks between Israel and Palestinians.

NFL reviewing allegations involving Brett Favre (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 02:33 PM PDT

AP - The NFL said Friday it would review allegations involving the Vikings' Brett Favre, who the website Deadspin said sent racy messages and photos to a former game hostess while he was the Jets' quarterback in 2008. The league action comes one day after the site posted a video that included below-the-waist photos, said to be of Favre.

Bank of America stops US foreclosures for review (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 02:30 PM PDT

AP - Bank of America on Friday halted foreclosures on homes across the country so it could review paperwork in tens of thousands of cases for flaws, expanding a crisis at a perilous time for the housing market.