AP NewsAlert Japan's parliament convenes to elect new prime minister. more Technician in custody in Yale grad student slaying Police and FBI agents searched the home of a Yale University animal research technician Tuesday night and led him away in handcuffs to the cheers of neighbors in a search for evidence that might tie him to the slaying of a graduate student. more AP NewsAlert Police: Search warrants executed on person of interest in Yale graduate student slaying. more Governor delays Ohio execution after vein troubles Gov. Ted Strickland ordered a weeklong reprieve for a condemned inmate Tuesday after the Ohio execution team had problems finding usable veins for the lethal injection even after the inmate tried to help. more House votes to admonish Rep. Wilson over "You lie' comment to Obama. more
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FDA approves new swine flu vaccine The Food and Drug Administration approved the new swine flu vaccine Tuesday, a long-anticipated step as the government works to get vaccinations under way next month. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the vaccine's approval to Congress _ and said she hopes to get the first limited supplies distributed early in October. more Studies: Swine flu spreads long after fever stops When the coughing stops is probably a better sign of when a swine flu patient is no longer contagious, experts said after seeing new research that suggests the virus can still spread many days after a fever goes away. more Exercise can extend survival even in 'oldest old' Even in the "oldest old," a little physical activity goes a long way, extending life by at least a few years for people in their mid- to late 80s, Israeli researchers found. more Who needs which flu vaccine? Who needs vaccine against regular winter flu, and who should be first in line for the swine flu shot? There's lots of overlap. more Early flu season _ what you need to know Flu season's in full swing two months early this year _ and nearly all the cases are the new swine flu strain that so far is targeting mostly children and younger adults. more
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Oracle, Sun link up for new product; HP snubbed With the fate of its proposed $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc. uncertain amid antitrust scrutiny, Oracle Corp. is moving ahead with a new product incorporating both companies' technology, and snubbing Hewlett-Packard Co. in the process. more Adobe to buy Omniture for $1.8B; 3Q profit slides Adobe Systems Inc. said Tuesday it will buy Web analytic software company Omniture Inc. for about $1.8 billion, giving the maker of content-creation software a way to let marketers measure the effectiveness of such content. more On the Call: Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen Adobe Systems Inc. is planning to buy Omniture Inc., a Web analytic software company, for about $1.8 billion. The deal, announced Tuesday, comes nearly four years after Adobe paid $3.4 billion for Macromedia Inc. _ the company behind now well-known Adobe products such the Flash online animation and video software. Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen discussed Adobe's plans for Omniture during the company's fiscal third-quarter earnings conference call. more Coming to mobile phones: Wall Street Journal fees The Wall Street Journal plans to start charging as much as $2 a week to read its stories on BlackBerrys, iPhones and other mobile devices, expanding the newspaper's effort to become less dependent on its print edition. more After outcry, T-Mobile drops paper billing fee T-Mobile USA has dropped a plan to begin charging customers $1.50 per month to get a paper copy of their bill in the mail. more
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