Oil And Other Markets Get Increasingly Nervous Over Egyptian Crisis

Anyone watching oil prices this week could be forgiven if they thought Egypt is a major oil producer. As the crowds of protesters in Cairo grew from thousands, to tens of thousands, to hundreds of thousands, the price of oil shot upward. The price of benchmark Brent crude oil this week surged to $100, up 5 percent since the beginning of last week, when violence spread from Tunisia to Egypt. It's the first time oil has gone that high in two years.

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Al Jazeera : Mubarak supporters clash with opponents in Cairo

Fighting has erupted in Cairo between groups opposed to Hosni Mubarak and those who support the Egyptian President, the day after Mubarak announced he will not seek re-election. According to the Al Jazeera news agency, more than 100 people have been injured in clashes at Tahrir Square, the center of anti-Mubarak demonstrations the past few days. Witnesses said thousands of Egyptians allied to Mubarak entered the square and thereafter the fighting began.

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Fernando Torres makes record move from Liverpool to Chelsea

Chelsea have broken the British transfer record by paying a reported £50m to seal the capture of striker Fernando Torres from Liverpool. The 26-year-old Spain international signed a five-and-a-half-year contract with the Blues.  "This is the target for every footballer - to try to play for one of the top clubs in the world," he said.  "They [Chelsea] are one of the biggest teams in Europe and are always fighting for everything."  The signing was pushed through shortly before the transfer deadline and came on a dramatic day, with Chelsea and Liverpool involved in the four biggest transfers of the day.

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Milk and Honey Shoes Customized Shoes Online

Visit the Milk and Honey Shoes website if you want your shoes customized to your own taste. How will it work? Go to their “design now” page and click through the various different toe shapes (round, pointy, peep, etc.), heel backs (sling backs, closed backs), heel height (height preference, platforms preference) ankle straps (Mary Jane, around the ankle, etc) to create the silhouette of the exact shoe you want.

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Intel Sandy Bridge chipset flaw identified as a rogue transistor affecting SATA ports

Intel raised quite a few eyebrows yesterday by disclosing that its Cougar Point chipsets suffer from an incurable design issue that would potentially degrade Serial ATA transfers over time. AnandTech has gone to the trouble of getting in touch with Intel to seek more information and the problem, as it turns out, is a single transistor that's prone to a higher current leakage than tolerable. 

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The 2011 SAG Award Winners

The Screen Actor Guild Awards were held last night, and though I only watched the last half half hour (and Mark Wahlberg’s insufferable narcissism), the awkwardness of Giuliana Rancic’s interviewing style seeped through Twitter (I had heretofore never heard of this woman, but now understand that she’s Bill Rancic’s wife, which is a particularly sad kind of celebrity, being the spouse of a reality contestant on a fourth-rate reality show). Also, it is my understanding that the “Glee” cast briefly parted the red carpet and allowed a real woman to walk through. It looked something like this:

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Is Whitney Houston Pregnant?

Is Whitney Houston pregnant? Can she be? The singer sparked pregnancy rumors this weekend after pictures of her sporting a "baby bump" at a recent concert surfaced. The photos show Houston slightly heavier than what we've come accustomed too. The irony of course being that when she was extremely skinny, Houston was rumored to be on crack cocaine, and now, presumably at a more healthy weight, the rumors are she's pregnant. Despite the photo evidence, the chances of Houston being pregnant are slim. She is 47, making natural conception very unlikely.

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