<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : weekly world news : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>13585</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/13585/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Odd News from Around the World (compiled from various newswires)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Silly &amp; wierd news clips from around the world - Ex. 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Luckily for them, most of the work will have been done in the investigation they previously suppressed.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>284</score><crdate>7/9/2009 7:40:06 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-07-09T07:40:06+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>47393</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/47393/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Top 25 Censored news stories of 2007]]></title><description><![CDATA[News stories from around the world that got little attention.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>179</score><crdate>1/15/2008 9:46:20 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-15T21:46:20+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>58923</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/58923/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Play The News]]></title><description><![CDATA[Think the news is boring? Well here is a site that may change your mind. It is a community driven experience &#8211; imagine fantasy sports meets the evening news. Roleplaying, prediction of real world events and more are combined into a new fun learning experience.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>97</score><crdate>4/18/2008 10:26:16 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-18T22:26:16+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>88939</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/88939/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Developing world saved as U2 announce new album ]]></title><description><![CDATA[ROME. The news that Irish rock group U2 will release a new album in March has been hailed with relief and joy throughout the developing world. 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Broadcast television still reaches more people in a single hour; 6 million viewers at a time will tune in to the CBS Evening News. But over the course of a month, the online portals are providing news to more people.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>24</score><crdate>10/5/2007 6:11:40 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-05T06:11:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>40954</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40954/1/</url><title><![CDATA[World of Weird News]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here's todays run of weird stories from The Sun news paper.<br/><br/>All the stories are one page so read away!]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>145</score><crdate>11/7/2007 1:32:12 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-07T13:32:12+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>96642</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/96642/1/</url><title><![CDATA[5 Ways People Are Trying to Save the World (That Don't Work)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Between the hybrids, the reusable canvas shopping bags and cloth diapers, everybody's doing their little bit to save the world. Entire industries have sprang up to cater to us socially-responsible types who want to leave behind a better world for the robots to inherit once they take over.]]></description><comments>9</comments><score>250</score><crdate>2/26/2009 5:19:55 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-02-26T17:19:55+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>130041</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/130041/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch to charge to view News Corp's online news]]></title><description><![CDATA[News Corp chairman plans to charge readers of the websites of all his newspapers within the next 12 months.<br/><br/>Will this work? Doomed to failure I think.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>96</score><crdate>8/6/2009 5:07:58 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-08-06T05:07:58+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>81031</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/81031/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Weekly Themes for Plime - Give us your suggestions!!!]]></title><description><![CDATA[In order to make Plime the premier go-to-site for news and interesting links, we are going to start an optional weekly theme. We encourage people to post links that relate to the theme, but again, it's optional.<br/><br/>Please click the link above to suggest themes for next week. It's <b>your</b> site, let's hear <b>your ideas</b><br/><br/>If you upvote this to keep it on the news page, downvote the creation. I'm not looking for karma - just want this on the front page. 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What if there was a robot that could tell people things they didn't want to hear?]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>88</score><crdate>7/25/2008 12:54:42 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-25T12:54:42+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>81084</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/81084/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Super Obama World]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you loved the old Super Mario World, and you like Barack Obama, you&#8217;ll love Super Obama World game.]]></description><comments>10</comments><score>433</score><crdate>11/5/2008 9:17:37 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-05T09:17:37+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>35368</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/35368/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Report: Despite many challenges, world faces brighter future]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;Although great human tragedies like Iraq and Darfur dominate the news, the vast majority of the world is living in peace, conflicts actually decreased over the past decade,&quot; says the 2007 State of the Future report.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>98</score><crdate>9/11/2007 11:21:44 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-11T23:21:44+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>65860</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/65860/1/</url><title><![CDATA[News of the Weird]]></title><description><![CDATA[For some readers, News of the Weird is a light diversion from the serious reporting of the week. 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