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Amazon.com Inc has approached media companies with a proposal for a subscription service that gives users unlimited access to some television shows and movies over the Internet in a bid to rival Netflix Inc, two people familiar with the talks said on Tuesday.
The Seattle-based online retailer has approached media companies including Time Warner Inc, CBS Corp and Viacom Inc, these people say.
A rare fire tornado has been seen in the Brazilian state of Sao Paolo. A whirlwind of flame, spiralling several metres high, danced across burning fields, bringing traffic to a halt on a nearby highway. This unusual phenomenon has been caused by a combination of wildfires and strong dry winds following weeks of drought in the country. Authorities in Brazil are struggling to contain the fires and have banned farmers from burning waste from the sugar cane harvest.
A new poll in the United States has shown that three-quarters of Americans do not trust the country's newspapers and television news.
The findings are from Gallup's annual Confidence in Institutions survey published on Friday, which has found that 75 percent of the respondents do not have confidence in newspapers, with 78 percent distrusting television news.
A new survey shows that more than half of American adults believe that there is too much inappropriate content on US television and radio.
The findings of the telephone survey of 1,000 American adults, conducted on July 27-28, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports were published on July 30.
The Islamic Republic plans to launch two new overseas broadcasting network channels, following growing popularity of Iran's 24-hour English news channel Press TV.
The deputy head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) Mohammad Sarafraz announced that an Arabic-language and a Spanish-language channel will broadcast programs worldwide soon, IRIB reported on Tuesday.
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