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As we do every week, we’ve collected the top news stories and compiled them on one page. Digital Journalists reported on important Net news, breaking sports updates, critical environmental stories and much more.

We also highlight some of the major topics Digital Journalists have been covering recently. Note you can see the trending topics at the top of any page on our news network, in the black bar. They are changing constantly to react to what people are reading on the site. We wanted to include this feature to let you know the topics people want to read about on Digital Journal.

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Top Digital Journal Reports

Faroese are listening about the grindadráp, say dolphin advocates (Includes interview) by Elizabeth Batt

Having just returned from a trip to the Faroe Islands once more to spark a conversation on the islands’ controversial pilot whale hunt, two dolphin advocates talked with Digital Journal about their experiences.

Oakaloosa: Detroit’s first philanthropic music festival (Includes interview and first-hand account) by Layne Weiss

Oakaloosa is Detroit’s first philanthropic music festival. A percentage of every dollar is being donated to restoring Historic Fort Wayne. The event featured headliners such as Bone Thugs N Harmony as well as some of Detroit’s finest local artists.

Review: Blackberry Q10 (Includes first-hand account) by Daniel Edwards

As Blackberry strives to regain relevance in the increasingly competitive smartphone market, the Blackberry Q10 was designed to appeal to the traditional Blackberry user with its QWERTY keyboard and hopefully attract new users with its revamped software.

Five-time Emmy winner Heather Tom talks soaps and reality TV (Includes interview and first-hand account) by Mindy Peterman

Known mainly for her award-winning roles of Katie Logan on “The Bold and the Beautiful” and Victoria Newman on “The Young and the Restless”, Heather Tom is now a reality TV star with her HGTV series “Renovation Unscripted”.

Internet TV for the blind (Includes first-hand account) by Robert Kingett

TV has become partially accessible to visually impaired people. Internet streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu continually refuse audio description for streamed content. A group of blind programmers set out to level the playing field.

Top Images

1840 s Reinhard Farmhouse at Savannah Botanical Gardens.  Savannah  GA

1840’s Reinhard Farmhouse at Savannah Botanical Gardens. Savannah, GA

Tōrō Japanese stone lantern on a rock in front of the stone beach  or Suhama  facing the resting h...

Tōrō Japanese stone lantern on a rock in front of the stone beach, or Suhama, facing the resting house across the pond.

The largest known Tyrannosaurus rex skulls measure up to 5 feet (1.5 m) in length.

The largest known Tyrannosaurus rex skulls measure up to 5 feet (1.5 m) in length.

Jena Fleur attended the protest rally that took place outside the San Francisco home of Wells Fargo ...

Jena Fleur attended the protest rally that took place outside the San Francisco home of Wells Fargo Bank CEO John Stumpf on Saturday July 20, 2013. She is seen here in photo after the rally that day.

In the Media

Op-Ed: The Queen’s ‘World War III’ speech that, thankfully, never was by Brett Wilkins

Newly-released British government documents reveal that UK officials had written a speech to be delivered by Queen Elizabeth II in the event of a nuclear war between the United States (and, by extension, Britain) and the Soviet Union in the early 1980s.

Asian Girlz: Uproar over racist music video by Dinh Nguyen

Much outrage worldwide followed the release of band, Day Above Ground’s debut single: “Asian Girlz.” Feeling offended, many have taken to YouTube and Twitter calling the video racist, and that it set’s women and ethnic acceptance back decades.

Cricket: Caribbean Premier League 2013 live by Zed Dav

The first edition of the Caribbean Premier League kick-started July 30 seeing six franchises start 21 matches leading to a knockout stage featuring two semi-finals and a final.

4-year-old ‘genius’ Anala Beevers invited to join Mensa by Brett Wilkins

A 4-year-old New Orleans girl who learned the alphabet by the time she was four months old has been invited to join Mensa, the world’s premier high IQ society.

Inca children given alcohol and cocaine before being sacrificed by Eko Armunanto

She was the chosen one who appears to have been selected for sacrifice a year before her actual death and was regularly given drugs and alcohol during the final months to make her more compliant in the ritual that ultimately killed her.

Op-Ed: Sammy Yatim, 18, shot 9 times by police officer in Toronto by KJ Mullins

In the early hours on Saturday morning an 18-year-old boy was shot and killed by a Toronto Police officer near Trinity Bellwoods Park. The young man had boarded a streetcar earlier with a knife and ordered the passengers and driver to leave the vehicle.

A tense scene at Toronto vigil to mark the death of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim killed by Toronto police...

A tense scene at Toronto vigil to mark the death of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim killed by Toronto police on a TTC streetcar early Saturday, July 27, 2013. Toronto police officers fired three shots. After several seconds, officers fired six additional shots. Seconds later, one officer climbs up the streetcar stairs and the sound of a Taser can be heard
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Lea Michele tweeted about Cory’s death for the first time by Hector Garingalao

Glee’s Lea Michele, via Twitter, thanked her 3.5 million fans for their support, two weeks after her boyfriend and co-star Cory Monteith died of a drug overdose.

Justin Bieber spits on fans from his Toronto hotel balcony by Marcus Hondro

This one is sure to turn-off some of the fans and supporters Justin Bieber has left. Get this: he spit on some of those fans. Bieber, a few hours before a reportedly superb Toronto concert on his ‘Believe’ tour, let go the gob of spit on Thursday.

Op-Ed: Sam Simon takes to Twitter and vows to ‘beat cancer’ by Elizabeth Batt

Occasionally, the animal kingdom gains a guardian angel. Sam Simon is one of them. The Simpsons creator maybe battling an illness, but he’s still fighting for animals in need.

KKK organizes neighborhood watch program in Missouri by JohnThomas Didymus

Some residents of Springfield’s west-central side, Mo., found fliers wrapped around rocks and thrown into their yards on Sunday morning. The fliers invited them to join a neighborhood watch program organized by the KKK.

Photo: North Pole ice melts, shallow lake on top of the world by JohnThomas Didymus

A photo shows a melt pond estimated at about a foot deep that has formed this summer at the North Pole. The image comes from a webcam set up by the North Pole Environmental Observatory that has been monitoring Arctic sea ice since the spring of 2000.

Urinating statue causes uproar among some locals by Kevin Fitzgerald

A 26-foot statue depicting a man urinating into a river has been the source of recent controversy in the small town of Örebro, Sweden.

 Bad Bad Boy  is an eight-metre high sculpture of a nude male figure urinating into the river by Fin...

“Bad Bad Boy” is an eight-metre high sculpture of a nude male figure urinating into the river by Finnish artist Tommi Toija, on display in city of Örebro, Sweden
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Op-Ed: Roach needs to alter Pacquiao’s flawed defense to avoid KO punch by Leo Reyes

Filipino boxing star Manny Pacquiao has admitted in an interview during the Beijing leg of his ongoing media tour to promote his fight against Brandon Rios, he got careless and made a mistake in his knockout loss against Juan Manuel Marquez last December.

Power Users

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  5. Layne Weiss
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  7. Larry Seely
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  11. Yukio Strachan
  12. Abdul Kuddus
  13. Stan Rezaee
  14. Elizabeth Batt
  15. Katerina Nikolas
  16. Michael Krebs
  17. Kathleen Blanchard
  18. Richard Mccallum
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