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Yahoo U.S. Accused kidnapper found hiding in closet (AP) AP - An escaped prisoner accused in the videotaped kidnapping of a lawyer who was grabbed at gunpoint outside her loft was captured Saturday after authorities acting on a tip swarmed an apartment where he was discovered hiding in a closet.
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Reuters Entertainment Kiefer Sutherland arrested for drunken driving LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kiefer Sutherland, star of the television thriller series "24," was arrested early on Tuesday in Hollywood for drunken driving after being pulled over for making an illegal U-turn, police said.
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Yahoo World U.S still top British ally: new foreign minister (Reuters) Reuters - New British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, seeking to squash speculation that London may distance itself from Washington over Iraq, has insisted the U.S. is still Britain's number one ally.
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Reuters Entertainment "National Treasure" shines at crowded box office LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Nicolas Cage unearthed the No. 1 spot at the North American box office on Sunday with "National Treasure: Book of Secrets," which earned more than the combined totals of four other high-powered newcomers.
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BBC News world India farmers may be Africa bound The government of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh considers plans to send farmers to East Africa.
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Yahoo U.S. Hurricane Remnants Spawn Northern Floods (AP) AP - The storm that was once Hurricane Ivan was long gone, but its aftereffects pounded parts of the East like a hangover Sunday, as rivers and small streams swollen beyond their banks by earlier torrential rain forced new evacuations in five states.
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RedNova Oddities Man Running for 'Sexiest Plumber' Title AURORA, Ore. - What more fitting prize for a plumber than a free trip to the most famous bowl of them all. If Brandon Ayres emerges as "America's Sexiest Plumber, he'll win a trip for two to Super Bowl XXXIX in Jacksonville, Fla.
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CNET networking news An inaugural journey to the Arctic floor Blog: NASA, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution send robots where no man (or bot) has ever been.
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BBC - Front Page Girl critical after balcony fall A seven-year-old British girl is critically ill after falling from a hotel fifth-floor balcony on the island of Majorca.
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Reuters Twenty-nine killed in Moroccan crash Twenty-nine people have been killed and 30 injured when a bus crashed into a truck and a taxi cab on a highway linking two of Morocco's popular tourist destinations, officials say.
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TruthNews.com French Official Says No Sign Arafat Poisoned France's health minister says there is no indication the death of Palestinian terrorist leader Yasser Arafat was the result of poisoning - amid rumors in the Arab world that Arafat was poisoned.
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Topix.Net Europe Online Statement Denies Vatican As Target An online statement posted Sunday in the name of an al-Qaida-linked group pledged that the Vatican would be spared, but repeated threats to turn Rome into hell.
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sportal.com.au Gilbert returns serve Tennis coach Brad Gilbert has hit out at the decision by world number two Andy Roddick to sack him as a mentor. Roddick released a statement earlier this week saying he and Gilbert had parted ways but the
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Reuters U.S. Cuban Stows Away in Cargo Crate from Bahamas to U.S. MIAMI (Reuters) - A Cuban woman made it to the United States by stowing away in a wooden crate the size of a filing cabinet on a cargo flight from the Bahamas, officials said on Wednesday.
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BCC Technology IBM profit flat on pension case US computer giant IBM blames a $320m pension lawsuit settlement as it reports flat third quarter profits.
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Reuters Top News Iran judge says held U.S.-Iranians admit "activities" TEHRAN (Reuters) - Two Iranian-Americans detained in the Islamic Republic on spying charges have "accepted that they carried out some activities", an Iranian judge was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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Ansa Calcio Oro: in ribasso in Asia Calo pari allo 0,6%
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BBC - Front Page Inzy 'cleared of ball-tampering' Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq is cleared of ball-tampering, news agency AFP says.
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Apple Hot News Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Service Pack 1 There’s time for fun and time to focus. When you’re ready to get down to business, Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac provides the intuitive, intelligent tools you need to transform your ideas and opportunities into action.
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Yahoo Entertainment Franken Brings Liberal Talk Show to Ark. (AP) AP - Coming to a "red state" to celebrate the nation's last "blue president" seems to be just the medicine for Al Franken two weeks after President Bush's re-election.
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BBC News Business Insurer launches per-mile cover A pay-as-you-drive car insurance scheme is being introduced by Norwich Union.
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PCWorld news Skype Woos SMBs with new Deal Skype has launched a package for small businesses that bundles up the company's software with call credits and subscriptions for multiple users.
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Reuters World U.S. urges wary NATO allies to boost Afghan fight SEVILLE, Spain (Reuters) - The United States stepped up pressure on NATO allies on Thursday to send more troops to Afghanistan to crush an expected Taliban offensive, saying the next few weeks would be pivotal in battling the insurgency.
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New York Times sports Catching fire at end a habit Most MLS teams are in a comfortable position for the last two weeks of the regular season. Too comfortable.
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Yahoo Elections Restraining order against Ellison tossed (AP) AP - A judge on Monday dismissed a woman's attempt to get a restraining order against U.S. Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, with whom she claimed to have had an extramarital affair.
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CNN Top News ADV: Refinance Rates Just Got Lower Lock in the lowest rates of the summer. Get up to 4 free quotes from trusted lenders. Apply now - bad credit OK.
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La Nazione De Niro rifiuta l'Ambrogino per non danneggiare Kerry Milano, 14 ottobre 2004 - Doveva essere una giornata molto onorevole. E' stato un disastro. Maleducazione? Disinformazione? Robert De Niro ha rifiutato l'Ambrogino d'oro, massimo riconoscimento della città.
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Kataweb Sport Aare, 10:35 - SCI, MONDIALI; GIGANTE: FUORI RAICH E BLARDONE Il gigante maschile dei mondiali di Aare perde subito due protagonisti. Sono usciti nella prima manc...
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Reuters U.S. Electronics retailers unhappy as shoppers cautious LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - The toll that economic uncertainty has taken on U.S. consumer electronics retailers was made very clear on Tuesday by Circuit City CEO Phil Schoonover.
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BetaNews.Com Google Adds Image View to News Google on Tuesday took the wraps off a new approach to viewing events going on around the world. Instead of clicking on a headline to read articles, Google News Image Version displays photos related to the day's top stories.
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The NewStandard Studies: long shifts may contribute to medical error Medical school interns routinely work 30-hour shifts, but two new studies say the workload is both dangerous and excessive, and are calling for interns' hours to be cut in half.
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BBC News health Doubts voiced over emergency pill Making emergency contraception more available has had no effect on cutting the abortion rate, an expert says.
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Yahoo Science Calif. cities reject coal-fired power (AP) AP - Southern California is gambling its future power needs on its constant sunshine, wind and the ability of engineers to effectively harness those and other alternative energy sources.
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New York Times world U.S. and China Plan Economic Talks The plan for a dialogue between high-level teams meant that immediate progress on currency and trade issues was unlikely.
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Reuters Top News Branson blames track for fatal UK train crash GRAYRIGG (Reuters) - A defective track caused a high-speed train accident in northwest England which killed an elderly woman and seriously injured five other people, according to the boss of the train company involved.
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The Register Tesco Mobile complains to Ofcom Virtual operator, real complaint Tesco Mobile, and O2 which provides its network, has complained to Ofcom that changes to spectrum allocation could drive the supermarket's mobile offering out of business.

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Boston Globe sports Steelers Win Battle of the Kickers The Jets' Doug Brien missed two field-goal attempts late in the fourth quarter before the Steelers' Jeff Reed won the game with his 33-yard kick in overtime.
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Ansa Spettacolo Ascolti tv: vince Rex 22,47% share Ballaro' sfiora il 18% e batte La sai l'ultima su Canale 5
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Boston Globe sports U.N.L.V. Forward Does Not Lack Family Support When the cheering section for Joe Darger is at full strength, it includes his father, his mother, his 18 siblings and his father’s other wife.
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San Diego Union Tribune Americans forces strike Fallujah, battle insurgents in Baghdad American forces bombed a suspected hide-out used by the militant group of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Fallujah on Tuesday, and the military said its frequent strikes have taken
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CNN Muslims mark start of Ramadan Friday prayers marked the start of Ramadan in the Middle East as millions of Muslims around the world began observance of the holy month of fasting and prayer.
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USA Today Bush thanks scandal-plagued Italy PM for war cooperation Days after he was acquitted in a corruption trial, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi got a warm welcome Wednesday from President Bush, who is grateful to Italy as a rare European ally willing to send troops to Iraq.
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Kataweb Sport Empoli, 20:35 - CALCIO, EMPOLI: IN TRE LASCIANO ANZITEMPO L'ALLENAMENTO Lavoro di ripresa per l'Empoli in vista della gara con la Roma di sabato prossimo. La squadra di Cag...
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National Geographic Society Australia Apologizes to Aborigines Some say compensation to "Stolen Generations"—an estimated hundred thousand Aborigines taken from their parents until the 1970s—is the next step. Australia's new leader has ruled out such reparations.
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Ansa Economia Hopa: 15/9 cda per piano 'McKinsey' La finanziaria bresciana in cerca di una svolta post-Olimpia
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New York Times sports Today's schedule College basketball: Men -- Mount St. Vincent at Lasell, 4 p.m.; UMBC at BU, 7 p.m.; Maine at UNH, 7 p.m.; Wentworth at UMass-Boston, 7 p.m.; Babson at Suffolk, 7:30 p.m.; Colby-Sawyer at Gordon, 7:30 p.m.; Maine-Farmington at Plymouth St., 7:30 p.m.; Johnson & Wales at Emerson, 8 p.m.
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Yahoo Science Artifacts could be from early galleon (AP) AP - Archeologists said Monday that porcelain plates and other artifacts found along the Baja California coast could be from the wreckage of a Spanish galleon that sailed between the Philippines and Mexico hundreds of years ago.
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Deutsche Welle Opposition Candidate Wins Romania Vote Traian Basescu is the projected winner of Romania's presidential election, with 51.7 percent of the vote, the central election commission said Monday.
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Yahoo Elections US hopes Abbas's call for early elections will help quell violence (AFP) AFP - The White House expressed hope that Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's call for early elections will help quell violence in the region.
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CBS Sportsline Baseball; the World Series; Red Sox Go to the Pole to Take An <b>...</b> When the Red Sox were paired up with the St. Louis Cardinals in the 100th World Series, there was no way that Johnny Pesky could avoid being an integral part of the story line.
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RedNova general Fed Expected to Raise Interest Rates JACKSON, Wyo. - The job market may be in a funk and oil prices may be in the stratosphere, but interest rates probably will climb again in September because the Federal Reserve is confident the economy's "soft patch" is temporary...
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PCWorld news Open-Source Vendor Launches Hosted Collaboration Suite Hosted version of SpikeSource's SuiteTwo integrates collaborative apps and automates finding and downloading patches and updates.
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BBC News Business Bangladesh to tackle corruption A new anti-corruption watchdog for Bangladesh has been welcomed by global anti-graft campaigners.
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New York Times Militants Release Video of Japanese Hostage The country's most feared militant group released a video today showing a frightened young Japanese civilian saying he would be beheaded if Japan did not withdraw its troops from Iraq.
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Yahoo Science Protesters attack Aceh tsunami reconstruction office (Reuters) Reuters - Hundreds of Indonesian protesters vented their anger on Wednesday against the state body tasked with reconstructing tsunami-hit Aceh province, throwing stones at police and the agency's office.
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RedNova technology FREE PINT for EVERY Reader Watching Today's Big Blackpool V Yeovil Play-Off at Walkabout! NOT everyone will be lucky enough to make it to the new Wembley to see the play-offs this weekend. But don't worry, we can offer every Sunday Mirror reader the next best thing - a free pint of Carlsberg at Walkabout sports bars, the top venues in the country to watch live football.
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Guardian Top News Take me to the river Travel: Under siege from oil companies and loggers, the Huaorani of Ecuador are fighting back - through ecotourism.
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BBC science Space freighter given launch date Europe's 20-tonne supply ship for the International Space Station will have its maiden flight on Saturday 8 March.
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The Motley Fool Meet the Men Who Fleeced Enron The smartest guys in the room were outsmarted more than once.
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New York Times world N.B.A. Bars 4 After a Brawl Involving Fans The N.B.A. suspended indefinitely the four players primarily involved in a wide-ranging fight that went into the stands and resulted in nine fan injuries Friday night.
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Reuters Top News Ukrainians Choose New President in Landmark Vote KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainians voted for a new president on Sunday, choosing between their Russian-backed prime minister and a West-leaning liberal in a tight contest many fear could degenerate into turmoil.
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Syfy.com RGV announces his next film, shoot in November After Aag, Ram Gopal Varma has decided to do what he is best at. In a split-second decision (well, almost!) he has decided to make a film with only newcomers in the cast. The decision was taken earlier this week and Ramu is ready to roll by the beginning of November.
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The Scotsman Palace 'Batman' Protester 'had Good Reasons' - Girlfriend The girlfriend of Fathers 4 Justice campaigner Jason Hatch today said he had “good reasons” for scaling the walls of Buckingham Palace.
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PakTribune.com Women, Girls, HIV and AIDS ISLAMABAD, December 01 (Online): World AIDS Day is commemorated around the globe on 1 December to review the progress made in the battle against the epidemic, and brings into focus remaining challenges.
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New York Times Tech Oracle's Quarterly Earnings Rise 16% Oracle's earnings exceeded expectations, despite sluggish sales in a product line that the company hopes to bolster by completing a takeover of rival PeopleSoft.
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Yahoo Sports Clemens scratched from Monday start (AP) AP - Roger Clemens was scratched from Monday's start against the Chicago White Sox because of a fatigued right groin.
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The Scotsman Camara and Novo get retrospective red cards CLARENCE Darrow could not have saved Nacho Novo and Henri Camara from the guilty verdicts imposed on them yesterday by the SFA’s disciplinary committee as a consequence of their offences in the Old Firm match at Ibrox on 20 November.
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RedNova science Needs May Decide Sewer Hookups By Chris Mazzolini, Star-News, Wilmington, N.C. Jun. 5--Developers waiting to build in Wilmington's North Side might discover that being first in line isn't good enough.
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Topix.Net Europe Golden mask `sensational' A Bulgarian archaeologist has unearthed a 2,400-year-old golden mask in the tomb of an ancient Thracian king - a find he says is unrivalled in the study of classical antiquity.
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Yahoo Europe Ukrainian Court Overturns Part of New Election Law (Reuters) Reuters - Ukraine's Constitutional Court on Saturday overturned some changes introduced to an election law intended to eliminate fraud which tainted last month's presidential poll, Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported.
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National Geographic Society Ebola Killing Thousands of Gorillas, Study Says Gorillas in western and central Africa could be extinct within decades because of the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, new research suggests.
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RedNova science Arctic Tundra Disappearing at Rapid Rate Forests of spruce trees and shrubs in parts of northern Canada are taking over what were once tundra landscapes--forcing out the species that lived there.
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Yahoo World French Ex-Hostages Finally Free, Dispute Rages (Reuters) Reuters - Two French journalists freed from a four-month hostage ordeal in Iraq finally found total freedom on Thursday after being held for a day following their return home to be debriefed by France's DSGE intelligence service.
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The Register JVC preps dual DVD/Blu-ray disc Japanese consumer electronics company JVC has created an optical disc that contains both regular DVD and Blu-ray Disc zones. The announcement comes a month after Toshiba and Memory Tech, both members of the
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Xinhua Armstrong hits out at Italian investigation Six-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong may come under further investigation in Italy in relation to his trainer's drug charges.
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Guardian Top News Crunch week for high street Business: Analysts sharply divided over retailers' prospects.
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The Washington Post sports Orange Downs Irish Gerry McNamara has 22 points to lead No. 7 Syracuse to a 70-61 win over Notre Dame on Monday night, helping Jim Boeheim become the first coach with 300 Big East victories.
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Ansa Italia Autostrade, 7 giorni senza vittime Un risultato senza precedenti dal '99, anno privatizzazione
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Repubblica Cronaca Berlusconi, scuse dell'aggressore ma Ú bufera sulla scarcerazione Dal Bosco Ú tornato a Mantova: "Ho fatto una stupidaggine Chiederò scusa con una lattera personale, non per convenienza" Berlusconi, scuse dell'aggressore ma Ú bufera sulla scarcerazione Calderoli chiede a Castelli di aprire un'indagine sul gip (13:05 02/01/2005)
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New York Times Science When a Murderer Wants to Practice Medicine It is hard to think of a case in which a murderer should become a medical doctor. Murder and medical practice are simply incompatible.
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Boston Globe business News Corp. may halt WSJ.com fees News Corp. will probably end subscription fees at WSJ.com and will open the MySpace social-networking website to developers in a push to add readers and advertisers, chairman Rupert Murdoch said.
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New York Times Business G.E. and Pearson Are Said to Study Bid for Dow Jones The General Electric Company and Pearson are exploring a joint bid for Dow Jones & Company, people familiar with the talks said.
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Topix.Net Europe UK urges $10B Africa literacy push British Treasury chief Gordon Brown toured a school in Africa's largest slum to study the impact of free primary education on efforts to cut poverty, preparing a case to encourage rich nations to boost debt ...
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InfoWorld news Online ad spending had healthy growth in 2006 ( InfoWorld ) - Online ad spending in the U.S. grew 34 percent in 2006, compared with 2005, as marketers continued expanding their use of the Internet to promote their products and services, according to a new study. With an estimated $16.8 billion spent, the U.S. is a "healthy environment" for online advertising, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said Wednesday. Convinced that Internet advertising's effectiveness continues to improve, U.S. companies are steadily increasing their online marketing budgets, the organizations said. Ad spending grew an estimated 32 percent in the fourth quarter to $4.8 billion, the highest quarterly total ever. With another year of solid growth, the U.S. online advertising market distances itself more from the difficult years that followed the dot-com bust, when spending money for online marketing was somewhat discredited. After peaking at $8.2 billion in 2000, U.S. online ad spending fell in 2001 and 2002 but began regaining lost ground in 2003 as the once-disgraced Internet industry showed its first signs of recovery and the start of the Web 2.0 era. In 2004, with the emergence of Google as a search engine and advertising powerhouse, online marketing increased its momentum. That year, the market finally broke the 2000 record, ending with $9.6 billion in online ad spending, and Google's IPO became further proof of the Internet industry's rebound. By growing every year since 2003, online ad spending has played a major part in fueling a new wave of technical innovation and venture capital investment in the Internet market. A particularly vibrant segment has been search engine pay-per-click ads, the format that generates most of Google's rising revenue. IAB and PwC reached their estimates from data they collected from the top 15 online ad sellers in the U.S. The organizations will report actual results for the third and fourth quarters of 2006 next month. Â
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BetaNews.Com Analyst: Music CDs will give way to digital downloads by 2012 HD DVD isn't the only optical disc format that's heading into decline right now. Audio-formatted CDs will find themselves one-upped by digital music by 2012, according to a Forrester report issued today.
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Boston Globe sports Manning Keeps Cool, and Keeps a Drive Alive Eli Manning’s 32-yard pass to David Tyree during the final minutes kept alive a drive that will live forever in Giants’ lore.
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Reuters Tech Motorola unveils mobile live TV device NEW YORK (Reuters) - Motorola Inc , which has recently lost cell phone market share, is introducing a mobile device for playing live television to expand its reach in portable consumer electronics.
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Xinhua Yanukovich defies ruling on poll results Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, who had been declared winner of a disputed presidential election, said on Thursday that the Supreme Court has no right to annul the poll results.
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New York Times Business Wary Buyers May Scuttle Two Deals Two more private equity deals showed signs of unraveling on Friday, as buyers and bankers grow increasingly wary of the purchases they rushed into only months ago.
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The Register Hezbollah cracks Israeli radio code Hopping mad Hezbollah fighters reportedly used Iranian-supplied technology to tap Israeli radio comms during last month's war in southern Lebanon. The intelligence gleaned from these intercepts helped frustrate Israeli tank attacks, according to Hezbollah and Lebanese officials.

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La Repubblica Giustizia, Casini: non c'Ú stata normalizzazione rapporti "Sulla giustizia constato che la normalizzazione non c'Ú stata. Questa legislatura purtroppo non Ú ancora quella della normalizzazione tra potere giudiziario e potere politico. E di questo mi rammarico".
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Reuters World Hungarian right warns of "uprising", PM stands firm BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarians may rise up against the government and even overthrow parliamentary democracy unless Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany steps down, a senior figure in the main opposition Fidesz party warned on Tuesday.
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Yahoo Tech Microsoft Hits Back at Its OpenXML Critics (PC Magazine) PC Magazine - A Microsoft official says IBM was the only company that voted against approving its OpenXML specification as a standard.
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Yahoo Europe Iraqi forces set to take over Basra security (AFP) AFP - British troops will formally take a back seat to Iraqi forces in the southern province of Basra on Sunday with the handover of security responsibility to government troops.
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Yahoo Europe England coach Fletcher confident of Vaughan fitness (AFP) AFP - England coach Duncan Fletcher did his best to downplay concerns over the fitness of captain Michael Vaughan as his side prepared for their second and final World Cup warm-up match against reigning champions Australia.
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The Motley Fool A Diamond Among Diamonds Diamonds -- online -- can be an investor's best friend.
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Yahoo U.S. Fla. Husband Wants Bush's Effort Rejected (AP) AP - The husband of a severely brain-damaged woman at the center of a bitter right-to-die dispute asked the Florida Supreme Court on Monday to reject Gov. Jeb Bush's effort to seek another hearing on a law designed to keep her alive.
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Guardian Top News Allders goes bust with debts of up to £150m Business: Stores will stay open as firm seeks new owner.
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BBC UK McConnell: 'Come to Scotland' The first minister launches the latest phase in the scheme to bring people from overseas to work in Scotland.
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Financial Times Hollywood snubs Sony's new DVD format By Michiyo Nakamoto in Tokyo and Scott Morrison in San Francisco. Sony has suffered a big setback in its bid to set the standard for next-generation DVDs as four Hollywood studios announced they would support a rival technology backed by Toshiba.
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