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Nikkei e' salito a 16.274 punti
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AP - Jason Giambi apologized to the New York Yankees. He apologized to his teammates. He apologized to fans. He never said why he was apologizing. And not only did he never say whether he used steroids, he never even mentioned the word.
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A court in Equatorial Guinea found Nick du Toit, a South African former special forces soldier, guilty of a plot to overthrow the President of the oil-rich country and sentenced him to 34 years in prison yesterday.
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BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia will open a mass grave on Tuesday believed to contain up to 500 Albanian victims of the Kosovo war, fresh evidence of Serb atrocities as the U.N. decides whether to grant the province independence.
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A PLAN to import $200 million worth of ecstasy in a bakery oven has been foiled by Australian authorities, and hailed as the nation's "largest ever seizure" of the party drug.
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Former WorldCom Inc. chief executive Bernard Ebbers has indicated he will seek reimbursement from the company for his millions of dollars in legal bills.
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Record anche nel surplus, dati dell'istituto di statistica
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After weeks of stalled talks, negotiators in the entertainment writers' strike have suddenly made "substantial progress" in their discussions, people with knowledge of the talks said yesterday, raising hopes in Hollywood that a settlement could come as early as this week.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tribune Co.'s TRB.N Hoy newspaper, one of several U.S. papers caught up in a circulation scandal, overstated circulation at its New York edition by more than 46 percent last year, an industry monitoring group said on Tuesday.
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Unfriendly skies Regulators have expressed concern that Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner passenger jet may be vulnerable to hacker attack.

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ComScore and UBS analyze top Web sites in U.S. by page views and unique visitors, and the winners are Fox and Yahoo, respectively.
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AFP - The United States will withdraw up to 70,000 troops from Europe and Asia over the next decade, President George W. Bush said, in a move aimed at increasing the capability to fight the "war on terror" and meet other new threats.
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Iraqi militants who kidnapped an Australian reporter in Baghdad and threatened to kill him ”Googled” his name on the internet to investigate his work before releasing him unharmed, the journalist’s executive producer said today.
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Reuters - A global survey of sex behavior after age 40 reveals that most people continue to have sex. However, aging romantics tend to encounter problems in their lovemaking.
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SESTRIERE, Italy (Reuters) - American Lindsey Vonn sped to her fourth downhill win of the World Cup season on Saturday, setting the record straight after last weekend's upset at St Moritz.
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AP - The tattoo on Matt Barnes' shoulder reads "Sac Town's Finest," and the Golden State forward certainly was better than anything his hometown team had to offer. Barnes set career highs with 32 points and 11 rebounds, and Andris Biedrins added 20 points and 14 rebounds in the sharp-shooting Warriors' 126-113 victory ...
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The University of California should be playing the University of Michigan in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day, reveling in Cal's first return to Pasadena's sacred turf since 1959.
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In vista del match di domenica prossima al Flaminio contro l'Italia, per la seconda giornata del Sei...
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Crude oil prices rose to a record in New York and London after hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico curbed US production for more than three weeks, slowing the accumulation of supplies to meet winter needs.
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AFP - The cost of decommissioning ageing nuclear plants has soared by 12 billion pounds to 73 billion over the past few years, a report said Wednesday.
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Lo scrive il quotidiano 'La Tribune'
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A study into the feasibility of a £20bn new Thames barrier is to report within weeks, it emerges.
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Spanish Bank Santander Central Hispano intends to cut about 3,000 jobs at Britain's Abbey National if its proposed acquisition of the British bank is completed.
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AP - There will be no comeback this season by Trent Green, leaving the Miami Dolphins with an uncertain quarterback situation yet again. Green was placed on injured reserve Saturday, shelving him for the rest of the season following his second severe concussion in 13 months.
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A Royal Marine who died from injuries sustained in a road accident remained 'selfless to the end', the MoD says.
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Reuters - ABC has picked up the fantasy comedy-drama "Pushing Daisies" for a full season.
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A new drug identified by researchers at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development may revolutionize the way tuberculosis is treated around the world.
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JAKARTA : Indonesian president-elect Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Saturday delivered a long-awaited victory speech, promising to immediately tackle corruption and regional conflicts.
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Reuters - The United States and Russia must unite to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction rather than drifting into a new Cold War, the authors of a project to secure the former Soviet nuclear arsenal said on Monday.
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Reuters - For a player whose first pitch in Major League Baseball was smashed out of the ballpark, Boston's Hideki Okajima has a lot to smile about.
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AP - A jury on Thursday awarded more than $4.4 million to a high school girls basketball coach who was accused of molesting a student but was never charged with a crime.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Three U.N. workers held hostage in Afghanistan met President Hamid Karzai Wednesday and appeared happy and well despite a kidnap ordeal lasting nearly four weeks.
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[World News]: Moscow, Dec 30 : China's CNPC oil and gas corporation would be offered up to 20 per cent stake in Yuganskneftegaz, earlier acquired by Russia's state-owned Rosneft oil major ahead of its merger with Gazprom gas monopoly.
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Jailed Palestinian activist Marwan Barghouti, the charismatic leader of a younger generation of militants, has agreed not to run in the January ninth general elections.
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Reuters - NATO-led troops struggled Sunday to reach the icy crash site of an Afghan passenger plane that slammed into a mountain peak three days ago with 104 people on board, an official said.
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Stock investors next week should get more clues on whether the bull market has long enough legs to drive gains to year end, as many market pros now expect.
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Dozens of people are arrested as police fight with protesters during a general strike in Bangladesh.
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Replica all'opposizione che chiede un intervento alle Camere
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Premier e leader centrodestra escludono opzione negoziale
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Tuesday ordered banks to freeze any assets of a Kuwaiti man U.S. authorities believe is a senior al Qaeda operative.
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Reuters - The Cincinnati Reds eased to a 10-3 win over the Atlanta Braves on Monday, the victory built on the back of Ken Griffey Jr's 587th career home run and four hits from winning pitcher Bobby Livingston.
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Microsoft announces that its Zune digital music player will be released in the US in time for Christmas.
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AFP - Confusion surrounded Clive Woodward's future as England coach after he emerged from a meeting with top England rugby officials claiming he had not resigned from his post.
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Reuters - The guru to the Beatles who introduced transcendental meditation to the West, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, died at his Dutch home overnight, aides said on Wednesday. He was said to be 91.
1Entertainment
By next Friday we should have a good idea as to whether the NHL will play this year or if we are to see the entire season lost. On Thursday the players association invited the NHL to meet next week for a bargaining session.
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When, where: Tonight, 7, at TD Banknorth Garden. TV, radio: NESN, WBZ (1030).
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On New York Times: National
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Parts of Germany's complex can and bottle recycling system violate European Union law, according to a ruling yesterday by the European Court of Justice, the EU's highest court.
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Blue skies on the last day of the year mean that Beijing has more than met an air pollution target, officials say.
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Il nuovo tecnico del Palermo, Stefano Colantuono, si prepara a cominciare la nuova avventura rosaner...
4Italia
Ukraine's parliament on Saturday declared invalid the disputed presidential election that triggered a week of growing street protests and legal maneuvers, raising the possibility that a new vote could be held ...
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Sudan's government and Darfur rebels are likely to restart talks Thursday as the African Union said it would increase its forces in the restive region.
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Reuters - U.S. regulators should reject a proposed weight-loss pill called Zimulti because of concerns it may increase suicidal thinking and depression, an advisory panel unanimously said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks slid lower in ultra-light volume on Monday, as security concerns surrounding the Republican convention in New York kept investors on the sidelines.
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LONDON (Reuters) - London's outspoken Mayor Ken Livingstone refused to apologize Friday for comparing a Jewish newspaper reporter to a war criminal and concentration camp guard, despite complaints from Britain's main Jewish group.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - A car bomb killed an anti-Syrian Lebanese lawmaker and at least six other people in Beirut on Wednesday, just six days before parliament was due to elect a new president, security sources said.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - A blast in Beirut on Wednesday killed anti-Syrian MP Walid Eido, one of his sons and two other people who were with him, security sources said.
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Reuters - Mexico's main opposition party fought to hold on to one of its oldest electoral bastions before 2006 presidential elections in a close governor's race on Sunday in Veracruz state.
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The European Commission has approved a financial package to fight animal diseases in the EU. The EU budget for 2005 will tackle transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) and a range of other animal diseases that impact on animal and human health.
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Musician, filmmaker and spoken-word artist is grateful to give-away promotion for raising his profile and says its too early to draw conclusions.
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By Mark Ledsom BASEL (Reuters) - Britain's world number four Tim Henmanwon his opening match at the Swiss Indoors tennis tournamentwith little difficulty on Wednesday, beating Frenchman AntonyDupuis 6-3, 6-4.
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There was green everywhere you looked. The lower bowl of TD Banknorth Garden was bathed in green last night -- draft party green with green and white balloons.
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"They never changed; it was like they were in a bubble because they were always the same. There would be these bizarre trends in clothes and hair, and then I'd go see The Ramones and they wouldn't have aged or changed their style.
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Clearing the way for a do-or-die restructuring, unions at Italian airline Alitalia AZPIa.MI have agreed to unemployment packages for around 3,700 employees, union sources say.
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KILALO, Congo (Reuters) - United Nations troops deployed amid lush hills in eastern Congo on Wednesday to set up a buffer zone to stop clashes between rival army factions that have uprooted thousands and raised tensions with Rwanda.
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The brother of Kenneth Bigley, a British engineer held hostage in Iraq ( news - web sites ) for 12 days, slammed Prime Minister Tony Blair ( news - web sites ) as a weak politician who did not have sufficient ...
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AP - Banners proclaiming the Red Sox as World Series winners finally hung from lampposts outside their spring training ballpark 86 years after their last championship.
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AN Italian journalist missing in Iraq was set on reaching the holy city of Najaf and obtaining a personal interview with radical Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr, a colleague was quoted as saying today.
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A senior health official working to eradicate polio in north-west Pakistan is killed in a bomb attack.
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Offensives to flush him out have come up empty. Will the U.S. get bin Laden with new strategies?
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A District of Columbia judge on Monday lost his $54 million lawsuit against a dry-cleaning shop that misplaced his pants.
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Nuova iniziativa del Bologna per avvicinare ancora di più alla squadra i propri tifosi, soprattutto ...
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HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of Thomson CenterWatch:
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Iran insisted yesterday that it had a right to exempt some equipment from an agreement with the European Union that requires the country to freeze all parts of a program
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LAYTON -- Got a question, complaint or advice for county officials? The Davis County Commission will hold an open house Thursday to talk to residents about the county.
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Ayman al-Zawahiri, top lieutenant to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, said that the US will be defeated in Iraq and Afghanistan and should expect more attacks.
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President George W. Bush, left, walks with Canada's Prime Minister Paul Martin at the Parliament Building before their meeting in Ottawa, Canada, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2004.
1Entertainment
Where to find 'Nemo,' a brief history of art, and a movie that doesn't hedge its bets.
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New information about President Bush's military record reveal he fell short of his military obligations and received favorable treatment at the National Guard.
1Entertainment
A major rescue operation is launched after 110 children are swept into the Irish Sea, but all are rescued safely.
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( InfoWorld ) - Computers belonging to the U.S. government, contractors, and companies in the transportation industry were hit by a targeted computer attack in July that yielded password information for hundreds of Internet and intranet Web sites, a computer security vendor said Tuesday. The malicious code behind the a...
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Taiwanese computer firm Acer agrees to take over US PC maker Gateway and eyes the possible purchase of Packard Bell in Europe.
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LONDON: World oil prices rose yesterday on concerns over the possibility of further unrest in major producer Iraq despite a ceasefire in Najaf, where fighting has raged for weeks, traders said.
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As the November presidential election nears, several groups are mobilizing to monitor the voting process -- including a group of observers from across the globe and over a thousand techies who will help evaluate voting machines. By Laila Weir.
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AP - Some quotes from Wednesday's Republican presidential candidate debate in Johnston, Iowa:
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "American Idol" piled up more gargantuan ratings in its third week and helped make the Fox network medical drama "House" the most-watched scripted broadcast on U.S. television this season.
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AP - Ben Gordon scored 25 points in his second consecutive strong performance since returning to a reserve role, leading the Chicago Bulls to a 100-83 victory over the New York Knicks on Sunday.
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday New Delhi was ready for talks with all Kashmiri groups who shunned the path of violence.
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INDIANAPOLIS - A basketball game, not a boxing match, broke out at Conseco Fieldhouse on Saturday afternoon. And that’s the best thing that could have happened for the Indiana Pacers and for sports in general.
1Entertainment
Kangana is all set to do the unthinkable at the Bollywood Movie Awards 2007 on 25 May at Long Island, New York.
1Entertainment
Country found not guilty of genocide in test case for world.
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The airline, which exited bankruptcy in May, said profit was $244 million, shattering Wall Street expectations.
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Lukas Bauer ha vinto la 15 km a tecnica classica di Nove Mesto, in Repubblica Ceca, quinta tappa del...
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Nearly one-fourth of companies are now using Web 2.0-social networking software in some form.
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A 16 billion pixel image of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper masterpiece is posted on the internet.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar sank across the board, dropping to multiyear lows against the yen and the euro on Friday, after Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said demand for U.S. assets could ease at some point given the size of the current account deficit.
0Business
Iraqi officials say assailants targeted the convoys of two Iraqi government ministers in separate attacks in Baghdad Tuesday. Neither official was hurt, but five other people were killed in the attacks.
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A multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a dry cleaners has focused on the term "satisfaction guaranteed" and where to draw the line when a customer demands satisfaction over a pair of trousers he says were lost.
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Britain's Allan McNish will race against ex-Formula One world champion Mika Hakkinen after signing for Audi in the German DTM series.
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