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Actors Jude Law and Sienna Miller attend world premiere of the movie remake of Alfie in London's Leicester Square.
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AP - A suicide attacker detonated his vehicle close to the airport in Afghanistan's capital Friday, killing at least one Afghan solider and wounding two others, officials and witnesses said.
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Prince Harry will receive no royal treatment when he joins the British Army next year, the commander of his military college said on Thursday.
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AP - Notre Dame used to be the place to go to win a Heisman Trophy.
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Pessimism is greatest among those closest to the financial system, so while some take a working financial system for granted, others see a system in crisis.
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While fatal in adults, organ transplants from donors with different blood types work in children under 2. The trick? Taking advantage of children's underdeveloped immune systems. By the Associated Press.
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Oct. 15, 2004 - Conservationists claimed victory at a global wildlife trade meeting on Thursday despite warnings that a cash crisis could hamper new hard-won measures to protect endangered species.
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AP - Changing course, the Education Department will allow states to count teachers as highly qualified even under standards that may do little to ensure quality.
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Reuters - The United Nations said on Friday it had received reports Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers were recruiting children displaced by Asia's tsunami and had told the rebels to leave under-age survivors alone.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen and bombers launched three attacks on U.S.-backed neighborhood security patrols in Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least three of the patrol members and wounding 17.
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update Craig Conway has been fired as president and chief executive officer of PeopleSoft and will be replaced by founder Dave Duffield, the company said Friday.
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AP - Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
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Xbox Live, Microsoft’s gaming network that serves some six million Xbox users, is scheduled to be opened to PC gamers on May 8.
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Sri Lanka’s emphatic victory over the South Africans must count among the finest in their cricketing history. Graeme Smith’s side were taken apart with the efficiency of crew changing tyres at a car race.
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Strong words  the likes of which the industry has heard before  accompanied Novell Inc.'s release of its next-generation Linux desktop for enterprise customers, Novell Linux Desktop 9, powered by SUSE Linux.
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Education: Further education colleges reacted with fury to comments made today by the head of the education watchdog, Ofsted, that they were a "national disgrace".
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AP - Goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere has decided to stay with the Stanley Cup champion Anaheim Ducks, signing a 4-year, $24 million contract on Thursday.
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AFP - England coach Brian Ashton sprang a major surprise by including former rugby league star Lesley Vainikolo in his 32-man squad here Wednesday for the Six Nations Championship.
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 2--Heavy factional fighting across the northern Gaza Strip on Friday killed at least 10 Palestinians, including two children, and left a truce reached earlier this week in ashes.
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An unprecedented treasure trove of marine reptile fossils is found in the Arctic by Norwegian scientists.
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Dal primo gennaio 2008
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AP - Gov. Matt Blunt banned video games from the state's prisons Monday, a month after a newspaper reported some of Missouri's most violent inmates were allowed to play games simulating murders, carjackings and the killings of police officers.
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The Federal Open Market Committee, the rate-setting panel for the US Federal Reserve, began its deliberations Wednesday with a rate hike widely expected.
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"Meet The Fockers," the much-hyped sequel to the successful 2000 film "Meet The Parents" starring Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro, takes the top spot over the holiday weekend, raking in $44.7 million. It beat the previous holiday record held by the 2002...
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AP - A popular English teacher has been placed on paid leave — and faces possible criminal charges — after a student's parents complained to police that a ninth-grade class reading list contained a book about a murderer who has sex with his victims' bodies.
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Britney Spears has been taken to a Los Angeles hospital for "an evaluation" after police were called to her Studio City home for a "custodial dispute" Thursday. At around 8 p.m. police responded to a call "about a custodial dispute regarding Britney...
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AP - A White House laboring to find a new approach in Iraq said Tuesday it is considering sending more U.S. troops, an option that worries top generals because of its questionable payoff and potential backlash. President Bush said he is ready to boost the overall size of an American military overstretched by its effort...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures were sharply lower on Monday, pointing to a steep drop at the open on Tuesday, as fears of a U.S. recession gripped investors globally.
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AP - No. 715 played out exactly the way Barry Bonds wanted — he hit it at home, in front of the fans who love him.
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Ma gli ordini sono stati inferiori al rivale americano
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AFP - More than one billion children, half of the world's population of children, suffer from poverty, violent conflict and the scourge of AIDS, the United Nations Children's Fund said in its annual report.
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Beat Crazy by Joe Jackson
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NEW YORK - A lot of people say Michael Ovitz was overpaid at Walt Disney Company. These critics dwell on the superficial, noting, for instance, that he worked at the company just 14 months and was paid $140 million when he quit.
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Cricket legend Geoffrey Boycott says England should be proud of their achievements this summer.
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AP - Fifteen pilot whales died in beach strandings Wednesday in southern New Zealand while rescuers refloated another 15 and monitored their progress toward safer waters, conservation officials said.
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It's barely a year since Krispy Kreme Doughnuts came to the Hub, vowing to glaze the town. But last night Chief Executive Scott Livengood was instead eating liberal helpings of fresh-baked
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Winemakers who want to ship directly to consumers across state lines got a sympathetic hearing at the Supreme Court today, as the justices heard oral arguments in a case that could have a dramatic effect on Internet commerce and states' power to regulate the alcohol trade.
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Japan may keep troops in Iraq for longer than planned, as it seeks support for a UN Security Council seat.
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Fibroids affect 40 percent of women each year. President George W. Bush's pick for Secretary of State, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, will undergo a minor surgical procedure Friday to remove them.
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May the Force be with Mike Degirolamo when he goes up against the city council of Gloucester Township, N.J. [Missing Links]
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Bollywood badshah Shah Rukh Khan was there and so was Kareena Kapoor, looking gorgeous in a slinky red sari and backless blouse, with current boyfriend Saif Ali Khan in tow at Balaji Telefilm's gala television awards function here.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc said on Thursday fourth-quarter earnings fell 12 percent, as the credit market crisis triggered write-downs, and the company said further write-downs were possible.
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The UN's emergency relief co-ordinator says the refugee camps in Darfur are militarised and dangerous.
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Books: The once famously private 60s legend is poised to tell all in a memoir to be published this autumn.
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By Todd Defeo, Athens Banner-Herald, Ga. Dec. 7--JEFFERSON -- A company that manufactures foam packaging material wants to increase emissions at its Jefferson plant, saying it needs to do so to expand its operations.
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An attack by Maoist rebels in eastern India has killed at least 17 people, according to reports.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Florence, which remains far from land and may not make landfall in the United States, could strengthen into the second hurricane of the Atlantic season within 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Wednesday.
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Sizing up the alternatives as a summer of air delays, cancellations and missed connections stretches into fall.
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PARIS-The television broadcasts are infused with violence and hate. The predicament facing the French government is how to stop them.
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Rubens Barrichello won the pole Saturday for Sunday's Grand Prix of China Formula One race. The Ferrari driver circled the 3.387-mile, 14-turn Shanghai International Circuit in one minute, 34.
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The N.B.A. hired a 28-year veteran referee to evaluate the league’s officiating crew chiefs.
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(270 sec.) Rumors of the search engine making a phone, plus using your iPhone as a PDA.
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AOL denies responsibility Someone is surreptitiously adding unauthorized chat buddies to AOL instant messaging clients running across the Web. This afternoon, three separate Register employees have noticed the offending buddies, which show up under the "AIM Bots" portion of the AOL buddy list, carrying the names "Pro...
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Tourists visiting Chile's picturesque port town of Valparaiso have cleaned the town out of a herbal aphrodisiac called palwen, an indigenous remedy also known as "Mapuche viagra," according to local media.
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British ambassador Chris Prentice confirmed that a number of people had been killed when a coach carrying British tourists crashed near the ancient city of Petra.
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More women and children are taking the impact of HIV/AIDS in the world as the disease affects millions in the work force yearly, a report by the International Labor Organization (ILO) indicated.
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Seduta pomeridiana per il Parma. Hanno svolto un lavoro differenziato: Bucci, Grella, Muslimovic e...
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia A Malaysian woman has claimed a new world record after living with over six-thousand scorpions for 36 days straight.
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AP - Israel launched a major attack deep into Lebanon, and Hezbollah said its guerrillas were fighting Israeli commandos trapped inside a hospital in the eastern city of Baalbek early Wednesday.
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The UN workers, who helped to run a presidential election won last month by US-backed incumbent Karzai, discussed their ordeal with him at his presidential palace in the morning.
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L'Uefa ha respinto il ricorso presentato dal Lilla dopo la partita persa di misura contro il Manches...
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Nearly one in three teens who use the Internet have experienced some type of cyberbullying, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
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AP - Of all the moves Jerry Jones made to shape the Dallas Cowboys this season, only one seemed like a sure bet: Swapping the No. 22 pick in the 2007 draft for Cleveland's top pick in '08.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Shares in Danone were suspended from trading on Tuesday at the request of the French food group and ahead of an expected statement which analysts predict to be on the sale of its biscuits business to Kraft Food.
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AP - Australians mourned the death of actor Heath Ledger, describing him Wednesday as one of the country's brightest stars.
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Wireless computer networks could soon be running 10 times faster than they do now.
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Jets speedster Leon Washington starts every kickoff return with the same thought: Touchdown.
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New Orleans, LA (Sports Network) - New Orleans' Steve Gleason was fined $5,000 by the NFL on Wednesday for punching the Panthers' Kemp Rasmussen during last Sunday's 32-21 loss to Carolina.
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AP - Paul Lo Duca hit a pair of three-run homers and drove in a career-high seven runs Tuesday night, powering the New York Mets to their fifth straight victory, 11-7 over the Cincinnati Reds.
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Reuters - Serbia voted on Sunday in a knife-edge presidential election that could decide whether it turns its back on the West in response to the imminent loss of the breakaway province of Kosovo.
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Eleusis, ridden by Jose Santos, wins the Grade II, $150,000 Long Island Handicap at Aqueduct Race Track in Ozone Park, NY, Saturday, Nov. 6, 2004.
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Tim Walker of Hoover’s has some nice things to say about me, before adding that I am was wrong when I said it was not clear that Citigroup would be any better off if it fired Chuck Prince. He makes a good case that Mr. Prince has made plenty of mistakes, but is, I think, not [...].
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AP - Former federal judge Michael Mukasey, a tough-on-terrorism jurist with an independent streak, was tapped by President Bush on Monday to take over as attorney general and lead a Justice Department accused of being too close to White House politics.
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Reuters - NYMEX crude oil futures were down slightly at just under $46 a barrel on Tuesday but traders said prices were likely to resume their rise later in the week if U.S. inventories fall as expected.
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NEW YORK Stocks moved mostly higher Friday as a stronger-than-expected retail sales report showed that record oil prices had not scared consumers away from spending.
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NAJAF, Iraq - A rebel cleric's militiamen kept their guns outside a holy site Friday after issuing a surprise offer to give up control of the Imam Ali Shrine to Shiite Muslim religious leaders, but negotiators wrangled into the night over getting the militants out of the compound. The removal of weapons and pledge t...
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Last week’s dramatic withdrawal of the COX-2 inhibitor rofecoxib (Vioxx) is discussed in this week’s lead editorial in THE LANCET, which comments that more vigilant drug licensing is vital to prevent the endangering of patients’ health.
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German authorities have arrested a businessman wanted by Spain on charges he helped fund the Al-Qaida terrorist network for years.
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With his team’s position in the playoffs locked, Giants Coach Tom Coughlin must decide whether the best strategy is to rest key players or to take a serious stab at upsetting the Patriots.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - African Union chief John Kufuor met Kenya's president and opposition leader on Wednesday to try to break a political impasse behind post-election turmoil that has killed about 500 people.
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Drexel University, the University of Michigan and Florida State University plan to use more than $600,000 in grants to turn the Internet Public Library into a virtual teaching and learning laboratory for digital reference.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Sunday the United States and its allies were locked in a test of wills with insurgents in Iraq and must overcome the "pain and ugliness" of the conflict.
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AFP - The US economy is expanding at an uneven pace amid a cooling of the housing and automobile markets, with inflation pressures easing in some cases, a Federal Reserve report showed.
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Harmonix's new game, the aptly named Rock Band , will be released for Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 by year's end. The company had a surprise success with its previous franchise, Guitar Hero , but Rock Band -- along with its four peripherals -- will retail for $200, four times as much as a typical game.
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AP - 1. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS.
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Japan's Tamagotchi virtual pets are set for a new life as movie stars.
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AP - The news flash from New York Fashion Week may be the more things change, the more they stay the same.
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Companies, government agencies, schools and other institutions are spending more to protect ever-increasing volumes of personal data such as credit card and Social Security numbers with more sophisticated firewalls and encryption, but the investment often is too little, too late.
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By MICHAEL MELIA SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A high-calorie diet combined with life in the cell block - almost around the clock in some cases - is making detainees at Guantanamo Bay fat.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. airline delays for 2007 surpassed the 1 million mark in July, the same month major carriers scheduled a record number of flights - 647,600, the government reported on Tuesday.
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California's top medical officer, underscoring the gravity of the nation's sudden shortage of influenza vaccine, ordered all health care providers in the state Friday to stop giving flu shots to healthy adults and to vaccinate only those deemed at highest
1Entertainment
Tips for keeping your Web activities secret, or as secret as the Internet allows.
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China’s global trade surplus soared nearly 50 percent last year to a record despite an avalanche of safety warnings and recalls of Chinese-made products abroad.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military shot down a target ballistic missile over the Pacific Friday in the widest test of its emerging antimissile shield in 18 months, a witness to the test told Reuters.
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WASHINGTON - Israel's decision to attack Syria on Sept. 6, bombing a suspected nuclear site set up in apparent collaboration with North Korea, was made after Israel shared intelligence with President Bush this summer indicating that North Korean nuclear personnel were in Syria, US government sources said.
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Unveiled at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, these handsets from Nokia aim to make access to the mobile Internet easy.
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Iran announced on Sunday that threatening or pressuring Tehran for its peaceful nuclear program will not work at all and it is only through dialogue that the problems can be settled.
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ZIHUATANEJO, Mexico -- Andrés Sauzo collects newspapers, astoundingly grisly newspapers.
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