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Researchers and defense lawyers call for reform of a tool they say is rigged against the innocent.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. consumers turned more glum in October, beset by everything from soaring energy prices to relentless violence in Iraq and the increasingly bitter end of the presidential election campaign.
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NEW YORK - Mariano Rivera showed up just in time to save the New York Yankees. Rivera got Boston's Kevin Millar to pop out to strand the tying run at third base in the eighth inning, then finished out a thrilling 10-7 win for the Yankees in Tuesday night's opener of the AL championship series...
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British airport operator TBI PLC said Wednesday it has agreed to a takeover by Spanish transport and communications company Abertis and Spain's national airport authority Aena.
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AP - UCLA put together two strong halves and avoided the kind of collapse that cost the fifth-ranked Bruins in their previous game.
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Kofi Annan is to meet Iran's president and supreme leader for talks likely to cover Iran's nuclear programme.
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CULVER CITY, California (Reuters) - Sony Corp. will launch a slimmer model of its PlayStation Portable handheld game player in September, the company said on Wednesday, in its latest attempt to ignite demand for its game hardware and compete better with Nintendo Co. Ltd.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders are set to offer Serbia a fast track to candidacy for membership of the bloc and pledge to step up preparations for a police mission to stabilize Kosovo, a draft statement for Friday's EU summit said.
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By ANGEL RIGGS World Capitol Bureau Members say the governor's approval shouldn't be required in all parole cases. OKLAHOMA CITY -- The governor's approval should not be required in certain parole cases, members of the Oklahoma Sentencing Commission recommended Thursday.
6Sci/Tech
Rep. Porter J. Goss of Florida said on Tuesday that rebuilding the CIA would take more than five years and that American spies needed to be encouraged to take more risks.
1Entertainment
On this third anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on American soil, a bold action by the leader of the transitional government of Afghanistan indicates the hard decisions that are still to be taken before victory can be announced in the war against
13World
Highly touted freshman Sean Singletary scores 15 points, leading Virginia to a 78-60 victory against No. 10 Arizona.
8Sports
PRAGUE- The Czech government's economic council will propose by June of the year electronic toll which trucks in the Czech Republic should start to pay in 2006, Transport Minister Milan Simonovsky told ...
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China declared on Monday that its four-month campaign to ensure food and product safety had been a total success, with all goals being met months before Beijing hosts the Olympics and 600 companies banned from exporting toys.
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AFP - Six Taliban militants and an Afghan army soldier have been killed in clashes across insurgency-hit Afghanistan over the past few days, the Afghan defence ministry said.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan set Tuesday as a target for Kenya's government and opposition to name negotiators to try to end tribal violence in which more than 800 people have been killed.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (Reuters) - Gordon B. Hinckley, the world leader of Mormons who presided over a period of intensive growth for the religion, died on Sunday at the age of 97, officials said.
10Top News
As online shopping gets into full swing, phishers are setting up fraudulent e-commerce Web sites and simply waiting for victims using Google and other search engines to find them.
6Sci/Tech
Sears Roebuck and Co. goofed its rollout of Lands' End apparel in Sears stores, but it's counting on winning the online war with Lands' End's unique shopping technology.
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AP - A lawyer for the brother of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said he's confident he can avoid a trial next week and settle a lawsuit that accuses Tony Rodham of failing to repay debts to a Tennessee carnival operator.
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Un nuovo socio, la Telecom di Marco Tronchetti Provera, per dare l'assalto alla Coppa America. De Angelis chiama accanto a sÚ uno dei più forti timonieri del mondo, l'australiano James Spithill. GENOVA - Gli
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Former Irish soccer stars to play with Team USA in Monday's semifinals vs. Germany (Aug. 23, 10:00 am South Bend time on MSNBC); Gonzalez and Mexico fall to Brazil in quarterfinals.
8Sports
Value investors have more than one way to take advantage of bargains.
0Business
AFP - England international Rio Ferdinand, coming to the end of an eight-month ban for failing to take a drugs test, said he has been training hard under Manchester United's new fitness coach for his return to action next month.
2Europe
Attorneys for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby believe that NBC News holds a key to clearing him of perjury and obstruction charges in the CIA leak case
10Top News
AT&T has added a new set of parental control options to their mobile phone service. For a monthly fee of $4.99, the "Smart Limits" service brings together infomation about parental control features across AT&T's wireless, wired, broadband and video servi
6Sci/Tech
NEW YORK - Fred Ebb, who wrote the lyrics for such hit Broadway musicals as "Chicago" and "Cabaret" as well as the big-city anthem "New York, New York," has died of a heart attack. Ebb died Saturday at his home, said David McKeown, an assistant to composer John Kander, Ebb's longtime collaborator...
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LONDON (Reuters) - An Iraqi-trained doctor appeared in a London court on Saturday in connection with failed car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - North Korea has agreed to "containment and surveillance" measures by International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to verify a shutdown of its nuclear arms program, an IAEA report said on Tuesday.
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The kind of changes planned at Delta Air Lines, changes that include the loss of up to 7,000 more jobs, reflect needed change throughout the industry, a Clayton College and State University professor says.
1Entertainment
Microsoft has announced the resignation of its head of acquisitions, Bruce Jaffe, two days after the company bid $1.2 billion for enterprise search expert Fast Search & Transfer.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon (Reuters) - Al Qaeda-inspired militants killed four Lebanese soldiers on Thursday in fierce battles at a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon, security sources said.
10Top News
Lil' Flip Presents: Clover G's by Lil Flip
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At Sherwood Country Club Friday, six golfers shot a 67 only to discover that their rounds of five under par were only good enough to put them five shots farther behind their genial host.
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( InfoWorld ) - The Eclipse Foundation has established itself as a premier open source software tools project. The organization has gained support from vendors ranging from IBM (which helped found Eclipse in 2001) to Borland Software, BEA Systems, and seemingly every other major player in the software industry except...
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ROMA - Il giorno dopo l'ecatombe nella scuola Numero 1 di Beslan, in Ossezia del Nord, e la furiosa reazione di Mosca alla richiesta di spiegazioni da parte della presidenza di turno olandese dell'Ue, l'Europa da Maastricht oggi ha ribadito ma anche
4Italia
World oil prices rose to a new record high above 55 US dollars a barrel Friday, stirring fears of 60-dollar-a-barrel New York crude, as concerns about the global supply of heating
0Business
By Stephen Leahy* - Tierramrica TORONTO, Sep. 20, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- Another giant ozone hole has opened up over the Antarctic, while evidence mounts that 20 years of international efforts have finally helped the atmosphere to start to heal itself.
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News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch on Tuesday said he can live with Liberty Media Corp. being a large shareholder of the media conglomerate if Liberty Chairman John Malone
0Business
Steve Fossett, a tycoon-turned-record-seeker who became the first person to circumnavigate the globe in a balloon, vanished Monday while flying a single-engine plane over rugged terrain in Nevada, authorities said.
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Reuters - The New York Stock Exchange unveiled an 8 billion euro ($10.2 billion) share and cash bid for Euronext on Monday, countering a rival proposal from Deutsche Boerse just a day before a meeting where Euronext shareholders will decide on the future of the bourse operator.
0Business
Russel Crowe is reportedly very excited about his new movie Eucalyptus as it has an all star cast of three Oscar winners including Nicole Kidman, Geoffrey Rush and himself.
1Entertainment
SABMiller Plc, the world's second- largest brewer, said its Chinese venture agreed to buy three unprofitable breweries in China from Lion Nathan Ltd.
0Business
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy, seeking to cement political and business ties with a booming India, voiced support at the start of an official visit for New Delhi's controversial nuclear deal with the United States.
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Con 'I ragazzi irresistibili', nel ruolo un tempo di Matthau
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Yasser Arafat was in intensive care Saturday in a French hospital, as former US envoys said his death would open up opportunities for peace, especially if pragmatic Palestinian leaders emerge.
1Entertainment
AP - Archaeologists have unearthed what they say are the only existing imperial insignia belonging to Emperor Maxentius — precious objects that were buried to preserve them and keep them from enemies when he was defeated by his rival Constantine.
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Three products, one architecture BEAWorld 2006 BEA Systems is making modules of its middleware, in a move to help developers build services oriented architectures (SOAs).

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The New York Times Co. stock jumped 7.5 percent yesterday, its biggest gain in almost six years, on reports that billionaire Maurice "Hank" Greenberg , former chairman of insurance giant American International Group, was snapping up shares of Times Co. in a bid to challenge its two-tier ownership structure.
0Business
By The Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan - YouTube co-founder Steve Chen said on Saturday consumers in many parts of the world will have access to the popular video-sharing Web site on their mobile phones by next year.
6Sci/Tech
Computer giant IBM says 500 of its software patents will be released into the open development community.
2Europe
A course-record opening 62 has powered American Jeff Sluman to the lead in the Chrysler Championship in Florida, while Aussie Steve Leaney is five shots back.
8Sports
Nicolas Sarkozy has resigned as France's finance and economy minister to concentrate on his new job leading the ruling UMP party of President Jacques Chirac.
1Entertainment
Reuters - Many people believe the sushi-seasoner wasabi clears their sinuses, but new research presented this week suggests that the spicy green paste may do the opposite.
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Tommaso Rocchi parla a Radio Radio del contratto con la Lazio non ancora rinnovato: ''Il contratto? ...
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The chief executive of the world's fifth-largest airline, NorthWest Airlines, has resigned to take over at a healthcare insurer.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 11 -- Insurgents fired rockets or mortars Tuesday at a sprawling U.S. base near Baghdad's international airport, killing one person and wounding 11 soldiers, the U.S. command said.
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Through 15 games as Notre Dame's coach, both Tyrone Willingham and Charlie Weis had the same 11-4 record and had just been beaten soundly by Michigan. Both encountered Michigan State in their 16th game, but that's where the similarities end.
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Barratt American Inc. has officially become an independent home-building company, the new owners announced Monday.
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AP - Weighed down by high energy prices, the economy was even more sluggish than initially believed during the second quarter. But Federal Reserve policy-makers believe the pace will pick up in coming months, something President Bush is counting on as the election approaches.
0Business
Church of England authorities were livid when the Stone of Destiny was moved from Westminster Abbey.
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Risultati delle gare del campionato americano di baseball (MLB) disputate nella notte. In maiuscolo ...
4Italia
The $105.5 billion budget proposal for New York state also included an increase of $526 million in public school spending.
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Reuters - A key back-room battle in the contest to nominate a Democratic presidential candidate is raging far from the gaze of TV cameras in places like the workers' cafeteria of the Mirage Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.
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Earlier than expected
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If it's possible to love something just because it could visit torrents upon the Washington region, fling hail from the skies and swell streams into rivers, then Jason Samenow is smitten.
6Sci/Tech
Four out of five Britons wanted the legal smoking age to be raised from 16 to 18 years in a bid to deter young people from taking up the habit, the result of a poll suggested Monday.
3Health
Questa la programmazione televisiva delle gare di andata degli ottavi di finale della Coppa Italia T...
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Congo's opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba will not be returning from Portugal due to safety concerns, aides say.
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Violenti temporali colpiscono pianura friulana
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TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia's opposition vowed on Tuesday to press on with street protests and mount a legal challenge to a presidential election which it says incumbent Mikhail Saakashvili rigged in his favor.
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Israeli troops killed at least five Palestinian militants in the West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday, witnesses said. A military spokeswoman confirmed operations were under way but declined to comment on casualties.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Late-night TV comedians Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien said on Monday they will resume taping their shows on January 2, and cross picket lines if necessary, after nearly two months off the air in support of striking film and television writers.
1Entertainment
Smoking killed almost 5 million people around the world in 2000, researchers have calculated.
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Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia is focused both on life without Ms. Stewart and on life once she returns.
0Business
Sediments extracted from the Antarctic sea floor show the world's largest ice shelf has disintegrated and reappeared many times in the past.
2Europe
Reuters - Jeff Gaspin wears a lot of hats at NBC Universal.
1Entertainment
Eurotunnel investors back a restructuring plan that could save the firm from bankruptcy.
2Europe
Chinese Vice-Premier Wu Yi said on November 25 that the country has entered a crucial time for AIDS prevention and urged everyone to work to stop the spread of the disease.
3Health
The Tour continues south on the 193km stage four from Villers-Cotterets to Joigny.
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Pakistan and India agree to double the number of weekly passenger flights between the two countries.
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Masked gunmen shot dead an accused rapist on his way to court in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday in the latest sign of a growing Palestinian breakdown of law and order.
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ANGRY supporters of Abu Bakar Bashir have attacked a star prosecution witness as he testified in court that the radical cleric was the leader of terror group Jemaah Islamiah.
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President Bush claims John Kerry doesn't known what his position is on the war, while the Democrat accuses Bush of having no plan in Iraq â€-ueling television ads setting the
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The San Diego Padres have traded Portland Beavers right-handed pitcher Dennis Tankersley to the Kansas City Royals as part of a four-player deal that was announced today.
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Internet search giant Google has priced its long-awaited initial public offering (IPO) at just under $120 a share, far below initial expectations.
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PC users are being warned about a password-stealing virus that hides deep inside Windows.
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Swift's new launch date is Saturday, if NASA, Boeing and the Air Force can replace and test components of the rocket in time. The gamma-ray observatory's
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Government officials, environmental advocates and a representative of a luxury co-op building have agreed to meet tomorrow to discuss new lodgings for Manhattan's most famous homeless couple
1Entertainment
The European Union's executive commission is expected to recommend on Wednesday that Turkey begin entry talks for membership in the bloc, but with stringent and long-term conditions attached.
1Entertainment
One of Sony’s senior executives, Executive Deputy President Yutaka Nakagawa, is quoted by several US and Asian press sources as saying that, in the interest of finding cost savings, his company is considering exiting the production end of the Cell processor business. Cell processors are produced by an alliance b...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cingular Wireless has urged U.S. communications regulators to reject a request by rival Nextel Communications Inc. NXTL.O to lower the cost of its plan to swap airwaves with the government, which is aimed at reducing interference with public safety communications.
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Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) on Friday introduced a federal shield law that would provide an "absolute protection" for confidential sources. The legislation is in response to a slew of recent court actions demanding reporters reveal sources.
1Entertainment
South East Asian leaders are joined in Laos by officials from six regional powers for this year's Asean summit.
2Europe
Apple fans will find out what the future holds for the firm when boss Steve Jobs unveils his 2005 plans.
2Europe
With Friday's loss to Atlanta, the Chicago Cubs' chances for a wild-card berth in the National League grew so dim as to become nearly invisible.
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America Online Inc. (AOL) plans to lay off 700 employees, about 5 percent of its US workforce, by the end of the year, several news organizations reported Tuesday.
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Efforts to make the net less risky for children are being marked by the fourth Internet Safety Day.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Penn National Gaming Inc. is acquiring Argosy Gaming Co. for $1.4 billion cash in an effort to turn itself into the nation's third-largest operator of gambling properties.
0Business