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Even by Michael Schumacher's standards, qualifying on pole and then winning his 13th grand prix of the season in one day is a super-human effort.
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Reuters - "From a bird's eye view, the camera zooms in on an ordinary American provincial town, small houses come in closer and get bigger until we swoop into one of them, where a girl lies on her bed."
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NEW YORK - Energy companies today were taking more than 3,000 workers off drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Hurricane Ivan, a powerful Category 5 storm, and were shutting much more oil production in the Gulf than had been shut by a pair of
0Business
Kimi Raikkonen guadagnerà alla Ferrari 38 milioni di euro all'anno. Lo scrive il quotidiano s...
4Italia
Seduta pomeridiana per il Napoli a Castelvolturno. Lavoro di scarico in avvio e successivamente alle...
4Italia
AFP - The acclaimed Chinese-American author Iris Chang was eulogized in simultaneous ceremonies in northern California, Washington and Nanjing, China, after her apparent suicide earlier this month.
1Entertainment
SEATTLE -- Achieving the Major League record for the most hits in a single year was "the best moment of my career," Seattle Mariners Ichiro Suzuki said after Friday's game.
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A military jury acquitted a Marine major of assault and battery Wednesday in connection with the death of an Iraqi prisoner, but found him guilty of two lesser counts.
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AP - Not so long ago, in a galaxy not so far away, Chip Collier was on a mission. "I really gotta stop bleeding and dying," the 24-year old said as he slouched in front of his computer in his ninth-floor Chicago apartment. "I'm really horrible about not paying attention to my battle fatigue."
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Reuters - The Belgian public television station RTBF shocked viewers late on Wednesday with a dramatic -- but fake -- news report that the Dutch-speaking half of the nation had declared independence.
1Entertainment
In salvo i tre membri dell'equipaggio del "Number One" che hanno atteso su una zattera l'arrivo dei soccorsi Collisione con una nave mercantile peschereccio a picco a Porto Torres (09:59 25/11/2006)
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Sylvester Stallone's mother joins her former daughter-in-law Brigitte Nielsen in the Celebrity Big Brother house.
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Questo il commento di Roberto Mancini dopo il pari con il Bayern Monaco (1-1) e la qualificazione ag...
4Italia
LONDON (Reuters) - London opened its spring/summer fashion week on Monday, but there was more attention on the body size of its models than on what clothes they were wearing.
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BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Union wrestled with proposals to overhaul its ineffective budget rules but put off concrete action until January at the earliest in the face of big divisions.
0Business
AP - About 50 Arizona National Guard troops were sent to the U.S.-Mexican border Sunday as part of President Bush's plan to assist immigration agents, officials said.
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AP - Troy Vincent would have preferred Bryant Gumbel kept his views to himself rather than using his TV show as a forum to harshly criticize the NFL's relationship with its players' union.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - An attacker armed with a machine gun fired at an expatriate housing compound in eastern Riyadh on Friday night but caused no injuries or damage, a Saudi security official said Sunday.
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By Russ Keen, American News, Aberdeen, S.D. Feb.
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A judge in Argentina lifts a pardon on former dictator Jorge Videla, a day after two of his ministers lost immunity.
10Top News
"La cosa fondamentale è riportare le famiglie allo stadio". Lo ha detto il capitano della Rom...
4Italia
Bolivian President Evo Morales defends his first two years in office, saying his reforms are irreversible
2Europe
A new drug treatment for a debilitating heart problem affecting millions has been shown to improve survival rates and reduce hospitalizations in black Americans, the first study to discover a beneficial effect for one race.
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By Steve Jones, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Sep. 13--HOLDEN BEACH, N.C.
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Families that agree to vacate the Gaza strip are being compensated and move back into Israel proper. Sharon is seeking to remove Jewish settlers from Gaza and four West Bank enclaves - the settlers have been
1Entertainment
Nessuna bocciatura da parte di Donadoni per Alessandro Del Piero. "Non sono sette gol a rendere indi...
4Italia
: China’s freshly retired military leader Jiang Zemin threw his weight behind his successor Hu Jintao today and advised the armed forces never to renounce the use of force to reclaim Taiwan.
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Find anything in your office in five seconds or less - guaranteed! Revolutionary new software lets you solve your problems with filing and managing paper. Free 30-day trial.
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Conclusa inchiesta polizia dopo accuse associazione Liberty
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The Bush administration’s plan to build a commercial-scale coal-fire plant that would emit no carbon dioxide — also known as the FutureGen project — was scratched.
6Sci/Tech
Failing to admit its problems in a timely manner is making the company's situation worse.
0Business
Starkville, MS (Sports Network) - Mississippi State quarterback Omarr Conner is expected to miss at least three weeks after spraining a ligament in his right knee during Saturday's 51-0 drubbing to LSU.
8Sports
Horror thriller "Exorcist: The Beginning," which took a twisted route to the theater, debuted in first place at the weekend's North America box office, final studio figures showed Monday.
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Two police officers are suspended after claims they took part in a "sex act" with two porn actresses while on duty.
10Top News
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran rejected on Wednesday U.S. accusations it was fomenting instability in Iraq, a day after President George W. Bush said Tehran's atomic ambitions could put the Middle East "under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust."
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A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says he is heading off to Asia and Europe this weekend for wide-ranging talks.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Two dead Bengal tiger cubs have been found in a refrigerator at a zoo in China, where the animal's body parts are prized as medicines, in the second such incident within a week.
13World
AP - North Korea boasted publicly for the first time Thursday that it has nuclear weapons and said it will stay away from disarmament talks, dramatically raising the stakes in the 2-year-old dispute. The Bush administration called on Pyongyang to give up its atomic aspirations so life can be better for its impoverished...
13World
LONDON (Reuters) - NATO countries are not giving the international force securing Afghanistan enough support and there are worrying signs that the Taliban are growing stronger, a detailed study by Britain's parliament has found.
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It may be hard to believe that anybody has not seen "The Phantom of the Opera" after more than 65,000 performances in 18 countries since 1988, but on Wednesday the
1Entertainment
Alitalia meets unions today to reveal the number of job cuts it wants in a restructuring to avert collapse. Approval of the plan is crucial to the company's survival as it would allow Alitalia to access a
1Entertainment
Sure, most of it reads like filthy gibberish. But the authors of this dreck are not semi-literate perverts. They're cool, rational business folk who have found a sleazy but effective way to make a buck.
6Sci/Tech
The new European commission will start work on Monday after its incoming president, José Manuel Barroso, won the guarantee of substantial support for his team last night by making further concessions to the European parliament.
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Investors squawked a few years ago when Verizon said it would spend billions to take fiber to the doorstep. Now they're cheering.
6Sci/Tech
Il numero piu' alto di roghi in Calabria
4Italia
The controversial anti-war documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" was available Monday on a Satellite TV and on the Internet on the eve of the US presidential elections.
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Coach : Rocky Hager (7-15, third year). 2005 record: 2-9, 2-6 (tied for fifth in North Div.). Players to watch: RB Maurice Murray (222 carries, 998 yards, 10 TDs); QB Anthony Orio (1,198 yards, 8 TDs, 9 INTs); LB Jamil Young (95 tackles). Key New Englanders: WR Ron Conway, Norton; G Art Dias, Brockton; G Kevin Newhall,...
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan plans to change the name of its official Mandarin Chinese language in public schools to a term that avoids referring to China, a curriculum planner said on Thursday, another move to distance the self-ruled island from Beijing.
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Reuters - Bryan Ferry, who has fronted Roxy Music on and off for 35 years, says he's quite lazy about writing songs these days but would like to write a memoir to set the record straight about his life.
1Entertainment
Scientists said Saturday more than 800 Sweden citizens may have developed cancer resulting from the fallout of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident.
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By Rupa Damodaran YTL Corp Bhd, a diversified group, has submitted a proposal to the Government to clean up polluted rivers at an estimated cost of RM400 million each. Managing director Tan Sri Francis Yeoh said that this is one- fifth of the cost that has already been proposed.
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Now that Windows XP Serviced Pack 2 (SP2) is available at Windows Update for online update of both the XP Home Edition and XP Professional Edition platforms, you need to be prepared for the changes you’ll see as a result of the security controls XP SP2
6Sci/Tech
The jet-powered car Richard Hammond was driving when he crashed in North Yorkshire has been put up for sale.
2Europe
Oil prices rebounded quickly from a brief fall late last week as fierce fighting in the Iraqi city of Najaf overshadowed Iraq's resumption of full exports following a two-week disruption.
0Business
Search technology for images may lead to a way to search handwritten manuscripts.
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All a-buzz for Immersion's haptics Nokia has obtained a worldwide licence for the use of Immersion's VibeTonz feedback technology, bringing interaction-through-vibration to Nokia handsets.

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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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Il comico genovese spiega l'iniziativa dell'8 settembre: una petizione popolare che conta già 160mila iscritti per 'ripulire' il parlamento e a favore dell'elezione diretta dei deputati
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HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. - A man who visited a middle school dressed as Santa Claus on Thursday left with a citation for misdemeanor marijuana possession.
1Entertainment
AP - Human-rights activists are using high-resolution satellites to keep watch over imperiled villages in the Darfur region of Sudan and posting the images online to enlist help preventing violence.
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AP - Police arrested a third teenager Friday in the shooting of an 11-year-old boy whose death has confronted a shocked Britain with the problem of youth violence and gang culture.
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"Entertainment Tonight" says it won't air a video it has acquired that shows the late Heath Ledger at a Hollywood party where drugs were apparently being taken. The syndicated magazine's sister show, "The Insider," aired a "preview" of the video Wed...
1Entertainment
The average usage share of Mozilla's browser among European nations rose to 28 percent in December, up .7 percent from the month previous, XiTi Monitor finds.
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In due su 50 con nuove targhe, Codacons chiede proroga
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AFP - San Antonio's Manu Ginobili and Washington's Gilbert Arenas and Antawn Jamison were among six first-time selections when reserves for the National Basketball Association All-Star Game were named.
8Sports
Jason White came back to Oklahoma because he wanted to win a championship. As a bonus, the Sooners' sixth-year senior quarterback just might become only the second player to win the Heisman Trophy twice.
8Sports
Blog: Google has acquired a company that specializes in aerial photography, including its own digital camera system and aircraft to house it.
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Il risanamento e' partito, scrive il settimanale 'Economy'
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Andy Pettitte won his 200th career game to give the New York Yankees a 2-1 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday, closing the gap on American League East leaders Boston to a game and a half.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley said on Monday it has acquired Nan Tung Bank, a Zhuhai-based foreign funded bank formerly owned by a full subsidiary of Bank of China .
0Business
AFP - Europe's main stock exchanges advanced on Thursday, with the auto sector in the driving seat in Germany despite widespread credit market concerns, dealers said.
2Europe
NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan can make progress on resolving dispute over Kashmir only if Islamabad delivers on its promise to act against Kashmiri militants on its soil, India’s foreign minister says.
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AP - The head of meatpacker Swift & Co. said federal officials wanted a high-profile example of an immigration crackdown when they staged raids at its plants in six states in an identity theft investigation late last year.
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Two diamonds worth over $14 million were robbed mid-afternoon from an antique dealers' show at the Paris Louvre museum yesterday.
13World
In a teleconference that appeared to get cut short, Microsoft today focused on how technology from Fast Search & Transfer. But it seemed to brush aside some other questions related to how Fast's technology might be used in Web advertising.
7Software and Developement
Coordinate, coordinate, coordinate Microsoft's security practices seem to be rubbing off on Sun Microsystems as the company is changing the way it updates and secures Java.

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Hindu nationalist Uma Bharti walks free from an Indian jail after a court orders her release.
13World
Iraq today ruled out concessions to kidnappers threatening to murder British hostage Kenneth Bigley and two American colleagues within 24 hours.
1Entertainment
BEIJING (Reuters) - China dismissed U.S. criticism of its military build-up on Tuesday, saying the world's most populous country was an important force for world peace.
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Il dato e' superiore alle previsioni degli analisti
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Don't mess with my SBUX...
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The answer, according to a report by the US government-sponsored housing finance agency's newly invigorated regulator, is that it was as profitable as it wanted to be.
0Business
Cooked turkey products exported from the UK presented no risk, the government says.
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Ask Jeeves, the third-biggest US Web search provider, has unveiled MyJeeves, a new product that helps users personalise their Internet searches.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's Supreme Court threw out the last of four complaints on Thursday lodged by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, dealing a blow to his dogged bid to overturn his liberal rival's victory.
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AP - Yahoo Inc.'s sagging stock drooped to a four-year low Wednesday as impatient investors expressed their exasperation with a turnaround strategy that seems to be progressing at the stuttering speed of a dial-up Internet connection.
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The RUC's reputation is being trashed as part of a political conspiracy, Northern Ireland's police union claims.
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Iraq's interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, has said that 'major neglect' by US-led forces led to the killing of 49 Iraqi army recruits by insurgents at the weekend.
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Sudan's government hasn't met United Nations demands to disarm the Janjaweed militia that drove 1.2 million black Africans from their homes in the Darfur region of western Sudan, a draft
13World
Venerdì sera era nella sala operativa quando ha saputo della morte del collega e dell'arresto del figlio Il padre poliziotto dell'ultrà fermato "Che vergogna, era tra delinquenti" Si Ú messo in licenza: "Ho dato tutto a questo lavoro il mondo mi Ú crollato addosso" dal nostro inviato FRANCESCO VIVIANO (07:17 06/...
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Avanade on Monday is partnering with Microsoft to release Enterprise Library, which features reusable code, tools, and guidance intended to make it easier to develop in the .Net environment.
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The Wall Street Journal parent reports a 19% drop in Q4 income and provides lower guidance.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog has held up a new report on inspections in Iran while Tehran and the EU's "big three" try to break a deadlock in talks aimed at freezing Iran's uranium enrichment program, diplomats said on Friday.
13World
Rapimento Mezzaluna Rossa, rilasciati 15 ostaggi
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With only 30 shopping days till Christmas, there's no time to lose. So here are some nifty gift ideas for the youngsters on your list: - JFK Reloaded.
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AP - Seattle receiver Koren Robinson was suspended without pay Monday for the next four games for violating the NFL's substance-abuse policy.
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SEATTLE, June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Calence, LLC and Dimension Data North America, Inc. jointly announced today the settlement of a lawsuit filed by Calence arising out of Dimension Data's hiring of certain employees in Calence's Seattle office.
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Per il Codacons tariffe troppo alte per alberghi e strutture
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Reuters - No more Japanese nuclear reactors need to be closed for inspections, electric power companies said on Wednesday after submitting reports ordered by the government following a reactor accident that killed four workers last week.
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