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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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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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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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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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The government of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh considers plans to send farmers to East Africa.
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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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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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Blog: NASA, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution send robots where no man (or bot) has ever been.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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US computer giant IBM blames a $320m pension lawsuit settlement as it reports flat third quarter profits.
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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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Calo pari allo 0,6%
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Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq is cleared of ball-tampering, news agency AFP says.
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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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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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A pay-as-you-drive car insurance scheme is being introduced by Norwich Union.
0Business
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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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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Most MLS teams are in a comfortable position for the last two weeks of the regular season. Too comfortable.
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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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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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Il gigante maschile dei mondiali di Aare perde subito due protagonisti. Sono usciti nella prima manc...
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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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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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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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Making emergency contraception more available has had no effect on cutting the abortion rate, an expert says.
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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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The plan for a dialogue between high-level teams meant that immediate progress on currency and trade issues was unlikely.
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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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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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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.
8Sports
Ballaro' sfiora il 18% e batte La sai l'ultima su Canale 5
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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.
8Sports
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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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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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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Lavoro di ripresa per l'Empoli in vista della gara con la Roma di sabato prossimo. La squadra di Cag...
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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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La finanziaria bresciana in cerca di una svolta post-Olimpia
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hosted version of SpikeSource's SuiteTwo integrates collaborative apps and automates finding and downloading patches and updates.
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A new anti-corruption watchdog for Bangladesh has been welcomed by global anti-graft campaigners.
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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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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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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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Travel: Under siege from oil companies and loggers, the Huaorani of Ecuador are fighting back - through ecotourism.
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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 smartest guys in the room were outsmarted more than once.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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AP - Roger Clemens was scratched from Monday's start against the Chicago White Sox because of a fatigued right groin.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Business: Analysts sharply divided over retailers' prospects.
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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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Un risultato senza precedenti dal '99, anno privatizzazione
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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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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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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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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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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 ) - 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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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.
0Business
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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"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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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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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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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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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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Diamonds -- online -- can be an investor's best friend.
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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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Business: Stores will stay open as firm seeks new owner.
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The first minister launches the latest phase in the scheme to bring people from overseas to work in Scotland.
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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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