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NEW YORK - Baseball commissioner Bud Selig had surgery Monday to remove a cancerous lesion from his forehead. The lesion was detected last month during Selig's annual physical, and a biopsy confirmed that it contained melanoma, a form of skin cancer.
3Health
Second-year forward Andray Blatche, who the Wizards drafted straight out of prep school, has been paying dividends in Antawn Jamison's absence.
8Sports
InfoWorld - HP is announcing on Monday SOA governance software and services aimed at helping companies accelerate SOA adoption while reducing risks.
6Sci/Tech
Deaths among children infected with HIV in Africa could be almost halved if all those with symptoms were put on a simple, cheap and readily available antibiotic, new research has established.
3Health
UNITED NATIONS Oct. 8, 2004 - Facing a surge of attacks around the globe, the UN Security Council voted unanimously Friday to step up its campaign against terror but backed away from authorizing a new list
13World
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. technology stocks fell on Tuesday, pressured by a drop in Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc. AMZN.O and computer maker Dell Inc. DELL.O following brokerage downgrades.
0Business
AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday pushed European allies for more troops to re-energize efforts in southern Afghanistan, where the Taliban insurgency has increased its attacks in the 18 months since NATO took command of the war.
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By John Holland, The Modesto Bee, Calif. Dec. 15--The McClatchy Co., owner of The Modesto Bee, is buying the Modesto Famous and Fresno Famous Web sites.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army has taken action against Lt. Gen. William Boykin, who embarrassed the Bush administration by giving speeches in which he described the war on terrorism as a Christian battle against Satan.
10Top News
Toyota will introduce the first non-American car to compete in the racing league when it enters the Daytona 500.
1Entertainment
Rashid Rauf was suspected of being a key figure in a plot to blow up airliners over the Atlantic Ocean.
13World
Germany's Max Rauffer won a downhill Saturday for his first World Cup victory in a race in which all the favorites faired poorly.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Sen. John Kerry stressed his faith and values during a visit to the critical state of Florida on Sunday, while President Bush scoured New Mexico for votes and said it was "up in the air" if the United States could ever be safe from terrorism.
10Top News
ATHENS - The US might have found its shooting touch in time to retain gold in Olympic basketball, but American attempts at diplomacy continue to miss badly.
11Top Stories
Twelve months after the missed spot-kick which sparked such ugly scenes in the corresponding fixture last term, van Nistelrooy kept his nerve to tuck home a 72nd-minute penalty after Rooney had been brought down by Campbell.
8Sports
Countrywide Financial, the troubled lender that became a symbol of the excesses that led to the subprime mortgage crisis, is negotiating a sale to Bank of America.
0Business
AP - Bolstered by a hard-fought election victory, President Bush says the United States will vigorously pursue wars in Iraq and against terror and will not retreat from trying to spread democracy through the Middle East.
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PEOPLE who sleep less are more likely to be obese, according to research published today. Shahrad Taheri, a scientist at Bristol University, found that people who sleep for five hours a
3Health
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A day after President George W. Bush cited enough progress in Iraq to begin a limited withdrawal of U.S. troops, a White House report on Friday showed Iraqi leaders had performed satisfactorily on only half of their key goals.
10Top News
The nation's poverty rate declined last year for the first time this decade, but the number of Americans without health insurance rose to a record 47 million, according to annual census figures released yesterday.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - In a relatively short space of time, Sharon Jackson lost her mother, her sister, and her job and came within a whisker of losing her home of 20 years as well.
1Entertainment
La risonanza magnetica effettuata oggi da Valerio Bertotto ha evidenziato una lesione di primo grado...
4Italia
AP - Charles Durning will be honored for lifetime achievement by the Screen Actors Guild.
1Entertainment
Nel 2006 l'Italia ha attirato 16,6 miliardi di dollari
4Italia
AP - The newest addition to the Tennessee Aquarium is a recently hatched rare turtle of an endangered species displayed in only a few places in North America.
6Sci/Tech
Verona-Spezia, gara di ritorno dei play-out per la permanenza in serie B, si giocherà giovedì...
4Italia
Reuters - Ford Motor Co. is launching a strategic review of operations such as the Jaguar brand, that may lead to asset sales or alliances with other companies, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the situation.
0Business
Baseball Pedro Martínez is out for the postseason after an exam yesterday showed the New York Mets ace has a torn tendon in his left calf muscle. The Mets, who won their first NL East title since 1988 with Martínez battling injuries most of the season, won't have the three-time Cy Young Award winner at all in the playo...
8Sports
Reuters - Alicia Silverstone is attached to star in "Queen B," a Fox comedy sitcom being developed y former "Seinfeld" scribe Jennifer Crittenden.
1Entertainment
European drug regulators are concerned that the antidepressant Prozac is unsafe for children, contrary to UK advice.
10Top News
Babylon and On by Squeeze
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Clinton is Democrat frontrunner after Super Tuesday but rival has funding advantage
10Top News
An all too predictable summary of what's usually in this writer's Monday morning mailbox: You're a moron. I need your help to reclaim my fortune in Mozambique.
1Entertainment
Susanna Clarke's ravishing Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is a superb post-Potter fantasy for grownups
1Entertainment
Proseguono le ricerche per ritrovare Sabrina e Jessica Rinaudo La Farnesina: nessuna notizia. Il padre: «Sono distrutto». TABA (Egitto) - Non appaiono nelle liste dei deceduti né in quelle di coloro che si sono salvati.
4Italia
The Redskins have allowed what was once one of the NFL's most gripping rivalries to become more or less just another football game by losing to the Cowboys with such regularity.
8Sports
NAIROBI, Oct. 10 -- Members of Somalia's transitional parliament on Sunday elected Abdullahi Yusuf, a former army colonel, as interim president of the war-torn nation in the Horn of Africa, the parliament speaker said.
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Prezzi produzione industriale in calo a novembre
4Italia
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Business leaders called for more leadership to head off an economic downturn on Wednesday, with some saying an emergency U.S. interest rate cut may have been over hasty and could fuel a new market bubble.
0Business
The Metropolitan Opera’s new strategy of plugging sudden holes in its casts with big names has its beneficiaries.
1Entertainment
AP - Jailhouse letters passed under food trays and doorways to a female inmate offer glimpses into the attention-seeking, flirtatious musings of a man who killed and dismembered his wife.
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Family-focused films dominated the box office Thanksgiving weekend, with two films from Disney in the top two spots.
1Entertainment
An independent inquiry recommends sweeping changes to investigations into sudden infant deaths.
2Europe
MALELANE, South Africa (Reuters) - Former winner Charl Schwartzel shot a carefully-crafted 68 to join four others in a tie for the lead after the first round of the Alfred Dunhill Championship on Thursday.
8Sports
AP - The Phoenix Suns acquired Shaquille O'Neal in a stunning, blockbuster deal that sent four-time All-Star Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks to the Miami Heat.
8Sports
International credit rating agency Standard and Poor's says it has cut its rating on Yukos to default after the struggling Russian oil group missed an interest payment.
0Business
Il suo contratto comincia da maggio ma Giovanni Trapattoni lavora già per l'Irlanda. Il primo...
4Italia
BEIJING, July 3 -- The Chinese government imposed new restrictions on organ transplants for foreigners Tuesday, part of an effort to curtail widely reported abuses such as selling organs and, in some hospitals, catering to foreigners looking for discount hearts, livers and kidneys.
10Top News
Politics: Radical moves to modernise the British monarchy will be considered by parliament today.
10Top News
The agency claimed that the defendants intentionally manipulated and distorted Veritas’s reported financial results.
0Business
AFP - Sudanese President Omar el-Beshir has promised "total cooperation" with a joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, Italy's prime minister has told the UN chief, officials here said Saturday.
13World
Reuters - Tony Blair arrives in Jerusalem for his first visit as international envoy on Monday, hoping to help end 60 years of peacemaking failure since Britain handed Palestine to Jews and Arabs who remain bitterly at odds.
2Europe
Physicians tend to do more of the talking during examinations when their patients are black, suggesting race plays a role in the way doctors and patients communicate, according to a new study
3Health
Business: 2 October 2004, Saturday. Turkey's giant glass producer Sisecam is constructing a glassware factory ten meters under the ground in the town of Targovishte, 318 km northeast of Sofia.
2Europe
AFRICA/GHANA - “L’amore e il rispetto dei valori sono indispensabili per affrontare le cause profonde della pandemia dell’AIDS” dicono i Vescovi africani Accra (Agenzia Fides)- “Siamo profondamente preoccupati dalla vastità della diffusione dell’AIDS e del virus HIV, dalle condizioni che ne permettono la propaga...
4Italia
Quasi la metà dei bambini nel nostro pianeta vivono in povertà. A rivelarlo Ú stato il rapporto annuale dell'Unicef sulla condizione dell'infanzia presentato oggi. Se nel mondo ci sono 2 miliardi e 200
4Italia
AP - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton's effort to win Ohio's critical presidential primary got a boost Tuesday when former senator and astronaut John Glenn endorsed her candidacy.
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PC World - Pieter Knook, head of Microsoft's mobile phone group, is leaving to join the UK's Vodafone.
6Sci/Tech
Yasser Arafat is hovering “between life and death” in a coma, Palestinian and French officials say. There was still no official public diagnosis yesterday to explain the Palestinian leader’s critical condition.
1Entertainment
AP - The Supreme Court's decision to review the constitutionality of lethal injection procedures has slowed the annual number of executions to the lowest level in a decade amid renewed concerns about whether it's too cruel.
13World
AP - Dustin Brown scored twice on power plays, Alexander Frolov and Rob Blake each had a goal and an assist, and the Los Angeles Kings beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-2 Thursday night.
8Sports
SINGAPORE : Crude oil prices fell in Asian trading on Monday after a three-day Christmas break as investors digested further the surprise rise in US petroleum stocks.
0Business
AP - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak says negotiations are ongoing to secure the release of an Israeli soldier captured by Palestinian militants, according to an interview published by a semiofficial daily newspaper Saturday.
13World
Judge orders tests for Britney Spears, ‘High School Musical’ soundtrack falls, ‘The Road’ leads to Hollywood and more culture news.
1Entertainment
US forces battled rebels in Falluja on Sunday after air raids aimed at foreign militants led by America's top enemy in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
11Top Stories
It's Really Not That Hard
9Toons
Products include two cameras and photo viewer.
6Sci/Tech
AP - Congress is examining the scandal rippling through the insurance industry, with its largest brokerage accused of bid rigging and price fixing amid high-level resignations, employee layoffs and guilty pleas by some executives.
13World
Sony BMG is the last major record company to do away with the programs, which prevent illegal copying and distribution of songs on the Internet.
0Business
AFP - Ukraine's civil workers were set to walk into their offices for the first time in weeks after opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko and outgoing President Leonid Kuchma struck a deal to end their tense standoff.
2Europe
On StarTribune: Metro/Region
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the Japanese coast on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, hours after another quake of similar strength killed at least seven people in Japan and triggered a small leak of radioactive materials from a nuclear plant.
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What a mess. Weeks after Merck & Co. (MRK ) yanked its blockbuster painkiller Vioxx off the market, the furor is still raging.
1Entertainment
AP - Baron Davis got the ball with the clock winding down, glanced to the sideline and saw that coach Don Nelson had no plans for a timeout.
8Sports
NADADORES, Mexico (Reuters) - A tractor-trailer loaded with explosives blew up in Mexico on Monday after a traffic accident, creating a huge fireball that killed dozens, including rescue workers and photographers.
13World
Hitler’s globe is missing. Wolfram Pobanz, a 68-year-old retired cartographer, is positive that it’s not the one in the Deutsches Historisches Museum, with the Russian bullet hole through Germany, and he can prove it.
1Entertainment
A Dutch diplomat and his wife, citing their adopted Korean daughter's emotional problems, gave her back to Hong Kong's social welfare department, sparking outrage in Asia and Europe
13World
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Wednesday resumed a two-day policy meeting that is widely expected to result in a decision to cut U.S. interest rates again to shore up the faltering economy.
0Business
The Royal British Legion launches its annual poppy drive with a hard-hitting campaign for funds to support troops and their families
10Top News
A family, including a grandfather, is attacked by two men armed with a broken bottle outside Carryduff.
2Europe
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices fell below $69 on Tuesday as supply concerns eased with the end of the U.S. summer driving season and U.S. traders caught up after Monday's Labor Day holiday.
0Business
Microsoft Corp.’s proprietary new search engine is scheduled to go live today in a beta version, at beta.search.msn.com. Like its rival, Google.
1Entertainment
Householders in Wales brace themselves for more flooding and high winds and many roads remain closed.
2Europe
BRUSSELS: A European Union court ruled yesterday that Microsoft must immediately divulge some trade secrets to competitors and produce a version of its flagship Windows operating system stripped of the program that plays music and video.
1Entertainment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Information recovered from safe houses when al Qaeda's leader in Iraq was killed six months ago placed the group's leadership in the Waziristan region of Pakistan, The Washington Post reported on Monday.
10Top News
Blog: Marking the 30th anniversary of the release of Star Wars, thousands of fans have flocked to a world class fan fest.
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On CNN
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Google has released Google Desktop Search, which enables users to search their desktop computers using the same technology as Google's online-search tool.
1Entertainment
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Monday carried out a succes sful test fire of its indigenously developed short range surface to surface ballistic missile Hatf-III Ghaznavi.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A moderate rise in a key U.S. inflation gauge during May and steady manufacturing sector gains helped fire investor optimism on Friday, even though consumers' spirits were dampened by higher gasoline prices.
0Business
When tensions rose between U.S. troops and Iraqi insurgents this summer, members of Ramstein's 32nd Falconer Air Operations Center made sure American GIs got the air support they needed.
2Europe
In a society of instant gratification, we don't like to be bothered with waiting on anything -- including the development of young college quarterbacks.
8Sports
AP - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America said Thursday it is removing from the clergy a gay minister who announced he has a partner.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - African forces should be fully deployed to Sudan's troubled Darfur region by the end of the year despite some delays in building the infrastructure to house them, the new head of the African Union mission said on Saturday.
13World
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Monday that Mifepristone’s label will be changed to acknowledge that there are risks associated with any abortion, and that physicians prescribing the drug should instruct their patients to contact
3Health
AP - The Boston Red Sox led the St. Louis Cardinals 2-0 after one inning, as Boston ace Curt Schilling tested his sutured ankle Sunday in Game 2 of the 100th World Series. With Matt Morris on the mound, St. Louis was trying to even the series after Boston took Saturday's opener.
8Sports
How neuroscience is transforming the legal system.
6Sci/Tech
Microsoft was dealt a heavy blow yesterday when a senior European judge upheld the anti-trust sanctions imposed on it earlier this year by the European Commission.
11Top Stories
Reuters - A false door at the back of a cramped New York City store swings open to reveal a secret room lined with fake Prada, Gucci and Fendi bags and wallets.
1Entertainment
AP - Boeing Co. and its European rival Airbus SA both snagged new orders at the opening Monday of the world's biggest air show.
2Europe