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AP - Worries about short-term damage to the economy led Federal Reserve policymakers at their August meeting to halt a more than two-year-old interest rate-raising campaign.
0Business
Resuming combat after the Republican convention, John Kerry seemed like the Japanese warrior who emerged from the jungle decades after 1945, convinced that the war was not yet over.
1Entertainment
Bayern Munich need to shrug off their surprise Bundesliga defeat at the weekend when they face Juventus in a mouth-watering Champions League showdown on Tuesday.
8Sports
THE strength of ties between the United Kingdom and Indian Ocean countries stricken by the tsunami emerged in the pattern of giving to victims of the disaster.
2Europe
JERUSALEM -- Palestinian leaders agreed yesterday to establish a unity government including the moderate Fatah party to replace the administration led by the Islamic militant group Hamas, a step that Palestinians hope will lead to the lifting of an international funding freeze that has crippled the government since Ham...
13World
La procura vuole sentire oltre duecento persone che erano a conoscenza dell'episodio Intimidazioni contro la famiglia della ragazzina che ha denunciato gli abusi ripresi con un cellulare Ancona, tra minacce e reticenze si allarga l'inchiesta sulla minore stuprata (18:01 23/11/2006)
4Italia
Year-end bonuses for investment bankers are expected to rise 10 percent to 15 percent from last year, executives and compensation experts say.
13World
It is typically easier to weave a product into an episode of a reality show like “American Idol” than into a scripted series like “Grey’s Anatomy” or “Two and a Half Men.”
6Sci/Tech
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel blocked Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh from returning to Gaza on Thursday after a visit abroad to prevent him bringing in money donated by Iran.
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Dustin Mirr, 21, pushed a shovel around Lambeau Field wearing just snowboots, athletic shorts and a sleeveless T-shirt in 20-degree temperatures.
8Sports
Sono 20 i giocatori convocati dal tecnico del Milan, Carlo Ancelotti, per la gara di domani sera con...
4Italia
AP - When Algeria's Islamic militants dubbed themselves Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa this year, it was more than just a name change: Fresh recruits also have been deployed in suicide bombings, a new tactic in the 15-year insurgency.
13World
AP - Pat Riley's experiment is about to be put to the test.
8Sports
The United Kingdom should be broken up and Scotland and England set free as independent nations, according to a huge number of voters on both sides of the border. Comment
2Europe
New estimates of the amount of oil and natural gas on Sunni lands are likely to have significant political effects.
13World
VATICANO - "Sull'esempio del Beato Charles de Foucauld, i cristiani dei vostri Paesi siano testimoni credibili della fraternità universale che Cristo ha insegnato ai suoi discepoli!”: l’esortazione di Benedetto XVI ai Vescovi della Conferenza Episcopale Regionale del Nord dell'Africa Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fid...
4Italia
Portavoce Zagabria riporta telefonata tra Prodi e Sanader
4Italia
The Future Starts Here - The Essential Doors Hits by The Doors
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AFP - David Beckham's wife Victoria told of how she was wowed by meeting Tom Hanks at a Hollywood party, which she said she may never "get used to", in an interview published on Wednesday.
2Europe
Pop star Robbie Williams calls US President George Bush an "idiot" on a visit to Mexico.
1Entertainment
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil extended a retreat from record highs on Monday, sliding towards $78 a barrel after tropical storm Ingrid faded in the Atlantic and as concerns about the global credit squeeze took centre stage.
0Business
WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration has ordered a sweeping review of studies involving prescription painkillers like Celebrex and Bextra.
0Business
AP - In thyroid cancer, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist faces a disease that can be mild or very aggressive, depending on the type of cancer. The type affecting Rehnquist was not announced immediately.
3Health
Police confirm a woman found dead in woodland near Ipswich was murdered by strangulation.
2Europe
MANILA, Philippines An investigation in the Philippines concludes that a deadly ferry fire in February was caused by a bomb, likely planted by the brutal Abu Sayyaf (AH'-boo SEYE'-yahf) group.
13World
By Jake Griffin Daily Herald Staff Writer Nearly two hours of neighborly debate about the fate of 6 acres of farmland wedged between two tranquil ponds in central Naperville devolved into several shouting matches at Tuesday's city council meeting.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican John McCain's top two aides quit his struggling presidential campaign on Tuesday, dealing a sharp blow to the Arizona senator and casting doubt on the future of his 2008 bid.
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Police 2.0 European Police Congress For two days this week, the Congress Centre in downtown Berlin was one of the safest places on earth. The GDR-style building was packed with policemen, army officers, and private and public security experts.

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India deny Australia a record 17th straight victory by dismissing them for 340 to win the third Test by 72 runs.
13World
AFP - Dolce and Gabbana and Gianfranco Ferre both heard the call of the wild for next summer, filling their ready-to-wear collections shown here on Friday with real and fake animal skins from big cats to crocodile, python and kangaroo.
13World
Reuters - When Austin Hymas got his first chance to dissect a full human body, he had to share it with five fellow trainee doctors.
2Europe
"La Sampdoria ha offerto una cifra che mai aveva stanziato sino a oggi ma se Quagliarella dovesse pa...
4Italia
Real fighting and gun battles erupted Wednesday and mounted on Thursday between Palestinian militants groups and the Israeli army in the northern area of the Gaza Strip without seeing an end to it.
13World
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican broadcaster Televisa will be allowed to buy a stake in cable company TVI only if it agrees to offer its popular free channels to competitors, Mexico's anti-trust agency said on Sunday.
0Business
“The Orphanage,” a diverting, overwrought ghost story from Spain, relies on basic and durable horror movie techniques.
1Entertainment
Bosnia-Herzegovina BANJA LUKA -- Bosnian Serb forces killed more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica, a Bosnian Serb commission conceded yesterday in its final report on the 1995 massacre. Bosnian Muslim officials claim that up to 8,000 men and boys were killed at Srebrenica in July 1995, when Serb troops over...
13World
The FDA says that although its decision is to not ban the drug, that possibilty is not ruled out. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The US Food and Drug Administration decided Friday not to recall Celebrex but it has not ruled out the possibility.
0Business
MANILA (Reuters) - A strong earthquake jolted Manila and other parts of the northern Philippines on Friday night, prompting many to rush into the streets, but officials said there were no immediate reports of casualties or major damage.
13World
Carrie Underwood may miss out this year as the fate of music's biggest night remains unknown.
0Business
The blood in his eyes almost blinded him, but the Navy Seal could hear, clattering above the trees in northeast Afghanistan, rescue helicopters.
10Top News
Allenamento mattutino per la Fiorentina in vista della gara di coppa Uefa con il Rosenborg. Al termi...
4Italia
The European Commission is to propose a Blue Card to attract skilled immigrants, and rival the US Green Card.
2Europe
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Aveva 76 anni, ed era malato da tempo. In mezzo secolo di carriera oltre 130 film, quasi tutti di grandi registi. In Francia come in Italia E' morto Philippe Noiret monumento del cinema d'autore Il cordoglio di Monicelli, che lo diresse in "Amici miei" e "Speriamo che sia femmina": "Un attore di qualità, di una razza...
4Italia
OAKLAND, Calif. - The Anaheim Angels capped a stirring comeback with one final rally, and now they're champions of the AL West for the first time in 18 years...
13World
Parla il ministro dell'Ambiente Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio "Dove si fa raccolta differenziata non c'Ú spazzatura per strada" "Un disastro puntare sugli inceneritori anche Bassolino ha sbagliato a fidarsi" di ANTONIO CIANCIULLO (08:57 28/05/2007)
4Italia
HATAY/MERSIN - Renay International Transportation Company, which Turkish truck driver Mithat Civi worked for, decided to withdraw from Iraq on Sunday.
13World
The London Stock Exchange PLC has received and rejected a bid proposal from Germany's main stock exchange, Deutsche Boerse AG , the exchanges said Monday.
0Business
Business at factories across New York state improved at an accelerated pace in the past month according to the Empire State Manufacturing Survey posted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Buffalo.
0Business
Life in a residential Alzheimer's facility through the eyes of the low-wage workers who care for these vulnerable patients when their families can't.
10Top News
Elvis Presley's daughter Lisa Marie Presley agrees to sell 85% of his estate in a deal worth $100m (£51m).
10Top News
Reuters - South Dakota truck driver Mark Monahan says he's had enough of Tom Daschle. So do top Republicans who have made the U.S. Senate's No. 1 Democrat a bull's-eye target for removal from the national scene.
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Myanmar's junta freed at least two dozen members of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's political party Friday during a mass release of 4,000 people detained "inappropriately
11Top Stories
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 14 -- Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party announced Friday that she will end eight years of exile Oct. 18 by flying home to the nation's largest city, although it remains unclear whether she will come back as friend or foe of the president, Gen....
13World
HO CHI MINH CITY - Vietnam prepared to welcome on Friday the arrival of a United Airlines jumbo jet making the first passenger flight by an American carrier to the communist nation since the fall of Saigon in 1975.
11Top Stories
As Hurricane Ivan's remnants soaked the South on Friday and left a trail of destruction from the Gulf Coast to the Carolinas, Floridians once again are coping, cleaning up and coming together after being pummeled by a third devastating storm in five weeks
0Business
The Highways Agency is being too timid to end traffic congestion, says the public spending watchdog.
10Top News
Rudi Johnson knew he was going to be a marked man before the season began. He found out how much so Sunday in the Bengals 31-24 loss to the New York Jets at the Meadowlands.
8Sports
Women who put on or fail to shift excess weight after having a baby risk problems in future pregnancies, doctors warn.
3Health
The world will have to wait a while to learn the cause of rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard's unexpected death. Authorities said that the results of ODB's autopsy would take about a week to get back.
1Entertainment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The transfer of 14 foreign terrorism suspects from CIA prisons abroad to the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, resolved a two-year debate in the Bush administration over its detention policy, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
10Top News
AP - Several outbreaks of ciguatera fish poisoning have been confirmed in consumers who ate fish harvested in the northern Gulf of Mexico, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday.
3Health
AP - An officer who saw the corpses of Iraqi women and children sprawled across a bed in a home said Wednesday in recorded testimony that he believed that "my Marines were doing the right thing" when they killed them.
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Newly released Skype devices that connect to Wi-Fi networks aren't portable like cellphones, but they can be handy at home
0Business
AP - Improved weather and more manpower helped fire crews hold the line against two fires burning more than 407 square miles in northeastern Nevada on Saturday.
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The levee system that was designed to protect New Orleans, but failed catastrophically during Hurricane Katrina, was completed under severe financial and political pressure, including opposition from local officials and environmentalists, according to a federally sponsored report set to be releas...
12U.S.
White House and congressional leaders yesterday broke a logjam that has stymied major legislation to restructure the nation's intelligence operations by putting
11Top Stories
AFP - Ukraine's pro-Russia Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich said he would stand in a new runoff presidential vote after the supreme court stripped him of victory in a bitterly contested November 21 poll.
2Europe
AP - Iraq is the "tip of the bayonet" in the fight against terror, the country's premier said Monday, stressing that the same group responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks was behind the destruction of the minarets of a revered Shiite shrine last year in his country.
13World
CQPolitics.com - Republican Jim Whitehead, a former state senator, justified his front-runner ranking for Tuesday’s special House election in Georgia’s 10th District by finishing in first place.
13World
The Palestinian Hamas group accuses a key figure in the rival Fatah faction of trying to kill PM Ismail Haniya.
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Festival-goers prowl New York streets Saturday in a street game you win by shouting out the right warm fuzzy.
6Sci/Tech
Opponents to a massive wind farm proposed for the Western Isles are threatening court action.
6Sci/Tech
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co on Tuesday said fourth-quarter profit rose on higher-than-expected sales of its medicines, including strong demand for its newer treatments for depression, diabetes and cancer.
0Business
A-level results show more students passing and boys closing the achievement gap with girls.
13World
NFL ESPN reported yesterday that the Falcons, the NFL, and the NFL Players Association might urge Michael Vick to voluntarily sit out perhaps the entire 2007 season. NFL senior vice president Joe Browne and NFLPA executive director Gene Upshaw disputed the report. "We don't know anything about a leave of absence," Brow...
8Sports
NEW YORK - Passwords alone won't be enough to get onto America Online under a new, optional log-on service that makes AOL the first major U.S. online business to offer customers a second layer of security...
13World
SAN ANTONIO - The San Antonio Spurs found a good way to beat Minnesota: Take Kevin Garnett, Latrell Sprewell and Sam Cassell out of the Timberwolves' offense.
8Sports
Description: In Cambodia, Norodom Sihamoni who accedes to the throne with an elaborate coronation, following the abdication of his father King Norodom Sihanouk.
13World
Vice President Dick Cheney waves as he and his wife Lynne leave the Washington University Hospital in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2004.
1Entertainment
NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Shares of Campbell Soup Co. rose more than 3 percent higher early Monday after the company reported solid first-quarter growth due partly to strong US sales and better marketing.
0Business
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Friday filed suit against Universal Life Resources (ULR), charging the life and disability insurance broker with taking fraudulent kick-backs for steering business to insurers MetLife, Prudential and UnumProvident.
0Business
A Portofino il maestro ha suonato in ricordo di Leopoldo
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A retired four-star U.S. general will travel to Iraq next week at the behest of the Pentagon to review the U.S. military's policy there, The New York Times reported on Friday.
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Reuters - World oil prices should remain next year around current levels and OPEC's existing price target band should be raised because it has failed to reflect the market, Venezuela's energy minister said on Sunday.
0Business
The chief executive of the Panera discussed his company’s no-longer-white-hot stock price and a recent Barron’s article.
0Business
It looks likely that Ukraine will hold a new election as it awaits a supreme court verdict on electoral fraud.
2Europe
Six Nations: Richard Williams on how England snatched defeat from the jaws of victory against France.
10Top News
Grazie andamento attivita' in Asia e America
4Italia
HARLAN, Ky. - Out-of-state license plates tell the story of eastern Kentucky's rising popularity among off-roaders...
13World
College test anxiety: The new SAT college admissions exam has more high school students seeking test-prep help. B1. Mesa police changes: Nearly a year after four officer-involved shootings, the department has
11Top Stories
RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Sunni Arab Iraqis and U.S. forces in Anbar province vowed on Friday to keep fighting al Qaeda after the assassination of a tribal leader who worked with Americans to create one of Iraq's few security success stories.
10Top News
You know the mystery of Emu Oil, don't you? You don't?
8Sports
Prima fila tutta Ferrari al Gp del Giappone, penultima prova del mondiale in programma domani a Suzu...
4Italia
“Blood and Tears: The Arab-Israeli Conflict” methodically traces the battle over turf from its biblical origins to the fragile present.
1Entertainment
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt had only about 40 percent of its Internet capacity available on Thursday because of a disruption to an undersea cable that has also affected the Gulf region and south Asia.
6Sci/Tech
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks opened little changed on Wednesday on caution before the results of the Federal Reserve's $20 billion money-market stabilization effort. The results of the Fed's auction on Monday will be announced shortly.
0Business
AP - Three Saudi security guards were beheaded in northern Saudi Arabia on Sunday after being convicted of trafficking hashish and using government vehicles to transport the drug, the Interior Ministry said.
13World
AP - Tom Brady and Randy Moss team up for touchdowns as if they've played together all their lives.
8Sports
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - McDonald's has agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle a lawsuit over artery-clogging trans fats in its cooking oils, the company said on Friday.
3Health