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An inquiry into the fire on a Canadian submarine bought from the UK finds two separate fires broke out.
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Wi-FiTV(TM) Inc. (PINKSHEETS: WTVI), the pioneer in Social Internet TV (TM), has tripled its verified memberships in less than the last thirty days, and members now have access to 450 live channels as well as MyWi-FiParty, the new Wi-FiTV Virtual Dialer and Wi-FiTV Live Chat.
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The Brit has been buying up a big stake in beleaguered bank Bear Stearns.
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The retailer's head, Brad Anderson, told Consumer Electronics Show attendees that both the U.S. economy and digital TV changeover are high on his list of concerns.
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DNA found in a car owned by an accused killer may have come from one of his victims, a court hears.
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AP - Syndicated talk show host Montel Williams is being replaced by a younger version of himself. CBS Television Distribution announced Wednesday that "The Montel Williams Show" will cease production after this television season, his 17th on the air.
1Entertainment
AFP - US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld came under fire from American troops over their safety in Iraq, as Secretary of State Colin Powell urged Europe to look beyond differences over last year's invasion.
2Europe
Production of Vauxhall cars will resume on Sunday following disruption caused by a shortage of components because of a strike by workers in Germany, it was announced tonight.
0Business
Gordon Brown pledges to eradicate failure from England's schools, saying poor schools could face closure.
2Europe
Two of three UN workers kidnapped in Afghanistan called home to reassure relatives that they were all right as negotiators tried Tuesday to secure their release.
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Indiscrezioni stampa, trattative con Bank of America
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Courtney Love is given a conditional discharge after admitting hitting a man with a microphone stand.
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Smart investors who achieve outsized profits: See what the best CAPS players recommend now.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo stocks spent Friday morning treading water as worries over record-breaking oil prices and their possible impact to the global economy overshadowed renewed hopes that Japan's economy is still on track for sustained growth.
0Business
London Mayor Ken Livingstone laughs off railway workers protesting over changes to the Tube.
2Europe
Thierry Henry's management responds with fury to a French report suggesting a deal is in place for him to sign for Barcelona.
13World
The just-completed World Series, in which the Boston Red Sox swept the St. Louis Cardinals for the franchise's first crown in 86 years, finished up as the highest-rated Series since 1997, according to Nielsen Media Research.
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Autori Vari - “AGENDA BIBLICA MISSIONARIA 2007” - Ed. EMI Roma (Agenzia Fides) - Questa iniziativa Ú realizzata dalla EMI in collaborazione con Editoriale Verbo Divino. L’Agenda Biblica Missionaria offre ogni giorno spunti di riflessione a partire dalle letture bibliche, dalla vita della Chiesa e diverse cu...
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Reuters - U.S. software firms SunGard Data Systems and Fiserv Inc top the list of suitors expected to submit bids for UK software company Misys by a deadline set for later this week, sources close to the matter said on Monday.
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Reuters - A train in Germany was brought to a shuddering halt when a soccer ball flew from a nearby pitch and disabled the locomotive's brakes, police said on Tuesday.
2Europe
The government wants to keep schools open longer - to provide more childcare and welfare services.
2Europe
Lack of enthusiasm just can't hold these underappreciated stocks down.
0Business
Rather than a help toward energy independence, Big Oil and ethanol could be roadblocks.
0Business
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An inability to look at dead bodies killed off Mike Nichols' hopes of training as psychiatrist 50 years ago but did nothing to diminish his fascination with marriage, mating and the games people play.
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AP - American journalist Paul Salopek was released Saturday from a prison in the war-torn Darfur region where he was held for more than a month on espionage charges.
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A party linked to former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra unveils a coalition with five smaller parties after elections.
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DAKAR (Reuters) - Brush your teeth every day, dentists say. In Africa, that can mean keeping your toothbrush in your mouth all day long.
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AFP - Afghanistan's Islamist Taliban militia will have to be involved in the country's peace process, Britain's defence minister has said.
2Europe
John Robertson today spoke of his pride at seeing son Nathan scoop an Olympic silver medal and insisted: "We are definitely celebrating, rather than commiserating." ...
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Defence minister Adam Ingram today told MPs that three members of the Black Watch regiment had been killed in central Iraq. Mr Ingram was unable to give details of the incident in his Commons statement but
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Backs Comptroller General in patent denial The High Court has backed the Comptroller General of Patents in refusing a company a patent for inventions which were computer programs. The ruling in the appeal followed the lead of a recent landmark case.

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Arsonists have set fire to a Jewish soup kitchen in central Paris and daubed Nazi symbols on the building, police say, in the latest anti-Semitic act in France.
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The reputation of the drug industry took another heavy blow yesterday with a report suggesting that Merck had fought for years to cover up evidence linking its painkiller Vioxx to heart attacks and strokes.
0Business
Reuters - Four Russian commandos were killed on Saturday while storming two houses used by armed militants, suspected to have Islamic links, in the southern Dagestan region, Russian media reported.
2Europe
Director Zhang Yimou presents a grand saga of ancient China with "Hero" -- a briskly paced, cleverly plotted martial arts epic that unfolds through a circuitous series of flashbacks.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bear Stearns Cos Inc leader James Cayne will relinquish his title as chief executive, but remain chairman, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
0Business
Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. HOUSTON, Texas, United States of America -- World number one Roger Federer won his 20th consecutive match over
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Lifestyle: 14 December 2004, Tuesday. A fresh acting star has swept the Missis Bulgaria World 2004 title in a ceremony that took place in Varna, the country's main coastal city.
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AP - Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul has received a $500 campaign donation from a white supremacist, and the Texas congressman doesn't plan to return it, an aide said Wednesday.
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Search giant invented science and the future Comment In a rather desperate bid to attract wealthy technology advertisers, BusinessWeek lowered itself this month by publishing data center erotica.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Christian protesters set fire to their television licenses outside the BBC's London offices on Friday as outrage spread over the public broadcaster's plans to air a profanity-laden musical.
1Entertainment
Tony Blair prepares to hand over power to Gordon Brown
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I dati del Viminale: gli arrivi scendono da 14 a 12 mila Secondo il rapporto Fortress Europe 1.096 vittime in tutto il Mediterraneo Sbarchi in calo ma salgono le vittime Già 500 morti in Sicilia nel 2007 Dal 1998 sono diecimila i migranti che hanno perso la vita per raggiungere l'Europa (16:37 28/10/2007)
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The Chechen separatist leader, Aslan Maskhadov, tried to distance himself from extremists in the independence movement yesterday by declaring that his former commander-in-chief Shamil Basayev would one day stand trial for ordering the Beslan school siege.
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A storm with hurricane-strength winds has swept across northern Europe, leaving at least four dead in Denmark and three killed in Sweden, police said.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU leaders said on Monday Iran was showing "new ambition" to negotiate an end to a nuclear row with the West and the door was open for new talks, but they also agreed to implement UN sanctions to keep pressure on Tehran.
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Rock band Razorlight postpone their UK tour as singer Johnny Borrell develops vocal problems.
1Entertainment
BEIJING - Martial law was declared in a town in central China after at least four people died in rioting, residents said on Monday.
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AP - Something began happening to Jack Colin in 1983 that terrified his new wife. Once gentle, he became prone to fits of rage. He started stockpiling guns and knives. Later, when police searched his home, they found books on bondage, photo of Colin in women's clothing and a diary describing ways to mutilate women.
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A multi-billion dollar lawsuit brought by the government against major tobacco firms is to open in Nigeria.
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'Di fronte a tempi burocrazia e con fisco insopportabile'
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THE HAGUE The European Union said Wednesday that it was not yet ready to lift its 15-year arms embargo on China amid concerns about human rights, but held out the prospect that the ban could be eased early next year.
1Entertainment
After phones, Steve Jobs saves television SXSW This will be the year the history books will record as the beginning of the end for the way we watch television.

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TIRANA (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Sunday the United Nations should grant independence quickly to the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo, and that if Russia continued to block it the West would act.
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6Sci/Tech
Shares in telecom giant Telecom Italia are suspended ahead of a board meeting to discuss the future of the firm.
2Europe
Five hostages have been released by two armed groups in Iraq, but the fate of two French journalists remains unknown. Four hostages were released by the self-titled Falluja Mujahidin, the Jordanian foreign
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Il legale, Alberto non sta bene e spera di uscire presto
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THE annual flourish of metallic tinsel and glitter has fallen foul of strict health and safety regulations in Welsh hospitals.
2Europe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Baseball star Roger Clemens dismissed as bogus on Thursday new claims of evidence by his former trainer -- including needles and bloody gauze pads -- that Clemens used performance-enhancing drugs.
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Reuters - Italian police are investigating an anti-Semitic blog listing the names of more than 150 "Jewish university professors," which was removed from the Internet after protests from politicians and Jewish leaders.
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DETROIT/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - DaimlerChrysler said on Wednesday it would cut 13,000 jobs at its Chrysler operation in North America and indicated it could sell or spin off the money-losing unit, which would unwind a troubled 9-year-old merger between Chrysler and Mercedes.
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AP - It sounds far-fetched — sticking needles in women to help them become pregnant — but a scientific review suggests that acupuncture might improve the odds of conceiving if done right before or after embryos are placed in the womb.
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My Everything by Anita Baker
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ATA, the biggest airline at Chicago's Midway Airport, filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday and said it will unload its Midway hub to AirTran Airways.
1Entertainment
AP - A woman was convicted Tuesday of murdering her Marine husband with arsenic so she could cash in on his $250,000 life insurance policy, some of which she used to have her breasts enlarged.
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Reuters - The sequence was vast: A long walk across war-torn France, with thousands of extras, German bombers, tanks and artillery strewn across the landscape -- the kind of scope that would have made David Lean proud.
1Entertainment
After more than three years, European court will give its verdict in the Microsoft antitrust case on September 17.
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AP - God vs. Satan cast out space creatures at the box office. Demon thriller "Exorcist: The Beginning" debuted as the No. 1 weekend movie with $18.2 million, displacing "Alien vs. Predator," which tumbled to No. 4 with $12.5 million, studio estimates showed Sunday.
1Entertainment
AP - GoDaddy.com, the leading registration company for Internet addresses, has agreed to take over and manage more than 850,000 domain names belonging to customers of a troubled rival, officials announced Tuesday.
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Changes to a gene involved in the regulation of body weight may contribute to weight gain in a very small number of obese individuals, new research reports.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space shuttle astronauts left their ship for a fourth spacewalk on Monday in a last-ditch effort to free a jammed solar wing panel on the International Space Station and complete every job NASA wanted for its final flight of the year.
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Reuters - Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter and a key U.S. ally, said on Wednesday the kingdom does not see any obstacle to cooperating with Russia on developing a nuclear energy program.
6Sci/Tech
Despite a clear-cut show of support among its shareholders to accept Oracle's hostile takeover bid, PeopleSoft's board is digging in for a fight.
1Entertainment
The United States is facing the possibility of a severe economic correction. Yet most of the causes of such a correction are, for the most part, being completely ignored in preference to partisan bickering. It is the proverbial elephant in the living room - except it is not just one, but several elephants that everyone...
6Sci/Tech
Iraq's Interior Ministry is regarded as "sectarian" and "dysfunctional" and the National Police should be "disbanded and reorganized," according to an independent report obtained by CNN.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Julius Peppers' disappointing season is over.
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HAVING TO EARN A NEW contract might seem tough on a man with eight Premiership medals, but it is having the desired effect on Ryan Giggs.
1Entertainment
The company is wrestling with its third scandal in just over a year, raising questions about whether board members were doing an adequate job.
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By Veronica Nett NICKNAMED "The Shopping Goddess," Kim Parrish knows a thing or two about fashion. So much so that the Home Shopping Network host has her own clothing line and is set to enter her second year with the collection.
6Sci/Tech
UK police say they treat as "suspicious" the death of Georgian opposition leader and tycoon Badri Patarkatsishvili.
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RS Investment Management agreed to pay $30 million to settled allegations it allowed "excessive" market timing in its mutual funds, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said Wednesday.
0Business
Lad from Lagos in a right royal state Calling all true patriots: one of the Lads from Lagos has got himself into a right royal state and needs a quick $2k to fulfil a lifetime's ambition to hang a pic of Her Imperial Majestyness Queen Liz II on the wall. Read on...

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Operazione da 3,3 miliardi di dollari
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Among the tables, charts and bottom-line numbers in venture capital firm Grotech Capital Group's quarterly report to its investors is what Managing General Partner Frank A. Adams calls his "heart of hearts," a narrative of his gut feelings about companies that Grotech of Timonium has invested in. The essay incl...
6Sci/Tech
AFP - Outgoing Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt has reached an agreement on forming an interim government, as the country lumbers through a protracted political crisis six months after an election, his spokesman said Tuesday.
2Europe
AP - Astronauts Piers Sellers and Mike Fossum climbed out of an airlock on the international space station Saturday, starting a spacewalk to fix the complex's rail transporter and test whether a boom can be used to make repairs to the space shuttle.
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Befuddled by a sweeping curve, Ryan Spilborghs found that it only got worse, because he was no match for the fastball that came next. He was frozen not by the 48-degree weather, but the guile and finesse of Hideki Okajima.
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Associated Press reports that Janet Leigh, the beauty whose shocking shower murder scene in the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller Psycho has passed away.
1Entertainment
TheDeal.com - Two recent acquisitions illustrate a new enthusiasm for rollup strategies in the new-media sector.
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The long-running dispute between Microsoft and the European Union is set to be decided on Monday.
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Stima Eurostat, su base annua +2,7%, Italia +1,9%
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Reuters - Overweight women are known to have a greater chance of giving birth to a larger-than-normal baby. But new research suggests that these odds stay higher even when a woman loses weight before pregnancy.
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When the State Department recently asked the CIA for names of Iranians who could be sanctioned for their involvement in a clandestine nuclear weapons program, the agency refused, citing a large workload and a desire to protect its sources and tradecraft.
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Saturday that the search for Osama bin Laden has gone completely cold, with no recent intelligence indicating where he and his top lieutenants are hiding.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service said on Thursday it may restrict tax preparers such as H&R Block Inc and Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc from offering refund loans to customers because doing so could encourage fraud.
0Business
L'edizione on-line del quotidiano sportivo spagnolo 'As' rifersce oggi che l'uruguaiano Alvaro Recob...
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By LINDSEY TANNER CHICAGO (AP) -- The number of people hospitalized in the United States because of the flu has climbed substantially over the past two decades to an average of more than 200,000 a year, in large part because of the aging of the population, a government study found. Severe cases of the flu can res...
6Sci/Tech
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops were on alert at bases across Iraq on Thursday after concluding that a suicide bomber, probably in Iraqi military uniform, was behind the deadliest strike on Americans since they invaded last year.
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