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Reuters - Holiday sales are expected to rise, though at a slower rate than last year as consumers fret about the declining housing market, according to a National Retail Federation economic forecast on Tuesday.
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Researchers find evidence that those who feel guilty crave antiseptic wipes.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. technology stocks rose on Thursday as a strong quarterly earnings report from eBay Inc. EBAY.O , the world's largest online market place, helped lift the Nasdaq and Standard & Poor's 500 indexes.
0Business
An early tumble gave way to a rally on Wall Street on Monday, as investors shrugged off heavy losses in the Asian markets.
0Business
AP - A loud explosion rattled the Afghan capital early Friday, the day before historic elections, and an international peacekeeper said the blast occurred several hundred yards from peacekeeping headquarters.
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After waiting all night with his presidency and place in the history books hanging in the balance, President Bush gave up plans for a victory speech early Wednesday.
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In his latest blog post , Wolfgang Drews is pointing out a training class his other site, DynamicWebPages.de , is doing for the Zend Framework. Just a short shameless Plug for all who it may concern: Dynamic Web Pages holds a free information webinar about the new php5-certification in german language next week...
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Un mese fa era stato scoperto il primo worm per cellulari, denominato Cabir: Ú notizia di questa settimana che un nuovo virus Ú stato individuato che colpisce cellulari basati sul sistema SymbianOS. Il suo
4Italia
Centro shipments set a company record, but Palm's still having a rough time battling component shortages and getting products out on schedule.
6Sci/Tech
Being asked to stay when you've said you're quitting can flatter but deceive.
0Business
High School Musical star Zac Efron undergoes emergency surgery to remove his appendix, his publicist says.
1Entertainment
A protein produced by the heart during its development could be used to repair heart attack damage, research suggests. University of Texas scientists worked on mice, but hope their findings will eventually lead to new treatment for heart disease.
3Health
Millions of Americans are preparing to retire, but still want to use their skills and talents to help others. They're becoming volunteers.
0Business
Although he did not live to see Palestinian statehood, Yasser Arafat was given a funeral yesterday worthy of a head of state and attended by kings and presidents from around the world.
1Entertainment
The UK's disaster management is woefully inadequate, finds a government review into last summer's flooding.
6Sci/Tech
Five years ago, a young Manitoba pharmacist fresh out of school started selling Nicorette chewing gum over e-Bay. From that modest beginning the Canadian online
3Health
At Kimmel's fashion show, New York artists and fashion followers take over Florence's Istitute d’Arte...
13World
An NHL executive accused the players' association of conducting "a charade" and said the union has no interest in working out a new labor deal before a lockout would be imposed in three weeks.
8Sports
Emerge dagli aggiornamenti rilevanti resi noti dalla Consob
4Italia
TONY Blair threw his weight behind Kofi Annan yesterday amid a growing clamour in the US for the UN Secretary-General to resign over the Iraq oil-for-food scandal.
1Entertainment
Europe: Pope Benedict XVI steps into debate on whether Turkey should be part of the EU.
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JAKARTA, INDONESIA - At least 31 people died in a plane crash in Indonesia on Tuesday, after a passenger jet's landing went wrong amid heavy rain.
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The companies' merger is expected to close in early January. PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield, who returned as CEO during the company's fight to prevent Oracle's bid, resigned as chairman, CEO and director on December 21.
1Entertainment
AFP - European automakers demanded more time on Wednesday to meet mooted CO2 emissions targets but stressed they were on board and working hard to produce cleaner cars.
2Europe
Nell'isola lo sciopero e' scattato con un giorno di anticipo
4Italia
Earnings season had unleashed yet another group of housing write-downs and losses.
0Business
Tony Blair is to be admitted to hospital on Friday for a procedure to correct a heart problem.
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BAGDAD, 21 SETTEMBRE 2004 - Un altro filmato dell'orrore impensabile. L'ultimatum di 48 ore Ú scaduto, e nel video diffuso su un sito web islamico, Eugene Armstrong, ostaggio americano in Iraq, viene sgozzato
4Italia
The social networking site aSmallWorld.net has attempted to create an Internet niche by cultivating an air of exclusivity.
6Sci/Tech
10 billion years old Italian astronomers have detected a planet that survived the red giant expansion of its home star. The researchers say that the discovery could be a sneak peek at the fate that awaits the Earth, some four or five billion years from now.

6Sci/Tech
The Russian government has allowed the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to visit the country despite longstanding opposition from China.
13World
The treat of biological weapons is real and needs to be tackled now , medical experts warn.
3Health
Hoping to shake up a team with one of the worst records in the Eastern Conference, the Bulls fired head coach Scott Skiles on Monday.
8Sports
MUMBAI, Dec. 27. - RIL chairman Mr Mukesh Ambani, battling with brother Anil over control of the Reliance Group, appeared to have won the first round today.
1Entertainment
The F.D.A. cleared the way for a company to market implantable microchips that would provide easy access to medical records.
6Sci/Tech
Reuters - Demand for fiber-optic network telecoms equipment is starting to creep back, Nortel Networks Corp. said on Thursday, following a long slump sparked by the burst of the tech bubble.
6Sci/Tech
Arts: Religion, race and the failures of New Labour will be central to the new National Theatre season.
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At least eight people die and 60 are hurt in a car bomb attack on a market in the Iraqi capital, officials say.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Boeing Co. won orders for 51 commercial jets in February, worth about $8 billion at list prices, doubling its tally from the same month last year and making up for a relatively small number in January.
0Business
ANN ARBOR, Mich (Reuters) - Heather Vogt has agreed not to show her face around campus these days.
1Entertainment
SAN DIEGO Knocked down a few notches, UC San Diego was named the nation's 35th best university in the annual college rankings released today by US News & World Report.
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Bush administration meets resistance observers call high even by normally contentious standards.
10Top News
London oil prices hit record highs on Monday as worries about the stability of supplies from Iraq, Nigeria and Russia compounded concerns over low US fuel stocks ahead of winter.
0Business
AP - Residents of Pakistan's largest city cautiously emerged from their homes Sunday and struggled to find food and fuel amid the blackened buildings, shattered glass and burnt-out vehicles littering the streets of Karachi.
13World
Sara Nelson, who will take over the top editorial job at Publishers Weekly on Jan. 24, says the magazine "needs to be modernized."
1Entertainment
AP - Finland's Supreme Court blocked a lower court ruling Friday that two boys be returned to their Finnish mother who is in a trans-Atlantic custody battle with their American father.
2Europe
An active fault off southern Croatia is building new islands and bulking up mountains, a new study says—but is also drawing Italy closer to the Dalmatian coast.
6Sci/Tech
Reuters - Farmers and other locals were chasing thousands of minks let out of their cages at a fur farm in western Finland early on Friday by suspected animal rights activists.
6Sci/Tech
Italy called on Group of Eight rich nations on Thursday to discuss a joint response to the Indian Ocean tsunami catastrophe as moves to grant debt relief to some of the stricken countries gathered pace.
13World
The 49ers rehearse the end-around run to Arnaz Battle so often that they never doubted the play would work. ''We practice and practice and practice and practice that play,'' coach Dennis Erickson said.
8Sports
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10Top News
New antispam technology standards are on the way that promise to hit spammers where it hurts the most--their wallets. At issue is the ability to authenticate the original source of e-mail messages, a major
1Entertainment
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California (Reuters) - High winds expected at California's Lake Tahoe could fan a raging wildfire that has jumped a containment line after destroying hundreds of buildings and forcing thousands to evacuate the resort area, firefighters said on Wednesday.
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A proposal to ban the planting of a genetically modified corn strain sets up a bitter war within the European Union.
3Health
What do you want the world to talk about?
2Europe
La manovra del governo provoca le proteste dell'opposizione Lega, An e Udc annunciano manifestazioni contro la "stangata" Finanziaria, Cdl furiosa "Scenderemo in piazza" Bossi: "E' una bastonata sul Paese, e le pensioni non si toccano" Cesa: "La manovra si abbatterà come una scure sui poveri" (12:20 01/10/2006)
4Italia
Il cantante spagnolo ospite internazionale della serata
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda is the chief suspect in the murder of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, standing to gain by preserving its remote stronghold, undermining President Pervez Musharraf and destabilizing the country, U.S. government and private analysts said.
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RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Ernesto dumped heavy rain on North and South Carolina as it closed in on the U.S. East Coast near hurricane strength on Thursday, and forecasters warned it could trigger life-threatening floods and tornadoes.
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AP - After months alone in his cell, Scot Noble Payne finished 20 pages of letters, describing to loved ones the decrepit conditions of the prison where he was serving time for molesting a child.
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Reuters - Now you see it. Soon you won't. In a trend sure to be a relief to some and a disappointment to others, women will cover up instead of baring it all next season as the "slutwear" look comes to an end.
1Entertainment
Advancing the sainthood causes of five Europeans, Pope John Paul II beatified the last Hapsburg emperor and the nun whose visions inspired Mel Gibson's film, "The Passion of the Christ." The pope said Blessed ...
2Europe
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico (Reuters) - A rocket packed with cargo is set to blast off into space from a desert launch range in New Mexico, ushering in what its backers say is a new era of cheap public access to the stars.
10Top News
AP - Former child star Danielle Fishel, a teen heartthrob on ABC's "Boy Meets World," was arrested this week on a drunken driving warrant from Los Angeles County, police said.
1Entertainment
Finnish melodic power metallers THUNDERSTONE are currently writing songs for their third album, tentatively due next spring through Nuclear Blast Records.
2Europe
Il Palermo prosegue al campo militare "Tenente Onorato" di Boccadifalco la preparazione in vista de...
4Italia
In the hit movie "Juno," cheeky teenager Juno MacGuff wants nothing to do with her baby once it's born. "Can't we just, like, kick this old school?" she asks the prospective adoptive parents. "Like, I have the baby, put it in a basket and send it your way, like Moses and the reeds?"
3Health
Reuters - U.S. farm groups bristled this week at calls for deeper cuts to American agriculture subsidies, just as trade negotiators urged the United States to do more to break a stubborn stalemate in world trade talks.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Iran wants a negotiated solution to its nuclear standoff with world powers but this must recognize an Iranian right to a peaceful nuclear programme, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Thursday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Six times champion Lance Armstrong will decide early in 2005 whether to take part in next year's Tour de France, the itinerary of which was unveiled Thursday.
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The state is holding a rummage sale to get rid of a whole bunch of unwanted stuff. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is holding a rummage sale to dispose of unwanted state property from aircraft engines to jewelry.
0Business
Three Republican U.S. senators on Thursday called on Congress to pass a permanent Internet tax ban before a moratorium expires Nov. 1.
0Business
A young man in a white physician's coat and a bow tie is walking toward us down the sidewalk, a plastic five-gallon bucket swinging from his hand.
10Top News
Bank of America said Thursday it will layoff 4,500 employees as part of the company’s ongoing integration of FleetBoston Financial.
1Entertainment
Tokyo -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said in an interview today that he will make public his daily schedule, a move that open government advocates say will provide an unprecedented look at how his administration determines public policy.
13World
AP - A fan waiting in line for beer and peanuts got something extra at the concession stand: home run ball No. 715 by Barry Bonds.
8Sports
"Credo che noi arbitri dobbiamo ragionare nel trattare tutti allo stesso modo, non conta se uno &egr...
4Italia
Iran says its Bushehr nuclear plant will start work in the summer - earlier than its Russian builders had said.
13World
Looking for something completely different? Here are eight of the most unusual travel experiences you'll ever have.
0Business
As Earth's oceans heat up, king crabs expanding into new habitats may decimate native species that are unable to cope with the strong, fast-moving predators.
6Sci/Tech
AP - The U.N. oil-for-food program chief under scrutiny for alleged corruption and mismanagement blocked a proposed audit of his office around the same time he's accused of soliciting lucrative oil deals from Iraq, according to investigators.
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A sluggish gross domestic product reading was nonetheless better than expected, prompting investors to send stocks slightly higher Friday on hopes that the economic slowdown would not be as bad as first thought.
0Business
BATAVIA, Ill (Reuters) - Embattled Republican leader Dennis Hastert on Thursday outlined steps to investigate the House cybersex scandal and said he intends to stay in office despite calls for him to step down before the November elections.
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Blackburn limp out of Europe at Ewood Park after a tame draw against Bayer Leverkusen.
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By Benjamin N. Gedan, The Providence Journal, R.I. Jun. 20--A Florida developer has received preliminary approval to construct a $150-million shipbuilding and repair yard on 43 acres at Quonset Point.
6Sci/Tech
AP - THE RACE: Presidential race for Democrats, Republicans in New Jersey.
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Rafael Benitez focused his sights on a top-four place after watching Liverpool destroy rock-bottom West Brom. John Arne Riise led the way with a double as the visitors won 5-0.
8Sports
X-clusive While most companies are looking to rent films over their mobile phone networks, 3 has started selling phones through a film rental network.

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MILANO - Si e' giocata questa sera la 10/a giornata del campionato di calcio di serie B. Importanti vittorie esterne dell'Empoli capolista a Perugia e del Torino a Pescara. I granata con questo risultato salgono al secondo posto in classifica.
4Italia
DETROIT -- General Motors Corp. reported a $38.7 billion loss for 2007 on Tuesday, the largest annual loss ever for an automotive company, and said it is making a new round of buyback offers to U.S. hourly workers in hopes of replacing some of them with lower-paid help.
0Business
Russia outhustles the American squad and deals Team USA its second consecutive loss, 3-1, Thursday night.
8Sports
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A passenger plane caught fire on landing at an airport in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad on Friday, killing at least 80 people, state television reported.
13World
The kid who sparked the digital music revolution says he's back to finish the job. As a 19-year-old college freshman, Shawn Fanning created Napster, the file-sharing software program
6Sci/Tech
An American and a Norwegian won the 2004 Nobel Memorial Prize in economics yesterday for shedding light on how government policies and actions affect economies around the world.
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More than 2,500 families participated in the study carried out by the King Edward Memorial Hospital over a 15-year period. Pregnant women are usually scanned at 12 and 18 weeks and after 20 weeks if there are any medical concerns.
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Per la mancata esecuzione di investimenti per circa 2 mld
4Italia
AP - When teenager Nicole Agostino was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma last year, the hospital where she was treated was full of children and coloring books.
3Health
Luis Aragonés could lose his job as Spain's coach after the Spanish Football Association launched an investigation into remarks he made about Arsenal's Thierry Henry.
11Top Stories
AP - Germany was to begin its biggest naval operation since World War II on Thursday, sending eight warships to the eastern Mediterranean to help the U.N. keep the peace in Lebanon.
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AP - Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee appealed to Iowa conservatives on two fronts Saturday, calling for a stronger military and stronger families.
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