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A German archbishop sparks anger by calling modern art "degenerate" - a term used by Nazis in persecuting artists.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Lawyers for former Enron Corp. ENRNQ.PK chief executive Jeffrey Skilling on Friday asked a federal court to separate his trial from his former boss Ken Lay's on charges linked to the downfall of the energy company.
0Business
YAO Ming did his best with 29 points and 11 rebounds, but the Chinese NBA star could not stop undefeated Lithuania from charging 95-75 into the men's basketball semi-finals.
1Entertainment
By JULIE YOUNG Antonia FD Vassar munched on a crisp sugar-snap pea and surveyed her ripening front yard. Little stone walkways wind around garden beds of varying shapes and sizes. An early morning sun drenches lettuces, peas, kale, strawberries, carrots and beets.
6Sci/Tech
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush expanded U.S. sanctions against Myanmar's rulers on Friday, accusing them of "vicious persecution" of democracy protesters, and urged China and India to step up pressure on their neighbor.
10Top News
ATHENS, Ga. - Erik Ainge bounced back, and so did the Tennessee Volunteers...
13World
Il Catania non si fa illusioni in vista della sfida di domani con il Milan: ''La classifica - ha det...
4Italia
AP - Filmmaker Michael Moore said he will return to the Republican National Convention where delegates roundly booed his presence on opening night.
1Entertainment
A plan to disarm militia has raised hope that Moktada al-Sadr will continue his turn toward entering the democratic process.
13World
NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- SunTrust Banks Inc. on Friday said third-quarter profit rose 11 percent and reported a restated profit for the first half of 2004, as expected.
0Business
NEW YORK - A federal judge ordered Martha Stewart on Tuesday to surrender for prison by Oct. 8, granting the celebrity homemaker's request to begin serving her sentence for lying about a stock sale...
13World
AP - The Phil Spector murder trial erupted in intense arguments outside the jury's presence Thursday over whether the defense can introduce a diary written by gunshot victim Lana Clarkson in which she wrote about having visions of a dead actress, experiencing depression over her acting career and having a fascination w...
1Entertainment
Rescue workers search for survivors of a strong earthquake in central Japan which killed nine people.
2Europe
The Microsoft Corp. has decided to advance the timetable on its much-anticipated overhaul of Windows, the Financial Times reported Saturday.
11Top Stories
A fifth teenager was today charged with the murder of father-of-three Garry Newlove.
10Top News
ANKARA, Turkey -- The prime minister said he would back Turkey's generals if they decide to retaliate for a suicide bombing in the capital by striking Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq.
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Washington. Un rapporto confidenziale destinato ai vertici militari americani in Iraq denunciava gli abusi sui detenuti in Iraq gia' nel dicembre 2003, piu' di un mese prima che venisse aperta l'inchiesta sulle sevizie nel carcere di Abu Ghraib.
4Italia
Dopo intervento, donna per mesi con forti dolori
4Italia
AP - Michael Redd scored 28 points to lead the Milwaukee Bucks to their first road win of the season, 89-86 over the Indiana Pacers on Tuesday night.
8Sports
Floating ideas at the CRDB Work has begun on a social care equivalent of the care records guarantee for medical records, paving the way for merging health and social care records. The plans were disclosed as part of a debate at the annual Care Records Development Board meeting in London, yesterday.

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Il Tas (Tribunale arbitrale dello Sport) ha respinto il ricorso del club olandese del Feyenoord e ha...
4Italia
AP - A dispute between Jennifer Lopez and her ex-husband over his proposed tell-all book about their relationship does not need to go to court, their attorneys said Wednesday.
1Entertainment
Aston Villa have scotched reports suggesting Chelsea are to recall on-loan striker Carlton Cole. The rumours came after Chelsea's Adrian Mutu had a row with Blues boss Jose Mourinho over his fitness for Romania's World Cup tie with the Czech Republic.
8Sports
NEW YORK (Billboard) - When the Mars Volta put out its latest album, "The Bedlam in Goliath," in January, the act gave its hardcore fans an option that is becoming increasingly popular -- and creative.
1Entertainment
MIAMI (Sports Network) - Barret Robbins, a former Pro Bowl center for the Oakland Raiders, was charged Wednesday with three counts of attempted felony murder. The charges stem from an altercation with police on Saturday.
8Sports
John Lennon almost gave up playing guitar after just two lessons, one of his early bandmates reveals.
1Entertainment
This is a release bulletin for webps. In this version of webps, we look at new administrator options on the back end, and a healthy dose of drag and drop on the front end. By Dan Ragle. 0906
7Software and Developement
Contrari ai tagli della spesa per i pompieri in Finanziaria
4Italia
AFP - There is a banner draped over the Stretford End at Old Trafford, which simply reads '32,' a mocking reminder to the success-starved supporters of Manchester City of just how many years have passed since the club last lifted a major trophy.
2Europe
FREDERICTON - Hundreds of parents from across New Brunswick have sent Christmas cards to Premier Bernard Lord with an unusual yuletide message: scrap a controversial sex-ed program for young teens.
3Health
AFP - The Kazakh state could seize oil fields and mineral deposits from private investors, Prime Minister Karim Masimov said Thursday, following a series of high-profile business disputes involving top foreign energy majors.
6Sci/Tech
I believe Scottie Pippen is one of the NBA's best 50 players ever, but you can evaluate for yourself his place in history. What I'm certain of is that for the Bulls, Pippen was the perfect player in the perfect place at the perfect time.
11Top Stories
Members of Sacred Heart Church in the North End said they will continue to fight to keep their church open despite a setback in court this week against the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, which wants to close its doors.
12U.S.
TAIPEI (Reuters) - The pro-independence party of Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian suffered a surprise defeat in weekend legislative elections that could ease tensions with China but paralyze government on the democratic island.
13World
The second fatal shark attack in Australia within a week claimed the life of an 18-year-old surfer off a popular Adelaide beach yesterday, in an area scientists are calling the predators' "Grand Central Station".
1Entertainment
It was his first postseason win in an 18-year career and the first time in 13 years he'd beaten the Yankees, a team that had traditionally slaughtered his mush-ball offerings to a tune of a 6.45 ERA in 35 previous games.
8Sports
Business Dir. Bill Sakirovski is a long way from Macedonia, the land of his birth.
2Europe
Forward Caron Butler, whose rise to All-Star status has coincided with the Wizards' rise in the standings, is ailing and may have to sit for a game.
8Sports
Sony's (NYSE: SNE) tweaking its musical strategy, with reports galore that the electronics giant will now support the playback of MP3 files on many of its digital music players.
1Entertainment
Reuters - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said on Thursday it was phasing out its layaway program because of declining use and increasing costs, and was expanding other financing options instead.
0Business
Reuters - Deaths related to medication errors appear to rise sharply during the first few days of each month, suggesting that hectic pharmacies may be at least partly to blame, according to researchers.
3Health
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Abbas called on Saturday for fresh Palestinian parliamentary and presidential elections, raising the stakes after days of internal violence that has renewed fears of civil war.
10Top News
TBILISI (Reuters) - The United States will provide equipment and training to Georgia under an accord on Friday to combat trafficking of radioactive material via the Caucasus state which said last week it jailed a Russian uranium smuggler.
13World
WASHINGTON - National security issues such as the war in Iraq and terrorism are dominating voters' attention in the final weeks before Election Day, Associated Press polling found. Along with security issues like war and terrorism, the economy and health care were near the top of the list of the nation's most import...
13World
A briefcase containing toxic chemicals has been stolen from a car in South Wales.
6Sci/Tech
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - There's a new stop in town for celebrities on the talk show circuit, and the show's host, Megan Mullally, has been helping to make sure that her new talker isn't forgotten by A-listers looking to promote their upcoming projects in the competitive, complex world of talent boo...
1Entertainment
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nine vendors have been charged with creating false account records in a scheme that allowed U.S. Food Service Inc., a unit of Dutch retailer Ahold N.V. AHLN.AS , to inflate earnings by more than $800 million, federal prosecutors said on Thursday.
0Business
GAZA, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - An Israeli helicopter fired missiles at an unknown target in a Gaza refugee camp on Wednesday, wounding five Palestinians, including militants, medics said.
10Top News
Hamid Karzai named a new Cabinet on Thursday, sacking the prominent defense minister and removing other warlords from top posts in a major reshuffle weeks after being sworn in as the nation's first democratically elected
13World
LONDON -- An Indian doctor was charged yesterday in connection with the London and Glasgow terrorism plot. Sabeel Ahmed, of Liverpool, became the third person to face charges in the case. Police said he withheld information that could have prevented terrorism. He is the brother of Kafeel Ahmed, who allegedly drove a Je...
13World
Record oil prices helped Chevron offset losses at its refining unit and a slight fall in energy production last year.
0Business
A cosmetic face cream used by fashionable women in ancient Roman times has been analysed by scientists at Bristol University, UK, and now reproduced.
3Health
German police detain 110 people at a march to mark the death of Adolf Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess.
13World
Capping a months-long scientific and ethics review, British regulators said yesterday that they are prepared to allow the creation of embryos that are part human and part animal for use in medical experiments.
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BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - U.S...
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AP - An electrical fence surrounding a privately run jail near the Mexican border was tampered with, possibly preventing an alarm from sounding when six inmates escaped this week, an official with the jail operator said Friday.
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Questione sia discussa nell'ambito del Consiglio Nato-Russia
4Italia
FOR award-nominated authors, anonymity sometimes pays. Patricia Shaw, a little-known author in Australia, is a household name in Germany where her novels about places like Kalgoorlie and the 19th century ...
2Europe
TARANTO - Indagati per disastro colposo ferroviario i due macchinisti del treno merci che, il 2 dicembre scorso, e' rimasto coinvolto nello scontro con un convoglio passeggeri tra Palagianello e Castellaneta, in provincia di Taranto.
4Italia
AP - Former NBA center John Amaechi, who disclosed last week he's gay, said anti-gay comments by another retired player "demonstrate the need to continue the conversation."
8Sports
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Leaders at an Asia-Pacific summit appeared deadlocked on Thursday over what their "Sydney Declaration" on climate change and cutting greenhouse gas emissions should say.
10Top News
Reuters - U.S. retail sales in 2008 are forecast to rise at their slowest pace in six years as consumers battle higher energy costs, fallout from the housing slump and sluggish employment and income growth, the National Retail Federation forecast on Monday.
0Business
BEIJING (Reuters) - Secretive North Korea signed a handful of deals with resource-rich Mongolia on Friday, Chinese state media said, in the first visit by a high-ranking North Korean official to Ulan Bator since 1988.
13World
AP - The German government is seeking nearly $6 billion in compensation from the consortium running a much-delayed project to collect truck tolls using satellite technology, the country's transport minister said Thursday.
2Europe
At least three Palestinians are injured in an Israeli missile strike on a refugee camp in Gaza, witnesses say.
2Europe
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For an actor who has been called unpatriotic and even treasonous, Sean Penn is not backing away from controversy.
1Entertainment
Scientists and wildlife officials are continuing to search for what may have caused a series of mass strandings which have left 169 whales and dolphins dead on Australian and New Zealand beaches in the past three days.
11Top Stories
American viewers will again have the chance to see, after many years of unavailability, AgnÚs Varda’s astoundingly original first three features.
1Entertainment
South Korea's quiet 'harmonizer' Ban Ki-Moon leads the race to lead the U.N.
13World
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hollywood's most famous film flop, the legendary box office disaster "Heaven's Gate," has been resurrected.
1Entertainment
LONDON - An Anglican church commission sharply criticized the U.S. Episcopal Church on Monday for consecrating a gay bishop and called on the church to apologize and refrain from promoting any other clergy living in a same-sex union...
13World
The euro's growing strength against the US dollar is "unwelcome," the European Central Bank chief said yesterday as the 12-nation European currency hovered just below a record high.
0Business
BEIJING, Aug.18 (Xinhuanet) -- The international community has recognized and welcomed President Hugo Chavez's victory in the Venezuelan referendum.
11Top Stories
L'uomo, malato terminale di distrofia muscolare, in settembre inviò un video-choc a Napolitano, per affermare il suo diritto all'eutanasia Welby, richiesta scritta ai medici "Chiedo il distacco dalle macchine" (14:35 27/11/2006)
4Italia
THE suicide car bomber who killed three British soldiers in Iraq's lawless badlands yesterday struck with deadly inevitability.
11Top Stories
If Michelle Collins were a Major League Baseball player, she would have received a slap on the wrist for using banned performance-enhancing drugs.
1Entertainment
No doubt many researchers have gotten gray hair trying to find ways to defeat cancer. Now a team of scientists says gray hair itself might yield clues to fighting that deadly disease.
3Health
Up to 600,000 illegal immigrants would be eligible for amnesty under plans adopted at party conference.
10Top News
Il giudice sportivo della Lega di serie C ha squalificato per una giornata, con obbligo di porte chi...
4Italia
Oprah Winfrey surprised each of her 276-person studio audience this week with their own new Pontiac G6 car. The cars, which retail for $US28,000 ($NZ43,189) were donated by Pontiac.
6Sci/Tech
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's new prime minister, Gordon Brown, started to unveil his government on Thursday, promoting old allies to top positions and bringing in a range of new faces to draw a line under Tony Blair's decade in power.
10Top News
AP - Five Darfur rebel groups have agreed to join forces ahead of a meeting Sunday in Libya to push for a solution to the four-year conflict in the western region of Sudan.
13World
South African police arrest a priest in Pretoria for allegedly conducting at least 600 fake marriages in the past year.
2Europe
Plans are in the pipeline for beavers to be released into the Scottish wild for the first time in 500 years.
6Sci/Tech
AFP - The euro hit a new record high of 1.3074 dollars, even as eurozone officials called for the United States, Europe and Japan to take a common position against the currency's rise.
13World
15% dei clienti Ue pronto ad acquisto di prodotti da estero
4Italia
ROMA - Come era gia' accaduto prima della pausa dei lavori estivi della Camera, il 'pacchetto' delle riforme 'slitta' dal tavolo tecnico a quello politico. Stasera, infatti, il premier Silvio Berlusconi incontrera
4Italia
Fifty-six Kurdish mayors stood trial Tuesday, accused in Turkey's latest freedom-of-speech case on charges of helping terrorists by arguing to keep a Kurdish TV station on the air. Comment
2Europe
Operazione effettuata per 11,6 mld di sterline
4Italia
Smoking and drug abuse among teenagers declined again this year, according to a federal study that also found the same trend over the last decade.
3Health
President George W. Bush said he discussed the fate of Iraqi Christians as well as AIDS and U.S. immigration with Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday. Bush said he found himself "in awe" of Benedict, whom he described as a "smart, loving man." Earlier, the pope seemed to catch the president off-guard when he asked him about ...
10Top News
Rafael Nadal practices with the man and plays Davis Cup with him. So he was counting on a grinder of an evening from Spanish countryman David Ferrer.
8Sports
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. blue-chip stocks ended barely higher on Friday as a spike in oil prices to near-record levels pared earlier gains and renewed concerns about the effect of high energy prices on consumer spending and corporate profits.
10Top News
NEW YORK - Investors looked past a spike in oil prices Friday, sending stocks higher on the strength of Ford Motor Co.'s bullish profit outlook. The major indexes finished the week mixed...
13World
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian prosecutors said on Monday they had detained 10 suspects in the murder of reporter Anna Politkovskaya, but that the killing was masterminded from abroad by anti-Kremlin forces trying to discredit Russia.
10Top News
Saddam Hussein let the world think he had weapons of mass destruction to intimidate Iran and prevent the country from attacking Iraq, according to an FBI agent who interviewed the dictator after his 2003 capture.
10Top News
In India, at least 17 people have been killed and up to 55 wounded in four explosions in the country's troubled northeast. Police say three blasts occurred in Dimapur, the commercial hub of Nagaland state, killing 16 people.
13World
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A magnitude 7.1 earthquake jolted the Indian Ocean off Indonesia's Sumatra island early on Thursday Indonesian time, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
10Top News
LONDON (Reuters) - The parents of missing Madeleine McCann are keeping an open mind as to whether a photograph taken by a Spanish tourist in Morocco is that of their daughter, their spokesman said on Wednesday.
13World
Corn, milk, bread, and other farm products hit record high prices in 2006 – and will likely keep rising in 2008.
13World