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Democrats in Congress have increased their scrutiny of a trade pact and an aid package after claims of abuses.
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Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman reveals she lost a baby in the early years of her marriage to Tom Cruise.
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Princess Diana would still be alive if she had had police protection at her time of death, her inquest hears.
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Three get SEC notices...
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Developers find themselves pushing harder, agreeing to bend more and working patiently through the unique concerns of landowners.
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AP - Jason Terry scored a season-high 28 points and was nearly perfect both in shooting and in running the Dallas offense, leading the Mavericks past the Los Angeles Lakers 118-104 Wednesday night.
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Iraqis still living in the city of Falluja said yesterday that conditions were deteriorating, with no electricity, food shortages and limited medical aid for the wounded.
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AFP - French lawmakers have approved an energy bill that paves the way for the privatisation of the state-owned gas group GDF and its merger with the French company Suez.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Results of a study confirm that the outlook is poor for type 1 diabetic patients who develop end-stage renal disease (ESRD) -- the most advanced form of kidney disease.
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Microsoft, Sun and a trio of other leading hardware vendors today published the WS-Management specification, which spells out how data centers can use Web services
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NEW YORK, August 20 (New Ratings) A federal appeals court in the US has declared that the online file-sharing software companies are not liable to copyright infringement charges.
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Vanderbilt running back Kwane Doster was shot to death early Sunday when someone fired at the parked car he was in, police said.
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AP - Australia will send planes and a ship to conduct surveillance of Japanese whaling ships off Antarctica, the government announced Wednesday.
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Alla fine Massimo Oddo è rimasto alla Lazio ed ora si dice "contento di essere rimasto, stima...
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AFP - Italian industrial group Fiat, based largely on autos, reported a bigger-than-expected rise in second-quarter net profit and raised its forecast for the year.
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Intel Corp. lowered its revenue projections for its third quarter yesterday, citing slow consumer purchases across the globe.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn has stepped down as nonexecutive vice chairman at Barclays Global Investors , the global asset management firm said on Friday.
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US Airways employees have already survived two rounds of cuts to salaries, benefits and in some cases, rank. Thousands have been laid off.
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Reuters - Landing one of the hottest roles in Hollywood, little-known television actor Brandon Routh has been cast as the Man of Steel in an upcoming "Superman" movie from Warner Bros. Pictures, the studio said on Friday.
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Investigators are seeking to determine the route taken by 16-year-old suicide bomber Amar al-Far, and find out who assisted him after he left his home in the Askar refugee camp near Nablus at 7:30 Monday morning, blowing himself up just over three hours
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TIGER Woods said yesterday that he wants to be made a playing vice-captain for the next American Ryder Cup team and also proposed a change in selection policy to halt his country’s losing run.
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AP - Terrell Owens has a message for Jessica Simpson: Stay away. The 27-year-old singer-actress has become Public Enemy No. 1 among Dallas Cowboys fans because of a link being made between her appearance at Sunday's game and the poor performance of her new boyfriend, quarterback Tony Romo.
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The Times is to scrap its broadsheet edition after more than 200 years of publication and go tabloid from Monday.
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US ex-presidents pay respects to Lady Bird Johnson, the late wife of ex-President Lyndon B Johnson.
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AP - Eighteen months after Hurricane Katrina, Stella Chambers' modest red-brick house had finally been repaired, and she was waiting for one last utility hookup to move back in. But the 85-year-old woman never made it. A tornado tore through her neighborhood in the city's Gentilly neighborhood before daybreak Tuesday, ...
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A derivative of an ingredient in red wine can combat symptoms of aging according to a new study from Sirtris Pharmaceuticals.
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See a roundup of this week's news: New neutron star discovered, German police test gyrocopter, Egyptians seek sand treatment, and more.
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DANIEL ISLAND, SC - Patrick McEnroe, Andy Roddick and the rest of the United States Davis Cup team congregated on the deck of a battleship yesterday and prepared to do battle.
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New Jersey Nets' Alonzo Mourning makes a move on Philadelphia 76ers' Marc Jackson (25) during the first quarter, Thursday night, Oct. 28, 2004 in East Rutherford, NJ (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun).
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The final installment in this series--did they meet their goal of a five-second boot?
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The government of Ukraine, acting a day after an explosion killed eight of its soldiers in Iraq, announced Monday that it would withdraw its 1,650-member force by the middle of 2005.
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UK workers' top choice for a new Bank Holiday would be a Monday in late October, an online survey finds.
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Niente andata di Champions League con la Roma per l'attaccante del Real Madrid Robinho. Il talentuo...
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By Anonymous A group of authors led by a Statoil ASA specialist in marine geology has proposed an unconventional theory for the origin of salt that could have far reaching implications for oil and gas exploration.
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NewsFactor - Swedish telecom equipment giant Ericsson and Japanese electronics maker Sony are moving their business relationship well beyond cell phones into the mobile and broadband TV space.
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While Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM are the recognized leaders of the X86 server market, one player has surprisingly begun to gain ground.
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MEXICO CITY -- Rigoberta Menchu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Maya Indian who has long been a symbol of indigenous pride and defiance, has announced that she will be a candidate in Guatemala's presidential election.
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LOS ANGELES - The animated fish story "Shark Tale" swamped the competition, opening as the top weekend movie with $49.1 million and potentially breaking the record for best October debut. John Travolta and Joaquin Phoenix's firefighting adventure "Ladder 49" premiered in second place with $22.8 million, according to st...
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Madonna meets Israeli President Shimon Peres during a spiritual pilgrimage to mark the Jewish New Year.
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By R.A. Dyer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Sep. 19--AUSTIN -- Even as controversy mounted over the possible sale of Eagle Mountain Lake parkland to developers, state officials were taking steps to auction off two more tracts, including land adjacent to a popular park in Austin.
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AFP - Nearly four years to the day since a Muslim cleric was snatched from a Milan street and "rendered" to his native Egypt, a tribunal is to decide whether to indict 32 US and Italian secret agents in the case.
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AP - President Bush on Thursday sought to put to rest the controversy over his decision to spare a top former White House official from going to jail, saying it was time to move on. He also called on the nation and skeptical lawmakers to stand with him on Iraq, despite a new report showing only mixed progress.
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Microsoft and Amazon.com have joined forces against perpetrators of phishing scams, filing a lawsuit against a Canadian company that they say ran a spamming campaign using Microsoft's Hotmail services and forging Amazon's name.
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Poche novità nella Sampdoria che affrontarà domani sera l'Udinese. L'unica novit&agrav...
4Italia
Milan's world-famous opera house La Scala is re-opening on Tuesday after a three-year closure for renovation.
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AFP - The board of directors at European aerospace group EADS have convened at company headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and could approve the launch of the A350 XWB aircraft manufactured by its Airbus unit, sources close to the board said.
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Experts say alternative therapies should be considered to treat irritable bowel syndrome.
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Black hole death ray caught on camera NASA has identified a rather unfriendly galaxy which is blasting its neighbour with a black-hole generated jet in what the agency calls "never-before witnessed galactic violence".

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Sulla riforma dell'ordinamento giudiziario il governo "sarà costretto" a porre la fiducia, se l'opposizione non abbandonerà il suo atteggiamento ostruzionistico. Lo ha affermato il ministro della Giustizia
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AP - New York Yankee officials and a score of politicians gathered Wednesday across the street from The House That Ruth Built to break ground for a new billion-dollar Yankee Stadium project.
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New broadband providers should be given a better chance of winning pieces of valuable wireless spectrum to be auctioned by early next year, several groups said Friday.
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AP - Authorities captured two escaped prison inmates Wednesday in northwestern Montana, including a man once accused of plotting to kidnap David Letterman's son and nanny in a ransom scheme.
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Reuters - Sprint Corp. said Wednesday it would buy mobile telephone company Nextel Communications Inc. for about $36 billion, creating a U.S. wireless carrier with nearly 40 million subscribers.
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Fave pastime is frittering away the kids' inheritance On-line shopping is the nation's favourite use for a PC, and over-55s are the UK's most frequent computer users, according to an on-line survey sponsored by Microsoft.

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AFP - Manchester United survived a jittery start to advance to the Champions League knockout stages as winners of Group F after a 3-1 win over Benfica.
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PC World - Two senior security veterans from Trend Micro Inc. are trying to get the industry to change how it classifies malicious software.
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PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama's Health Ministry declared a national epidemic alert on Tuesday after a mystery illness killed at least six people and left others suffering with fever, diarrhea and partial paralysis.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - The Vancouver Canucks will announce Wednesday that local businessman Francesco Aquilini is buying half of the team, according to newspaper reports.
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SYDNEY: Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has declined to reveal any timetable for a possible withdrawal of Australian troops from Iraq following a statement by Poland that it is aiming for a pullout by the end of next year.
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President Bush invited the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan to the White House for dinner and a little talking-to.
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AFP - Newcastle United's new boss Sam Allardyce has clinched the signing of Chelsea utility player Geremi as he continues to build a competitive squad for the new Premiership season.
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Reuters - Older women with diabetes who take high doses of vitamin C for the sake of their hearts may be doing more harm than good, new research suggests.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British actress Kate Winslet, an outspoken critic of what she sees as Hollywood's obsession with being skinny, has won a public apology and undisclosed libel damages from a magazine that reported she visited a diet doctor.
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Foodland Associated Ltd., which owns supermarkets in Australia and New Zealand, said second-half profit rose 8 percent, boosted by sales of property to a real estate investment trust and reduced borrowing costs.
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woman and a young Afghan girl killed on Saturday by a Taliban suicide bomber in central Kabul. declare a winner until it has reviewed a report by an independent panel investigating voting irregularities.
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AFP - Liverpool's recent revival gathered pace as Rafael Benitez's side comfortably overcame Charlton to climb to third in the Premiership table.
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The Federal Election Commission yesterday slapped heavy fines on three independent fundraising groups it said had illegally injected tens of millions of dollars into the 2004 presidential campaign, concluding unanimously that the funds were drawn from large donors and corporations in violation of...
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Share in India's Reliance Industries rally after the brothers at the head of the group deny any rift over leadership.
0Business
A round up of quotes from prominent politicians around the world after Benezir Bhutto's assassination
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World: Galloway and Russian party leader also deny profiting under Saddam regime.
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Orchid In the Storm by Aaron Neville
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AP - A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt — more than a century ago. Embedded deep under its blubber was a 3 1/2-inch arrow-shaped projectile that has given researchers insight into the whale's age, estimated bet...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - If you've noticed that your Jack Daniel's is carrying a little less kick these days, you're probably right...
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By KATHLEEN GALLAGHER Four years into developing software for theme parks, shoe companies and other businesses, Brookfield-based Maelstrom Technology Solutions LLC is focusing on a new group of customers: politicians.
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AP - A suicide bomber hit a police recruiting center in Fallujah on Wednesday, killing at least 25 people and wounding 50, police said.
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Bankrupt cable operator asks court to force payments, says family already admitted they owe money. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Adelphia Communications Corp.
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Amazon.com announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Joyo.com Limited, a British Virgin Islands Company, which operates the Joyo.com Web sites (www.joyo.com and www.joyo.com.cn) in cooperation with Chinese subsidiaries and ...
0Business
Valigia abbandonata in treno proveniente dalla Francia
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Ever since the founding of "Stock Alerts" as part of the BullTrade.com Special Membership, the service has recorded several impressive trading streaks.
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India's main stock index, the Sensex, bursts through the 15,000 mark to a record on optimism about growth.
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AFP - The Turkish parliament early Thursday adopted a constitutional amendment allowing women to wear Islamic headscarves in universities, a controversial move that still had to be ratified by a final vote, assembly deputy speaker Nevzat Pakdil announced.
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Republican President George W. Bush and his Democratic opponent, John Kerry, are charging into the final week of the US campaign for the White House trading increasingly tough charges on the continuing conflict in Iraq.
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Hard-liners on both sides won Northern Ireland's election, final results confirmed Friday, setting the stage for a major diplomatic push to forge a Catholic-Protestant administration of bitter enemies. Comment
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RICHMOND, Aug. 29 -- Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) said Tuesday that he is "actively considering" ordering a ban on smoking in state government buildings and vehicles, a move that would affect 100,000 employees and inch the commonwealth closer to a growing national consensus about the dangers...
0Business
At least 11 people are killed and 31 injured in a bus crash in eastern Germany, police say.
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Nel posticipo della seconda giornata di serie B, il Bologna ha vinto in casa dello Spezio 2-0. In go...
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Tens of thousands march in Taiwan to back a government plan to hold a controversial referendum on joining the UN.
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HDS Virtual storage gets thin provisioning Hitachi Data Systems is scaling down its Universal Storage Platform V system to target the virtualization needs of the mid-range market.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Spacewalking astronauts and technicians on the ground conducted a day of trouble-shooting that shed light on a spate of problems that have stalled construction of the International Space Station, NASA managers said Tuesday.
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Lancashire police have opened a criminal investigation into allegations that Birmingham's Dwight Yorke suffered racial abuse during Sunday's 3-3 Premiership draw away to Blackburn Rovers.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund's top policy-making group failed on Saturday to close divisions over debt relief for the world's poorest countries.
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The British prime minister Tony Blair continued his tour in the Palestinian territories after his meeting with the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon.
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BERLIN, GERMANY.- A visitor walks past a poster announcing the Christian Friedrich Flick Collection at the Hamburger Bahnhof modern art museum in Berlin, Germany.
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Monsanto Co. reported on Thursday that quarterly earnings jumped 71 percent, driven partly by surging sales of its genetically modified corn and other seeds.
0Business
Lo svizzero Roger Federer, testa di serie numero uno, si è qualificato per le semifinali dell...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Sunday it had no evidence that Osama bin Laden had died, shedding further doubt on a secret document leaked in France that said Saudi secret services believed he had died last month.
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For the 2008 presidential candidates, the Web is the newest place to stump for votes. Surprisingly, Republicans are more "Googly" then Democrats
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AFP - French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroen has reported an 82.9 percent slide in 2006 net earnings to 176 million euros (229 million dollars) from 2005 and said it anticipated continued stiff competition this year.
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Il Genoa comunica di aver acuissato il difensore belga Anthony Vanden Borre dalla Fiorentina con la ...
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