text
stringlengths
7
14.5k
label
class label
14 classes
Justin Timberlake is starting a new project, a new movie called "Alpha Dog." He stars opposite Sharon Stone and Dominique Swain in this crime drama which is based on a true story about a group of California teenagers engaged in kidnapping and mu...
1Entertainment
Classic Songs, My Way by Paul Anka
5Music Feeds
AP - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney distanced himself Tuesday from one of his top Senate supporters, comparing his actions to President Clinton's affair with an intern and a former Republican congressman's overtures to male teenage pages.
13World
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Pharmacy-benefit manager Express Scripts launched an unsolicited $26 billion bid Monday to acquire its larger competitor Caremark Rx, potentially scuttling a competing offer from the CVS drug store chain. The deal, if approved, may help cut drug prices for consumers.
0Business
Reuters - The future of New Orleans and its ability to recover from Hurricane Katrina is uncertain, film director Spike Lee said on Wednesday ahead of the premiere of a four-hour documentary on the storm.
1Entertainment
By Monica Chen, The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C. Feb. 27--CLOVER -- York County is not yet done with one landfill dispute, but it soon might be taking up another.
6Sci/Tech
The Sudanese government and rebels in Darfur have failed to agree on a security protocol that would restart talks to end the conflict in the region.
13World
By Angie Toole, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach Feb. 11--Since he was a little boy, Ben Corbin of Shalimar has dreamed of a future in space, of traveling to Mars and exploring other planets.
6Sci/Tech
Iniziativa per riavvicinare le famiglie allo stadio ideata dal Genoa, che predisporrà una tri...
4Italia
Strategically-placed device denies surfers an iFull Here's a Friday afternoon poser for you: what do you do if you're on a beach doing a swimwear shoot for Sports Illustrated and your bikini inexplicably falls off and you're left sprawling butt-naked on the golden sands with your ample charms exposed to the snapper's...
7Software and Developement
ARKALYK, KAZAKHSTAN - Russia's Soyuz TMA-4 capsule returned safely home early Sunday morning following a six-month stay at the international space station.
1Entertainment
ROVANIEMI, Finland (Reuters) - Customer service, story-telling, nature studies and wilderness survival are essential skills for any elf worthy of the name.
1Entertainment
A revolt of "the millionaires against the billionaires" helped fracture Ukraine's corrupt power structure and lift Viktor Yushchenko to the presidency there.
2Europe
Bene anche contratti sui cambi, in calo quelli su azioni
4Italia
After a disappointing Olympic experience in Athens this summer, Stephon Marbury returned to the Knicks with a stated commitment to a team-first approach.
8Sports
VIENNA (Reuters) - When Ferit Yildiz came from Istanbul to Vienna to study mechanical engineering, he hoped to get a better education, raise his career prospects, maybe even find a job and a new home.
1Entertainment
Job growth showed surprising strength in November, according to a government report that also showed the unemployment rate edging higher from a five-year low.
10Top News
Diversified manufacturer General Electric Co. (GE) on Friday said it boosted its quarterly dividend by 10 percent and earmarked up to $15 billion for share repurchases over the next three years.
0Business
Martha Jones off to Torchwood Doctor Who will gain a new companion for the next 13-episode series of the cult show, the BBC reports .

7Software and Developement
AP - Playing without its standout inside player, No. 2 Kansas got 28 points from the frontline of C.J. Giles, Christian Moody and Sasha Kaun on Sunday in a 65-59 victory over No. 8 Kentucky.
8Sports
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks surged on Tuesday after the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates by a half-percentage point, giving relief to investors worried that the housing and credit market turmoil could spread to the broader economy.
0Business
BEIJING, Dec. 31 -- The biggest Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group acquired the personal computer unit of the world's largest information technology giant IBM on December 8 at a cost of US$1.75 billion.
0Business
mPhase Technologies (OTCBB: XDSL) today provided investors with a review of its strategy to maximize shareholder value.
6Sci/Tech
NEW YORK (Reuters) - SunTrust Banks Inc. STI.N , a large southeastern U.S. bank, on Thursday said fourth-quarter profit rose 33 percent, helped by loan and deposit growth and its acquisition of National Commerce Financial Corp.
0Business
Yesterday, the European Commission, the regulatory arm of the European Union, approved your proposed $7.7 billion takeover bid of business software maker PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT).
0Business
The Swiss mining company Xstrata began a hostile $5.8 billion bid for the Australian mining company WMC Resources yesterday, in what analysts said could turn into an international bidding war
1Entertainment
Media & professional: · Trust demands emphasis on onscreen innovation· 'Disenfranchised' audiences cause concern
10Top News
Zambia says it will no longer share power with Zimbabwe, to safeguard its supply amid severe disruptions.
13World
John F. Kerry, ratcheting up his campaign rhetoric, said yesterday that President George W. Bush's middle initial should stand for ''wrong" on
1Entertainment
weather.com -
6Sci/Tech
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A suicide car-bomber killed 18 Pakistani paramilitary soldiers and wounded 28 on Saturday in an attack that might have been linked to an army assault on a radical mosque in the capital, a military spokesman said.
13World
Matrimonio in crisi per Stefan Effenberg. Il 38enne ex centrocampista della Fiorentina ha confermato...
4Italia
The horror prequel Exorcist: The Beginning grabbed possession of the top box-office spot with an estimated $18.1 million. The dude comedy Without a Paddle drifted in second with $13.
1Entertainment
This season's flu vaccine shortage may be a useful wake-up call, and it should prompt citizens to demand the production of a sufficient supply of vaccines.
1Entertainment
JERUSALEM, Feb. 19--When Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice decided last month she wanted to host a summit with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, one of the big questions was: Where?
13World
At least 15 people are killed in a suicide car bombing at a checkpoint east of the Iraqi city of Ramadi, police say.
10Top News
Sources inside NASA told CNN Sunday that O'Keefe will accept an offer from Louisiana State University to be its chancellor. O'Keefe's decision, the sources said, was made for personal and financial reasons
11Top Stories
An investigative judge said Sunday that sufficient reason exists to reopen the inquiry against Joran van der Sloot, a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway from the island of Aruba.
10Top News
Fears over Chinese and US economies trigger slump.
10Top News
Everything possible is being done to find five Britons abducted on Tuesday, Margaret Beckett says.
10Top News
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Brady Quinn and the Notre Dame offense were as good as advertised in Week 2.
8Sports
AP - Michael Jackson is "reviewing and evaluating" proposals for his future including several offers to perform in Las Vegas, his spokeswoman said Tuesday, but he doesn't feel any pressure to make a quick decision. Raymone K. Bain confirmed that, after a period of globe-trotting, Jackson is currently living in Las Vega...
1Entertainment
AP - The U.N. chief vowed Wednesday to keep United Nations staff in Algeria, saying the bombing of its offices in the north African nation will not deter the world body from helping people in need.
13World
RELIGION BRIEFS Film festival The featured screening of the season at the South Shore Jewish Film Festival is "Rashevski's Tango," which centers around the question of what it means to be Jewish. It takes place at 7:30 p.m. on Feb.
6Sci/Tech
Pharmaceutical stocks were long seen as a safe bet for investors, because patients' aches and pains are largely independent of the ups and downs of economic cycles.
2Europe
Nineteen people including a US soldier were killed in separate incidents in Iraq on Saturday. Guerrillas armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades skirmished with US forces
11Top Stories
Confesercenti, 'Non denunceremo i clienti, pronti a ricorsi'
4Italia
Reuters - The drummer of indie punk band Fugazi has created a new DVD series that spotlights live performances from notable rock acts in a given city, all recorded in a single day.
1Entertainment
AFP - Floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains left close to 100 people dead or missing on the main Indonesian island of Java on Wednesday, officials said.
6Sci/Tech
DNA tests on a fostered Colombian boy suggest he is a hostage's son thought to have been in captivity.
10Top News
NASA is counting on a series of preventative measures to get the space shuttle back into flight after the Columbia tragedy in 2003, including tight limits
6Sci/Tech
E' la quinta volta quest'anno, atteso nuovo ritocco a marzo
4Italia
VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran vowed on Wednesday to press on with its nuclear fuel program, ignoring a U.N. deadline to freeze uranium enrichment or face broader sanctions, but offered to guarantee it would not try to develop atomic weapons.
10Top News
Drop the pose, Steve Interview What's Bob Kohn doing now?

6Sci/Tech
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Dany Heatley scored two goals and made an assist to help the Ottawa Senators to a 6-0 rout of the Carolina Hurricanes, and their third successive win, on Wednesday.
8Sports
By Matt Weiser, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Dec. 19--A new network of high-tech weather sensors is making the streams, tributaries and dams of the American River the country's most closely monitored water system.
6Sci/Tech
The high and low ends of the fiberglass fashion world seem to be converging on one focal point: a bigger, sexy derriere.
1Entertainment
Il tecnico della Fiorentina debutterà domani contro la Roma "Sono un uomo di campo non sarò mai un dt alla Sacchi" "Quattro anni a giocare a golf il calcio mi mancava troppo" (07:07 25/01/2005)
4Italia
USATODAY.com - When President Bush delivers his State of the Union address Wednesday, he'll survey a Capitol Hill landscape that reflects the heartland he won on Election Day.
13World
LA PAZ (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited Bolivia on Thursday as part of the U.S. foe's drive to strengthen diplomatic and economic ties with leftist Latin American leaders.
13World
Did the same Greek philosophers who declared the first truce for Olympic competition have the foresight to imagine a universe not just where many countries could coexist, but also a universe occupied by many such habitable worlds?
6Sci/Tech
A lot of people hope that the ugly rifts between Europe and the U.S. will close when George W. Bush leaves office. Don't bet on it
13World
Reuters - Large quantities of arms and ammunition have poured into Darfur in the last two weeks and the government appears to be preparing for a major military offensive, the African Union (AU) said on Friday.
13World
A house built for a billionaire's billionaire.
0Business
English club Millwall are to complain to UEFA about the security arrangements at the stadium of Hungary's Ferencvaros after violence marred the two sides' UEFA Cup clash on Thursday night.
8Sports
Got a standard def 16:9 telly? Now you too can use an Apple TV Editors' Blog I've been playing with Apple's Apple TV set-top box this week, and I have to say I like it. But Apple's missing a trick by not allowing those of us - me included - without HD TVs to make the most of the device. No matter: a simple hardware tr...
7Software and Developement
AFP - Ethiopian rebels on Sunday claimed they had killed at least 140 government troops in an attack in the Ogaden region, where the army is carrying out a crackdown.
13World
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- A military jury acquitted a Marine major of assault and battery yesterday in connection with the death of an Iraqi prisoner, but found him guilty of two lesser counts.
13World
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Israeli and U.S. agents were behind bombings in Iraq's Shi'ite holy cities of Kerbala and Najaf, Iran's Supreme Leader said Monday, accusing Tehran's arch-foes of trying to rig Iraq's elections for their own ends.
10Top News
Power is shut off on the island of Jamaica as Hurricane Ivan rages above, packing maximum sustained winds of 155 mph (250 kmph). The main highway leading from Kingston to the eastern
13World
The IMF has said it will negotiate with Argentina after the country's debt swap, that was delayed until 17 January.
13World
The Home Office is to start consultation on plans for compulsory lie detector tests for sex offenders.
2Europe
This children’s reading-readiness series on PBS uses fairy tales to communicate the power of reading. But they are fractured fairy tales.
1Entertainment
If aerial dogfights were still part of warfare, the F-22 would give the U.S. an edge. But dogfights, today, are the stuff of video games
10Top News
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Chocolate-covered Ritz crackers, gooey caramel and vanilla ice cream - it doesn't get much better than that, judges decided at an ice cream contest. Judges said Jacksonville resident Tasha Callister's entry, Puttin on the Ritz, tasted great and had a clever name.
1Entertainment
NEC Corp. executives are negotiating the sale of the company's Packard Bell division, reportedly to eMachines founder Lap Shun "John" Hui. The move would leave NEC without a consumer PC brand, while it continues to supply the European professional market with NEC-branded computers.
0Business
BRUSSELS, Dec 7 (IPS) - Employers in developing countries are sacrificing workers' rights to attract foreign investment, says a report launched Tuesday.
2Europe
Punters coming back to cable Virgin Media has confirmed a turnaround in its fortunes today with news it has reversed the flow of customers away from it following its embarrassing public defeat over TV rights by Sky.

7Software and Developement
Also: Pentagon's UAV use hits new high. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
6Sci/Tech
AFP - Russia's war-torn republic of Chechnya votes in a presidential election to replace its slain pro-Moscow leader, amid fears of rebel raids.
2Europe
Life & style: Soaring property prices are preventing many people climbing the housing ladder. Now more and more of us are instead opting to extend our homes.
10Top News
CAMP ZAMA, Japan Sept. 11, 2004 - Forty years after allegedly defecting to North Korea, a frail Sgt. Charles Robert Jenkins reported to duty in Japan on Saturday, giving a simple salute to an Army marshal and surrendering to US authorities.
13World
Cala in Italia, a dicembre livello piu' basso da marzo 2004
4Italia
INDEPENDENCE, Missouri (Reuters) - Kofi Annan, in his last major speech as U.N. secretary general, urged the United States on Monday to shun go-it-alone diplomacy and collaborate on its world challenges, including the Iraq war.
10Top News
Red, shiny, and delicious.
0Business
Now with an official fresh consumer-grade iPhone in its laboratories, CE analysis firm iSuppli can fine-tune its estimates of how much of a markup Apple adds to the device, based on its estimated bill of materials. Each 8 GB model which retails for $599, iSuppli estimates, cost Apple a total of $264.85 in manufacturing...
7Software and Developement
New Mexico State coach Tony Samuels was fired Wednesday after leading the Aggies to just two winning seasons in eight years. The Aggies finished 5-6 this season, including 4-3 in the Sun Belt Conference.
8Sports
Soft Cell singer Marc Almond is in hospital with serious head injuries after a motorcycle crash. The pop star is understood to have been riding pillion when the bike was in collision with a car yesterday.
11Top Stories
Hanna-Barbera created a pantheon of beloved characters, including Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear and the Flintstones.
1Entertainment
Blog: The first few folks are congregating outside the downtown San Francisco Apple store, and for some, capitalism has just as much appeal as the iPhone.
6Sci/Tech
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New orders for U.S.-made durable goods tumbled much more than anticipated in October on a big drop in civilian aircraft but were also down unexpectedly when transportation was stripped from the total, a government report suggesting economic weakness showed on Tuesday.
0Business
IBM Rational Software Corp. today released updated desktop development tools designed to eliminate common problems from distributed development efforts.
6Sci/Tech
Blog: Keep kids' attention focused on the camera by sticking a candy dispenser on the flash hot shoe.
6Sci/Tech
The US women took their third consecutive gold medal in Olympic basketball on Saturday, breaking open a close game in the fourth quarter to beat Australia 74-63.
11Top Stories
Conto Tv ora vuole anche la serie B. L'emittente satellitare che ha trasmesso le partite di Coppa Ue...
4Italia
By Donna Vavala, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla. Jun. 10--Bob Silverio has an expensive, little hobby -- growing bonsai trees. About five years ago, a co-worker gave Silverio a small bonsai tree for his birthday. "I didn't want it to die, so I did a lot of research," he said.
6Sci/Tech
CARLOS Moya clinched Spain's second Davis Cup victory yesterday with a majestic straight-sets win over American world No. 2 Andy Roddick.
1Entertainment
Even though David Ortiz has started only two games at first base in the last three months, he will play the position when the Red Sox face the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium in Games 3, 4, and 5 (if necessary) of the World Series. The way the Sox see it, they have no choice but to go with ...
8Sports
Questi gli arbitri designati a dirigere gli incontri della 17/a giornata del campionato di serie A i...
4Italia
Children were subjected to inappropriate tests by doctors researching the MMR vaccine, a hearing was told.
2Europe