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Reggae Gold 2007 by Various Artists
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Chennai, Oct. 19 (NNN): Dreaded sandalwood-smuggler and long-time sought bandit Koose Muniswamy Veerappan has been shot dead by the men of Special Task Force (STF) in Tamilnadu near the village of Paparapatti, some 320 kilometres southwest of Chennai.
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NASA is joining forces with the Internet Archive to digitize its vast collection of space photos, film, video and images. The effort is expected to take five years.
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Mother of three-year-old snatched in Nigeria says the kidnappers phoned and threatened to kill her daughter.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Telling his audience "we've been through a lot together," Tom Brokaw bid farewell as anchor of the "NBC Nightly News" on Wednesday, becoming the first of the big three stars of U.S. network news for the last 20 years to retire.
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By Rachel Konrad Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn is under scrutiny from business and ethics experts after she oversaw an invasive and possibly illegal effort to snoop into the home phone calls of fellow HP board members.
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At first glance, East Lake Golf Club appears to present a cute little par 4 of a finishing hole. Only thing is, the 18th is really a par-3 monster, one that stretches to a whopping 235 yards.
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Defying conventional wisdom in the age of the megachain, McNally Robinson Booksellers of Canada will open a new independent book store in Manhattan.
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England got strikes from sparkling debut starter Jermain Defoe and Michael Owen to defeat Poland in a Uefa World Cup qualifier in Chorzow.
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CHARLES PRINCE’s decision to oust three very senior executives demonstrated that the heir to Sandy Weill’s empire is finally running the show.
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One Night Only - Live by Black 'n Blue
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Terry S. Semel, the ex-chief executive who is credited with reviving Yahoo and then losing touch, is leaving the company’s board.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pulsing transplanted heart cells with electrical current helps them grow into mature cardiac cells, bringing doctors closer to a grow-your-own heart patch, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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Nortel Networks Corp. expects its revenue in the third quarter to fall below the previous quarter's estimated number and for its full-year 2004 revenue to grow slower than the overall communications equipment industry, the company said in a statement Thursday.
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The nation's two largest wireless carriers amended their policies on cellphone contracts before a hearing held yesterday by lawmakers interested in legislating consumer-friendly practices.
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Reuters - Walt Disney Co. and its Miramax Films unit have moved significantly closer in recent days to severing their fractious relationship, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing sources familiar with the negotiations.
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La decisione del giudice potra' essere impugnata
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By Larry O'Rourke, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa. Sep. 14--R -- the player who led the Eagles to five consecutive postseason appearances from 2000-04. Any remaining doubt should be gone, Eagles free safety Brian Dawkins said Wednesday.
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Google published its Annual Report which includes the list of Google’s Subsidiaries, both based in the United States and Internationally. Most non-Google companies are acquisitions, such as YouTube, Picasa, dMarc and Nevengineering; while some of the companies are Google spin-offs, such as Orkut. [Hattip to Gary Price]...
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Police look for a woman who broke into pop star George Michael's north London home earlier this month.
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AP - The Bush administration expressed confidence Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon intends to "move forward" on peacemaking with the Palestinians after he withdraws Jewish settlers and Israeli troops from Gaza.
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Reuters - Barack Obama easily won South Carolina's bitterly contested Democratic presidential primary with the aid of heavy black support on Saturday, dealing a setback to rival Hillary Clinton after a week of political brawling.
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AP - The attorney for a U.S. developer who claims ownership of the waterfront mansion where Anna Nicole Smith lived in the Bahamas said Saturday he has retaken control of the residence on behalf of his client.
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When we invited readers to round off our recent list of nine health traps to avoid in the coming year, you weren't shy.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Mexican founder of an ultra-conservative Catholic movement who was accused of child abuse and sanctioned by the Vatican has died aged 87, his Legionaries of Christ group said on Thursday.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - The sixth tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, Florence, formed in the distant Atlantic on Tuesday and could become a hurricane as it moves toward the United States, U.S. forecasters said.
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Madrid, Spain (Sports Network) - Argentine midfielder Diego Simeone is leaving Atletico Madrid for his native Racing Club Avellaneda.
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This year's exam results in England showed 46.5% of students achieved five or more good GCSEs.
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Microsoft is inviting approximately 800 specially selected developers to attend the first-ever Microsoft Office System Developer Conference from Feb. 2 through Feb. 4 in Redmond, Wash.
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Reuters - Germany's BMW , the world's biggest premium carmaker, said in Sunday it saw no sign of a slowdown in the United States and aimed to sell at least as many cars in 2008 here as in 2007.
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Reuters - Wall Street was set to start little changed on Wednesday, a day after the Federal Reserve raised rates by 25 basis points as widely expected, while Lehman Brothers will be in focus ahead of its results.
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said on his weekly radio program, on WABC-AM, that he had come down with what he diagnosed as the flu on Wednesday.
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Reuters - Pop singer Madonna on Thursday defended staging a mock crucifixion during her record-breaking "Confessions" world tour, saying it was not "anti-Christian, sacrilegious or blasphemous" -- but a plea for people to help one another.
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AP - British and Dutch police shut down what they say is one the world's biggest online sources of pirated music Tuesday and arrested the Web site's 24-year-old suspected operator.
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Congress has taken final action to approve a bill that would tighten life insurance marketing rules to American military personnel.
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TUCSON, Ariz (Reuters) - Pilot Rich Rouviere gazes through night vision goggles as he speeds the Black Hawk helicopter to where a high-tech drone far above has pinpointed 11 intruders from Mexico.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush told lawmakers on Thursday he wants tax rebates for families and breaks for businesses in a rescue plan for the struggling U.S. economy that could total up to $150 billion.
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By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Sep.
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David Gergen , director of the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government , was an adviser to four US presidents: Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton. He is editor-at-large at U.S. News & World Report and a political analyst. Gergen, whose center helps develop future leaders, talked to Boston ...
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Chinese companies will gain development rights to 15 oil fields in eastern Venezuela, and China will also be allowed to build oil refineries there.
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Il gruppo svizzero e' la casa della marca francese Lacoste
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An entrepreneur beats back depression and begins to develop a new product.
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Missouri, dopo due mesi la bambina confessa l'omicidio L'imputata Ú ricoverata in ospedale per cure psichiatriche 12 anni, strozza la sorellina di 9 Avevano litigato per un hamburger (07:46 16/02/2005)
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The 61st annual Venice Film Festival concluded Saturday with the film's top prize, the "Golden Lion," going to the English director, Mike Leigh.
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Olympic gold medalist swimmer Michael Phelps was sentenced to 18 months probation Wednesday after pleading guilty to drunken driving.
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By ALEX DOMINGUEZ BALTIMORE (AP) -- Dalia Isicoff knows pain. A lifelong sufferer of rheumatoid arthritis, she has had seven hip replacement surgeries...
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Arab and Israeli leaders hold a summit in Egypt, in a show of support for Palestinian chief Mahmoud Abbas.
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Michael Howard will unveil a 'timetable for action' for a Tory government in a bid to win back voters.
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A new warden is patrolling Dorset's Jurassic Coast to prevent intrusive fossil hunters hacking into the cliffs.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's party has vowed again to stick to its hated economic reforms despite Sunday's election rout in the state of Saarland where the far-right NPD emerged as the strongest ...
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Gordon Brown is due to arrive in India on his trip to boost links with the world's fastest-growing economies.
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Tony Blair says the government must do more to ensure failed asylum seekers are deported from the UK.
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AP - Yahoo Inc. appeared to move a step closer to challenging Google Inc. in searchable Web mail, acquiring the startup behind the powerful e-mail application Bloomba.
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‘Frank, objective and realistic’ was the phrase applied by sources at the presidential palace to the talks held between President Emile Lahoud and the Maronite patriarch, Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir, at the patriarchal residence in Bkerki.
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A body washed up last year on the Isle of Wight is believed to be that of Charanjit Kaur, mother-in-law of killed millionaire Amarjit Chohan.
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Iraq: US forces launched air strikes on Fallujah Monday after eight US marines were killed in weekend clashes with Iraqi rebels in Al-Anbar province despite claims that the insurgency was being defeated.
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Mercato scommette su ripresa Europa. Attesi i dati Usa
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In the 7.2 update, Apple has fixed eight security issues in its QuickTime media player.
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan A military court-martial is under way for Charles Jenkins, the Army sergeant who's accused of deserting his unit in 1965 and defecting to North Korea.
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HOUSTON (Sports Network) - The Milwaukee Bucks activated guard Erick Strickland from the injured list Friday. He had missed the last six games with a lateral meniscus tear in his right knee.
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Congressional negotiators ended a thorny disagreement with a key Republican lawmaker over intelligence reform Monday, possibly clearing the way for passage of legislation
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The Football Association today defended their disciplinary procedures after outspoken criticism by Sir Alex Ferguson. The Manchester United manager called the system
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In Venezuela continuano le ricerche dei connazionali scomparsi il 4 gennaio scorso Diecimila contatti sul sito delle famiglie: "Troppi misteri dietro quell'incidente" L'aereo fantasma delle Los Roques "Che fine hanno fatto gli otto italiani?" di BRUNO PERSANO (15:20 19/01/2008)
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The Atlanta man with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis who sparked an international health alarm by flying to Europe and back for his wedding twice ignored requests to stay put and not travel, officials said yesterday.
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Barclays Bank announces a pre-tax profit of £7.14bn in 2006 - up by 35% on the previous year.
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Reuters - U.N. Security Council members intend to press Sudan to arrest two suspects accused of war crimes in Darfur by the International Criminal Court, Belgium's U.N. ambassador said on Thursday..
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Reports that the British Grand Prix has been dumped from next year's Formula 1 World Championship are a little premature, although that's not to say it won't happen.
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Google, Inc. significantly cut the expected share price this morning for its initial public stock offering, signaling lower-than-anticipated demand for the most highly publicized new stock since the late 1990s.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Wednesday accused four current or former partners of accounting firm Ernst & Young in a tax fraud conspiracy case arising out of the sale of tax shelters.
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NHS fertility treatment for cancer patients must be improved, leading doctors say.
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AFP - Russia said it wants to emulate India's success in information technology as it wooed Indian firms for joint projects and called on both nations to team up to tap global markets.
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Washing out a child’s nose with seawater may be a safe and simple way to reduce the symptoms of the common cold.
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The lockout that followed the expiration Sept. 15 of the collective bargaining agreement between the NHL and the NHL Players' Association places the entire 82-game season in jeopardy.
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Shares of Travelzoo, a travel site famed for giving out free stock, climbed more than 1,000 percent in the past year. But now that the company has withdrawn a deadline for cashing in free shares, few have claimed their now-valuable stock. By Joanna Glasner.
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Russia has played one of its last political trump cards -- the Kyoto Protocol -- in hopes of winning European support for its membership in the World Trade Organization, the Russian press said Friday.
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A preliminary autopsy report says NFL great Reggie White may have died because of a respiratory disease combined with other health problems.
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Storm Trojan fingered in tempest Prominent anti-spam services came under a sustained denial of service attack late last week. The assault targeted Spamhaus, Spam URI Realtime Blocklists (SURBL), and Realtime URI Blacklist (URIBL).

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Mumbai dispatch: Randeep Ramesh sees Indian jurisprudence heave into action as the first sentence is handed down for the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Italian fashion house Gianfranco Ferre has parted ways with Lars Nilsson just five months after hiring him as creative director.
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Confcommercio, a luglio +1,1%, +0,6% nei primi 7 mesi
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La scorsa notte nel Trapanese nell'abitazione dei genitori
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Tens of thousands flee as Typhoon Nanmadol becomes the latest storm to hit the Philippines.
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A self-proclaimed hacker says that he discovered the feverishly awaited climax to the coming seventh and final installment of the Harry Potter series.
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England signed off their troubled trip to Zimbabwe on Sunday by completing a 4-0 whitewash in their one-day international series. England scored 261 for six and
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AMSTERDAM/LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries Plc has rejected a 7.2 billion-pound ($14.2 billion) bid approach from Dutch chemicals group Akzo Nobel NV , saying it undervalued the company.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's memoir could project his status on the world stage, but it could touch off controversy and strain relations with neighbors, analysts said a day after the book's launch.
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Serena Williams muscled her way past Switzerland's Patty Schnyder at the US Open. Picture:Reuters. Serena Williams revealed she had defied the advice of three doctors in order to play in the
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Seduta di rifinitura per il Livorno, impegnato domani nell'anticipo con il Palermo al Barbera. Dicia...
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Two Brazilian subsidiaries of General Electric Co. that provide maintenance services to financially troubled airline Vasp are calling for the bankruptcy of Brazil's fourth-largest airline.
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By Stacia Glenn, San Bernardino County Sun, Calif. Jan. 31--CALIMESA -- Development is coming, and bringing with it anticipation of a new city hall, library, parks and public-safety stations. The problem is, that means a dangling price tag of more than $41.6 million.
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WASHINGTON -- More than a third of Iraq's national police battalion commanders are now Sunni after a purge of Shi'ites who had a sectarian bias, a US general said yesterday.
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AFP - Slow-moving talks between the European Union and the four-nation South American Mercosur trade bloc, aimed at building the world's largest free-trade area, will be extended beyond the October 31 deadline into next year, negotiators at talks here announced.
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Reuters - Amazon.com Inc. said on Friday first-day advance orders for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the seventh and last installment of J.K. Rowling's successful book series, were 547 percent higher than for its predecessor.
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LIVE WEBCAST (Source: Identity Engines) Please join Computerworld, Aberdeen Group, Identity Engines, and Meru Networks as they share the latest research findings on WLAN security, including the effectiveness of alternative security approaches and best practices for protecting your wireless investment, including the hi...
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It was once as chic as a Walkman the size of a house brick and as tricky to work out as a Rubik's cube - but the end appears nigh for the humble videotape recorder.
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