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AP - Some of the top contests among Tuesday's primary elections:
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LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures indicated a strong open on Wall Street on Friday ahead of non-farm payrolls data which might offer clues on the outlook for interest rates and growth in the world's largest economy.
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ST. LOUIS, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sigma-Aldrich , a leading $1.7 billion Life Science and High Technology Company, has enhanced its Bioactive Nutrient Explorer.
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AP - European Union leaders agreed Saturday on the key points of a treaty meant to strengthen the bloc's foreign policy role and eliminate unwieldy bureaucracy.
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On five influential talk shows, 2,250 questions to presidential candidates mention global warming three times. Is this a problem?.
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AP - Thanks to the Razr fad, there are plenty of thin phones out there by now. But in terms of sheer smallness, the options remain slim.
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Reuters - The sizzling pace of Chinese capital spending barely slowed in November despite curbs on lending, showing why the authorities intend to tighten monetary policy further in 2008.
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AP - Two Palestinian boys, ages 15 and 14, were killed in an Israeli missile strike in northern Gaza on Thursday, their relatives said.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces pulled out of the Gaza militant stronghold of Shijaiya early on Thursday after a six-day raid, Palestinian residents said.
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At just past 6:30 am Pacific Time today, the mountain-size asteroid came within four times the distance of the moon to the Earth - a comparative measurement
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Microsoft intensified its legal assault on spam with the filing of seven lawsuits against alleged spammers marketing sexually explicit material, the company said last week.
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Security researchers have warned of a vulnerability in most web browsers that could let scammers launch phishing attacks from pop-up windows on trusted websites.
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Options for the future of Britain's nuclear weapons system will be outlined in a white paper on Monday.
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A tanker ship spilled 30,000 gallons of heavy crude oil into the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey on Friday night, leaving a
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Electrolux shares have tumbled after the world's largest maker of consumer electronics said profit in the second half of 2004 will be less than forecast.
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Wildfires feeding on the driest brush in years erupted across Southern California, burning thousands of acres.
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AP - Gunmen kidnapped 26 workers from a refrigerated food factory Sunday in western Baghdad in what appeared to be a new sectarian attack, a security official said.
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Barbra Streisand cancels her Rome gig next month, but denies protests over high ticket prices had any bearing.
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AP - Jozef Stumpel and Brett McLean scored first-period goals and Tomas Vokoun made 23 saves, leading the Florida Panthers to a 3-2 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday night.
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AP - Miguel Cabrera drove in three runs with a homer and two doubles, and Josh Johnson pitched seven strong innings to lead the Florida Marlins over the Philadelphia Phillies 15-2 on Monday.
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The New Orleans Hornets are moving to the Western Conference without Jamal Mashburn ... for at least one season. Mashburn and the Hornets will announce later Monday that the former All-Star will
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Reuters - Taser International Inc. shares were up more than 6 percent in premarket trading on Tuesday after the stun gun maker said it had received orders totaling more than $1 million.
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AP - Egypt plans to issue invitations next week for an international conference on Iraq, but does not expect it to produce "miracles" for the war-torn nation, a leading adviser to President Hosni Mubarak said Wednesday.
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The move signaled a shift by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who says he was robbed of a victory in the presidential election.
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AP - Jason Kidd scored 19 of his 23 points in the second half as the New Jersey Nets ended a four-game losing streak with an 85-84 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Monday.
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A boat trip on the Chicago River helped show WiMax as a fast mobile wireless network technology, but less clear are when mobile workers and consumers can get the products, at what price and how WiMax world will interact with Wi-Fi or other networks.
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The American chief executive of Russia's embattled oil giant Yukos yesterday held out little hope of saving the company from dismemberment by the Putin government this month.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet media company Yahoo Inc said on Tuesday it is adding media-playing features, large file transfers, new languages and other tools to its instant messaging service.
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CNET has acquired VersionTracker, MacFixIt, and iPhone Atlas.
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AFP - The current push to secure peace in Northern Ireland is too good an opportunity to miss through petty political point-scoring, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said.
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AP - A pair of strong Pacific storm systems was forecast to slam into the West Coast on Saturday, while bitterly cold temperatures were expected to continue sweeping through the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
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It is not a stretch to say that the iPod changed, and helped save, the music business. One in five Americans has owned one of Apple Computer Inc.'s sleek little iPods. Consumers have filled their iPods with more than 1 billion songs from Apple's Internet music store, where tunes go for 99 cents...
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Human activity has raised the risk of more heat waves like last year’s, which gave Europe probably its hottest summer since 1500, scientists said on Wednesday.
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By DENNIS PASSA BEERWAH, Australia - "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin was remembered Wednesday for his "great zest for life" at a public memorial service for the beloved conservationist and entertainer.
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DENVER -- The second-seeded Los Angeles Galaxy travel to INVESCO Field at Mile High to face the third-seeded Colorado Rapids in the opening game of the 2004 MLS playoffs Friday.
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A car bomb killed three civilians after detonating Saturday near a US military convoy south of Baghdad, and the death toll rose to nine from an apparent truck
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InfoWorld - An Eclipse IDE plug-in that would provide search capabilities specifically for developers is being readied by a University of California, Berkeley computer science professor.
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Mortgage rates are at record lows. Save $1000s on your mortgage payment. Free quotes.
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Hall of Famer Sparky Anderson once said, "My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.
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Thousands of people have protested in Lebanon over the death in custody of a man arrested for an alleged al-Qaeda plot to bomb foreign embassies.
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AP - The Japanese government on Wednesday projected the economy would grow 2 percent next fiscal year even as the economy minister warned that target would be hard to reach if the U.S. economy slows and oil prices remain high.
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By MIKE CRISSEY PITTSBURGH (AP) -- It could be called a mechanical miracle - a robot that walks on water. With inspiration from nature and some help from research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a research team led by Carnegie Mellon engineering assistant professor Metin Sitti has built a tiny robot th...
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A federal court jury on Tuesday ordered a Medtronic subsidiary to pay about $110 million in a dispute between the company and a doctor who invented some of its spinal fusion technologies.
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AP - Soccer's governing body Wednesday fined Italy, the Netherlands and France for being too lenient with doping offenders.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A top conservative from Chancellor Angela Merkel's party warned immigrants on Thursday they must adapt to the German way of life or face "consequences".
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AFP - Boris Johnson will be the Conservative candidate for London mayor next year, taking on Ken Livingstone, the Tories announced Thursday.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - DaimlerChrysler raised the prospect of parting company with its loss-making U.S. Chrysler arm on Wednesday, a move which could unwind a blockbusting 1998 merger creating the world's No. 5 car maker.
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AP - Chinese scientists have succeeded in implanting electrodes in the brain of a pigeon to remotely control the bird's flight, state media said.
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AP - Italy's Potito Starace beat fifth-seeded Gaston Gaudio of Argentina 6-4, 6-3 on Monday in the first round of the Brazil Open on Monday.
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Jason Giambi ended an 0-for-32 hitless streak with what might have been one of the most satisfying blasts of his career.
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AP - Key figures in Pakistan's Bhutto dynasty:
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Reuters - If you're not one of the seven people scheduled to ride on the space shuttle next week, take heart: NASA has opened a launch simulator for the rest of us.
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Yesterday's market is today's road map.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CP) - Quebecor World Inc., targeted by labour allegations of union-busting tactics, has been named in more charges from the National Labor Relations Board in the United States.
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AP - Weather around the U.S.A.
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ATHENS, Aug 18 (Reuters) - France's Mary Pierce knocked defending Olympic champion Venus Williams out of the singles on Wednesday with a 6-4 6-4 upset victory in the third round.
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Confusion about the role of Chinese banks in the sale of Russia's Yuganskneftegas deepened on Wednesday.
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The rollout of new servers and networking switches in stores is part of a five-year agreement supporting 7-Eleven's Retail Information System.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington Capitals left-wing Alex Ovechkin has signed a new 13-year-contract, the NHL team said on Thursday.
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AP - China should not punish people for expressing their political views on the Internet, Yahoo Inc. said Monday, a day after the mother of a Chinese reporter announced she was suing the U.S. company for helping officials imprison her son.
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AP - The shortest guy on the court grabbed the rebound under his own basket, scanned the floor once, and took off.
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LAGOS (Reuters) - Unions began a four-day strike against rising fuel prices in Nigeria on Monday, helping drive world oil prices to record highs even though shipments from Africa's top producer were unaffected.
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Kon solly day shun
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AP - Annika Sorenstam got exactly what she wanted — and then some — in the first round of the HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship.
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Bank of England boss Mervyn King is defending his role in the Northern Rock banking crisis.
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washingtonpost.com - Fans who can't get enough of NBC's "The Apprentice" can visit a new companion Web site produced by Yahoo and watch an extra 40 minutes of video each week that will not be shown on Thursday's reality TV show.
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AP - Cubans hit hard by hurricane Charley will receive $50,000 in U.S. assistance, the State Department said Friday.
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Florida forward Richard Zednik sustained a deep cut on the right side of his neck after being struck by a teammate’s skate during the Panthers’ loss to Buffalo on Sunday night.
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29m days a year lost to drink
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AP - The union for baseball umpires will not contest the season-ending suspension given to Mike Winters for using a profanity aimed at San Diego's Milton Bradley last weekend.
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ATHENS -- Did Japan's Kosuke Kitajima break the rules when he beat world record-holder Brendan Hansen by 17-100ths of a second in yesterday's Olympic 100-meter breaststroke? Absolutely, insisted Hansen's US teammates, who claimed Kitajima routinely uses the illegal dolphin kick.
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With an awesome display of shots that brought him to No. 1 in the world, Vijay Singh put himself in the record books Friday morning with a 28 on the front nine at Glen Abbey to surge into contention at the rain-delayed Canadian Open.
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Intel has 16 new processors to show off in the desert, while AMD plans to trickle out a few details about its upcoming notebook processor technology next week at CES.
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Reuters - The dollar steadied broadly on Friday after a swelling U.S. trade deficit and steep oil prices pushed it lower in the previous session, as investors awaited new data about the U.S. economy.
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AP - A federal judge called the Bush administration's handling of a Hurricane Katrina housing program "a legal disaster" Wednesday and ordered officials to explain a computer system that can neither precisely count evacuees nor provide reasons why they were denied aid.
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AN Australian executive of gold mining giant Newmont will be free for Christmas, as will five other Newmont managers, after an Indonesian court ruled their detention was illegal.
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AP - Jordanian police exchanged gunfire with a small group of armed men suspected of stealing electricity and water in a town near the Israeli border, the official Petra news agency reported. One of the gunmen was killed and several were arrested.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's government should order police to stop using lethal force against protesters, a U.S.-based rights group said on Sunday as the nation braced for three days of opposition rallies over disputed December 27 polls.
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A year after trying to fire a well-known medical inventor who heads one of its divisions, Boston Scientific Corp. finds itself going to court against Alfred Mann today, appealing a judge's order keeping him in his position against the will of his bosses in Natick.
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Ray Allen shot 5-for-19, and Rashard Lewis was 3-for-12 before leaving late in the third quarter with a strained left shoulder. ''That is why a good team is a good team if guys can really contribute
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Four Indian batsmen made half-centuries before Sachin Tendulkar took 4-54 to beat Bangladesh by 91 runs in their third and final one-day international cricket match and clinch the series 2-1.
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Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia Corp. will offer mobile anti-virus software through F-Secure Corp. as one of the features in its new Nokia 6670 smart phone when it is released in October, the companies announced Thursday.
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Kevin Durant and Jeff Green, the second and fifth overall choices in last week’s N.B.A. draft, signed contracts with the Seattle SuperSonics on Wednesday.
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Clinton Portis, who said after Sunday's loss in Cleveland that the Browns seemed to know the Redskins' plays, is taking another tack this week: He's not talking.
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Porn clampdown continues
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Is it cheating to write a “grab bag” column in the middle of July, when you’re days away from vacation?
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators have approved GlaxoSmithKline Plc's pill Tykerb for patients with advanced breast cancer after other treatments have failed, a company spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
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Crude oil futures briefly surpassed $50 a barrel Tuesday before closing lower amid concerns about low US heating oil inventories ahead of winter.
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AP - Terrell Owens warmed up for practice Friday, then went to see a trainer about his injured ankle.
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AP - On the day Jerome Bettis and Curtis Martin went over 13,000 yards rushing, Bettis will be remembered most for, of all things, his passing.
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Pixar Animation Studios Inc. tumbled Wednesday after delaying the release of its next film by more than half a year, leaving the company with an empty calendar in 2005 while its closest competitor still has a handful of new features planned.
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan (Reuters) - The U.S. Ryder Cup team, wounded after a first day mauling, were losing a fight for survival Saturday.
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MILAN - The success of a grass-roots antipolitics campaign spearheaded by an iconoclastic comedian is giving Italian politicians pause for thought.
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Reuters - Dutch chemical group Akzo Nobel NV said on Monday it is selling its pharmaceutical unit Organon BioSciences to Schering-Plough for 11 billion euros ($14.5 billion).
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AFP - The most detailed probe yet into the workings of the human genome has led scientists to conclude that a cornerstone concept about the chemical code for life is badly flawed.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Vodafone Group Plc unveiled a range of new handsets and services for the key Christmas period on Monday including an exclusive music service offering unlimited tracks, to challenge the iPhone in Britain.
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WASHINGTON - The Sept. 11 commission closes down Saturday, but its members plan to continue testifying before Congress and traveling the country to try to get the government to improve homeland security...
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For 22 years, Ray Bourque had been preparing for last night. As he played each game of his National Hockey League career, he wasn't cognizant of how special he was, didn't want to think about it, didn't want to dwell on his talent and dominance as a defenseman. As he won each of his five Norris Trophies, he ...
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The mother of former Yankee Chuck Knoblauch said Friday that she anticipated that her son will cooperate with a Congressional panel investigating steroids in baseball.
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Gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying unarmed Iraqis to work at a US weapons dump near Tikrit on Sunday, killing 17 and bringing the toll
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