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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli inquiry into the failings of last year's Lebanon war will issue interim findings next month that will draw conclusions about Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's performance, a spokesman for the panel said on Tuesday.
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Directors of the brokerage firm have begun to consider whether to replace the embattled E. Stanley O’Neal, and with whom.
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Reuters - News Corp.'s (NWSa.N) MySpace said on Tuesday it will offer in the next 30 days a technology to identify and block convicted sex offenders from the popular online social network.
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AP - Guard Derek Fisher was activated from the injured list by the Golden State Warriors on Sunday after missing seven games because of a sprained right knee.
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Reuters - The State Department finished an intensive review this week on how best to spend $18.4 billion in U.S. aid to Iraq and may shift focus to smaller-scale projects, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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The Tribune Company said on Tuesday that it was selling its daily newspapers in Stamford and Greenwich, Conn., to the Gannett Company for $73 million.
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Lee Westwood looked at the draw at the start of the HSBC World Match Play Championship this week and knew it could hardly be tougher.
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The upholstery, floor mats and even the steering wheel have been dermatologically tested, and it has a pollen filter to boot. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
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This week the US and Egypt plan to sign a trade agreement worth $500 million annually.
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Tracy McGrady stood at midcourt, exhausted from an overtime shootout that seemed more like him against Dirk Nowitzki than the Houston Rockets vs.
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The Holy Cross women's basketball team did not want a repeat of last year's game against Boston College, when the Crusaders suffered a staggering 90-43 loss at Chestnut Hill. Indeed, Holy Cross seemed to want to erase that memory entirely over the first 20 minutes, as it matched the Eagles basket for basket last night.
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PC World - Good-guy sites, like CastleCops.com, are suffering Web site outages from distributed denial-of-service attacks.
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AP - The White House expressed confidence Sunday that President Bush's judicial nominees will get a fair hearing in the Senate, despite comments from Republican Sen. Arlen Specter that anti-abortion judges were unlikely to be confirmed by the newly elected Senate.
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The foreign ministers of France and Rwanda meet for the first time since Kigali broke off diplomatic relations.
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Reuters - Google Inc. on Thursday will launch a long-awaited service called Google Checkout, which some analysts said could help online merchants boost sales and convince them to commit more advertising money to the Web search leader.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc has signed on Warner Music Group Corp to its music download service, the latest major record label to join the competitor to Apple Inc's industry-leading iTunes store.
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As hurricane Ivan roared northwards yesterday through the Gulf of Mexico towards landfall in the US as early as this evening, Wall Street analysts warned that the damage could extend beyond buildings into the wider economy.
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Some of the NBA's biggest stars say the new game ball is too sticky when dry, too slippery when wet, and too -- well, not the old one.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices fell more than a dollar to under $43 a barrel on Monday as unusually mild winter weather in the United States eased fears that thin heating fuel stockpiles could prove inadequate.
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Immucor (BLUD:NYSE - news - research) said its chief executive has temporarily stepped aside while Italian authorities conduct a criminal investigation of an Immucor subsidiary that the CEO once directed.
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They're still not the ones you think.
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Teenage girls are more likely than boys to have engaged in creating most kinds of online content, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
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Asus will release this year three new models in its low-budget Eee PC line.
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Presidents and high-ranking officials from 12 South American countries gathered in this ancient Inca capital to create a political and economic bloc they hope will put them on a more equal footing with the United States and Europe.
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The Salvation Army may be forced to scale back its help for those in need if Londoners don't start tossing more toonies into its kettles.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Oxfam could withdraw from Darfur if security worsens, its country director said on Monday, amid reports of 10 attacks in the past four days in Sudan's violent and remote west.
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Jury selection was completed Tuesday for the larceny retrial of two former top Tyco International Ltd. executives who are accused of looting the company of $600 million. Opening statements will begin Wednesday.
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AP - Aging NFL retirees told Congress Tuesday that playing professional football left them with broken bodies, brain damage and empty bank accounts. Lawmakers said they may get involved if a better pension and disability system isn't created.
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Wants patent infringement case chucked out
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Uncover financial insights for your business daily with The New York Times - the authority on market trend news and analysis. Now delivered to your home or business starting at $2.40/wk.
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Chip injunctions force the company to alter its plans.
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SMEs in agribusiness identified as Zambia's growth area LUSAKA, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Bankers Association of Zambia ( BAZ) has identified the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in agribusiness as a growth area, local newspaper The Post reported on Tuesday.
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Genentech reported a 6 percent rise in fourth-quarter profit, but its stock slipped after news that its cancer drug, Avastin, failed to meet sales expectations.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The red, white, and blue confetti floated in the sky and dropped ever so gently on their latest field of dreams.
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Markko Martin won his second consecutive World Rally Championship race on Sunday to clinch the Rally of Catalunya. The Estonian, driving a Ford, followed up his recent victory in
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The marquee event of the 2007 professional cycling calendar is here. And now you can follow every nail-biting sprint, every gut wrenching climb, and every blistering decent of the Tour de France on Google Earth.
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By CHRIS WILLIAMS MINNEAPOLIS - Discounting took a bite out of Best Buy's third quarter earnings. The nation's largest consumer electronics retailer said Tuesday that fierce competition forced it to sacrifice profit for market share, but all should be well in the fourth quarter.
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The Justice Department has opened an investigation into possible accounting fraud by the mortgage giant Fannie Mae. The criminal inquiry, still in a preliminary stage, came
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota senior center Janel McCarville broke her left hand at practice Thursday and is expected to miss four weeks.
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THE OLD Christmas carol’s “little town” is now a city larger than Charleston, and it’sa depressing place. Four years ago, more than 91,000 tourists visited in a year to see Bethlehem’s religious
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Marsh & McLennan Cos Inc said on Friday it will replace its embattled chief executive, Michael Cherkasky, following a year of disappointing results and is evaluating strategies to boost shareholder value.
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Bank of America began cutting jobs Wednesday but officials would not confirm how many or where. But a spokeswoman said cuts were occurring, and would eventually reach 12,500, the same number given in spring when the merger became final.
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Real Madrid has named former Brazil manager Vanderlei Luxemburgo as their third coach of the season on Thursday. Luxemburgo, who has just guided Santos to the Brazilian title
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Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is alive but the trail is "completely cold", Pakistan President Musharraf admits.
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Although Wal-Mart was expecting its top suppliers to use radio tagging technology to ship goods by Jan. 1, 2005, the technology is not yet ready.
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AFP - US aerospace giant Boeing has finalised an agreement to build a 100-million-dollar maintenance and repair centre in western India, Boeing officials said.
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AP - Hall of Famer Yogi Berra has filed a $10 million lawsuit against TBS, claiming the cable television network sullied his name by using it in a racy advertisement for its "Sex and the City" reruns.
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ZIHUATANEJO, Mexico -- Andrés Sauzo collects newspapers, astoundingly grisly newspapers.
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Prince Norodom Sihamoni, 51, a dancer and choreographer, is to be crowned king this month, carrying out the wishes of his father in the first change in the monarchy most Cambodians have known.
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AFP - The death toll from the heaviest rains in 25 years in Indian Kashmir rose by three to 16 as troops rushed supplies to people cut off by floods, police said.
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Today Baeble Media announces a distribution partnership with Insound.com. Insound.com will offer digital downloads of Baeble Music's growing catalogue of live concert video programming.
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LONDON - Fulham striker Andy Cole will miss six games and pay a 10,000 pound (US$17,800) fine for brawling with opponents and abusing a match official at last month's game against West Bromwich Albion.
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Reuters - Susan Quatrella was still near the back of the line after waiting two hours to check in for a flight to Colorado on Friday as new security measures slowed air travel to a crawl.
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AFP - Seven men on trial for multiple sex abuse crimes on remote Pitcairn Island should know their fate this week, but if convicted they will not immediately go to jail.
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Shawn James, a 6-foot-10 junior who excels at blocking shots, was among the least injured of the five players who were attacked by two men spraying gunfire outside a campus dance in September 2006.
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BAGHDAD -- Insurgents unleashed a pair of powerful car bombs yesterday near the symbol of US authority in Iraq -- the Green Zone, where the US Embassy and key government offices are located -- and hotels occupied by hundreds of foreigners. Three other explosions brought the day's bombing toll to at least 24 dead and mo...
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The corporate scandal is fast becoming a full-fledged criminal case, with former chairwoman Patricia Dunn facing felony charges in California
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China's gold-crazed masses will be allowed to trade in the precious metal under reforms that will upgrade trading on the country's nascent market, state media reported Tuesday.
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The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has questioned Congressional testimony by the architect of a proposed satellite radio merger.
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World Champion Petter Solberg has promised Sebastien Loeb "a hell of a fight" for victory in this weekend's Wales Rally GB.
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GAZPROM asserted its status as a major force in Russian oil yesterday by confirming that it would bid for Yuganskneftegaz, the Yukos oil subsidiary.
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New York, NY (Sports Network) - Major League Soccer, Soccer United Marketing and Adidas agreed to a 10-year partnership that makes Adidas the official sponsor and licensed product supplier for the United States' top soccer league.
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Two of the most hyped U.S. females debuted on the CBS Evening News Tuesday night -- news anchor Katie Couric and new celebrity spawn Suri Cruise. Couric made dual history by being the first solo female anchor on a major U.S.
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LONDON, England -- French President Jacques Chirac is in London for a state visit after reigniting a bitter row over the US-led invasion of Iraq, saying the US and Britain had made the world a more dangerous place.
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Serbian President Boris Tadic called for a rapid investigation on Wednesday after a man in a car tried several times to ram his limousine as it sped through the streets of Belgrade in a night-time convoy.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. KKD.N fell 8.8 percent before the bell on Tuesday after news wires reported that papers filed in a shareholder lawsuit accused the company of hiding declining sales for more than a year before reporting its first quarterly loss.
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Stelco Inc. (STEa.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) , Canada's largest steel company and a takeover target of Russia's OAO Severstal (CHMF.
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ANAHEIM -- In a stunning pair of gambits, the Red Sox yesterday reached an early-morning agreement on a two-year deal with David Wells and launched an aggressive effort to complete a four-year contract worth about $38 million with Edgar Renteria, the most coveted free agent shortstop.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Countrywide Financial Corp Chief Executive Angelo Mozilo said on Thursday the U.S. housing downturn is likely to lead the country into recession, but that the largest U.S. mortgage lender will survive.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures dropped on Friday after data showed monthly hiring contracted for the first time in four years, fanning recession fears and adding pressure for a Federal Reserve interest-rate cut.
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The new economic era will require that millions of people earning around the national average, $17 an hour, shoulder more responsibility and risk on the way to financial security, economists say.
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The scandal surrounding NBA referee Tim Donaghy comes with the most collateral damage and outrage because it robs everybody of their belief.
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Why make a useful tool more complicated than it needs to be?
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World number one Vijay Singh will face Ryder Cup captain Bernhard Langer in the first round of the World Match Play Championship at Wentworth on Thursday.
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CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela said on Thursday it was ready to arrest Colombian rebels found hiding in its territory as Bogota and Caracas tried to end a stand-off over the seizure of a Marxist guerrilla leader in Venezuela's capital.
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Charles Robert Jenkins, a one-time US Army sergeant accused of defecting to North Korea 39 years ago, has saidy he will soon surrender to military authorities to "face the charges that have been filed against me.
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AP - The Walt Disney Co. is launching a new Web site aimed at moms who are increasingly turning to the Internet for answers to everything from problems with teething babies to financing college.
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Reuters - California consumers and businesses will soon receive $1.1 billion in delayed payouts from Microsoft Corp. to settle antitrust claims against the world's biggest software maker, lawyers in the case said on Wednesday.
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Afghanistan's poppy cultivation increased by almost two-thirds this year and accounts for 87% of world supply of raw opium, a UN report said yesterday, warning of the country's descent into a drugs-based economy.
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MOSCOW - Russian investigators found explosive residue on the wreckage of the second of two airliners that crashed minutes apart, a security spokesman said Saturday, adding to evidence that terrorists breached security at one of the country's most up-to-date airports. The high explosive hexogen was found on the Tu-1...
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The Las Vegas megaresort nails down a Mobil five-star rating.
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If New York is the city that never sleeps, hockey players from military academies are athletes who rarely do.
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MINNEAPOLIS - The musician Prince is drawing fire for a new video that portrays an Arab-American girl envisioning herself blowing up an airport. The video for the song "Cinnamon Girl" shows the girl, played by 14-year-old Oscar nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes of the movie "Whale Rider," facing harassment from schoolmat...
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Rockets struck a mess tent at a military base in Mosul where hundreds of US soldiers had just sat down to lunch Tuesday, and military
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Yahoo reopens a 5-year-old case that banned the selling of Nazi memorabilia on its auction site. Also: Dell leads in computer sales despite tax levies…. Europe still watching what Microsoft does…. and more.
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RAMADI, Iraq - At least two Iraqis were killed and eight people wounded, including three US marines, in clashes Thursday between rebels and US troops in the restive Iraqi city of Ramadi, hospital and military sources said.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- At the Globalpress Summit in Monterey, Calif. today, Xilinx, Inc. , the world's leading programmable logic device (PLD) provider, announced volume production of its 90nm I/O optimized Spartan(TM)-3A platform.
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A law office’s sleek design by Andrés Escobar incorporates elements of the most modern commercial real estate development.
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic made a passionate appeal to judges to allow him to defend himself at his trial Thursday but prosecutors said he was not fit enough and was thwarting progress.
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Baseball players may not be the only animals looking to gain an advantage by using steroids.
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Andrejus Zadneprovskis of Lithuania got the silver. Libor Capalini of the Czech Republic won the bronze. Modern pentathlon combines shooting, fencing (one duel against every other competitor
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Music documentaries like Compañeras and Dirty Country premiering at SXSW will gain a wider audience through rapid DVD release. Plus: Web design for Flash vs. Ajax and more from SXSW in Listening Post.
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LAKE LOUISE, Alberta -- Lindsey Kildow of the United States won her first World Cup race Friday, taking the season's first downhill in 1 minute, 23.44 seconds.
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DALLAS Sept. 29, 2004 - Media owner Belo Corp. said Wednesday that it would cut 250 jobs, mostly at its flagship newspaper, The Dallas Morning News, and that an internal investigation shows the projected
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Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William H. Donaldson said in an interview this week that the accounting issues the SEC must address in its investigation of mortgage funding giant Fannie Mae are "not black and white.
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AP - Gasping for breath after long exchanges, Serena Williams ran out of energy and shots against Amelie Mauresmo.
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SAN JOSE, Calif.--When Sun Microsystems releases Solaris as open-source software, it plans to provide legal protection from patent-infringement suits to outsiders using or developing the operating system--one of several ways Sun hopes to make Solaris more
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MOSCOW: The yearlong, politically charged legal campaign against oil giant Yukos appeared to approach the endgame as the Justice Ministry filed to sell part of a key production subsidiary and issued a valuation of the daughter company below what market
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Just when it seemed like the competition was encroaching on the iPod's turf, Apple has broken away from the pack with a new and improved version of its hugely popular portable media player.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. LEH.N on Wednesday said strong trading and investment management revenue lifted third-quarter earnings by a better-than-expected 4 percent, bringing the company's shares to their highest level since May.
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