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U.S. Lifts Embargo To Help Abbas | The United States yesterday lifted its embargo on direct aid to the Palestinian government, joining the European Union and other countries in a swift demonstration of support for embattled President Mahmoud Abbas in his struggle against the anti-Israeli militant group Hamas. |
Rapper ODB dead at 35, once Jersey City resident | Autopsy results for the rapper known as ODB, a former Jersey City resident who died at a Manhattan recording studio, will not be available for several days, the city medical examiner's office said yesterday. |
Falcons sign Alge Crumpler to six-year contract extension | After signing a new six-year contract worth about $26 million, the Pro Bowl tight end caught the winning touchdown pass for the Atlanta Falcons in a victory over New Orleans. |
China, EU say progress being made on arms embargo | Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said Friday that talks to lift the European Union's 15-year arms embargo were making solid progress on the sidelines of the Asia-Europe meeting (ASEM). |
Richmond Fed's Lacker sees strong growth in 2005 | CHARLOTTE, NC, (CBS.MW) -- The US economy should be on a solid growth track in 2005 with low inflation, said Jeffrey Lacker, president of the Richmond Federal Reserve. |
Letter-Perfect Time for Foreign IPOs | Some of the hottest offerings in the U.S. are from other places. |
Annual pay rises are 'dying out' | Almost half of organisations no longer offer their staff across-the-board annual pay rises, research suggests. |
Cink Cruises to Win at NEC Invitational | If anyone had questions about Stewart Cink being chosen for the Ryder Cup team, he answered them with authority Sunday at the NEC Invitational, never letting anyone within two shots and becoming the first wire-to-wire winner this year on the PGA Tour. |
Songs for Ice Cream Trucks Serves Novelties for the Ears | One Ring Zero's Michael Hearst writes music to sound good coming out of the Good Humor man's truck. Now the songs, studded with sonic oddities, are catching on. |
Oil steady in thin trade after drop on crude build | Oil prices were little changed on Friday, holding around $59 a barrel after tumbling on a build in crude stocks, but trade was muted by a U.S. holiday. |
Rowand Powers White Sox Past Tigers 9-2 | Aaron Rowand homered twice — including his first career grand slam — and Jose Contreras won his third straight decision for Chicago in the White Sox's 9-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday night. |
Israeli leadership at odds over investigation of war effort | JERUSALEM -- Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz broke yesterday with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert by calling for an independent inquiry into their government's handling of the recent conflict in Lebanon. |
Brown heading to India for talks | Gordon Brown is due to arrive in India on his trip to boost links with the world's fastest-growing economies. |
Medicare Premiums Rising 17 Percent in 2005 | The US government has announced a record increase in Medicare premiums for 2005, and all depending which side you're on in the Presidential race, it's either an enhanced package for senior citizens, or the elderly population is being socked with the |
Duffy Goes Deep Twice to Lift Pirates | CHICAGO -- Chris Duffy hit his first two home runs of the season, including a tiebreaking shot in the ninth inning, as the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Chicago Cubs 7-5 on Thursday. |
Candidate-veteran attacks Bush on Iraq | An Illinois congressional candidate who lost both her legs during combat in Iraq said Saturday that President Bush has no real strategy for securing the war-ravaged nation, just political talk designed to appeal to voters. |
Police guard child after triple killing | Three men shot dead and two women seriously injured in shootings at Hertfordshire house. |
Iran Nuclear Enrichment Freeze Offer a Ploy - U.S. | Iran said on Friday it might extend a partial freeze on uranium enrichment in order to ease Western fears about its nuclear ambitions, but a senior U.S. official dismissed this as a ploy to fend off tough U.N. action. |
Baer set to lead Notre Dame | Interim Notre Dame football coach Kent Baer completed his team's third postseason practice Friday morning, and is only beginning to prepare for the Insight Bowl. |
Spanish PM Wants to Testify at Train Bombs Probe | Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said on Monday he wanted to testify before a parliamentary commission probing the March 11 train bombings -- an appearance likely to trigger a fierce ... |
Inside the hajj, with 1m believers | The Guardian's religious affairs correspondent travels to Mecca to offer a unique insight into the rituals and mood at the world's largest pilgrimage |
Wall St Week Ahead: Stocks focus on earnings, inflation | U.S. stocks may rally next week if the early stages of the earnings season yield positive results and U.S. data shows price pressures are moderating enough to keep interest rates steady. |
Music: Lousy Is the Best They Can Ever Be | The hottest of hot tickets at the Fringe Festival is an Edinburgh band called the Really Terrible Orchestra, which lives up to its name, or rather down to it. |
Today's Home News | Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis on Sunday briefed President Kostis Stephanopoulos on the landmark European Union summit that concluded late this past week, and especially over a decision by the 25-nation bloc to give Turkey a date for starting accession |
Judge throws out charges in blackmail trial | A judge threw out all charges Monday against three men accused of blackmailing teenage soccer star Wayne Rooney's agent. John Highland, Christopher Bacon and Anthony Bacon had been |
Program tackles child labor in Pakistan | The ceaseless sound of tapping metal echoes through these muddy, garbage-strewn alleys where thousands of workers in crumbling brick hovels churn out one of Pakistan's most successful exports — surgical instruments. |
New US prisoner abuse claims in Iraq, Guantanamo | Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. WASHINGTON, Washington, United States of America -- The White House said Tuesday that torture claims at the |
Despite Tight Money, Some Developers Keep Building | On a recent rain-soaked Tuesday morning in the Twinbrook Metro station's parking lot in Rockville, executives of the Chevy Chase development firm JBG Cos. mingled with transit officials beneath a white canopy. |
NASA Picks May 2005 Shuttle Launch Date | NASA is aiming for a mid-May launch of the first shuttle flight since the Columbia tragedy almost two years ago. The launch date was the latest of several set by the space agency, and just as subject to change. |
Future portables go much faster all day, says Intel | Beefier batteries and multicore chips aim to make Intel's future mobiles more like desktops. |
NATO Troops Wound, Arrest Serb War Crimes Fugitive | NATO-led troops injured a Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect in a shootout Tuesday after he resisted arrest and opened fire on them, the peace force said. |
JonBenet slay suspect has court hearing | John Mark Karr, the schoolteacher suspected in the 1996 slaying of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, met with two attorneys ahead of his first appearance in a Boulder courtroom. |
More than 30 dead, 60 injured in Iraq violence | Al Qaeda's Iraq affiliate has taken responsibility for a series of deadly attacks there, according to an unverified Internet statement. |
Sharpton's stature rises to new heights | The morning 23-year-old Sean Bell was shot to death by police, his grieving relatives did something that has become almost routine in such cases: They called the Rev. Al Sharpton. |
Explosion rocks central Baghdad, hits al-Arabiya network offices | A car bomb exploded outside the offices of the Al-Arabiya television station in central Baghdad on Saturday, injuring 16 people, police said. |
EDonkey settles music industry suits for $30 million | The founders of peer-to-peer file-sharing service eDonkey and its parent company, MetaMachine, said theyll pay $30 million to record companies to settle a copyright infringement case. |
High court to hear global warming case | The Supreme Court hears arguments this week in a case that could determine whether the Bush administration must change course in how it deals with the threat of global warming. |
DaimlerChrysler reports $1.2 billion profit after loss last year | Bolstered by strong sales of new models, Chrysler earned $269 million in the third quarter, up from $171 million a year ago, outperforming its larger US rivals in North America. |
Evangelicals See Snags as French Stress Secularism | Evangelical Christians in France face growing problems as authorities enforce secularism, favor Muslims or view them as supporters of President Bush, French Protestant leaders say. |
Suicide Bomber Targets Baghdad College | BAGHDAD, Feb. 25 -- A suicide bomber killed at least 38 people and injured at least 44 more Sunday after detonating a belt packed with explosives at a college in northeastern Baghdad, according to wire service reports. |
Jones Asks Conte to Take Polygraph Test | Marion Jones's legal team yesterday challenged Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) founder Victor ConteJr. to submit to a lie detector test, offering to pay for the exam. |
Football: Exeter hold Man Utd | Non-league Exeter hold Man Utd in the FA Cup third round at Old Trafford. |
New Show Tunes Emerge in 'Men's Songbook' Cabaret at NYC's Opia | Playbill - Broadway leading-men types embrace songs by rising theatre songwriters in a one-night cabaret evening called Under-Exposed: The Men's Songbook, Dec. 5 at Opia in Manhattan. |
Bolton sees no N Korea talks before US vote | WASHINGTON: North Korea has apparently decided against holding six-party talks on dismantling its suspected nuclear arms programs until after the Nov 2 US presidential election, a senior US official said on Tuesday. |
Radical Pakistan mosque warns Musharraf | A radical Pakistani mosque Saturday threatened forceful retaliation if the government launches an operation against it after President Pervez Musharraf said it housed suicide bombers. |
Flooding Spawned by Storm Kills More Than 550 in Haiti | More than 550 people died in Haiti last weekend from flooding and mudslides set off by Tropical Storm Jeanne. |
Janice Malaszenko: Adding Cultural Awareness to Technical Sharpness | Janice Malaszenko, vice president and chief technology officer of strategy, architecture and standards for Xerox Information Management, has combined global understanding with technology knowledge. |
Chavez Cannot Unite Divided Venezuela, Foes Say | President Hugo Chavez is incapable of uniting Venezuela, his opponents said Monday after the left-wing leader announced he would no longer recognize their |
Climate Change, Art and an Ice-Covered Hydrogen-Powered BMW | By making his BMW art car a statement about global warming, did Olafur Eliasson make an anti-car art car? |
Iraq: Grenade injures 6 schoolboys | An insurgent threw a hand grenade into a school compound in central Basra Thursday, wounding six boys, one seriously, according to police. |
Mass. Co. Employed 3 Afghan Crash Victims | Three of the victims of a plane crash in the mountains of Afghanistan were American women who had been working to help improve the struggling nation's public health system. |
Film maker who criticised | AMSTERDAM - A Dutch film maker who received death threats after making a movie criticising the treatment of women under Islam was slain in a street here yesterday, police said. |
Battle for AJAX Dominance Heats Up | Microsoft's announcement of its forthcoming 1.0 edition of the AJAX Library comes as a new group of the old competitors, now called the OpenAjax Alliance, announce they're doubling in size and adding Sun Microsystems. |
Sirius Names Karmazin CEO, Shares Jump | Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. SIRI.O on Thursday named former Viacom Inc. President Mel Karmazin as its chief executive, in the latest migration of a mainstream radio heavyweight to the fledgling satellite industry. |
Netflix lowers earnings outlook | Netflix Inc. expects its profit to sag the rest of this year as the online DVD rental leader absorbs the cost of lowering its the most popular subscription plan to ward off an intensifying threat from rival Blockbuster Inc. |
Young sparks Titans to big win over Saints | Vince Young threw for two touchdowns and Vincent Fuller raced 61 yards with an interception return to lead the Tennessee Titans to a 31-14 come-from-behind victory at New Orleans on Monday. |
Make-up artist passenger appeal | Train passengers are being asked if they remember seeing a make-up artist who went missing two weeks ago. |
Dell warns on fire-risk laptops | Computer giant Dell is to recall 4.4 million laptop power adapters because of a fear they could overheat, creating a risk of fire or electric shock. |
Sources: 'Mad Hatter' to plead guilty | A man suspected of being the serial bank robber dubbed the "Mad Hatter" will plead guilty to several bank robbery counts on Wednesday, an official with knowledge of the case said Monday. |
Arthur Kramer, Brother of Larry Kramer Depicted in 'Normal Heart', Dead at 81 | Playbill - Arthur Kramer, the lawyer brother of playwright Larry Kramer who became known to theatregoers through a character based on him in the play The Normal Heart, died Jan. 26 in Stamford, CT. The cause was a stroke. He was 81. |
Ex-LAPD Officer Admits to Rob Spree Role | A former police officer serving 15 years in prison on drug trafficking and weapon charges has admitted that he and other officers were behind a violent robbery spree that netted hundreds of thousands of dollars. |
O'Reilly Accused of Making Racist Comments | Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly said Wednesday his critics took remarks he made about a famed Harlem restaurant out of context and "fabricated a racial controversy where none exists." O'Reilly told his radio audience that he dined with civi... |
Blasting a Hole in a Comet: Take 2 | Two years ago, NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft blasted a hole in Comet Tempel 1, offering researchers their first look inside a comet. One small problem: The cloud of debris was so thick no one could clearly see the crater. But now the dust has cleared and another NASA spacecraft is returning to the scene to examine t... |
Hong Kong Shares Close Higher | Hong Kong stocks finished higher Wednesday, but investors remained cautious ahead of the outcome of the US presidential election. The Hang Seng Index climbed 88. |
Torture claim Brit diplomat axed | Britain's former ambassador to Uzbekistan has accused the Foreign Office of trumping up false allegations in an attempt to force him from his post. |
'Olympic' event has air of convention | After bidding farewell to the Democrats, the area is playing host to another major event: The Olympics. Not the Olympics. The Jewish Olympics. |
Ashes: Flintoff faces challenge | England captain Andrew Flintoff says the third Ashes Test in Perth is the biggest match of his players' careers. |
E-voting: US panel changes direction on audit trail | (InfoWorld) - A U.S. government board looking for ways to improve the security of electronic voting machines has taken the first step toward requiring the machines to have independent audit mechanisms, a day after it rejected a different audit proposal. The Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC), an advisory... |
Draining France's 'wine lake' | Bordeaux wine-makers in France face crisis distillation to reduce Europe's "wine lake", writes Caroline Wyatt. |
Ford sales up as trucks steady, others down | Ford Motor Co. on Tuesday posted its first monthly sales gain since January as its light trucks business stabilized after a downturn that forced an accelerated restructuring at the No. 2 U.S. automaker. |
Trading Pinstripes for Politics | Changes at The Journal: movable deadlines and a new taste for models. |
Hungary's radical youths take to the streets | Young people -- easily mobilised through the Internet and mobile phone -- are a vocal and radical force in Hungary's near-tribal political conflict, now increasingly being fought out on the streets. |
Chavez suggests oil barter plan | Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offers neighbouring states the option to pay for oil with local produce. |
UN agency finds hints of Egypt nuclear work | VIENNA -- The UN atomic watchdog agency has found evidence of secret nuclear experiments in Egypt that could be used in weapons programs, diplomats said yesterday. |
South Korea to cure ill gills at 1st fish hospital | The South Korean government is planning to set up its first fish hospital where doctors can provide healing for hurt herring and treat trauma in tuna. |
Developer takes back Anna Nicole mansion | 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. |
Patient Risk Level Affects Heart Procedure Outcome | NEW YORK - Patients undergoing treatment to clear blocked arteries in the heart who have a moderate-to-high risk of a recurrence of the blockage appear to have a better outcome if they undergo heart bypass surgery rather than a less invasive procedure, according to new study findings. |
South Africa robbers attack envoy | Robbers in South Africa beat an ambassador unconscious at his farewell dinner. |
Knuble's first trick hardly a treat for Anaheim | Mike Knuble had his best offensive game when his first priority was defense. Playing on the checking line against Anaheim's top line, the former Bruin got his first hat trick in 707 career games to help the Atlantic Division-leading Flyers beat visiting Anaheim, 3-0, last night. |
Trademark vs. Search: Do you Soo...gle? | Does Geico's trademark lawsuit against Google have merit? How will the case be argued? What's the likely outcome of the trial? A mock court of trademark experts weighs in with their verdict. |
Blair rallies party for elections | Prime Minister Tony Blair addresses the Welsh Labour Party conference ahead of May's assembly elections. |
Injured Sharapova quits semi-final, Hingis wins | World number one Maria Sharapova retired in the second set of her Pan Pacific Open semi-final against Serbia's Ana Ivanovic due to a hamstring injury. |
Sharon promises to help Palestinians with their election | Israeli and Palestinian officials are expected to hold low-key but direct talks on the mechanics of the January election to succeed Yasser Arafat after a promise to Washington |
Blasts and Fighting in Baghdad Kill at Least 8 | Strong explosions shook central Baghdad at dawn on Sunday and heavy fighting erupted in a street notorious as a rebel stronghold, in violence that killed at least eight Iraqis, the U.S. army and witnesses said. |
Google announces their phone | Three word comment: I want one! A TwitterGram, recorded through my iPhone, explains why Google's phone will be important, and why I want one. My email address got cut off at the end, darn it, it's dave dot winer at gmail dot com. |
NJ Doctor May Resume Autopsies | year after Dr. Elliot M. Gross, a former chief medical examiner for New York City and two South Jersey counties, was banned from performing autopsies in New Jersey, a judge has ruled that he should be allowed to resume his career. |
France and Britain remember WWII special forces | French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie and Britain's Princess Anne presided over a ceremony commemorating the members of the SAS who lost their lives during World War II. |
Church Comes to Herget School in a Box | By Nancy Gier Batavia United Methodist Church is doing outreach in a literal fashion. |
Japan's Record 7th Typhoon; The Death Toll Is at Least 31 | Japan's typhoon record was broken with a bang this week as battering winds and mountainous waves overturned ocean-going freighters. |
Senators Slam Republican Party for Bible Pamphlet | Democratic U.S. senators from the electoral battleground states of West Virginia and Arkansas slammed the Republican National Committee on Thursday for a pamphlet that suggested liberals would ban the Bible. |
No. 6 Cards win big, now wait on Rutgers | Louisville didn't waste its last chance to impress the powers that be in the Bowl Championship Series. Brian Brohm threw for 341 yards and four touchdowns and the sixth-ranked Cardinals (11-1, 6-1) clinched at least a share of the Big East championship with a 48-17 win over Connecticut on Saturday. |
Vaccine Offers Hope of Diabetes Cure | The first human trials of a vaccine against Type 1 diabetes were "very exciting," according to a researcher. The vaccine, which was developed over the last 10 years, will be tested on human subjects starting next August. |
UN: Iraqi elections on schedule | The chief UN elections expert gave an upbeat report Friday on the elections scheduled for Jan. 31 in Iraq, saying that despite the difficulties of working in |
Gerrard urges fans to get behind team | Steven Gerrard has called on the Anfield faithful to get behind the team, but also to be patient in the critical clash with Olympiacos at Anfield tonight. |
Davenport makes her exit | Lindsay Davenport, her latest loss to Justine Henin-Hardenne completed, made a little wave to the crowd. She was saying goodbye. For how long, even she doesn't know. |
IMF agrees to delay in debt payment by Argentina | Argentine President Nestor Kirchner received confirmation Friday by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a postponement of the payment of 1 billion US dollars in foreign debt owed by Argentina. |
Not too much insight in Grodin book | "If I Only Knew Then ... Learning From Our Mistakes" (Springboard, 240 pages, $24.99), compiled by Charles Grodin: It's important to realize your mistakes and learn from them, says writer and actor Charles Grodin. So he asked more than 80 celebrities and other notable folks to describe their biggest boo-boos in life an... |
2 years for Tongan royals' crash deaths | A teenage motorist convicted of causing a freeway collision that killed two members of Tonga's royal family and their driver was sentenced to two years in county jail on Friday. |
Israel Urges Sanctions on Iran for Nuke Program | Israel urged the United Nations on Wednesday to move toward sanctions against Iran because Tehran was never going to abandon its alleged quest for nuclear weapons. |
Naked Germans Jump in Ice-Cold Lake for Good Health | About 30 Germans wearing nothing more than red Santa Claus caps leapt into a Berlin lake for their annual Christmas Day swim on Saturday, a dip in the ice-cold water they believe is good for their health. |
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denseon-pretrain-50m
50 million (query, document) pairs uniformly randomly sampled from lightonai/embeddings-pre-training-curated (665M total) across all 34 source subsets.
Sampling strategy
Each subset contributes pairs proportional to its size in the full corpus. Pairs are selected by uniform Bernoulli sampling (seed 42) — NOT filtered by similarity score — preserving the full quality range including hard positives.
Schema
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| anchor | string | Query / question |
| positive | string | Relevant document / answer |
Usage
from datasets import load_dataset
# All 50M pairs
ds = load_dataset("capemox/denseon-pretrain-50m", split="train")
# Specific subset
ds = load_dataset("capemox/denseon-pretrain-50m", "msmarco", split="train")
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