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 Last Friday marked the beginning of the summer travel season, but things do not sound too good for travelers, since several airlines announced more or higher fees.Previously this week American Airlines announced that it would begin implementing a 15 dollars fee for travelers’ first checked bag, that is passengers would be charged for all...
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Sebastian Vettel delighted in his historic achievement and Lewis Hamilton could be at least partly happy about his ride in the Monza rain.
"A star is born in the Monza rain," said Italy's Unita daily on Monday after Vettel became the youngest Formula One race winner at age 21, in a Ferrari-powered Toro Rosso on...
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 In a modest ceremony on Sunday Ferrari unveiled its Formula One car for the 2008 season, which has suffered some aerodynamics changes, hoping that it would be able to win the drivers and teams' world championship titles that it had scooped up last year.The F2008 got back its number one on its nose, as Kimi Raikkonen managed to win the...
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 According to
market research firm NPD Group’s recent announcement, it seems that Apple’s
iTunes became No. 2 music seller in the United States, just behind Wal-Mart
Stores. The market research company based its recent report on measures of retailers’
volumes of sales.
NPD Group said
on Tuesday that Apple’s popular online music...
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 During the second day of critical negotiations regarding the fight against climate change at the Bali conference the delegates from almost 190 nations have agreed to implement the climate change adaptation fund, which is one of the most important features of the Kyoto Protocol, a statement said on Tuesday.This particular fund is aimed at...
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 Heart attack patients who take a combination of Plavix, plus a proton pump inhibitor such as Prilosec or Nexium, may be at increased risk of death or another heart attack, according to a new study. Nexium and other proton pump inhibitors, like Wyeth’s Protonix and Prevacid, Eisai Co.'s Aciphex, are used to treat heartburn, in which...
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 A new study that can change the treatment for cardiovascular disease showed that statin drugs can really lower the risk of heart attacks and even strokes in patients who apparently feel well. The researchers tracked 18,000 people who had normal cholesterol and found out that the drugs also helped for lowering the risk of heart diseases...
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 According to the New York Times, drug manufacturers whose
products are not all set for authorization in the United States will shortly receive
replies from watchdogs in a new layout meant to a certain extent to prevent
alarming financiers.
The Food and Drug Administration will send complex response
letters when drugs are not...
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 Cocaine may be the cause of emergency room visits of young adults who have symptoms similar to those generated by a heart attack, such as chest pain, shortness of breath, anxiety and palpitations. The announcement by the American Heart Association is a warning to both doctors and patients. For the latter, it is crucial that they are...
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 The Human Growth Hormone, which many athletes in the United States and elsewhere use, most of the time illegally, brings no real benefit. Even though it is known that the HGH increases muscle mass, it does not improve performance and in some cases it can lower it, a new study found. Furthermore, intake of Human Growth Hormone may...
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 Going now into its first
human trials, a vaccine that could help to control a flu pandemic has shown
encouraging results.
The vaccine, made by
Acambis, based in Cambridge, should protect against all strains of influenza A,
the type responsible for pandemics. Unlike existing vaccines it does not have
to be reformulated each year...
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 Doctors are being warned not to routinely give people with
learning disabilities anti-psychotic drugs to curb aggressive behavior.
An Imperial College London study of 86 patients found the
drugs were no more effective than being given none at all.
Researchers said it was more important to address the
underlying causes.
In...
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 According to results from two large international studies,
patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, a cancer of the cells in
the bone marrow that make blood, who were treated with Revlimid (lenalidomide)
and dexamethasone had significantly improved progression-free and overall
survival compared with patients treated...
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A new study adds to the amount of evidence that even low quantities of ozone pollution may increase the risk of dying from lung disease.The study, tracking data on 450,000 people over 18 years, suggests that raising the ozone level by 10 parts per billion raises the likelihood of death from lung problems such as pneumonia or chronic...
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 An 18-year old study shows that people who live in areas with high concentrations of ozone are 25 percent to 30 percent more likely to die from respiratory illnesses than those who live in areas with cleaner air. Scientists of the University of California and Berkley reported on Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine that...
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 Daylight Saving Time is not just about setting your clock one hour ahead before going to bed on Saturday night. Safety officials are using this moment of the year to remind us another important task that may be related to “spring forward.” So, don’t forget to check batteries in your smoke detectors. It may save your life in case of an...
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 The National Breast Cancer Awareness Month lasts all October. This is the only celebration which helps bringing people together to raise awareness about the terrible type of cancer because of which so many women die annually. Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States, as the Centers for Disease Control and...
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 According to the New York Times, the House of Representatives approved legislation on Wednesday that would give the Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate tobacco industry.Taking into account the record of warnings about smoking risk and the fact that smoking causes one in five deaths in the U.S., John D. Dingell,...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration brought out a public
health advise to notify patients, caregivers and health care professionals that
they should switch to hydrofluoroalkane (HFA)-propelled albuterol inhalers
because chlorofluorocarbon (CFC)-propelled inhalers will not be available in
the U.S. after
December 31, 2008....
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 On Thursday, the "Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States" report was released by the Bush administration. Four years of research were needed to put all the information together; however, it was thanks to a court order that the report eventually came out. One of the conclusions of the report...
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 This Memorial Day weekend, a rather unusual meteorological phenomenon snuck up on unsuspecting Sierra-bound travelers. Several mountain roads had to be closed as certain segments were covered with no less than four inches of snow. The routes which were considered to be unfit for traffic included the Tioga Pass Road in Yosemite National...
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 On Wednesday president Bush gave the year 2025 as deadline for halting the growth of greenhouse-gas emissions. According to Mr.Bush, new technologies are "the key" for resolving the soon-to-be delicate issue of climate change. One of the more specific aspects the president went into was this: power plant emissions should peak...
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 The World Health Organization has said on Monday that global warming has already contributed to an increase in the incidence of diseases and has increased poverty in some areas. Soon, millions may die of these problems. The announcement was made on World Health Day, which commemorates each year the founding of the World Health...
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 According to top United Nations' scientists, the world will
have to end its growth of carbon emissions within seven years and become mostly
free of carbon-emitting technologies in about four decades to avoid killing as
many as a quarter of the planet's species from global warming, according to top
United Nations' scientists.
The...
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 This year’s Olympic torch world tour seems to find chaos anywhere it goes, as activists gather to protest against the Chinese crackdown in Tibet. It was now time for San Francisco, the torch’s only stop on the North American continent, to feel the smell of the fight for human rights, after delirious marches in London and Paris.It was the...
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 Chinese media reported on Monday that the organizers of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games are gathering information on 28.000 foreign journalists, in their attempt to respect China’s promise to allow greater media freedoms.The database is expected to be a reference to the interviewees, so that they would not fall victim of blackmail and...
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 Books are still those things you read quietly in your privacy. They are still those old ways of printing someone’s writings and they still have the same specific smell. These are some things that neither Kindle nor Kindle 2 will be able to change. Yet, they do manage to make the e-books look pretty interesting.Kindle 2 began to be...
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 The Nintendo DSi is a new version of the Nintendo DS and the DS Lite. So many fans of the portable game would wonder why to buy the new version and what it has as extra gadgets. Well, the DSi Sony Play Station game console wasn’t just a way to make more money for nothing. The DSi comes with many extra features, ready to entertain its...
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 Google has officially announced that Google Earth can be accessed from the iPhone or the iPod Touch. When a good data connection is available the geographical software streams to the device with a reasonable speed and it’s really functional. Multi-touch enables users to zoom in or out of a map with ease and even rotate the map on the...
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 On Monday, San
Francisco will host the 2008 Worldwide Developers
Conference, where Apple is believed to reveal to the public a new iPhone model.
Nobody knows exactly what to expect from a new, improved model: maybe new apps,
maybe 3G or maybe a better touchscreen technology. Regarding the new model,
Apple kept itself silent and...
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 Israeli startup Modu unveiled
recently an innovative mobile phone that can be “dressed” and connected to
other compatible consumer electronics in order to enrich users’ experience. The
Israeli company’s new cell phone’s goal is to revolutionize the mobile
industry; the facts that Modu is the first cell phone that can be “dressed”...
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 Sony Corp. has just launched
Rolly, a funny new digital audio player that has improved audio capabilities,
as well as strange but funny features for a normal digital audio playing
device. First of all, the strangest thing is the player’s shape: it looks like
and egg; secondly, it can move: it knows how to move as if it were a...
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 Mozilla has announced this week the availability of Firefox 3.1 Beta 3, and with it also came the announcement that Firefox 3.1 may even become Firefox 3.5. But first things first, Firefox 3.1 comes with several new features and improvements to performance, web compatibility and speed. The Private Browsing Mode now includes the ability...
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 As Microsoft revealed the new version of Windows Mobile, the
6.5, analysts didn’t seem to be so impressed with the company’s latest iteration
of its mobile software platform.
Indeed, there are unquestionable improvements in what
usability concerns, but this time, it looked like Microsoft tended to forget
about its most important...
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 Microsoft unveiled the latest iteration of its mobile device
operating system during the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Windows
Mobile 6.5 promises to deliver a much better user experience regarding the
usability and the new features that come with the OS.
Among the most visible changes, there is the new home
screen,...
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 In order to combat software piracy, the Microsoft Corporation is sending millions of computer users a software update that turns their screen black, nagging them to switch to legitimate copies of Windows. This measure mostly affects China’s computer users. The update does not prevent people from continuing to use their machines, but some...
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 Adobe Systems Inc. announced Tuesday that it had begun
shipping Creative Suite 4, its package of professional graphics and media
applications, including Flash Player 10. The launch also includes updated
versions of Photoshop, Illustration, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Fireworks,
Contribute, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Soundbooth,...
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 The European Commission slapped an additional $1.35 billion antitrust fine on Microsoft for its anticompetitive business practices. The record 899 million euros fine punishes the world's largest software maker because it failed to comply with the EU's previous antitrust decision, which was taken against the company in 2004.The Commission...
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 Yahoo revealed on Tuesday a new
service for mobile phone users. Called oneConnect, the new service was designed
to combine instant messaging, email, text messaging and even social networking
features.
According to Yahoo, oneConnect
was set to be rolled out starting the second quarter of this year as part of
Yahoo Go 3.0 and the...
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 Although Microsoft had hoped for “a
wind of change,” the United
States’ government seems still interested in
controlling the software maker’s business. On Tuesday, Judge Colleen
Kollar-Kotelly extended monitoring of Microsoft until November 12, 2009. The
ruling represented a response to a filing made by 10 states to extend...
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 Microsoft declared on Tuesday that it would disable the so- called kill switch from its Vista operating system, which had the role of hobbling the pirated versions of the top-selling software.The move comes after the company had several complaints from legitimate users that had problems with the kill switch that was restricting the use...
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 The long awaited for IMAP feature
has eventually become available also for the Gmail users! Starting yesterday,
the 24th of October 2007, Google Inc. has started rolling out the
popular feature for its Gmail’s users for free. IMAP allows the users to
synchronize their email across multiple devices and accounts.
The announcement...
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 A Flickr representative has
announced on Friday that the Yahoo! web site is planning to make the big step
from photo sharing to photo editing. And this brave move will take place thanks
to a new deal that Flickr plans to have with Picnick, a start-up. "We are
working on a relationship with Picnik, which will be available in the...
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 Starting today Sun Microsystems
will trade under the “Java” ticker symbol, in a move that has been adopted by
many other companies. Java represents the company’s popular programming
language with which the developers are able to write software applications for
different computing platforms. Now, Sun Microsystems has adopted the same...
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 On Monday, Lenovo Group Limited launched its IdeaCentre K210 computer in the US, thus making its debut in offering consumer desktops outside of China. Earlier this year, Lenovo also launched a series of notebooks outside of its home territory, starting with the US as well.One of the more unusual features of the IdeaCentre K210 consists...
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 On Monday, the U.S. Department of Energy talked about the
world’s fastest computer, the Road Runner. The machine can make up to one
thousand trillion calculations (one petaflop) per second and it is to be used for
running virtual tests of U.S.
nuclear tests.
Up to this point, the number one...
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 The mouse has always been a
simple device, but Microsoft has thought to change that and has announced its
ultimate mouse that was specially created for video game players! Microsoft has
revealed its new product with the occasion of the Games Convention from Leipzig, Germany.
The Microsoft Side Winder Mouse is, obviously, more than a...
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 Former Roman Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo won Paraguay’s
presidential election, ending more than six decades of one-party rule by the
Colorado Party (CP). His victory is historic in the country, as CP held power
even longer than the communist regimes of Cuba,
North Korea and China.
“The humble citizens are the ones...
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 New Cuban President’s Raul Castro recent reforms in order to
improve access to consumer products are “cynical” since most of the people do
not afford them, U.S.
officials say. U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez told Reuters that “It's
somewhat cynical that some time in the future they will have the right to buy a
cell phone,...
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 One month after suffering a tough defeat in a referendum over a
socialist constitution, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez carried out a
comprehensive cabinet reshuffle, including the naming of a new vice
president.
On Friday, new Chief of Staff Jesse Chacon, until now at the helm
in the telecommunications ministry, revealed 12...
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 Venezuelan voters rejected constitutional reforms that would have
eliminated term limits for President Hugo Chavez, according to the
first preliminary official results in the early hours of Monday.
With an abstention rate of over 44 per cent and with over 88 per
cent of the ballots counted, 50.70 per cent of the voters rejected...
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 Colombia has put a stop to efforts by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
to negotiate a prisoner swap with leftist Colombian guerillas.
Conservative President Alvaro Uribe withdrew the leftist-
nationalist Chavez's authority as a mediator after Chavez spoke by
telephone Wednesday with the head of the Colombian military,...
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 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made public the new proposed constitution that permits the president to seek re-election indefinitely. It’s very likely he will be the only one to benefit from such a measure. As he talked to the nation last night from the National Assembly, the 53-year-old president summarized his plans to create a new...
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 The Tampa Bay Lightning announced that it will change ownership as it was acquired by Absolute Hockey Enterprises, a group led by Florida Panthers coach Doug MacLean, from Palace Sports and Entertainment.According to the Tampa Bay Lightning, the purchase deal also includes the leasing rights to the St. Pete Times Forum and nearby...
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 In a move that tells something
about Apple Inc.’s new business strategy, the company seems to have decided to
allow the users to run its operating system in virtual machines. This move
involves also a change in Apple Inc.’s end-user licensing agreement (EULA) for
the Mac OS X Server 10.5 Leopard. Practically, the change has been...
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 Things seem to have started to
change for Apple Inc.’s iPhone, as the company’s CEO Steve Jobs has announced
today that third-party applications will soon be coming for the controversial mobile
phone This announcement comes in a period of time when the iPhone has
transformed from the once popular gadget into a controversial device,...
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 Apple Inc. has been the subject
of many analyzes recently. But the most recent prediction has become already a
confusing problem for both annalists (especially JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s
annalists) and clients. Kevin Change, JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s annalist has
said yesterday that Apple Inc. may introduce on the market a phone...
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 Has Beyonce lost her identity? She says she hasn’t, but we still have a doubt about it. We know that every artist wants a change once in a while. Sometimes people get tired of listening to the same type of music or they just get tired of the artist, so the ones who produce their music and their image must come out with something new.And...
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 Beyonce tries to be an artist. And like every artist, there comes a time when you need the people to know under a stage name. She started her career with “Destiny’s Child” and became known as Beyonce when she released her first solo album, “Crazy in Love.” But now she’s ready for a change in name! “I Am…Sasha Fierce” is her third solo...
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 AC/DC is an Australian rock band which was formed in 1973 in Sydney by Angus Young and Malcolm Young, two brothers. Their music was always considered as heavy metal but they’ve said they use to call it just “rock’n’roll.” Their first album was released in 1975 and was called “High Voltage.” In 1977, bassist Cliff Williams replaced Mark...
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More money or
more fame? What might have determined Shakira to change from Record Company to
Live Nation?
According to
the Los Angeles Times, Live Nation, the giant concert promoter, has signed a
ten-year contract with Colombian singer Shakira, 31.
Some music
industry experts believe that the contract might be estimating $70...
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 It might not be a big surprise, but the drugs Amy Winehouse
just can’t get enough of are now officially endangering her life.
In an interview with the Sunday Mirror, the soul singer’s
father, Mitch Winehouse, expressed his worries concerning his daughter’s
health, after doctors said she had early stage emphysema and an...
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 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival means
more than just a music festival. It mixes music with culture, promoting healthy
living and sharing information on recycling, green living and social awareness.
At this year’s festival, the outside world and its problems were brought closer
to the stage.
Eddie Vedder asked the crowd...
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 A representative for Def Jam records has
confirmed that Nas has decided to change the title of his new album “N*gger” to
the self-titled “Nas,” according to Entertainment Weekly.
Contrary to reports, the rapper told
AllHipHop.com that the album will be untitled.
The Queens
hip-hop artist, born Nasir Jones, sparked controversy...
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 The winding road of singer Scott Weiland, 40, doesn’t seem to get back on track as he gets himself in trouble time and time again.
After he left Stone Temple Pilots for Velvet Revolver in 2003, he is now getting back with his old band because Velvet Revolver doesn’t want him anymore, declaring on April 1 that the...
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 We might as well say that Blake Lewis conquered the audience
in the sixth season of the popular show “American Idol” by other means than his
singing talent. Beatboxing and originality were his strengths and his voice
came on second or third place when it came to recognizing his skills.
The issue now is that his first album, “Audio...
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 Tameka Foster, R&B singer Usher’s wife, gave birth to a baby boy at 9:30 pm on Monday, at the Atlanta hospital, his publicist confirmed on Tuesday.The baby is healthy and it weights seven pounds and nine ounces and is expected to head home with his parents on Wednesday, according to the People magazine.This is the Grammy winning...
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 The former members of the BRIT Award-winning English all-female pop group Spice Girls announced that they will be reuniting for a tour and greatest hits album. They organized a press conference in London, where they originally formed, and said the reunion tour would take place in December and January.The tour is set to start in Los...
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Hamburg - American Serena Williams remains top of a virtually unchanged women's tennis rankings issued Monday by the WTA ruling body.
Williams, who beat Dinara Safina in the final of the Australian Open on January 31 to take top spot, heads the rankings with 9,432 points followed by the Russian on 9,150 points.
Serbian Jelena...
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Denis Gremelmayr got down to
his tennis business on Monday with a 6-4, 6-2 defeat of Fabio Fognini
at the Los Angeles Classic, after another turn in Germany's Olympic
tennis drama. The number 86 would have been next in line for
a place in Beijing, absent Monday's CAS decision that allowed veteran
Rainer Schuettler into the Olympic...
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Denis Gremelmayr got down
to his tennis business on Monday with a 6-4, 6-2 defeat of Fabio
Fognini at the Los Angeles Classic, after another turn in Germany's
Olympic tennis drama. Sixth seeded Mardy Fish joined the
German in advancing on a day of only four matches as he ended a run of
four losses in opening matches. The...
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 Philipp Kohlschreiber survived a barrage of 42 aces with 104 winners as
he stunned sixth seed Andy Roddick in the third round of the Australian
Open in the early hours of Saturday, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (11-9), 6-7 (3-7),
8-6.
The German 29th seed clinched victory after 3 hours 53 minutes of
late-night play in the Rod Laver Arena when...
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 Justine Henin tackled the fear factor and Jelena Jankovic played
through fatigue Friday as seeds struggled into the fourth round of the
Australian Open.
Top seed Henin stretched her current winning streak to 32
matches but admitted that she plays in fear that the record run might
be broken.
She staved off that immediate...
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 Venus Williams and Maria Sharapova managed to squeeze into the second round at Wimbledon after not so convincing performances.Venus found Russian Alla Kudryavtseva to be a very tough nut to crack and before the American knew what hit her, the 19-year-old Wimbledon debutant shelved a first set (2-6) in less than 30 minutes!Williams fought...
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 After a wining a second straight final at Roland Garros just two weeks ago against Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal feels that at this edition of the Wimbledon it’s his turn to make history.This would be the Spaniard’s first Grand Slam title away from Roland Garros."Clay, hard or on grass," Nadal said to the Associated Press....
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Ankara - The United states on Thursday welcomed Turkey's commitment to peace in the Middle East saying that the country had a "unique role" to play in the region said George Mitchell, the US special envoy for the Middle East.
"Turkey is a crucial ally of the United States and an important force for the peace and...
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Tel Aviv - Final ballots in the Israeli elections were being counted Thursday from soldiers, diplomats, prison inmates and hospital patients, whose votes are always tallied after the others.
Media reports said the additional ballots might give an extra seat to the hardline Likud party of Benjamin Netanyahu, thus tying it with Tzipi...
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Israel on Friday gave Hamas and other Palestinian militant factions in the Gaza Strip 48 hours to reduce ongoing rocket and mortar attacks from the salient or risk an Israeli military operation into the strip.
For the first time in 10 days, Israel opened its border crossings with the Gaza Strip Friday morning to allow in essential...
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Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki
has said that no deadline had been set for Iran by world powers
regarding the ongoing dispute over the Islamic republic's nuclear
programme, Tehran media reported Thursday. 'The terminology
of deadline is not clear us as we have presented the world powers our
standpoints and now await...
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Iran's supreme leader said Wednesday that
world powers would not change their policies towards Iran even if
Tehran made concessions on its nuclear dispute with them.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the view that Iranian concessions on its
nuclear programme would lead world powers to change their policy
towards Iran 'totally...
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Syrian intelligence authorities released four
Syrian human rights activists, a Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
said Tuesday. The rights group said Syrian authorities on
Monday released Kays Ahmad Ali, arrested on April 2, 2008; and Hamman
Haddad, Barhouz Sharif Youssef, and Hussein Mulla Ahmad, arrested on
May 5, 2008. The...
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His political future becoming increasingly
uncertain, Ehud Olmert was probed for a third time Friday on suspicions
that he illegally accepted at least tens of thousands of US dollars in
cash from an American fundraiser. Police questioned Olmert
for more than two hours at his Jerusalem residence Friday morning,
Police Spokesman...
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Iranians came on Friday to cast their ballots as Iran
chose a new parliament. About 44 millions Iranians were eligible to vote and according
to the Interior Ministry Mostafa Pour Mohammadi estimation, more than 65
percent of them took part in Friday’s elections. The turnout in the capital Tehran was only 40 percent.
The minimum...
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 US Army Maj. Gen. David Rodriguez said Wednesday that progress
in the political and military fields is visible in eastern Afghanistan, even if
challenges continue to exist.
The senior commander said security has been beefed up in the
area and insurgents focused on other regions in nearby Pakistan, where instability
has increased....
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 The meeting of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council
plus Germany in Berlin would not stop Iran's nuclear drive, Iranian
government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham said Tuesday.
"The Iranian nation moves towards realization of its (nuclear) aims
within a legal and legitimate framework and even a new UN...
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 Two Israeli cabinet ministers clashed during Sunday's cabinet meeting
over how to deal with the barrage of rockets on Israeli towns and
villages from the Gaza Strip, with one calling for more deterrence, and
the other saying the current policy was working well.
Gaza's only power plant, meanwhile, said Sunday it was...
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The Pentagon released a video Tuesday showing small Iranian boats
speeding around three US naval warships in the Gulf and a voice over a
radio that warned the US sailors "you will explode."
At one point one of the five Iranian boats came within less than
200 metres of a destroyer, the USS Hopper, despite requests by...
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 Saying Israel was engaged in a "war" with militant organizations in the
Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejected Sunday feelers by Hamas
to discuss a ceasefire and said the Islamist group first had to
recognize the Jewish state.
He told ministers during Sunday's weekly cabinet session in
Jerusalem that Israel had...
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 Ahmed Qureia, head of the Palestinian negotiating team with Israel,
said Saturday that negotiations will be useless if Israel continues
with its settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian areas.
He said in a statement that "both the Annapolis and Paris
conferences are meaningless and negotiations will be useless if...
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 The first formal negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians in
seven years got off to a tense start in Jerusalem on Wednesday
afternoon as each side aired complaints about the other.
The teams, led by Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and former
Palestinian premier Ahmed Qureia, met to relaunch peace talks. But
their...
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 Iran resumed its atomic weapons programme in 2004 after dismantling its
main facility for developing nuclear arms the previous year, an Iranian
dissident said Tuesday.
Alireza Jafarzadeh said the Iranian government dismantled the main
facility for its nuclear weapons activities and decentralized the
effort into several locations...
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 According to Afghan officials, NATO warplanes mistakenly
killed 14 Afghan construction workers while hunting for Taliban militants in
the rugged mountains of eastern Afghanistan.
The governor of Nuristan province, Tamin Nuristani, says the
road workers were sleeping in tents when the aircraft attacked late Monday. He
says NATO...
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 According to the Pakistani election committee, a new rule
implemented on Monday will allow Gen. Pervez Musharraf to remain army
chief even as he seeks another term as president.
The committee is made up of members appointed by Musharaf
himself, but says that the updated rules were not intended to help the
president in any way;...
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 For the last few years, Dubai has been witnessing a major
transformation and incredible urbanization rate.
Yesterday, it was made official that Dubai’s latest
construction, the Burj Dubai, a freestanding tower building that eclipses all
the other constructions around it, half way through its construction, has
surpassed the world’s...
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 The Afghan private TV channel Tolo TV broadcast on Sunday a
video tape of the German woman kidnapped a day earlier asking for the release
of prisoners in change of her own release, as she was told to.
The tape presented the abducted aid-worker wearing a white
scarf on her head, sitting on the floor. She identified herself as...
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 As off July 15, Israel has a new president in the person of Shimon Peres who succeeds embattled Moshe Katsav. The 83-year-old prominent politician won the run-off held one month ago, Knesset members giving a vote of confidence to the former vice premier.His election was cheered by most politicians, headed by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert...
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 As the Red Mosque standoff continues, Pakistan’s leader Pervez Musharraf appointed a negotiation committee in a last bid to end the conflict without further bloodshed and save the lives of innocents held captive inside the compound.“Every effort should be made to ensure the release of those held up by the militants inside the mosque,...
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The Israeli government announced Sunday it has approved the release of some Palestinian funds with hours before the Sharm el-Sheikh summit.Israel has been collecting tax revenues for the Palestinians for years, but after Hamas took over the power for the first time, Israel refused to unblock the funds unless Hamas met the international...
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 Humana Inc. still expects profit between
$5.90 and $6.10 per share in 2009, but said the preliminary payments rates
could affect the health insurer next year. The company also cautioned that the
preliminary 2010 Medicare Advantage payment rates announced by the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services or CMS would have a...
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 The Nassau County Health Department has just reported the first childhood death attributed to influenza on Long Island in the five years since public health agencies have been required to report pediatric flu deaths.This weekend, a Levittown elementary school student, a 10-year-old, most likely died because of the flu, as preliminary...
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 Women's hands have far more germs than men's hands have, University of Colorado researchers say. For the study, researchers looked at 102 human palms and found no less than 4,700 species of bacteria. Using powerful gene sequencing techniques, they found many discrepancies between individuals’ palms, as far as those species concern. Only...
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A transsexual who became
known as the 'pregnant man' has given birth to a baby girl, US
broadcaster ABC News reported Thursday. The natural birth took place at a hospital in Bend, Oregon, on Sunday, the broadcaster said quoting an unnamed source.
Thomas Beatie, 34, was born female, but underwent a hormonal sex change
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 Thomas Beatie was born a woman, named Tracy
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There are aspects of womanhood that may lead to breast
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 Photos with a transgender man who appears to be pregnant
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rights.
Tracy Lagondino was born a woman but she went through a sex
change, having chest reconstruction and taking testosterone to develop
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 Federal health officials confirmed their belief in the
safety of childhood vaccines, in reaction to questions raised by a government
settlement with the parents of a 9-year-old girl, who developed autism symptoms
after receiving childhood shots.
The government agreed to pay the Poling family from the
National Vaccine Injury...
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 Having a tattoo is no longer the symbol of rebellion it once was. Many football and pop celebrities have them but one thing has not changed: the difficult decision-making process that goes with choosing the design.
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London - Didier Drogba hit out at former Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari and pledged his future to the club in newspaper interview on Friday.
The Ivory Coast forward has been much criticised for his poor form this season, and Scolari questioned his commitment shortly before his dismissal last week.
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Football's controlling body FIFA on Friday said that the global economic crisis has not caused a problem for the organization.
"We are glad that the crisis has not touched FIFA. We are not Swiss for nothing. We are still a safe company," general secretary Jerome Valcke said.
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Bayern Munich have lost their mythos of invincibility in German football after a stumbling start to the Bundesliga season, club president Franz Beckenbauer said.
Smaller teams are now losing their respect for the champions, who are only 11th in the table after two wins in seven matches, Beckenbauer wrote in his column for Bild...
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Premier League clubs Tottenham and Everton face tough fights to keep their UEFA Cup hopes alive while former European champions Borussia Dortmund are in a perilous position in second leg matches of the first round on Thursday.
Of England's five-team contingent looking for a place in the 40-team group stage, Everton face the most...
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Germany coach Joachim Loew is relying on the core of his Euro 2008 squad in his only test before the World Cup qualifiers when Belgium are the visitors in Nuremberg on Wednesday.
However injury to Rene Adler has scotched what probably would have been an international debut for the promising Bayer Leverkusen goalkeeper.
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It’s time for some change at The Jets after their
devastating 13-3 loss to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday. And as it is nobody’s fault
for the present situation, coach Eric Mangini tries some alleviation in
replacing Chad Pennington with Kellen Clemens.
As startling as it may seem, it is a last resort step, as the
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 The Chicago Bears decided it’s in their best interest to let Tank Johnson go after his latest scrap with the law. Not even Tank had a hard time understanding that his former team did what they had to do."I want to thank the Bears organization and fans for their support during this difficult time," Johnson said in a statement...
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 Assistant head coach ,Bill Lynch, will take over as Indiana’s head coach for the next season as Terry Hoeppner continues his medical leave. The 59-year-old has undergone brain surgery twice in the last 18 months."Most importantly, I wish Terry well with his ongoing health issues," said IU Director of Athletics Rick Greenspan....
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 A press release announced on Thursday that Joe Torre has left The New York Yankees in order to be the new manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, agreeing to a three-year deal believed to be worth about $13 million. He will be the 26th manager in the Dodger’s 50 years history and the eight since they moved to Los Angeles from Brooklyn.He...
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 Barry Bonds wrote a chapter of baseball history Tuesday night when he smashed the 756th home run of his brilliant but also tainted career. With this homer the 43-years-old made a lot of San Francisco fans happy and ironically a New York Mets (Giants’ greatest rivals) fan famous and possibly very rich. The fan above mentioned is Matt...
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 After an eight-game losing streak and 13 games lost out of the last 15, Sam Perlozzo was dismissed from the coaching position at the Baltimore Orioles on Monday."We felt Sam was prepared, we felt the club was prepared to do battle every night," executive vice president Mike Flanagan said in the press conference. "For...
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 Disappointed with a struggling offense the Dodgers dismissed Hall of Famer Eddie Murray as hitting coach on Thursday, ironically, after completing a three-game sweep of the NL East-leading New York Mets in which they got 31 hits and scored 18 runs.General manager Ned Colletti and manager Grady Little hired Bill Mueller, who served as...
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It seems that from now on, it will be a pleasure to commute.
Or at least this is the goal of introducing the new PATH
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By D. DONOVAN KINSOLVINGUPI Features Writer Today is Saturday, July 21, 2007
TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLE
Positions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (8 a.m. EDT):
Sun............... 29th degree Cancer
Moon.............. 20th degree Libra
Mercury........... 9th degree Cancer
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By D. DONOVAN KINSOLVINGUPI Features Writer Today is Friday, July 20, 2007
TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLE
Positions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (8 a.m. EDT):
Sun............... 28th degree Cancer
Moon.............. 9th degree Libra
Mercury........... 8th degree Cancer
Venus............. 2nd degree...
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By D. DONOVAN KINSOLVINGUPI Features Writer Today is Thursday, June 14, 2007
TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLE
Positions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (8 a.m. EDT):
Sun............... 24th degree Gemini
Moon.............. 15th degree Gemini
Mercury........... 12th degree Cancer
Venus................
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By D. DONOVAN KINSOLVINGUPI Features Writer Today is Tuesday, June 12, 2007
TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLE
Positions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (8 a.m. EDT):
Sun............... 22nd degree Gemini
Moon.............. 16th degree Taurus
Mercury........... 12th degree Cancer
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By D. DONOVAN KINSOLVINGUPI Features Writer Today is Saturday, June 2, 2007
TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLE
Positions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (8 a.m. EDT):
Sun............... 12th degree Gemini
Moon.............. 29th degree Sagittarius
Mercury........... 5th degree Cancer
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Warsaw - Poland will begin talks next month on entering the European Exchange Rate Mechanism 2 (ERM-2) and should join by May or June, deputy finance minister Ludwik Kotecki said in a TV interview on Monday.
The ERM-2 is seen as the precursor to joining the euro itself, which the country's Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, has said...
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Stockholm - A majority of Swedes favour replacing the country's 10 current nuclear reactors when they become too old to operate, a survey published Friday said.
In all 62 per cent supported building new reactors, while 28 per cent said they opposed building any new reactors. Ten per cent of the 1,016 polled were undecided.
The...
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London - A close ally of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that the current global recession is "the most serious for over 100 years," according to media reports
The comment by Ed Balls, the childrens' minister and former close adviser to Brown, that the recession was "more extreme and more serious than that...
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Reykjavik - True to its word, the new Icelandic government has called for the three central bank governors to step down, Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir said.
Speaking on a talk show on Icelandic television Monday evening, Sigurdadottir who took office Sunday, said she had sent a letter to the governors asking them to...
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Davos, Switzerland - Coordinated international efforts will be needed to lead the world out of the current economic crisis, the United Nation's Ban Ki-Moon and British premier Gordon Brown said Friday, urging countries to also maintain aid levels to the poor.
Brown said countries needed to "come together as one" and take...
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Brussels - The European Union must raise questions of human rights and political freedom with China's premier Wen Jiabao when he visits Brussels on Friday, leading human-rights group Amnesty International said Thursday.
The EU's relationship with China should be "based on mutual respect," but should "include frank...
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The ceremony to mark the bicentenary of the separation in 1809 of Finland and Sweden got under way in Stockholm Thursday in the presence of Swedish King Carl Gustaf and Finnish President Tarja Halonen.
The year 1809 has different connotations in the two countries - if remembered at all as a historic date, as several speakers and...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said a new stimulus package approved by her cabinet on Wednesday was the best response to deal with the recession gripping Europe's biggest economy.
The 50-billion-euro (66-billion-dollar) rescue plan includes 18 billion euros in public investment, income tax cuts, increased family benefits and...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced Tuesday a major rescue package funded by borrowing to avert the worst effects of recession on Europe's biggest economy.
Merkel told a Berlin news conference, "When there is an extraordinary situation, one has to react in an extraordinary way."
The 50-billion-euro...
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Europe should expect continuity, rather than change, from president-elect Barack Obama on key foreign-policy issues such as Iran, the Middle East and missile defence, the United States' outgoing ambassador to the European Union said Tuesday.
And on climate change, one of the most crucial issues on this year's global agenda, Obama will...
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The rush hour trend in the Latvian capital Riga was reversed Tuesday as thousands gathered in the central Dome Square at 5:30 pm (1530 GMT) to call for the dissolution of parliament and fresh elections.
The demonstration, backed by around 20 civil groups and opposition parties, was the idea of Aigars Stokenbergs and Artis Pabriks,...
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A total of 308 people died in the Austrian alps from November 2007 to October 2008, according to numbers released Tuesday by an alpine safety organisation.
Of the total, 34 deaths occurred on Austrian skiing slopes, said Karl Gabl, president of the Innsbruck-based Organisation for Alpine Safety.
The largest group, nearly 100, died...
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Rafael Nadal of Spain continues to top the men's ATP tennis rankings, with the leading five unchanged.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga exchanges places six and seven with compatriot Gilles Simon in the only change in the top 10.
ATP top 10 as of January 12 (previous ranking in parenthesis): "#"
1. (1) Rafael Nadal, Spain, 13,160...
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The owners Lithuania's national flag-carrier, FlyLAL-Lithuanian Airlines, have agreed to sell the struggling company to industrial holding company SCH Swiss Capital Holdings in a deal that should be completed within the next two weeks, according to a company statement released Friday.
"Negotiations with the Swiss investment fund...
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Germany's X-Raid team was hoping Friday for a change of mind from Dakar Rally organizers on the disqualification of leading driver Nasser al-Attiyah.
The Qatari won Thursday's sixth stage to increase his overall lead in the rally, only to be disqualified for missing hidden checkpoints.
Team director Sven Quandt acknowledged late...
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Madrid (dpa) - Former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar has denied denigrating US president elect Barack Obama when describing his victory as "historic exoticism and a predictable economic disaster," press reports said Friday.
Aznar issued a communique Thursday announcing possible legal action against those who had...
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Former British prime minister and special Middle East envoy Tony Blair said Tuesday he remained optimistic that current international efforts to end the fighting in Gaza could be successful.
"If we want to resolve this, we can," Blair, who is the special envoy of the so-called Middle East Quartet, said in a BBC interview...
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Turkey on Monday repeated its call for Israel to halt ground operations immediately in Gaza, with Foreign Minister Ali Babacan once again condemning what he described as a humanitarian tragedy.
"Many civilians, many women, many children have been killed. We condemn the ground operations ... We cannot stand by and watch,"...
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More Hungarians would vote for an extreme right party than for a liberal party that was part of the governing coalition until April this year, according an opinion poll published in the left-wing Nepszabadsag daily on Monday.
If a general election were to be held immediately, two per cent of Hungarians polled in mid-December said they...
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The Swiss government has announced plans to freeze the bank accounts of 11 political allies of embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
Switzerland will also block the 11 - many of whom have been accused of orchestrating violence surrounding this year's Zimbabwean presidential elections - from entering the country.
The plan...
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Polish airline LOT could boost its ties with German carrier Lufthansa after ending the year up to 200 million zlotys (70 million dollars) in the red, Puls Biznesu reported on Thursday.
"The sector is plunging into a recession. Small carriers are feeling it the most. Acquisitions are slowly marginalizing the role of...
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Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday defended the European Union's watered-down deal on climate change, saying the compromises that have been agreed by leaders will avoid imposing unbearable sacrifices on its citizens.
"We didn't want to impose constrictions which no country in the world could have survived socially," said the French...
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The rapid deterioration in the global economy in recent months means the worst is yet to come for Europe.
Indeed, after a buoyant start to 2008, the 15-member eurozone and its biggest economy Germany could now be facing a very painful year as concerns mount that a protracted recession has been taking hold amid sharply rising layoffs,...
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In Britain, 2008 will be remembered as the year Prime Minister Gordon Brown abandoned prudence and fell in love with big spending.
In order to keep the nation shopping, despite the credit crunch, Brown threw his customary caution to the wind and embarked on a spending programme of mammoth proportions.
His decision to...
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European Union leaders on Friday approved a set of laws on fighting climate change, a plan for rescuing the economy from recession and a way out of the impasse caused by Ireland's rejection of the Lisbon treaty.
"This is historic what is happening here. You will not find another continent in the world that is giving itself such...
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European Union leaders on Friday backed a package of laws aimed at slashing the bloc's emissions of the gases which cause global warming.
"This is historic, what is happening here. You will not find another continent in the world that is giving itself such binding targets," French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who chaired...
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As European Union leaders congratulated themselves on approving a set of laws on climate change, analysts around the world were asking themselves if the package would work.
The answer is most likely to be: yes, but not nearly enough.
The laws aimed at cutting Europe's emissions of greenhouse gases to 20 per cent below their 1990...
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European Union leaders on Friday approved a package of laws aimed at slashing the bloc's emissions of the gases which cause global warming, EU diplomats said.
The agreement paves the way for a package of measures which should cut the bloc's greenhouse-gas emissions to 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020, the most ambitious pledge...
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European Union leaders on Friday backed a package of laws aimed at slashing the bloc's emissions of the gases which cause global warming, EU diplomats said.
The laws approved in Brussels bind EU member states to cut their emissions of the gases which cause global warming to 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020, the most ambitious...
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was Thursday said to be "unhappy" about a stinging attack by Germany on his economic policies at a time when he was pressing fellow European nations for more fiscal measures to soften the impact of the global downturn.
Peer Steinbrueck, Germany's finance minister, said in an outspoken...
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European Union leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday have to solve one of the bloc's toughest dilemmas: what to do about the Lisbon Treaty, which reforms the way the bloc works.
Originally, the treaty was meant to come into force on January 1, 2009, but Irish voters rejected it in a referendum in June.
Since the treaty can...
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged rich and poor nations Thursday to agree on new steps to fight global warming, telling a 189-nation conference that Europe and the United States must take the lead in avoiding a climate "catastrophe."
Ban warned against "backsliding" on clean-air targets just as EU leaders in...
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The European Union's so-called "20-20-20" package aims to fight climate change by reducing the bloc's overall emissions of polluting gases to 20 per cent below their 1990 levels by 2020.
It consists of the following main points:
INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS: the main plank of the package is a law aimed at strengthening a system...
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The French presidency of the European Union on Thursday proposed a watered-down set of laws on fighting climate change in a bid to win EU backing at a crucial end-of-year summit.
In Brussels, EU leaders are set to debate a series of proposals from the bloc's executive, the European Commission, aimed at cutting emissions of greenhouse...
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The French co-author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Stephane Hessel, was on Wednesday awarded a UNESCO prize for his life's work.
The 91-year-old Hessel, who was honoured on the 60th anniversary of the document, said that it remained difficult today to implement human rights in the world.
As one example, he...
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The Czech Republic wants the European Union to craft a "win-win" climate-package deal that would not detriment the EU's Eastern European members, an official said Wednesday.
"For us phasing-in in the power generation sector is a kind of a red line. It must be part of the solution," said Vice-Premier for European...
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The Czech Republic recorded a foreign trade deficit of 3.95 billion koruny (200 million dollars) in October, the first gap in 2008, as exports fell significantly amid the global financial crisis, preliminary government data showed Monday.
The October trade balance was 12.1 billion koruny lower compared to the same period last year,...
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More than 50 activists blocked the runway of London's Stansted Airport Monday morning to protest against the creation greenhouse gases by planes.
Plane Stupid, a climate action group, said on its website that about 50 if its members shut down the airport by camping on the runway and surrounding themselves with security...
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London's Stansted airport reopened to traffic Monday after being shut down for several hours by environmental protestors, an airport spokesman said.
The early morning action by some 50 protestors from the group Plane Stupid had closed the airport's single runway, paralyzing all traffic.
A total of 21 flights were cancelled, as...
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A protest by environmental protestors Monday closed down London's Stansted airport, causing severe delays for passengers due to arrive and depart from the city's third-biggest airport used mainly by budget airlines on European routes.
More than 50 supporters of Plane Stupid, a climate action group, blocked the single runway at...
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The European Union reacted coolly Wednesday to calls by poor and island nations to take bolder action against global warming, saying such an effort may be "very costly."
The conflict is one of many playing out at this year's main UN climate conference, where some 190 countries are trying to pave the way for a global deal...
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The losing Socialist Party candidate in the 2007 French presidential election, Segolene Royal, will be standing later Friday in a run-off election to become party leader.
If she beats her opponent, Lille Mayor Martine Aubry, she will take a large step to securing her party's nomination to face President Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2012...
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Zimbabwean prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai said Thursday he was confident of an end to the political impasse holding up the formation of a government of national unity.
Speaking after talks with German officials, he said this would come after issues relating to the definition of the prime minister's powers and the...
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Both teams are hoping that the weekend Davis Cup final between host Argentina and a Spain missing Rafael Nadal will not erupt in violence or bad behavior from the partisan South American crowd.
Sparks have already flown at the indoor hard court venue when a short circuit caused a minor electrical fire as Juan Del Potro and Argentine...
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India and Germany plan to discuss responses to the global financial crisis and ways to deal with climate change during the visit of German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier due to begin Wednesday night, officials said.
Steinmeier scheduled talks with India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, External Affairs Minister Pranab...
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European Union agriculture ministers were holding tough talks in Brussels on Wednesday over plans to gradually increase milk quotas before they are phased out entirely in 2015.
Another controversial proposal from EU Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel involves reducing direct payments to farmers, so that more EU money can...
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British Foreign Minister David Miliband is to visit Lebanon for talks with President Michel Suleiman, Prime Minister Fouad Seniora and Parliamentary Speaker Nabih Berri, the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) reported Monday.
The talks with the British official is to take place on Tuesday.
Miliband arrived in the Middle East on...
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A new award has been launched to honor efforts to respond to environmental emergencies, the United Nations said Monday, in an attempt to encourage action to curtail the impacts of man-made and natural disasters.
The non-monetary Green Star Awards will first be awarded next May in Brussels to charities, government and companies that...
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Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski Friday called for patience before US president-elect Barack Obama makes up his mind on the fate of US missile defence plans in Eastern Europe.
Speaking to reporters in Prague, Sikorski said Obama told him he wants to make sure the system works. The minister would not say what that could mean...
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Before European Union leaders can fully appreciate Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's expected proposals on European security at Friday's EU-Russia summit in Nice, France, they need to consider the importance of one word: bistro.
According to legend, the French word "bistro" comes from the Russian "bystro!",...
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 A new study shows that there is a definite correlation between violent video games and violent behavior in children. It was a big problem trying to find out if the games actually make kids violent, or already-violent kids are the ones playing games like these. Three long-term studies conducted in the United States and Japan prove that...
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 Presidential candidate Barack Obama is the first politician
that makes his campaign ads turn up in video games. The Obama campaign has
purchased ad spots in several games: “Burnout Paradise”, “Madden NFL ‘09”, “NASCAR
‘09”, “NHL ‘09”, “NBA Live ‘08”, Need for Speed (Carbon and ProStreet), "NFL
Tour" and Skate....
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 Following the results of a recent Habbo survey involving young people with ages between 11 and 18, it seems that, as far as video games are concerned, teenagers prefer the PlayStation 3. 58,368 teenagers participated in the survey and 69 percent of them considered the PS3 to be either “great” or “good.” However, the difference between...
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 The Rockstar game Manhunt 2, which was released on Halloween for the PS2, PSP and Nintendo Wii platforms, was refused to be sold in the Target chain of stores.Target, one of the biggest retail networks, has decided not to carry the game due to the fact that it has been at the center of a controversy regarding its content.The game was...
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 It seems that Sony Corp. is
really scoring with its new PlayStaion Portable units, as the reports have
recently showed that more than half a million of such devices have been sold in
Japan in the first two weeks of release.
Till the recent period the
Japanese hardware sales charts have been quite predictable for a long...
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 The famous Japanese video games
developer Square Enix Co. Ltd. has promised yesterday a new title for Microsoft
Corp.’s Xbox 360 video games console. The games developer has said through the
yesterday news conference from Tokyo
that the new game’s title is “Infinite Undiscovery” and that it is a
role-playing game, but other details...
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 Nintendo is readying for school with the recent addition of Donkey Kong Jr. Math to the Wii Shop Channel, promising that “it'll help you get those math skills back in shape after their summer slumber.”The recipe goes on with some fighting with bad guys (you know, to help you cope with bullies in school…), while you also search for some...
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 Microsoft and Namco Bandai have jointly announced the introduction of the first new mazes for the insanely popular Pac Man game after more than 26 years, only for Xbox 360.Invented in 1981 by Namco-employee Toru Iwatani, Pac Man quickly became one of the most renowned and played games of all times, with its host of ghosts and the famous...
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 After 16 long years, Sci Fi Channel has decided to change its name … at least on paper.The NBC Universal-owned cable network is expected to become SyFy starting with June, as the new moniker represents part of an extensive rebranding campaign that has been planned for over a year now. The change marks an advancement that also comprises a...
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 “American Idol” fans have expressed their dismay with regard to a new rule introduced to the popular Fox singing competition that offers the panel the authority to rescue an act from elimination.Numerous television critics have described the action, which gives judges the chance to save a singer just once throughout the series and on...
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 If the fate of “American Idol” contestants depended on the judges, Adam Lambert would not be leave the popular talent show anytime soon, as the 26-year-old theater actor from Los Angeles astonished the four-judge panel without a glitch and effortlessly outshone the 12 other finalists with an animated performance of the track “Black or...
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 The AMC’s series, “Breaking Bad,” which premiered in January 2008, is ready to be launched for its second season. Many viewers are waiting to see the adventures of a high school chemistry teacher, played by Bryan Cranston. In a world full of problems that may be compared with those of the Old Testament’s Job - Walt White, a high school...
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 Everyone is half-heartedly buzzing about ABC's highly anticipated finale of reality dating show "The Bachelor" which took a dramatic turn when the bachelor changed his mind on the air about the woman he really wants to be with. On Monday night, Jason Mesnick proposed to sweet 25-year-old Melissa Rycroft, but in the subsequent...
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 Fox Channel changed its plans for the program in the middle of the season. On Friday night a sci-fi block will appear and American Idol will go on with its series. The highly expected series of Dollhouse, created by Joss Whedon, will be aired from 9 p.m. on Friday. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles will have to change its original...
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 The eve of the election brought the highest ratings on Monday during the two-hour special edition of Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash 2008. According to Nielsen estimations, NBC won most viewers with ages between 18 and 49. Excluding the Olympics, the network won the first place in ratings on the night before the elections.14.4...
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 “Celebrity Rehab” dramatizes the real life
experiences of a group of actual celebrities that decide to change their life
and introduce themselves into a drug, alcohol, and addiction treatment program.
The most important motivation is the sincere desire and dream to truly achieve rehabilitation
and recovery.
The movie tells the...
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 A lot of things were said after Jeff Archuleta, David‘s
father, was banned from participating at his son’s rehearsals. But, apparently
things were misunderstood. As any lovable child, the all-time favorite of the
seventh season of “American Idol” wanted to clear things out about his father. According
to him, Jeff is not the monster...
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 The popular fashion reality show, “Project Runway,” is
heading for Lifetime Television saying ‘buh-bye!’ to NBC Universal and its
Bravo cable network. The announcement of the departure was made on Monday, the
same day in which NBC Universal filed suit against “Project Runway’s” producer,
The Weinstein Co. in New
York State Supreme...
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 Britney Spears hit the jackpot with Monday’s broadcast of
“How I Met Your Mother.” According to Nielsen Media Research an estimated 10.62
million viewers watched the pop singer playing the role of a receptionist,
meaning almost 3 million more viewers from what the sitcom averaged before the
writers’ strike.
Britney Spears was...
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 WBBM-Channel 2 lost news anchor Randy Salerno, 45, on
Thursday night, in a snowmobile crash.
His long-time friend, Scott D. Hirschey was driving the
snowmobile; the snow vehicle slammed several trees and Salerno lost his life. Hirschey is charged
with homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle.
The two were returning on Thursday...
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 Kyle, Kenny, Stan and Eric are here to delight us for yet
another 4 hilarious seasons.
Apparently the creators of “South
Park” Matt Stone and Trey Parker are
going at it again for another few years, as “the boys” as they are generically called
will go back to school in the little town of “South Park.”
Comedy Central is now...
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 Princess Diana still sparks controversy, years after her tragic death. A new Diana-related row emerged between the royal family and Channel 4, which indends to broadcast a documentary titled Diana: The Witness In The Tunnel, incorporating graphic photos of her dying minutes."If it were your or my mother dying in that tunnel would we...
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 A federal appeals court ruled Monday that the Federal Communications Commission's crackdown on indecency was "arbitrary and capricious." The decision aimed primarily at what is known as "fleeting expletives," or blurted obscenities, on television.The suit was filed by four television networks: Fox, CBS, NBC and ABC,...
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Hong Kong stocks sank 2.5 per cent Thursday, wiping out the previous day's gains, after a speculated rescue package for China's economy failed to materialize.
The Hang Seng Index ended the day at 20,392, down 539 points. Turnover was 55.7 billion Hong Kong dollars (7 billion US dollars).
The fall more than reversed the gains of...
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 This year is probably going to be the smallest ocean salmon harvest on record, as the West Coast fisheries agreed on Thursday to halt all commercial salmon fishing of the coasts of California and Oregon.The Pacific Fishery Management Council voted to cancel all commercial salmon fishing, but decided to allow limited recreational fishing...
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 The ministers from the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries on Wednesday came to the decision to keep the crude oil production at the same level as until now, saying that the surging prices were not driven by factors that they could do something about.During their meeting in Vienna, the representatives of the countries...
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 The recent turmoil on the international financial markets is expected
to dent the euro area's economic growth prospects for 2008, the latest
Quarterly Report from the European Union Commission said Tuesday.
The report by the EU executive forecasts gross domestic product
(GDP) growth for 2008 in the 13-country eurozone at 2.2 per...
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 The third Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) summit has begun on Saturday, in Riyadh, facing tensions regarding the weak US dollar and the alarming continuous rise of the oil prices.The heads of 13 states have gathered for the third time in OPEC’s 47 years history in order to discuss the effect of rising oil prices on...
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 The heads of states of the 13 Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC) are gathering in Riyadh later Saturday for a summit
expected to be overshadowed by the falling value of the US dollar,
rising oil prices and the effect on poorer nations.
Among the leaders attending the two-day meeting are King Abdullah
Bin...
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 US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday said he expected
slower growth and higher inflation through the end of the year and into
early 2008 amid "turmoil" in financial markets and rising energy
prices.
Bernanke told Congress in a hearing that despite solid growth of
3.9 per cent in the third quarter, the Fed...
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 The U.S. Federal Reserve cut its two interest rates by a larger-than-expected half percentage point, which immediately sent stock markets up by record numbers. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped significantly more than 300 points, its biggest one-day raise in five years.Mr. Ben Bernanke, the U.S. Federal Reserve's chairman, seems to...
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 Sun Microsystems Inc. announced it is about to change its stock symbol from "SUNW" to "JAVA". The change will occur on August 27 and is supposed to reflect the heightened role of the company's Java Web technology. However, the decision was met with skepticism by some, who said the move is nothing but a pathetic PR...
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 Amid heavy Democratic opposition in the Congress, the United States and South Korea on Saturday signed in Washington the largest free trade deal since the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1992. The deal was signed hours before president George Bush's special fast-tracking powers were set to expire, on Saturday.The representatives...
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Today, China has seen the largest drop in stock market indices ever as the Shanghai Composite Index plunged 330.34 points or 8.26 percent to 3,670.40. Meanwhile, the Shenzhen Component Index, tracking the smaller Shenzhen Stock Exchange, closed at 11,468.46, down 964.23 points or 7.76 percent.On Monday, the Shanghai Index fell for the...
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 Brazilian President Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva made a three-day visit to India with the firm goal of improving ties, especially in the economic sector, where both countries are rising rapidly.Lula met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday and discussed several problems appeared in the trade area and world-scale issues like global...
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 Satellite images show that a large part of the Antarctica's
massive Wilkins Ice Shelf, a plate of permanently floating ice, situated on the
southwest Antarctic Peninsula, has begun disintegrating
under the effects of global warming.
The dimension of the shelf was about 160 square miles (415
square kilometers) in...
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 The craved gadget announced by Steve Jobs in January at Macworld is finally slated for debut on June 29, as depicted in the recent iPhone ads posted on Apple’s site.Apple unveiled the release date through 3 TV commercials which were later posted on the company’s site, each of them depicting important features, like the ability to play...
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 The University of Tennessee college student that hacked into Sarah Palin’s e-mail account has been formally charged with fraud and obstruction of justice. David Kernell, who is the son of a Tennessee democratic legislator, has pleaded not guilty to all charges.The story about Sarah Palin’s e-mail account became a hot topic, after the...
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 Over the past half a century, we have gradually become more addicted to computers, but how much have these systems really developed? Computers are now able to answer a lot of questions, and we probably wouldn’t even know what to do if we didn’t have them. However, we still haven’t succeeded in making them answer a factual question, but...
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 The National Association of Broadcasters filed an objection to a plan introduced by the Federal Communications Commission chairman this week. The NAB is asking the agency to slow down efforts to open up vacant TV airwaves for unlicensed use. The objection was made by station owners and four television networks. The FCC is asked to delay...
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 Technology seems to be evolving
towards a new era of solar power. MacRumors.com brings out a recently published
patent that Apple is investigating to use in some of its handheld devices and
even portable computers. By integrating solar panels in its mobile devices, the
battery will no longer be the only one to generate power and...
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 Last year, a nonprofit environmental organization called Climate Counts started to put together, with the help of officially released information, the so-called Climate Counts Company Scorecard, in which the 60 top consumer companies are arranged in a chart according to their environmental efforts. In 2008, in the second edition of the...
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 On Thursday, a critique co-signed by Roger Pielke Jr., a science-policy specialist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, caused quite a stir. The study attempted to show that the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was way off with its assessment of the technology challenge the world is facing.The study referes to the...
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 Apple is being sued by a Los Angeles law firm, KBK, for their “deceptive”
marketing of the new 20-inch iMac. According to the law firm, Apple advertised
the fact that both the 20-inch and 24-inch iMacs are capable of displaying “millions
of colors at all resolutions.” The statement is in part true, as the new
24-inch iMac does...
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 Google is
powerful, but not a superhero; the popular Internet company can’t give homeless
people a home, but in San Francisco
it can offer them at least free voicemail. Google’s social program has already
started to be implemented as a joint effort between the company’s Grand Central
group and San Francisco’s
Project Homeless...
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 A US team has won
$50,000 in a competition for designing a spacecraft to track the path of an
asteroid which may hit Earth in the future.
The asteroid Apophis was discovered in 2004, and was named
after a destructive spirit in Egyptian mythology. It is expected to come within
30,000 kilometers of the earth in 2029 and there...
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 Time Warner Cable announced on
Wednesday that it would test a new way of charging its high-speed Internet
users. The company is planning to charge its subscribers based on their amount
of usage than a flat fee, which is the standard industry practice at the
moment.
Time Warner Cable is the United States’
second largest cable...
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 The rejection of states’ efforts to tighten rules on greenhouse gas emissions by the Bush administration caused an angry reaction from California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, as he vowed on Thursday to sue the administration.On Wednesday, the government blocked the intentions of 17 states, including California, to limit emissions from...
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 The efforts that the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) non- profit organization is making in order to help as many children in the developing countries seem to fall through, as politicians lack “big thinking”.OLPC official, Walter Bender, declared that politicians are afraid to commit to the program due to the fact that "change equals...
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 Verizon Wireless is the first mobile-phone service provider in the United States that announced its intention of allowing its customers to use wireless devices, software and applications from any other company.Verizon announced on Tuesday the plans of having this new unrestricted access possibility available by the end of 2008. By then,...
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 The 2007 Los Angeles Auto Show has opened its gates beginning on Friday and for the next nine days, until November 25. Before the show was opened to the wide public, there were two days for the press preview, where the reporters, photographers and bloggers were indulged with the latest models, new green-minded concepts and hybrids.The...
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 It seems that Arnold
Schwarzenegger’s personality has not changed, but at least now he is fighting
for a non-fictional good cause. Arnold Schwarzenegger has become the Governor
of California and he seems to have taken real responsibility for his position. This
way, after the state he governs has expected for about two years to...
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 Starting with Thursday, the 13th
of September, and till Sunday, the 16th of September, the worldwide
famous Wired Magazine’s annual Wired NextFest exhibition will be showcasing the
new brilliant ideas and technologies, as well as their creators, that will someday
change our world in a positive way, hopefully. Through this...
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 The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is developing a new kind of non-lethal weapon, which is a flashlight designed to cause temporary blindness, nausea and disorientation. The flashlight emits pulses of light from an array of ultrabright light emitting diodes (LEDs).The flashes temporarily blind a person, as is the...
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 Google and Intel are just two of the members of a new green alliance that comprises high-profile names like HP, Dell, IBM, Microsoft or Lenovo, poised to fight against climate change.Called Climate Savers Computing Initiative, the alliance will be focused on energy-efficient policies and the reduction of greenhouse gases, by setting...
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 Despite the fact that their companies are fierce rivals on the apparently still flourishing PC market, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were quite cozy together last night at Wall Street’s D: All Things Digital.The two appeared to be overwhelmed by the importance of the moment and from their body postures one could deduce that both Microsoft’s...
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Kabul - Seven suspected militants were killed in clashes with US-led troops in eastern and southern Afghanistan, while NATO forces shot to death an Afghan civilian after suspecting him to be a suicide bomber, officials said Friday.
The US military troops killed one suspected militant and detained nine others in a operation in...
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It was a year of extremes, starting with the aftermath of the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto and ending with a global financial crisis that engulfed millions across the world.
The year 2008 saw the eruption of the war in Georgia just as the Olympics opened with a glittering ceremony in Beijing....
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It was a year of extremes, starting with the aftermath of the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto and ending with a global financial crisis that engulfed millions across the world.
The year 2008 saw the eruption of the war in Georgia just as the Olympics opened with a glittering ceremony in Beijing....
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Frankfurt (dpa) - Only the sky was the limit when Yvonne Buschbaum soared to big heights as one of the leading women's pole vaulters in Germany.
Now the sky is wide open for Buschbaum, who feels the lightness of being after revealing her transsexuality last year and undergoing a gender change to Balian Buschbaum since...
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Industrialized countries are continuing to emit more greenhouse gasses despite goals set by the Kyoto agreement to curb carbon pollution, a UN body said Monday.
The UN Climate Change Secretariat said planet-warming gases released by 40 industrial states that signed up the Kyoto framework increased an average 2.3 per cent between...
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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party has opposed calling in ex-South African president Thabo Mbeki to salvage a power-sharing deal with prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
Zanu-PF's chief negotiator Patrick Chinamasa rejected calls from the MDC for Mbeki to step in to end the...
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Zimbabwe's prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday made a surprise visit to banks in the capital Harare that were the scene of long queues resulting from cash shortages.
Some of those queuing temporarily forgot about the miseries as they cheered the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader. Others said they had been in...
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A gigantic atom smasher took the first step Wednesday to explore the origin of matter in what has been described as the biggest and most expensive experiment in scientific history.
A beam of atomic particles was accelerated around a massive tunnel or "ring" 27-kilometres in circumference, located 100 metres below ground near...
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Simmering anger with the Indian government and its security forces over a land row in the Kashmir Valley has sparked a larger movement that has seen thousands of Kashmiri Muslims take to the streets to demand "azadi," or freedom, in non-violent protests over the past two weeks.
Protestor Shakeel Ahmed, a university student,...
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Police in Zimbabwe detained two members of parliament from Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on Monday after they turned up at parliament to take part in a swearing-in ceremony, the MDC said.
George Sibotshiwe, spokesman for MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, said Shua Mudiwa, MP for Mutare West, and Eliah Jembere,...
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Twelve people died from their injuries Friday, the day after twin suicide bombings at Pakistan's largest arms and ammunition factory, hospital authorities said, as investigators interrogated at least a dozen suspects.
The latest casualties raised the death toll to 78 in the two synchronised attacks at the gates of the Pakistan...
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In a little street, next to Beijing's Workers' Stadium that hosts Olympic football matches, rests a corrugated iron shed on wheels bearing the Chinese signs for "bicycle" amd "repairs".
It's where Li Guobao earns his living - and also where people from the neighbourhood come together to chat, one of countless such...
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Bayern Munich expect new coach Juergen Klinsmann to deliver a 22nd German league title when the Bundesliga season begins for the league and cup winners at home to SV Hamburg on Friday.
Bayern start the Bundesliga's 46th season as clear favourites but the change of coach from the experienced Ottmar Hitzfeld to 44-year-old Klinsmann,...
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Compared to the two earlier editions - at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 - the beach volleyball tournament at the Beijing Olympics will have to settle for bronze.
But it will not be for lack of effort from Chinese organizers, who set up a 14,150-square-metre temporary site for competition with all comfort for players, media and sponsors...
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 U.S. National Hurricane Center informs that Tropical Storm Fausto, which is expected to become a hurricane, and Hurricane Elida plowed across the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles from Mexico, whereas in the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Bertha moved away from Bermuda.At 4 a.m., the center of Tropical Storm Bertha was situated about 355 miles...
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According to BBC, the head of the Anglican Church in the U.S.
has expressed her disapproval regarding the Communion’s approach to sexuality.
Giving her statement prior to the Lambeth Conference,
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori supported churches that had tackled
the notorious matter. Furthermore, she said she wished that...
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 The heads of developed and developing countries, including President Bush, and international officials, met in Toyako, Japan do debate the problem of climate change, among other matters.In the last G-8 summit of George Bush's presidency he declared "significant progress" had been made regarding combating global warming. The...
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Thai Foreign Minister Noppodon Pattama
announced his resignation Thursday after being accused of violating the
constitution for signing a communique last month with Cambodia to back
the listing of an ancient Hindu temple as a World Heritage Site. 'To show responsibility and spirit I resign,' Noppodon told a press conference. ...
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 Ingrid Betancourt, a former Colombian presidential candidate, aged 46, was freed last week together with 14 other hostages after being held in captivity for six years by Columbian Marxist guerillas. The perpetrators were allegedly tricked into handing them over to military staff disguised as autonomous organization workers.Even now, the...
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 Bridge officials outlined five design options which could
cost between $25 million and $50 million. Erecting a suicide barrier would not
change the look of the historic span, authorities hope. The design options were
studied in an environmental impact document.
The problem with this solution would be that there are no
funds...
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Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Wednesday ruled out entering a unity government with President Robert Mugabe and again called on the African Union (AU) to send an envoy to the troubled southern African state.'A government of national unity does not address the problems facing Zimbabwe or acknowledge the will of the...
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 As France takes over the European Union presidency today,
President Nicolas Sarkozy guarantees to change the EU's crisis of assurance
into a prospect to turn the reviled union into a more popular one among almost
half a billion Europeans.
After the Irish refused to vote in favor of the Lisbon
Treaty, Polish President Lech...
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 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced it has established a rules change that could affect who gets nominated in the Best Original Song and Best Foreign Language Film Oscar categories. This could result in the foreign-language film category becoming more inclusive and the original song category becoming more...
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Harare, ZIMBABWE – Presidential candidate Morgan Tsvangirai has
returned to continue campaigning after being held for almost ten hours in the
police’s custody, in the country’s second main city.
According to a spokesman of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party,
Tsvangirai and several other MDC leaders were held by police...
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 A week of protests between pro- and anti-government
supporters in Bangkok ignited rumors
of a military coup and contributed to the ruination of a government minister
who quit the office last week.
Only five months after national elections determined the end
of military rule, tensions between supporters and opponents of the coup...
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The need for a global warming
pact has reunited a Group of Eight environment ministers on Monday in Japan.
U.N. European countries and other
developing nations made pressures on the eight ministers to discuss and find a
solution for this major issue that is affecting the whole world. They even
suggested that a cut of the...
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 The Global Peace Index brought up a report which ranks each nation in terms of “peacefullness”. It took in consideration factors as a nation's
relations with its neighbors, arm sales, troop organization, respect for human
rights and number of homicides per 100,000 people. It is the second year when
the index was conducted and it rates...
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 U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is due to meet the three U.S. presidential candidates Thursday before
holding talks with President George W. Bush in Washington. As British newspapers pointed
comparisons between the premier’s three-day visit in the U.S. and the chronicled trip of Pope
Benedict XVI, a British official said that the...
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 Attacks and violence have been reported in rural areas
between activists for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change and
militant supporters of President Robert Mugabe.
Robert Mugabe, who was the leader of Zimbawe for 28 years,
is accused by the Zimbawe’s opposition that he has led a campaign of violence
since the...
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 Representatives from 163 countries met with the secretary
general of the United Nations to find solutions for the global problem of
climate change that affects all of us. They will also try to find a replacement
for the Kyoto
climate change pact because it only binds 37 rich countries to cut emissions of
greenhouse gases.
Poor...
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 After the symbolic “Earth Hour” on Saturday evening, March 29, representatives from 163
countries met with the secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, to
find solutions to the global problem of climate change.
The talks are scheduled to conclude at the end of 2009.
“The world is waiting for a...
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 Switching off lights for one hour on Saturday night is meant
to draw everybody's attention on the threat of climate change.
From Australian's Sydney's Opera House and Harbour Bridge to
Melbourne's Flinders Street Station and Silicon Valley companies, the Golden
Gate Bridge, City Hall, the Hyatt Regency and Rincon Center, to the...
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 According to recent news reports, Russia and India signed a
deal to jointly build a multipurpose transport plane Monday as President
Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wrapped up a visit that
highlighted deepening military and economic ties between the two nations.
It was unclear, however, whether the two sides were...
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 Despite the fact that the final Sunday in October has become
known as the end of daylight-saving time and the day to turn clocks back an
hour, this year Americans will have to wait one more week to get that chance at
an extra hour of sleep.
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 was passed by Congress and signed by President
Bush two...
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 According to new satellite images, the once treacherous Northwest
Passage in the Arctic Ocean, impracticable
by even the largest ships and ice breakers, has shrunk to the lowest level on
record, making the ice so thin that it may yet become a navigable shipping
channel.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has been tracking various...
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 ic The Danish island of Aeroe is like something out of a picture-book. The sea is never far away and the countryside has been blessed by gently rolling hills.
Aeroe is a relaxing place without room for fast paced modern life. In the summer, elderberry blossoms decorate the countryside and with a bit of luck you might spot a Fire...
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 The Economist Intelligence Unit published with international businessman Steve Killelea a report on Wednesday called Global Peace Index, which ranks 121 countries according to their peacefulness. The ranking system used 24 indicators, such as the number of external and civil wars fought, the level of respect for human rights and the...
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 For the first time this season, the Boston Celtics are in a slump.
With a sloppy fourth quarter and a flat finish, the NBA's best team suffered a surprising 85-78 road loss Saturday to the Washington Wizards, their second setback in three games.
"We rushed a lot of shots and didn't have that click that we usually have,"...
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 The 52-year-old assistant coach Jim Boylan was named the Chicago Bulls’ new interim head coach for the rest of the current season, after former Scott Skiles was fired on Monday."After sitting down with Jim yesterday and discussing our team, I feel comfortable giving him the interim head coaching position," said Bulls vice...
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 After more than a moth of trade talks, Kevin Garnett is finally leaving the Minnesota Timberwolves for the Boston Celtics. The trade involves other player such as forward Al Jefferson, guard Sebastian Telfair, swingman Gerald Green and center Theo Ratliff, all heading to the Timberwolves, according to an official, who spoke on the...
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 The San Antonio Spurs ruined Cleveland’s hosting of the NBA Finals for which they waited 37 long years winning 75-72 Game 3 over the Cavaliers on Tuesday night.The Spurs didn’t play up to the level which got them to the 2-0 lead but they won again, despite playing on road to get the commanding 3-0 lead.Their defense Tuesday night more...
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 Billy Donovan is officially out of the Orlando Magic deal, but his wavering could be costly for both sides involved. The Magic finally let Donovan out of the $5.5 million annual deal late Wednesday nightafter days ago rumors broke he was having second thoughts."I realized in less than 24 hours after signing a contract with the Magic...
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 Los Angeles Lakers’ star player Kobe Bryant asked on Wednesday to be traded as there is no reason for him to remain at the club anymore. Yesterday he called the team's front office "a mess" and today he added that there is nothing the Lakers could do to change his mind."I would like to be traded, yeah," Bryant told...
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 Among the new changes suffered by Facebook, users will finally get to see constant updates from their contacts similarly to Twitter, it was announced on Wednesday. In a move aimed to secure users from switching to the increasingly popular Twitter, the social networking site introduced a new homepage to allow streaming of "posts from...
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 Carol Bartz is the new chief executive at Yahoo and she let everybody know that a new reorganization will be taking place on Thursday under her stamp. The management structure will suffer some more to-downs and is thought to streamline the company.Over the last two years, Yahoo has suffered many management modifications, but this might...
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 According to the blog AllThingsD, an affiliated blog of the Wall Street Journal, the search giant Yahoo’s Chief Executive Carol Bartz would announce an important and major reorganization of the management of the company. Rumor has it that the announcement may come as early as next week. Many sources from inside and outside the company...
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 AT&T has joined the ranks of telecommunications companies, which exploit the idea of limiting the amount of bandwidth that a subscriber can use monthly. The company began this month to apply such limits, testing them in Reno first. Subscribers of the slowest AT&T connection will have their downloads limited at 20 GB of data per...
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 Amazon.com has decided to reduce the plastic clamshells, coated wire ties and fasteners that drive consumers crazy by a Frustration-Free Packaging initiative. In 2006, tech billionaire Mark Cuban sliced his hand trying to open a hard plastic packaging. Retailers got the message a bit later and companies like Apple, Johnson & Johnson,...
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 EstDomains, an Internet registrar known as an open house for malware distributors, received a letter from ICANN, where it was being announced that it would be shut down. Even if ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) told EstDomains on October the 29th that it will review its case, the conviction of EstDomains’...
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 The century-old publication Christian Science Monitor announced on Tuesday that it will stop its print edition in April and move almost exclusively to online publication, becoming the first major national newspaper to abandon a daily paper-and-ink format. The decision will cut annual costs by millions of dollars for the newspaper that is...
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 Intel Corporation and Ericsson developed a solution to bring High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) to mobile internet devices. Intel senior vice president, Anand Chandrasekher, demonstrated the world’s first working “Moorestown” HSPA platform at the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei, on Monday. Ericsson also used the occasion to announce that...
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 The Federal Communications Commission might sanction Comcast for blocking traffic in what is supposed to be an arbitrary manner. The complaint was filed to the commission at the end of 2007 by the consumer group Free Press, which said that the internet service provider was blocking some users’ access to some peer2peer applications among...
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 At a search advertising conference in Seattle, Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft's platforms and services division, stated that, in order to gain in on Google, considerable effort is being put by the company’s marketing team into "fixing Microsoft's search image." This comes after Microsoft’s decision at the beginning of...
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 On Wednesday, Facebook finally talked openly about the
soon-to-be-deployed website redesign, which will clean up profile pages and
improve the website’s organization. Now that it has over 20,000 applications,
things are getting a bit crowded visually and some feel that a change is really being called
for.
The user’s information...
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 Comcast Corp. promised yesterday that it would not
discriminate against specific Internet traffic. With more than 24 million
subscribers, the company is the largest cable TV and Internet provider in the U.S. The
announcement comes after criticism received by the company last year on the
alleged blocking of a software program utilized...
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 Google, IBM, Yahoo, Microsoft and
VeriSing are five of the most powerful and famous tech companies at the moment,
so the fact that they have all joined the OpenID Foundation Board make’s the
organization’s dream more likely to come true. The five companies are expected
to help OpenID Foundation Board build a single-sign-on service...
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 During the DEMO 08 conference on Monday, Skyfire unveiled a free browser that is aimed to make phone browsing as close to the PC experience as possible.The California- based company introduced a browser that will allow users to access and interact with any type of Web site, built with any type of technology, including Java, Flash or...
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 The Library of Congress and Microsoft Corporation announced on Thursday that they have reached an agreement which is designed to change the way visitors will have access to the library’s huge collection of historical artifacts.Microsoft will provide the technology needed for the visitors to be able to make a virtual tour of the historic...
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 Google’s plan of buying the online advertising firm DoubleClick was given the green light by the US Federal Trade Commission on Thursday, as they approved that the 3.1 billion dollar deal poses no threat to internet ad competition.The deal was voted four to one, but admitted that its impact on consumer privacy was not part of the scope...
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 Viacom has appeared to be
reserved at Google Inc.’s plan of entering the content from its YouTube web
site into a database and give its owners the opportunity to remove it whenever
they please. The famous media giant’s chief executive has expressed his
reservations about Google’s ideas with the occasion of the Web 2.0 Summit...
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 The recent reports have proved
that two of the most used web sites for the phishers’ lures, PayPal and eBay,
are not so popular anymore. These two web sites have been heavily used in the
past by the phishers for tricking the people into giving up their personal
information, but now the reports have showed that they are not as popular...
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 Google Inc. has managed to mix
both its YouTube ultimate ad-supported video clips and its famous AdSense ad
distribution network! The popular company has recently announced that the web
publishers that participate in its AdSense program will now be able to take in
revenue also by offering the ultimate ad-supported video clips that...
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 Although some of us might have
not even noticed yet, starting with Friday Google has started to host The
Associated Press’ news material on its own web site and has stopped to send
only readers to other destinations. Google has signed this deal not only with
The Associated Press, but also with Agence France-Presse, with The...
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 TorrentSpy has been one of the
most popular BitTorrent indexing web search engines, but this seems to change
at least for the United
States’ users, as TorrentSpy has started to
block their IP addresses. Yesterday, just few minutes before midnight, the web
site has begun blocking these addresses, so that they could not use anymore...
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 So where is the love,
meaning that traditional relationship
between two partners involving flowers, a chocolate box for time to time, good
night kisses and long walks in the sunset’s obscure light? Well, it seems that
this “kind” of love doesn’t exist anymore. Man has managed to conquer time and
space via the interrelated network...
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 The silent battle between
Mozilla’s Firefox browser and Microsoft’s Internet Explore has been taking
place ever since Mozilla was being born. Although Mozilla’s browsers have been
always said to be more secure than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, the latter
has still remained the No. 1 used browser worldwide. But, who knows,...
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 The most popular photo sharing site on the Web is now moving towards a truly international audience, by releasing a version of the site in no less than 7 different languages.The main reason for this change is the affluence of foreign users outside the US or Canada, who don’t always speak English. Flickr was founded three years ago by...
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 Ask.com recently operated serious modifications to its main page, adopting a stylish, Web 2.0-like layout and refining search results.The overhaul comes after Google’s recent move to include images, mail, news, video and others in the same search page. This is what Ask tried to imitate with the recent modifications, which basically bring...
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 Volpi will now take the attributions of former CEO Fredrik de Wahl, who will continue as Joost’s chief strategy officer.Volpi’s responsibilities inside the company founded by Ianus Friis and Niklas Zellstrom are starting today.“Mike brings unparalleled leadership and technology expertise that will enable us to accelerate the growth of...
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 Google said it will have an answer ready for EU’s concern about data retention and server logs at Mountain View by June 19.In March, increasing concerns voiced by human rights groups about the security of data gathered from users on the Web have determined Google to change their privacy policy, meaning that Mountain View server-logs will...
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 Controversial radio host Don Imus, 68, told his listeners on Monday morning that he was diagnosed with stage II prostate cancer, but he has great confidence in his doctors that he would be cured.“I’ll be fine. If I’m not fine, I won’t be fine. It’s not a big deal. The prognosis couldn’t be better,” he said.According to the National...
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Berlin - Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio was to receive Monday the Cinema for Peace award for his efforts in promoting peace and tolerance in the international movie business.
One of Hollywood's most prominent activists in the fight against global climate change, 34-year-old DiCaprio is to receive the award at a gala ceremony in...
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 Barack Obama is the new president of the United States. This would be a normal thing for the Americans to hear every four years, but this year has made history. Obama is the first black president of the States which so much hated the color people. They’ve enslaved them and fought them, but finally chose them to be their leaders.And...
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 Essence magazine is due to have a brand new Web site. Warner
Bros. Television Group is partnering with Time Warner in order to redesign
Essence.com. Their aim is to turn their sibling magazine into a multimedia
brand. Furthermore, WBTVG will work on turning the site's broadband programming
into series for television. The two media...
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 After he created himself a pretty rich career, while being
chairman and chief executive of the BMG Label Group, the 74-year-old Clive
Davis has decided that it’s time for a younger man to take his place. As a
result, the new chairman and CEO of BMG will be the 49-year-old Barry Weiss,
the chief of the company’s Zomba Label Group....
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 Some 450 New Line Cinema employees are due to search for new
jobs as Time Warner Inc. decided to fold the studio into Warner Bros. The
employees are New York and Los Angeles residents. Time Warner’s decision
was announced almost six weeks ago, while the pink slips were announced on
Monday afternoon and they are said to continue until...
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 An artistic team formed by R&B singer John Legend,
actress Kate Washington and actor Robert Redford appeared before a House
Appropriations Subcommittee to demand a larger slice for the National Endowment
of the Arts.
The artists reacted on Tuesday against President’s Bush
proposal to reduce by 11 percent the federal funds for...
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 Seventy years after Superman’s creator Jerome Siegel gave up
his rights to the character he created with Joseph Shuster to Detective Comics for
$130, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday that Time Warner is no longer the sole
proprietor of Superman. Siegel’s heirs are entitled to a share of the domestic
copyright, the New York Times...
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 Pamela Anderson can add a tick on her to-do list, now that
her two-month marriage with Rick Salomon has been annulled.
The two obtained the official annulment of their brief
marriage on Monday, according to documents filed in Superior Court. The
official papers cited fraud as the reason of the annulment, but didn’t disclose
any...
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 Millions of Mega Million ticket buyers from California, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, New Jersey,
New York, Ohio,
Texas, Virginia
and Washington
were disappointed to discover that it is not them who won the fabulous sum of
$270 million.
The lucky ones were from Georgia. A couple from Portal, a
small town about...
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 Take good care of your change, it might pay off in a couple
of centuries! A collection of 301 rare pennies earned its owner the incredible
sum of $10.7 million at an auction this week-end.
Walter Husak was still flabbergasted at the end of the event
that took place at the Long Beach
Convention Center,
calling the total...
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Barack Obama won the spoken-word Grammy for his best-selling
audio book “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.”
This is the second Grammy award for Obama, who previously received the award in
2006, for the audio book “Dreams from My Father,” a memoir he first published
in 1995.
The senator was not...
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 Black Eyed Peas’ frontman, will.i.am did a considerable work
to sustain Barack Obama’s political campaign.
The viral video “Yes We Can,” which he says it is inspired
by the message transmitted by Obama united a series of A-list celebrities to
sing in the video. It’s interesting that the song, that is sure to become a
hit, hasn’t...
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 With the ongoing screenwriters strike causing the cancellation of the
Golden Globes ceremony, industry reports Thursday said the Oscar show
could be next.
The Oscar show is set for February 24, with nominations scheduled
on January 22. According to The Hollywood Reporter preparations for the
biggest night in the Hollywood calendar...
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 Princes William and Harry celebrated the life of their mother, the controversial Princess Diana, with a star-studded concert at the Wembley Stadium, joined by about 70,000 fans. Elton John opened the show with "Your Song," and then the two heirs to the throne took the stage."This evening is about all that my mother loved...
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 ABC has announced that Rosie O’Donnell will not return for a new season of “The View” and she won’t be around for the remaining three weeks either.
The TV network announced Friday that Rosie had asked for and been granted an early exit from her contract as host for “The View,” and as a result, will...
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Johannesburg - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was expected in South Africa Tuesday on the first leg of a five-nation African tour that will focus on the victims of conflict, climate change and UN reform, among other issues.
Ban's visit to South Africa is his first to the country as UN chief. He is scheduled to be met on arrival...
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Harare - The charges against Zimbabwean ministerial appointee Roy Bennett, who was arrested last week as a new coalition government was being sworn in, have been changed for a third time, his lawyer said Tuesday.
The 52-year-old Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) politician now faces charges of possessing weapons for the purposes of...
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Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who declared his last cabinet "the worst in history," reappointed many of its members to a new power-sharing government that is due to be sworn in later Friday.
The state-controlled Herald newspaper reported that 20 of Mugabe's 21 choices for minister and deputy ministers were...
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Cairo - International Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair has called for "a new strategy in Gaza," in remarks made in Cairo on Wednesday, and admitted that the international community's approach to the Palestinian territory had not worked.
"We need a new strategy for Gaza," Blair told reporters after meeting with...
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Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Thursday said he would forge ahead with forming a unity government even though he did not regard President Robert Mugabe as a "credible partner."
Tsvangirai told journalists in South Africa on Thursday that he planned to return home on Saturday for a meeting with regional...
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President Robert Mugabe was back in Zimbabwe on Monday following a brief holiday abroad, state-media reported.
The Herald newspaper quoted a presidential spokesman as saying the embattled 84-year-old leader was back from the Far East but "still on leave" and Vice President Joice Mujuru was acting president.
Mugabe drew...
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The European Union wants a ceasefire as soon as possible in the fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip and does not accept Jerusalem's view of a truce only when Israeli aims are met, Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg said Monday.
Speaking at a joint news conference with Israeli Foreign Minister...
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Zimbabwe has received agricultural inputs from the South African government worth over 300 million South African rand (about 30 million dollars), Zimbabwean state media reported Monday.
The Herald newspaper quoted Zimbabwe's Agricultural Minister Rugare Gumbo as saying Pretoria had sent, among other items, maize and sorghum seed,...
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It was a year of extremes, starting with the aftermath of the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto and ending with a global financial crisis that engulfed millions across the world.
The year 2008 saw the eruption of the war in Georgia just as the Olympics opened with a glittering ceremony in Beijing. It...
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Zimbabwe's neighbours in the Southern African Development Community on Wednesday announced a new mechanism for delivering urgent humanitarian aid to the crisis-hit southern African country.
South African President Kgalema Motlanthe, whose country currently chairs SADC, said financial and material aid would be channeled through a new...
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In a sign of the growing instability in southern Africa caused by the Zimbabwean crisis, Zimbabwe's government accused its neighbour Botswana of plotting to help overthrow President Robert Mugabe's regime, state media reported. Zimbabwe's state-controlled daily Herald newspaper quoted Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa as saying that the...
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A Ugandan government official on Friday confirmed that the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia will pull out should Ethiopia stick to its promise of withdrawing its troops before the end of the year.
"If the Ethiopians pull out ... the AU force will pull out because it will not have adequate numbers," James...
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Ghana's ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) edged ahead in presidential elections Monday morning as results from across the West African nation trickled in.
Early results from 18 constituencies showed that Nana Akufo-Addo had around 53 per cent of the vote, compared to 44 per cent for his main opponent, John Evans Atta Mills of the...
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Zimbabwe on Thursday declared the cholera outbreak that has claimed at least 565 lives a national emergency and appealed for international aid to tackle the crisis.
Health Minister David Parirenyatwa told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa: "We are expecting the international community to chip in with assistance so that the pandemic...
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