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Dutch-Belgian bank Fortis is to hold a series of "informative meetings" for customers concerned about the bank's financial health.
The first meeting, for Dutch customers, is to take place in Amsterdam on Monday evening, followed by similar meetings in Brussels on August 20 and 21.
A spokeswoman for Fortis Netherlands told...
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No driver at the door, no luxury hotel suite. The Beijing Olympics offer athletes buses and rooms in shared apartments instead.
But Spaniard Rafael Nadal, set to become the world number one of men's tennis next week, is happy anyway.
"Everything is very well-organized, but you have to get your act together. At the Olympic...
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 On Wednesday, Microsoft Corp proudly announced that its Xbox 360 managed to go past the 10 million unit mark in the U.S. before Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii and Sony Corp's PS3."History has shown us that the first company to reach 10 million in console sales wins the generation battle," Don Mattrick, a Microsoft senior vice president,...
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 The US Department of Labor announced on Thursday that the number of American citizens that filled claims for unemployment for the first time increased in the week ending on March 15.The initial claims for unemployment insurance rose by 22.000 to reach 378.000 last week, exceeding analysts’ expectations and reaching the highest level...
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Even the Prime Minster was moved as Portugal on Tuesday celebrated Cristiano Ronaldo's 2008 World Footballer honour.
Monday's announcement by the ruling body FIFA at a gala in Zurich delighted his home nation and England as well as the Manchester United winger Ronaldo is the first Premier League-based player to win the prestigious...
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Bayern Munich coach Juergen Klinsmann has called for former Germany defender Markus Babbel to be allowed to obtain his coaching badge on a special coaching course.
Klinsmann said an exception should be made for 36-year-old Babbel, a former Germany and Bayern Munich team-mate who has taken over as coach of VfB Stuttgart.
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Midfielder Torsten Frings is the latest Germany player toying with retirement as coach Joachim Loew now longer guarantees anyone a place in the starting 11.
"I am really thoughtful, retiring is more and more on my mind," Frings told Friday's edition of the Bild daily.
The 31-year-old from Werder Bremen was a key player in...
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The trademark smile and Samba steps of Ronaldinho finally cheered up the hearts of AC Milan fans after weeks of mumbling about the performances of the Brazilian star.
Ronaldinho was the Devils' hero at the weekend as they beat champions Inter Milan 1-0 thanks to a classy header off a cross from his compatriot Kaka.
"I'm very...
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Belgium central defender Vincent Kompany Thursday moved to English side Manchester City from SV Hamburg for an undisclosed fee, the German club said.
Kompany, 22, joined Hamburg from Anderlecht for 10 million euros (14.8 million dollars) two years ago but has struggled with injuries and failed to live up to the club's...
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 Brett Favre, the man who has set NFL records for touchdown passes and yardage, decided to retire from the Green Bay Packers, the team’s manager, Ted Thompson confirmed."He has given Packers fans 16 years of wonderful memories, a Super Bowl championship among them, that will live on forever," Thompson said in a statement...
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 Heather McNamara, a 7-year-old girl from Long Island who had six vital organs removed during a life-saving operation last month to remove a large tumor is "doing fantastic," her parents said today. Doctors performed Heather MacNamara's high-risk surgery after discovering a tennis-ball sized tumor that would have been inoperable...
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 Sad to hear, within the first nine months of last year, 6,897 people in China died from HIV/AIDS-related issues. This is the country’s leading cause of death among infectious diseases for the first time ever, surpassing both rabies and tuberculosis. The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that this HIV epidemic may only continue...
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 Children living with adult smokers stand more chances to have a problem called food insecurity than those who live with non-smokers, a new study suggests. Food insecurity, a term developed in the 1990’s, describes the incapability to access enough food in a socially acceptable way for every day of the year. It is associated with health...
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 People infected with HIV should begin drug treatments sooner than current guidelines recommend, a new study suggests. The 8,374 HIV-infected patients study found that treating HIV earlier than federal health officials recommended can lengthen sufferers’ lives. Postponing the treatment of HIV infection until patients’ immune systems are...
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 According to a team of researchers, eating a purple tomato may assist you in the fight against cancer.Researchers at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, Great Britain, in association with other European centres, have created a genetically modified tomato that abounds in anthocyanin, a powerful antioxidant pigment that is usually found in...
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An experimental surgery saved the lives of two babies who had been diagnosed with a medical condition called Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome, or TTTS, which can cause both fetuses to pass away, or trigger serious disabilities.Before birth, which took place on Oct. 22, Owen and Gavin were diagnosed with the progressive disorder....
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 With almost seven infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2004, the U.S. ranked 29th worldwide in infant mortality, according to a report released on Wednesday. As written in the report, the United States ranked 12th lowest in the world in 1990. However, by 2004, the latest year for which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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Live chicken sales resumed
in markets across Hong Kong Wednesday after a 21-day ban on poultry
imports and sales following a bird flu outbreak. However,
many chicken stalls remained closed because of tough new restrictions
which prohibit the keeping of live poultry in markets overnight to
lower the risk of a new bird flu outbreak....
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Kristen Anne LaBrie, 36, of Beverly, Mass.,
was put on charge of reckless child endangerment on Monday, in Salem District
Court. The authorities say that LaBrie failed to give her 8-year-old child the
medications for his cancer, so the chances for the boy to live are now 10
percent.
Doctors from Massachusetts
General...
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The Courier-Journal reported that this weekend, two airlines
refused to fly a 5-year-old girl and her mother, invoking the reason that her
condition was too instable to be on board. The little Kentucky
girl suffers from a fatal rare disease and needed to receive stem cell
treatments at a hospital in Beijing.
Hailey Goranflo and...
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 Tropical diseases affect an increasing number of poor people
in the United States,
according to a study published in this week’s Neglected Tropical Diseases, a
journal of the Public Library of Science.
These diseases include Chagas, spread by blood-sucking
insects, cysticercosis, and worm diseases often multiplied in soil near...
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 The U.S. House of Representatives suspended on Tuesday an
intended decrease in the payments of Medicare physicians by instead reducing
payments to private health insurers.
The House approved legislation, on a 355 to 59 vote. It
involves a 10.6 percent cut in Medicare payments to doctors and hospitals for
approximately 18...
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 Many celebrities took part in fund-raising show, “Night of
Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Concert for Autism Education,” hosted by The
Daily Show’s Jon Steward at the Beacon Theatre. Adam Sandler, Tina Fey, Sarah
Silverman, Conan O'Brien, Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Will Arnett and Amy Poehler,
Kelsey and Cammile Grammer participated at...
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 After 17 years of following the lives of 192 couples, the
researchers at the University
Of Michigan School Of Public Health
and its psychology department made public their findings. Surprisingly, their
study found that couples who express their discontent and release their anger
live longer than those couples who suppress their...
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Sydney - Major fires were burning Friday across the southern Australian state of Victoria as more than 3,000 firefighters tried to hold containment lines with high temperatures and strong winds intensifying the bushfire danger.
More than 200 schools, childcare centres, and many national parks and tourist attractions in...
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Sydney - A feud between rival Aboriginal families in the remote Australian town of Tennant Creek sparked a street battle among more than 100 people armed with clubs, boomerangs, axes and knives, Northern Territory police said Tuesday.
A 63-year-old woman was airlifted to Alice Springs Hospital after being clubbed.
"We...
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An Australia power station worker told Thursday of surviving a 50-metre fall while cleaning the inside of a boiler.
Ronald Mackie, 47, got away with minor injuries when he landed in ash at the power plant near Melbourne.
The father-of-two blamed himself for an accident that saw him tumble the equivalent of 10 storeys.
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Australia aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 5 per cent from 2000 levels with a maximum target of 15 per cent by 2020 if an effective global climate-change pact is signed, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's government said Monday.
The target falls far short of the 25- to 40-per-cent emissions reduction scientists and...
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Australian police said Friday that a 7-year-old boy who went on a 35-minute killing spree in a reptile park was too young to face criminal charges.
The schoolboy on Wednesday broke into the Alice Springs Reptile Centre, cracked open cages and fed 10 live exhibits to the park's resident crocodile. He was also seen on security...
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Malcolm Turnbull, elected Tuesday as the leader of Australia's opposition Liberal Party, is the conservative politician from central casting: well-groomed, well-educated, well-connected and, well, rich.
He's the wealthiest member of the Canberra Parliament, thanks to a career in business that saw him start information-technology...
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An Australian cleric and five of his followers Monday were found guilty of forming a terrorist cell and face possible life terms when sentence is passed.
Four of the group of 12 Melbourne Muslims were declared innocent and two have yet to receive a verdict on the terrorism-related charges against them.
Algerian-born Abdul Nacer...
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An Australian civil libertarian who has spent over a year in jail for refusing to register her car Friday lost a Supreme Court appeal against a sentence she argues runs contrary to "Bible-codified common law."
Losalina Rainima will be released on Sunday but the likelihood is that she will again offend and be back behind bars...
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 Australian police arrested eight protesters after they
climbed a fence into a government site Wednesday in order to protest the
culling of 400 kangaroos, which are viewed as sacred symbols by Australians, Reuters
reports.
The eight Aboriginal activists led by renowned activist Isabel Coe climbed
over a gate to enter the abandoned...
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 The people of New Zealand and the mountain Sherpas of Nepal joined
Tuesday in Auckland at the state funeral of Everest conqueror Sir
Edmund Hillary, to honour a man loved and revered in both countries.
"He was a colossus. He was our hero," said New Zealand Prime
Minister Helen Clark. "His extraordinary life has been...
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 Thousands of New Zealanders defied heavy rain on Monday to pay their
respects to the country's greatest modern-day hero, Everest conqueror
Sir Edmund Hillary, who died on January 11, as he lay in state at
Auckland's Anglican Cathedral.
The cathedral's doors will stay open all night to allow thousands
of mourners to file past the...
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 Sir Edmund Hillary was honoured throughout the world as the first man,
with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, to climb Mount Everest, the world's highest
peak at 8,848 metres, in 1953.
He died Friday at the age of 88. In his native land, he was the
best-loved New Zealander of his generation and could have ruled the
country for years had he...
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 Cyclone Daman destroyed two villages on the small Fiji island of
Cikobia early Saturday, according to a Radio New Zealand report from
the capital, Suva.
The first cyclone of the 2007/08 season in the South Pacific, rated
category four, which can have wind gusts up to 279 kilometres an hour,
Daman passed directly over the island...
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 LA Galaxy superstar David Beckham received a special welcome when he arrived in New Zeeland on Thursday for an exhibition game against the local Phoenix team.He pressed noses with Maori in a traditional welcome and was impressed by the traditional Maori challenge to visitors, which he only saw on TV, delivered by New Zealand's national...
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Wellington - New Zealand peacefully celebrated 169 years of partnership between its indigenous Maori people and white settlers from Britain Friday with Prime Minister John Key shrugging off a physical attack on him by two Maori dissidents the previous day as an isolated incident.
A group of Maoris at historic Waitangi in the Bay...
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Kathmandu - Nepalese politicians have decided to remove thousands of former Maoist combatants from camps and attempt to reintegrate them into society after they were disqualified from the combatant rehabilitation process by the United Nations, official reports said Friday.
The decision came during a meeting Thursday of the Army...
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Sri Lanka held remembrance ceremonies in various parts of the island nation to mark the fourth anniversary of the devastating tsunami on Boxing Day, 2004, that claimed over 40,000 lives and displaced more than half a million people..
An island-wide two-minute silence was observed Friday morning as friends and relatives of those...
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Two giant pandas given by China to Taiwan arrived in Taipei on Tuesday amid huge public interest in the latest sign of improving ties between the two political rivals.
The pandas, named Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, arrived on board a chartered EVA Air jet, following a three-hour flight from a panda reserve in China's Sichuan...
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For six decades, China tried in vain to recover Taiwan with military force and political rhetoric. Now it has changed its tactics, by sending Taiwan a pair of giant pandas to win over the hearts of Taiwan people.
The tactic has worked even before the two panda bears arrived in Taipei Tuesday. In the past month, news about the two...
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China on Friday launched its Shenzhou VII manned space mission carrying three astronauts whose main task was to complete the country's first spacewalk.
The spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan space centre in the north-western province at 9:10 pm (1310 GMT) on board a Long March-2F carrier rocket.
The scheduled three-to-four-day...
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The new United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay, called Monday for unity in the fight against human rights abuses.
A united front was needed towards human rights, Pillay said at the opening of a meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Pillay, a South African judge who took over as UN Commissioner from...
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The glamour of Yelena Isinbayeva brought a smile back to China's face when the Russian competed in the Olympic pole vault just hours after local icon Liu Xiang limped out of the Games with an Achilles tendon injury.
Isinbayeva was the star on a night in which Kenya retained its 3,000m steeplechase domination from world champion Brimin...
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“The dying man who taught America how to live,” as The Independent of London called the university professor Randy Pausch, died earlier Friday at the age of 47. Pausch was an American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but it’s his “Last Lecture”...
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Hezbollah handed back to Israel the bodies of
two Israeli soldiers Wednesday, two years and four days after snatching
them in a July 12, 2006 cross-border raid that sparked one month of
deadly and destructive fighting. Under a deal brokered by a
United Nations-appointed German mediator that closes the final chapter
of that 33-day...
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Since Tuesday, Ellen Howell is
the proud mother of quintuplets. She delivered the babies at a hospital in Arizona, Phoenix,
in no more than 3 minutes. According to doctors, as their health concerns, the
3 girls and 2 boys are in good condition. Still, they have to remain in the
neonatal intensive care unit for several months....
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In an attempt to prove its commitment to halt its nuclear
weapons program, North Korea destroyed a water cooling tower that was part of
its Yongbyon nuclear plant where it processed weapon-grade plutonium.
The move comes a day after Kim Jong II’s regime submitted a
detailed inventory of nuclear plants and materials, which was...
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the 120th day of 2008 with 246 to follow.The moon is waning. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1863; bandleader and composer Edward Kennedy "Duke"...
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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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 Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Saturday visited her
ancestral village and offered prayers at her family's mausoleum in a visit
greeted by thousands of supporters.
This is the first public trip made by the former premier in Pakistan
since her homecoming procession was marred by the deadly suicide blast...
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Look to the sky tonight as you will witness a rare and
amazing astrological event.
According to the Shanghai Observatory, on the 28 of August
we should be able to see a full lunar eclipse. This is not just any lunar eclipse,
for tonight the moon will turn bright red as the earth and sun align on either side.
It is the...
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 At least 200 people were killed and 200 more were
wounded when four suicide bombers drove trucks laden with explosives in the
North-West of Iraq, in the whereabouts of a small religious sect.
The nearly simultaneous blasts aimed the community of Yazidi, at about 70 miles of Mosul, in
Qahataniya. This Tuesday attack deepens the...
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 The magic universe of Harry Potter couldn’t end more
magically than it did, with the sole copy on sale being sold for $ 4 million.
Sotheby’s auction house in London sheltered the auction for one of the
seven copies of “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” and the purchaser is no one else
than Web retailer Amazon.com Inc., who was...
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 Speaking for the first time since the seventh and final Harry Potter book was released, British author JK Rowling is definitely considering writing more books about the boy wizard’s world. In a tell-all interview with Today’s Meredith Vieira, the writer revealed she plans on penning a sort of Harry Potter Encyclopedia based on the...
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 The Amazonian states of Beni
and Pando voted overwhelmingly Sunday for autonomy from the central government.
The referendum came a month after voters in the State of Santa Cruz also cast
ballots in favour of autonomy. Both states passed autonomy measures by more
than 80 percent of the vote. The Bolivian government said the vote was...
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 A new Indian tribe that hasn’t had contact with civilization was discovered in the Amazon. Brazil’s National Indian Foundation said in the statement it spotted a group of Indians, six huts and a large planted area near the Envira River, close to the Peruvian border in the Brazilian state of Acre in the western Amazon rainforest.“We put...
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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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 The volcano Llaima in southern Chile continued to erupt Wednesday,
spewing fire and lava and forcing authorities to evacuate some 150
tourists and residents.
Since Tuesday, fire and lava have been shooting about 1,000 metres
above the volcano, which is located some 900 kilometres south of the
Chilean capital, Santiago.
The...
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 Proof of life of former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, three
US contractors and and 13 other hostages held by leftist rebels in
Colombia was found in the hands of three arrested guerrillas, Colombian
authorities said Friday.
The Army arrested three members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces
of Colombia (FARC) and found...
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 Mexico's Caribbean coastline is glowing, one-and-a-half years after the devastation wrought by Hurricane Wilma.
More than 120 hotels in Mexico's paradise beach resort of Cancun have been transformed into luxury inns. Along the Riviera Mayan coast, there are more hotels, and a new airport will soon be built near the Mayan ruins in the...
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Every day 1,500 women die of avoidable complications in pregnancy in childbirth, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said in a report released Thursday.
The overall figure stood at 10 million women since 1990, with women in Africa south of the Sahara and south Asia most at risk, the report titled The State of the World's...
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Police in South Africa on Wednesday revised the number of people killed in apparent xenophobic violence in the port city of Durban on the weekend from three to two.
Reports Tuesday had said three foreign nationals had been killed when a mob of 150 armed people stormed an apartment building inhabited by migrants from other parts of...
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Kenyan police Friday arrested 23 journalists and protestors demonstrating against a new media bill that many fear will curtail press freedom.
Police say they arrested the demonstrators, who were heading to the Nyayo national stadium where President Mwai Kibaki was speaking during a national holiday, because they did not announce the...
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After sparking outrage among Israel's Arab citizens, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni clarified Friday her remark that the solution for their national aspirations lay in the future Palestinian state.
Livni told Israel Radio that she had not been hinting at "transferring" or "moving" Israel's Arab citizens to...
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The body of South African singer and anti-apartheid icon, Miriam Makeba, arrived back in her native Johannesburg Wednesday, three days after her death in Italy.
Makeba, 76, who was known affectionately as Mama Africa, suffered a heart attack shortly after a performance on Sunday evening in southern Italy in support of a campaign...
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Tributes began pouring in Monday for South African singer and anti-apartheid icon, Miriam Makeba, who died Sunday from a heart attack in an Italian clinic.
Makeba, 76, collapsed shortly after a performance on Sunday evening and was brought by ambulance to a hospital in Castel Volturno in southern Italy, where she died, a hospital...
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Israel's new government will continue negotiations with the Palestinian government and believes that reaching a peace agreement before the end the year is possible, Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Thursday.
"We hope to see an independent Palestinian state to live side by side with Israel in peace and security," said...
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The presence of international warships has provoked a gunbattle that led to three Somali pirates being shot dead aboard a hijacked Ukrainian cargo ship carrying tanks, a maritime official said Tuesday.
"There was a shootout because of a misunderstanding between the gunmen," Andrew Mwangura of the East African Seafarers'...
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Three Somali pirates were shot dead in an apparent argument with their
mates aboard a hijacked Ukrainian cargo ship carrying tanks, the
Itar-Tass news agency reported on Tuesday.
None of the 20 crew being held hostage on the freighter Faina were
injured in the exchange of fire stemming from a alleged dispute between
the pirates,...
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Three Somali pirates were shot dead in an apparent argument
with their mates aboard a hijacked Ukrainian cargo ship carrying tanks, the
Itar-Tass news agency reported on Tuesday.
None of the 20 crew being held hostage on the freighter Faina were injured in
the exchange of fire stemming from a alleged dispute between the...
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Hassan is a 36-year-old Egyptian waiter who earns 500 Egyptian pounds (93 US dollars) a month. His fiancée Heba is a university student, who works as a salesgirl on the side. She uses half the 400 pounds she earns to save for their wedding.
Hassan and Heba's tale - of saving long and hard with meagre wages to scrape together enough to...
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Nigeria's National Human Rights Commission called on the government Wednesday to examine why so many Nigerians are facing the death penalty worldwide.
"More than 50 Nigerians are currently on death row across the globe," the commission's spokesman, Lambert Oparah, said.
"The situation should be a worry to the...
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The top decision-making body of South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) party began a three- day meeting Friday that will decide the fate of President Thabo Mbeki.
Mbeki's neck has been on the ANC's chopping block since a court last week found evidence of political interference in the decision to prosecute ANC leader...
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The death toll from a rockslide in Cairo earlier this month has risen to 101 after rescuers pulled five more bodies from the rubble, local media reported on Friday.
Rescuers have started to break a rock exceeding 1,000 tonnes to free 17 victims of one house crushed under it, Egyptian daily al-Masri al-Youm reported.
The rockslide,...
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The number of people confirmed dead as a result of Saturday's rockslide in Cairo reached 75 and is feared likely to climb, six days after hundreds of tons of limestone came crashing down upon the Doweiqa neighbourhood, Egyptian security sources said.
On Saturday, eight rocks, weighing between 100 and 500 tons, separated from the cliff...
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The latest round of United Nations climate talks got underway in Ghanian capital Accra Thursday, with over a thousand delegates gathering for a week to iron out the technical details of a new climate change treaty.
Talks in Bangkok in April set up a work programme for a long-term international agreement to be concluded in Copenhagen...
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe talked up a power-sharing deal with opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai at a rally on Monday, hours after marathon negotiations between the two on a government of national unity were adjourned in Harare.
"Today's commemoration occurs against the backdrop of a new dispensation," he told...
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Sixteen desperate Nigerian jobseekers died and
21 were seriously injured Saturday during recruitment exercises across
the country for the immigration service, officials said Sunday.
In Enugu, South-East Nigeria, four people were crushed to death and 21
others were seriously injured while trying to open a gate, the
Controller of...
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Nigerian militants responsible for crippling
attacks on the West African nation's oil industry said Thursday they
would call off a ceasefire after Britain promised to support the
Nigerian government in ending oil-related violence. The
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said attacks
would begin again from...
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 Kenya's opposition said Tuesday it had filed a complaint with the
International Criminal Court in The Hague against President Mwai
Kibaki, his cabinet and police officials, accusing them of crimes
against humanity during the post-election period.
The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), which charges that last
month's elections were...
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 Kenya's embattled opposition seemed to lose some steam Friday during
the final day of a series of protests and said it would alter its
tactics to bring down President Mwai Kibaki - which it charges stole
his election win last month - by targeting the economy.
In a stark contrast to its determination to keep on with the...
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 Men, women and children bearing machetes and clubs chanted opposition
slogans in the slums of the Kenyan capital Nairobi Thursday as a second
day of protests over disputed presidential election polls got violently
underway.
Protestors in Mathare shantytown, unable to break a police barrier
to reach the downtown rally called by the...
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 Chaos descended on parts of Kenya Wednesday as the first of three days
of rallies saw opposition backers clash with police who fired tear gas
and live rounds into crowds to thwart the demonstrations over disputed
presidential polls.
A sense of normalcy returned to some areas of the capital Nairobi
in the morning, with Kenyans...
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 Kenyan opposition politicians called off what was called a
"million-man" rally Thursday to protest allegedly flawed polls which
have sparked mass rioting and violence that continued as supporters
tried to reach the gathering.
As disgruntled Kenyans fought police and condemned the so-called
flawed poll results that...
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 Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki was declared winner Sunday amid reignited
violence around the country after a tight, tense race was marred by
allegations of fraud.
As Kibaki's supporters celebrated in the capital Nairobi,
pro-opposition protesters countrywide took to the streets charging the
vote was rigged.
Leaders had appealed...
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 September 11th is a day of celebration for the people of Ethiopia as
they cheer the coming of the third millennium.
The explanation for this lies in the history of the Western
calendar system. When Europe converted to the
Gregorian calendar in 1582, Ethiopians stuck with the Julian calendar, which
they had been using happily for...
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 A group of gunmen attacked an oil rig in the volatile Niger Delta region on Wednesday and kidnapped five foreign oil workers, security sources informed.According to the same sources, one Australian, two New Zealanders, a Lebanese citizen and a Venezuelan were abducted in Soku, River state a day after the militant indigenous group the...
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 Wednesday, members of South Africa’s governing party the African National Congress started their five-year gathering amid rising tensions sparked by the upcoming party elections.President Thabo Mbeki tried to bring together all factions through his inaugural speech, calling for unity in order to establish a new ANC leader in December....
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 Nigeria was numb Wednesday after unions across the country called for a major strike in all sectors except the oil industry, where production was no ceased.It seems that Olusegun Obasanjo’s decision to raise the price of gas at pumps during his last week as president of Nigeria triggered a chain reaction that has repercussions even...
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 Susan Atkins, a follower of Charles Manson who took part in
the killing of pregnant actress Sharon Tate nearly 40 years ago was denied
compassionate release Tuesday.
Atkins, who was a leading character in one of the most
horrible crimes in California history, hoped to be allowed to go home, because
she is dying due to brain...
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 Comedians Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel have broken up
after a five-year relationship, publicists for the couple said on Monday.
The two both have their own shows. Kimmel, 40, hosts the
late-night ABC television talk show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”, and Silverman, 37,
has her comedy show “The Sarah Silverman Program,” on the cable TV...
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 Willard Christopher Smith, Jr. also known as Will Smith is a
39-year-old two time Academy Award-nominated American actor and singer.
However, this year Smith hasn’t been nominated for an Oscar, but has received
the first Cadet Choice Movie Award from the U.S. Military Academy for his role
in “I Am Legend.”
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 The 39th NAACP Image
Awards ceremony was held Thursday night at Shrine Auditorium, honoring the
achievements of individuals from various fields such as arts, literature,
motion pictures, recording and television. The show was hosted by D. L.
Hughley.
The great winners of the night
were Denzel Washington’s “The Great...
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 You could say that 49-year-old
pop diva Madonna is like wine: the older she gets the better she is. Besides
being an excellent singer and song writer, Madonna is also a money maker.
According to Forbes.com, she tops the “Cash Queens of Music” list as the
richest female singer for the recorded period June 2006 – June 2007, with...
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Today is Saturday, September 15, 2007 TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLE Positions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (8 a.m. EDT): Sun............... 23rd degree Virgo Moon.............. 25th degree Libra Mercury........... 15th degree Libra Venus............. 18th degree Leo, retrograde Mars.............. 24th...
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Today is Wednesday, August 29, 2007TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLEPositions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (8 a.m. EDT):Sun............... 6th degree VirgoMoon.............. 21st degree PiscesMercury........... 19th degree VirgoVenus............. 19th degree Leo, retrogradeMars.............. 14th degree...
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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
Venus............. 3rd degree...
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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 Sunday, June 10, 2007
TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLE
Positions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (8 a.m. EDT):
Sun............... 20th degree Gemini
Moon.............. 16th degree Aries
Mercury........... 11th degree Cancer
Venus............. ...
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Athens - Flights to and from Greece were halted Wednesday as air traffic controllers were to walk off the job for three hours to join a 24-hour public sector strike to protest pension reforms and low salaries.
All flights to and from Greek airports were scheduled to be grounded from 10 am to 1 pm (0900 to 1200 GMT), forcing the...
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Vienna - By withdrawing the teaching licence of an anti-Semitic Islam religion teacher on Thursday, Austria's education ministry has started to implement measures against extremist Muslim educators.
The teacher had told his students at a Vienna secondary school not to buy from a list of international companies, because they were...
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Amsterdam - A Dutch Catholic priest has been allowed to retain a formal relationship with a woman after a deadline for an appeal against the union expired, Dutch media reported Wednesday.
A Catholic court had previously ruled that Dutch priest Ruud Huysmans could not be held accountable for violating Church law when he had entered a...
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Ankara - The alleged murderer of an eight-year-old girl in Germany was taken into custody by Turkish police late Tuesday night in the western Turkish town of Didim after his father-in-law helped track him down, the Dogan news agency reported on Wednesday.
Ali Kur, 29, fled Germany after allegedly sexually assaulting and murdering...
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Warsaw - Best known for films heavy in history and politics, Polish director Andrzej Wajda says his film that it is to premiere at this year's Berlin Film Festival is a goodbye to that genre, and to the past.
Sweet Rush (Tatarak), which will have its world premiere in Berlin, is the 38th film from the director who has chronicled his...
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Kiev - The international financial crisis and its devastating impact on Ukrainian state revenues has stranded a 40- metre Christmas tree in the central square of the capital Kiev, the Interfax news agency reported Tuesday.
Near-empty city hall accounts and outstanding debt have left the Kiev city government without funds to dismantle...
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European council president and Czech Premier Mirek Topolanek said Wednesday that Europe could help achieve peace in the Mideast but conceded that this might not happen soon.
Presenting his programme to the European parliament in Strasbourg for his six-month term as EU president, the Czech leader devoted some of his time to the...
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Thirty years after the Iranian revolution, the estimated 20 million Iranians with access to satellite television will be able to witness the inauguration of a new US president - live on the BBC.
They will see the historic event on BBC Persian TV, just a few days after the publicly-funded channel is launched at 1330 GMT Wednesday,...
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Boasting one of the highest fertility rates in Europe, France saw its population grow by 0.6 per cent last year, to an estimated 64.3 million people, the government's statistics office INSEE said on Tuesday.
Some 834,000 children were born on French territory in 2008, the highest number since 1981, INSEE said. That figure was all the...
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Explosives experts have defused a World War I hand grenade stored for years at a museum in the Aland Islands, located in the Baltic Sea between Finland and Sweden.
Some 30 years ago, a woman found the Russian-made grenade when digging in her garden in Mariehamn, the only town on the islands, news agency STT reported.
She put the...
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City managers in the Ukrainian capital Kiev on Tuesday began energy conservation measures because of falling supplies of natural gas, officials at the power company Kievenergo said.
Kiev residents, for their part, were resorting to tried and true methods of beating the cold, as yet another gas war with Russia and a vicious cold snap...
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The NATO general who oversees anti-Taliban operations in Afghanistan recommended Wednesday that the West seek to divide the Taliban and enter negotiations with its moderates.
Egon Ramms, who is a four-star German general, told the German weekly magazine Stern it was increasingly easy to differentiate between militant non-Afghan...
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Atheist groups in Barcelona will follow the example of a bus advertising campaign under way in London, placing ads denying the existence of God on two buses running in Spain's second-largest city, local transport authorities said Monday.
The ads reading "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life" will...
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The world's population on New Year's Day is set to reach 6.75 billion, a German group that encourages birth control said Tuesday.
The World Population Foundation of Germany said the planet's human population rose by 82 million this year.
Its best estimate from its own data was that world population on January 1 would reach...
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In a first step to possibly granting asylum to prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Germany is reviewing the legal issues, a government spokesman said Monday in Berlin.
Many of the 250 prisoners held by the United States face torture or death if they return to their homelands.
Many face no charges, but do not want to...
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Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme faced growing calls to quit Thursday after his office was accused of trying to influence a court ruling on the sale of the country's troubled Fortis bank.
"Leterme wobbles" read the front-page headline of leading Flemish daily De Standaard.
"Leterme torpedos himself" said the...
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An Iraqi doctor described in court as a "religious extremist and a bigot" was Wednesday sentenced to 32 years in jail for plotting major car bombings in Britain in the summer of 2007.
Bilal Abdulla, 29, who has dual British and Iraqi nationality, was given two life sentences for plotting to murder hundreds of innocent...
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Leaders seeking a solution to reunify the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus tackled "thorny" issues on Tuesday in the latest round of UN-sponsored peace talks, officials said.
"The talks took place in a positive climate but focused on a number of thorny issues," said Alexander Downer, a former Australian...
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Amsterdam's gays are planning special Christmas celebrations this year with their first "Pink Christmas" festival due to start on Thursday.
The ten-day festival organized by the Dutch ProGay Foundation includes a special Christmas fair on December 21, a manger stall with two live Josephs and two live Marys, as well as a...
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The major organizations active in the Dutch residential real estate market want the government to take extra measures to boost home sales, Dutch media reported on Thursday.
The organizations sent a letter to Minister of Residential and Urban Affairs Eberhard van der Laan (Labour) requesting special measures to boost the home...
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Hundreds of mask-wearing municipal workers used bulldozers and water hoses to clear the streets of Athens from marble chunks, broken glass and burned barricades on Thursday following five days of rioting and social unrest.
While no major demonstrations were planned Thursday, authorities braced themselves for more civil unrest as...
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Thousands of people marched through a city landscape of burned and looted shops in the Greek capital Wednesday in a nationwide strike to protest against the government's economic policies.
In demonstrations coming after four nights of civil unrest, anti- government protesters shouting slogans and carrying black flags marched through...
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Thousands of people marched through a city landscape of burned and looted shops in the Greek capital Wednesday in a nationwide strike to protest against the government's economic policies.
In demonstrations coming after four nights of civil unrest, anti- government protesters shouting slogans and carrying black flags marched through...
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The head of the Anglican Church Wednesday described the situation in Zimbabwe as a "complete humanitarian outrage" resulting from "state aggression towards civil society."
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said in a statement in London that "outside pressure" on the regime of President Robert...
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Police clashed with demonstrators, who threw fire bombs and chunks of marble, on Wednesday during a nationwide strike that paralyzed Greece already crippled by a crisis after five days of the worst violence the country has seen in decades.
More than 10,000 demonstrators yelling, "Down with the pigs," and carrying black flags...
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Police clashed with projectile-throwing demonstrators on Wednesday during a nationwide strike that paralysed Greece already crippled by a crisis after five days of the worst violence the country has seen in decades.
More than 10,000 demonstrators yelling, "Down with the pigs," and carrying black flags marched through a city...
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Before turning off his ventilator with his teeth as he is dying from a lethal mix of sedatives, the almost completely paralysed assisted suicide patient is heard saying: "I'd like to continue. The thing is that I really can't."
Millions of prime-time television viewers in Britain were Wednesday able to witness the assisted...
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Police clashed with projectile-throwing demonstrators on Wednesday during a nationwide strike that paralysed Greece already crippled by a crisis after five days of the worst violence the country has seen in decades.
More than 10,000 demonstrators yelling, "Down with the pigs," and carrying black flags marched through a city...
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The Greek capital Athens and dozens of other cities were left crippled Tuesday after several days of arson and looting, triggered by the fatal shooting of a teenager by police.
Described as the worst riots in decades, thick black smoke, flames and tear gas had engulfed central Athens for hours as students set fire to cars, banks,...
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Greece braced for more widespread protests and possible violence Tuesday with the funeral of the teenager who was fatally shot by police over the weekend, triggering the worst rioting the country has seen in decades.
Widespread riots first erupted late Saturday shortly after the shooting of the teenage boy by a police officer in the...
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Greece braced Monday for a third day of demonstrations and civil unrest after the shooting of a teenager by police over the weekend.
The widespread rioting and looting by thousands of self-styled anarchists left Athens and the northern port of Thessaloniki resembling war zones as youths destroyed businesses, cars, banks, police...
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Olympic television broadcasts from 2014 onwards could be aired by private networks in Europe instead of the state-run stations which covered the Games for the last 50 years, a German television executive said on Wednesday.
Dieter Gruschwitz, the head of sports at the ZDF state network, said that such a scenario was not out of the...
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A British doctor performed a life-saving operation on a teenage boy in the Democratic Republic of Congo by taking step- by-step instructions for the complicated surgery via text message from a colleague in London, it was reported Wednesday.
David Nott, a 52-year-old vascular surgeon who works for Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF), found...
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Some 63 years after the end of World War II, a German prince is trying to secure the return of land and property seized from his family after an abortive bomb plot against Hitler.
Prince Friedrich zu Solms-Baruth, 45, is due to appear before an administrative court in Potsdam, near Berlin, on Thursday to pursue a claim against the...
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Two years after the police and military collapsed and months of anarchy drove more than 100,000 people into displacement camps, East Timor has yet to fix the underlying causes of the instability, and, given the poor government turnout at a stability retreat Friday, it would seem there is still little political will to address the...
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A German court jailed a woman for three and a half years on Friday for killing her live baby by putting the newborn in a chest-style home freezer.
The woman, 21, sobbed as she claimed to the court in Rottweil, south-western Germany this week that she had not been aware she was pregnant and had wanted to make it seem as if the sudden...
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Spanish scientists have created "super-mice" that are cancer-resistant and live up to 40 per cent longer, media reported Friday.
The mice were subjected to genetic engineering by researchers from the cancer research centre CNIO and Valencia University.
The key to the experiment was an enzyme called telomerase, which...
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Incest suspect Josef Fritzl is not only charged for raping and imprisoning his daughter for 24 years, but is also indicted for murder, as a boy he fathered with his daughter died after birth, a spokesman of the prosecution said Thursday.
Fritzl, who has admitted most of the allegations, now faces imprisonment for life. In total, the...
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Threatened Italian author Roberto Saviano and British-Indian author Salman Rushdie have accepted invitations to lecture at the Swedish Academy, the body that selects the Nobel literature prize said Tuesday.
Saviano and Rushdie were to speak November 25 on the theme "Freedom of speech and lawless violence."
The academy...
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Lithuania and Poland should bow to the majority of European Union member states and approve the immediate relaunch of talks on a strategic deal with Russia, despite their own security concerns, top EU officials warned Friday.
The decision to restart talks "may not be 100 per cent what your feelings are, but it's better for you to...
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Popstar Bjork said Thursday that Iceland should join the European Union to protect the country's economy and give it a greater voice in climate change talks.
"Right now, it looks like its the only way," Iceland's greatest celebrity said when asked whether she was in favour of her country joining the EU.
Bjork said her...
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Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Wednesday hailed the victory of US president-elect Barack Obama as opening the way for "more positive" bilateral relations.
Madrid would be a "friend and faithful ally" of Washington, said the Socialist premier, whose decision to recall Spanish troops from Iraq...
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The British Labour government and opposition parties Wednesday hailed as "inspirational" the victory of Barack Obama in the American presidential election which they hope will open a new era in the much-vaunted "special relationship" between Britain and the US.
"This is a moment that will live in history as...
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Omar Osama bin Laden, 27, one of the 19 children of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has sought political asylum in Spain, Interior Ministry sources said Tuesday.
Omar bin Laden arrived on a flight from Cairo to Casablanca in Morocco, which made a stopover in Madrid on Monday.
Bin Laden, who was carrying a Saudi passport, was...
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Anti-globalization demonstrators invaded the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on Monday, chanting, waving banners and scattering leaflets inside Germany's principal financial marketplace.
"We are criticizing the dominance of financial markets," said Stephan Schilling, a member of the Attac Network coordinating circle, in Frankfurt...
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Italian author Roberto Saviano, who has been threatened for his writings on the mafia, has been invited to give a lecture at the Swedish Academy, a spokesman for the body that selects the Nobel literature prize said Friday.
The academy decided on the invitation at its weekly meeting on Thursday, Odd Zschiedrich, administrative...
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German national broadcasters ARD and ZDF announced Thursday that they will no longer broadcast the Tour de France live.
"The sporting value of the Tour de France has been significantly reduced as a result of the numerous doping cases and the perceptions that have materialised," ARD chairman Fritz Raff said.
ARD and...
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A Dubai court sentenced a British couple on Thursday to three months in jail for having sex on a public beach in the Gulf emirate.
Michelle Palmer, 37, a resident in Dubai and her visiting partner Vince Acors, 34, were also fined 1,000 dirham (202 euros) for drinking alcohol in public.
Their lawyer, Hassan Mattar, said that he...
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Climate change poses a health threat in Europe and central Asia, especially among the poor, experts from the United Nations and the European Union's food safety watchdog said Tuesday.
The warning came in a statement from a seminar in Rome on the health effects of climate change on food, water safety and nutrition.
The seminar is...
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British police are questioning three people in connection with the alleged theft of designer items from the home of David and Victoria Beckham which were said to have been spotted in an sale on the eBay auction site.
Police said a housekeeper couple who worked for the Beckham's for many years, and their 25-year-old son, had been...
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AT&T Inc. officials have confirmed that
the company is getting ready to launch a new video service on Sunday for a
monthly fee of $15.
AT&T will share eight channels with
Verizon Wireless (CBS Mobile, Comedy Central, ESPN Mobile TV, Fox Mobile, MTV,
NBC 2Go, NBC News 2Go and Nickelodeon) and will also offer its clients...
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 Alienware, Dell’s subsidiary which manufactures high-end desktops for enthusiasts, has recently unveiled Hangar 18, an unusual desktop that sits…in your living room, under your TV.Alienware Hangar 18 is a device that allows you to watch, pause, and record your movies, TV shows, photos, and internet videos on your widescreen TV in high...
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 Pollution has always been thought to reduce survival due to
its noxious effects on people’s health. Previous studies have linked pollution
to increased risk of heart attack, stroke, lung cancer, asthma and other
serious diseases.
A study published in Thursday’s New England of Medicine
shows that people who live in areas with the...
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 Did you smile or laugh a lot yesterday? Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with your job or the work you do? Did you eat healthy all day yesterday? Do you feel safe walking alone at night in the city or area where you live? These are some of the questions that Americans surveyed for the so-called Emotional Health Index (EHI) have to...
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The United States urged Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday to end their dispute over natural gas supplies that has caused a sharp decline in shipments throughout Europe.
"Russia and Ukraine should get together, come to the table, work out the differences that exist between them in what would appear to be a commercial dispute,"...
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Days after a burglar broke into the house of Paris Hilton and stole 2 million dollars worth of jewels, the socialite and hotel heiress has consoled herself by splashing out on a radical pink Bentley.
It's still unknown whether she used insurance money to buy the 200,000 dollar vehicle. But she certainly had enough cash to take it...
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The Hollywood awards season kicked into high gear early Thursday as the nominees for the Golden Globe Awards were announced. Leading the pack are The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, about a man born old who grows young, Frost/Nixon about a series of revealing television interviews of the notorious US president and Doubt, a searing drama...
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 An official told Fox News on Friday that a teenager from Florida committed suicide in front of his webcam after he had posted online messages announcing everyone about his plans to kill himself. Abraham Biggs Jr., 19, of Pembroke Pines, Fla. passed away on Wednesday, Wendy Crane, an investigator with the Broward County medical examiner's...
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Although Kevin Garnett missed the game on Tuesday night, the Boston Celtics seemed to be just fine without their emotional leader.
Paul Pierce scored 23 points and fan favourite Brian Scalabrine, filling in for the suspended Garnett, fired in a game-sealing three- pointer with just over a minute left to play as the Celtics held off...
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 Thomas Beatie, 34, shocked the whole world when he announced he was pregnant. Nobody believed that the role that Arnold Schwarzenegger interpreted in Junior would become real, but last year thousands of photos appeared of a real man carrying a baby! The weird thing is that Beatie used to be a woman, who later underwent surgery to become...
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 The Great Southern California Shake Out is a weeklong event that is meant to teach people how to act during a big earthquake. The education program starts today at 10 a.m. when 5.2 million residents of California will have to roll under the tables and spend two minutes holding its leg tightly. The organizers of the events say that it’s...
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Christopher Ciccone has little in common with his sister, ultra fit and apparently ageless pop star Madonna.
The 47-year-old Ciccone is so reserved he comes across almost as shy. He's wrapped in an oversized hooded sweatshirt, and the wrinkles show around his eyes, making him look personable.
Despite the cool autumn weather, he...
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 When Michelle Obama went to visit her future home, the White House, she received the most important touring guide, the former first lady Laura Bush. She gave Michelle Obama some advice about how to deal with her two daughters and how to survive living in the most important building of the United States.Of course, the present president of...
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 A federal report released on Monday stated that almost 90% of the nursing homes violated federal health and safety standards last year. Among them, the for-profit homes are the ones to will suffer most of the federal punishments. Daniel R. Levinson, the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, said that 17% of...
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The chief US negotiator in North Korean nuclear talks said Tuesday that he was travelling to North Korea this week to achieve an agreement on how to verify that North Korea is keeping its promises made at the talks.
Christopher Hill made the remarks during a stopover in South Korea on a trip designed to save a three-stage agreement...
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 Devastating hurricane Ike left the residents of Galveston without supplies and some other 4 million Texans were left without power on Monday, after Ike made its way through the Gulf Coast. Entire subdivisions of island city of Galveston and the barrier island of Bolivar Peninsula were washed away by the powerful hurricane.One of the...
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Waving blue and white signs, 4,400 Democratic delegates roared approval at a parade of the party's stars on Monday, including the ailing Senator Edward Kennedy, former president Jimmy Carter and Michelle Obama.
Whether it was the kind of energy that will propel presumptive candidate Barack Obama, 47, into the White House in November...
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Tanya Kazyra, 16, from Belarus, left her country for the United States eight years ago as she was to stay with the Zapatas in a wine country town. Tanya and 2,000 other children from regions affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident received dental, health and vision care through such programs since 1991.Tanya said it is too hard to...
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 Sayed Rahman admitted to have killed Ingrid Rivera on the roof of the Spotlight Live club. The Times Square worker confessed to have taken the drunk Queens woman to the roof of the club, killing her and putting her body in a rooftop shed.Rivera, 24, came to the club to attend the birthday party for rapper Lil’Kim. Rahman targeted the...
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 Tropical Storm Edouard, the fifth tropical storm of the hurricane season in Atlantic this year, has formed near an oil and gas producing area of the northern Gulf of Mexico, on Sunday.By 11 p.m. EDT, the storm was located around 80 miles southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River and was expected to come on the Texas coast being as...
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The Vermont Department of Health released its newest report on public health surveillance of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station. The report shows that the nuclear plant is currently releasing 30% more radiation since its power production increased 2 decades ago. William Irwin, radiological health safety leader of the health...
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 Yesterday afternoon, a possible gas blast roared through a Queens apartment building, leaving 17 people injured, including a 2-year-old baby and her father, who are both in critical condition.Firefighters who arrived at the seven-story building located in Flushing neighborhood didn't confirm reports of an explosion. However, City...
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It’s a fact that the pollution which comes from vessels that navigate on the sea represents a great factor of causing diseases. International negotiators have hardly tried to reduce this pollution, but they have always come across shipping conglomerates.If the new rules will be voted, the regulation will affect 43% of all the vessels...
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 According to a survey released this week, one out of five Massachusetts inhabitants aged 25 to 39 intend to leave the state during the next five years. Among the individuals who plan to depart from the northeastern US state, 32 percent said that the Massachusetts's high cost of living is the reason of them wanting to leave. Record-high...
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 The Okmok Caldera volcano has erupted on an island, in Anchorage, Alaska. The volcano announced no warning before its eruption. After that, it sent an ash cloud of almost 50,000 feet high, said the geophysicist Steve McNutt.The volcano erupted last Saturday morning, but the seismologists at the Alaska Volcano Center didn’t detect more...
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A black neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio, was refused
water by the local authorities. They were refused the water service for years
because of racial discrimination. This Thursday the black neighborhood was awarded
nearly $11 million by a federal jury for the lack of water supplies.
Each of the 67 families was awarded $15,000...
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Thanks to DNA technology, it could be finally proven that
the family of the slain child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was not responsible
for the crime.
Twelve years after the little girl was found strangled in
her Colorado home, prosecutors cleared her parents and brother in the Dec. 26,
1999, killing and apologized to them for...
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The Ecuadorian government Tuesday justified
the seizure of three television stations and more than 100 other
companies belonging to Grupo Isaias, as an attempt to recover more than
661 million dollars in debt.
Grupo Isaias is one of the largest business groups in Ecuador. Some
of its owners live in the United States and are wanted...
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Kristen Anne LaBrie is facing charges after she voluntarily stopped her son’s medications for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. 8-year-old Jeremy was said to be having 80% chances of surviving when the doctors diagnosed him. But he ought to have passed through chemotherapy and to have taken the medication.Doctors claim that his mother canceled...
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 The burst of a devastating blaze in the Los Padres National Forest has forced authorities to evacuate
the residents who live in the canyon districts north of Goleta,
in Santa Barbara County.
Kathy Good, U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman, informed the
press that the massive wildfires reduced to ashes at least 50 acres of bushes
in...
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A Seattle-area woman is accused of first-degree murder and may get the death penalty because she stabbed and killed a pregnant woman, cutting her live baby from her womb, on Friday, in Columbia Park, Seattle. Phiengchai Sisouvanh Synhavong claimed that the baby was hers. She allegedly killed the mother of the baby and hours later called...
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The mother of a 5-year-old boy and her girlfriend who are suspected of starving and beating the child have been arrested, police said Saturday. According to the police, the boy had many cigarette burns all over his body and he was unable to open his hands, as he had been forced to put them flat on a hot stove. The child was repeatedly...
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 Petal, a 52-year-old female elephant, has lived in the
Philadelphia Zoo since she was one or two years old. Throughout this period she
has won the hearts of both the Zoo’s staff and the visitors’ ones. On Monday
morning Petal passed away. The causes of her death were not determined as yet. Tests
are being conducted in the attempt to...
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 One minute and fifty seconds of applause followed after an impressive speech held by the novelist JK Rowling in front of the 2008 Harvard graduates. And it was not an easy job for the Harry Potter author to hit the jack-pot after heavyweight speakers like Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, former Irish president Mary Robinson, ex-US...
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 In his speech at the opening of a UN summit
in Rome, UN
Chief Ban Ki-Moon called for a drastic increase in the food production to meet
demand. He has urged nations to seize an “historic opportunity to revitalise
agriculture” as a measure to tackle the food crisis.
“Nothing is more degrading than hunger,
especially when it is...
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 It appears that a huge fire broke out at Universal Studios early Sunday, destroying several movie sets such as “Back to the Future’ and the King Kong exhibit and also a sound stage, the Associated Press reports.The fire broke out on a sound stage at the theme park in a set featuring New York brownstones facades around 4:30 a.m.According...
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 Senator Edward M. Kennedy was diagnosed with a cancerous
brain tumor Tuesday and several experts predicted he had no more than three
years to live, the Associated Press reports.
In her first public comments on her husband’s diagnosis, Vicki Kennedy
expressed pride in how well her husband of 15 years was handling the news....
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 The latest coyote attack in the past nine months took place in
Lake Arrowhead,
Southern California. Melissa Rowley’s little
girl was playing in the front yard. Her mother stepped into the house for a moment
and when she came back, she saw a coyote dragging her daughter away. The animal
grabbed the 2-year-old girl by the head and...
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 New Mexico state police officers claim they arrested the leader of an apocalyptic church on sex charges, the Associated Press reports. According to state police spokesman Peter Olson, Wayne Bent, 66, was picked up without incident Tuesday at the remote former ranch where he and his followers live. Bent is facing three charges of criminal...
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This is the price Californians may have to pay if they are
caught by the police with their pets on their lap while driving: a $35 fine.
The Assembly approved on Monday a bill that puts an
interdiction on holding dogs or cats in lap while driving, as this can be very
distracting and possibly lead to an accident. The bill refers to...
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If this were a cartoon, the situation would quickly be solved
by using a hairdryer to resuscitate the poor cats. But this is the real world
and nothing comes back to life.
So many freaky things happen in the world, that it was only
a question of time until someone would actually pack a freezer with 300 dead
cats.
To be more...
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 Virginia Hasn’t Always
Been for Lovers, the book written by Phyl Newbeck, resumes the case of Mildred Loving, a black woman whose battle
through the courts to marry a white man and to be able to live where they
wanted changed the Supreme Court’s position over interracial marriages. She
died on May 2 at her home in Central
Point,...
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 Four teenagers were injured after a car driven by a
76-year-old man struck the group of basketball players having dinner outside a
Culver’s restaurant Sunday. Five people were injured, four of them were teens
from the Madison
area, police said. An older passenger and the teenagers – two of the boys are
13 and the other two are 14...
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 A state audit found that there were 49 cases in which convicted
sex offenders appeared to have the same address with child-care facilities. Los Angeles County officials announced Thursday
their intention to begin checks.
One of the conclusions of the audit was that even though child-care
employees must submit to criminal...
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 The Westford native John Nicoletta, 27, died in a fall at
Alyeska Resort during the world championship competition, the Freeskiing World
Championships. The competition was aired live on the Internet. He lost control
when he tried to ski off a band of rock called the Headwall. John Nicoletta
died Friday.
“He’s my only son, but if...
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 A Waukegan
mother stabbed and killed her 6-year-old daughter, claiming the little girl was
possessed, the Chicago Tribune reports.
Nelly Vazquez-Salazar, 25, initially told police the girl
attacked her with a knife and slammed her into the wall before she managed to
grab a weapon and to defend herself, Lake
County...
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 Jack Klugman, 85, the actor who played a medical examiner on
“Quincy, M.E.,”
sued NBC Universal on Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Mr. Klugman said the network has reported to him that at the
end of the fiscal year 2006, “Quincy
M.E.” had accumulated over $66
million in net losses. He and...
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 The former British tabloid editor Piers Morgan is the winner
on NBC's “The Celebrity Apprentice.” The audience for Thursday's two-hour live
finale of the popular show was 12.1 million viewers, the largest since December 15, 2005, the
Daily News reports.
“The performances were all really good and the show itself
was really good,”...
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 The University of California (UC) appointed University of Texas Chancellor Mark G.Yudof as the next
president on Thursday, after the Board of Regents voted him unanimously.
Yudof will become the first president in two decades from
outside California
to lead the UC, a system with more than 220,000 students and nearly...
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Israeli police were on high alert in racially mixed Israeli cities Friday after two nights of the worst Arab-Jewish clashes in years in the northern port town of Acre.
Some 500 officers were deployed in Acre Friday to prevent a new outbreak of violence, Police Spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said.
Police arrested 12 of the rioters, who...
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The military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement Saturday called on all armed Palestinian groups to capture Israeli soldiers.
"Capturing Israeli soldiers is an open option for all military wings of the Palestinian factions," the al-Quds Brigades of the Islamic Jihad movement said in a statement.
The statement referred to a...
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Israel’s Cabinet approved on Sunday an exchange with Hezbollah. The accord will last two weeks to fulfill and will consist of Hezbollah’s return of two Israeli soldiers in exchange for five Lebanese and an indeterminate number of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.
The Israeli don’t have any proof that the soldiers...
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 Pakistan’s
President Musharraf has sworn in his political enemy as Prime Minister on
Monday. The President administered the oath during a ceremony at his office in Islamabad, which was
broadcast live on television. As Yousaf Raza Gilani completed the oath, some
supporters chanted “Long Live Bhutto.”
In order...
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 Benazir Bhutto’s aide Yousaf Raza Gilani was elected on
Monday by Pakistan’s
Parliament as the country’s new Prime Minister.
55 year-old Gilani, member of the Pakistan’s People ’s Party
(PPP), received 264 votes in the 342-seat lower house of parliament, while his
opponent from a party loyalist to President Pervez Musharaff...
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 Three U.S.
troops and their interpreter were killed on Monday in Iraq's Diyala
province by a roadside bomb. A fourth serviceman was also wounded by the
improvised bomb that exploded near their patrol. On the same day, another five U.S. soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber in
the capital Baghdad.
The religiously...
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 Despite intense peace efforts, the violence in Israel and Gaza persists. Two Palestinian militants were killed on Tuesday by an Israeli air strike, Reuters wrote on its Web site. One of the victims was a rocket squad member according to militant and medical sources. The strikes determined Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to suspend...
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 At least seven opposition supporters were shot dead in
Beirut during streets clashes with security forces, media reports said Monday.
Violence escalated in the Lebanese capital on Sunday after
demonstrators began throwing stones and setting vehicles on fire.
Dozen more demonstrators who had set fire to tires and
closed major...
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 Israeli security officials said Monday evening that the military would
allow industrial diesel fuel to enter the Gaza Strip for one day only
on Tuesday, allowing the enclave's sole power plant to resume
operations following a four-day Israeli lockdown.
"On a one-time basis, Israel will allow in industrial diesel,"...
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 A bomb struck a car belonging to the US embassy north of Beirut on
Tuesday, killing at least three people and injuring 20, US, Lebanese
and Red Cross officials said.
The US embassy issued a statement late Tuesday confirming that one
of its vehicles was "involved in an explosion in the Karantina district
of Beirut" near...
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 Tens of thousands of native Christians, pilgrims and tourists
celebrated Christmas in the Holy Land Tuesday, in what locals said was
the most relaxed holiday season in years.
In Bethlehem, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Michel Sabah called for
reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians, urging them to share
the land they live...
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 Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Michel Sabah arrived at Bethlehem's Church
of the Nativity Monday, completing his procession from Jerusalem to
usher in Christmas celebrations in the town of Jesus' birth.
Leaving his motorcade, he led his entourage on foot in the
afternoon sunshine to Manger Square, where he was greeted by...
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 Israel said Friday that it had sent a message to US Ambassador Richard
Jones in Tel Aviv, reassuring him that it will not build a new Jewish
neighbourhood in a northern area of occupied East Jerusalem.
Israel, meanwhile, denied that it was holding indirect contacts
with the radical Islamic Hamas movement over a truce in Gaza, as...
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 Donors at a key international conference in Paris pledged hundreds of
millions of US dollars Monday to help boost moderate Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas and his effort to resuscitate his ailing
economy.
By mid-day, donations had reached at least 2 billion US dollars, nearly half the sum asked for by the Palestinians.
EU...
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 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday termed the Middle
East peace conference in Annapolis as "unimportant and just US
propaganda for Zionists (Israel)."
Mehr news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying that the United
States had gathered a number of Arab states in order to strengthen the
status of Israel in...
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 Opponents of the international Mideast conference being held in
Annapolis, Maryland, took to the streets Tuesday, battling police in
Ramallah and loudly cheering declarations in Gaza never to recognise
Israel's right to exist.
Police fired in the air and threw tear gas at demonstrators in
Ramallah as they tried to break up a...
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 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad following talks in Tehran with
his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez on Monday pledged solidarity
between both countries in their common struggle against the United
States.
"We are determined to expand our relations both bilaterally and
internationally, to defend the rights of oppressed...
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 Iraq was again plagued by violence on Wednesday, dozens of persons being killed in bomb attacks and clashes throughout the country.At least 18 Iraqis died Tuesday night after a car bomb went off in a crowded marketplace in the Shaab district, Iraqi security sources reported.Forty more were injured by the fierce blast, while a dozen shops...
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 A gesture of recognition made by the British authorities unleashed the contained anger of Muslims, who took this saga to a dangerous level Saturday.It seems that a group of Pakistani radicals have offered a substantial reward to the man who kills British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie. This gruesome announcement was made during a...
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 Fighting continues in northern Lebanon, as the army moved in on Fatah al-Islam positions on Tuesday with the price of two lives.The two soldiers were killed during night fire exchange in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, where al-Qaeda inspired militants are holed up, the Lebanese army informed. Heavy artillery fire again...
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 New accusations target the US
forces stationed in Iraq,
as the Association of Muslim scholars reported the death of ten civilians in Iraq,
all killed by US airstrike.
The warplanes struck neighbourhoods in the outskirts of Baghdad
while Iraqi ground forces that arrested about 40 people, the association said.
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New Delhi - The stars of Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire returned to India Thursday to a rapturous welcome.
There were huge crowds waiting at the airports in Chennai and Mumbai as music composer AR Rahman, sound engineer Resul Pookutty, actor Irfan Khan and the child stars of of the film touched down, PTI and IANS news...
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 Madonna and Guy Ritchie will legally be divorced on Friday in London. The 50-year-old pop star and the 40-year-old film director have already filled all the necessary papers so they could be legally separated as quickly as possible. Their case was listed on Thursday and a judge from the High Court's Family Division will look through it...
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 Hannah Montana created a franchise through the series released worldwide. And everyone would want to see Miley Cyrus live, but what about when it comes to play next to her in the Disney series? Obama’s daughters have received an invitation to the set of Hannah Montana, but it’s still not clear whether the new president of America will...
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 Madonna has decided to reunite on stage two of the most popular singers among the teenagers. Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake are reported by U.S. magazine to perform together on stage during one of Madonna’s concerts from her Sticky and Sweet tour. The 50-year-old Queen of pop and dance has had collaboration with both of them. She...
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 Kevin Cogill, 27, was charged after the police stated that he had placed songs on the internet, on www.antiquiet.com, from an unreleased album of Guns N’ Roses. Cogill, charged with violating federal copyright law, pleaded not guilty in federal court on Monday. Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office, stated that no date...
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 This year’s BET Hip-Hop Awards took place on Saturday in Atlanta. While Russell Simmons was given the award for hip-hop icon, Lil Wayne was named lyricist of the year and MVP of the year. He was nominated for 12 awards. The show was hosted by T-Pain instead of comedian Katt Williams.Lil Wayne is now part of the reunited band Hot Boys. He...
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 John McCain had canceled his arrival to “Late Show with David Letterman” because the senator had to go back to Washington to take part in the congressional efforts to make up an emergency bailout package to help the financial industry. Because of this, McCain had to suspend his presidential campaign too. But he appeared on the show and...
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 John McCain, the Republican U.S. presidential nominee, finally made some time to come to David Letterman’s show. Between his campaign and his fight against the Democratic Party, the Arizona senator decided to show up on Thursday at CBS “Late Show” three weeks after he rescheduled his live appearance.At the time, the senator said that he...
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 Playboy’s boss, Hugh Hefner broke up with his 28-year-old girlfriend, Holly Madison. The publisher said that he had been "down in the dumps" about the split. Holly Madison is one of “The Girls Next Door” star on E!, where she plays together with Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt. In the sitcom, they all live in the Playboy...
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 After a lot of scandals about Britney Spears coming or not coming at the MTV VMA’s this Sunday, she is said to be there on stage but not with a performance. She will make an appearance that the MTV Networks Music Group President Van Toffler said it will be “fun and unexpected.”Britney Spears is nominated for three awards, including Video...
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Fashion, glamour and intelligence. Come and find all these at Vanity Fair’s International Best-Dressed List. What more could the women placed on the list want? Famous people’s wives have to be priced for something, don’t they? And their work to look better all the time needs to be awarded.Let’s take Carla Bruni, for example. Mystery...
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 After recently divorcing from hip-hop mogul, Russell
Simmons, Kimora Lee won sole custody of her two daughters, Ming, aged 8 and
Aoki, aged 5.
The papers were filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on
Tuesday and apart from granting Kimora Lee exclusive custody of the two girls,
Def Jam Recordings co-founder Russell Simmons was...
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 A New York
judge agreed to slash $10 million (£5.1m) off the $12 million inheritance given
by real estate billionaire Leona Helmsley to her beloved dog, Trouble. However,
the Malteze still should be able to live a life of luxury.
Trouble’s inheritance was cut from $12 million to $2 million on grounds that
Helmsley was mentally...
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 Former cast member of “Saturday Night Live” Jimmy Fallon is
to be named the host of NBC’s “Late Night” talk show, following Conan O’Brien’s
exit, the Associated Press reports. It appears a person close to the negotiations
said a news conference was planned for Monday.
Fallon was a “Saturday Night Live” cast member...
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 Peter Safran, the former president of Brillstein-Grey
Management, is set to launch Safran Digital Group on Monday. The digital media
company has already reached an agreement with Microsoft’s Xbox Live to release
six shortform shows in comedy, horror and sci-fi. According to The Washington
Post, the shows will be available on a...
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 Kirstie Alley has signed a TV development deal with Oprah Winfrey’s
Harpo Productions. As a result, the 57-year-old actress is going to host a show on the
talk-show queen’s new network channel, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network which is
going to launch in second-half 2009. According to Reuters the new channel is
going to be a joint venture...
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 The cable network, Comedy Central, is working on a new
project involving a fantasy live-action series called “Krod Mandoon and the
Flaming Sword of Fire.” Comedy Central has partnered for “Krod Mandoon” with
rap singer Snoop Dogg, Andy Richter and David Alan Grier.
The series reveals the story of a sensitive, clueless
freedom...
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 After 10 years of having its spectacular show at the
landmark Shrine Auditorium, which is located across the street from the
University of Southern California campus, The Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences has sealed a 10-year deal with Anschutz Entertainment Group to move the
Annual Emmy Awards to the 7,100-seat Nokia Theatre,...
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 A new box office record was registered by the Motion Picture
Association of America, Wednesday. Even though the movie attendance was not different
than the ones over the past three years, film costs reached a high record. Year
2007 was the best year ever for Hollywood,
only because movie tickets prices were risen.
This is how,...
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 It is Amy Winehouse who most wanted to attend the Grammy
Awards ceremony and now it is obvious why.
Nominated for six awards, the British artist won five of
them, including record of the year, song of the year and best new artist for
her “Back To Black” album and autobiographical song “Rehab.”
Unfortunately, the queen of the...
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 The 65-year-old soul diva Aretha
Franklin was honored Friday night for her outstanding achievements in music and
also for her humanitarian efforts, in a ceremony which marked the launching of
the Grammy weekend. She was designated MusicCares Person of the Year.
“As we celebrate the milestones
of 50 years for The Recording Academy...
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 Sometimes dreams come true too late.
The United States Embassy granted Amy Winehouse the coveted
visa, however the British artist sticks to the initial back-up plan and will
sing via satellite at the Grammy Awards ceremony on Sunday.
Due to the late positive answer, Winehouse is unable to
leave in time for Los Angeles,
even...
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Saved by the satellite! If the US Embassy refused to grant
Amy Winehouse a visa, it’s not the end of the world. Winehouse will perform at
the Grammy Awards ceremony via satellite from London.
On Thursday, soul-voiced Amy Winehouse was informed that she
wouldn’t be able to attend the yearned ceremony because her visa request...
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 The father of the multi-talented
J. Lo told Escandalo TV, a Spanish language TV show, that his daughter is
pregnant with twins, People reports.
"Yes, twins. The thing is in my family, my sister also had twins,
so it's a hereditary thing," he added.
David Lopez is very eager to
welcome his grandchildren into the...
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 Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp and Oscar winner Reese
Witherspoon were selected by the US public as their favourite movie
stars at a scaled-down People's Choice Awards.
The Hollywood writers strike caused the show's organizers to revamp
its format, changing it from a live show complete with Hollywood
glamour to a...
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Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas
sheltered the shattering of a great dream that Mayor Stephen R. Reed of Harrisburg, Pa had, that
of establishing the National
Museum of the Old West,
in a sign of recognition for the important role the city played as a supply
point.
Reed has all the details covered and purchased all...
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Hollywood screenwriters continued their strike for a second day Tuesday as the effects of the first writing stoppage in 20 years claimed more high-profile casualties.
There was no indication meanwhile of any moves that could end the impasse between the writers and producers which could shut down most production work in the world...
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 Apparently, Oprah Wienfrey and David Letterman have put their past behind them and finally decided to share the stage again.
Letterman will be making special appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey
Show" next month. Letterman will tape the interview, a rare appearance
on someone else's show, on Sept. 10 at Madison Square Garden in...
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 A Brazilian judge revoked an earlier ruling which was blocking the Rio de Janeiro leg of the Live Earth global series of concerts. The judge overturned her injunction after organizers secured approval from Rio's police department and addressed security concerns for the event. "I overturn the prior opinion (and therefore) authorize...
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 The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, or more commonly, the Tony Awards, have announced their winners for 2007. "Spring Awakening," a dark rock musical based on a 19th century German play about sexually anguished teenagers, snatched 8 prizes, including best new musical, leading the pack. The play had led the...
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 Miss Japan Riyo Mori has become Miss Universe 2007, but the bigger buzz going on is about Miss USA Rachel Smith’s unfortunate night.
The Tennessee beauty queen slipped on the runway and fell flat on her bottom during the Miss Universe evening gown competition. Not only that, she was persistently booed by the Mexican audience....
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 Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson will play legendary monarch Mary, Queen of Scots, in a forthcoming historical film.
The new project was announced at the Cannes Film Festival this Thursday, according to reports. Scarlett will star as the iconic queen in the movie directed by John Curran. The deal was announced by production company...
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 The 17-year-old American Idol hopeful became an American Idol on Wednesday night – not that it was unexpected.
Wednesday night’s two-hour results show was trying for many, as time slowly passed away up to the moment when, finally, Jordin Sparks was named this season’s American Idol.
Blake Lewis, while entertaining and appreciated by...
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 “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is a 1947 comedy classic based on a short story by James Thurber. Fox and Goldwyn are now collaborating with Mike Myers for a remake.
The project has been halted numerous times, changing directors and cast. The main character is Walter Mitty, a man who indulges in self-gratifying fantasies...
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 Already announced as one of the most interesting, expensive and craved gadgets of 2007, Apple’s iPhone has already received an award from Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, although it is not yet on the market.Jurors of the 2007 National Design Awards discuss the current state of design in America and the selection process for this...
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 The final specifications and prices of newcomer Asus Eee PC 900 in the UK have been made public, including the operating systems the laptop supports, namely Linux or Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP Home. On Tuesday Asustek Computer Inc. unveiled the new 900 that comes with an 8.9-inch display running at a resolution of 1,024 by 600 pixels,...
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 The popular Japanese company Sony
announced on Thursday that it would update PlayStation 3’s Blu-ray technology
in a move that would add nice interactive features to movies played in the high
def format and not only. Thanks to the new upgrade people will also become able
to download games, video content and even ring tones to their...
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 In the race for the fastest and most energy-efficient processor the main actors until now have been Santa Clara-based Intel and Sunnyvale, CA-based AMD. But what the world forgot is that the “good old” IBM is not yet out of the business.Today, IBM announced the debut of the world’s most powerful chip and a new type of computer server...
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 The result of Microsoft’s collaboration with Circuit City will consist in a consumer software subscription service that will bring together the former’s Windows Live OneCare, Messenger, Office and Photo Gallery. Windows Live OneCare grants users over-the-web access to a set of PC security and optimization tools; Microsoft Office 2007...
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 EMC Corporation, the world’s leading maker of corporate storage computing gear, announced on Thursday that it has reached an agreement in order to acquire Pi Corporation, a Seattle based developer of software and provider of services for personal information management.Pi Corp, a privately held start-up founded by Paul Maritz, who is now...
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 Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. announced on Tuesday that it had reached a deal with Chef Emeril Lagasse regarding the acquisition of the assets related to the business of Emeril Lagasse, in a deal that is worth 45.0 million dollars in cash and 5 million dollars in stock at closing.Under the deal, Martha Stewart will buy the Emeril...
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 Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone, is likely to revolutionize the US wireless services, as it announced that it will begin offering flat-rate, all-you-can-talk plans, beginning at 99.99 dollars per month.The new Nationwide Unlimited Anytime Minute Plans will allow customers to call anyone at anytime...
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 A former worker filed a lawsuit
against Google claiming that Google Sky was his idea, not Google’s. In the
lawsuit Jonathan Cobb filed on Wednesday in Atlanta’s Northern District Court of Georgia,
the former worker accused the powerful company to have stolen his idea for the
Google Sky project.
Jonathan Cobb, who had been...
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 South Korean electronics maker LG said Sunday that its cellphones now
accounted for 20 per cent of the US market helping the company achieve
sales of 11.5 billion dollars in the North American market.
LG expects US sales of 13 billion dollars in 2008, Michael Ahn, CEO
of LG Electronics North America told journalists at the start of...
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 Another important person will be
leaving Yahoo! Inc. at the end of this month. According to a statement coming
from the company itself, Cammie Dunaway, the company’s Chief Marketing Officer,
is ready to leave the famous Internet company.
Cammie Dunaway will be only the
latest executive to leave Yahoo! Inc., which is currently in...
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 Microsoft Corp. announced Friday that it would buy the online advertising firm aQuantive Inc. for about $6 billion, or $66.50 per share.This is the largest acquisition in the software company's history, Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft's platforms and services division said.Shares of aQuantive bounced about 77 percent Thursday on...
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Mumbai - Residents of Dharavi, a sprawling shantytown in Mumbai, were not happy about being the slum of Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire.
But now they hope the attention the film has created with its numerous awards may work in their favour.
Spread over 71 hectares and home to an estimated 800,000 people, Dharavi...
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Bangkok - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva admitted in an interview with CNN Friday that there had been instances of authorities pushing Rohingya boat people back to sea, contradicting earlier denials by the Thai military that abuses had been committed.
"It's not exactly clear whose work it is," Abhisit told...
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Hanoi - An outbreak of the H5N1 avian flu virus has spread to four provinces in southern Vietnam and one in the centre of the country, a government official said Monday.
Hoang Van Nam, deputy head of Vietnam's Animal Health Department, said thousands of fowl had been infected in the Mekong Delta provinces of Ca Mau, Bac Lieu,...
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Seoul - Running low on that moisturizer again? Time to stock up on cosmetics? If you are a woman and live in Japan, this may well mean a short trip to South Korea.
For many Japanese it is not so much South Korea's rugged outdoors and beautiful landscapes, but happy bargain hunting that has them hopping a plane for the one-hour...
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The Sri Lankan government sharply criticized comments made by the German Ambassador Jurgen Weerth at the funeral of a slain newspaper editor, a foreign ministry official said Wednesday.
Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona on Tuesday summoned Weerth to express the government's "displeasure," the official said on condition of...
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Two east Jerusalem employees of a production company servicing various media outlets worldwide, including one based in Iran, were indicted in Israel Tuesday for breaking Israeli military censorship, the Ynet news site reported.
Kadir Shahin, a reporter with Iranian Arabic-speaking Alalam television station, and producer Muhammad...
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The Israeli military has warned residents of central Gaza City to evacuate their homes to avoid harm, a Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa correspondent said Monday.
Residents in central Gaza City's Rimal neighbourhood received a pre-recorded telephone call in Arabic Monday, warning them to leave for their safety.
The dpa correspondent...
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Two giant pandas given by China to Taiwan arrived in Taipei Tuesday afternoon amid huge public interest in the latest sign of improving ties between the two political rivals.
The pandas, named Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, arrived on board a chartered EVA Air jet, following a three-hour flight from a panda reserve in China's Sichuan...
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The family of Iraqi TV journalist Montasser al- Zaidi, who threw his shoes at US President George W Bush, is fearful that he is now being mistreated by police, al-Zaidi's brother told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa Tuesday.
"We don't know where he is," Oudai al-Zaidi told dpa by telephone. "We fear that he might be...
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A city-wide manhunt was underway Monday for the attacker who threw bottles of acid onto crowds of year-end shoppers in Hong Kong.
Forty six people suffered burns to their legs, arms and faces when the two bottles of hydrochloric acid were hurled into a busy shopping area in the city's Mongkok district.
All the victims were...
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A Pakistan-based charity denounced on Thursday sanctions by the United Nations Security Council levelled against it for being a front group for the terrorist organization accused of carrying out the Mumbai attacks.
Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) was included in a list of entities subject to an assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo by...
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Pakistan's prime minister Wednesday said the two top leaders of an Islamic militant group that India believes was behind the November 26 terrorist attacks in Mumbai were being questioned by police.
Yousaf Raza Gilani said Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and Zarar Shah, were detained in a raid this week at the offices of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
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Pakistan's prime minister Wednesday said the two top leaders of an Islamic militant group that India believes was behind the November 26 terrorist attacks in Mumbai were being questioned by police.
Meanwhile, Pakistani jet fighters, including F-16s, on Wednesday were flying over Islamabad with live ammunition as a media report said...
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New Zealand's newly elected conservative government promised workers Tuesday it would cut their income taxes in each of the next three years, but immediately sparked a row with labour unions over tough new employment laws.
As the new parliament was officially opened with traditional pomp and ceremony, the National Party, which...
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The tense, violent standoff surrounding a disputed house in Hebron underscores once again the problems Israel faces as it grapples with radical and radicalised settlers who are increasingly rejecting the authority of the state.
The settlers have taken over a house in the divided southern West Bank city, vowing to defy any attempt by...
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Thailand's domestic airlines resumed flights to Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport Wednesday after anti-government protestors vacated the premises, ending a siege that has cut the capital off from commercial air traffic for a week.
Suvarnabhumi received its first arrival, a Thai Airways International (THAI) domestic...
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Former Bangladeshi prime ministers and arch political rivals Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia exchanged greetings Friday at a reception to honour the country's military. It was their first face-to-face meeting in 18 years.
Private television channels aired live footage of the two meeting at the Armed Forces Day reception in Senakunja in...
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When South Africa was awarded the right to host the 2010 World Cup football officials in the country embarked on an ambitious plan.
Not only did they want to ensure that the World Cup itself would be a huge success, they also wanted to make sure that they would be able to field a strong team at the showpiece of international...
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As the Japanese government hopes to encourage consumption by cash handouts as part of its economic stimulus plan, concerns are spreading over whether the money would reach some of the most active consumers.
Prime Minister Taro Aso's administration decided in late October to allocate about 2 trillion yen (20.63 billion dollars) to...
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State-run China Central Television, the country's main national broadcaster, has suspended its live coverage of the Chinese Super League after the latest in a series of scandals to hit the ailing league, reports said on Tuesday.
A mass brawl at the end of last Wednesday's match between Beijing Guo'an and Tianjin Kangshifu was...
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More than 600 exiled Tibetan leaders gathered in the northern Indian town of Dharamsala Monday to air their views and aspirations on the best course of action for the Tibetan cause.
The situation in Tibet was serious and at this "critical stage" all Tibetans needed to find a consensus on what future action should to be...
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Taiwan on Tuesday demanded that Japan make a formal apology and pay compensation to women who were forced to serve as prostitutes for the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.
The Taiwan parliament passed a resolution demanding Japan apologize for forcibly recruiting the women, who were euphemistically called comfort women,...
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Israelis were going to the polls Tuesday to elect new city councils and mayors for their hometowns.
Some 4.7 million Israelis are eligible to vote in the nationwide municipal elections.
Polls opened from 7 am (0500 GMT) in 159 villages, towns and cities, including Jerusalem, where voters will chose a replacement for current Mayor...
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China expects continuity but fears trade protectionism once Barack Obama takes office as US president, a leading scholar said on Wednesday.
"China's expectation of the new president is the same as the whole world's expectation, that is, to develop US finance and the economy away from the global financial crisis and economic...
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There is excitement in the air in Thimphu, capital of the tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan, as it prepares for the coronation of its fifth king - the 28-year-old Oxford-educated Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk on Thursday.
"The mood is festive. Everybody is getting ready. The lights are up as are the flags," Khandu-om...
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Many young women in Myanmar's (Burma's) Irrawaddy delta region have stopped wearing their hair traditionally long, word goes.
Too many of them died in the metre-high floods brought on by Cyclone Nargis, because their hair got entangled in tree branches, or were strangled by their own hair as it wrapped around their neck.
Whether...
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The Iranian parliament on Tuesday dismissed the interior minister for presenting a false document and refusing to resign following his admission that his university certificate was a fake.
Ali Kordan had been under pressure since August, when he took office, to make the case clear but refused to resign when Oxford University in...
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Floods and heavy rains in Vietnam have killed three more people and left two missing, disaster centres reported Tuesday, bringing the toll of dead and missing since the current round of storms began October 24 to at least 86.
The National Committee for Storm and Flood Control said the worst flooding in almost three decades has left at...
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Belarusian President Aleksander Lukashenko called for a "multipolar world" not dominated by any superpower, upon Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi's arrival in the former Soviet republic.
Gaddafi was in the Belarusian capital Minsk on the first of a two-day official visit.
Lukashenko, isolated internationally because of his...
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After a series of atrocities against Iraqi Christians in Mosul, around 400 Christians arrived in Syria to escape the harsh conditions of home, according to a statement by a Syrian refugee assistance organization Friday.
In the last few days, some 20 Christian families arrived in the city of Qamhley, which is close to the Syrian-Iraqi...
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A South Korean man went on a rampage Monday in Seoul, setting fire to an 85-room lodging and stabbing five people to death, local media reported.
The unemployed 31-year-old suspect first set fire to his room in a low-cost lodging facility in Seoul and then stabbed other residents with a knife while fleeing the fire, Yonhap news...
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Thai prime minister Somchai Wongsawat on Friday rebuffed intense pressure to resign following a violent police crackdown against anti-government protestors.
Somchai, elevated last month, rejected a strong suggestion on Thursday by army commander Anupong Paojinda that he step down.
"This government was produced by the...
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A Malaysian police bomb squad safely detonated a live 430-kilogram bomb that was found on a university campus in the northern state of Perlis, news reports said Friday.
A heavy machinery operator discovered the bomb, believed to have been dropped during World War II, on Thursday, prompting police to block roads leading to the area,...
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Thailand's army chief sharply undercut his prime minister Thursday in saying on national television that - if he were premier - he would resign to take responsibility for the deaths of protestors.
General Anupong Paochinda denied intending to pressure Somchai Wongsawat to step down, saying that society, through popular protests, was...
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Thailand's Supreme Court said Thursday it would consider a request to seize 76 billion baht (2.1 billion dollars) in assets belonging to controversial former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
The measure is potentially the most financially wounding of the many legal actions aimed against Thaksin since his ouster in a September...
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that the global market crisis was due to Western hegemonic policies.
"This (crisis) is the result of their (Western) hegemony and their violating policies beyond their own borders," Ahmadinejad said in a speech in the Caspian Sea city Rasht in northern Iran.
He...
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It is home to some of Asia's wealthiest and most successful people - a city where tycoons, celebrities and high-fliers live in sumptuous surroundings in some of the world's costliest properties.
A pad on Hong Kong's exclusive Peak will cost you in excess of 7,000 US dollars per square foot (75,000 US dollars per square metre) -...
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"Thailand is a resilient society," Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat assured the Bangkok diplomatic corps Wednesday, in the wake of a bloodbath that claimed two lives and injured 437 and forced the premier to make a helicopter getaway.
"We will resolve domestic problems through the democratic process," Somchai...
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Bangkok's controversial gubernatorial candidate Chuwit Kamolvisit, a former massage-parlour tycoon, punched a TV anchorman in the face after a televised interview Thursday.
Chuwit, 47, assaulted Visarn Dilokwanit after the Channel 3 anchor man interviewed him live for their midday news programme.
A close aide to the...
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As the two largest developing nations, India and China should take part in helping resolve the current finance crisis, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in remarks published Tuesday in the French daily Le Figaro.
"The prime responsibility (for resolving the crisis) is that of the developed nations. But India and China...
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About 20,000 people had fled to the north-eastern Afghan province of Kunar to avoid fighting across the border between Taliban militants and security forces in a Pakistani tribal district, the UN refugee agency said Monday.
The fighting in the restive district of Bajaur started in August when thousands of Pakistani military troops,...
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Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou 7 returned safely to Earth Sunday after a three-day trip into space that included China's first ever spacewalk.
The three taikonauts on board touched down safely near the planned landing site in the northern Chinese province of Inner Mongolia as the capsule's descent by parachute was carried live on Chinese...
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Pizza Hut Taiwan on Friday began an investigation into melamine found in its cheese packets after tests showed a high level of the toxic chemical melamine.
The investigation came amid reports of the first suspected case in Taiwan in which a child was recently diagnosed to have a kidney stone and four other suspected cases in which...
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Thee astronauts on Thursday evening prepared for lift-off inside the space capsule for China's Shenzhou VII mission, which features the nation's first spacewalk.
Chinese President Hu Jintao saw off the astronauts late Thursday afternoon at the Jiuquan space centre in the north-western province of Gansu before they headed to the...
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Security in Sri Lanka's capital was tightened after a bomb exploded inside a bus Tuesday minutes after it was detected and passengers got off, police said.
Despite the evacuation of the bus, four people were injured, police said. The explosion occurred in the centre of Colombo and caused extensive damage to the bus.
Police said the...
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Chinese art has been trendy in the west for a while, but now "a real hype" has developed, says Lorenzo Rudolf, creator and director of Shanghai's ShContemporary, Asia's largest art fair.
The Swiss art manager is riding on the crest of the wave, having elevated ShContemporary to its prominent position in only its second...
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Chinese art has been trendy in the west for a while, but now "a real hype" has developed, says Lorenzo Rudolf, creator and director of Shanghai's ShContemporary, Asia's largest art fair.
The Swiss art manager is riding on the crest of the wave, having elevated ShContemporary to its prominent position in only its second...
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One of Israel's most emotionally-charged and complex murder investigations appeared closer to a solution Thursday when police divers retrieved from a river a suitcase thought to hold the remains of a four-year old girl missing since May.
Divers have been searching the Yarkon river, on Tel Aviv's northern outskirts, for the body Rose...
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Israeli Fraud Squad detectives Friday questioned Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for the seventh time in recent weeks over corruption affairs the premier is suspected of being involved in.
Olmert's artist wife Aliza was also quizzed during the lengthy session which, as with previous interrogations of the prime minister, went on for longer...
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One of Germany's main Islamic groups voiced relief Friday after winning planning clearance to build a controversial new mosque expected become a landmark in the western city of Cologne.
Right-of-centre German groups had campaigned against the mosque, which will have a dome reaching 37 metres high and two 55-metre minarets. They...
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 Goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere has decided to stick with the Anaheim Ducks and signed a 4-year, $24 million contract with the Stanley Cup champions."Every single player in this league wants to play for this organization right now," Giguere said Thursday on a conference call. "It's an amazing place to live, ownership is...
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 Buffalo Sabres managed to pull a 3-2 win over Ottawa Senators in Game 4 on Wednesday night. The Sabres had a 3 goals lead which they nearly lost after a late Senators rally, but with a little hep from their goalie they succeeded in protecting their advantage. Through this victory they live to fight another day cutting Ottawa’s series...
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 Reggie Miller, the former Indiana Pacers shooting guard, has declined any posibility of an NBA comeback after he underwent two weeks of phisycal and fitness tests. According to the media reports, the all-star three point shooter had been considering a return in the NBA with the Boston Celtics.“That's it," the 42-year-old said on...
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 The Cleveland Cavaliers won Game 4 of their Eastern Conference finals 91-87 against the Detroit Pistons on Tuesday tying the series at 2-2.LeBron James was criticized for his fourth-quarter failures in Games 1 and 2 at Detroit. Tonight Cavaliers’ stat player came up big and recorded 25 points, 14 of them in the fourth quarter, when it...
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 The Chicago Bulls live to fight another day. They made all the little things a winning team should do and won against the Detroit Pistons, 108-92, Tuesday night in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, pulling to 3-2 in the series.Ben Gordon led the Bulls in scoring with his 28 points, Luol Deng had 20, Kirk Hinrich made 17 and...
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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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 A Holland American cruise ship halted at San Diego to drop off scores of sick passengers. After this, authorities took the measures needed to disinfect the ship. More than 1,800 guests were on board the Oosterdam for a seven day cruise to Mexico.“Guests who demonstrated symptoms were asked to remain in their cabins until symptoms...
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 The premature birth rates in the United States reach a “D” grade and 18 other states like District of Columbia and Puerto Rico get only failing grades. No states received an “A,” and only Vermont got a “B.” 23 other states were ranked at “D” grade during the first annual “Premature Birth Report Card” of March of Dimes, which was released...
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 A new study made for the health system in California discovered that because of the state’s high pollution rate, more than $28 billion are spent each year for the 20 million people who live by breathing the worst air in the country. Deaths, chronic illness, hospitalizations and missing days from school and work led the health system and...
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 According to a new report which checked all the hospitals in the U.S., the southern part of the country is worst regarding its hospitals and its medical care. The new report is part of a program which focuses on the quality of life of the patients and not on the cures for diseases. Organized by the Center to Advance Palliative Care and...
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 Being married to a smoker can considerably increase your risk of stroke, even if you’re a non-smoker, suggests a recent study carried out by a team at Harvard University and published in the newest issue of American Journal of Preventive Medicine.It is almost unanimously known the fact that smokers are far more likely to suffer stroke...
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 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an almost decade long decline in infant-mortality rates has stalled and deaths directly linked to preterm births have increased, particularly for non-Hispanic black women. African-American babies stand twice more chances than white babies to die in their first year of life.The...
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 Hong Kong authorities responded to fears of a dangerous bird flu outbreak and
announced the decision to kill all poultry in the city’s markets and retail
outlets. The order does not affect sales of pre-slaughtered poultry sold
packaged in supermarkets. It does not apply either to Hong
Kong’s chicken farmers because samples taken...
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 Environmentalists filed a lawsuit against the U.S.
government on Tuesday in their effort to cease a federal wildlife refuge
in Wyoming from going on feeding
wild elk. They say this could lead to or worsen a spread of diseases in the large
wildlife and livestock around Yellowstone
National Park.
Among the diseases the...
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The American Lung Association’s State of
the Air reported yesterday the rates of air pollution in different cities of
the U.S. between 2004 and 2006, according to Atlanta Journal Constitution.
The researchers have based their study on
three categories of air quality: short-term and year round particle pollution,
the last one...
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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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A deadly fish virus has crept up in Wisconsin inland waters, prompting the state’s Department of Natural Resources to call for strict measures.
The virus is called viral hemorrhagic septicemia, and causes fish to bleed to death internally. It was first discovered in Lake Huron in 2005, then in Lake Eerie; last year the virus was...
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 We live in an era where devices get smaller every year, and smaller is always better. The new iPod shuffle comes to say exactly that. Apple on Wednesday launched world’s smallest music player (at least by their measurements), which is half the size of the previous model, and claimed it to be the first music player that talks to us,...
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 California mobile video company Qik announced on Sunday that it has released version 1.0 of Qik for BlackBerry. It is a free, downloadable application that allows cell phone filmmakers stream video live from their mobile phone to Qik.com, social networks like MySpace, Facebook and to any personal blog. Furthermore, Qik also plays a...
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 Samsung announced on Tuesday its new partnership with two Internet multimedia companies, in order to incorporate audio/video streaming services into the company’s latest Blu-ray disc players. The agreements were signed with the online video disc rental company Netflix and the music recommendation and Internet radio service Pandora. Both...
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 NetBlender is the company responsible for the application called "BD Touch" that is intended to enhance BD Live capabilities by enabling the two-way communication between the iPhone and Blu Ray disks. BD Touch features will work on any BD-Live enabled Blu-ray disc player, including Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3. BD features...
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The MediaFLO-based Mobile TV service from AT&T was
recently announced to be launched in May. It will feature two exclusive content
channels, one of which is Sony Pictures Television's PIX. Nonexclusive deals were
also made with ESPN, NBC, CBS and Nickelodeon.
Sony’s approach is in fact to show entire films and not to
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