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 The Portuguese writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998 and became well-known to the readers for his books of subversive perspectives on historic events, in which he emphasizes the human factor rather than the officially sanctioned story. Jose Saramago, 84, has recently released his newest book, entitled “Death with...
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More and more cases of “whooping cough” have started showing
up, mostly in elementary students. According to media reports, there are
now 24 reported cases of the Whopping Cough, or Pertussis, in Kittitas County.
Most of the students didn't know they had the whooping
cough. Over 150 people have been tested for the condition and...
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The death toll in a cholera outbreak in a crowded township in crisis-hit Zimbabwe has risen to 11 since the beginning of the month, state media reported Thursday.
The state-controlled daily Herald newspaper quoted Health Minister David Parirenyatwa as confirming the death toll and saying that 10 more people were sick in hospital with...
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 Lance Armstrong, a retired American professional
road racing cyclist, the only individual to win the Tour de France seven times,
joined efforts with four former U.S.
surgeons general on Wednesday to raise awareness to fight cancer.
Armstrong, a testicular cancer survivor, addressed
the media at the National Call to Action on...
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Twelve suspected Islamist extremists were killed by security forces in Algeria's Berber stronghold of Tizi Ouzou, 150 kilometres east of the capital Algiers, French media reported Friday.
The clash was the result of an ambush set for the armed Islamists by security forces, who afterwards confiscated a number of weapons and...
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The contemplative peace of
the idyllic resort of Toyako on Japan's northern Hokkaido island has
been shattered temporarily by the G8 summit. The 10,000
residents of the village surrounded by stunning nature have never
before experienced such an invasion of journalists, politicians and
police officers. Everywhere you look there...
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Alex Rodriguez, also known as A-Rod,
the highest-paid player in baseball history and wife Cynthia Rodriguez, also
known as C-Rod, split up after three months of problems in their marriage. The
couple has two daughters, Natasha, 3-years-old, and Ella, 2-months-old.
In spite of the affairs Alex
Rodriguez was thought to have with a...
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 According to recent media reports, President Obama intends to name New York City's former health commissioner, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, and Baltimore health commissioner Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein to run the Food and Drug Administration. With this decision, the White House puts the country’s health regulation in the hands of two experienced...
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 A report released this week by Gallup, Healthways and America's Health Insurance Plans suggests that reality is less grim in certain U.S. states as far as the recession is concerned. In these places, residents enjoy their jobs, express deep optimism about future prospects and even manage to stay healthy.In general, folks surveyed out...
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 The Cigna Corporation has just announced that it will stop using a faulty database in order to calculate reimbursement rates for patients who see doctors outside of their insurance networks, also contributing $10 million to a new independent payment database. This conflict of interest unfairly raised charges for people who went to see...
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Authorities in Hong Kong told Beijing to start an inquiry on how melamine got in Chinese eggs, the media reported on Monday. Hong Kong food inspectors have found chicken eggs tainted with melamine, the industrial chemical at the heart of the enormous scandal related to Chinese infant formula. The eggs were imported from northeastern...
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The Justice Department informed Friday that they have
reached a $4.6 million settlement with former U.S. Army scientist Steven
Hatfill, who was the prime suspect in the deadly anthrax letters of 2001.
The mailings were common hand-addressed letters, but they
contained tiny quantities of deadly anthrax powder. The first letter...
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 An anthrax scare, which eventually proved to be a hoax,
closed the Linn County Courthouse on Monday.Early in the morning, a janitor found threats written on the
outside door, warning there were some envelopes containing anthrax inside the
courthouse and in the nearby area. Local media sources informed that the note
said there were 10...
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 A survey that was published on Wednesday by the Office of Communications (Ofcom) showed that the United Kingdom offers the lowest prices for telephone, broadband and television in Europe and also that the country is the leader in the take-up of digital television out of the 12 countries that were included in the survey.The survey...
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Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali strongly criticised Wednesday the introduction of the new kinetic energy recovery system (KERS) to Formula One for the 2009 season as a waste of money.
"It's throwing money out the window," Domenicali said at a Ferrari media meeting in Madonna di Campiglio.
Ferrari tested their...
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The decision to strip Lewis Hamilton of his victory at the Belgian Grand Prix has been greeted by a mixture of bemusement and cynicism in Britain.
Meanwhile one Italian media report said the race stewards decision to penalise the McLaren-Mercedes driver, thus gifting the race to Ferrari's Felipe Massa, was justified.
Italian media...
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 Formula One driver Fernando Alonso confirmed on his website Monday that
he has agreed a move to his former team Renault where he made his F1
debut in 2001 and became the sport's youngest world champion when
winning the first of his two titles in 2005.
"This is the team where I grew up as a driver in F1. Now it is time
for us...
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 After his one- off appearances for Team Force India, the well- known driver Ralf Schumacher hinted on Thursday that he might put an end to his Formula One career.The German driver left the Toyota team at the end of the season and is since then without a team. But he had a hard day at Jerez when he was testing for Team Force...
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 New media reports confirm that Novartis, the Swiss
pharmaceutical group, on Monday faced a fresh blow to prospects for its new
painkiller Prexige after UK, German and Austrian drug regulators suspended the
medicine on concerns over liver damage.
The move follows the decision by Australia to withdraw the
drug in August after side...
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 A new report shows that GPs are failing to
help people who suffer from eating disorders such as anorexia, and bulimia. The
report released by the charity Beat found only 15% of patients considered that their
GP understood their disorders. The report was based on a survey of 1,500 people
with anorexia.
One young person who took...
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No radioactivity was released outside the International Atomic Energy Agency's laboratory after a small plutonium container burst in early August, the IAEA reported Friday, citing independent analysis.
On August 3, less than one gram of plutonium spilled in the Agency's laboratory in Seibersdorf, around 35 kilometres south-east of...
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 A report released in U.S. by researchers led by Linda Bartoshuk of the University Of Florida College Of Dentistry has shown that ear infections in children are strongly related to the risk of obesity. After the researchers studied some reports they have stated the link between obesity and ear infections.The relationship between these two...
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 Quoting media reports, the National Cancer Institute's Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics said Monday that the cases of young women in the U.S. getting melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, has unexpectedly increased.A team of researchers from the institute analyzed data collected from more than 20,000 young adults...
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 The world’s largest catholic country’s Federal
Supreme Court ruled to uphold a 2005 law which allows embryonic stem cells research.
The 11 justices had divided opinions on the
issue. Six voted to uphold the law, while the remaining five, although
admitting the law is constitutional, said research should only be carried out...
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 Should we trust all health studies and researches published
in the mass-media? Sometimes studies prove to be very tricky and one may find it
difficult to avoid mass media’s manipulation. Sometimes you may not know what
was behind a study.
In 2006, a tobacco company supported a study that claimed 80
percent of lung cancer...
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 Dr. Kevin Fenton, Director, National Center for HIV/AIDS,
Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC (Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention) stresses the new estimates are not yet final, despite current media
reports about CDC's estimates of new HIV infections in the USA.
Dr. Fenton said "In recent years, CDC has...
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 According to a new study there is little evidence that women who binge drink
while pregnant seriously harm the development of their babies.
Consistent heavy drinking while pregnant has been linked with birth defects
but until now, the effect of binge drinking is thought to have been unknown.
Scientists Jane Henderson and Ron...
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Jamaican supersprinter Usain Bolt and Russian pole vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva are among the six finalists for the World Athlete of the Year award.
The governing body IAAF said in a statement on Monday that the Bolt, who won 100m, 200m and 4x100m gold at the Beijing Olympics in world record times, double long-distance gold medallist...
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An armoured personnel carrier and heavily armed paramilitary police took up positions on one of the main roads into the Olympic Green on Tuesday as security increased following weekend attacks in north-west China and the murder of a US citizen in Beijing.
The armoured vehicle partially blocked the road, which runs behind the main...
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Lewis Hamilton's victory at
a rain- soaked Silverstone has set up an even tighter battle for the
Formula One drivers' championship as it goes into the second half of
the season.
Britain's Hamilton joins Ferrari drivers Kimi Raikkonen of Finland
and Felipe Massa of Brazil on 48 points with nine of the 18 races
remaining following...
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 The US sprinter Maurice Greene, who had won two Olympic gold medals, as well as several other titles, and who is the former holder in the 100-meter dash, announced that he will retire from track and field.According to CNN International, the 33-year- old sprinter said that the cause of his retirement are the difficulties that he had due...
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 Extreme skiing star Billy Poole died on Tuesday at the age of 28 during the making of the Warren Miller ski film in Utah, the media reported on Wednesday.Poole suffered an accident while performing a ski jump from the cliff called the Wolverine Cirque, but he failed to land. The injuries that occurred when he hit the rocks in the back...
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 South African double amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius will not be
allowed to compete at the Beijing Olympics because the prosthetics he
uses give him an advantage over able-bodied athletes, the ruling body
IAAF said on Monday.
The IAAF said in a statement from its Monte Carlo headquarters that
Pistorius is not eligible to compete...
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 Olympic three-time gold medalist Marion Jones on Friday was sentenced
to spend six months in jail for lying about using steroids and a
check-fraud scam, media reports said.
Jones, the first woman to claim five medals in an Olympics, could
have faced up to 10 years in jail for the offences, and even under a
plea deal faced up to 37...
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 Chinese media reported on Monday that the organizers of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games are gathering information on 28.000 foreign journalists, in their attempt to respect China’s promise to allow greater media freedoms.The database is expected to be a reference to the interviewees, so that they would not fall victim of blackmail and...
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Several England rugby
players allegedly took women back to their rooms in an Auckland hotel
last weekend, New Zealand newspapers reported on Thursday as police
reportedly were investigating a rape allegation.
Police will only say they are investigating an 'allegation of a
serious nature' about an incident at the Hilton Hotel after...
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 The Chicago Bulls’ general manager, John Paxson, has denied the fact that Kobe Bryant would be joining his team in the near future, saying that the two teams were not even close to signing a deal.Rumors about the fact that the Los Angeles Laker’s superstar might head towards Chicago had occurred all throughout this week, but Paxson has...
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 In a statement made on Friday, the McLaren- Mercedes Formula One team has declared that the double world champion, Fernando Alonso, will leave the team, as a decision agreed by both parts, after only one year out of his three year contract with the team.McLaren stated that they have reached a mutual agreement that it would be in the best...
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 Beneath the cupola of a Parisian palace in the shadow of a worldwide economic crisis, the world's top art buyers gathered on Monday for a historic auction: the sale of 733 pieces of art owned by the late designer Yves Saint Laurent who died last year at 71, valued at as much as $380 million.The proceedings took place under chandeliers...
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 Tiger Woods and his wife, Elin, greeted son, Charlie Axel,
on the 8th of February with sister Sam giving her new little brother a kiss
hello after his arrival at home. Just 10 days old, Charlie Axel Woods has made
his international media debut – with the son of golf champ Tiger Woods
appearing on his dad's Web site.
There are...
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 According to Nielsen Media Research ratings statistics
released on Tuesday, the NBC aptitude show “America’s Got Talent” was the top pick
of TV watchers for the third week in a row, while ABC’s new reality series “Wipeout”
obtained the second spot once more.
For the week of July 7-13, the most viewed TV shows were: “America's
Got...
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 After Mariah Carey was seen wearing a very impressive
engagement diamond ring at the premiere of her new movie “Tennessee,” the
rumors about her and Nick Cannon being engaged started, but neither of them actually
confirmed them.
Now rumor has it that they are married.
Carey and Cannon got married in a “very impulsive”...
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 Two women and a man stole a $1,500 Pomeranian Puppy from a Naperville pet shop, the
place where they worked.
Police said the thieves – Anais Marquez and Karlie Pellock, both
19 and of Plainfield – planned to steal the
puppy with Emanuel Lopez, 19, of Plainfield.
Naperville Police said Emanuel Lopez had hidden the...
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 Not even for the writer-director-producer, Marshall
Herskowitz, was a surprise that his new series, “Quarterlife” had no success on
network TV. After only one episode that ended with a low rating, NBC decided to
take the series out of the schedule. The episodes of ‘Quarterlife’ were
supposed to run on Sunday nights, but due to the...
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 A $925 million transaction brings Oxygen Media under the
possession of NBC Universal, a subsidiary of General Electric Co. It is a move
to attract the mostly-feminine public of the cable television network. The deal
is expected to be closed at the end of November and is worth $875 million
excluding the financial assets.
Oxygen...
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Germany could be on the brink of a major shakeout in its fragmented banking industry with investors betting Monday on an announcement this week of an 8-billion-euro (12 billion-dollar) merger between two of the nation's leading banks.
Indeed, shares in Allianz SE jumped more than 1.0 per cent in early trading Monday on speculation...
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Opportunities for German
business beckon in Algeria, a trade official said in Berlin before
Chancellor Merkel's arrival later Wednesday in the North African nation
at the head of a business delegation. Andreas Hergenroether,
chief executive of the German-Algerian Chamber of Commerce, said
Algerians had high respect and awareness...
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 J.P. Morgan’s acquisition of troubled Bear Stearns over the weekend took place with a 30 billion dollars financial help from the Federal Reserve, the US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson reported."Bear Stearns had a liquidity crisis and we felt it was very important to minimize its impact on our economy," Paulson said after his...
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 Gazprom, the Russian monopoly natural gas supplier, said on Wednesday that Ukraine's oil and gas company, Naftogaz, has warned that it might lower the amount of gas that is travelling through pipelines across Ukraine toward other parts of Europe.As a response to Russia’s move to cut 50 percent of the amount of gas delivered to Ukraine...
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 Credit card and other data showed a disappointing shopping season for
US retailers after consumer spending rose 3.6 per cent over the holiday
spending period, the slowest growth rate in four years, media reports
said Wednesday.
The figure, calculated from November 23 to December 24, rose 6.6
per cent in 2006 and 8.7 per cent in...
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 The price of crude oil has climbed at a record that surpasses 99 dollars per barrel on Wednesday, in the Asian trading, reaching 99.20 dollars per barrel, while in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange it climbed at 99.29 dollars, crude oil for January delivery raising as much as 1.26 dollars, or 1.3 percent.The price...
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 The third Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) summit has begun on Saturday, in Riyadh, facing tensions regarding the weak US dollar and the alarming continuous rise of the oil prices.The heads of 13 states have gathered for the third time in OPEC’s 47 years history in order to discuss the effect of rising oil prices on...
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 Chinese authorities have suspended exports of toy beads after sets
containing them were recalled in the United States because they
contained a toxic chemical, state media said Saturday.
State quality inspectors had sealed the remaining beads at the
premises of the unidentified Chinese manufacturer, the official Xinhua
news agency...
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 Judges at the European Court of First Instance, the EU's second highest tribunal, have upheld the European Commission's 2004 record fine of 497 million euros (690 million dollars) against the U.S. software giant which was handed down for abusing its market position. However, a small provision of the 2004 ruling was rejected. The initial...
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Melbourne (dpa) - Jelena Dokic has again arrived in Australia determined to rescue her tennis, but this time bearing a conciliatory message to her adopted country.
The Serbia-born player, whose career has been a roller-coaster of success and dismal disappointment, has rolled back her harsh comments of a year ago, when the 25-year-old...
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The triumph of two Serbs at the Shanghai Masters over the weekend, two players on top of global rankings and another two with the throne in sight at the close of the tennis season drove Belgrade newspapers deeper into euphoria on Monday.
"Shanghai fairy tale," "Serbia's pride," "Serbian Shanghai," and...
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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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 Justine Henin confidently defeated the second Williams sister, Venus, 7-6, 6-4. Venus Williams looked shaky, dizzy, but still put up a great game. "I was definitely having some problems. But she played well. By the time I got on the court, I was shaky," Williams said. Apparently, there was no real medical problem."I didn't...
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 Venus Williams surpassed Jelena Jankovic and is now set up to encounter Justine Henin in the semifinals of the U.S. Open. The 27-year-old American eventually came through after a tie-break, 4-6 6-1 7-6 (7-4), and will play the world number one Henin for a place in Saturday's final.Both Venus and Jelena Jankovic were very courteous at...
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 Former world no. 1 Serena Williams showed an ungraceful, disrespectful side of herself on Wednesday after she lost 7-6 6-1 to Justine Henin. After taking the beating, she showed disrespect for the media and her adversary at the mandatory press conference. Players are required to appear for post-match news conferences or face fines from...
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 During the TechFest tradeshow, Microsoft displayed all of
its new technologies in hardware, primarily focused on enhancing the user
experience. More than 800 researchers have been working at these numerous
projects, offering a vast idea about how computing will look like in the near
future.
Steve Ballmer, CEO at Microsoft, was...
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 HP has recently announced a sought-after Linux version of
its popular Mini 1000 consumer netbook. Basically, much of the internals are
similar to the other versions of the Mini 1000. However, the selling point of
the Mi version, which stands for Mobile internet, is the Linux OS dressed up in
nice clothes by HP.
On the HP Mini 1000...
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 Intel announced that it would launch its next-generation micro-architecture chips with the Core i7 processor (Nehalem), on November the 17th in San Francisco, at a media and analyst event. Nehalem is also known as “the fastest processor on the planet” and it will feature three different quad-core models: the 2.66 GHz Core i7 920, the...
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 Consumer-electronics chain Circuit City (CC) Stores told the media it will close 155 U.S. stores, cut back openings and renegotiate some leases as the company deals with its deteriorating liquidity position. CC has been unable to turn its fortune around the past several years and now finds itself threatened by a weakening economy and...
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 Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., the world’s number one company in the advanced semiconductor technology business, said today it has started the mass production of its 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch multi-level cell-based solid state drives (SSDs) of 128GB capacity.Gerd Schauss, Director Memory Marketing EMEA, Samsung Semiconductor Europe, said the...
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 On Wednesday, Western Digital (WD) released its new dual-drive storage system, perfect for ensuring the protection of data belonging to small-businesses or of personal media collections.What My Book Mirror Edition does, is it uses one of the drives for storing the data, while on the other drive, another copy of the information is sent....
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 SanDisk Corp. has revealed
yesterday a brand new device that hits the market along with a new service too,
which are both likely to represent a potential rival pack against Apple Inc.’s
widely popular iTunes service.
SanDisk Corp. has launched on
Monday a new service that will allow the people to download for...
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 While the storage capacities have
started to increase more and more, the sizes of the storage devices have begun
to decrease with the same speed. Recently, Toshiba’s Storage Devise Division
has announced quite a performance in this field; the company has revealed two
new models of hard disk drives that will have very small sizes. The...
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 Ironically or not, it is the
paint that makes Dell delay to deliver its new Inspiron laptops! A week ago
Dell has added its new model on the list of delayed systems, but now the
company’s media manager has also argued Dell’s decision. So through the
Direct2Dell blog, Lionel Menchaca has explained that Dell’s highly awaited...
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 Sony has just revealed a brand
new high-def device that fuses the performance of a powerful computer with the
features of a TV set. Thanks to the VAIO LT HD PC/TV, Sony will also score some
points against Blu-ray’s rival HD DVD, as the new device obviously features an
optical drive for Blu-ray Discs.
The new all-in-one...
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 Apple’s ultimate marketing
strategy appears to be simply cutting the prices. After the surprising move
from the 5th of September when the popular company has announced an
unexpected price drop of $200 for its ultimate gadget, the iPhone, Apple is
being rumored of planning to drop also the prices of the TV episodes it sells
through...
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 Part of the business is rumors!
So, will Apple really reveal a new iPod device with more features or is this
just phantasmagoria? People have started to talk (a lot) about this new iPod
and the rumors have even increased after Apple has invited the press on the 5th
of September for a mysterious announcement. But could this really be...
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 Apple announced a revamping of its iMac desktop line Tuesday, bringing an end to Apple’s 17-inch iMac offerings. The new iMacs come with a new aluminum-and-glass design and 20- and 24-inch LCD display configurations.The processors will range from Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz to 2.8GHz in a custom order model. The machines will ship with a...
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Madrid - Most fans and members of Real Madrid are keen for Florentino Perez to return as club president, according to polls in the news media.
According to the Marca sports daily - its poll results splashed on Tuesday's front page - Perez would get the support of no less than 62.9 per cent of club members, if the elections were held...
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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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David Beckham gave a hint of his marketing skills and image powers on his first Italian weekend, partly upstaging the Serie A's other football stars when he was presented as AC Milan's new arrival.
His new side's 5-1 win over Udinese in the last game of 2008 and the massive media coverage of his presentation Sunday evening were the...
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Struggling Spanish giants Real Madrid are about to sign Lassana Diarra from Premier League club Portsmouth, according to news reports on Tuesday.
The AS and Marca sports dailies said on their websites that Real are prepared to pay up to 10 million euros (13.50 million dollars) for the French international.
Diarra, 23, who has...
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Brazilian football legend Pele made clear his scepticism as to the likelihood that Diego Maradona might be successful as coach of Argentina's senior team.
"Great stars, great players do not usually make good coaches. And sometimes a footballer that was not so brilliant in his career becomes a great coach," Pele noted, in...
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Former Argentine football superstar Diego Maradona has been named coach of the country's national team despite a lack of experience as trainer at a time when Argentina has struggled in World Cup qualifiers.
"Now the real work begins," Maradona said.
His appointment followed a meeting Tuesday that Maradona and former...
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A Moroccan schoolboy has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for linking King Mohammed VI with the Spanish football club Barcelona, local media reported Friday.
Yassine Belassal, 18, slightly changed the national slogan when writing it on a school blackboard in the village of Ait Ourir near Marrakesh.
"God, fatherland,...
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There was a mixed reaction Tuesday to the agreement with football's governing body FIFA with Polish sports officials that ensured Poland could play in two upcoming World Cup qualifiers.
Poland's Sports Minister, Miroslaw Drzewiecki, has tried to present himself as the victor in the stand-off, telling Polskie Radio that "the war...
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Bayern Munich have lost their mythos of invincibility in German football after a stumbling start to the Bundesliga season, club president Franz Beckenbauer said.
Smaller teams are now losing their respect for the champions, who are only 11th in the table after two wins in seven matches, Beckenbauer wrote in his column for Bild...
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Dutch media reported Monday that former South African goalkeeper Hans Vonk is to come out of retirement to sign for Ajax Amsterdam.
Vonk, 38, who previously joined Ajax as a 34-year-old and then played 31 games for the first team, even though he was signed as third choice, last played for Ajax Cape Town in South Africa last...
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Russia's Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has rejected claims of possible match-fixing at last season's UEFA Cup semi-final involving Zenit St Petersburg and Bayern Munich.
"Do you think that such world and European champions like (Bayern players) Kahn, Klose, Ze Roberto and Lucio can be bought," Mutko was quoted as saying...
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Three months after taking over Inter Milan, star coach Jose Mourinho seems to have achieved better results in media exposure than in the performance of the Italian champions.
Inter's only truly convincing game was a 2-0 win away to Panathinaikos in the Champions League opening game, while a 1-0 defeat to AC Milan at the weekend topped...
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Romanians CFR Cluj and Cypriots Anorthosis Famagusta give home fans
their first taste of Champions League action when they will be out to
show Wednesday that their strong starts in the competition were not
down just to good fortune.
Cluj take on Chelsea having already upset Roma in a shock 2-1 victory in Italy in their opening...
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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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Germany is not available to host Euro 2012 if Poland and Ukraien are stripped of the event, the German football federation DFB said on Tuesday.
"This is not an issue. We respect the hosts and fully support them. There has been no query from UEFA either," DFB general secretary Wolfgang Niersbach told Deutsche Presse-Agentur...
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Germany captain Michael Ballack and national team manager Oliver Bierhoff have ended a dispute which had cast a shadow over the team since the summer's European Championships.
The German Football Federation (DFB) said Tuesday the pair had settled their differences in a telephone conversation on Monday evening.
Bierhoff was quoted...
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On the eve of Wednesday's World Cup qualifying match against England, at least ten members of Croatia's national football squad ordered luxury gold-plated Bibles worth over 2,000 euros each (2,830 dollars), Zagreb media have reported.
The Bibles are reported to be in Croatian and in a limited edition of just 2,000 copies. Each copy...
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On the eve of Wednesday's World Cup qualifying match against England, at least ten members of Croatia's national football squad ordered luxury gold-plated bibles worth over 2,000 euros each (2,830 dollars), Zagreb media have reported.
The bibles are reported to be in Croatian and in a limited edition of just 2,000 copies. Each copy...
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Former Brugge trainer Cedomir Janevski will be the new coach of Belgrade football club Red Star, local media reported on Tuesday.
"After several days of intensive negotiations we reached a deal and I signed a contract with the Red Star until the end of the season," Janevski said.
He will replace Red Star's former coach...
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German Football Federation (DFB) president Theo Zwanziger Monday called for end to a dispute between captain Michael Ballack and team manager Oliver Bierhoff.
The dispute has been simmering since the Euro 2008 final in Vienna at the end of June after an altercation on the pitch following the 1-0 defeat to Spain.
Zwanziger told...
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An Azerbaijan football official on Monday said that national team coach Berti Vogts had been misquoted when he said that he would resign if there was too much pressure on him.
The general secretary of the Azerbaijan football association Elkhan Mammadov said that Vogts had given an interview to German media on Saturday after his side...
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SV Hamburg are expected to announce the signing of a second Brazilian within two days with the expected transfer of playmaker Thiago Neves to the Bundesliga club, local media reports said Thursday.
It would take Hamburg's spending on new players to close to 27 million euros (40 million dollars) after the club Wednesday sealed the...
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Striker Jeremy Menez is due to join Roma from French-league side Monaco on Thursday, Italian media reported.
The 21-year-old Frenchman landed late Wednesday in Rome. Roma are said to have paid 12 million euros (17.7 million dollars) for the player, who should replace Brazilian Mancini in their attack package.
Mancini, 28, a...
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Germany defender Arne Friedrich has pulled out of next month's World Cup qualifiers to concentrate on achieving full fitness with his club.
Friedrich was quoted by German media Wednesday as saying he had reached agreement with Germany coach Joachim Loew on an individual fitness programme to help him recover fully from a lower back...
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Liverpool are on the point of signing midfielder Albert Riera from Espanyol, according to media reports in Spain and England on Tuesday.
According to Madrid sports daily Marca, Liverpool are prepared to pay up to 12 million euros (17.71 million dollars) for the left-sided Riera, who has already tasted Premier League action with...
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Premier League giants Chelsea are determined to buy Robinho from Real Madrid, according to Spanish media reports on Friday.
Sports daily Marca said Chelsea were prepared to pay up to 37 million euros (54.77 million dollars) for the Brazilian winger.
Rival daily AS suggests that Chelsea's offer is closer to 32 million euros.
Both...
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Brazil coach Carlos Dunga is under pressure after Argentina put paid to Brazilian hopes of claiming their first Olympic football gold medal.
Team sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that Tuesday's 3-0 semi-final loss to the South American arch-rival increased criticism of the coach, who took over in July 2006 from Carlos Alberto...
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Chelsea defender John Terry was named as the permanent England captain on Tuesday, edging out Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand for the role.
Coach Fabio Capello said Terry's "big personality" had given him the edge over Ferdinand.
"It was not easy for me to choose because they are very good players," Capello...
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Two recent European champions in Liverpool and Spanish giants Barcelona face tricky opponents as they attempt to negotiate their way safely through the last qualifying stage of the Champions League in first leg matches on Wednesday.
Barcelona, who won the title in 2006, come up against Polish champions Wisla Krakow while Liverpool,...
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Spanish giants Atletico Madrid have loaned out winger Jose Antonio Reyes to Portuguese club Benfica for a season, the club said Friday.
The Lisbon club will have an option to buy Reyes at the end of the season.
The career of Reyes, 24, has slumped in the past two years, in which he has lost his place in the Spanish national...
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Chelsea have made an official approach to Real Madrid to buy Brazilian international Robinho reportedly worth close to 20 million pounds (38 million dollars), it was reported Friday.
In a statement on their website, Chelsea confirmed they have made an offer for Robinho, but did not reveal the size of their bid.
However British...
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 A leading US National Football League player has died a day after being
shot at his home in Miami during an apparent burglary, media reports
said Tuesday.
Sean Taylor, 24, who played for Washington Redskins, was shot in the leg by an intruder.
He was airlifted to Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital but died
Tuesday. The player had...
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 After he was suspended by the NFL, Tennessee Titans’ cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones announced yesterday at a news conference in Nashville he decided to enter the wrestling ring.“I am a big fan of wrestling, so I wanted to give it a try,” he said. “I respect wrestling, and I’m not coming in like it’s just a show."Ones...
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 The Oakland Raiders welcomed the big 6-4 and 265 pounds Daunte Culpepper quarterback in their training camp today.After passing the physical Culpepper signed a one-year contract and he will join the team this morning to begin rivalry with Josh McCown and Andrew Walter while Russell, the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft, remains...
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Roberto Abbondanzieri is set to leave Spanish football club Getafe and return to Boca Juniors in his native Argentina, according to reports in the Spanish media on Thursday.
Getafe have yet to make the deal official, but sports daily Marca said that the they have agreed to accept 300,000 euros (396.40 million dollars) from Boca for...
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Arsenal have made an initial approach for Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso, according to British media reports Monday.
Manager Arsene Wenger is keen to pair the 26-year-old with his
Spanish compatriot Cesc Fabregas and is believed to be prepared to
offer around 10.5 million pounds (20.7 million dollars), the fee
Liverpool paid to...
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 According to the Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia, the Spanish football club Barcelona is altering its famous badge in some Arab countries in order to avoid offending Muslims.The badge is especially altered in Saudi Arabia or Algeria, where the Barcelona shirts are being sold without the red cross of Saint George, the patron saint of the...
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 According to the Italian media on Tuesday, Fabio Capello is very close to beginning a new phase in his successful career by becoming the coach of the English national team.La Gazzetta dello Sport reported that the English Football Association (FA) will name Capello officially this week, as he became the favourite for the English bench...
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 Sydney FC managed to defeat David Beckham’s visiting LA Galaxy 5-3 on Tuesday, as the British star enchanted the 80.000 Australian soccer fans by playing the full 90 minutes of the game, adding a trademark banana into the back of the net from a spot kick. The 32 years old star had only five appearances in his first season in the Unites...
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 A Lazio fan was accidentally killed by a policeman while he was heading to a Serie A game in Milan, on Sunday morning, according to outraged Italian media. Gabriele Sandri, who was 26 years old, has died at a motorway rest station as a cause of a warning shot of a police officer who was trying to stop a clash between the fans of Lazio...
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 The transfer of Freddy Adu to Benfica Lisbon is still the centre of attention. After he passed the medical and particiapated at the team’s sporting camp, the club’s officials announced the media that the transfer it’s a done deal. However, the financial details of Adu’s contract weren’t disclosed.According to the lastest official...
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 American soccer star player Freddy Adu agreed in principle to play for the Portuguese club Benfica, pending the results of a medical test.The Portuguese Premiere League Soccer club, who must have been impressed by Adu after his latest performance at the U-20 World Cup Held in Canada, will reportedly pay about two million dollars to the ...
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Jerusalem - In what has been described as "the most unusual divorce on record," the Jerusalem Rabbinic Court has expedited divorce proceedings for a 17-year-old groom and his 14-year-old bride who married recently in an unauthorised, makeshift ceremony.
Israeli media reported Thursday that the court had to issue the divorce...
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 People’s curiosity regarding the identity of the father of
Nadya Suleman’s children is a fact. Apparently everybody wants to know who the
lucky guy is. An ex-boyfriend of the woman who gave birth to octuplets in Los Angeles last month
finally stood up and said he could be their father and that of their six
siblings too.
Denis...
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 The hunt for the missing girl from Florida, Haleigh Cummings, is about to be
put on hold. In spite of extensive searches with the help of 250 volunteers
police say that they came up with no new leads regarding the 5-year-old
whereabouts.
Chief Deputy Rick Ryan of the Putnam County Sheriff's
Department told The Sun that there are...
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Singapore - Following the global economic slowdown and shrinking demand for electronics and other goods from all it's top markets, Singapore's non-oil domestic exports suffered a year-on-year fall of 35 per cent in January, the International Enterprise (IE) Singapore, the city state's agency to promote external business, reported on...
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A founder of the New Alliance party, which was formed in 2007, said Monday he was to leave the party and become an independent in parliament.
Syrian-born Naser Khader said he had used the holiday break to consider his political future and decided he would leave the centrist party that, last August, was renamed the Liberal...
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Israel gave Hamas and other Palestinian militant factions in Gaza 48 hours Friday to avoid an Israeli military operation in the strip, government officials said.
For the first time in 10 days, it opened its border crossings with the Gaza Strip Friday morning to allow in essential humanitarian supplies.
If Hamas, the radical...
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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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An online petition in favour of a Swedish invasion of Latvia is proving a seasonal hit - among Latvians.
Fed up with a government that failed to prevent the Baltic state lurching into a serious recession and unimpressed by belated efforts to get out of it, Latvian Roberts Safonovs took the matter into his own hands and set up an...
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Spain's opposition Thursday expressed concern over the possibility of the oil and gas company Repsol YPF coming partly under Russian control.
Companies from outside the European Union should not get involved with strategic sectors in Spain, Cristobal Montoro of the conservative People's Party (PP) said amid reports that the Russian...
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Hamburg (dpa) - Austrian Benjamin Raich goes into the new alpine season - which starts on the weekend in the Austrian town of Soelden - looking for a second overall World Cup title.
The 30-year-old, who has also won 30 World Cup races, however, is aware that even though he is one of the favourites, he is far from guaranteed to repeat...
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Communist North Korea stepped up pressure on its southern neighbour, threatening Thursday to cut all ties with Seoul, South Korean media reported.
Pyongyang reiterated its accusations that the conservative government of President Lee Myung Bak was following an aggressive policy against the North in a commentary run by the Rodong...
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Seven US soldiers were killed when their helicopter crashed west of the southern Iraqi city of Basra, the US army said Thursday.
The Chinook helicopter, which had been en route from Kuwait to the military base in Balad north of Baghdad, had not come under fire and the crash appeared to have been an accident, the army said in a...
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Two brothers were arrested in a scandal over contaminated baby milk in China, as a second infant died, state-run media said Monday.
Authorities said the number of babies who fell ill with kidney stones after being fed with contaminated baby milk produced by the Chinese dairy San Lu rose to 580. Two infants died.
The brothers from...
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Thailand's Foreign Ministry issued a statement Friday that talks between Bangkok and Phnom Penh over disputed border areas were postponed by mutual agreement for internal procedures and not because of political tension in Thailand, as some media reported.
The "meeting has been postponed, not because of Thailand's domestic...
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No one expected US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's latest visit to Israel and the Palestinian areas, which ended Tuesday, to result in a breakthrough in the peace process, so no one was disappointed.
A breakthrough is always possible in the peace negotiations, which resumed around the turn of the year, after a seven-year...
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China on Monday celebrated the Beijing Olympics as a "glorious success," while rest of the world saw the Games as a demonstration of the potential of an aspiring global power.
"China secured its position as a world power with the Olympic Games in Beijing," the Japanese daily Mainichi Shimbun said in a commentary at...
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Russian combat forces began a slow withdrawal from Georgia on Friday but were still operating road checkpoints deep in the country despite a pledge to leave by the end of the day.
The Russian general staff said that troops were "in the final stage of pulling back," but they would continue to hold buffer zones and maintain...
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Malaysia's national carrier on Tuesday announced profits of 40 million ringgit (12.12 million dollars) from April to June 2008, an 64.5 per cent drop from the same period last year.
Government-controlled Malaysian Airline System (MAS), which carried 14 million passengers last year, had posted a net profit of 112.85 million ringgit...
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Compared to the two earlier editions - at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 - the beach volleyball tournament at the Beijing Olympics will have to settle for bronze.
But it will not be for lack of effort from Chinese organizers, who set up a 14,150-square-metre temporary site for competition with all comfort for players, media and sponsors...
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Though Austria's Social Democrats were set to choose Werner Faymann as their candidate for Chancellor in the upcoming general elections, he still has to prove he can emerge from the second row to become a leading man.
The popular, but not yet widely known transport minister took over the party leadership from Chancellor Alfred...
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A huge fire destroyed Managua's landmark
Oriental Market, wiping out 1,500 vendor stalls and causing an
estimated 100 million dollars in damage, local media reported early
Saturday. The conflagration raged Friday for 11 hours,
destroying most of the sprawling Mercado Oriental, reputedly Central
America's largest market hall. No...
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Seven civilians were killed Thursday in fresh
clashes between government forces and Taliban fighters in Pakistan's
troubled Swat valley, media reports said. One mortar round
missed its target in the Deolai area of Swat and hit a house, killing
seven members of the same family, including five children. The house
was completely...
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According to officials, thousands of
workers continued search and rescue operations Saturday after Tropical Storm
Kalmaegi hit Taiwan Friday.
The tropical storm, which was upgraded to
typhoon level, brought heavy rain on central and southern Taiwan. The
National Fire Agency informs that up to 39 inches of rain fell in no more...
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Children under five years old who often squint should be checked for possible eye cancer, a media report said Monday.
Frequent squinting or pupils that appear to be white could be signs of
a growing tumor, the Standard said, quoting a leading eye specialist.
Ophthalmologist Christopher Yu said parents should have infants...
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A Palestinian driving a bulldozer
went on a downtown Jerusalem street
Wednesday, plowing into a bus, cars and pedestrian people. The regrettable
episode finished up with the death of at least 3 individuals and the injuring
of minimum 45.
Traffic was brought to a
standstill, and countless terrified people ran off on the...
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Portuguese police shelve the
investigation into Madeleine McCann’s missing for the reason that evidences
haven’t emerged, reports BBC. The girl’s disappearance during a holiday in Algarve last
May let to the strong interest of the media and a massive police investigation.
Her parents consider she was kidnapped from their holiday...
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Portuguese police shelve the
investigation into Madeleine McCann’s disappearance for the reason that evidence
hasn’t emerged, BBC reports. The girl’s disappearance during the holiday in Algarve last
year in May led to a strong interest of the media and a massive police investigation.
Her parents consider she was kidnapped from...
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the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include economist Adam Smith in 1723; Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in 1878; English economist John Maynard...
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, the 140th day of 2008 with 226 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include American-born Nancy Astor, the first woman member of the British Parliament, in 1879; Vietnamese leader...
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 The symbolical flame of pro-Tibet protests that condemned China’s human-rights record, was blocked by the French police, as it boycotted the Olympic flame.
Police officers claimed the demonstrators turned the Paris
leg of the Olympic torch relay into a public disaster, as the organizers were
forced to snuff out the flame...
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 British papers The Daily Express and Daily Star apologized
to the parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann after making allegations
against them suggesting they might have killed their daughter and settled in
court to pay damages consisting in 555,000 pounds.
“We accept that a number of articles in the newspaper have suggested...
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 A Pakistani military bus
transporting medical corps staff to work in the city of Rawalpindi was attacked by a suicide bomber Monday,
at 7.30 AM, outside the gate of the army's National Logistics Cell on a road
connecting the Royal Artillery Bazar to the General Headquarters in the nearby
garrison city.
Some media reports said...
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 French President Nicolas
Sarkozy arrived yesterday in Agra, approximately 125 miles south of New Delhi, to
visit one of the world’s most famous love monuments, the Taj Mahal. A suit was filed on his behalf that same day against a French airline company.
Sarkozy was not accompanied by his 40-year-old supermodel girlfriend...
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A British terrorist suspect in an alleged plot to blow up
trans-Atlantic commercial jetliners managed to escape from a mosque
when his police escorts allowed him to say prayers on their way back to
the prison, police investigators said Monday.
Rashid Rauf, a British citizen of Pakistani origin, escaped from
guards on Saturday...
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A shadow of doubt has been thrown over the government’s
claim to have swiftly contained the first outbreak of foot and mouth disease,
after a new outbreak seems to share the same origin.
Scientists believe a second report of the virus a month after foot and mouth
was first confirmed was part of the same outbreak, suggesting the...
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 According to local media reports, twenty-four Britons and four people from Ireland were among 100 passengers forced to take to lifeboats after their cruise liner hit ice and began taking on water in the Antarctic Ocean.
Passengers abandoned the 2,400-tonne Liberian-flagged M/S Explorer after a small hole was punched in the hull in the...
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 According to local media reports on Monday, eight Turkish
soldiers who were released by the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) last
week after being taken hostage in an ambush were arrested and charged on Sunday
by an order of the Van Military Court.
The eight soldiers will now face
trial in custody based on "the...
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 According to local media, a Russian supermarket worker, who
confessed to killing 63 people with the goal of marking each death on a
chessboard which has 64 squares, has been found guilty of 48 murders by a jury
after four months of deliberation.
Alexander Pichushkin, who began his killing spree as early
as 1992, committed most...
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 According to local media, at least nine Turkish soldiers
were killed in fighting with Kurdish militants after midnight on Sunday, and
more soldiers were reported missing forcing Turkey’s prime minister to call an
emergency security summit The deaths dramatically increase the pressure on the
government to launch a military offensive...
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 Wal-Mart is thinking of expanding its piece of the nation’s
$250 billion retail pharmaceutical market beyond its current share of 5 to 6
percent, and hopes to do so by reaching out to a younger and broader drug
clientele.
Many of the drugs previously on the Wal-Mart plan were
heart, high blood pressure, and diabetes drugs commonly...
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 A report released by the US-based
group Human Rights Watch holds responsible Ethiopian, Somali, and insurgent
forces for severe violations of the laws of war that have resulted in
heavy civilian casualties.
The 113-page report called "Shell-Shocked:
Civilians under siege in Mogadishu" refers to the fights...
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 The Crown Prosecution Service announced that nobody would be charged in the honors-for-cash probe involving former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, among others. "This investigation has ended as I always expected it would. Those involved have been through a terrible, even traumatic time," Blair said."Much of what has...
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 Ten children accidentally drank windshield wiper fluid after a staff member mistakenly put the liquid in the refrigerator and ten served it to children. The children, between 2 and 7 years of age were rushed to hospital, and fortunately, no one was seriously injured. Only one child remained in the hospital care due to blood levels of...
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 According to recent reports, the renal unit at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth carried out a record number of 75 transplants. It is the highest number to have been carried out since the first transplant was performed at the hospital in 1973. Due to the increased ways in which people can make a donation, the South West Transplant Center is...
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Federal officials have recently released two programs to take care of the most important health problem. Medicare system has been blamed lately for its failure to get better services in hospitals which ask a lot of money from the patients. The new programs have stated that Medicare will reduce the payments for medical mistakes in...
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Smokers in the Polish
capital Warsaw will soon risk a hefty fine for lighting up at
playgrounds or at tram and bus stops, Polish media reported on Friday.
A smoking ban will take effect in September and carries a fine up to
500 zloty (239 dollars) for illegal puffing in playgrounds and under
covered public transport stops. A...
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Eastern China is overpowered by Enterovirus 71 infections. Twelve children were killed and 1200 sickened in Fuyang, a city in Anhui province. The virus is considered to have the capacity to spread very fast. According to Reuters, the outbreak took place in March and it is propagating to a neighboring province, Henan. All the infected...
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 The issue of the effects that consuming foods and beverages packaged in polycarbonate containers made from the chemical bisphenol A has upon one’s health has long been debated in the media. BPA is most often found in the composition of baby bottles and water bottles, but many other edible products are packaged in containers of this...
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 After more than one hundred
people already died in Indonesia,
bird flu continues to spread to urban Bangladesh. Authorities in Dhaka,
the country’s capital, and Chittagong,
its port city, are worried by the wide number of dead crows they found over the
past two days. The birds tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu....
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 More than three million 12- to 25-year-olds have tried to
get high on over-the-counter cough medicines containing dextromethorphan at
some point in their lives, a large survey found.
But only 1.7% (SD: 0.08%) of this age group, or fewer than one million, had
done so in the past year, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental...
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 U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention
officials are investigating blood infections linked to syringes made in Angier.
The company in Angier, Sierra Pre-Filled, made the
heparin-filled syringes where the bacteria, Serratia marcescens, was spotted in
a single batch. The supply company, also known as AM2PAT Inc.,...
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 According to a new study, violence depicted on television,
in films and video games raises the risk of aggressive behavior in adults and
young viewers and poses a serious threat to public health, according to a new
study.
After reviewing more than 50 years of research on the impact
of violence in the media, L. Rowell Huesmann, of...
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 According to Myanmar authorities, state media and an
international livestock health agency, an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu
virus was reported at a chicken farm in the northeast.
Unusual deaths of chickens at a farm in a village in Shan
State's Keng Tung township were reported on Nov. 18, and laboratory tests
confirmed...
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 Lucile Packard Children's Hospital doctors are getting ready
to surgically separate 2-year-old twin girls that were born conjoined at the
chest and abdomen.
The two girls, Yurelia and Fiorella Rocha-Arias of San Jose, are dew to go
under the knife in late November. This give the doctors time to complete the
stretching process of...
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 Parents can recognize that their children are overtaxed by television content through certain telltale signs.
They include nail biting, twirling the hair, shutting eyes, holding the ears, hiding behind a chair and red cheeks and ears when a child is watching television, according to Germany's association for paediatricians, based in...
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 As the NHL’s signing period began yesterday, the New York Rangers inked Chris Drury and Scott Gomez, two of the most valuable center in the league, to solve their dilemmas about the center position center. The Rangers agreed with Scott Gomez for a seven year contract worth $51.5 million - including $10 million next season, while Drury...
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India's Supreme Court Friday approved two controversial mining and steel projects in the eastern state of Orissa that were delayed owing to protests from tribal people and farmers, media reports said.
The court in New Delhi allowed British metal and mining group Vedanta Resources to go ahead with its 800-million-dollar bauxite mining...
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 The only OPEC member from the Southeast Asia, Indonesia, will likely pull out of the group, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources announced on Wednesday.Purnomo Yusgiantoro told the mass media in a press conference that aging fields and the declining production forced the country, which has the biggest economy in the region, to...
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 Time Warner Inc. announced its AOL LLC unit is to move its HQ from Dulles, Va. to New York, where its advertising executives are already based. Also, AOL announced a revamped global ad platform dubbed Platform A, which is virtually a new division combining its Advertising.com online ad unit, along with recently-acquired online marketer...
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 China expressed its confidence in the United States dollar as a global reserve currency. The declaration is a response to the Aug. 8 rumors spread by the U.K. media that two senior Chinese officials warned Beijing may use its $1.33 trillion of foreign reserves to pressure the dollar.The People's Bank of China (PBOC) said in the statement...
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 Thailand
makes a first step towards reducing pollution by compelling 10,000 gas stations
to provide customers with biodiesel fuel by April 1, 2008, Thai Energy Minister Piyasvasti Amranand told
media representatives on Saturday.
Thailand
made clear its intentions to cut greenhouse gas emissions along with oil import
by reducing...
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 Logitech, maker of webcams and other computer peripherals, announced on Wednesday that is has agreed to buy SightSpeed, a maker of video-conferencing software, for $30 million. SightSpeed’s headquarters are located in Berkeley, California and the company has about 25 employees. Its software comes preloaded on Dell computers as “Dell...
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 The pessimists’ prediction will not be fulfilled after all for Apple. Steve Jobs told the media that the fourth-quarter earnings didn’t quite hit the target, but with iPhone and Mac sales strong, the founder of the company is sure that Apple can ride out a downturn. Apple reported $7.9 billion in sales, below the estimate of analysts,...
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 SanDisk Corporation, the multinational company that designs and markets
flash memory card products, will sign an agreement to purchase the MP3 player
company MusicGremlin. The purchase cost has not yet been disclosed.
The New York
based MusicGremlin has become known for promoting a portable digital music
player and a subscription...
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 The Nokia Corporation has launched a new Internet music store under its new Ovi brand this week, with more than 2 million songs from all the major record labels, besides Warner Music Group Corp, due to a dispute about illegal downloads, casting a shadow on the launch, according to media.Warner, who is home well known bands such as...
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 Google Inc., the company behind
the powerful and popular web search engine, has been recently reported to have
not stopped from its continual adjusting to the present market, to its new
smarter devices and technologies. Google Inc. is a model for how all companies
should be: smart, creative and in a continual adjustment to present...
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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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 And it appears that they spend their time online even more than the majority of the Americans, according to the newest study conducted by comScore Media Matrix.comScore went on measuring how much time spend online different populations across the globe on a regular April day and found out that the Brits and the Swedish are champions in...
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 In spite of the fact that television personalities should know better how things work on little screens, this general opinion seems erroneous if we take into account the nutty display created by CNBC “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer.In an attempt to obtain both evenhandedness and attention, Jim Cramer took part in a comedy clash that had...
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 They have been pulling each other’s leg from far-off via the television screen for a very long time. Now it’s time for CNBC’s Jim Cramer and Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart to create a head-on confrontation, as Jim Cramer is expected to visit his little screen opponent on “The Daily Show” on Thursday.The “Mad Money” host is prepared to...
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In spite of the fact that Fox’s three “American Idol” broadcasts won the top three prime-time slots last week and ABC saw its highest audience in more than half a decade for “The Bachelor,” CBS’ strong point in scripted series helped the network become the most-watched for the 18th time in the 24-week season.With 10 of the week’s...
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 Total Request Live announced the show was coming to an end a few months ago. And Sunday was the last day of the show, when hundreds of fans struggled to say goodbye to their favorite TV show from MTV. The host of TRL, Damien Fahey, stated that the end of the show meant the end of an era for many teenagers.He added that many fans of the...
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 Fox Channel changed its plans for the program in the middle of the season. On Friday night a sci-fi block will appear and American Idol will go on with its series. The highly expected series of Dollhouse, created by Joss Whedon, will be aired from 9 p.m. on Friday. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles will have to change its original...
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 The Fox News Channel welcomed back Bill O’Reilly for a four-year deal which worth $10 million a year. It isn’t much regarding the successful image that O’Reilly gave to the network. The deals made for Fox News this year cost a lot of money. Shepard Smith, the channel’s main news anchor, made a deal with the network, for $8 million a...
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 Anne Pressly, 26, is a popular KATV anchorwoman who also played a small role in “W,” the new movie about George Bush’s life. On Monday, she was declared to be in a critical condition after he had been beaten in her own house. Pressly was found inside her bedroom at about 4:30 a.m., according to Cassandra Davis, Little Rock police...
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 “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” has brought CBS network 23.5 million people in front of their TV last week. This was the sitcom’s season premiere and it seems that CBS got itself a nice No. 1 place among all the big networks. In addition, this was the prime-time show to attract more than 20 million viewers, as Nielsen Media Research...
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 Macrovision Solutions Corp. is a developer of content-protection software. The company has recently sold TV Guide magazine to OpenGate Capital, a firm from Los Angeles which is based on private equity. The deal between the two companies will end in December and represents an important part of Macrovision Corp. acquiring Gemstar-TV Guide...
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 After “Total Request Live” on MTV has been on air for ten years, the network will close the program on a Saturday afternoon of November. Dave Sirulnick, the executive producer of "TRL," said on Monday that the last music video show will last for two hours. Sirulnick added that the show doesn’t end forever, but it surely needs a...
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 American television is testing the American
endurance, the tolerance and taste for Japanese game shows of its viewers. ABC’s
“I Survived a Japanese Game Show” which premiered Tuesday, June 24, performed
well and pulled in 8 million viewers. It was the winner in the competition with
Fox’s “Hell’s Kitchen” which brought in front of the...
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 The Oprah Winfrey Show, America’s most
popular talk-show, has fallen by more than 10 percent in the last three years
and nearly 7 percent this year, according to Nielsen Media Research.
The circulation of O, The Oprah Magazine,
has fallen by more than 10 percent in the last three years, according to the Audit
Bureau of...
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 A lot of things were said after Jeff Archuleta, David‘s
father, was banned from participating at his son’s rehearsals. But, apparently
things were misunderstood. As any lovable child, the all-time favorite of the
seventh season of “American Idol” wanted to clear things out about his father. According
to him, Jeff is not the monster...
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 We don’t actually know for sure how the same stunt will
bring the same result, but here it is: Britney Spears will return for another
cameo role in CBS’ sitcom “How I Met Your Mother.”
According to celebrity site People.com, a source announced
that the pop star would return for another episode of the comedy series. “The
show is...
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 No ratings, no broadcast! That’s what the CBS network
thought of when it canceled “The Secret Talents of the Stars” after just one
episode. The series featuring celebrities who try to discover some unknown
talents was dismissed due to the fact that the debut episode on Tuesday drew an
audience of only 4.6 million viewers, according...
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 Britney Spears hit the jackpot with Monday’s broadcast of
“How I Met Your Mother.” According to Nielsen Media Research an estimated 10.62
million viewers watched the pop singer playing the role of a receptionist,
meaning almost 3 million more viewers from what the sitcom averaged before the
writers’ strike.
Britney Spears was...
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 The pop star’s cameo appearance in CBS’ hit sitcom “How I
Met Your Mother” has drawn one million more viewers in front of the TV on
Monday.
Nielsen Media Research reported that the rates of this
week’s episode augmented by 1 million, rising to 10.7 million viewers.
Spears who played the role of a geeky receptionist that...
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 We’ve seen various faces of Britney Spears: innocent girl,
famous pop artist, happy bride, proud mother, party girl, paparazzi target, but
never saw her as a geek. Tonight’s our chance, though, as the popular artist
will appear in a small cameo role in the hit TV series “How I Met Your Mother.”
CBS will be able to present Britney...
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 “American Idol” is still victorious when it comes to
ratings. According to national estimates from Nielsen, Idol scored first
Wednesday being the highest-watched show at the crucial 9 o’clock hour. The show had 27.13 million
viewers and a 10.3 rating/26 in 18-49, surpassing NBC’s “Deal or No Deal” and
also CBS’ “Big Brother” which...
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 Early this week there have been rumors that famous comedian
Seinfeld would return to television with a new sitcom.
The “New York Post” reported that NBC would shelter a new
production signed by Jerry Seinfeld, in a format similar to “Curb Your
Enthusiasm” aired by HBO. The show is the result of the contribution of Larry
David, a...
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 Hot tempered TV news anchor Alycia Lane easily escaped punishment by
promising to behave in the next six months.
Lane was accused of punching a police officer in the face in
New York, but luck was in her favor on Monday when a judge decided to let her
free, on condition that she steer away from trouble in the following six
months....
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 Court TV became TruTV and “Star Jones” ceases to exist.
Friday, February 1 was the last time the daytime talk show
aired. The 3 p.m. chat show hosted by Star Jones Reynolds had been broadcasted
for about six moths. Since August 20, 2007 the viewers were offered a mixture
of legal issues, current events, both entertainment and...
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 Dr. Phil is remorseful after that Britney Spears
intervention that drew him immense criticism.
The host of the “Dr. Phil Show” expressed his regrets, after
he endured all the frowning upon and the accusations, but in a way, he remained
consequent to what he did. He recognized that it brought no alleviation to the
pop singer’s...
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 The Hollywood Reporter said on Saturday that Jay Leno, the US talkshow host, is willing to pay his show’s non- writing staff from his own pocket, as they found out they were to be fired, due to the ongoing writer’s strike.The Tonight Show with Jay Leno employees found out on Friday that NBC Universal is laying them off, since the Writers...
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 As it was earlier speculated, it appears that fired Ex-NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly is going to end up working for Fox. Different sources say Reilly is in talks to join Fox in a role that is expected to have him sign on as head of programming, replacing Peter Liguori.Liguori is going to either share the position with Reilly...
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It was revealed at the last moment that a controversial Dutch show which featured a "terminally ill" woman deciding who will receive her kidney, was in fact a hoax. Played by an actress, "Lisa", 37, was said to be dying of a brain tumour and was to decide which of three patients selected by the producers - aged...
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A controversial Dutch show will go ahead despite heavy criticism, featuring a a terminally ill woman deciding who will receive her kidney. Lisa, 37, is dying of a brain tumour and must decide which of three patients selected by the producers - aged between 18 and 40 - should receive her kidney.The show is called The Big Donor Show and it...
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 A fridge thrown off the International Space Station (ISS) last year is set to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere shortly, delivering a volley of 100mph space fragments to an unknown impact site. The fridge is called Early Ammonia System (EAS), a 1400lb tank intended to furnish backup supplies of the unpleasant-smelling coolant to the ISS in...
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 Two American astronauts onboard the International Space Station, Commander Edward Michael Fincke and Flight Engineer and Science Officer Greg Chamitoff , will vote from space or at least try to do so from 220 miles above Earth, while traveling at 17,500 miles per hour. They are serving on the space station with one Russian cosmonaut and...
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 The Phoenix Mars Lander appears to be running out of steam. The Lander is losing solar-electric power because of shorter daylight hours and dust storms on Mars, NASA announced. Furthermore, the temperatures could reach as low as minus 141 degrees Fahrenheit, and that’s thanks to the Martian winter. This week, Phoenix fell silent, going...
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 NASA has chosen November the 14th as the date for its next space shuttle launch, a flight by the Endeavour to the ISS (International Space Station). The mission will increase the size of the space station crew from three to six next year, around May or June. Endeavour will deliver equipment for a new water reclamation system, as well as...
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 Recent reports suggesting that the Ares I rocket is doomed to failure have been denied by NASA officials. The story first appeared in the Orlando Sentinel, on October the 26th, where it was mentioned that there are concerns regarding Ares I crashing into its launch tower under certain wind conditions. This delayed the U.S. space agency’s...
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 It seems that archaeologists have found the fictional King Solomon’s Mines. Even if they should have provided him with gold and diamonds, all they could offer was copper. Researches were led by Thomas Levy of the University of California, San Diego, and Mohammad Najjar of Jordan’s Friends of Archaeology. They discovered a...
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 Saturday seems to be the day when the Hubble Space Telescope could be snapping pictures of the sky once again. Engineers fixed one of the problems that has largely shut down the instrument for the last three weeks. Art Whipple, manager of the Hubble Systems Management Office at the Goddard Space Flight Center, told the press that the...
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 A recent experiment showed that peeling sticky tape emits X-rays strong enough to scan a human finger. U.S. researchers used a motorized peeling machine to unwind a roll of Scotch tape at a rate of 3 centimeters per second. The report, which appeared in Nature journal, measured X-rays strong enough to X-ray a human digit. A well known...
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Four types of Jurassic dinosaurs left more than a thousand
footprints and tail-drag marks at a remote site in northern Arizona, a new study revealed. Researchers
also mentioned that probably around 190 million years ago, during the Jurassic
period, this area was an oasis surrounded by a vast desert. Even if the
footprints are...
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 A new set of problems has set back NASA’s effort to get the Hubble Space Telescope running again, agency officials told the media on Friday. Experts from the Goddard Space Flight Center said it could take several days for engineers to find the source of the latest difficulties. The first problems for the telescope appeared on September...
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 It would appear so. Several monkeys regained the use of paralyzed wrist muscles with a computer-aided device that uses brain signals to direct movement. These investigations have been conducted by U.S. researchers and given to the public on Wednesday. This brings a glimpse of hope for people paralyzed with spinal cord or other injuries....
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 It was really necessary to see how using the internet
affects the human brain. Researchers from UCLA showed that searching on Google
triggers a key center for decision-making and complex reasoning in the brain,
leading to possible improvements in brain function. Dr. Gary Small, a professor
at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and...
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 The online encyclopedia of species, which debuted Tuesday, appears
to be more successful than its creators had imagined. In only 5 hours and a
half, the site logged 11.5 million hits. The computers were overwhelmed, so the
site crashed on its very first day.
"We've been overwhelmed by traffic," encyclopedia
founding...
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 A new (media) war involving the
controversial Church
of Scientology has just
started! This time it is a group of hackers, which calls itself “Anonymous” or “Anon”,
that hit the popular Church’s web site, in a move that reportedly tries to open
people’s eyes on the real truth about the Church of Scientology.
The group’s attack...
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 Israel successfully launched a sophisticated new spy satellite into the orbit on Monday, aiming to enhance surveillance over Iran, whose nuclear programme is believed to be the most important threat for the Jewish state.The Israeli mass- media reported the launch atop an Indian rocket from the Sriharikota Launching Range in India, saying...
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 On Thursday, Daniel Tani, the US astronaut that is part of the crew from the International Space Station, found out from NASA that his mother was killed in a car accident near Chicago.The bad news were reported by the local media, which said that 90- year- old Rose Tani’s car was struck by a freight train in a railroad crossing in...
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 The Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to be launched from Cape Canaveral, in Florida, on December 6th at 4:31 pm EST, as its mission is to deliver the new European space laboratory Columbus to the International Space Station (ISS).NASA announced that there will be a webcast, live blogs, podcasts and videos that are going to follow the...
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 The European Space Agency (ESA) presented to the media in Paris on Wednesday findings of the Venus Express probe which demonstrate the fact that the climate of the planet Venus has more similarities to that of Earth.Despite the obvious differences, since Venus surface’s temperature reaches 500 degrees Celsius and cannot have water on it,...
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 A week after its launch, the first Chinese lunar probe has entered the moon’s orbit, on Monday, according to government officials.Chang'e-I, which is the name of a Chinese mythical goddess that flew to the moon and lived there with a jade rabbit, was launched 11 days ago from the Xichang space centre in the south-western province of...
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 Today, the 14th of
August, the astronauts from the Endeavour shuttle have been working to another
project, as they have had to install the spare parts of a 7,000-pound equipment
storage platform on the International Space Station. This has been quite a
complex procedure as the astronauts have had to install the spare parts by
using...
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 Michael Griffin, head of NASA, declared recently that global warming might not be such a big of a problem, intriguing both scientists and the media.Griffin said that he is not sure whether global warming is “a long-term concern or not”, despite heavy criticism from the media and the ecologists, who are accusing NASA’s policy of cutting...
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 New rumors of an Apple netbook surfaced on Monday, when several sources reported that we could expect to see a launch later this year. As it
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 The advertising company Pinch Media has recently held a conference at the iPhone Developers Meetup from New York. A lot of statistics and graphics of the behaviors of the iPhone users have been handle out during the presentation and things don’t seem to be so good about this. According to the advertising company, the users of the iPhone...
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 After several international false starts and domestic delays, the BlackBerry Bold has premiered at AT&T stores and online in the US, with an offer of free Wi-Fi at some AT&T hotspots nationwide when accompanied with an unlimited data plan. The BlackBerry Bold has a Quad-Band GSM, a GPS, Bluetooth, a 2 Megapixel camera with 3 x...
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 Apple told the media yesterday that is has applied a major update to MobileMe last month, outlining about 30 fixes to the problem-plagued online e-mail and sync service. Even so, users kept complaining about the MobileMe. Among the enhancements to MobileMe that were pointed out by Apple we find improved performance in Internet Explorer...
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 A group of security researchers have found a serious flaw in the Android software from Google. This comes just after a few days from T-Mobile’s G1 smartphone launch on Wednesday. One of the researchers, Charles A. Miller, notified Google about the flaw. Furthermore, he announced the error publicly in order to show cell phone users that...
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T-Mobile began shipping the G1 Android today, the first
production Android-based device and the carrier’s first full-touchscreen phone
set to battle with iPhone. The product went on sale Tuesday evening in San Francisco, ahead of the start of sales across the U.S. The G1 was
made by T-Mobile in collaboration with Google and...
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 The social networking giant MySpace announced the launch of an application for mobiles optimized for Google’s Android mobile operating system and available via the Android Market virtual storefront for free. MySpace Mobile promises deep integration with the Android-based devices like T-Mobile’s G1, with features including friend searches...
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 Following the model of Apple, with its iPhone, Google is controlling the Android phone’s programs. Even if users found it hard to believe that the iPhones have a kill switch built in that could destroy applications one has bought and paid for, the rumor was quickly confirmed, to the shock of the buyers. Now Google has a similar kill...
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 The “Kickstart” BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 was officially
released for $149.99 in black color after $150 instant discount and $50 mail-in
rebate (the full price is $349.99). The device is the first one to use the flip
phone form factor, a unique design for RIM. It has support for T-Mobile’s UMA
HotSpot service via WiFi, a 2.0...
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 T-Mobile, the nation’s fourth-largest wireless network
operator, announced that its android, G1, has been pre-ordered by 1.5 million
people. The phone is officially launched on October 22 and it seems like the
best bet against Apple’s iPhone. HTC, the Taiwanese firm that is manufacturing
the G1, was projecting that it would sell...
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 On Wednesday, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. unveiled its new YouTube-friendly digital camcorder. The device features a special recording mode, especially designed to facilitate online video-sharing on the very popular website.The SC-MX20 compact camcorder, following the SC-MX10 series, packs a 680,000-pixel image sensor capable of...
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 Thanks to T-Mobile, starting July 7, US residents will be
able to purchase Motorola’s Rokr E8. The device will be made available for the
price of $199, with a two-year service agreement.
The one thing that really makes this smartphone special is
its keyboard. It can go through a series of successive phases, each one
revealing a...
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 GameStop, one of the biggest video game retailers out there, announced that it would cease stocking Microsoft's Zune players, due to the poor sales the product has recorded. Last year, Zune managed to sell one million units in less than six months; in November 2007, one version of the Zune media player (80 GB) was leading the MP3 player...
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 The new handset from AT&T fits perfectly with the current
trend of continuously evolving technologies, bringing together an increasing
number of features that, until quite recently, have always been available only
separately, on different devices.
The company launched the new smartphone on Wednesday. The
BlackBerry Pearl 8110...
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 Starting with April 17, a new touch-screen interactive tabletop display, called Surface, will
be made available in AT&T stores. Surface represents Microsoft’s solution
for simplifying the consumer-computer interaction, as it allows users to
manipulate on-screen items by touch.
It is a 30’’ table-like display that...
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 Nokia will run Microsoft's Silverlight cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in on select phones which use its Symbian OS platform. This comes as a large surprise mainly because Microsoft and Nokia are the biggest competitors in the mobile phone OS market: Microsoft tries to push its Windows Mobile while handset leader Nokia promotes...
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 Israeli startup Modu unveiled
recently an innovative mobile phone that can be “dressed” and connected to
other compatible consumer electronics in order to enrich users’ experience. The
Israeli company’s new cell phone’s goal is to revolutionize the mobile
industry; the facts that Modu is the first cell phone that can be “dressed”...
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 The internet and radio company Slacker Inc., has finally announced that it is ready to launch its portable media player, which allows users to hear their highly customized radio stations anywhere they are.The Slacker Portable Player is a storage and playback device that can refresh its content from stations that the users create online...
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 Apple’s iPhone started on the right foot in Europe, as
thousands of people waited in line in Germany
and Britain,
where the phone has went on the market, on Friday. Only in Germany, 10.000
phones were sold until the mid-afternoon on the first day on sale.
The largest European phone company, Deutsche Telekom AG, is
the distributor...
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 Yesterday, just hours before
Apple Inc. has made its more or less surprising public announcements, Microsoft
Corp. has also announced a price cut. The company’s Zune media player has got a
$50 drop of price, so starting today the users will be able of buying the 30 GB
device for only $199.
Microsoft Corp. has made...
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 Microsoft has introduced on the market its Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel
with the occasion of last year’s E3 Media and Business Summit. And now, after
more than a year since the device’s release, Microsoft has announced it is to
provide the Racing Wheel’s users with a free retrofit for the product.
Microsoft’s decision comes...
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 Nokia Corp. is to license Microsoft's brand new PlayReady copy protection system, alongside Windows Media DRM 10 and Open Alliance Mobile DRM. "It's all about choice," Steven Knuff, a spokesman at Nokia's multimedia division, said. "If customers want a particular DRM technology, then we'll provide it."The new digital...
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 Apple’s iPhone has made everybody
crazy about it! The analysts have even predicted huge sales for iPhone till the
end of 2008, although Apple’s ultimate phone has its week elements (it’s a 2.5
generation phone, for example). But, as expected, Blackberry is to come out of
the shadow and challenge iPhone.
Research in Motion has...
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 Common, uninformed people will
say that you are crazy, when they see you waving your hand in all directions.
They will eventually wave “bye-bye” to you too and will leave your house, without
even knowing that you were communicating with your brand new air mouse.
“Communicating with you air mouse?”, they would have asked with a...
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 It was especially from Sony that
people have expected to cut its high price for PlayStation 3. The company
announced on the 9th of July that it will lower PS 3’s price from
$599 to $499 in North America, although just days before it had pushed back the
so-called rumors.
So for the first time in the
three rival video games...
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 Research company iSupply, which had also tear down the PS3 to reveal the astounding losses Sony takes with each unit sold, has recently revealed that Apple’s profits with Apple TV are not that impressive at all.The media hub Apple provides for $299 includes a Pentium M CPU by Intel and a standard, 40GB hard drive from Fujitsu. However,...
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 HTC, one of the most important partners for Microsoft concerning mobile devices, has recently joined the anti-iPhone frenzy with its latest model HTC Touch, a Windows Mobile-powered phone with no keyboard.HTC Touch uses similar touch-screen controls to the up-coming iPhone or the already available LG Prada, based on recognizing and...
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 After last week’s PS3 firmware upgrade which added Remote Play, Sony has recently updated the PSP's firmware as well, which boosts the range of inter-console connectivity to a global scale.Last week, GamePro reported on Sony's most recent PS3 update, which, in addition to upscaling old DVDs, PS1 and PS2 games to full 1080p resolution,...
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Phoenix, Arizona - They argue and snub each other, and for years, there has been no love lost between the former Los Angeles Lakers teammates Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal. But one thing is certain: When the two play together, good things happen.
The occasional friends and adversaries shared the most valuable player trophy...
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Los Angeles - At some point during the 58th NBA All-Star Game on Sunday, Kobe Bryant will have one of his current Los Angeles Lakers teammates alongside him in Spanish star Pau Gasol.
He will also have one of his former Lakers teammates alongside him in Shaquille O'Neal.
Bryant and O'Neal, the argumentative duo which led the Lakers...
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If the San Antonio Spurs are looking to get off to a fast start,
they'll have to do it without their leading scorer and Argentine
hot-shot Manu Ginobili.
The Spurs' versatile guard is expected to miss the first eight to
12 weeks of the NBA season, while recovering from arthroscopic surgery
on his left ankle, performed on September...
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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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 After speaking with Phil Jackson, Los Angeles Lakers’ coach, Kobe Bryant backed off his trade request. On Wednesday he said he would like to be transferred believing he had been misled by the club’s officials.''I don't want to go anywhere, this is my team,'' Bryant declared for KLAC radio. ''I love it here. I called Phil, man, he and I...
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 After months of hopes and a final confirmation, Dell will finally release later on Thursday the first three hardware systems that are working under Ubuntu-Linux’s umbrella.Ubuntu 7.04 (also known as Feisty Fawn) will arrived pre-installed on the XPS 410n and Dimension E520n desktops and the Inspiron E1505n notebook.According to Dell,...
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A strong earthquake, with a magnitude of 6.1 on the Richter scale, rocked Costa Rica killing at least 32 people and wounding more than 90 others, Red Cross officials said Friday.
Some of these deaths have not yet been confirmed because of the organization's inability to access certain areas, said Carlos Gutierrez, a Red Cross...
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At least five people, among them three children, were killed after an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 on the Richter Scale shook Costa Rica, local media reported Friday.
More than 300 people were injured and scores remained missing after the quake, which took place on Thursday at 1.21 pm (1921 GMT) with an epicentre about 35...
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An ATR 42-300 plane, belonging to
Santa Barbara Airlines, with 46 passengers on board is missing after it took
off Thursday, at 4:59 p. m. local time from the Venezuelan city of Merida, heading to Simon
Bolivar International
Airport, near Caracas.
According to AFP, the plane has
allegedly crashed in the Coyado del...
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 Little Emmanuel has finally been reunited with his mother, Clara Rojas, some three years after being separated from her.
Former vice presidential candidate Rojas, 44, was released by
rebels of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
last week, after almost six years in captivity.
Her son, Emmanuel, is now three...
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 The much-awaited handover of three high profile hostages by left-wing
rebels in Colombia has been postponed until Sunday at the earliest,
Venezuelan officials said.
A complicated handover process, involving multiple countries in the
region, was supposed to take place at a secret jungle location
Saturday. The release has been...
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 Three high profile hostages being held by left-wing rebels in Colombia
could be released as early as Saturday as a complicated process
involving multiple countries in the region has begun.
The expected release is the latest twist in the mediation efforts
of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has been a key figure in
trying to...
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 Tropical Storm Olga left at least 22 people dead in the Dominican
Republic and one dead in Haiti after drenching the Caribbean island of
Hispaniola and moving west toward Cuba.
Dominican authorities said Thursday that 34,480 people had to be evacuated and 7,594 homes suffered damage.
The toll could rise. Dominican Republic...
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 Venezuelan voters rejected constitutional reforms that would have
eliminated term limits for President Hugo Chavez, according to the
first preliminary official results in the early hours of Monday.
With an abstention rate of over 44 per cent and with over 88 per
cent of the ballots counted, 50.70 per cent of the voters rejected...
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 Recent events have President Hugo Chavez facing his toughest vote
to date this weekend in a referendum to scrap term limits on his rule as polls
show Venezuelans shying away from the Cuba ally's drive for socialism in the
OPEC nation.
Accustomed to easy election victories, Chavez enters the
referendum vote on Sunday with surveys...
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 An earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale struck northern Chile Wednesday, prompting panic and power cuts in the region.
There were no immediate reports of casualties, but Chilean authorities were still awaiting data from remote areas.
The US Geological Survey (USGS) in Denver, Colorado, said the
epicenter of the quake that...
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 Officials are on high alert after an unidentified object
crashed into the desolate Andean plain near the Bolivian border, on
Saturday.
According to local media reports, the object that left an 8
meters deep and 20 meters wide crater is believed to be a meteorite.
Signs of sickness have been appearing ever since the...
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 Brazilian police cracked down on drug dealers in poor neighbourhoods of Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, at least 18 being killed in the ensuing gunbattles.Brazilian authorities decided it was time to root out drug trafficking in one of the country’s largest cities, putting on an impressive display of force, as a number of 1,300 security...
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 The President of Cuba, Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, better known as Fidel Castro, appeared healthier on Sunday in the first television footage of the Cuban leader aired in Cuba in four months. His health appears to be improving after a long recovery from several operations.The new video showed Castro during a meeting on Saturday afternoon...
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 Rain poured down on Cuba
over the weekend, causing massive flooding in the eastern regions of the
country and killing two people, the media informed on Monday.
Hundreds of buildings were damaged and more than three
thousand people were evacuated from the affected areas. The search for stranded
persons continue, as two workers were...
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 The President of Cuba, Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, better known as Fidel Castro, says his health is finally improving after a long recovery from several operations. Castro released a lenghty article, the 11th written communique signed by Castro in recent weeks, mainly focused on food production.The comments about his health were part of...
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 The upcoming release candidate for Windows 7 will give users the possibility to switch off features such as Internet Explores, Media Center and Windows Media Player, the company announced Friday. The option will be available through a control panel called "Windows Features," which will allow IE 8 to be turned off. The feature...
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 Even if the Microsoft Windows 7 Beta was a solid release, testers have been barraging Microsoft with feedback on how to make it even better than it currently is. In response, the giant software company has made public some details of how the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) will probably look like. The RC is expected to arrive as early...
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 On Tuesday, Google officially announced that it would go up
against Microsoft’s policy to bundle its web-based and multimedia-focused
products in its Windows operating system. Therefore, Google joins Mozilla in
supporting the EU regulators who aim to restrict the software that the Redmond
giant will be allowed to bundle with...
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 Adobe is expected to disclose on Tuesday a security vulnerability in an older version of its Reader document viewing software, according to Core Security. The security vendor discovered a flaw in Adobe Reader 8.1.2 that would allow an attacker to compromise a machine via the malicious use of a PDF (Portable Document Format). Adobe told...
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 The next version of Microsoft Windows will nag users much less than its maligned predecessor, Windows Vista and it will be available for testing next year. Windows 7 will let users choose to see fewer alerts and warnings from their computers, and that’s because notifications and pop-up windows alerting people to potential security risks...
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 This week, developers at the Professional Developer Conference got three gifts from Microsoft. One was the Windows 7, one was the Windows Server 2008 R2 and the other one was Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4.0. Even if Visual Studio 2008 was released only a few months ago, Microsoft developers already started working on the new...
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 Microsoft’s Azure Services Platform – ASP lets customers have their data centre applications run in Microsoft data centres. The company joins Amazon and Google in offering cloud computing services and cites IDC, which says cloud computing will grow 16 percent a year through to 2012. Cloud computing helps users buy less storage, meaning...
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 Adobe Systems Inc. announced Tuesday that it had begun
shipping Creative Suite 4, its package of professional graphics and media
applications, including Flash Player 10. The launch also includes updated
versions of Photoshop, Illustration, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Fireworks,
Contribute, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Soundbooth,...
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 On Monday, President George W. Bush approved a controversial
bill that will create a “copyright czar” within the White House. The document
is called Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property
(PRO-IP) Act, one which will create new government enforcement positions. The
Senate approved the bill on September 30....
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 On April 14 at the National Association of Broadcasters 2008
show in Las Vegas, Adobe Systems came out with the idea of a new open video
format, called CinemaDNG (DNG - Digital Negative), which is supposed to improve
compatibility between RAW video files coming from different camera
manufacturers.
"The DNG format is used in...
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 Another top
executive seems to have decided to leave Microsoft. After Steve Berkowitz,
Pieter Knook and others, it is now time for Microsoft’s MSN media network’s
executive Joanne Bradford to leave the company. Microsoft announced Bradford’s departure on Thursday.
Joanne Bradford
was said to leave Microsoft for a Los
Angeles...
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 Microsoft
announced on Friday that it decided to buy the ad software maker Rapt for an
undisclosed amount of money. San Francisco-based Rapt is a company developing
yield management software programs and services for online publishers; some of
its main products are Business Advisor, Price Director and Inventory Manager
and others....
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 Microsoft’s
Windows Vista operating system seemed to have caused much trouble already, but a
federal judge decided that the software maker had to pay also for what two
customers claimed to have been a misleading marketing campaign. The federal
judge decided to expand the lawsuit filed by these two persons to potentially
include all...
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 doubleTwist Corporation, a company which was founded in March 2007 by Jon Lech Johansen and Monique Farantzos, moves even further with its efforts to liberate media for consumers, as it unveiled its initial product offerings and announced the close of its Series A venture funding from Index Ventures and Northzone Ventures.Jon Lech...
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 Recently, two versions of
RealNetwork’s RealPlayer media player were labeled as badware by StopBadware.org,
an organization that aims to discover and oppose to abusive software tools.
StopBadware.org described the two media players as badware after it noticed
that one of them was inadequately disclosing advertising behaviors, while...
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 Opera software, a small Norwegian maker of Web browsers, announced on Thursday that it had challenged the Microsoft company before the European Commission over charges that the Seattle-based software titan is abusing its position on the market by selling its Windows operating system together with its Internet Explorer (IE) browser.Only...
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 The New Zeeland police that was collaborating with FBI has inspected his house and interrogated an 18- year- old teenager who is believed to be the mastermind of the web scam that infected around 1.3 million computers all over the world.Police seized equipment from his house, but declared that he is not arrested. However, he will be...
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 On Wednesday, the users of the
popular media software RealPlayer have been warned about Symantec Corp. to be
very careful while being online because a new attack code has been discovered. The
popular company’s Symantec Security Response team has said that the RealPlayer
10.5 and the RealPlayer 11 beta software, run under Microsoft’s...
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 Petko Petkov. Once again this
developer’s name comes into the spotlight, but this time it is not related to
any Windows Media Player or Firefox bug. This time it is about Adobe’s
Acrobat/Reader, which has been reported since late September by this smart
developer of featuring quite a very risky bug in the way it handles the
Portable...
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 Adobe has recently launched the beta
version of its brand new media player that will use the same streaming technology,
as well as the same format that YouTube and other video sharing web sites feature.
Yahoo! Inc., CBS and PBS, as well as several other important Internet companies
have already pledged their support for Adobe’s new...
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 Microsoft has announced on the 4th
of September its officially releasing of Silverlight 1.0, which is a versatile
.NET development framework that offers the developers the possibility of building
web complex applications, featuring elaborate user interfaces or rich media
content, for example. Microsoft has even announced that despite...
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 Adobe Systems Inc. has just
publicly announced their launching “Moviestar”, which in fact the code name of
Adobe Flash Player 9’s latest update. “Moviestar” will include many new
features that will help Adobe Systems Inc. to maintain its leading position in
the web video market.
The fact that “Moviestar”
includes even the H.264...
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 This represents neither the
beginning, nor the end of the competition between the two giant and powerful
tech companies. Microsoft and Google are smart business competitors; they seem
to know when to join forces and when to strike one against each other using
important partnerships, emergent ideas and new services.
So, although...
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 Adobe’s offensive to take over the Web with rich content applications built on its platforms reached another stage: Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR-formerly known as Apollo) and Flex Builder are now available.Adobe Flex 3 is a cross platform, open source framework for creating rich Internet applications that run identically in all major...
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 Sony officially announced firmware update 1.80 for PlayStation 3, which will only be unleashed in Europe on May 24.Among the most important updates included in the firmware upgrade is the upscaling of old DVDs, PS1 and PS2 games to full 1080p. That means that content stored on your old DVDs, or your old PS1 and PS2 games can be converted...
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 Actress/singer Mandy Moore married indie rocker Ryan Adams. The pair, who've dated on and off for the past year, tied the knot in a small ceremony on Tuesday in Savannah, Ga, the actress-singer's publicist confirms. The twosome announced their engagement on Feb. 11 after dating on and off for more than a year. After a few months apart,...
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 Nadya Suleman, the California woman who rose to fame after giving birth to octuplets in late January, accepted a helping hand from a foster nursing charity that will provide care for her eight newborns and six older children for at least six months, television therapist Dr. Phil McGraw said on Monday.According to Dr. Phil McGraw, who...
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 Just as expected, Rihanna’s family was far from pleased to learn she got back together with Chris Brown, who allegedly beat her up and left her unconscious on February 8. Though her father publicly stated that he supported whatever decision she made, other family members think she is making the wrong decision and worry for her safety,...
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 People’s curiosity regarding the identity of the father of Nadya Suleman’s children is a fact. Apparently everybody wants to know who the lucky guy is. An ex-boyfriend of the woman who gave birth to octuplets in Los Angeles last month finally stood up and said he could be their father and that of their six siblings too. Denis Beaudoin...
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Richard Blackwell was a legend for his annual “worst-dressed” list among the Hollywood celebrities. The media reports announced his death at the age of 86 on Monday. Blackwell has been feeling ill for some time and in August he fell into a coma after he had fallen at his house in Los Angeles.He was a fashion critic, a journalist and...
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 Britney’s past year was a terrible one regarding her personal and public life. She released “Blackout” last year and won three VMA’s with her single “Piece of Me.” But that was the beginning of her healthy comeback. Before that, she had had some terrible happenings at the beginning of 2007. Britney lost her children’s custody, got...
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 Paul Newman, the famous American actor, film director and humanitarian died at the age of 83 of lung cancer. On 23 May 2008 he was scheduled to make his professional directorial stage debut with John Steinbeck’s production “Of Mice and Men” at the Westport Country Playhouse, but he gave them up citing health issues. Newman had lung...
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 “Paris, Not France” is a new documentary released about the life and business of Paris Hilton. The film debuted on Tuesday at the Toronto International Film Festival and it showed no pleasant life of being Paris Hilton and owning so much. The movie shows that it isn’t easy for Paris to be followed by paparazzi all the time and to order a...
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 Morgan Freeman will be honored at the Kennedy Center Awards together with Barbara Streisand. The gala will be held at Washington D.C. on December 7. The Kennedy Center awards each year figures from all around the world of arts for the contribution they have been bringing to the U.S. culture. The Oscar-winner actor first appeared in a...
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 A VMA presser took place on Thursday, three days before the big show. Paramount Studios hosted the first press conference of the 2008 Video Music Awards and of course Russell Brand, the host of the show, was there to take the interviews and sustain the atmosphere.Dressed in a black vest and super-tight trousers, Russell Brand welcomed...
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 U.S. comedy “30 Rock” will receive Jennifer Aniston, 39, in a guest appearance. The TV show will also have Tiny Fey and Alec Baldwin in the cast. The comedy will show behind the scenes of a TV network and the important corporation which owns it. Also David Schwimmer, who played the role of Ross Geller in “Friends,” appeared in the 30th...
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 Morgan Freeman, 71, has been seriously injured in a car crash and he was admitted in a Memphis Tennessee hospital on Monday. He was listed in serious condition at Regional Medical Center. Morgan Freeman was taken to the hospital by airplane.The accident happened on Sunday night at around 11:30 p.m., in Tallahatchie County, near...
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 Just as she was preparing for a comeback, country music star
Mindy McCready suffered a nervous breakdown and is now seeking treatment.
The troubled singer went to an emergency room in a Tennessee
hospital and then entered rehab Tuesday night.
Her rep told People magazine that McCready “did receive
emergency care at Vanderbilt...
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 A Broadway producer whose wife trashed him in a YouTube video has been granted a divorce from her. Actress Tricia Walsh-Smith, who became more famous after posting on the video sharing website monologues about her marriage, must leave within a month the Park Avenue apartment belonging to mogul Philip Smith, a judge decided on Monday. The...
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A day after Cynthia Rodriguez filed for divorce,
saying that her husband, Alex Rodriguez, was unfaithful and had emotionally abandoned
his family, the baseball player had lunch with Rabbi Michael Berg, the Kabbalah
Centre director, reports People.com.
He also met Madonna’s Kabbalah fundraiser on February
6, in New York, while his...
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 In the course of rumors of unfaithfulness and divorce,
Madonna and Guy Ritchie were present with their children at Kabbalah services
in NY City on July 5.
Stories of infidelity started last week when many celebrity
magazines and tabloids began reporting that Madonna, whose spouse is the
British film director Guy Ritchie, had...
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While the Americans have
developed a strong fixation for the beautiful Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, it appears that
the French people treat her with some kind of indifference, notes The
Associated Press.
Nice is the playground of the VIP’s, the place
where cribs constantly raise, a luxurious major tourist centre and a key...
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 As Christie Brinkley and her fourth husband,
Hamptons architect Peter Cook prepare to go to trial, tabloids continue their
competition, trying to reveal all the spicy details of Cook’s affairs with
models.
The divorce proceedings are set to begin
July 2nd in Long Island and Diana Bianchi, the
woman with whom the architect had a...
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 US Weekly magazine reported on its Web site that the New York Yankees
star player Alex Rodriguez was a midnight guest at Madonna’s apartment in New York City.
“All the doormen are talking” about the
visits, said a source, adding that the baseball player stays as late as
midnight.
As childishly simple as it may sound,...
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 Angelina Jolie had checked in at the Lenval
Santa Maria maternity clinic to be under doctor’s surveillance while she rests
before she gives birth. Media reports say the actress will likely remain in the
hospital until she gives birth.
“There’s no urgency. It’s been planned for
a long time,” Nadine Bauer, a hospital spokeswoman...
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 A young woman identified by local media as Ruslana Korshunova, a supermodel born in Kazakhstan, plunged to her death from a Manhattan apartment on Saturday in what appears to be a suicide. Ruslana Korshunova, 20, died around 2:30 p.m. after she fell from a Building on Water Street, in Manhattan’s Financial District, the local media...
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 Christie Brinkley’s ex-husband Peter Cook played
the role of perfect dad for his 10-year-old daughter Sailor Lee, who wanted a
birthday party. She got what she wanted – a perfect birthday party at his dad’s
Hamptons home Wednesday after a day spent together
at a Long Island water park.
Waiting for the beginning of the...
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 Mayor Carolyn Kirk said on Monday that
there is “absolutely no evidence” that the group of 17 young girls made a pact
to get pregnant and raise their babies together.
“Any planned blood-oath bond to become
pregnant – there is absolutely no evidence of,” Mayor Carolyn Kirk said after a
closed-door meeting with city, school and...
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 Diana Bianchi is expected to be the star witness
in Christie Brinkley’s divorce trial, set to begin July 2nd in Long Island. The former supermodel wanted her divorce to
be public and she got what she wanted. A New
York judge ruled Friday that Brinkley’s divorce
proceedings will remain open to the media. Her ex-husband Peter Cook...
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 The pregnancy pact in the seaside town of Gloucester, Mass, made by 17 teenage pupils, who decided to get pregnant and to raise their babies together, was the result of a variety of factors linked to the age of the girls. In adolescence, everyone of us has some specific needs, such as the need to be loved – many teens want unconditional...
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 Former supermodel Christie Brinkley, 54, wanted
her divorce trial, which was set for July 2nd, to be public. On the other hand,
her ex-husband Peter Cook says he wants to protect himself from the terrible
publicity of a public divorce trial.
Brinkley filled for divorce from her fourth
husband in 2006 after news of his alleged...
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 A Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner gave Britney Spears’ conservators permission on Tuesday to sell the singer’s Studio City area home, in Beverly Hills.
Spears bought her current residence in December 2007 for almost $7 million, according to the tax assessor. The Mediterranean-style villa has five bedrooms, six...
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 Oprah Winfrey managed for the second year in a row to become
the No. 1 power-player on Forbes magazine’s 2008 Celebrity list, People
reports. According to the magazine, Oprah continued to “influence audiences
around the world through her vast media empire, which earned her $275 million
during the past year.”
Meanwhile, Tiger Woods...
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 A video showing “Indiana Jones” star, Shia LaBeouf, using
anti-gay slurs during a slapping contest in order to make his friend slap him,
has come to surface via YouTube on Monday. The movie has been retracted and so
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