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 Tarceva, a new drug released by OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc. and its partners from Melville, may do miracles for the ones who have lung cancer. The doctors announced on Friday that Tarceva could really help in slowing down the process of lung cancer if it’s given after chemotherapy is over.A month ago another study on the same issue showed...
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Germany face a first stern test of their 2010 World Cup credentials when they take on Finland in a Group 4 qualifying match in Helsinki on Wednesday.
The Germans began their qualifying campaign with a comfortable 6-0 outing against Liechtenstein in Vaduz on Saturday, and coach Joachim Loew looks like keeping an unchanged side against...
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 The blood thinner heparin is one of the oldest drugs, which currently is still used in hospital surgeries and for kidney dialysis patients. It has been discovered in 1916 but didn’t enter clinical trials until 1935.A safe provide of heparin was seriously doubted last year in a disaster that shed light on important problems generated by...
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South Korea and the
six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have agreed to reach a free
trade agreement (FTA) by the end of next year, officials said
Wednesday. 'This week's meeting will be focused on laying the
foundation for an early completion of the free trade talks,' South
Korean deputy Trade Minister and chief negotiator...
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 Many game makers have been discussing for a long time to create an all-Beatles video games. But nobody knew for sure who would release the video game. The choice was between “Rock Band” of MTV Games and “Guitar Hero” of Activision. Unofficial rumors stated that “Rock Band” won the game and that they will make the big announcement...
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 It is just a matter of days until News Corp’s MySpace will
launch its new musical joint venture. In order for this to happen the largest online
social networking site is said to be partnering with three major music companies,
Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Vivendi SA's
Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group Corp. Still, the...
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 Chief Operating Officer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc,
Rick Sands, decided to resign from this company in order to find new
entertainment opportunities. The announcement of his departure was made this
Wednesday. According to the Los Angeles Times, the studio said that Sands wanted
“to pursue other opportunities in entertainment...
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Brussels - The United States will not get away with expanding "Buy American" protectionist measures as part of its economic rescue plan, European Union officials warned Thursday.
"The one thing we can be absolutely certain about is that if a bill is passed which prohibits the sale or purchase of European goods on...
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Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Thursday officially endorsed the premiership of Somchai Wongsawat, the brother-in-law of coup-ousted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
The Thai parliament voted 298 to 163 in favour of Somchai's nomination as prime minister on Wednesday but under Thailand's constitutional monarchy the...
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Pakistan's erstwhile strongman Pervez Musharraf resigned as president Monday, succumbing to pressure from the new ruling coalition to quit or face impeachment by parliament.
Born in Delhi on August 11, 1943 to educated parents, Musharraf came to Pakistan with his family after the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947.
He...
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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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Ecuador has formally notified the United
States that it must vacate a base used to combat drug trafficking when
the lease expires next year, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
Ecuadorian officials informed the US embassy of the plans, which
have long been a pledge by President Rafael Correa despite objections
from surrounding...
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 No fewer than 60 leaders from NATO states, partners and
aspirant members together with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and U.N.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will gather for a three-day meeting in the
Romanian capital Bucharest.
The summit is starting Wednesday and might decide whether it would mark a
decline or a turning point in the...
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 Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic play a mystery writer and a cop working together on cases in the new ABC show, “Castle.” The twist in this slick new lighthearted drama, which debuts Monday on ABC, is the element of mismatched partners with rancor and sparks flying between them. Sounds familiar?The pilot actually indicated towards a pretty...
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 If you enjoyed “Murder, She Wrote,” you will definitely love “Castle,” as the impulse to refer to the latter as the masculine version of the show starring Angela Lansbury is awe-inspiring, taking into account the fact that the premise on which the entire series is based depicts a well-known mystery novelist engaging himself in various...
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 It all started with a blog by someone, a
girl, named Belle. In her online diary, Bell de Jour openly spoke about her
experiences as a high-priced London
call girl. Her work and her personal life are seen as two separate roads. The
blog developed into a book, which was the source of inspiration for “Secret
Diary of a Call Girl,” an...
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 Skater Kristi Yamaguchi impressed everyone this Monday on
the “Dancing With the Stars” ballroom. She and her partner, Mark Ballas, managed
to get maximum of points from the judges with their incredible, surprising and
extremely energetic jive. This is the first time this season for a dancing
couple to nab the perfect score of 30...
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 Tuesday was the night when the first two couples were
eliminated from the “Dancing With the Stars” competition. Magician Penn
Jillette and tennis champ Monica Seles along with their partners were the first
to leave ABC’s sixth season of the show. However, this was the first-ever
double elimination.
According to The Associated...
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 William Lerach, a high-profile class action attorney, was sentenced by a federal judge in Los Angeles on Monday to two years in federal prison, two years probation and 1.000 hours of community service for legal improprieties.The former partner of the well-known New York law firm, which is now known as Milberg Weiss was fined 250.000...
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 The loss-making US automotive concern Chrysler announced Sunday at the annual Detroit motor show that it was setting itself the goal of doubling international sales in less than five years.
Speaking at the event, Chrysler head Robert Nardelli said there was still room for global growth in the car manufacturing industry.
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 Italian lyric tenor Giuseppe di Stefano passed away on
Monday at his home in Santa Maria Hoe, north of Milan, Italy.
He was 86 years old.
His wife Monika Curth reported that the grand artist died in
his sleep. He had never made a full recovery from brain wounds sustained in a
robbery that took place at the family villa in Kenya...
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 Panic! At The Disco prepare a mega-tour, headlining this
year’s eighth edition of Honda Civic Tour.
During the tour that will feature 45 North American cities,
they will also promote their latest album, “Pretty. Odd” that is scheduled to
be released in March 25, under the signature of Decaydance/Fueled by Ramen.
The tour is...
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 The 30th Dakar Rally, which was to have started Saturday in Lisbon, has
been cancelled because of security fears, the Amaury Sports
Organization (ASO) said in a statement released in the Portuguese
capital.
"Based on the current international political tension and the
murder of four French tourists last December 24 linked to...
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Battered by the crisis in developed economies, East Asian economic growth is expected to drop to 6 per cent in 2009, down from 6.9 per cent last year and 9.0 per cent in 2007, the United Nations' World Economic Situation Prospects report predicted Thursday.
In South Asia, the UN's WESP report is forecasting 6.4 per cent gross...
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Wednesday formally requested that the European Union send observers to monitor the flow of gas from Russia.
In a letter sent to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barrasco, Yushchenko suggested the EU could deploy energy technicians to Ukraine so they could independently evaluate the...
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The new Thai government will lose the goodwill of the nation if it cannot head off massive job losses next year, said Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij Tuesday.
The cabinet informally approved a spending boost of up to 180 billion baht (5.5 billion dollars) at its first meeting, one day after the commerce minister reported that...
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The new Thai government will lose the goodwill of the nation if it cannot head off massive job losses next year, said Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij Tuesday.
The cabinet informally approved a spending boost of up to 180 billion baht (5.5 billion dollars) at its first meeting, one day after the commerce minister reported that...
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India, once safely cocooned from the world economy, is struggling to maintain its rapid economic growth as a global recession spreads its tentacles.
But its carefully graded integration with the world economy may have cushioned India from the worst of the current global financial volatility, analysts and officials said.
After...
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The Democrat party secured the backing of four smaller parties Tuesday to form Thailand's next coalition government, but it remained unclear whether it was sufficient to guarantee their lead.
"We reaffirm that our four parties support the Democrats," said Sanan Kacharnprasart, the acting head of the Chart Thai party which...
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Thailand's smaller parties and one breakaway faction from the former coalition's lead party on Tuesday reaffirmed their support for the Democrats to head the next government.
"We reaffirm that our four parties support the Democrats," said Sanan Kacharnprasart, the acting head of the Chart Thai party which together with the...
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The Democrat party on Monday asked for an extraordinary session of Parliament this week to vote on the nomination of a new prime minister, expected to be their leader Abhisit Vejjajiva.
Democrat secretary-general Suthep Thaungsuban submitted the request to House Speaker Chai Chidchob, who will need a royal endorsement from Thai...
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Thailand's domestic airlines resumed flights to Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport Wednesday after anti-government protestors vacated the premises, ending a siege that has cut the capital off from commercial air traffic for a week.
Suvarnabhumi received its first arrival, a Thai Airways International (THAI) domestic...
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Hong Kong fell into a recession Friday as government figures showed a second quarter of contracted growth with the economy growing just 1.7 per cent in the year's third quarter.
The rate of gross domestic product growth in the city of 6.9 million fell from 4.2 per cent in the second quarter to 1.7 per cent in the third, according to...
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Sweden's Jonas Bjorkman marked the end of his career at age 36 as he and partner Kevin Ullyett bowed out in doubles at the Masters Cup to Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski of Poland 6-2, 1-6, 10-6 on Friday.
The round-robin loss put and end to the career of Bjorkman, winner of all four Grand Slams - with four different partners...
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A rise in mobility within South-East Asia as people search for economic opportunity has made millions of people more vulnerable to HIV infection, a joint ASEAN-UN report issued Thursday said.
A country-by-country assessment of HIV and mobility in the 10 ASEAN-member countries revealed that despite their contributions to national...
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The largest-ever gathering of Asian and European leaders opened on Friday to discuss how to respond to the global financial crisis and combat climate change.
"In the face of this global challenge, the international community should enhance policy coordination, strengthen cooperation and make a common response," Chinese...
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Next month's New Zealand general election might not be the predicted sure thing for the conservative opposition National Party, an opinion poll released Thursday night indicated.
Although the Nationals remained well ahead of the Labour Party, which has led minority coalition governments for the past nine years, the Greens, who are...
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Singapore Petroleum Company Limited and Eni International B V, equal joint venture partners in ItalSing Petroleum Company Pte Ltd, Wednesday sold a combined 55 per cent stake in ItalSing to Nippon Oil (Asia) Pte Ltd of Japan.
SPC and ENI will each continue to hold 22.5 per cent in ItalSing Petroleum, SPC said in a statement.
Nippon...
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Pakistan and Iran said Friday they would undertake bilaterally a proposed 7.5-billion-dollar cross-border gas pipeline if India delayed joining the project.
"Iran and Pakistan have expressed their desire to finalize their very important project of a pipeline and exporting gas bilaterally," Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr...
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NATO defence ministers reached a compromise Friday over controversial plans to help Afghanistan fight its thriving drugs industry, whose profits the Taliban rely on to fund their insurgency.
"Yes, there is an agreement," a NATO diplomat told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa during talks in Budapest.
Ministers overcame...
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Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) president Taro Aso became Japan's prime minister Wednesday, vowing to build a "bright and strong Japan."
"My mission is to build a bright and strong nation," Aso, 68, said at his first press conference as a prime minister Wednesday, sporting a lavender-coloured necktie with navy-blue...
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Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) president Taro Aso became Japan's prime minister Wednesday, vowing to build a "bright and strong Japan."
"My mission is to build a bright and strong nation," Aso, 68, said at his first press conference as a prime minister Wednesday, sporting a lavender-coloured necktie with navy-blue...
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South Korean medical professor Shin Young-Soo was nominated Monday to become the next regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Asia and the Pacific.
The 64-year-old Shin bested two other nominees from Tonga and Malaysia during elections at the 59th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific in...
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Taro Aso, an Olympic shooting competitor, finally hit his target on the fourth try Monday and became president of Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
The 68-year-old political veteran is expected to assume the prime ministership on Wednesday to succeed Yasuo Fukuda, but Aso's leadership may not last too long.
After...
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Somchai Wongsawat, the brother-in-law of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, on Tuesday secured the full backing of the People Power Party to become the country's next premier after a party rift failed to scuttle his nomination.
"The People Power Party has reached a consensus to nominate Somchai as the next prime...
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Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is the odds- on favourite to succeed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as leader of the ruling Kadima party, a poll released Thursday has found.
The survey, published in the Ma'ariv daily, showed 48.9 per cent of Kadima members want Livni to head the party, compared to 27.9 per cent for her main...
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The attention of the entire country rests on the sleepy-hollow constituency of Permatang Pauh, where a political battle of epic proportions will culminate next week in a by-election pitting Malaysia's ruling government against opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.
Three candidates are vying for the parliamentary seat Tuesday, but the real...
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The second-largest party in Pakistan's ruling coalition on Friday pushed forward a deadline for the reinstatement of judges sacked by former president Pervez Musharraf, as authorities set the date for the election of a new head of the state on September 6.
"Our position on the issue is that a resolution should be tabled in the...
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Former prime minister and the chief of the second-largest party in Pakistan's ruling coalition Nawaz Sharif on Friday pushed forward a deadline for the reinstatement of judges sacked by former president Pervez Musharraf to Wednesday.
The announcement, which came after three of days of reconciliatory efforts by the alliance's junior...
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The second-largest party in Pakistan's ruling coalition on Thursday reinforced its threat to quit the fractured alliance if the reinstatement of judges dismissed by former president Pervez Musharraf was further delayed.
"The future of the alliance will be in danger if the judges are not restored immediately," said Siddiqul...
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Pervez Musharraf wants to relax by writing, practicing sports and spending more time with his family after his resignation as president of Pakistan, a close aide said Wednesday.
"He wants to relax, write books, do sports and give more time to his family that has been ignored over the years when he was heading the military and...
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Pakistan's governing coalition was set Monday to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Pervez Musharraf after he defied calls overnight to resign in the face of "an unarguable trial."
The National Assembly, or lower house of parliament, convened at 5 pm (1100 GMT). It is expected see a tirade of accusations...
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Pakistan's ruling coalition Thursday evening formally announced that it had decided to impeach embattled President Pervez Musharraf, a move that could send the country into yet another political crisis.
"It has become imperative to move for impeachment under article 47 (of the constitution) against General Musharraf," said...
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Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo gave the
Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) a grade C for its
handling of Myanmar following the Cyclone Nargis disaster in May, when
the country's ruling junta resisted foreign aid, a transcript of his
remarks said on Friday. Since Myanmar is expected to top the
agenda during the...
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Communist partners of India's ruling United
Progressive Alliance Tuesday withdrew their support for the governing
coalition after failing to resolve differences over an India-US
civilian nuclear deal. The left-wing parties said they took
the decision soon after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement that
the government would...
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A New Zealand business group
warned the government Friday against signing a free trade pact with the
10-member Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) that did not
set a timetable for abolishing duties on meat and dairy products.
Graeme Harrison, chairman of the New Zealand International Business
Forum, said, 'We are...
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 Thailand's new parliament opened Tuesday with the election of Yongyudth
Tiyapatrat, who is under investigation for election fraud, as House
Speaker.
Yongyuth, former deputy leader of the People Power Party
(PPP) that won the most seats in Thailand's December 23 election, was
elected House Speaker with 307 votes in his favour and...
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 North Korea's uranium-enrichment programme is among the issues
hindering the meeting of a year-end deadline for Pyongyang to declare
its nuclear programme, South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min Soon said
Thursday.
The deadline could pass unfulfilled as problems have cropped up not
only with North Korea laying out its nuclear...
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 Ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra announced Tuesday that he
would return to Thailand, possibly within weeks, following his allies'
victory in weekend elections.
Speaking at a press conference in Hong Kong, Thaksin said he would
return to Thailand sometime between February and April, saying he
wanted to live as "a...
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 The People Power Party (PPP), whose main platform has been its support
for ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra, has emerged the winner of
weekend polls, election officials said Monday after finishing the final
vote tally in the first election held since last year's coup.
The PPP came nine seats shy of a majority in parliament,...
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 Maoist former rebels are set to rejoin the government after a
compromise agreement between the main political parties that will
abolish the monarchy and change the electoral system, official media
reported Monday.
The Maoist decision followed a 22-point agreement on Sunday night
which agreed that the interim parliament will...
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 Thailand successfully carried out a general election on Sunday,
restoring democracy to the country after last year's military coup and
possibly bringing back to power the political clique ousted by the
military, according to exit polls.
Voting at 85,000 polling stations nationwide opened at 8 am and
closed at 3 pm. Unofficial...
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Dominika Cibulkova put her brain into neutral and let her instincts take over for a nail-biting 6-7 (3-7), 6-1, 6-4 victory against Dinara Safina to give the Slovak Republic a 1-0 lead over Russia in the Friday final of the Hopman Cup.
The 19th-ranked Cibulkova notched her first ace of the evening to produce a match point, which was...
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 The Labor Party's Kevin Rudd became Australia's prime minister Saturday
after a crushing victory over John Howard's Liberal-led coalition in a
general election.
"I'll be a prime minister for all Australians," Rudd said after
gaining a thumping majority of at least 24 seats in the 150-member
Parliament.
The Labor...
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 Men shouldn’t be so pleased with their bedroom performance. If they think they bring their female partners in high spirits, they are wrong. Or at least most of them. This is what researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital said. A new study disclosed that about 4 out of 10 women confront with sexual dysfunction. However, of these...
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Sex partners can now be told by means of e-cards if they are likely to have developed a sexually transmitted disease. Launched in 2004 by the Internet Sexuality Information Services for the San Francisco Department of Public health (SFDPH), the inSPOT service has been already used by over 30,000 individuals, who have sent more than...
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"No one wants to be the bearer of bad news...but I got diagnosed with STDs (You might have one, too)," is a message that can be sent to you by e-card through the inSPOT service. Sex partners can now be informed by e-card if they are likely to have developed a sexually transmitted disease. Created in 2004 by the Internet...
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 According to “Are New Yorkers Having Safe Sex?”, a Health
Department report published on Tuesday, 40 percent of New York residents who have had multiple
partners in the past year didn’t use a condom the last time they had sexual
relationships.
Furthermore, the report demonstrates that 36 percent of New York homosexual men
who have...
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 The Health Minister of Malaysia, Datuk Dr Abdul Latiff Ahmad suggested on Saturday that women should have condoms on them to protect themselves against HIV infection, as the number of women contracting HIV in the country has risen."This is not to debase them but to protect them. Women are the first ones to get exploited by their...
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 Google began providing personal health records to the public
on Monday, after more than a year of work on the project.
By means of the site google.com/health, patients can upload
medical records from organizations, enter their own data and search for
information on their health condition.
Google's partners include Walgreen...
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 The Michigan Supreme Court decreed Wednesday, May 7, that the 2004 court decision against gay marriage obstructs governments and universities in Michigan offering health insurance to gay workers’ partners.
The 5-2 rule hinders about 20 universities, community colleges, school districts and governments in Michigan, which used to...
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 According to a United Nations report released today, the
number of people newly infected with HIV has dropped significantly in recent
years around the world, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.
Specialists hailed the drop as a possible historic shift
brought about by billions of dollars spent in programs designed to prevent...
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 VMware Inc. has kicked off today
its forth annual VMworld conference and has announced with this occasion its
ESX Server 3i, which represents a miniaturized version of the company’s popular
ESX Server hypervisor. Through this announcement, VMware Inc. has finally
confirmed the rumors of such an embeddable ESX hypervisor, which has...
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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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 Startup Tilera Corp. has revealed its 64-core CPU, named TILE64, which is made up of 64 fully fledged cores which can run individual operating systems such as Linux. The man behind Tilera is MIT professor Anant Agarwal, a longtime multicore researcher.Tilera's eventual product is not meant for desktop use, and as such is not a competitor...
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 Windows fans had some very good news coming
their way on Friday, as Bill Gates hinted about the follow-up to Vista, Windows
7. According to News.com, Bill Gates said that the new operating system could be
launched as early as next year. But for the moment, as News.com noted, is still
unclear if Gates meant a beta or a final version....
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 Ars Technica revealed that in the 158 email pages that were
released as part of the Vista Capable lawsuit, there is information which leads
to the conclusion that sometime in 2007, 30% of Vista
crashes were caused by Nvidia driver-related problems. In numbers, this would
mean that out of a total of 1,663,748 crashes logged by...
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 Yahoo revealed
on Tuesday a brand new mobile phone tool that will allow people to keep up with
topics they are interested in using dynamic bookmarks. Called OnePlace, the new service was
set to be launched in the second quarter of the year.
Thanks to this
new tool that Yahoo developed for its mobile users, people will be able to...
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 According to a report published on Thursday, it seems like Microsoft executives have put a lot of effort in order to make Windows Vista work even on their own computers after the release of the software, as e-mails have shown.The Seattle Post- Intelligencer reported that several e-mails that were unsealed and made public on Wednesday...
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 Another lawsuit for Sprint Nextel!
This time the popular American company was the one that sued four minor
companies over patent infringement claims. The wireless carrier filed the
lawsuits on Thursday and claimed that the four minor telecommunications
providers were infringing on its patents for sending phone calls over...
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 Adobe represents one of Apple
Inc.’s most important third-party business partners. This way it is obvious
that Adobe has hurried up to make its popular software tools compatible with
Apple Inc.’s highly expected Leopard operating system.
Leopard, which represents the
latest version of Apple’s popular MAC OS X operating system,...
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 Cisco Systems has unveiled
yesterday through a press event from Dublin, Ireland, its new Cisco Industry
Solutions Partner Network, which represents a platform aiming to introduce the
certified Cisco partners to an amount of pre-defined solutions combining the
Cisco technology and the applications created by Cisco’s ISV partners....
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 Vlingo Corp. is not such an old
or very popular company in the high tech industry, but its recently revealed
software could bring it a little bit of fame and glory. Vlingo has made public
its releasing the beta version of a voice-based interface for the mobile
phones. Because the voice-commanded technology hasn’t yet become very...
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 Microsoft seems to be in a hurry,
as it has already started to discuss with its select partners and customers
about a new version of Windows. The company’s latest operating system, Windows
Vista, has just been released and its first service pack is also already on the
way, but Microsoft is preparing for a new project. The internal...
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The number of Filipinos infected with HIV/AIDS has been on the rise since 2007, the Philippines' health secretary said Tuesday.
Health Secretary Francisco Duque said that in previous years there was only an average of 20 cases reported every month.
"But the average rose to 29 starting 2007," he told the start of a...
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 According to two new U.S. studies of gay and bisexual men
who know they are infected with HIV, amore than one-third have recently had
unprotected intercourse.
In many cases, these men are engaging in unprotected sex
with other HIV-infected men -- a practice called "serosorting," where
partners with a similar,...
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 Both men and women who have unprotected sex with differing partners should regularly have themselves tested for the virus that causes HIV/AIDS.
This is especially important in light of the rising number of new infections, according to a German magazine for physicians reporting on a recent HIV/AIDS conference in Frankfurt.
"In...
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 There is a birth control method that is just about as secure as the pill, does not upset the body's hormonal balance and costs nearly nothing.
It's called natural family planning or NFP for short, and couples who rely on it watch for signals from the woman's body to determine her fertile days. One of the positive side effects is that...
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 The US video- rental chain Movie Gallery, announced its plan of reorganization, as it went bankrupt about two months ago, crushed under the more powerful rivals Blockbuster and Netflix.The plan also includes a Disclosure Statement with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division, whose...
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By D.DONOVAN KINSOLVINGUPI Features Writer Today is Thursday, August 16, 2007
TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLE
Positions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (8 a.m. EDT):
Sun............... 24th degree Leo
Moon.............. 5th degree Libra
Mercury........... 24th degree Leo
Venus............. 26th degree Leo,...
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By D. DONOVAN KINSOLVINGUPI Features Writer Today is Tuesday, June 12, 2007
TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLE
Positions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (8 a.m. EDT):
Sun............... 22nd degree Gemini
Moon.............. 16th degree Taurus
Mercury........... 12th degree Cancer
Venus............. ...
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Pakistan stocks suffered the biggest setback of the year Tuesday, plunging by 4 per cent amid mounting political uncertainty deepened by the break-up of the ruling coalition, traders said.
Traders said the collapse of the alliance in the parliament and conflicting statements from other small, but key partners of the coalition raised...
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 The U.S. trade deficit dropped more than expected in April although the politically sensitive imbalance with China increased to a very high level in the last period.The weakening dollar helped trim imports and hike exports to an all-time record.The Commerce Department reported that the gap in goods and services trade narrowed 6.2...
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Johannesburg - South African President Kgalema Motlanthe warned Friday that the global financial crisis posed a serious threat to jobs in Africa's largest economy, where manufacturing and mining have shed thousands of jobs in recent months.
Delivering the president's annual State of the Nation speech at the opening of parliament in...
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Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak received Monday a cluster of European Union (EU) envoys, as diplomatic efforts got underway towards forging a ceasefire deal for the Gaza Strip.
The EU group, meeting Mubarak in the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, included French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, EU Foreign Commissioner Benita...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh Monday for talks with his Egyptian counterpart Hosny Mubarak, as part of a two-day tour to the region in the face of continuing violence in the Gaza Strip.
Talks between the two presidents were to include ways to restore peace in the Strip and mediate...
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German President Horst Koehler began winding up a six-day visit to Nigeria on Wednesday, travelling to the Muslim north for a colourful reception by the emir of the state of Kano.
Koehler, whose visit was devoted both to German-African affairs and to bilateral ties between Germany and Nigeria, was treated to a durbar, a colourful...
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A South African court Friday smoothed the path to president for ruling African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma after finding the corruption charges that have been hanging over him invalid.
Judge Chris Nicholson in the Pietermaritzburg High Court agreed with Zuma that prosecutors did not follow proper procedure last december in...
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South Africa's ruling African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma was due to hear Friday whether his attempt to have the corruption charges that threaten to mar his path to the presidency quashed has been successful.
Pietermaritzburg High Court is due to rule on an application by Zuma to have his case for alleged corruption, fraud and...
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 The newly-elected head of South Africa's ruling African National
Congress (ANC), Jacob Zuma, on Thursday sought to quell fears of
political tensions caused by the emergence of two centres of power in
South Africa and ruled out a dramatic leftward shift in economic
policy.
"There is likely to be anxiety regarding the existence...
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 Embattled South African President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday used a speech
to members of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) meeting to
elect a new leader to lash out at corruption in party ranks.
Mbeki is attempting to remain on as president of the party but is
expected to be routed by party deputy Jacob Zuma. Zuma's victory...
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 As the G8 summit is slowly coming to an end, the leaders meeting in Heiligendamm pledged to increase the aid given to underdeveloped African countries, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday.The German politician spoke in the name of the most industrialized nations, saying they are aware of their obligations, but also “have certain...
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 The LiMo Foundation seems a quite
successful idea, especially now, when its tough members have unveiled an
impressive number of even more amazing Linux-based mobile phones with the
occasion of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. On Monday, Motorola,
Samsung, NTT DoCoMO, LG Electronics, and others have all revealed Linux-based...
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 Texas Instruments announced today
that it would soon reveal a prototype mobile phone based on the Android Open
Source Platform, the highly anticipated cell phone operating system that is
being developed by Google and its partners. Texas Instruments also said that
the prototype cell phone it would demonstrate at the Mobile World...
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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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 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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One day after securing the leadership of Israel's ruling party, Tzipi Livni called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to implement his promise to resign as soon as possible, allowing her to form a new government urgently.
The Israeli foreign minister - chairing the first meeting of the centrist Kadima party since she won primaries held...
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 Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met Monday for their first talks in
seven years on the so-called core issues of the decades-old conflict.
In contrast to previous Israeli-negotiating sessions, there were no
immediate leaks from the two-hour meeting, as the chief negotiators -
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni for the Israelis and...
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 No increase in Egyptian border troops is needed amid heightened tension
with Israel over smuggling of weapons from the Egyptian Sinai into the
Gaza Strip, Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak said Wednesday.
He was speaking after talks with Egyptian President Honsy Mubarak,
his intelligence chief Omar Suleiman and Defence Minister...
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 In 2002 Saudi Arabia proposed a peace plan for the Arab-Israeli conflict and mainly for the Israeli-Palestinian feud, that would imply an independence of all Palestinian territories, but the initiative was left hanging until 2007. During the anniversary of the Six-Day War, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said his country is ready to...
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 Ashley Dupre, 23, the prostitute from the call center who cost Eliot Spitzer her governor position opened up in front of his wife and apologized. She told People magazine that the FBI announced her in March about a former client of hers who is under investigation. When she saw Spitzer at TV resigning, Dupre knew what was all about.March...
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 Rumors have been saying that David Duchovny, “X-Files” star, has been cheating on his wife, actress Tea Leoni, with his tennis instructor, Hungarian-born Edith Pakay, 28. Still, Pakay denied this entire story by telling E! News that they just played tennis as partners and friends. "There is no romance, and we are just friends. No...
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 Sarah Michelle Gellar may come back for the television audience as HBO network seems to have offered former “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” a new character to play. Since 2003 when “Buffy” ended, Sarah Michelle Gellar has only played in movies and not in TV series. But now “The Wonderful Maladys” is set to have her in its half-hour pilot.“The...
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 Now that he is on the point of defeating the horrible
illness which he has been battling for several months, actor Patrick Swayze
shows himself very enthusiast with his new project, the TV drama series “The
Beast.” It is the first time in many years that the 55-year-old Swayze takes
part of a TV show. It seems that the actor is eager...
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 Country music singer Dolly Parton was “hurt and humiliated”
by Howard Stern’s stunt on his radio show where she was made to look like a
racist. Last week, “The Howard Stern Show” manipulated recordings from one of
Parton’s audio books into seemingly racist and sexually graphic sound bites,
Reuters reports.
“I have never been...
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 It seems that the divorce between
ex-Beatles member Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills still continues, as the
former life partners failed to agree on a divorce settlement regarding the distribution
of McCartney’s fortune and the custody of their four-year old daughter,
Beatrice.
This could be the most expensive
divorce in...
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 Mr. and Mrs. Smith prolonged partnership beyond the movie
universe, becoming life partners – married with children- and now, business
partners. The two are teaming up to become producers of a new HBO series that
will focus on the works of an international aid organization.
Branagelina will be the executive producer of the...
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 After spending some quality time with her family the past week, Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie made a two-day trip to Iraq and Syria to witness first-hand the humanitarian needs there, the United Nations Refugee Agency UNHCR has announced. On Monday, the actress visited a UNHCR registration center in Damascus and spent hours talking to...
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 B-list actress Tori Spelling has reportedly been ordained as a non-denominational minister and has already started to perform weddings. Her publicist, Meghan Prophet, said that Tori conducted over the weekend a homosexual wedding at her inn, the Château La Rue, which is known from her reality show "Dean and Tori Inn Love."...
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 American actor and third-generation professional wrestler Dwayne Douglas Johnson, aka "The Rock", has split with his wife of 10 years, Dany Garcia Johnson."We've been fortunate enough to spend the last 17 years together as a couple and look forward to spending the rest our lives together as best friends and business...
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 Shortly after Facebook Connect officially launched, the feature also began to expand. The social networking site announced that this feature will also be available on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch, allowing users to connect with their friends in their favorite applications from the App Store.The system works in a manner similar to the...
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 Starting today, online ads shown across Google's network of partner websites and on its video-sharing site YouTube are based on the user's browsing history. Joining an industry trend that has raised privacy concerns, the company introduced a new program called "interest-based" advertising, hoping to make ads more relevant and...
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 Wikia has confirmed that about 30 percent of its workers have been laid off, but points out that it is still trying to hire for open positions. Co-founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, officially launched at the beginning of this year an attempt at a human-powered search engine (Wikia Search). It looks like the experimental search engine is...
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 The major record labels plan to start selling digital songs today for 10 cents each. The catch is that you can’t download them; you can only listen through your Web browser. Sony and other major record labels and thousands of independent labels plan to sell songs via the Lala website, a digital music retail store and service. This way,...
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 iGoogle, Google’s personalized home page, was updated on
Thursday. The homepage lets users customize it with gadgets and that puts you
in a position from where you can access various web services from a single page.
Widgets on the page can support a new “canvas view”, which expands the widget
to the full iGoogle window. There are...
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 On Wednesday, CBS Corp announced that it had reached a deal with Yahoo Inc., according to which its web videos will be carried by the latter. This means that Yahoo would be part of the CBS Audience Network and would join a rather special group that brings together some of the biggest names out there, including Google Inc's YouTube,...
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 At a search advertising conference in Seattle, Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft's platforms and services division, stated that, in order to gain in on Google, considerable effort is being put by the company’s marketing team into "fixing Microsoft's search image." This comes after Microsoft’s decision at the beginning of...
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 Adobe released on Wednesday its new Media Player along with downloadable and streamable content and instructional videos. The software rivals Microsoft's Windows Media Player, Apple's QuickTime and RealNetworks' RealPlayer. The video content that is offered by Adobe includes episodes of CSI: Miami and CSI: New York and music videos....
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 Yahoo announced recently that it
was ending its built-in music service, which would be next handled by Rhapsody America, the
on-demand subscription music service run by Viacom and RealNetworks. This move
comes as part of the company’s overhaul of its online music offerings.
Yahoo previously announced that
it would replace its...
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 The youth social network web site Bebo has signed up to Google’s OpenSocial widget platform, launching Open Media, a system that allows content owners to post videos from their own shows by using their own players and advertising.Bebo is trying to keep up with market leaders such as MySpace and Facebook Inc., as it wants to add popular...
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 A security researcher has
recently reported that the ongoing attacks using malicious PDF files are caused
by one of the most notorious Russian hacker groups, called the Russian Business
Network of RBN.
So, according to Ken Dunham,
iSight Partners Inc.’s director of response, it is the Russian Business Network’s
members that are...
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 It seems that the battle between
Apple Inc. and Universal Music has not ended when Universal decided to end its
collaboration with Apple. Now, Universal Music will hit Apple with its own
weapon: an online music store! Or at least it will try…
Universal Music Group has
recently announced that it is to launch a new music...
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 Former long time partners NBC
Universal and Apple have started for some time a public war that makes
everybody curious about what will happen next. However, the most recent hit
that has reminded us of the two battling companies has taken place on Thursday,
when some source from “The New York Times” has
happened to speak about NBC...
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 Bebo Inc. launched its social
networking web site less than 2 years ago and it has become very popular in a
short time period. Bebo even appears to be the third top social networking web
site. But, more than that, the fact that starting with this fall Bebo Inc. will
feature also an instant-messaging application powered by Microsoft...
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 So where is the love,
meaning that traditional relationship
between two partners involving flowers, a chocolate box for time to time, good
night kisses and long walks in the sunset’s obscure light? Well, it seems that
this “kind” of love doesn’t exist anymore. Man has managed to conquer time and
space via the interrelated network...
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 Following recent speculations in Financial Times and a report from Reuters, Google officials decided it’s better to shed light on what they’re doing to better protect the intellectual property of media partners.Being the fourth most visited site in the world, Google-owned YouTube has faced many hurdles in the recent period from media...
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 EMI, which first signed a historical agreement with Apple to provide DRM-free music on iTunes in April, has announced that video clips from famous artists enlisted at the British record company will be available for integration in YouTube users’ videos.EMI, which is based in London and is considered the third largest record company in...
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Former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was appointed to the board of Russian-British joint oil venture TNK-BP as one of three independent directors named to help ease shareholder tensions, BP said in a statement Thursday.
Alongside Schroeder, the chairman designate of mining giant Rio Tinto James Lang and president of the Russian...
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Serbia plans to raise the question of the responsibility both of Ukraine and Russia for the crippling gas crisis, the head of national supplier Srbijagas, Dusan Bajatovic, said Thursday.
"We will ask for explanations from the Russian Jugorosgas and Gazprom, as well as the Ukrainian Naftogaz and if we find any of them...
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European Union countries could do more to pressure Ukraine about the renewal of gas transits to freezing Europe, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir said Wednesday.
Putin made the comments ahead of talks in Moscow with leaders of the Balkan nations, which are suffering most severely from the conflict between Russia and Ukraine about...
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The European Union raised the stakes with Ukraine and Russia on Wednesday by threatening to ditch them as gas suppliers and to promote court action against them unless shipments to Europe are immediately restored.
"Russia and Ukraine are showing they are incapable of delivering on their commitments to some European member...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said a new stimulus package approved by her cabinet on Wednesday was the best response to deal with the recession gripping Europe's biggest economy.
The 50-billion-euro (66-billion-dollar) rescue plan includes 18 billion euros in public investment, income tax cuts, increased family benefits and...
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The European Union on Thursday decided to send experts to Ukraine to provide independent information on the flow of Russian natural gas supplies to Europe as top officials from Kiev and Moscow arrived in Brussels to lobby for EU support in their gas row.
The EU is "establishing a team which will travel to Ukraine and Russia to...
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Amid a dispute over tax cuts, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition prepared the groundwork Monday for a new economic stimulus package designed to protect Germany from recession.
A key element of the talks between Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and her Social Democrat (SPD) partners was how to secure jobs...
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Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition met Monday to discuss a new economic stimulus package designed to protect Germany from recession amid a rift over tax cuts.
The talks between Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and her Social Democrat (SPD) partners are expected to lay to groundwork for a decision on new fiscal...
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Talks between the European Union and Latvia on providing financial aid to the Baltic country have reached the final stretch, with a decision expected in the coming hours, EU Monetary Affairs Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said Thursday.
"We are pursuing ways in which we can contribute to financing the (aid) package with the...
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged rich and poor nations Thursday to agree on new steps to fight global warming, telling a 189-nation conference that Europe and the United States must take the lead in avoiding a climate "catastrophe."
Ban warned against "backsliding" on clean-air targets just as EU leaders in...
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NATO could discuss with Russia a future security structure for Europe, but President Dmitry Medvedev must first clarify his plans - and NATO is in any case not going to dissolve itself, the head of the transatlantic alliance said Wednesday.
"If the Russian president ... has proposals to make, and these should be a little bit more...
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NATO is willing to discuss how to respond to new security threats with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), of which Russia and the United States are both members, the trans-Atlantic alliance said Wednesday.
However, Russia should refrain from issuing "confrontational statements" and stop being a...
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Germany and Kuwait pledged Friday to step up efforts to strengthen their economic ties in the face of the world financial crisis that threatens to push the global economy into a sharp and protracted downturn.
German Minister for the Economy Michael Glos and Kuwait Economics Minister Al-Abdullah met in Berlin to consider moves for...
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One of Germany's two main electricity companies, RWE, said it signed up Thursday for a project to build two nuclear power reactors in Romania.
RWE is legally required to shut down its nuclear plants inside Germany over the next 15 years as Germany abandons atomic power, but the company has been advocating a return to nuclear...
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German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is to pay a three-day visit to India starting Wednesday, his spokesman said Monday.
The crisis on the world's financial markets and the future international role played by India and other emerging economies will be the main focus of his talks, the spokesman said.
Steinmeier, who will...
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An organization representing 900 Swiss companies has signed an agreement to crack down on commercial child sex tourism, an official with the Swiss Federation of Travel Agencies said Monday.
"We want our members to inform their clients and partners in different countries about the protection of children there," Sandra...
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European Union countries must improve their energy efficiency and stop using the financial crisis as an excuse not to reduce pollution, the bloc's top officials said Thursday.
"The financial crisis has not diminished the risks to our planet deriving from climate change," European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso...
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The four parties that will form the next Lithuanian coalition government launched talks in the capital, Vilnius, Tuesday aimed at drawing up a program for their four-year term.
Nine days after their first informal get-together on election night, the four leaders are believed to be formalising their alliance by means of two documents:...
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Texan space tourist Richard Gariott said Monday the Russian space agency and NASA should give business entrepreneurs wider access to the International Space Station (ISS).
Silicon Valley millionaire Garriott, who made his fortune designing fantasy computer games, said he fit the profile as he spoke with journalists three days after...
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Wednesday joined French President Nicolas Sarkozy in calling for "a new Bretton Woods" to better regulate global financial markets and avoid future credit crunches.
"We urgently need what you might call the 'new Bretton Woods', so that we can restore confidence in the system while...
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Turkmenistan's South Yolotan-Osman gas fields have been found among the five largest reserves in the world in an audit by British Gaffney, Cline & Associates (GCA), Russian business daily Kommersant reported on Wednesday.
"The company's audit has confirmed statements made by Turkmen officials that had been initially met with...
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The ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party (SRS), which won most votes in past three parliamentary polls but never returned to power since falling with Slobodan Milosevic, finally fell apart on Friday.
Acting chief of SRS over the past five years, Tomislav Nikolic, and its secretary general, Aleksandar Vucic, completed their...
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Legislators in the north-eastern German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on Monday elected Erwin Sellering as the state's new premier.
Sellering, previously minister for justice and social affairs, replaced Harald Ringstorff, who announced in August that he was stepping down at the age of 68 after 10 years in...
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The European Union is India's most important trading partner, while India is the ninth most important partner for Europe, figures from the EU's executive show.
According to European Commission figures, in 2007, India bought 1.8 per cent of the goods the EU exported, and was the source of 2.4 per cent of its imports, for a total trade...
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Prime Minister Janez Jansa may seek a recount after Slovenia's centre-left opposition took a one-seat lead in parliamentary elections, media reports said Monday.
Social Democrats won the most votes in Sunday's voting and, while absentee ballots were still being counted, seemed poised to take power in the European Union nation of 2...
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Slovenians voted in parliamentary elections Sunday with centre-right Prime Minister Janez Jansa seeking a new four-year term after facing down corruption allegations.
Polls showed the race between Jansa's Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) and the opposition Social Democrats (SD) too close to call. Both sides were polling 25-30 per cent...
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Italy's near-bankrupt flagship carrier, Alitalia, is to continue with regular scheduled flights, at least until Monday September 22, according to the airline's government-appointed commissioner.
"Much depends on what will happen in the next few days," Commissioner Augusto Fantozzi said in the aftermath Thursday of the...
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told investors at a forum in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi on Friday that Russia would not play politics with its market and remained open to foreigners despite acrimony over its war with Georgia.
"Our ideology and politics remain the same," Putin told executives....
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Another close ally of the late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic was politically resurrected with the appointment of Gorica Gajevic, a former Socialist Party (SPS) secretary general, to the post of a regional public attorney, newspapers said Thursday.
Gajevic, one of the most powerful SPS officials in the Milosevic era, was...
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After 22 hours of negotiations, the Irish government said Wednesday it had managed to agree a 6-per-cent pay increase with workers for the next 21 months.
The deal would be paid in two phases following an initial pay freeze, a statement from Prime Minister Brian Cowen's office said.
Private-sector workers would receive a...
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The planned opening of a museum dedicated to former Swedish group ABBA next year has been cancelled, organizers said Friday, citing difficulties with the renovation of a 100-year-old former customs building housing it.
"It's better to make this decision at an early stage, even though it's a sad message," museum co-founder...
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India said Thursday it was taking steps to initiate nuclear commercial cooperation with foreign partners like Russia and France after the Nuclear Suppliers Group's waiver, but would first sign bilateral pacts similar to that with the US.
The Nuclear Power Cooperation of India has also begun preliminary discussions with US companies,...
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Declining demand in its European neighbours put a dent in German exports in July, while imports rose strongly, according to official figures from the federal statistics office on Tuesday.
Exports fell 1.7 per cent from the June level, on a seasonally adjusted basis, with analysts blaming the strength of the euro and high oil prices,...
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The Czech power giant CEZ is to build two wind- powered electricity generating farms in Romania with a combined capacity of 600 megawatts, the company said on Wednesday.
The state-controlled energy firm said that it bought assets a day earlier to build the Fantanele and Cogealac farms from the wind power developer Continental Wind...
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President Boris Tadic's Democratic Party (DS) and their Socialist Party (SPS) partners in Serbia's ruling coalition on Tuesday tied up loose ends left dangling three months after elections by finally appointing a mayor for Belgrade.
After months of wrangling - and a major change of heart by the SPS - 58 of 110 representatives in the...
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President Boris Tadic's Democrats and their Socialist partners in Serbia's ruling coalition were due Tuesday to tie up loose ends still dangling three months after elections by appointing the Belgrade mayor.
Former foes, the Democratic Party (DS) and the late strongman Slobodan Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) in June...
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Germany's central bank ruled out a dramatic slump in Europe's biggest economy in its monthly report released Monday but warned inflationary expectations were becoming entrenched.
Despite fears that Germany could be edging towards a sharp downturn, the Bundesbank's August bulletin did not see the nation's economy spiralling down in the...
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A Spanish court was Wednesday questioning a 44- year-old man suspected of very seriously injuring a university professor who tried to prevent him from beating up his girlfriend in a case of domestic violence that has shocked the country.
Professor Jesus Neira has been at hospital in critical condition since the events on August 2 in...
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A majority of Danish voters oppose abolishing the country's opt-out on justice and home affairs from the European Union, according to a poll published Tuesday.
Denmark joined the bloc in 1973, but obtained opt-outs that include security and defence policy, justice and home affairs and the euro after voters initially rejected the...
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Werner Faymann, expected to be chosen as Austrian Social Democratic leader later Friday, said he is focussing on social issues to win voters and alienated party members.
At his party's convention in Linz, Transport Minister Faymann sought to sharpen his social policy profile by announcing tax cuts in 2009 and by seeking support from...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed concern Friday about the escalating violence in the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia.
Merkel called on the parties to the conflict to exercise calm and end immediately the violence, a German government spokesman said.
The Chancellor, who at present is on vacation, is being kept...
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A rise in German production and exports, reported in data Thursday has helped to raise hopes that Europe's biggest economy might be able to avoid a sharp slump this year.
While production posted a modest rise in June, Germany's key exports rebounded in June to report a bigger-than-forecast 4.2-per-cent increase despite the growing...
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US presidential candidate Barack Obama Sunday
made his first appearance back on US soil meeting a convention of
minority journalists in Chicago where he emphasized multinational
cooperation for future US foreign policy. After Obama's
return from Europe and the Middle East he faced sharp criticism from
the opposing camp for not...
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 The United States,
Britain, Germany and France
mentioned they were “highly concerned” about Russia’s moves, BBC News reports. Russian
President Vladimir Putin ordered last week to
forge closer links with Abkhazia and South Ossetia angered Tbilisi.
According to Russia’s
Ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, called the request...
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 In an
interview given on Tuesday for “L’Express” magazine, Mrs. Bruni-Sarkozy, as she
was named in the newspaper, confesses her feelings for the president of France. The
couple was married on Feb. 2, in a secret ceremony, that took place at the
presidential Elysée
Palace.
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first marriage for...
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 Russia announced putative measures against Britain's cultural offices
on Monday as they came back to work from holiday break, defying Russian
orders to shut down.
The Russian Foreign Ministry called Britain's move a "deliberate
provocation," in spiralling bilateral relations since the 2006
poisoning in London of former...
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 Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica wants his country's accession
to the European Union blocked unless Brussels changes its Kosovo
policy, he said in a statement released Saturday.
Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and its coalition
partners said Belgrade should not sign the Stabilization and
Association Agreement...
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 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov slammed Britain Friday for
knowingly "violating international law," as Russia ordered British
Council offices across Russia to close.
Anglo-Russian relations have sunk to Cold War lows after Moscow
refused to extradite an ex-KGB bodyguard suspected of murdering Kremlin
critic...
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 Russia on Wednesday suspended participation in a key Cold War treaty
limiting armed forces in Europe amid mounting East-West security
tensions.
Russia has suspended all activities towards observing the treaty on
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) since midnight on December
12, The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a...
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 The deadline for all talks on the future status of Kosovo has expired,
and majority Albanian leaders said Monday they plan to launch talks
leading to the province's independence and international recognition
"very, very soon."
"December 10 marks the end of all negotiations for the status of
Kosovo ... (and it)...
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Former BSU player Kerry Thomas faces new charges for knowingly spreading the HIV virus. According to media reports, an Ada County, Idaho, grand jury on Tuesday returned an indictment charging Kerry Thomas with seven counts of knowingly transferring the HIV virus.These charges carry a maximum sentence of 15 years and a $50,000 fine....
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Dow Chemical Co, the largest US chemical maker, said Tuesday it plans to seek more than 2.5 billion dollars in damages from Kuwait for cancelling a joint venture just days before its launch.
A 17.4-billion-dollar deal between Kuwait's state-run Petrochemical Industries Co (PIC) and Dow fell through on December 28. The joint venture...
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 People Infected with HIV in New York City are about three times more than in any other part of the nation. The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene released an estimated statistic on Wednesday through which they revealed that 72 of every 100,000 New Yorkers contracted HIV in 2006.The national rate is only 23 per 100,000...
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 Governor David A. Paterson, who pleads for marriage between
same-sex partners, attended on Sunday the 39th annual pride parade, in spite of
the fact that he had received medical orders to stay at home, after undertaking
eye surgery.
A drag queen, cheerfully and colorfully dressed, announced
the most important people that were...
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An Atlanta
police officer was convicted after lying in order to cover up the shooting
death of a 92-year-old woman during a drug raid. It appears that the jury
deliberated for four days before finding Arthur Tesler, 40, guilty of making
false statements.
Tesler was acquitted of violating his oath of office and imprisonment...
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 A ruling on whether California
should legalize same-sex marriage is due on Thursday from the state’s supreme
court, CNN reports. If the court rules in favor of the gay marriage, California could become the second state after Massachusetts where gay
and lesbian residents can wed.
“What happens in California,
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US President George W Bush met with Russian President
Vladimir Putin in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi,
where they have signed a framework agreement. It was the first time when the
two leaders with different opinions and perspectives decided to sit at the same
table and talk.
“We agreed today that the United States and...
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 Space shuttle Endeavor and its seven-man crew took off to Earth’s orbit on Tuesday beginning the longest space station mission in history. The “space odyssey” on which the crew of seven embarked today will take 16 days. During that period, the Endeavor will build a gangly robot and add a new room that will serve as a closet for a future...
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 President George W Bush has approved the deployment of 3,200 Marines to
Afghanistan to meet a shortfall that US officials say was caused by the
reluctance of NATO allies to send more troops to the war-torn country.
Bush approved the recommendation by Defence Secretary Robert Gates,
the Pentagon said Tuesday. Gates has been mulling...
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 An oil barge with a double hull escorted by two tug boats
crashed Thursday night into the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. No oil was spilled,
but the barge carried more than 2 million gallons of oil, and if it had
spilled, the accident could have dwarfed the Cosco Busan spill of two months
ago.
Authorities plan to move the...
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 A former New York City police chief and partner of US presidential
candidate Rudolph Giuliani was indicted Friday with mail and wire
fraud, tax fraud and making false statements on a bank application. He
was ordered to surrender to police.
Bernard Kerik was police chief under former mayor Giuliani, who won
admiration for leading...
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 As expected, the speech gave by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Thursday triggered a wave of controversies and criticism throughout the world, the first to take a stand being US President George W Bush.Bush declared his country will urge the United Nations Security Council to pass out tougher penalties against Iran following its...
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 The battle for a contract to ship cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) after 2011 has a new competitor: Boeing. The company, which is seeking to expand its role in future U.S. manned space missions, is joining a team that already includes Lockheed Martin and Alliant Techsystems. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
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 India’s first mission to the Moon blasted off with success today. The probe Chandrayaan-1 launched this morning from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, the Indian Space Research Organization reports. The mission, carrying a multinational array of kit, was carried aloft atop a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle at 00:52 GMT (06:22 Indian Standard...
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 NASA is getting ready to launch its $690 million worth Gamma-Ray
Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST). The machine is to detect gamma rays, which
represent the most powerful form of light.
If no meteorological phenomena are to interfere, the GLAST
is scheduled to be launched sometime between 11:45 am and 1:40 pm EDT or...
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 Another case of reproduction without sex amazes the scientific world: a hammerhead female shark from Henry Doorly Zoo in Nebraska is the first recorded case of parthenogenesis in cartilage fish.The case can be considered quite old, since the female gave birth in 2001, but it was only this year that modern DNA tests proved without a doubt...
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 There comes a time in every parent’s life when they must let their children go. For Bill Gates, that moment is one week away. He announced his official Microsoft retirement for the 1st of July, saying he will direct his undivided attention towards the $37 billion charity Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates will leave his current...
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 The US defense communications and information technology company Harris Corporation finally responded to rumors and speculation about a possible merger or sale, issuing a statement on Monday, which categorically denied that the company is planning to do so.Even if Harris was approached of several companies regarding an interest in a...
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 On Saturday, Microsoft has decided to take back its offer to acquire Yahoo for $42.3 billion. After three months of continuous negotiations, the two companies could not reach an agreement, although unofficial sources said that they came close to it at the end of this week. It all started on February 1st when Microsoft made a proposal to...
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 Siemens AG announced on Wednesday that its second quarter net profit has declined by 67 percent due to project delays and cancellations in several divisions.The German industrial conglomerate said that it generated around 412 million euros (641.5 million dollars) between January and March, while in the same quarter a year before it was...
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 AT&T Inc. and Starbucks will begin offering a combination of free and pain wireless Internet service at over 7.000 of the coffee retailer’s locations all over the United States beginning this spring.The two companies announced the collaboration on Monday, marking the end of Starbucks six- year partnership with T-Mobile and AT&T’s...
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 The US power company Calpine Corporation announced on Thursday that it has managed to emerge from Chapter 11, following about two years under bankruptcy protection.This conclusion was reached after Calpine succeeded in meeting several statutory requirements, such as successfully closing its 7.3 billion dollars exit financing facility,...
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 Microsoft Corporation reported its figures for the second quarter, showing a record growth of 30 percent, 87 percent and 92 percent for revenue, operating income and diluted earnings per share, respectively, in comparison to a year before.As its revenue reached 16.37 billion, it has exceeded Microsoft’s previous record by around 2...
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 Irish aircraft leasing company AWAS announced on Wednesday that it will buy 75 A320-family aircraft from the European manufacturer Airbus and that it might extend its order with 25 more units in a purchase worth 6.9 billion dollars, according to the list price.The new deal, which was signed on December 22, will bring the number of the...
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 EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, said that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the publicly held Document Sciences Corporation in a cash transaction that was estimated to value 85 million dollars.The board of directors of Document Sciences Corporation approved the transaction, as the...
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 Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, announced on Wednesday that its tender offer in order to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of its Japanese subsidiary, The Seiyu, Ltd., resulted in 411.884.160 ordinary shares being tendered.After the acquisition, Wal-Mart owns 95.1 percent of Seiyu, which is the leading...
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 A group of investors that are led by the United States Universal Studios has announced on Tuesday a plan of opening a theme park in South Korea, which costs 2.9 trillion won (3.1 billion dollars).The site of the resort will be the city of Hwaseong, which is 25 miles south of Seoul, being scheduled to open in 2012. It would include a golf...
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 Rhapsody, the digital music
service, and TiVo, the digital video recorder pioneer, have announced on
Tuesday, the 9th of October 2007, that they have become partners.
Thanks to this deal, the people that are using the TiVo video recorders will
become able to access through their smart devices the Rhapsody music service.
The TiVo...
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 Gazprom has found an amiable method of settling the
differences between Ukraine
and Moscow, in regards to the $2bn
debt Moscow says it is owed for
natural gas shipments to Kiev.
The agreement, signed during a trip to Russia’s capital by
Viktor Yanukovich, Ukraine’s outgoing, d Moscow-friendly, Prime Minister, aimed
to avoid a...
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 In an attempt to shake off the recent declines in regular
land-line revenue, AT&T Inc., the largest U.S.
phone company, agreed to buy airwaves from Aloha Partners LP for $2.5 billion
to add capacity for wireless video and text messaging
With a total potential of over 195 million customers and
airwaves covering Rhode...
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 Ford has started to take bids for two companies in its Premier Automotive Group: Jaguar and Land Rover. However, sources in the industry have told the press that the U.S. car giant will not accept bids from private equity firms which would try to subsequently dismantle or otherwise heavily restructure the two companies."Ford wants...
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 The dual management of European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) represented a longstanding problem for Germany and France, but it seems this issue has been solved on Monday after the appointment of Louis Gallois as sole CEO of Airbus’ parent company.EADS announced that Frenchman Gallois will lead the company, while its...
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 Canadian telecommunications company Bell Canada Enterprises, formally BCE Inc., has agreed to be acquired by the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan-led group for a staggering US$48.5 billion. This sum makes it the largest-ever buyout in Canada and the largest-ever telecom transaction.Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan already is the most...
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 Leading retailer of home improvement and construction products Home Depot Inc is reportedly in talks to sell its contractor-supplies unit, HD Supply, to rival private-equity groups for around $10 billion. The unit had sales of $12.1 billion last year.The company dodged any questions: "We're sticking to what we said from the...
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 A US grand jury has charged four current and former tax partners of the giant accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP, the second-largest U.S., with tax fraud conspiracy.The four partners are Robert Coplan, 54, of Plano, Texas; Martin Nissenbaum, 51, of Brooklyn, New York; Richard Shapiro, 58, of Rye Brook, New York; and Brian Vaughn, 39,...
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 Alltel Corp., the nation's largest U.S. cell-phone provider (by geographic area), said Sunday it has agreed to be sold to a consortium of private equity firms for $27.5 billion. The private taking of Alltel by investment firms TPG Capital and GS Capital Partners is the largest yet in the U.S. telecommunications industry.According to the...
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 The upcoming launch of the most craved FPS game for PC is keeping those guys at Crytek busy, but not enough to stop them from working with other studios and publishers in the CryENGINE 2 licensing business.So is the case with the newly formed independent development studio Paleo Entertainment, based in San Diego, California. Paleo is...
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 In an attempt to clean out Xbox Live from hackers and cheaters, Microsoft recently announced that owners of modded Xbox consoles will have their account blocked because they violate the Terms of Use.In a press release posted on Gamerscore.com, Microsoft explains the move: “One of the great things about LIVE and the unified community is...
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 After Sex and the City the movie hit theatres this year, its producers plan a new sequel. It seems that the fans were really disappointed about having to give up their stories and the fabulous lives of Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte. But this is a good thing for them, as the story really goes on.During a British talk show hosted...
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 Actress Moon Bloodgood is reportedly in final talks for a
female lead in McG’s “Terminator Salvation: The Future begins.” After signing
the contract, she will play the role of a veteran member of John Conner’s
resistance. Her partners in the movie will be Christian Bale, Sam Worthington
and Anton Yelchin, according to The Hollywood...
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 Once again, comic book heroes make the transition to big screen heroes, this time as Frank Miller sets out to direct “The Spirit.”According to Variety, Lionsgate will distribute the forthcoming movie, whose script has already been penned by Frank Miller (surely you know his name as the co-director of “Sin City”...
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 The AIDS epidemic goes on because the Americans seemed to have ignored the piece of advice given by the U.S. health officials to get the HIV testing if they were aged between 13 and 64 years. These testing remain in the shadow for most of the people. And this happens despite the new guidelines and the better testing methods.These results...
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 According to a recent research, swollen
veins appeared on men’s scrotum, known as varicoceles – a common cause of
infertility in men – can be treated with a minimally invasive procedure called
retrograde venous embolization. The procedure improves semen quality, as well
as sperm count and motility.
The study conducted by Dr....
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 In a dieting experiment, overweight people lost about 6 to 10 pounds over two years, informs the New York Times.The study was published yesterday in The New England Journal of Medicine and its target was to establish which of three types of diet plans is better. But the findings outlined how difficult losing weight is and that the...
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 Diabetes, overweight and underweight people are perilous to their sperm production, showed two reports presented Wednesday at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction & Embryology, in Barcelona, Spain. Scientists from University of Aberdeen, Scotland, analyzed the sperm of more than 5000 men in couples...
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 Men over 40 are almost a third less likely
to conceive with their partner compared to those under 35, a team of French
researchers found.
The study, based on over 12,000 couples
having fertility treatment at the Eylau Centre for Assisted Reproduction in
Paris between January 2002 and December 2006, found that the...
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 Just one day before National HIV Testing Day (set
on 27 June), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reached
the conclusion that the rate of HIV infection is progressively rising among
“men who have sex with men” (also called MSM). Public health specialists agreed
to use this term (men who have sex with men) due to...
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a
report which shows that risky behavior among teenagers continues to dwindle. It
seems that fewer adolescents drank, smoked or had sex in 2007 than their peers
did in 1991.
The findings point out that hispanic high school students
are more likely to engage in risky health...
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 Unfortunately, the enthusiasm and
the great expectations of the researchers over the anti-HIV gel results have
abruptly come to an end, when the gel designed to protect women from AIDS virus
did not prevent the infection, researchers say.
A first cause could be the low
use of the gel, researchers believe, as the gel should...
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 According to a new U.S. study, teens who start having sex at an early age may be less likely to engage in delinquent behavior in early adulthood than teens who wait until they're older to have sex.The findings contradict the widely held belief that early sexual activity is associated with later drug use, criminality, antisocial behavior,...
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 Researchers have found that oral sex with multiple partners increases the risk of contracting the human papillomavirus, which in turn increases the risk of developing throat cancer.
The risk is present for both men and women. The study is published in the May 10 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. The researchers, from John...
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 Ottawa Senators are facing Buffalo Sabres in the Eastern Conference final, which begins in Buffalo tonight.On Feb. 22, after Chris Neil knocked out and bloodied Chris Drury with an open-ice hit, Murray and Ruff created a scene hard to forget shouting at each other over the unfortunate incident.Chris Drury declared on Wednesday that the...
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 Cisco is expected to unveil today the concept that it has been developing for the past 2 years in the greatest secrecy: a blade server that is part of its strategy for transforming the data center. The official announcement is expected later today, during a webcast presentation.The new blade-server will put Cisco in an unusual...
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 On Tuesday, an agreement was signed between Sony and the six largest U.S. cable companies, that will eventually lead to the development of a TV capable of receiving cable services in the absence of a set-top box.Sony’s LCD set will work on the Tru2way cable platform that Comcast introduced in January. Through Tru2way, cable service...
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 Sezmi Corp has announced its plans to introduce a way cheaper alternative to typical cable and satellite services. According to Buno Pati, Sezmi co-founder and CEO, the customers who will go for the new technology will have their bills reduced to half of what they are currently paying.The system can be quite easily installed, as all it...
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 The world’s
biggest mobile phone maker, Nokia, announced recently that it had partnered
with the University
of Cambridge in order to develop
Morph, a brand new cell phone based on a highly innovative nanotechnology
concept. The new tech idea demonstrates how future cell phones could be
flexible enough to transform into different...
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 The SCO Group Inc. announced on Thursday that it would receive a 100 million dollars injection from Stephen Norris Capital Partners (SNCP) and its partners from the Middle East, which is aimed to help SCO follow its salvation plan of emerging from Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the coming year."Not only will this...
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 AT&T Inc. has announced on Tuesday that it is to buy
from Aloha Partners LP 12 MHz of the high-speed wireless bandwidth. The company
will pay no less than $2.5 billion in this deal.
Aloha Partners LP has purchased
the spectrum in the auctions that had been held by the United States’ Federal
Communications Commission in 2001...
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 The famous Finnish mobile device
manufacturer Nokia and Microsoft have announced they have become partners.
Through the new deal Microsoft will start to provide Nokia devices’ users with
a new suite of Windows Live services. The American company has designed the
suit specifically for the Finnish-branded devices.
So, starting with...
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 Two important tech companies have
just partnered for a joint project in the magnetic memory field. IBM and the
Japanese company TDK have announced yesterday their having become partners for
a new research and development program that aims to build a high-capacity MRAM
chip.
This new chip could someday
result in devices being...
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 Warner Music Group Corp. had been
so angry against the web site Imeem that the company asked the social
networking web site for a date in front of the judge. And they seemed to like
each other a lot, that Warner Music dropped the copyright infringement lawsuit
and proposed Imeem to become its partner. Imeem accepted, and now Warner...
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 ComCast and Zimbra, an open-source company from San Mateo, California, have joined forces bring Zimbra’s next-generation collaboration and messaging software to ComCast customers.[more]Zimbra, which is backed by venture capital firms like Benchmark Partners and Redpoint Ventures, both of Menlo Park, CA, and Accel Capital of Palo Alto,...
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 Joost, the disruptive Internet video start-up of veterans Niklas Zelstromm and Ianus Friis (the guys behind Skype and Kazaa), announced content deals with new media giants.Among them are CBS, Sony Pictures and Turner Broadcasting and Heavy.com is also expected reach an agreement later on Monday with Joost.After signing distribution...
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