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Motorsport's ruling body announced a raft of new measures Friday to help cut the cost of competing in Formula One.
The FIA reached the deal with F1 teams during crisis talks with F1 teams in Monaco Wednesday in the wake of Honda's shock withdrawal from the sport last Friday.
Under the deal, engine life will be doubled with each...
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Under-23 players must be
released for the Beijing Olympics, world football supremo Joseph
Blatter said in a statement issued on Wednesday.
'The release of players below the age of 23 has always been
mandatory for all clubs. The same principle shall apply for Beijing
2008,' the FIFA boss Blatter said in a statement.
The statement...
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 The Goshen Scout Reservation has been closed until further notice after more than a dozen scouts were sickened by E.Coli there, an official informed last night. According to officials of the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the local camp was closed after discovering that more scouts presented symptoms of the...
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 According to a study conducted by federal geologists
released Tuesday ash from wildfires in Southern California's residential
neighborhoods poses a serious threat to people and ecosystems because it is
extremely caustic and contains high levels of arsenic, lead and other toxic
metals.
U.S. Geological Survey scientists warned that...
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A Howard County
teenager died of flu this week, health officials said. It was the latest of
nine pediatric flu deaths nationally this year. Five of those deaths occurred since
Jan. 25, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
“This tragic death is highly unusual,” the
county health...
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Former mayor Marion Barry continues to be
in stable condition after his kidney transplant at Howard University
Hospital.
Clive Callender, the surgeon who led the
team of surgeons that performed the transplant, said the patient was doing
well. The former mayor felt well enough on Saturday morning to read the
newspaper. Callender...
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U.S. federal health officials warned teenagers about the dangers of car surfing, which involves a person performing stunts on the roof, trunk or on the hood of a vehicle while another one is driving. Studies conducted in the past disclosed that videos showing car surfing and posted on the Internet led to an increased popularity of urban...
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A coalition of human-rights and AIDS activists on Monday demanded the release of two AIDS experts detained in Iran.
The men, brothers Arash and Kamiar Alaei, were detained by Iranian
security forces in late June, without being charged. Their whereabouts
remain unknown, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on the sidelines of the
XVII...
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Several
years ago, Gardasil made headlines when it was approved by the Food and Drug
Administration as a way to prevent four strains of HPV, a sexually transmitted
virus which can trigger cervical cancer.
Since
its approval, more than 8,000 complaints about the controversial Gardasil
emerged, according to Centers for...
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 After 17 years of following the lives of 192 couples, the
researchers at the University
Of Michigan School Of Public Health
and its psychology department made public their findings. Surprisingly, their
study found that couples who express their discontent and release their anger
live longer than those couples who suppress their...
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 According to a recent press release, doctors in southern
India completed a exhausting 24-hour operation Wednesday on a girl born with
four arms and four legs that surgeons said will give the 2-year-old a chance at
a normal life.
The surgery went "wonderfully well,'' said Dr. Sharan
Patil, who led a team of more than 30...
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 A little transmitter which is implanted under the skin to see one person’s whereabouts to a satellite is the newest technology used to kill the Mexicans’ fear of kidnappings. A Mexican company decided to release the tiny object as to assure the residents that they will be safe no matter how.The insurance industry also decided to offer...
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 After 50 years of tenure, Fidel Castro has
announced his resignation as Cuba’s
president. The newspaper Granma, the official publication of the Cuban
Communist Party, quotes Fidel Castro as saying he is not interested in another
term as president. Castro’s health problems are well known, especially after
the intestinal surgery he...
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 Hundreds of thousands of
Colombians marched Monday in Colombia
and in many other countries asking the Marxist FARC rebels to stop kidnapping
people and release those it holds. The demonstrators were wearing white
T-shirts saying "No more FARC" and "No more kidnapping."
It is the largest protest ever against the...
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 Little Emmanuel has finally been reunited with his mother, Clara Rojas, some three years after being separated from her.
Former vice presidential candidate Rojas, 44, was released by
rebels of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
last week, after almost six years in captivity.
Her son, Emmanuel, is now three...
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 Two long-time hostages held by leftist rebels in Colombia were freed Thursday.
They were flown to Venezuela, where they were greeted by Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez, who had worked to mediate their release. The
former hostages, politicians Clara Rojas and Consuelo Gonzalez, called
for continued efforts to free hundreds of...
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 Two Venezuelan helicopters arrived Thursday in the Colombian town of
San Jose del Guaviare, in a second attempt to secure the release of two
hostages held by leftist rebels.
Irma Alvarez, spokeswoman for the International Committee of the
Red Cross (ICRC) in Venezuela, told Venezuelan state television channel
VTV that the...
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 One month after suffering a tough defeat in a referendum over a
socialist constitution, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez carried out a
comprehensive cabinet reshuffle, including the naming of a new vice
president.
On Friday, new Chief of Staff Jesse Chacon, until now at the helm
in the telecommunications ministry, revealed 12...
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 A long-awaited handover of three high profile hostages by left-wing
rebels in Colombia remained up in the air Sunday amid uncertainty over
whether Venezuelan officials had been given the location of where the
release was to take place.
Top officials from seven countries, as well as members of the
International Committee of the Red...
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 The much-awaited handover of three high profile hostages by left-wing
rebels in Colombia has been postponed until Sunday at the earliest,
Venezuelan officials said.
A complicated handover process, involving multiple countries in the
region, was supposed to take place at a secret jungle location
Saturday. The release has been...
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 Three high profile hostages being held by left-wing rebels in Colombia
could be released as early as Saturday as a complicated process
involving multiple countries in the region has begun.
The expected release is the latest twist in the mediation efforts
of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has been a key figure in
trying to...
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 The government of Colombia on Wednesday agreed to a humanitarian
operation that would see three high profile hostages released by
left-wing rebels - a plan mediated and proposed by the government of
Venezuela.
The government delegated Colombian Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos
Restrepo to be its representative at the handover,...
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 France is prepared to accept members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces
of Colombia (FARC) released by the Colombian government in any hostage
exchange, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Wednesday.
Fillon told Europe 1 radio that other European or Latin American
countries could also be used in a possible exchange and that...
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 The death toll from tropical storm Olga climbed to more than 30 on the
Caribbean island of Hispaniola, local newspaper reports said Friday.
Twelve Haitian seasonal workers drowned in flooding late Thursday
on the Dominican Republic side of the island, which has been drenched
by days of rain that unleashed mudslides and...
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 Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Friday offered to talk directly
with leftist rebels to secure an exchange of hostages for imprisoned
guerrilla fighters, saying he would create a "meeting zone" for the
talks.
There was no immediate response from Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia (FARC) rebels, but the families of...
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Evacuation is underway of over 3,000 miners trapped almost
2,000 meters underground in a South African gold mine since early Wednesday
when extensive damage to both steel framework and electricity grid was sustained after steel
pipes fell down the elevator shaft.
According to the firm that owns the mine, Harmony Gold
Mining...
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Bank of America, the second- largest US financial institution, posted profits for the second quarter of 3.4 billion dollars that were down on last year but well above expectations.The bank said it had been compelled to make write-downs of 1.2 billion dollars as a result of the continuing financial crisis.Net revenue for the quarter rose...
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 A Northern California biotechnology company announced on Wednesday that it would start auctioning five slots which would grant the people who buy them the opportunity to clone their family dogs.BioArts International, based in Mill Valley, California, is the only company in the world that has the licence for cloning dogs, cats and other...
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 Time Warner Inc. announced its AOL LLC unit is to move its HQ from Dulles, Va. to New York, where its advertising executives are already based. Also, AOL announced a revamped global ad platform dubbed Platform A, which is virtually a new division combining its Advertising.com online ad unit, along with recently-acquired online marketer...
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 Six makers of baby bottles in the U.S. announced their decision to remove the controversial chemical from their products. The decision was taken after attorneys general from Connecticut, Delaware and New Jersey sent letters last October to 11 companies, asking them to stop using the chemical, which can alter the normal activity of...
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 According to Connecticut’s attorney general, six companies have agreed to stop sales of baby-bottles that contain Bisphenol-A. The decision was taken after attorneys general from Connecticut, Delaware and New Jersey sent letters last October to 11 companies, asking them to stop using the chemical, which mimics the hormonal activity of...
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 A new research funded by the National Institutes of Health, a Harvard Skin Cancer SPORE Career Development Award, and Shiseido Corporation showed that a cup of coffee each day may help in the treatment of skin cancer. The caffeine works very well in killing the cells damaged by the ultraviolet light, which is the main cause of several...
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At least 78,000 women die every year in India during pregnancy and childbirth, according to a report released by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Thursday.
"This means on an average, every seven minutes, one woman dies from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth," UNICEF said in a press release.
Most...
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 Consumer Reports stated on Wednesday that some cereals made in the U.S. contain sugar in half of their entire percentage. Still, many of the companies which market the cereals put only the fair scores on nutritional value. The agency tracked 11 popular cereals which disobeyed the corresponding sugar value. Among them, Kellogg's Honey...
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Stress and tension can cause hair loss and baldness, according to a study by researchers at the University of Luebeck.A team of physicians led by Professor Ralf Paus found that hormonal reactions triggered in stress situations could contribute to baldness.A higher concentration of hormones such as cortisol and testosterone, triggered...
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 The Daily News randomly inspected 17 restaurants from Manhattan to see if they comply with the new requirements. The fine ranges from $200 to $2,000 for chain restaurants which don’t follow the regulations.According to the new rule, chain restaurants that have 15 or more outlets on a national scale are required to print menus and...
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 The United States Department of Agriculture will change its strategy and start identifying merchants who have been delivered recalled meat. This measure will only be applied in situations that are most likely to jeopardize consumers’ health. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said shoppers would be given the information only in Class I...
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 A new study appeared today online, revealing astonishing facts about alcohol’s impact on heart. It was shown that chances of preventing heart disease and stroke may depend on people’s gender and on the quantity they drink. 80,000 Japanese men and women’s drinking patterns were attentively analyzed for a 14-year-period. Before the study,...
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The Food and Drug Administration recently asserted that
mercury in fillings might be harmful to pregnant women, fetuses, children, people
who are sensitive to mercury exposure and to those who have a weakened immune
system.
"Dental amalgams contain mercury, which may have neurotoxic
effects on the nervous systems of...
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A group of television stations tested the “low fat, low
calorie" choices offered at popular restaurants including Applebee's,
Cheesecake Factory, Taco Bell, Macaroni Grill and Chili's. Food from chains in
eight cities was analyzed from March till May this year. The result was
troubling. Diet menus contained twice as many...
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 People aged 60 or older should be vaccinated with Zostavax,
which prevents shingles, a painful disorder related to chickenpox, the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended on Thursday. The new
recommendation was published in the May 15 online edition of the Mortality and
Morbidity Weekly Report.
This new advice...
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 Every year, flu makes more than 200,000
victims in the U.S.,
with 36,000 of them dying because of this illness.
Although last year’s vaccines were only 44%
effective against the flu, the five companies that produce influenza vaccine
intend to release about 143 million doses for the 2008-2009 season, according
to the Associated...
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 Colorado health officials warned the residents of Alamosa, a southern Colorado town, to stop drinking or cooking with their tap water because it appears to be linked with the recent local Salmonella outbreak. Around 33 people have become ill with the bacteria and dozens more are being investigated."Municipal water is not a common...
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 Johnson & Johnson and
Novartis AG’s Sandoz have recalled from the market the pain patches Duragesic after
manufacturers pointed to the fact that the respective patches may have a leak,
which could lead to the release of a gel, containing the fentanyl drug, inside
the package.
J&J recalls all...
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 First, baby cosmetics and now
baby bottles. There is a new concern among parents regarding baby bottles,
which might contain toxic substances. A new study has drawn attention upon the
fact that when baby bottles are exposed to heat, they release a chemical that
could cause obesity, diabetes and developmental problems in lab...
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 Scientists have shed new light on the maddening and often
inexplicable problem of itchy skin.
Certain types of chronic itch, including one known as
primary localized cutaneous amyloidosis (PLCA), are so serious they require
medical treatment. And researchers at King's College London have found that in
some cases the answer may be...
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 According to Safeway, US supermarket chain, some of its ground
beef may be tainted with Salmonella as the company was informed of the
potential threat by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
According to a company release, the ground beef in question
would have entered the supply chain between September 19 and November 5....
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 A new cancer blood test may help doctors find cancers
earlier and monitor cancer treatment by using microchip technology to sift
blood to search for circulating tumor cells (CTCs), which come from solid
tumors and roam through the blood.
The developers of the test call it a "new and effective tool"
that has "broad...
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 According to a new study, children are developing
potentially dangerous peanut allergies at a much younger age.
And that's not all: The study researchers found more parents
are feeding their children peanuts at an earlier age.
"This should be a wake-up call to all parents of young
children," says researcher Wesley...
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 According the United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS and the World Health
Organization, the number of people living with HIV worldwide is declining.
The two organizations released a report November 20 that found a 6.3 million
drop in people living with HIV, from an estimated 44 million to 33 million. The
agencies attributed the...
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 Days before the international observance of World AIDS Day
December 1, a new report by the government of Washington, D.C., offered
some grim statistics. One in 50 people in the nation's capital has AIDS. One in
20 is infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The city has the highest
HIV infection rate in the nation. City...
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 Heath officials has stated that a Tennessee company is
recalling cheese sold in seven states and distributed nationwide in gift
baskets that could be contaminated with dangerous bacteria. No illnesses have
been reported so far although health inspectors are on the look out.
Sweetwater Valley Farms Inc. said its Southern Cheddar...
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 According to health officials, U.S. marshals on Friday
seized 12,682 applicator tubes of a discontinued cosmetic called Age
Intervention Eyelash, which the Food and Drug Administration said could cause
harm the user’s vision.
The product, once promoted as increasing eyelash growth, had
been sold and distributed by San Jose,...
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 Researchers have recently discovered that compounds in
garlic cause tissues or blood vessels to release a chemical called hydrogen
sulfide. In large quantities, this compound can be deadly, but it's also an
essential molecule within the body, causing blood vessels to relax and reducing
dangerous inflammation.
In the array of...
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 According to a coalition of environmental and public health
groups advocating toxin-free products, the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics,
lipstick made in the U.S. and used daily by millions of Americans also contains
"surprisingly high levels of lead."
In a press release Thursday, the group said lead tests
conducted by an...
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According to recent research conducted by a British and Sweden team of
scientist who for the first time measured the effect of air pollution on heart
activity, trying to find a way to prevent heart attacks, have found yet another
cause for it.
Apparently the fume emissions from both gas and diesel cars,
but mostly diesel, are...
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 The number of Americans that filed first-time claims for unemployment benefits increased to as much as 407.000 in the last week of March, 38.000 more than a week before, as the US employers shed around 80.000 jobs in the entire month, figures from the US Department of Labor showed.The decline is the third in only one month, showing...
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 The British music company EMI released o statement on Tuesday saying that it would cut around 2.000 jobs in its effort of making a major restructuring that is aimed to help the troubled music industry.With the recent announced move, EMI, which was just last year bought by the private equity firm Terra for 3.2 billion pounds (6.2 billion...
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 Advanced Micro Devices' chief executive of sales and marketing, Henri Richard, will leave the chipmaker in September. It's still unclear what triggered the leave, but it appears that he is to go of his own will. AMD has some financial problems following its merger with then smaller ATi, which may have put pressure on Richard."After...
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 Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drugmaker, reportedly ended a late-stage clinical trial of its cancer drug Sutent, because it data showed the drug met its goal of slowing the progression of pancreatic cancer. Pfizer Inc. made the announcement on Thursday, following an independent safety board’s recommendation to stop the study.“These...
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 Amazing as it sounds, the experimental drug fampridine (4-aminopyiridine) can actually improve walking ability in some individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS). This is the conclusion of a multi-center Phase 3 clinical trial and these results have been published in the February 26 journal The Lancet. Andrew Goodman, chief of the Multiple...
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 The government tries to fight against anthrax with more and more drugs. So the fight went tighter as many pharmaceutical companies try to get the best product. Two biotechs, Emergent BioSolutions of Rockville and PharmAthene of Annapolis, became rivals in the fight against anthrax. They both announced that the government has released new...
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 The Food and Drug Administration has made a plan to release a list of drugs which are under a safety investigation. Every three months the FDA will post the list on which there will be drug companies, physicians and patients that brought drug and medication complaints to the agency. The FDA won’t describe how serious the complaint lists...
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 According to a report released by British researchers in the
July 22 issue of the journal Neurology, pregnant women who take an epilepsy
drug called topiramate alone or associated with other epilepsy medicines may be
more predisposed to birth defects.
Topiramate, put up for sale by Johnson & Johnson under
the brand name...
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 Swiss drug producer Novartis AG developed the positive results of the meningitis vaccine they experimented. The company expects to file for regulatory approval in the U.S. and Europe this year, according to what Joerg Reinhardt declared to Reuters.
The vaccine is called Menveo, it allegedly prevents the development of four types of...
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 GlaxoSmithKline will not be prosecuted for not informing UK regulators about safety issues concerning its drug Seroxat. The British Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has announced that the decision was taken because there was "no realistic prospect of a conviction in this case," as the legislation at the time,...
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 The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it is
likely that the well-known anti-smoking drug Chantix may be linked to some
serious psychiatric problems. The FDA alert comes two weeks after the drug-making
company Pfizer added stronger warnings on the drug’s label regarding behavioral
changes, mood swings and suicide...
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 According to an FDA (Food and Drug Administration) press
release on Wednesday, warning is being added to Cephalon Inc's drug Provigil
for excessive sleepiness because of the risk of serious skin rash and
psychiatric symptoms
Provigil is used to treat adults with narcolepsy and
obstructive sleep apnea who have difficulty...
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 Until now, only lithium was approved for the treatment of bipolar disorder in adolescents ages 12 and up and no drug could be used for pediatric schizophrenia. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Risperdal (active substance: risperidone), an atypical antipsychotic medication made by Janssen, L.P. of Titusville, N.J., for...
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 According to a report due for release Monday from city health officials, cited by The Washington Post, at least 3% of Washington, D.C., residents are HIV positive. Washington’s rate of infection with HIV-AIDS is three times the definition of an epidemic, which is 1 percent of the population. The report is based on the results of a 2007...
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 A new study carried out by New York researchers shows that people who sleep less than six hours per night during the work week over a period of several years, have nearly five times the chance of developing type 2 diabetes compared to those who average six to eight hours of sleep. The results will be presented Wednesday at the American...
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 A new study found that only a small percent
of ex-inmates diagnosed with HIV filled a prescription for medicine to treat
the condition within the recommended 10 days.
According to the study conducted by researchers
at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, ex-inmates who discontinue the antiretroviral
therapy are at...
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A study has recently showed that diabetes who control their blood sugar levels even if only in the first ten years since they were diagnosed, have lower risks to heart attacks, death or any other complications 10 years or more. The most common type of diabetes linked to obesity is Type 2 diabetes. Researchers want to teach the newly...
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No radioactivity was released outside the International Atomic Energy Agency's laboratory after a small plutonium container burst in early August, the IAEA reported Friday, citing independent analysis.
On August 3, less than one gram of plutonium spilled in the Agency's laboratory in Seibersdorf, around 35 kilometres south-east of...
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 According to federal health officials, HIV infects about 40 percent more people in the United States than the government has previously estimated.A recent study conducted by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that about 56,300 people in the U.S. are infected annually with AIDS virus compared to the approximately 40,000...
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The risk of developing
Alzheimer's or dementia is reduced if you live with a spouse or a
partner, according to a Swedish study published Thursday.
Researcher Krister Hakansson of the Karolinska Institute and Vaxjo
University conducted the study using data from a Finnish study where
2,000 people were examined at the age of around...
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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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 The Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle put on the internet a map of the mouse spinal cord. The release happened on July 16 and includes 4,000 sets of digital images of spinal cords from adults to juvenile mice. Researchers have worked months in creating the online atlas. The major part of the 2D map is ready and it includes...
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 According to Dr. E. Steve Roach, chairman of the statement writing group and neurologist at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, approximately 10 in every 100,000 children in U.S. will suffer a stroke anytime. In babies, the initial symptoms of stroke usually are seizures which involve only one arm or leg, said Roach in a...
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 In spite of the extensive attempts to persuade Americans to
lose weight, the number of U.S.
adults who are obese rose with approximately 2 percent between 2005 and 2007,
according to a new report.
The proportion of U.S. adults who are obese increased
from 23.9 percent in 2005 to 25.6 percent in 2007, the Centers for...
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 Migraine, one of the health problems that troubles so many
people, is about to be solved by technology, experts inform.
This year’s American Headache Society annual meeting will
include information about some new devices that are believed to be able to save
us from the unpleasant condition.
Medical device maker Medtronic Inc....
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 Marijuana potency increased in 2007 to the
highest level in more than 30 years since scientific analysis of the drug
began, according to a report from the University of Mississippi’s
Potency Monitoring Project. The group funded through the National Institute on
Drug Abuse, has analyzed and compiled data on nearly 63,000 cannabis...
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 Dr. Kevin Fenton, Director, National Center for HIV/AIDS,
Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC (Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention) stresses the new estimates are not yet final, despite current media
reports about CDC's estimates of new HIV infections in the USA.
Dr. Fenton said "In recent years, CDC has...
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 A new study conducted by researchers from University of Michigan
and Wayne State University
depicts that despite all social development and public policies, there are
still serious racial disparities that gravely affects society.
The study focuses on disparities between white and
African-American women that have been diagnosed...
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 According to recent study, acupuncture is the best way to
get rid of backaches rather than using conventional methods of treatment.
A German team has announced that by acupuncture patients say
the pain goes away and stay ay far longer than using conventional methods of treatment.
Archives of Internal Medicine study also suggests...
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 An international team led by U.S. scientists have uncovered new information regarding rosacea, a skin condition that is estimated to affect over 45 million people worldwide. Rosacea begins as erythema (flushing and redness) on the central face and across the cheeks, nose, or forehead but can also affect other surrounding areas.The...
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 Amid reports that the housing market is continuously declining and that the price of houses in the United States are further falling, dragging the dollar down, the Conference Board announced new alarming news on Tuesday, as the US consumer confidence reached a five- year low in March.The index is on a down fall since July 2007, declining...
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 According to a key indicator released on Tuesday, the German investor confidence reached a 15-year low in January, as a cause of the alarming slumping US economy and the resurgent global inflation.The Centre for European Economic Research’s ZEW index has fell to minus 41.6 points during this month, compared to minus 37.2 points in...
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 Before the release of reports that will show the current state of the U.S. consumer confidence and new home sales and just before the Christmas holiday, the price for crude oil produced by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries registered a sharp rise, stopping just under 90 dollars per barrel.According to the OPEC...
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 The Munich-based Ifo economic institute's monthly index of 7.000 German executives, which was released on Wednesday, showed that the business confidence has fell to an almost two- year low, over worries about growth in Europe's biggest economy wiped out the low rise in the index in November.The Ifo economic research institute said that...
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 The Asian stock markets have opened lower on Thursday, due to the Wall Street overnight falls that released pessimistic economic figures. Analysts believe that the decline is caused also by the United States government’s release of unfavorable economic figures.Hong Kong stocks have fell b 2.3 percent on Thursday, as the Hang Seng Index...
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 Chinese authorities have suspended exports of toy beads after sets
containing them were recalled in the United States because they
contained a toxic chemical, state media said Saturday.
State quality inspectors had sealed the remaining beads at the
premises of the unidentified Chinese manufacturer, the official Xinhua
news agency...
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 The Taiwanese government has
announced it is to sign a pact over the brand new WiMax technology and product
development with the large companies involved in this move. The Taiwanese
government has said that the memorandum of understanding will be signed next
week; Multinational companies such as Intel Corp., Nortel Networks Ltd., NEC...
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 Ford Motor Co. recalled some 3.8 million cars produced between 1992 and 2007 over concerns that a cruise control switch was causing fires. "Customers remain concerned about the long-term durability of the speed control system and about the safety of their vehicles," said Ford's spokesman Dan Jarvis.The switches apparently...
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 A press release announced on Thursday that Joe Torre has left The New York Yankees in order to be the new manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, agreeing to a three-year deal believed to be worth about $13 million. He will be the 26th manager in the Dodger’s 50 years history and the eight since they moved to Los Angeles from Brooklyn.He...
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 Tulsa Drillers’ coach Mike Coolbaugh died on the baseball court in Arkansas on Sunday after being hit in the head by a line drive as he stood in the coach's box during a game.The unfortunate accident happened in the ninth inning when the 35-yearold former major league player was struck by Tino Sanchez’s foul ball. Coolbaugh was...
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 Even though CBS’ musical series “Viva Laughlin” proved to be
a flop and was canceled, Hugh Jackman didn’t hesitate to get involved in a new
project.
Virgin Comics and the actor have struck an agreement to
release a new comic book series called “Nowhere Man,” as Virgin said in a
statement on Tuesday.
Australian actor Hugh...
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 Besides giving readers several hours of high-quality entertainment, and making author JK Rowling one of Britain’s richest women, the final installment of the series also boosted Barnes & Noble’s profits. According to a release from the New York-based bookseller, its second-quarter earnings rose 8.9% from last year amid strong sales...
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 A New York publishing house was given a go to print O.J. Simpson's canceled "If I Did It" book about the slayings of Goldman and Simpson's ex-wife. According to Michael Wright, a spokesman for Los Angeles-based literary agent Sharlene Martin of Martin Literary Management, more details regarding the name of the New York...
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 On the hottest month of the year,
the “Harry Potter” franchise maddened everybody: the boy wizard’s fanatic fans
and all the others, normal people that have been negatively impressed by all
the noise and events related to this story. The fifth part of the “Harry
Potter” movie series has been launched some days ago and it has been a...
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 British author J.K. Rowling was reportedly angered by a review of the final Harry Potter book published in the New York Times on Thursday, ahead its official release. The review written by Michiko Kakutani, appeared in the newspaper's online version overnight, ahead of the official release of the seventh Potter book, "Harry Potter...
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 Writer and producer David Chase is returning to HBO with a new mini-series about men who swear relentlessly and resort to ruthless tactics to get ahead, only this time, it’s set in Hollywood. In a release, HBO said that Mr. Chase’s mini-series would be called “A Ribbon of Dreams” (taken from Orson Welles’s famous metaphor for film) and...
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 The new NBC drama "Kings" debuts Sunday night in a mixed-review background. The subject of the show is quite controversial and can result in hundreds of different consequences. It is modern-day version of the Old Testament tale of David and Goliath starring Ian McShane, the British actor best known stateside for his...
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 George Bush had a kind of documentary about his life at the end of his presidency, but Obama will have it at the beginning of his time as President of the United States. After Oliver Stone produced W, now Eduard Norton wants to produce a documentary about Obama’s life. The documentary will be released by HBO.Edward Norton’s Class 5 Films...
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 On Wednesday night the major broadcast networks will air the half-hour campaign ad made for Barack Obama. Still, the ABC won’t do it because their program on Wednesday night is too important. Instead, they have tried to reschedule the campaign ad on a different night. According to ABC, they lost their chance to give time on their...
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 Production has kicked off on the first fictional feature film based on the Disney Channel original series “Hannah Montana” starring Miley Cyrus, the Walt Disney Co. announced Thursday.The movie directed by Peter Chelson, which is scheduled for a spring 2009 release, also features “Hannah Montana” regulars Emily Osment, Jason Earles,...
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 “Saturday Night Live” fans shouldn’t be too disappointed for
the fact that Janet Jackson canceled her appearance on the show.
Another great name is scheduled to deliver a gig on “SNL,”
an artist that has been eagerly awaited to return on the show for ten years. We
are talking now, obviously, about Mariah Carey.
Janet Jackson...
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Singer Jessica Simpson is definitely preparing something!
Apart from being in the studio for her fifth album of her
career and her first country release, there is still something more. According
to her father and manager, a new reality show featuring the blonde cutie is
coming up. In the other hand, her rep talked about a show,...
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 Kyle, Kenny, Stan and Eric are here to delight us for yet
another 4 hilarious seasons.
Apparently the creators of “South
Park” Matt Stone and Trey Parker are
going at it again for another few years, as “the boys” as they are generically called
will go back to school in the little town of “South Park.”
Comedy Central is now...
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 The show that practically launched Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie’s careers, "The Simple Life," got finally cancelled after five seasons.Despite all the publicity the two starlets received lately, the show’s ratings dropped low enough for E! Network to cancel Paris and Nicole's former hit show, which premiered in 2003 and aired...
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 Calvin Broadus, aka Snoop Dogg, who often makes headlines with his brushes with the law, now managed to attract attention in a more peaceful way. He reportedly signed up to star in a new E! reality series which will revolve around his family life."Snoop Dogg is, without a doubt, one of the most charismatic and intriguing...
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 The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected Bush administration’s new standards for pollution for sport utility vehicles, pickups and other light trucks and vans, ordering a new plan that would be more strict regarding the auto emissions, on Thursday.The federal appeals court in San Francisco stated that the National Highway...
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 The Brilliance BS6, the first Chinese limousine aimed at the European market, received a catastrophic rating in the EuroNCAP crash test.
In the head-on collision test the entire front section with A- pillar was pushed 20 cm into the interior on the driver's side. The door bent in such a way that it could only be opened with heavy...
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 Sprint announced today that the new Palm Treo Pro device will hit the stores on March 15, being available to customers for US$199.99 on a two year contract.Featuring speedy EV-DO Rev. A 3G data, GPS support for navigation, and built-in WiFi capabilities, the device will be the first Palm smartphone to come with Internet Explorer Mobile 6...
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 Steve Ballmer, the chief executive at Microsoft, announced that the company will release the next sequel of Windows Mobile, which is Windows Mobile 7, in 2010. A strategic update session from Tuesday was the perfect moment for Ballmer to announce the big release and also the fact that Microsoft won’t dispatch the next version of Office...
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 Google has officially announced that Google Earth can be accessed from the iPhone or the iPod Touch. When a good data connection is available the geographical software streams to the device with a reasonable speed and it’s really functional. Multi-touch enables users to zoom in or out of a map with ease and even rotate the map on the...
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 Motorola follows the path opened by Apple and Google with plans of creating its own smartphone just days before T-Mobile is officially launching the G1 Android. Motorola’s phones will probably be based on the open-source Linux operating system and the company will begin producing them in late 2009.People say that Motorola’s engineers...
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 Following the model of Apple, with its iPhone, Google is controlling the Android phone’s programs. Even if users found it hard to believe that the iPhones have a kill switch built in that could destroy applications one has bought and paid for, the rumor was quickly confirmed, to the shock of the buyers. Now Google has a similar kill...
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 Apple’s latest device, the 3G iPhone, has been this weekend’s star gadget as about 1 million units have been sold worldwide. While the exact number isn’t known and there was no time to determine it, the fact that the phone fulfilled expectations is sure.Only about 270,000 units of the old iPhone had been sold in the first two days since...
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 On Monday, Telstra Corp., the largest telecommunications group in Australia, announced it would start offering Apple’s iPhone, starting July 11. The company announced iPhone plans beginning at $30 a month; the 8GB version will cost $279 and the 16GB model will be made available for $399. Customers will also be able to choose the $80 a...
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 At the end of last week, it was announced that Apple Inc. and China Mobile Communications Corp., the largest mobile provider in China, are finally getting closer to closing an iPhone-distribution deal. However, no release date has been announced yet.In April, China Mobile stated though that once they come up with a proper business model,...
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 The race to come up with the most attractive smartphone is on and has been for quite some time now. Although recently the spotlight has mainly been on Apple’s new 3G iPhone, there are a lot of things going on in the background. One of the iPhone’s most powerful competitors will probably be Samsung’s Instinct, scheduled for release on...
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 On Monday, San
Francisco will host the 2008 Worldwide Developers
Conference, where Apple is believed to reveal to the public a new iPhone model.
Nobody knows exactly what to expect from a new, improved model: maybe new apps,
maybe 3G or maybe a better touchscreen technology. Regarding the new model,
Apple kept itself silent and...
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 On Wednesday, Softbank Corp. announced that it would start selling Apple Inc.'s iPhone in Japan later on in 2008. No further information regarding the smartphone’s release date or pricing has been made public. Softbank is currently the third largest mobile communications carrier in Japan.The iPhone is slowly becoming available...
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 According to Friday’s issue of a Hong Kong newspaper, Hutchison Telecommunications and Apple Inc. have closed a deal through which the former will take on the marketing of the iPhone handset in Hong Kong and Macau later on this year. No other details have been disclosed yet. China Mobile, the world's largest mobile phone operator, stated...
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 It seems that the console market in the U.S. is doing
better and better. Reports have shown that this year’s sales have been
significantly better than last year’s, which was considered the best in the
market’s history.
Even though April has seen a small decline in the number of
consoles that have been sold compared to last year’s...
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 On Friday, Orange announced that later this year, it will bring the iPhone in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean. Several countries were mentioned including Austria, Belgium, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland.Bertrand Deronchaine, France Telecom spokesman, said that...
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 Probably after having monitored the constantly increasing popularity of Apple Inc.’s iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) is now getting ready to launch a touch-screen version for its BlackBerry smartphone.The upcoming device, code-named Thunder, will be made available in the U.S. exclusively through Verizon Wireless and abroad, through...
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 On Monday, Research In Motion Ltd. is launching the new BlackBerry Bold 9000. As this is the company’s first major release in more than one year, it has to be good. The device comes with twice the display resolution of the Curve model; it supports tri-band HSDPA and quad-band EDGE and it is equipped with a 624-MHz StrongARM processor...
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 EBay-owned Skype has finally managed to release a beta version of its VoIP client, covering 50 different models of mobile phones from Motorola , Nokia , Samsung, and Sony Ericsson. The beta version’s objective is to gather consumer feedback that will eventually lead to product improvement. The service will only be made available inside...
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 According to Fortune, AT&T is well on its way to offering a $200 subsidy for those who will purchase the next-generation of iPhones, which is most likely to be made available this summer. The release date may be chosen at the end of June, in order to mark the one-year anniversary of the first iPhone generation’s launch (June 29,...
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 EBay-owned Skype has finally managed to release a beta version of its VoIP client, covering 50 different models of mobile phones from Motorola , Nokia , Samsung, and Sony Ericsson. The beta version’s objective is to gather consumer feedback that will eventually lead to product improvement. The service will only be made available inside...
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 Although initially scheduled for June, Research In Motion Ltd. has delayed the launch of its latest Blackberry smartphone, code named "Meteor," for August. While the device will be the first phone to use the 3G technology for AT&T, another 3G Blackberry was released for a different type of wireless technology for Verizon...
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 Israeli company Fring has made its VoIP application (also
known as Fring) available on the iPhone and on the iPod Touch. Users will now
gain access to Skype, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, ICQ and SIP (both voice and
chat) plus Twitter, Yahoo and AIM (chat only).
On one hand, Skype hasn’t been able to come up with a iPhone
version...
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 According to Wang Jianzhou, China Mobile chairman, official talks with Apple haven’t been started yet on how and when the iPhone would be released in China. It seems that there still are several problems between the two companies that prevent the project from taking off.China Mobile stated though that once they come up with a proper...
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 In Apple stores all throughout the United States, there is a shortage of iPhones. Some say this is a deliberate move from the company’s part, in the attempt to clear out the existing stock, as the new 3G networks seem to be just around the corner. Others feel differently. "In our view, the most likely explanation for this unusual...
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 Although Google
hasn’t released yet any sales predictions for mobile phones based on its
already popular mobile operating system Android, one of the company’s
executives proved very confident already. On Thursday, Rich Miner, Google’s
group manager for mobile platforms, made public his opinion that Android-based
mobile phones will...
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 Apple has announced that it will release the iPhone SDK on March 6. Apple originally announced the iPhone SDK for February, but it looks like they couldn't release it this month. Yesterday's announcement came just a day after the company has announced a new firmware version for the iPhone, version 1.1.4.The Software Developers Kit will...
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 LiveScribe revealed recently a
new interesting gadget, the so-called Pulse SmartPen. It sounds really great,
but what exactly does this cool gadget do?
LiveScribe’s Pulse SmartPen is
nothing else than a piece of high technology incorporated in a regular-sized
pen; thus, the writing tool is integrated with a microphone and...
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 Amazon.com Inc., the online retailer, has announced on Monday the release of an electronic book reader with wireless access, called "Amazon Whispernet". Kindle will be available for the price of 399 dollars.The thin, white device operates on batteries and allows users to download books, newspapers and blogs, in Amazon's new...
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 Because the demand for a
universal solution for the memory cards issue has become more than a necessity
today, Nokia Corp., Samsung, Sony Ericsson and other mobile phones
manufacturers have left behind their market rivalry and have joined forces for
creating a standard flash memory card that will work with different mobile
phones...
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 In the recent period almost all
of the rumors that hit the market have been eventually right. But will this be
also gPhone’s case? It seems so, as more and more people and publications are
talking about the ultimate phone that Google is allegedly preparing for
release.
Engadget.com has written these
days that several trustworthy...
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 Microsoft has introduced on the market its Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel
with the occasion of last year’s E3 Media and Business Summit. And now, after
more than a year since the device’s release, Microsoft has announced it is to
provide the Racing Wheel’s users with a free retrofit for the product.
Microsoft’s decision comes...
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 Microsoft Corp. has announced at
the Comic-Con International 2007 that it is will reduce the price of its Xbox
360 HD DVD Player from $199 to $179, but only in the United States. The Xbox 360 HD DVD
Player will be available at the new price starting with the 1st of
August 2007.
Microsoft has also announced that
between the 1st...
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 Apple’s iPhone has made everybody
crazy about it! The analysts have even predicted huge sales for iPhone till the
end of 2008, although Apple’s ultimate phone has its week elements (it’s a 2.5
generation phone, for example). But, as expected, Blackberry is to come out of
the shadow and challenge iPhone.
Research in Motion has...
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 Sony Corp. has already lowered
the price of its PlayStation 3 video gaming console, but hasn’t been all, as it
seems. The company has announced that it will release a both slimmer and
cheaper version of the PlayStation Portable handheld gamer player. This
decision represents nothing else than another effort of Sony Corp. in...
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 Apple’s ultimate smart phone is
to become even more famous and fit for any kind of users, as Synchronica PLC
will now make sure of their safely accessing corporate emails through the
company’s Mobile Gateway 3.0.
As the international provider of
mobile-synchronization and device-management solutions Synchronica PLC has
announced...
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 Common, uninformed people will
say that you are crazy, when they see you waving your hand in all directions.
They will eventually wave “bye-bye” to you too and will leave your house, without
even knowing that you were communicating with your brand new air mouse.
“Communicating with you air mouse?”, they would have asked with a...
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 It was especially from Sony that
people have expected to cut its high price for PlayStation 3. The company
announced on the 9th of July that it will lower PS 3’s price from
$599 to $499 in North America, although just days before it had pushed back the
so-called rumors.
So for the first time in the
three rival video games...
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 It’s kind of strange that
Microsoft has recently announced that it will launch a new game console on the
11th of October in Japan.
Xbox 360 Elite will be launched on a market where Microsoft’s video game
console’s sales have already been surpassed by the company’s old rival,
Nintendo. Xbox 360 Elite has been said to be an advanced...
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 iPhone has been launched! Being
waited for by thousands of people, as if it were a Messiah of all gadgets
iPhone hit the market on the 29th of June. But what exactly is it
about iPhone, which made people so crazy days before its being launched and
days after …it’s being bought?
iPhone is the ultimate gadget,
that’s for sure....
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German football authorities Wednesday honoured goalkeeper legend Bernd Trautmann for his services to football at a ceremony ahead of an international between Germany and England.
Trautmann, 85, was awarded the German Football Federation pin with diamond - its highest award for a person outside the federation - for his "unique...
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The future of Olympic football is still up in the air, pending a meeting between IOC President Jacques Rogge and FIFA President Joseph Blatter.
"We still have not discussed the issue with FIFA. We have not scheduled a meeting, but we will schedule one in the future," Rogge said in an interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur...
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Leading European clubs will resist any attempts to make the Olympic football tournament part of the official FIFA calendar, Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has said.
Rummenigge, who is chairman of the European Club Association (ECA) was quoted Wednesday by Germany's Sport Bild weekly, as saying he would also welcome...
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The president of football's governing body, Joseph Blatter, said Thursday that he hoped that the Olympic football tournament would be integrated into the international match calendar.
Blatter's call follows problems involving several European clubs, who were reluctant to release their players for the tournament and were told by the...
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Nigeria on Tuesday clinched their place in the final of the men's Olympic football tournament with a convincing 4-1 victory against Belgium in the Shanghai stadium.
The 1996 champions, who beat Argentina in the final in Atlanta to become the first African country to win a gold medal in Olympic football, were in total control after...
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 Quarterback Tim Couch agreed on a two-year deal yesterday with the Jacksonville Jaguars, a contract that gives him a chance to refresh his career as a backup to Byron Leftwich.The two-year agreement will earn the top overall pick by Cleveland in 1999 a minimum of $595,000 if he makes the team. “Right now, I’m just trying to be a guy,...
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 The Chicago Bears decided it’s in their best interest to let Tank Johnson go after his latest scrap with the law. Not even Tank had a hard time understanding that his former team did what they had to do."I want to thank the Bears organization and fans for their support during this difficult time," Johnson said in a statement...
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 Indiana University head football coach Terry Hoeppner died Tuesday morning of a brain tumor.The 59-year-old has undergone brain surgery twice in the last 18 months. He received chemotherapy and radiation treatments in the last few months, but was all in vane. Hoeppner died at 6:50 a.m. at Bloomington Hospital with his family at his...
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Kathmandu - Nepalese politicians have decided to remove thousands of former Maoist combatants from camps and attempt to reintegrate them into society after they were disqualified from the combatant rehabilitation process by the United Nations, official reports said Friday.
The decision came during a meeting Thursday of the Army...
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Kabul (dpa) - A suicide car bomber targeted a foreign military convoy Thursday in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, killing more than 20 civilians and one US soldier, officials said.
The death toll in the blast - which came a day after a tanker truck bombing in southern Afghanistan killed six people - had risen throughout...
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A Carnation couple was arrested and faces criminal charges for what investigators consider one of the worst cases of child abuse they have ever seen.The 44-year-old mother and 43-year-old father were detained on suspicion of first-degree criminal mistreatment of their daughter, aged 14. The pair was kept in custody for only one day. On...
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Thailand's Foreign Ministry issued a statement Friday that talks between Bangkok and Phnom Penh over disputed border areas were postponed by mutual agreement for internal procedures and not because of political tension in Thailand, as some media reported.
The "meeting has been postponed, not because of Thailand's domestic...
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The scramble for the White House was dead even between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, according to two separate polls released late Sunday, the eve of the opening of the Democratic nominating convention.
The Gallup Poll showed each candidate with 45 per cent support from registered voters, while a CNN/Opinion...
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China has deported all 10 of the pro-Tibet activists it arrested for protesting or helping to organize protests during the Beijing Olympics, releasing them before the end of their 10-day detention following pressure from the US embassy in Beijing, a US-based Tibet rights group said Monday.
"All 10 have been deported. They were...
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A Russian court on Friday denied granting parole to former Yukos oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, news agencies reported.
Khodorkovsky, 45, once Russia's richest man, applied for parole having served over half of an eight-year jail term for large-scale tax evasion charges against his former oil empire Yukos.
"The court ruled...
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The near-eradication of the blue whale in the waters of the Antarctic during the early 20th century led to a paradoxical fall-off in krill, the small shrimp-like creatures on which they feed, a German report said Wednesday.
Marine biologist Victor Smetacek told the German weekly Die Zeit that blue whales had once consumed 180 million...
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Hezbollah handed back to Israel the bodies of
two Israeli soldiers Wednesday, two years and four days after snatching
them in a July 12, 2006 cross-border raid that sparked one month of
deadly and destructive fighting. Under a deal brokered by a
United Nations-appointed German mediator that closes the final chapter
of that 33-day...
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 Ingrid Betancourt, a former Colombian presidential candidate, aged 46, was freed last week together with 14 other hostages after being held in captivity for six years by Columbian Marxist guerillas. The perpetrators were allegedly tricked into handing them over to military staff disguised as autonomous organization workers.Even now, the...
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Hedge fund fraud Samuel Israel III was confronted on Thursday with a
new accusation of bail jumping and was sent to prison without delay, the next
day after his mother persuaded him to end his impressive run from justice.
Samuel Israel III, who simulated his own death approximately
one month ago in order to stay away from a 20-year...
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Hedge fund fraud Samuel Israel III confronted on Thursday a
new accusation of bail jumping and was sent to prison without delay, the next
day after his mother persuaded him to end his impressive run from justice.
Samuel Israel III, who simulated his own death approximately
one month ago in order to stay away from a 20-year prison...
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 Columbian commandos disguised as rebels rescued 15 hostages
on Wednesday, including Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian politician and
three U.S.
defense contractors held by leftist rebels in a heroic action that blew away
the plans of the country's largest anti-government force.
The 46-year-old presidential candidate Ingrid...
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 Hezbollah, the Shi’a Islamic
political and paramilitary organization, sent to Israel
on Sunday a coffinlike container with the remains of Israeli soldiers killed in
the 2006-war with Lebanon.
This move seems to have impressed Israel and made it consider as a
foreword to a possible prisoner trade.
Two Israeli soldiers, Eldad...
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 Indian and Pakistani foreign ministry officials met on
Tuesday to review the peace process that has been held up because of the
internal political tensions that burst in Pakistan last year. Both countries
intend to continue the dialogue that began four years ago under former military
strongman, President Pervez Musharraf.
Some of...
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 Despite their different opinions on important issues, Chinese
President Hu Jintao decided to continue the dialogue with the Dalai Lama. China’s latest accusation was that the Dalai Lama
was responsible for the protests over the Olympic torch and the incidents in Tibet, which China has governed since the 1950s.
The Tibetan spiritual...
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A British terrorist suspect in an alleged plot to blow up
trans-Atlantic commercial jetliners managed to escape from a mosque
when his police escorts allowed him to say prayers on their way back to
the prison, police investigators said Monday.
Rashid Rauf, a British citizen of Pakistani origin, escaped from
guards on Saturday...
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 According to Fiji
police officials, more than 16 people were arrested over an alleged plot to
assassinate Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama, the military chief who became prime
minister after leading last year's coup.
Police Commissioner, Esala Teleni, said at a news conference
in the capital Suva,
that three of those arrested were...
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 According to a state-owned oil rig press release made public
on Wednesday regarding the death of at least 18 oil workers, the cause of the
incident was due to a drilling rig which struck an oil platform in stormy
weather, spilling gas and oil into the Gulf of Mexico Seven other workers were
still missing.
Rescuers have pulled 61...
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 Pope Benedict XVI and other Christian leaders received
letters from hundreds of senior Muslim leaders proposing similarities between
the faiths as a basis for peace and understanding.
The letter analyzed particularly two theological
similarities found in the Quran and the New Testament: belief in one God and
love of...
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Look to the sky tonight as you will witness a rare and
amazing astrological event.
According to the Shanghai Observatory, on the 28 of August
we should be able to see a full lunar eclipse. This is not just any lunar eclipse,
for tonight the moon will turn bright red as the earth and sun align on either side.
It is the...
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 A report released by the US-based
group Human Rights Watch holds responsible Ethiopian, Somali, and insurgent
forces for severe violations of the laws of war that have resulted in
heavy civilian casualties.
The 113-page report called "Shell-Shocked:
Civilians under siege in Mogadishu" refers to the fights...
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...the 166th day of 2007 with 199 to follow.
The moon is new. The morning stars are Mars, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Venus and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include Prince Edward of England, son of Edward III and known as the "Black Prince," in 1330;...
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 Willem Hendrik "Butch" van Breda Kolff, who coached Wilt Chamberlain to the NBA finals and Bill Bradley to college basketball's Final Four, oassed away at 84. he died after a long struggle with illness at a nursing home in Spokane, Washington, according to a news release from Princeton University, where he coached in the...
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 Billy Donovan is officially out of the Orlando Magic deal, but his wavering could be costly for both sides involved. The Magic finally let Donovan out of the $5.5 million annual deal late Wednesday nightafter days ago rumors broke he was having second thoughts."I realized in less than 24 hours after signing a contract with the Magic...
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 The beloved Jerry Seinfeld is heading back to TV for ... a reality show?The comedian is set to team up with NBC again after an 11-year break to create and produce a reality series that finds humor in marital woes of other people.The working title for the show is "The Marriage Ref" and will invite athletes, celebs and comedians...
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 In an early scene in “Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience,” teen idols Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas are ambushed by a herd of squealing girls who surround their car and then pursue them through city streets.According to the movie, the famously gracious trio does not take its luck for granted. In contrast with fellow Disney phenom...
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 A musical adaptation of Spider-Man, which features music by U2's Bono and The Edge, will open on Broadway next February. The production, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, has been directed by Julie Taymor and adapted for the stage by scriptwriter Glenn Berger.Castings have yet to take place for the musical, although Taymor has held readings...
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 Mickey Rourke might not have won the Best Actor statue, but
the actor was still the talk of the town after the awards show. The subject,
however, was his next role.
According to some Hollywood
inside sources, Rourke is on a very short list for a lead role in “Iron Man
2.” Apparently he managed to prove
himself a sentimental...
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 “Dr. Horrible's
Sing-Along Blog,” conceived by “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” creator Joss
Whedon, has become a sensation on the internet since its release Tuesday.
The musical miniseries is supposed to have three parts, and
the heavy traffic crashed the server for the free-view website when the first
part was posted. The iTunes...
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 Susan Atkins, a follower of Charles Manson who took part in
the killing of pregnant actress Sharon Tate nearly 40 years ago was denied
compassionate release Tuesday.
Atkins, who was a leading character in one of the most
horrible crimes in California history, hoped to be allowed to go home, because
she is dying due to brain...
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Konami Corp., the Japanese creator of the “Dance
Dance Revolution” music video game claims that Rock Band developer Harmonix and
its US
publisher assistants Viacom and MTV violated its music video game in making “Rock
Band.”
So Konami sued Viacom Inc.’s Harmonix
studio, demanding cash compensation and an order that would block...
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 New York – Disney has decided to cast for the first
time full-length films on its Web site, www.disney.com.
It seems that this new release is part of a well-known series “Wonderful World
of Disney” that the company is broadcasting on ABC. The movies have been
scheduled to stream until August.
Films like "Monsters, Inc.,"...
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 “50 Cent: Blood on the Sand” is the name of 50 Cent’s second
video game due to be released this fall by Vivendi Game Sierra label. In an interview
for MTV News on Wednesday, the rapper said that he was inspired by his son and by
Leonardo Di Caprio’s movie ‘Blood Diamond.” Furthermore, 50 promises that this second
game will be way...
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 Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have managed to add another item
on the list of professions. Soon, the twins will release a book called “Influence”
through Penguin Young Readers Group. It is going to be a coffee table book and
according to People Magazine it will be released in autumn.
The twins, even though only 21-year-old, have...
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 The Oscars have always captured the public’s attention.
However, this year’s 80th annual Academy Awards are thought to have low
ratings. The reason for this situation is the Writers Guild of America strike
and the primary political season which is the most interesting one in a
half-century.
Even though the strike is over, the...
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Today is Wednesday, August 29, 2007TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLEPositions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (8 a.m. EDT):Sun............... 6th degree VirgoMoon.............. 21st degree PiscesMercury........... 19th degree VirgoVenus............. 19th degree Leo, retrogradeMars.............. 14th degree...
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 Somebody has their panties in a twist – literally. An actor is suing Jackass star Johnny Knoxville, TV talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and radio personality Adam Carolla for a traumatic genitalia injury.
Actor Perry Caravello has filed a suit against Knoxville and others, claiming to have been tricked into injuring his...
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 During this year’s edition of the GSMA Mobile World Congress
trade show held in Barcelona, the big players in the smartphone market looked
like they were struggling as much as they could to increase their revenues.
Companies such as RIM, Google, Nokia, Windows and Palm have
each come up with new products, in a competition that...
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 Yahoo Inc. announced that it will launch a new social network on Monday aimed to help college students to get career help, created by a young Yahoo unit charged with advancing product innovation.The California company, named Sunnyvale, is releasing Kickstart, which was created for students, alumni and recruiters, in order to gather...
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 Microsoft released nine patches which fix 14 security flaws on this month's "Patch Tuesday." Eight of the patches, of which six are rated "critical", address security flaws which could enable remote code execution. The ninth patch, rated "important", addresses a security flaw which enables a so-called...
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 Parallels Inc., the leading provider of virtualization technologies for Windows and Mac OSX, announced that a new release candidate for Parallels 3.0 is now available, and that the full software will ship in a few weeks.The new Parallels 3.0 will provide support for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, 'snapshot' backup and recovery of...
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 The craved gadget announced by Steve Jobs in January at Macworld is finally slated for debut on June 29, as depicted in the recent iPhone ads posted on Apple’s site.Apple unveiled the release date through 3 TV commercials which were later posted on the company’s site, each of them depicting important features, like the ability to play...
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 EA is shifting the Need for Speed Franchise towards a new (and probably needed) circuit: developed by the company’s Black Box studio in LA, NFS ProStreet now puts the players in a head to head competition against the best street racers in a multitude of racing showdowns.“Need for Speed ProStreet accelerates street racing culture by...
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Los Angeles - A panel of federal judges indicated Monday that they would order the state of California to release up to 58,000 prisoners to relieve extreme overcrowding in the state's penitentiaries.
The panel said that overcrowding in the cash-strapped prison system was unconstitutional, because it causes inmates to die regularly...
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Three Algerian men with Bosnian citizenship could be moved from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to custody in their adopted country as early as Tuesday, the Washington Post reported Tuesday on its website, citing US officials.
Bush administration officials told the newspaper the men were already undergoing pre-release...
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Keanu Reeves-starrer, The Day the Earth Stood Still, topped the US box office with a weekend opening of 31 million dollars.
Despite average reviews, the remake of the 1951 science fiction movie replaced Four Christmases as the box office leader, according to estimates on Sunday.
Four Christmases, which stars Vince Vaughn and...
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 Three teenagers from a school-sponsored camp drowned in the Fox River as they tried to sneak out during the night and go for a boat ride. The students took four or five paddle boats, which were already removed the floor plugs for the winter, went on the water and slowly sank.John Greene, battalion chief of the Algonquin-Lake in the Hills...
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 On Friday during Halloween trick-or-treat a 12-year-old boy was shot and killed from inside a house while he was accompanied by his family. The incident took place in South Carolina and his father and brother were injured by the gunfire too, according to the authorities.Quentin Patrick is the prime suspect in the murder of the boy, as a...
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The options for survival for US automotive giants General Motors and Chrysler are limited to bankruptcy protection, merger or a receipt of aid from the US government, the Wall Street Journal said Monday.
Citing sources inside GM and Chrysler, the respected financial daily said the two companies which are currently in merger...
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John McCain did not mince words in his reaction to an important Supreme Court decision in June on the rights of suspected terrorists imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
McCain called the 5-4 the ruling "one of the worst decisions in the history of this country," adding that it would result in the courts being flooded by a...
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 The authorities released a report announcing that a man shot and killed his wife inside a hospital, in her bed. The 88-year-old man then shot himself. Michael Mastronardy, police chief, stated that the man was in a critical condition and immediately after he had shot his 87-year-old wife he was taken to the trauma center at Jersey Shore...
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 The British police announced on Thursday that three men were charged because they had been plotting against the publisher of a novel which is related with the Prophet Muhammad. Salesman Abrar Mizra, 22, cab driver Abbas Taj, 30 and Ali Beheshti, 40, the suspects, were arrested on Saturday near the house of Martin Rynja, the publisher of...
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Police stated on Monday that a landlord from suburban Philadelphia has been putting cameras all over his apartment and has been videotaping the women who have been renting his apartment for years. Thomas Daley, 45, is from Phoenixville and he was accused of wiretapping, invasion of privacy and criminal use of a communications device. The...
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The homicides in Oakland reached the number of 101 on Sunday, when three people were slain in different neighborhoods. One of them was killed at International Boulevard and 35th Avenue but the police dispatcher didn’t know much about the man who was murdered or how the homicide occurred. The other two men were two young people who were...
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 A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crashed in the deep waters of Oahu. The crash killed three people on board and left a fourth one missing. Rescue crews tried to find him or his body on Friday and Rear Adm. Manson Brown, 14th Coast Guard District commander said that "this is a very difficult case because rescuers are being...
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The United States economy grew at 3.3 per cent in the second quarter of 2008, the government said Thursday in revised figures that showed strong international trade had helped stave off a feared recession.
The gross domestic product (GDP) figure was revised upward from an earlier estimate of 1.9 per cent for the quarter, the Bureau of...
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Anyone who expected Hillary Clinton to bow gracefully from the scene or be a sore loser may want to think twice after the heartfelt endorsement she delivered for her onetime rival Barack Obama for US president.
The former first lady, 60, made a grand, triumphant entry into the Pepsi Center convention hall Tuesday evening, creating a...
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Waving blue and white signs, 4,400 Democratic delegates roared approval at a parade of the party's stars on Monday, including the ailing Senator Edward Kennedy, former president Jimmy Carter and Michelle Obama.
Whether it was the kind of energy that will propel presumptive candidate Barack Obama, 47, into the White House in November...
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 John McCain, 72, is the senior United States Senator from Arizona and a presumptive nominee in the 2008 presidential election for the Republican Party. "I'm not running for President to be somebody, but to do something; to do the hard but necessary things not the easy and needless things," McCain said when he announced his...
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On Thursday, an ice cave fell on two teenage boys and trapped them underneath for hours until rescue crews arrived at the scene with chain saws to cut through the big compact snow and ice to release the boys. Alec Corbett, 17, and Allesandro Gelmini, 14, were both from Seattle and they were suffering from hypothermia. The first rescued...
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Casey Anthony was supposed to be released from jail on Tuesday but recent announcements have stated that she will still be in prison as the prosecutors couldn’t collect enough information about Caylee’s disappearance. The little girl has been missing for about 2 months and she is only 3 years old.Tony Padilla, a bailbondsman, came all...
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A SWAT team killed a man who wounded the mother of a 2-year-old daughter and then held the little girl hostage for two hours at his house in Lynwood, California, but he didn’t harm the baby during this time, on Sunday, when the incident took place.People who responded to an emergency call in Monday found the wounded woman outside their...
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Guantanamo detainees can be held indefinitely even if they are found not guilty in military trials, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
There are about 20 detainees who have been charged with war crimes
or other offenses set to go on trial at the prison facility at the US
naval base on Cuba.
A military jury has begun deliberations in the...
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama
called on the United States to end its dependence on oil from the
Middle East and Venezuela within 10 years as part of a broad speech
laying out his energy plans on Monday. Obama, who celebrated
his 47th birthday Monday, said he would direct the 'full resources' of
government towards...
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 According to authorities, a pickup truck crashed into a sport utility vehicle Tuesday. At least eight people plunged into Delta-Mendota Canal about 15 miles southwest of Modesto in Stanislaus County, on the east side of I-5. The irrigation canal is a main water provider for San Joaquin Valley agriculture. Based on reports from witnesses...
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 50 homes in Southern California were considerably damaged by massive mudslides provoked by a monsoon. Officials said yesterday that heavy rains brought thunderstorms to the Sierra Nevada Mountains, generating the mudslide near the city of Independence that was 300 yards wide and up to 3 feet deep. Nature’s fury also triggered to flooding...
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 Starting Monday, federal Food and Drug Administration
inspectors will enlarge the salmonella search beyond tomatoes to include
cilantro, jalapeño and serrano peppers – ingredients used to make salsa,
scallions and onions.
The FDA reported it is about to subject several kinds of
Mexican food to testing for salmonella before they...
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Yesterday, a 12-years-old girl disappeared after being
dropped off by two of her family members at a convenience store.
Brooke Bennett, resident of
Braintree, Massachusetts, told her relatives she would meet a friend of hers in
order to pay a visit to an ill relative of the friend in Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Medical Center, in Lebanon,...
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 Yesterday, a 12-years-old girl disappeared after being
dropped off by two of her family members at a convenience store.
Brooke Bennett, resident of
Braintree, Vermont, told her relatives she would meet a friend of hers in
order to pay a visit to an ill relative of the friend in Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Medical Center, in Lebanon, N.H.,...
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A Minnesota man who was the
leader of punk band “Useless Wooden Toys” playing at a house party in Bloomington, Indiana,
was fatally stabbed early Saturday by a man he tried to stop from sexually
assaulting a woman.
Police arrested Brian P. White, 32, after he allegedly stabbed Christopher A.
Johnson, 32, of Minneapolis,
after a...
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 Eldorado, Texas – A judge from Texas Court issued on Tuesday a
ruling for releasing a 16-year-old girl under special conditions after she had
complained to be sexually harassed by a man from the sect group she belonged to.
Her lawyer insisted she might be in danger.
The young girl is the daughter of the polygamist sect prophet,...
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 State officials announced the release of more
than 460 children seized by state authorities in April in an investigation of possible sex abuse at the ranch
owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The
state Supreme Court ruled that the seizure was not justified.
The announcement was
made after a...
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 Two suspects were arrested in connection
with the death of an associate of the Hells Angels motorcycle club a week ago. William
Maclean, 25, was fatally shot while riding in a pick-up truck on highway 101
through Marin last Saturday night as he led a funeral procession of
Hells Angels motorcyclists, police reported. He was taken to...
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 Federal agents arrested more than 300 workers from
AgriProcessors kosher meat plant in Postville,
Iowa, after an immigration raid. 40
of them were released for “humanitarian reasons.” The workers who were arrested
were suspected of being in the United
States illegally or of having participated
in identity theft and the...
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In the last months, veterans’ advocates and
members of the Congress tried to gather precise information regarding veterans’
suicides. They suspected the Veterans Affairs Department for disclosure of data
and their hunch was confirmed when an email surfaced during a trial.
Dr Ira Katz, head of mental health services
for Veterans...
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 It appears New Haven
police officers charged a city man with kidnapping and burglary after he broke
into the home of his son’s mother, assaulted her and took the boy with him.
Police initially said the boy might be in imminent danger. Before
the disappearance, he was seen wearing a white pajama shirt and white underwear
with...
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Talk about responsibility! According to The
Associated Press, Krystal Rose Downes, 24, and Jhimy Alban Vintimilla, 28, left
their 2-month old baby in the car while they went to see the Kentucky Derby at
a New York off-track
betting parlor.
Town police say the baby was left
unattended for more than 20 minutes, in the parking lot...
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 A young mother of two died after an apparent case of
domestic violence in Abington, police said. Her husband will be arraigned on a
murder charge today, after prosecutors allege he shot and killed his wife Tuesday
night at the couple’s home.
29-year-old Barbara Tassinari was found dead in the couple’s
backyard on Pilgrim...
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 Police in Colorado Spring and the Texas
rangers arrested a Colorado
woman on local charges of pretending to be a girl locked in a basement. She
called the police and allegedly pretended to be a 16-year-old girl victim of an
abuse. The Texan Rangers were in Colorado,
continuing their investigations about the polygamist FLDS compound...
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 Chelsea M. Frazier’s boyfriend, Carlos Cruz, was arrested
Tuesday for staging the murder of his 18-year-old fiancé. Cruz was accused of
hiring his cousin, 25-year-old Devon Miller, to kill her. Apparently the couple
had some problems and they were arguing a lot lately. The two had a
one-year-old son, who during the assault was on the...
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 After Robert B. Zoellick, the World Bank Chairman, and
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for action by developed countries to
stop or at least curb rising food prices, as a measure that has to be taken to
prevent hunger in poor nations, President George W. Bush also expressed his
concern about global food shortages....
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 Polk County Police organized Operation Paladin which is a
two-week online sex sting in which investigators, posing as a 14-year-old girl,
used chat rooms and instant messaging programs to lure men to a location on Polk County where they get
arrested. This is the way in which 11 men were caught between April 3 and April
6.
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 Minghui Yu, 24, a Colombia
University student, was
struck by a car and killed near the institution on Friday. The investigations lead
the police officers to a suspect, a 13-year-old boy, who was arrested and
afterwards charged with second-degree manslaughter. Police said he was arrested
late Saturday, but didn’t release his...
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 Mary Ellen Walsh’s body was found on Monday morning off Old Waterbury Road
in Bristol.
The woman was missing after a home invasion which occurred
on Sunday morning, while she was having coffee with a friend in a New Britain house. Her
friend was shot but she was able to get out of the house and call 911 from a
neighbor’s house....
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A federal appeals court released Donald Siegelman, former
governor of Alabama
from prison, where he had spent nine months of a seven year sentence. He was
convicted on six corruption counts and one count of obstruction of justice. His
appeal was based on the fact that he was politically prosecuted.
The federal prosecutors have...
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 Former 1970s radical Sara Jane Olson, who lived as a
fugitive in Minnesota,
went back to prison Saturday after her short-lived release on parole last week.
According to the corrections officials, she has to serve one more year, as they
miscalculated the date of her release.
“The department is sensitive to the impact such an...
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 The ex-Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
fugitive Sara Jane Olson was released from prison on Monday, officials said Thursday
quoted by the Associated Press.
Olson had hidden for years claiming she was just an ordinary
housewife, but she pleaded guilty in 2001 after attempting to bomb police cars
with the SLA. She was sentenced...
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 According to records of Hillary Clinton’s 11, 000-pages schedule
which was released Wednesday, the first lady was at the White House during the seven
days when her husband Bill Clinton had sexual encounters there with Monica
Lewinsky.
A year later, the first lady’s schedule describe her
pressing ahead with public events and...
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 Thousand of pages of Hillary Clinton’s schedules for her
eight years in the White House will be released after months of delaying making
them public, the Associated Press reports.
The National Archives announced on Tuesday that 11,046 pages
of the first lady’s schedule would be available for public due to...
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 There were no surprises Tuesday in Mississippi’s Democratic primary as Senator Barack Obama recorded a commanding victory over Senator Hillary Clinton, his main rival in the contest for the Democratic Party nomination to fight Republican John McCain for the White House seat. By wining the primary held in Mississippi, a state with plenty...
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 The Californian police may be dealing with al sorts of crimes and murders, but to find a dead man with an arrow through his chest isn’t an everyday case.However, it was today’s case as police found the corpse of a Lancaster man on the street, authorities said.The dead man was spotted by a passerby at about 1:45 a.m. and shortly after he...
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 A man made flood will be set up in the Grand Canyon by federal agencies. Such controlled floods had been released before in 1996 and 2004 and their main purpose is to refresh the canyon’s ecosystem. The flood release will begin Wednesday morning as a three-day torrent of water will be released from Glen Canyon Dam on the Arizona-Utah...
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Colombo - Government troops entered the last rebel-held town in northern Sri Lanka after heavy clashes overnight, military officials said Tuesday.
Troops entered Pudukudirippu, 385 kilometres north-east of the capital and were consolidating positions Tuesday morning, the army said.
It said Tamil rebels sustained heavy...
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Beijing - Chinese officials have appealed for calm ahead of several sensitive anniversaries in Tibetan areas and claimed that life has returned to "normal" after violent protests by Tibetans in March, state media said Wednesday.
"Everything is back on track," the official Xinhua news agency quoted Nyima...
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Colombo – Government troops pushed Tuesday into the last few strongholds of the Tamil rebels in north-eastern Sri Lanka, the military said, amid growing concern over civilians caught in the conflict.
Troops were moving in the , Mullaitivu district, 395 kilometres north-east of Colombo, after capturing the main town in the area...
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A Mandalay court has sentenced a student activist to 104 years in jail for attending a meeting marking the first anniversary of the "saffron revolution" on the Thai-Myanmar border, a prisoner support group said Wednesday.
According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), Bo Min Yu Ko, in his early 20's,...
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Six suspects in the kidnapping of a Pakistani businessman and his Filipino friend were arrested in the northern Philippines, a police spokesman said Monday.
The suspects were apprehended late Sunday shortly after releasing the victims in a remote highway in Hermosa town in Bataan province, 75 kilometres north of Manila, according to...
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Somali pirates have released the Sirius Star tanker seized off the Kenyan coast in mid-November, an official at the Saudi Oil Ministry confirmed Friday.
The supertanker carrying 100 million dollars-worth of crude oil was seized some 830 kilometres off the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa.
A Saudi ministry spokesman made no mention...
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Taiwan's central bank Wednesday announced a benchmark interest rate cut of 50 basis points following a sharp decline of the island's total exports in December.
"Effective from Thursday, the benchmark interest rate would be lowered to 1.5 per cent from 2 per cent," the central bank said in a press release after an...
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Communist rebels in the Philippines on Tuesday released an army lieutenant after two months in captivity, the military said.
Lieutenant Vicente Cammayo was turned over to a local official in Kausagan village in Loreto town in Agusan del Sur province, 900 kilometres south of Manila.
Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel...
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Thailand's fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra can now lay his hands on just 500 million dollars - about a tenth of his estimated previous wealth, the Nation newspaper said Friday.
The founder of Thailand's biggest telecoms conglomerate was thought to be worth around 5 billion dollars before he was ousted in a...
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Leading international writers, scholars, lawyers and rights advocates on Tuesday urged Chinese President Hu Jintao to free the dissident writer Liu Xiaobo, who is believed to be facing subversion charges for organizing a charter for democratic reform in China.
More than 150 leading US and European-based intellectuals, including...
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Around 78 families coming to the lone church in Wana, the main town of the tribal district of Islamic militancy dominated South Waziristan, expect their day-long Christmas celebrations on Thursday to take place in an atmosphere of peace and good will.
"We have no fears. We are going to sing our traditional Christmas songs, cut a...
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Around 78 families coming to the lone church in Wana, the main town of the tribal district of Islamic militancy dominated South Waziristan, expect their day-long Christmas celebrations on Thursday to take place in an atmosphere of peace and good will.
"We have no fears. We are going to sing our traditional Christmas songs, cut a...
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Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa Monday demanded that Tamil rebels release civilians "held hostage" in the country's war zones.
He alleged that civilians have been prevented from leaving rebel-held areas in the northern part of the country.
Some 300,000 civilians are living in rebel-controlled areas, where the...
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Montazer al-Zaidi, the TV reporter who threw his shoes at US President George W Bush on Sunday, has not been tortured and has been well-treated during his detention, one of his lawyers said Thursday.
"Al-Zaidi is in good health and was not tortured during his detention," one of his lawyers told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news...
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The press freedom organization, Reporters Without Borders, called on Wednesday for the release of Montazer al-Zaidi, the TV reporter who threw his shoes at US President George W Bush during a press conference in Baghdad on Sunday.
"We obviously regret that the journalist used this method of protest against the politics of the...
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A Yemeni official assigned by the government to negotiate with kidnappers of three German hostages in western Yemen met the abductors and their hostages on Wednesday, a mediator said.
Abdul-Qawi Obad, the undersecretary of Dhalea'a province, and tribal mediators met the kidnappers at their hideout east of the capital Sana'a and...
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The wife of jailed Chinese dissident Hu Jia welcomed international support for the couple on Wednesday, as the European Parliament prepared to award its top human rights prize to him in absentia.
"It is not only for us, it is also for all Chinese human rights defenders," Zeng Jinyan told Deutsche Presse-Agentur...
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Yemeni police said Tuesday that they had identified the abductors holding three Germans hostage in a remote area east of the capital, Sana'a, and security forces had closed in on their hideout.
Police said five tribesmen led by Abdu-Rabu Saleh al-Tam were holding the hostages in a house in the mountain village of Naba'ah in the...
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Israel's plan to free 230 Palestinian prisoners on Monday morning was thrown into doubt late Sunday night, after the country's Supreme Court ordered the release delayed until the state replied to a petition against it.
Israeli media reported that Supreme Court Justice Eliakim Rubistein ordered the state to reply by 7:45 am (0545 GMT)...
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Israel's supreme court authorized the government to go ahead with its planned release of 227 Palestinian militants from Israeli prisons Monday, Israel Radio reported. Israeli victims of shooting attacks and suicide bombings by Palestinian militants, as well as a settlement leader, had filed separate petitions against the release,...
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The Muslim militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) has denied British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's accusation that the outfit was responsible for the Mumbai terrorist attacks, a news report said Monday.
The Pakistan-based LeT also said that Ajmal Kasab, the lone attacker captured alive, was not a member of the organization, the...
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Taiwan's former president Chen Shui-bian was indicted on corruption charges Friday, becoming the first president to be charged in Taiwan's history.
Prosecutor Chen Yun-nan announced that Chen was indicted on charges of embezzlement, receiving bribes and money laundering, allegedly committed during his two terms from...
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A 15-year-old angler in South Africa's Western Cape province wrestled with a 2-metre-long ragged-tooth shark for over an hour after inadvertently reeling in the big fish that then swung around and bit him, leaving him in need of 47 stitches.
In a tale reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, in which an elderly Cuban...
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Chinese civil rights activist Liu Xiaobo is one of the best-known critics of China's communist power apparatus, a battle he has been waging for the past two decades.
Despite all the efforts by the state security organs to intimidate him, for the past two decades the author has over and again spoken out for political reforms,...
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Pakistan's prime minister Wednesday said the two top leaders of an Islamic militant group that India believes was behind the November 26 terrorist attacks in Mumbai were being questioned by police.
Yousaf Raza Gilani said Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and Zarar Shah, were detained in a raid this week at the offices of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
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Pakistan's prime minister Wednesday said the two top leaders of an Islamic militant group that India believes was behind the November 26 terrorist attacks in Mumbai were being questioned by police.
Meanwhile, Pakistani jet fighters, including F-16s, on Wednesday were flying over Islamabad with live ammunition as a media report said...
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Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Wednesday proposed a much-anticipated anti-corruption bill and another bill to restore integrity to the country's judiciary.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission bill, aimed to take effect in January, was aimed at stamping out corruption in the public and private...
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Suspected Muslim militants freed seven construction workers they seized a week ago on a southern Philippine island, a regional military spokeswoman said Tuesday.
First Lieutenant Esteffani Cacho said the victims were released unharmed on Monday in Tuburan town in Basilan province, 900 kilometres south of Manila.
Cacho said the...
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Private groups in South Korea on Thursday sent balloons carrying tens of thousands of anti-North Korean leaflets over the border with their communist neighbour, flouting the wishes of the South Korean government.
About 100,000 flyers were dispatched Thursday from a mountain near Seoul, the organizers said. Among the messages on the...
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A Saudi Arabian supertanker hijacked by pirates has anchored near the Somali port of Harardhere, but there are no plans to attempt to free the ship and its crew, a Somali official said Tuesday.
The tanker Sirius Star, which was sailing under a Liberian flag, was seized Saturday by Somali pirates 450 nautical miles south-east of the...
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Relatives of the 18 Indian sailors aboard a ship hijacked by Somali pirates two months ago said Monday they were celebrating the release of the ship and were waiting for it to arrive in India's western city of Mumbai.
The Japanese-owned Stolt Valor was freed by the Somali hijackers on Sunday after the ship's owners paid a ransom of...
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Pirates off the coast of Somalia have seized a Chinese fishing boat and 24 crew including Vietnamese, Philippine and Japanese citizens, Chinese state media reported on Friday.
The Chinese vessel was held off the coast of the southern Somali port of Kismanyu late Thursday, the government's official Xinhua news agency reported from...
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Iran has condemned Thursday's kidnapping of an Iranian diplomat in north-western Pakistan, ISNA news agency reported.
"This has been a terrorist act which we harshly condemn," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Ghashgavi said.
Gunmen ambushed a car carrying commercial attache Hashmat Atharzadeh and seized the...
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The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its allies announced nationwide protests against the detention of three former ministers in a graft case, saying it was a ploy to keep the alliance out of the December elections, media reports said Tuesday.
The party's right-wing ally - Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, the country's largest...
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Fatah al-Islam, an al-Qaeda-linked militant movement, on Monday denied any links with the September 27 bomb attack in the Syrian capital that killed 17 people.
"We deny any involvement in the Damascus blast ... and the allegations which were shown on (Syrian) television," Fatah al-Islam said in a statement faxed to the media...
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A consortium of Indian engineering major Larsen and Toubro and Malaysian firm Scomi International have been awarded the contract to build India's first monorail in business hub Mumbai, a company release said.
The consortium will implement the 24.6-billion-rupee (519-million-dollar) project for the Mumbai Metropolitan Development...
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Nelson Mandela on Monday paid tribute to singer and fellow anti-apartheid icon Miriam Makeba, calling her "South Africa's first lady of song."
"The sudden passing of our beloved Miriam has saddened us and our nation," the former South African president and Nobel laureate said.
"It was fitting that her last...
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A Syrian state television broadcast showing people tied to Lebanese organizations confessing to a September Damascus bomb attack is an attempt to smear Lebanese institutions, Lebanese politicians said Friday.
The Thursday-night broadcast showed ten men and a woman alleged to be members of the group Fatah al-Islam confessing to...
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China on Thursday released a well-known dissident after he served more than nine years of a 13-year prison sentence, a Hong Kong-based rights group said.
Veteran activist Liu Xianbin was released from the Chandong prison in the south-western province of Sichuan, the Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said.
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A group of unknown gunmen abducted a French aid worker Monday in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and shot dead an Afghan driver who tried to rescue him, police said.
The Frenchman was kidnapped as he was walking to his office with a colleague, said Zemarai Bashary, an interior ministry spokesman.
The two men, who were working with a...
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Floods and landslides caused by heavy rains killed seven people and displaced tens of thousands of villagers in India's north-eastern states since the weekend, officials and reports said Wednesday.
The rains inundated hundreds of villages in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya states forcing thousands of people to take shelter...
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Asian and European leaders plan to urge Myanmar's military rulers to be more tolerant toward opposition political parties and release political prisoners, according to a draft summit statement seen Friday.
The leaders attending the biennial Asia-Europe Meeting would urge Myanmar to "engage all stakeholders in an inclusive...
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After a series of atrocities against Iraqi Christians in Mosul, around 400 Christians arrived in Syria to escape the harsh conditions of home, according to a statement by a Syrian refugee assistance organization Friday.
In the last few days, some 20 Christian families arrived in the city of Qamhley, which is close to the Syrian-Iraqi...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday said her country wanted to cooperate with China as a key part of efforts to resolve the global financial crisis.
"Cooperation with China is of utmost importance" for Germany, Merkel told reporters after talks on the financial crisis with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.
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His name was familiar to US President George W Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao months before he won the EU's Sakharov prize for human rights, yet just a few years ago China's most prominent dissident was a largely unknown activist for the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS.
Hu Jia's international reputation grew while he...
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Nine Chinese oil workers have been kidnapped by an unknown group in Sudan, state media said on Monday.
The nine workers were seized at an oil field in Southern Kordofan State close to Sudan`s strife-torn Darfur region, the official Xinhua news agency quoted Chinese embassy officials as saying.
No group has claimed responsibility...
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Five children and two German soldiers were killed Monday in a suicide bombing near the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, the governor of Kunduz province said.
Two other children who were playing nearby and two German soldiers were also wounded, Engineer Mohammad Omar said.
The governor said the attacker on a bicycle blew...
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German chemical giant Bayer on Friday formally launched production at a new plant in Shanghai with the capacity to produce 350,000 tons annually of diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI).
"The new world-scale plant is the largest MDI facility of its kind in the world," Bayer said a press release issued in Shanghai.
It...
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India has deployed its navy in the Gulf of Aden near Somalia to protect Indian commercial vessels from pirates as 18 Indian sailors were being held captive by Somali pirates, news reports said Friday.
A warship, INS Tabar, has started patrolling the Gulf of Aden and the number of ships would be increased, a Defence Ministry...
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A British minister on Wednesday arrived in Dhaka to weigh Bangladesh's political situation as it prepares to return to democracy with parliamentary elections slated for December 18.
On his arrival, Lord Mark Malloch Brown - minister of state for Asia, Africa and the United Nations - met with Bangladesh's foreign affairs adviser,...
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 Apple Inc. has launched Leopard
and everyone has been happy. But it seems that this move is somehow similar to
the iPhone experience. After just a few days or weeks since the product has
been released, the troubles have started to appear. In Leopard’s case it seems
that Apple Inc. has hurried to release the new version of its Mac OS...
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 Why is Apple Inc. a tricky one? We
all have known that its iPhone will eventually hit also the European market,
haven’t we? And that’s a normal, obvious thing to happen and everyone knew it. We
all have been also aware of the fact that among the most important markets one
should definitely mention France,
along with Germany and the...
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 Apple Inc. has eventually
announced the release date of its new Macintosh operating system, Leopard. The
new version of the Mac OS X operating system will hit the market starting with
the 26th of October 2007. This way Apple Inc. has eventually ended
all the contradictory rumors that have been floating on the...
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 Leopard represents the next
version of Apple’s Mac OS X operating system, for which’s release the famous
American company has given an October deadline. Apple has announced in April
that it delayed the new version of the popular operating system for an October
launch because it shifted its programmers to iPhone’s development....
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 The rumors have showed up to have
been true: Apple has announced yesterday a new model of iPod! But the company
has not stopped there, and has announced also another thing that really takes
us by surprise: Apple will as well drop the price for its ultimate gadget, the
iPhone!
Steve Jobs’ company has made this
surprising...
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 Apple’s ultimate gadget, the both
famous and controversial iPhone, has appeared to really be a commercial hit for
the company that has created it. According to the market research company
iSuppli, it seems that in July the iPhone has outsold all the other smart
phones in the United States.
It has been also said that in the first...
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 After several weeks of intense
negotiations it seems that Apple Inc. and three top European companies have
reached the final agreements: iPhone has been reported to hit three of Europe’s largest markets to its fans’ delight.
So the first lucky European
markets that are to welcome Apple’s iPhone will be the United Kingdom,...
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 Electronic Arts has announced on
Friday that this week four long-expected Mac OS X game titles will be released.
The announcement comes after the famous game developer and publisher has
delayed the release with a few weeks. So although the gamers have been angered
by the delays, now the four game titles are already available for...
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 Apple Inc. has been the subject
of many analyzes recently. But the most recent prediction has become already a
confusing problem for both annalists (especially JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s
annalists) and clients. Kevin Change, JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s annalist has
said yesterday that Apple Inc. may introduce on the market a phone...
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 With World Wide Developers’ Conference just around the corner, analysts have already begun speculating on what this important event will bring for Apple’s shaken up stocks.PiperJaffray analyst Gene Munster, cited by Appleinsider.com, said on Wednesday that an official launch of the craved iPhone is out of the question, since WWDC is...
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 On Wednesday, during the GSMA Mobile world Congress in
Barcelona, the Chinese phone manufacturer ZTE announced that it would release a
phone model that is powered by solar cells.
The phone is called the Coral-200-Solar and it has been
designed and engineered by ZTE in cooperation with Digicel and Intivation. According
to a...
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 On Wednesday, at a press conference in Taipei city, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) unveiled the Puma notebook platform, that features the AMD Turion X2 Ultra dual-core ‘Griffin’ mobile processors and ATI Radeon HD 3000 series graphics. According to AMD, the new technology will bring users "the ultimate HD visual performance and...
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 On Tuesday, at the Computex electronics show, Micro-Star International (MSI) launched the Wind mini-desktop PC and the Wind mini-laptop.When comparing the Wind desktop to a traditional PC, the former stands out with two major advantages: size and power consumption. Its dimensions are 300mm by 260mm by 65mm and, for running at full...
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 On Monday, microprocessor giant Intel Corp has signed a multi-year contract with supercomputer maker Cray Inc.; the goal of this collaboration is to develop a new range of HPC systems and technologies. A specific launch date hasn’t been officially made public yet, but the first Intel-Cray supercomputers are expected to be ready around...
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 On Tuesday (Earth Day), at the Fortune Brainstorm conference in Pasadena, California, Dell announced "the company's smallest and most environmentally-responsible consumer desktop PC."This comes after the announcement made by the company on World Environment Day last year, when the idea of a partnership between Dell and...
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 The final specifications and prices of newcomer Asus Eee PC 900 in the UK have been made public, including the operating systems the laptop supports, namely Linux or Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP Home. On Tuesday Asustek Computer Inc. unveiled the new 900 that comes with an 8.9-inch display running at a resolution of 1,024 by 600 pixels,...
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 The popular Japanese company Sony
announced on Thursday that it would update PlayStation 3’s Blu-ray technology
in a move that would add nice interactive features to movies played in the high
def format and not only. Thanks to the new upgrade people will also become able
to download games, video content and even ring tones to their...
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 The popular company VMware has
announced on Monday the details of its upcoming Virtual Infrastructure 3.5. Among
the features the company has announced one could find also the experimental
feature with the help of which the servers will independently shut down if they
are not necessary anymore.
This special feature has...
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 Microsoft has recently announced
it is to release later this month the first publicly available pre-beta code of
its Windows Server Virtualization hypervisor based virtualization system. The
CTP, or community technology preview, will be released at the same time with
the company’s starting to ship also its new beta release of Windows...
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 As next week Intel will be in the
spotlight because of its Intel Developer Forum meeting from San Francisco, the
annalists and not only have started to ask themselves what the Advance Micro
Devices’ rival company is preparing to announce. Because huge companies that
organize such meetings and focus on major business goals have always...
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 Following IBM’s example with BladeCenter S, HP Co. has recently released its own blade chassis especially created for the mid-sized companies. The BladeSystem c3000, or “Shorty”, as it has been codenamed by HP, has been created for smaller technology sites, remote locations and branch offices and, according to HP Co., its implementation...
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 Excepting two brand new web cam
models, Microsoft Corp. has announced yesterday also its releasing three new
models of notebook mice. The Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000, the Wireless
Notebook Mouse 7000 and the Mobile Memory Mouse 8000 have been all presented by
Microsoft as the ultimate mice that aim to reduce the touchpad fatigue of...
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 Sony has recently announced four
models of some new Blu-ray disc recorders, which will add to the Blu-ray “weapons”
that are battling against the HD DVD’s similar devices. Sony and other
important companies such as the Panasonic maker Matsushita Electric Industrial
promote the Blu-ray format and the compatible technology against the...
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 Advanced Micro Devices, known better
as AMD, has eventually announced its launching the much expected Barcelona chip. This way
the old rivalry between AMD and Intel, the leading microprocessor makers worldwide,
will be fed with a new device. AMD’s latest product is a quad-core processor
that the company created for the server market...
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 At least this is the impression the North American HD DVD Promotional Group wants you to have, after their recent announcement concerning sales for the US territory.According to their press release, HD DVD players now hold 60% of the HD players market, with HD DVD movies reaching an all time high for the month of May, more than 75,000...
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 Dell revealed yesterday their latest creation for the enthusiastic (and extremely rich) clientele, the XPS 720 H2C Edition- factory overcloked.The XPS 720 H2C comes with at least 2GB of RAM from Corsair (the DOMINATOR EPP high-end series) which have a default FSB of 800 MHz, but are pushed by Dell to no less than 1066MHz (and that speed...
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 On Thursday, the latest version of the increasingly popular Ubuntu Linux was released, as the beta-test period has come to an end. Ubuntu 8.04, nick-named "Hardy Heron," is available in two versions for both server systems and desktops. This new release, the second Long Term Support (LTS) product of Canonical, features a series...
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 The popular Ubuntu open-source
community has launched on Thursday the 7.10 version of its famous Linux
operating system. The new version features more user-friendly updates, although
it is still not known how the new operating system will get along with
non-technical consumers.
The “Gutsy Gibbon”, as Ubuntu
7.10 has been...
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 After months of hopes and a final confirmation, Dell will finally release later on Thursday the first three hardware systems that are working under Ubuntu-Linux’s umbrella.Ubuntu 7.04 (also known as Feisty Fawn) will arrived pre-installed on the XPS 410n and Dimension E520n desktops and the Inspiron E1505n notebook.According to Dell,...
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 Dell’s official blog has recently updated eager Linux customers about the latest major advancements in providing Dell machines with Ubuntu Feisty Fawn pre-installed, and things look pretty well.John Hull, Manager of Linux OS Technologies at Dell, posted on Dell’s official blog what appears to be the last update concerning what customers...
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| Australian tourism officials are hoping that a new advertising campaign linked to the feature film Australia, starring local actors Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, will bring visitors flocking to the continent.
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