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The Washington Post sports McGahee Is Ready For His Close-Up Willis McGahee is excited to show his new teammates what he can do in his first "Monday Night Football" appearance when the Ravens face the Bengals.
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Yahoo Sports Yanks Meet Beltran; Johnson Deal Collapses (AP) AP - Confident their deal to acquire Randy Johnson had been finalized, top Yankees' officials headed to Florida on Tuesday to see Carlos Beltran. By the time their meeting with the star outfielder was over, the trade for the Big Unit had fallen through.
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People's Daily Online Chinese team at the opening ceremony of Athens Paralympic Members of the Chinese Paralympic team parade during the opening ceremony of the 12th Paralympic Games at the Athens Olympic stadium, Greece, September 17, 2004.
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CBC News Libyan leader Gadhafi hosts mini-summit on Sudan's Darfur conflict Saying they hoped African leaders could solve what the United Nations calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis without sanctions, the leaders of Egypt, Chad, Nigeria and Libya discussed the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region with the
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BBC News world Australia navy in breast op row Australia's opposition Labor Party questions the Navy for paying for breast implants for female sailors.
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New York Times world The Pour: Too Much Alcohol or Just Right? Adam Tolmach of Ojail Vineyard says his wines have too much alcohol, or does he?.
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The Motley Fool NOV Is Good Enough for Me Business is brisk for this drilling equipment dynamo.
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RedNova science Tetra Tech Wins Nationwide USCG/DHS Purchase Agreement Valued at Up to $80 Million Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTEK) announced today
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BBC News world Brown pushes tsunami debt relief The chancellor presses the G8 to freeze all debts owed by countries hit by the Asian tsunami disaster, the BBC learns.
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Reuters AlertNet Appeals for help as hundreds dead, thousands of families stranded <b>...</b> Nearly 300 people are dead and thousands of families stranded in three coastal municipalities in Quezon province (Real, General Nakar and Infanta) in the aftermath of tropical depression Winnie, according to the most recent reports from the Department of
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New York Times Priest's Arrest Fuels Anger of Supporters of Aristide Human rights groups in Haiti and abroad are protesting the detention of the Rev. Gérard Jean-Juste, a well-known Roman Catholic priest and vocal supporter
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InfoWorld Business Siebel to acquire edocs for $115 million Siebel Systems has agreed to acquire edocs, a maker of e-billing and customer self-service applications, for $115 million, Siebel said Friday.
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Forbes Complete Coverage: Inside The Yahoo! Deal Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Web portal Yahoo!. News, commentary and analysis.
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BBC News world Madagascar braced for cyclone People in Madagascar are braced for a tropical cyclone which is expected to make landfall in the north-east.
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Washington Post Business FBI Wiretaps Dropped Due to Unpaid Bills The FBI, which has had trouble keeping track of its guns and laptops, also has a chronic problem paying its phone bills on time, according to audit results released yesterday.
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Reuters Business Tough US-Korea trade talks end in disappointment SEATTLE (Reuters) - U.S. and South Korean officials expressed disappointment on Saturday at the progress made during four days of tough trade negotiations aimed at clinching a proposed free trade agreement between the two countries.
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Reuters World Libya Signs to Pay $35 Mln to Berlin Bomb Victims TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya signed a deal on Friday to pay $35 million in compensation for more than 160 victims of a Berlin nightclub bombing in 1986, taking another major step toward ending its international isolation.
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The News Journal American Airlines cuts flights DALLAS -- American Airlines is reducing flights and considering charging for onboard food amid increasing fuel prices and intensifying competition from low-cost carriers, the company's chairman and chief executive said Thursday.
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BBC News world Ballet tribute for Gianni Versace A specially-written ballet will be performed in Milan to mark the 10th anniversary of Gianni Versace's death.
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RedNova technology Look Ahead BRIEFLY FCC member tepid on al a carte cable NEW YORK - Robert McDowell, the newest member of the Federal Communications Commission, on Tuesday said he didn't see a compelling need for cable TV operators to sell channels individually. Mr.
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Yahoo World Hawks attacks latest scourge in Rio (AP) AP - Residents of crime-plagued Rio de Janeiro have a new kind of predator to worry about — hawks.
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San Francisco Chronicle UNDATED: for Dallas. The expansion Bobcats won on the road for the first time, getting 21 points and 11 rebounds from rookie Emeka Okafor. Charlotte, a loser in its first 10 road games, got a season sweep over
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Yahoo World Egypt coach gets vote of confidence ahead of Nations Cup final (AFP) AFP - Egypt coach Hassan Shehata has received a timely boost 24 hours before his bid to become only the second manager to capture consecutive African Nations Cup titles.
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Reuters Sports Lecavalier leads red-hot Lightning to victory over Coyotes MIAMI (Reuters) - Vincent Lecavalier maintained his great run of form with a pair of goals and an assist as the Tampa Bay Lightning won for the 13th time in 16 games, downing the Phoenix Coyotes 5-3 in Florida on Tuesday.
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Boston Globe business Hurricanes fail to dampen economy The US economy continued to grow in the early fall despite being buffeted by rising energy costs and hurricanes, the Federal Reserve said yesterday, providing its last snapshot of business conditions before Election Day.
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New York Times Business Strike Means Fewer Places for Stars to Pitch Movies As striking screenwriters keep late-night talk shows in reruns, Hollywood publicists have been scrambling to find new ways to promote star-driven movies.
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InfoWorld news Iomega to buy China-gov't owned storage maker Storage hardware vendor Iomega has signed a deal to buy sister hardware vendors indirectly owned by the Chinese government in an effort to expand the company's product line. Iomega will purchase ExcelStor Great Wall Technology, a Cayman Islands company, and Shenzhen ExcelStor Technology, a Chinese company, in a stock deal expected to close in mid-2008, said Thomas Kampfer, Iomega president and chief operating officer. The deal would nearly quadruple the size of Iomega with its revenue going from $300 million a year to about $1.1 billion a year, and the number of employees growing from less than 300 to about 3,000, Kampfer said. ExcelStor has built Iomega's Rev removable hard drive products since 2004, and more recently, it has built Iomega-branded USB hard drives, Kampfer said. The acquisition will help Iomega branch out into new products, he said, although the company isn't yet announcing what new products it's looking at. "For quite some time ... we've felt that we have a really great brand," Kampfer said. "We've been searching for ways to expand our product line and gain access to more products, to move ourselves beyond external storage. We haven't had the resources -- we haven't had the development resources, we haven't had the marketing resources. We just aren't big enough." In the deal, Iomega will issue about 84 million shares of its stock, worth about $139 million, in exchange for all outstanding ExcelStor shares. The deal would be one of the first times a U.S. company has acquired a company owned by the Chinese government, according to Iomega. The boards of directors at both Iomega and ExcelStor have approved the deal. The purchase must be approved by the Chinese government and shareholders. ExcelStor, which produces more than 20 million devices a year, designs and manufactures digital storage hardware, including hard drives and security storage products. The company sells its products under its own brand and also to original equipment manufacturers. In 2006, ExcelStor had revenue of $707.1 million, according to Iomega. ExcelStor is a subsidiary of Great Wall Technology Co. (GWT), a publicly traded company that manufactures computers and creates software and related products. GWT is an indirect subsidiary of China Electronics Corp., which is owned by the Chinese government. After the deal is completed, GWT and its affiliates will own about 43 percent of Iomega's stock, making GWT its largest shareholder. China Electronics indirectly owns 62 percent of GWT. Jonathan Huberman will continue as CEO of Iomega, and Kampfer will remain as president and COO, the company said. Eddie Lui, currently CEO of ExcelStor, will become executive chairman of Iomega.
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RedNova technology Laptops Can Be a Pain ; Rise in Backache Linked to Portable PCs BOOMING sales of laptops have led to a surge in the number of computer users with back and muscle problems, experts warned yesterday. Girls as young as 12 are being diagnosed with nerve damage caused by slouching over screens, a group of leading chiropractors said.
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Reuters Sports NBA Wrap: Pistons Down Cavs, Bulls Eclipse Bucks NEW YORK (Reuters) - Richard Hamilton posted 21 points to propel the Detroit Pistons to an 81-69 triumph over the Cleveland Cavaliers at Auburn Hills, Michigan Thursday.
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BBC News world China NY Times man loses appeal A Chinese researcher for the New York Times loses his appeal in a Beijing court against a three-year jail term for fraud.
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Forbes Update 2: Oil Prices Rise Above $43 Before Meeting The price of crude oil climbed in European trading Monday, edging back over $43 per barrel on fears that the producer cartel OPEC may cut production to stem a recent price drop.
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News24 'Peace is key to independence' Ramallah - Presidential election frontrunner Mahmud Abbas urged Palestinians to abandon the armed intifada on Sunday, saying that independence could only be achieved through peaceful means.
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The Register Apple to launch movie downloads site? iMovies could be coming to a (very small) screen near you Apple will debut a new video download service tomorrow, if the rumours currently spooling around the industry proves correct.

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Reuters World Sri Lanka bus blast kills 24 as truce scrapped COLOMBO (Reuters) - A roadside bomb tore through a Sri Lankan bus killing 24 people and wounding dozens on Wednesday, officials said, as a six-year ceasefire between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels formally expires.
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Yahoo Tech French lawmakers approve 'iTunes law' (AP) AP - French lawmakers gave final approval Friday to legislation that could force Apple Computer Inc. to make its iPod and iTunes Music Store compatible with rivals' music players and online services.
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Yahoo Business Rogue trader Kerviel appeals against detention (Reuters) Reuters - Lawyers for Jerome Kerviel, the rogue trader blamed by French bank Societe Generale for huge losses, lodged an appeal against his detention, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Wednesday.
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Reuters Business Hyundai Motor union scales back strike plan SEOUL (Reuters) - Unionized workers at Hyundai Motor Co. , South Korea's top auto maker, have scaled back a plan for work stoppages this week but will still hold a limited strike on Thursday and Friday, a company official said.
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Reuters Business Lenovo's Q3 profit jumps HONG KONG (Reuters) - Lenovo Group Ltd. posted its strongest pace of quarterly earnings growth since it bought IBM's loss-making PC arm in 2005, as the world's No. 3 PC maker cemented Asian market share and held costs down.
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Computerworld news HP execs face angry Congress on boardroom scandal Hewlett-Packard Co.'s CEO, Mark Hurd, and former board chairman Patricia Dunn this morning faced an angry congressional subcommittee looking into the legality of efforts by HP to plug boardroom leaks.
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Reuters World France, US, unable to confirm report bin Laden dead PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - France and the United States said on Saturday they could not confirm a report that Osama bin Laden had died and France launched a probe into how a secret document containing the claim was leaked.
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Reuters Business OPEC to cut oil output by 500,000 bpd from Feb 1 ABUJA (Reuters) - OPEC has agreed an oil output cut of 500,000 barrels per day, or two percent, delayed until February1 when the northern winter is ending, Qatar's oil minister said on Thursday, sending oil prices more than a dollar higher.
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New York Times sports Jets QB passes test, return near On his first day back under center with the first-team offense, Chad Pennington went for it all.
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Reuters Business Bond insurer plan may inject positive note NEW YORK (Reuters) - Efforts to rescue a distraught U.S. bond insurance industry could inject a positive note on Wall Street but the economic data and earnings reports on tap for this week are unlikely to change a downward trend for stocks.
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National Geographic Society T. Rex, Other Big Dinosaurs Could Swim, New Evidence Suggests A set of grooves found in a Cretaceous-era lakebed in Spain confirms the long-held belief that large, predatory dinosaurs—such as T. rex —could swim.
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Forbes Planet Pop Welcome to the global zeitgeist.
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The Scotsman Customers quit Centrica as prices rise Story in full CENTRICA, the utility company that owns Scottish Gas, admitted today that it had lost 630,000 customers after increasing prices.
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Yahoo Sports D'backs Hire Gebhard As General Manager (AP) AP - Former Colorado general manager Bob Gebhard was hired Wednesday as assistant general manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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RedNova space TOP 10; DAVID LETTERMAN; 'Top Ten Signs an Astronaut; is Trying to Kill You' On Monday, we learned that astronaut Lisa Nowak drove from Houston to Orlando, Fla., to confront a woman she believed was romantically involved with a space shuttle pilot Nowak professes to love. By Tuesday night late-night talk show host David Letterman had a list from out of this world.
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The Motley Fool Big Displays in Little Gadgets This is going to take crackerjack timing.
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Boston Globe sports Chair Umpire Who Blew Call Out at Open The chair umpire who mistakenly overruled a call against Serena Williams in her quarterfinal loss to Jennifer Capriati was released from all duties.
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Reuters World Attracting the grey yen a hard sell for corporate Japan TOKYO (Reuters) - When Hisashi Negishi retired, he paid off his mortgage and bought himself a $6,000 flat panel TV and a new car to last the rest of his life. That was two years ago. Since then, he hasn't bought much of anything.
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PCWorld news Sony Ericsson Launches 2 Walkman, 2 Camera Phones All four models will be on sale in the second half of this year worldwide.
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Yahoo Business Stocks to ride robust earnings wave (Reuters) Reuters - Stock market bulls are betting strong second-quarter profits will send equities even higher with the earnings reporting season in full swing this week.
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New York Times sports NHL proposal is rejected The NHL's latest salary-cap proposal to end the seasonlong lockout was rejected yesterday by the players' union, which came back with its own idea: Bring commissioner Gary Bettman to the bargaining table.
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FansFC.com West Bromwich Albion Football Club midfielder retires from <b>...</b> Andy Johnson has decided to end his Wales career and concentrate on his West Bromwich Albion Football Club position. Johnson has won 14 caps for Wales, the last of which came against Latvia in a friendly in August.
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Boston Globe business Hospital chain agrees to buyout Triad Hospitals Inc. , under pressure from its biggest stockholder to raise the share price, agreed to be acquired by CCMP Capital Advisors and a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. unit for $4.7 billion.
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Yahoo Sports Shaq Shines As Heat Beat Bobcats 97-87 (AP) AP - Shaquille O'Neal had 32 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Miami Heat to their fifth straight victory, 97-87 over Charlotte on Friday night.
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Yahoo World Web Site: American Hostage Killed in Iraq (AP) AP - A Web site posting Monday claimed that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group has beheaded one of the American hostages in Iraq and that others would soon be killed. The claim could not be verified.
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Yahoo Sports Colts Lock Up Harrison Long Term (Reuters) Reuters - The Indianapolis Colts signed wide receiver All-Pro Marvin Harrison to a long-term contract extension Thursday.
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CNN/SI New Orleans Saints Aaron Brooks threw a 16-yard touchdown pass to Donte' Stallworth with 61 seconds remaining as the New Orleans Saints escaped with a 30-27 victory over the San Francisco 49ers.
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BBC News Business Ex-HP head faces criminal charges Hewlett Packard's former chairwoman Patricia Dunn faces criminal charges along with four others.
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Yahoo World British paper reveals video of U.S. "friendly fire" (Reuters) Reuters - A British newspaper published transcripts on Tuesday of what it said was a cockpit video recording from a U.S. warplane at the center of an inquest into "friendly fire" in Iraq in which a British soldier was killed.
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MSNBC Spitzer seen suing Universal Life Resources NEW YORK - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who is probing bid-rigging in the insurance industry, expects to file suit against health insurance consultant Universal Life Resources as early as Friday, a spokesman for his office said.
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ComputerWeekly.com ZigBee low-power wireless standard ratified The ZigBee Alliance, an industry standards group dedicated to promoting low-power wireless networks, ratified the first ZigBee specification this week.
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WTVO Pullout ordered from refugee camp JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has ordered a troop pullout from a refugee camp in Gaza. The order could signal an end to a two-week offensive in northern Gaza that has left more than 100 Palestinians dead.
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ABC Online Stand-in skipper does the job for Pakistan Pakistan's improved batting flourished in an entertaining partnership between Yousuf Youhana and Younis Khan, who added a record 192 runs for the fourth wicket.
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Yahoo World Israeli Arab Charged With Spying for Iran (AP) AP - An Israeli Arab has been arrested on charges of spying for Iran, a police spokesman said Tuesday, underscoring growing Israeli-Iranian tensions.
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Economic Times Heat is on...Oceans could rise by a meter by 2100 Global warming is melting the Arctic ice faster than expected, and the world's oceans could rise by about a meter by 2100, swamping homes from Bangladesh to Florida, the head of a study said.
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Channel News Asia NY oil prices fall as storm worries wane NEW YORK : Oil prices retreated in New York and rose marginally in London as worries about the impact of Hurricane Frances subsided, traders said.
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Time World In Venezuela, It's Vote for Chavez -- Or Else With only two weeks to go until election day, the radical leftist leader is fending off his opponents with a divide and conquer strategy
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The Motley Fool Let's Get Going With VOD Video-on-demand has been undergoing an interminable maturation process.
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Turkish Press France and Germany escape EU deficit doghouse BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Union executive body dropped disciplinary action against serial deficit offenders France and Germany, ending a three-year standoff that left the eurozone's budget rules crippled.
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New York Times sports Olowokandi makes surprise appearance There was a verifiable Michael Olowokandi sighting yesterday as the Celtics endured yet another Media Day. To say it was a bit of a surprise would be an understatement.
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CBC News Shark-attack victim's family opposes kill order ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - The father of an Australian teenager ripped in half by a shark while swimming at an Adelaide beach says he opposes plans to kill the creature.
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The Register Phone win for Apple QuickTime makes headway
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Hi Pakistan Fresh floods kill at least 26 in Philippines (09:40 PST) MANILA: Floods and landslides caused by heavy rains killed at least 26 people in the northern and central Philippines, disaster officials said on Tuesday, a week after storms left about 160 dead or missing.
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The Motley Fool AOB Supplements Itself American Oriental Bioengineering makes an acquisition.
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Yahoo Business Kmart wraps sale of 50 stores to Sears (AFP) AFP - Kmart Holding Corporation, parent company of the discount retail chain, said it had finalized the sale of 50 stores to Sears, Roebuck and Co for 575.9 million dollars in cash.
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Reuters World Zoe Ark leader: France knew about children "rescue" N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - The leader of a French aid group accused of trying to kidnap 103 African children in Chad told a court on Friday France's government had known from the start about the group's plans to rescue war orphans from Darfur.
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MSNBC Philly can dominate weak NFC The Philadelphia Eagles have been to the past three NFC championship games, so they aren’t incompetent. Andy Reid, a grumble bunny, was named coach of the year twice, so he isn’t the Ron Zook of the NFL.
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Boston Globe business AT&T in settlement over erroneous bills After being caught using phony bills as a way to pressure Massachusetts consumers to sign up for telephone service, AT&T Corp. yesterday agreed to a $565,000 settlement with state prosecutors and utility regulators.
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Xinhua Italy govt set to begin European Constitution ratification The government, keen to make Italy the first country to ratify the EU constitutional treaty, was setto greenlight the necessary bill in a cabinet meeting late Friday afternoon.
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Washington Post Business One Candidate and the Economy Now that there's no denying that the U.S. economy is badly shaken, the presidential candidates are highlighting their ideas on how to fix things.
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Forbes Red Hat, Unisys Announce Partnership Linux publisher Red Hat Inc. said Tuesday that information-technology consulting firm Unisys Corp. will begin offering a business version of the company's open-source operating system on its servers.
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Reuters World Iran, EU see further nuclear talks by end-Nov ROME (Reuters) - Iranian negotiators and the EU hope for more talks on Iran's nuclear program in coming weeks after a "constructive" meeting on Tuesday, despite a warning by Iran's president that his country would not retreat "one iota".
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The Scotsman Iraqi gunmen kill foreigners in car and cut head off one of their <b>...</b> GUNMEN attacked a car in the Iraq city of Mosul yesterday, killing three foreigners and their Iraqi driver before cutting off the head of one of the victims.
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New York Times Business A.I.G. Says It Is Target of Midwest Inquiry A.I.G. disclosed that it was the target of an investigation over its role in helping a Midwest cellphone distributor cover up millions in business losses.
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RedNova space Space Station-Shuttle a Rare Viewing By ROY A. BAHLS BY ROY A. BAHLS THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT Weather permitting, local sky watchers are in for some prime viewing of the international s pace s tation and space shuttle Discovery as they streak overhead.
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CSMonitor World Colombians tell FARC: 'Enough's enough' In a march organized on Facebook, hundreds of thousands protested against the leftist rebel group Monday.
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CBS Sportsline Wolves recall CBA days SIOUX FALLS, SD Timberwolves coach Flip Saunders walked into Sioux Falls Arena before Friday's game against the New York Knicks and promptly said, "Not much has changed.
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Yahoo World Egyptian convicted of spying for Israel dies in jail (Reuters) Reuters - An Egyptian engineer who was convicted in 2002 of spying for Israel has died in jail of a possible heart attack while serving a 15-year sentence, Egyptian security sources said on Monday.
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New York Times sports Rattlers defuse Cannons Even a national audience (and the presence of Tom Menino) couldn't save the Cannons' season.
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RedNova technology Evolve Technologies Demonstrates How Businesses Can Communicate and Share Computer Resources More Effectively With Remote Branch Offices Evolve Technologies: WHAT: Companies with branch offices often find it challenging to communicate with employees and connect company resources at remote locations.
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Reuters Tech Microsoft's Cut-Down Windows Set for More Markets SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O said on Thursday it will begin shipping a low-cost version of its Windows XP operating system to three Asian countries and Russia within weeks, tapping developing markets as growth slows elsewhere.
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International Herald Tribune Russia's risky business The White House deserves kudos for protesting the sale of the main production unit of the Russian oil giant Yukos by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to a company that no one had ever heard of before.
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Computerworld news 'Obama Girl,' Britney boy top YouTube videos for '07 "Obama Girl," a tearful defense of Britney Spears and an attack by a herd of buffaloes on a pride of lions were among the most popular video clips on YouTube.com this year.
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Yahoo Sports Neville says no more excyses for England (AP) AP - Gary Neville is tired of the explanations that follow England's exits at major championships. The Manchester United defender says England must deliver this time in Germany — with or without Wayne Rooney.
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Boston Globe sports Singh Leads, but Leonard Is Following Avoiding the late trouble that knocked other contenders off track, Vijay Singh held a one-stroke lead over Justin Leonard heading into the final round of the P.G.A. Championship.
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BCC Technology Paedophile ring smashed by police More than 30 children are rescued from possible abuse after police smash an international paedophile ring.
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Albawaba Middle East News Three Palestinians die in Gaza Strip Palestinian sources reported early Saturday that a civilian died of wounds he sustained earlier when Israeli forces raided Khan Younis city a week ago.
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