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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that imposes severe restrictions on beer advertising across the country, the presidential website said Tuesday. | 0Business
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CERLER, Spain (Reuters) - Russian Denis Menchov of the Rabobank squad took the overall lead of the Tour of Spain after finishing second to Italian Leonardo Piepoli on Sunday's mountainous ninth stage. | 8Sports
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Albeit several days after an official deadline had already passed, negotiators for law enforcement officials in the US and Europe have agreed to resume a controversial program in which the personal data of European airline passengers traveling into the US may now be shared with US officials. | 7Software and Developement
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A target missile successfully blasted off from the Kodiak Launch Complex at 8:45 pm Tuesday, but the interceptor it was meant to test failed to launch from the Kwajalein Atoll in the central | 1Entertainment
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Finally healthy, Virginia Tech running back Cedric Humes is set to start for the Hokies in their opener against the top-ranked Trojans. | 8Sports
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Why is there a discrepancy between the advertised capacity of an external hard drive and what the computer reports? | 6Sci/Tech
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Third-quarter profit for Research in Motion more than doubled on strong demand for its BlackBerry smart phones and related services by consumers and businesses. | 0Business
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Speaking at a campaign rally in Iowa on Tuesday, Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards declared if his running mate Sen. John F. Kerry (D-MA) is elected president, then they "will | 1Entertainment
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Newcastle United trounced Sochaux 4-0 to stay on course for the next phase of the UEFA Cup. After weathering an early storm, Newcastle ran riot as Lee Bowyer, Shola Ameobi, Craig Bellamy and Laurent Robert all struck for the Magpies. | 8Sports
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Campaigning for his wife, Bill Clinton has been drawing sleepy and sometimes smallish crowds in the state that revived his 1992 presidential bid. | 13World
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The Shipman Inquiry investigated the deaths in the early 1970s of 137 hospital patients, it has been revealed. | 2Europe
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In trattativa si discutera' di ammortizzatori sociali | 4Italia
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Reuters - U.S. stocks tumbled on Tuesday, with
the Nasdaq closing at a one-month low, after the Federal
Reserve said in minutes from a December meeting that interest
rates remained too low to contain inflation. | 0Business
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If there was ever a time to feel sorry for a corporate titan like Sony (NYSE: SNE) it may have been last month when rival movie studios announced that they would be supporting Toshiba's HD-DVD technology in upcoming releases over the promising Blu-ray | 6Sci/Tech
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AMERICAN Chris Byrd retained his International Boxing Federation heavyweight title in New York today with a 12-round split decision over compatriot Jameel McCline. | 1Entertainment
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John Walker Lindh asked President Bush on Tuesday to commute his 20-year prison sentence for aiding the Taliban. His lawyer, James Brosnahan, said that Lindh was fighting | 11Top Stories
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Reuters - Major powers enmeshed in a diplomatic
tangle over the future of Serbia's breakaway Kosovo province
are trying to free themselves by prompting either the Serbs or
the Kosovo Albanians to propose partition. | 2Europe
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Indonesia's president, Megawati Sukarnoputri, appears soundly beaten as vote counting continues from last Monday's presidential elections. | 11Top Stories
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A scandal-tainted minister in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet committed suicide on Monday, compounding problems for the Japanese leader whose support has slumped ahead of a July election. | 10Top News
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Broadband provider ranks No. 1 in marketing research firm's 2007 customer satisfaction study published Wednesday. | 6Sci/Tech
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PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba - Hurricane Ivan slammed into Cuba's sparsely populated western tip with the worst of its 160-mph eyewall, growing to a storm of catastrophic strength after it smashed giant waves onto Grand Cayman island and readied to strike the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. oil interests... | 13World
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Leading Iraqi political parties have called for forthcoming elections to be delayed because of mounting violence in the country. Fifteen political parties - including two Kurdish groups | 11Top Stories
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Additions to the new Asterisk Version 1.4 include support for GoogleTalk and Cisco's IP phone protocol, as well as several other protocol and application support upgrades. | 6Sci/Tech
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In tense times, any moves to reduce military tensions provide the world some relief. China and Taiwan seem to be turning down the heat. | 13World
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The lady who in September 2005 called Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's claim in a BusinessWeek article that his company would eventually "win the Web" "deplorable in the light of what the Web means to the world, to users, to designers and developers and to put it into Microsoft parlance, customers," now finds herself working for him. | 7Software and Developement
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The French post-modernist sociologist and philosopher, Jean Baudrillard, dies in Paris aged 77. | 2Europe
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Mac fans, known for their devotion to buying the latest and greatest from Apple Computer, are also apparently interested in themselves as well. | 6Sci/Tech
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By Christopher S. Rugaber Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Scams playing off the well-known brand names of online retailers such as Amazon.com and Overstock.com are among the latest get-rich-quick schemes bilking consumers of millions of dollars, federal regulators warned Tuesday. | 6Sci/Tech
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Per 10,6 miliardi di euro acquisita la quota di Bertarelli | 4Italia
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Reuters - Removing Zimbabwe President Robert
Mugabe would not automatically deliver democracy to the
troubled African nation, said opposition leader Morgan
Tsvangirai. | 13World
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Even though he pitched one of his best games of the season yesterday, allowing just two runs and seven hits, it went down as a loss for Josh Beckett. | 8Sports
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Dr Rowan Williams remains under pressure to resign despite efforts to clarify his Sharia law comments. | 2Europe
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Witness accounts after huge waves triggered by an earthquake devastated Asia. | 2Europe
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov praised a revised draft U.N. Security Council resolution on Iran, which Britain and France plan to introduce on Monday. | 10Top News
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(AGI) - Roma, 19 nov. - Vaccinarsi contro l'influenza costera' meno: il prezzo del vaccino, infatti, per anziani e bambini, sara' ridotto. Lo ha annunciato il ministro della Salute Girolamo Sirchia a conclusione | 4Italia
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Tell It to the Dust by Anders Parker | 5Music Feeds
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In passerella il tocco piu' aggiornato della moda femminile | 4Italia
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Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum in New York granted Martha Stewart's request to be assigned to a prison camp in Danbury, Connecticut. | 0Business
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Read full story for latest details. | 10Top News
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-4.9% secondo indagine congiunturale Camera di Commercio | 4Italia
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HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - An exchange of small arms fire at an army base in Afghanistan's western city of Herat on Monday killed four Afghan soldiers, a spokeswoman for the provincial governor said. | 13World
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Slog through the gunk of Darling the grease processor, and you'll find a gem of an investment. | 0Business
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In the three years she has lived in Paris as the wife of the British ambassador, Lady Penny Holmes has been on the receiving end of Gallic suspicion towards British food. | 2Europe
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AP - Annika Sorenstam gets pep talks from Tiger Woods and awe from her opponents. When she was done with Pat Hurst in their U.S. Women's Open playoff, there was nothing for the runner-up to do but ask for an autograph. | 8Sports
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OSCAR de la Hoyaâs dreams of becoming the world middleweight champion were ended in Las Vegas on Saturday night by two bodyshots from Bernard Hopkins, as his step up in weight proved too much. | 11Top Stories
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Il premier elogia l'azione degli inquirenti e si dice certo della sconfitta dell'organizzazione Il sindacato, ancora sotto shock per le infiltrazioni brigatiste, manifesta a Milano
Br, Prodi ottimista: "Inferto un colpo fatale" La Fiom in piazza contro il terrorismo
Dal centrosinistra inviti a non abbassare la guardia e a restare compatti Ma Forza Italia e Lega attaccano: "Ipocriti, avete sempre demonizzato gli avversari"
(18:33 13/02/2007) | 4Italia
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FedEx and UPS are being hit by fuel costs and a soft economy. Is it time to shelve them? | 0Business
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AP - Steve Trachsel won his seventh straight start, and the New York Mets used a four-run fourth inning to defeat the Chicago Cubs 6-3 on Friday. | 8Sports
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The suspension of Chiron's flu vaccine has not only cost it three-quarters in expected profits, but also some credibility. | 6Sci/Tech
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AP - Intel Corp., facing slowing demand for personal computers and stiffer competition, is selling its division that makes processors for handheld devices in a $600 million deal announced Tuesday with Marvell Technology Group Ltd. | 6Sci/Tech
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No players are pictured on the front or back covers of the Montana football media guide. Displayed instead are images of the two NCAA championship trophies the Grizzlies have won | 8Sports
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IBMÂ executives looking for a buyer for their company's PC business most likely did not spend time in Round Rock, Texas. Speaking at a press conference at OpenWorld on Tuesday, Dell founder and Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell said that his company's U.S. facilities give them an edge against other North American vendors. | 0Business
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The Red Cross has accused President George Bush's administration of overseeing the intentional physical and psychological torture of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. | 11Top Stories
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AdWeek.com - Over the weekend, BBC Radio 1 kicked off the U.K. festival season with "The Big Weekend" in Dundee, Scotland, featuring acts like Pink, Snow Patrol and Mylo. But not all fans who caught the show did so in the real world. Instead, the BBC simulcast the concert on an island it created in Second Life, an online virtual world, where fans could listen to the music, mingle, dance, even dive down a mudslide—all with no lines for the bathroom. | 1Entertainment
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If you want your money to grow, don't leave it in the 17th best place. | 0Business
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Ingorgo in pista sullo scalo milanese risolto dopo un'ora | 4Italia
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The Boston Red Sox have won the American League Championship Series and are heading to the World Series for the first time since 1986. | 11Top Stories
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Nigerian rebels fighting for sovereignty of the oil-producing Niger delta told oil companies in the world's seventh largest exporter to shut production before they begin an "all-out war" on Oct. 1. | 11Top Stories
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Some US troops could be sent home if security conditions improve, president says. | 10Top News
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Oil rose as Nigeria, the world top oil exporter, sees the call for a strike later this month. December crude oil lifted 24 cents to $52. | 0Business
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Reuters - Among pregnant women with type
1 diabetes, the incidence of mild or severe declines in blood
glucose (hypoglycemia) is highest in early pregnancy, and
metabolic control tends to be tighter in the last part of
pregnancy, according to results of a study published in the
journal Diabetes Care. | 3Health
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NAIROBI (dpa) - Around 30 relief workers from a British charity have been forced to flee renewed fighting in Sudan's western Darfur region, the organisation said Tuesday. | 13World
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AP - Don't look for Katie Couric's former "Today" show partner Matt Lauer to be following her into the night. Lauer said Thursday he has no ambition to become an evening news anchor like Couric, who started this week at the "CBS Evening News" after 15 years at "Today." | 1Entertainment
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MADRID - Lâalta cucina basca, famosa in tutto il mondo finanzia il separatismo dellâEta? Eâ quanto sostiene Jose Luis Beotegui un membro dellâorganizzazione indipendentista secondo il quale quattro | 4Italia
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A federal judge has ruled that a provision of the USA PATRIOT Act is an unconstitutional breach of the first and fourth amendments... US District Judge Victor Marrero, saying "democracy abhors undue secrecy | 11Top Stories
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AFP - Zimbabwe's central bank introduced two new bank notes on Thursday as it battles a four figure rate of inflation that is rapidly eroding the value of the local currency. | 13World
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Richard Hatch , winner of the first season of the TV show âSurvivorâ in 2000, has been charged with tax evasion. He is accused of not declaring and paying taxes on the $1 million he received as the winner of the reality show. On top of the winni... | 1Entertainment
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Hollywood's latest trial of the century, starring Mickey Mouse and the Tinseltown power broker who briefly helped run the Disney empire, will find a home on the Web on Wednesday. | 0Business
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President Bush signs a law offering support for human rights groups in North Korea and refugees who leave. | 13World
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DEEWANA, India (Reuters) - Two bombs exploded aboard a train bound from India to Pakistan, sparking a fire that killed at least 66 passengers on Monday, an apparent attempt to derail a peace process between the nuclear-armed rivals. | 10Top News
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Officials in the American intelligence expect that Osama Bin Laden is behind the new voice tape which recognized Abu Mudab al-Zarqawi a "prince" for al-Qaida in Iraq and called for boycotting the Iraqi elections. | 11Top Stories
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A painting by surrealist artist Rene Magritte - valued at £350,000 - is recovered after being stolen. | 10Top News
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AP - There's a slight chance that Packers wide receiver Robert Ferguson could play Sunday, just three weeks after a clothesline hit by Jacksonville's Donovin Darius left him temporarily paralyzed. | 8Sports
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Jack McConnell says he will support moves to mark St Andrew's Day with a holiday on 30 November. | 2Europe
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One match into the Italian league season and (Emperor) Adriano already has Inter Milan under his rule. The Brazilian striker has scored six goals in Inter's first four matches this season, including | 8Sports
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AP - A new round of car bombings and other violence struck Iraq on Wednesday, with 55 people killed or found dead as the Iraqi government unveiled a plan to assume responsibility for security in Baghdad by early next year. | 13World
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Last week, Microsoft posted a notice about a new kind of vulnerability in Windows machines. The MS04-028 announcement states that merely opening a JPEG image (one that had been tinkered with by a hacker, of | 6Sci/Tech
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Nuovo commissario anticorruzione spiega suoi programmi | 4Italia
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E! Online - The Rolling Stones are giving music lovers even a bigger bang for
their buck and a bigger phone bill.. | 1Entertainment
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Passion, promises, profits. | 0Business
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KYIV. Dec 21 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The Ukrainian Foreign Minister does not have at its disposal any information confirming that the electoral campaigns of presidential candidates Viktor Yushchenko or Viktor | 1Entertainment
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The Christian Science Monitor - Oil futures hit a record $100 a barrel in futures trading this week, after attacks in Nigeria, Africa's leading oil producer. But most analysts expect that prices will decline from the current spike. A Reuters poll of 37 energy analysts' expectations yielded an average prediction of $74 a barrel for this year, compared with about $70 a barrel this past year. | 6Sci/Tech
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Shares on India's main stock exchange shoot to a record high on signs that a dispute at leading conglomerate Reliance is coming to an end. | 2Europe
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After a stroke, the brain tries to reorganize itself. However, sometimes this process goes awry, leaving one woman to feel sounds on her skin. | 3Health
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Brutal winter weather that has battered China's central, eastern and southern sections prompted the China Meteorological Administration to issue a rare red alert Monday as the nation braced for more snow and bone-chilling temperatures. | 10Top News
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George W Bush considers changes to his cabinet after winning a second term in office as US president. | 10Top News
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Reuters - The killing of more than 320
children, parents and teachers during the bloody end to a
53-hour school siege left barely a family untouched in the
small Russian town of Beslan. | 13World
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AP - Trevon Hughes scored 22 points and Brian Butch added 16 as No. 21 Wisconsin beat Illinois 70-60 on Thursday night to give the Illini their first four-game losing streak under coach Bruce Weber. | 8Sports
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ROMA, 16 SETTEMBRE 2004 - E' arrivato il grande momento di protestare contro tutti i rincari di cui ci preoccupiamo ogni giorno. Ma la mobilitazione generale, tanto per cambiare, potrebbe portare concretamente | 4Italia
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NEW YORK - The first holiday-shopping weekend of the year may have started with a bang, but it ended with a whimper, according to evidence yesterday from two groups that track sales. | 0Business
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NEW DELHI, Dec 23: Former Indian prime minister and veteran politician PV Narasimha Rao died of cardiac arrest on Thursday afternoon. | 13World
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ZIKKIM, Israel (Reuters) - A rocket launched by Palestinian militants in Gaza on Tuesday wounded at least 35 soldiers in an Israeli training camp for new conscripts. | 10Top News
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Oklahoma wide receiver Mark Clayton scores a touchdown in the fourth quarter of the Sooners' 31-21 come-from-behind win over Kansas State Saturday in Manhattan. | 8Sports
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BEIJING, June 2 -- Vice Premier Huang Ju, a reformer who helped guide China through a period of swift economic change, died in a Beijing hospital early Saturday after a long illness, the government announced. He was reported to be suffering from cancer and had largely disappeared from public view in... | 13World
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NEW YORK, September 27 (newratings.com) - Mexican cement giant, Cemex SA (CX.NYS), has agreed to buy RMC Group Plc, a leading British ready-mix concrete company, in a deal valued at about $5. | 11Top Stories
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Sir Mark Thatcher's wife, Diane, and their children bade what seemed a tearful farewell to members of their Baptist church in Cape Town yesterday amid reports that they were leaving South Africa for good. | 13World
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Fashion Wire Daily - Stella McCartney's new collaboration with LeSportsac, maker of lightweight, highly functional nylon totes and luggage, makes perfect sense. | 1Entertainment
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Reuters - Net profit at Roche Holding
AG rose 34 percent to 9.17 billion Swiss francs ($7.33
billion) in 2006 due to strong sales of cancer treatments
Herceptin and Avastin, just ahead of analysts' expectations. | 0Business
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AP - Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim is known for his cutting wit, and even his star players can wind up on the receiving end. Preseason All-America Hakim Warrick scored 17 of his 21 points in the second half to lead the fifth-ranked Orange to a 71-58 victory over No. 12 Mississippi State on Thursday night in the semifinals of the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic. | 8Sports
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CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh : Mohammad Kaif and Rahul Dravid hit half-centuries as India overcame a shaky start to reach 245-8 in the first one-day international against Bangladesh. | 8Sports
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