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latvala hirvonen hold ford #-# in sardinia rally | Generate a short summary: ford 's jari-matti latvala and mikko hirvonen held the top two places in the rally of sardinia for a second successive day saturday . | giga |
delta says top executive wo n't receive stock package | Generate a short summary: delta air lines said monday that its chief executive , gerald grinstein , who has shepherded the carrier through reorganization , would not receive any stock , incentive payments or severance when the company exits bankruptcy protection this spring . | giga |
nz bank lowers mortgage interest rate | Generate a short summary: UNK bank today lowered its mortgage rate to #.## percent shortly after the new zealand reserve bank gave its greenlight to easing the country 's monetary conditions . | giga |
cypriot president leaves for athens for talks on | Generate a short summary: cypriot president glafcos clerides left here today for athens of greece on a three-day visit for talks on the protracted cyprus question with the greek government in view of the forthcoming direct talks . | giga |
kosovo clashes to sidetrack summit | Generate a short summary: balkan leaders gathering for a summit about the region 's economic prospects have seen violence in kosovo and southern serbia once again wreck their hopes for stability in the near future . | giga |
tongan upsets cuban in super heavyweight bout | Generate a short summary: tongan paea UNK caused a monumental upset with a points win over cuban super heavyweight rubalcaba alexis in a thunderous quarter-final at the olympic boxing competition here wedneday . | giga |
new injury woe for kewell | Generate a short summary: liverpool forward harry kewell will undergo surgery on a hernia problem on tuesday , the premiership club confirmed . | giga |
baghdad truce under pressure as new clashes kill ## | Generate a short summary: eleven people were killed in overnight battles between us troops and shiite militia in baghdad 's sadr city , officials said on tuesday , pressuring a truce aimed at ending seven weeks of deadly fighting . | giga |
ash from mount st. helens may help determine danger | Generate a short summary: a sprinkle of fine ash lifted from the leaf of a tree on mount st. helens and UNK to lakewood may help researchers understand if the volcano 's recent eruptions are coming up from deep within the belly of the beast or from its surface . | giga |
european stocks aim higher at open | Generate a short summary: europe 's main stocks mostly rose thursday , after wall street hit the highest level in more than one year on a wave of positive company earnings news , dealers said . | giga |
u.s. call for global iraqi asset seizure gets muted reaction from swiss | Generate a short summary: a u.s. call for a global seizure of iraqi assets and for a freeze on any funds believed linked to saddam hussein received a muted reaction in switzerland friday . | giga |
british military reacting to climate change | Generate a short summary: climate change is forcing the british military to tailor its strategy and equipment for more extreme weather , a junior defense minister said wednesday . | giga |
analyst says wachovia bids could come at a cost | Generate a short summary: the federal government has once again found itself at the center of wall street dealmaking -- this time working with both citigroup and wells fargo to reach a compromise in their quest for wachovia . | giga |
world news in brief | Generate a short summary: the los angeles daily news plans to move the following feature stories for use by nytimes news service clients , ams and pms of saturday , nov. ## , and thereafter . | giga |
man guilty of wild horse shootings | Generate a short summary: a man pleaded guilty monday to shooting five federally protected horses as they roamed a national park . | giga |
lotus signs trulli kovalainen for #### season | Generate a short summary: jarno trulli and heikki kovalainen will race for lotus when the malaysian-backed formula one team returns to the starting grid next season . | giga |
the process has been smoothed out ; the pain ca n't be | Generate a short summary: practically speaking , the process could not have been made any easier . | giga |
thai stocks extend losses in afternoon session down ## percent | Generate a short summary: thai stocks extended record losses in afternoon trade tuesday in a massive sell-off triggered by the central bank 's introduction of draconian measures to halt the baht 's rise , dealers said . | giga |
birds shown to create turnover of new neurons when needed | Generate a short summary: every fall , when the trees of north america 's forests shake themselves into bare brown bones , and the sky grows gray and surly , and the meadows offer little but brambles and shriveled berries , the little UNK UNK rises brilliantly to the challenges of a callous world . | giga |
china to overhaul video game arcades | Generate a short summary: china plans to overhaul video game arcades throughout the country and close down businesses which are operating illegally . | giga |
teacher readies for nasa endeavour UNK shot | Generate a short summary: twenty-one years after a pioneering teacher was killed in the launch explosion of the us shuttle challenger , another primary school teacher will wednesday shrug off that disaster and climb in the endeavour shuttle for an ambitious mission into space . | giga |
police to blame for soccer stampede court rules | Generate a short summary: zimbabwe police overreacted and unnecessarily fired tear gas at a world cup soccer qualifying match that led to the deaths of ## fans in a stampede two years ago , a court has ruled . | giga |
hollywood film and tv writers going back to negotiations | Generate a short summary: hollywood film and tv writers who have been on strike two weeks will return to contract negotiations on nov. ## , their union and producers said . | giga |
mattel #q net income more than doubles | Generate a short summary: mattel inc. 's second-quarter net income more than doubled , boosted by sales of barbie and toys tied into the pixar smash `` toy story # , '' the toymaker said thursday . | giga |
in push for political unity cheney visits iraq | Generate a short summary: u.s. vice president dick cheney opened a new u.s. push for political unity in iraq on an unannounced visit monday , just ahead of the fifth anniversary of the u.s.-led invasion . | giga |
prayers for hezbollah victory at egypt 's al-azhar mosque | Generate a short summary: thousands of people at cairo 's al-azhar mosque , an eminent institution in sunni islam , prayed friday for a victory of the lebanese shiite militia hezbollah against israel . | giga |
getting to the big island | Generate a short summary: getting there : from honolulu , we flew aloha airlines to the big island . | giga |
ontario voters throw out progressive conservatives after eight years in power | Generate a short summary: ontario voters denied the progressive conservative party a third straight term in power , electing the liberal party to head the government of canada 's most populous province . | giga |
dresdner bank chairman UNK quits in anticipation of big shake-up | Generate a short summary: dresdner bank chairman bernd UNK resigned wednesday , saying he did not want to impede a massive shake-up of germany 's third-biggest bank being planned by its parent company , insurance giant allianz . | giga |
# dead in renewed jamaica violence | Generate a short summary: clashes among rival gangs in jamaica 's capital killed four people this week , police said , in an apparent resurgence of the politically charged violence claimed dozens of lives in recent weeks . | giga |
richardson ends campaign for democratic presidential nomination endorses no one | Generate a short summary: new mexico gov. bill richardson ended his bid for the u.s. democratic presidential nomination thursday after poor finishes in the first two contests in iowa and new hampshire . | giga |
tuesday 's commodities review | Generate a short summary: gasoline futures on tuesday reached their highest level since june last year following a refinery explosion in aruba and amid expectations that inventory data will show another decline in already record-low reserves . | giga |
united states rejects request to remove three swedish citizens from | Generate a short summary: the united states will oppose a request to remove three swedish citizens from a list of people and organizations suspected of financial ties to terrorists , the foreign ministry said friday . | giga |
mongolian pm to visit two koreas | Generate a short summary: mongolian prime minister nambaryn enkhbayar is to visit north korea shortly , pyongyang 's state media said friday , following seoul 's announcement that he would be going there later this month . | giga |
bank of england says keeps interest rates at #.# percent | Generate a short summary: the bank of england decided on thursday to hold its key short-term interest rate at #.# percent , it said after a monthly policy meeting . | giga |
dlrs #.# billion pledged to help poor countries | Generate a short summary: washington -lrb- ap -rrb- - work has been `` essentially completed '' on creating a financial pool to help poor countries with loans on easy terms , the international monetary fund announced . | giga |
u.s. official says pacific rim leaders to issue statement on north korea nuclear issue | Generate a short summary: pacific rim leaders will issue a joint statement on their worries about north korea 's nuclear weapons program , a top u.s. official said saturday . | giga |
malaysian leader takes campaign to key battleground state ; dismisses role of son in nuclear network | Generate a short summary: prime minister abdullah ahmad badawi campaigned tuesday to defend his secular coalition from a strong bid by islamic fundamentalists to capture a key northern state in this weekend 's general elections . | giga |
jakarta stocks end sharply lower | Generate a short summary: share prices on the jakarta stock exchange ended sharply lower on wednesday on profit taking . | giga |
turkish president sees bsec important cooperation platform | Generate a short summary: turkish president ahmet necdet sezer said on monday that the black sea economic cooperation -lrb- bsec -rrb- has turned into the most comprehensive and important cooperation platform in this region in the last ## years , the semi-official anatolia news agency reported . | giga |
popocatepetl volcano ashes rain over mexico city | Generate a short summary: popocatepetl volcano in central mexico released a large amount of ashes saturday with ashes precipitating over neighboring communities and this capital city . | giga |
woods back in winning form at dunlop phoenix | Generate a short summary: tiger woods won his first tournament since february on sunday and is convinced the changes he made to his golf swing are starting to pay off . | giga |
giuliani reads christmas story says he is cancer free | Generate a short summary: u.s. republican presidential candidate rudy giuliani read a beloved christmas story to youngsters in new york city on monday and reiterated that he was in good health , with no recurrence of cancer . | giga |
cambodian ambassador calls un rights envoy s arrogance unacceptable | Generate a short summary: cambodia 's u.n. ambassador complained to secretary-general ban ki-moon that the u.n. human rights investigator who just visited the country insulted the khmer government and displayed `` unacceptable '' arrogance . | giga |
australia finds backpackers most valued tourists | Generate a short summary: international backpackers and not UNK japanese tourists were australia 's most valued visitors , australian tourism minister andrew thomson told a conference in sydney today . | giga |
un extends lebanon peace force | Generate a short summary: the un security council friday extended for another year the mandate of the un 's peacekeeping force in southern lebanon , strengthened after the israeli-hezbollah war in august #### . | giga |
venus williams gets philosophical after struggling to advance at wimbledon | Generate a short summary: feeling a little philosophical , venus williams easily explained away all her problems at wimbledon on monday . | giga |
namibian zambian experts discuss cross-border trading problems | Generate a short summary: namibian and zambian transport experts gathered in namibia 's walvis bay tuesday for the two-day cluster workshop in a bid to address problems hampering the cross-border trading procedures . | giga |
students clash with british police in fees protest | Generate a short summary: angry demonstrators clashed with police in a student protest outside parliament thursday as the coalition government faced its biggest test yet in a vote on proposals to triple university tuition fees . | giga |
u.n. plans to end investigation of contracts | Generate a short summary: the general assembly is preparing to put an early end to an in-house panel that has exposed more than $ ### million in tainted u.n. contracts and is currently investigating an additional $ # billion in suspect agreements . | giga |
zambian veteran politician urges pre-marriage health test | Generate a short summary: zambian veteran politician mama UNK UNK called here sunday for voluntary counseling and testing -lrb- vct -rrb- on hiv\/aids before marriage in hope that the ## percent hiv\/aids infection rate in the southern african country can be reduced . | giga |
vietnamese cargo ship sinks ## missing | Generate a short summary: twenty-seven sailors went missing after a vietnamese cargo ship sank in waters off vietnam 's central ha tinh province thursday due to strong gales , vietnam news agency reported . | giga |
zambia resists external pressure for kaunda 's | Generate a short summary: the zambian government has resisted external pressure for the immediate release of former president and opposition leader kenneth kaunda , saying that the courts will determine his guilt or innocence . | giga |
rally of sweden results | Generate a short summary: jewish settlers and their supporters are to hold a mass rally in jerusalem on sunday night to protest against police `` brutality '' during last week 's evacuation of an unauthorised settlement outpost near the west bank city of ramallah . | giga |
pakistani president says sino-pakistani friendship unswerving | Generate a short summary: pakistani president pervez musharraf said on tuesday that no matter how his country 's political situation changes , the sino-pakistani friendship will remain steadfast . | giga |
australian bushfires force hundreds to flee leave three dead | Generate a short summary: the worst bushfires to hit the eastern australian state of victoria in more than a decade have killed three people , destroyed dozens of homes and forced hundreds of people to flee . | giga |
robot birth simulator gaining in popularity | Generate a short summary: noelle 's given birth in afghanistan , california and dozens of points in between . | giga |
reagan diaries offer revealing self-portrait of ##th president | Generate a short summary: ronald reagan thought alexander haig was `` utterly paranoid , '' considered former senator lowell weicker `` a pompous , no good fathead '' and was `` surprised at how shy '' michael jackson was . | giga |
israeli windsurfer sails to european championship gold | Generate a short summary: israeli windsurfer shahar UNK added a european championship gold medal to his ever growing collection , local daily the jerusalem post reported sunday . | giga |
chernobyl director says upcoming closure threatens town | Generate a short summary: the director of the chernobyl nuclear plant warned friday that the upcoming closure of one if its reactors will financially cripple the nearby town built for plant workers . | giga |
more ballot boxes prepared for eventual run-off | Generate a short summary: kenya 's electoral commission has placed orders for additional ballot boxes for the use in the event of a run-off in the december ## presidential race , the daily nation reported today . | giga |
philippines warns muslim rebels to vacate towns | Generate a short summary: the philippine government on thursday gave muslim rebels ## hours to vacate several southern villages and return about #,### displaced christians to their homes , or face attack at a sensitive time for the country 's peace process . | giga |
in a twist bush allies with anti-gun forces in congress | Generate a short summary: as they often do , the us gun lobby and gun control advocates took aim at each other thursday , this time over a bill in congress restricting firearms sales . | giga |
nyc mayor moves ally to schools post | Generate a short summary: howard wilson , the city 's commissioner of investigation for two and a half years , was appointed thursday by mayor rudolph giuliani to an unpaid position as chairman of the school construction authority , resigning a key position in which his watchdog agency forged the closest relationship with city hall in two decades . | giga |
egyptian museum gets UNK | Generate a short summary: some of the world 's most fascinating antiquities are seeing the light of the day for the first time as the egyptian museum began interior improvements to make itself a better place for visitors . | giga |
u.s. predicts #,### afghan soldiers in six months | Generate a short summary: u.s. general tommy franks , head of allied operations in afghanistan , said tuesday that afghanistan is expected to have a new national army of #,### to #,### soldiers within six months . | giga |
bjoerndalen bailly win pursuit events | Generate a short summary: ole einar bjoerndalen of norway produced another perfect performance on sunday to score his seventh win of the season and a record ##th career triumph in a world cup biathlon pursuit race . | giga |
chinese love boat cruise takes only rich good looking passengers | Generate a short summary: a matchmaking love boat cruise open only to male millionaires and `` good-looking and desirable '' women is slated to set sail later this month , a state-run chinese newspaper said tuesday . | giga |
bombay shares close lower on political concerns | Generate a short summary: share prices closed #.# percent lower on the bombay stock exchange -lrb- bse -rrb- tuesday as institutional investors stayed away due to political uncertainty , dealers said . | giga |
us stocks tumble after china sell-off rocks markets | Generate a short summary: us stocks opened lower monday as a sharp chinese sell-off weighed on sentiment amid jitters over whether the global economy has enough momentum to pull out of recession . | giga |
gunfire forces afghan president flee ceremony in kabul # dead and # wounded | Generate a short summary: suspected taliban militants attacked a ceremony attended by the afghan president on sunday , unleashing automatic weapons and rocket fire that sent foreign dignitaries and senior members of the government fleeing for cover . | giga |
here 's your chance to defeat the grinch at his own game | Generate a short summary: `` the grinch '' video game is benefiting from the popularity of the holiday movie `` dr. seuss ' how the grinch stole christmas . | giga |
russia pledges no first strike against non-nuclear nations | Generate a short summary: russia has pledged not to launch a UNK nuclear attack against a signatory of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty -lrb- npt -rrb- , following a similar undertaking by the united states . | giga |
germany leads czech republic #-# in fed cup | Generate a short summary: anna-lena groenefeld upset lucie safarova #-# , #-# in the opening singles saturday to give germany a #-# lead over the czech republic in the fed cup quarterfinals . | giga |
britain pledges to create cleaner greener eu | Generate a short summary: britain pledged here today to create a cleaner , greener european union -lrb- eu -rrb- during its six-month rotating eu presidency . | giga |
pro-thaksin protesters vow to march on thai pm 's offices | Generate a short summary: supporters of ousted thai premier thaksin shinawatra said thursday they will adopt the tactics of their foes and hold a massive protest at bangkok 's main government offices this weekend . | giga |
first skorean relief ship leaves for nkorea as aid amount soars | Generate a short summary: a south korean ship loaded with aid for victims of last week 's train disaster in north korea set sail on wednesday as seoul agreed to a costly request from the stalinist state for much more . | giga |
estonia 's owners choose not to sue boat 's german builder | Generate a short summary: the two companies that owned the doomed ferry estonia announced friday they will not sue the german shipyard that built the vessel . | giga |
office retailers battle for dominance in growing market | Generate a short summary: the office products business _ once the province of mom-and-pop stationery stores _ is witnessing a high-profile consumer marketing war as the nation 's three giant superstore companies battle for more of what has become a growing $ ### billion industry . | giga |
accused train shooter rests his case without calling himself | Generate a short summary: defense lawyer colin ferguson wrapped up his case wednesday in the long island rail road massacre trial without calling his star witness , defendant colin ferguson . | giga |
world 's largest moon cake debuts in south china city | Generate a short summary: a super moon cake weighing #.### tons made its debut sunday in this capital of south china 's guangxi zhuang autonomous region . | giga |
fbi reassessing past look at army shooting suspect | Generate a short summary: nearly a year before maj. nidal hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at the fort hood army post in texas , terrorism investigators conducted an `` assessment '' of him before deciding he did not pose a threat . | giga |
sheffield shield cricket scores | Generate a short summary: former test fast bowler andy bichel delivered career-best figures of #-## to swing the sheffield shield cricket match with new south wales queensland 's way here on sunday . | giga |
hrw calls for release of syrian activist | Generate a short summary: an international human rights group is urging syrian authorities to release a political activist who made comments critical of iran . | giga |
us partners will demand unfettered access | Generate a short summary: the u.s. and its five partners trying to stop iran 's suspected nuclear weapons program plan to tell tehran in a key meeting on thursday that it must provide `` unfettered access '' to its previously secret qom enrichment facility within weeks , a senior administration official said . | giga |
bush to warn of energy crisis | Generate a short summary: president bush , in his much-awaited energy plan , will warn on thursday that the united states faces `` the most serious energy shortage since the oil embargo of the ####s . | giga |
falun gong follower from australia ca n't attend show of her own artwork in hong kong | Generate a short summary: a falun gong follower from australia who hoped to deliver an appeal on behalf of the meditation sect at an exhibition of her artwork here said friday she was barred from entering the territory . | giga |
say hello again to survivor good-bye to diane its first outcast | Generate a short summary: reality tv show `` survivor '' returned for another round of roughing it , this time from africa and with a can of beans the deciding factor in who became the first of ## players voted out . | giga |
mainland presents sars test kits to hk | Generate a short summary: one hundred boxes of sars quick test kits developed and provided by chinese mainland were presented to the department of health and hospital authority of hong kong here tuesday . | giga |
castro lauds own elections slams us vote | Generate a short summary: convalescing cuban leader fidel castro slammed us elections saturday as fraud - plagued contests for millionaires , as he urged countrymen to vote in the americas ' only one-party communist system sunday . | giga |
military shops for arms as tamil rebels resume fighting | Generate a short summary: caught under equipped by the sudden resumption of war , sri lanka 's military has begun a hurried shopping mission for arms . | giga |
philippines to gain ### mln dollars in yankee bond float | Generate a short summary: the philippines expects a net profit of ### million dollars from its #.##-billion-dollar yankee bond float , central bank of the philippines governor gabriel singson said monday . | giga |
soil failure is cited in new orleans levee breaches | Generate a short summary: the levee breaches along two major canals that flooded new orleans after hurricane katrina resulted from massive soil failures under concrete storm walls , not from hurricane surges that sent water over the tops of the walls as army officials initially said , according to teams of investigators who have examined evidence in the last week . | giga |
critics fear shift in control of child clinics | Generate a short summary: the giuliani administration tuesday will put into place the final pieces of its plan to reorganize the city 's network of ## child health-care clinics , and advocates for the poor are worried that it will harm the quality of services at clinics that serve the city 's poorest children . | giga |
cia boss pays secret visit to turkey | Generate a short summary: the new boss of the u.s. central intelligence agency -lrb- cia -rrb- , john deutsch , has paid a two-day unpublicized visit to ankara , during which he pledged closer cooperation with turkey 's secret service , a local newspaper reported today . | giga |
colombia 's cali ousts colo colo from copa libertadores with #-# win | Generate a short summary: colombia 's deportivo cali advanced to the second round of the copa libertadores on wednesday with a #-# victory over colo colo of chile , despite fielding just ## players in the last half hour of the match . | giga |
britain s falling pound raises fear that banks will be nationalized | Generate a short summary: an island nation that bulked up on debt and lived beyond its means . | giga |
UNK no sure barrier to high blood pressure | Generate a short summary: being overweight throws out the welcome mat for high blood pressure , but being slender is no guarantee that hypertension wo n't come calling . | giga |
overseas investment rises in guangzhou | Generate a short summary: this capital of guangdong province in south china has seen the inflow of #.# billion us dollars in overseas investment in the last five years , which is #.# times that of the previous five years . | giga |
shots fired at home of sri lankan minister guard wounded | Generate a short summary: an unidentified attacker opened fire early tuesday at the home of sri lanka 's commerce minister , injuring at least one security guard , police said . | giga |