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uk govt unveils plans to reform transport | Generate a short summary: britain 's labor government on monday unveiled a massive program to boost public transport and end the nightmare of congestion on britain 's roads . | giga |
strong quake rattles aegean sea island ; no injuries or damages | Generate a short summary: a strong earthquake shook the central aegean sea island of UNK early thursday but did not cause any damage or injuries . | giga |
tokyo stocks higher dollar up against yen | Generate a short summary: tokyo stocks closed tuesday at a new ##-month high as growing optimism about japan 's economic prospects helped push real estate and banking issues higher . | giga |
kmt reiterates opposition to plebiscite proposal | Generate a short summary: the ruling kuomintang on monday reiterated its opposition to a proposal to enact a plebiscite law to pave the way for deciding the country 's future through plebiscite . | giga |
greek bank backs loan to help struggling olympic airways | Generate a short summary: the commercial bank of greece has agreed to provide struggling olympic airways with a government-guaranteed loan of ##.# million euros -lrb- ##.# million dollars -rrb- to help the carrier meet its operating costs , a bank spokesman said thursday . | giga |
ranieri says monaco already halfway to final | Generate a short summary: chelsea manager claudio ranieri says monaco already has `` one foot '' in the champions league final . | giga |
seoul on top alert as nkorea rocket launch nears | Generate a short summary: south korea urged its people friday to cancel trips to north korea as the communist state made final preparations for a rocket launch condemned by washington and its allies as a threat to regional peace . | giga |
thompson almost makes his presidential bid official adam nagourney contributed reporting | Generate a short summary: fred d. thompson will formally announce his bid for the republican presidential nomination next thursday , starting with a webcast and followed by a five-day swing through the early-voting states , his campaign said thursday . | giga |
asian stocks sink ; sony drops on earnings revision | Generate a short summary: asian stocks tumbled for a third day friday on growing alarm that a global recession will eat into corporate profits . | giga |
al chief blasts us double standards on un resolutions implementation | Generate a short summary: arab league chief amr moussa here thursday blasted us double standards on iraq and israel in implementing un resolutions . | giga |
thirteen newborns die of blood poisoning in algerian hospital | Generate a short summary: thirteen newborn babies died in early april at a hospital in southern algeria from blood poisoning contracted during their transfer from one ward to another , state radio said sunday . | giga |
hong kong shares close #.# percent lower | Generate a short summary: hong kong share prices closed #.# percent lower friday as profit takers entered the market following a series of gains , dealers said . | giga |
turkish army sends soldiers across border into northern iraq kurdish official says | Generate a short summary: the turkish army sent soldiers about three kilometers -lrb- #.# miles -rrb- into northern iraq in an overnight operation on tuesday , kurdish officials said . | giga |
in first public testimony cardinal denies settlement with alleged abuse victims was final | Generate a short summary: an attorney for people claiming sexual abuse by a priest pressed cardinal bernard f. law in court friday to stick to an announced dlrs ## million settlement , confronting him with a newspaper article in which he hailed the agreement . | giga |
kazakhstan and thailand win group matches | Generate a short summary: kazakhstan beat bangladesh ###-## and thailand took a ##-## victory over hong kong in preliminary games tuesday in the ##th asian basketball confederation junior men 's championship . | giga |
oil prices higher in asian morning trade | Generate a short summary: oil prices were higher in early asian trade wednesday after the us federal reserve cut key interest rates in a surprise move amid deepening worries of a likely us recession , dealers said . | giga |
two contractors killed in iraq helicopter accident | Generate a short summary: two employees of an american security company have been killed in a helicopter accident in iraq , a spokeswoman for the us embassy in baghdad said on saturday . | giga |
wall street stocks rebound | Generate a short summary: new york stocks turned mostly higher late in today 's session as the dow jones industrial average rose ##.## points to #,###.## . | giga |
alabama coach robert scott dies | Generate a short summary: alabama assistant men 's basketball coach robert scott died of cancer tuesday . | giga |
france remembers troops of southern d-day landing | Generate a short summary: president nicolas sarkozy paid homage friday to soldiers of france 's colonies who nearly ## years ago landed on the french riviera to help defeat the nazis in what has been called the `` forgotten d-day . | giga |
oecd head calls on g# to triple aid to africa | Generate a short summary: the head of the oecd tuesday called on rich countries in the group of eight to triple aid to africa between now and #### to make up for delays in fulfilling pledges given at a g# summit two years ago . | giga |
bears sign linebacker anthony peterson and guard todd burger | Generate a short summary: the chicago bears signed san francisco ##ers linebacker anthony peterson to a three-year contract worth $ #.# million . | giga |
international law must be respected russia says | Generate a short summary: sergey lavrov , russian permanent representative to the united nations , told reporters wednesday that `` the international law must be respected , that 's the essence of our position . | giga |
birds flocking back to nanjing | Generate a short summary: a better ecological environment is bring birds back to this historical and cultural city in east china with the advent of the summer season . | giga |
howard cosell outspoken sports broadcaster at ## | Generate a short summary: once described by cosell as a `` combination of ` juvenile jury ' and ` meet the press ' '' -- became something of a hit , largely because the questions the little leaguers asked were cosell 's . | giga |
mayor urges tolerance for los angeles residents | Generate a short summary: los angeles - while voicing a `` boiling anger '' over the terrorist attacks , mayor james hahn called friday for residents to show restraint , calm and tolerance in not attacking individuals from any one ethnic or religious group . | giga |
mickey rooney has heart surgery | Generate a short summary: mickey rooney underwent multiple bypass heart surgery after a blockage was discovered as he tested a heart machine he 'd been asked to promote . | giga |
bomb explodes outside hotel near moscow 's red square killing six injuring ## | Generate a short summary: a female suicide bomber blew herself up outside the national hotel across from moscow 's red square on tuesday , killing five others and raising fears of a new wave of terror attacks in the heart of the russian capital . | giga |
midshipmen accused of misconduct on cruise | Generate a short summary: the u.s. naval academy said tuesday that it was investigating accusations of lewd behavior and excessive drinking by midshipmen on a caribbean cruise this month . | giga |
al-sistani in good health after reports of assassination attempt | Generate a short summary: iraq 's most powerful shiite muslim clergyman was described by associates as being in good health thursday after reports of an assassination attempt . | giga |
museum to open in may for war anniversary celebrations | Generate a short summary: to mark the ##th anniversary of the end of world war ii , moscow will unveil a monument dedicated to general georgy zhukov on may # and open a war memorial and a museum the following day , a senior official of moscow city said today . | giga |
activists urge hong kong to acquit anti-wto protesters | Generate a short summary: activists and student groups launched a demonstration at the hong kong tourism board -lrb- hktb -rrb- taiwan office for the fifth time monday to push hong kong authorities to acquit all UNK trade organization -lrb- wto -rrb- protesters accused of violating their assembly law . | giga |
president returns to pentagon to salute victims and those carrying | Generate a short summary: a month after the attacks on new york and washington , president george w. bush will return to the pentagon to honor both those who died there and the military personnel now carrying out his campaign against terrorism . | giga |
england survive torrid examination as pakistan dominate | Generate a short summary: alec stewart and mike atherton clung on with a mixture of luck and determination to give england hope of saving the first test at lord 's by surviving a torrid final session against pakistan on sunday . | giga |
costa rica welcomes madrid 's decision for peace talks with eta | Generate a short summary: costa rica supports the decision announced thursday by spanish prime minister jose luis rodriguez zapatero to launch peace talks with the armed basque separatist group eta , said the foreign ministry on thursday . | giga |
sudanese rebel leader lambasts government with un-human rights | Generate a short summary: accusing sudan 's islamic government of genocide against christians in the south , sudan 's main rebel leader said monday that the best hope of ending the killing would be to create two separate states . | giga |
moscow circus to perform in macao | Generate a short summary: the circus shows will be staged between november ## and december ## . | giga |
wang takes men 's recurve title at asian archery championships | Generate a short summary: wang chang-pang from chinese taipei beat park kyung-mo of south korea ###-### in the final to win the men 's recurve title at the asian archery championships here on tuesday . | giga |
a tribute to w.c. handy the musician who turned ragtime into the | Generate a short summary: american popular music depends on entrepreneurs as well as musicians , and william christopher handy was a savvy combination of both . | giga |
eco summit opens in iran | Generate a short summary: the sixth summit of the ##-member economic cooperation organization -lrb- eco -rrb- opened here on saturday . | giga |
holocaust museum closed for day to mark shooting | Generate a short summary: the u.s. holocaust memorial and museum was shuttered thursday with its flags at half-staff as it mourned a guard who died stopping a rifle attack by a gunman authorities identified as an ##-year-old white supremacist . | giga |
israel to take part in un probe of flotilla raid | Generate a short summary: israel announced monday it will take part in a u.n. investigation into the deadly israeli raid on a gaza-bound flotilla last spring , in a departure from its traditional mistrust of the world body . | giga |
malaysian shares close #.# percent higher | Generate a short summary: malaysian share prices closed #.# percent higher thursday in a technical rebound after wall street 's gains , dealers said . | giga |
new york state comptroller announces bid for governor | Generate a short summary: accusing gov. george pataki of `` aimless lethargy '' and `` detachment '' in office , carl mccall , the state comptroller , announced thursday night that he will run for governor in #### , kicking off what promises to be one of the longest and most bitterly contested races the state has seen . | giga |
lawsuit claims luxury travel company abercrombie & kent duped timeshare investors | Generate a short summary: luxury travel company abercrombie & kent has been sued for allegedly duping investors into spending millions of dollars to join high-end vacation clubs that were not run by the tour group as they had believed . | giga |
manufacturers orders-on-hand for hk decrease in july | Generate a short summary: the value of manufacturers ' orders-on-hand for local production in july #### decreased by ## percent over a year earlier , according to the provisional results of a monthly survey released friday by the census and statistics department of hong kong . | giga |
france 's gift UNK missing from quebec fete | Generate a short summary: a gift cow with antlers from france to quebec to celebrate the upcoming ###th anniversary of north america 's largest french-speaking community has been sidelined by ridicule , it seems . | giga |
norwegian becomes first person to row alone between continents across atlantic to guyana | Generate a short summary: a norwegian doctor braved a choppy atlantic ocean for ## days and arrived thursday in guyana as the first person to row without assistance from one continent to another . | giga |
china refutes u.s. accusation of chinese companies for stealing its hi-tech as groundless | Generate a short summary: china on thursday refuted the u.s. accusation of chinese companies for stealing its hi-tech as `` groundless '' , saying such accusation is unacceptable to china . | giga |
UNK consortium assesses kazakstan 's kashagan reserves at ### | Generate a short summary: a kazak energy consortium led by italy 's agip said thursday that it estimated the kashagan reserves in the kazak sector of the caspian sea at ### million metric tons -lrb- ###.# million tons -rrb- of oil , and said the region represented a `` new persian gulf . | giga |
eu lab confirms bird flu found in sweden was h#n# strain | Generate a short summary: the european union 's reference laboratory has confirmed sweden 's first outbreak of the deadly h#n# strain of bird flu , swedish authorities said wednesday . | giga |
israeli air carrier takes official sky torah on first flight | Generate a short summary: an israeli airliner flew the holiest book in judaism to tel aviv on friday -- billing it the first `` sky torah '' to be used for prayer in flight . | giga |
un says attacks hampering afghan winter aid efforts | Generate a short summary: un agencies said tuesday that attacks on food convoys in afghanistan were hampering efforts to deliver aid to victims of severe winter weather which has so far killed hundreds of people . | giga |
weyerhaeuser reaching ### years | Generate a short summary: in #### , german immigrant and businessman frederick weyerhaeuser bought ###,### acres of prime timberland in the rugged mountains of washington state , leftovers from the great western railroad . | giga |
belarus condemns us rights report as politicised | Generate a short summary: belarus has slammed a recent us state department report on the human rights situation in the former soviet republic , describing it as `` overly politicised , '' the foreign ministry here said . | giga |
britain welcomes arrest of ex-khmer rouge soldier accused in mine clearer s death | Generate a short summary: authorities have arrested a fourth former khmer rouge soldier suspected of involvement in the kidnapping and killing of a british mine clearance expert and his cambodian interpreter ## years ago . | giga |
international athletics meet to be held in yokohama | Generate a short summary: a total of ### athletes , including five world record holders and nine reigning world champions , will compete in the super track and field meet in yokohama on september ## , the japan amateur athletic federation said friday . | giga |
oil futures set new records for #th straight session on u.s. inventory report refinery problems | Generate a short summary: oil prices reached record highs for the seventh straight session wednesday after refineries in california and texas said they had new outages and the government reported surprisingly large declines in oil inventories . | giga |
seaman at center of sino-uk row gives hk police the slip | Generate a short summary: one of two suspected smugglers at the center of a sino-british dispute over hong kong territorial waters was still at large sunday , a day after china released him to the territory , police said . | giga |
brazilian movie the elite squad wins berlin film festival s top award | Generate a short summary: a movie about police violence in rio de janeiro that caused controversy in brazil -- `` tropa de elite '' -lrb- `` the elite squad '' -rrb- -- won the top golden bear award at the annual berlin film festival . | giga |
celtic back on track with mauling of anderlecht | Generate a short summary: celtic gave a massive boost to their chances of qualifying for the lucrative knockout phase of the champions league after a gutsy #-# win over group a rivals anderlecht on wednesday . | giga |
voting begins in india 's most violence-prone state | Generate a short summary: more than ##,### police and federal troops guarded polling booths in eastern bihar state , india 's most violence-prone area , as voting began saturday to elect a state legislature . | giga |
saudi arabia to localize work force | Generate a short summary: saudi arabia has launched a program to localize the work force in the country 's air transport sector , the al-jazira newspaper said tuesday . | giga |
success of young skiers gives us visions of gold | Generate a short summary: the greatest recent sign of health for the us ski team was not the gold medal daron rahlves won in the super-g at the alpine world championships in austria two weeks ago . | giga |
camacho likely to quit as reports reveal | Generate a short summary: jose antonio camacho might quit as real madrid coach on monday after offering his resignation to club president florentino perez , spanish media reported . | giga |
italy premier berlusconi opts not to give testimony in mafia case | Generate a short summary: italian premier silvio berlusconi chose not to respond tuesday to prosecutors who asked for his testimony in a case of alleged mafia ties involving a close political ally . | giga |
vietnam airlines signs deal to buy ## airbus planes | Generate a short summary: national carrier vietnam airlines signed an agreement wednesday to purchase ## new airbus a### planes , a spokesman said . | giga |
warning of power cuts kiev urges businesses to work at night | Generate a short summary: kiev energy authorities on friday urged businesses in the ukrainian capital to work at night instead of during the day in order to save energy and avoid potential blackouts . | giga |
kaohsiung harbor industries oppose music center plan | Generate a short summary: eleven associations of kaohsiung UNK industries monday rallied against the kaohsiung city government 's plan to build a pop music center in the harbor area , saying the project would hamper industrial development . | giga |
carter gets surprise send-off | Generate a short summary: about ### georgia teenagers surprised nobel peace prize winner jimmy carter at his old high school friday with a special send-off to norway : more than ##,### _ congratulatory cards drawn by schoolchildren from across the state . | giga |
myanmar opposition wants junta assurance its views will be heard at national convention | Generate a short summary: pro-democracy leader aung san suu kyi 's party , debating whether to join a constitution drafting convention next month , wants to make sure that its views will not be quashed by the military , a party spokesman said wednesday . | giga |
nato us troop numbers in afghanistan | Generate a short summary: president barack obama has ordered a new strategy in afghanistan , likely to send thousands more troops to the country in order to forge an eventual us exit from a costly and gruelling war . | giga |
special team to investigate fatal highway accident in southwest china | Generate a short summary: chengdu , sept. ## -lrb- xinhua -rrb- -- china 's cabinet , the state council , on tuesday , set up a special team to investigate a bus accident which killed ## people in the southwest sichuan province . | giga |
mexico accuses us of violations in death sentence dispute | Generate a short summary: mexico accused the united states thursday of shirking its international obligations and snubbing the un 's highest court by failing to review death sentences of ## mexican nationals . | giga |
cowboys players understand irvin 's lack of fire | Generate a short summary: the fateful news conference was nearly three weeks ago , yet cowboys wide receiver michael irvin 's message of `` lost of love and intensity for the game '' stills echoes throughout the cowboys ' valley ranch training complex . | giga |
hero 's welcome awaits freed hostage in the philippines after iraq ordeal | Generate a short summary: angelo de la cruz , a poor filipino truck driver who sought greener pastures in the battlefields of the middle east , will arrive home a national hero thursday after a harrowing ##-day hostage ordeal in iraq . | giga |
moderate earthquake shakes southeast turkey | Generate a short summary: a moderate earthquake shook southeastern turkey on friday , a seismology center said . | giga |
colleges cancel agriculture visits | Generate a short summary: some u.s. universities with big agriculture schools are canceling international study programs out of fear that their students will bring foot-and-mouth disease back to the united states . | giga |
u.s. dollar down on taipei forex | Generate a short summary: the u.s. dollar moved down against the new taiwan dollar on the taipei foreign exchange wednesday , losing nt$ #.### to close at nt$ ##.### . | giga |
deaths from dengue fever in brazil up ## percent in #### | Generate a short summary: the number of deaths from dengue fever in brazil increased ##.# percent from january to mid-october year on year , the country 's health ministry announced on thursday . | giga |
iraq predicts budget crunch for next year | Generate a short summary: low oil prices will force iraq to limit spending next year , an iraqi finance ministry official said tuesday , complicating efforts to rebuild the country after years of war and construct a military capable of self-defense . | giga |
british investors await budget rate decision | Generate a short summary: investors on the london stock exchange will get a look next week at the broad outlines of the british budget as well as the bank of england 's latest stance on monetary policy . | giga |
terrorists arrested in tbilisi | Generate a short summary: moscow , january ## -lrb- xinhua -rrb- -- officials of the interior ministry of georgia had detained in tbilisi four georgian citizens who were identified as members of a terrorist group , according to reports reaching here today . | giga |
all the good news that 's fit to print | Generate a short summary: people always ask why there is n't more good news in newspapers . | giga |
strong quake rocks central iran | Generate a short summary: an earthquake measuring #.# on the richter scale rocked central iran before midnight saturday . | giga |
vietnam relaxes foreign exchange banking rules | Generate a short summary: all businesses and banks in vietnam can now conduct foreign exchange transactions without having to seek prior government approval , in line with efforts to reform the country 's banking system , an official said thursday . | giga |
philippine supreme court votes against special UNK | Generate a short summary: the philippine supreme court on monday voted #-# , junking a petition to hold a special registration for first-time voters in the may ## mid-term elections . | giga |
envoy 's linguistic proficiency topic of debate in legislature | Generate a short summary: the linguistic proficiency of the republic of china 's representative to russia became a topic of debate in the legislative yuan on wednesday . | giga |
chonbuk hyundai beats shenhua in afc champions league match | Generate a short summary: south korean UNK cup holders chonbuk hyundai beat chinese league champion shanghai shenhua #-# in a group match of the afc champions league here on wednesday . | giga |
asia urged to rethink growth policies amid crisis | Generate a short summary: asia 's governments must spend more on social safety nets and reduce their reliance on export-driven growth even as they grapple with an economic meltdown that will keep tens of millions trapped in poverty , finance officials said sunday . | giga |
chernomyrdin okays chechen elections in january | Generate a short summary: russian prime minister viktor chernomyrdin on monday agreed in principle to a demand from the chechen separatists to hold parliamentary and presidential elections in chechnya at the end of january , itar-tass news agency reported . | giga |
china beats hong kong at east asian champs | Generate a short summary: forward qu bo scored twice as china defeated hong kong #-# on sunday at the east asian championship . | giga |
economy minister ill with malaria | Generate a short summary: economy minister guenter rexrodt is under intensive care in the humboldt university 's UNK clinic , having contracted malaria , the berlin clinic said friday . | giga |
ballanger and UNK retain titles | Generate a short summary: france 's felicia ballanger and svetlana UNK of russia retained their titles here at the world track cycling championships on friday . | giga |
mine explosion kills ## | Generate a short summary: eighty-four people were killed in a gas explosion in a coal mine in the central chinese province of henan last week , a journalist for an official newspaper said sunday . | giga |
suspected al-qaida man killed in pakistani tribal region | Generate a short summary: a foreign suspected militant on thursday was killed after suspected militants opened fire on security personnel near a checkpoint in northwestern pakistan 's bajur tribal region , army officials said . | giga |
protests ease as assassination investigation stepped up in taiwan | Generate a short summary: a probe into an apparent bid to kill taiwan 's president was stepped up monday as protests wound down amid signs a political crisis which exploded after last week 's elections appeared to be abating . | giga |
asylum seekers end hunger strike in belgian church | Generate a short summary: the asylum seekers that have occupied a church in brussels for the past few months to protest against belgium 's asylum policies have temporarily ended their hunger strike . | giga |
inflation worries brazil and imf | Generate a short summary: inflation was a concern for brazil and for the international monetary fund , the country 's finance minister said thursday . | giga |
technology drags wall street lower in rally pause | Generate a short summary: stocks swung lower on wall street early tuesday , prompted by a weak outlook from america online and nokia , as investors turned defensive after the strong rally over nearly two months . | giga |