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In the Gaza Strip, seven Palestinians were killed by Israeli army fire in two separate incidents Saturday, two days after Palestinian militants killed six Israeli civilians at a Gaza cargo crossing. | Six Israelis were killed in an attack at a Gaza Strip crossing. | -1no label
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The original Band Aid featured artists including Duran Duran, U2, Sting and George Michael, selling 3.5 million copies in the UK alone to raise money for the Ethiopia famine. | Many of the original acts, including George Michael, will appear on the new record. | -1no label
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Ukraine's election commission declared the Kremlin-backed prime minister, Viktor Yanukovych, the winner of the country's bitterly disputed presidential election, sharpening a crisis sparked by the opposition candidate's allegations that the vote was fraudulent. | The Election Commission announced that Viktor Yanukovich has won Ukraine's presidential election. | -1no label
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If Bush wins West Virginia, one of the state's five Republican electors says he might not vote for Bush to protest the president's economic and foreign policies. | Kerry has said he still stands by the vote to give Bush the authority to invade Iraq. | -1no label
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Jackson, 46, is set to face trial in late January on 10 charges that include felony conspiracy with 28 overt acts involving child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion. | Jackson is set to face trial in January for allegedly molesting a boy. | -1no label
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The White House acknowledged on Monday that Bush's plan to add private accounts to the Social Security retirement system would add tens of billions of dollars to the nation's budget deficit starting in fiscal 2009. | Bush's budget allows younger workers to set up private accounts. | -1no label
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Two car bombs explode near a police station outside of Baghdad's Green Zone, killing seven police officers and wounding about 60 others. | A pair of car bombs explode near government offices in Baghdad. | -1no label
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The raid Friday on the Abu Hanifa mosque left three people dead and was followed by a wave of attacks in several parts of Baghdad. | The raid just after Friday prayers left three people dead. | -1no label
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Yasser Arafat has lapsed into a coma in a French hospital, a senior Palestinian official said Thursday, a day after the Palestinian leader was rushed to intensive care following a sharp deterioration in his health. | Arafat was taken to intensive care after his condition worsened. | -1no label
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Microsoft Corp., on Thursday, posted higher quarterly earnings as revenue rose 12 percent, but its shares fell after the world's largest software market said current quarter sales would fall below Wall Street expectations. | Microsoft showed revenue growth. | -1no label
| 709 |
Insurgents exposed the vulnerability of Iraq's security forces again Sunday, killing at least 22 national guardsmen and their driver in a suicide bombing and 10 other people in separate attacks with elections just weeks away. | A suicide bomber blew up his vehicle killing at least 14 people. | -1no label
| 710 |
Asked whether economic conditions or terrorism would be more important to their vote this fall, 65% in the survey said economic conditions, and only 26% said terrorism. | A majority of voters said the economy was more important to their vote than terrorism. | -1no label
| 711 |
Visiting the Pakistani capital, the American Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, Christina Rocca, praised Pakistan for its contribution to the US-led war on terrorism. | Assistant Secretary of State met with Pakistani officials to discuss the global war on terror. | -1no label
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The chip will run at speeds of greater than 4 GHz, the firms said. | Cell is said to run at clock speeds greater than 4 gigahertz. | -1no label
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Saturn's moon Titan is covered by "dirty" ice ridges and seas of liquid natural gas, a team of scientists said on Friday after a week of research into data from the space probe Huygens. | Rain feeds river channels on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan, images from the Huygens probe show. | -1no label
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Kerry said Wednesday night that Bush bears responsibility for a misguided war in Iraq, lost jobs at home and mounting millions without health care. | Kerry said 5 million people had lost their health care. | -1no label
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Temporary help firms added 32,000 and education and health care services gained 13,000 jobs last month. | Service industries such as education and health care added 46,000 jobs. | -1no label
| 716 |
The death toll of a fire that roared through a packed Buenos Aires nightclub climbed on Friday to at least 175, with more than 700 injured as young revellers stampeded to reach locked exit doors. | At least 174 had been killed and more than 410 people injured. | -1no label
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Deputy state department spokesman Adam Ereli said the US had long assumed that North Korea had a nuclear capability, and stressed the importance of the six-party talks. | The US has said it hopes to persuade North Korea to return to multi-party talks. | -1no label
| 718 |
Exhausted survivors of southern Asia's giant earthquake and tsunami combed the rubble for food and belongings Tuesday as officials stepped up efforts to identify and bury the dead, whose numbers topped 60,000. | Survivors still wandered amid rubble looking for food that had not arrived. | -1no label
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A 100-foot diameter asteroid will pass within 26,500 miles of Earth, the closest-ever brush on record by a space rock, NASA astronomers said. | An asteroid with a diameter of 100 feet will pass close by Earth, astronomers said. | -1no label
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela has criticised US President George W. Bush over Iraq, saying the sole reason for a possible US-led attack would be to gain control of Iraqi oil. | Former South African President Nelson Mandela aimed criticism at President Bush. | -1no label
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Insurgent attacks on pipelines have brought oil exports from southern Iraq to a complete halt, a senior oil official said Monday, part of a rebel campaign to undermine the nation's post-war reconstruction efforts. | Insurgents have launched attacks on Iraq's oil industry. | -1no label
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US rounds up 400 Saddam diehards as group claims anti-US attacks in Iraq. | US rounded up 400 people in Iraq. | -1no label
| 723 |
A jammed flood gate forced the temporary evacuation of hundreds of people who live downstream from Lake Manatee as the swollen reservoir threatened to burst its banks following torrential rains. | Hundreds of people living downstream from a lake evacuated. | -1no label
| 724 |
The original Band Aid featured artists including Duran Duran, U2, Sting and George Michael, selling 3.5 million copies in the UK alone to raise money for the Ethiopia famine. | The first Band Aid record was recorded in 1984 and featured artists including Duran Duran, U2, and George Michael. | -1no label
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Two car bombs explode near a police station outside of Baghdad's Green Zone, killing seven police officers and wounding about 60 others. | 60 people are killed when a car bomb explodes near a police station in Baghdad. | -1no label
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American commanders moved their oversight of air operations in the region on Monday from here to a similar command center the U.S. built at the al-Udeid base in Qatar shortly before the Iraq war. | The US military moved its air command centre to the al-Udeid air base in Qatar. | -1no label
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Kerry said Bush lied to Nevadans about his Republican administration's determination to build a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain. | Kerry says Bush lied about Yucca Mt. | -1no label
| 728 |
A militant group beheaded three Iraqi Kurdish hostages, showing the killings in a videotape posted on a Web site yesterday, while another group announced that it had kidnapped at least 15 Iraqi National Guardsmen. | A group claimed to have kidnapped 15 members of the Iraqi National Guard. | -1no label
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U.S. troops went on the offensive from the gates of Baghdad to the Syrian border Tuesday, pounding Sunni insurgent positions from the air and supporting Iraqi soldiers in raids on mosques suspected of harboring extremists. | Iraqi forces, backed by U.S. soldiers, launched a series of raids on mosques. | -1no label
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On Monday Pakistan Prime Minister Jamali made a 10-minute telephone call to India's Prime Minister Vajpayee in a move Islamabad said had ended an 18-month impasse between the two sides. | Prime Minister Jamali of Pakistan called his Indian counterpart, Vajpayee. | -1no label
| 731 |
Roger Federer posted a huge win in the howling wind, beating two-time champion Andre Agassi 6-3, 2-6, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 Thursday in a U.S. Open quarterfinal match suspended the previous night because of rain. | Andre Agassi is keen to continue playing despite defeat to Roger Federer in the US Open quarter-finals on Thursday. | -1no label
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The leader of Iraq's largest Sunni Arab political party Saturday proposed 15 amendments to the country's draft constitution, one day after Shiite Muslim and Kurdish leaders said they had made their last, best offer. | Shiites and Kurds made what they said was a final offer. | -1no label
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U.S. planned job cuts dropped by 15 percent in January and below the 100,000 level for the first time since August 2004, a report said on Tuesday. | U.S. planned job cuts fell in January. | -1no label
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The 2004-2005 season was officially canceled yesterday when the hockey team owners and players couldn't agree on what players should be paid. | The season has been cancelled after players and owners failed to agree on a deal. | -1no label
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Kerry said Bush lied to Nevadans about his Republican administration's determination to build a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain. | Kerry said the nuclear waste dump issue is important to all Americans, not just Nevada. | -1no label
| 736 |
A study of the United States at war in the past 50 years has picked up one of the main awards at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival in Utah, in the US. | Sundance Institute took over the former Utah/United States Film Festival. | -1no label
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In Baghdad, a car bomb exploded late Sunday near a police patrol in the fashionable Jadiriyah district, killing at least six people, including three police officers, and wounding 26 others. | The bomb killed six people, including three policeman. | -1no label
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For all last year, business spending on equipment and software grew 13.4%, the largest increase since 1997. | Business spending on equipment and software grew by 13.4 percent. | -1no label
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Iraqi forces backed by U.S. soldiers and Marines raided mosques Tuesday in the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi and detained a prominent cleric following fierce clashes that hospital officials said killed at least four people. | Insurgents had repeatedly used mosques as shelters. | -1no label
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North and South Korean delegates struggling to hold together a summit on economic co-operation have resumed talks in Pyongyang. | South and North Korea resumed discussions. | -1no label
| 741 |
England has come a long way in improving cancer survival rates in the past 30 years but still does not match up to Europe and the US, a report says. | Overall survival rates were found to be increasing in England, but were still poor compared to Sweden. | -1no label
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At an international disaster conference in Kobe, Japan, the U.N. humanitarian chief said the United Nations should take the lead in creating a tsunami early-warning system in the Indian Ocean. | Nations affected by the Asian tsunami disaster have agreed the UN should begin work on an early warning system in the Indian Ocean. | -1no label
| 743 |
Mickelson finished a triumphant week in his second home, winning the FBR Open by five strokes for his largest margin of victory in a PGA Tour event. | Mickelson won the FBR Open by five strokes, the largest margin of victory in his PGA Tour triumphs. | -1no label
| 744 |
A mortar attack north of Baghdad killed four Iraqi national guardsmen and wounded 80 others Tuesday, while a top official from a prominent charity was kidnapped in the Iraqi capital. | On Tuesday, a mortar attack killed four Iraqi guardsmen and injured 80 north of Baghdad. | -1no label
| 745 |
Roger Federer posted a huge win in the howling wind, beating two-time champion Andre Agassi 6-3, 2-6, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 Thursday in a U.S. Open quarterfinal match suspended the previous night because of rain. | Roger Federer battled past Andre Agassi in five sets. | -1no label
| 746 |
Analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call were looking for the company to post earnings of 38 cents per share on sales of $12.81 billion in the latest period. | SBC reported earnings of 38 cents per share in the latest quarter. | -1no label
| 747 |
The three-day hostage siege at a school in southern Russia ended in chaos and bloodshed Friday, after witnesses said Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building. | The hostage takers want the release of Chechen rebels. | -1no label
| 748 |
Saddam Hussein destroyed his chemical and biological weapons after the 1991 Gulf War and dismantled what remained of his mass-destruction weapons programs by 1996, the CIA's top Iraqi weapons adviser reported Wednesday. | Saddam Hussein ended his nuclear programme in 1991, after the Gulf War. | -1no label
| 749 |
The pope entered the hospital for a relapse of the flu and underwent the elective surgery to relieve respiratory problems, Vatical officials said earlier. | The pontiff was struck by a relapse of the flu. | -1no label
| 750 |
The South Asian neighbors have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir, which is divided between India and Pakistan but which both claim in its entirety. | India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir. | -1no label
| 751 |
Mount St. Helens emitted a large plume of steam on Monday, with fears of an eruption rising as scientists estimated the width of the volcano's crater had expanded by 15 to 30 metres. | After a steam eruption scientists raised the alert level for Mount St. Helens. | -1no label
| 752 |
Designers say their chip, code-named Cell and built from the start with the burgeoning world of rich media and broadband networks in mind, can deliver 10 times the performance of today's PC processors. | Designers say the chip has the potential to efficiently handle several multimedia tasks at once. | -1no label
| 753 |
Excluding those items, the company reported a net income of 79 cents per share, handily beating the estimate of 72 cents per share carried by analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call. | Analysts surveyed by Thomson First call were expecting earnings of 72 cents a share. | -1no label
| 754 |
On Social Security, Bush reassured retirees and those nearing retirement that the 70-year-old program "is strong and fiscally sound," promising he was proposing nothing that would change their benefits. | The president said that the reform would not affect the benefits of current and near retirees. | -1no label
| 755 |
Scientists on Monday announced the discovery of a frozen, shiny red world some 8 billion miles from Earth that is the most distant known object in the solar system. | A frozen world 8 billion miles from Earth is believed to be the farthest known object within our solar system. | -1no label
| 756 |
Rising wholesale prices and a jump in oil futures intensified inflation fears Friday, keeping stocks mixed and sending bond prices falling. | Wholesale prices rose at the fastest rate in six years, causing a selloff on the bond market and pressured stocks as well. | -1no label
| 757 |
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) said the civil suits would seek damages of up to $30,000 per film. | The law states $30,000 damages can be sought per film. | -1no label
| 758 |
Saddam Hussein destroyed his chemical and biological weapons after the 1991 Gulf War and dismantled what remained of his mass-destruction weapons programs by 1996, the CIA's top Iraqi weapons adviser reported Wednesday. | Saddam Hussein had used chemical weapons in the past. | -1no label
| 759 |
Insurgents have attacked US troops, polling stations and Iraqi forces as security was tightened ahead of Sunday's landmark national election. | Insurgents in Iraq attacked polling centers ahead of Sunday's elections. | -1no label
| 760 |
Bush today said staying the course in the war on terror will make the world safer for future generations, though he said an all-out victory against terrorism may not be possible. | Bush said that victory may not be possible. | -1no label
| 761 |
Bush used his weekly radio address to try to build support for his plan to allow workers to divert part of their Social Security payroll taxes into private investment accounts. | Mr. Bush is proposing that workers be allowed to divert their payroll taxes into private accounts. | -1no label
| 762 |
US President George W. Bush and his Democratic challenger John Kerry have clashed over homeland security, jobs, taxes and healthcare in the third and final of their televised debates. | President George W. Bush and his Democratic challenger John Kerry have clashed over domestic security in their last TV debate. | -1no label
| 763 |
A statement distributed early today by the Governing Council said the members would reconvene Monday "to finalize" outstanding issues "and sign" the interim charter. | Members of Iraq's Governing Council refused to sign an interim constitution. | -1no label
| 764 |
Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and battled separatist rebels holding hundreds of hostages as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled the building through explosions and gunfire. | The total number of hostages held in the school may have been as many as 1,200. | -1no label
| 765 |
A huge car bomb killed Lebanon's former prime minister al-Hariri and at least 12 other people Monday in Beirut's most devastating attack since the 1975-90 civil war. | A bomb blew up close to Hariri's motorcade in Beirut on Monday. | -1no label
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Such a margin of victory would give Abbas a clear mandate to renew peace talks with Israel, rein in militants and reform the corruption-riddled Palestinian Authority. | The new Palestinian president combatted corruption and revived the Palestinian economy. | -1no label
| 767 |
Andy Roddick could not hide his disappointment after his hopes of winning the Australian Open title were ended by third seed Lleyton Hewitt in the semi-finals on Friday. | Lleyton Hewitt had a win over Andy Roddick in Friday's semi-final. | -1no label
| 768 |
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday that Iran must live up to its international obligations to halt its nuclear program or "the next steps are in the offing." | US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has warned Iran it faces possible UN sanctions. | -1no label
| 769 |
Palestinian officials and international officials Saturday, privately weighed the prospects of political life after Arafat, who remains in poor condition at a French hospital. | Arafat is ailing in a French hospital. | -1no label
| 770 |
The U.S. military staged a series of aggressive strikes Tuesday in insurgent strongholds west of Baghdad, including firing missiles into the streets of Fallujah and conducting raids alongside Iraqi commandos in seven mosques in Ramadi. | Clashes broke out between U.S. forces and insurgents in Fallujah, killing one Iraqi. | -1no label
| 771 |
The deal comes some two weeks after a $16 billion deal was reached between AT&T and SBC, a top rival for Qwest. | The two firms sealed the deal despite what was thought to be a higher offer from rival US carrier Qwest. | -1no label
| 772 |
The model for the new network is an existing system in the Pacific, which was established in 1965 and now provides early tsunami warnings to 26 nations. | Japan's warning system can issue an alert for a deadly tsunami within minutes of an undersea quake. | -1no label
| 773 |
Former South African President Nelson Mandela blasted the United States for 'undermining' the U.N. and President Bush for a desire to start a world 'holocaust,' Tom Fenton reports. | Mandela said Bush is 'undermining' past work of the United Nations. | -1no label
| 774 |
A huge car bomb killed Lebanon's former prime minister al-Hariri and at least 12 other people Monday in Beirut's most devastating attack since the 1975-90 civil war. | A massive car bomb killed the former Prime Minister Hariri. | -1no label
| 775 |
Phil Mickelson finished a triumphant week in his second home, winning the FBR Open by five strokes for his largest margin of victory in a PGA Tour event. | Mickelson won by five shots last week, the largest margin of his career. | -1no label
| 776 |
In one of the latest attacks, a US soldier on patrol was killed by a single shot from a sniper in northern Baghdad, the military said yesterday. | A U.S. soldier was killed in a sniper attack in northern Baghdad. | -1no label
| 777 |
A bomb blew up close to Hariri's motorcade in Beirut on Monday, killing at least 15 people and injuring about 120 others. | Mr. Hariri died when a bomb exploded near his motorcade in Beirut on Monday. | -1no label
| 778 |
The scientists said the existence of water or ice would significantly increase the chance that microscopic life may also be found on Mars. | The frozen sea of sorts is the first large quantity of water ice on Mars. | -1no label
| 779 |
Former European Ryder Cup winning captain Sam Torrance says Welshman Ian Woosnam is the right man to lead Europe at the 2006 match in Ireland. | Torrance told BBC Sport: "I think Ian Woosnam should get it" (the 2006 captaincy). | -1no label
| 780 |
With stars like Sluggers Barry Bonds under suspicion and lawmakers demanding action, Major League Baseball adopted a tougher steroid-testing program that will suspend first-time offenders for 10 days and randomly test players year-round. | Baseball rolled out a tougher steroid-testing program that includes penalties for first-time offenders and random, year-round checks. | -1no label
| 781 |
Blanchett won the supporting-actress honor for her role as Hepburn in "The Aviator" and Morgan Freeman took the supporting-actor prize for "Million Dollar Baby" playing a sage-like ex-prizefighter. | Morgan Freeman took the supporting actor prize for "Million Dollar Baby." | -1no label
| 782 |
A German man has been able to eat his first proper meal in nine years after surgeons rebuilt his face using a pioneering jaw-bone graft. | The man ate his first real meal in nine years. | -1no label
| 783 |
Emergency-control managers began asking residents living near the lake and downstream along the Manatee River to leave yesterday morning. | Emergency managers began asking residents along the Manatee River to evacuate. | -1no label
| 784 |
A series of explosions ripped through Baghdad and a nearby city Friday, killing at least 35 people and injuring dozens on the eve of Shiite Islam's most important holiday, officials said. | The attacks came on the eve of Shiite Islam's most important holiday. | -1no label
| 785 |
U.S. ground forces began their long-awaited assault into Fallujah yesterday - capturing the city's main hospital and two bridges soon after Iraq's interim government declared martial law. | U.S. forces launched an offensive against Fallujah. | -1no label
| 786 |
Growth in the vast U.S. services sector slowed in August although managers seemed more willing to hire new workers, according to an industry survey published Friday. | A report showed that growth in the vast service sector slowed in August. | -1no label
| 787 |
'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,' the fifth installment in Rowling's wildly popular childrens' series about a boy wizard, comes out Saturday. | The fifth Harry Potter book - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - is set to be released on Saturday. | -1no label
| 788 |
Iraqi forces captured a key aide to Jordanian-born terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi , who leads an insurgency affiliated with Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, the government said Friday. | Iraqi forces captured an al-Zarqawi aide the government said. | -1no label
| 789 |
The 2004-2005 season was officially canceled yesterday when the hockey team owners and players couldn't agree on what players should be paid. | Both owners and players admit there is unlikely to be much negotiating. | -1no label
| 790 |
The militant group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for the slaying and said another hostage - either an American or a Briton - would be killed in 24 hours. | Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group has beheaded one of the hostages. | -1no label
| 791 |
A NASA spacecraft carrying solar particles that were captured a million miles from Earth slammed into the Utah desert yesterday and cracked open after its parachutes failed to deploy, possibly rendering the mission a failure. | A U.S. space capsule returning to Earth crashed in a Utah desert yesterday. | -1no label
| 792 |
The shooters escaped as other soldiers tried to give aid to the wounded. | The gunmen escaped as other soldiers tried to help the wounded. | -1no label
| 793 |
Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and battled separatist rebels holding hundreds of hostages as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled the building through explosions and gunfire. | Hundreds of people were killed after terrorists seized a school building. | -1no label
| 794 |
Former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas declared victory in the Palestinian presidential election late Sunday after exit polls gave him a commanding lead over his rivals. | Mahmoud Abbas won the vote in the Palestinian presidential election Sunday. | -1no label
| 795 |
Packard Co. will start selling its version of the iPod digital music player next month and will add new flat-panel televisions, photo printers and computers that handle media to help the company tap consumer demand. | Packard Co. Friday unveiled its version of the iPod digital music player. | -1no label
| 796 |
The BBC has apologised for incorrectly broadcasting figures which suggested more Iraqi civilians had been killed by coalition and Iraqi forces than by insurgents. | The BBC reported that coalition and Iraqi forces could be responsible for conflict-related civilian deaths in Iraq. | -1no label
| 797 |
The Israeli army said in a statement that the car carried "three senior Hamas militants" who plotted attacks against civilians in the past and were planning more. | The IDF said the air force targeted a car carrying "senior Hamas militants". | -1no label
| 798 |
Shares of Apple Computer Inc. surged Thursday after the computer maker plowed through earnings forecasts with strong sales of its popular iPod digital music player. | Apple said the iPod had helped its quarterly earnings more than quadruple. | -1no label
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