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The Washington Post sports Guerrero Leads Angels Past Orioles Vladimir Guerrero returns from a four-game absence and hit two home runs, leading the Los Angeles Angels past the Orioles, 10-5, Tuesday night.
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The Register Apple deal drives Creative income, revenues skyward Made more money licensing MP3 player patent than selling MP3 players You can see now why Creative Technology's now so pro-iPod - last month it announced a range of 'Made for iPod'-branded accessories . Its latest financial results, posted last night, show a massive upswing in revenues thanks, we'd say, to Apple's move to license Creative's key MP3 player patent.

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Boston Globe business Looking for Mr. Goodwrench Rob Chermesino's college-educated friends went into finance and sales. His fiance is a meeting planner. Chermesino picked up a wrench.
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USA Today Season far from running course With the PGA Tour's major championships concluded for 2004, we look for other story lines to sustain the golf season. The back nine: ...
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The Standard US treasuries dumping report sends greenback into a tailspin The US dollar hit a record low against the euro and a nearly five-year low versus the yen after a mainland business newspaper appeared at first glance to confirm the market's worst fears - that China was dumping US Treasuries.
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BBC News world MoD investigates fatal Iraq crash A probe begins into whether a missile downed an RAF Hercules plane in Iraq, with the loss of up to 15 lives.
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Bloomberg General Motors to Cut 12,000 Jobs at European Units (Update5) General Motors Corp., the world's biggest carmaker, will cut as many as 12,000 jobs in Europe, almost a fifth of its workforce in the region, after $3 billion in losses in the past four years.
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Computerworld news Computerworld Executive Bulletin: Building a Robust Antivirus Defense (Source: Computerworld) Antivirus software alone isnt enough to prevent todays speedy, sophisticated virus attacks. Security managers should consider multitiered approaches that include behavior scanning, appliances that check e-mail for worms, and estricting user access to dangerous Web sites. Download this Executive Bulletin (a $49.95 value) for free, compliments of MessageLabs, to learn more.
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Reuters Bailed jockeys back in saddle Champion jockey Kieren Fallon and colleagues Fergal Lynch and Darren Williams are due back in action after their arrests over allegations of race-fixing.
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Yahoo Sports Storm Clobber Monarchs 82-62 (AP) AP - Sue Bird had 10 points and 14 assists a day after having surgery on her broken nose, and the Seattle Storm advanced to the WNBA finals with an 82-62 win over the Sacramento Monarchs in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals Tuesday night.
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CNET security news Time for blogosphere to get real about church-state Blog: CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says the fuzzy acceptance of "conversational marketing" is leading to confusion among blog readers. Isn't it time to set down clear rules of the road?
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Channel News Asia Taiwan foreign minister criticises Singapore TAIPEI : Taiwan Foreign Minister Mark Chen has lashed out at Singapore over remarks by the Republic's own Foreign Minister George Yeo at the United Nations.
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Yahoo Business Sirius Names Karmazin CEO, Shares Jump (Reuters) Reuters - Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. on Thursday named former Viacom Inc. President Mel Karmazin as its chief executive, in the latest migration of a mainstream radio heavyweight to the fledgling satellite industry.
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Yahoo Business J.P. Morgan Cancels IBM Outsourcing Deal (Reuters) Reuters - J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. said on Wednesday it was canceling a $5 billion outsourcing deal with IBM Corp., and planned to rehire about 4,000 workers who had been transferred to IBM under the pact.
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New York Times Tech Blockbuster Settles Fight With Netflix A patent dispute challenged Blockbuster’s entry into online DVD rental. The company also signaled that the new business was taking a toll on its finances.
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Guardian Powerful Nesterenko seizes the moment It was the final of the forgotten. Those who raced it, this weirdest of women's 100-metres dashes, were a largely unknown lot; the winner, Yuliya Nesterenko, ran into history from the comfortable starting blocks of near-total anonymity.
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Yahoo Politics Canadian released by Dubai in drug case (AP) AP - A Canadian U.N. official who advised the Afghan government on eradicating opium poppy crops was granted amnesty by Dubai Monday, six months after being sentenced to four years in prison on a drug smuggling conviction.
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The Washington Post sports Williams Stays Retired Retired running back Ricky Williams has no immediate plans to resume his NFL career with the Dolphins, his attorney said.
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CNET News.com AMD turns to Chartered for help The Intel rival known for its Athlon PC and Opteron server processors announced on Tuesday plans to tap Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, a contract manufacturer, for extra chip-production capacity.
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Washington Post Business Long Fall for Pentagon Star In the macho world of the Pentagon, Darleen A. Druyun was rare: a woman who had scaled the heights of power, controlled billions of dollars in weapons programs and could punish or reward global corporations and the men who ran them.
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New York Times Business Private Equity Deal Expected for Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Lexicon Pharmaceuticals is expected to announce on Monday that it has signed deals with two private equity firms.
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Yahoo Business Iraqi economy's fate hostage to unrest: IMF (AFP) AFP - Iraq's government has made laudable efforts to stabilize the economy but progress remains hostage to the worsening violence, the International Monetary Fund said.
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New York Times world Protecting the Private Side of a Famous Life Even as she plays the role of cultural ambassador, Yoko Ono has fought fiercely to protect the sanctity of her home.
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SLAM! Sports NHL season on ice? The National Hockey League Players' Association closed ranks yesterday, but in doing so brought the season closer to cancellation.
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The Washington Post sports Moore, Others Wouldn't Mind Being Out of Position for O's FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Feb. 16 -- Scott Moore's only extended professional experience in the outfield came at Class AAA Iowa, where he played about 20 games as a Chicago Cubs farmhand. But on Saturday, Moore could be found fighting the South Florida sunshine and shagging fly balls during batting ...
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Voice of America Formula One Racing: Barrichello Wins Pole of Chinese Grand Prix Rubens Barrichello of Brazil has grabbed the pole position for Sunday's Formula One Chinese Grand Prix auto race in Shanghai. He averaged 208.
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CNET personal technology news Gnarls Barkley to the rescue Also: The truth about shopping engines. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Renault F1 Viry: The spiritual home of the V10 engine In 1976, Renault Sport was established in Viry-Châtillon 20km south of Paris. Since 1992, this factory has been Renault’s F1 engine development arm.
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Guardian 'Stagnation not deflation' in housing market The housing market has peaked but is not heading into the abyss, analysts said today, as figures showed property price falls for the fourth consecutive month.
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Yahoo Politics Former Bush adviser to say no to Senate (AP) AP - President Bush's former political director says she intends to follow his directive and not answer questions about her role in the administration's firing of federal prosecutors — unless a court directs her to defy her former boss.
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Yahoo World Spirit of Jimi Hendrix haunts London's new Marquee Club (AFP) AFP - "Jimi at the Marquee."
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PC Pro MSN takes downloads fight to Apple Microsoft has announced an expansion of its MSN Music Store, adding eight new countries to bring the total number covered to 17. The enlargement, says Microsoft, is a significant challenge to Apple, who recently
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Seattle Post Intelligencer Kazaa offering free Internet-based calls Free Internet-based phone calls are the newest feature of the popular Kazaa file-sharing program. The offering, in a software upgrade this week, comes as Kazaa's maker, Sharman
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Yahoo World 'Massive' aid needed for African floods: Red Cross (AFP) AFP - The Red Cross warned Friday that a massive aid effort is needed to cope with floods in 18 countries across Africa that have already affected at least 1.5 million people and killed nearly 300.
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New York Times Tech Cooperation Doesn’t Stop TV Price Wars Will deals among the manufacturers of flat-panel displays lead to slower price declines of L.C.D. televisions? Don’t count on it.
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Washington Post IBM Claims Computer Speed Title IBM Corp. plans to announce today that it has built the world's fastest supercomputer at one of its facilities in Rochester, Minn.
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The Washington Post world Returning to Office, Dominican Focuses On Economic Woes Leonel Fernandez was sworn in as the Dominican Republic's president Monday, returning to power after four years out of office to lead a nation struggling through its worst economic crisis in decades.
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International Herald Tribune Soccer: Inter Milan trounces Valencia Dejan Stankovic and Christian Vieri scored in a two-minute spell early in the second half Wednesday to help Inter Milan rout Valencia by 5-1 in a Champions League Group G game.
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Rediff 1,100 Royal & Sun jobs for India Royal & Sun Alliance, Britain's second-largest insurance company, is planning to shift over 1,100 jobs to India as a part of its cost-cutting exercise.
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InfoWorld news Google releases customized version of Internet Explorer 7 ( InfoWorld ) - Google has released a customized version of  Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7) browser  in which Google, not Windows Live Search, is the default search engine. Google's customized version of IE 7 can be downloaded from this Web site. In addition to using Google as the default search engine, Google's customized version of IE 7 also provides users with the Google Toolbar and a Google homepage they can personalize. According to a posting by Microsoft Group Program manager Tony Chor on Microsoft's IEBlog, Google and other companies -- including Yahoo Inc. and USAToday.com -- were able to build customized versions of IE 7 by using the Internet Explorer Administration Kit. Microsoft released the toolkit so developers could customize IE, as well as to provide companies with help to configure and deploy the browser through the enterprise, Chor wrote in his posting. Microsoft released IE 7 for Windows XP on Oct. 18. IE 7 is also included in  Windows Vista , which is currently available in full release only to business users. Windows Vista will be available to consumers on Jan. 30.
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Reuters Business Shell Q4 profits up as output rises LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc posted a 2.6 percent rise in underlying quarterly profits on Thursday, beating analysts' forecasts, thanks to higher production and strong oil prices.
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Washington Post At Fannie, Tougher Tasks Lie Ahead Fannie Mae's board of directors may have found it hard to get rid of the company's top two executives, but a difficult job remains in navigating the transition to the next senior management team.
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Radio Australia Australia welcomes arrest of embassy bomb suspects The Australian Government has welcomed the arrests of four key suspects in the bombing of Australia's embassy in Jakarta in September.
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New York Times world Fed Leaves Key Interest Rate Unchanged The rate hasn’t changed since last June, and the Federal Reserve signaled that it will hold steady for some time.
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RedNova science Numerous Violations Uncovered in Fishing, Forestry Industries in Far East - Prosecutors YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK. May 30 (Interfax) - The largest number of crimes in the fishing sector, as well as rampant corruption, in the Far East have been uncovered in the Primorsky Territory, the Kamchatsk and Sakhalin regions, deputy Prosecutor General Yury Gulyagin said.
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Indianapolis Star Former No. 1 pick Couch cut by Packers Quarterback Tim Couch, the top pick in the 1999 NFL draft, was cut Sunday by the Green Bay Packers, who hoped he'd be an upgrade over Doug Pederson as Brett Favre's primary backup.
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CNET security news Cisco's second-in-command steps down Charles Giancarlo, 50, resigns as chief development officer at Cisco Systems, saying the timing would never be right for him to succeed John Chambers as CEO.
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Reuters Business More holiday shoppers say they'll spend less NEW YORK (Reuters) - More consumers are planning to spend less this holiday season than a year ago, according to a survey released on Tuesday that adds a fresh note of caution to what is shaping up to be a ho-hum holiday shopping season.
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NPR (audio) Regulators Question Fannie Mae Accounting Description: Fannie Mae, the nation's largest source of financing for home mortgages, faces accusations of pervasive accounting problems.
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RedNova science Ice Lounge Offers Celebs Charitable Environment By Schmelzer, Randi NORTH FACE, LEXUS, ST. REGIS PR TEAM: The North Face (San Leandro, CA), Lexus (Torrance, CA). St.
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Reuters Tech Sony BMG settles case over anti-piracy software SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Sony BMG will pay $750,000 in penalties and costs and reimburse California consumers whose computers were harmed by anti-piracy software on some CDs sold by the record company, California officials said on Tuesday.
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RedNova technology Myriad Computers Around the World Join to Solve Problems Piece By Piece By Valarie Potell, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Feb. 6--Dan Duncan works all day and helps fight AIDS at night -- or at least his computer does.
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New York Times sports Brawl players, fans appear in court Five Indiana Pacers players and three fans charged in one of the most violent melees in NBA history appeared in court yesterday in Rochester Hills, Mich. -- each at a separate hearing. All were released on bond. The Pacers players, charged with misdemeanor assault and battery in the brawl with Detroit fans at The Palace of Auburn Hills, appeared for ...
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Reuters Sports Jazz to Retire Stockton's Number SALT LAKE CITY, (Sports Network) - The Jazz announced Tuesday that the club will retire John Stockton's No. 12 on November 22, 2004, when Utah hosts the New Orleans Hornets.
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Boston Globe sports After Waiting a Long Time, Davenport Keeps It Short The weather played havoc with the U.S. Open schedule Wednesday, but it did not affect Lindsay Davenport, who rolled to a quarterfinal victory over Shinobu Asagoe.
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BBC News Business India wins $77m steel investment Australia's largest steelmaker BlueScope is to build three manufacturing plants in India, as part of an ongoing expansion across Asia.
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New York Times sports Cobbs is in the running The young running back packed his bags for one weekend, because that's all the Patriots promised him.
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Boston Globe sports In Change, Busch Puts Teammate First Over the years, confrontations with drivers have done nothing but reinforce Kurt Busch’s bad-boy reputation. But Ryan Newman had Busch to thank for his Daytona 500 victory on Sunday.
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CSMonitor World Canadians go west in black-gold rush An exodus of job-seekers heading to Alberta's 'oil patch' forces eastern Canada to import workers.
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Xinhua Kenyan Nobel Prize winner pledges to continue planting "seeds of <b>...</b> Kenya's environmentalist Wangari Maathai said Friday that she feels "very excited" to win the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and pledges to continue to plant the seeds of peace with her fellow Kenyans.
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Yahoo Sports Is Peyton magical or just blowing smoke? (AP) AP - He points, he pivots, he barks out more orders than a coffee shop waiter at lunchtime. When Peyton Manning is running the show for the Indianapolis Colts, it's difficult to decipher if he is performing magic or just blowing smoke.
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Yahoo World Mexico governor's race is heated battle (AP) AP - Mexican police said Saturday they had broken up a vote-buying scheme in Chiapas on the eve of state elections, which will be closely watched in a country already straining under the turmoil of a disputed presidential election last month.
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Reuters Business Global Markets: Euro Eases from $1.30 LONDON (Reuters) - The euro EUR= made a renewed attempt to test the key psychological level of $1.30 on Tuesday, but lacked fundamental impetus and eased back after data showed a dollar-friendly improvement in U.S. net capital inflows.
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CNET personal technology news Listen to your maps with Wild Sanctuary Blog: Put sound on your maps with Wild Sanctuary
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Yahoo Sports Oklahoma-Nebraska Rivalry Still Shines (AP) AP - Even though he grew up hundreds of miles away, a young Bob Stoops was intrigued by the rivalry. In Chicago, Bill Callahan was watching, too.
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Reuters Business Stocks to Watch on Nov. 5 NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks to watch on Friday: UNIVISION COMMUNICATIONS INC. UVC.N : The Spanish-language broadcaster forecast earnings below Wall Street expectations.
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Yahoo World Chirac belittles Iran bomb threat, then retracts: IHT (Reuters) Reuters - French President Jacques Chirac told reporters an Iran that possessed one or two nuclear weapons would not pose much of a danger and then retracted many of his comments, the International Herald Tribune said on Thursday.
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Texas City Sun Don’t wait for courts to fix finance problem Let us hope that the ruling from State District Judge John Dietz is the first nail in the coffin of the Robin Hood school finance plan.
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Forbes Boeing Unit to Sell Hawaiian Air Claim Boeing Capital Corp., the finance unit of aircraft maker and aerospace defense systems provider Boeing Co., said Thursday that the recent agreements reached on its claims against insolvent Hawaiian Airlines will not affect the company's earnings or cash
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BBC News world India wakes to day of mourning Churches in north-east India are to hold special services after blasts and gun attacks killed at least 56 people.
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CNET networking news New iMac rumors growing; new iLife to come as well? The back-to-school season is always one of Apple's most important quarters of the year. Buzz is building that the company won't let the season pass by without a new iMac. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
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Yahoo Business April durable goods orders tumble 4.8 percent (Reuters) Reuters - New orders for U.S.-made durable goods tumbled an unexpectedly large 4.8 percent in April on drops in orders for civilian aircraft and computer and electronic products, a government report showed on Wednesday.
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PCWorld news IDC: Service Providers Could Earn More From Mobility Few service providers are stepping forward to assist businesses with mobile services, according to an IDC survey.
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Time World Iraqi President To Leave Hospital Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, who collapsed from exhaustion and dehydration after suffering lung and sinus infections, will leave the hospital soon, his doctor said
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Yahoo Politics Syria tells US senator it values dialogue (AFP) AFP - Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said that Damascus values dialogue with Washington in a meeting with visiting US Senator Arlen Specter on Saturday, official media reported.
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New York Daily News Vazquez: You'll regret it "I still trust in my abilities and if the Yankees trade me, they'll regret it," Vazquez told the Puerto Rican newspaper La Perla del Sur in yesterday's editions.
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Xinhua Bangladesh to ask Interpol to probe into grenade attack case The Bangladeshi government Thursday decided to seek help from International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) to investigate the Aug. 21 grenade attackon opposition
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Yahoo World Opinion polls send mixed signals ahead of Australian election (AFP) AFP - The latest opinion polls ahead of Australian elections next month sent contradictory messages with one survey giving the opposition Labor Party a big lead and a second tipping the conservative coalition of Prime Minister John Howard.
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Wisconsin Technology Network Saint Francis Hospital digitizes patient records with GE systems TULSA, Okla. - Saint Francis Hospital, a Tulsa heart-care center, announced on Monday that with the aid of GE Healthcare it has installed of a new information technology system to handle hospital files.
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RedNova technology Google Deal's Details Show Flaws: It's Tough to Assess the $260 Million, 30-Year Agreement By Jonathan B. Cox,Economic incentives are again in the spotlight after Google was promised as much as $260 million in tax breaks and other perks to create 210 jobs.
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CNN International Howard aims for security, economy Australian Prime Minister John Howard expects to hold talks on anti-terrorism cooperation with Indonesia's President-elect Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono next month.
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Computerworld news Hands-on Vista SP1: Better but slower? The final version of Vista SP1 kills the Kill Switch, and adds many under-the-hood improvements -- but on at least one system, file copying is actually slower.
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BBC News Business Ivory unrest drives cocoa prices Cocoa traders face a volatile week as unrest in the Ivory Coast threatens to disrupt supplies from the world's biggest producer.
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Yahoo Tech Electronic-Vote Critics Urge Changes to System (Reuters) Reuters - Voting activists on Wednesday enlisted computer experts, a trained monkey and a man on a hunger strike in a last-minute pitch to convince officials to improve the security of electronic vote-counting systems.
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The Motley Fool Sirius Isn't Stupid Ask yourself why the satellite radio star is taking on more debt.
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The Scotsman RMC cements £2.3bn link with Mexican rival THE creation of the world’s biggest building materials company is on course after Britain’s RMC group agreed to be bought by Mexican rival Cemex, currently the third-biggest cement maker worldwide, for £2.
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Pittsburgh Post Gazette Week 6: Game Day No. 5 Texas (4-0) vs. No. 2 Oklahoma (4-0): Noon today, Dallas. TV: None in immediate Pittsburgh area, though it will be televised on WYTV (Youngstown) and WATM (Johnstown).
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The Scotsman Bhutto Denies Doing Deal for Husband's Freedom Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto denied today that she had struck a deal with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to secure her husband’s freedom, but said leaders from her opposition party had
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Reuters Putin Tells Bush Russia Boosting Oil Exports Russian President Vladimir Putin told President Bush on Monday that Russian oil companies were boosting production as well as exports and would continue to do so.
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Yahoo Tech T-Mobile USA Sees High-Speed Network 2 Years Off (Reuters) Reuters - T-Mobile USA, the U.S. wireless unit of Deutsche Telekom AG (DTEGn.DE), does not expect to offer broadband mobile data services for at least the next two years, its chief executive said on Thursday.
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Yahoo Tech Moratorium on Web Tax Advances (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - Congress yesterday cleared the way to keep access to the Internet largely free from taxes for the next three years, breaking a year-long deadlock.
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CNET personal technology news Apple earnings soar, 1.4 million iPhones sold to date As expected, it was another great quarter for Apple, with Mac shipments leading the way as the company sold more than a million iPhones.
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Reuters Business Court Deals Blow to Anti-Piracy Efforts LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday delivered a stinging blow to the anti-piracy efforts of major movie studios and music companies, ruling that several major online file-sharing software companies are not liable for copyright infringement.
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BBC News world 'Unexpected growth' in CO2 found Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have grown more quickly than expected, say scientists.
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Yahoo Politics McConnell: Repression in Cuba increases (AP) AP - Repression is increasing in Cuba under the control of Raul Castro, and the domination of the government by his brother, Fidel, is nearing an end, Bush administration officials said Tuesday.
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RedNova science Footbridge Worry Concerns have been raised about a plan to build three footbridges as part of safe routes to school. One could be built across the River Ebbw at Newbridge, another across a railway line and the third over a water course, all close to Newbridge Leisure Centre.
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Yahoo Sports Stars win 5th straight at rival San Jose (AP) AP - Mike Ribeiro and Brenden Morrow each had a goal and an assist, and the Dallas Stars beat the San Jose Sharks 4-2 Saturday.
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Yahoo Business Ford sales up as trucks steady, others down (Reuters) Reuters - Ford Motor Co. on Tuesday posted its first monthly sales gain since January as its light trucks business stabilized after a downturn that forced an accelerated restructuring at the No. 2 U.S. automaker.
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Rediff Classic 5,000 metres in store at Helsinki A race for the ages is in prospect at next year's Helsinki world championships if three of the world's great runners stay fit, healthy and focused.
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Yahoo Sports Aaron wants no part of the Bonds saga (AP) AP - Hank Aaron wants no part of Barry Bonds. With Bonds closing in on the career home run record, Aaron attended a news conference Thursday at the spot where his 755th and final home run landed in 1976.
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