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Date : 10 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Skyrocketing oil prices likely pushed the U.S. trade deficit in November to its widest since July, economists polled b read more »

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AP - Gunmen shot dead two federal agents and a civilian Thursday in the central state of Michoacan, prosecutors said, the latest i read more »

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AP - The Weinstein Co., one of Hollywood's largest independent filmmakers, said Thursday it expects to reach a deal with striking read more »

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AP - Friends and colleagues of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb the world's highest peak, remembered him Friday as a dog read more »

Date : 10 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
We've been seeing all sorts of lawsuits lately that show how the rise of technologies like the internet have really caused troubl read more »

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AP - A San Diego sports marketer claims in a new book that he gave former Southern California running back Reggie Bush nearly $300 read more »

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AP - A lawyer for G-Unit rapper Tony Yayo, who is accused of slapping a 14-year-old boy on a Manhattan street, wants the charges d read more »

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AFP - Liverpool's Jamie Carragher is adamant the ongoing speculation surrounding the Anfield future of manager Rafael Benitez is n read more »

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AFP - Edmund Hillary, the unassuming New Zealander who won world fame as the first man to climb Mount Everest, died Friday at the read more »

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PC World - Concept gadgets rule, editors drool, and wireless, hands-free tech takes over. Here are our picks for the best--and wor read more »

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Reuters - China's worries about soaring pork prices have reached new heights in a southwestern town where a man has been raising t read more »

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AP - Japan's upper house of parliament rejected a bill Friday to revive a naval mission to support U.S.-led forces in the Indian O read more »

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AP - A man who tried to extort $1.3 million from Tom Cruise in exchange for stolen wedding photographs of the actor and Katie Holm read more »

Date : 10 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
While the FBI has regularly decided that court orders aren't necessary for wiretaps, it is a bit surprising to find out that it s read more »

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PC World - What happens when you take the powerful Cell microprocessor, the chip that sits at the heart of the PlayStation 3 games read more »

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AP - Kanye West's mother most likely died of heart disease coupled with complications after plastic surgery, but the exact cause o read more »

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Reuters - Studio executives and television writers struck an uneasy truce at the unconventional premiere of the Fox network's "T read more »

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TechWeb - Stephen Elop, a Juniper exec with a diverse technology background, moves in to oversee Windows Server and other business read more »

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Reuters - An NBC News plan to exclusively produce, televise and profit from a news conference announcing Golden Globe winners dr read more »

Date : 10 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
More than five years ago, Lotus founder Mitch Kapor announced plans to start a not-for-profit foundation to try to create an open read more »

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AP - An American journalist whose critical book on Thailand's king is banned took the limelight at an international academic confe read more »

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AP - Sir Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest to win renown as one of the 20th century's greatest read more »

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AP - President Bush called for a halt to Israel's military occupation of land the Palestinians claim for a state and an end to the read more »

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FT.com - The new head of Orange has hired three senior managers who worked at his old business as he seeks to revive the fortunes read more »

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AFP - The exact cause of rapper Kanye West's mother's death was unknown, a Los Angeles coroner ruled Thursday, apparently clearing read more »

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AP - Former "Lost" star Michelle Rodriguez has found her way out of jail. Rodriguez was released from a Los Angeles County women's read more »

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AP - Donda West, Kanye West's mother, died of heart disease and "multiple postoperative factors" after plastic surgery, a deputy m read more »

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AP - Another Clinton book is on the way, this time by the best-selling author and former editor of The New Yorker, Tina Brown. "Th read more »

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AP - Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that Jeff Raikes, the top executive in its business software division, will retire in September read more »

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AP - Helicopters sent by Venezuela's president picked up two hostages freed by Colombian rebels in the jungle Thursday and flew th read more »

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Reuters - CBS Corp will see growth in 2008 in "every single division" and no short-term effects from a looming economic downturn read more »

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Reuters - Striking film and television writers on Thursday canceled their own annual awards dinner, saying that no show honoring read more »

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Investor's Business Daily - What the credit crisis couldn't do to the private-equity market -- knock it to the canvas for a 10-cou read more »

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AP - Sudan acknowledged Thursday that its troops shot at a United Nations convoy in Darfur, reversing an initial denial, but it in read more »

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AP - A buyout of hobbled mortgage lender Countrywide Financial likely would be approved by regulators, analysts say, because other read more »

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Reuters - Bank of America Corp is in advanced talks to buy struggling Countrywide Financial Corp , the largest U.S. mortgage le read more »

Date : 10 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
I came across two separate stories today at about the same time, which seemed to be saying very different things, but seem worth read more »

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AP - A company that sells Internet domain names is facing criticisms for holding some in reserve as a consumer-protection measure, read more »

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AP - Italy is requesting the extradition of 139 former South American leaders and their underlings over the disappearance, torture read more »

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AP - Lorin Maazel will close out his seven years as music director of the New York Philharmonic by conducting Mahler's "Symphony o read more »

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AP - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating possible violations of state and federal antitrust laws by Intel Corp read more »

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AP - While the Writers Guild of America continues its strike, throwing much of awards season into question, it still has some awar read more »

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FT.com - The head of Saudi Arabia's stock market regulator on Thursday said his agency was open to ideas mooted by western institu read more »

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Reuters - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday its digital music store will now offer songs from Sony BMG Music Enter read more »

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Reuters - Chevron Corp said on Thursday fourth-quarter earnings should rise sequentially due to higher oil prices, but lower pr read more »

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AP - Earlier this week, David Letterman asked a timely question: How many striking writers could fit into a Jamba Juice store acro read more »

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AP - The Weinstein Co., one of Hollywood's largest independent filmmakers, said Thursday it expects to reach a deal with striking read more »

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Reuters - U.S. stocks ended higher on Thursday following news Bank of America is in advanced talks to buy struggling mortgage l read more »

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TechWeb - The vulnerability affects both Windows and Mac OS X versions of Apple's QuickTime software. read more »

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AP - If anyone is looking for signs that we may be headed into a recession, look no further than the dismal December sales results read more »

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AP - It probably goes without saying that no one actually needs a dancing MP3 player or a music-playing Taser holster or a drink c read more »

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TechWeb - Jimmy Wales had warned that the open source search engine would be bad at first, but should improve over time. read more »

Date : 10 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
We've covered the history of Burst.com and its questionable patents before. While the company was recently able to squeeze $10 m read more »

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Reuters - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday acknowledged the economy faces increased risks and indicated the U.S read more »

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InfoWorld - Oracle plans to fix dozens of flaws in its software products next Tuesday, including critical bugs in the company's da read more »

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NewsFactor - If there is one word to describe the annual Consumer Electronics Show, it is "big." Big convention center, big number read more »

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AP - After freeing two hostages, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia is thought to still hold more than 700 others. read more »

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AP - Government soldiers and Shiite rebels are fighting again in northern Yemen, breaking a 6-month-old cease-fire with clashes th read more »

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AP - Sony BMG Music Entertainment, the last major music label holding out against selling music online without copy protection, re read more »

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Reuters - Delta Air Lines Inc plans on Friday to ask its board for permission to begin formal merger talks with both Northwest read more »

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AP - U.S. warplanes unleashed one of the most intense airstrikes of the Iraq war Thursday, dropping 40,000 pounds of explosives in read more »

Date : 10 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
We keep hoping that companies will realize that suing over competitors buying ads on trademarked keywords will finally go away, a read more »

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AFP - President Nicolas Sarkozy and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero pledged Thursday to join forces to fight Basque sepa read more »

Date : 10 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - An usher handed me a black cap with half a plastic baseball affixed to the top. read more »

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AFP - Hollywood's honorary mayor Johnny Grant, best-known for unveiling stars on Tinseltown's 'Walk of Fame,' has died aged 84, ci read more »

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Reuters - A new novel by author Salman Rushdie will be published in June in, publisher Random House said on Thursday. read more »

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AP - Colombian rebels freed two women held hostage for more than five years, handing them over Thursday to Venezuelan officials wh read more »

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AP - Jittery after a confrontation between U.S. and Iranian naval vessels off their shores, the Persian Gulf's Arab countries have read more »

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Reuters - Research in Motion Ltd said on Thursday its business in China is developing as planned, although the company has not read more »

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AP - A suspected Islamic militant walked into a crowd of police guarding a courthouse and blew himself up Thursday, killing 24 oth read more »

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Reuters - Actor Tom Hanks is keen to see the Oscar ceremony held as usual, and urged studios to return to the negotiating table read more »

Date : 10 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Bruce Schneier, one of the sharpest people in the computer security world, has a great piece about why he leaves his home wireles read more »

Date : 10 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AFP - African Union-led crisis talks on Kenya failed Thursday but mediators said President Mwai Kibaki and the opposition had agre read more »

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AP - Taiwanese computer parts maker Asus obviously didn't get the memo. read more »

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Reuters - Watch dogs are a pretty common first line of security for U.S. homes and businesses. Watch birds not so much. read more »

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Reuters - USA Today publisher Gannett Co Inc said on Thursday that the president of its newspaper division will retire in late M read more »

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AP - China is so keen to keep foreign investment flowing that it probably will let private Web sites work around strict new rules read more »

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NewsFactor - Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child project, has told news media that OLPC and Microsoft are wor read more »

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AP - For the Boy Scout who dreams of becoming a policeman, grabbing the knife of a would-be assassin lunging for the president of read more »

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AP - Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Dec. 31-Jan. 6. Day read more »

Date : 10 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Even though Frontline Wireless this week announced it is "closed for business," Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin M read more »

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AP - If Chingy could turn back the hands of time, he would rewind the clock back to almost three years ago, before he bolted from read more »

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AFP - Australian Open champion Serena Williams has revealed that she will defend her title this month nursing a broken heart -- an read more »

Date : 10 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
About a year and a half ago, we wrote about plans by transportation authorities in London to test a system that would force drive read more »

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Reuters - GameStop Corp , the largest U.S. video game retailer, raised its quarterly earnings estimate on Thursday after holiday read more »

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AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said two women held hostage by Colombian rebels for more than six years were freed Thursday, read more »

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Reuters - African Union Chairman John Kufuor quit Kenya on Thursday without a deal to end a political crisis that has killed 500 read more »

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AP - President Bush, summing up meetings with both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, said Thursday that a peace accord wil read more »

Date : 10 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
New York's attorney general is investigating possible violations of state and federal antitrust laws by Intel Corp., the world's l read more »

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AP - Former Indonesian dictator Suharto was conscious but being kept alive by machines and breathing with difficulty Thursday, doc read more »

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AFP - Christine Ohuruogu, Britain's 400 metres world champion, will begin her build-up to the Beijing Olympics by competing at an read more »

Date : 10 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Taiwanese computer parts maker Asus obviously didn't get the memo. Didn't Asus know notebook computers need hard drives? Or that t read more »

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AP - Iran aired video Thursday of its boats and U.S. naval ships in the Persian Gulf in an apparent attempt to show that there was read more »

Date : 10 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
I am a big believer that removing artificial scarcity almost always leads to larger markets. The reasoning behind this is not al read more »

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PC World - Microsoft has announced the resignation of its head of acquisitions, Bruce Jaffe, two days after the company bid US$1.2 read more »

Date : 10 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child project, has told news media that OLPC and Microsoft are working on a dua read more »

Date : 10 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
FT.com - The FTSE 100 lost ground on Thursday as the Bank of England resisted calls for a cut in UK interest rates. read more »

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AP - A suicide bomber blew himself up among police deployed outside a court in eastern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 24 p read more »

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AP - The European Central Bank and Bank of England, despite growing unease about inflation and slowing economic indicators, kept t read more »

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AP - President Bush on Thursday predicted that a Mideast peace treaty would be completed by the time he leaves office, and named a read more »

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AFP - A powerful earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale struck northern Algeria on Thursday -- without causing any damage o read more »

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AFP - Chief US nuclear envoy Christopher Hill called Thursday on North Korea to disable and declare all its weapons programmes by read more »

Date : 10 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Under a contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Stanford University and Coverity are working to identify and fix p read more »

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AP - Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is taking over mediation in Kenya's disputed presidential election, an African Union read more »

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AP - U.S. bombers and jet fighters unleashed 40,000 pounds of explosives during a 10-minute airstrike Thursday, flattening what th read more »

Date : 10 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
A month ago, we noted that the managers of some well-known bands were pushing for a rule that would require anyone reselling conc read more »

Date : 10 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
They can plumb the Internet for the latest movie times, news headlines, stock figures and gas prices. They'll even help you skirt read more »

Date : 10 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Japanese electronics maker Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Thursday it will drop the name of its charismatic founder and b read more »

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AFP - Eyebrows were raised in the House of Commons on Thursday when a motion calling for the Church of England to be disestablishe read more »

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AP - Philippine police are set to file charges against 15 people, including employees of one of the country's top property develop read more »

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AFP - Sudan's defence minister on Thursday admitted his forces were responsible for a recent attack on a UN convoy in Darfur, but read more »

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AP - India's Tata Motors on Thursday unveiled its much anticipated $2,500 car, an ultra-cheap price tag that brings car ownership read more »

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AP - A suicide bomber blew himself up among police officers outside a court in eastern Pakistan Thursday, killing at least 22 peop read more »

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AP - President Bush on Thursday predicted that a Mideast peace treaty would be completed by the time he leaves office. He said he' read more »

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Reuters - The Seoul subway authority will install toilets in drivers' compartments after one of its engineers plunged to his death read more »

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AP - U.S. bombers and jet fighters unleashed 40,000 pounds of explosives during a 10-minute airstrike Thursday, flattening what th read more »

Date : 10 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
The practice of "domain tasting" (or "domain kiting" as it used to be called) has been a well-known problem for at least two year read more »

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AP - Iran aired video Thursday of its boats and U.S. naval ships in the Persian Gulf in an apparent attempt to show that there was read more »

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AP - Toyota said Thursday that its global group sales rose 6 percent last year to 9.37 million vehicles, making for a tight race a read more »

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AP - A suicide bomber exploded among police guarding the front of a court in eastern Pakistan ahead of a planned protest by lawyer read more »

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AP - President Bush met Thursday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, saying he won't be shy about pushing Palestinians and I read more »

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AFP - Ghana's President John Kufuor was set Thursday to resume talks with Kenyan leaders to break political deadlock after dispute read more »

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AP - What price happiness? French President Nicolas Sarkozy is seeking an answer to the eternal question — so that happiness can read more »

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AFP - A cyberathlete might not suffer boomeritis as he or she is probably a digital native, but could be at risk of globesity, acc read more »

Date : 10 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Johnny Grant, the avuncular honorary mayor of Hollywood who traveled the world as Tinseltown's No. 1 cheerleader for more tha read more »

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AP - Rock star Bono pressed French leader Nicolas Sarkozy to increase aid to developing nations, the aid advocacy group DATA said. read more »

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AP - A judge said Wednesday that he was leaning toward allowing Dan Rather's $70 million lawsuit over his being fired by CBS to pr read more »