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Date : 29 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - A small plane hit several people after skidding off the runway Wednesday in eastern Indonesia, killing at least one bystander read more »

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AFP - The world's largest miner BHP Billiton is under increasing pressure to sweeten its three-for-one share offer for Rio Tinto, read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
There's plenty of reasonable concern over the increasing use of surveillance cameras -- but if you're going to install them, you' read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - CBS has agreed to import a new Canadian-produced TV police drama called "Flashpoint" in a deal that lets the network b read more »

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AP - Iran on Tuesday said more than 50 followers of the minority Baha'i faith were convicted of distributing propaganda against th read more »

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AFP - The US State Department said it expected Pakistan's upcoming elections to be tainted and called on all groups, including int read more »

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AFP - Kevin Keegan pleaded for more time to turn around Newcastle United as the excitement faded out of his return as manager. read more »

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AP - Three suspected militants allegedly planning suicide attacks died Wednesday when a bomb detonated early, police said, in the read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - India's Tata Motors Ltd is preparing for "an outright purchase" of Ford Motor Co's Jaguar and Land Rover luxury bran read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Prior to 9/11, there was a lot of effort being put into plans for internet access from airplanes. However, the resulting turmoil read more »

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Reuters - Yahoo Inc posted a drop in quarterly profit on Tuesday and forecast 2008 revenue below Wall Street forecasts as it cu read more »

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Reuters - NBC has picked up "The Celebrity Apprentice" for a second cycle. read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
TechWeb - A roundup of the most popular high-definition televisions from Sharp, Samsung, Sony, Hitachi, and more, along with a gui read more »

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TechWeb - The latest and best in smartphones -- most with 3G capability -- from Nokia, HTC, Research In Motion, Sharp, and more. read more »

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AP - An autopsy on the body of Christian Brando did not immediately determine what killed the son of the late actor Marlon Brando, read more »

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AP - New York sex offenders would be required to reveal their online aliases to the state under legislation that aims to protect u read more »

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AP - Sean Young has entered rehabilitation for alcohol abuse following a weekend outburst in which she was heckling from the audie read more »

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AP - Veteran CBS Washington hand Bob Schieffer, who has anchored "Face the Nation" since 1991, said Tuesday he plans to step down read more »

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AP - Tom Cruise is the first on the list to get Ducati's newest motorcycle — a $72,500 superbike bristling with titanium, magnesi read more »

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AP - The late son of reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith was a gifted but anguished 20-year-old who longed to be more independent of read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - Spring technology is an alternative to EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) for Java development, but an upcoming Java version w read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Since it's fairly well known at this point that sketchy sites can try to trick users into installing malware, it appears that mal read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
Reuters - Troops fanned out across large swathes of China hit by snow storms that have killed about 50 people as Premier Wen Jia read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Broadway has two terrific new comedies on the boards to chase away the winter blues. read more »

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Reuters - The shadow of an FBI investigation spread across the subprime mortgage crisis on Tuesday, while the U.S. Congress move read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - For years singer Shelby Lynne had heard the comparisons with Dusty Springfield. read more »

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AP - An advertisement portraying a scantily clad schoolgirl seductively twirling her hair is offensive, a British watchdog agency read more »

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AP - It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest c read more »

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AP - The FBI on Tuesday said it is investigating 14 companies for possible accounting fraud, insider trading or other violations i read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Over the past few months, more and more people have been noticing that eBay seems to have stagnated. Sure, it's been making plen read more »

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AP - Afghanistan risks sliding into a failed state and becoming the "forgotten war" because of deteriorating international support read more »

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AFP - A Nigerian court in the northern city of Kano Tuesday adjourned a criminal case against US drug giant Pfizer to February 4 d read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - U.S. video-on-demand webcaster ReelTime.com has struck an agreement with Nelvana for the video-on-demand rights to a s read more »

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AP - The following aid agencies are accepting contributions to help Haiti's poor. The list is from InterAction, a coalition of aid read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - IBM has added a new capability to its virtualization platform that will allow Linux applications to run on IBM's Unix read more »

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AP - Gunmen who held more than 30 hostages inside a Venezuelan bank for over 24 hours fled in an ambulance and were caught Tuesday read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - "A Death in the Family" won the Pulitzer Prize a half century ago and became an American literary classic, but it was not the read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Stocks rose on Tuesday as expectations the Federal Reserve will slash interest rates for the second time in a week boo read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
We were just noting how Europe seemed to recognize that having ISPs simply hand over the IP addresses of individuals could be a v read more »

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AP - In his State of the Union address, President Bush called Afghanistan a young democracy where children go to school and Afghan read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
It's been expected for a while, but reports are coming out that Swedish prosecutors will finally get around to filing charges ag read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - "Ender's Game," the classic science fiction novel about a boy military genius who is trained through war games to figh read more »

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AP - The top U.S. commanders in northern Iraq predicted Tuesday the battle to oust al-Qaida in Iraq from its last urban stronghold read more »

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AP - Kenya, once a leader in the region, is following neighbors like Somalia down a path of disintegration, with no solution in si read more »

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AP - Anthony Bassey Bassey developed his ability to deftly juggle a soccer ball in the rain and the mud of his native Nigeria, dre read more »

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AP - A deported Mexican migrant who holed up in a Chicago church to fight for immigrants' rights rallied support Tuesday for anoth read more »

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AP - Gunmen who held more than 30 hostages inside a Venezuelan bank for over 24 hours negotiated their getaway in an ambulance Tue read more »

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AFP - Didier Drogba marked his 50th international cap with a goal to help Ivory Coast beat Mali 3-0 here Tuesday to finish the ope read more »

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AP - The 75th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's elevation to German chancellor on Wednesday is one the country would prefer to forget, read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - The man at the center of a trading scandal at Societe Generale said that his activities could not have gone undetected read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Given China's mentality towards its citizens, it probably won't surprise many people to find out that the head of the country's b read more »

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AFP - Tamil Tiger rebels said Sri Lankan troops Tuesday ambushed a school bus and killed 18 people, including 11 children, as the read more »

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AP - Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers desperate to get home for the Chinese New Year shivered in the cold under a sea of u read more »

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AP - It was 1967 and the Indian meditation guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, dressed in white with long flowing black hair and a gray be read more »

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AP - The French trader accused of causing about $7 billion in losses at Societe Generale told investigators that he believes his b read more »

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AFP - Pakistani security forces shot dead a key Al-Qaeda-linked militant wanted for two major bombings on Tuesday, as 12 suspected read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
There have been some claims that the recording industry's investigative techniques may be illegal. While court cases alleging th read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Six authors from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt are on the shortlist as finalists for the first-ever International Prize fo read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - One film has an oblique ending that's left some viewers dissatisfied and others floored by its profundity. The other features read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
AFP - European stock markets closed higher Tuesday, helped by a positive performance in Asia as investors pinned their hopes on an read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
FT.com - China's worries over the subprime debacle are contributing to delays in allowing individual mainland citizens to buy shar read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AFP - The Zimbabwean government unveiled plans on Tuesday to open a network of state-run "people's shops" that will offer basic go read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Margaret Truman, the only child of former President Harry S. Truman who became a concert singer, actress, radio and TV person read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - A bill that would lift a decades-old ban on women wearing head scarves at universities was submitted to parliament on Tuesday read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Mike Wallace was recovering from triple heart bypass surgery that was performed last week, CBS News said Tuesday. read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Record labels and film studios cannot demand that telecommunications companies hand over the names and addresses of people wh read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Egyptians living near the breached border with Gaza were growing increasingly frustrated with the influx of hundreds of thous read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
PC World - A growing set of developers is setting to work making Web browsing on a phone match the experience on a PC. read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
PC World - Notebook PCs coming out this year will likely include more colorful screens thanks to LED (light emitting diode) backli read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
The idea has become so commonplace that it's almost a cliche: security and privacy are opposites, and we as a society need to dec read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Mexican officials have issued an arrest warrant for a U.S. Marine suspected of killing a pregnant colleague who had accused h read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
In a development that makes clear the revolutionary impact of Apple's iPhone, a start-up company unveiled at the DEMO 08 conferenc read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
AFP - World oil prices fell in New York and rose in London Tuesday as traders eyed volatile global stock markets and awaited US en read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - T-Mobile USA added nearly a million cell-phone subscribers in the fourth quarter, but full-year results fell short of its par read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - EMC Corp.'s fourth-quarter profit jumped 35 percent, beating Wall Street expectations, but the data storage vendor's results read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - A suicide car bomber targeted a U.S. patrol Tuesday in Mosul, killing at least one Iraqi and wounding as many as 15, the mili read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - After more than 50 years of leading his Transcendental Meditation movement, the one-time Indian guru to the Beatles has retre read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Rich Kulawiec writes in to let us know about a ridiculous situation in Florida, that has some similarities to the ridiculous Juli read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Martie Maguire of the Dixie Chicks and her husband, Gareth, are expecting a third daughter. read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Eli Lilly and Co on Tuesday said fourth-quarter profit rose on lower taxes and better-than-expected sales of its medi read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - EBay Inc. said Tuesday it will cut by up to 50 percent the fees it charges sellers to list their goods online, in an effort t read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Home prices in 10 major metropolitan areas fell by a record 8.4 percent in the year through November, Standard & Poor' read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Stocks were set to open higher on Tuesday as another interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve this week seemed likel read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
If the recent performance of technology stocks, including Apple and Google, has you down on the high-tech economy, perhaps you sho read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Countrywide Financial Corp , the battered mortgage lender being acquired by Bank of America Corp , posted a $421.9 mil read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Iraqi doctor turned film-maker Omer Salih Mahdi had the strange experience of seeing his life portrayed on stage this read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Police were called to Britney Spears' neighborhood after someone reported a swarm of paparazzi trespassing in the singer's ga read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
It's been dubbed the Mystery of the Missing iPhones. On Jan. 22, Apple reported that it sold 3.7 million units of its smartphones read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Qtrax isn't an illegal file-sharing service, but it has stirred up controversy by promising free music downloads too soon. Some ob read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - The Oscar-winning "Crash" is coming to TV as a drama series this year. read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - New orders for long-lasting U.S.-made manufactured goods rose by a much bigger-than-expected 5.2 percent in December a read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - No need for any more honorary citizenships for talk-show host Craig Ferguson. He's going to be the real deal. read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - Taiwanese laptop maker Micro-Star International (MSI) plans to add Turbo-battery mode to a laptop PC aimed at comput read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - Paul McGuinness, longtime manager of rock band U2, has called on Internet service providers to immediately introduce d read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
While the IFPI and the RIAA have been actively pushing for ISP liability for file sharing, it appears some in the industry are ta read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - Japanese electronics maker Kyocera Corp (6971.T) plans to withdraw from China's booming mobile phone handset market du read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - In another acquisition involving companies focused on open source, proponents of the Spring Framework and Apache softw read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - British sweets-to-DVDs retailer Woolworths Plc said it had replaced management at its EUK wholesale unit, as an analy read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Japan's top mobile phone carrier NTT DoCoMo said Tuesday its profit rose 38.4 percent in the October-December quarter, buoyed read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - European Union countries can refuse to disclose names of file sharers on the Internet in civil cases, the EU's top cou read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
FT.com - Many Asia Pacific stock markets bounced back strongly on Tuesday, tracking overnight gains on Wall Street on fresh optimi read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Clive Thompson always writes fascinating articles (seriously, if you want a detailed feature piece having to do with technology, read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Sam Lufti, the manager and companion of troubled pop star Britney Spears, has said the singer suffers from "mental iss read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
PC World - In which our columnist declares his loyalty to the Blu-ray camp, and readers tell us what they think. read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - An Iraqi soccer star can't sign with a professional British club because Iraq's Asian Cup-winning national team barely missed read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AFP - The slaying of a Kenyan opposition lawmaker sparked riots Tuesday across the east African nation already reeling from weeks read more »

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AP - A car bomb exploded Tuesday outside a police station in northern Algeria, killing at least three people and wounding several read more »

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AFP - Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh was cleared Tuesday of a racial abuse charge at an appeal hearing in Adelaide, the Internatio read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Gunmen killed an opposition lawmaker in Nairobi early Tuesday, an attack likely to stoke the ethnic fighting that has gripped read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - The Genies, Canada's film awards, on Monday turned into a shootout between a movie about Russian mobsters in London an read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - At least 25 people were killed as a bus plunged off an icy roadway in China Tuesday, the latest casualties in a surge of seve read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - The Grammy Awards will be in full voice next month, with the striking writers guild agreeing Monday to allow its members to w read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AFP - China Mobile, the country's top wireless operator, said Tuesday it planned to take advantage of the global stock market down read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Zhang Hanzhi, an elegant Chinese diplomat who was Mao Zedong's English tutor and U.S. President Richard Nixon's interpreter d read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Missy Elliott is going 3-D. read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
The internet gets unfairly blamed for all kinds of things, so it's worth pointing out what it's useful for as well, such as highl read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Would-be robbers took about 30 people hostage inside a Venezuelan bank Monday after police arrived outside, the country's top read more »

Date : 29 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - A New York state employee who had access to government-owned archives has been arrested on suspicion of stealing hundr read more »