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Date : 09 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Residents near Peru's southern highland tourist destinations are fighting two government proposals to expand private developm read more »

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AP - Heath Ledger's family, his former fiance Michelle Williams and Australia's entertainment elite bade him farewell at a private read more »

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AFP - The international community and the Afghan government alike must raise their game this year to stop Afghanistan from tearing read more »

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AP - A major fire broke out late Saturday at London's famous Camden market, ripping through one of the city's top tourist draws an read more »

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AFP - A new court battle will be held Monday over the detention of French rogue trader Jerome Kerviel while Societe Generale is to read more »

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Reuters - Australia will continue to photograph Japan's whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on S read more »

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AFP - Firefighters were tackling a major blaze at London's trendy Camden Market, as police evacuated bars and clubs packed with yo read more »

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AP - As of Saturday, Feb. 9, 2008, at least 3,959 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in Ma read more »

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AFP - The chief of the US military said Saturday that Pakistan's atomic weapons were secure despite rising Islamic militancy in th read more »

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Reuters - Siphiwe Sibeko, 35, is mostly a self taught photographer who was born and grew up in Soweto township, South Africa. Af read more »

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AP - Women shrouded in black shop for gold jewelry and fabric. Young boys tote trays of tea. The smell of tangerines wafts through read more »

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AP - A suicide bomber blasted a political gathering Saturday in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 25 people, wounding dozens read more »

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Reuters - Union leaders for striking Hollywood writers said they have reached a tentative contract deal with studios and urged m read more »

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AP - Patti Smith concedes to being a "great punk-rock guitar player," but says she aspires to much more. read more »

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AP - Hollywood writers got their first look Saturday at details of a tentative agreement with studios that could put the strike-cr read more »

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NewsFactor - According to an article in this month's Science Journal, researchers at Simon Frasier University in British Columbia read more »

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AP - Israel threatened retaliation Saturday after two brothers, ages 8 and 19, were seriously wounded when a rocket from Gaza slam read more »

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AP - Motown founder Berry Gordy says the ailing music industry can reverse its slide if it puts the focus on good music. read more »

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Reuters - The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating how banks, credit rating firms and lenders valued and disclose read more »

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PC World - It's hard not to let out a low whistle when you scan this post at Jeremiah Owyang's blog. read more »

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AFP - Internet giant Yahoo's board has decided to reject Microsoft's 44.6 billion dollar takeover bid, an informed source told AFP read more »

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Reuters - Yahoo Inc is set to reject Microsoft Corp's unsolicited bid, now worth $42 billion, as too low, a source familiar wi read more »

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AP - People's all-star, pre-Grammy concert with Timbaland ended with a resounding crash when the superproducer and rapper delivere read more »

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AP - Jordin Sparks didn't just get designer clothes when she went to the Grammys' official gifting suite — she also found a music read more »

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AFP - Internet giant Yahoo's board has decided to reject Microsoft's takeover bid, saying its 44.6 billion dollar offer "massively read more »

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Reuters - Hitmaking hip-hop producer Timbaland ("Shock Value") has announced a deal with Verizon Wireless to make the first "mob read more »

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AP - More than a century ago, European colonists carved up Africa, jamming together people who spoke different languages, danced t read more »

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AP - John Legend, Lil Mama, Corinne Bailey Rae and gospel singer Shirley Caesar paid their "Respect" to Aretha Franklin in a music read more »

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AP - Yahoo Inc.'s board will reject Microsoft Corp.'s $44.6 billion takeover bid after concluding the unsolicited offer undervalue read more »

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AP - Documents dating from the Civil War and others to and from Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt are among hundreds of stolen docum read more »

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Reuters - French judges dismissed conspiracy accusations against a Paris broker on Saturday, dealing a severe blow to the hunt f read more »

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Reuters - The union representing Hollywood's striking writers said it reached a "tentative deal" with studios and will meet memb read more »

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AP - After the Sunday service in Westminster Chapel, where worshippers were exhorted to wage "the culture war" in the World War II read more »

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AFP - A second broker suspected of involvement in the Societe Generale affair appeared before French judges Saturday on suspicion read more »

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AP - The alleged leader of a syndicate accused of illegally removing hundreds of kidneys, sometimes from poor laborers held at gun read more »

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AP - A suicide bomber struck an election rally in volatile northwest Pakistan Saturday, killing at least 20 people and wounding mo read more »

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AFP - World stockmarkets lost 5.2 trillion dollars (3.6 trillion euros) in January thanks to the fallout from the US subprime cris read more »

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AFP - Egypt coach Hassan Shehata has received a timely boost 24 hours before his bid to become only the second manager to capture read more »

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Reuters - Patti Smith hates labels, but if you had to choose a phrase to describe the U.S. singer, poet, political activist and read more »

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AP - Kenya's opposition leader demanded Saturday that the president resign, a sharp turnaround from his conciliatory tone during t read more »

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PC World - Microsoft has bought Caligari, a developer of 3D modeling software, in a move that could help enrich the graphics exper read more »

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AP - Parliament voted Saturday to amend the constitution to lift a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves at Turkey's universitie read more »

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AFP - More than 500 mourners gathered on Saturday to bid farewell to Hollywood star Heath Ledger at a ceremony in Perth in western read more »

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PC World - The Web site of AvSoft Technologies attempts to install a virus on visiting PCs, security firm warns. read more »

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FT.com - The world economy remains vulnerable to downside risks stemming from tighter credit, a deterioration of the US housing ma read more »

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PC World - Activists are calling for a vigil to draw attention to Saudi Arabian blogger Fouad Al-Farhan, imprisoned since December read more »

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AP - Mediation talks collapsed between Tim Burton and his ex-girlfriend, who claims she was cheated out of her rights to assets th read more »

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AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — The now 3-month-old Hollywood writers strike could enter its final chapter Saturday when guild members ga read more »

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Reuters - A Paris broker was due to appear before an investigating judge on Saturday as part of a widening probe into the rogue read more »

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AFP - Top world finance ministers warned Saturday that the global economy faces growing threats from a US housing slump and credit read more »

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AP - Iraqi police arrested 31 Shiite activists Saturday in early morning raids south of Baghdad, and five American soldiers were k read more »

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AP - Turkey's parliament on Saturday approved the first of two constitutional amendments that would lift a decades-old ban on Isla read more »

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AFP - A Russian strategic bomber briefly entered Japanese airspace over the Pacific south of Tokyo early Saturday morning, prompti read more »

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Reuters - Finance leaders of the world's top industrialized nations put on a show of solidarity on Saturday in the face of an ec read more »

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AFP - FIFA could decide the fate of plans to take Premier League matches around the world as early as next month after the world g read more »

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AP - Tens of thousands of Benazir Bhutto supporters gathered in southern Pakistan on Saturday to hear her widowed husband address read more »

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Reuters - U.S. private equity firm Blackstone is considering a fresh bid for British engineer FKI , the Independent newspaper s read more »

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AP - Thousands of Kenyans turned out Saturday to mourn a slain opposition lawmaker whose death last week set off a wave of ethnic read more »

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AP - Iraqi police arrested 15 Shiite activists Saturday in early morning raids south of Baghdad, and five American soldiers were k read more »

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AP - A moderate earthquake rocked Baja California in Mexico, shutting down factories near the U.S. border and leaving about 400,00 read more »

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Reuters - "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin added another jewel to her illustrious musical crown on Friday night when she was hono read more »

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AP - The secrecy shrouding government files on terror suspects is bogging down the Pentagon's effort to hold trials at Guantanamo read more »

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Reuters - An Australian man was convicted on Saturday of killing his wife and then hiding her body in a metal drum in his garage read more »

Date : 09 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Fashion Wire Daily - What item most says "fetish" in a woman's wardrobe? Why, the shoe, of course - preferably a spiked stiletto. read more »