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Mobile phone sales hit second-quarter record: Gartner (AFP) AFP - Global sales of mobile telephones hit a record 156 million in the second quarter, a study published by the US research group Gartner showed.
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Thailand Tackles Bird Flu Epidemic BANGKOK, Thailand Sept. 30, 2004 - Millions of volunteers led by emergency teams fanned out across Thailand on Thursday in a new drive to fight bird flu after the prime minister gave officials 30 days to eradicate the epidemic.
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Afghan Militants Hold Talks on Hostages, but No Deal Yet Militants holding three foreign United Nations workers in Afghanistan said that they had held negotiations with officials from the Afghan government and the United
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Mars Rovers Relay Images Through Mars Express European Space Agency -- ESAs Mars Express has relayed pictures from one of NASA's Mars rovers for the first time, as part of a set of interplanetary networking demonstrations. The demonstrations pave the way for future Mars missions to draw on joint interplanetary networking capabilities...
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India hospital injections fears India's health minister tells parliament that nearly 70 of injections at government hospitals are unsafe.
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GPS in Cell Phones Performs Well While some handheld computers have GPS capabilities, not nearly as many people carry a PDA as the legions who've adopted cell phones as a daily appendage. That's why the notion of adding GPS navigation to a cell phone, as Nextel has with a service called TeleNav, seems appealing.
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Poor nations seek WTO textile aid With 40 years of textile quotas about to be abolished in a move to help developing nations, a group of the world #39;s poorest countries are asking for a different approach: special trade deals to protect them from a free-for-all.
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Briefly: Top McAfee exec to step down roundup Plus: Samsung to put hard drives in phones...IDC says external disk storage up...Lawmakers to vote on spyware, piracy bills.
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Jimenez ends Langer #39;s Match Play bid Spain #39;s Miguel Angel imenez completed a 2 amp;1 victory over German Bernhard Langer in their delayed World Match Play Championship quarter-final at Wentworth on Saturday.
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American League Game Summary - Minnesota At Detroit Detroit, MI -- Jacque Jones #39; single in the seventh scored Pat Borders with the go-ahead run and the Minnesota Twins held on for a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park.
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British Airways posts robust 2Q profit growth LONDON, November 8 (newratings.com) - British Airways #39; (BAI1.FSE) second-quarter pretax profits more than doubled this fiscal year, boosted by the company #39;s effective cost reduction measures and a robust upturn in the long-haul passenger traffic trends.
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Rivals Try to Turn Tables on Charles Schwab By MICHAEL LIEDTKE SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- With its low prices and iconoclastic attitude, discount stock broker Charles Schwab Corp. (SCH) represented an annoying stone in Wall Street's wing-tipped shoes for decades...
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Nortel Downsizes Again Aug. 23, 2004 (TheDeal.com) Problem-plagued Nortel Networks Corp. announced plans Thursday, Aug. 19, to eliminate an additional 3,500 jobs and fire seven more senior executives as the company labors to reinvent
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Bridges Loom as Cash Cow That Nobody Dares to Milk There they stand, glinting in the sun, hanging off the shore of Manhattan like fruit-laden branches of a money tree: The free bridges over the East River to Brooklyn and Queens.
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Trade Gap Swells More Than Expected The US trade deficit widened nearly 9 percent in October to a record \$55.5 billion as sky-high oil prices helped propel imports into uncharted territory, the government said on Tuesday.
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Police use stun gun to subdue T-Wolves #39; Olowokandi Minnesota Timberwolves center Michael Olowokandi was arrested early yesterday after police used a stun gun to subdue him when he refused to leave an Indianapolis club.
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Japanese citizen reportedly taken hostage in Iraq The Islamic militant group of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi reportedly claims to have taken a Japanese citizen hostage in Iraq. In a video shown on the Internet, the group threatens to execute him if Tokyo does not withdraw its troops from Iraq in 48 hours.
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U.S. Troops Lay Siege to Iraqi City (AP) AP - U.S. troops handed over medical supplies to Iraqi relief workers Friday amid a siege of a northeastern ethnic Turkish city where Iraqi and American forces are trying to root out hundreds of militants.
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Serena falls to Capriati after chair ump #39;s miscue Unfairly, unbelievably, Serena Williams was robbed of a point by an umpire #39;s mistake at the US Open, just like her sister was at Wimbledon.
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US-Israel ties hang on Palestinian Vote In a pace-setting adventure next January that could herald a new beginning in the Middle East or spell disaster for all is the election of a Palestinian successor to the charismatic Yasser Arafat and a new Baghdad regime that could bring to an end the
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Bin Laden Driver Charged at Guantanamo GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Osama bin Laden's chauffeur was officially charged Tuesday in the first U.S. military tribunal since World War II, appearing at a pretrial hearing where his lawyer challenged the process as unfair...
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Peace delegation leaves Najaf empty-handed as fighting continues BAGHDAD, Iraq - A national political conference #39;s bid to end the fighting in the Shiite Muslim holy city of Najaf appeared to have failed Tuesday.
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Rules for Overtime Pay To Take Effect Monday Employers and workers are confused by eligibility and classification of the new regulations.
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China, Singapore Say World Must Help Calm Taiwan Row China and Singapore on Monday urged the international community to help calm Beijing #39;s dispute with Taiwan over its push for independence.
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No. 12 Mississippi St. Struggles in Opener (AP) AP - Two of the three ranked teams playing on the opening night of the college basketball season cruised to easy wins. Then there was Mississippi State.
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ALL EYES ON WOODS #39; FITNESS With world number one Vijay Singh missing because of Hurricane Jeanne and Masters champion Phil Mickelson another no-show, there was even more attention than usual on Tiger Woods at Mount Juliet in County Kilkenny this afternoon.
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Republican Convention Dogged by Relentless Protests (Reuters) Reuters - Five thousand people protesting high\job losses formed a 3 mile unemployment line in Manhattan on\Wednesday and AIDS activists disrupted a Republican meeting on\the third day of the party's convention to nominate the\president to a second term in office.
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Couch, Gildon, Levens Among NFL Cuts (AP) AP - Tim Couch's stay in Green Bay was short and unproductive.
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Israel Arrests Bombing Suspect, Kills 4 Militants (Reuters) Reuters - Israel dealt a double blow to the\Palestinian Islamic group Hamas on Wednesday, arresting a West\Bank leader held responsible for a twin suicide bus bombing\that killed 16 and killing two militants in Gaza air strikes.
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Eta suspects arrested in France French security forces have arrested 20 people suspected of being members of the outlawed Basque separatist group, Eta. Most were Spaniards living in the Basque region of south-western France.
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Delta Financing to Use Prepaid SkyMiles Shares of Delta Air Lines soared after the troubled airline said Monday it entered into a commitment letter with American Express Travel Related Services Co.
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Sun looks for props with new server, storage hardware Sun Microsystems will hold its quarterly product launch this week, unleashing a raft of new hardware offerings spanning servers to storage.
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Bishop Indicted on Child Rape Charges SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Bishop Thomas Dupre, the former head of the Springfield Diocese, was indicted Monday on child rape charges, accused of molesting two boys in the 1970s, the county prosecutor said...
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Ireland launches phone fraud crackdown In an effort to stop scams that cause unwitting Internet users to be charged premium rates for calls placed by software surreptitiously installed on their PCs, Ireland is going to block outgoing calls to 13 countries.
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Brown in line after Livingston sack Preston LIVINGSTON have sacked Allan Preston as manager. The former Hearts and St Johnstone defender and his assistant, Alan Kernaghan, were dismissed after a run of seven defeats left the club
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Tests Show James Died of Heart Attack LOS ANGELES - Toxicology and other tests determined that funk singer Rick James died last month from a heart attack due to an enlarged heart, with numerous drugs including methamphetamine and cocaine contributing factors, the county coroner announced Thursday. The death was declared an accident, said coroner's spokesman David Campbell, who emphasized that none of the drugs were found to be at life-threatening levels...
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Odd couple: Schwartz and McNealy It hasn't even been eight months since Sun Microsystems promoted Jonathan Schwartz to be Chief Executive Scott McNealy's right-hand man, but the two are already acting like an old couple. Missing Links
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Two Britons shot dead near death railway bridge (AFP) AFP - Two Britons were shot dead by unknown gunmen near the famous Bridge over the River Kwai in western Thailand, police said.
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Israel trial over slain Gaza girl An Israeli military court has charged an army officer with illegally using his weapon when he allegedly shot a Palestinian girl who was already dead.
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Insurgents hammer central Baghdad BAGHDAD - Insurgents hammered central Baghdad on Sunday with one of their most intense mortar and rocket barrages ever in the heart of the capital, heralding a day of violence that left nearly 60 dead nationwide as security appeared to spiral out of
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Newest video games gun to be No. 1 Voters apparently weren #39;t the only ones willing to stand in long lines. The release of this year #39;s two hottest video games - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and Halo 2 - had gamers lined up at stores across the nation to pick up their pre-ordered games.
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Explosives Found Hidden in Closed Russian Cinema ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Police have found explosives, detonators and a gun in a cinema in Russia's second city St Petersburg which was closed for renovation, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
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U.S. Military Arrests an Iraqi Commander The arrest of a commander of the Iraqi National Guard raises concerns about the loyalty and reliability of the new security forces.
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Keeping Mad Cow Out of Cosmetics Since mad cow disease turned up in the United States late last year, traced to a cow imported from Canada, federal regulators have issued rules to prevent the spread of the fatal disease, focusing on limiting beef imports, testing and other measures to protect the domestic herd.
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Patch in for Microsoft server spoofing flaw Attackers could use hole in small-business software to trick personal information out of people.
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Roma 1-1 Bayer Leverkusen: FT Report ROME, November 3 (Champions League) - Vincenzo Montella #39;s injury-time equaliser forced Bayer Leverkusen to settle for a share of the points on Wednesday in Group B of the Champions League but the Eternal City club are virtually eliminated if not yet
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IBM posts broad Q3 revenue growth NEW YORK - IBM Corp. posted quarterly results on Monday showing 9 percent revenue growth from last year and slight earnings growth, despite a \$320 million charge it took during the quarter to settle some claims in a lawsuit over its pension plan.
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FCC OK's paging company deal (TheDeal.com) TheDeal.com - Arch Wireless Inc. can complete its #36;367 million acquisition of Metrocall Holdings Inc.
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Al-Qaeda Group Kills a Second US Hostage in Iraq (Update3) An Iraqi group linked to al-Qaeda killed a second US hostage, Jack Hensley, and threatened to kill a British hostage unless Iraqi women detainees are freed, the group said on its Web site.
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STOCKS amp; BONDS Technology Issues Lead Rally as the 4th Quarter <b>...</b> tocks rose yesterday amid heavy trading on the first day of the fourth quarter as PeopleSoft and chip-related stocks sent the Nasdaq to its highest level in more than two months.
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Ankiel solid in rehab start, unsure about future More that three years since he threw his last pitch for the St. Louis Cardinals, Ankiel gave up one unearned run and one hit in six innings Sunday for Triple-A Memphis in what could be his final start in the minors.
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Connect the jovian dots NASA #39;s Hubble Space Telescope (HST) captured an alignment of three of Jupiter #39;s largest moons: Io, Ganymede, and Callisto.
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General Motors Europe Axes 12,000 Jobs General Motors Europe (GM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) will chop 12,000 jobs over two years -- around a fifth of its workforce -- to lop
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UN Council Poised to Vote on Darfur Resolution UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States and China held last-minute talks on Saturday before the U.N. Security Council was to vote on a resolution that would consider oil sanctions against Sudan if it did not stop atrocities in the Darfur region.
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Britain extends citizenship rights to Gurkha soldiers (AFP) AFP - Britain has extended full citizenship rights to Gurkha soldiers from Nepal who serve in the British armed forces, Prime Minister Tony Blair has said.
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Computer Users Warned of #39;David Beckham Zombie Trap #39; Hackers are trying to trick computer users into downloading damaging software by claiming to have sleazy photographs of football star David Beckham, experts warned today.
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Scientists Discover Ganymede has a Lumpy Interior Jet Propulsion Lab -- Scientists have discovered irregular lumps beneath the icy surface of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede. These irregular masses may be rock formations, supported by Ganymede's icy shell for billions of years...
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Cavaliers Trip Trail Blazers 112-88 (AP) AP - LeBron James scored 12 of his 25 points in less than three minutes of the third quarter and Ira Newble added a season-high 18 as the Cleveland Cavaliers won their ninth straight at home, 112-88 over the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday night.
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Philip Morris, plaintiffs fighting again SPRINGFIELD, Ill. Philip Morris and lawyers who won a ten-(B)billion-dollar judgment against the company are fighting again. The cigarette maker on Monday asked the Illinois Supreme Court to disqualify a Chicago
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Amazon Updates Web Services Tools, Adds Alexa Access The Amazon Web Services (AWS) division of online retail giant Amazon.com yesterday released Amazon E-Commerce Service 4.0 and the beta version of Alexa Web Information Service.
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Hasbro's No Conehead Its Saturday Night Live version of "Trivial Pursuit" is good strategy for staying ahead of age compression.
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U.S. Forced to Battle for Ryder Cup Survival BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan (Reuters) - The U.S. Ryder Cup team, wounded after a first day mauling, were facing a fight for survival on Saturday.
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Regulators Let Cingular Buy AT amp;T Wireless The \$41 billion merger between Cingular Wireless LLC and AT amp;T Wireless Services Inc. won approval from the Federal Communications Commission yesterday, according to federal sources close to
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McKinnon briefed on democracy: Meeting with PM ISLAMABAD, Oct 23: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz briefed Commonwealth Secretary-General Donald C. McKinnon on full restoration of democracy in the country and Pakistan #39;s role in promoting regional and global peace.
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Patriots #39; game: New England beats Jets for 21st win in a row While not pleased, the Jets were neither surprised at the outcome of their showdown against the Patriots, nor downcast about their future.
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Euro exchange rate poses no threat to eurozone economy A top European Union (EU) economic official said on Monday that the current level of the euro against the US dollar posed no threat to the eurozone economic recovery.
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Britain Ups Anti-Terror Security Spending (AP) AP - The Sept. 11 attacks on America forced Prime Minister Tony Blair's government to ponder a troubling question: Could terrorists pull off something similar, or even worse, in London or another big British city? The answer, they concluded, was yes.
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Gateway Reports Smaller Quarterly Loss Gateway Inc. reported a narrowed net loss in the first quarter as it continues to restructure its operations and integrate its acquisition of eMachines. Still, the personal computer and electronics company posted a tiny operating profit -- its first in nearly three years.
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Hudson Traded to Braves (Reuters) Reuters - The Atlanta Braves have acquired\standout righthander Tim Hudson from the Oakland Athletics in\exchange for outfielder Charles Thomas, right-handed pitcher\Juan Cruz and left-handed pitcher Dan Meyer.
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DaimlerChrysler, GM to team up on hybrid engines General Motors and DaimlerChrysler say they #39;re teaming up to develop hybrid technology for use in their vehicles. The two giant automakers say they have signed a memorandum of understanding.
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Blast Targets Baghdad Checkpoint Near Allawi HQ (Reuters) Reuters - A car bomb that exploded near the\headquarters of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's party in\western Baghdad on Monday targeted a police checkpoint at the\entrance to the road leading to the building, witnesses said.
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Ethiopia Agrees to Demarcate Most of Border ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Friday demarcation of most of the country's 600 mile border with Eritrea could begin immediately, raising hopes a long-simmering border dispute could be resolved.
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Scotch Whisky eyes Asian and Eastern European markets (AFP) AFP - A favourite tipple among connoisseurs the world over, whisky is treated with almost religious reverence on the Hebridean island of Islay, home to seven of Scotland's single malt distilleries.
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Drive maker files counterclaims in patent suit Cornice blasts Seagate's suit over patents for tiny hard drives used in portable gadgets.
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Viagra bought online 'often fake' Half of Viagra tablets sold on the Internet are fake, research suggests.
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Make hotels just like home HOTEL operators, take note: Todays hotel guests are making a nonsense of room-pricing strategies with their aggressive, Internet-aided discount-hunting.
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Williams' Status at USC Still Unresolved (AP) AP - Standout receiver Mike Williams is all but certain not to play Saturday night when top-ranked Southern California opens its season because of continuing delays in the school's appeal process to the NCAA. After that, who knows? USC has applied to the NCAA for a progress-toward-degree waiver and reinstatement of Williams' eligibility.
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Manchester United cruise into Champions League Manchester United eased into the Champions League group phase with a comfortable 3-0 victory over Dinamo Bucharest at Old Trafford on Wednesday.
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Restive Maldives eases curfew after rounding up dissidents (AFP) AFP - A curfew in the capital of the Maldives was eased but parliament sessions were put off indefinitely and emergency rule continued following last week's riots, officials and residents said.
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Apple to give its stores a Mini Me look The Mac maker has big plans to expand its network of retail outlets by creating small versions of its stores.
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Fresh bid to dismiss Jackson case Lawyers for Michael Jackson say the singer's child molestation case should be dropped.
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Spielman Defends Decisions With Dolphins (AP) AP - Miami Dolphins general manager Rick Spielman watches home games from the owner's box, which would be the best seat in the house if the team was better.
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Halliburton leading contender in construction of British aircraft carriers: report (AFP) AFP - Halliburton, the oil services giant once run by US Vice President Dick Cheney, has emerged as a leading contender to manage the construction of two British aircraft carriers, The Sunday Telegraph said.
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Singh looking to finish year in style Vijay Singh of Fiji tees off on the sixth hole during the first round of the Chrysler Championship on Oct. 28 on the Copperhead Course at the Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor, Fla.
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Qwest to pay \$250 million to end probe WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Qwest Communications on Thursday said it #39;s agreed to pay \$250 million to end a federal probe of allegedly fraudulent accounting practices used by former executives.
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NFL Game Summary - Jacksonville at Tennessee Nashville, TN (Sports Network) - Fred Taylor scored on a one-yard run with nine seconds left in the fourth quarter to lift the Jacksonville Jaguars to a 15-12 victory over the Tennessee Titans at The Coliseum.
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Winter Concerns Push to Record High SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil prices broke into record territory above \$52 Thursday on heightened concerns that supplies of heating fuels will prove inadequate during the northern hemisphere winter.
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Shaq turns up heat in first outing with Miami SHAQUILLE O #39;Neal shot 7-for-9 and finished with 16 points in his Miami debut yesterday as the Heat took a 100-77 victory against the home side New Jersey Nets.
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Job-Loss Panic Rises in Western Europe (AP) AP - Stephane Zervos first suspected his job was threatened when his bosses removed most of the heavy equipment from the car wheel factory where he'd worked for 24 years.
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Microsoft finalises three-year government deal Hot on the heels of its 10-year strategic partnership with the London Borough of Newham, Microsoft is close to signing a new broad three-year public sector agreement with the government.
| 1Sci/Tech
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10 O'Clock News goes interactive BBC One's 10 O'Clock News is launching the first interactive news television bulletin on Tuesday.
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NJ residents file lawsuit to block e-voting WASHINGTON - A coalition of New Jersey residents filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking a judge to stop the state from using electronic voting machines in the Nov. 2 election.
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Far from fun and Games for Jones ATHENS, Greece -- So other than your anemic, fifth-place finish in the long jump and the missed baton pass in the 400-meter relay for a big fat quot;Did Not Finish, #39; #39; how did your day go, Marion Jones?
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U.S. Urges China to Push for More N.Korea Talks BEIJING (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell urged China on Monday to exert its influence over North Korea to resume stalled talks on scrapping its nuclear weapons programs and pressed Beijing to accept a Taiwan offer of talks.
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#39;Kind of a creepy thing #39;: Clues to human origins turn up in head <b>...</b> Lice genes have been a head-scratcher for experts in human origins who now suspect that we humans picked up some parasites from our more primitive ancestors.
| 1Sci/Tech
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Novak wins Japan Open Jiri Novak of the Czech Republic settled his game after a rocky start and beat Taylor Dent 5-7, 6-1, 6-3 Sunday to win the Japan Open for the sixth title of his career.
| 2Sports
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Abdullah conveys concerns over violence to Thaksin KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has conveyed to Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra its concern over the latest incident of violence in southern Thailand.
| 3World
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American Fish Confident About Tough Davis Cup Final The US Davis Cup team is gearing up for a tough final against strong Spanish opponents on an unfavorable surface but are optimistic about beating their hosts, said their semi-final team member Mardy Fish.
| 2Sports
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Xabi Reckons England Are Great Xabi Alonso is prepared for a hard battle when Spain meet England in the Bernabeu on Wednesday having experienced the build-up from the other side.
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Tennessee's Johnson Suspended for Gun (AP) AP - Tennessee starting safety Brandon Johnson was suspended indefinitely because he fired a gun into the air near campus.
| 2Sports
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