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1/113 Billy Mays' family: Never saw signs of cocaine use
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AP - The family of TV pitchman Billy Mays said they were never aware that he used cocaine or other non-prescription drugs before his death and they were considering whether to have an independent review of an official autopsy.
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2/113 Beatles fans recreate Abbey Road image 40 years on
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AFP - Fans of the Fab Four are flocking to the most famous pedestrian crossing in Britain for the 40th anniversary of the taking of one of the greatest images in rock 'n' roll history.
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3/113 Great Train Robber Biggs turns 80 as a free man
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AFP - Ronnie Biggs, who won notoriety for his role in the 1963 Great Train Robbery, was on Saturday celebrating his 80th birthday as a free man after being released on compassionate ground due to severe illness.
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4/113 Jackson show insurance excluded 'illicit' drug use
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AP - A concert promoter's insurance on Michael Jackson's London shows has provisions that may deny a multimillion dollar payout if the pop star was found to have illegally possessed drugs or was involved in the 'illicit taking of drugs.'
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5/113 Taiwan's Jay Chou goes to Hollywood: report
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AFP - Taiwan's pop singer Jay Chou will star alongside Nicolas Cage and Cameron Diaz in the movie remake of popular US television series 'The Green Hornet,' reports here said on Saturday.
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6/113 Ben Stein loses NY Times column over endorsement
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AP - Monotone TV personality Ben Stein has been stripped of his Sunday New York Times business column because of his work as a pitchman for a credit monitoring company.
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7/113 Beckham on hand as 'Idol' resumes post-Paula
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AP - There was no Paula, but there was a Posh.
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8/113 Judge approves Jackson collectors' items
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AP - The King of Pop is coming to calendars and collectors' coin cases after a judge approved several deals involving the singer's estate on Friday.
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9/113 AP source: Jackson doc gave sedatives before death
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AP - Hours before Michael Jackson's death, his doctor administered multiple sedatives along with a powerful anesthetic the pop star used to sleep, according to a law enforcement official. It's a safe combination if done properly; potentially lethal if not.
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10/113 Pilots in SC Learjet crash heard noise, hit brakes
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AP - The pilots of a Learjet that hurtled off a South Carolina runway heard a noise and warned controllers they were going to crash just seconds before the fiery accident killed four people and injured two celebrities, according to transcripts of the cockpit conversation released Friday.
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11/113 Madonna's Slovenian concert cancelled
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AFP - Pop diva Madonna has cancelled her concert in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana on August 20, the organizer of the Sticky and Sweet tour said on Friday.
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12/113 Jermaine Jackson's 'Smile' coming to iTunes
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AP - Jermaine Jackson's rendition of 'Smile' sung at his brother's public memorial is coming to iTunes.
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13/113 Jay-Z, Rihanna, West to kick off Leno's new show
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AP - Jay Leno's new prime-time series is going to kick off with a performance by Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West.
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14/113 Abdul says she's receiving `many wonderful' offers
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AP - Since announcing her exit from 'American Idol,' Paula Abdul has been in high demand.
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15/113 Michael Douglas' son could get life in prison
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Reuters - The son of actor Oscar-winning actor Michael Douglas could face life in prison for selling large amounts of an illegal drug over a three-year period before his arrest late last month, court records show.
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16/113 Ridley Scott, DiCaprio travel to 'Brave New World'
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Reuters - Ridley Scott is going back to the futurism.
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17/113 Going for Seconds: Rad by Rad Hourani Debuts
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Fashion Wire Daily - One of the perks of being a designer is that if there's an article of clothing that you want but can't find, you can always design it yourself.
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18/113 Attacks on lone blogger reverberate across Web
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AP - The outage that knocked Twitter offline for hours was traced to an attack on a lone blogger in the former Soviet republic of Georgia — but the collateral damage that left millions around the world tweetless showed just how much havoc an isolated cyberdispute can cause.
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19/113 Whither Redbox? Hollywood studios are conflicted
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AP - Hollywood studios are split over Redbox, the $1-per-night DVD rental kiosk company: They could supply it with cheap wholesale discs and ride its massive growth, or starve it in the hopes of preserving higher-priced purchases.
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20/113 The latest craze: Free e-books offerings
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AP - James Patterson's latest best seller, 'The Angel Experiment,' is a little different from his usual hits. The novel isn't new; it came out four years ago. Readers aren't picking it up at bookstores, but mostly on the Kindle site at Amazon.com.
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21/113 `Champions' to unleash virtual heroes and foes
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22/113 Review: New Sony Walkman misses multimedia mark
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AP - Thirty years after revolutionizing portable music with the Walkman for playing cassette tapes, Sony is trying to master the digital media player with the X Series Walkman.
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23/113 Pro-Georgian blogger target of Internet attacks
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AFP - Cyber assaults that temporarily derailed the websites Twitter, Facebook and LiveJournal were aimed at a pro-Georgian blogger, according to Internet security company F-Secure.
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24/113 iTunes' Mexico launch could shake up digital market
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Reuters - An expected surge in smart-phone sales could bode well for the iTunes music store's belated entry into Latin America.
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25/113 Investigators: Airspeed systems failed on U.S. planes
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AP - On at least a dozen recent flights by U.S. jetliners, malfunctioning equipment made it impossible for pilots to know how fast they were flying, federal investigators have discovered. A similar breakdown is believed to have played a role in the Air France crash into the Atlantic that killed all 228 people aboard in June.
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26/113 Particle collider: Black hole or crucial machine?
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AP - When launched to great fanfare nearly a year ago, some feared the Large Hadron Collider would create a black hole that would suck in the world. It turns out the Hadron may be the black hole.
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27/113 Birthplace of Roman emperor found in Italy
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AP - Archaeologists have unearthed a sprawling country villa believed to be the birthplace of Vespasian, the Roman emperor who built the Colosseum, they said Friday. The 2,000-year-old ruins were found about 80 miles (130 kilometers) northeast of Rome, near Cittareale, lead archaeologist Filippo Coarelli said.
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28/113 SD Zoo's online Panda Cam crashes due to overload
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AP - The San Diego Zoo's pandas have become such cyber-stars that their Panda Cam got caught in a popularity crunch.
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29/113 Flood threat along river in southwest China diminishing: ministry
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AFP - A massive landslide that blocked a river in southwest China is slowly being washed downstream, diminishing the danger to a hydroelectric dam and communities along the waterway, the government said Friday.
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30/113 Bird experiment shows Aesop's fable may be true
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AP - From the goose that laid the golden egg to the race between the tortoise and the hare, Aesop's fables are known for teaching moral lessons rather than literally being true. But a new study says at least one such tale might really have happened.
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31/113 Pipeline leak causes oil spill in southern France
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AFP - French emergency units were dispatched Friday to contain an oil spill from a pipeline in farm fields west of the southeastern city of Marseille, officials said.
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32/113 The Nation's Weather
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AP - Rain is forecast in the Intermountain West and Northern Rockies Saturday. The wet weather is expected to move gradually into the Northern Plains, where heavy rain and some thunderstorms are possible.
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33/113 Obese Texas inmate hides gun in his flabs of fat
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AP - An obese inmate in Texas has been charged after officials learned he had a gun hidden under flabs of his own flesh.
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34/113 Spain acquits sole black man in ID parade
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Reuters - A Nigerian convicted of assault in Spain was acquitted when he was found to have been the only black man in an identity parade used as key evidence in his conviction, the government-run news agency EFE reported on Tuesday
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35/113 Family video of child driving prompts probe
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Reuters - A YouTube video showing a 7-year-old boy at the wheel of a sport utility vehicle -- with his family cheering him on -- has prompted an investigation by Quebec police and family services, police said on Tuesday.
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36/113 Protesters back woman in trousers case
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Reuters - Police used teargas to disperse protesters rallying in support of a Sudanese woman facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public Tuesday, a case that has become a public test of Sudan's indecency laws.
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37/113 Fans urged to drink whisky to ward off swine flu
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Reuters - Russian soccer fans have been told to drink whisky on their trip to Wales for next month's World Cup qualifier to ward off the H1N1 swine flu virus, the head of the country's supporter association (VOB) said Monday.
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38/113 Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud attends a news conference in ...
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(Reuters) - Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud attends a news conference in an unknown location in this undated file image from a video grab. REUTERS/Reuters TV
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39/113 French language teaching assistant Clotilde Reiss (L), prominent ...
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(Reuters) - French language teaching assistant Clotilde Reiss (L), prominent journalist Ahmad Zeidabadi (rear L) and Nazak Afshar (rear R), Iranian secretary of the cultural section at the French embassy in Tehran, sit in a court room in Tehran August 8, 2009. REUTERS/Fars News/Ali Rafiei
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40/113 U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on the state of the U.S. ...
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(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on the state of the U.S. economy in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, August 7, 2009. REUTERS/Jason Reed
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41/113 Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, August ...
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(Reuters) - Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, August 3, 2009. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
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42/113 A front moving through the Plains will instigate showers and ...
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(AP) - A front moving through the Plains will instigate showers and thunderstorms, while precipitation will also move through the Northeast Sunday Aug. 9, 2009. Warm and dry weather is expected in the Southwest once again. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)
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43/113 Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud speaks to reporters in Pakistan's ...
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(Reuters) - Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud speaks to reporters in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal region in this May 24, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Stringer/Files
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44/113 Russia's Maria Sharapova serves against Poland's Urszula ...
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(Reuters) - Russia's Maria Sharapova serves against Poland's Urszula Radwanska during their tennis match at the LA Women's Tennis Championships in Carson, California, August 7, 2009. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok
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45/113 A bar chart showing the monthly US unemployment rate since July ...
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(AFP/Graphic) - A bar chart showing the monthly US unemployment rate since July 2008. The White House suggested that the US economy had pulled back from the brink after a key labor report on Friday showed an unexpected fall in the level of unemployment.(AFP/Graphic)
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46/113 A job seeker reads a book as he waits to use a phone at a career ...
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(AFP/Getty Images/File) - A job seeker reads a book as he waits to use a phone at a career center in Richmond, California. The US unemployment rate fell unexpectedly to 9.4 percent in July as job losses in the month narrowed to 247,000, the Labor Department reported Friday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)
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47/113 US President Barack Obama makes a statement on the economy in ...
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(AFP) - US President Barack Obama makes a statement on the economy in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Obama said Friday his administration had saved the US economy from catastrophe and the worst of the recession may be over, after a surprise drop in the unemployment rate.(AFP/Nicholas Kamm)
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48/113 A man looks at job listings at a federally-funded job search ...
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(AFP/File) - A man looks at job listings at a federally-funded job search center in Pasadena, 2008. The US unemployment rate fell unexpectedly to 9.4 percent in July as job losses in the month narrowed to 247,000, the Labor Department reported Friday.(AFP/File/Robyn Beck)
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49/113 Job seekers wait in line to speak to a recruiter during a job ...
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(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Job seekers wait in line to speak to a recruiter during a job fair held by the City Colleges of Chicago in June 2009. Since the recession began in December 2007, payroll employment has fallen by 6.7 million, according to the agency.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Olson)
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50/113 Survivors of Princess Ashika, the ferry that sank 86 km (53 ...
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(Reuters) - Survivors of Princess Ashika, the ferry that sank 86 km (53 miles) northeast of Tongan capital Nuku'alofa, arrive at Fu'amotu airport August 7, 2009. REUTERS/Matangi Tonga Online
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51/113 This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009 at 1:30 ...
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(AP) - This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009 at 1:30 a.m. EDT shows areas of clouds in parts of the West, but dry weather continues through the region. A swirl of clouds near the bottom of the image is associated with Hurricane Felicia as it roars towards Hawaii. The storm is expected to weaken before it possibly hits the island. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)
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52/113 This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009 at 1:15 ...
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(AP) - This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009 at 1:15 a.m. EDT shows areas of clouds in the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest associated with a front that is providing showers and thunderstorms in the area. The eastern third of the country remains dry. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)
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53/113 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers patrol a road in Kandagal ...
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(Reuters) - Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers patrol a road in Kandagal in the Pesh Valley in Afghanistan's Kunar Province August 1, 2009. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne
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54/113 Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez waits for former Colombian ...
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(Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez waits for former Colombian president Ernesto Samper at Miraflores Palace in Caracas August 6, 2009. REUTERS/Edwin Montilva
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55/113 FILE **This April 15, 1975 photo shows Manson Family member, ...
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(AP) - FILE **This April 15, 1975 photo shows Manson Family member, Catherine 'Gypsy' Share in Los Angeles. Share today muses how she might have been a lawyer or journalist had she never met Manson. (AP Photo/Wally Fong)
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56/113 This undated image provided by Catherine Share shows former ...
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(AP) - This undated image provided by Catherine Share shows former Manson Family member, Catherine Share at Spahn Ranch, Calif. Share muses how she might have been a lawyer or journalist had she never met Manson. (AP Photo/Catherine Share)
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57/113 FILE **In this Jan. 27, 1970 file photo, members of Charles ...
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(AP) - FILE **In this Jan. 27, 1970 file photo, members of Charles Manson's 'family' are shown outside the courtroom in the Los Angeles Hall of Justice after a hearing. From left are Lynette Fromme and Catherine 'Gypsy' Share. (AP Photo/David F. Smith/FILE)
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58/113 FILE **This Aug. 20, 1970 file photo shows Charles Manson, head ...
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(AP) - FILE **This Aug. 20, 1970 file photo shows Charles Manson, head of the cult the Manson Family being escorted by deputy sheriffs on his way to court, in Los Angeles, Calif., after being charged with murder-conspiracy in the Tate-LaBianca slayings. (AP Photo/FILE)
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59/113 FILE ** In a Dec. 17, 1970 file photo, right, Charles Manson ...
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(AP) - FILE ** In a Dec. 17, 1970 file photo, right, Charles Manson is pictured en route to a Los Angeles courtroom. At left, a 74-year-old Manson is shown in a file photo from March 18, 2009 released by California corrections officials taken at Corcoran State Prison. (AP Photo/HO/Files)
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60/113 This image provided by NOAA taken at 11 p.m. EDT Friday Aug. ...
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(AP) - This image provided by NOAA taken at 11 p.m. EDT Friday Aug. 7, 2009 shows Hurricane Felicia. Felicia remains a Category 2 storm far out in the Pacific and is expected to weaken as it gets closer to Hawaii. The National Hurricane Center said Felicia's maximum sustained winds strengthened slightly to near 105 mph Friday evening. (AP photo/NOAA)
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61/113 Actress Kate Hudson sits with NHL hockey player Tie Domi during ...
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(Reuters) - Actress Kate Hudson sits with NHL hockey player Tie Domi during a MLB American League baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium in New York August 6, 2009. REUTERS/Mike Segar
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62/113 Police raid a house where militants are hiding in Temanggung, ...
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(Reuters) - Police raid a house where militants are hiding in Temanggung, Central Java August 8, 2009 in this video grab. REUTERS/tvOne
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63/113 A-Rod's homer in 15th give Yanks 2-0 win
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AP - Alex Rodriguez ended the longest scoreless duel between longtime rivals Boston and New York in the 15th inning with his first homer in three weeks, giving the hometown Yankees a 2-0 victory over the Red Sox late Friday night.
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64/113 Harrington hangs onto Bridgestone lead
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AP - Having played two of his best rounds of the year at the Bridgestone Invitational, Padraig Harrington is willing to settle for something less on the weekend.
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65/113 Braves rally to beat Dodgers 9-5 in 12 innings
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AP - Garret Anderson drove in the tying run with a ninth-inning single against All-Star closer Jonathan Broxton and scored the go-ahead run on a single by Yunel Escobar during a four-run 12th, which Ryan Church capped with a three-run homer to give the Atlanta Braves a 9-5 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night.
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66/113 American Jessica Hardy sets 100 breast world mark
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AP - Jessica Hardy broke the world record in the 100-meter breaststroke by nearly half a second Friday night at the U.S. Open.
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67/113 LeBron says he wants to keep his options open
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AP - LeBron James is going to make the Cleveland Cavaliers wait — and sweat.
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68/113 Sharapova hangs on for quarterfinal win at Carson
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AP - Maria Sharapova overcame problems with her new service motion to outlast Urszula Radwanska of Poland 6-4, 7-5 in the quarterfinals of the LA Women's Tennis Championships on Friday night.
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69/113 Van Bommel determined to lead Bayern back to top
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AFP - Midfield tough-guy Mark van Bommel leads Bayern Munich into the new Bundesliga season on Saturday determined to stamp his authority and that of new coach Louis van Gaal on the Bavarian giants.
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70/113 Ballan wins Tour of Poland fifth stage
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AFP - Italy's Alessandro Ballan, of the Lampre team, won a sprint finish for the fifth stage of the Tour of Poland under the rain on Thursday.
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71/113 Stanley Cup birthday: Crosby brings trophy home
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AP - Sidney Crosby brought quite the present to his hometown during a celebration of his 22nd birthday.
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72/113 Stosur, Sharapova advance at Los Angeles tennis
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AFP - Aussie Samantha Stosur continued her impressive play at the Los Angeles Women's Tennis Championships, rallying to beat China's Zheng Jie 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the quarter-finals.
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73/113 UFC gets its first shot in Philly
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AP - Step aside, Rocky. The Philly fight game is about to get reinvented.
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74/113 Johnson wins Watkins Glen pole
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AP - Jimmie Johnson will never have a better view at Watkins Glen International. He just hopes he can keep it.
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75/113 One year later, Olympics boost China's confidence
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AP - Thousands of them visit the massive, empty building every day, making a connection with their nation's triumph.
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76/113 British embassy employee on trial in Tehran
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AFP - An Iranian employee of the British embassy was among more than a dozen defendants detained during protests over President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed June 12 re-election in court in Tehran on Saturday.
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77/113 Sydney woman comes forward over Maddie suspect
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AFP - An Australian has come forward claiming to know the identity of a woman being sought by investigators probing the disappearance of toddler Madeleine McCann, police in Sydney said on Saturday.
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78/113 Iran Cannes stars seek asylum in Britain: report
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AFP - Two Iranian actors and musicians who starred in a film at this year's Cannes film festival are seeking asylum in Britain after a member of their band was arrested in Iran, a report said Saturday.
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79/113 Shareholders approve Thomson Reuters delisting
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AFP - Shareholders in financial and professional information provider Thomson Reuters on Friday approved changes that will see the company delisted from the London Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq, it said.
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80/113 Terror suspects lose extradition case in Britain
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AFP - Two alleged leading conspirators of Osama bin Laden on Friday lost their latest battle to escape extradition from Britain over the 1998 US embassy bombings in east Africa.
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81/113 Downbeat RBS earns temper banking sector optimism
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AP - A downbeat report from the Royal Bank of Scotland PLC on Friday clouded a week of earnings updates that started with suggestions that the country's lenders were over the worst of the financial crisis — almost exactly two years after the credit squeeze took hold.
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82/113 Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs released in UK
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AP - Ronnie Biggs, the last prisoner from Britain's 'great train robbery' and once a high-living fugitive in Rio de Janeiro, gained his freedom on Friday but remained near death in his hospital bed.
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83/113 Govt abandons deportation of Jordanian doctor
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AFP - Britain has dropped moves to deport a Jordanian neurologist acquitted of taking part in failed car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow in 2007, a government source said Friday.
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84/113 FTSE 100 climbs on US jobs data
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AFP - Stocks in London finished up on Friday after the White House suggested the US economy had pulled back from the brink following a key US unemployment report that showed the number of job losses slowed in July.
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85/113 British soldiers killed in Afghan attacks
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AFP - New attacks killed three British troops, eight Afghan security personnel and a civilian, authorities said Friday, as presidential candidates pushed on with rallies for elections in two weeks.
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86/113 State-rescued bank RBS mired in bad debts
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AFP - State-rescued Royal Bank of Scotland reported a five-fold jump in bad debts on Friday, warning they would stay 'high for a while' and wrapping up a mixed earnings season for Britain's financial sector.
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87/113 Pregnant Londoner returns from Laos jail
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AFP - A heavily pregnant Londoner, jailed for life in Laos for drugs trafficking, said she had endured an 'unimaginable nightmare' as she returned to Britain on Friday to give birth and serve out her sentence.
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88/113 3 British troops, 1 American killed in Afghanistan
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AP - Three British paratroopers and an American service member were killed in attacks in Afghanistan's south and east, officials said Friday, raising the number of international troops slain in the first week of August to 19.
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89/113 Greek woman on trial for torching British tourist
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AFP - A Greek woman was scheduled to appear in court on the island of Crete on Friday after allegedly setting a British tourist on fire for sexual harassment.
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90/113 Russia leader: Sarkozy deal keeps peace in Georgia
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AP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev awarded medals Saturday to servicemen who fought in the war against Georgia a year ago, and promised Russia would not reverse its recognition of two breakaway Georgian provinces.
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91/113 Britain's Afghan mission may last 40 years: new army chief
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AFP - Britain's involvement in Afghanistan could last for up to 40 years, the next head of the British Army said on Saturday.
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92/113 Saakashvili slams Russian 'invaders'
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AP - Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili defiantly marked the first anniversary of his country's war with Russia on Friday, denouncing Russian troops who control two Georgian regions as 'invaders.'
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93/113 In Europe, 'cash for clunkers' drives sales
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AP - For months, European car buyers have been junking clunkers for cash, boosting automakers sales — but making experts fear that once the government handouts stop, the struggling car industry will return to a slump no pile of cash can conquer.
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94/113 Russian court refuses new Politkovskaya inquiry
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AP - A Moscow court rejected a plea by the family of slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya for a new investigation into her death, leading critics again to accuse authorities of not being interested in hunting the perpetrators.
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95/113 Barenboim concert for 'Arab capital' Jerusalem
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AP - Maestro Daniel Barenboim brought his troupe of young Arab and Israeli classical musicians to Geneva on Friday for a concert dedicated to the late Palestinian-American academic Edward Said and the contentious choice of Jerusalem as this year's 'Arab Cultural Capital.'
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96/113 Burial for victim of attacks on Hungary's Gypsies
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AP - Hundreds of people gathered Friday to pay their respects at the funeral of a 45-year-old woman, the sixth fatal victim in a series of attacks against Gypsies in Hungary.
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97/113 Iraq asks Iran about 3 detained Americans
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AP - Iraq's foreign minister has asked the Iranian ambassador to Baghdad to shed more light on the circumstances surrounding the detention of three Americans, an act that put pressure on already strained relations between the U.S. and Tehran.
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98/113 Top terror leader reportedly killed in Indonesia
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AP - Southeast Asia's most wanted terror suspect was reportedly killed during a 16-hour siege on a suspected militant hide-out that ended Saturday when police stormed the house, but officials said they could not yet confirm he was among the dead.
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99/113 Militants say Pakistan's Mehsud alive; deny report
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AP - A Taliban spokesman and a deputy to Baitullah Mehsud claimed Saturday that the Pakistani Taliban chief was not killed by a CIA missile strike, contradicting another aide who confirmed Mehsud's death a day earlier.
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100/113 Iran resumes mass trial of activists, protesters
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AP - Dozens of opposition activists and protesters stood trial in Tehran Saturday on charges of rioting and plotting to topple the ruling Islamic system after the disputed presidential election, Iran's state media reported.
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101/113 Sri Lanka holds postwar polls in northern towns
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AP - Sri Lanka hailed elections Saturday near an area once dominated by the Tamil Tiger rebels as the first seeds of democracy sprouting along the former battlefields of its recently ended civil war.
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102/113 Chavez: Venezuela to return ambassador to Colombia
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AP - President Hugo Chavez said Saturday he's returning his ambassador to Colombia, moving to resolve rising diplomatic tensions after weapons sold to Venezuela were found in a rebel cache.
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103/113 Clinton, in South Africa, moves to remake ties
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AP - On a mission to improve ties with Africa's most prosperous nation, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met Saturday with South African President Jacob Zuma and later toured a housing project she had visited twice in the past.
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104/113 Australia to probe education after India attacks
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AFP - Australia announced a sweeping review of its international education sector Saturday, as India's foreign minister prepared to meet with students rattled by a series of attacks and study scams.
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105/113 Drug industry helping Obama overhaul health care
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AP - The nation's drugmakers stand ready to spend $150 million to help President Barack Obama overhaul health care this fall, according to numerous officials, a staggering sum that could dwarf attempts to derail Obama's top domestic priority.
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106/113 Obama uses jobs report to press health care reform
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AP - Using better-than-expected jobs numbers to press his top domestic priority, President Barack Obama argued Saturday that overhauling the nation's costly health care system is essential to the country's economic well-being.
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107/113 Recession means fewer babies; US births fell 2 pct
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AP - There aren't just fewer jobs in a recession. There are fewer babies, too. U.S. births fell in 2008, the first full year of the recession, marking the first annual decline in births since the start of the decade and ending an American baby boomlet.
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108/113 Don't rush to close schools for swine flu — Gov't
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AP - Don't panic, schools. The government is urging school officials to stay calm when swine flu strikes this fall, closing buildings only in drastic cases and allowing sick students to return as soon as 24 hours after their fever is gone.
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109/113 Koala Sam, Aussie bushfires icon, dies
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AFP - Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Thursday led mourning for Sam the koala, whose rescue from deadly bushfires inspired the nation but who has died during surgery for a sexually transmitted disease.
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110/113 Australian court hears landmark right-to-die case
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AFP - An Australian court on Friday heard an unprecedented case brought by a nursing home seeking advice on whether it can stop feeding a paralysed man who has begged to be allowed to die.
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111/113 Wall Street hits fresh 2009 highs on upbeat jobs data
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AFP - US stocks surged Friday to their best levels of the year after a much-awaited July jobs report was better than expected, signaling a likely turnaround in the long and painful recession.
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112/113 Freddie Mac reports first profit in two years
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Reuters - Freddie Mac, the second largest provider of U.S. home mortgage funding, on Friday posted its first quarterly profit in two years as gains from hedges and a one-time accounting change offset still-lofty credit losses.
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113/113 Freddie Mac swings to profit, after steep losses
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AFP - US mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac announced Friday it swung to a profit of 768 million dollars in the second quarter, after a 9.9 billion dollar loss in the previous quarter.
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