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1/124 ABC wants Paula Abdul to dance on over post-'Idol'
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AP - ABC is joining the chorus of those seeking to hire Paula Abdul, who said she's quitting 'American Idol.'
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2/124 British actor claims he fathered Jackson's daughter
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AFP - Former child acting star Mark Lester said in a British newspaper Sunday that he donated sperm to Michael Jackson and believes he could be the biological father of the late singer's daughter Paris.
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3/124 Snowin' in the Wind? Dylan Christmas album due
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Reuters - Bob Dylan is set to release an album of Christmas songs, including 'Here Comes Santa Claus' and the carol 'O Little Town of Bethlehem,' according to music websites.
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4/124 Japanese pop star Sakai arrested: media
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AFP - Japanese pop star Noriko Sakai was arrested on Saturday on a drug possession charge, news reports said.
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5/124 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 Saturday.
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6/124 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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7/124 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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8/124 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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9/124 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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10/124 Beatles fans flood Abbey Road for 40th anniversary
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AFP - Precisely 40 years on from the moment the 'Abbey Road' album cover was photographed, Beatles fans on Saturday mobbed the most famous pedestrian crossing in Britain to celebrate the iconic image.
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11/124 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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12/124 Beatles fans swarm Abbey Road on album anniversary
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AP - Beatles fans mobbed London's Abbey Road on the 40th anniversary of the famous photo that turned this ordinary London street into a musical pilgrimage site.
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13/124 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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14/124 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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15/124 Britain frees Great Train Robber Biggs
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AFP - Ronnie Biggs, notorious for his role in Britain's 1963 Great Train Robbery and 35 years as a celebrity fugitive, was released from custody Friday to spend his dying days in freedom.
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16/124 Beatles fans swarm Abbey Road on album anniversary
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AP - Hundreds of Beatles fans swarmed Abbey Road on Saturday, singing songs and snarling traffic to mark 40 years since John, Paul, George and Ringo strode across the leafy north London street and into the history books on iconic pop photos.
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17/124 'G.I. Joe' commands box office with $56.2M debut
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AP - G.I. Joe is the latest toy to invade Hollywood and plant its blockbuster flag.
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18/124 Good, bad and gimps kick off at Edinburgh Fringe
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Reuters - The good, the bad and the gimps of comedy got into full swing on the first night of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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19/124 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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20/124 Small is beautiful (and successful) for newspapers
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AP - Newspapers are hurting all over the United States, but the pain is less severe at small publications like The Blackshear Times in Georgia.
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21/124 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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22/124 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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23/124 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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24/124 `Champions' to unleash virtual heroes and foes
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25/124 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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26/124 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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27/124 Vast expanses of Arctic ice melt in summer heat
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AP - The Arctic Ocean has given up tens of thousands more square miles (square kilometers) of ice in a relentless summer of melt, with scientists watching through satellite eyes for a possible record low polar ice cap.
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28/124 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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29/124 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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30/124 Air quality poorer in Malaysia's Borneo
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AFP - Air quality in Malaysia's Sarawak state on Borneo island edged towards 'very unhealthy' levels of pollution Sunday as wildfires raged in forests and peat-growing land in the state.
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31/124 Clinton presses Angola to sweeten trade ties
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AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton brought her democracy and development tour of Africa to oil-rich Angola on Sunday, encouraging the war-ravaged country to continue reforms and pledging to boost trade ties with a major energy producer.
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32/124 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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33/124 Climate change to challenge US military: report
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AFP - Climate change will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration and pandemics, The New York Times reported.
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34/124 German energy giant unveils huge cost-cutting plan
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AFP - German energy giant E.ON Saturday said it had reached agreement with unions on a 1.5-billion-euro cost-cutting plan that rules out job cuts until the end of 2012.
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35/124 China's east coast battered by typhoon
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Reuters - Typhoon Morakot battered China's commercial east coast on Sunday, killing a child and flattening houses.
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36/124 Mice, anyone? Making a meal out of mice in Malawi
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AP - Cooked, salted or dried, field mice strung on sticks are sold as a popular delicacy in Malawi markets and roadside stalls.
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37/124 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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38/124 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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39/124 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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40/124 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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41/124 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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(AP) - The wreckage of a helicopter is lifted by crane from the Hudson River and placed on a boat as seen from Hoboken, N.J., Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009. Divers recovered a piece of a submerged helicopter and a fifth body Sunday as investigators searched the Hudson River for wreckage from the helicopter and a small plane that collided in midair, killing nine people. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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43/124 The wreckage of a helicopter is lifted by crane from the Hudson ...
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(AP) - The wreckage of a helicopter is lifted by crane from the Hudson River as seen from Hoboken, N.J., Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009. Divers recovered a piece of a submerged helicopter and a fifth body Sunday as investigators searched the Hudson River for wreckage from the helicopter and a small plane that collided in midair, killing nine people. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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44/124 A heavy lifting ship from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lifts ...
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(Reuters) - A heavy lifting ship from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lifts the fuselage of a helicopter from the location of a crash between a sight seeing helicopter and a small fixed wing airplane over the Hudson River, in New York, August 9, 2009. Nine people, including five Italian tourists, were killed yesterday when a small plane collided with a helicopter sending both aircraft plunging into the Hudson River. REUTERS/Chip East (UNITED STATES DISASTER)
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45/124 A math instructor is shown with a summer school student in this ...
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(Canadian Press) - A math instructor is shown with a summer school student in this photo. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Skip Peterson
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(AP) - Emergency personnel move what appears to be a body from the Hudson River as seen from Hoboken, NJ, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009. Police boats and divers on Sunday circled the wreckage of a submerged tourist helicopter as investigators resumed their search for debris and missing bodies from the helicopter and a small plane that collided in midair, raining wreckage down on the New Jersey waterfront and into the Hudson River. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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47/124 In this photo taken on May 24, 2008, showing Pakistan's top ...
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(Canadian Press) - In this photo taken on May 24, 2008, showing Pakistan's top Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, left, as he talks to the media in Kotkai, a village in the Pakistani tribal area along the Afghan border. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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48/124 Eddie Gruben looks on during an interview Saturday Aug. 8, 2009, ...
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(AP) - Eddie Gruben looks on during an interview Saturday Aug. 8, 2009, in Tuktoyaktuk, in the Northwest Territories, Canada. From the barren Arctic shore of this village in Canada's far northwest, 1,500 miles north of Seattle, veteran observer Eddie Gruben has seen the summer ice retreating more each decade as the world has warmed, so that by this weekend the ice edge lay some 80 miles at sea. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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49/124 Eddie Gruben, center, looks on as his granddaughter holds fox ...
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(AP) - Eddie Gruben, center, looks on as his granddaughter holds fox pelts while his daughter looks on Saturday Aug. 8, 2009, in Tuktoyaktuk, in the Northwest Territories, Canada. From the barren Arctic shore of this village in Canada's far northwest, 1,500 miles north of Seattle, veteran observer Eddie Gruben has seen the summer ice retreating more each decade as the world has warmed, so that by this weekend the ice edge lay some 80 miles at sea. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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50/124 Pakistan's cricket team members congratulate their bowler Naved-ul-Hasan, ...
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(Canadian Press) - Pakistan's cricket team members congratulate their bowler Naved-ul-Hasan, center, for taking the wicket of Sri Lankan cricketer Kumar Sangakkara, during their final One Day International cricket match, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Eranga Jayawardena
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51/124 Groundsmen attempt to clear water from a waterlogged pitch after ...
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(Canadian Press) - Groundsmen attempt to clear water from a waterlogged pitch after play was abandoned due to rain on the third day of the third cricket test match between England and Australia at Edgbaston cricket ground in Birmingham, England, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Kirsty Wigglesworth
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52/124 (L-R) Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina, former Mozambican ...
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(Reuters) - (L-R) Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina, former Mozambican President Joachim Chissano and former Madagascar President Marc Ravalomanana sign a peace accord in Maputo, August 9, 2009. REUTERS/Grant Lee Neuenburg
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53/124 Joe Kennedy and his wife Beth leave Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, ...
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(AP) - Joe Kennedy and his wife Beth leave Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass., Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009, after visiting his aunt Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Shriver, a sister of President John F. Kennedy and a longtime champion for the disabled, is in critical condition at the hospital. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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54/124 The Reichstag building, seat of the German lower house of Parliament ...
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(Reuters) - The Reichstag building, seat of the German lower house of Parliament Bundestag, is reflected in an Opel car emblem in Berlin, August 4, 2009. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz
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(Reuters) - United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton greets well wishers during a visit to the Victoria Mxenge housing project near Cape Town August 8, 2009. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
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56/124 Joe Kennedy arrives with his wife Beth, behind, at Cape Cod ...
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(AP) - Joe Kennedy arrives with his wife Beth, behind, at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass., Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009, to visit his aunt Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Shriver, a sister of President John F. Kennedy and a longtime champion for the disabled, is in critical condition at the hospital. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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57/124 Brian Goldner, Hasbro's CEO, (2nd L) joins producer Lorenzo ...
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(Reuters) - Brian Goldner, Hasbro's CEO, (2nd L) joins producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura (L), actress Rachel Nichols and director Stephen Sommers in front of a "Mole Pod" from the movie "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra", at Hasbro's Charity Premiere of the movie in Warwick, Rhode Island, August 3, 2009. REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine/Hasbro/Handout
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(AP) - HOLD FOR RELASE 12:01 AM EDT; graphic shows number hazardous waste sites entering final cleanup
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59/124 Former U.S. president Bill Clinton (seated L) and North Korea's ...
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(Reuters) - Former U.S. president Bill Clinton (seated L) and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il (seated R) pose for a picture in Pyongyang in this photo released by North Korean official news agency KCNA August 4, 2009. North Korea has signaled it wants to improve relations with the United States and has been told it must return to nuclear disarmament talks, U.S. national security adviser Jim Jones said on Sunday. REUTERS/KCNA
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(Canadian Press) - In this May 14, 2009 file photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, Guantanamo detainees pray before dawn near a fence of razor-wire, inside Camp 4 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Brennan Linsley, File
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61/124 Pipers from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo Massed Pipes and Drums ...
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(Reuters) - Pipers from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo Massed Pipes and Drums perform during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival parade in Holyrood Park in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 9, 2009. REUTERS/David Moir
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62/124 In this photo taken May 19, 2009, Nick Hazel loads usuable items ...
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(Canadian Press) - In this photo taken May 19, 2009, Nick Hazel loads usuable items on a trailer that were left behind in a foreclosed home that he and his crew were cleaning in Orlando, Fla. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/John Raoux
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(Reuters) - Divers work to recover wreckage and bodies from the site of a crash between a sightseeing helicopter and a small fixed wing airplane over the Hudson River, in New York, August 9, 2009. REUTERS/Chip East
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64/124 Emergency personnel, in boat on left, recover what appears to ...
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(AP) - Emergency personnel, in boat on left, recover what appears to be a body from the Hudson River as seen from Hoboken, NJ, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009. Police boats and divers on Sunday circled the wreckage of a submerged tourist helicopter as investigators resumed their search for debris and missing bodies from the helicopter and a small plane that collided in midair, raining wreckage down on the New Jersey waterfront and into the Hudson River. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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(AP) - Emergency personnel recover what appears to be a body from the Hudson River as seen from Hoboken, N.J., Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009. Police boats and divers on Sunday circled the wreckage of a submerged tourist helicopter as investigators resumed their search for debris and missing bodies from the helicopter and a small plane that collided in midair, raining wreckage down on the New Jersey waterfront and into the Hudson River. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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66/124 Divers bring the remains of a victim from the location of a ...
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(Reuters) - Divers bring the remains of a victim from the location of a crash between a sightseeing helicopter and a small fixed wing airplane over the Hudson River, in New York, August 9, 2009. Nine people, including five Italian tourists, were killed yesterday when a small plane collided with a helicopter sending both aircraft plunging into the Hudson River. REUTERS/Chip East (UNITED STATES DISASTER TRANSPORT)
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67/124 Ortiz says supplements may have landed him on list
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AP - David Ortiz said he never knowingly used steroids and that over-the-counter supplements and vitamins likely caused him to land on a list of alleged drug users circulated by the federal government.
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68/124 Tigers' Leyland 'sick and tired' of steroids saga
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AP - Tigers manager Jim Leyland laments the way names have trickled out in baseball's drug scandal, and says he has grown weary of the disclosures.
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69/124 Harrington leads Tiger by 3 at Firestone
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AP - Padraig Harrington kept pouring in birdies as he tried to separate himself from everyone else at the Bridgestone Invitational. He arrived at the 18th green with a three-shot lead, happy with his day's work. Then he glanced at the leaderboard for the first time Saturday. Suddenly, that lead felt a little smaller.
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70/124 Seminoles' Bowden wants national championship
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AP - Florida State's Bobby Bowden says he wants one more national title before retirement.
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71/124 Distinct Bills flavor at Hall of Fame ceremony
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AP - Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson loosened up the crowd with a couple of anecdotes at the Pro Football Hall of Fame induction ceremony, and Bruce Smith finished them off with a passionate tribute to Western New York.
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72/124 AP source: Seahawks sign Curry to $60 million deal
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AP - The Seattle Seahawks have signed first-round draft choice Aaron Curry to a contract that will guarantee the star linebacker from Wake Forest $34 million, a person familiar with the deal said Saturday night.
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73/124 Roethlisberger accuser allegedly bragged about sex
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AP - The woman suing quarterback Ben Roethlisberger for alleged sexual assault has been accused of bragging about having consensual sex with him to a co-worker.
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74/124 Thome hits 562nd homer, White Sox beat Indians 8-5
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AP - Jim Thome hit a two-run shot for his 562nd career homer and Gordon Beckham had a go-ahead sacrifice fly in the sixth, helping the Chicago White Sox rally for an 8-5 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Saturday night.
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75/124 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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76/124 Spot-on Chelsea defeat United, win Community Shield
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AFP - Chelsea and Manchester United launched the English season in explosive fashion as the Blues' 4-1 penalty shoot-out win in Sunday's Community Shield was marred by an ugly clash between Michael Ballack and Patrice Evra.
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77/124 Espanyol's Jarque dies while on pre-season tour
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Reuters - Espanyol captain and defender Dani Jarque, 26, has died from heart failure while on a pre-season tour of Italy, the Primera Liga club said on their website (www.rcdespanyol.com) on Saturday.
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78/124 Pennetta, Stosur reach LA tennis final
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AFP - Italy's Flavia Pennetta brushed aside a shaky serve to book her spot in the Los Angeles Women's Tennis Championship final by rallying to beat Russian Maria Sharapova.
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79/124 Silva beats Griffin in UFC co-main event
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AP - At any weight class, Anderson Silva is proving too tough to beat.
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80/124 Ambrose wins again at Watkins Glen
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AP - A year ago Marcos Ambrose used pit strategy to win at Watkins Glen International. The second time around he used a little aggression.
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81/124 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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82/124 British contractor shot dead in Iraq
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AFP - A Briton and an Australian, both security contractors, were killed in a shooting inside central Baghdad's secure 'Green Zone' early on Sunday, a British embassy official said.
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83/124 Govt does not rule out torture risk: ministers
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AFP - Senior ministers said Sunday they could not rule out that vital anti-terror information had been obtained through the torture of suspects abroad.
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84/124 Briton in Iraqi custody after contractor killings
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AP - Iraqi authorities arrested a British contractor Sunday over the shooting deaths of two co-workers in Baghdad's protected Green Zone. The suspected gunman could be the first Westerner to face an Iraqi trial on murder charges since a security pact lifted the immunity that had been enjoyed by foreign contractors for most of the war.
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85/124 British, three Afghan soldiers killed: military
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AFP - A British soldier and three Afghan troopers have been killed in suspected insurgent bomb blasts in southern Afghanistan, the military said Sunday, as security forces braced for the August 20 elections.
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86/124 British soldier killed in Afghanistan blast
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AFP - A British soldier was killed by an explosion while on patrol in southern Afghanistan, defence officials in London confirmed Sunday.
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87/124 UN: Violence hampering Afghan vote
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AP - Insecurity in significant portions of Afghanistan has hindered election preparations and disproportionately affected Afghan women, a report co-authored by the U.N. mission in the country said Sunday.
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88/124 Australian woman denies McCann link: report
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AFP - An Australian woman has denied any knowledge about the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann after a friend identified her as a mystery witness in the case, a report said on Sunday.
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89/124 Britain outraged as Iran tries embassy staffer
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AFP - An Iranian employee of the British embassy in Tehran who was detained then bailed during post-election protests in June, was on Saturday put on trial for spying in a move slammed by Downing Street as an 'outrage.'
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90/124 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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91/124 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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92/124 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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93/124 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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94/124 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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95/124 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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96/124 Mass WWII grave brings Poles, Germans together
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AP - Germans and Poles are laying ghosts of World War II to rest this week — more than 2,000 of them.
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97/124 2 bombs explode on Spain's Mallorca; no injuries
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AP - Two small bombs blamed on Basque separatist group ETA exploded Sunday in downtown locations on the Spanish resort island of Mallorca, causing no injuries, the government said. Police defused a third device found nearby.
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98/124 Spot-on Chelsea defeat United, win Community Shield
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AFP - Chelsea and Manchester United launched the English season in explosive fashion as the Blues' 4-1 penalty shoot-out win in Sunday's Community Shield was marred by an ugly clash between Michael Ballack and Patrice Evra.
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99/124 Blasts hit Majorca restaurants, ETA suspected
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AFP - Bombs exploded in two restaurants on the Spanish island of Majorca Sunday, officials said, hours after the armed Basque separatist group ETA claimed earlier deadly attacks.
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100/124 After a decade in power, Putin not ready to quit
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AP - Vladimir Putin celebrated a decade in power Sunday, and it appears the former KGB strongman may maintain his grip on Russia's government for years to come.
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101/124 England pull out of badminton championships
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AFP - England have pulled out of the world badminton championships starting here Monday over concerns about its squad being targeted by terrorists.
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102/124 Publicis to buy Razorfish from Microsoft for $530m
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AFP - The French advertising group Publicis said Sunday it would buy the digital advertising agency Razorfish from Microsoft for 530 million dollars (380 million euros).
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103/124 Pope: Nazi concentration camps a symbol of evil
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AP - Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday that Nazi concentration camps were 'extreme symbols of evil' and hell on earth.
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104/124 Pope: concentration camps a symbol of evil
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AP - Pope Benedict XVI says that Nazi concentration camps were 'extreme symbols of evil' and hell on earth.
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105/124 Medvedev: Defeat of Georgia showed Russian might
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AP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday hailed the Russian victory in a war with Georgia a year ago, saying it showed the nation's strength and boosted its role in the world.
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106/124 1 million evacuated as typhoon hits China
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AP - A typhoon pummeled China's eastern coast Sunday, toppling houses, flooding villages and forcing nearly a million people to flee to safety. Officials rode bicycles to distribute food to residents trapped by rising waters.
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107/124 Iran judiciary looks to calm prison abuse outrage
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AP - Police and judiciary officials sought on Sunday to calm public outrage in Iran over the deaths of detained protesters in prison, acknowledging abuses and calling for those responsible to be punished.
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108/124 Opium takes over entire Afghan families, villages
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AP - Open the door to Islam Beg's house and the thick opium smoke rushes out into the cold mountain air, like steam from a bathhouse. It's just past 8 a.m. and the family of six — including a 1-year-old baby boy — is already curled up at the lip of the opium pipe.
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109/124 US, Pakistan increasingly believe Mehsud dead
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AP - The U.S. and Pakistan are almost certain a U.S. missile strike killed the head of Pakistan's Taliban and that his death led to a fierce power struggle among his deputies, officials said Sunday, despite claims and counterclaims as to the fate of the country's most wanted man.
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110/124 Honduras prohibits visit of OAS crisis negotiators
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AP - Honduras' interim government announced Sunday that it was canceling a visit by foreign delegates aimed at resolving the country's political crisis because it could not accept the participation of a regional official who insists on reinstating the ousted president.
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111/124 Pro-rebel party wins one Sri Lanka council
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AFP - A party that backs the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels won a council in elections near Sri Lanka's former war zone, results showed Sunday, in a sign that separatists still attract popular support.
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112/124 Australia considers mass killings of camels
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AP - Thousands of camels in Australia's remote Outback could be killed by marksmen in helicopters under a government proposal aimed at cutting down the population of the havoc-wreaking creatures.
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113/124 Consumer protections lost in health care debate
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AP - It's one issue in the health care debate that nearly everyone — even the insurance lobby — seems to agree on: Better consumer protections are needed to end the nightmare of not being able to get covered for a treatable, if costly, illness.
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114/124 Obama: Health overhaul key to economic recovery
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AP - Using better-than-expected jobs numbers to press his top domestic priority, President Barack Obama is arguing that overhauling the health care system is essential to the country's economic well-being.
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115/124 China lifts blockade around plague-stricken town
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AP - A blockade around a remote northwest Chinese town where deadly pneumonic plague killed three people and sickened nine was lifted after no new infections were reported, an official said Sunday.
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116/124 Drug industry backing Obama's health care plan
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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 his chief domestic priority.
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117/124 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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118/124 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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119/124 Obese Texas man hides gun between rolls of fat
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AFP - An obese prisoner in Harris County, Texas has been charged with illegal possession of a firearm after he was discovered to be hiding a 9mm pistol in between his rolls of fat, local media reported Saturday.
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120/124 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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121/124 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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122/124 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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123/124 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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124/124 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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