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1/118 'Twilight' sinks fangs into Teen Choice Awards
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AP - 'Twilight' didn't suck at the Teen Choice Awards.
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2/118 Closing arguments set in C-Murder's La. trial
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AP - Attorneys are set to deliver closing arguments in the murder trial of Corey Miller, better known as the rapper 'C-Murder.'
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3/118 Lady Gaga shows off tattoo during Asia tour
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AP - Lady Gaga may sport an ever-changing series of risque outfits, but the pop singer says two things are permanent: her tattoos and her bow tie 'do.
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4/118 Jackson allies deny Oliver! star paternity link
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AFP - Sources 'very close' to Michael Jackson's family denied claims by former child acting star Mark Lester that he could be the biological father of the singer's daughter Paris, People magazine reported.
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5/118 Australian 'perplexed' by McCann link: report
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AFP - A wealthy Australian socialite and her daughter are 'perplexed' over claims their luxury yacht was involved in the mystery disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann, a report said.
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6/118 Death of Indian 'queen' triggers royal squabble
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AFP - The death of an Indian queen who personified a lost era of aristocratic privilege and exotic glamour has sparked a bitter inheritance dispute among her surviving family.
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7/118 Billboard single reviews: Whitney Houston, Sean Paul
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Reuters - On the lead single from her first album in seven years, Whitney Houston is both vulnerable and in control.
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8/118 'The View' star Hasselbeck has 3rd child, a boy
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AP - Elisabeth Hasselbeck of 'The View' is the mother of a third child. Hasselbeck gave birth Sunday afternoon in a New York hospital to a boy, named Isaiah Timothy. She's married to former NFL player Tim Hasselbeck.
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9/118 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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10/118 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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11/118 No baby blues as sport becomes family affair for Federer
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AFP - Roger Federer's flawless tennis will be a family affair from Monday's start of the ATP Montreal Masters straight through to the US Open and beyond, the new father of twins said Sunday.
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12/118 '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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13/118 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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14/118 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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15/118 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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16/118 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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17/118 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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18/118 `Champions' to unleash virtual heroes and foes
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19/118 China's Internet a major concern to officials
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AFP - The Internet in China has become a major concern for officials, who are increasingly being scrutinised by the general public, a government adviser said Monday.
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20/118 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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21/118 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 on Sunday in a relentless summer of melt, with scientists watching through satellite eyes for a possible record low polar ice cap.
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22/118 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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23/118 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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24/118 Flying frog among 353 new Himalayan species: WWF
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AFP - A flying frog, the world's smallest deer and the first new monkey to be found in over a century are among 350 new species discovered in the eastern Himalayas in the past decade, the WWF said Monday.
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25/118 Higher oil prices 'boost Gulf fiscal outlook'
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AFP - Oil-rich Gulf economies are expected to see better-than-expected budgets in 2009 despite the economic slowdown, thanks to higher world crude prices, an economic report said.
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26/118 Hyundai chief heads to NKorea to discuss detainee
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AP - The chairwoman of South Korea's Hyundai Group conglomerate headed to Pyongyang on Monday to try to win the release of a detained employee and to discuss restarting joint projects in North Korea.
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27/118 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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28/118 Nissan's 'Leaf' to challenge Toyota's Prius
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AFP - Nissan's upcoming all-electric car could outsell hybrids like Toyota's Prius even though it can't drive more than about 100 miles (160 kilometers) without stopping to recharge, a senior executive said.
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29/118 India says to roll out solar power plan by Dec
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Reuters - India will roll out a 20 gigawatt solar power plan by the end of December, the country's renewable energy secretary said on Monday.
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30/118 Mudslide buries 100s in Taiwan mountain village
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AP - A typhoon-spawned mudslide engulfed a mountain village in southern Taiwan, burying schools and homes and hundreds of people under debris, a police official said Monday.
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31/118 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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32/118 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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33/118 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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34/118 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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35/118 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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36/118 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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37/118 A cluster of blueberries appears on a bush at the Tougas Family ...
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(Canadian Press) - A cluster of blueberries appears on a bush at the Tougas Family Farm, in Northborough, Mass. While the cool and rainy weather has wreaked havoc with much produce in New England, it was a tough year for the strawberry, even worse for the poor cherry, the blueberry has fared considerably better. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Steven Senne)
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(AP) - FILE - In this March 15, 2006 file photo, advertising adorns a service van outside a customer's home in the southeast Denver suburb of Centennial, Colo. Dish Network Corp. said Monday, Aug. 10, 2009, that its second-quarter profit slid 81 percent on TiVo Inc. litigation costs and rising expenses, but the nation's second-largest satellite TV provider managed to add subscribers and maintain revenue.(AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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(Reuters) - A woman is reflected in a glass door of the Rio Tinto Limited Shanghai Representative Office August 9, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer
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(Reuters) - An aerial picture shows the floods after Typhoon Morakot hit Pingtung county, southern Taiwan August 10, 2009. REUTERS/Pingtung Government/Handout
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(Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi speaks to journalists during a news conference in Tehran February 23, 2009. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi
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42/118 FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2008 file photo, customers enter a Barnes ...
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(AP) - FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2008 file photo, customers enter a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Burlington, Mass. Bookseller Barnes & Noble said Monday Aug. 10, 2009, it will buy Barnes & Noble College Booksellers from its chairman in a deal worth $596 million, a move that will reunite its brand and eliminate annual royalty payments for online textbook sales.(AP Photo/Winslow Townson, file)
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(Reuters) - Shoppers pass a window display at the high-end luxury goods maker Gucci along 5th Avenue in New York, November 19, 2008. REUTERS/Mike Segar
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(Reuters) - Paramilitary policemen stand on a pile of sand bags at a section of Yangjia Stream of Xiapu county in Ningde, Fujian province August 10, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer
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45/118 A North Korean ship, MV Musan, is seen anchored near Port Blair, ...
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(Reuters) - A North Korean ship, MV Musan, is seen anchored near Port Blair, capital of India's Andaman and Nicobar islands, August 6, 2009. REUTERS/Sanjib Kumar Roy
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48/118 French language teaching assistant Clotilde Reiss testifies ...
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(Reuters) - French language teaching assistant Clotilde Reiss testifies during her trial at the Revolutionary court in Tehran August 8, 2009. REUTERS/Fars News
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(Canadian Press) - England's Ian bell plays a shot off the bowling of Australia's Mitchell Johnson on the fourth day of the third cricket test match between England and Australia at Edgbaston cricket ground in Birmingham, England, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Kirsty Wigglesworth
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50/118 Christie's auctions a bronze rabbit head made for the Zodiac ...
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(Reuters) - Christie's auctions a bronze rabbit head made for the Zodiac fountain of the Emperor Qianlong's Summer Palace in China from the private art collection of late French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent at the Grand Palais Museum in Paris February 25, 2009. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau
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51/118 A supporter of hardline Islamist party 'Jamaat-e-Islami' shouts ...
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(Canadian Press) - A supporter of hardline Islamist party 'Jamaat-e-Islami' shouts slogans during an anti U.S. rally in Peshawar, Pakistan. The U.S. drone strike sparked an anti-American protest in the northwestern frontier town of Peshawar, with thousands of supporters of the hardline Islamist party taking to the streets to denounce U.S. interference in Pakistan's affairs. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Mohammad Sajjad)
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52/118 FILE - In this May 25, 2006 file photo, a man adjusts a Lenovo ...
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(AP) - FILE - In this May 25, 2006 file photo, a man adjusts a Lenovo display at a high-tech exhibition in Beijing, China. A Chinese science group is offering to sell 29 percent of the parent of personal computer maker Lenovo Group for 2.8 billion yuan (US$408.8 million) but the buyer will get little control over the company. (AP Photo, File)
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53/118 Susan Winget's Songbird Bouquet available at teleflora.com ...
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(AP) - Susan Winget's Songbird Bouquet available at teleflora.com for $49.95. (PRNewsFoto/Teleflora)
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54/118 Map locates string of bombings in Iraq ...
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(AP) - Map locates string of bombings in Iraq
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55/118 A note (L) is placed under a candle during an AIDS International ...
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(Reuters) - A note (L) is placed under a candle during an AIDS International Candlelight Memorial in Belgrade in this May 18, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
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56/118 People gather at the site where a double truck bombing tore ...
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(Canadian Press) - People gather at the site where a double truck bombing tore through a Shiite minority community near northern city of Mosul, 360 kilometres northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 10, 2009. A series of blasts struck Baghdad Monday in a wave of predawn violence that killed at least 40 people, according to Iraqi officials. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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57/118 FILE - In this June 17, 2009 file photo Israeli Foreign Minister ...
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(AP) - FILE - In this June 17, 2009 file photo Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman speaks during a joint news conference with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, not pictured, after their meeting at the State Department in Washington. Lieberman suggested Monday Aug. 10, 2009 that a diplomat who warned that government policy was causing a dangerous rift in Israel-U.S. ties should resign his post. Israel's Boston consul-general, Nadav Tamir, wrote in an internal memo leaked last week that Israel's public clashes with Washington over the U.S. demand for a settlement freeze were causing 'strategic damage to Israel.'(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, Files)
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58/118 In this photo taken June 10, 2009, Carol Fischman holds Lucy ...
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(AP) - In this photo taken June 10, 2009, Carol Fischman holds Lucy the Labradoodle while posing for photos in their Vero Beach, Fla. home. Lucy can only scoot around the ground to grab a bone_she is unable to walk, crippled by rheumatoid arthritis that has rendered her back limbs unusuable. But her owner believes that she is showing improvement after stem cell treatments. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)
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59/118 Chinese workers install pipes into a street of Beijing, China, ...
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(AP) - Chinese workers install pipes into a street of Beijing, China, Monday, Aug. 10, 2009. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao cautioned Sunday that the country still faced economic problems and assured jittery investors that easy credit policies aimed at kick-starting a recovery would continue. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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60/118 In this photo taken June 10, 2009, Carol Fischman plays with ...
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(AP) - In this photo taken June 10, 2009, Carol Fischman plays with Lucy the Labradoodle, as the dog sits in her stroller at their Vero Beach, Fla. home June 10, 2009. Lucy can only scoot around the ground to grab a bone_she is unable to walk, crippled by rheumatoid arthritis that has rendered her back limbs unusuable. But her owner believes that she is showing improvement after stem cell treatments. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)
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61/118 Palestinian militants of the popular resistant movement take ...
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(Reuters) - Palestinian militants of the popular resistant movement take part in a training drill in front of the media in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip August 8, 2009. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
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62/118 Yankees rally for 4-game sweep of rival Red Sox
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AP - Jon Lester dazzled for seven innings, and the Red Sox held a lead in the eighth. Then everything unraveled, much as it did all series, and Boston was left wondering what else it can do to win a game.
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63/118 Crazy Eights: Nats on longest win streak since '05
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AP - Adam Dunn can easily summarize the Washington Nationals' surprising turnaround.
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64/118 Tiger wins Bridgestone for 16th win in WGC events
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AP - The W in WGC doesn't stand for Woods. It just seems that way.
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65/118 T.O. makes preseason debut with Bills
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AP - Standing at his locker following his preseason debut, Vince Young pulled on a Steve McNair jersey and smiled.
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66/118 Dixon rolls to record-breaking 20th IndyCar win
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AP - Scott Dixon doesn't have the star quality of Helio Castroneves, the Scottish brogue of teammate Dario Franchitti or the All-American stature of Sam Hornish Jr.
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67/118 What if Ortiz was telling the truth? What then?
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AP - Suppose for a minute that David Ortiz told the truth.
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68/118 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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69/118 Ancelotti impressed by resilient Chelsea
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AFP - Carlo Ancelotti believes Chelsea's Community Shield victory over Manchester United proves his team have the mental strength to win the Premier League.
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70/118 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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71/118 Chicago Blackhawks F Kane arrested in Buffalo, NY
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AP - Chicago Blackhawks star Patrick Kane was charged with attacking a cab driver in his hometown Sunday, a beating that police said was triggered when the driver did not have 20 cents in change to give the player and his cousin.
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72/118 Del Potro outlasts Roddick to defend ATP Washington title
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AFP - Juan Martin Del Potro blasted five of his 19 aces in the deciding tie-breaker Sunday to beat US top seed Andy Roddick 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (8/6) and win his second consecutive ATP Washington Classic title.
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73/118 John Rollins wins Legends Reno-Tahoe Open
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AP - John Rollins' best friend was his driver, but it didn't hurt to have a buddy from Texas playing alongside him at the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open. It wasn't easy trying to shake the monkey off his back after he squandered the lead five times before when he topped the leaderboard heading into a final round.
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74/118 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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75/118 7-time F1 champ Schumacher will test older Ferrari
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AP - Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher plans to test drive an old Ferrari model again as he prepares for his planned comeback later this month.
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76/118 MI6 not complicit in torture, says chief
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AFP - The head of the MI6 foreign intelligence service said on Monday his agents were not involved in torture, amid allegations of British links to mistreatment of terror suspects held abroad.
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77/118 DNA tests to identify British, Aussie WWI troops
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AFP - Experts will this week begin conducting DNA tests on the remains of up to 300 British and Australian World War I soldiers discovered in northeastern France, the Ministry of Defence said on Monday.
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78/118 Air passenger numbers stabilising: BAA
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AFP - BAA, operator of Britain's main airports, said on Monday that passenger traffic fell in July compared with a year earlier but was showing signs of stabilisation after sharp falls due to the economic slowdown.
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79/118 Lloyds bank mulls raising £15 bln
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AFP - Lloyds Banking Group's share price dropped here on Monday after reports said the state-controlled British lender planned raising 15 billion pounds (17.6 billion euros, 25 billion dollars).
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80/118 Friends Provident in takeover talks
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AFP - Friends Provident on Monday said it would enter takeover talks after receiving an offer valuing the insurance firm at about 1.85 billion pounds.
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81/118 Huge rise in child abduction from Britain: report
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AFP - Almost 500 children were abducted from Britain and taken abroad last year, the Guardian said on Monday, highlighting Pakistan as a hotspot.
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82/118 UK spy agency MI6 'not complicit in torture': chief
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Reuters - Britain's foreign intelligence agency said on Monday it was not complicit in torturing terrorism suspects overseas, backing government denials.
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83/118 Leading retailers threaten Australian wool boycott
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AFP - Leading fashion retailers are threatening to boycott Australian wool after farmers said they would continue sheep mulesing, cutting of the hide to prevent disease, a report said on Monday.
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84/118 Teenager attacked with snake: police
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AFP - A gang pinned down a 14-year-old boy and attacked him with a snake, forcing the reptile to bite the teenager on the arm, police said Sunday.
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85/118 British, Australian security contractors shot dead in Iraq
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AFP - Two security contractors, one British and the other Australian, were killed in an alcohol-fueled shooting inside the Iraqi capital's secure 'Green Zone' on Sunday, officials said.
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86/118 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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87/118 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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88/118 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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89/118 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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90/118 Somali pirates free 16 sailors seized 4 months ago
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AP - Sixteen sailors, including 10 Italians, whose tug was seized by Somali pirates four months ago are free after the pirates abandoned the ship, Italian authorities said Monday.
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91/118 European stocks drop as banks falter
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AFP - Europe's main stock markets dropped on Monday, dragged down by falling banking stocks, as investors cashed in on last week's rally which saw London and Frankfurt hit 10-month highs, analysts said.
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92/118 Credit crunch eases for businesses: CBI
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AFP - Recession-hit businesses are finding it easier to obtain credit but face higher costs of financing, according to a survey published on Monday by the Confederation of British Industry.
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93/118 Major Jackson tribute planned for Vienna
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AP - The King of Pop is about to get a royal send-off in Vienna.
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94/118 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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95/118 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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96/118 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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97/118 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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98/118 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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99/118 Bombs targeting Shiites in Iraq kill at least 45
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AP - A double truck bombing tore through the village of a small Shiite ethnic minority near the northern city of Mosul, while blasts in Baghdad Monday also targeted Shiites in a wave of violence that killed at least 45 people and wounded more than 200, Iraqi officials said.
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100/118 Media: Iran purges Intelligence Ministry officials
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AP - Iranian media say President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has fired at least four senior Intelligence Ministry figures in a purge targeting officials who disagree with the crackdown on the opposition after disputed elections.
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101/118 Israeli warplanes bomb tunnel along Gaza border
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AP - Israeli warplanes bombed a smuggling tunnel along the Gaza-Egypt border early Monday in response to Palestinian rocket and mortar fire, in a brief flare-up of violence at a time of relative quiet in the volatile Palestinian territory.
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102/118 Chavez urges military to be prepared for conflict
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AP - President Hugo Chavez told his military to be prepared for a possible confrontation with Colombia, warning that Bogota's plans to increase the U.S. military presence at its bases poses a threat to Venezuela.
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103/118 White House: Afghan war not in crisis
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AP - The Obama administration is asking Congress for time to see whether a revamped war plan for Afghanistan is taking hold and does not rule out adding more American forces to help turn around a war widely assessed as a stalemate.
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104/118 Australia pledges $8 mln for native languages
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AFP - Australia has pledged 7.8 million US dollars this year to help save more than 100 indigenous languages which are in grave danger of dying out.
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105/118 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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106/118 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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107/118 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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108/118 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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109/118 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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110/118 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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111/118 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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112/118 Japan's Daiichi Sankyo says new flu drug effective
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AFP - A new flu drug under development has been shown to be as safe and effective as Tamiflu in clinical trials, Japanese pharmaceutical maker Daiichi Sankyo Co. said Monday.
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113/118 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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114/118 Stock futures slip as investors pause
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Reuters - Stock index futures slipped on Monday as investors paused to book profits after a sharp four-week run-up.
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115/118 Swiss cabinet meets on UBS as U.S. tax talks drag
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Reuters - The Swiss government held a special session on Monday to discuss the U.S. tax evasion case hanging over Swiss bank UBS as negotiations to settle the issue dragged on.
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116/118 U.S. banks to make $38 billion from overdraft fees: report
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Reuters - Banks in the United States are poised to make $38.5 billion in customer overdraft fees this year, the Financial Times said, citing research by Moebs Services.
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117/118 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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118/118 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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