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1/137 Boyzone lead singer Gately dies on holiday in Spain
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AFP - Boyzone lead singer Stephen Gately has died while on holiday in Majorca off the coast of Spain, the Irish band said on its website. He was 33.
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2/137 Fans check in for 'Couples Retreat' with $35.3M
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AP - 'Swingers' co-stars Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau buddied up for the weekend's top movie as 'Couples Retreat' debuted with $35.3 million, while the micro-budgeted fright flick 'Paranormal Activity' leaped into the top 10.
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3/137 Some Polanski support 'counter-productive': director's lawyer
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AFP - Roman Polanski realises that some of the support he got in his battle against US child sex charges was 'counter-productive', his lawyer said Sunday, adding he was worried about the detained director's health.
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4/137 Boyzone singer Gately, 33, dies in Mallorca
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Reuters - Boyzone singer Stephen Gately, 33, who caused a sensation in the pop world 10 years ago by announcing he was gay, died while on holiday in Mallorca, Spain, the Irish pop group's official website said on Sunday.
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5/137 Bowie's son sweeps Spanish festival for 'Moon' film
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AFP - British director Duncan Jones, the son of rock legend David Bowie, won several prizes on Sunday at the Sitges film festival in Spain for the science-fiction thriller 'Moon', his first feature film.
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6/137 Director Polanski feels depressed in jail: lawyer
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Reuters - Director Roman Polanski is feeling depressed two weeks after his arrest in Switzerland to face U.S. extradition for a 1977 case involving the rape of a 13-year-old girl, his lawyer was quoted as saying on Sunday.
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7/137 Singer says he may make another 'X-Men' movie
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AP - Bryan Singer said Sunday he's interested in making another 'X-Men' movie and has discussed the possibility with Twentieth Century Fox.
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8/137 Lohan's celebrity catwalk dismays fashion world
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AFP - Lindsay Lohan's widely panned appearance on Paris catwalks for luxury label Ungaro could signal a shift away from high end brands seeking creative input from celebrities, analysts say.
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9/137 Canadian 'space clown' returns to Earth
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AFP - The first clown in space, Canadian circus tycoon Guy Laliberte, arrived safely back on earth Sunday touching down in a Russian Soyuz capsule in Kazakhstan, the Russian mission control centre said.
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10/137 Josh Hartnett overshadowed by ex-boyband actor Kimura
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AFP - Josh Hartnett isn't having things all his own way at Asia's largest film festival. Every time the Hollywood star appears in public, the loudest screams are being directed at his co-star.
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11/137 Buddies Damon, Affleck are also distant relatives
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AP - It seems Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are more than childhood pals and Hollywood collaborators.
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12/137 Gately, of Irish boy band Boyzone, dies in Spain
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AP - Stephen Gately, a singer with the Irish boy band Boyzone who made headlines when he came out as gay a decade ago, has died while on vacation in Spain, the group said on its Web site. He was 33.
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13/137 T.I. wins BET awards from prison; Kanye a no-show
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AP - T.I. didn't need to attend the BET Hip-Hop Awards to win two trophies on Saturday.
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14/137 Tokio Hotel aims to translate Euro success to U.S
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Reuters - Sometimes, much weirder things happen at the MTV Video Music Awards than Kanye West interrupting an acceptance speech.
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15/137 Sigourney Weaver still committed to gorilla rescue
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AP - Actress Sigourney Weaver said Saturday that orphaned gorillas desperately need a permanent rescue and rehabilitation center that's currently being built in the Congo.
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16/137 Director says adaptation of Murakami book faithful
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AP - The director of the anticipated adaptation of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami's hit novel 'Norwegian Wood' says the movie will be loyal to the original story.
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17/137 Lucy Liu drawn to Mexican 'Nomads'
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Reuters - Lucy Liu is starring in the Mexican-produced 'Nomads,' an English-language drama.
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18/137 Studio shake-up reflects changing Hollywood
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AFP - Management shake-ups at movie giants Universal and Disney reflect the industry's difficulty in adjusting to the digital age and failure to halt sliding DVD sales, analysts say.
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19/137 Kristen Bell steps into 'Burlesque'
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Reuters - Kristen Bell will star as Christina Aguilera's rival in 'Burlesque,' a musical drama being directed by Steve Antin.
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20/137 Movies from Down Under at film fest in St Tropez
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AFP - The French resort of St Tropez hosts the Antipodes film fest this week, featuring some 50 movies from Australia and New Zealand, with actor Anthony LaPaglia as head of the jury.
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21/137 Donny Osmond: I'm Going to Kiss Carrie Ann Next!
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Donny Osmond knows the 7 Bruno Tonioli gave him on Monday's Dancing with the Stars was not the score for their make-out session. 'That was just for the rumba,' Osmond tells TVGuide.com. 'When I walked out at the beginning of Tuesday's show, he waved his hand at me and I waved right back.' Hand-waving may be all Tonioli gets these days since the 51-year-old entertainer has his eyes on another judge. Learn why Osmond's gunning for Carrie Ann Inaba, whether sister Marie — with whom he headlines a Las Vegas show— has given him advice, and more.
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22/137 Castle: Is a Beckett-Castle Kiss in the Cards?
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Nathan Fillion's character on Castle doesn't take many things seriously, something that perhaps has rubbed off on the actor.When asked what he thinks will lure viewers into the ABC procedural dramedy's second season, the 38-year-old former Firefly and Desperate Housewives star cracks jokes. 'This season we decided to go with no hooks, no hooks at all,' Fillion tells TVGuide.com. 'That's become our mantra: no hooks, let's just coast. One episode, we actually take an episode from the first season and just changed everybody's names and filmed it again.'Fall TV: Get scoop on your favorite new and returning showsCo-stars Stana Katic and Seamus Dever, who join Fillion on the other end of the line for a telephone interview during a break from shooting, laugh at most of Fillion's jokes. All the actors say...
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23/137 Oprah Winfrey Sued by Flight Attendant
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Corrine Gehrls claims false allegations that she had sex on the star's private jet got her fired
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24/137 Miley Cyrus Explains Twitter Exit; Courtney Love Leaves Too
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Miley Cyrus isn't the only singer to call it quits with Twitter. Courtney Love's Twitter page, @courtneylover79, where the former Hole frontwoman had offered streams of difficult-to-interpret rants that landed her in legal trouble recently, had been closed as of Sunday. A second account, @clcobain, was also closed.So why did she and Miley leave?
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25/137 Lady Gaga Performs 'Imagine' For Gay Rights
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Lady Gaga took a break from 'The Fame' on Saturday night to 'Imagine' a different tomorrow. 'I'm not going to play one of my songs tonight. Tonight is not about me. It's about you,' she said in a video available on YouTube before launching into John Lennon's classic song at the Human Rights Campaign's dinner the night before the National Equality March in Washington, D.C.
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26/137 Fans check in for 'Couples Retreat' with $35.3M
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AP - 'Swingers' co-stars Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau buddied up for the weekend's top movie as 'Couples Retreat' debuted with $35.3 million, while the micro-budgeted fright flick 'Paranormal Activity' leaped into the top 10.
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27/137 Mischa Barton's Next Move: 'I Just Started Looking At Films'
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NEW YORK, New York -- Mischa Barton's 'The Beautiful Life: TBL' may be over, but the star said she's already looking at new projects following the cancellation of The CW freshman series. 'There's a bunch of projects I always wanted to make, so I'm going back to thinking about things again,' she told the New York Post. 'I just started looking at films.'
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28/137 Jimmy Kimmel has a new girlfriend
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Jimmy Kimmel is going out with a woman on his staff, his rep confirms.
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29/137 Late-Night Comedians Turning on Obama
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'That's pretty amazing, winning the Nobel Peace Prize,' Jay Leno said Friday night of President Barack Obama's latest accolade. 'Ironically, his biggest accomplishment as president so far ... winning the Nobel Peace Prize.' That joke may be indicative of the TV comedy world sharpening its arrows a bit more when the current occupant of the White House is the target, The New York Times reports.
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30/137 Aye Carumba! Marge Simpson poses for Playboy cover
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AP - Aye Carumba!
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31/137 Vince Vaughn victorious with 'Couples Retreat'
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Reuters - The critically maligned Vince Vaughn comedy 'Couples Retreat' easily took the top spot at the weekend box office in North America on Sunday, helped by the absence of any other new releases.
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32/137 John Galliano: Hollywood Divas Wake Up
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Fashion Wire Daily - John Galliano went west to Hollywood in a retro flash Spring 2010 collection of great individual pieces, where his romanticism and wit were very much to the fore.
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33/137 Tough choices for feds giving out broadband money
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AP - The federal government will soon start handing out the first $4 billion from a pot of stimulus funds intended to spread high-speed Internet connections to more rural communities, poor neighborhoods and other pockets of the country clamoring for better access. The challenge is that the government has received $28 billion in requests.
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34/137 Zappos-inspired startup is all about men's pants
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AP - Brian Spaly's quest for the perfect pair of pants led him and former roommate Andy Dunn to start a Web-only clothing company that wants to sell men's trousers that fit — without the need for fitting rooms.
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35/137 Justice Dept probing IBM's computer market conduct
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AP - The Justice Department is looking into allegations that IBM Corp. has abused its dominant position in the market for mainframe computers, the data-crunching heavy lifters of the computing world that IBM introduced in the 1960s and which are now used to process some of the most sensitive data in banking, government and health care.
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36/137 Survey: College is top savings goal for teens
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AP - Stroll through the mall on a weekend and you get the impression teens save money to buy clothes or iPods and video game systems, but a new survey shows their priority is quite different — saving for college.
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37/137 India set to be global leader in tech services: Forbes chief
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Reuters - India is set to become a global leader in technology services as software companies move up in the value chain, while the weak dollar has hurt the U.S. economic recovery, the Chairman and CEO of business publisher Forbes said on Saturday.
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38/137 Oracle plays up promise of Sun take-over
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AFP - Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison opened fire on US technology veteran IBM and expressed optimism about the pending 7.4-billion-dollar-deal to buy Sun Microsystems.
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39/137 Cisco shines light on dark corners of the Web
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AFP - Cisco launched software that shines light on potentially troublesome websites hidden in what the US computer security firm dubbed the 'Dark Web.'
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40/137 Phase 1 of PCB removal on Hudson wrapping up
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AP - Crews dredging a polluted stretch of the upper Hudson River this year battled high water, old logging debris and unexpected levels of PCB contamination that slowed progress.
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41/137 Circus billionaire hosts show aboard space station
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AP - Canadian space tourist and circus billionaire Guy Laliberte mixed star power, science lectures, music and poetry in hosting a show from the International Space Station that was broadcast on television and the Internet.
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42/137 Environment activists occupy British parliament roof
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AFP - Environmental campaigners were occupying the roof of Britain's parliament Monday in a bid to urge returning lawmakers to overhaul their climate change policies before the UN's key Copenhagen summit.
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43/137 French arrest physicist suspected of al-Qaida link
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AP - A physicist working at the world's largest atom smasher has been arrested on suspicion of links to al-Qaida, adding to the woes of the $10 billion project that ceased operation a year ago — just days after its celebrated start up.
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44/137 Woman wins RSPCA inheritance battle
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AFP - A woman who contested her parents' decision to leave their two million pound estate to the RSPCA has won her legal battle and will now inherit the farm, a court ruled on Friday.
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45/137 Chinese fossil find gives clue to ear's evolution
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AFP - Researchers digging in north eastern China say they have discovered the fossil of a previously unknown chipmunk-sized mammal that could help explain how human hearing evolved.
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46/137 Africa wants polluters to pay for climate change
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AFP - Africa will demand billions of dollars in compensation from rich polluting nations at a UN climate summit for the harm caused by global warming on the continent, African officials said Sunday.
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47/137 Tropical depression forms in Pacific off Mexico
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AP - Forecasters say a tropical depression has formed in the Pacific off Mexico's western coast, and it could become a tropical storm in the next day.
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48/137 Marge Simpson makes cover of Playboy
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Reuters - 'D'oh!' doesn't even start to cover it. Marge Simpson -- the blue beehived matriarch of America's most loved dysfunctional family - is Playboy magazine's November cover, the magazine said on Friday.
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49/137 Donkeys get dye-job, take on zebra role
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Reuters - Two white donkeys dyed with black stripes delighted Palestinian kids at a small Gaza zoo on Thursday who had never seen a zebra in the flesh.
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50/137 Birth control pill could put women off macho men?
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Reuters - Why do some women's hearts race over the feminine features of Orlando Bloom while others are more attracted to macho men like Daniel Craig?
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51/137 Michael Jackson skit sparks racism calls
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Reuters - An Australian talent show skit based around late pop star Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5 has backfired after U.S. guest star Harry Connick Jr called for an apology and viewers accused the program of racism.
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52/137 Man faces prison, flogging over TV sex revelations
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Reuters - A Saudi court has sentenced a man to five years in jail and 1,000 lashes for boasting about his sexual exploits on television, in a case that has divided public opinion in the conservative Islamic kingdom.
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53/137 Threat to sue athlete for fund-raising brothel
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Reuters - The New Zealand Olympic Committee has threatened to sue a local taekwondo athlete who plans to finance his 2012 London Games bid with the proceeds from a brothel.
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54/137 Plane delayed by bird on board
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Reuters - A South Korean passenger jet was grounded just before taking off so that crew members could catch a sparrow that was flying around in the cabin, airline officials said on Wednesday.
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55/137 College issues dress guidelines -- for teachers
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Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) It is normally students who are sent home for inappropriate attire, but one English college is threatening to send lecturers home for violating a dress code, which includes a ban on jeans.
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56/137 Racing fans 'limited' to 24 beers a day
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Reuters - Adult fans at one of Australia's most popular motor sport races, the Bathurst 1000, will be limited to one 'slab' of beer a day -- or 24 375 ml cans -- as police focus on reducing alcohol-related crime.
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57/137 Tiger attacks intruder in zoo
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Reuters - A man suffered injuries to his arms after he and a friend hopped the fence at a Canadian zoo early on Monday and stuck his hands into the tiger exhibit, zoo officials said.
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58/137 Air India says mid-air scuffle no threat to safety
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Reuters - A mid-air scuffle between pilots and crew of an Air India flight at the weekend did not endanger the 106 passengers on board, said a spokesman for the airline which has ordered an inquiry.
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59/137 Britain's new healthy eating guru - Homer Simpson
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Reuters - Forget all the pizza and doughnuts -- the British government wants fans of 'The Simpsons' to ditch junk food and eat more healthily.
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60/137 In parkour, the city is the gym
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Reuters - A Zen saying goes: the obstacle is the path.
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61/137 Schwarzenegger asked to close prostitute Website
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Reuters - A British government minister asked California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday to shut down a U.S. website that allows men to rate prostitutes, including many working in London.
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62/137 North American pro sports leagues in a twitter over tweeting
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Reuters - North America's professional sports leagues are all a twitter over tweeting and have pushed through guidelines to ban player access to social networking sites during games.
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63/137 Girls warned not to hide boyfriends' guns
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Reuters - A campaign warning girls not to stash or carry guns for their boyfriends was launched by London police Wednesday.
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(AP) - This NOAA satellite image taken Monday, Oct. 12, 2009 at 1:58 a.m. EDT shows fairly widespread cloud coverage in the Southeast, Eastern Valleys, and the Mid-Atlantic. Significant precipitation continues to develop from the Lower and Mid-Mississippi Valleys through Alabama. Meanwhile, wintry precipitation blankets areas of the Northern Plains and the Upper Mississippi Valleys. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)
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(AFP/Getty Images) - Sun Microsystems chairman and co-founder Scott McNealy speaks during a keynote address at the 2009 Oracle Open World conference in San Francisco, California.(AFP/Getty Images/Justin Sullivan)
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(Reuters) - The Bear Stearns logo is seen at the lobby of the headquarters in New York March 26, 2008. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
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(Reuters) - Armed soldiers stand guard outside Pakistan's army headquarters in Rawalpindi October 11, 2009. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood
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(Reuters) - The administration building of China's Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co. Ltd is pictured in Chengdu, Sichuan province October 10, 2009. General Motors Co signed a deal on Friday to sell its iconic but tarnished Hummer brand to an investment partnership headed by an obscure Chinese machinery maker in an agreement that underscores the fast rise and global ambition of the Chinese auto industry. REUTERS/Stringer
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(Reuters) - An investor gestures in front of an electronic screen showing stock information at a brokerage house in Wuhan, Hubei province October 9, 2009. China's key stock index closed up 4.76 percent on Friday, led by index heavyweights such as PetroChina as the market played catch-up with a strong global rally during an eight-day national holiday in China that lasted until Thursday.REUTERS/Stringer
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(Reuters) - An oil pump is seen on the shore near Santa Cruz del Norte, Cuba June 5, 2008. REUTERS/Claudia Daut
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(Reuters) - Children from flood-hit town Rosales, Pangasinan wait for the distribution of relief supplies by U.S. Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit in northern Philippines October 11, 2009.REUTERS/Erik de Castro
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(Reuters) - Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Miles Austin celebrates his winning touchdown in overtime against the Kansas City Chiefs in their NFL football game at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri October 11, 2009. REUTERS/Dave Kaup
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(Reuters) - A Hummer vehicle sits in the parking lot of a dealership in Scottsdale, Arizona June 2, 2009. REUTERS/Joshua Lott
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(Reuters) - New York Yankees starting pitcher Andy Pettitte delivers against the Minnesota Twins during first inning action in their MLB American League Division Series playoff baseball game in Minneapolis, October 11, 2009. REUTERS/Eric Miller
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(AP) - FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2009 file photo, Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C. speaks to reporters outside of his office on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, FILE)
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(AP) - FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2009 file photo, House Financial Services Committee member Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla. listens during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, FILE)
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(AP) - Former Tohatchi Elementary School principal George Bickert, who led the school from needing corrective action to making adequate yearly progress, high fives students during a visit on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009, in Tohatchi, N.M. (AP Photo/Heather Clark)
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(AP) - Tohatchi Elementary School third grader Katie Sam of Mexican Springs, N.M., left, takes a spelling test Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009, in Tohatchi, N.M. (AP Photo/Heather Clark)
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79/137 Tohatchi Elementary School fifth grader Shirelle Joe of Tohatchi, ...
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(AP) - Tohatchi Elementary School fifth grader Shirelle Joe of Tohatchi, second from left, practices a Navajo ceremonial dance with her classmates Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009, in Tohatchi, N.M. (AP Photo/Heather Clark)
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80/137 Shanika Begay, left, and Darius Yazzie, pose for a photo in ...
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(AP) - Shanika Begay, left, and Darius Yazzie, pose for a photo in front of Tohatchi Elementary School on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009, in Tohatchi, N.M. New Mexico Public Education Secretary Veronica Garcia called Tohatchi students, like Begay and Yazzie, 'astonishing' for improving their math and reading scores. (AP Photo/Heather Clark)
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(AP) - Tohatchi Elementary School, which went from one of the worst schools to among the best in New Mexico over three years, is shown awaiting students to arrive for the school day on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009, in Tohatchi, N.M. (AP Photo/Heather Clark)
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82/137 In this photo taken Oct. 8, 2009, Derreck Kayongo displays bars ...
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(AP) - In this photo taken Oct. 8, 2009, Derreck Kayongo displays bars of soap he has stored in the basement of his Lawrenceville, Ga., home. Kayongo has collected five tons of lightly used bars through his Global Soap Project, which melts them down, sterilizes them and reshapes them before sending them to refugees back in Uganda to help curb disease there. The soap-maker's son forced to flee a dictatorship years ago in Uganda is helping clean up his war-torn homeland, one used bar of American hotel soap at a time. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
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83/137 This photo taken Monday, Oct. 5, 2009 with a fisheye lens shows ...
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(AP) - This photo taken Monday, Oct. 5, 2009 with a fisheye lens shows a 2,380 square-foot-'green wall', right, installed recently at One PNC Plaza, an office, hotel and condominium project in downtown Pittsburgh. Consisting of ferns, sedum, brass button and other plants, green walls boast the environmental benefits of removing air pollutants , and providing insulation. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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(AFP/Getty Images) - Kyle Orton #8 of the Denver Broncos passes against the New England Patriots. Orton orchestrated a 98-yard touchdown drive in the final quarter and Matt Prater booted a 41-yard field goal in overtime as Denver edged the New England Patriots 20-17.(AFP/Getty Images/Jed Jacobsohn)
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(AFP/Getty Images/File) - File photo of Quarterback Donovan McNabb #5 of the Philadelphia Eagles. McNabb, who had missed the past two games iwtha cracked rib, marked his return to the lineup by tossing three touchdowns to power Philadelphia to a 33-14 triumph over winless Tampa Bay.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Streeter Lecka)
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86/137 Quarterback Matt Hasselbeck #8 of the Seattle Seahawks smiles ...
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(AFP/Getty Images) - Quarterback Matt Hasselbeck #8 of the Seattle Seahawks smiles on the sidelines during the game against the Jacksonville Jaguars on October 11. Hasselbeck returned from a rib injury to toss four touchdowns and lead the Seahawks to a 41-0 thrashing of Jacksonville.(AFP/Getty Images/Otto Greule Jr)
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87/137 Knowshon Moreno #27 of the Denver Broncos. Moreno ran for 88 ...
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(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Knowshon Moreno #27 of the Denver Broncos. Moreno ran for 88 yards and helped the Broncos improve to 5-0 on the season for the first time in 11 years.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Ezra Shaw)
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88/137 Chinese artist Fang Lijun poses in front of his painting in ...
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(Reuters) - Chinese artist Fang Lijun poses in front of his painting in Taipei in this April 17, 2009 file photo. After a white-hot stint, the financial crisis has battered China's art landscape. REUTERS/Pichi Chuang/Files
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89/137 Rodriguez and Posada power Yanks back to ALCS
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AP - Alex Rodriguez finally delivered the playoff performance he needed and his talent demanded, powering the New York Yankees back to the AL championship series.
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90/137 Angels rally off Papelbon in 9th to sweep Red Sox
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AP - Torii Hunter emerged from the visitors' clubhouse at Fenway Park to spray champagne over the fans and family gathered there. Erick Aybar did him one better, handing over bottles of bubbly to those who came from California to see the Los Angeles Angels go for the sweep.
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91/137 Lidge closes out Phillies' 6-5 win over Rockies
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AP - Between frosty breaths on the mound, Brad Lidge warmed to the challenge.
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92/137 Colts remain perfect, down winless Titans 31-9
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AP - Trying to match field goals against Peyton Manning's touchdown passes never works. Now the Indianapolis Colts' perfect start continues.
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93/137 SEC rules: Florida, Alabama are 1 and 2
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AP - Alabama's steady rise in the rankings has left the Crimson Tide with a clear view of No. 1 Florida.
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94/137 Americans win the Presidents Cup
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AP - Tiger Woods provided a fitting conclusion Sunday to a perfect week at the Presidents Cup, for him and an American team that remains perfect at home.
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95/137 Broncos beat Patriots with overtime field goal
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Reuters - Matt Prater's 41-yard overtime field goal gave Denver a 20-17 victory over the New England Patriots on Sunday and lifted the Broncos to an unbeaten 5-0 under rookie head coach Josh McDaniels.
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96/137 Terry leads Mavericks past Grizzlies
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AP - Jason Terry scored 23 points, including a pair of 3-pointers on consecutive possessions down the stretch, and the Dallas Mavericks went on to a 114-107 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Sunday night.
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97/137 Road test passed at UCLA, No. 13 Ducks look ahead
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AP - Oregon got through the first three games of its Pac-10 schedule as the only unbeaten team left in conference play thanks to three overwhelming defensive performances.
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98/137 Rooney out of England's final qualifier
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AFP - England striker Wayne Rooney will miss Wednesday's final 2010 World Cup qualifier against Belarus after the Manchester United forward picked up a calf strain in Saturday's 1-0 defeat away to Ukraine.
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99/137 Belgian cyclist Gilbert wins Paris-Tours
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AFP - Belgian Philippe Gilbert, riding for Silence, on Sunday won the Paris-Tours semi classic race over 230km for the second straight year.
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100/137 Canucks beat Stars 4-3 in shootout
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AP - Kyle Wellwood and Ryan Kesler scored in the shootout, and the Vancouver Canucks overcame a tying goal late in regulation to beat the Dallas Stars 4-3 on Sunday night.
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101/137 Henin gets wildcard into Australian Open
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AFP - Former world number one Justine Henin has been granted a wildcard to play in the 2010 Australian Open in her return to tennis, organisers said on Monday.
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102/137 Mickelson gets surprise visit from his wife
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AP - This was the 15th time Phil Mickelson has played in the Presidents Cup or the Ryder Cup, and the first time he came alone. His wife, Amy, is recovering from breast cancer and stayed home in San Diego.
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103/137 Former running back Walker signs up for martial arts
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Reuters - Former Heisman trophy winner and twice NFL Pro Bowl running back Herschel Walker has signed a multi-fight contract to compete in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), promoter Strikeforce said on Monday.
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104/137 Johnson rolls to victory in California
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AP - Jimmie Johnson sat in his No. 48 Chevrolet during a lengthy red-flag delay six laps from the finish at Auto Club Speedway on Sunday and worried he didn't have enough car to hold off Jeff Gordon.
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105/137 Recession-hit Britain to sell off state assets: PM
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AFP - The British government will sell off a raft of state assets, Prime Minister Gordon Brown was to say Monday as he bids to reclaim the initiative on reducing recession-hit Britain's debt.
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106/137 Streisand pulls off US, British charts double
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AFP - American entertainer Barbra Streisand achieved the feat of topping the US and British album charts simultaneously as her record 'Love Is The Answer' went to number one Sunday.
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107/137 Brown on back foot as election looms
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AFP - MPs return to work on Monday after a month of political meetings that set out the battle lines for the next election -- and the huge challenge Prime Minister Gordon Brown faces to keep his job.
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108/137 Clinton vows to help defuse N. Ireland stand-off
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AFP - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton threw America's weight Sunday behind efforts to stop Northern Ireland slipping back towards conflict, as a paramilitary group ended its decades-old armed struggle.
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109/137 Clinton insists US-Britain ties strong
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AFP - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stressed on Sunday that the so-called 'special relationship' between the United States and Britain was strong, despite recent signs of a chill.
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110/137 Climate-change protesters scale UK Parliament
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AP - Several dozen environmental activists scaled Britain's Parliament building Sunday to draw attention to climate change.
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111/137 Iraq invasion decision was '51-49': Cherie Blair
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AFP - Cherie Blair said the decision to invade Iraq was a close call however convincingly her husband might have presented it otherwise, The Independent on Sunday reported.
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112/137 Blair for EU president? Britain divided
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AFP - A fierce debate is underway in Britain about whether Tony Blair is the right man to be the European Union's first full-time president, as well as what the job should entail.
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113/137 2012 Olympic site workers face biometric scans
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AFP - Workers on London's Olympic Park will have to go through biometric scanning to access the 2012 Games site in a bid to protect it from terrorists, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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114/137 Australia's Robertson reaches British Grand Prix final
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AFP - Australia's Neil Robertson reached the British Grand Prix final with a dramatic 6-5 semi-final victory over world champion John Higgins which went down to the final black in Glasgow on Saturday.
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115/137 Manchester police arrest 48 in protest
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AP - Police in fluorescent jackets stood between hundreds of anti-Islam protesters and anti-racist counter-demonstrators in the English city of Manchester on Saturday, arresting 48 people in a bid to keep the peace.
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116/137 UK police arrest 48 as far right, opponents clash
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Reuters - Police arrested 48 men during skirmishes between a far-right group and opponents in the northern English city of Manchester on Saturday.
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117/137 UK's Brown reveals he has 2 retina tears
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AP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain disclosed Saturday that an eye examination showed two tears in his right retina — a revelation that could embolden critics who want him to step down before a national election.
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118/137 30 arrests at anti-Islam protest in Birmingham
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AFP - At least 30 people were arrested when a group demonstrating against Islamic fundamentalism clashed with anti-racism protesters in Britain on Saturday, police said.
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119/137 Clinton vows help to solve NIreland deadlock
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AFP - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was on Monday to offer renewed US support for Northern Ireland's peace process and help to resolve a political stand-off threatening its power-sharing government.
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120/137 Clinton downplays threat to Pakistan nuke arsenal
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AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday the Taliban siege of Pakistan's army headquarters showed extremists are a growing threat in the nuclear-armed American ally, but she contended they don't pose a risk to the country's atomic arsenal.
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121/137 Turkey: Armenia must pull out of Nagorno-Karabakh
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AP - One day after Turkey signed a deal the U.S. helped salvage to end a century of enmity with Armenia, Turkey's leader set a tough condition for normalizing ties on Sunday: Armenia must withdraw from the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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122/137 Priest who lived with leprosy now a saint
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AP - A 19th-century priest whose courageous work with leprosy patients in Hawaii has been likened to the efforts of those battling the stigma of AIDS was elevated to sainthood Sunday by Pope Benedict XVI, along with four other Catholics he hailed as heroes of holiness.
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123/137 IRA splinter group renouncing violence in Ireland
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AP - The Irish National Liberation Army, an IRA splinter group responsible for some of the most notorious killings of the Northern Ireland conflict, renounced violence Sunday and signaled it could hand over weapons soon to disarmament officials.
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124/137 Czech president last obstacle for EU reform treaty
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AP - The Irish finally said yes, and the Poles did Saturday, but the EU reform treaty still has a huge hurdle to clear. A 'no' from the lone holdout — Czech President Vaclav Klaus — could cripple plans to transform Europe into a global player.
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125/137 Pakistan bombs region once declared Taliban-free
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AP - Pakistani fighter jets bombed suspected militant hide-outs Monday in a tribal region where the military had previously declared victory over the Taliban, killing 13 alleged extremists a day after the end of a deadly siege of the army's headquarters.
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126/137 UN chief acknowledges fraud in Afghan vote
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AP - The top U.N. official in Afghanistan on Sunday acknowledged 'widespread fraud' in the disputed presidential election and rejected allegations from a former deputy that he covered up cheating to smooth the path to victory for President Hamid Karzai.
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127/137 Weapons failed US troops during Afghan firefight
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AP - In the chaos of an early morning assault on a remote U.S. outpost in eastern Afghanistan, Staff Sgt. Erich Phillips' M4 carbine quit firing as militant forces surrounded the base. The machine gun he grabbed after tossing the rifle aside didn't work either.
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128/137 As economy grows, so do China's garbage woes
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AP - Visitors can smell this village long before they see it.
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129/137 Palestinians vow new push for war crimes report
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AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday he is pushing for a vote on a United Nation's report that accuses both Israel and Hamas of war crimes during the Gaza war, reversing a decision that has left him at the lowest point of his presidency.
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130/137 Brazil: Intense blaze burns Sao Paulo slum
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AP - An intense fire broke out Sunday in a slum in South America's largest city, sending residents running across rooftops to escape the flames.
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131/137 Aussie mum has two sets of quads, then twins: reports
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AFP - An Australian woman who made headlines by falling pregnant with quadruplets -- twice -- has added to her brood by delivering twins, reports said Monday.
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132/137 CDC: 76 children dead of swine flu as cases rise
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AP - Health officials said Friday that 76 U.S. children have died of swine flu, including 19 new reports in the past week — more evidence the new virus is unusually dangerous for the young.
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133/137 New US law helps ill students keep health coverage
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AP - A federal law inspired by a New Hampshire woman's courage and enacted through her mother's determination took effect Friday, sparing seriously ill or injured college students from having to choose between taking time off and keeping their health insurance.
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134/137 W.Va. town offers wary welcome to celebrity chef
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AP - Weary of being stuck with what they call the false label of America's unhealthiest city, Huntington residents are offering a wary welcome to a celebrity TV chef who hopes to help them shape up.
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135/137 Swine flu put many hospitalized patients into ICU
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AP - One quarter of Americans sick enough to be hospitalized with swine flu last spring wound up needing intensive care and 7 percent of them died, the first such study of the early months of the global epidemic suggests. That's a little higher than with ordinary seasonal flu, several experts said.
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136/137 'Good' dietary fats trim body fat in diabetic women
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Reuters - Eating certain kinds of fats may actually help obese women with diabetes trim some body fat, a small study suggests.
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137/137 Citi faces FINRA fine over derivatives deals: source
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Reuters - Citigroup Inc is expected to be fined $600,000 by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority over derivatives transactions that helped foreign clients avoid taxes on dividends, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
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