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Oracle Refreshes PeopleSoft Offer While it waits for a federal court to rule on its hostile bid for PeopleSoft, Oracle (Quote, Chart) is keeping the deal in play. The database giant extended its previously announced tender offer of \$21 for
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VeriSign Loses Round Against ICANN VeriSign (Quote, Chart) has come out on the losing end in its breach of contract and antitrust lawsuit against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
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Nokia, Vodafone to Drive Mobile Java Wireless players Nokia (Quote, Chart) and Vodafone (Quote, Chart) are teaming up to write the next chapter (of code) in the mobile Java story.
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Radcliffe drops out again GREAT Britain #39;s Paula Radcliffe #39;s dropped out of the Olympic Games women #39;s 10,000m with eight laps still to go this morning having made a late decision to compete.
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Bob Huggins makes fast start upon return Cincinnati basketball coach Bob Huggins was contrite and sporting a new crew cut as he returned to work Friday after university officials suspended him following his drunken driving conviction in June and told him to rehabilitate
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Italy shocked, outraged by hostage #39;s murder ROME: Italy was in shock Friday at the execution of a kidnapped journalist in Iraq, which Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi slammed as a return quot;to the dark times of barbarism, quot; but he pledged Italian troops would stay.
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Zimbabwe Convicts Accused #39;Mercenary #39; for Weapons A Zimbabwe court Friday convicted a British man accused of leading a coup plot against the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea on weapons charges, but acquitted most of the 69 other men held with him.
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Mauritania, Burkina row over suspected coup plot Mauritania blasted fellow West African country Burkina Faso as quot;evil quot; on Friday for allegedly plotting to destabilise the potentially oil-rich Islamic republic.
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Workgroup Cluster for Bioinformatics Video See why scientists are adopting Apple technology when they need the power of high-perfomrance computing. Aug 27
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Stocks End Up; Techs Gain on Light Volume (Reuters) Reuters - U.S. blue-chips closed at six-week\highs on Friday, helped by reassuring consumer confidence data\and a bounce in technology stocks, but volume was extremely\thin before next week's Republican convention in New York City.
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Review panel pleased with Supreme Court choices; Tories criticize procedure (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - The first-ever parliamentary panel to review Supreme Court appointments declared Friday it was pleased with the two justices chosen by Prime Minister Paul Martin.
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Stocks End Up; Techs Gain on Light Volume NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. blue-chips closed at six-week highs on Friday, helped by reassuring consumer confidence data and a bounce in technology stocks, but volume was extremely thin before next week's Republican convention in New York City.
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Delta Suffers Setback with Debt Committee NEW YORK (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=DAL.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">DAL.N</A> suffered a setback this week when a committee of creditors scotched one of the company's early debt renegotiation efforts, but the struggling airline still has a chance of restructuring its debt without filing for bankruptcy, analysts said on Friday.
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Dream Team surrender title The US men's basketball team are ousted in the semi-finals by Argentina, beaten 89-81.
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Oil price steadies WORLD oil prices firmed overnight after a five-session drop amid renewed concerns over unrest in Iraq despite a ceasefire in its holy city of Najaf.
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Delta Suffers Setback with Debt Committee Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) suffered a setback this week when a committee of creditors scotched one of the company #39;s early debt renegotiation
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California pharmacies sue drug giants A lawsuit filed by San Francisco attorney Joseph Alioto on behalf of 19 California pharmacies accuses 15 major drug companies of conspiracing to inflate drug prices.
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Ryder Cup berths on the line at BMW, Jimenez leads Miguel Angel Jimenez #39;s 66 gave the Spaniard a one-shot lead Friday at the BMW International Open, where European players are in a last-minute scramble to make the Ryder Cup team.
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Australia win first men #39;s hockey gold Australia won the Olympic men #39;s hockey tournament for the first time in history on Friday, beating the Netherlands 2-1 with a golden goal.
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Olympics-Athletics-Invincible Sanchez storms to gold Red-hot favourite Felix Sanchez made history for the Dominican Republic when he streaked to victory in the men #39;s Olympic 400 metres hurdles final.
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Russia downplays terror crash revelations President Vladimir Putin #39;s government has played down revelations of terrorist involvement in the crash of two airliners, apparently not wanting to highlight an embarrassing security
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Eritrean Asylum Seekers Force Plane to Land in Sudan A group of 76 Eritreans on a repatriation flight from Libya Friday forced their plane to change course and land in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, where they
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Aziz elected Pak PM amid oppn boycott ISLAMABAD: President Musharraf #39;s loyalist Shaukat Aziz was on Friday elected as Pakistan #39;s PM in a national assembly vote boycotted by the opposition in protest of the Speaker #39; decision not to permit their jailed candidate Javed Hashmi to take part in the
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Allchin: Don't call it "Shorthorn" Despite the removal of an advanced file system, Longhorn will not be short on features, Jim Allchin tells CNET News.com.
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U.K.'s NHS licenses Sun's Java Desktop System Britain's National Health Service bought 5,000 licenses for Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java Desktop System as an alternative to Windows, in a move that could open the door for greater use of the open-source software by the health agency.
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Brief: Siemens warns of ear damage from loud mobile tune Siemens warned customers of a software defect in a range of mobile phones that could cause hearing damage.
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Oracle again extends offer for PeopleSoft Oracle extended its offer to acquire PeopleSoft for \$7.7 billion from today to Sept. 10 -- the 10th time is has made an extension since launching the takeover campaign in June 2003.
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VeriSign is dealt another legal blow in ICANN suit A federal judge dismissed VeriSign's antitrust claims against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, dealing another setback to the company in its ongoing legal battle against the Internet's technical coordinating body.
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DOJ announces online fraud convictions A huge sweep for online fraud and other Internet-related crimes netted 53 convictions and another 103 arrests, the Justice Department announced.
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Xing stuns Ethiopians in 10,000m China #39;s unheralded Xing Huina caused a major shock as she turned the tables on the Ethiopians to storm to gold in the women #39;s Olympic 10,000 metres on Friday.
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UEFA Cup champ takes Super Cup with 2-1 victory over Porto UEFA Cup holders Valencia beat European champion Porto 2-1 to win the Super Cup at Monaco #39;s Stade Louis II on Friday. Midfielder Vicente laid on both Valencia goals with Ruben Baraja heading
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China Grabs 1st Men's Olympic Gold in Track and Field (Reuters) Reuters - China grabbed its first-ever men's\Olympic gold in track and field on Friday, but it was a night\of misery for Americans, who saw any chance of a fourth\consecutive gold in basketball crushed.
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Oil Halts Slide on Iraqi Pipeline Attacks (Reuters) Reuters - Oil prices stopped a five-day slide on\Friday on renewed supply concerns after fresh Iraqi pipeline\attacks outweighed an end to a three-week uprising in the city\of Najaf.
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Gateway Debuts Cool New PC (PC World) PC World - Desktop features BTX motherboard for improved airflow.
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Tenn. Polynesians Standing Out on Field (AP) AP - Tennessee's Albert Toeaina is one of the most recognizable players on the team, and that's before he puts on a skirt.
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Microsoft to Release New Windows in '06 (AP) AP - Microsoft Corp. will drop a much-touted new technology for organizing and storing data when it releases the next version of its Windows operating system as expected in 2006.
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Sky count to track orang numbers Using helicopters to count endangered orang-utans gives very accurate estimates of the great apes' numbers, researchers report in Plos Biology.
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Most Air Passengers Not Screened for Bombs (AP) AP - Even with all the security gains since the Sept. 11 attacks, most airline passengers in the United States aren't screened for explosives before boarding a plane.
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Olympics Wrap: China Grabs 1st Men's Gold in Track ATHENS (Reuters) - China grabbed its first-ever men's Olympic gold in track and field on Friday, but it was a night of misery for Americans, who saw any chance of a fourth consecutive gold in basketball crushed.
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HP introduces home electronics in fall product lineup HP, the world #39;s second largest computer maker, on Friday introduced a number of consumer products including TVs in unveiling its fall product lineup for the Christmas season.
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There #39;s a Catch: Recreation takes toll on marine fish Sportfishing isn #39;t just a tiny, harmless nibble on saltwater-fish populations, according to a new analysis of federal data. FISH COUNT.
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As software world awaits ruling, Oracle extends offer With the future of its \$7.7 billion takeover attempt of PeopleSoft Inc. resting in the hands of a federal judge, Oracle Corp. is once again extending its tender offer for investors to tender their shares.
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Sprint, SBC in Wi-Fi Deal Sprint and SBC Communications have reached an agreement under which their Wi-Fi customers will be able to use both companies #39; wireless hot spots.
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Gateway Debuts Cool New PC Gateway released the specifications this week for a retail desktop PC based on a new motherboard design that should help cool high-end processors and graphics cards.
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Linksys and Intel Team On Smart Wireless Solutions Intel Smart Wireless Solutions is being delivered in conjunction with Intel #39;s new Wi-Fi client software, Intel PROSet/Wireless version 9.0, also announced today, and will work with new Intel Centrino mobile technology notebooks and select Linksys wireless
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Ericsson pulls Bluetooth division One of the key developers of Bluetooth is shutting down the division that helped foster the personal area networking technology. Ericsson has already started to shut down its 125-worker Technology Licensing
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Greek anti-war activists protest visit by Powell Greek anti-war organizations and trade unions staged a big demonstration in downtown Athens Friday night to protest the planned visit to Greece by US Secretary of State
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Mack pulls off a last-gasp victory ATHENS, Greece -- American pole vaulter Timothy Mack pulled off a last-gasp clearance at an Olympic record height of 5.95 meters to take the title in Athens.
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Najaf ultras surrender shrine NAJAF, Aug. 27. - Militants filed out of the revered Imam Ali Shrine and turned its keys over to representatives of Iraqs top Shiite cleric today following a peace agreement to end three weeks of fighting in this holy city.
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Russia finds evidence of blast on jet MOSCOW -- One of the two planes that crashed almost simultaneously in the Russian countryside this week fell apart in midair just moments after sending a distress signal, a senior official said yesterday, adding that the plane might have been destroyed by
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Hopes renew as KGL responds to abductors #39; demand Amidst fresh hopes of release of three Indian hostages, their Kuwaiti employer company KGL today declared it had quot;no presence quot; in Iraq and expected early end to the over month-long crisis as efforts were moving in a quot;promising quot;direction quot;.
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Ericsson pulls Bluetooth division The mobile developer disbands the unit that developed the short-range wireless technology used in some cell phones and notebook PCs.
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Microsoft readies beta for application life cycle management Microsoft is refreshing the beta release of its Visual Studio 2005 developer tool platform to feature the full range of technologies planned for the companys Team System application life cycle management system, Microsoft representatives acknowledged on Friday.
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Owner of Tavarez Cap Says It's Legal (AP) AP - Julian Tavarez's baseball cap is dirty and grimy #151; but not illegal, according to the man who now owns it.
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Microsoft Targets 2006 for Next Windows (Reuters) Reuters - The next version of the Windows\operating system, Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT.O) flagship product,\will ship in 2006, the world's largest software maker said on\Friday.
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E-Mail Voting Prompts Security Concerns (AP) AP - Missouri will allow members of the military stationed overseas to return absentee ballots via e-mail, raising concerns from Internet security experts about fraud and ballot secrecy.
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British police granted more time to quiz radical cleric Abu Hamza (AFP) AFP - British police were granted more time to quiz radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, who was arrested the day before on suspicion of committing or preparing acts of terrorism.
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Central America Said on Alert for Attack (AP) AP - All of Central America is on alert for a possible al-Qaida attack against El Salvador for its support of the U.S.-led mission in Iraq, the head of the Nicaraguan army said Friday.
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Anglers Have Big Impact on Fish Numbers -- Study (Reuters) Reuters - Recreational anglers may be\responsible for landing nearly 25 percent of over-fished salt\water species caught off U.S. coasts, a study released on\Thursday suggests.
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American Champion Tim Mack Wins Pole Vault Gold ATHENS (Reuters) - American champion Tim Mack won the Olympic pole vault title on Friday with a Games record 5.95 meters after an engrossing duel with teammate Toby Stevenson.
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Police get cleric quiz extension Police have been granted more time to question radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri under the Terrorism Act.
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Microsoft Targets 2006 for Next Windows SEATTLE (Reuters) - The next version of the Windows operating system, Microsoft Corp.'s <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=MSFT.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">MSFT.O</A> flagship product, will ship in 2006, the world's largest software maker said on Friday.
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Microsoft Targets 2006 for Next Windows SEATTLE (Reuters) - The next version of the Windows operating system, Microsoft Corp.'s <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=MSFT.O qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">MSFT.O</A> flagship product, will ship in 2006, the world's largest software maker said on Friday.
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Aceh governor arrested over graft \\Indonesian authorities arrest the governor of Aceh province for alleged involvement in a corrupt helicopter purchase.
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Russian PM assures China on oil exports Russia #39;s prime minister pledged Friday his country would meet its oil export obligations to China, the Interfax news service said.
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Global server market continues to grow Factory revenue in the worldwide server market grew at 6.9 percent year over year to 11.5 billion US dollars in the second quarter of 2004, according to a report released Friday by IDC.
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Microsoft Scales Back Longhorn Microsoft Corp. on Friday said it has scaled back the next major release of the Windows operating system, code-named Longhorn, opting to drop the next-generation file system, so it can ship the OS in 2006.
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US Call Centers Declining The number of US call centers is expected to decline through 2008, with Canada getting many of the jobs the US will lose, a research firm said Friday.
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Athens brings out best in Anju AUGUST 27: Say sorry to everybody, she said. No, we wont. Anju Bobby George owes India no apologies. On a night of magic but not quite miracle, Anju broke her own Indian long jump record by
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Golden farewell for footballs Famous Five ATHENS: Over the past 13 years, they talked about the team, about being teammates. The members of the US womens soccer team talked about little kids who needed strong female role models - women athletes to look up to, emulate.
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Harland #39;s brave display Modern pentathlon was devised by the founder of the modern Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, as the ultimate test of the quot;ideal, complete athlete quot;.
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Chavez celebrates referendum win Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and throngs of his supporters jammed avenues in downtown Caracas on Friday to celebrate the president #39;s defeat of an August 15 recall referendum.
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Allchin: Don't call it 'Shorthorn' Despite the removal of an advanced file system, Longhorn will not be short on features, Jim Allchin tells CNET News.com.
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Will changes detract from Longhorn's success? Glitches are nothing new to Microsoft, but could delays and confusion surrounding Longhorn be detrimental to the software giant?
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Oil prices up but remain below \$44 Oil prices edged higher in Asian trading Friday but remained below the \$44 level following a ceasefire in the battle-torn Iraqi city of Najaf, dealers said.
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ECost.com Prices IPO One Week Late PC Mall Inc. spin-off eCost.com Inc. priced its initial public offering at \$5.80 and expects to begin trading on the Nasdaq on Friday, making its debut during a lull for IPOs that is scheduled to last through mid-September.
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Server sales sag in the middle According to a report slated to be released Friday by research firm IDC, the worldwide server market hit \$11.5 billion in the second quarter, up 6.9 percent from the same period in 2003.
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SEC eases rules on independent board directors After spending the past few years mounting a strong corporate governance campaign, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Friday that it would start easing its rules
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Gateway Rolls Out Cooler, Quieter BTX PC Gateway on Friday announced a new desktop, the 700GR, the first machine to use Intel #39;s BTX architecture, which aligns key components in a wind tunnel-like design for cooler and quieter operation.
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Olympics: Ireland #39;s O #39;Connor claims Olympic show jumping gold ATHENS : Ireland #39;s Cian O #39;Connor, riding Waterford Crystal, won the Olympic individual show jumping title at the Markopoulo equestrian centre.
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Athens police fire pepper spray at Powell protesters ATHENS - Greek police on Friday used pepper spray on a crowd of demonstrators protesting against the weekend visit of US Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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Ferrari - Belgian Grand Prix Spa-Francorchamps : Practice <b>...</b> Jean Todt: It is a pleasure to be back at this circuit, which is probably the most interesting on the current Formula 1 calendar.
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Pakistan Parliament Elects Prime Minister Pakistan #39;s parliament elected former finance minister Shaukat Aziz, a close ally of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, as prime minister on Friday after the opposition
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Hostage crisis: KGL halts work in Iraq Dubai: The Kuwaiti firm which has seven truck drivers held hostage in Iraq has decided to halt operations in the troubled country, bowing to the kidnappers #39; condition for their release, it said Friday.
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Key warlords join Somali cabinet Powerful warlord Hussein Aideed is named as Somalia's deputy prime minister to complete the cabinet line-up.
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Microsoft won't ship WinFS with Longhorn Microsoft today announced a significant change in plans for the next major release of Windows, code-named Longhorn. The new WinFS storage subsystem will not be part of it, as had been previously planned.
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QLT #39;s stock falls as US.panel reviews rival drug Shares of QLT Inc. (QLT.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) (QLTI.O: Quote, Profile, Research) dropped 8 percent on Friday as investors waited for the outcome of a review of a rival drug
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Markets Cap Winning Week With More Gains All the major stock indexes were up Friday as investors continue to react favorably to a drop in oil prices and better-than-expected economic index reports.
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HP Releases its Version of the iPod HP today announced that it will be taking pre-orders for the company #39;s branded version of Apple #39;s uber-popular iPod digital music player.
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Microsoft Commits to 2006 Target for Next Windows The next version of the Windows operating system, Microsoft Corp. #39;s (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) flagship product, will ship in 2006, the world #39;s largest software maker said on Friday.
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O #39;Connor #39;s first gold for Ireland Cian O #39;Connor has claimed Ireland #39;s first ever equestrian Olympic medal by winning the individual show jumping gold in Athens as rivals ahead of him faltered.
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Harland salvages medal from wreckage Britain #39;S Georgina Harland salvaged a precious bronze from the wreckage of a terrible start in the modern pentathlon here yesterday.
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Eritrean Deportees Surrender After Hijacking, Diverting Plane To <b>...</b> A group of Eritreans being deported from Libya hijacked their aircraft and diverted it to Sudan earlier Friday, before surrendering to authorities.
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Dead bodies found in Najaf court At least 25 charred and bloated bodies were discovered today in the basement of a religious court set up by rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Najaf, but confusion reigns over how they died and why.
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News: Website offers Caller I.D. falsification service Not just for phone hackers anymore, a California entrepreneur hopes to sell bill collectors and private investigators on the virtues of spoofing.\
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Iraqi Rebels Leave Najaf Shrine, Hand in Weapons NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Shi'ite fighters left the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf Friday and began turning in their weapons, after tens of thousands of pilgrims celebrated a peace agreement that ended a bloody rebellion.
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Boeing Gets \$891 Mln Air Force C-17 Deal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=BA.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">BA.N</A> has been awarded an \$891.6 million U.S. Air Force contract modification for continued maintenance of the C-17 Globemaster III transport fleet, the Pentagon said Friday.
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NYSE Seat Prices Hit 8-Year Low NEW YORK (Reuters) - The price of a seat on the New York Stock Exchange fell to its lowest level since 1996, the latest sign that a shift toward electronic trading and possible regulatory change is undermining investors' confidence in the exchange's open-auction system of trade.
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Battling Paradorn Reaches Long Island Semifinals COMMACK, New York (Reuters) - Defending champion Paradorn Srichaphan withstood a barrage of huge hitting to beat Swede Joachim Johansson 3-6, 7-6, 6-3 and reach the semifinals of the Long Island Cup Friday.
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Kashmir women's bill voted out Indian-administered Kashmir's state assembly rejects a bill affecting Kashmiri women who marry non-Kashmiri men.
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