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Thousands protest Iraq war, Powell visit In the first major public demonstration since the start of the Olympics, thousands of protesters clashed with police who stopped them from marching
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China #39;s Xing Huina wins Olympic women #39;s 10,000m gold China #39;s Xing Huina came from nowhere to win the Olympic gold medal in women #39;s 10,000m race in Athens on Friday. The 20-year-old Xing, making her first Olympic appearance, clocked a winning time of 30 minutes 24.
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Monty looking good Colin Montgomerie, Luke Donald and Paul McGinley are looking good. While Europe #39;s Ryder Cup captain was settling his
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After 68 weeks, inflation returns to HK HONG KONG, AUGUST 25 : After years of steadily falling prices that dragged down salaries and destroyed the value of many apartments, inflation has finally returned here, government statisticians announced early this week.
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Shot at gold is an airball ATHENS, Greece, There it was, the almost incomprehensible. Manu Ginobili and 11 Argentines you never heard of running out the clock on NBA stars in the Olympics.
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US Gymnast Hamm Asked to Give Up Gold Description: The International Gymnastics Federation asks US gymnast Paul Hamm to give his Olympic all-around gold medal to South Korea #39;s Yang Tae-young.
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Up-and-down night in the ring Throughout these Olympic Games, United States boxing coach Basheer Abdullah has lamented that his young fighters weren #39;t listening to him.
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Soccer: The Iraqi dream ends as Italians win bronze THESSALONIKI, Greece Italy extinguished Iraq #39;s dream of an Olympic medal in the men #39;s soccer tournament with a 1-0 victory on Friday in their bronze medal match.
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Paradorn edges out Johansson to reach the last four in Long Island Defending champion Paradorn Srichaphan overpowered Swede Joachim Johansson 3-6 7-6 6-3 to reach the final four of the Long Island Cup in Commack of New Yorkon Friday.
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Some Palestinian Prisoners Suspend Hunger Strike RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - About 800 Palestinian prisoners have suspended their hunger strike after winning concessions from Israeli authorities, a spokesman for the men said Saturday.
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Powell Scraps Plan to Attend Olympics Ceremonies WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell abruptly canceled plans to attend the Olympics closing ceremonies in Athens Sunday in part because of events in Iraq and Sudan, the State Department said.
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Fidelity discloses its proxy votes Fidelity Investments' largest funds voted to oust Michael D. Eisner from the chairman's post at Walt Disney Co., in one of last year's biggest proxy battles, according to voting records the nation's largest mutual-fund firm has made public for the first time.
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Soaring oil prices largely falling flat as campaign issue SILVER SPRING, Md. -- Alan Goldstein pulled his silver BMW Z3 up to a Crown gas station here and filled the tank for \$22.40 -- nearly twice what he paid a few years ago.
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Exports to China give Bay State firms boost Massachusetts exports to China have nearly doubled from just two years ago, making China one of the state's biggest foreign markets.
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Radcliffe run defended GB athletics chief Max Jones defends Paula Radcliffe after she pulls out of the 10,000m final.
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Update 13: Greenspan Sounds Alert on Social Security Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has done it again. For at least the fourth time this year, he has touched the electrified third rail of American politics - Social Security.
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Profits a Royal pain The Royal Bank of Canada, the country #39;s biggest bank, said yesterday it suffered a 5 drop in third-quarter profit, displaying weakness in its US operations and citing tight interest-rate spreads and rising expenses.
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Flying car pet project It #39;s a frustrated commuter #39;s fantasy: Literally lifting your car out of a clogged highway and soaring through the skies. Researchers say an affordable, easy-to-use vehicle that could allow
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Industry rebound could be two years away SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- US airlines, hammered by soaring oil prices, will spend a staggering \$5 billion more on fuel this year than they did in 2003 or even a greater sum, draining already thin cash reserves.
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UPDATE 2-Hewitt, Paradorn head for Long Island showdown Former world number one Lleyton Hewitt and defending champion Paradorn Srichaphan moved a step closer to a showdown at the \$380,000 Long Island Cup after coming through tough quarter-finals on Friday.
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Shaukat Aziz takes oath as Pakistan #39;s new PM ISLAMABAD : Shaukat Aziz, former finance minister and a key ally to President Pervez Musharraf, has been sworn in the country #39;s new prime minister.
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Chechnya prepares to hold election to replace assassinated <b>...</b> MOSCOW Police in Chechnya have orders to shoot anyone wearing a mask on sight ahead of Sunday #39;s presidential election. Thousands of Russian soldiers and Chechen police are on 24-hour patrol ahead of the vote
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Curfew relaxed in Jalna; sitation peaceful in Poorna Mumbai, Aug 28 - The situation in both Jalna and Poorna towns in Central Maharashtra, that witnessed violence in the aftermath of explosions at places of worship leaving 18 persons injured, was peaceful and under control today, police said.
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Most terror attacks cost al-Qaida little, report finds The al-Qaida terrorist network spent less than \$50,000 on each of its major attacks except for the Sept. 11, 2001, suicide hijackings, and one of its hallmarks is using
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US prosecutors probing Boeing defense chief NEW YORK - US prosecutors are looking into possible improper employment-related contacts between the head of Boeing Co.s defense unit and a high-ranking Air Force official, the Wall Street Journal said on Friday, citing unnamed people familiar with the
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Personal bankruptcy trend turns downward WASHINGTON -- Personal bankruptcies appear to have broken the upward trend of recent years, slipping 0.8 percent in the 12 months ending June 30, figures released Friday show.
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Wings on the wheels It #39;s a frustrated commuter #39;s fantasy: lifting your car off a clogged highway and soaring through the skies, landing just in time to motor into your driveway.
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HP tips its hand on new iPod Hewlett-Packard turned on the music a little early Friday morning, revealing on the Web the details of its new HP-branded Apple iPod music player clone.
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SRICHAPHAN GETS HIS REVENGE Paradorn Srichaphan of Thailand could not beat Swede Joachim Johansson in Athens, but he got the job done in Long Island. Srichaphan, who lost in straight sets to Johansson in the first round of the Olympics
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Vaulters win 2 more precious medals for US ATHENS - Tim Mack of Knoxville, Tenn., grabbed a pole, flew down the runway and set an Olympic record in the pole vault. When Mack landed yesterday, he not only had earned the day #39;s only gold medal for the
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Bomb traces found in Russian plane wreck Investigators say they have found traces of explosive in the wreckage of one of the two passenger planes that crashed earlier this week in southern Russia.
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Palestinian prisoners suspend hunger strike Some 800 Palestinian detainees in Israel #39;s Ashkelon prison have suspended their 13-day-old hunger strike until Monday after some of their demands were met.
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15 Yemeni militants convicted SANAA, Yemen -- A Yemeni court has convicted 15 al Qaeda-linked militants on terror charges, news agencies report. The charges include the 2002 bombing of French oil tanker Limburg and a plot to kill the US ambassador to Yemen.
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Turkish hostages killed: report THE Turkish embassy in Baghdad was investigating a television report that two Turkish hostages had been killed in Iraq, but no confirmation was available so far, a senior Turkish diplomat said today.
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Jumping for joy over bronze American rider Chris Kappler won a bronze medal in show jumping yesterday in Athens, and was even happier when he learned his horse wasn't seriously hurt following a breakdown during a timed jumpoff.
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New kids off blocks ATHENS -- The People's Republic of China struck gold twice last night on the track, giving the world a taste of what the country hopes will be a medal bonanza in four years at the Beijing Games.
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'Flag' storms to victory SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Storm Flag Flying relished the 1 1/4 miles of the \$400,000 Personal Ensign Handicap yesterday, taking advantage of the distance to wear down odds-on favorite Azeri in the stretch and capture the Grade I race at Saratoga.
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Italy ends inspired Iraqi run THESSALONIKI, Greece -- Iraq's surprising Olympic soccer run came up short with a 1-0 loss to Italy in a bronze medal game that couldn't escape reminders of violence in the war-torn country.
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Thousands protest Iraq war, Powell visit ATHENS -- In the first major public demonstration since the start of the Olympics, thousands of protesters clashed with police who stopped them from marching on the United States Embassy to protest the war in Iraq and Secretary of State Colin Powell's scheduled visit to Greece.
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Long shadow hard to eclipse SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Seven of the best 3-year-olds in the nation will race in today's 135th Travers Stakes at Saratoga, but one horse who is not here, Smarty Jones, has cast a long shadow over the \$1 million event.
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US passes Russian test ATHENS -- They wanted each other. They got each other. One more time. The United States women's basketball team survived a grind-a-thon against Russia yesterday and will go for the gold today against Australia. It's a rematch of the gold medal game from the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, which the US won, 76-54, in a game also remembered for Aussie ...
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Long-shot Italians advance ATHENS -- Italy used incredible 3-point shooting to advance to the gold medal men's basketball game for just the second time at the Olympics.
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Elimination perfectly executed ATHENS -- I have not come to bury the Americans. I have come to praise the Argentines.
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Darfur peace talks set to restart Negotiations between the Sudanese government and rebel groups in the troubled Darfur region are to resume.
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Crude prices to go up with upsurge int #39;l demand LONDON, August 28 (IranMania) - Iran #39;s OPEC governor said Friday that the high oil prices will continue to go up if the situation in Iraq deteriorates, stressing that the Iraqi crisis has coincided with an upsurge in the global demand for crude.
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Ariz. flu shots to arrive late Brace yourself for delays and potentially long lines to get a flu shot in Arizona this year. One of the nation #39;s two largest flu manufacturers is delaying shipments after finding tainted doses of its vaccine.
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California city and counties sue Microsoft for antitrust Several California cities and counties, including San Francisco and Los Angeles, have sued Microsoft Corporation, accusing the software giant of illegally charging inflated prices for its products because of monopoly control of the personal computer
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Hungarian Weight Lifter and Hammer Champ Face Loss of Medals record-setting Hungarian weight lifter was in danger of losing his silver medal yesterday because he failed a drug test, a national Olympic committee spokesman said.
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Monty adds to confusion Miguel Angel Jimenez leads the BMW International at the halfway point on 134 with David Lynn and Retief Goosen jointly second a stroke behind, but these are two of very few facets of this tournament that are clear and incontrovertible.
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Clerics agree Najaf peace deal Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has reached an agreement with the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani that grants his freedom from murder charges and secures peace in war-torn Najaf, al-Sistani aides said on Thursday.
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Renegade warlord arrested and brought to the capital following <b>...</b> A renegade Afghan warlord has been arrested and brought to the capital by the central government, just weeks after his troops clashed
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Wal-Mart Rejects Proposed D.C. Location Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it would scrap plans to build its first District store after senior executives visited the proposed site in the Brentwood, NE neighborhood and found it did not meet their requirements.
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Royal Bank serves up disappointing quarter TORONTO - Royal Bank of Canada has reported a drop in third-quarter profit --the first year-over-year decline in three years -- because of lower earnings at its US division, increased costs and a higher Canadian dollar.
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Minister cautious about mad cow relief Manhattan and mad cow may seem an unlikely combination, but Agriculture Minister Andy Mitchell will be mixing the two today when he travels to New York City to meet his American counterpart to lobby for an end to the costly mad cow crisis.
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ROONEY RACE HOTS UP Manchester United and Newcastle are expected to increase their bids for Wayne Rooney this weekend as the battle to sign the England striker before Tuesday #39;s transfer deadline intensifies.
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Dechy dodges back woes, stops Raymond There have been times during the Pilot Pen Tennis tournament when Nathalie Dechy has made it look easy. During Friday nights semifinal, however, she appeared to have hit a bump in the road.
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Terror attack downed plane: Russia MOSCOWA terrorist attack brought down at least one of the two planes in this week #39;s near-simultaneous crashes in Russia, authorities said yesterday after investigators sifting through the wreckage found traces of an explosive at one of the crash sites.
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Storm lashes east China TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A fierce storm that lashed Taiwan has battered China #39;s east Fujian province, prompting the evacuation of half a million people.
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Japan Airlines Cancels Flights as Typhoon Heads to Main Islands Japan Airlines Corp., the country #39;s largest carrier, has canceled flights between the southern islands of Okinawa and Daito as Typhoon Chaba slowly proceeds west to Japan #39;s main islands.
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BA directors rally terminal staff BA chief executive Rod Eddington and 11 other directors are visiting Heathrow this weekend to boost morale at the crisis-hit airline.
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Agriculture Minister to lobby US on BSE Ottawa -- Agriculture Minister Andy Mitchell is meeting with his US counterpart today in New York to lobby for an end to the costly mad-cow crisis, which began 15 months ago with the discovery of single case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy on a ranch
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Digital ways to have fun including an HP-branded version of Apple #39;s iPod - designed with an eye toward pleasure, not business. At an event in Miami Beach, the
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Asian farmers sucking the continent dry The world is on the verge of a water crisis as people fight over ever dwindling supplies, experts told the Stockholm Water Symposium.
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It #39;s not easy to step up after wallowing in NBA Our valiant little men #39;s national basketball team fought its big, beating heart out last night and came up just shy of a chance for the Olympic enchilada.
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THE GAMES NOTEBOOK Thessaloniki, Greece. Iraq #39;s quest for its first Olympic medal since 1960 came up short yesterday when its surprising soccer team lost 1-0 to Italy in the bronze-medal game.
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Italy win Bronze Italy have managed to win the Bronze medal in the Olympic Football tournament by defeating Iraq 1-0 in an emotional play-off match.
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Prmont finds silver atop mountain course Canada #39;s newest Olympic star is a house painter who prepared for the heat of Athens by riding her bike in a sauna. That #39;s right, in a sauna.
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Srichaphan wins again at his Hamlet #39;home #39; Paradorn Srichaphan was pumped. At the end of an exhausting, three-set match against Joachim Johansson, Srichaphan had enough energy left for a series of arm pumps and a few shouts of joy.
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Overnight rain delays start Though the day of the final dawned bright and sunny, the six inches of rain that drenched this part of the world over the last week made parts of the ground too soggy for a timely start.
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Selection of jurors first step in trial EAGLE, COLO. -- Kobe Bryant #39;s trial began yesterday with 300 prospective jurors arriving at the county courthouse to fill out questionnaires, the first step toward choosing 12 people who will decide whether
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Joyous pilgrims mark end of Najaf standoff Thousands of pilgrims streamed into the Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf yesterday as militants left, handing the keys to religious authorities after Iraq #39;s top Shia cleric
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Bangladesh won #39;t rule out foreign hand in blast Dhaka -- Bangladesh has not ruled out foreign involvement in a grenade attack on an opposition rally last week that killed 19 people and wounded more than 150.
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Oil pipeline ablaze A DOMESTIC oil pipeline east of the Iraqi capital was ablaze today amid a wave of attacks against oil infrastructure in this volatile country, witnesses said.
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Uma happy and in high spirits: Sushma Swaraj Dharwad, Aug. 28 (PTI): Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj, today said former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti, was quot;happy, in very high spirits and is determined to remain in jail as long as the State Government wants her to be quot;.
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Five die as river festival begins Five devotees were killed as tens of thousands of Hindus Saturday took a dip in the Krishna river in Andhra Pradesh to mark a major festival.
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F1: Barrichello fastest in rain Ferrari's Rubens Barrichello sets the pace in Saturday's truncated practice at the Belgian Grand Prix.
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Ramirez OK After Fouling Ball Off Knee The most satisfying images from the Boston Red Sox's latest win are the X-rays of Manny Ramirez's knee. The Boston slugger fouled a ball off his knee in the fourth inning of the Red Sox's 5-3 home victory over the Detroit Tigers on Friday night...
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FCC Cuts Public Line To Phone Outage Data The Federal Communications Commission, citing concerns about national security, has abandoned a 10-year-old policy and will no longer give the public access to information about past telephone network outages. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>
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New Windows Planned for 2006 Microsoft Corp. announced yesterday that it will leave out some planned features from its next major operating system to meet a goal of rolling out a new version of Windows in the second half of 2006. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>
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Winners and Losers - Videocon Cup The Videocon Cup tournament was hailed as a firecracker competition between three ICC Champions Trophy favourites; India, Pakistan and Australia.
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Iraqi Rebels Leave Najaf Shrine, Hand in Weapons (Reuters) 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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Boat Capsizes in Vietnam, Killing 16 (AP) AP - A boat capsized in heavy winds on a river in northern Vietnam, killing 16 people, an official said Saturday.
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Broadcast Treaty Battle Rages On Negotiation is nearing its final stage for an international treaty that would give broadcasters control over who records or transmits their signal. Broadcasters back the treaty, but digital rights advocates worry it could set an ominous precedent. By Wendy Grossman.
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Swing and a Miss for Asteroid Telescopes spy the closest asteroid flyby ever recorded. Also: European astronomers find a 'super Earth' 300 trillion light years away.... and did DOS trickery foil the Spirit rover? By Amit Asaravala.
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Secure Flight Gets Wary Welcome Air travelers face a new screening process before they step on a plane, Secure Flight. Civil liberties advocates say it's better than CAPPS II, but aren't completely sold yet. By Ryan Singel.
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Gold turns to dust ATHENS, Greece -- It #39;s over. The US men #39;s basketball team #39;s run in the Olympics. The US dominance in the sport at all.
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Birgit Fischer wins second medal in kayak Birgit Fischer settled for silver, leaving the 42-year-old Olympian with two medals in two days against decidedly younger competition.
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Sane people won #39;t miss it Yes, Greece, you did good. Defied the doomsayers. Put on a good show. Blabbedy blah blah blah. But after three weeks here, most of them spent on the shuttle bus from the volleyball to taekwondo
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McDOWELL #39;S CUP CLAIMS FADE There appeared to be another faller in the Ryder Cup chase today when Ulsterman Graeme McDowell failed to make the dramatic move he needed in the third round of the BMW International Open in Munich.
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For Jets, it was a coming-out party for revamped defense The coming-out party began in the tunnel before the game when Jets defensive coordinator Donnie Henderson bumped into owner Woody Johnson.
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Silver surprise for US #39;s Abdallah In the weeks leading up to these Olympic Games, American Nia Abdallah wasn #39;t even on the radar screen of international taekwondo.
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Calif. Cities, Counties Sue Microsoft (AP) AP - Several California cities and counties have sued Microsoft Corp., accusing the software giant of illegally charging inflated prices for its products because of monopoly control of the personal computer operating systems market.
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Moyes rallying call to Everton faithful DAVID MOYES will attempt to rid Everton of Wayne Rooney hysteria and focus on keeping the momentum going after last weekend #39;s win at promoted Crystal Palace.
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Analysts give thumbs-up to TD-Banknorth deal Analysts gave a broad thumbs-up on Friday to Toronto-Dominion Bank #39;s (TD.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) \$3.8 billion acquisition of a majority stake in Banknorth Group Inc.
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Nokia amp; Vodafone help define Java - yawn TALK ABOUT HAVING a finger in every pie, Vodafone has come up with another software initiative to make mobile phones more advanced and cheaper to make for the business user.
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Powell Cancels Athens Visit for Closing Ceremony After Protest US Secretary of State Colin Powell canceled a visit to Athens to attend the closing ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games because of what the State Department said was more pressing business in Washington.
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Iraq #39;s top Shiite clerics meet in Najaf, academic shot dead in <b>...</b> NAJAF, Iraq : Iraq #39;s top Shiite Muslim clerics, back in control of Najaf #39;s Imam Ali shrine after a four-month militia occupation, met amid the ruins of the city as life spluttered back to normality.
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Bomb Blasts in Maharashtra IN a shocking incident over eighteen people were injured today in two separate bomb blasts in Jalna and Poorna towns of Maharashtra yesterday.
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Special Interests Woo Powerful at RNC (AP) AP - It's party time for trade associations, companies and interest groups at the GOP convention in New York, and each is trying to outdo the next in gimmicks to lure in movers and shakers.
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New Wave of Violence in Iraq Kills Five NAJAF, Iraq - War-weary Iraqis returned to devastated offices and shops in the holy city of Najaf on Saturday after three weeks of clashes as U.S. forces monitored a fragile cease-fire, but violence persisted in Baghdad, killing at least five people...
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