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CORRECTION: Colombia hostage rescue setback for Venezuela Chavez - 5 Hours ago

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for months promised to seek the release of Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt but her liberation in a surprise rescue has turned out to be a setback

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BBC

Bush to attend Olympic ceremony - 5 Hours ago

US President George W Bush will attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, the White House says.Spokeswoman Dana Perino said Mr Bush will also visit South Korea and Thailand as part of the trip.

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BBC

Trio charged with Kinsella murder - 5 Hours ago

Three people have been charged over the fatal stabbing of 16-year-old Ben Kinsella in north London. The teenager was stabbed to death in North Road, Islington, in the early hours of Sunday morning. Hundreds

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U.S. Employers Shed 62,000 Jobs In June
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Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt is freed after 6 years, 4 months and 9 days
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Victims seek refuge at US Embassy
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Military: Freed American hostages in good shape
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Bush helps break ground for new Walter Reed center
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WRAPUP 4-U.S. extends job loss streak, more pain seen ahead
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Bush to attend Beijing Olympic opening - 4 Hours ago
In the time-honored Washington tradition of waiting until the last minute before a weekend or holiday to drop controversial news, the White House waited until the eve of the Independence Day holiday to
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Pentagon extends tour of Marines in Afghanistan - 2 Hours ago
The Pentagon has extended the tour of 2,200 Marines in Afghanistan, after insisting for months the unit would come home on time. The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which is doing combat operations in
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US sprinter admits heroin dealing - 3 Hours ago
Montgomery had his world record stripped over steroid abuseDisgraced US sprinter Tim Montgomery has pleaded guilty to dealing heroin, just two months after being jailed for fraud and conspiracy offences.
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Politics/Law

Obama opens door to shift on Iraq - 3 Hours ago
FARGO, N.D. - Democrat Barack Obama says he's always been open to refining his Iraq policy but blamed Republican John McCain's, campaign for suggesting 'we were changing our policy when we haven't.' The
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Obama restates plan to exit Iraq in 16 months - 3 Hours ago
FARGO, N.D. Democrat Barack Obama said today that he continues to be committed to withdrawing U.S. combat troops from Iraq in 16 months, after his earlier comments raised questions about whether he was
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Obama says McCain camp mistates his Iraq policy - 4 Hours ago
FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- Democrat Barack Obama says he's always been open to refining his Iraq policy but blamed Republican John McCain's campaign for suggesting 'we were changing our policy when we haven't.'
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Business

Euro falls as ECB raises rates 25bp

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The euro fell from a 10-week high against the dollar on Thursday after the indicated it might have reached the end of its monetary tightening cycle. The ECB, as expected, raised eurozone interest rates
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American workers brace for thousands of job cuts - 5 Hours ago
DALLAS (AP) -- Many more job cuts, likely totaling more than 6,000, are likely at American Airlines as the nation's biggest airline hunkers down and tries to survive record high fuel costs.American notified
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GM stock at lowest level since 1954 - 21 Hours ago
DETROIT - Shares of General Motors Corp. plunged Wednesday to close below $10 for the first time in more than half a century, on worries about the companyâ€™s cash needs and speculation about
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Finance

U.S. stocks end mixed following jobs, services data - 2 Hours ago
NEW YORK -- Wall Street capped a shortened trading week with a mixed finish Thursday after some uneven economic data: news of a contraction in the nation's services sector and a tame reading on employment.
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Wall Street set for bumpy ride - 14 Hours ago
Stock futures were rangebound early Thursday as investors contemplated a new high for oil prices and awaited a key jobs report and a decision on interest rates in Europe. At 6:46 a.m. ET, Nasdaq and S&P

Saudi minister says oil customers satisfied - 5 Hours ago
MADRID, Spain As supply fears helped set a new price record, Saudi Arabia's oil minister said Thursday that OPEC's dominant producer had no immediate plans to boost crude output because there was no need
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Sports

Sister Act III - 3 Hours ago
WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND -- The inevitable became the actual. The match that seemed destined is the match that will be played. Venus Williams against sister Serena in the Wimbledon final. They're elated. But
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What kind of 'friends' are A-Rod and Madonna? - 3 Hours ago
A-Rod and the Material Girl? That's a lot of hits. The New York Yankee and Madonna are the topic of gossip with what's being called a 'hot new friendship.' Reports that Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez
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Schuettler seals epic victory - 93 Minutes ago
Men and women who proudly served their country were honoured at special Veterans Day in Bristol. Each received a medal to commemorate their sacrifice. more >
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Industry

Christie Brinkley testifies about husband's affair - 5 Hours ago
Christie Brinkley testified at her divorce trial Thursday that the day she learned her husband was having an affair with a teenager was the day 'my life as I knew it had vanished.' The former Sports Illustrated
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YouTube ordered to give video logs to Viacom - 3 Hours ago
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to
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Beef recall expands to 5.3 million pounds - 5 Hours ago
CINCINNATI - First it was the tomatoes. Now itâ€™s the beef. Fourth of July picnic tables are getting a careful look as familiar hamburgers are feared to be among the tainted ingredients in
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Internet

eBay backs down on PayPal - 51 Minutes ago
EBAY'S contentious plan to funnel almost all of its online auction payments through a subsidiary is over, after the company finally capitulated to pressure from its sellers and the competition regulator.

Study: Dial-Up Users: No to High-Speed - 5 Hours ago
A new study suggests that attitude rather than availability may be the key reason why more Americans don't have high-speed Internet access. The findings from the Pew Internet and American Life Project
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identi.ca -- open source Twitter? - 5 Hours ago
identi.ca launched today and it's basically an open source version of Twitter licensed under the AGPL. AGPL is a great license for network applications but one thing that puzzles me is that I couldn't
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Science

Market report / TASE slips down on Chemicals slide - 69 Minutes ago
The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange has long relied heavily on Israel Chemicals and Israel Corporation. The dives taken by both companies' shares yesterday dragged down the major indices on Ahad Ha'am Street

Astronomy projects hit by 80m cuts - 51 Minutes ago
An 80 million hole in funding for physics and astronomy was closed yesterday with the decision to cut or reduce involvement in a range of national and international projects. The cuts were announced by

Merger of US earth sciences agencies proposed - 3 Hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- From climate change to volcanoes and earthquakes, the world's growing challenges have leaders in earth science proposing a merger of agencies that study the planet. Creation of a new
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Entertainment

Locals indifferent to Brangelina - 5 Hours ago
Partially eclipsed by the glitterati of Cannes and the royal glare of Monaco, Nice is a place where even the brightest stars - like Brangelina - are greeted by little more than indifference. Only the
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Spielberg group gives $1M to Pa. Jewish museum - 4 Hours ago
A foundation created by Stephen Spielberg is giving $1 million to the National Museum of American Jewish History. The money from the Righteous Persons Foundation will go toward a new, five-story museum
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New Hunter S. Thompson film focuses on writings - 5 Hours ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney began filming the story of drug-addled U.S. journalist Hunter S. Thompson at the late author's funeral, he says it was one of his 'greatest

Technology

How to secure your laptop for holiday travel - 5 Hours ago
Its getaway day and as we prepare to hit the road, trudge through airport security and snag that car rental, spare a thought for the valuable data that travels with you on that trusty old laptop. According
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Here's how. - 8 Hours ago
Its getaway day and as we prepare to hit the road, trudge through airport security and snag that car rental, spare a thought for the valuable data that travels with you on that trusty old laptop. According

Google must handover YouTube log - 11 Hours ago
Google owns video site YouTubeGoogle must hand over the log holding details of every user who has watched any video on YouTube, a US court ruled. The ruling comes as part of Google's legal battle with
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Health

'Pregnant man' gives birth to baby girl - 5 Hours ago
The pregnant man who conceived a child after a sex-change operation has given birth to a healthy baby girl. Thomas Beatie, 34, had the baby in a natural birth at a hospital in Bend, Oregon on Sunday,
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Brain Chemical Linked to Sudden Baby Death - 4 Hours ago
(WASHINGTON) - Scientists have new evidence that the brain chemical best known for regulating mood also plays a role in the mystifying killer of seemingly healthy babies - sudden infant death syndrome.
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Lots of Sex May Prevent Erectile Dysfunction - 3 Hours ago
'This is the same as any other part of the body. It's what we in vascular surgery refer to as the 'use it or lose it' concept,' said Dr. Hossein Sadeghi-Nejad, an associate professor of urology at UMDNJ
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Culture

Hitler wax statue unveiled at Tussauds - 4 Hours ago
BERLIN: Berlin's new waxwork museum on Thursday unveiled a figure of a glum-looking Adolf Hitler in a mock bunker during the last days of his life, an exhibit that has been criticised as in bad taste.
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Kerry Butler and Forbidden Broadway Gang Help Open Brooklyn TKTS Booth July 10 - 69 Minutes ago
Kerry Butler A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the July 10 opening of Theatre Development Fund's new TKTS Downtown Brooklyn Discount Ticket Booth will be peopled by Broadway's Kerry Butler, a Bensonhurst

Opening of Some Americans Abroad Delayed One Week - 69 Minutes ago
Anthony Rapp photo by Aubrey Reuben Second Stage Theatre's revival of Some Americans Abroad, which was originally scheduled to open July 15, will now officially open July 24. The change in date, according