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Dr. Sanjay Gupta of CNN in line for surgeon general - 4 Hours ago

WASHINGTON President-elect Barack Obama has asked Dr. Sanjay Gupta to be the next U.S. surgeon general, looking to a popular television personality to help provide a public face for his health-care agenda.

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Apple cuts the digital locks off iTunes - 2 Hours ago

Apple Inc. is dropping the digital copyright locks from most of the songs it sells through iTunes, a move that could prove to be a death blow for the music industry's attempts to control how consumers

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Israel Agrees to 'Humanitarian Corridor' - 4 Hours ago

(IsraelNN.com) Israel has accepted a United Nations plan for a ?humanitarian corridor? in Gaza. According to the plan, Israel will promise not to conduct counterterrorism operations in certain areas,

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Europe begins to freeze as the gas flow from Russia dries up over Ukraine row
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Democrat Roland Burris blocked from US Senate
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Obama Breaks His Silence
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Hong Kong shares end morning weaker as China telcos, banks slide - UPDATE
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Mumbai attackers had links to Pakistani soil : US
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Pressure grows for Gaza ceasefire
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Editorial -- President-Elect Obama's Stimulus Plan - 4 Hours ago
THE U.S. ECONOMY is indeed 'very sick,' as President-elect Barack Obama put it yesterday. One indicator of its parlous state: Though companies have managed to issue an additional $300 billion worth of
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Jeb Bush says he will not seek Senate seat - 4 Hours ago
Bush told the newspaper he wants to apply his energy to the real estate business and his family. (UPI) - Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Tuesday he will not run for the Senate. 'There was a lot of support,
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Obama offers CNN's Gupta surgeon general post - 4 Hours ago
What's this WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama has asked neurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta to be U.S. surgeon general, a senior Democrat said on Tuesday. Gupta
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Politics/Law

Al-Qaida No. 2 blames Obama for Gaza fight - 4 Hours ago
CAIRO, Egypt â?? Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader lashed out at President-elect Barack Obama in a new audio message Tuesday, accusing him of not doing anything to stop Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip, according
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Bollywood bids Bush goodbye with a parting shot - 4 Hours ago
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Barely two weeks before George W. Bush leaves the White House, Bollywood is ready with a farewell present -- a film that takes pot shots at the outgoing U.S. president. 'The President
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Analysis: Obama's challenges in Mideast - 2 Hours ago
WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama will inherit a perilous situation in the Middle East, with Israel under increasing pressure to halt its ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, key Arab leaders close

Business

Alcoa to slash over 15,000 jobs - 2 Hours ago
(Reuters) - Alcoa Inc (AA.N) said on Tuesday it would slash more than 15,000 jobs, halve capital spending and sell four businesses as it reduces aluminium production in the face of the global economic
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Marks & Spencer sales drop, to cut up to 1,230 jobs - 3 Hours ago
Department store owner Marks & Spencer (UK:MKS:UK:MKSNews , chart , profile , more Last: Delayed quote data Analyst Create alert Insider Discuss Financials Sponsored by:, , ) said Wednesday that total
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Reliance offers oil if supplies disrupted by officers' strike - 2 Hours ago
(Asia Pulse Data Source via COMTEX) -- RELDA | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Reliance Industries, the nation's largest private sector refiner, has committed to supply all of the petroleum products
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Finance

BRIEF-Aegon buys out Banca Transilvania's from BT AegonÂ 31 mins ago - 2 Hours ago
AMSTERDAM, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Aegon NV says: * To acquire Banca Transilvania's stake in BT Aegon * Aegon has agreed to acquire Banca Transilvania's 50 percent shareholding in BT Aegon * Aegon will pay
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BoA sells 5.6B shares in Chinese bank - 2 Hours ago
Bank of America has sold 5.6 billion shares, or $3 billion, of its holdings in China Construction Bank, a spokesman for the Chinese bank said Wednesday. The transaction represents 13 percent of Bank of

UK 2008 car sales to fall by 10% - 10 Hours ago
New car sales have fallen sharply ever since last summer UK car sales figures for the past year are expected to be more than 10% lower than sales in 2007. The figures, due to be published on Wednesday,

Sports

West scores 40, Paul adds 32 to lead Hornets past Lakers 116-105 - 3 Hours ago
West shot 14-of-23 from the floor and 12-of-13 from the foul line in matching his career high. He also grabbed 11 rebounds as the Hornets (21-10) won for the 16th time in 21 games and avenged two losses
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Blackhawks score four in first, Huet blanks Coyotes in 6-0 rout - 4 Hours ago
Burish started a four-goal outburst in the opening period with his first score of the season, and the Chicago Blackhawks routed the Phoenix Coyotes 6-0 behind Cristobal Huet's 22 saves. 'That was fun,'
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Foye leads Timberwolves to third straight win, beat Grizzlies 94-87 - 3 Hours ago
Foye scored 23 points, including the go-ahead three-pointer with 40 seconds left, and the Timberwolves weathered a late rally to beat the Memphis Grizzlies 94-87 Tuesday night. Following his basket, Foye
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Industry

Adolf Merckle suicide gives crisis grim defining moment - 4 Hours ago
The patriarch of a German family whose assets include a majority stake in HeidelbergCement died on Monday in an act his family attributed to the desperate situation of his companies caused by the financial
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Sir Alan 'target for extremists' - 4 Hours ago
Apprentice star Sir Alan Sugar has been said to be among a list of top British Jews thought to be targeted by extremists over Israel's Gaza onslaught. According to a newspaper, the multi-millionaire businessman
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Interest rate 'facing all-time low' - 4 Hours ago
The Bank of England begins a historic meeting later at which interest rates are all but certain to be slashed to an all-time low to combat worsening recession. The nine-strong Monetary Policy Committee
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Internet

Garmin confirms Nuvifone runs Linux, not Android - 4 Hours ago
We are starting to see more and more signs that the Garmin Nuvifone is real and not just a figment of our imagination. The main menu of the Garmin Nuvifone (Credit: Garmin) Announced almost a year ago,
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Mobile Security and the MD5 Hack: Day Trading By Mobile Beware - 9 Hours ago
It seems that we can do as much or more from our phones today than we could from our laptops five years ago. You can enjoy a gamut of media related convenience and surfing the web from oneâ??s handset

Skype 2.8 Beta para Mac ofrece administración de acceso a hotspots WiFi y la - 4 Hours ago
LUXEMBURGO --(Business Wire)-- Skype dio a conocer hoy Skype™ 2.8 Beta para Mac, la última versión de su software de comunicaciones vía Internet para usuarios de Mac. Esta nueva versión, que se
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Science

Dow targets legal action after Kuwaiti deal fails - 2 Hours ago
NEW YORK -- Dow Chemical Co. will pursue legal action against a state-owned Kuwaiti company that scuttled a $17.4-billion (U.S.) joint venture just days before the deal was to close, and said yesterday
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Dow Chemical prepared to delay Rohm & Haas deal-FT - 2 Hours ago
Jan 7 (Reuters) - Dow Chemical Co (DOW.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is prepared to miss next week's deadline to clinch the $15 billion takeover of Rohm & Haas (ROH.N: Quote, Profile, Research) in
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Bayer Schering submits Visanne for registration in Europe - 3 Hours ago
Bayer Schering Pharma AG said Wednesday it has submitted Visanne for the treatment of endometriosis for registration to all Member States of the European Community. The Netherlands will serve as the Reference
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Entertainment

'Knight,' 'Iron' battling for effects Oscar - 2 Hours ago
LOS ANGELESSuperheroes Batman, Iron Man and Hellboy are mixing it up with Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and an ancient mummy for the visual-effects Academy Award. The Batman blockbuster is one of seven films
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Networks devoted more time to election: report - 5 Hours ago
By Paul J. Gough NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - The presidential election and worsening economy pushed the war in Iraq mostly out of the headlines, especially among the Big Three evening newscasts. The

Jonsson and Pinder face BB vote - 10 Hours ago
Ulrika Jonsson will be up against Lucy Pinder in the public vote on Friday Ulrika Jonsson and Lucy Pinder are to face the public vote to decide who will be the first person evicted from the Celebrity
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Technology

Windows 7 should be free - 6 Hours ago
Okay, never mind that Im a dinosaur with an affinity for 1990s era User Interfaces I think that Windows 7, for all of its performance improvements and bling, is essentially one big service deluxe pack

Apple to end music restrictions - 3 Hours ago
Apple's imposed DRM proved unpopular with users Apple Inc has agreed to start selling digital songs from its iTunes store without copy protection software. At present, most music downloaded from Apple's
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Apple iLife to recognize faces, places - 16 Hours ago
Apple Vice President Philip Schiller took the stage here Tuesday for the keynote address at the Macworld Conference & Expo to introduce the iLife '09 software suite and tout strong Mac sales. The new
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Health

4:40pmNaked jogging 'just happens' - 4 Hours ago
A MAN who jogged through Melbourne's leafy suburbs wearing only a beanie, jacket and runners told police his indecent exposure offending 'just happens'. Serial flasher Gabriel Romanos, 42, of St Albans,
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Grand Canyon, Loch Ness compete as nature wonders - 3 Hours ago
KOKH files and maintains quarterly Children's Television Reports and DTV Consumer Education Activity Reports in its Public File. The Public File is available to the public at 1228 E. Wilshire Blvd. Oklahoma
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IVF is an NHS 'postcode lottery' - 3 Hours ago
Four years after guidance was issued saying that eligible couples should receive three full cycles of IVF treatment on the NHS, it is not being implemented as money is diverted to other patients, a conference
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Culture

Jay Jopling: crunch time for Mr Brit Art - 6 Hours ago
Until September it looked as if Jay Jopling had perfected a rare balancing act: he was half of Brit Art's Golden Couple, a confidant of some of the most famous people in the country and yet still somehow

National Youth Jazz Orchestra at Ronnie Scott's, London W1 - 8 Hours ago
What's wrong with these youngsters? Don't they know they're supposed to be hiding in their bedrooms, watching Celebrity Big Brother? For more than 40 years, generations of tyro musicians have served an
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In Liverpool's footsteps: now every city can aim to be Britain's capital of culture - 9 Hours ago
â?¢ Arts to get bigger role in urban regeneration Patrick Wintour , political editor Cities will compete every four years for the title of British capital of culture as the government moves to give the