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New York Times
Czechs say gas supplies from Russia halted 44 mins ago - 5 Hours ago
PRAGUE, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Gas supplies through the main import and transit pipeline from Russia to the Czech Republic and Western Europe had been halted completely overnight, the Czech importer RWE Transgas
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Huffington Post
Obama asks CNN's Sanjay Gupta to be next surgeon general - 5 Hours ago
Reporting from Washington and New York 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
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Seattle Times
Apple cuts the digital locks off iTunes - 4 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 says to establish "humanitarian corridor" in Gaza
Xinhua News Agency all 57 news articles >>

Burris denied senate seat fro now
Canada Free Press all 154 news articles >>

Diplomats seek Gaza ceasefire
The Times South Africa all 70 news articles >>

China issues bird flu alert after woman dies
Reuters UK all 84 news articles >>

M&S cuts 1,230 jobs and shuts 27 stores
Telegraph all 7 news articles >>

UPDATE 1-Czechs say gas supplies from Russia halted 36 mins ago
CNBC all 7 news articles >>

 
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>>   US
Obama sees deficit topping $1 trillion - 2 Hours ago
By Steve Holland and Caren Bohan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama said on Tuesday he expects to inherit a U.S. budget deficit approaching $1 trillion and his administration would have
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Jeb Bush says he will not seek Senate seat - 2 Hours ago
'There was a lot of support, and support from interesting places,' Bush said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, 'but this would have been a big detour in my life.' Bush told the newspaper he
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CNN: Sanjay Gupta approached about surgeon general post - 3 Hours ago
WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama has approached CNN's chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, to be the country's next surgeon general, the cable news network said Tuesday. CNN said it has
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>>   Politics/Law
A rare gathering: Bush, Obama and 3 ex-presidents - 4 Hours ago
WASHINGTON -- An entire generation has gone by since the nation last saw this tableau of American history: every living U.S. president together at the White House. Consider it time for a reunion among
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Obama 'deeply concerned' over Gaza fighting - 3 Hours ago
US president-elect Barack Obama said on Tuesday that he is 'deeply concerned' about the fighting in the Gaza Strip and pledged to work effectively to resolve the Middle East conflict when he takes office
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Obama Breaks His Silence - 6 Hours ago
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>>   Business
Alcoa to slash 13,500 jobs, cut spending, freeze hiring - 4 Hours ago
Aluminum giant Alcoa Inc. said it will eliminate 13,500 jobs, or 13 percent of its workforce, and slash spending and output to cope with the global economic slowdown. Pittsburgh-based Alcoa also said
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Marks & Spencer to Cut 1,200 Jobs - 3 Hours ago
By MICHAEL CAROLAN LONDON -- U.K. retailer Marks & Spencer Group PLC Wednesday said it would close 27
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Marks & Spencer sales drop, to cut up to 1,230 jobs - 5 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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>>   Finance
BRIEF-Aegon buys out Banca Transilvania's from BT Aegon 31 mins ago - 4 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 - 4 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

INSTANT VIEW 1-Indonesia's c.bank cuts key rate by 50 bps 1 hr ago - 5 Hours ago
JAKARTA, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Indonesia's central bank cut its key interest rate by 50 basis points to 8.75 percent on Wednesday, more than expected, to spur growth amid a global economic slowdown and as
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>>   Sports
West, Paul lead Hornets past Lakers 116-105 - 3 Hours ago
:42:50 (Beijing Time) SINA.com New Orleans Hornets' Chris Paul, left, drives around Los Angeles Lakers' Pau Gasol, of Spain, during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles on Tuesday,
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Glick thrilled by Clough arrival - 4 Hours ago
Derby believe they have pulled off a major coup by appointing Nigel Clough as their new manager. Clough, 42, has signed a three-and-a-half-year deal to become Paul Jewell's successor in the Pride Park
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Defoe never wanted to leave Spurs - 5 Hours ago
Jermain Defoe insists he never wanted to leave Tottenham for Portsmouth and is now determined to make the most of his second spell at White Hart Lane. Defoe left Spurs just under a year ago as Dimitar
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>>   Industry
German billionaire commits suicide - 119 Minutes ago
BERLIN - His spirit broken by financial fears, German billionaire Adolf Merckle took his life this week - becoming the latest high-profile casualty of a global economic crisis that has claimed the lives
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David Miliband and Sir Alan Sugar 'targeted' in anti-semitic hit list on Islamic - 4 Hours ago
Islamic fundamentalists have drawn up an online list of Jewish 'targets' including David Milliband and Sir Alan Sugar. Dozens of Muslim fanatics posting on the website Ummah have contributed to a hit
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Big freeze worsens - to minus 12 - 5 Hours ago
Temperatures plunged to nearly -12C (10.4F) across southern England after the coldest night of the country's freezing spell. Benson in Oxfordshire and Chesham in Bucks were both close to -12C and the
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>>   Internet
Where is SightSpeed for Linux? - 2 Hours ago
Back in September I wrote about SightSpeed announcing a Linux version. At that time they said that it would initially be available as their Dell Video Chat powered by SightSpeed product on Dell netbooks

Garmin confirms Nuvifone runs Linux, not Android - 6 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 - 11 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
 
>>   Science
Dow Chemical prepared to delay Rohm & Haas deal-FT - 4 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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Dow targets legal action after Kuwaiti deal fails - 4 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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Bayer Schering submits Visanne for registration in Europe - 5 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 - 4 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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Swayze 'may live only two years' - 2 Hours ago
Swayze's interview with Barbara Walters will be shown on ABC Actor Patrick Swayze, who has pancreatic cancer, has admitted he may survive only two years. Speaking in his first US TV interview since he

Networks devoted more time to election: report - 7 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
 
>>   Technology
Windows 7 should be free - 7 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 - 5 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 - 18 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
Woman dies after contracting rabies - 4 Hours ago
A woman in her 30s from Northern Ireland who contracted rabies while abroad has died in hospital. Lisa McMurray had been in a critical condition in Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital since the condition
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4:40pmNaked jogging 'just happens' - 6 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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TopAbstracts in IBD 01/06/2009 - 3 Hours ago
TopAbstractsâ?¢ in IBD are the abstracts most highly rated/most read by nearly 300,000 physicians who received a Doctor's Guideâ?¢ newsletter or visited a website Powered by Doctor's Guideâ?¢ in the past
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>>   Culture
Museum of failed love offers balm for heartbreak - 2 Hours ago
SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - From an empty ring box to sexy lingerie and a pair of fur-lined handcuffs, an exhibition of the relics of failed love has come to Asia, hoping to bring solace to the heartbroken.

Jay Jopling: crunch time for Mr Brit Art - 8 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 - 10 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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>>   Top Stories
Gaza: Jibalya school attack fatalities reach 45 - 4 Hours ago
GAZA, Jan 6 (KUNA) -- Fatalities' toll of the Israeli air strike that hit a school in Jibalya camp north of Gaza city on Tuesday reached 45 killed in addition to tens more injured. The school, al-Fakhoura,
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Outside the Box: Toward Barack Obama's New Middle East - 83 Minutes ago
JERUSALEM (MarketWatch) - Delivering his inaugural speech eight years ago after a nerve-wracking election, George W. Bush brimmed with millennial inspiration. America's faith in freedom and democracy,
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Pressure grows for Gaza ceasefire - 4 Hours ago
Israel says it is defending itself against terrorists Pressure is building on Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas to accept a ceasefire deal backed by the UN and the US to end fighting in
all 1 news articles >>
 
>>   Media & Advertising
ASA bans 'misleading' British Gas ad - 5 Hours ago
The British Gas advert banned by the . Photograph: Public domain The advertising regulator has banned a British Gas TV and radio commercial that implied the company's repair service was available 365
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Louis Vuitton airbrushes Madonna to perfection - 7 Hours ago
London (PTI): Queen of Pop Madonna seems to have defeated the process of aging in the latest Louis Vuitton advertising campaign and the singer has only the airbrush to thank for her youthful looks in
all 3 news articles >>

T-Mobile UK raises marketing spend 15% - 2 Hours ago
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