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UPDATE 1-Czechs say gas supplies from Russia halted 36 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 stopped completely overnight, the Czech importer RWE Transgas said
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Apple changes iTunes pricing - 78 Minutes ago
Apple unveiled a change in the pricing structure for its iTunes music downloads Tuesday, ending the 99-cents-a-song pricing that has helped iTunes dominate the industry. At the Macworld 2009 show for
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Ukraine: Russia has cut off Europe's gas supplies - 4 Hours ago
'Russia stopped all transit through Ukraine' at 7:44 am (0544 GMT), said Naftogaz spokesman Valentin Zemlyansky. 'Russia has left Europe without gas,' he added. All supplies to Romania had already been
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CNN: Gupta may be up for surgeon general
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UN Calls For Gaza School Shelling Probe
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Burris denied senate seat fro now
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M&S cuts 1,230 jobs and shuts 27 stores
Telegraph all 12 news articles >>

Israel says to establish "humanitarian corridor" in Gaza
Xinhua News Agency all 57 news articles >>

Hong Kong shares close sharply lower as China telcos, banks take a hit
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>>   US
Obama sees deficit topping $1 trillion - 3 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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CNN: Sanjay Gupta approached about surgeon general post - 4 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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Jeb Bush says he will not seek Senate seat - 3 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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>>   Politics/Law
Al-Qaida blames US, Egypt for Gaza crisis - 3 Hours ago
An intelligence monitoring centre reported that Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader is blaming US President-elect Barak Obama and Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, for the Israeli offensive in Gaza. The SITE Monitoring
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A rare gathering: Bush, Obama and 3 ex-presidents - 5 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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Asian Stocks End Mostly Higher, Dollar Firm - 3 Hours ago
Asian stocks were mostly higher Wednesday, extending their recent rally into an eighth straight day, inspired by hopes massive U.S. government spending and tax cuts will continue to support the dollar
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>>   Business
Marks & Spencer axing up to 1,230 jobs - 5 Hours ago
Marks & Spencer today announced its worst sales figures for almost a decade and plans to axe up to 1,230 jobs. M&S said UK like-for-like sales tumbled 7.1% in the 13 weeks to 27 December. This is the
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M&S to axe more than 1,200 jobs - 4 Hours ago
Ailing high street giant Marks & Spencer unveiled its worst sales figures for almost a decade and plans to axe up to 1,230 jobs. M&S said UK like-for-like sales tumbled 7.1% in the 13 weeks to

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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>>   Finance
BRIEF-Aegon buys out Banca Transilvania's from BT Aegon 31 mins ago - 5 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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Fraud revelations hit Indian software giant - 109 Minutes ago
The chairman of India's fourth-largest software-services provider resigned Wednesday after confessing to inflating the company's profits for years with 'fictitious' assets and non-existent cash. The news

BoA sells 5.6B shares in Chinese bank - 5 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
 
>>   Sports
West, Paul lead Hornets past Lakers 116-105 - 4 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: I never wanted to leave Spurs - 4 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 - 3 Hours 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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Big freeze worsens - to minus 12 - 4 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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BofA Sells China Bank Stake - 4 Hours ago
Top U.S. lender Bank of America, raising cash to weather a dismal market at home, is selling a $2.83 billion chunk of its holding in China Construction Bank at a 12 percent discount on Wednesday, according
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>>   Internet
Where is SightSpeed for Linux? - 3 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

Netbook sales driving Linux adoption - 3 Hours ago
The burgeoning netbook market is helping drive Linux adoption around the world according to a new report from analyst house Forrester. The report, Netbooks are the third PC form factor, finds that Netbooks
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Garmin confirms Nuvifone runs Linux, not Android - 7 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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>>   Science
Dow Chemical prepared to delay Rohm & Haas deal-FT - 5 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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BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - What is Dry-Cleaning? - 72 Minutes ago
LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany, January 7 /PRNewswire/ -- When a shirt gets dirty, you usually just have to chuck it in the washing machine, add a little laundry detergent, and let the combination of water and

Arcadia Biosciences Licenses Herbicide-Tolerant Wheat Technology and Plant Material - 90 Minutes ago
Arcadia Biosciences, Inc., an agricultural technology company focused on developing technologies and products that benefit the environment and human health, today announced it has reached a research and
 
>>   Entertainment
'Knight,' 'Iron' battling for effects Oscar - 5 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' - 3 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

Jonsson and Pinder face BB vote - 13 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 - 8 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 ends iTunes restrictions - 3 Hours ago
APPLE is to offer all the music on its popular iTunes online store without copy protection, and will start selling some songs at a lower price. The company has announced deals with all four major record
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Apple iLife to recognize faces, places - 19 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
Circassia Completes Patient Recruitment for Phase II Clinical Trial of Toleromune(R) - 74 Minutes ago
OXFORD, England, January 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Circassia Ltd, a specialty biopharmaceutical company focused on allergy and critical care, today announced that following successful clinical results achieved

TopAbstracts in IBD 01/06/2009 - 4 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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IVF is an NHS 'postcode lottery' - 5 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
Museum of failed love offers balm for heartbreak - 3 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.

Bruce Lee's home to turn museum - 56 Minutes ago
New York (PTI): Late martial art ace-cum-actor Bruce Lee's fans would get a slice of the legend's life with his Hong Kong home soon being turned into a museum. More than 35 years after the death of Lee

Every city can aim to be capital of culture - 110 Minutes ago
La Princesse, the 50ft-high giant metal spider made by theatrical engineers La Machine, crawls through the streets of Liverpool as part of capital of culture celebrations last September. Photograph: Peter
 
>>   Top Stories
Obama Breaks His Silence - 6 Hours ago
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Outside the Box: Toward Barack Obama's New Middle East - 2 Hours 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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Israel begins Gaza attacks lull - 52 Minutes ago
Israel says it is defending itself against terrorists Israel has halted military operations in Gaza for three hours in the first of planned daily ceasefires, it says. An Israeli spokesman said it would
 
>>   Media & Advertising
element-e, Southeast Michigan's First Sustainability-Focused Marketing Communications - 98 Minutes ago
Located in Brighton , Michigan , element-e will focus on helping clients align their environmental commitment with their operational and marketplace actions. element-e provides clients with ISO 14001-inspired

Crucial OTC Marketing Issues to be Addressed by New OTC Perspectives Division of - 73 Minutes ago
FLORHAM PARK, N.J., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- DTC Perspectives Inc., the leading DTC training, publishing and consulting company and producer of the DTC National conference and DTC Perspectives Magazine,

BBC iPlayer registers record 41 mln views in December - 5 Hours ago
Only just over 20 percent of Dutch consumers are interested in mobile payments, a survey among 1,741 consumers from Telecompaper's Consumer Panel has found. The survey shows that men and youngsters are
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