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Europe begins to freeze as the gas flow from Russia dries up over Ukraine row - 5 Hours ago

Outside, the temperature plummeted to minus 12. Inside, the gas stopped flowing to homes in some of Europe's eastern cities in the dead of night and stayed off all day while the thermometer stayed below

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Dr. Sanjay Gupta of CNN in line for surgeon general - 5 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 - 3 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
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Democrat Roland Burris blocked from US Senate
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China issues bird flu alert after woman dies
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Diplomats seek Gaza ceasefire
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M&S cuts 1,230 jobs and shuts 27 stores
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UPDATE 1-Czechs say gas supplies from Russia haltedÂ 36 mins ago
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Editorial -- President-Elect Obama's Stimulus Plan - 5 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 - 5 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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CNN: Sanjay Gupta approached about surgeon general post - 2 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

Al-Qaida No. 2 blames Obama for Gaza fight - 5 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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A rare gathering: Bush, Obama and 3 ex-presidents - 3 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 Breaks His Silence - 5 Hours ago
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Business

Alcoa to slash 13,500 jobs, cut spending, freeze hiring - 3 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 - 2 Hours ago
By MICHAEL CAROLAN LONDON -- U.K. retailer Marks & Spencer Group PLC Wednesday said it would close 27
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Satyam chief resigns, shares down 60 pct - 4 Hours ago
BANGALORE (Reuters) - The chairman of India's embattled Satyam Computer Services resigned on Wednesday and said the company's profits had been inflated over the last several years, sending the stock down
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Finance

BRIEF-Aegon buys out Banca Transilvania's from BT AegonÂ 31 mins ago - 3 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 - 3 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 bpsÂ 1 hr ago - 4 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 - 2 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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Blackhawks score four in first, Huet blanks Coyotes in 6-0 rout - 5 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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Ducks make some changes and beat rival Kings, 3-1 - 3 Hours ago
Samuel Pahlsson does well with power-play unit, and special teams are solid. Kings coach says there are lessons to be learned in loss. Helene Elliott In meeting with his players one by one over the last
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Industry

Adolf Merckle suicide gives crisis grim defining moment - 5 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' - 5 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' - 5 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

Where is SightSpeed for Linux? - 72 Minutes 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 - 5 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 - 10 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 4 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 - 3 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' - 76 Minutes 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 - 6 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 - 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 - 4 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 - 17 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 - 3 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' - 5 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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IVF is an NHS 'postcode lottery' - 4 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 - 7 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 - 9 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 - 10 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