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Dispute hits Europe gas supplies - 4 Hours ago
Several countries are relying on their own limited reserves of gas Exports of Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine appear to have completely stopped amid a dispute over gas supplies between the two countries.
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BBC
Russia cuts Ukraine's gas supply - 4 Hours ago
Russian energy giant Gazprom cut off Ukraine's gas supply on New Year's Day and is yet to switch it back on. Both sides have so far refused to budge and have made counter claims about who is to blame.
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Seattle Times
Apple changes iTunes pricing - 2 Hours 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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Obama picks CNN's Sanjay Gupta as surgeon general
Guardian Unlimited all 44 news articles >>

UN Calls For Gaza School Shelling Probe
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M?S to cut jobs close stores as Christmas sales fall
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Satyam chief resigns, shares plunge
Reuters India all 24 news articles >>

Hong Kong shares close sharply lower as China telcos, banks take a hit
Forbes.com all 97 news articles >>

Obama speaks out on Gaza
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>>   US
Obama sees deficit topping $1 trillion - 4 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 - 5 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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Rise and fall of Bush's popularity - 58 Minutes ago
George W Bush in 2001 and 2008 Every US president's popularity among the American public is measured by approval ratings; opinion polls conducted weekly or monthly by a host of polling companies. See
 
>>   Politics/Law
Al-Qaida blames US, Egypt for Gaza crisis - 4 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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Obama, Bush to lunch with 3 ex-presidents - 2 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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Madame Tussauds unveils Obama figure - 3 Hours ago
Madame Tussauds is to let American tourists in free of charge to mark the inauguration of Barack Obama as US President. The London attraction will waive its entrance fee, which starts at 12.23, to American
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>>   Business
UK retailer Marks & Spencer to cut 1,230 jobs - 2 Hours ago
U.K. retailer Marks & Spencer Group PLC said Wednesday it will cut 1,230 jobs and close 27 of its stores in a drive to reduce costs, as Britain's retail sector continues to struggle. Chairman Stuart Rose
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M&S to axe more than 1,200 jobs - 5 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

Aluminium maker Alcoa announces 15,000 job losses - 3 Hours ago
America's largest aluminium maker, Alcoa, is to cut 15,200 jobs as it struggles to cope with a slowing global economy and sagging prices for metal. The Pittsburgh-based company last night announced that
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>>   Finance
Fraud revelations hit Indian software giant - 3 Hours 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
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BoA sells 5.6B shares in Chinese bank - 6 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

Glance-STOCKS NEWS EUROPE-HeidelbergCement up on bridge loan news - 113 Minutes ago
Shares in German cement maker HeidelbergCement rise 5.3 percent after two people familiar with the matter tell Reuters that the group of banks which has been in talks with Germany's Merckle family over
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>>   Sports
Rams thrilled by Clough arrival - 2 Hours ago
Derby believe they have pulled off a major coup by appointing Nigel Clough as their new manager at Pride Park. Clough: New man in charge at Derby Facebook del.icio.us ma.gnolia Yahoo! My Web Digg Google
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West, Paul lead Hornets past Lakers 116-105 - 5 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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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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Cancer-stricken Swayze going through hell - 5 Hours ago
LOS ANGELES Actor Patrick Swayze says he is 'going through hell' in his battle against cancer but has denied reports that he is close to death. Speaking in his first television interview since being
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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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>>   Internet
Where is SightSpeed for Linux? - 4 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 - 4 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? - 119 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

BRIEF-BASF's Wingas MD says uses alternative route for gas, storage - 101 Minutes ago
AM ET Text Size FR FRANKFURT, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Wingas: * BASF's Wingas Managing Director to Reuters - Gazprom OAO sending more gas via Polish border * Says North German storage can meet quarter of annual
 
>>   Entertainment
Line-up announced for Ross return - 70 Minutes ago
Ross is also set to resume his Saturday morning Radio 2 show Stephen Fry and comedian Lee Evans will be among the guests when Jonathan Ross's chat show returns to BBC One following his three-month suspension.

'Knight,' 'Iron' battling for effects Oscar - 6 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' - 4 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
 
>>   Technology
Satyam chairman resigns amid $1bn fraud - 5 Hours ago
One of India's biggest-ever corporate scandals took a dramatic twist today after the chairman of Satyam, the IT services giant, resigned and admitted he had orchestrated a $1billion fraud (669 million).
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Windows 7 should be free - 9 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 - 4 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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>>   Health
Circassia Completes Patient Recruitment for Phase II Clinical Trial of Toleromune(R) - 2 Hours 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
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TopAbstracts in IBD 01/06/2009 - 5 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' - 6 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
Which city should be the next capital of culture? - 2 Hours ago
Oxford, Brighton, Birmingham... which city most deserves a dose of cultural regeneration? So, Liverpool's year as the focus of cultural and physical regeneration brought it £176m in tourism, according
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Museum of failed love offers balm for heartbreak - 4 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 - 103 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
 
>>   Top Stories
Gaza: Israel considers next move amid calls for ceasefire - 4 Hours ago
Israel's most senior political leaders were meeting in Tel Aviv today to decide whether to expand their devastating offensive into the built up areas of Gaza or consider the first outlines of a ceasefire
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Israel says to establish "humanitarian corridor" in Gaza - 4 Hours ago
JERUSALEM, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Israel has decided to set up 'a humanitarian corridor' in the Gaza Strip to deliver basic supplies to local residents, said Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office on early Wednesday
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Israel begins Gaza attacks lull - 99 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 - 2 Hours 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 - 120 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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