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Shootings at Fort Hood: After the horror at home - 4 Hours ago

Is there any lesson to be drawn from the shootings at Fort Hood? FORT HOOD is one of the largest army bases in America, sprawling over more than 300 square miles (some 780 square kilometres) of nondescript

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Britain urges divided G20 to reach climate finance deal - 5 Hours ago

G20-CLIMATE/: * Group of 20 divided on push to reach climate finance deal * Agreement needed before key Copenhagen summit in Dec * Push follows failure to progress at Barcelona summit ST ANDREWS, Scotland,

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Saudi forces battle Yemen rebels on border - 4 Hours ago

JIZAN, Saudi Arabia (AFP) Saudi forces battled Yemeni rebels on the oil kingpin's border with its impoverished neighbour, both sides said on Saturday, with the rebels claiming to have captured Saudi ground

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Local families mourn soldiers' lives cut short
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House Democrats hold rules debate on health-care bill
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Saudi says swine flu shots advised for pilgrims
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U.S. jobless rate hits double digits
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Army families mourn bright lives cut short
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Seven kiiled in 'Nato air strike'
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Lawmakers told 38 wounded in Fort Hood attack - 3 Hours ago
Three lawmakers say Army briefers told them 38 people were wounded in the Foot Hood rampage ? eight more than previously reported. The lawmakers were briefed by Maj. Gen. James Huggins, director of Army
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Obama urges lawmakers on historic health care vote - 3 Hours ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) President Barack Obama, his top domestic priority in the balance, was on Saturday to make a rare in-person plea for wary lawmakers to cast an historic vote for legislation to overhaul
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Medvedev: Arms control deal with US can be reached - 5 Hours ago
MOSCOW -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says that Moscow and Washington can sign a new nuclear arms control deal before year's end. Medvedev says the U.S.-Russian arms control talks have been going
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Politics/Law

UK foreign secretary: Obama critics miss the point - 3 Hours ago
LONDON -- British Foreign Secretary David Miliband says critics of U.S. President Barack Obama are wrong to complain he's been unable to fix the world's woes. Miliband said Saturday that some expected
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Obama To Speak To House Dems As Health Vote Nears - 3 Hours ago
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is heading to Capitol Hill for talks with House Democrats as they scramble to find enough votes to pass landmark legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system.
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Obama: Do not jump to conclusions about Hood - 2 Hours ago
WASHINGTON â?? President Barack Obama says the 'whole nation is grieving right now' over the mass killings at Fort Hood. He urged people not to jump to conclusions while law enforcement officials gather
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Business

Gordon Brown calls for global bank bailout fund - 3 Hours ago
The prime minister tells G20 taxpayers must be protected from bearing the cost of failure by world's banks The prime minister, Gordon Brown, has called for a new "economic and social contract" with the
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Brown Proposes Bank Tax To Fund Bailouts - 5 Hours ago
ST ANDREWS, Scotland, Nov 7 (Reuters) - A tax on financial transactions to fund future bank bailouts should be considered with urgency, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Saturday, a significant
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Sun Micro sales fall as Oracle deal drags on - 4 Hours ago
Sun Micro sales take hit as Oracle merger drags out SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Sun Microsystems Inc. said late Friday that it cut its first-quarter loss from the same period a year ago, but sales
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Finance

Italy take 2-0 lead over U.S. in Fed Cup final - 63 Minutes ago
REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy (Reuters) - Italy stormed into a 2-0 lead over the United States in the Fed Cup final when Francesca Schiavone outfoxed Melanie Oudin 7-6 6-2 on Saturday. World number 11 Flavia

Pennetta beats Glatch before rain hits Fed final - 3 Hours ago
By Mark Meadows REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy (Reuters) - Flavia Pennetta overpowered Alexa Glatch 6-3 6-1 to give hosts Italy a 1-0 lead over United States in the Fed Cup final on Saturday. The second singles
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Opel Europe Head Carl-Peter Forster To Leave After GM Pullout - Quick Facts - 15 Hours ago
(RTTNews) - General Motors Corp. said its group vice president and president, Opel Europe, Carl-Peter Forster, would be leaving his role as head of European operations and would advise the company during
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Sports

Drogba: Son made me change ways - 3 Hours ago
Drogba earned more than a three-game ban his protestations against referee Tom Henning Ovrebo after Chelsea's Champions League exit - he was also given a carpeting by a disapproving Isaac Drogba, eight.
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One in, one out for Benitez - 5 Hours ago
Rafael Benitez believes Fernando Torres will be fit to face Birmingham on Monday, but rates Steven Gerrard as doubtful for the Barclays Premier League clash at Anfield. Both players are likely to be given

Berbatov: Title between Utd and chelsea - 3 Hours ago
Top headlines Cricket scores Racing results Corrections Dimitar Berbatov is convinced the two sides battling it out at Stamford Bridge on Sunday will also fill the top two positions in the Barclays Premier
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Industry

Police: House fire death was murder - PA - 4 Hours ago
Police are treating the death of a woman in a house fire sparked by a firework as murder, and warned the culprits that they will be caught. Mary Fox, 59, became trapped in the house in Carpenter Court,
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UK tourist shot dead in Texas bar - 3 Hours ago
A British tourist has been shot dead in a bar in the United States. Thomas Reeve, 28, was killed when a man walked into the bar in Amarillo, Texas, and fired several times at people inside, say US media
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1m worth of cannabis plants seized - 2 Hours ago
Cannabis plants worth more than 1 million have been seized by police in one of the biggest finds of the drug in Essex. Officers found more than 5,000 plants 'under cultivation' when they raided a warehouse
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Internet

PayPal Launches PayPal X Developer Challenge - Zibb.com - 9 Hours ago
PayPal announced it has challenged developers to solve the fundamental problems people face when trying to pay or get paid. With prizes totaling $75,000 in cash and $75,000 in waived fees, the company

Application support engineer - financial sector / linux - unix - 12 Hours ago
My client are a leading financial services company based in East London and are looking to recruit an Application Support Engineer to join there team. Application Support Engineer - This is a challenging
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Software Engineer (Java C# C++) Investment Bank - 12 Hours ago
Software Engineer / Developer (C# .Net C++ Java Windows / Linux) sought by award winning Investment Bank based in Central London. The focus will be on delivering high performance business critical trading
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Science

RCN Down 3.3% Since SmarTrend's Sell Recommendation - 87 Minutes ago
Disclaimer: The Connors Group, Inc. ('Company') is not an investment advisory service, nor a registered investment advisor or broker-dealer and does not purport to tell or suggest which securities or
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Ex-Rohm and Haas executive to head FMC Corp. - 86 Minutes ago
(The Philadelphia Inquirer - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- FMC | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Pierre Brondeau, a highly regarded executive who was supposed to preserve
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Sunoco Swings To Loss - 17 Hours ago
Sunoco Inc. (NYSE: SUN) disappointed by swinging to a sharp loss for the third quarter of $2.67 per share from income of $4.70 per share last year due to weak margins. The stock price tumbled $2.91 to
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Entertainment

Dorothea Lange Restored Dignity to the Poor - 3 Hours ago
Asked in 1964 about the most significant thing she had learned about Americans while photographing those fleeing the Dust Bowl in the 1930s, Dorothea Lange answered: "I many times encountered courage,
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Brown: Domestic violence classes are enjoyable - 14 Hours ago
(WENN) -- Disgraced R&B star Chris Brown is enjoying the domestic violence classes he was ordered to take as part of his sentencing for beating ex-girlfriend Rihanna -- because the lessons are teaching
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Video: "Precious" Star's Unusual Path - 16 Hours ago
Newcomer Gabourey Sidibe has the nation's attention as the star of the film "Precious." Katie Couric reports on how a five-month casting call stopped in its tracks when Sidibe auditioned. Share: Recommended
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Technology

Nokia Booklet 3G hits US: Hands-on verdict - 5 Hours ago
Nokia's Booklet 3Gnetbook has arrived in the US and our chocolate-voiced NYC colleague Dan Ackerman has one in. It's designed to be sold on a phone-like contract, with AT&T offering it for $299 (Â£180)
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2010 Superfly Will Make You Say 'My, Oh My' - 16 Hours ago
Product: 2010 Superfly 100 Manufacturer: Gary Fisher Wired Rating: 9 Editor's note: We recently reviewed the tough-as-nails Superfly. That bike is old hat compared to the improvements made on the newest
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The Answer Factory: Demand Media and the Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell - 15 Hours ago
Illustration: Stephen Doyle Christian Muoz-Donoso is going to make this job pay, he?s got to move quickly. He has a list of 10 videos to shoot on this warm June morning, for which he?ll earn just $200.

Health

Island Village Hit By Suspected Swine Flu - 4 Hours ago
Tiny Alaska Island Village Struck By Suspected Swine Flu Isolated Without Regular Flights
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Nutritional guidelines for vegetarian children - 13 Hours ago
It's not hard to get all of your daily needs from nonmeat sources, nutritionists say, but it takes thought and planning -- plus a few tricks.No matter how old your vegetarian kids are, the first step

Don't make food a conflict for a vegetarian child - 14 Hours ago
If you're raising a child in a vegetarian household, power struggles and awkward social issues are bound to crop up. Vegetarian parents may produce offspring who are curious about meat but worried that
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Culture

CNNSotheby's $180 Million Take Buoys Hope For Art Market - 9 Hours ago
Sotheby's reported total sales of $181.8 million on Wednesday night Five works that sold for more than $10 million Publisher: Weaker dollar, inflation driving many to art as an asset class Christie's
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FDR's stimulus for artists: No cause for nostalgia - 10 Hours ago
'Do we need another public art program for the 2009 great recession?' asked someone named Robbie. 'Yes.' Open for comment since the show was unveiled in February, the book sits surrounded by a colorful
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Painting a street green has not stimulated jobs - 14 Hours ago
The block is part of one of the biggest initiatives ever undertaken by the federal government, a nationwide push to improve the energy efficiency of buildings. But as the national unemployment rate crosses
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