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Lehman to raise $6 bln, expects big Q2 loss - 09, Jun 2008
(Reuters) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc on Monday announced plans to raise $6 billion to bolster its capital base after losses from trading and hedging led to an expected $2.77 billion second-quarter loss.
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Iliad set to buy Tel Italia's Alice France - 09, Jun 2008
PARIS (Reuters) - Iliad, the parent of French internet service provider (ISP) Free, said on Monday it was in exclusive talks to buy Telecom Italia's Alice France ISP unit.
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Apple iPhone encore expected - 09, Jun 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - June has arrived and for Apple Inc fans and investors that means just one thing -- a new iPhone.
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Hollywood actors unions at war with each other - 09, Jun 2008
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The bad blood between
Hollywood's leading actors unions is boiling.
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Howard saves help U.S. hold Argentina - 09, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goalkeeper Tim Howard produced a string of first-half saves to help United States hold Argentina to a goalless draw in a full-bloodied friendly on Sunday.
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NBA will not gag players competing at Beijing Games - 09, Jun 2008
BOSTON (Reuters) - The NBA will make no attempt to gag members of the U.S. men's basketball team competing at the Beijing Olympics, even as the league attempts to woo the Chinese market, NBA commissioner David Stern said on Sunday.
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Big Brown's handlers search for answers - 09, Jun 2008
ELMONT, New York (Reuters) - Big Brown's connections were unable to determine on Sunday why the Kentucky Derby and Preakness champion came up empty in the Belmont Stakes.
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Ellis grand slam lifts Athletics over Angels - 09, Jun 2008
OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - Mark Ellis hit a grand slam home run off reliever Chris Bootcheck in the bottom of the 12th inning to lead the Oakland Athletics to a dramatic 7-3 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday.
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Leonard clinches St. Jude Championship in playoff - 09, Jun 2008
MEMPHIS, Tennessee (Reuters) - American Justin Leonard claimed his 12th PGA Tour title with a playoff victory over Australia's Robert Allenby and South African Trevor Immelman at the St. Jude Championship on Sunday.
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Rookie Tseng wins LPGA Championship in playoff - 09, Jun 2008
HAVRE DE GRACE, Maryland (Reuters) - Tour rookie Tseng Yani of Taiwan birdied the fourth hole of a sudden-death playoff against Sweden's Maria Hjorth to win the LPGA Championship on Sunday for her first major title.
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Celtics hold off Lakers to take 2-0 Finals lead - 09, Jun 2008
BOSTON (Reuters) - The Boston Celtics survived a furious fightback by the Los Angeles Lakers to hold on for a 108-102 win on Sunday, the victory giving the Eastern Conference champions a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven NBA Finals series.
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Japan shocked and bewildered by random knife killings - 09, Jun 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Passers-by prayed and placed flowers on a busy Tokyo shopping street on Monday where seven people were killed the day before in a stabbing rampage, as Japan tried to make sense of the attack and others like it.
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Fed's Geithner seeks global banking framework: paper - 09, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Banks crucial to the global financial system should operate under a unified regulatory framework with appropriate requirements for capital and liquidity, the president of the New York Federal Reserve wrote in the Financial Times.
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Oil volatile as markets not well supplied: BP CEO - 09, Jun 2008
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Oil prices are unstable because markets are not well supplied, and higher taxes in producing countries are not conducive to investing in new output, the head of energy major BP said on Monday.
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Insurance broker Willis to buy rival for $1.7 billion - 09, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Willis Group Holdings Ltd., the world's third largest insurance brokerage, will buy smaller rival Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Co for $1.7 billion, looking to boost business as insurance rates soften.
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Oil slips after record $11 surge to new high - 09, Jun 2008
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil slipped on Monday as traders took profits from crude's biggest one-day jump ever, but OPEC's resistance to pumping more oil kept prices near their latest record high.
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Aussie lawyer wins kudos as Hollywood pundit - 09, Jun 2008
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - If the name Robert Licuria doesn't immediately ring a bell, you are automatically forgiven.
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Hip-hop duo Cool Kids garner buzz from MySpace - 09, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Billboard) - The past few months have been very good to Chicago's Cool Kids.
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HP settles Acer patent litigation - 09, Jun 2008
NEW YORK/TAIPEI (Reuters) - Top PC maker Hewlett-Packard Co said on Sunday it had settled patent litigation with smaller Taiwan rival Acer .
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U.K. pop duo Ting Tings building buzz in America - 09, Jun 2008
LONDON (Billboard) - U.K. indie-rock duo the Ting Tings topped the U.K. charts in May with both the supremely catchy single "That's Not My Name" and their debut album -- and are now taking on America.
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Inside the music industry's piracy battle - 09, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Billboard) - Deep inside the national headquarters of the Recording Industry Assn. of America (RIAA) is a purple room.
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Missy Elliott ready to "Party" again - 09, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Rapper Missy Elliott is gearing up
to release her first album in three years. Tentatively titled
"Block Party" and due in August, the oft-delayed Atlantic
release is the follow-up to 2005's "The Cookbook," which sold a
relativel
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Reunited New Kids On The Block ignite passions - 09, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Billboard) - On the set of NBC's "Today" show, fans screeched the names of their favorites: "Joey!" "Jordan!" "Donnie!"
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Panda kicks Sandler at U.S. box office - 09, Jun 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Moviegoers across North America were in a fighting mood during the weekend, cheering the family cartoon "Kung Fu Panda" to the top spot at a box office packed with hits.
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Torrey awaits Woods and Mickelson showdown - 09, Jun 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In the eyes of many, next week's U.S. Open at Torrey Pines outside San Diego is likely to shape up as an effective head-to-head between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, the top-ranked players in the game.
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Ruthless Nadal wins four in a row - 09, Jun 2008
PARIS (Reuters) - In the end Roger Federer, like the incredulous crowd at Roland Garros, had no choice but to salute Rafael Nadal.
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Astronauts end final spacewalk of shuttle mission - 09, Jun 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Spacewalking astronauts from U.S. shuttle Discovery finished outfitting Japan's newly arrived Kibo research laboratory and carried out other tasks during 6 1/2 hours of work outside the International Space Station on Sunday.
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Man stabs shoppers in Tokyo street, killing seven - 09, Jun 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - A man who said he was tired of life went on a stabbing rampage on Sunday in a crowded Tokyo shopping street, killing seven people and wounding a dozen others.
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Gay Anglican U.S. bishop enters into civil union - 09, Jun 2008
BOSTON (Reuters) - The openly gay U.S. Episcopal bishop at the center of the Anglican church's global battle over homosexuality, has entered into a civil union with his longtime partner at a private ceremony.
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Texas Governor's Mansion damaged by arson fire - 09, Jun 2008
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Arson is suspected in a fire that severely damaged the unoccupied Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin, home to the state's chief executive since before the U.S. Civil War, fire officials said on Sunday.
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Laura Bush visits Afghanistan and urges more support - 09, Jun 2008
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. first lady Laura Bush appealed to the international community on Sunday not to abandon Afghanistan in the face of resurgent Taliban violence.
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Obama's vice presidential choice now the focus - 09, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With Hillary Clinton out of the U.S. presidential race, Democrats on Sunday began healing wounds from a bruising nominating contest and speculated about Barack Obama's vice presidential choice.
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Oil, CPI may give stocks a rough ride - 09, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street may be in for a rocky ride this week as investors recall Friday's triple threat -- oil at a record above $139 a barrel, a troubling unemployment report and the stock market's 3 percent drop -- while they await inflation da
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OPEC sees no need to pump more after price surge - 09, Jun 2008
DUBAI (Reuters) - OPEC members saw no need on Sunday to pump more oil in response to last week's double-digit surge in oil prices to over $139 a barrel that top exporter Saudi Arabia described as unjustified.
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Gasoline rises above $4 a gallon for first time - 09, Jun 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The U.S. average price for a gallon of regular gasoline topped $4 for the first time, a survey issued on Sunday by the travel group AAA showed.
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Leaders of No. 2 U.S. actors union OK TV contract - 08, Jun 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Leaders of the second largest U.S.
actors union ratified a tentative prime-time TV contract with
Hollywood's major studios on Saturday and recommended member
approval, heightening tensions with the larger Screen Actors
Guild.
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Pavlik retains middleweight titles, Mora beats Forrest - 08, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Kelly Pavlik dominated Gary Lockett of Britain to retain his WBC and WBO middleweight titles with a third-round stoppage in Atlantic City on Saturday.
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Damon's six hits lead Yankees to win over Royals - 08, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Johnny Damon produced a record-equaling six hits and a walk-off single to lift the New York Yankees to a 12-11 win over the Kansas City Royals on Saturday.
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Big Brown Triple Crown dreams wilt away - 08, Jun 2008
ELMONT, New York (Reuters) - Big Brown's Triple Crown dreams wilted in the searing heat when 38-1 longshot Da' Tara won the Belmont Stakes in a wire-to-wire shocker Saturday.
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Bryant takes pressure of Game Two over Bora Bora - 08, Jun 2008
BOSTON (Reuters) - Kobe Bryant is relishing the kind of pressure awaiting him when he leads the Los Angeles Lakers against the Boston Celtics in Game Two of the NBA finals on Sunday.
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Yale in biggest expansion in nearly four decades - 08, Jun 2008
BOSTON (Reuters) - Yale University unveiled its biggest expansion in nearly four decades on Saturday, with plans to build two new residential colleges that would raise undergraduate enrollment by 15 percent.
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G8 energy ministers look inward on oil - 08, Jun 2008
AOMORI, Japan (Reuters) - Group of Eight energy ministers on Sunday looked inward for solutions to oil's unrelenting rally, touting the need for domestic efficiency rather than piling pressure on a resistant OPEC to pump more crude.
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Man knifes shoppers in Tokyo - 08, Jun 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - A man drove a truck into a crowd of pedestrians in a popular Tokyo shopping district and then went on a stabbing rampage on Sunday, killing at least four people, Japanese media reported.
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Israelis round on Mofaz's "political" Iran threat - 08, Jun 2008
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli defense officials and political pundits rounded on Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz on Sunday after he threatened an attack on Iran, accusing him of exploiting regional war jitters to advance personal ambitions.
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Ruling Pakistan party says to cut Musharraf's power - 08, Jun 2008
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's ruling party has said it is determined to curtail the powers of the presidency in favor of parliament, whether President Pervez Musharraf likes it or not. Staunch U.S. ally Musharraf, facing a chorus of calls to resign, to
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Powerful storms swamp U.S. Midwest, spawn tornadoes - 08, Jun 2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Heavy rains caused flooding that forced hundreds of evacuations in Indiana, and a tornado raked Chicago's suburbs on Saturday as violent thunderstorms pummeled the already soggy U.S. heartland, authorities said.
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Myanmar denies evictions from cyclone relief camps - 08, Jun 2008
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's military government denied on Sunday it was evicting victims of Cyclone Nargis from relief camps, saying it was working on a voluntary resettlement program more than a month after the disaster.
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Laura Bush urges more support on Afghan visit - 08, Jun 2008
BAMIYAN, Afghanistan (Reuters) - First lady Laura Bush made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Sunday with an appeal to the international community not to abandon the war-torn country in the face of resurgent Taliban violence.
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Mars lander's 1st soil sample may not be analyzed - 08, Jun 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dirt that the Phoenix Mars Lander scooped recently from the planet's surface may be too clumpy to be analyzed by the machine's onboard system, NASA reported on Saturday.
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Italian film director Dino Risi dies - 08, Jun 2008
ROME (Reuters) - Film director Dino Risi, who chronicled the bittersweet and lighter side of Italy's post-war economic boom, died on Saturday, the residence where he lived said.
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Reunited James plays surprise L.A. show - 08, Jun 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Reunited British rock band James,
who enjoyed cult success in America during the early '90s,
played their first U.S. concert in Los Angeles on Friday since
ending a lengthy hiatus last year.
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Nadal stronger than ever ahead of final - 08, Jun 2008
PARIS (Reuters) - Three-times champion Rafael Nadal, who faces world number one Roger Federer for the third successive year on Sunday, has never looked so strong entering a French Open final.
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Sports' McKay dies, told world of Munich tragedy - 08, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sports broadcaster Jim McKay, who won international fame for his marathon coverage of the 1972 attack on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, has died, the ABC television network said on Saturday. He was 86.
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Ivanovic crowned queen of Roland Garros - 08, Jun 2008
PARIS (Reuters) - A new French Open era dawned on Saturday as Serbia's Ana Ivanovic mesmerised Russian Dinara Safina 6-4 6-3 to win her maiden grand slam title.
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Impressive Portugal set early marker - 08, Jun 2008
VIENNA (Reuters) - Portugal served notice that they will be again be among the title challengers when they turned on the style to outclass Turkey 2-0 on an entertaining first day of Euro 2008 on Saturday.
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Musharraf says not resigning now - 08, Jun 2008
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said on Saturday he had no immediate plan to resign or go into exile, in a bid to quash rising speculation he will quit office soon.
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Canada says concludes Colombia free trade talks - 08, Jun 2008
TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian government said on Saturday it had concluded free trade negotiations with Colombia, including talks on related labor and environmental issues, reaching a comprehensive deal that would expand market access for goods and ser
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China begins easing pressure on menacing quake lake - 08, Jun 2008
MAJINGXIANG, China (Reuters) - Chinese troops on Saturday eased pressure on a swelling "quake lake" threatening hundreds of thousands of people, but a smaller lake burst its banks in a show of destructive force.
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U.N. envoys back Congo's Kabila against Rwandan rebels - 08, Jun 2008
KINSHASA (Reuters) - U.N. envoys met Congo President Joseph Kabila on Saturday and backed his plans to disarm and expel Rwandan rebels behind years of strife, and to refocus the biggest U.N. peace force on rebuilding his shattered nation.
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Energy ministers split on subsidies as oil surges - 08, Jun 2008
AOMORI, Japan (Reuters) - Energy officials from five top consumer nations urged producers to step up investment on Saturday, a day after crude's biggest surge ever, but they offered no new ideas on how to deal with record prices and remained divided on fu
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IAEA chief warns against nuclear plant attacks - 08, Jun 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - Threats to attack nuclear plants on suspicion they would one day make bombs could undermine the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the chief of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said.
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Zimbabwe court overturns police ban on rallies - 08, Jun 2008
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's High Court on Saturday overturned a police ban on opposition rallies this weekend ahead of the June 27 presidential run-off, a lawyer for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said.
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Big Brown's Triple Crown dreams wilt in the sun - 08, Jun 2008
ELMONT, New York (Reuters) - Big Brown's Triple Crown dreams wilted in the searing heat when 38-1 longshot Da' Tara, ridden by Alan Garcia, easily won the Belmont Stakes by 5 1/4 lengths in a wire-to-wire shocker on Saturday.
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Clinton endorses Obama - 08, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton ended her presidential bid and endorsed Barack Obama on Saturday, urging her supporters to unite behind his candidacy and help recapture the White House for Democrats in November.
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Malaysians turn to Internet to fight fuel hike - 08, Jun 2008
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysians have turned to the Internet to vent their anger at one of the biggest hikes in fuel prices, and some are using it to rally support against the measure in a country with tight restrictions on street protests.
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Panettiere, fashion label team on album - 07, Jun 2008
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Fashion brand Candie's didn't have to look far to find its new pop-music "it girl": "Heroes" star and Candie's spokeswoman Hayden Panettiere.
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Two year wait almost over for co-hosts Switzerland - 07, Jun 2008
BASEL (Reuters) - A two-year wait for competitive football will finally end for Switzerland on Saturday when the co-hosts launch Euro 2008 against Czech Republic (noon EDT).
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Ochoa fires 65 to seize LPGA Championship lead - 07, Jun 2008
HAVRE DE GRACE, Maryland (Reuters) - Lorena Ochoa fired a flawless seven-under-par 65 on Friday to seize the lead after two rounds of the LPGA Championship at Bulle Rock.
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Alicia Keys' troubled time leads to big success - 07, Jun 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - R&B singer Alicia Keys is enjoying
a successful worldwide tour, a chart-topping album and will act
in an upcoming movie, but it might not have happened, she said,
were it not for a near breakdown two years ago.
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Bradley joins tie for Memphis lead - 07, Jun 2008
MEMPHIS, Tennessee (Reuters) - American Michael Bradley, playing on the 2008 PGA Tour with a medical exemption, eked out a two-under-par 68 to move into a six-way tie for the lead in the St. Jude Championship second round on Friday.
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Welterweight champion Mayweather retires - 07, Jun 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Floyd Mayweather Jr., widely regarded as the world's best fighter pound-for-pound, announced his retirement from the sport on Friday for the second time in 13 months.
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Moehler on song as Astros beat Cardinals 6-1 - 07, Jun 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Pitcher Brian Moehler delivered his best outing of the season to help the Houston Astros beat the St Louis Cardinals 6-1 Friday.
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I just have to put ball in hole, says Bryant - 07, Jun 2008
BOSTON (Reuters) - Kobe Bryant, the NBA's most valuable player, had no problem pinpointing what the Los Angeles Lakers need to do to rebound from their 98-88 loss to the Boston Celtics in the opening game of the NBA finals.
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Mexico captures U.S. sex offender on FBI wanted list - 07, Jun 2008
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican police captured a convicted U.S. sex offender on the FBI's list of 10 most-wanted fugitives, who is accused of molesting a boy in a family he befriended while in prison, authorities said on Friday.
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U.S. urges subsidy cuts, not regulation, to tame oil - 07, Jun 2008
AOMORI, Japan (Reuters) - Energy Secretary Sam Bodman called on Saturday for more countries to scrap fuel price subsidies that stoke oil demand, adding that more regulation of energy markets was not the solution to record prices.
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Clinton set to back Obama - 07, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Barack Obama basks in his historic accomplishment as the first black U.S. presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton ends her groundbreaking effort as the first woman to go as far as she did in the quest for the White House.
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Dow falls 394.64 points on jobless rate, record oil - 07, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks plunged on Friday, marking the Dow's worst day in 15 months, after the government said the May unemployment rate jumped the most in 22 years and oil prices shot to another record, renewing fears that the U.S. economy faces 1970
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Amazon.com site fails for 2 hours, cause unknown - 07, Jun 2008
BOSTON (Reuters) - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc said its U.S. website was down for about 2 hours on Friday but said it was unsure what had blocked access to the world's biggest online store.
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T-Mobile sues Starbucks over AT&T Internet deal - 07, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - T-Mobile USA is suing Starbucks, saying the coffee shop chain secretly colluded with AT&T to offer free WiFi Internet access in its cafes despite an exclusive agreement with T-Mobile.
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Labels eye variable pricing for digital sales - 07, Jun 2008
DENVER (Billboard) - Arguably the No. 1 item on record labels' to-do list for the year is, "Establish variable pricing for digital downloads."
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Stranded in space? Japan's space lab too roomy - 07, Jun 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - The new Japanese laboratory on the International Space Station has one drawback: It's so spacious that astronauts floating in the middle of the room can get stranded, space shuttle Discovery's commander said on Friday.
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Japan's new space lab gets its storage shed - 07, Jun 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station used its robotic arm on Friday to grapple and then hoist a storage room onto Japan's new orbital research laboratory.
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Two diabetes trials shed a little light on deaths - 07, Jun 2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Researchers who compared two diabetes trials said on Friday they are getting some insight into why patients in one were more likely to die after aggressive treatment, while patients in another were not.
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Jennifer Hudson in "Spotlight" with new single - 07, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Jennifer Hudson may have taken
longer than fans wished before officially announcing the
September 30 release of her self-titled debut album. But early
signs indicate it might've been worth the wait.
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Screenwriters strike cost Calif. $2.1 bln: report - 07, Jun 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The recent Hollywood writers' strike tipped California into a recession, resulting in a loss of $2.1 billion to the state economy and costing 37,700 jobs, the Milken Institute said in a research report.
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Hamilton fastest in Canadian GP practice - 07, Jun 2008
MONTREAL (Reuters) - McLaren's Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time in practice for the Canadian Grand Prix on Friday with a best lap of one minute 15.752.
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Ochoa seizes LPGA Championship lead after seven-under 65 - 07, Jun 2008
HAVRE DE GRACE, Maryland (Reuters) - Lorena Ochoa seized the lead midway through the second round of the LPGA Championship by firing a flawless seven-under-par 65 at Bulle Rock golf course on Friday.
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U.S. sprinter Gatlin's ban appeal rejected - 07, Jun 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Olympic 100 meters champion Justin Gatlin failed to have a four-year doping ban overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Friday.
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Bonds again pleads not guilty on perjury charges - 07, Jun 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. baseball home run king Barry Bonds pleaded not guilty on Friday to federal charges that he lied about past steroid use, a repeat of an earlier denial following an updated criminal indictment.
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Dibaba sets women's 5,000 world record - 07, Jun 2008
OSLO (Reuters) - Twice world 10,000 meters champion Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia shattered the world women's 5,000 record when she clocked 14 minutes 11.15 seconds at the Oslo Golden League meeting in the Bislett stadium on Friday.
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Lakers query Pierce's dramatic return - 07, Jun 2008
BOSTON (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Lakers have suggested the dramatic return of Paul Pierce from a knee injury to spark the Boston Celtics to a 98-88 win in the opening game of the NBA finals may have been more manufactured than magic.
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Nadal surprised with ease of victory over Djokovic - 07, Jun 2008
PARIS (Reuters) - Rafael Nadal is used to getting his own way at Roland Garros, but the three-times French Open champion admitted that his semi-final win over Novak Djokovic on Friday had been easier than he had expected.
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Big Brown ready to claim Triple Crown, trainer says - 07, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Belmont Stakes is a proven graveyard for Triple Crown contenders but Big Brown's trainer said on Friday he was convinced the punishing distance would have no effect on his unbeaten and still untested colt.
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Federer makes final date with Nadal - 07, Jun 2008
PARIS (Reuters) - Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer will play out Act III of their intriguing Roland Garros rivalry after they both trudged into the French Open final on Friday.
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Phoenix lander scoops up first sample of Mars dirt - 07, Jun 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Phoenix lander has scooped up its first, cup-sized sample of Martian dirt for analysis, kicking off the spacecraft's primary science mission of searching for water or signs of life on the Red Planet.
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Iraq says it wants to restrict movement of U.S. troops - 07, Jun 2008
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq said on Friday it would not grant U.S. troops freedom of movement for military operations in a new agreement being negotiated on extending the presence of American troops on its soil.
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Landmark California tax measure popular 30 years on - 07, Jun 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Thirty years after it sparked a popular tax revolt that helped sweep former governor Ronald Reagan into the White House, Californians still support the landmark Proposition 13, but critics say it has roiled the state's budgets ev
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Pentagon chief nears Air Force leader decision - 07, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A day after he fired the top two Air Force leaders, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expected to pick Michael Donley, a senior Pentagon official, as Air Force secretary, a senior defense official said on Friday.
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Clinton lays plans for Obama endorsement - 07, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Frustrated in defeat, Democrat Hillary Clinton is to endorse U.S. campaign rival Barack Obama on Saturday and party strategists said she needs to set aside any bad feelings and put on a convincing show of unity.
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Fed's Bullard: Fed must tackle inflation this year - 07, Jun 2008
MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve has cut interest rates enough to shield the U.S. economy from the housing crisis and must now tackle inflation for the remainder of the year, a top Fed official said on Friday.
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