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Friend confirms Paul Newman has cancer - 12, Jun 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Paul Newman told friends as far back as 18 months ago that he was battling cancer but has remained energetic and active in charity work, a friend and business associate said on Wednesday.
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Nadal strides through Queen's opener - 12, Jun 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Four-times French Open champion Rafael Nadal opened his grasscourt season on Wednesday with a ruthlessly efficient 6-2 6-2 victory over experienced Swede Jonas Bjorkman at the Queen's Club ATP tournament.
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Chicago Bulls appoint Vinny Del Negro as head coach - 12, Jun 2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Chicago Bulls named Vinny Del Negro as head coach on Wednesday, hoping the inexperienced former NBA role player can help restore the young team to its 1990s-era glory.
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Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson ready for Torrey showdown - 12, Jun 2008
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - U.S. Open fans are set for a mouth-watering duel between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson over the next four days at Torrey Pines where the biggest talking point has been the state of Woods's left knee.
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Oscar De La Hoya committed to one more fight before retiring - 12, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oscar De La Hoya said on Wednesday he was committed to just one more fight this year before retiring.
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Turkey sends Switzerland sliding out of Euro 2008 - 12, Jun 2008
BASEL (Reuters) - Turkey sent co-hosts Switzerland sliding out of Euro 2008 in the cruelest possible way on Wednesday when a stoppage time goal from Arda Turan secured a 2-1 victory in an enthralling Group A match at St Jakob Park.
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Oprah named most powerful celebrity again - 12, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Talk show host Oprah Winfrey is the world's most powerful celebrity for the second straight year and for the fifth time ever, according to the 2008 Forbes Celebrity 100 Power List released on Wednesday.
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Midwest battles flood waters - 12, Jun 2008
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Water-logged residents of the Midwest desperately shored up levees holding back rising rivers on Wednesday, while others abandoned their homes to the flood waters.
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UK spy leaves al Qaeda file on train - 12, Jun 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - One of Britain's top intelligence officials left a file with secret documents about Iraq and al Qaeda on a train, in an embarrassing government security breach that was exposed on Wednesday.
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U.S. warns defiant Iran ahead of Solana trip - 12, Jun 2008
TEHRAN (Reuters) - The United States warned a defiant Iran on Wednesday that "all options are on the table" to thwart its nuclear ambitions and the EU's top diplomat prepared to travel to Tehran in the latest bid to resolve the dispute.
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Afghanistan conference to raise cash, set strategy - 12, Jun 2008
PARIS (Reuters) - Ministers from dozens of countries gather in Paris on Thursday to pledge funds for Afghanistan and review their development strategy for the violence-plagued state.
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FDA has tomato Salmonella reports in 17 states - 12, Jun 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. health officials on Wednesday said they are still receiving reports of people falling ill from eating Salmonella-tainted tomatoes and that they now have 167 reported cases from 17 states.
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McCain draws fire for troop withdrawal comment - 12, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats accused John McCain on Wednesday of being confused and unsympathetic for saying it's "not too important" when U.S. troops leave Iraq, attacking the Republican presidential candidate on an issue he has made key in the Novem
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Obama's VP search leader steps down - 12, Jun 2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The chief of Democrat Barack Obama's search for a vice presidential running mate stepped down from that role on Wednesday over questions about loans he received from a company involved in the U.S. housing crisis.
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Banks giving short-term help to mortgagors - 12, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The biggest U.S. banks that service more than 23 million mortgages totaling $3.8 trillion have focused on short term relief for troubled borrowers rather than permanent changes to mortgage conditions to prevent foreclosures, a top U
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Ford to brief UAW on production shift - 12, Jun 2008
DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co's top manufacturing executives will meet union leaders and plant managers on Friday to discuss the challenges faced by the automaker, including a slump in pickup truck and SUV sales.
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Oil jumps $5 as U.S. stockpiles fall - 12, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Crude oil prices on Wednesday jumped more than $5 to within sight of the record after a report showed stockpiles in the United States fell sharply for the fourth week in a row, intensifying worries of a worsening global crunch.
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Home price drop means $4 trillion in lost capital - 12, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - No one knows when the credit crisis will end.
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Stocks sink as oil reapproaches high, BUD up late - 12, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks sank on Wednesday, with all three indexes losing around 2 percent, after oil prices shot back near their record high, stoking fears about inflation and its toll on consumers.
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Merrill would consider Bloomberg, BlackRock sales - 12, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain said that the world's largest brokerage would consider selling its stakes in news and financial data company Bloomberg and money manager BlackRock if it needed more capital.
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WaMu denies regulatory move rumors as shares fall - 12, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Washington Mutual Inc on Wednesday denied what it called market rumors about regulatory activity after the shares fell more than 9 percent to a 16-year low.
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Consumers pinched by high food, energy costs: Fed - 12, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumers pared spending in recent weeks as they struggled under the weight of higher food and energy costs, limiting the ability of retailers to raise other prices, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday.
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Anheuser gets $46.3 billion takeover bid from InBev - 12, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc said on Wednesday it received a $46.3 billion takeover bid from Belgium's InBev in a move to further consolidate the global beer industry.
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U.S. lawmakers accuse China of hacking computers - 12, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. lawmakers active in human rights affairs said on Wednesday they believe their office computers were hacked from China and urged greater security for congressional computers.
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Calling all Guitar Heroes to the conductor's stand - 12, Jun 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - You may be a wicked axe man thanks to the "Guitar Hero" videogame by Activision Inc, but are you ready to take on a whole orchestra?
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Russia's president calls for Cyrillic Internet domain - 12, Jun 2008
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called for Russia to be assigned an Internet domain name in the Cyrillic script on Wednesday as part of a Kremlin drive to promote Russian as a global language.
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin books space flight - 12, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google co-founder Sergey Brin wants to go to space and has made a $5 million down payment to book a seat on a private space flight with Space Adventures, the space tourism company said on Wednesday.
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U.S. space shuttle heads from station - 11, Jun 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. space shuttle Discovery backed away from the International Space Station on Wednesday, leaving behind a Japanese research laboratory, a new crewmember and high hopes for the outpost's completion by 2010.
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Love is the drug on French first lady's new album - 11, Jun 2008
PARIS (Reuters) - France's first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy sings of 30 lovers and hard drugs on a new album that she insists was not inspired by her whirlwind romance and marriage to President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Australia kicks D'Arcy off Beijing swim team - 11, Jun 2008
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has voted to kick swimmer Nick D'Arcy off the team for Beijing for his role in a nightclub brawl that left a former competitor with serious facial injuries.
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Wang ends drought to lift Yankees - 11, Jun 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The New York Yankees moved over the .500 mark when Chien-Ming Wang picked up his seventh win of the season in a 3-1 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday.
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Mugabe deploys more veterans to boost campaign - 11, Jun 2008
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's party said on Wednesday it would deploy more war veterans to campaign in some opposition areas ahead of a presidential election run-off marred by violence.
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Cyclone-hit Myanmar rejects rice shortage fears - 11, Jun 2008
YANGON (Reuters) - Cyclone-hit Myanmar has enough rice to feed its people, the ruling junta said on Wednesday, accusing foreign aid agencies of presenting a false picture of the devastation in the Irrawaddy delta rice bowl.
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China quake survivors look to start again - 11, Jun 2008
MIANYANG, China (Reuters) - Having lost loved ones and their homes to an earthquake and then what was left of their belongings to floodwaters, victims of China's worst disaster in decades spoke stoically of starting again on Wednesday.
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At least 29 killed in Sudanese airliner blaze - 11, Jun 2008
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A Sudanese airliner coming from Amman and Damascus burst into flames after landing in Khartoum on Tuesday night, killing at least 29 of the roughly 214 people on board, officials and witnesses said on Wednesday.
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Bush issues Iran warning on farewell Europe tour - 11, Jun 2008
MESEBERG, Germany (Reuters) - President George W. Bush threatened Iran on Wednesday with more sanctions if it failed to stop enriching uranium and said all options were on the table to thwart Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
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Iran says West fails to stop nuclear advances - 11, Jun 2008
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Western pressure has failed to stop Iran's nuclear program from advancing, its president said on Wednesday, a day after the United States and the European Union warned of more sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
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Woman in Austria cellar incest case rejoins family - 11, Jun 2008
ZEILLERN, Austria (Reuters) - The eldest child of an incestuous relationship between Austrian Josef Fritzl and the daughter he confined for 24 years has been reunited with her family after recovering from an artificial coma, doctors said.
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Pakistan condemns "cowardly" U.S. attack; 11 dead - 11, Jun 2008
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Wednesday an "unprovoked and cowardly" air strike by U.S. forces had killed 11 Pakistani soldiers on its border with Afghanistan and undermined the basis of security cooperation.
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BP chairman rejects "apocalyptic" talk of $250 oil - 11, Jun 2008
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The chairman of British oil major BP rejected as "apocalyptic" a prediction by the head of Russian gas giant Gazprom of oil prices soaring to $250 a barrel by the end of next year.
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Daiichi to pay up to $4.6 billion for control of Ranbaxy - 11, Jun 2008
TOKYO/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Japanese drug maker Daiichi Sankyo Co Ltd moved to take majority control of India's biggest drug maker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd in a friendly deal worth up to $4.6 billion.
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U.S. corn hits record, pulling other grains higher - 11, Jun 2008
PARIS/TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. corn futures hit an all-time high on Wednesday after the U.S. Agriculture Department lowered its yield forecast for 2008 due to wet weather hampering development of the crop.
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May retail sales rise on gasoline: SpendingPulse - 11, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Retail sales excluding cars improved in May, as consumers shelled out more money for gasoline at the expense of other purchases, according to a private report released on Wednesday.
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Staples to buy Corporate Express for $2.65 bln - 11, Jun 2008
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - U.S. office supplies company Staples has won its battle to buy Corporate Express after the Dutch firm agreed to a sweetened bid of 1.7 billion euros ($2.65 billion) to create the world's biggest office products supplier.
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Astronauts board shuttle to depart space station - 11, Jun 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Shuttle Discovery astronauts said goodbye to the International Space Station crew on Tuesday, ending a nine-day mission to deliver a Japanese-made orbital research laboratory.
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Groundskeepers cut fine figures in the outfield - 11, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Decorating the playing fields at Major League Baseball (MLB) parks has become high art with groundskeepers using mowers and hoses to painstakingly fashion elaborate logos and patterns in the grass.
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Paul Newman responds cryptically to cancer reports - 11, Jun 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning actor Paul Newman, responding to a flurry of unconfirmed reports he is gravely ill with cancer, issued a terse, cryptic statement on Tuesday that shed little light on his actual condition.
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Dutch hopes ride high on $1-million bike - 11, Jun 2008
HEERENVEEN, Netherlands (Reuters) - Dutch cycle maker Koga Miyata is betting that its $1-million bike will help cyclist Theo Bos land a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics after he narrowly missed out in Athens four years ago.
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Angelo Taylor strives for comeback - 11, Jun 2008
ATLANTA (Reuters) - If U.S. Olympic gold medalist Angelo Taylor has a motto, it should be: "I'll be back."
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Yankees want more NYC bonds for stadium: Brodsky - 11, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Yankees baseball team wants a city agency to sell $350 million of bonds for its new stadium or else it will not be able to complete the project, state Assemblyman Richard Brodsky said on Tuesday.
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Sergio Garcia ready for major breakthrough - 11, Jun 2008
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Sergio Garcia is confident his victory at the Players Championship will help him break through at this week's U.S. Open and shed the tag as the best current player who has not won a major title.
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Lakers beat Celtics to get back in title hunt - 11, Jun 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Lakers battled back into NBA title contention by beating the Boston Celtics 87-81 to trim their deficit in the finals to 2-1 on Tuesday.
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic special floors Greece - 11, Jun 2008
SALZBURG (Reuters) - Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored his first international goal for more than two and a half years to send Sweden on the way to a 2-0 Euro 2008 victory over champions Greece on Tuesday.
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Southern Baptists elect American Indian as leader - 11, Jun 2008
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - The conservative Southern Baptist Convention elected an American Indian as its president on Tuesday in a sign the historically white denomination is starting to diversify.
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South Korea's troubled president seeks rival as PM - 11, Jun 2008
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's unpopular president has approached his main conservative rival to be prime minister to stem anger over his policies that have triggered mass street protests, an aide to the rival said on Wednesday.
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At least 28 killed in Sudanese airliner blaze - 11, Jun 2008
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A Sudanese airliner burst into flames after landing in Khartoum overnight in bad weather, killing at least 28 of the 217 people on board, officials said on Wednesday.
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Obama stakes early claim to political turf - 11, Jun 2008
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama staked an ambitious claim to new political turf with the states he chose for his first two stops of the White House general election campaign -- Virginia and North Carolina.
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Retailers, brand owners seek fortunes at Licensing Show - 11, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Toymakers, manufacturers and retailers shrugged off soaring temperatures and flocked to the 2008 Licensing International Expo, some showing off hit brands, and others vying for rights to use them.
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Bratz designer erased computer files: lawyers - 11, Jun 2008
RIVERSIDE, California (Reuters) - A jury will learn that
the creator of the popular Bratz doll erased files from his
computer two days before handing it over as evidence in a
federal trademark infringement lawsuit filed by Mattel Inc
, a judge in Cali
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Toyota to start lithium-ion battery output in 2009 - 11, Jun 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp said on Wednesday its battery joint venture with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co will start full-scale production of lithium-ion batteries in 2010 as it aims to roll out more electricity-driven cars over the next fe
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Merrill CEO wants ongoing Fed access, rules reform - 11, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Merrill Lynch Chief Executive John Thain on Tuesday said he would like to see broker-dealer access to the Federal Reserve discount window continue longer term, though any increase of regulation must be appropriate for securities firm
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FiLife venture opens personal finance site - 11, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - FiLife, a personal finance venture from IAC/InterActiveCorp and Dow Jones & Co, will open its site to a public test on Wednesday after a year in development and much media speculation over its future.
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Icahn and shareholders raise pressure on Yahoo board - 11, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's board of directors came under increasing pressure over an employee severance plan on Tuesday, with shareholders suing the company demanding a swift trial and investor Carl Icahn threatening to hold the board "personally li
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U.S. could face glitch in TV converter box program - 11, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials are facing a potential glitch in a program designed to help television viewers make the switch to digital TV next year.
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Google lets users measure the power of words - 11, Jun 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Number-crunchers can rejoice as Google Inc offers deeper access to the underlying figures for users' Web searches, giving some insight into trends based on the relative popularity of various words.
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Google says it would support U.S. privacy law - 11, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc has told a senior Republican lawmaker concerned about privacy that the Internet search and advertising company supports a federal privacy law.
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Chemical changes may help detect colon cancer early - 11, Jun 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists said on Tuesday they had identified subtle chemical changes that allow abnormal cells to multiply out of control, a finding that could help detect colon cancer earlier.
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New York judge bars 50 Cent from selling property - 11, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York judge on Tuesday ordered U.S. rapper 50 Cent not to sell the property where a fire destroyed his $2.4 million home and where his ex-girlfriend lived with their son.
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Wife of comedian Denis Leary skewers celebrity - 11, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The wife of comedian Denis Leary sends up Hollywood, marriage and celebrities in her new novel that is based on her experiences of dealing with her husband's fame and observations of film stars.
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"Sex and the City" actor hits "naked" jackpot - 11, Jun 2008
SYDNEY (Reuters) - French model-actor Gilles Marini has built his career by dressing up, so he is stunned that his major break has come from stripping down and appearing naked, completely naked, in the hit movie "Sex and the City."
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North America tomato industry reeling: growers - 11, Jun 2008
MIAMI (Reuters) - Florida's tomato industry is in "complete collapse" and growers in California and Mexico are having trouble selling their crops as U.S. regulators hunt the source of a salmonella outbreak linked to certain tomato varieties, growers said
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Woods returns from knee surgery for run at U.S. Open - 11, Jun 2008
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Despite playing no competitive golf for eight weeks following knee surgery, world number one Tiger Woods has declared himself ready for the start of the U.S. Open on Thursday.
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Retail gasoline demand down vs year ago: MasterCard - 11, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. retail gasoline demand slipped 3.8 percent from last year's levels, as gasoline prices posted yet another record high last week, MasterCard Advisors said Tuesday.
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U.S. expected to pledge some $10 billion for Afghans - 11, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is expected to pledge about $10 billion in aid for Afghanistan at a donors conference this week, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, less than what the White House had wanted from Congress.
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U.S. open to more talks with Iran on Iraq - 11, Jun 2008
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United States is open to holding more talks with Iran about Iraq's security, but it must first be confident that the talks are likely to make progress, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday.
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Fed hammers home message against inflation - 11, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top Federal Reserve officials on Tuesday hammered home the U.S. central bank's determination not to allow inflation to get out of control, cementing views that interest rates will rise later this year.
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McCain, Obama present different views on taxes - 11, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama staked out starkly opposing stances on taxes on Tuesday, with McCain promising corporate tax breaks and Obama pledging tax increases for many.
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Sudan plane bursts into flames, dozens feared dead - 11, Jun 2008
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A Sudan Airways plane carrying 217 people burst into flames after landing at Khartoum airport on Tuesday and dozens were feared killed.
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Trade gap widens in April as oil prices surge - 11, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. trade deficit widened more than expected in April as the price of imported oil hit a record, pushing overall imports to an all-time high, a Commerce Department report showed on Tuesday.
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Global forecasters cut non-OPEC oil supply growth - 11, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two of the world's most closely watched energy forecasters on Tuesday slashed predictions for output from oil fields outside the OPEC cartel in 2008 -- more bad news for a global economy struggling with record high oil prices and ti
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Market ends mostly lower on rate-hike concern; Dow up - 11, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street mostly sagged on Tuesday as concern that interest rates will climb hurt technology shares, but the Dow managed to close on the positive side after an upgrade of Coca-Cola Co shares.
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Verizon says FiOS buildout may exceed plans - 11, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Communication Inc said on Tuesday it could build out its all-fiber Internet and video network to more than its target of 18 million homes by the end of 2010, despite a weaker U.S. housing market and softer consumer spending.
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Shareholders seek prompt trial in Yahoo lawsuit - 11, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shareholders suing Yahoo Inc's board of directors are seeking a trial before the company's August 1 annual meeting to challenge an employee severance plan they contend is an obstacle to a merger with Microsoft Corp.
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HP aims to transform market with touchy-feely PCs - 11, Jun 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard, the world's biggest computer maker, launched a new generation of PCs on Tuesday that respond to users tapping or stroking the screen, potentially bringing user-friendly computing to the masses.
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Greece keen to show 2004 was no fluke - 10, Jun 2008
SALZBURG (Reuters) - Greece will be eager to prove their surprise 2004 triumph was no fluke when they launch their European Championship title defense against Sweden on Tuesday.
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Billy Bob Thornton pursues first love with band - 10, Jun 2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - He is an acclaimed actor and Oscar winner for writing the movie "Sling Blade" but most of the time Billy Bob Thornton would rather be pursuing his first love: music.
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Relief as China "quake lake" drains at speed - 10, Jun 2008
JIANGYOU, China (Reuters) - China declared victory over an unstable "quake lake" on Tuesday as floodwaters were released downstream, where hundreds of thousands had been under threat of a second crisis following last month's earthquake.
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Griffey goes deep to join 600-homer club - 10, Jun 2008
MIAMI (Reuters) - Ken Griffey Jr became the sixth major league player to hit 600 career home runs when he went deep in the first inning of the Cincinnati Reds 9-4 win over the Florida Marlins on Monday.
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Ain't It Funky Now: James Brown items for sale - 10, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fans of James Brown will have a chance to own some of the legendary soul singer's funky stuff when Christie's puts hundreds of items up for sale on July 17.
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Mass protests in South Korea - 10, Jun 2008
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's entire cabinet offered to resign on Tuesday in the face of massive street protests, as its increasingly unpopular president warned that Asia's fourth-largest economy could be heading into crisis.
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Florida tomato industry in "complete collapse" - 10, Jun 2008
MIAMI (Reuters) - Florida's tomato industry is in "complete collapse" and $40 million worth of tomatoes will rot unless federal regulators quickly trace the source of a salmonella outbreak and clear the state's produce, an industry official said on Tuesda
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Serb court clears Milosevic's son of assault - 10, Jun 2008
BELGRADE (Reuters) - A Serbian court on Tuesday cleared Marko Milosevic, son of the late leader Slobodan Milosevic, of assault charges relating to beatings and threats against political opponents.
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Olmert woes, dwindling time cloud Rice Mideast trip - 10, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits the Middle East this weekend facing the reality that political turmoil in Israel and the Bush administration's dwindling time may dash hopes of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal this y
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Eldest child in Austria incest case wakes from coma - 10, Jun 2008
VIENNA (Reuters) - The eldest daughter from an incestuous relationship between Austrian Josef Fritzl and his daughter who he kept locked in a cellar for 24 years has been revived from an artificial coma, hospital sources said on Tuesday.
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Guantanamo inmates suffering mental damage: report - 10, Jun 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - Over two-thirds of the detainees in the Guantanamo Bay prison are suffering from or at risk of mental problems because they are kept isolated in small cells with little light or fresh air, according to Human Rights Watch.
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EU and U.S. seek to turn up pressure on Iran - 10, Jun 2008
BRDO, Slovenia (Reuters) - The United States and the European Union sought on Tuesday to turn up the pressure on Iran to drop its nuclear enrichment program, saying they were ready to go beyond a latest round of U.N. sanctions.
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McCain, Obama stake out divergent paths on taxes - 10, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama staked out starkly opposing stances on taxes on Tuesday, with McCain promising corporate tax breaks and Obama pledging tax increases for many.
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Fed's Rosengren says higher costs still trickling - 10, Jun 2008
HARWICH, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Rising food and energy costs are still trickling through the economy, complicating the outlook for inflation, Boston Federal Reserve President Eric Rosengren said on Tuesday.
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XTO Energy to buy Hunt Petroleum for $4.2 billion - 10, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - XTO Energy Inc said on Tuesday that it would buy crude oil and natural gas producer Hunt Petroleum Corp for $4.19 billion in cash and stock in its second major purchase in two weeks.
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IEA trims world oil demand, cuts supply forecast - 10, Jun 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - World oil demand will rise at its slowest pace in six years during 2008 as a raft of fuel subsidy cuts in Asia erodes consumption, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday.
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