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Stocks fall on Bernanke warning, techs - 10, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday as investors worried that interest rates may be headed back up after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that the central bank would strongly resist rising inflation.
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Trade gaps widens in April as oil prices surge - 10, 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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BlackRock's Doll says Fed on hold for now - 10, Jun 2008
HONG KONG (Reuters) - One of the biggest U.S. money managers said on Tuesday the Federal Reserve was unlikely to raise interest rates despite surging oil prices until the U.S. economy shows more signs of stabilization.
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Telenor bid talk for TeliaSonera intensifies - 10, Jun 2008
OSLO (Reuters) - A TeliaSonera executive fanned speculation of a bid from Norway's Telenor on Tuesday, even though analysts frowned on the idea of a Nordic telecoms merger.
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New iPhone to hit major European markets in July - 10, Jun 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Apple Inc's next-generation iPhone with faster Internet access will go on sale across major markets in Europe on July 11 at a range of lower prices, operators said on Tuesday.
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Scientists figure out how rice absorbs arsenic - 10, Jun 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have worked out how crops such as rice absorb arsenic, a finding that could help prevent people from eating dangerous levels of the poisonous metal, they said on Tuesday.
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Drilling caused Indonesian mud volcano - 10, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Drilling of a gas exploration well, and not an earthquake, set off a volcano that has been spewing boiling mud for two years and has displaced more than 50,000 people on the Indonesian island of Java, experts said on Monday.
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Top U.S. networks wrap "upfront" sales on upswing - 10, Jun 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The three leading U.S. television networks said on Monday they have concluded the bulk of their prime-time advertising deals for the upcoming 2008-09 season with prices for commercials running unexpectedly higher than last year.
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Shuttle crew wraps up work at space station - 10, Jun 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Space shuttle Discovery astronaut Akihiko Hoshide unfolded the International Space Station's new Japanese-built robotic arm on Monday, although there was nothing around for it to grasp.
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Chuck Berry won't sing for "Johnny" in election - 10, Jun 2008
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Republican candidate John McCain may have used his song in the U.S. presidential campaign, but veteran rock 'n' roller Chuck Berry has no doubt whom he wants to see in the White House next year.
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U.S. Open qualifier Perez in hog heaven at Torrey Pines - 10, Jun 2008
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - This week's U.S. Open at Torrey Pines is as close to perfection as it can get for American qualifier Pat Perez.
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Tribune, Illinois swing and miss on Wrigley sale - 10, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A plan to sell Chicago's Wrigley Field baseball stadium to an Illinois state authority stalled on Monday after Tribune, the ballpark's owner, clashed with the state over how to finance the deal.
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Dutch light up Euro tournament - 10, Jun 2008
VIENNA (Reuters) - The Netherlands lit up Euro 2008 on Monday with a landmark performance to stun world champions Italy 3-0 while their wonderful fans delivered an example of colorful, noisy but peaceful support.
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Bush on farewell Europe tour seeks to pressure Iran - 10, Jun 2008
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - President George W. Bush goes into his farewell European summit on Tuesday seeking to work with allies to ratchet up pressure on Iran over its nuclear program but still at odds with them over climate change.
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China quake torrent crashes downstream - 10, Jun 2008
JIANGYOU, China (Reuters) - Muddy lake water from a dangerously unstable "quake lake" rushed through the devastated Chinese town of Beichuan on Tuesday and quickly turned into a torrent, after soldiers used explosives to blow away rubble.
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South Korea girds for protests; cabinet offers to quit - 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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Michelle Obama, Cindy McCain are study in contrast - 10, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain share a dislike of rough-edged U.S. politics. Each tried to talk her spouse out of running for the White House.
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Iran warns of "painful" response if Israel attacks - 10, Jun 2008
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian Defence Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar was quoted on Tuesday as warning Israel of a "very painful" response if it launched a military strike over the Islamic Republic's disputed nuclear program.
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Bernanke watchful of inflation risks from energy - 10, Jun 2008
HARWICK, Mass (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Monday signaled the central bank would act to strongly resist rising inflation, as energy costs soar into the stratosphere.
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Lehman raises $6 bln, expects big 2nd-quarter loss - 10, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc on Monday raised $6 billion in capital and projected a worse-than-forecasted quarterly loss, sending its shares swooning to a new five-year low.
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China stocks slide 7.7 pct on monetary tightening - 10, Jun 2008
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's main stock index tumbled 7.73 percent on Tuesday, its biggest drop since June last year, after the central bank announced a harsher-than-expected tightening of monetary policy to fight inflation.
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U.S. hiring seen weaker in third quarter: Manpower - 10, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A measure of U.S. employment expectations fell to its lowest since the fourth quarter of 2003, suggesting employers are increasingly cautious about hiring over the next three months, according to a quarterly survey by Manpower Inc re
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HP targets wider market with new touchscreen PCs - 10, Jun 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard, the world's biggest computer maker, launched a new generation of touchscreen PCs designed to lift user-friendly computing out of its expensive niche and bring it to a wider market.
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U.S. slowdown to be long, but no recession: survey - 10, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Economists have trimmed forecasts for U.S. growth in the second half of this year and in 2009, but more have come to the view that the United States will dodge a recession, a survey released on Tuesday showed.
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Comedy Central to offer Stewart, Colbert on Hulu - 10, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Viacom Inc's Comedy Central will begin offering full episodes of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and the "Colbert Report" on Hulu.com on Tuesday as part of a test, reversing an earlier position that it would mainly focus on offering
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Chartered cuts Q2 gross profit forecast - 10, Jun 2008
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing warned on Tuesday its second-quarter gross profit would be almost a fifth below its earlier guidance due to higher costs, but kept its net profit forecast thanks to a tax writeback.
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TeliaSonera board member says Telenor interested - 10, Jun 2008
OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's Telenor is interested in buying larger Swedish-Finnish rival TeliaSonera after France Telecom's bid was deemed too low, a member of TeliaSonera's board was quoted as saying.
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Apple takes wraps off "zippy" iPhone - 10, Jun 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc on Monday unveiled a next-generation iPhone with faster Internet access that will run on advanced wireless networks and sell for as low as $199 -- half the current entry-level price.
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Roman-era necropolis for the poor found intact - 10, Jun 2008
ROME (Reuters) - Archaeologists have discovered a nearly 2,000-year-old, intact necropolis on the outskirts of Rome that gives a rare insight into the lives of poor laborers in the Roman era.
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Mars lander struggles to get dirt into onboard lab - 10, Jun 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA scientists struggled on Monday to process the soil that the Phoenix Mars Lander scooped from the Red Planet's surface, finding that the Martian dirt was too clumpy to sift into the spacecraft's onboard laboratory.
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Astronaut unfolds space station's new robot arm - 10, Jun 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Space shuttle Discovery astronaut Akihiko Hoshide unfolded the International Space Station's new Japanese-built robotic arm on Monday, although there was nothing around for it to grasp.
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Hewitt coasts and Safin stutters at Queen's - 10, Jun 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Four-times former champion Lleyton Hewitt enjoyed a gentle workout in his first match of the grasscourt season on Monday, beating British wildcard Josh Goodall 6-4 6-4 to reach the second round at Queen's Club.
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Euro-Dutch light up tournament on and off pitch - 10, Jun 2008
VIENNA (Reuters) - The Netherlands lit up Euro 2008 on Monday with a landmark performance to stun world champions Italy 3-0 while their wonderful fans delivered an example of colorful, noisy but peaceful support.
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Detroit goalie Hasek retires - 10, Jun 2008
DETROIT (Reuters) - Detroit goalie Dominik Hasek, known as "The Dominator" over a 16-season National Hockey League career that included six awards as top goaltender and two Stanley Cups, announced his retirement on Monday.
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Kennedy returns home after brain surgery - 10, Jun 2008
HYANNIS PORT, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Sen. Edward Kennedy, the patriarch of America's most storied political family, returned home to Massachusetts on Monday, a week after surgery for removal of a malignant brain tumor.
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McDonald's, Wal-Mart stop some tomato sales - 10, Jun 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp, Wal-Mart Stores Inc and other restaurant and grocery chains have stopped selling certain tomatoes as U.S. health officials work to pinpoint the source of a Salmonella outbreak.
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Gates picks new leadership for Air Force - 10, Jun 2008
LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Virginia (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates named new top civilian and military leaders for the U.S. Air Force on Monday as part of a shake-up triggered by mistakes in managing America's nuclear arsenal.
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Obama backs oil profits tax, attacks McCain - 10, Jun 2008
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama sought to tap into Americans' anxiety over high gasoline prices on Monday by pledging to seek a windfall profits tax on U.S. oil companies if elected.
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Midwest sees more floods - 10, Jun 2008
MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) - A dam near the Wisconsin Dells resort area broke on Monday, sweeping away some homes, as torrential rains caused more flooding across parts of the U.S. Midwest, authorities said.
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Licensing 2008: Cherry-picking 2009's hits - 10, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dora the Explorer or Winnie the Pooh? Spider-Man or Iron Man?
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Bank shares tumble as analysts see higher losses - 10, Jun 2008
BANGALORE, India (Reuters) - Shares of large U.S. banks and thrifts suffered broad declines on Monday after analysts warned that the global credit crisis will cause loan losses in the sector to mount.
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Discover seeks $6 bln in case vs Visa, MasterCard - 10, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Discover Financial Services wants roughly $6 billion in damages from larger rivals Visa Inc and MasterCard Inc in a long-running antitrust lawsuit, court documents made public on Monday show.
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Qwest wary of economy, wireless impact on 2008 - 10, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Phone company Qwest Communications International Inc said on Monday its full-year results will likely be toward the lower end of its forecasts due to a weaker economy and competition.
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Dow bounces back on McDonald's and home sales - 10, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Dow staged a modest rebound on Monday from Friday's nearly 400-point drop, as concerns about consumer spending and the housing market were eased by better-than-expected sales figures from McDonald's Corp and a surprising gain in p
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Gasoline pump price relief nowhere in sight - 10, Jun 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Average U.S. gasoline pump prices -- already above $4 a gallon -- could run up 20 cents or more by mid-summer, if crude oil prices don't fall from record levels near $140 a barrel, analysts said.
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Lehman raises $6 bln, expects big Q2 loss - 10, Jun 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc on Monday raised $6 billion of capital after it said it expects to post a $2.77 billion quarterly loss from trades and hedges gone sour.
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Canada says delighted by wireless auction so far - 10, Jun 2008
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's wireless spectrum auction is going "exceptionally well" and the government is pleased with the results of the bidding, Industry Minister Jim Prentice said on Monday.
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Apple introduces "zippy" iPhone, slashes price - 10, Jun 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc on Monday unveiled a next-generation iPhone with faster Internet access that will run on advanced wireless networks and sell for as low as $199 -- half the current entry-level price.
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Husband of Winehouse pleads guilty - 09, Jun 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - The husband of troubled soul singer Amy Winehouse has admitted to assaulting a pub landlord before attempting to cover it up, court officials said on Monday.
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Russia and Norway tackle Arctic sea border issue - 09, Jun 2008
OSLO (Reuters) - Russia and Norway meet on Monday and Tuesday in the hope of making progress in a decades-old dispute over their maritime border in the Barents Sea -- a part of the Arctic that could hold large oil and gas reserves.
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Nadal leaves two great champions red faced - 09, Jun 2008
PARIS (Reuters) - Rafael Nadal left not one but two great champions red-faced at Roland Garros over the weekend after his fourth successive French Open triumph.
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Late U.S. tipoff hurts U.N. Syria probe: ElBaradei - 09, Jun 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - U.N. inspectors set to examine a Syrian site for signs of a secret nuclear reactor project may find little in part because of tardy intelligence-sharing by Washington, their chief said in remarks published on Monday.
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Blog warnings posted ahead of Tokyo knife rampage - 09, Jun 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - A man arrested for killing seven people in a knife rampage on a crowded Tokyo shopping street posted dozens of warning messages on the Internet in the hours leading up to the attack, Japanese media reported on Monday.
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Aftershocks hit brimming China quake lake - 09, Jun 2008
CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - Chinese troops are carving a third drainage channel into the unstable dam holding back a big "quake lake", as water levels rise and aftershocks send more debris tumbling into the water, state media reported on Monday.
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U.S. presence is Iraq's main problem: Iranian leader - 09, Jun 2008
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader told visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Monday that the presence of U.S. forces in Iraq was the biggest obstacle to its development as a united country.
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Oil dips after record $11 surge to new high - 09, Jun 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil eased on Monday after the biggest one-day price gain in the history of the market left traders and analysts divided over the explanation.
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Krispy Kreme posts Q1 profit; shares rise - 09, Jun 2008
(Reuters) - Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc posted a profit for the first quarter as the doughnut shop chain's turnaround efforts helped in trimming costs, sending its shares up more than 8 percent.
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Corn soars to record high, set to climb further - 09, Jun 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Corn prices rose to record highs on Monday and looked set to climb further as torrential rains threatened to reduce further U.S. crop prospects in a market already facing tight supplies and surging demand.
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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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