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CBS banks on more female roles, laughs in TV lineup - 15, May 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - CBS unveiled three new dramas and two comedies for its fall prime-time lineup on Wednesday, with executives promising more laughs and female faces from a network known for its popular crime dramas.
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Grim Brazilian drama opens Cannes film festival - 15, May 2008
CANNES, France (Reuters) - A grim Brazilian drama about society's descent into anarchy launched the Cannes film festival on Wednesday, and politics dominated the opening news conference held by jury president Sean Penn.
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Diamond scores career first with No. 1 album - 15, May 2008
NEW YORK (Billboard) - With "Home Before Dark," Neil Diamond has landed his first chart-topping album. The Columbia release, debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, got a big plug when Diamond appeared recently on "American Idol," bolstering its 146,000
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U.S. senator seeks outside probe in Patriots spying - 15, May 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter on Wednesday urged the National Football League to order an outside probe into the videotaping of opposing coaches' signals by the New England Patriots, saying the integrity of the game was at stake.
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Ivanovic crashes out to qualifier in Rome - 15, May 2008
ROME (Reuters) - Serbian top seed Ana Ivanovic crashed out of the Italian Open in her first game on Wednesday, losing 6-4 5-7 6-2 to Bulgarian qualifier Tsvetana Pironkova.
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World number one Henin retires at 25 - 15, May 2008
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - World number one Justine Henin announced she was retiring from professional tennis with immediate effect on Wednesday.
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Boston newspaper apologizes for false Pats tapes story - 15, May 2008
BOSTON (Reuters) - The Boston Herald newspaper apologized on Wednesday for a false report on the New England Patriots videotaping the St. Louis Rams' final walkthrough a day before the teams met in the 2002 Super Bowl.
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Venezuela's Chavez "anxious" for better U.S. ties - 15, May 2008
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hopes prickly relations with the United States will improve when his archfoe George W. Bush leaves the Oval Office in January, the socialist leader said on Wednesday.
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U.S. says Iran security pledge not on table - 15, May 2008
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday six world powers had no plans to offer Iran security guarantees to encourage it to suspend nuclear activity, hours after Russia floated the idea.
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U.N. says up to 2.5 million affected in Myanmar cyclone - 15, May 2008
YANGON (Reuters) - The United Nations estimated those affected by the Myanmar cyclone at up to 2.5 million on Wednesday and called an urgent meeting of big donors and Asian states as the Myanmar junta continued to limit foreign aid.
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Lebanon cancels anti-Hezbollah measures - 15, May 2008
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's government cancelled measures on Wednesday that angered the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement and triggered the worst internal conflict since the country's 1975-90 civil war.
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Accused September 11 planners set for court on June 5 - 15, May 2008
MIAMI (Reuters) - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the man accused of masterminding the September 11 attacks, is tentatively scheduled to appear before a Guantanamo war court judge for the first time on June 5, a military official said on Wednesday.
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Food crisis requires new green revolution: Congress - 15, May 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress pushed the Bush administration on Wednesday to do more to boost global agriculture, faulting a long-term decline in foreign aid for the food crisis unfurling across the developing world.
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Bush pushes peace, says U.S. "best friend" to Israel - 15, May 2008
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - President George W. Bush, in the Middle East to encourage struggling Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, has emphasized historic ties with Israel saying the United States was its "oldest and best friend in the world."
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Republicans respond to election "wake-up call" - 15, May 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the House of Representatives, stung by a third election defeat in as many months, scrambled on Wednesday to regain the confidence of voters as well as some of their own members.
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China warns of burst dams as quake death toll rises - 15, May 2008
DUJIANGYAN, China (Reuters) - The death toll from China's deadliest earthquake in decades climbed to nearly 15,000 on Wednesday, as officials warned of calamities downstream from broken rivers and dams strained to bursting point.
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Edwards to endorse Obama's White House bid - 15, May 2008
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan (Reuters) - Former U.S. presidential candidate John Edwards will endorse fellow Democrat Barack Obama on Wednesday, a campaign spokeswoman said, giving a big boost to the Illinois senator in his effort to rally the party around his
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SK Telecom, Virgin Mobile USA confirm talks - 15, May 2008
SEOUL (Reuters) - SK Telecom Co , South Korea's top mobile operator, confirmed on Wednesday that it was in preliminary talks with Virgin Mobile USA about strategic opportunities for its Helio U.S. arm.
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Pimco: Tricky for Fed to fix economy bind - 15, May 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bond fund leader Pimco's Mohamed El-Erian on Wednesday said the Federal Reserve's monetary policy may not help the economy to escape a severe recession caused by falling home values and rapidly rising consumer prices.
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Clear Channel trial adjourned - 15, May 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York State judge adjourned the trial over financing of the Clear Channel Communications Inc buyout on Wednesday, giving the banks involved 14 days to fund the new, lower-priced deal.
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E*Trade volume beats expectations, Schwab's down - 15, May 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of online broker E*Trade Financial Corp surged on Wednesday after the company delivered higher April trading volume than analysts had expected.
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Appeals court overturns $7.75 mln Vioxx verdict - 15, May 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - An appeals court in Texas overturned a $7.75 million verdict against Merck & Co involving its withdrawn pain drug Vioxx on Wednesday, ruling that evidence presented at trial failed to prove the medicine caused the heart attack suf
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GM will need over $9 billion in new financing: Lehman - 15, May 2008
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp will need to raise over $9 billion in financing over the next two years to refinance existing debt and to offset projected cash losses in its auto operations in North America, Lehman Brothers analyst Brian Johnson
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Delta/Northwest merger likely to be approved: Rep - 15, May 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A proposal by Delta Air Lines to buy Northwest Airlines is likely to be approved by the U.S. government, an influential lawmaker on aviation affairs said on Wednesday.
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Tame April price rise eases inflation worry - 15, May 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer prices were tamer than expected in April on a lower energy price reading, giving the inflation-wary Federal Reserve a little breathing space as it seeks to fortify an anemic economy.
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Benign inflation and strong results lift Wall St - 15, May 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose on Wednesday in light trading after a modest rise in consumer prices in April cooled inflation fears while Macy's Inc and Freddie Mac posted reassuring quarterly results.
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Africa making progress in Internet access - 15, May 2008
CAIRO (Reuters) - Improving Internet access in Africa is a fight on several fronts -- building undersea cables, setting up regional exchanges and bridging the last mile to homes and businesses -- but the continent is making progress.
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King Conan pillages before online gaming debut - 15, May 2008
OSLO, May 14 - King Conan wins a bloody final battle against a menacing mix of barbarians, assassins and sorcerers in the hills above Oslo before retreating to his virtual home where a million online gamers await him.
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Sony posts Q4 loss, sees growth in TVs, games - 15, May 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp posted a surprise quarterly loss on Wednesday after a weak stock market ate into the value of securities held by its financial arm, but forecast a bigger-than-expected profit this year.
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Vatican scientist says belief in God and aliens is OK - 14, May 2008
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican's chief astronomer says there is no conflict between believing in God and in the possibility of "extraterrestrial brothers" perhaps more evolved than humans.
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Research links common chemicals to obesity - 14, May 2008
GENEVA (Reuters) - Exposure in the womb to common chemicals used to make everything from plastic bottles to pizza box liners may programme a person to become obese later in life, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
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Reviews mixed on new James Frey fiction - 14, May 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Author James Frey's first book since the scandal over his 2005 bestseller is receiving mixed reviews. But at least this time everyone agrees the book is fiction.
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U.S. buyers drive Christie's $350 million modern art sale - 14, May 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Lucian Freud painting sold for $33.64 million at Christie's art auction on Tuesday, shattering the record for a piece by a living artist.
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Myanmar aid trickles in; EU warns of starvation - 14, May 2008
YANGON (Reuters) - The 1.5 million people left destitute by Myanmar's cyclone are in increasing danger of disease and starvation, experts said on Wednesday, but its ruling junta said no to a Thai request to admit more aid workers.
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Researchers find smoking-lung cancer culprit - 14, May 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A protein responsible for repairing damaged DNA may be a vital link to explaining how smoking causes lung cancer, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
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U.S. says Iran security pledge not on table in atom row - 14, May 2008
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday six world powers had no plans to offer Iran security guarantees to encourage it to suspend nuclear activity, hours after Russia floated the idea.
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Bush in Israel as scandal clouds peace hopes - 14, May 2008
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush arrived in the Middle East on Wednesday to celebrate Israel's 60th birthday and try to energize peace efforts complicated by a corruption scandal that could topple Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
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Curfew in historic Indian city a day after blasts - 14, May 2008
JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - Authorities imposed a dawn-to-dusk curfew in parts of India's historic western city of Jaipur on Wednesday, a day after eight bombs ripped through bustling streets, killing 61 people and injuring 216.
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China warns of burst dams as death toll rises - 14, May 2008
DUJIANGYAN, China (Reuters) - The death toll from China's deadliest earthquake in decades climbed to nearly 15,000 on Wednesday, as officials warned of calamities downstream from broken rivers and dams strained to bursting point.
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April foreclosures rise 65 percent on year: RealtyTrac - 14, May 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. home foreclosure filings in April edged up from March and were a whopping 65 percent higher than a year earlier, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said on Wednesday.
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Mortgage applications rise in latest week: MBA - 14, May 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mortgage applications rose for a second consecutive week, fueled by a jump in demand for home refinancing loans as interest rates dropped, an industry group said on Wednesday.
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Macy's affirms full-year forecast - 14, May 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Macy's Inc reported a quarterly loss on Wednesday, hurt by restructuring costs and falling sales, but the department store operator stood by its full-year earnings forecast, and its shares rose 7 percent.
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Deere profit surges, but outlook disappoints - 14, May 2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Deere & Co reported higher quarterly earnings on Wednesday as soaring crop prices boosted global demand for its agricultural equipment, but the company's forecast for the rest of the year was below Wall Street expectations and the
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Freddie Mac loss widens less than feared - 14, May 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Freddie Mac, the second-biggest provider of funding for U.S. residential mortgages, posted a slightly wider first-quarter loss on Wednesday as credit losses deepened and said it would raise capital to expand its business.
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Sony posts loss, sees growth in TVs, games - 14, May 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp posted a surprise quarterly loss on Wednesday after a weak stock market ate into the value of securities held by its financial arm, but forecast a bigger-than-expected profit this year.
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Nokia sees half of cellphones with GPS in 2010-12 - 14, May 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nokia plans to add navigation to half of the phones it sells within a few years to find new revenue streams amid decreasing handset prices, a senior official at the world's top cellphone maker said.
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Vatican scientist says OK to believe in aliens and God - 14, May 2008
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican's chief astronomer says there is no conflict between believing in God and in the possibility of intelligent life on other planets that is perhaps even more evolved than humans.
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Experts move closer to identifying best embryos - 14, May 2008
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scientists in Australia and Greece appear to be moving closer to identifying genes that determine which test-tube embryos stand the best chance of implanting in the womb and growing into healthy babies.
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Canadian zoo investigates puzzling stingray deaths - 14, May 2008
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Officials at the Calgary Zoo remained baffled on Tuesday as they tried to puzzle out just why 34 of their stingrays suddenly died.
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Coldplay on a mission to connect with fans - 14, May 2008
LONDON (Billboard) - The album that will put the new EMI under its greatest global scrutiny to date is also 2008's most eagerly awaited release. That's the official word from Coldplay's new boss.
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Canada writing perfect script to world hockey championship - 14, May 2008
HALIFAX, Canada (Reuters) - Canada has written the perfect script to the ice hockey world championship, taking an unbeaten record into Wednesday's quarter-finals.
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Bicycle-makers ride high on surging oil prices - 14, May 2008
TAIPEI (Reuters) - The row of gleaming bicycles being assembled on the factory floor of Giant Manufacturing, one of the world's biggest bicycle-makers, will soon hit streets from Seattle to Sydney, Amsterdam and even Beijing.
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Hard-hitting Brazilian film opens Cannes festival - 14, May 2008
CANNES, France (Reuters) - Hard-hitting Brazilian film "Blindness" gets the Cannes film festival under way on Wednesday, kicking off 12 hectic days of movies, publicity and late-night revelry in the Riviera resort.
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Orioles edge slumping Red Sox - 14, May 2008
BALTIMORE (Reuters) - The slumping Boston Red Sox were beaten 5-4 by the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday and slipped to second place in the American League East division following a fourth defeat in five games.
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Mike D'Antoni says up-tempo style should suit Knicks - 14, May 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni said on Tuesday there are many ways to win basketball games but that he preferred the up-tempo, run-and-gun style he fashioned in Phoenix with the Suns.
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Penguins down Flyers to close on Stanley Cup final - 14, May 2008
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The Pittsburgh Penguins scored a 4-1 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday to move to the brink of the Stanley Cup finals.
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Pistons sink Magic to advance, Hornets sting Spurs - 14, May 2008
DETROIT (Reuters) - The Detroit Pistons beat the Orlando Magic 91-86 on Tuesday to clinch their best-of-seven series 4-1 and advance to the Eastern Conference finals for the sixth successive season.
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U.S. says N.Korea to cooperate on nuclear checks - 14, May 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea has agreed to cooperate fully on verifying its nuclear declaration, a U.S. official said on Tuesday as he displayed some of the 18,822 documents Pyongyang has given Washington about its plutonium program.
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New charges allege Barry Bonds lied about steroids - 14, May 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A federal grand jury brought a longer array of perjury charges against baseball home run king Barry Bonds on Tuesday after a judge tossed out earlier allegations of lies about past steroid use.
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Bush due in Israel as scandal clouds peace hopes - 14, May 2008
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush arrives in the Middle East on Wednesday to celebrate Israel's 60th birthday and to try to energize peace efforts complicated by a corruption scandal that could topple its prime minister.
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Myanmar's cyclone survivors beg for help - 14, May 2008
YANGON (Reuters) - Desperation among Myanmar's 1.5 million cyclone survivors mounted on Wednesday as the international aid flow remained a trickle and police barred foreign aid workers from worst-hit areas.
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Troops rush in to help China quake rescue - 14, May 2008
MIANYANG, China (Reuters) - China poured more troops into the earthquake-ravaged province of Sichuan on Wednesday to speed up the search for survivors as time ran out for thousands of people buried under rubble and mud.
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Clinton vows to keep her uphill bid alive - 14, May 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton won a landslide victory over front-runner Barack Obama in West Virginia and vowed to keep her beleaguered White House bid alive until voting ends in the Democratic race.
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ING reports profit decline on market turmoil - 14, May 2008
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch financial services group ING Groep reported a bigger-than-expected 19 percent drop in quarterly net profit, hit by weaker returns from real estate, private equity and market investments.
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Icahn may run Yahoo proxy campaign: source - 14, May 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is considering mounting a proxy campaign to replace Yahoo Inc board members after the company failed to reach a deal to merge with Microsoft Corp , a source close to the matter said on Tuesday.
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Sony posts surprise loss, forecasts growth - 14, May 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp posted a surprise quarterly loss as the weak stock market ate into the value of its securities holdings, but it forecast a bigger-than-expected profit this year as it boosts sales of digital cameras and flat TVs.
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U.S. could face mild recession, Greenspan quoted - 14, May 2008
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. economic data suggests the
world's biggest economy could face a mild recession, former
Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan was quoted as telling
Asian investors on Wednesday.
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HP to buy EDS for $12.6 bln in challenge to IBM - 14, May 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co plans to buy technology outsourcing company Electronic Data Systems Corp to better compete against IBM , but Wall Street questioned whether the $12.6 billion deal for a slow-growing company was overpriced.
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GPS grows as a crime-fighting tool in U.S - 14, May 2008
BOSTON (Reuters) - It was just after 10 p.m. when William Cotter, wearing a belt full of ammunition, burst into the home of his estranged wife, Dorothy, shooting her in the back with a sawed-off shot gun before taking his own life.
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Electronic Arts profit outlook disappoints - 14, May 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Top video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc issued an annual profit outlook on Tuesday that fell short of Wall Street forecasts as a drive to improve quality jacked up costs. Its shares fell 3.7 percent.
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Gene therapy shows promise in rare brain disease - 14, May 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An experimental gene therapy treatment appears to have helped eight children with a rare and incurable neurological disorder, although it may have been responsible for the death of one, researchers reported on Tuesday.
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Vast Chile volcano ash cloud partially collapses - 14, May 2008
PUERTO MONTT, Chile (Reuters) - A towering cloud of hot ash, gas and molten rock spewed miles into the air by a volcano in southern Chile has partially collapsed, raising fears it could smother surrounding villages, an expert said on Tuesday.
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NASA probe closing in on Mars, but will it land? - 14, May 2008
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Nine months ago, NASA's Phoenix probe blasted off for Mars with an unprecedented mission to sample water on another world.
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ABC unveils modest fall TV schedule; new ad tool - 14, May 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - ABC on Tuesday rolled out a fall television schedule featuring just two new programs, one a traveling game show and the other a detective drama based on a popular British series, underscoring the lasting impact of a 14-week strike by
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American artist Robert Rauschenberg dies - 14, May 2008
MIAMI (Reuters) - Acclaimed American artist Robert Rauschenberg died at his home on Captiva Island in Florida at the age of 82, his gallery said on Tuesday.
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Von Trapp's "Sound of Music" villa to become hotel - 14, May 2008
SALZBURG, Austria (Reuters) - "The Sound of Music", one of Hollywood's greatest money-spinners, will scale new heights when the original von Trapp family villa near Salzburg opens as a hotel in July.
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Success weighs on Narnia's return to U.S. theaters - 14, May 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Director Andrew Adamson knows box office magic with his first three feature films grossing more than $2.1 billion worldwide.
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Madonna too busy to attend Malawi adoption ruling - 14, May 2008
LILONGWE, Malawi (Reuters) - U.S. pop star Madonna will not attend the final court ruling on her request to adopt a Malawian child because she is busy with other engagements, her lawyer said on Tuesday.
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Rapper Remy Ma gets 8 years for shooting friend - 14, May 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Grammy-nominated rapper Remy Ma was sentenced to eight years in prison on Tuesday for shooting and wounding an acquaintance after discovering money was missing from her purse after a night out in Manhattan.
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"In the Heights" leads Broadway's Tony nominations - 14, May 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - "In the Heights," an original musical written by a university student about life in a working-class New York neighborhood, led the nominations for Broadway's top theater honors, the Tony Awards, on Tuesday.
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Kentucky Bear handlers like their Preakness chances - 14, May 2008
BALTIMORE (Reuters) - The handlers of Kentucky Bear said on Tuesday it would be a mistake to believe Kentucky Derby champion Big Brown was a certainty to win Saturday's Preakness Stakes.
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Cannes braces for A-listers, art house, fans, fun - 14, May 2008
CANNES, France (Reuters) - The world's biggest film festival kicks off in Cannes on Wednesday, bringing Hollywood A-listers, obscure art-house directors, international media and fans together for 12 party-packed days on the French Riviera.
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Sorenstam to quit competition at end of the year - 14, May 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sweden's Annika Sorenstam, who has dominated women's golf for a decade, said on Tuesday she would quit competition at the end of this year.
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Goodell says new Pats tapes do not add to Spygate - 14, May 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said on Tuesday there was nothing new in videotapes he received showing the Patriots taping opposing teams' signals and that no additional penalty against New England was being considered.
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Seven bombs kill 60 people in India's Jaipur - 14, May 2008
JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - Seven bombs ripped through the crowded streets of India's western city of Jaipur on Tuesday evening, killing around 60 people in markets and outside Hindu temples.
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Lebanon's Hariri vows no surrender to Hezbollah - 14, May 2008
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Sunni Muslim leader Saad al-Hariri pledged on Tuesday there would be no political surrender to what he called a bid by Hezbollah and its Syrian and Iranian backers to impose their will on the nation by force.
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More than 2 million U.S. youths depressed: study - 14, May 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 2 million U.S. teenagers have suffered a serious bout of depression in the past year, including nearly 13 percent of girls, according to a federal government survey released on Tuesday.
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Olmert says understandings reached in peace talks - 14, May 2008
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Tuesday that he and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had reached "understandings and points of agreement" on some key issues in U.S.-backed peace talks.
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North Korea to cooperate on nuclear verification: U.S. - 14, May 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea has agreed to cooperate fully on verifying its nuclear declaration, a U.S. official said on Tuesday as he displayed some of the 18,822 documents Pyongyang has given Washington about its plutonium program.
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Colombia extradites 14 militia bosses to U.S. - 14, May 2008
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia extradited 14 former paramilitary leaders to the United States on Tuesday to face drug-trafficking and other charges after authorities said the warlords violated terms of a peace deal with the government.
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FBI cites escalating mortgage fraud problem - 14, May 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mortgage fraud is an escalating problem in the United States, the FBI said on Tuesday in a report that cited the subprime lending crisis as a key contributing factor.
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West urges Myanmar to act on crucial cyclone aid - 14, May 2008
YANGON (Reuters) - Heavy rains pelted homeless cyclone survivors in Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta on Tuesday, complicating the already slow delivery of aid to more than 1.5 million people facing hunger and disease.
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Clinton looks for big West Virginia win - 14, May 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton appeared headed to a big West Virginia victory over front-runner Barack Obama in the Democratic presidential race on Tuesday, although it could be too late to turn around her faltering White House bid.
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Whole Foods acquisition crimps profit, shares fall - 14, May 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Whole Foods Market Inc on Tuesday posted lower quarterly net profit, missing analysts' estimates by a penny, as it booked charges related to its $565 million acquisition of rival Wild Oats Markets in August.
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Bernanke says crisis not over; prices worry others - 14, May 2008
MIDLAND, Texas (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday the credit crisis was not over, even as his colleagues revealed growing concerns about inflation that could signal a pause in interest rate cuts.
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Sprint faces tough questions - 14, May 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp faced multiple questions about how it would turn the company around and stop customers from fleeing its cell phone service at its annual shareholder meeting, where voters only narrowly rejected one proposal that wo
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Death toll from China quake soars past 13,000 - 14, May 2008
DUJIANGYAN, China (Reuters) - The death toll in China's earthquake climbed past 13,000 on Tuesday and looked likely to rise much higher after media said some 19,000 people were buried in rubble in just one area.
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Electronic Arts top expectations, eyes share gains - 14, May 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Top video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc on Tuesday posted a quarterly profit that beat Wall Street expectations and said it expects to gain market share on the strength of upcoming titles like "Spore" and "The Sims 3".
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JPMorgan may cut 4,000 jobs on Bear deal and markets - 14, May 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co could cut as many as 4,000 of its own employees worldwide as the bank prepares to take on staff from Bear Stearns Cos at the same time it deals with turmoil in financial markets, people familiar with the situat
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Icahn may run Yahoo proxy campaign: sources - 14, May 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is considering running a proxy campaign to elect new board members at Yahoo Inc after the company failed to forge a deal to merge with Microsoft Corp , sources close to the matter said on Tuesday.
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