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Spacewalk complete as "Dextre" tools up - 18, Mar 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Dextre the handyman space robot now has the tools of his trade and is ready for work.
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Davenport targets return to the top - 18, Mar 2008
INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - Former world number one Lindsay Davenport believes she still can complete at the highest level, despite juggling her professional career with motherhood.
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Singing outshines staging in Met's "Grimes" - 18, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Far more satisfying to hear than watch, the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Benjamin Britten's modern classic "Peter Grimes" demonstrates that director John Doyle's minimalist style is ill-suited for the massive Met
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U.S. has no plans to boycott Beijing Games - 18, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American athletes will definitely compete at the Beijing Olympics despite recent violence in Tibet and calls for a boycott, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) said on Monday.
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Celtics survive tough test from Spurs and eye Rockets - 18, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Boston, the best team in the NBA, survived a torrid time before overturning a 22-point deficit to beat San Antonio on Monday, a day before they face the league's hottest team.
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Second chance for skater Kimmie Meissner at worlds - 18, Mar 2008
DETROIT (Reuters) - Kimmie Meissner hopes a change of coach and the gift of a spot in this week's world figure skating championships will help to salvage a career that has been on a dizzying downward spiral.
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If the Wizards' Arenas returns he'll be an "assist man" - 18, Mar 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Injured Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas is hoping to return to the line-up this season but has been told by doctors his mobility would not return before next year.
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Nadal and Djokovic power into fourth round - 18, Mar 2008
INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - Spaniard Rafael Nadal stayed on course for his first ATP title of the year with a 6-1 6-3 demolition of American wildcard Donald Young in the Pacific Life Open third round on Monday.
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Former U.S. ambassador, subprime mortgage pioneer dies - 18, Mar 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Roland Arnall, founder of subprime pioneer Ameriquest Mortgage Co, died of cancer on Monday morning in Los Angeles, his family said in a statement.
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Japan nominates new BOJ governor, opposition wary - 18, Mar 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - The government put forward a former top finance ministry official on Tuesday as its second candidate to run the Bank of Japan, but opposition lawmakers warned he was likely to be vetoed, just like the first nominee.
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China says Tibet rioters trying to wreck Olympics - 18, Mar 2008
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's premier accused Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, of orchestrating riots in which dozens may have died and said his followers were trying to "incite sabotage" of Beijing's August Olympic Games.
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U.S. GSEs near deal to issue stock, get capital-sources - 18, Mar 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are near a deal that would increase their ability to ease tight credit by broadening their ability to buy mortgages being shunned by other investors, sources familiar with the talks said on Monday.
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China's Wen says worried about dollar and global economy - 18, Mar 2008
BEIJING (Reuters) - China is deeply concerned about the potential global economic fallout from the U.S. subprime crisis, which could make its job of balancing growth and fighting inflation more challenging, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Tuesday.
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Bear fire sale sparks rout - 18, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A fire sale of Bear Stearns Cos Inc stunned Wall Street and pummeled global financial stocks on the eve of an expected U.S. interest rate cut aimed at preventing a meltdown of the financial system.
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Fed set for big rate cut amid market turmoil - 18, Mar 2008
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to slash interest rates by as much as a whole percentage point at its policy meeting on Tuesday as investors warily await investment bank results that could aggravate fears of a full-blo
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Putting customers to work, Nokia takes on the Web - 18, Mar 2008
HELSINKI (Reuters) - A popular video on Youtube shows a 'concept phone' that could -- literally -- bend to fit your wrist. Called Nokia Morph, it's also an image of how the world's largest mobile phone maker wants to change.
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Spears judge extends order against former manager - 18, Mar 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A judge on Monday extended a temporary restraining order for one month against Sam Lutfi, a friend and former self-styled manager of troubled pop star Britney Spears.
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Jankovic breezes into fourth round at windy Indian Wells - 18, Mar 2008
INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - Serbia's world number four Jelena Jankovic shrugged off gusting winds to sweep aside Ai Sugiyama of Japan 6-1 6-1 in the Pacific Life Open third round on Monday.
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Divorce costs former Beatle McCartney $48.7 million - 18, Mar 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - A British court ordered former Beatle Paul McCartney on Monday to pay his estranged wife Heather Mills 24.3 million pounds ($48.7 million) after an acrimonious divorce battle.
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"Diddy" Combs linked to Tupac shooting: report - 18, Mar 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Times has linked two former associates of rap mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs to a 1994 attack on singer Tupac Shakur and suggested Combs knew in advance of the assault, but Combs called the story "a lie."
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Blake surges into fourth round at Indian Wells - 18, Mar 2008
INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - Ninth-seeded American James Blake powered past Spaniard Carlos Moya with a 6-3 6-4 victory in the third round of the Pacific Life Open on Monday.
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Russian, U.S. officials see chance for better ties - 18, Mar 2008
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and the United States expressed optimism on Monday they could improve ties, and Pentagon chief Robert Gates said a deal might be reached on a U.S. missile shield before the end of the Bush administration.
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Pro-Tibet vigil held in Beijing - 18, Mar 2008
BEIJING (Reuters) - Ethnic Tibetan students staged a candle-lit vigil in Beijing on Monday, saying it was to pray for the dead, after authorities warned anti-Chinese rioters in the Tibetan capital to surrender.
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Deepening slump envelops factory sector - 18, Mar 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A spreading economic malaise seeped into U.S. factories in February and March as waning demand more than offset the export benefits of a cheaper dollar, a series of reports showed on Monday.
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Iraq invasion was "successful endeavor": Cheney - 18, Mar 2008
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday declared the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq a "successful endeavor" during a visit to Baghdad, on the same day a woman suicide bomber killed 40 people.
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Florida Democrats drop bid to stage primary re-run - 18, Mar 2008
MIAMI (Reuters) - Florida's Democratic Party said on Monday it would no longer push for a rerun of the state's invalid primary election to pick a presidential nominee, leaving a decision on what to do with the state's delegates entirely to the national pa
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New York governor sworn in amid financial woes - 18, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Gov. David Paterson was sworn in on Monday following the sex scandal that forced predecessor Eliot Spitzer to resign, and he confronted a state budget shortfall worsened by a faltering U.S. economy.
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Court overturns Nacchio insider trading conviction - 18, Mar 2008
DENVER/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Monday threw out the insider trading conviction of former Qwest Communications International Inc Chief Executive Joseph Nacchio, ordering a new trial in front of a different judge.
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Market turmoil will not stop Visa IPO: analysts - 18, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Visa Inc, which plans to float its shares on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday in the biggest U.S. initial public offering ever, will not be deterred by market turmoil that has taken a severe toll in recent days, analysts said
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Stunned Bear Stearns investors bring legal claims - 18, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Angry Bear Stearns Co Inc shareholders have wasted no time in bringing legal claims following the company's stunning stock collapse and $2-a-share fire sale to JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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Dow rises, S&P and Nasdaq down after Bear deal - 18, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Dow industrials ended slightly higher, but the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq fell on Monday after JPMorgan Chase & Co's deal to buy struggling brokerage Bear Stearns at a rock bottom price failed to dispel fears of deeper fallout
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Big U.S. airlines look to shrink to save money - 18, Mar 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major U.S. airlines are beginning to
shrink their operations as they battle unrelenting increases in
fuel prices, a weakening economy and a sharp decline in their
share prices.
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ADS says Blackstone in breach of contract - 18, Mar 2008
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Alliance Data Systems Corp said on Monday that Blackstone Group was in breach of contract on its agreement to buy the credit-card transaction company.
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Lewis takes $1 billion hit from Bear Stearns - 18, Mar 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Even the most successful investors can get it horribly wrong, as reclusive British tycoon Joe Lewis has just found out.
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Bear fire sale sparks rout on eve of Fed rate cut - 18, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A fire sale of Bear Stearns Cos Inc stunned Wall Street and pummeled global financial stocks on the eve of an expected U.S. interest rate cut aimed at preventing a meltdown of the financial system.
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Facebook gets entangled in Middle East conflict - 18, Mar 2008
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Complaints by Jewish settlers angry at Facebook for listing them as residents of "Palestine" prompted the popular social networking Web site to allow users to switch themselves back to Israel.
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EU backs Nokia standard for mobile TV - 18, Mar 2008
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission moved to simplify the nascent mobile phone TV sector by adopting a standard backed by Finland's Nokia, but mobile operators said Brussels was acting too quickly.
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Federer and Sharapova cruise, Roddick exits - 17, Mar 2008
INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - Big-serving Andy Roddick crashed out of the Pacific Life Open on Sunday while second-seeded Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova advanced after a battling 6-1 4-6 6-3 win over Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova.
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U.N. and NATO troops clash with Serbs in Kosovo - 17, Mar 2008
MITROVICA, Kosovo (Reuters) - NATO troops came under fire during Serb riots in the northern Kosovo flashpoint of Mitrovica on Monday, in the worst violence in the territory since the Albanian majority declared independence last month.
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McCartney divorce costs Beatle $48.7 million - 17, Mar 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - A British court ordered former Beatle Paul McCartney on Monday to pay his estranged wife Heather Mills 24.3 million pounds ($48.7 million) after an acrimonious divorce battle.
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U.S. and Russia seek progress over missile shield - 17, Mar 2008
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's president-elect, Dmitry Medvedev, struck a conciliatory note on Monday at the start of talks with visiting U.S. officials by saying there was a common will to solve problems between Moscow and Washington.
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FBI presence in bombed Pakistan diner adds to murk - 17, Mar 2008
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani police carried out a dragnet following a bomb attack on Saturday night that killed a Turkish woman and wounded four FBI agents among several other people dining at a Italian restaurant in Islamabad.
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China says will "unwaveringly" protect territory - 17, Mar 2008
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Monday denounced attacks on its embassies by pro-Tibetan activists hours before a deadline for rioters in Lhasa to turn themselves in and said it would do all in its power to protect its territorial integrity.
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Cheney says Iraq changes "phenomenal, dramatic" - 17, Mar 2008
BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Vice President Dick Cheney, an architect of the U.S-led invasion of Iraq, on Monday hailed "phenomenal changes" in Iraq on a visit to assess the success of a troop build-up five years after the war began.
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Int'l Paper to buy Weyerhaeuser unit for $6 billion - 17, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - International Paper said on Monday it has agreed to acquire Weyerhaeuser Co's packaging business for $6 billion, making it North America's largest corrugated box maker.
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Carlyle Capital bankrupt, to wind up fund - 17, Mar 2008
NEW YORK/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Investment company Carlyle Capital Corp said on Sunday its shareholders have voted unanimously in favor of a compulsory winding up.
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"New world order," buyers seen for banks: CreditSights - 17, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Financial firms face a "new world order" after a weekend fire sale of Bear Stearns and the Federal Reserve's first emergency weekend meeting since 1979, research firm CreditSights said in a report on Monday.
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Dollar's nosedive stirs joint intervention jitters - 17, Mar 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar's sharp slide to 13-year lows against the yen and fresh all-time lows versus the euro on Monday is stoking jitters about the possibility of joint central bank intervention to prop up the dollar.
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Bear fire sale sparks financial rout - 17, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters)- A fire sale of Bear Stearns Cos Inc stunned Wall Street and pummeled global financial stocks on Monday on fears that few banks are safe from deepening market turmoil.
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Kuznetsova and Sharapova advance as Roddick exits - 17, Mar 2008
INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - Big-serving Andy Roddick crashed out of the Pacific Life Open on Sunday while second-seeded Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova advanced after a battling 6-1 4-6 6-3 win over Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova.
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Sharapova maintains perfect 2008 start in Indian Wells - 17, Mar 2008
INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - Australian Open champion Maria Sharapova weathered an untidy opening set to maintain her perfect start to the season at the Pacific Life Open on Sunday.
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TV shows begin trickling back after strike - 17, Mar 2008
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Scripted television is back on.
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Corvo hat-trick helps Hurricanes thrash Senators - 17, Mar 2008
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Joe Corvo delighted the home crowd with a hat-trick against his former team as the Carolina Hurricanes crushed the Ottawa Senators 5-1 in an Eastern Conference match-up on Sunday.
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Roddick knocked out by Haas at Indian Wells - 17, Mar 2008
INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - Andy Roddick became the first big name to make an early exit from the Pacific Life Open when the sixth-seeded American lost 6-4 6-4 to Germany's Tommy Haas in Sunday's second round.
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Woods relishes the drama of yet another triumph - 17, Mar 2008
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Tiger Woods went into Sunday's final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational tied for the lead with four other players. As he strode out to the first tee he didn't look like a man who was worried about the outcome.
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Woods clinches Arnold Palmer Invitational win - 17, Mar 2008
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Tiger Woods produced a superb 24-foot putt for a dramatic birdie on the final hole to claim his ninth win in 10 tournaments at the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Sunday.
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Rockets beat Lakers to stretch win streak to 22 games - 17, Mar 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - The Houston Rockets beat the Los Angeles Lakers 104-92 on Sunday to claim their 22nd consecutive victory and take sole possession of first place in the Western Conference.
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INSTANT VIEW: JP Morgan to buy Bear as Fed cuts discount rate - 17, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co said on Sunday it would buy stricken rival Bear Stearns for just $2 a share in an all-stock deal valuing the fifth largest investment bank at about $236 million.
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Hayes leads Pistons to comeback win over Hornets - 17, Mar 2008
DETROIT (Reuters) - The Detroit Pistons rolled to a 105-84 victory over the New Orleans Hornets behind the surprise play of Jarvis Hayes on Sunday.
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Iran conservatives win parliament majority: state TV - 17, Mar 2008
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Conservatives won a majority in Iran's parliamentary vote, state television said on Sunday, but the new assembly may still give President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a tougher time ahead of next year's presidential election.
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Futures fall after Fed cuts discount rate, Bear deal - 17, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures fell late on Sunday after JPMorgan Chase rescued Bear Stearns and the Federal Reserve took emergency measures to provide cash to big financial firms, intensifying concerns that there could be more casualties in t
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JPMorgan to buy Bear as Fed opens lending to Wall St - 17, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co set a deal to buy stricken rival Bear Stearns for a rock-bottom price, while the U.S. Federal Reserve expanded lending to securities firms for the first time since the Great Depression to prop up the financial
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China insists used massive restraint on Tibet riots - 17, Mar 2008
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Monday it had shown massive restraint in the face of violent protests by Tibetans, which it said were orchestrated by followers of the Dalai Lama to wreck the Beijing Olympics in August.
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Siemens issues profit warning after projects audit - 17, Mar 2008
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's Siemens issued a
profit warning on Monday after a review of major projects at
three operations, including power generation.
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Bear execs lack golden parachutes as stock plan crunched - 17, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Barring some unexpected boardroom generosity by JPMorgan Chase & Co, executives at Bear Stearns Cos may find that their walking away money has been crunched by the credit crisis.
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Investors shaken by bank troubles - 17, Mar 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Stalked by the credit crisis and economic decline, investors enter this week with eyes firmly on the Federal Reserve and braced for more trouble in the shaky financial sector after Bear Stearns had to be bailed out.
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Gold up 3 percent and briefly clears $1,030/oz - 17, Mar 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Gold prices shot up more than 3 percent to fresh record highs as investors stepped up buying of the yellow metal, whose luster has increased due to the dollar's weakness and deepening U.S. financial woes.
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JPMorgan to buy Bear Stearns for $2 a share - 17, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co said on Sunday it would buy stricken rival Bear Stearns for just $2 a share in an all-stock deal that values the U.S. investment bank at the centre of the credit crisis at about $236 million.
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Bear and Fed set stage for rocky week - 17, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The rocky ride for the U.S. stock market looked set to intensify this week, as investors worried there could be more victims of the global credit crisis after JPMorgan Chase bailed out Bear Stearns .
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Google says Microsoft's Yahoo buy might hurt Internet - 17, Mar 2008
BEIJING (Reuters) - Google Inc, the world's leading search engine, said on Monday it was concerned about the free flow of information on the Internet if Microsoft Corp were to succeed in acquiring Yahoo Inc.
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New method finds networks of genes behind obesity - 17, Mar 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Overeating disrupts entire networks of genes in the body, causing not only obesity, but diabetes and heart disease, in ways that may be possible to predict, researchers reported on Sunday.
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New drug holds promise for parasitic worm disease - 17, Mar 2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers have discovered a promising new drug for schistosomiasis -- a parasitic worm disease that affects more than 200 million people in 70 countries.
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Space station robotic handyman flexes its muscles - 17, Mar 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station put their new mechanical maintenance man through a trial workout on Sunday, testing the joints on its gangly arms while crewmates prepared for another spacewalk to get the robot ready f
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Dennis Quaid recounts twins' near-death experience - 17, Mar 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Dennis Quaid, whose newborn twins nearly died in hospital last year after being given an accidental drug overdose by staff, is on the warpath against medical mistakes.
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Paul McCartney and Heather Mills divorce near end - 17, Mar 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Paul McCartney learns on Monday just how much of his Beatles fortune will go to his estranged wife in a divorce settlement that could set a legal precedent about the short-lived marriages of the super-rich.
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"Horton Hears a Who!" a hit at box office - 17, Mar 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Move over, Dumbo. Horton is now the big elephant in the room.
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McDowell beats Singh in playoff to win in Korea - 17, Mar 2008
JEJU, South Korea (Reuters) - Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell birdied the third sudden-death playoff hole against India's Jeev Milkha Singh to win the $2.9 million Ballantine's Championship on Sunday.
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Kuznetsova recovers to advance, Roddick exits - 17, Mar 2008
INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - Andy Roddick crashed out at the Pacific Life Open on Sunday while second-seeded Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova advanced after a battling 6-1 4-6 6-3 win over Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova.
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Finals were an anti-climax for champion Bode Miller - 17, Mar 2008
BORMIO, Italy (Reuters) - Bode Miller said he felt deflated after Alpine skiing's World Cup finals, even though he was happy about a season that brought him his second overall trophy.
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Cheney to Mideast with "rich agenda" on oil, peace - 17, Mar 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney left on Sunday for the Middle East to raise concerns about high oil prices, push Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, and seek support for Iraq, where war began five years ago this week.
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Holocaust survivors mark Krakow ghetto anniversary - 17, Mar 2008
KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) - Hundreds of Jews on Sunday marked the 65th anniversary of the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto with a march commemorating the German businessman whose efforts had saved Jews from the Holocaust.
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German leader visits 60 years after birth of Israel - 17, Mar 2008
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Angela Merkel began on Sunday a highly symbolic visit to Israel, where she will become the first German chancellor to address its parliament more than 60 years after the Nazi Holocaust that killed 6 million Jews.
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Millions of Iraqis lack water, healthcare: Red Cross - 17, Mar 2008
GENEVA (Reuters) - Five years after the United States led an invasion of Iraq, millions of people there are still deprived of clean water and medical care, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Monday.
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Clinton, Obama backers tone down rhetoric - 17, Mar 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Backers of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama toned down their rhetoric on Sunday for fear party infighting might turn voters against Democrats and deliver their votes into the hands of Republican John McCain.
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U.S. veterans, Japanese mark 1968 Vietnam massacre - 17, Mar 2008
MY LAI, Vietnam (Reuters) - Japanese survivors of atomic bombs and American war veterans calling for peace joined hundreds of villagers on Sunday in prayers to mark 40 years since the worst U.S. atrocity of the Vietnam War.
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John McCain in Iraq - 17, Mar 2008
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain arrived in Iraq on Sunday to assess the success of a U.S. troop build-up that he has strongly backed, part of a week-long trip to the Middle East and Europe.
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Tibetan riots spread, security lockdown in Lhasa - 17, Mar 2008
BEIJING (Reuters) - Rioting erupted in a province neighboring Tibet on Sunday, two days after violent protests by Tibetans against Chinese rule in Lhasa in which the region's exiled representatives said 80 people had been killed.
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Record oil divorced from fundamentals: OPEC delegate - 17, Mar 2008
DUBAI (Reuters) - The weak dollar and the flow of investment money into commodities have pushed oil prices to a fresh record so more pumping from OPEC would have done little to stop the surge, a senior OPEC delegate said on Sunday.
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Housing group challenges Fed's Bear Stearns deal - 17, Mar 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A housing and fair lending activist group has challenged the legality of the Federal Reserve's quick approval of financing for Bear Stearns via JPMorgan Chase , questioning the Fed's authority to approve the deal because it involve
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U.S. ready to maintain financial stability: Paulson - 17, Mar 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Sunday tried to allay election-year fears about the economy amid growing market turmoil, saying the government was prepared to do what it takes to maintain stability in the financial system.
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Dollar caught in Fed, ECB cross-fire - 17, Mar 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve is poised to cut interest rates again this week while the European Central Bank remains on hold for a while, leaving the beleaguered U.S. dollar caught in the cross-fire.
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Rocky ride for stocks; eyes on Bear - 17, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The rocky ride for the U.S. stock market is likely to intensify this week with investors focusing on a deal to save one of the biggest investment banks while regulators rapidly burn through options to limit more damage to the financia
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Fed set to slash U.S. rates as credit turmoil rages - 17, Mar 2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Faced with a raging credit crisis and an economy that may be mired in recession, the U.S. Federal Reserve looks set to cut interest rates sharply on Tuesday in a bid to avert a possibly severe downturn.
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Pacquiao defeats Marquez to win WBC title - 16, Mar 2008
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines knocked down Juan Manuel Marquez in the third round before going on to capture the WBC super featherweight championship by split decision on Saturday.
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Jankovic and Davenport cruise, Ivanovic battles - 16, Mar 2008
INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - Serbia's world number four Jelena Jankovic and twice champion Lindsay Davenport coasted through their opening matches in the Pacific Life Open second round on Saturday.
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Djokovic and Nadal advance at windy Indian Wells - 16, Mar 2008
INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - Defending champion Rafael Nadal cruised into the third round of the Pacific Life Open on Saturday while third seed Novak Djokovic had to work a little harder to advance.
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Gnarls Barkley balances weighty themes, spirited pop - 16, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Billboard) - The title of Gnarls Barkley's sophomore record is the first, and probably last, funny thing about it.
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Hamilton wins amid the chaos in Australia - 16, Mar 2008
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - McLaren's Lewis Hamilton avoided the mayhem around him to open the Formula One season with a pole-to-flag victory in a crash-strewn Australian Grand Prix on Sunday.
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Celtics begin road trip with win over Bucks - 16, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Boston Celtics cruised to a 99-77 win over the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday in the first of a testing five-game road trip.
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Brodeur sets wins milestone in Devils victory - 16, Mar 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Martin Brodeur broke his own NHL goaltending record with his seventh 40-win season after his the New Jersey Devils scored a 4-2 road win over the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday.
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