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Huckabee says he'll stay in presidential race - 09, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mike Huckabee vowed on Saturday to stay in the Republican Party's nominating race for the presidential election in November, despite trailing far behind rival John McCain.
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Paris broker released in SocGen trading case - 09, Feb 2008
PARIS (Reuters) - French judges dismissed conspiracy accusations against a Paris broker on Saturday, dealing a severe blow to the hunt for an accomplice to trader Jerome Kerviel in the rogue trading scandal at French bank Societe Generale.
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G7 leaders turn pessimistic on global economy - 09, Feb 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Finance leaders of the world's top industrialized nations put on a show of solidarity on Saturday in the face of an economic slowdown and conceded that things could get even worse because of the crumbling U.S. housing market.
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Smooth sailing for shuttle and European lab: NASA - 09, Feb 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - NASA said it was smooth sailing on Friday for U.S. space shuttle Atlantis as it headed toward the International Space Station for the long-delayed delivery of a European laboratory.
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Actor Health Ledger mourned at private funeral - 09, Feb 2008
PERTH (Reuters) - Family and friends of actor Heath Ledger bade farewell at a private service in his Australian home town on Saturday, with the media kept away and Ledger's father appealing for mourners to be allowed to grieve in peace.
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TV shows vie to be "Sex and the City" fashion heir - 09, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two new U.S. television shows are vying to take over from "Sex and the City" as the most fashionable shows on television.
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Hurricanes edge Capitals to regain division lead - 09, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Erik Cole and Andrew Ladd's first-period goals guided the Hurricanes to a 2-1 victory over the Washington Capitals on Friday, the win allowing Carolina to regain first place in the Southeast Division.
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American Herron takes charge at Pebble Beach - 09, Feb 2008
PEBBLE BEACH, California (Reuters) - Beefy American Tim Herron birdied two of his last four holes to grab a one-shot lead in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am second round on Friday.
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Screenwriters union leaders said to back contract - 09, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Striking Hollywood writers could return to work as early as Monday for the first time in three months if they embrace a contract deal that union leaders are said to endorse, according to a union-affiliated blog site on Friday.
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Bryant, Gasol team up for 66 points in Lakers win - 09, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Kobe Bryant scored 36 points and recent acquisition Pau Gasol added 30 to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a 117-113 road victory over the Orlando Magic on Friday.
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U.S. and Russia 2-0 up after Davis Cup first day - 09, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Andy Roddick and James Blake battled to victory on a difficult surface to give the United States a 2-0 start to their defense of the Davis Cup in Friday's matches.
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San Antonio coach says trades turn up pressure on Spurs - 09, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The trades that sent Pau Gasol to the Los Angeles Lakers and Shaquille O'Neal to the Phoenix Suns have turned the pressure up on the NBA champion San Antonio Spurs, their coach said on Friday.
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Four dead in sugar refinery blast - 09, Feb 2008
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Four people died, four others were missing and more than three dozen were injured in an explosion and fire at a sugar refinery in the U.S. state of Georgia, authorities said on Friday.
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Bin Laden, Omar not operating in Pakistan: Islamabad - 09, Feb 2008
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan rejected on Saturday a U.S. official's assertion that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar are operating from Pakistani territory.
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G7 leaders vow cooperation to stabilize finance system - 09, Feb 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Finance leaders from the world's richest nations pledged on Saturday to work together to stabilize world financial markets shaken by the U.S. housing debacle that is puncturing global economic growth.
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Year of "denial" in U.S. subprime crisis - 09, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - One year after the first alarm bells of the subprime mortgage crisis rang on Wall Street, many of its victims are trading at half their value or less, while others have long been buried.
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Chrysler to cut models and dealerships - 09, Feb 2008
CHICAGO/DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. automaker Chrysler LLC plans to shrink its dealer network and cut some vehicles that compete with its each other for customers to become a smaller, profitable company, an executive said on Friday.
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CFO brings philosophy of change to Microsoft - 09, Feb 2008
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft's decision in 2005 to hire Chris Liddell, a New Zealander working in the paper industry, to fill the company's open job of chief financial officer seemed like an odd choice.
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Yahoo board strategizes on Microsoft bid: report - 09, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's board met by telephone on Friday and discussed strategy for getting Microsoft Corp to raise its $42 billion offer for the company and the possibility of hiring Google Inc to run Yahoo's search, the Wall Street Journal said
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"Lemon Tree" offers new look to Mideast conflict - 09, Feb 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - Boiling the complexities of the Middle East down into a 106-minute film about a Palestinian woman's lemon trees and tensions arising when Israel's defense minister moves next door risk over-simplifying the issues.
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European laboratory heads to space station - 09, Feb 2008
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Astronauts aboard the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis adjusted their orbit on Friday to catch up with the International Space Station and hand over a European laboratory that will become a permanent part of that outpost.
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Hitting the high notes: Sax pros tune themselves - 09, Feb 2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Jazz legend John Coltrane routinely pushed his tenor saxophone into the altissimo range, notes far above the instrument's normal range, and now Australian scientists know how he did it.
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U.S. baseball steroid dealer avoids jail - 09, Feb 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A former Major League Baseball clubhouse attendant who sold steroids to dozens of players and later shared information with investigators received a sentence of five years probation but no jail time from a federal judge on Friday
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Terrible clay court fails to stall U.S - 09, Feb 2008
VIENNA (Reuters) - Davis Cup holders the United States looked in danger of stalling on a hastily-laid indoor Austrian clay court described by Andy Roddick as "terrible" before hauling themselves out of trouble on Friday.
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Music industry to toast Amy Winehouse at Grammys - 09, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The U.S. government might not care for Amy Winehouse, but the troubled British pop singer will likely receive plenty of long-distance love from the music industry when the Grammy Awards are handed out on Sunday.
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Ferre parts with creative director after 5 months - 09, Feb 2008
MILAN (Reuters) - Italian fashion house Gianfranco Ferre has parted ways with Lars Nilsson just five months after hiring him as creative director.
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Gates to Europe:Set Iraq aside, support Afghan war - 09, Feb 2008
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates appealed to Europeans on Friday not to let their opposition to the Iraq war affect their view of the conflict in Afghanistan.
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CORRECTION: Three dead in Louisiana campus shooting - 09, Feb 2008
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (Reuters) - A nursing student shot two women to death and killed herself in front of horrified classmates at a college in the southern U.S. state of Louisiana on Friday, police said.
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Orioles' lefty Bedard joins Seattle for five players - 09, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Baltimore Orioles' left-handed starter Erik Bedard was traded to the Seattle Mariners for five players on Friday, baseball Web site mlb.com reported.
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Annan hopes for Kenya political deal in days - 09, Feb 2008
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's feuding political parties may reach a breakthrough within days to help end violence after a disputed election that has left more than 1,000 people dead, mediator Kofi Annan said on Friday.
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Three dead in Louisiana campus shooting - 09, Feb 2008
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (Reuters) - A nursing student shot two women to death and killed herself in front of horrified classmates at a college in the southern U.S. state of Louisiana on Friday, police said.
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Let us talk to Sept 11 planner, U.S. lawyers ask - 09, Feb 2008
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Military lawyers defending Osama bin Laden's former driver on terrorism charges in the U.S. war court at Guantanamo Bay have offered a compromise in their quest to interview September 11 mastermind Khalid S
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Three dead in sugar refinery blast - 09, Feb 2008
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Three people died, three others were missing and more than three dozen were injured in an explosion and fire at a sugar refinery in the U.S. state of Georgia, authorities said on Friday.
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FDA reviewing safety of Botox, rival product - 09, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators said on Friday they were reviewing the safety of Allergan Inc's Botox and a competing product, after reports of deaths and serious reactions in some patients.
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Bush tours tornado-hit Tennessee and pledges help - 09, Feb 2008
LAFAYETTE, Tennessee (Reuters) - President George W. Bush toured tornado-battered parts of the U.S. South on Friday and pledged to help the region rebuild after the worst rampage of twisters in nearly a quarter-century killed 58 people.
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Fed official sees recent moves steadying markets - 09, Feb 2008
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Recent action by the Federal Reserve is likely to calm troubled U.S. markets, but inflation remains a worry, a top U.S. central bank official said on Friday.
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G7 to weigh global response to credit crisis - 09, Feb 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Financial leaders from the world's richest nations stood ready to discuss a global policy response to the credit crisis, which has unleashed economic downdrafts and market turbulence that knows no borders.
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SEC may seek more disclosure by credit raters - 09, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Securities and Exchange Commission may propose requiring credit rating agencies to differentiate between corporate bonds and structured finance products as well as make disclosures around past ratings, the agency's chairman said
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Venezuela rails at Exxon asset freeze "terrorism" - 09, Feb 2008
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela accused Exxon Mobil of legal "terrorism" on Friday after the giant U.S. oil company won court orders freezing $12 billion of the South American oil supplier's assets in a dispute at the heart of a worldwide tussle for control
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CNET shares, options up on Google rumor - 09, Feb 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Shares of media company CNET Networks Inc, currently battling dissident shareholders who want to expand its board, soared more than 7 percent on Friday, on speculation that Google Inc might be interested in acquiring a stake in i
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Wall St stumbles on fresh risk aversion - 09, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell on Friday as investors lost their appetite for risk and sold shares of financials, home builders and other sectors that have been at the center of the credit market crisis.
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Pentagon could award big radio contract this month - 09, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon will soon choose either Boeing Co or Lockheed Martin Corp to design a next-generation radio system for aircraft, ships and ground stations, a deal potentially worth billions of dollars to the winning bidder.
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Dell trims AMD consumer PC offerings on Web site - 09, Feb 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell Inc said on Friday it had cut from its Web site most consumer computers with chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc and would sell AMD-based PCs mainly in stores and by phone.
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Wireless fair set to stage mobile Web battle - 09, Feb 2008
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Cell phone makers, telecoms carriers and Internet groups are squaring up for a fight for dominance of the mobile Internet, finally ready for market after years of promises and hundreds of billions in investments.
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Nigerians pay tribute to legend of highlife music - 08, Feb 2008
ATANI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Thousands of Nigerians gathered
on Friday for the village funeral of Osita Osadebe, a legend of
highlife music which fuses West African and Western styles, who
sold millions of records during a career that spanned decades.
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Grammy telecast struggles to stay relevant - 08, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - When the Grammy Awards telecast bursts into full-throated song on Sunday night, live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, it will mark the awards show's 50th year. But there will be another milestone to celebrate as w
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Oscar-spurned "Atonement" stars bid for BAFTAS - 08, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, stars of the romantic drama "Atonement" who were overlooked in the race for Oscar glory, are hoping the British Academy Film Awards will offer rich compensation on Sunday.
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Scorsese says Stones film "for generations to come" - 08, Feb 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - The Rolling Stones have been asked when they would lay down their guitars for good ever since the mid-1960s, shortly after they formed.
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Studios cautious as strike nears possible end - 08, Feb 2008
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Even if Hollywood writers end their three-month-old strike soon, as the buzz seems to suggest, studios will be reluctant to ramp up development too aggressively because they must still contend with a possible wa
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Image of U.S. soldier wins World Press Photo prize - 08, Feb 2008
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - An image of an emotionally and physically spent U.S. soldier in a bunker in Afghanistan by Britain's Tim Hetherington for Vanity Fair magazine won the top World Press Photo prize for news photography on Friday.
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NY Fashion Week: Fall fashions channel retro glamour - 08, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. recession may be ahead, but fashionistas are being offered an escape from the gloom with a glamorous fall look of lingerie-style designs, full skirts and retro belts shown on New York catwalks this week.
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Iran starts second atomic power plant: report - 08, Feb 2008
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Iran has started building a second atomic power plant in an oil-rich region near the border with Iraq, Iran's Ambassador to Russia was quoted as saying on Friday by Itar-Tass news agency.
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Israel makes small cut in Gaza's electricity supply - 08, Feb 2008
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Friday it cut by less than 1 percent the amount of electrical power it supplies to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip as part of a campaign against militants who fire cross-border rockets.
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Putin lashes out at West's "new arms race" - 08, Feb 2008
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Friday a new global arms race was starting and Russia was "forced to retaliate" with new, high-tech weapons.
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U.S. should not provoke Iraq militia: report - 08, Feb 2008
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army is "unassailable" in its Iraqi strongholds and the U.S. military would risk reigniting the violence that almost sparked civil war if it provokes it, a report said on Friday.
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Gates walks fine line in Europe to seek Afghan aid - 08, Feb 2008
VILNIUS (Reuters) - Sometimes strident, sometimes sympathetic, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is walking a fine line in trying to win more public support and troops from Europe for NATO's war in Afghanistan.
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Six missing in U.S. sugar refinery blast, fire - 08, Feb 2008
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Six people were missing on Friday after an explosion and fire at a sugar refinery in the U.S. state of Georgia, with police saying that rescuers were now focusing on a recovery operation.
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G7 finance leaders ready to act on global slowdown - 08, Feb 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Financial leaders from the world's richest nations showed signs on Friday they were ready to work together to tackle a global economic downturn and calm turbulent financial markets.
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Subprime stricken IKB attempts third rescue - 08, Feb 2008
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - IKB, the German bank which nearly went bust after its subprime investments crashed, is searching for up to 2 billion euros ($2.9 billion) to stay afloat, sources with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters.
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McDonald's U.S. sales rebound - 08, Feb 2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp , the world's largest fast-food chain, said on Friday that sales in the United States rebounded in January from a flat December, sending its stock up more than 2 percent.
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Air Canada owner approached on U.S. mergers: CEO - 08, Feb 2008
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - ACE Aviation Holdings , majority owner of Air Canada , has been approached by private equity players and pension funds on ways that Air Canada could join the U.S. airline consolidation wave, ACE Chief Executive Robert Milton s
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Chrysler to cut models, dealerships: report - 08, Feb 2008
DETROIT (Reuters) - Automaker Chrysler LLC aims to cut its product lineup by around a half and dramatically shrink its dealership network so it can sell its three brands under one roof, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar wi
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Bush: Will sign economic stimulus bill next week - 08, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush said on Friday he would sign a $152 billion economic stimulus package into law next week.
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Ecuador farmers evacuated again from volcano area - 08, Feb 2008
COTALO, Ecuador (Reuters) - Hundreds of poncho-clad Ecuadorean peasants were evacuated from their hamlets near the roaring "Throat of Fire" volcano on Thursday only hours after they had been allowed to return to their homes.
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Hollywood on edge as striking writers set meetings - 08, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - With an entire industry eyeing a pair of Writers Guild of America meetings Saturday, everybody and their (out of work) brother wants to know when the picket lines will come down and the union's three-month-old strike wil
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Oscar has experience with strike-related uncertainty - 08, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - It's not quite deja vu all over again. But as the planning proceeds for the Academy Awards on February 24, it's worth flashing back 20 years to the last time Oscar had to deal with a writers strike.
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Winehouse cancels Grammys but may appear on satellite - 08, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British soul singer Amy Winehouse's personal issues again derailed her career on Thursday as U.S. officials rejected her application for a visa, causing her to cancel plans to attend the Grammy awards.
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Simona Peycheva fighting back from spinal surgery - 08, Feb 2008
SOFIA (Reuters) - Simona Peycheva is such a tough character that she passed her driving test despite having a broken foot at the time.
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Third-period blitz helps Kings reign over Red Wings - 08, Feb 2008
DETROIT (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Kings scored four goals in the third period to bring an end to the Detroit Red Wings' eight-game winning streak with a 5-3 road triumph on Thursday.
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American Jones takes early control at Pebble Beach - 08, Feb 2008
PEBBLE BEACH, California (Reuters) - Little-known American Kent Jones upstaged some of the biggest names in the game by charging one stroke clear in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am first round on Thursday.
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Clemens rejects claims of evidence of steroids - 08, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Baseball star Roger Clemens dismissed as bogus on Thursday new claims of evidence by his former trainer -- including needles and bloody gauze pads -- that Clemens used performance-enhancing drugs.
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Yao powers Rockets to big win over Cavaliers - 08, Feb 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Yao Ming scored 22 points and pulled down 12 rebounds to spark the Houston Rockets to a 92-77 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday.
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Sri Lanka kills 30 rebels as fighting grinds on - 08, Feb 2008
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan troops have killed at least 30 Tamil Tiger rebels including an area leader in fresh fighting in the island's north, the military said on Friday.
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U.S. military loses records for bin Laden's driver - 08, Feb 2008
GANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - The U.S. military has lost a year's worth of records describing the Guantanamo confinement of Osama bin Laden's driver, a prosecutor said at the Yemeni captive's war court hearing on Thursday.
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Palestinian PM sees no '08 Israel accord - 08, Feb 2008
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Thursday a lasting peace accord with Israel was unlikely in 2008 despite renewed diplomatic efforts to resolve the long-running conflict.
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Gunman kills five in Missouri city hall - 08, Feb 2008
KIRKWOOD, Missouri (Reuters) - A gunman killed two police officers and three city officials on Thursday night when he stormed into a city council meeting in a suburb of St. Louis, police said.
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Force of blast killed Bhutto, not bullet: report - 08, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed by the force of a suicide bomb and not by an assassin's bullet, The New York Times reported in its Friday editions, quoting officials briefed by Scotland Yard investigators.
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Dozens injured in Georgia sugar refinery blast - 08, Feb 2008
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Dozens of people were injured, some of them seriously, in an explosion at a sugar refinery in the U.S. state of Georgia on Thursday night, local authorities said, adding that no fatalities had been reported yet.
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Ex-natgas traders guilty of price manipulation - 08, Feb 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Three former El Paso Corp natural gas traders were convicted on Thursday of reporting false deals to manipulate gas prices from 2000 to 2002.
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Congress passes stimulus bill and sends to Bush - 08, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Congress passed a nearly $152 billion plan on Thursday to stave off an election-year recession by sending government rebate checks to millions of Americans and providing business tax incentives to boost spending.
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Exxon wins freeze on $12 billion of Venezuelan assets - 08, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp has won court orders freezing up to $12 billion in Venezuelan assets around the world as it fights for compensation for operations lost to President Hugo Chavez's nationalization drive.
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"Guitar Hero" makes Activision into profit hero - 08, Feb 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Activision Inc on Thursday posted a higher-than-expected quarterly profit and gave a bullish revenue forecast, citing strong sales of its hit "Call of Duty 4" and "Guitar Hero 3" video games.
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Facebook says hola to Spanish amigos - 08, Feb 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook.com has introduced a version of the site for Spanish-language speakers, the first of several languages beyond English the social network site plans to offer, the company said on Thursday.
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Winehouse cancels Grammy performance - 08, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Amy Winehouse, who entered a rehab clinic last month for drug addiction, will not perform as planned at this year's Grammy awards ceremony after the U.S. embassy in London rejected her visa application.
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Stones film gets Berlin festival rolling - 08, Feb 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - The Rolling Stones lit up the Berlin Film Festival on Thursday, with the four veteran rockers on the red carpet for the world premiere of "Shine a Light", Martin Scorsese's two-hour concert documentary.
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Scientists make unique knee-brace power generator - 08, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Talk about a knee-jerk reaction. Scientists in the United States and Canada said on Thursday they have developed a unique device that can be strapped on the knee that exploits the mechanics of human walking to generate a usable supp
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Ecuador peasants defy roaring volcano, return home - 08, Feb 2008
COTALO, Ecuador (Reuters) - Hundreds of poncho-clad Ecuadorean peasants climbed back to their hamlets on Thursday, defying a roaring "Throat of Fire" volcano that a day earlier forced them to flee their homes built in the shadow of the mountain.
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Nature tops nurture in childhood obesity: study - 08, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Diet and lifestyle play a far smaller role than genetic factors in determining whether a child becomes overweight, according to a British study of twins published on Thursday.
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Bangladesh raises compensation as bird flu spreads - 08, Feb 2008
DHAKA (Reuters) - Bird flu has spread to another district in Bangladesh, taking the number of affected districts to 39, officials said on Thursday, as the government increased compensation to farmers for culled poultry in an effort to control the outbreak
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U.S. sees attacks by Iranian-backed groups up in Iraq - 08, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attacks by Iranian-backed groups in Iraq have increased in recent months, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday, casting doubt on the view Iran might have reduced its support for violence in the war.
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Clemens' rejects claims of evidence of steroids - 08, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Baseball pitching great Roger Clemens dismissed as unfounded on Thursday new claims of evidence offered by his former trainer that he had used performance-enhancing drugs.
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Shaq just wants to fit in with the Suns - 08, Feb 2008
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Phoenix Suns newly acquired center Shaquille O'Neal said Thursday he expects no special treatment from his team mates.
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Britney Spears' parents say her life is "at risk" - 08, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The parents of pop star Britney Spears said their daughter is in the middle of a mental crisis, and they fear her life is at risk since leaving a hospital where she was under psychiatric care.
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Space shuttle lifts off from Florida - 08, Feb 2008
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis blasted off from its seaside Florida launch pad on Thursday to deliver a $1.9 billion European science laboratory to the International Space Station.
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NATO struggles for unity over Afghan war - 08, Feb 2008
VILNIUS/KABUL (Reuters) - NATO tried to patch over divisions about the war in Afghanistan on Thursday but differences remained over the willingness of some members to contribute troops to the fight.
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Death toll rises to 57 in U.S. tornadoes - 08, Feb 2008
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Communities across the U.S. South grieved for the dead and tried to pick up their lives on Thursday after the deadliest round of tornadoes in nearly a quarter century killed 57 people.
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Mass arrests in anti-Mafia sweep in U.S., Italy - 08, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police in the United States and Italy arrested 77 suspected members of the Mafia on Thursday, including some of its most wanted leaders, for an array of crimes going back more than 30 years.
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Senate passes economic plan and sends to House - 08, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed an economic stimulus plan that would send government rebate checks to millions of Americans including retirees and disabled veterans to help lift the economy and stave off an election-year recessio
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Merck reaches settlement in Medicaid rebate probe - 08, Feb 2008
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Merck & Co agreed to pay more than $649 million to resolve litigation related to its cholesterol drug Zocor and painkiller Vioxx, a federal prosecutor said on Thursday.
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Republican McCain asks conservatives for support - 08, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican John McCain asked disgruntled conservatives to support his presidential bid on Thursday, shortly after Mitt Romney ended his struggling campaign and made McCain the all-but-certain nominee.
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