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Situation in Darfur deteriorating: U.N.'s Ban - 21, Feb 2008
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday in a new report to the Security Council that the situation in Sudan's Western Darfur region was deteriorating and more peacekeepers were urgently needed.
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Bain and 3Com deal stalled on Chinese stake - 21, Feb 2008
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Bain Capital Partners has withdrawn its application for U.S. security approval of its $2.2 billion purchase of 3Com Corp with a Chinese investor -- killing the deal in its current form, a source familiar with the situation said o
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Top court rules for Medtronic in devices case - 21, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court handed a victory to Medtronic Inc on Wednesday, ruling that patients cannot sue medical-device manufacturers in state court over harm from a device that has approval from federal regulators.
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GMAC to cut 930 auto finance jobs, close offices - 21, Feb 2008
DETROIT (Reuters) - Finance company GMAC on Wednesday said it would restructure its auto finance unit by eliminating about 930 jobs and closing smaller offices in the face of tighter credit markets and slumping new car sales.
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Wall Street rallies on optimism about rate cuts - 21, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose on Wednesday as a strong profit outlook from Hewlett-Packard Co lifted technology shares and the Federal Reserve signaled its intention to keep cutting rates.
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Inflation gathers steam as housing slides - 21, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A steady rise in U.S. consumer prices in January pointed to persistent inflation pressures despite fresh signs on Wednesday that the declining housing sector remains a drag on the economy.
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SocGen controls lacked depth: internal SG report - 21, Feb 2008
PARIS (Reuters) - An internal investigation by Societe Generale into a massive trading loss blamed on a single trader has found controls at the French bank lacked depth, a report published by the bank showed on Wednesday.
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Fed cuts growth forecast on housing and credit strain - 21, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve said on Wednesday it had lowered its U.S. economic growth forecast for 2008 to between 1.3 and 2 percent due to the deepening housing slump and tight credit and said risks of further setbacks were troubling.
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YouTube brings life, weirdness to election - 21, Feb 2008
MADRID (Reuters) - If it weren't for YouTube, a man wearing a little black dress and a pearl necklace would be unlikely to get a question in for the leader of the Spanish opposition.
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MySpace mulls music joint venture: sources - 21, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - MySpace, the top social networking site owned by News Corp, is in talks to create an online music joint venture with the four biggest record companies, sources familiar with the discussion said on Wednesday.
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Nintendo and Microsoft unveil indie games services - 21, Feb 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and Nintendo Co Ltd unveiled on Wednesday new online services for their video game consoles to showcase games by independent developers, part of a push by the companies to tap enthusiasm for so-called casual games.
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Sprint expected to undercut rivals' call plans - 21, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - No. 3 U.S. mobile service provider Sprint Nextel Corp is expected to offer flat-rate calling plans at up to a 40 percent discount to its rivals, hurtling the industry into a price war, analysts said on Wednesday.
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Singapore and Moscow in David v Goliath Youth Games race - 20, Feb 2008
ATHENS (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday will announce the host city of its inaugural 2010 Youth Olympics, an event aimed at forging a new generation of Olympians.
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Hollywood strikes may overpower Marvel heroes - 20, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Labor disputes, whether real or merely predicted, have put a crimp in Marvel Entertainment's goal of releasing two films -- or maybe even one -- next year.
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Black Eyed Peas singer joins "Wolverine" cast - 20, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Black Eyed Peas singer Will.i.am will make his feature acting debut in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," the "X-Men" spinoff starring Hugh Jackman.
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China state newspaper lambastes Spielberg on Darfur - 20, Feb 2008
BEIJING (Reuters) - A top Chinese state newspaper has lambasted Hollywood director Steven Spielberg for quitting the Beijing Olympic Games over Darfur, saying "childish" vanity politics lies behind Western criticism of Beijing policy.
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Blake cruises into San Jose second round - 20, Feb 2008
SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Second seed James Blake waltzed into the second round of the San Jose Open with a 6-3 6-1 win over Sam Warburg on Tuesday.
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Abbas cool to unilateral Palestinian independence - 20, Feb 2008
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Feb 20 - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ruled out on Wednesday any unilateral declaration of statehood in the near future, responding to an aide's call to take the step if peace talks with Israel continued to falter.
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Castro to be Cuba's ideologue, elder statesman - 20, Feb 2008
HAVANA (Reuters) - Fidel Castro will play the role of Cuban communism's ideologue and elder statesman after giving up the reins of power for the first time since the 1959 revolution.
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Bush reassures Africa no plans for new U.S. bases - 20, Feb 2008
ACCRA (Reuters) - President George W. Bush reassured Africa on Wednesday that the United States was not planning to build new military bases there and played down the risk of rivalry with China for influence on the continent.
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NATO checks Serbs' Kosovo border challenge - 20, Feb 2008
PRISTINA (Reuters) - NATO thwarted overnight a bid by Kosovo Serbs to assert their authority in a northern slice of the newly independent republic, restoring control on the border with Serbia where crowds had burnt down two crossing points.
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Shi'ite cleric Sadr keeps Iraq guessing over truce - 20, Feb 2008
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will decide within days whether to extend or scrap his Mehdi Army militia ceasefire, a move that will have big repercussions for security in Iraq.
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Pakistan's winners propose anti-Musharraf coalition - 20, Feb 2008
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The party of Pakistan's assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto began stitching together a coalition on Wednesday that could topple President Pervez Musharraf, after winning most seats in a general election.
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Presidential race moves to Ohio, Texas - 20, Feb 2008
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - With big wins in hand, Democrat Barack Obama pointed on Wednesday toward critical showdowns with rival Hillary Clinton next month that could prove decisive in their heavyweight presidential battle.
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Obama surges past Clinton - 20, Feb 2008
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Barack Obama has surged past Hillary Clinton to open a big national lead in the Democratic presidential race, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
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Garmin results beat Wall Street - 20, Feb 2008
(Reuters) - Navigation device maker Garmin Ltd posted a 70 percent rise in quarterly profit, beating Wall Street estimates, as revenue in its automotive and outdoor/fitness segments climbed, sending shares up 12 percent in trading before the bell.
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Oil falls from record above $100 a barrel - 20, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil retreated on Wednesday, a day after hitting a record high above $100 a barrel, as investors focused on a U.S. inventory report expected to show crude stockpiles rose for a sixth week.
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ING reports small Q4 impairment, shares rise - 20, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Dutch financial services group ING took a lower-than-expected impairment charge of 194 million euros ($286 million) on riskier investments in its fourth-quarter results on Wednesday, while a stake sale helped offset the loss.
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Sharper Image files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy - 20, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sharper Image Corp , the store and catalog retailer whose products include air purifiers and massage chairs, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, saying declining sales and three straight years of losses led to a shortage o
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A&L writedown hits profits, funding costs jump - 20, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - British bank Alliance & Leicester suffered a double blow from global financial market turmoil on Wednesday, warning a big rise in funding costs would dent 2008 profit after a writedown on risky assets hit 2007.
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Higher food costs push up consumer prices - 20, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rising food costs helped push consumer prices up for a second straight month in January by 0.4 percent, more than offsetting a moderation in energy price rises as inflation showed signs of gaining steam, according to a Labor Departm
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Japan online networking king Mixi to take on China - 20, Feb 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's most popular online networking site, Mixi Inc, said on Wednesday it plans to establish a subsidiary in Shanghai to tap China's fast-growing Internet market.
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YouTube brings life, weirdness to Spain election - 20, Feb 2008
MADRID (Reuters) - If it weren't for YouTube, a man wearing a little black dress and a pearl necklace would be unlikely to get a question in for the leader of the Spanish opposition.
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Firm gets U.S. nod for quick passenger data checks - 20, Feb 2008
GENEVA (Reuters) - A company owned by international airlines said on Wednesday it had won approval from the United States for a system providing passenger details to U.S. border authorities almost instantaneously.
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Laser could provide breath test for cancer, asthma - 20, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new laser analyzer might be able to help doctors detect cancer, asthma or other diseases by sampling a patient's breath, researchers reported on Tuesday.
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Canadiens fight back from 5-0 down to beat Rangers - 20, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Montreal Canadiens pulled off a stunning comeback to beat the New York Rangers 6-5 in a shootout on Tuesday having trailed 5-0.
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Hungry Woods recalls his perfect season - 20, Feb 2008
MARANA, Arizona (Reuters) - Tiger Woods astounded reporters at Dove Mountain's Gallery Golf Club on Tuesday by revealing he had gone through an entire season without losing a tournament.
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Bounty Hunter "Dog" to return to the air - 20, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Celebrity bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman is set to return to television after his reality TV show was pulled from the air three months ago in a controversy over his use of a racial slur, cable channel A&E said on Tuesday.
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Space shuttle heads home ahead of satellite shot - 20, Feb 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Space shuttle Atlantis headed for home on Wednesday with NASA pushing to get it back to Earth before the U.S. military tries to shoot a dead spy satellite out of the sky.
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North Korea denies uranium program: U.S. envoy says - 20, Feb 2008
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has again denied running a clandestine program to enrich uranium for weapons, long suspected by the United States, a top U.S. nuclear envoy said on Wednesday.
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Rockets blast Cavaliers to win ninth in a row - 20, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Houston Rockets went straight back to their winning ways after the All-Star break, beating the Cavaliers 93-85 in Cleveland on Tuesday to earn their ninth win in a row.
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U.S. limits Okinawa troops to bases over rape case - 20, Feb 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - The U.S. military in Okinawa ordered its members and their families on Wednesday to restrict their movements after the arrest last week of a Marine on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old girl.
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Australia says job is done for soldiers in Iraq - 20, Feb 2008
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's top military commander said on Wednesday the job of the country's combat soldiers in southern Iraq was done, bolstering a government decision to bring them home mid-year.
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Pakistan's election winners ponder coalition - 20, Feb 2008
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The party of assassinated former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto began stitching together a coalition on Wednesday that could spell the end for President Pervez Musharraf, after winning the most seats in a general election.
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Castro exit sets stage for stable Cuba succession - 20, Feb 2008
HAVANA (Reuters) - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro stepped down on Tuesday after almost half a century at Cuba's helm, setting the stage for an orderly transfer of power to his brother Raul.
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U.S. cancer death rate down but 565,650 seen in 2008 - 20, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. death rate from cancer has continued a steady decline that began in the early 1990s but it will still kill a projected 565,650 Americans this year, the American Cancer Society said on Wednesday.
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Obama and McCain score big wins in Wisconsin - 20, Feb 2008
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama easily beat rival Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin on Tuesday, extending his U.S. presidential winning streak and putting pressure on Clinton to win next month in Ohio and Texas to salvage her campaign.
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Airbus sees order slowdown after peak - 20, Feb 2008
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Airbus said on Wednesday it expects the market for aircraft to cool and new orders to halve to 700 this year after years of strong demand from airlines took its order book to a record 3,600 planes.
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World Bank picks Pimco to manage currency bond fund - 20, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pimco, the world's biggest bond fund, has been selected by the World Bank to manage a planned $5 billion local currency bond fund for emerging economies.
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Delta chief tells senator no merger deal yet - 20, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief executive of Delta Air Lines told a U.S. senator on Tuesday there is no merger agreement yet with Northwest Airlines, but the two sides are continuing to work toward a deal.
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Oil falls from record above $100, looks to stocks - 20, Feb 2008
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil retreated on Wednesday, after surging nearly 5 percent to a record above $100 a day ago, on fresh influx of capital into commodities, with focus turning to U.S. stocks data that are expected to show a build in crude.
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French Catholics seek legal status for embryos - 20, Feb 2008
PARIS (Reuters) - France's Roman Catholic Church has called for embryos to be given a clear legal status following a court decision that let parents of miscarried fetuses enter them with a name in the official civil registry.
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Danish scientists find way to tell age through eyes - 20, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - A new way to decipher a person's age by looking into the lens of the eye could help forensic scientists identify bodies, Danish researchers said on Tuesday.
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Space shuttle crew readies for Wednesday landing - 20, Feb 2008
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Shuttle Atlantis crew members prepared on Tuesday for their planned touchdown at the Kennedy Space Center in central Florida after delivering Europe's first permanent orbital laboratory to the International Space Statio
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Florida will teach evolution but only as theory - 20, Feb 2008
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Florida education officials voted on Tuesday to add evolution to required course work in public schools but only after a last-minute change depicting Charles Darwin's seminal work as merely a theory.
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Elegance, color take Oscars for red carpet fashion - 20, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - With the Oscars days away, Hollywood is primping for its annual red-carpet fashion parade where stars like Penelope Cruz and Nicole Kidman are expected to dazzle fans in elegant gowns of bold colors.
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Swiss police say found 2 stolen Zurich artworks - 20, Feb 2008
ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss police have found two of the four oil paintings by 19th Century masters, which were stolen from a Zurich museum earlier this month in one of Europe's biggest art thefts, they said on Tuesday.
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Pakistan films tackle issues with children's tales - 20, Feb 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - Two new films shed light on Pakistan's deep-rooted social and political problems by looking at them through the eyes of a child.
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Calzaghe says he'll be the "bad guy" against Hopkins - 20, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Undefeated British boxer Joe Calzaghe kept his cool and smiled when American Bernard Hopkins warned him on Tuesday that he should be "willing to die" when they meet in a light-heavyweight world title bout in April.
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Fifteen Iraqi police killed defusing rockets - 20, Feb 2008
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi officials said 15 policemen were killed and more than 45 wounded in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday as they tried to defuse rockets that had been prepared for launch from the back of a truck.
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Kidd goes back to Dallas in eight-player trade - 20, Feb 2008
DALLAS (Reuters) - Eight-times All-Star point guard Jason Kidd returned to Dallas on Tuesday when the Mavericks completed an eight-player trade with the New Jersey Nets.
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Obama, Clinton square off in Wisconsin - 20, Feb 2008
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Democrats in Wisconsin and Hawaii make their choices on Tuesday in a heated presidential battle, with Hillary Clinton hoping to snap Barack Obama's winning streak ahead of big contests in March.
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Top court won't review Bush domestic spying case - 20, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a legal challenge to the warrantless domestic spying program President George W. Bush created after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Nancy Reagan released from L.A. hospital - 20, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former U.S. first lady Nancy Reagan was released on Tuesday from a Los Angeles-area hospital where she spent two nights after a fall and was resuming her daily activities, her office said.
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Pakistan's Musharraf could face end, analysts say - 20, Feb 2008
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The rout of his allies in Pakistan's parliamentary election could herald the end for President Pervez Musharraf, one of Washington's most important Muslim allies in its fight against al Qaeda, analysts say.
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Border violence mars Kosovo's new start - 20, Feb 2008
PRISTINA (Reuters) - U.N. police pulled out of a Kosovan border post that was destroyed on Tuesday by Serbs who vow never to submit to the authority of Kosovo's Albanian government and its Western backers.
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Fidel Castro steps down after 49-year rule - 20, Feb 2008
HAVANA (Reuters) - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro stepped down on Tuesday 49 years after taking power in an armed revolution, closing the book on a Cold War career that made him an icon to leftists and a tyrant to his foes.
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Tax rebates to boost U.S. growth: Gutierrez - 20, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. growth will be tepid until mid-year but should get a one-two punch from tax rebates and lower interest rates to boost the economy, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez predicted on Tuesday.
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Home-builder sentiment rises slightly - 20, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Home-builder sentiment improved unexpectedly in February as prospective buyers showed more interest, but the gauge remained near historic lows, the National Association of Home Builders said on Tuesday.
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Staples offers $3.7 billion for Corp. Express - 20, Feb 2008
AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Office supply retailer Staples Inc made an unsolicited 2.5 billion euro ($3.7 billion) bid for Corporate Express on Tuesday after unsuccessful attempts to hold friendly merger talks with the Dutch office supply company
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HP shares rise as profit beats Street targets - 20, Feb 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co on Tuesday issued a quarterly earnings report and forecast ahead of Wall Street targets as it cut costs and sold more PCs and server computers, sending its stock up 5 percent.
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Market off as oil jumps above $100 - 20, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell on Tuesday as crude oil prices rose to a record above $100 a barrel, erasing an earlier rally on concern that higher energy costs could fan inflation and crimp consumer spending and profits.
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Oil hits record over $100 on OPEC supply concerns - 20, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil surged nearly 5 percent on Tuesday to hit a record over $100 a barrel on expectations OPEC will not hike output to ease high prices next month despite the economic woes of top consumer the United States.
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Cross-border blog promotes Israel-Gaza peace - 20, Feb 2008
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - "Peace man" is from the Gaza Strip. "Hope man" lives across the Israeli border in Sderot.
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Russian teacher takes on global software giants - 20, Feb 2008
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian schoolteacher who became a popular hero after he was put on trial for using pirated Microsoft programs has launched a campaign against the software giant's global domination.
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Some VCs learn to appreciate site that rates them - 20, Feb 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Silicon Valley's purveyors of start-up capital are often quick to back new ideas, but a Web site that lets entrepreneurs rate and review venture capital firms anonymously has been a harder sell.
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Microsoft to authorize Yahoo proxy battle: report - 20, Feb 2008
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp will authorize a proxy battle for Yahoo Inc this week to convince the Web company's shareholders to agree on a takeover deal that the Yahoo board so far has rejected, the New York Times' DealBook blog said on Tuesday.
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Unlimited mobile plans spark price war concerns - 20, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc , Verizon Wireless and Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA on Tuesday announced flat rate plans for unlimited calls in the United States, raising investor concerns that a price war could break out and sending shares lower.
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Bollywood actress in film about Christ in India - 19, Feb 2008
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat will play an ascetic who befriends Jesus of Nazareth in a U.S. film that revolves around a legend that he visited India.
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Dead poultry raises bird flu alarm in Vietnam - 19, Feb 2008
HANOI (Reuters) - Dead poultry have been found in rivers and streams in northern Vietnam, a sign of a possible new bird flu outbreak during a prolonged cold spell, officials said on Tuesday.
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Best actor, actress races tighten ahead of Oscars - 19, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For weeks, Britons Daniel Day-Lewis and Julie Christie have looked like sure bets to win the coveted best actor and actress Academy Awards, but in the days ahead of Sunday's gala ceremony, momentum has shifted.
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Oscar-nominated movie scores push boundaries - 19, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - What is a "traditional score," and why are they saying such terrible things about it?
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Egypt summons Danish ambassador over cartoons - 19, Feb 2008
CAIRO (Reuters) - The Egyptian government has summoned the ambassador of Denmark in Cairo to protest at the reprinting of cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammed in Danish newspapers, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
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Beijing says 15,000 relocated for Games venues - 19, Feb 2008
BEIJING (Reuters) - Just under 15,000 people were moved from their homes to make way for the venues of the Beijing Olympics and all moved voluntarily with compensation, officials said on Tuesday, countering rights groups' allegations that hundreds of thou
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Car bomb kills one in Afghanistan's Kandahar - 19, Feb 2008
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A remote-controlled car bomb blast on Tuesday shook the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, still reeling from attacks in the area which have killed scores of people in the past two days.
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Hundreds rally in Okinawa over U.S. rape suspect - 19, Feb 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - About 300 women gathered on Japan's southern island of Okinawa on Tuesday to protest the suspected rape of a 14-year-old girl there by a U.S. Marine, calling for U.S. troops to leave, media reported.
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Ears ringing, Kenya negotiators return to table - 19, Feb 2008
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's feuding parties resumed talks on Tuesday after a torrent of calls from home and abroad to solve a post-election crisis that has killed 1,000 people and tarnished the east African nation's reputation.
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Musharraf urged to go as rivals win Pakistan poll - 19, Feb 2008
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's opponents won a big election victory on Tuesday as voters rejected his former ruling party, raising doubts whether the U.S. ally who has ruled since 1999 can keep power.
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Kosovo violence shows risk of partition - 19, Feb 2008
PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo Serbs sacked two border posts in the north of the newly independent republic on Tuesday, chasing off Albanian and U.N. police and forcing NATO troops to intervene.
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Bush calls for increased effort to help Darfur - 19, Feb 2008
KIGALI (Reuters) - After seeing graphic reminders of the Rwandan genocide, President George W. Bush called on Tuesday for increased international efforts to help Darfur.
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Oil nears $98 on supply worries, OPEC - 19, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil rose on Tuesday to the highest level in a month, near $98 a barrel, driven by expectations that supplies will be tight.
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Fidel Castro retires - 19, Feb 2008
HAVANA (Reuters) - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Tuesday that he will not return to lead the communist country, retiring as president 49 years after he seized power in a revolution and became a central figure of the Cold War.
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Staples in 2.5 bln euro offer for Corp. Express - 19, Feb 2008
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Office goods supplier Staples proposed a 7.25 euros per share offer for Dutch peer Corporate Express on Tuesday, valuing it at around 2.5 billion euros ($3.68 billion) and sending its shares soaring.
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Medco profit tops estimates - 19, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Medco Health Solutions Inc reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings on Tuesday, helped by sales of generic drugs, and the pharmacy benefit manager boosted its full-year profit forecast, sending its shares higher.
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EU clears Thomson takeover of Reuters - 19, Feb 2008
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Canadian electronic publisher Thomson Corp won conditional permission from the European Commission on Tuesday to buy Reuters , a deal that will create the world's leading provider of news and data for professional markets.
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Penny-pinching shoppers boost Wal-Mart profit - 19, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores posted better-than-expected quarterly profit on Tuesday as penny-pinching U.S. shoppers scoured its discount stores for low prices on necessities like food to offset tough economic conditions.
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Electronic Arts sees China among top 3 Asia markets - 19, Feb 2008
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - U.S. video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc expects China to join Japan and South Korea as one of its three largest markets by revenue in Asia-Pacific in two to three years.
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Toshiba to quit HD DVDs, ends format war - 19, Feb 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Toshiba Corp surrendered in the high-definition home movie war on Tuesday, giving up on its HD DVD format after losing the support of key studios and retailers to the Blu-ray technology backed by Sony Corp .
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Scientists capture giant Antarctic sea creatures - 19, Feb 2008
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Scientists studying Antarctic waters have filmed and captured giant sea creatures, like sea spiders the size of dinner plates and jelly fish with six meter (18 feet) tentacles.
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Mandy Moore aims to inspire life balance online - 19, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mandy Moore has recorded five albums, starred in films and television since she was 15 and launched her own fashion label, but recently she faced a fear shared by many other women -- going on vacation on her own.
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