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Schering-Plough reports loss, but beats forecast - 12, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Schering-Plough Corp on Tuesday reported a quarterly loss as special charges from its acquisition of Organon Biosciences late last year offset sharply higher sales, but results beat Wall Street expectations.
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GM posts loss, offers workers buyouts - 12, Feb 2008
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp on Tuesday posted a quarterly loss reflecting a slump in its North American market and losses at former finance subsidiary GMAC and said it would offer buyouts or early retirements to all U.S. hourly workers represe
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Match.com eyes social networks for subscribers - 12, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online dating site Match.com has made its own resolution for 2008: to get out and meet more people, or in this case, potential subscribers.
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UK could follow France on Internet piracy plan - 12, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain could follow France in cutting Internet access to users who repeatedly download music or films illegally.
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Nokia to add Google search on handsets - 12, Feb 2008
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Nokia will add Google to the list of search engines consumers can access from its handsets, the companies said on Tuesday.
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La Nina Pacific cooling may last to mid-year: U.N. - 12, Feb 2008
GENEVA (Reuters) - A sea-surface cooling in the Pacific, which may have contributed to strong hurricanes in the United States and a freeze-up in China, could last at least until mid-year, the U.N. weather body WMO said on Monday.
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Man arrested for burning South Korea's top treasure - 12, Feb 2008
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean police said on Tuesday they arrested a man who confessed to burning down a 600-year-old gate designated as the country's number one national treasure because he was angry about a compensation payment.
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California company claims faster, cheaper gene map - 12, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A California company predicts it will soon be able to sequence an entire human gene map in four minutes, for just $1,000.
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Scientists, police lift lid on fake malaria drugs - 12, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists and police have exposed a major Asian trade in life-threatening fake malaria drugs, resulting in the seizure of hundreds of thousands of tablets and the arrest of a dealer in southern China.
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Isabella Rossellini turns to directing insect sex - 12, Feb 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - Isabella Rossellini treated audiences at the Berlin Film Festival to wild and crazy sex scenes in a series of short films she directs and stars in.
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Strike wraps too late for Oscar promo plans - 12, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - The return of writers -- and celebrities -- to the full palette of late-night shows comes too late for studios hoping to swell support for their Oscar-nominated films and stars.
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Networks get back to work as strike nears end - 12, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - A day before Writers Guild of America members vote on whether to end their three-month strike, the broadcast networks on Monday began firming up their production plans.
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Columbus delivery gives Europe a place in space - 12, Feb 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Europe finally got a place of its own in space when astronauts attached the European laboratory Columbus to the International Space Station on Monday.
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Strike yields mixed results for Hollywood writers - 12, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Figuring the winners and losers in the aftermath of the writers' tentative contract deal is a complex calculation. Writers themselves fall in both categories.
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"Gardens" a compelling child-abuse drama - 12, Feb 2008
BERLIN (Hollywood Reporter) - Films about social issues usually exude the deadly aura of good intention and earnest edification, but Damian Harris zones in on his characters in "Gardens of the Night." The film gives vivid reality to those photos of disapp
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Hollywood engine on idle as strike winds down - 12, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Labor peace returned to Hollywood on Monday, but the town's production machine remained at a low idle ahead of a vote by striking film and TV writers on whether to return to work after a three-month clash with major studios.
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Berlin film festival needs hit after several misses - 12, Feb 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - Film festivals pride themselves on discovering cinematic gems from around the world that the public would never see otherwise.
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Canada determined to hear anthem in Vancouver - 12, Feb 2008
TORONTO (Reuters) - Twice, Canada has hosted an Olympic Games and failed to win a single gold medal on home territory.
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Whites to become minority in U.S. by 2050 - 12, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Non-Hispanic whites will become a minority in the United States by 2050, with immigrants and their children driving 82 percent of U.S. population growth in coming years, a new study said on Monday.
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Yao helps Rockets soar to seventh consecutive win - 12, Feb 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - The Houston Rockets cruised to a 95-83 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday, Chinese center Yao Ming leading the home team to a seventh consecutive triumph with a game-high 25 points.
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Nobel laureates join pressure on China over Darfur - 12, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of Nobel Peace laureates sent a letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday urging the Beijing Games host to uphold Olympic ideals by pressing its ally Sudan to stop atrocities in Darfur.
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Japan PM calls Okinawa rape case "unforgivable" - 12, Feb 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Top Japanese officials on Tuesday denounced the suspected rape of a 14-year-old girl by a U.S. Marine on the southern island of Okinawa, an episode with echoes of a 1995 case that jolted the U.S.-Japan alliance.
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U.S. Navy fires at Somali hijackers of Russian ship - 12, Feb 2008
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy has fired on Somali pirates who hijacked the Russian crew and British captain of a ship sailing off the Horn of Africa, a maritime official said on Tuesday.
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Australian troops arrive to boost East Timor security - 12, Feb 2008
DILI (Reuters) - Australian troops began arriving in East Timor on Tuesday to help enforce a state of emergency declared after a double assassination attempt that left the tiny nation's president in hospital with triple gunshot wounds.
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Obama takes winning streak into Tuesday contests - 12, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama hopes to extend his winning streak over rival Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, when voters in three battlegrounds make their choices in a close and bruising Democratic presidential race.
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Fed's Poole says U.S. likely to avoid recession - 12, Feb 2008
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - The U.S. appears likely to avoid an economic slowdown but the chances of a recession have risen, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President William Poole said on Monday.
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Disney case highlights China supply chain pitfalls - 12, Feb 2008
SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - In his dim two-room flat, Huang Renzhong showed a visitor a Mickey Mouse statuette and explained how creating Disney figurines during 15-hour work days in a grim factory led to a $90,000 lawsuit.
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Credit Suisse reduces writedowns from subprime - 12, Feb 2008
ZURICH (Reuters) - Credit Suisse reduced total write-downs from the subprime crisis on Tuesday in dramatic contrast to rising charges by rivals, and raked in billions of new investments from wealthy clients.
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Xstrata rejects $76 bln bid approach from Vale: report - 12, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Miner Xstrata has rejected a cash-and-shares takeover approach from Brazil's Vale pitched at just under 40 pounds a share, or 39 billion pounds ($76 billion), the Financial Times said.
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European archives release vintage films online - 12, Feb 2008
PARIS (Hollywood Reporter) - Where do you go if you want to watch rare archive films such as a 1916 document about life on a German submarine or John Ford's 53-minute Western "Bucking Broadway" from the following year?
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Mexico's America Movil to feature YouTube on cellphones - 12, Feb 2008
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - America Movil, Latin America's leading wireless operator, said on Monday it will feature the popular YouTube.com videos on its cell phones in a drive to further boost its booming client base.
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LG to ship full music-access phone before Nokia - 12, Feb 2008
BARCELONA (Reuters) - LG Electronics will start to sell mobile phones in few months time giving consumers full access to free music via Omnifone's MusicStation download service, UK-based Omnifone said on Tuesday.
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CNN launches Web site for citizen journalists - 12, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (MediaWeek) - Since CNN embraced the citizen journalist movement in August 2006 with the launch of its iReport initiative, the news organization has received nearly 100,000 news-related photos and videos from viewers.
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RIM reports "critical" BlackBerry outage - 12, Feb 2008
TORONTO (Reuters) - A major outage hit BlackBerry users in North America on Monday, cutting off wireless e-mail for everyone from busy executives to political campaign staff on the eve of three U.S. presidential primaries.
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Moreau shines in film on family's Holocaust trauma - 12, Feb 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - Eighty-year-old French actress Jeanne Moreau says shooting her new film about a family's struggle to talk about the Holocaust brought back memories of her own childhood during the Nazi occupation.
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Astronauts attach European lab to space station - 12, Feb 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Astronauts installed the European laboratory Columbus on the International Space Station on Monday, finally giving Europe its first permanent research facility in space.
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Zednik stable after neck slashed by team mate's skate - 12, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Florida Panthers forward Richard Zednik was in stable condition in hospital on Monday following emergency surgery after his neck was slashed by a team mate's skate during Sunday's defeat by the Buffalo Sabres.
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Amy Winehouse puts rehab in spotlight - 12, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rehab has never been hotter in Hollywood, and nowhere was that more apparent than on Sunday at the Grammy awards with British singer Amy Winehouse's five big wins, more than any other artist.
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Kremlin rocks to Deep Purple - 12, Feb 2008
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin rocked to the sound of British band Deep Purple on Monday in a gig with a difference.
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Thieves take $164 million art works in Swiss heist - 12, Feb 2008
ZURICH (Reuters) - Masked robbers brandishing handguns stole four paintings by 19th Century masters worth $164 million from a Zurich museum in Switzerland's biggest art theft, police said on Monday.
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Castro, McCain spar over Cuban torture in Vietnam - 12, Feb 2008
HAVANA (Reuters) - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro took on front-running U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Monday, accusing him of lying about Cubans torturing American prisoners of war in Vietnam.
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U.N. condemns attack on Timor president - 12, Feb 2008
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council condemned "in the strongest possible terms" the shooting attack that badly wounded East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta on Monday and urged the nation to stay calm.
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Pentagon seeks death penalty for alleged 9/11 planner - 12, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Monday charged the alleged planner of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and five others with murder and conspiracy and asked that they be executed if convicted.
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Obama rides hot streak into next U.S. contests - 12, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama on Monday rode a weekend hot streak into the next round of presidential contests, but rival Hillary Clinton shrugged off the setbacks and expressed confidence about her prospects.
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Ex-Boeing engineer charged in China spying case - 12, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former Boeing engineer was arrested on Monday on charges of stealing trade secrets for China about several aerospace programs, including the Space Shuttle, the U.S. Justice Department said.
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Venezuela moves bank accounts after Exxon freeze - 12, Feb 2008
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela has moved oil revenue into Swiss banks to avoid a possible seizure of funds by Exxon Mobil in a legal battle that pits leftist anti-U.S. President Hugo Chavez against America's biggest company.
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Peltz to seek control of Wendy's board - 12, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Nelson Peltz's Trian Partners said on Monday it is attempting to gain control of the board of directors at hamburger chain Wendy's International Inc , which it is attempting to buy.
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Hasbro profit tops forecasts; CEO stepping down - 12, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hasbro Inc posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Monday, boosted by strong demand for its Transformers, Nerf and Furreal Friends product lines, helping to send its shares up as much as 4 percent.
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Loews tumbles on subprime - 12, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Loews Corp said on Monday fourth-quarter profit fell 31 percent, hurt by subprime investment losses and weaker-than-expected results in its insurance, tobacco and drilling businesses.
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Delta-Northwest deal seen in weeks - 12, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A merger between Delta Air Lines Inc and Northwest Airlines Corp could be announced in the next few weeks as Northwest pilots review details of a proposed deal, people briefed on the situation said on Monday.
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Stocks rebound on tech values - 12, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose on Monday, rebounding from the worst weekly loss in five years, as bargain-hunting and takeover talk sparked gains in the technology sector and higher oil prices lifted energy stocks.
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Yahoo rejects Microsoft bid - 12, Feb 2008
SEATTLE/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc rejected Microsoft Corp's unsolicited $41.6 billion takeover offer as too low on Monday, forcing the software maker to either sweeten the bid or adopt a hostile approach to clinch a deal.
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AIG discloses hole in derivatives valuation - 12, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American International Group Inc disclosed potential losses in its derivatives portfolio, raising fears it would become the latest casualty of the credit crisis and pushing its shares down almost 12 percent to a 5-year low.
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U.S. groups chide China, Russia, Canada for piracy - 12, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Canada has joined China and Russia on the U.S. software, music and movie industries' annual list of countries with the worst record of fighting piracy of copyright goods, an industry coalition said on Monday.
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Microsoft calls Yahoo rejection "unfortunate" - 12, Feb 2008
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Monday that Yahoo Inc's rejection of its initial offer to buy the company was "unfortunate," but it does not change its belief in the merits of its proposal.
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Motorola committed to mobile phone business - 12, Feb 2008
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Motorola Inc said on Monday it is "fully committed" to its mobile phone business and its strategic review is aimed at bringing about a "product-led" recovery for the loss-making division.
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TI unveils chips for cell projector, HD recording - 12, Feb 2008
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Texas Instruments Inc said on Monday it had developed a chip to support cell phones with mini projectors and another chip that would let users record high-definition video on their phones.
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Microsoft enters mobile Web fray in earnest - 12, Feb 2008
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Microsoft took a decisive step into the mobile Web arena with a deal to buy Danger, a mobile software company best known for the Sidekick, to all intents a blueprint for a Google phone.
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Seoul's iconic ancient city gate destroyed by fire - 11, Feb 2008
SEOUL (Reuters) - A 600-year-old gate in central Seoul listed as South Korea's number one national treasure and the country's landmark symbol has been destroyed, possibly by an arsonist, police said on Monday.
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"Silly" Hong Kong starlet sorry for nude photos - 11, Feb 2008
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Gillian Chung, one of several prominent Hong Kong stars caught up in a nude photo scandal, said on Monday she was naive and apologized for the incident that has sparked arrests and a media frenzy.
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The Beatles' Indian guru cremated on Ganges - 11, Feb 2008
ALLAHABAD, India (Reuters) - The embalmed body of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Indian mystic and Beatles' guru who helped bring transcendental meditation to the West, was cremated on Monday on a huge pyre of sandalwood by India's holiest river.
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Spacewalk to anchor European lab to space station - 11, Feb 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. space shuttle astronauts, garbed in bulky spacesuits, left the International Space Station on Monday to attach Europe's first permanent space laboratory to the orbital outpost.
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McCartney and wife face off in court over divorce - 11, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Paul McCartney and Heather Mills faced off in one of the biggest and most bitter divorce battles in showbusines history on Monday -- with a slice of his massive Beatles fortune at stake.
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Thieves take $164 mln masterworks in Swiss art heist - 11, Feb 2008
ZURICH (Reuters) - Masked robbers brandishing handguns stole four paintings by 19th Century masters worth $164 million from a Zurich museum in Switzerland's biggest art theft, police said on Monday.
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Senior Taliban commander caught in Pakistan - 11, Feb 2008
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani security forces wounded and captured a prominent Taliban commander on Monday near the border area with Afghanistan, Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz said.
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Optimism at Kenya talks, negotiators urge patience - 11, Feb 2008
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Negotiators for President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga re-started talks on Monday in a mood of national optimism that a political solution to Kenya's worst crisis since independence may be near.
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U.S. to seek death penalty against 9/11 planner - 11, Feb 2008
MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. military prosecutors will file charges on Monday against the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks and five other Guantanamo prisoners and will seek to execute them if they are convicted, officials involved in the process s
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Israel sees Hamas gone from Gaza in months - 11, Feb 2008
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli leaders vowed on Monday to step up their war against Hamas over rocket fire from the Gaza Strip and predicted the Islamist group's government in the territory would fall within months.
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Gates backs pause in future U.S. troop pullout - 11, Feb 2008
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Monday he backed a brief pause in U.S. troop reductions from Iraq once an initial pullout of five combat brigades has been completed in July.
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Hasbro profit rises on Transformers, Nerf sales - 11, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hasbro Inc , the second-largest U.S. toy company, posted a better-than-expected fourth-quarter profit on Monday, boosted by strong demand for its Transformers, Nerf and Furreal Friends product lines.
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Loews net falls on subprime losses - 11, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Loews Corp said on Monday fourth-quarter profit fell 31 percent, hurt by subprime investment losses at its CNA Financial Corp insurance affiliate and weaker results in its tobacco and drilling businesses.
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SocGen seeks cash to shore up finances - 11, Feb 2008
PARIS (Reuters) - Societe Generale launched a deeply discounted 5.5 billion euros ($8 billion) capital increase on Monday to prop up its finances and heal scars from the world's biggest rogue trading scandal.
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Dow edges down after changes; Nasdaq up - 11, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Dow industrials opened down on Monday as changes to average weighed on some shares, including Altria Group Inc , while the Nasdaq index rose on deal news that boosted technology stocks.
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Some breast cancer Web sites inaccurate, study finds - 11, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five percent of breast cancer Web sites have mistakes, with those involving alternative or complementary medicine the most likely to be misleading, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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EU's Reding wants "credible" roaming cuts - 11, Feb 2008
BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Mobile phone operators must act before July 1 to avoid the European Union imposing lower prices for texting or surfing the Web via mobile phones when abroad, the bloc's top telecoms regulator said on Monday.
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Nokia shows phones, eyes Facebook access - 11, Feb 2008
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Nokia, the world's largest handset maker, unveiled four new multimedia phones on Monday and said it was in talks to offer phone access to social networking site Facebook.
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LG, Samsung bet on new mobile Linux platform - 11, Feb 2008
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Samsung and LG Electronics on Monday showed new phones using free Linux software from Mobile Linux foundation, which said in total 18 phones from seven vendors would use its software.
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EA announces first wave of Hasbro video games - 11, Feb 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Electronic Arts Inc on Monday announced upcoming games based on popular Hasbro Inc properties such as "Monopoly" and "Littlest Pet Shop", an important part of its push to make video games for a broader audience.
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Yahoo rejects Microsoft's bid - 11, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc on Monday rejected as too low Microsoft Corp's unsolicited takeover offer, currently valued at $42 billion, putting the ball back in the software giant's court to pursue a deal.
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Grammys pays tribute again to Beatles - 11, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Grammys just can't let the Beatles let it be.
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Washington Capitals beat New York Rangers 3-2 - 11, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington netminder Olie Kolzig celebrated victory in his 700th NHL game on Sunday after Mike Green scored 23 seconds into overtime to give the Capitals a 3-2 win over the New York Rangers.
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Steve Lowery pips Singh for Pebble Beach title - 11, Feb 2008
PEBBLE BEACH, California (Reuters) - American Steve Lowery clinched his first PGA Tour title in eight years by edging out 2004 champion Vijay Singh in a playoff for the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am on Sunday.
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Paul Pierce sparks Celtics to win over Spurs - 11, Feb 2008
BOSTON (Reuters) - Paul Pierce scored 35 points and the Boston Celtics won their third consecutive game with a 98-90 win over the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday.
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Hancock says Grammy win is a victory for jazz - 11, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Herbie Hancock won the coveted album of the year Grammy on Sunday, becoming the first jazz instrumentalist to win the honor in more than 40 years and causing Hancock to remark "it's a new day" at the Grammys.
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"Jaws" actor Roy Scheider dead at 75 - 11, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Roy Scheider, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his roles as a small-town police chief in "Jaws" and his portrait of famed choreographer Bob Fosse in "All That Jazz," died on Sunday at age 75.
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East Timor president wounded in rebel attack - 11, Feb 2008
DILI (Reuters) - Rebel soldiers shot East Timor President and Nobel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta in the stomach at his home in Dili on Monday, while Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao escaped injury in another attack, officials said.
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Winehouse rules Grammys, but Hancock shocks - 11, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British pop singer Amy Winehouse, whose rapid descent from promising newcomer to emaciated junkie played out in the full glare of the public eye last year, took home five Grammy Awards on Sunday.
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U.S. Marine arrested over rape in Japan's Okinawa - 11, Feb 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - A U.S. Marine was arrested on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old Japanese girl in the southern Japanese prefecture of Okinawa, police said on Monday, an incident that could strain ties between the two security allies.
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Goldman Sachs boosts wheat price forecast - 11, Feb 2008
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Investment bank Goldman Sachs has raised its outlook for Chicago wheat futures by 47 percent to $13.50 a bushel after the U.S. Department of Agriculture cut projected 2007/08 U.S. wheat ending stocks.
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Obama rides momentum before "Potomac Primaries" - 11, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama is riding a burst of momentum into Tuesday's presidential nominating contests with a string of weekend wins, while Republican John McCain received praise from onetime rival President George W. Bush as he tries
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Islamist parties face drubbing in Pakistan vote - 11, Feb 2008
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani voters are expected to succeed where President Pervez Musharraf has failed, pushing back the Islamist tide and throwing out of power political clerics governing Pakistan's violent northwest.
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Platinum hits record on supply - 11, Feb 2008
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Platinum hit another record high on Monday on the back of lingering supply concerns in South Africa, which produces four-fifths of the world's metal, while gold firmed near an historic high.
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Oil climbs above $92 on Venezuela threat, N.Sea outages - 11, Feb 2008
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Oil rose on Monday, extending last week's late gains, as Venezuela threatened to halt oil exports to the United States and bomb alerts shut down one of Britain's largest gas fields.
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Asian stocks fall on credit worries - 11, Feb 2008
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Oil and precious metals rose on supply concerns on Monday in thin holiday trade in Asia, while the few stock markets that were open, such as South Korea and Australia, unraveled on fear the credit crunch would spread further.
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Chrysler dealers endorse latest restructuring move - 11, Feb 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Chrysler dealers, meeting as a
group for the first time with the struggling automaker's new
management team, on Sunday expressed support for a newly
unveiled plan to shrink Chrysler's retail network and
streamline its product
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Some breast cancer websites inaccurate study finds - 11, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five percent of breast cancer Web sites have mistakes, with those involving alternative or complementary medicine the most likely to be misleading, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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Music on mobiles found to be a favorite in China - 11, Feb 2008
BARCELONA (Reuters) - More than a third of mobile phone owners in China, the world's largest mobile market, use their handsets to listen to music, more than in Britain or the United States, a study showed.
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McConaughey, Hudson take "Gold" at box office - 11, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In their second on-screen pairing, Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson returned to the top of the North American box office on Sunday with the adventure comedy "Fool's Gold."
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Sick shuttle astronaut in no danger: ESA - 11, Feb 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Hans Schlegel, the German astronaut on space shuttle Atlantis whose illness forced NASA to delay a spacewalk, is not suffering a dangerous ailment and should be able to resume his normal duties, the European Space Agency said on Sunday
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Cruz, Kingsley play lovers in new film "Elegy" - 11, Feb 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - Penelope Cruz and Ben Kingsley team up in a movie based on Philip Roth's short novel "The Dying Animal", about a charismatic and selfish professor who loses his composure when he falls in love with a student half his age.
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