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Pakistan forces press attack on militant stronghold - 20, Jan 2008
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani villagers said gunship helicopters launched strikes on Sunday in an area regarded as a stronghold of a Taliban commander linked with the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
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McCain, Clinton look to next White House battle - 20, Jan 2008
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican John McCain and Democrat Hillary Clinton looked on Sunday toward the next battles in a chaotic White House race after scoring tough wins in the first presidential voting in the U.S. South and West.
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Slower boats to China as ship owners save fuel - 20, Jan 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - Oil at more than $90 a barrel is
concentrating minds in the shipping industry. Higher fuel costs
and mounting pressure to curb emissions are leading modern
merchant fleets to rediscover the ancient power of the sail.
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China is not decoupling from U.S. economy: central banker - 20, Jan 2008
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's central bank on Sunday poured cold water on the idea that the country's economy can decouple from the United States.
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Rio Tinto CEO leaves door open to higher bid from BHP - 20, Jan 2008
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Rio Tinto Chief Executive Tom Albanese on Sunday left the door open to a sweetened takeover offer from BHP Billiton, but said Rio would be happy to grow on its own if BHP walked away.
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"Rock Band," "Guitar Hero" drive digital song sales - 20, Jan 2008
DENVER (Billboard) - In the two months since MTV Networks and Harmonix released the music-based videogame "Rock Band," players have purchased and downloaded more than 2.5 million additional songs made available after the game's initial distribution.
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Bird flu spreads to new districts in India's east - 20, Jan 2008
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - Bird flu spread to two new districts in an eastern Indian state, officials confirmed on Saturday, as veterinary staff struggled to cull thousands of birds in the face of resistance from farmers.
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Seven stars face the "Country" challenge on reality show - 20, Jan 2008
NASHVILLE (Billboard) - The idea of bringing together strange bedfellows to entertain the masses is as old as "Gilligan's Island" and "The Gong Show."
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Mia Farrow vows to defy Cambodian Darfur rally ban - 20, Jan 2008
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Hollywood actress Mia Farrow says she will ignore a deportation threat and pursue plans to light a symbolic Olympic torch in Cambodia's "Killing Fields", as part of a campaign to end atrocities in Sudan's Darfur.
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Crowded House progeny set for solo American strike - 20, Jan 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Liam Finn will be a 24-year-old unknown to most Americans when his debut solo album is released in the United States on Tuesday, but Crowded House fans have already heard his work -- nearly two decades ago.
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Canada removes U.S., Israel from torture watchlist - 20, Jan 2008
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's foreign ministry, responding to pressure from close allies, said on Saturday it would remove the United States and Israel from a watch list of countries where prisoners risk being tortured.
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Seeds scattered at Melbourne Park - 20, Jan 2008
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Seeds were scattered in the Australian Open as underdogs ran amok at Melbourne Park on Saturday.
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Daly withdraws from Bob Hope Classic - 20, Jan 2008
PALM DESERT, California (Reuters) - Fan favourite John Daly pulled out of the Bob Hope Classic before Saturday's fourth round because of a lingering rib injury.
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Trahan surrenders early lead at Bob Hope Classic - 20, Jan 2008
PALM DESERT, California (Reuters) - American D.J. Trahan bogeyed the par-five 18th to slip back into a four-way tie for the lead midway through the Bob Hope Classic fourth round on Saturday.
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Late triple bogey costs South Korea outright World Cup lead - 20, Jan 2008
SUN CITY, South Africa (Reuters) - Jennifer Rosales and Dorothy Delasin of the Philippines benefited from a late triple-bogey by South Korea to seize a share of the lead on 11 under par after the Women's World Cup second round on Saturday.
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Cuche wins downhill marred by bad crash - 20, Jan 2008
KITZBUEHEL, Austria (Reuters) - Ten years after his first World Cup victory in Kitzbuehel, Swiss Didier Cuche won the most prestigious downhill of the men's season on the Streif on Saturday.
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Eco-conscious Sundance turns deeper shade of green - 20, Jan 2008
PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - When former Vice President Al Gore premiered documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, he inspired not only greater awareness of global warming, but the general greening of this top movie event.
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Five die in Kenya as opposition vows more protests - 20, Jan 2008
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's opposition said on Saturday it would resume protests next week over a disputed election, and five people were killed in politically-fuelled ethnic violence in the country's Great Rift Valley.
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Hezbollah has Israeli soldiers' body parts: Nasrallah - 20, Jan 2008
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, making a rare public appearance, said on Saturday his guerrilla group possessed body parts of Israeli soldiers left on southern Lebanon's battlefields during the war in 2006.
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Spain arrests 14 over possible Barcelona attack - 20, Jan 2008
MADRID (Reuters) - Islamic radicals may have been plotting attacks in Barcelona, Spain's Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said on Saturday, after police found bomb-making materials and arrested 14 South Asians.
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Sundance founder's daughter debuts at festival - 20, Jan 2008
PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - Whatever people may think, Robert Redford and his daughter Amy Redford say that her debut as director of "The Guitar" at the Sundance Film Festival was all Amy's doing -- no help from the Sundance Kid.
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Pakistan authorities arrest two over Bhutto plot - 20, Jan 2008
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani security agents have arrested a youth who said he had been trained as a suicide bomber to kill opposition leader Benazir Bhutto had other militants failed to kill her, in the first arrests in the case, a security o
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Millions mark Shi'ite ritual in Iraq after clashes - 20, Jan 2008
KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - A major Shi'ite ritual ended peacefully in the southern city of Kerbala on Saturday after Iraqi forces imposed tight security around 2.5 million pilgrims, but attacks in the north killed nine worshippers.
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Clinton, Romney win Nevada - 20, Jan 2008
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Mitt Romney won Nevada's presidential nominating contests on Saturday, and voters in South Carolina cast ballots as an unpredictable White House race moved to the U.S. South and
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U.S energy sec urges OPEC to raise output at meeting - 20, Jan 2008
RIYADH (Reuters) - U.S. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman said on Saturday that Saudi Arabia should raise output to ease tightness in world oil supplies and that OPEC should up output at its February 1 meeting.
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SABIC misses forecasts as U.S. chemical demand falters - 20, Jan 2008
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) missed fourth-quarter earnings forecasts on Saturday and said the U.S. mortgage crisis had hurt demand for chemicals, ending a run of record profits that began in 2006.
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Britain backs bond plan to aid N.Rock rescue: source - 20, Jan 2008
SHANGHAI/LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will back a plan to convert its lending to Northern Rock into bonds, a source familiar with the matter said, potentially tying itself to the bank for years but avoiding full-scale nationalization.
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U.S. energy sec urges OPEC to raise output at meeting - 19, Jan 2008
RIYADH (Reuters) - U.S. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman said on
Saturday that Saudi Arabia should raise output to ease
tightness in world oil supplies and that OPEC should up output
at its February 1 meeting.
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Heavy security for Iraq Shi'ite ritual - 19, Jan 2008
KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi forces imposed tight security on the city of Kerbala on Saturday for the climax of a major Shi'ite ceremony after gunmen from a Shi'ite cult attacked pilgrims and police in two other southern cities.
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24-hour party people rediscover Manchester - 19, Jan 2008
LONDON (Billboard) - The music scene in the northern UK city of Manchester -- famous for producing bands like Joy Division/New Order, the Smiths and Oasis -- is thriving again, with a new generation of bands tipped for breakout success in 2008.
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Crow takes "Detours" on road to renewal - 19, Jan 2008
NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Despite the comfort of her
surroundings -- a warm and tastefully decorated den dominated
by a fireplace on one wall and windows that look out over her
front 40 on another -- Sheryl Crow is clearly not comfortable.
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St Louis Rams owner Georgia Frontiere dies at 80 - 19, Jan 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - St. Louis Rams owner Georgia Frontiere, a former nightclub entertainer who became one of the few women to own a major U.S. sports franchise when she inherited the National Football League team from her husband, died on Friday.
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Radwanska dumps Kuznetsova out - 19, Jan 2008
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A disappointed Svetlana Kuznetsova barely looked up during her post-match news conference after she was sensationally dumped out of the Australian Open third round 6-3 6-4 on Saturday by Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska.
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Crosby hurt as Penguins fall to Lightning - 19, Jan 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Tampa Bay Lightning took advantage of an injury to Pittsburgh All-Star Sidney Crosby to cruise to a 3-0 victory on Friday, snapping the Penguins's seven-game home winning streak.
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Golfweek editor fired over noose cover - 19, Jan 2008
PALM DESERT, California (Reuters) - Golfweek magazine has fired its editor Dave Seanor for the controversial decision to depict a noose on the cover of the January 19 issue, the latest chapter in the Tiger Woods "lynch" affair.
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American Gamez takes charge at Hope Classic - 19, Jan 2008
PALM DESERT, California (Reuters) - American Robert Gamez was a little surprised to end a balmy third round at the Bob Hope Classic one stroke in front of the chasing pack on Friday.
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Media frenzy sparks fears for Britney Spears - 19, Jan 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - She is watched round the clock by photographers, chased at high speed and friends fear for her mental stability.
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Former NFL lineman pleads guilty in doping case - 19, Jan 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dana Stubblefield, the first National Football League player charged in the Balco doping scandal, pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to a U.S. agent regarding steroid use, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
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Trail Blazers send Heat to 12th straight defeat - 19, Jan 2008
MIAMI (Reuters) - Portland's Brandon Roy sparked a fourth-quarter rally to lead the Trail Blazers to a 98-91 victory over the Miami Heat on Friday, sending the hosts to their 12th consecutive defeat.
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South Carolina, Nevada cast votes in White House race - 19, Jan 2008
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Voters in Nevada and South Carolina make their choices on Saturday in a chaotic U.S. presidential race, with polls showing tight struggles in both states as nominating battles move to the South and West.
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Clinton slams pro-Obama ad in Nevada - 19, Jan 2008
ELKO, Nevada (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton called on her chief rival Barack Obama on Friday to denounce ads being run on Spanish-language radio that accuse Clinton of not respecting Hispanic people.
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Huckabee, McCain in South Carolina dead heat - 19, Jan 2008
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republicans John McCain and Mike Huckabee are in a statistical dead heat as voters head to the polls in South Carolina's presidential primary, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Saturday.
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Sword-toting gunman nabbed close to Capitol - 19, Jan 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man carrying a sword and a shotgun was arrested a block from the U.S. Capitol on Friday but there were no shots fired or injuries, police said.
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Bear country seen looming below Dow 12,000 - 19, Jan 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major U.S. indexes have broken key technical support levels, leaving the stock market vulnerable to further declines and the turbulence could get worse, according to chart watchers.
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Delphi's Miller didn't expect $8.3 million bonus - 19, Jan 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The former CEO and now Chairman of Delphi Corp on Friday testified he had no expectation he would receive an $8.3 million cash award for helping steer the company through bankruptcy, because he didn't expect the company to file for b
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FDA clears new Johnson & Johnson HIV drug - 19, Jan 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health-care products maker Johnson & Johnson won U.S. approval to sell a new HIV drug called Intelence for patients with resistance to other therapies, U.S. officials said on Friday.
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Wall St. drops as Bush rescue plan disappoints - 19, Jan 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks tumbled for a fourth day on Friday to close out the worst week for the S&P 500 in five years on worry that a White House effort to boost the economy may not prevent a recession.
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Malfunctioning Hawk-Eye's aversion to sunlight - 19, Jan 2008
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - If you have an aversion to sunshine, you would probably be better off giving Australia a miss.
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Slide takes $50 mln in funding amid Facebook craze - 19, Jan 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Social network software maker Slide Inc said on Friday it had closed a $50 million institutional financing round, marking the rising valuations of start-ups riding fast-growing Facebook's wave of popularity.
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iPhone spurs Web traffic, if not music sales - 19, Jan 2008
DENVER (Billboard) - While Apple did not introduce any significant iPhone upgrades at its annual Macworld convention, which ran January 14-18 in San Francisco, the iconic device still made waves.
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Patriots close in on perfect end to glorious season - 19, Jan 2008
BOSTON (Reuters) - The New England Patriots are two wins from a perfect ending to a glorious season although they must first beat the injury-hit San Diego Chargers in the AFC Championship game on Sunday to book a trip to the Super Bowl.
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George Clooney named U.N. messenger of peace - 19, Jan 2008
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named actor George Clooney, who has campaigned for refugees in Darfur, as a U.N. "messenger of peace" on Friday to promote the world body's peacekeeping efforts.
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NBC's Zucker looks at canceling annual ad bonanza - 19, Jan 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - NBC Universal, hamstrung by the Hollywood writers' strike, is near a decision to cancel the glitzy presentation it holds every May to introduce new prime-time TV shows to advertisers, affiliates and the media.
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Roberts, Johansson films added to Berlin lineup - 19, Jan 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - Julia Roberts, Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman were added to a star-filled Berlin Film Festival lineup on Friday that already includes the Rolling Stones, Martin Scorsese and Madonna.
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Italy hails return of ancient vase from New York - 19, Jan 2008
ROME (Reuters) - Italy proudly celebrated the return on Friday of a prized 2,500-yeard old vase it says was looted and sold illegally to New York's Metropolitan Museum more than 30 years ago.
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Vatican condemns cloned human embryo research - 19, Jan 2008
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican on Friday condemned the cloning of human embryos, calling it the "worst type of exploitation of the human being".
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Buffalo disease, Naples trash sour mozzarella sales - 19, Jan 2008
ROME (Reuters) - Producers of mozzarella and Italy's health authorities tried to reassure consumers on Friday that an outbreak of buffalo disease and the pile-up of rubbish in Naples were not tainting the buffalo milk used in the cheese.
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Canadian Qaeda bomb plotter gets life in U.S. prison - 19, Jan 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Canadian who admitted plotting to bomb U.S. embassies in Singapore and the Philippines was sentenced to life in prison on Friday after telling the court he had been "brainwashed" by al Qaeda.
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At least 13 killed in day of Kenya protests - 19, Jan 2008
NAIROBI (Reuters) - At least 13 people were killed in Kenya on Friday when police opened fire in a Nairobi slum and ethnic groups clashed during protests against the disputed re-election of President Mwai Kibaki.
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Andy and Amelie felled in seeds' cull - 19, Jan 2008
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - With neither pomp nor ceremony Andy Roddick and Amelie Mauresmo were jettisoned from the Australian Open on Friday, beaten by unheralded journeymen on the bleakest of nights for the former world number ones.
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American Gamez forges one ahead at Bob Hope Classic - 19, Jan 2008
PALM DESERT, California (Reuters) - American Robert Gamez birdied his last two holes to grab an early one-shot lead in the Bob Hope Classic third round on Friday.
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Candidates rush to remote Nevada gold town - 19, Jan 2008
ELKO, Nevada (Reuters) - The remote mining town of Elko became the unlikely center of the battle to lead the United States on Friday as several candidates came to town on the eve of Nevada's presidential nomination contests.
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Data of 600,000 lost in UK laptop theft - 19, Jan 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - The personal details of up to 600,000 people were lost when a Royal Navy officer's laptop was stolen in the latest embarrassment to hit British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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Top U.S. diplomat Nicholas Burns to retire - 19, Jan 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nicholas Burns, a leading American policymaker on Iran and India, has decided to retire as the No. 3 U.S. diplomat for personal reasons, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday.
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Fed's Lacker says further rate cuts quite possible - 19, Jan 2008
RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) - Weaker U.S. growth means more interest rate cuts are "quite possible" but policy-makers cannot ignore inflation, a top Federal Reserve official said on Friday, reinforcing hopes of another easing later this month.
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Bush wants $150 billion plan to lift economy - 19, Jan 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush called on Congress on Friday to give the U.S. economy a "shot in the arm" with an election-year package of temporary tax cuts and other measures worth up to $150 billion.
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Candidates focus on economy before new votes - 19, Jan 2008
FLORENCE, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republicans John McCain and Mike Huckabee touted their economic credentials in South Carolina on Friday on the eve of the South's first vote for U.S. presidential nominees, while rival Mitt Romney pressed his advantage
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Chess legend Bobby Fischer dies in Iceland - 19, Jan 2008
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Bobby Fischer, the eccentric genius who became America's only world chess champion by humbling the Soviet Union's best but who spent his last years as a fugitive from U.S. authorities, has died at 64.
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Collective punishment for Gaza is wrong: U.N. - 19, Jan 2008
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israel has a right to respond to security threats but should not collectively punish the Gaza population for rocket attacks from the Palestinian territory, the U.N. humanitarian affairs chief said on Friday.
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Retailers seek ways to become recession-proof - 19, Jan 2008
DANA POINT, California (Reuters) - Apparel retailers may be facing a doom-and-gloom sales environment in the near future, but many are anxious to prove to a skeptical marketplace they have got what it takes to be recession-proof.
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370,000 homeowners aided in second half of '07 - 19, Jan 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - About 370,000 strapped U.S. borrowers averted foreclosure last year as a large number of homeowners responded to a government-backed effort by the mortgage industry to stem surging delinquencies.
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Recession fears to weigh on earnings reports - 19, Jan 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A heavy gloom hanging over Wall Street may deepen next week unless such bellwether companies as Apple and United Technologies provide investors with hope that the U.S. economy can avert recession.
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Consumer sentiment up, recession talk prevails - 19, Jan 2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. consumers' mood unexpectedly brightened a bit in January but failed to silence the drumbeat of talk about a possible economic downturn.
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Digital TV switch won't sway cable holdouts - 19, Jan 2008
WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) - Half of the 21 million Americans who do not have cable or satellite TV will probably continue to use rabbit ears after the switch to digital TV in February 2009, according to a new study.
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Web plagiarism a serious problem: UK teachers - 19, Jan 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - More than half of teachers in a survey said they thought plagiarism from the Internet is a problem.
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Intel, AMD don't see demand falling off cliff - 19, Jan 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - At Intel Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc , which together own the market for computer microprocessors, their chief executives had one message for investors this week: "What, me worry?"
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German rage over Nokia plant closure grows - 19, Jan 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - German anger over plans by Nokia to close a plant escalated on Friday, with the finance minister accusing the cellphone maker of "caravan capitalism" and others vowing to replace their Nokia phones.
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Sprint shares tumble - 19, Jan 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp reported deeper than expected subscriber losses on Friday and said it would cut about 4,000 jobs, raising fears of a slowdown in the U.S. wireless industry, and its stock dropped nearly 25 percent.
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Ignorance of dangers hampers India bird flu fight - 18, Jan 2008
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - Indian health workers urged villagers at the centre of a bird flu outbreak to stop dumping dead fowl in ponds on Friday, as ignorance about the virus hampers efforts to contain its spread.
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Winehouse nearly misses husband's court date - 18, Jan 2008
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Troubled soul singer Amy Winehouse almost missed her husband's court appearance on Friday as he fights charges relating to a pub brawl.
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Oscars in bag for Day-Lewis, Christie: critics - 18, Jan 2008
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - If the opinions of the nation's critics are anything to go by, Daniel Day-Lewis can pretty much pick up his best actor Oscar right now.
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Actresses challenged by real-life roles - 18, Jan 2008
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In April 2005, Angelina Jolie was in Namibia, pregnant for the first time and awaiting the birth of her child.
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Beijing snowed under as 200-day countdown approaches - 18, Jan 2008
BEIJING (Reuters) - A cold snap brought snow to the Chinese capital this week, but the freezing temperatures did nothing to slow the frenzied preparations for the Beijing Olympics as the 200-day countdown approached.
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German soccer club seeks Pete Doherty's help - 18, Jan 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German soccer club struggling to avoid financial collapse has asked British rocker Pete Doherty to help publicize their plight as he supported the side as a boy, Doherty's manager and club officials said on Friday.
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Ghana sees soccer feast lifting image and economy - 18, Jan 2008
ACCRA (Reuters) - While political protests blight Kenya, Ghana will polish its image as a tourism and investment destination when it hosts the 2008 African Nations Cup soccer finals starting on Sunday.
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Dynamo Dellacqua thrills the crowd - 18, Jan 2008
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Plucky Casey Dellacqua captivated Melbourne Park on Friday night, filling local hearts with pride by downing former world number one and 2006 champion Amelie Mauresmo to reach the Australian Open's last 16.
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U.S. recommends life term for Canadian Qaeda plotter - 18, Jan 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities recommended a life sentence for a Canadian al Qaeda member who pleaded guilty to plotting to bomb American embassies in Singapore and the Philippines, records of the secret case show.
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Iraqi forces battle cult gunmen - 18, Jan 2008
BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi soldiers and police fought running battles with gunmen from a Shi'ite cult in two southern cities on Friday in which at least 14 people were killed and scores wounded, security and hospital officials said.
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PETA founder held in India over bullfight protest - 18, Jan 2008
CHENNAI, India (Reuters) - Police arrested the head of the animal rights group PETA for a breach of public peace and insulting religious feelings while protesting against a bullfighting festival in south India, officials said on Friday.
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CIA links al Qaeda, allies to Bhutto attack: paper - 18, Jan 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA blames al Qaeda and allies of a Pakistani tribal leader for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, CIA Director Michael Hayden said in a Washington Post interview published on Friday.
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Israel flattens Hamas ministry in Gaza Strip - 18, Jan 2008
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel closed border crossings with the Gaza Strip and destroyed the Hamas-run Interior Ministry on Friday in what witnesses said was an air strike, stepping up what it says is a campaign to halt Palestinian rocket attacks.
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Chess genius Bobby Fischer dies in Iceland - 18, Jan 2008
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Bobby Fischer, America's first and only world chess champion, who beat the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in a blaze of Cold War publicity in Reykjavik in 1972, has died in Iceland at the age of 64.
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President Bush to offer views on economic package - 18, Jan 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush will offer ideas on Friday for shoring up the fragile U.S. economy, as he and the Democratic-led Congress move forward with talks on a plan to avert a recession.
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Johnson Controls profit jumps, shares rise - 18, Jan 2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Johnson Controls Inc said on Friday quarterly earnings jumped 45 percent, better than expected, on strength in its building controls and automotive interiors businesses.
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UBS to revamp investment bank - 18, Jan 2008
ZURICH (Reuters) - UBS, the biggest European casualty of the U.S. subprime crisis, said it was shrinking its investment banking business, cutting staff and drastically scaling down its exposure to risky investments.
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Further rate cuts quite possible: Fed's Lacker - 18, Jan 2008
RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) - Weaker U.S. growth means that more interest rate cuts are "quite possible" but inflation is also still a risk, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Jeffrey Lacker said on Friday.
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Banks to suffer into '09 as credit crunch drags: S&P - 18, Jan 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Banks will continue to suffer into 2009 as turmoil in the credit markets drags on, credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's said on Friday.
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UniCredit denies report of interest in Merrill - 18, Jan 2008
MILAN (Reuters) - European banking giant UniCredit on Friday denied a report in Italy's leading business daily that it might be interested in buying the $47 billion U.S. investment bank Merrill Lynch .
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GE profit meets expectations - 18, Jan 2008
BOSTON (Reuters) - General Electric Co , viewed as a bellwether of the U.S. economy, posted a 4 percent rise in net profit on Friday, matching Wall Street expectations, on strong demand for heavy equipment such as jet engines and electricity-producing tur
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U.S. game sales rise 28 percent in December - 18, Jan 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. sales of video game hardware and software rose 28 percent in December from a year earlier as holiday shoppers snapped up new consoles like Nintendo Co Ltd's top-selling Wii, market research firm NPD said on Thursday.
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