Jobs data to show severity of malaise (Reuters)
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The patient clearly looks ill, but is there at least a steady pulse? Read more
7 US troops killed in latest Afghanistan fighting (AP)
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Play Video FOX News  – Taliban Gaining Ground in Afghanistan? Slideshow:Afghanistan Play Video Barack Obama Video:Obama and the Iraq War FOX News Play Video Barack Obama Video:Weekly Presidential Address: Iraq war AP AP – Abdul Manan, a candidate for the September Parliament elections is brought to a hospital, after being … By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press Writer Christopher Bodeen, [...]
Discovery of wheat’s genetic code to boost harvests
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British scientists have decoded the genetic sequence of wheat — one of the world’s oldest and most important crops — a development they hope could help the global staple meet the challenges of climate change, disease and population growth. Read more
Supporters dismissed rape accusations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange… but the two women involved tell a different story
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Assange, 39, was attending a seminar in Stockholm earlier this month when he found himself facing charges of rape and sexual molestation – charges that were then, amid much confusion, withdrawn and which he strenuously denies. Read more
World's Worst Earthquakes
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When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and [...]
Jimmy Carter Secures American’s Release in North Korea
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It wasn’t with the media fanfare that occurred a year ago when former President Bill Clinton flew to North Korea to secure the release of journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who were working for Al Gore’s San Francisco-based Current TV when they were captured at the Chinese border and sentenced to 12 years of [...]
Fine line
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More and more of the American people are choosing to live in closed circles of collective concurrence… Terry Teachout Read more
China Angry At Hostage-Taker’s Funeral
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11:48am UK, Saturday August 28, 2010 Lulu Sinclair, Sky News Online China has expressed anger that a Philippines flag covered the coffin of the hostage taker in Manila responsible for the deaths [...]
Justin Long: ‘Barrymore is great kisser’
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WENN Justin Long has insisted that Drew Barrymore is a “great kisser”. The actor, who co-stars with his on-off girlfriend in Going The Distance, also claimed that he didn’t have to adapt to Barrymore’s kissing during filming because he was already accustomed to her style, reports STV. “[Barrymore's] a great kisser… I just want to [...]
Ono to mark John Lennon’s 70th birthday in Iceland
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Yoko Ono is planning a series of events in Iceland to mark what would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday. Read more
‘Killer’ driver tries to skip
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A New York man accused of mowing down a couple in Puerto Rico was being detained last night after he waltzed out of a courtroom and tried to board a flight back to the United States. Authorities say Dodik Siyunov, who is Russian, was not under guard when [...]
Building bridges & burning whins
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Farmer Darrell Anderson burns whins in the hills on the outskirts of Menstrie in Perthshire. Fires are lit to clear undergrowth so that lambs don’t get trapped. I had hoped that this silhouette might work with a piece about the odd rural consituency of Ochil and Perthshire south, in which Gordon Banks is defending a [...]
In nuclear negotiations, more women at the table for U.S.
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When Rose Gottemoeller began negotiating the new nuclear treaty with Moscow, the U.S. diplomat got questions on the usual topics: missile defense, warheads, inspections. And then there was this one from the Russian generals: “How come you’ve got so many women?” To the Russians’ astonishment, an array of American women faced them across the negotiating [...]
Taliban fighters, some disguised as American soldiers, attack two U.S. bases
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KABUL – Insurgents disguised as American soldiers attacked two U.S. bases in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday morning and managed to breach the perimeter of one of them before being repelled, according to NATO and Afghan officials. The assault began at about 4 a.m., when dozens of Taliban fighters, some wearing U.S. military uniforms, launched simultaneous [...]
Johnson & Johnson division recalls 43 OTC medicines for infants and children
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A division of Johnson & Johnson is recalling 43 over-the-counter medicines made for infants and children — including liquid versions of Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl — after federal regulators identified what they called deficiencies at the company’s manufacturing facility. The voluntary recall, which was announced late Friday by McNeil Consumer Healthcare, affects hundreds of [...]
Stepped-up efforts by U.S., Mexico fail to stem flow of drug money south
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LAREDO, TEX. – Stashing cash in spare tires, engine transmissions and truckloads of baby diapers, couriers for Mexican drug cartels are moving tens of billions of dollars in profits south across the border each year, a river of dirty money that has overwhelmed U.S. and Mexican customs agents. This Story Families of massacred migrants couldn’t [...]
Violence targets police, media in Mexico massacre
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SLIDESHOW     Previous          Next    Mortuary worker wearing protective suits and Mexican marines are seen outside a funeral home where the bodies of 72 men and women that were allegedly killed by the Zetas drug gang, are kept in San Fernando, just 100 miles from the the Mexican border with the U.S. near the city of Matamoros,, Mexico, [...]
Strike in S. Africa shows strains in ruling alliance
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JOHANNESBURG – After Jacob Zuma won South Africa’s presidency by courting left-wing support, many expected him to abandon the free market policies favored by his predecessor, Thabo Mbeki. Instead, business leaders have been relieved to see little change in economic policy since Zuma’s election victory in April last year. However, that stability has come at [...]
Attack on Somali civilians sparks worries of militia’s growing boldness
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MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The ceiling of the Hotel Muna was splattered with burned flesh and pieces of clothing, the remains of two radical Islamist suicide bombers who killed 31 people here Tuesday. The force of the blasts blew out doors and covered mattresses in blood and debris. They also shattered what little sense of security [...]
Pakistanis stream out of town as flood spreads
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THATTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Thousands of people fled Friday from the southern Pakistani town of Thatta after the swollen Indus river burst its banks and authorities ordered an evacuation. Read more