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Obama visits Afghanistan - 3 Hours ago

KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama met the commander of U.S. troops in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday to talk about the war he says is not getting enough attention

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Iraqi PM says U.S. should leave as soon as possible - 3 Hours ago

BERLIN (AP) _ Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says U.S. troops should leave Iraq 'as soon as possible,' according to a magazine report, and he called presidential candidate Barack Obama's suggestion

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Powers Wield Sanction Threat After Iran Stalemate - 5 Hours ago

GENEVA (Reuters) - Iranian officials ruled out any freeze in uranium enrichment on Saturday at the start of talks over Tehran's nuclear program attended for the first time by a senior U.S. diplomat. 'Any

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Afghan violence kills dozens, Canadian
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S. Africa celebrates Mandela on his 90th
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Britain's Brown visits Israel, West Bank
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Anti-pope protest minutes after his apology
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U.S.: Al-Qaida may be easing off Iraq
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Brown flies into Israel for talks
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Federal inquiry begins at Houston crane collapse site - 3 Hours ago
Federal officials started their investigation Saturday in the collapse of one of the nation's largest mobile cranes, which toppled at a Houston oil refinery, killing four workers and injuring seven others.
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Babe Ruth, bank woes - 5 Hours ago
Ben Greenberg on scene as people line after IndyMac Bank shuts down Jim Cornacchia tells story behind vintage family photo with Babe Ruth iReport.com: See breaking news? Got a story to share? Send photos,
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Housing crisis will test McCain - 14 Hours ago
WASHINGTON John McCain has been winning over skeptical conservatives by embracing tax cuts while promising a new era of fiscal discipline if he wins the White House. But his fragile relationship with
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Politics/Law

Left leaning bloggers push for electing Obama - 3 Hours ago
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Former Vice President Al Gore made a surprise appearance Saturday at the Netroots Nation conference, a gathering of nearly 2,000 left-leaning bloggers and political organizers. He
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Conn. Candidates Line up for Public Financing - 4 Hours ago
Barack Obama may have abandoned public financing for his presidential campaign, but in Connecticut legislative candidates are lining up to get campaign cash from the state government. About 70 percent
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Iraq PM Agrees With Obama Timeline - 31 Minutes ago
BERLIN -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says U.S. troops should leave Iraq 'as soon as possible,'

Business

MORE: Dream of gas tax holiday faltered over job losses - 4 Hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) - The political vision of a summer gas tax holiday died a quick death in Congress, losing to a view that federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel will have to go up if they go
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U.S. to Iran: Choose negotiation or isolation - 5 Hours ago
The United States said on Saturday after inconclusive international talks with Iran's nuclear envoy that Tehran must choose between cooperation or confrontation and give up sensitive nuclear work. 'We
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Ashwell Prince reigns over England - 87 Minutes ago
English cricket has not endured many worse weeks than the last one, which began with South Africas effortless escape at Lords. It is not often you are presented with one golden opportunity. England got
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Finance

House prices 'will keep falling' - 22 Hours ago
Citigroup say it will shed staff to cope with the new financial climateHouse prices in the UK and the US are likely to fall for another two years, the chairman of one of the world's most powerful banks

Why it pays to be picky about travel insurance - 38 Minutes ago
WITH the summer sun battling its way through the clouds, thoughts turn to getting away for that well-deserved break. Whether it is going on that adventure holiday or packing up for a few days in a caravan,

Sports

Wie DQ'd from State Farm Classic over scorecard flap; Tseng leads - 3 Hours ago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Michelle Wie finished the third round of the State Farm Classic alone in second on Saturday then was disqualified for failing to immediately sign her scorecard a day earlier.
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Serena injures knee, pulls out of Bank of the West semifinals - 4 Hours ago
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) - Top-seeded Serena Williams injured her left knee and pulled out of the Bank of the West Classic on Saturday, becoming the third singles player on the U.S. Olympic women's tennis
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Norman in familiar spot at major, if it was 1996 - 3 Hours ago
SOUTHPORT, England (AP) -- This sounds familiar: Greg Norman goes to the final round of a major with the lead. And, no, we're not talking about 1996. The 53-year-old, part-time golfer reclaimed a spot
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Industry

Tropical Storm Cristobal Forms off... - 3 Hours ago
Tropical Storm Cristobal churned off the Southeast seaboard after it formed Saturday, the first storm to threaten the U.S. this hurricane season, forecasters said. The storm strengthened from a tropical
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'Dark Knight' sets box office record with $66.4M - 81 Minutes ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Batman's joust with the Joker has set another box office record. Stoked by fan fever over the manic performance of the late Heath Ledger as the Joker, 'The Dark Knight' set a one-day
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Shannen Doherty back in `90210' 'hood this fall - 4 Hours ago
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. --Brenda Walsh is coming back to 'Beverly Hills 90210,' and she's arriving in style. Shannen Doherty will reprise her role as Walsh in CW's new version of the 1990-2000 series, with
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Internet

Yahoo gets backing from major investor - 5 Hours ago
LOS ANGELES, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Billionair Bill Miller, Yahoo's fourth-largest shareholder, has voiced his support for the Internet giant in its battle with dissident investor Carl Icahn, the San Jose
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Torvalds: Linux not becoming obsolete would be "sad" - 9 Hours ago
I admire Linus Torvalds' candor (This is the guy who freely admits , after all), as well as his foresight. In an excellent interview, Torvalds covers a range of topics, including the Linux operating system's

ATI Radeon HD 4870 On Linux - 8 Hours ago
'A week ago we looked at the brand-new ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics card under Linux. This graphics card launch was unlike any in ATI's history where with the introduction of a brand new product generation,

Science

Gene found that lets you hold your drink RESEARCHERS believe they have discovered - 35 Minutes ago
RESEARCHERS believe they have discovered two genes which allow people to hold their drink. Carriers of one or both genes can process alcohol through the body quickly. One effect is that it halves the

Dwarf planet near Pluto named for Polynesian god - 116 Minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A dwarf planet orbiting beyond Neptune has been designated the third plutoid in the solar system and given the name Makemake, the International Astronomical Union said on Saturday.
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Potash Heats Up: $1000 a Tonne? - 12 Hours ago
Another very busy day.... Lost in yesterday's excitement was news that Canpotex [remember - that is an alliance of Potash (POT), Mosaic (MOS), and Agrium (AGU)] . The Russians have joined as well. Notice

Entertainment

Film review - The Dark Knight - 29 Minutes ago
THE DARK KNIGHT (12A) **** Director: Christopher Nolan Running time: 152 minutes THE Dark Knight is grimly magisterial. It's a summer blockbuster that contemplates near-total civic disaster: crowds surge,

Film review - Raj against the movie machine - 29 Minutes ago
BY Siobhan Synnot BEFORE THE RAINS (12A) ***Director: Santosh SivanRunning time: 98 minutesREGARDING Merchant Ivory films, some things never change. Despite the death of Ismail Merchant three years ago,

Film reviews - other releases - 29 Minutes ago
BEST of the rest of the week's cinema releases LOU REED'S BERLIN (12A) *** Lou Reed almost single-handedly made rock'n'roll safe for junkies, transvestites and sadomasochists as leader of the Velvet Underground

Technology

ComScore: Google's search share slips; Yahoo, Microsoft up - 3 Hours ago
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Google Inc.'s (GOOG:GOOGNews, chart, profile, moreLast: Delayed quote dataAnalyst Create alertInsiderFinancials Sponsored by:, , ) share of the U.S. online search market
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Venture Funding Drops for Youngest Companies - 3 Hours ago
In an ominous sign for Silicon Valleyâ??s entrepreneurial machine, venture capital firms are cutting back on their investments in companies at their earliest stage of development and being forced to provide
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Brussels Throws Another Punch at Intel - 7/18/2008
For the past 10 years, U.S. chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has been filing complaints with regulators in the U.S., Europe, and Asia alleging that Intel (INTC) engaged in anticompetitive practices

Health

Body in Baby Mystery Had Uterus Cut Open - 4 Hours ago
by KDKA-TV, Andrea Curry-Demus, center, is seen after being arrested at West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh. Investigators found the body of a woman with her hands bound on Friday at the apartment of Curry-Demus,
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Jolie and twins slip out of hospital in Nice - 4 Hours ago
Angelina Jolie has left the building. Oh, and so have the twins. Before dawn Saturday, the Hollywood superstar and her newborn twins left the French Riviera hospital where she gave birth a week ago, the
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As Wars Lengthen, Toll on Military Families... - 3 Hours ago
Far from the combat zones, the strains and separations of no-end-in-sight wars are taking an ever-growing toll on military families despite the armed services' earnest efforts to help. Divorce lawyers
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Culture

Hard Life for Indian Sculptor After Train Bombings - 5 Hours ago
That one time, hanging out the open door of the crowded train was lucky for Mahendra Pitale. Had he been sitting inside the train car, the 34-year-old sculptor almost certainly would have been killed

A deeply Japanese art - 27 Minutes ago
A historian documents the evolution of manga art from emakimono to Osamu Tezuka. ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF MANGA Publisher: Flammarion; 247 pages (ISBN: 978-2080300294) ART historian Brigitte Koyama-Richard

Brazilian police recover Picasso print, nab suspect - 100 Minutes ago
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Police recovered a Pablo Picasso print and arrested one person in connection with an armed robbery at Sao Paulo's Pinacoteca Museum last month, local media reported on Saturday.
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