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45 dead in Madrid crash - 5 Hours ago

MADRID, Spain (AP) - Spain's Interior Ministry says 45 people are dead after an airliner bound for the Canary Islands swerved off the runway and caught fire during takeoff from the Madrid airport. Another

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Breitbart.com

45 dead in plane crash at Madrid airport - 4 Hours ago

MADRID A commercial airliner bound for the Canary Islands with at least 173 people aboard crashed during takeoff today at Madrid's ultramodern Barajas airport, exploding in flames and killing dozens

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• Bolt breaks Johnson's world record in 200 - 5 Hours ago

BEIJING - Jamaica's Usain Bolt redefined sprinting forever Wednesday night. He won the Olympic 200 meters in 19.30 seconds, breaking Michael Johnson's seemingly untouchable world record of 19.32 seconds.

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Fay Fay Go Away! May Hit Florida Again
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Glitter catches Hong Kong flight
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Madrid plane crash leaves dozens dead
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Poland and U.S. sign shield deal and anger Moscow
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BAA forced to sell airports
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A Spirited Debate On A Lower Drinking Age
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Labor Dept: Fewer workers killed on job in 2007 - 3 Hours ago
WASHINGTON ? The number of workers killed on the job annually dropped to a historic low in 2007, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Wednesday. READ THE REPORT: Worker deaths drop by 6% in 2007 (pdf)
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Bigfoot Hoax: "Body" Is Rubber Suit - 4 Hours ago
As far as Bigfoot hoaxes go, it was short-lived one. Only days after Georgia residents Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer told reporters at a press conference on Friday that they had a dead Bigfoot body, their
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Pilot Sues Gov't Over Terrorist Watch List - 5 Hours ago
A commercial airline pilot and convert to Islam who says his name is on the U.S. government's secret terrorist watch list has fought back, filing a federal lawsuit against the Homeland Security Department
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Politics/Law

Lieberman To Speak At GOP Convention - 4 Hours ago
Lieberman will deliver a speech when Republicans gather in St. Paul, Minn., to nominate McCain for president, a party official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The official requested anonymity
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Bush Defends Terror War Tactics - 3 Hours ago
President Bush said Wednesday the war on terror must be fought with all assets of the United States and not treated primarily as a matter of law enforcement. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama
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Giuliani to Keynote RNC, Theme Is "Country First" - 3 Hours ago
Liz Sidoti has the scoop: First lady Laura Bush, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and John McCain's former Republican rivals will speak as well. The theme will be 'Country First' with four days devoted
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Business

Small SUVs improve in crash tests - 4 Hours ago
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US pulls away to beat Australia, advance to semis - 4 Hours ago
BEIJING (AP) _ Don't doubt this U.S. men's basketball team and sure don't challenge them, either.Especially if it's going to make Kobe Bryant flash his NBA MVP form.Bryant scored 25 points in his best
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Missile strike reported in northwest Pakistan - 5 Hours ago
Missiles destroyed a suspected militant hide-out near the Afghan border on Wednesday, killing at least five people, Pakistani officials said. Four intelligence officials told The Associated Press the
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Finance

Fannie, Freddie Shares Plunge - 4 Hours ago
Shares of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continued their plunge Wednesday as investors are increasingly convinced that the stocks will drop to zero if the government bails out the
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Stocks fall as oil prices extend their rebound - 4 Hours ago
By TIM PARADIS AP Business Writer Stocks fell moderately early Wednesday as another advance in oil prices limited investors enthusiasm about an upbeat profit report from Hewlett-Packard Co. H-Ps report
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Stocks rise as oil prices decline - 5 Hours ago
NEW YORK - Stocks turned higher Wednesday as oil prices fell and financials pared their losses, allowing investors to focus on an upbeat profit report from Hewlett-Packard Co. Worries about the well-being
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Sports

Jamaica's Bolt breaks 200 world record, gets sprint double - 97 Minutes ago
BEIJING Usain Bolt of Jamaica broke the world record by winning the 200 meters in 19.30 seconds Wednesday night, becoming the first man since Carl Lewis in 1984 to sweep the 100 and 200 gold medals at
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"Lightning" Bolt strikes again in Beijing - 3 Hours ago
IJING (Reuters) - Jamaica's Usain 'Lightning' Bolt roared to gold in the 200 meters on Wednesday to become the first man since Carl Lewis in 1984 to win an Olympic sprint double. Bolt, whose father says
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NASCAR hands out penalties, suspensions to Gibbs teams - 4 Hours ago
CHARLOTTE (AP) - NASCAR has stripped Joe Gibbs Racing drivers Tony Stewart and Joey Logano of 150 points each and their crew chiefs have been suspended indefinitely for cheating during Saturday's Nationwide
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Industry

American Launches in-Flight Internet on 3 Routes - 3 Hours ago
American tested in-flight access on two flights on June 25. With Wednesday's launch, the airline is making service available for $12.95 per flight on its Boeing 767-200 aircraft connecting New York with
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Palm Goes Official With the Treo Pro - 3 Hours ago
As if enough details hadn't already leaked, Palm on Wednesday officially announced its latest smart phone, the Treo Pro. Palm's official announcement confirms much of what we already knew. The Treo Pro
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Jessica Simpson pushes new vitamin-spiked beer - 3 Hours ago
Jessica Simpson will soon be the new face of Dallas Stampede Light Plus. No, not a new Texas football team. It's a beer. Hey, at least she knows her fan base. And I'm sure it didn't hurt her beer contract
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Internet

Microsoft, Novell expand Linux deal by up to $100 million - 3 Hours ago
Microsoft on Wednesday extended its existing partnership with Novell with a pledge to pump up to an additional $100 million into the deal. The companies, which announced an interoperability deal two years
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EBay Rule Changes Frustrate Sellers - 3 Hours ago
(NEW YORK) Some people who sell things on eBay are fed up with new rules the company has been imposing in hopes of making the auction site more attractive to online shoppers. Now even more changes are
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eBRIDGE ePortal Connects with PayPal - 5 Hours ago
<< Customer payment information automatically integrated to accounting software >> BURLINGTON, ON, Aug. 20 /CNW/ -- eBRIDGE Software, the leader in accounting software integration solutions, is pleased

Science

Lilly to buy Monsanto artificial dairy hormone - 4 Hours ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co (nyse: LLY - news - people ) Wednesday said it would pay $300 million for global rights to Posilac, the widely used Monsanto Co (nyse: MON - news - people ) artificial
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Air Products acquires hydrogen tech company Harvest Energy - 3 Hours ago
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Mentor Graphics sees year revenue growth of 4 pct - 5 Hours ago
Mentor Graphics Corp., a manufacturer of electronic design automation systems, said Wednesday it expects revenue this year to grow by 4 percent, to $915 million. In guidance that accompanied the release
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Entertainment

LeRoi Moore, member of Dave Matthews Band, dies - 4 Hours ago
LeRoi Moore, a saxophone player for the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of injuries suffered in an accident on an all-terrain vehicle in June. He was 46. Moore, born in 1961, died at Hollywood Presbyterian
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NBC races ahead of competition - 5 Hours ago
NBC is enjoying a taste of what superstar swimmer Michael Phelps savored last week: a clean sweep. But unlike Phelps in Beijing's Water Cube, NBC's prime-time Olympics coverage left all its competition

NBC goes seven-for-seven - 6 Hours ago
NBC is enjoying a taste of what superstar swimmer Michael Phelps savored last week: a clean sweep. But unlike Phelps in Beijing's Water Cube, NBC's prime-time Olympics coverage left all its competition

Technology

Virtualization Reality Spurs Microsoft to Change Licensing Rules - 4 Hours ago
Starting in September, Microsoft will allow enterprise clients to move server applications around server farms and virtual machines without certain waiting periods or relicensing requirements. The new
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IDF: Nehalem, chips with integrated GPUs - 80 Minutes ago
Intel has given new details of what it calls the biggest change in its processor platform in a decade. The new information on Nehalem, discussed in keynotes and presentations at the Intel Developer Forum

Intel's new roadmap: Can rivals respond? - 79 Minutes ago
Intels developer forum in San Francisco has more than its share of chest thumping and as the roadmap comes into focus you really wonder how competitors will respond. To be sure, Intel wont have a cakewalk,

Health

Report: Rep. Tubbs Jones On Life Support - 4 Hours ago
This story was written by CBS News reporter Ryan Corsaro. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, is reported to have suffered an aneurysm and is not expected to recover, according to CBS affiliate WOIO in
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Calcium Might Have Taste Humans Can Detect - 3 Hours ago
They found that a taste for calcium exists in mice. Since mice and humans share many of the same genes, the finding suggests that people may also be able to taste calcium. If that's true, it could have

Companies bid millions to tap Western Gulf - 109 Minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) - Energy companies placed $487.3 million in winning bids for the right to drill in the western Gulf of Mexico, knowing they may get a chance later to explore in other areas that have been
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Culture

AT&T Delivers Live and On-Demand Performances From Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival - 4 Hours ago
DALLAS, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Summer may be winding down but some of today's top musicians will be heating up the stages of San Francisco's Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival (http://www.sfoutsidelands.com)
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Woman dies during arts practice - 107 Minutes ago
A 30-year-old woman has been killed during a practice for an event planned as part of an arts festival in Letterkenny, County Donegal.It is understood a model globe from which the woman was suspended

Art Hogan Of Jeffries & Company: Up tick In Crude Is Not A Trend - 5 Hours ago
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