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China tallies losses, costs from quake - 5 Hours ago

Cracked dams and buckled roads, collapsed buildings and toppled factories -- China has begun to tally its losses from an earthquake this week that killed thousands and left thousands more missing, with

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Bush Launches a McCain-Obama Brawl - 3 Hours ago

In case anyone missed it, the general election started in earnest this week. And it was President Bush, of all people, who fired the starting gun, from 5,000 miles away. With Bush's approval ratings hovering

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Obama Slams McCain's 'Naive' Foreign Policy - 3 Hours ago

Barack Obama laid into John McCain on Friday for advancing a tough-guy foreign policy that he called 'naive and irresponsible,' serving notice that he's ready to launch a full-throttle challenge to the

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9. North Korea's Food Crisis May Lead to Political Explosion
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Strong Aftershock Hits Already Devastated China
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France angered by Burmese delays
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Russia's Catherine the Great returns, as a musical
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US to ship more food to struggling Haiti
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Amputee Sprinter Wins Appeal to Qualify for Olympics
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Oil leaps after Bush's Saudi trip - 6 Hours ago
By James Quinn, Wall Street Correspondent The price of oil soared to yet another record high as President George W. Bush's second trip to Saudi Arabia in four months appeared to deliver a token victory
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In-suit device solves Air Force's No. 1 problem - 4 Hours ago
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How do pilots spell relief: AMXD - 3 Hours ago
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Politics/Law

Bush fails to win Saudi help on gas prices - 5 Hours ago
President Bush failed to win the help he sought from Saudi Arabia to relieve skyrocketing American gas prices Friday, a setback for the former Texas oilman who took office predicting he would jawbone
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Huckabee jokes to NRA of gun aimed at Obama - 3 Hours ago
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Obama ties McCain to Bush policy of 'bombast' - 2 Hours ago
WATERTOWN, South Dakota (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama linked Sen. John McCain Friday with what he called 'the failed policies' of the Bush administration, accusing the presumed Republican presidential nominee
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Business

Yahoo seeks to conceal parts of shareholder suitÂ Â 11 mins ago - 6 Hours ago
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. is seeking to conceal large portions of a shareholder lawsuit alleging the Internet company's board improperly thwarted Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover offer, raising
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U.S. Assures Korea About Beef Safety - 4 Hours ago
SEOUL, South Korea -- A senior U.S. official tried to assure South Koreans about U.S. beef, after opponents
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Delphi sues Appaloosa for withdrawal from $2.55B equity deal, says reorganization - 6 Hours ago
NEW YORK - Delphi said Friday it has sued its former lead equity investor, Appaloosa Management, for jeopardizing its emergence from bankruptcy by pulling out of a $2.55 billion (euro1.65 billion) investment
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Finance

Congressional Pressure Prevails As U.S. Halts Filling of Oil Reserve - 102 Minutes ago
Bowing to pressure from Congress, the Energy Department said Friday that it would temporarily suspend a program to fill the nationâ??s strategic oil stocks. But the move, which some analysts and politicians

Fannie Mae scraps higher down-payment requirementsÂ Â 32 mins ago - 6 Hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) - By relaxing down-payment requirements for borrowers in markets where home prices are falling, Fannie Mae aims to both resuscitate the flagging housing market and respond to pressure
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Stocks Lower on Oil-Price Surge - 4 Hours ago
Stocks closed narrowly mixed Friday as a late rebound amid an expiration of options helped the market trim earlier, steeper losses. Worries about inflation and its impact on consumer spending, stoked
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Sports

Canada beats Sweden to set up final with Russia - 4 Hours ago
(Reuters) - Canada beat Olympic champions Sweden 5-4 on Friday to set up a gold medal showdown with long-time rivals Russia at the ice hockey world championship. Earlier, Evgeni Nabokov made 23 saves
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Magowan stepping down from Giants - 3 Hours ago
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Peter Magowan, the owner who brought Barry Bonds to San Francisco, built a new ballpark and kept major league baseball in the city, is stepping down as managing partner of the Giants.
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Phillies' Jason Werth homers in first three at-bats - 3 Hours ago
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Jayson Werth homered in his first three at-bats and tied a Philadelphia Phillies record with eight RBI against the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night. BOX SCORE: Blue Jays at Phillies
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Industry

California winemaking patriarch Robert Mondavi dead at 94Â Â 40 mins ago - 6 Hours ago
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - Robert Mondavi, the pioneering vintner who helped put California wine country on the map, died at his Napa Valley home Friday. He was 94. Mondavi died peacefully at his home in
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Oil prices hit record high of $127 - 5 Hours ago
In London, Brent crude futures for June delivery settled at 124.99 dollars a barrel, trading up 3.74 dollars. Goldman Sachs, the most active investment bank in the energy markets, raised its average oil
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Vitamin D May Help Curb Breast Cancer, Study Finds - 2 Hours ago
-- Breast cancer patients with low levels of vitamin D were much more likely to die of the disease or have it spread than patients getting enough of the nutrient, a study found _ adding to evidence the
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Internet

Yang rallies Yahoo staff against Icahn challenge - 5 Hours ago
Jerry Yang, Yahoo's chief executive implored his 14,000 staff to stick to their day jobs in spite of an audacious effort by the billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn to unseat the internet firm's entire
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Microsoft Joins Linux on OLPC - 4 Hours ago
Microsoft on Thursday struck a deal to make its Windows operating system available on OLPCÃ¢â?¬â?¢s low-cost XO laptops, intended to bring technology to the worldÃ¢â?¬â?¢s poor. The move suggests the
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Icahn vows to overthrow Yahoo board - 4 Hours ago
Yahoo and Carl Icahn dueled Thursday as the corporate raider vowed to overthrow the firm's board and the Internet pioneer fired back that the billionaire misunderstood Microsoft's failed takeover bid.Icahn
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Science

BOC Leaves Overnight Rate at 4.25% - 3 Hours ago
The following is the unedited transcript of the news release from Bank of Canada Bank of Canada keeps target for the overnight rate at 4 1/4 per cent OTTAWAâ??The Bank of Canada today announced that it

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Dow Corning Opens Solar Module & Assembly Application Center - 4 Hours ago
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Entertainment

Moore: `Fahrenheit 9/11' follow-up is not a sequel - 4 Hours ago
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Technology

High-Tech Japan Running Out of Engineers - 104 Minutes ago
TOKYO - Japan is running out of engineers. After years of fretting over coming shortages, the country is actually facing a dwindling number of young people entering engineering and technology-related

Frustrating the Pirates - 104 Minutes ago
DISPENSING with the bluster that normally surrounds the issue of pirated movies and music, Anders Bylund of Ars Technica tries to appeal to business sense in arguing that media companies should stop suing

MS Office 2008 for Mac: The scandal continues - 9 Hours ago
Can Microsofts Macintosh Business Unit expect anything but frustration from its installed base of users? The excuses from the development team are wearing very, very thin. The news today was that the
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Health

Half-eaten Snickers bar implicates hungry burglar - 4 Hours ago
Police say DNA found on a half-eaten candy bar helped them zero in on a robbery suspect. Detective Jason Simpkins says Brian D. Bass' DNA matched the sample found on the bar left on the counter at Cato
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Low Vitamin D Tied to Depression in Older Adults - 4 Hours ago
FRIDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) -- Low levels of vitamin D and high levels of a hormone secreted by the parathyroid glands may increase the risk of depression in older adults, according to a new report.

Vitamin D Use Linked to Lower Mortality in Kidney Patients - 4 Hours ago
FRIDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) -- Taking activated vitamin D may cut the risk of death for people with moderate to severe chronic kidney disease by about one quarter, a new study suggests. During a two-year
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Culture

Husband is charged with murder of make-up artist - 3 Hours ago
The husband of an Emmy award-winning make-up artist has been charged with her murder. Sussex Police charged David Chenery-Wickens, 51, from Duddleswell, East Sussex, with murder after Diane Chenery-Wickenss
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Police confirm body in wood is missing BBC make-up artist as husband is arrested - 5 Hours ago
A body found in woodland on Thursday has been confirmed as missing TV make-up artist Diane Chenery-Wickens. Her husband David Chenery-Wickens, 51, was arrested the same day in connection with his 48-year-old
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Addition to make Ohio State comic collection super - 2 Hours ago
COLUMBUS, Ohio â?? In comic book terms, it might be on the scale of a merger of the X-Men and the Justice League of America: two collections combining to form what's believed to be the world's largest
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