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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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CNN

Dozens dead in Madrid plane crash - 4 Hours ago

DRID (Reuters) - At least 45 people were killed when a Spanair jet crashed on takeoff and burst into flames at Madrid airport on Wednesday, the government said, but an emergency services source reported

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Glitter catches Hong Kong flight
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Fay Fay Go Away! May Hit Florida Again
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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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Iraq official: US, Iraq finish draft security deal
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Would Lowering the Drinking Age Curb Bingeing on Campus?
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Labor Dept: Fewer workers killed on job in 2007 - 4 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

Sen. Joe Lieberman To Speak At GOP Convention - 78 Minutes ago
A Republican official tells The Associated Press that Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman will be speaking at the Republican National Convention. The GOP official said Wednesday that Lieberman would deliver
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Giuliani to Keynote RNC, Theme Is "Country First" - 4 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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Bush Defends Terror War Tactics - 4 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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Business

UPDATE 1-U.S. FDIC to help IndyMac mortgage borrowers - 3 Hours ago
(Adds Bair comments, details of modification program, byline) WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Thousands of homeowners with distressed mortgage loans linked to failed lender IndyMac IDMC.PK may soon be
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Small SUVs improve in crash tests - 5 Hours ago
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France bans TV shows for babies - 4 Hours ago
France's broadcast authority has banned French channels from airing TV shows aimed at children under three years old, to shield them from developmental risks it says television viewing poses at that age.
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Finance

Wall St Flat; HP Gains Offset by Oil, Credit Woes - 4 Hours ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures rose on Wednesday as news of a solid quarterly profit and outlook from Hewlett-Packard , the world's largest computer maker, helped investors battle fears about
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Fannie, Freddie Shares Plunge - 5 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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Companies bid millions to tap Western Gulf - 2 Hours 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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Sports

"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 - 5 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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Briefs4-Cisse joins Sunderland on loan - 5 Hours ago
Soccer - France striker Djibril Cisse is joining Sunderland on loan from Olympique Marseille, the Ligue 1 club said on their website (www.om.net). Cisse, 27, had already played in the Premier League for
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Industry

American Launches in-Flight Internet on 3 Routes - 4 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

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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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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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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ESPN throwing its hat in the Olympic rings - 68 Minutes ago
NEW YORK - When NBC makes a run for the U.S. rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympics, it will have plenty of company.ESPN president George Bodenheimer said Tuesday that his network will be in the running
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Celebrated writer and his wandering life - 60 Minutes ago
Even seekers of the world need a return address, or two, and Paul Theroux has settled well between the Hawaii home where he raises honeybees and this scenic retreat that allows him room to grow tomatoes,

Technology

Virtualization Reality Spurs Microsoft to Change Licensing Rules - 5 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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Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these days - 2 Hours ago
Novell tookÂ a lot of heat from open source backers for executing an interoperability pact with Microsoft in late 2006 but the partnership strengthened with a new $100 million investment from Microsoft
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IDF: Nehalem, chips with integrated GPUs - 101 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
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Health

Calcium Might Have Taste Humans Can Detect - 4 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

TVA approves largest rate increase in 34 years - 4 Hours ago
The Tennessee Valley Authority has approved its largest electric rate increase in more than 30 years. The 20 percent hike will affect millions of customers across the TVA's seven-state region. The change
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Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones dies from a brain aneurysm - 2 Hours ago
Stephanie Tubbs Jones, 58, one of the best-known black members of Congress, is in critical condition today after suffering a brain aneurysm while driving her car in her home state of Ohio. Tubbs Jones
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Culture

AT&T Delivers Live and On-Demand Performances From Outside Lands Music & - 115 Minutes 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 - 2 Hours 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

National CineMedia and The Metropolitan Opera Renew Agreement to Bring Acclaimed - 84 Minutes ago
National CineMedia (NCM) LLC, operator of the largest digital in-theatre network in North America for cinema advertising and alternative entertainment and events, and the Metropolitan Opera are proudly
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