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Attack on Israel From Lebanon Threatens 2nd Front - 4 Hours ago

JERUSALEM -- Lebanese militants fired at least three rockets into northern Israel early Thursday, threatening to open a second front for the Jewish state as it pushed forward with its offensive in the

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Russia 'to restore gas to Europe' - 4 Hours ago

Slovakia has called a state of emergency amid plunging gas supplies The Russian gas giant, Gazprom, says it will resume pumping gas to Europe once independent monitors are in place to check the flow to

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CNN

President-Elect Obama's Dire Warnings - 4 Hours ago

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Obama urges action on economy
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Russia, Ukraine Still Deadlocked After Talks
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No Purple Hearts For Post-Traumatic Stress
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Red Cross Reprimands Israel
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U.N. suspends aid work in Gaza
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Obama to warn against inaction on stimulus
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Bergen: How Bush botched war on terror - 4 Hours ago
Editor's note: Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst and a fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington and at New York University's Center on Law and Security. His most recent book is
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Feinstein says 'all systems are go' for Panetta to helm CIA - 112 Minutes ago
Reporting from Washington - President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday secured the support of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) for his choice to head the CIA, significantly improving the odds that former
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Griffin Bell, former attorney general, dies - 5 Hours ago
Griffin B. Bell, the shrewd Southern lawyer who grew up with Jimmy Carter and later became U.S. attorney general after Carter was elected president, died Monday. He was 90. Mr. Bell died around 10 a.m.
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Politics/Law

Obama Warns of Dire Consequences Without Stimulus - 4 Hours ago
President-elect Barack Obama said Thursday the recession could 'linger for years' unless Congress pumps unprecedented sums from Washington into the economy, making his highest-profile case yet on an issue
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Obama to warn of long recession if aid package delayed - 5 Hours ago
President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday will urge Congress to move quickly on his economic aid package once he takes office, warning that a failure to do so would have devastating long-term consequences
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Business

Rates at record low - 4 Hours ago
LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England cut interest rates by half a percentage point on Thursday to a record low of 1.5 percent and economists expect it to cut again in February as it battles to prevent
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Macy's store closings - 2 Hours ago
come after one of the worst holiday seasons in years. The company says it will close 11 underperforming stores in 9 states. About 960 employees will be affected. The stores affected are: * Washington
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Nissan axes 1,200 jobs - 4 Hours ago
Workers on the Sunderland production line. Photograph: Gary Calton The car giant Nissan today announced it is axing 1,200 jobs in the UK in the wake of the economic downturn and a slump in sales. The
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Finance

Should the Bank of England have cut rates further? - 5 Hours ago
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Stocks Open Lower as Jitters About Retail Return - 4 Hours ago
Wall Street's worries about weak consumer spending revived Thursday, sending stocks lower as bad news from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. signaled that even the stronger U.S. retailers struggled during the holiday
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Job loss the No. 1 global concern, survey shows - 119 Minutes ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The global economic crisis has made fears of unemployment the No. 1 concern, surpassing worries about poverty, social inequality, crime and violence, a 22-nation survey showed on
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Sports

City's Santa Cruz bid rejected by Rovers - 4 Hours ago
Manchester City have had a reported 15 million bid for Blackburn Rovers striker Roque Santa Cruz rejected, manager Mark Hughes said on Thursday. City supremo Hughes confirmed that his cash-rich club had
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Joint probe into Tevez affair - 4 Hours ago
The Football Association and the Premier League are to launch a fresh inquiry into the Carlos Tevez affair. The saga has been ongoing for some time and relates to West Ham's successful survival bid towards
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ETHERINGTON HAS PEDIGREE FOR PULIS - 4 Hours ago
Stoke manager Tony Pulis has pinpointed Matthew Etherington as a player capable of producing the goods in a relegation dogfight. As Pulis admitted jokingly: 'We are not at Crufts, we are at Battersea
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Industry

Wal-Mart Falters In Latest Retail Report - 4 Hours ago
Retailers reported dismal sales figures for December on Thursday as even , one of the bright spots in the industry, finally buckled under the pressures of the deteriorating economy. As merchants reported
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Securitas robbery jury discharged - 4 Hours ago
Paul Allen denied conspiracy to rob, kidnap and possess firearms The jury trying a man accused of taking part in the 53m raid on a Securitas depot in Kent has been discharged after failing to reach a
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Brown pledge to get banks lending - 5 Hours ago
As interest rates were slashed to their lowest ever level by the Bank of England, the Prime Minister and Chancellor Alistair Darling again said it was essential that mortgage and business lending was
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Internet

Thinkorswim to be acquired by TD Ameritrade - 4 Hours ago
Chicago online brokerage Thinkorswim Group Inc. disclosed Thursday that it has agreed to be acquired by Omaha-based rival TD Ameritrade in a $606 million stock-and-cash transaction. Under terms of the
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Linux Magazine Selects ScaleMP As One Of The Top 20 Companies To Watch In 2009 - 3 Hours ago
ScaleMP, a leading provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, today announced that it has been named one of the top 20 Companies to Watch in 2009 by Linux Magazine. The Linux Magazine
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Magensa(TM) Makes Online Shopping and Banking Faster, Easier and Safer with the - 3 Hours ago
Magensa, a premier authentication solutions provider, today announced the launch of QwicKey, a new portable online security device that delivers superior password management, automated form completion
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Science

Sasol Closes Germiston Solvents Plant After Explosion >SSL - 4 Hours ago
JOHANNESBURG (Dow Jones)--Oil and gas producer Sasol Ltd. (SSL) has closed its solvents plant in Germiston,
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Learn about the World Benzene Market - 4 Hours ago
This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Benzene in Thousands of Metric Tons. The specific end-use segments discussed are Ethylbenzene & Styrene Industry, Cumene for the Phenolics Industry,
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Kuwait: Confident won't pay Dow Chemical penalty - 4 Hours ago
KUWAIT CITY -- Kuwait's Commerce and Industry minister says the government of this small oil-rich state is confident it will not have to pay a penalty for withdrawing from a $17.4 billion joint-venture

Entertainment

British talent up for Bafta prize - 9 Hours ago
Toby Kebbell, Noel Clarke and Rebecca Hall head the British challenge Three British actors have made the shortlist for Bafta's Rising Star award recognising emerging talent. Noel Clarke - who played Mickey

Gallery gets iconic Obama image - 9 Hours ago
The iconic red, white and blue portrait of US President-elect Barack Obama will become part of the permanent collection at the US National Portrait Gallery. The Washington DC gallery has acquired the

Often advertised as the last of Hollywood's actor-singers - 94 Minutes ago
When Tony Martin's wife, dancer Cyd Charisse, died six months ago, he was bereft. They had a blessed marriage - the kind where if one of them was away even for a few days, he or she would call the other

Technology

Movers: Wal-Mart, Macy's, Microsoft, EMC, Thinkorswim - 3 Hours ago
From Macy's (M) cuts fourth quarter EPS view to $0.90-$1.00, excluding items, on worse-than-expected fourth quarter same-store sales decline of about 7.5%. Posts 4.0% lower December same-store sales,
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Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Welcome to CES. Sales are flatlining - 35 Minutes ago
The semi-annual forecast of industry sales for consumer electronics makers just came out. And the projection is that, despite the transition to digital TV and lust for portable electronics of all types,

Touting tech in a brutal economy - 8 Hours ago
techies converge on Las Vegas this week for the 42nd annual International Consumer Electronics Show, they're encountering an industry that's anxious about marketing high-tech gadgets in a tightwad economy.

Health

Hormone Therapy May Cut Colorectal Cancer Risk - 4 Hours ago
women who had been followed for about 15 years THURSDAY, Jan. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Hormone therapy may lower a woman's risk of colorectal cancer, especially if she is no longer taking the hormones. This
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Longer sleep tied to worse cholesterol in seniors - 4 Hours ago
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older people who spend more time sleeping have higher cholesterol levels, and less 'good' HDL cholesterol, Dutch researchers report. People who sleep fewer than seven hours
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'Screen time' linked to poor fitness in girls, not boys - 119 Minutes ago
Texting is one of the activities that get in the way of physical fitness for girls. (istockphoto.com/Oleksandr Kramarenko) coreAdsCreate('wnsz_20', 'loc', '100', 'wnsz_20', '_ - Exercise and By Carolyn
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Culture

Failed love museum offers balm for heartbreak - 11 Hours ago
SINGAPORE - From an empty ring box to sexy lingerie and a pair of fur-lined handcuffs, an exhibition of the relics of failed love has come to Asia, hoping to bring solace to the heartbroken. The â??Museum
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Ballet studio takes urban kids to another world - 14 Hours ago
The Sugarplum Fairy, sweat glistening on her brow, performed the same sequence of steps over and over across the polished wood floor, looking by turns euphoric and miserable. Sprawled next to the piano
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Burris practiced in political arts - 15 Hours ago
Amid the controversy over whether he should become Illinois' next U.S. senator, Roland Burris has been described by friend and foe alike as an earnest public servant with a long history in state politics.