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Wal-Mart replaces chief executive
New York - In an unexpected move, Wal-Mart Stores Inc said Friday it would replace its chief...
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NASA Decides To Delay Shuttle-Replacement Mission Until March 2015
NASA confirmed on Monday that there will be no manned
mission before March 2015, five years after...
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Fierce Debate over New Boss for Japan's Central Bank
Japan, the world's second largest economy by nominal GDP, is threatened to be thrown into financial...
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GM Reports Losses, Offers Massive Buyouts
General Motors Corporation has announced that it lost $722 million over the fourth quarter and...
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EBay CEO Meg Whitman Planning to Retire
Meg Whitman, president and CEO of top Internet auctioneer eBay
Inc. is planning to retire,...
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George Reyes, Google's CFO, Steps Down
Cuban American George Reyes, 53, announced he is to retire from his job as Chief Financial Officer...
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Specials
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Mickey Mouse marks 80th birthday
Los Angeles - Mickey Mouse marked his 80th birthday Tuesday, but those expecting a big party were...
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Mickey Mouse, the eternal infant, turns 80
Los Angeles - He was born from misfortune, formed in a creative flash by Walt Disney who had just...
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Tina Fey To Mimic Sarah Palin No More
The name of “Saturday Night Live” star Tina Fey will forever
be associated with the 2008...
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Expedition 18 Successfully Docks The International Space Station
Expedition 18, formed out of game designer and space tourist Richard Garriot and astronauts Mike...
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Mickey Rourke, Darren Aronofsky Tame Golden Lion of Venice
Darren Aronofsky’s comeback film at the Venice Film
Festival, “The Wrestler,” starring Mickey...
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NASA Studies Viability Of Operating Shuttle Beyond 2010
A leaked NASA internal mail, obtained by The Orlando
Sentinel, revealed the space agency’s plans...
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Let's Just Wish Paul Newman Good Health
Is he or is he not ill? While sources make contradictory reports and we’re all left to wonder...
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Director of Met Museum Retires After Three Decades
Philippe de Montebello, who has achieved the status of longest-serving director of the Metropolitan...
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Science
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NASA Device To Transform Urine Into Water
A machine that is being launched aboard the space shuttle Endeavour on Friday in order to reach the...
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Stephen Hawking to give up Cambridge chair
London - British theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking will retire from teaching next...
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Lunar Space Station In Development
As NASA celebrates its 50th anniversary, life on other planets seems to no longer be a figment of...
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Update1: NASA Considers Its Shuttle Options
NASA is considering the possibility of extending the current
space shuttle program until...
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Report: NASA Shuttle Program To Get Another Five Years
Saturday, The
Orlando Sentinel announced that, according to an internal e-mail,...
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NASA Realigns Constellation Schedule, Resources For 2015 Inaugural Flight
NASA is planning on making the first flight under the Constellation
Program as soon as 2015, five...
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NASA Delays Shuttle-Replacement Mission Until March 2015
NASA confirmed on Monday that there will be no manned
mission before March 2015, five years after...
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NASA In Talks With JAXA For The Acquisition Of Space Shuttle Successor
NASA is talking business with the Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency to purchase units of the...
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Hubble Space Telescope Mission Postponed
National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials announced yesterday a delay of over a month...
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Atlantis' Crew Ready For Return On Earth
The STS-122 crew is ready to return on Earth, after a successful
mission during which they...
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Atlantis Launch Called Off After One ECO Sensor Fails
NASA announced that today's attempt to launch the space
shuttle Atlantis has been officially...
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Atlantis Launch Delayed Again Due To ECO Sensors Problems
After a Friday meeting, NASA managers decided to postpone
again the launch of US
space shuttle...
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Next Attempt To Launch Atlantis Scheduled For Saturday
NASA mission managers announced that the launch of space
shuttle Atlantis would be delayed for 48...
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Atlantis Launch Delayed
In an unexpected turn of events, NASA officials decided to
postpone at least until Friday the...
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Peggy Whitson And Dan Tani Complete Seven Hour Spacewalk
After a seven hours spacewalk, ISS commander Peggy Whitson
and Flight Engineer Dan Tani have moved...
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ISS Crew Continue To Prepare Harmony’s Move
Early Monday, International Space Station crewmembers moved
Pressurized Mating Adaptor-2 from the...
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ISS Crew Completes First Spacewalk
After Discovery delivered the Harmony module to the
International Space Station, today station...
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DNA Discoverer Retires after Race Goof
Molecular biologist James Dewey Watson, credited as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of...
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Rocketplane Kistler Eliminated from NASA Spaceship Race
NASA announced it fired Rocketplane Kistler from its COTS Project, which provides milestone-based...
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Sports
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Hamilton takes dream car to victory in Chinese GP
Shanghai - Lewis Hamilton on Sunday took a major step towards becoming the youngest-ever Formula...
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Hewitt to Return after Hip Surgery
Sydney - Four-time champion Lleyton Hewitt said on Tuesday that his return from hip surgery is on...
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Two Thais Still in Hunt for Boxing Gold, Last American Bows Out
Beijing - Thai boxers Manus Boonjumnong and Somjit Jongjohor remain in the hunt for gold medals...
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Phelps: Sacrifices Made Worthwhile by the Eight 'Special' Golds
Beijing - American swimming superstar Michael Phelps, who won an unprecedented eight gold medals at...
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Heikki Kovalainen Wins His First Grand Prix In Hungary
McLaren's driver Heikki Kovalainen won his first Formula One
Grand Prix on Sunday after Ferrari's...
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Annika Is Taking Time Off From Golf Tournaments
Annika Sorenstam is taking some
time off from the golf tournaments, as she revealed on Tuesday in...
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Roger Federer Defeats Pete Sampras in Exhibition Match
In an exhibition match that lasted two hours and fifteen minutes, world number one Roger Federer...
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Brett Favre Goes Out In Style, Decides To Retire
The speculations are over! Brett
Favre is retiring from the Green Bay Packers, ESPN reports. As it...
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Baseball Owners Back Up Selig Until 2012
30 Major League team owners
unanimously decided to extend Bud Selig’s contract until 2012. Selig...
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If Olson Retires, O’Neill Takes Over
According to ESPN.com, Arizona assistant coach Kevin O’Neill
is said to replace Lute Olson as head...
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Pettitte Will Pitch for Yankees Next Season
Andy Pettitte announced his decision not to retire. He said he would pitch for the New York Yankees...
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With James Injured Early, Cavs Get Spanked by Pistons, 109-74
The Cleveland Cavaliers lost the steaming LeBron James early in the game and then lost the game as...
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Martina Hingis Retires after Testing Positive for Cocaine
Former World No. 1 tennis player Martina Hingis decided to end her sporting career after she has...
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Houston Puts an End to His Come Back Bid
A preseason game and about a week of practice was all Allan Houston needed to reach the conclusion...
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New York Knicks Resign Allan Houston
Allan Houston decided to end his retirement and resume playing for the troubled New York Knicks...
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Harrington Brings the Irish Luck at British Open
Padraig Harrington found his path to glory defeating Sergio
Garcia in a four-hole playoff of the...
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Raikkonen Confident To Win European Grand Prix
On Sunday Ferrari’s driver Kimi Raikkonen will try to
achieve a hat-trick by winning the European...
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Lewis Hamilton Wins Second Grand Prix
In Indianapolis,
just seven days after winning his first Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton did it
again....
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World
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Boom to Gloom as Australians Join the Real World
Sydney - You have to be over 16 in Australia to have lived at a time when the economy was not...
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NASA Sets Dates of Shuttle Fleet's Last Flights
NASA (the United States space agency) revealed the dates it fixed for the last flights of the...
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American Airlines: June 15 Brings a $15 Charge for Baggage
American Airlines has some bad news for its clients.
Because of the oil prices that are getting...
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Vito Fossella To Retire Following Personal Mistake
New York Rep. Vito Fossella declared Tuesday he would not
seek to be re-elected and he would leave...
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Katrina Victim Wins a $97 Million Prize
When one door closes another one opens. This much is true
for Katrina victim Carl Hunter who lost...
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Paterson, NY’s Brand New Governor, Acknowledges Affair
New York’s brand new governor admitted that he had an affair during a rough period of his marriage....
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Paterson Sworn In NY’s First Black, Legally Blind Governor
David Alexander Paterson is officially New York’s first black governor and also the first legally...
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Cuba to Name Fidel Castro’s Successor
Cuba is in the process of choosing another president after 49 years under “El Líder Máximo”. The...
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Castro Says U.S. Must Change, Not Cuba
The U.S. speculations about a possible change in Cuba’s politics following Fidel Castro’s...
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Castro Announces Retirement From Cuba’s Presidency
Fidel Castro,
Cuba’s ailing leader
has announced on Tuesday that he will retire from his...
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Indian Guru Cremated On Ganges River
The Indian guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who passed away last
week, was cremated on Monday in the...
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Over 1,000 People Mourned NYOS 7-Year-Old Student’s Death
Over 1,000 people gathered on
Saturday to remember Tevin Park-Flowers, a seven-year-old boy who...
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Federal Court Unveils More Compromising E-mails In DA’s Case
The story of the love e-mails the
Harris County District Attorney Charles A. Rosenthal Jr. sent to...
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Raul Castro Suggests Liberalization as Fidel Says He’ll Retire
As Fidel Castro repeated that he might retire from office for good, his brother and current Cuban...
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Castro May Show Signs of Retirement
In a letter which was read on Monday on state television Fidel Castro, Cuba’s ailing leader, said...
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Civil Servants Join Seventh Day of French Rail Strike
The seventh day of the French transit workers’ strike coincided
with the civil strike that began...
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Sixth Day of the French Transport Strike
On Monday the French transport strike entered its sixth day
as the commuters had to face another...
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Transport and Electricity Workers Go On Strike in France
On Wednesday the transport and energy workers went on strike
for the second time in a month. The...
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New Generation of Leaders in China
Ending the Five-yearly Communist Party congress, the new
Central Committee was approved on Sunday,...
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Rugby World Cup Final Threatened by Transport Strike in France
October 18, 2007, the “Black Thursday” as it is called, is
the biggest one-day nationwide transit...
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Greenspan Criticizes Bush Administration in New Book
In a book that will be published Monday, former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan heavily...
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Chinese Authorities Release NY Times Researcher
Chinese authorities released Saturday from jail a researcher employed by the New York Times, after...
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Musharraf Close to Deal With Bhutto
Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf is close to reaching a power-sharing deal with prominent...
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Israeli President Will Not Go to Jail
Suspended and soon retiring Israeli President Moshe Katsav signed a plea bargain with state...
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