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Sprint losses widen less than forecast
New York - Struggling mobile-phone service provider Sprint Nextel Corp posted a first quarter...
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Siemens cuts forecast as economic crisis hits
Berlin - Europe's biggest engineering group global Siemens AG cut its profit forecast for the...
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Peugeot Citroen turnover down nearly 25 per cent in first quarter
Paris - French car maker PSA Peugeot Citroen said Wednesday that turnover for the first quarter of...
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China's GDP growth slows to 6.1 per cent
Beijing - The expansion of the Chinese economy slowed to a record low in...
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Nokia reports pre-tax loss for first quarter
Helsinki - Citing an "exceptionally tough environment" Nokia, the world's largest maker...
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Sumitomo Mitsui Financial to incur 3.9-billion-dollar loss
Tokyo - Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) has announced Friday that...
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Energy agency again downgrades 2009 global oil demand due to slump
Paris - Worse-than-expected prospects for the world economy has prompted the International Energy...
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Taiwan mobile phone sales to drop by nearly 10 per cent in 2009
Taipei - Taiwan's mobile phone sales were forecast to drop 9.3 per cent in 2009...
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Sharp expands estimated losses for past fiscal year
Tokyo - Sharp Corp on Wednesday enlarged its expected losses for the fiscal year...
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Slump has worsened, say three European nations' economists
Munich - The economic slump in the euro zone has worsened, economists from three nations said...
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German business confidence slips to 26-year low
Berlin - Business confidence in Germany slipped in March to its lowest point in about 26 years, a...
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Sanyo warns of net loss for full year
Tokyo - Sanyo Electric Co, the world's largest maker of rechargeable...
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Tiffany profits tumble 76 per cent, shares climb
New York - Tiffany & Co, the world's second-largest retailer of luxury jewelry, on Monday...
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Swiss economy expected to shrink by 2.2 per cent in 2009
Bern - Revised government figures for 2009 released Tuesday showed that Switzerland's economy would...
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iSuppli Report: Smartphone Sales Will Rise 11% in 2009
According to a recent study by research firm iSuppli, the smart phone industry is among the few...
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Hewlett-Packard’s Profit Plummeting
Wednesday, Palo Alto-based Hewlett-Packard announced that it had decreased its revenue...
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RIM Forecasts Decreased Profits
Research In Motion (RIM) has announced that its quarterly earnings and gross margin would...
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Yahoo Posts $303 M Loss, But Exceeds Forecasts
Yahoo! Inc. recorded a better-than-expected profit over the past three months. The company which...
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Microsoft Changes Its Business Strategy
During a conference call on last year’s second-quarter results, Microsoft’s Chief...
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Sony Might Post $1.1 Billion Loss
Sony is likely to post an operating loss amounting to approximately $1.1 billion for the fiscal...
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Abbott to Purchase Advanced Medical for $1.36 Billion
Monday, Abbott Laboratories Incorporated announced it would buy Advanced Medical Optics (AMO) for...
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Intel’s Revenue Fails to Meet Forecasts
Intel has announced that its revenue for the fourth quarter had fallen 23 percent below the one...
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Toyota to suspend domestic plant operations to cut output
Tokyo - Toyota Motor Corp decided to further reduce output by halting operations for 11 days at 12...
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Toyota Forced to Lower Profit Forecast Again
Toyota, the largest automaker in Japan, revised its earnings forecast, setting them lower, now...
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Retailers Striving to Boost Sales as Storm Approaches
As a storm has been announced to be heading towards the nation’s Midwest and Northeast,...
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RIM's Third Quarter - Not Quite As Good As Expected
Research in Motion announced two days ago that it is
currently putting together all the reports...
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IDC Lowers Forecast For PC Shipments
IDC, a market researcher, has announced on Wednesday its previsions concerning PC sales for the...
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75% off and Free Shipping for This Year’s Cyber Monday
Online retailers Monday take their turn in offering
doorbuster (or serverbuster, as the online...
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Taiwan Semiconductor revises down output target owing to recession
Taipei - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp (TSMC), the world's largest contract chipmaker, on...
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Output and spending drop in Japan amid global financial turmoil
Tokyo - Japan's industrial output dropped in October because of slow overseas demand for cars and...
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U.S.
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US jobless rate reaches 8.9 per cent, less than expected
Washington - The US unemployment rate climbed to 8.9 per cent in April, its highest level since...
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California wildfires spread, 30,000 forced to flee
Los Angeles - Fanned by strong winds, a raging spring wildfire near Santa Barbara, California, grew...
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US seeks restrictions on tourism to Arctic-Antarctic region
Washington - The United States will push for more restrictions on tourism to the North and South...
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Carnival cruises reports first-quarter profits despite recession
Carnival Corp, the world's largest cruise-line operator, Tuesday reported first-quarter...
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Winter Storms Affect Western United States
Even if better weather started to arrive for the eastern and middle United States on Christmas Day,...
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Winter Storm, ‘Hazardous’ Traveling Conditions Make Victims
A powerful winter storm hit the US West Coast painting all landscapes in white. The storm featured...
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Brrr! Put Your Coats On, It’s Freezing Out There!
Winter will come to the United States too this year. According to the...
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Calif. Firefighters Make Little Progress in Battle against Wildfires
Fire crews are struggling to contain the wildfires burning across Southern California, but despite...
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NASA: Endeavour And STS-126 Crew Prepare For Launch
Endeavour's crew members ate their traditional launch-day meal in Kennedy's Operations and Checkout...
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Bush promises smooth transition, to meet Obama next week
Washington - President George W Bush said Thursday he would ensure a speedy and orderly transition...
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US Stocks Gain despite Contracting Quarter
New York - Wall Street stock indices climbed Thursday despite new government data showing the US...
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Light winds aid battle against wildfires
Los Angeles - Fierce Santa Ana winds subsided Wednesday, helping thousands of firefighters reign in...
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General Electric's Q3 earnings down due to financial crisis
Washington - US conglomerate General Electric (GE) experienced a massive fall in third-quarter...
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Specials
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Sony Ericsson posts first-quarter loss
Stockholm (dpa) - Mobile telephone maker Sony Ericsson on Friday posted a loss for first-quarter...
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IMF: Global economy to shrink in 2009
Washington - The global economy could shrink as much as 1 per cent this year, the International...
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MySpace Removes Sex Offenders from Website
Recently, social networking website MySpace has removed the accounts of 90,000 members that it had...
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U2’s ‘Get On Your Boots’ Free To Listen
It’s been five long years of waiting for the U2 fans but the Irish rockers are back with a...
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CES Is Filled with New Technologies, But Will the Customers Afford It?
Even though all big manufacturers have displayed new products and revolutionizing technologies at...
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Ski Away At Lake Tahoe
Even though at first, considering the economic crisis, there were some fears about the...
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Stores Going All-Out to Turn a Profit This Holiday Season
While Americans are spending Thanksgiving Day with their families, carving turkey and having an all...
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Gingko Biloba and Alzheimer’s Disease
More than 5 million Americans live with Alzheimer’s disease,
a condition that causes a progressive...
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“Quantum Of Solace": Record Earnings, But Not As Large As Reported Sunday
Even though
Sunday, Columbia Pictures proudly announced that the new James Bond movie “Quantum
of...
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The Weekend Is Looking Bright For Texas
The National Weather Service announced its forecast for the weekend and things are looking sunny...
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EBay Cuts More Than 1000 Jobs, Acquires Bill Me Later
More than 1,000 permanent eBay.com employees and several temporary workers will start searching new...
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Medicare Prescription Drug Premiums Will Rise in 2009
Medicare’s beneficiaries will see a premium
increase in their current plan. The typical medical...
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$400 Million For “The Dark Knight”: Another Record Smashed
“The Dark Knight” is proving to be an unstoppable force at
the box office and a milestone like...
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The "The Dark Knight" Is Just One Day Away
The newest Batman movie, The Dark Knight, managed to attract
a massive worldwide interest and it...
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High Levels of HDL Cholesterol Cut Risk of Dementia in the Elderly
New study in the July issue of the American Heart
Association’s journal Arteriosclerosis,...
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Update:Sony Confirms Movies Download Service For Its PlayStation3
It seems like finally Sony has decided to officially confirm its long-rumored movies download...
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SIA: Chip Sales Up 5.9 Percent Due To Growing Demand
The Semiconductor Industry
Association’s April report on semiconductor sales reflected a 5.9...
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Slightly More Summer-Rain Than Expected
The National Weather Service announced for today a series of
severe thunderstorms for the...
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Politicians Share Personal Alzheimer’s Woes
In an attempt to make the Congress more aware of the catastrophic
consequences of Alzheimer’s...
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Syesha Saves the Best For Last on American Idol
Tuesday night was essential for the remaining American Idol
contestants. As the show is...
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Endeavour Gets a “Go” For Tuesday Launch
NASA officials announced that space shuttle Endeavour’s
STS-123 mission is officially set for...
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WGA Strike Estimated to Have Sponged Up $2.5 Billion
This Wednesday, Jack Kyser, chief economist for the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp.,...
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Punxsutawney Phil Predicts Six More Weeks Of Winter
Punxsutawney Phil predicts winter ahead. Punxsutawney Phil was pulled out of his stump on Saturday...
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Movies
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“Twilight” on its Way to Record Early Box Office
The vampire
movie “Twilight,” which opened Friday in United States theaters, registered...
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“Solace:” Record Earnings, but Not Quite as Large as Reported Sunday
Even though
Sunday, Columbia Pictures proudly announced that the new James Bond movie “Quantum
of...
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James Bond Worldwide Hysteria Despite Not So Favorable Reviews
It appears that Agent 007’s 22nd adventure was incredibly well received in the U.S.A. this weekend....
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The Dark Knight Reveals Heath Ledger's Best Performance
Director Christopher Nolan has done it again. He managed for the sequel The Dark Knight to pin...
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The Premiere Of "The Dark Knight" Is Just One Day Away
The newest Batman movie, The Dark Knight, managed to attract
a massive worldwide interest and it...
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WGA Strike Cost Estimated at $2.5 Billion
In 1988, a 22-week walkout by the WGA delayed the start of that year's fall television season and...
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‘Cloverfield’ Draws A Monstrous $41 Million At The Box Office
Exceeding expectations, , J. J. Abrams-produced reinvention of the monster movie genre,...
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Technology
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Apple Sells the Billionth App through App Store
Apple finally made it past the milestone of 1 billion applications downloaded. Some iPhone user...
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HP Dethrones Dell in U.S. PC Market
Hewllet-Packard became the top PC seller in the United States in the first quarter of this fiscal...
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Intel: the PC Market has hit the Bottom, Will Grow
Intel said on Tuesday that the PC industry is not at the lowest sales level and it will start to...
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Merkel and Schwarzenegger open CeBIT trade fair
Hanover, Germany - Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and California Governor Arnold...
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Gartner Forecasts Sharpest Decline Of PC Sales
According to the research company Gartner, the PC sales will suffer a sharpest decline during the...
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More Rumors Emerge On Microsoft’s Smartphone
Rumors that Microsoft Corporation is planning to release a smartphone have started running...
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Steve Ballmer Announces Windows 7 Beta
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s Chief Executing Officer (CEO), delivered a keynote address on...
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Toyota Announces Losses For This Fiscal Year
For the first time in 70 years, Toyota announced on Monday that it will lose money this...
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The internet in 2020: Mobile, ubiquitous and full of free movies
San Francisco - A survey of internet leaders and analysts has predicted that most people will...
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Endeavour Waved the International Space Station Good-Bye
Space shuttle Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station and began its 2 day trip back...
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Intel and Micron Put 34nm Flash Chips into Production
Intel and its partner Micron Technology announced on Monday
that they’ve begun to mass-produce...
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Total Recall 5: Sony Hit Again By A Battery Recall
Sony announced a new recall of notebook batteries. According
to the Japanese company, the PC...
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Digital Spectre Worries Book Publishers in Frankfurt
Frankfurt - As carpenters put the finishing touches Tuesday to displays at the Frankfurt Book Fair,...
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UK’s ASA Bans Apple iPhone TV Ad As Misleading
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has decided to
ban an Apple iPhone TV ad after...
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Piper Analyst Predicts New Apple iPods in September
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster predicts that next month, Apple will hold a special event to...
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Sony Announces PS3 Downloadable Movies, Virtual Globe
Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Kaz Hirai announced in Tokyo streaming video for both the Japanese...
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Humanity Hits A New Milestone: One Billion PCs In Use
Don’t rush to say that the PC is dead! According to a new
research released by Gartner, the number...
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IDC Report: The Future Is About Online Advertising
We may well
call this the “Internet advertising” era, if we look at IDC’s latest report on...
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Somber Forecast For Toshiba; $1 Billion Losses On HD DVD
We’ve all been wondering since
the February announcement of Toshiba dropping on HD DVD what the...
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Update: In Europe Xbox 360 Arcade Is Cheaper Than Wii
In an unexpected move, Microsoft has slashed the European prices of its Xbox 360 gaming platform....
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Don’t Let Valentine Ruin Your Computer
The Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a warning Tuesday saying that all the romantics across...
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700MHz Auction: Biddings For Block C Stagnate
As the Federal Communication Commission’s
700MHz auction continues, the infamous block “C”...
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Microsoft Announces MSN Mobile Ads
The MSN Mobile service, started in August 2006 as part of
Microsoft’s MSN and Windows Live...
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A New Discovery May Change The Future Of Tech
The IBM researchers published in the Thursday
edition of the journal Optics Express a significant...
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Significant Zune 80 Inventory Coming in the Next 10 Days
Big boys, don’t cry! So, instead
of crying that Zune 80 missed Black Friday, Microsoft prepares...
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In Japan In August Wii Versus PS3: 3 -1
According to the data published by the Japanese research
firm Enterbraain and quoted by Bloomberg,...
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Microsoft Overhauls Anti-Linux Site
Microsoft decided it’s time to abandon the “Get the Facts” site, Redmond’s Web-spearhead against...
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WSJ Report: MTV and RealNetwoks Readying iTunes Rival
Wall Street Journal reports that Viacom-owned MTV and RealNetworks are ready to announce their...
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AT&T to Offer Wireless Music Downloads, iPhone Excluded
After the successful launch of Apple’s iPhone AT&T is readying a new wireless service which...
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In Japan Nintendo's Wii Continues To Crush PS3
Nintendo’s Wii, the little gaming console that could,
marches on triumphantly in Japan,
its...
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Science
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NASA gets budget hike as Obama reviews manned space programme
Washington - NASA officials said Thursday that the Obama administration will increase funding for...
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NASA reschedules shuttle launch for Sunday night
Washington - The US space agency NASA was confident that the repeatedly delayed...
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Study: Ginkgo Biloba No Good To Prevent Alzheimer’s
Ginkgo biloba has been used medicinally for thousands of
years. Today, it is one of the top...
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LeRoy Cain: Endeavour Is Ready
Mission Management Team Chairman LeRoy Cain said Wednesday
that Endeavour, its payload and the...
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Cat. 1 Hurricane Omar Hits The Caribbean Islands
The National Hurricane Center issued a hurricane warning for
the U.S. Virgin Islands, the islands...
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Tropical Storm Kyle Might Become A Hurricane
The National Hurricane Center has announced that, according to
their three-day forecast, Tropical...
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Stormy Weather Coming Up. Two Major Hurricanes Expected In September
The hurricane season is far from being over, and September
is likely to bring at least five more...
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Update 1: NASA Prepares Discovery For Launch
The six men and one woman who will fly space shuttle
Discovery into orbit later today are putting...
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Space Shuttle Discovery Ready to Take Off On Saturday
NASA officials said that countdown clocks at Kennedy Space
Center in Florida began counting down...
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China Launched Weather Satellite Needed For Olympic Forecasts
China announced today the launch of a polar-orbiting weather
satellite, which will be used for a...
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NOAA Forecasts Near Normal Or Above Normal Hurricane Season
NOAA announced today during a news conference that projected
climate conditions point to a near...
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Big Earthquake to Hit California by 2037
A study backed by the U.S. Geological Survey reveals that California will be hit by
a very strong...
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Endeavour Is One Step Closer To The Launch
NASA announced that the rotating service structure has been
rolled away from space shuttle...
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Endeavour’s Crew Arrives At Kennedy Space Center
The astronauts of the STS-123 mission are at NASA's Kennedy Space
Center in Florida for final...
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Are We Heading For A Global Pool Or A Global Sheet Of Ice?
What do we know about global warming? For starters…it’s
warm, which hasn’t been the case in recent...
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Tropical Olga Causes 7 Deaths in Dominican Republic
The Dominican officials announced that the tropical storm
Olga drenched the Caribbean island of...
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Puerto Rican Weather System May Become Storm
The National Hurricane Center announced that a weather system off Puerto Rico on Monday still had...
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Forecast: Seven Atlantic Hurricanes in 2008
Hurricane experts Philip Klotzbach and William Gray, the two Colorado State University...
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NASA Says Atlantis Is Ready For Lift Off
NASA officials announced that the launch team at NASA's Kennedy Space Center
is continuing its...
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U.S. Could Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions to One Half by 2030
According to a recent report made
public by a leading management consulting firm, it seems that...
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UN Experts Warn of Irreversible Climate Changes
United Nations experts have agreed on a 20-page draft report which warns of the effects of climate...
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NOAA Forecasts An Above-Normal 2007 Hurricane Season
U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on
Thursday forecast a 85-per-cent chance of...
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Countdown Launch Begins For Endeavour
On Sunday the countdown clock began ticking backward on
schedule for the launch of US
space...
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NASA Predicts Warmer Summers In Eastern US
According to a NASA study published in the April issue of
Jounral of Climate, global warming may...
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World
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Voting underway in South Africa's fourth democratic poll
Soweto, South Africa - Voting was under way Wednesday in South Africa's fourth general election...
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Reports: Some 80,000 jobs lost in France in February
Paris - The French labour market shed some 80,000 jobs in February, French media reported on...
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US assures world that economic fundamentals are strong
Washington - The United States sought to reassure other countries Friday that its long-term...
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Germany Engulfed By Gloomy Economic Winter
Berlin - Germany is caught in the midst of a gloomy economic winter with the government attempting...
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German Unemployment Jumps As Economic Downturn Gains Ground
Berlin - German unemployment rose for the first time in nearly three years in December, data...
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Inflation Plunge Adds To Rate Cut Pressure
Berlin - European inflation plunged to its lowest level in more than two years in December, data...
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Russia Pursues Ambitious Goals Despite Financial Crisis
Moscow - Russia set out its development goals until 2012 this year, but the four-year budget plan...
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US In Year-Long Recession, Top Economic Arbiter Declares
Washington - The United States has been in a recession since December 2007, the country's official...
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Economic Crisis May Prompt Faster Action By China
Beijing - China is already the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, according to some...
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German Business Confidence Plunges To Near 16-Year Low
Berlin - German business confidence plunged to near a 16-year low in November, a key survey...
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Berlin Feels Pinch As Germany Sinks Into Recession
Berlin - The German Government said Friday it had been forced to substantially boost borrowings to...
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Finland's Officials Plan To Stimulate The Construction Sector
Helsinki - The Finnish government announced today the preparation of an budget analysis which is...
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Leaders meet as economic woes pile up
Washington - The world's 20 leading economies are holding an historic summit in Washington Saturday...
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G20 leaders open critical financial summit
Washington - The world's 20 top economies launched on Saturday an historic summit aimed at...
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Slovakia Leads Eastern Growth As Europe Falters
Vienna - Slovakia outpaced other Central European economies in the third quarter, posting solid...
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Historic G20 Summit Hopes To Head Off Global Recession
Washington/Berlin - The leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies will hold an historic meeting...
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Caribbean spawns hurricane heading toward Caymans, Cuba
Miami, Florida - Tropical Storm Paloma strengthened into a hurricane in the Caribbean Sea as it...
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Death Toll above 230 in Pakistan Earthquake
Islamabad - The official death toll from the devastating earthquake that hit south-western Pakistan...
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OPEC Cuts Output by 1.5 Million Barrels Per Day
Vienna - Oil ministers from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) decided...
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Euro Hits Three-Year Low as Economic Gloom Deepens
Frankfurt - The euro plunged to a three-year low Friday, slipping below 1.25 dollars, amid...
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Central Bank: Estonia in Recession until 2010
Tallinn - The Estonian economy is expected to remain in recession until 2010 according to a...
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Hurricane Omar Strengthens before Hitting Leeward Islands
Miami, Florida - Hurricane Omar swept across the northern Leeward Islands after strengthening to a...
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Budget Minister: France Is in Recession
Paris - Budget Minister Eric Woerth announced Friday that France has slid
into technical recession...
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US State of Maine Issues Hurricane Watch Following Kyle Strengthening
A hurricane watch has been issued for the US state of Maine and the Canadian province of New...
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Hong Kong Braces for Typhoon Hagupit
Hong Kong cancelled dozens of flights and ferry services on
Tuesday ahead of Typhoon Hagupit after...
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Livni Wins Israeli Leadership Race, Aims at Coalition
Tel Aviv - Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni won a narrow victory Thursday in the leadership primary of...
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Forecasters Issued Ominous Warnings ahead of Hurricane Ike
National Weather Service (NWS) issued ominous and unusually
blunt warnings about the storm surge...
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Ike lashes Cuba, kills four after devastating Haiti
Havana/Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Hurricane Ike returned to Cuban territory Tuesday and was battering...
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Tropical storm Hanna floods Haitian city, 19 dead
Mexico City - After being battered by Hurricane Gustav the Caribbean is now being hit by tropical...
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Four Hurricanes Were Announced for September
This September
may come with four hurricanes, including two that will become major
storms,...
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