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Dams threaten to burst in China
Jun. 7 - Dangerously swollen 'quake lakes', caused by earthquake-triggered landslides, are being...
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Amateur footage of Qantas drama
Jul 25 - Footage captured on a mobile phone shows the moment when a Qantas plane was forced to...
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Emergency landing for Qantas plane
Jul 25 - A Qantas flight destined for Melbourne makes an emergency landing in Manila after losing...
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U.S approve housing rescue bill
Jul 27 - The U.S Senate votes in a 300 billion dollar emergency funding bill to assist mortgage...
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Raw Video: Emergency Landing at LAX
Passengers were evacuated by inflatable chutes Tuesday after a
Honolulu-bound airliner made an...
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911 Caller Dies, Ambulance Sent to Wrong Address
Doctors in Fulton County, Georgia say the local 911 call center
makes too make mistakes. Officials...
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McCain urges UN: Act on Russia
U.S. presidential candidate John McCain criticized Russia's military activity in Georgia, urging...
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Nato holds Georgia crisis summit
Nato foreign ministers hold emergency talks in Brussels on how the alliance should respond to...
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Fay pounds Florida for 3rd day
US President George W. Bush declared a storm emergency in Florida, authorizing federal disaster...
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Aid Workers Among Dead in Guatemala Crash
A small plane that broke apart in Guatemala as the pilot attempted an
emergency landing, killing...
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New Orleans Makes Evacuation Plan As Storm Nears
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is declaring a state of emergency and
activating the National Guard in...
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Fallout from Georgia conflict widens
Diplomatic ties, and sanction and retaliation threats take centre stage in the aftershocks of the...
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Government supporters hold rally
Supporters of the Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej rally outside parliament.
Thailand's...
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Bush warns of dangerous storm
President George W. Bush said he will travel to Texas on Monday to visit an operations center...
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Euro summit condemns Moscow
Georgian hopes for European action against Russia are dashed, despite a strongly worded...
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Thai PM Declares Emergency in Capital
Thailand's prime minister has declared a state of emergency in the
capital after street fighting...
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Gustav's aftermath
Even with Hurricane Gustav downgraded to a tropical depression, emergency crews continue to clean...
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Thai Protesters Remain Defiant, Vow to Fight On
Thailand's embattled leader struggled to keep the peace and his grip on
power after declaring a...
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Bush visits Louisiana after Gustav
Visiting an Emergency Operations Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, President Bush commended...
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Returning Storm Evacuees Face Hurricane Ike
As thousands of previous storm evacuees return home, emergency
officials across the the Gulf Coast...
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Thai state of emergency ends
Acting Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat says he recognizes that political tensions remain but...
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Extent of Ike's Devastation Becoming Clearer
Rescuers flew into a hard-to-reach area of the swamped Gulf Coast
Monday and uncovered a...
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Bolivian opposition leader arrested
Bolivian troops arrest opposition governor of restive northern province. President Evo Morales...
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Bolivians agree to talks
Bolivian President Evo Morales and governors who led a violent rebellion against his socialist...
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Kennedy in hospital after seizure
Ailing U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy was taken to a Cape Cod hospital on Friday after police received...
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Floods soak southeastern Mexico
Mexican authorities have extended a state of emergency in Tabasco as the hard-hit region reels...
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Submerged village in Haiti
French Aid group Doctors Without Borders finds the northern Haitian village of Mamont under water...
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Plane flight terror
Engine fire forces plane to make emergency landing in Belgrade.
The plane carrying 169 people...
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Yemen devastated by floods
Refugees airlifted to safety as Yemen floods leave around 100 dead or missing and thousands...
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100 missing after Yemen floods
Approximately 7,000 people are homeless after severe flooding caused by torrential rain affected...
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Aid arrives as Congo crisis deepens
Rwanda's President has blasted the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
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Jet makes emergency landing
A plane has made an emergency landing in Rome after hitting a flock of birds mid-flight.
The...
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Money scams snare Colombians
Bogota declares a state of emergency to deal with the fallout from the collapse of pyramid...
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Brazil reels from flood damage
President Lula flies over flooded area in southern Brazil where 100 have died and some 54,000 are...
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Stranded Passengers With Few Options in Thailand
A state of emergency is now in place in Thailand, after four days
of protests that have shutdown...
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EU assesses gas row impact
The European Commission says that its gas supplies are enough for now, but is calling an...
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U.N. assesses Gaza damage
U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes visits Gaza.
Holmes toured areas of...
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BBC resists pressure over Gaza
The BBC has come under mounting pressure to screen a humanitarian appeal for victims of the war...
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Rare drought hits China
China's authorities and farmers rush to irrigate in rare drought.
China has declared an...
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Plane crash-lands in London
A British Airways passenger plane crash-lands at London's City airport, injuring two of the 72...
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Nine die in Netherlands plane crash
Emergency crews sift through the wreckage of a Turkish Airlines plane which crashed near...
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Australia on fire alert
The fire-ravaged southern Australian state of Victoria has been placed on high fire...
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Deadly Peru mudslide
Two people die and at least 10 more are missing after torrential rainfall across Peru caused a...
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Building Collapses in Lower Manhattan
The New York City Fire Department confirmed the fact that a building in lower Manhattan has...
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17-Year-Olds Now Have Access to Emergency Contraception
Seventeen-year-olds will have access to emergency contraception without a prescription, the US Food...
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Three rescued from crippled yacht in Pacific
Wellington (dpa) - Two men and one woman on a crippled yacht that ran out of fuel between...
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Severe Hypoglycemia in Older Diabetics Tied to Dementia
Type 2 diabetics who suffer hypoglycemia crises serious enough to need emergency care may be at...
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Conficker Worm: Huge Threat? April Fools Joke?
Everyone hopes that April 1 won’t actually be Zero Day for the Conficker worm, but if...
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However Cute, Pets Still Can Hurt Their Owners
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that many Americans,...
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Pets in United States becoming victims of economic crisis
Washington - The US economic crisis is affecting not only Americans, but is having an increasingly...
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FDA Ordered To Reconsider Restrictions on the Morning-After Pill
No matter she’s over 18 or not, every girl in the US should have access to the morning-after...
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Air Traffic Controller Recalls Hudson River Landing
Since veteran pilot Capt. Chesley Sullenberger successfully landed Flight 1549 in the Hudson River...
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Adobe PDF Security Flaw Exploited by Hackers
Adobe warned all users to watch out when working with PDF files. The warning came after the...
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University of Pennsylvania on High Alert Over Meningitis Cases
University of Pennsylvania students are on high alert following three cases of meningococcal...
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FCC Targets TV Stations Going Through With Digital TV Switch
The owners of over 100 television stations that had planned to go ahead with the switch to digital...
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Hudson River Hero Pilot Offers First TV Story of Plane Crash
“I was sure I could do it.”
This is what Captain Chesley “Sully”...
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Transcripts and Black Boxes Recovered from the 1549 Flight
The Federal Aviation Administration has released today transcripts and audio segments showing...
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Flight 1549 Pilot Notified Controllers He Was Heading for the River
Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration released audio recordings from United States...
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Hero Pilot Talks About Landing in the Hudson River
Hero pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the captain of an airliner that made an...
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NTSB Opens 4-Day Hearing On Medical Helicopter Crashes
The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday began a four-day hearing in Washington ...
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Casey Anthony Murder Trial Might Get Pushed Back
The March murder trial date for Casey Anthony, who is accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter,...
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Firefighters Confine Fire at Mount Sinai Hospital
A fire ignited Wednesday night at Mount Sinai Hospital on the Upper East Side resulting in six...
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Vicks VapoRub Might Harm Your Child!
No kid under the age of four should be given the controversial cough and cold medicines, the...
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Tom Cruise: It’s “Horrific” that Travoltas Lost Jett
As the private memorial service has been held in Florida for John Travolta’s 16-year-old son...
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No More Funds for the Converter Box Coupons
It appears that the U.S. Congress underestimated the amount of funding needed for the TV Converter...
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John Travolta Did CPR to His Son, but in Vain
Actor John Travolta reportedly did everything he could to save his 16-year-old son’s life,...
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Fourteen People Injured During Hanukkah Celebration
Thursday, the police informed that a car had crashed into a building where Orthodox Jewish families...
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Hazardous Drug Combos Put The Elderly At Risk
Four out of five U.S. seniors regularly take at least one prescription drug and more than 50...
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‘Right of Conscience’ Rule Passed. What’s Next?
The Bush administration passed on Thursday the “conscience protection” rule,...
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The Holidays Are Perfect When Your Kid Is Safe: Buy The Right Toys!
Christmas time is a very special moment of the year for everybody, especially for kids....
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Woman Sued For Trying To Save Her Friend
Lisa Torti is an interior designer in Las Vegas and she is now living some pretty incredible times....
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Calif. Supreme Court Allows Good Samaritans To Be Sued
The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a woman who pulled her friend out of a car after...
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U.S.
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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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Stress tests to show banks need cash; investors feared worse
Washington - Some of the United States' largest banks will be forced to raise...
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New York finds more probable cases, more schools closed
New York - Authorities confirmed Thursday a total of 49 swine flu cases in New York City and...
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US braces for worse from swine flu
Washington - The United States braced for worse from the swine flu outbreak Tuesday as officials...
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Sebelius confirmed as US health secretary amid swine-flu scare
Washington - Kathleen Sebelius was approved by the US Senate as health secretary Tuesday,...
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Schwarzenegger proclaims state of emergency; one possible flu death
Sacramento - California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday declared a state of emergency to...
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US could take majority stake in GM in new survival bid
Washington - The US government could take a majority stake in General Motors Corp as part of a...
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ROUNDUP: Three dead in California hospital shooting
Los Angeles - A hospital worker killed his boss and another manager at the Long Beach Memorial...
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Clinton sends New Year message to Bangladeshis worldwide
Dhaka - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday sent Bangladeshis living across the world a...
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Tornado rips through US town killing 3; fires cause havoc in Texas
New York - A deadly tornado ripped through the quiet Arkansas town of Mena killing three...
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US sending emergency relief money to Italy after earthquake
Washington - The United States will make emergency relief funds available to Italy as the...
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Red River waters still high in US, and blizzard danger lies ahead
Washington - North Dakota breathed a slight sigh of relief Sunday as the ice-laden Red River...
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Obama launches media blitz ahead of G20, at home and abroad
Washington - US President Barack Obama took his economic prescriptions to a global and domestic...
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US seeks powers to take over non-financial firms in wake of AIG
Washington - US authorities need broad new emergency powers to take over non-financial firms whose...
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Overloading suspected in Montana air crash that killed 14
Washington - Investigators suspect that overloading might have caused the crash of a small...
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Mt Redoubt volcano erupts in Alaska
San Francisco - The Mt Redoubt volcano in Alaska erupted for the first time since 1989...
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Obama unveils measures for small businesses at "heart" of economy
Washington - US President Barack Obama laid out a new effort Monday to help small businesses...
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US accuses China of harassing naval vessel
Washington - Five Chinese ships shadowed and manoeuvred dangerously close to a US naval vessel...
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Girl Found Dead at Fort Lewis Barracks
Two girls were found irresponsive in an Army barracks at Fort Lewis near Tacoma, Washington. One of...
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California Budget Crisis May Lead to 20,000 Layoffs
The $42 billion deficit California is facing may leave officials with no other alternative than to...
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Chemical Exposure Scare Shuts Down San Jose Medical Center
Authorities announced that some parts of Santa Clara Valley Medical Center from San Jose were...
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Lone Grove, Oklahoma, In Shock after Tornado Kills 9
The small Oklahoma town of Lone Grove is in shock after a powerful tornado storm hit the region on...
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Central Oklahoma Hit by Severe Storm, More Tornadoes Expected
Several powerful storms hit central Oklahoma on Tuesday uprooting trees, demolishing homes and...
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Hospital Fire Forces 600 Patients To Move
Six firefighters were injured and 600 patients had to be moved across a major hospital in New York...
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Black Boxes of Flight 1549 Confirmed What Hero Pilot Said
The so-called black boxes recovered from the US Airways jetliner which emergency-landed in New...
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Seven States Sue over Bush Anti-Abortion Rule
Thursday, seven states sued the federal government over a rule that further expands...
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Black Boxes of Flight 1549 Recovered
Authorities said the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data...
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Pilot Makes Emergency Landing in Hudson River, All 155 Passengers Survive
The pilot of a US Airways jetliner became a hero for managing to carry out an emergency landing...
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Pilot Who Tried to Fake Own Death Faces Criminal Charges
The Indiana businessman who tried to fake his own death in order to avoid financial and legal...
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Obama Picks Basketball Buddy to Head the FCC
President-elect Barack Obama has reportedly picked Julius Genachowski to be the new chief of the...
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Music
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Grammy Winners
The 51st edition of the Grammy Awards from Sunday was broadcast live on CBS from the Staples Center...
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The Grammy’s Great Winners
The 51st edition of the Grammy Awards from Sunday was broadcast live on CBS from the Staples...
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The Grammys – Winners and Outfits
The 2009 Grammys Awards were marked by an overstock of quirky collaboration, tearful acceptance...
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Usher Ditches Grammy Performance Due To Wife’s Illness
This year’s Grammy Awards were neglected not only by Chris Brown and Rihanna, who cancelled...
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Chris Brown Arrested For Assault, Still Under Investigation
Even though both Chris Brown and his girlfriend Rihanna pulled out of their Emmy Awards performance...
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Britney Spears' Youngest Son, Jayden, Hospitalized After Seizure
What should have been a fun family homecoming turned into a medical scare for Britney Spears as her...
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Amy Winehouse Hospitalized For Lung And Chest Problems Again
British songbird Amy Winehouse, whose health has been raising concerns for a long time, was...
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Dr. Dre's Family Devastated By 20-Year-Old Son's Death
The son of Hip Hop legend Dr. Dre, Andre Jr., was found dead over the weekend in circumstances yet...
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Lollapalooza Starts Today, Tickets Sold Out
Tickets for day one at the festival in Grant Park have sold
out, Lollapalooza spokeswoman Shelby...
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Jacob the Jeweler’s Company Sues Wyclef Jean for $300,000
The company founded and owned by the disgraced businessman popularly
known as Jacob the Jeweler is...
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Amy Winehouse Leaves Hospital After Spending Night There
Twelve hours after she was admitted to a London hospital for
an adverse reaction to medication,...
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Mindy McCready Suffers Nervous Breakdown, Enters Rehab
Country singer Mindy McCready has reportedly entered rehab
after visiting an emergency room in...
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Wyclef Jean Helps Haiti Through New Initiative
Haitian-born musician Wyclef Jean has launched an initiative
named “Together for Haiti,”
which...
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R. Kelly’s Child-Porn Trial Finally Begins
After nearly six years of countless delays, and although his attorneys threw a last-minute motion...
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Toni Braxton to Undergo Additional Medical Tests
R&B singer Toni Braxton has cancelled Las Vegas shows
for the rest of April as she undergoes...
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Foxy's Tearjerking Petition Does Not Get Her Out of Jail
Foxy Brown was denied early release from prison in order to travel to California for an alleged...
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Britney Flees From Emergency Court Hearing
The troubled singer and mother-of-two arrived in court on Wednesday for an emergency hearing which...
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Update: Britney Spears’ Visitation Rights Suspended Indefinitely
Contrary to most expectations, Britney Spears did eventually show up in court for the second half...
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Britney Spears A No Show For Custody Hearing?
While Britney Spears is still nowhere near L.A. Superior Court for another hearing in the ongoing...
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Report: K Fed Feared For His Children’s Lives
According to the various media reports, the ex-husband of
the troubled pop star Britney Spears has...
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Britney Spears Released From The Hospital
According to the media reports, the troubled pop diva
Britney Spears was released from the...
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Britney Spears May Run But She Can’t Hide
Britney Spears better get ready for that deposition she failed to show up for just several days...
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Britney’s ‘Blackout’ Drops This Month
All Britney’s fans will be able celebrate Halloween listening to her new album which hits the...
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Technology
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Beware of spam touting Windows updates
Windows PC owners are advised to trash any e-mail messages claiming to provide a fix for flaws in...
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The Digital TV Switch Is Timidly Taking Place
The Federal Communications Commission announced over the weekend that the original list of 368...
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Conficker Worm Infecting Millions of Systems
During recent weeks, a worm has been affecting corporate, educational and public computer networks...
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Worm Infects 9 Million PCs So Far
Disturbing as it sounds, experts have just announced that a malicious worm which exploits a...
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People Not Ready for Digital TV
There are a few weeks left before broadcasters are scheduled to replace analog television...
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Could You Imagine Apple Without Steve Jobs?
The announcement made by Steve Jobs that he is leaving the company until June due to medical...
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On Microsoft’s Critical Internet Explorer Patch
You are probably aware of the fact Microsoft issued an out-of-band emergency patch Wednesday for a...
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Microsoft Released an Emergency Patch for Explorer
In order to fix a new security flaw discovered in Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the company...
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Microsoft To Release Emergency Critical Internet Explorer Patch
Wednesday Microsoft is releasing an out-of-cycle emergency
security patch for all versions of...
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Unaddressed Flaw in Internet Explorer Seriously Exposes Browser
As of the time of writing of this article, users of the
ubiquitous Internet Explorer browser made...
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Key2SafeDriving Disables Teens’ Phones While Driving
Researchers at the University of Utah invented a new type of automobile ignition key which blocks...
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Microsoft Warns Windows Users Once Again
Microsoft has just warned its users of a malicious Internet worm after detecting a wave of attacks...
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Enhanced iPhone Experience With The Latest Upgrade
Apple has released a software upgrade for the iPhone 3G and iPod Touch that adds new features and...
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Google Releases Its Newest Service: Google Flu Trends
Google Inc. announced the release of a new tool, which will
provide information about potential...
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FCC Voted Unanimously to Open Up White Spaces Spectrum
Tuesday,
November 4, while American citizens were electing their next president, the
Federal...
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White Spaces: As Dolly Parton Asks For Time, Mundie Lobbies For Action
Just days before the Federal Communications Commission
members are scheduled to cast their vote on...
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Update: Microsoft Issues Security Patch For Server Service Bug
This week, Microsoft was forced to issue an emergency patch,
even though as we all know, this is...
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Microsoft Releases Emergency Patch for Windows Computers
San Francisco - Microsoft issued a rare emergency patch on Thursday to fix a critical bug in its...
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Broadcasters, Tech Companies React To FCC’s White Spaces Report
Immediately after the Federal Communications Commission released a report on a second round of...
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Update: Apple Refutes Report Of Steve Jobs Heart Attack
The health of the Apple boss, Steve Jobs, is again in the
spotlight after a report that he was...
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Update: Federal Regulators Issue Emergency Cell Phone Ban
After it was discovered that train engineer Robert Sanchez, who was
driving a Metrolink train that...
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China Re-Invents Tom-Skype’s Privacy Policy
During the Olympic Games in Beijing, 2008, journalists faced countless problems transmitting...
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Americans Overwhelmed House Website On Bill Rejection Day
Americans showed an incredible interest in the Emergency
Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which...
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FCC Expected To Respond As Google Pushes For White Spaces
It seems that Google's initiative to push for the general use of the “white spaces” did have an...
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Hospital Fires Two Employees Guilty Of Posting Patient Pictures On MySpace
Two University of New Mexico Hospital workers have been
fired, after being found guilty of taking...
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Government Employee Struck By Curiosity
“Idle curiosity” was the end of Lawrence C. Yontz’s 20-year
career in the government. A former...
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Update1: Mozilla’s Upcoming Firefox 3.1 To Offer Privacy Mode As Well
Privacy seems to be the magic word in the browsers world these days. Surfing without leaving any...
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New York’s 911 System Now Takes Photos & Videos
While 911 numbers across the country already take text
messages, New York City’s
911 hotlines,...
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Apple To Fix “Minor” iPhone Security Flaw In September Patch
Apple is working on fixing yet another iPhone problem, this
time regarding a security fault that...
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iPhone Suffers From Major Security Bug
A user on a MacRumors message forum let everyone know that
anyone can trick the iPhone passcode...
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Business
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CEO says AIG needs no more bail-outs, for now
Washington - American International Group Inc (AIG), the troubled global insurance giant that...
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Chrysler to declare bankruptcy as last-minute talks fail
Washington - The long ailing US carmaker Chrysler LLC was to enter bankruptcy protection Thursday...
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Report: Chrysler and creditors reach last-minute deal
Washington - Chrysler LLC reportedly reached a deal Tuesday with its creditors to write off...
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Fiat could drop Chrysler deal and just buy assets
Washington- With the clock running out on an April 30 Washington deadline, Fiat's head said...
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Signs that US may be headed slowly toward recovery
Washington - More than a year into one of the longest and deepest US recessions in living memory,...
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Aerospace, oil shares down, banks up in mixed day on Wall Street
New York - A banking rally helped US stocks make limited gains after mixed trading Monday, which...
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US Treasury agrees on fresh support for auto suppliers
Washington - The US Treasury Department on Wednesday launched a new programme to aid US car...
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More jobs to go at Britain's troubled Royal Bank of Scotland
London - Britain's troubled Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Tuesday announced 9,000 job losses in...
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Ford cuts debt 38 per cent
New York - Ford Motor Company said Monday it had trimmed its debts by 38 per cent in a massive...
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General Motors CEO: Bankruptcy still an option
Washington - General Motors Corp is keeping open the option of bankruptcy in order to restructure...
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Report: Fiat to increase Chrysler holdings to 20 per cent
New York - Italian carmaker Fiat Motor SA is expected to increase its holdings in nearly bankrupt...
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Chrysler and Fiat reach merger deal
Washington - Struggling US carmaker Chrysler LLC and Italian maker Fiat Motor SA said Monday they...
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Fritz Henderson confirmed as new General Motors chief
Detroit - Troubled US auto giant General Motors on Monday confirmed that its president and chief...
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US demands new chief for GM, Chrysler-Fiat marriage
Washington - The US is carrying out a major family shake-up in the...
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US seeks dramatic expansion of financial regulatory powers
Washington - President Barack Obama's administration, in a massive overhaul of the US financial...
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EU leaders cautious over boosting bail-out funds
Brussels - European Union leaders were set to keep a cautious stance Friday on the question of...
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US legislators: IMF needs more money to keep nations from failing
Washington - The International Monetary Fund must be given more resources to rescue poorer nations...
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Key labour union signs off on new deal with Ford
Washington - A top labour union on Monday approved changes in its contract with Ford Motor Co that...
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GM's auditors: "Substantial doubt" that carmaker can survive
Washington - General Motors Corp's auditors said there was "substantial doubt" that the...
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UnitedHealth Agrees To Update Its Database
Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group Inc. on Tuesday agreed to pay $50 million to establish a new...
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Chrysler receives first 4 billion-dollar loan
Washington - US car maker Chrysler confirmed Saturday that it received an initial infusion of...
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US Treasury to buy stake in GMAC; GM gets additional loan
The Treasury will buy a 5-billion-dollar stake in GMAC and also lend GM an additional...
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Infinity Storage Media Releases The First Hybrid Disc
Infinity Storage Media announced the release of its hybrid disc which presents both Blu-ray and DVD...
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Microsoft Takes Care Of Its Clients
Microsoft had a very busy week, as the company managed to complete and release the patch needed to...
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Microsoft Rolls Out Emergency Patch
Microsoft released yesterday an emergency patch for an Internet Explorer vulnerability, which was...
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Automotive Industry Bailout Bill Fails – Future Uncertain
U.S. index futures dropped dramatically on Friday after the failure of
the Senate to pass a bill...
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Obama urges car industry bail-out as Republicans balk
Washington - US president-elect Barack Obama Thursday called on Congress to prevent a collapse of...
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Apple Releases Its Highly Anticipated Software Upgrade
Apple released a software upgrade for its iPhone 3G and iPod
Touch, bringing new features to the...
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Congress to automakers: "Show us a plan"
Washington - Congressional leaders on Thursday charged the three ailing US automakers to present a...
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FCC's White Space Ruling Is Just One Day Away
The Federal Communications Commission is expected to reach a conclusion tomorrow on the highly...
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Health
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Asia's first swine-flu case confirmed in Hong Kong
Hong Kong - Asia's first case of swine flu has been confirmed in Hong Kong,...
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European pharma industry holds flu talks in Brussels
Brussels - Representatives of the European pharmaceutical industry Wednesday discussed their...
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Most Americans Living in Areas with High Levels of Pollution
According to the American Lung Association’s State of Air 2009 report released on Wednesday,...
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Swine Flu Outbreak - A Cause for "Concern," Obama Says
President Barack Obama said he was closely watching an outbreak of swine flu in the United States,...
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Flu Death Toll in Mexico on the Rise
The number of dead in Mexico's flu epidemic rose to 103, Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova...
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FDA Makes Plan B Available for 17-Year-Olds without Prescription
The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday said it will allow 17-year-olds to get the...
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Severe Hypoglycemia May Increase Risk for Dementia in Diabetes Patients
Older people suffering from diabetes are more likely to be diagnosed with dementia when they...
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Poisonous flowers make yards dangerous for children
Hamburg - Parents should be careful about what they plant in their garden as flowers such as...
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PEPFAR Program Decreased AIDS-Related Deaths in Africa
According to a study published online Monday in The Annals of Internal Medicine, the...
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Judge Orders FDA to Make Plan B Accessible to Teenagers Younger than 17
A federal judge has asked the Food and Drug Administration to reconsider its decision to restrict...
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Three out of Four Emergency Response Recruits Is either Overweight or Obese
A study by researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Harvard...
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Diarrhoea kills two million children a year, disease on the rise
Geneva - Diarrheal diseases, responsible for about 20 per cent of child deaths worldwide, are on...
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Study Links Head Aches to Weather
A recent study showed that there is a strong link between the warming of the weather and head...
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Lack of Sunshine Vitamin May Trigger Colds
Lack of sunshine vitamin may trigger colds, according to a study published this week in the...
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Community Mourns Uxbridge Superintendent
An entire community is saddened by the sudden death of Uxbridge School Superintendent Daniel...
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Bacterial Meningitis Kills Second Soldiers at Missouri Base
Bacterial meningitis made a second victim among soldiers stationed at the Army’s Fort...
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Zimbabwe’s Health Issues Worsen
A deadly cholera outbreak has started to worsen the health problems of Zimbabwe. Despite the fact...
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Meningitis Strikes the University of Pennsylvania: Three Students Hospitalized
Three University of Pennsylvania students have been hospitalized with meningitis, school officials...
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University of Chicago Medical Center to Cut 450 Jobs
The University of Chicago Medical Center said Monday it will eliminate the jobs of 450 employees,...
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The Safety of Commercial Meals Kits Distributed by FEMA Questioned over Salmonella Fears
According to recent reports, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is shipping 660,000...
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HIV/AIDS Still a Threat, especially among African Americans
Nowadays HIV/AIDS continues to be a threat to men, women and children to all communities as many...
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Air-ambulance Pilot – A Dangerous Job
According to experts on this kind of problems, air-ambulance helicopters have the worst fatal crash...
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RSV Infections More Common Than Previously Known
Respiratory syncytial virus or RSV appears to be responsible for as many visits to doctors each...
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California Hospitals’ Death Rates Vary Widely
According to a recent study that looked at mortality rates for California hospitals between 2006...
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Woman Attacked by Jaguar Is In Critical Condition
According to authorities in Frederick County, a zookeeper is hospitalized in critical condition...
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Seven States Sue Federal Government over Abortion Rule
California and six other states sued the federal government Thursday over the “conscience...
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Seven States Sue Over Bush Anti-Abortion Rule
Thursday, seven states sued the federal government over a rule that further expands...
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Helicopter Forced to Land after Hitting Bird
An Helicopter from Baptist Hospital in Little Rock was forced to make a “safe landing”...
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HIV’s Threat Has Not Come to an End Yet
When President Bush announced in 2003 his five-year, $15 billion plan to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS...
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Lawsuits Filed Over Abortion Rule
Seven states and two abortion rights groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the U.S....
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World
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No EU travel ban to Mexico, diplomats say
Luxembourg - The European Union is not going to ban travel to Mexico because of the outbreak...
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At swine flu epicentre, death toll climbs amid world alert
As the death toll climbed to 152 in Mexico, countries around the world took steps to warn the...
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WHO: China Investigates Several Suspicious Flu Cases
China is investigating several suspicious cases involving influenza-like symptoms but has not...
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Schwarzenegger: California prepared for swine flu outbreak
Los Angeles - Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said Monday that California was fully prepared to deal...
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45 suspected and confirmed swine flu cases in New York City
New York - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday that 28 cases of swine flu have been...
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Ban says UN on top of the battle against swine flu
New York - The United Nations has taken steps to lead the fight against the sudden outbreak...
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India sounds alert over swine-flu outbreak
New Delhi - Indian health authorities sounded an alert after an outbreak of a...
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EU calls emergency talks as Spain confirms swine flu case
Luxembourg/Brussels - The European Union called an emergency meeting of health ministers and...
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UN Security Council to act on North Korea missile launch
New York - Held back from stronger steps by China and Russia, the United Nations Security...
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Thai army moves in, clashes with anti-government protestors
Bangkok - Thai soldiers fired at protestors driving buses at them and used tear...
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Italy earthquake toll reaches 279
Rome - By midday Thursday the death toll from Monday's earthquake in central Italy stood at 279 and...
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Thai police say plot to assassinate royal advisor uncovered
Bangkok - Thai police have arrested three men who they claim were plotting to...
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Italian earthquake toll at 235 amid deadly aftershock
L'Aquila, Italy - The death toll from the earthquake that struck central Italy climbed overnight to...
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Italian earthquake toll at 211 after students found dead
L'Aquila, Italy - The bodies of four students located Tuesday under rubble brought to 211 the death...
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Italian earthquake death toll now at 207
Rome - By midday Tuesday the death toll from an earthquake that struck central Italy early the...
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British royals "furious" about bonfire in Windsor Castle grounds
London - Britain's Prince Philip was Tuesday reported to be furious with forestry workers at...
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China seeks restraint, Japan a resolution on North Korea
Beijing/Tokyo - China called Monday for restraint after North Korea's rocket...
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Central Italy reels as quake claims at least 50 dead
Rome - At least 50 people were confirmed dead - amid fears of that number rising - after a cental...
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Central Italy reels as quake claims at least 27 dead
Rome - At least 27 people were reported dead - amid fears of that number rising considerably...
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At least 20 dead as quake rocks central Italy
Rome - At least 20 people - five of them children - were killed Monday when a...
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North Korea launches rocket, draws international ire
Seoul/Tokyo/Washington - North Korea launched a rocket early Sunday and claimed to have put a...
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Brown comes out smiling from "crunch summit"
London- Under the unwritten rules of summit politics, everyone is a winner and failure is not an...
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Home of former British banking boss targeted by vandals
London - The private home of a top British banker at the centre of a heated row over lavish...
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Octuplets Mom Received Disability Payments
Nadya Suleman, the woman who gave birth to octuplets last month, was apparently injured in...
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Ukraine Capital Short On Gas, Kievites Battle The Cold
Kiev - City managers in the Ukrainian capital Kiev on Tuesday began energy conservation measures...
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US Calls For Durable, Sustainable Ceasefire
New York - The United States pitched a plan on Tuesday for a comprehensive solution to end the...
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UN Security Council Debates Israel-Hamas Conflict
New York - The UN Security Council late Tuesday held an emergency session with envoys from 25...
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Car Industry Running On Empty At Detroit Auto Show
Washington - Detroit's annual auto show is usually a glitzy affair and time of celebration for the...
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Beijing Woman Dies Of Bird Flu
A Chinese woman has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Beijing, the World Health Organisation...
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Can Anyone Win The Russia-Ukraine Gas War?
Brussels - "A strange game: the only way to win is not to play."
The quote comes...
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Science
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Colors Enhance Brain Performance: Red for Details, Blue For Creativity
Colors can improve brain performance, but which one is most effective? Scientists at the...
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Conjoined Twin Dies After Separation
The twins, Hope and Faith Williams, who were separated at
Great Ormond Street Hospital in London,...
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NASA to rely on Russia for only ride into space
Star City, Russia - Astronaut Garrett Reisman uttered a first word in heavily-accented Russian and...
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Earthquake Drill In Southern California
Except for being prone to real earthquakes repeatedly every year, Southern Californians are now...
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Small Asteroid Disintegrates In Fiery Display Over Africa
A relatively small asteroid entered Earth’s atmosphere last
night above Sudan. Just as predicted,...
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NASA Postpones Hubble Mission To October 14
Due to the closure of the NASA's Johnson
Space Center
in Houston, as
a result of Hurricane Ike,...
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Rescue Shuttle Endeavour Moved To Launch Pad
For the first time since 2001, both of NASA’s launch pads are
occupied. One of them will be the...
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NASA's Johnson Space Center Recovering From Hurricane Ike
NASA’s Johnson Space Center managed to hold strong during its encounter with Hurricane Ike. The...
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Atlantis Arrives At Launch Pad For Final Hubble Mission
NASA finally got to move space shuttle Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A, after...
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NASA Delays Rollout for Atlantis Shuttle
After Atlantis’ move to launch pad 39A was held up 4 days
due to Tropical Storm Fay and then...
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Gustav gains strength on way to Jamaica
Miami/Kingston/Havana - Tropical Storm Gustav gained strength Thursday with sustained winds of 110...
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NASA Blows Up ATK Experimental Rocket Gone Astray
NASA was forced to remotely detonate an experimental rocket made by its long-time partner Alliant...
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NASA Reveals Plans to Reduce Ares 1 Rocket Vibrations
Engineers at NASA's Marshall
Space Flight
Center in Huntsville, Alabama
announced they made some...
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NASA Reopens Spacesuit Competition after Complaint
NASA has decided to reopen the bidding for the $184 million contract aimed at developing and...
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Navy Agrees To Low-Frequency Sonar Restrictions For Mammals’ Sake
The U.S. District Court in San Francisco approved on Tuesday
an agreement between the U.S. Navy...
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Update 1: NASA Pushes Back Space Shuttle Successor To 2014
Due to NASA's allegedly tight budget, the Agency has announced that Orion, the spacecraft designed...
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ISS Astronauts Perform Second Spacewalk In Less Than A Week
The second spacewalk in less than a week for International
Space Station Commander Sergei Volkov...
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NOAA Initiates Hurricane Preparedness Week
As hurricane season is about to
set in, NOAA has declared this week the Hurricane Preparedness...
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NOAA: Above Normal Hurricane Season Ready To Set In
The upcoming hurricane season in
the Atlantic Basin will be above normal this year, and residents...
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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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NASA Delays Hubble Mission For Early October
NASA officials announced today that the upcoming mission for
repairing the Hubble telescope would...
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NASA Releases Largest Collection of Hubble Images
In celebration of the 18th anniversary of Hubble’s launch, NASA
released a series of 59 new images...
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Gecko's Tail Expertise - The Most Advanced Technology In Nature
Super-sticky legs or tail? Tail for the
gecko, scientists concluded, as that seems to be the most...
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John Shannon Appointed As The New Space Shuttle Program Manager
NASA announced that N. Wayne Hale, Jr., who is the Space
Shuttle program manager since 2005, was...
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Hubble Telescope to Be Overhauled in August
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) will be repaired and overhauled in August, a month earlier than it...
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China Builds Fourth Space Launch Center
China is to build its fourth space launch center, meant to serve the next-generation rocket...
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Forecasters Warn of Possible Tropical Storm
The low pressure weather system which Thursday morning moved across Florida into the Gulf of Mexico...
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EPA Proposes New Standards For Ozone Pollution
The US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) said that the
pollution standards adopted back in 1997...
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Hubble Telescope To Be Repaired In September 2008
NASA officials confirmed Friday that a mission to repair the
Hubble telescope is set for September...
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The Humpback Whales Are Back In Ocean
The humpback whales finally returned in the
ocean. The marine biologists found no trace of the...
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People
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Heath Ledger’s Parents Proud by Posthumous Oscar Nomination
Heath Ledger was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards, for the extraordinary...
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Michael Jackson Said To Be Very Ill
Pop star Michael Jackson reportedly has serious health problems and is in need of a lung...
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Everyone At Brad Pitt's Home OK After Paramedics' Visit
Contrary to numerous media reports, the paramedics and fire truck called at Brad Pitt's home in San...
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Federline Not in a Knot over Son’s Weekend Hospital Visit
Kevin Federline’s lawyer has gone on record to say that his
client will not seek a family court’s...
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Train Engineer Was Texting Seconds before Crash
Phone records obtained by the National Transportation Safety
Board show that train engineer Robert...
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Drugs Are a Losing Game for Singer Amy Winehouse
Tabloids’ favorite girl and performer Amy Winehouse should have better gone to rehab than writing a...
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Octogenarian Actress Cloris Leachman Joins “Dancing With The Stars”
One of the surprises of the next edition of ABC’s show
“Dancing With The Stars” is actress Cloris...
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Kim Kardashian Wants To Dance Despite Foot Injury
It was a bloody Sunday for Kim Kardashian, who had to be
rushed to the emergency room at New York...
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Nikki Blonsky’s Father Due in Court after Airport Brawl
Nikki Blonsky’s father, who has been jailed over the past
week after being involved in an airport...
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Update: Actor Morgan Freeman Recovering Well After Surgery
The latest news on Morgan Freeman's condition following Sunday's car accident, are good: the actor...
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Morgan Freeman Injured In Mississippi Car Accident
“Dark Knight” star Morgan Freeman was hospitalized in a Memphis hospital on
Monday, following a...
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Nikki Blonsky Arrested after Airport Brawl with Wannabe “Top Model”
Nikki Blonsky, the young actress who had her breakthrough in
last year’s “Hairspray” alongside...
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Denise Richards Wants Emergency Order Against Charlie
Denise Richards simply can’t get enough of fighting
ex-husband Charlie Sheen. This time she went...
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Lindsay Lohan’s Hospital Visit Explained By Her Mother
Lindsay Lohan was rushed to the Century City Hospital on
Thursday night after an alarming asthma...
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Video Showing A Man's 41-Hour Elevator Ordeal Becomes Online Hit
A compressed video made of footage from a surveillance camera showing a man who got trapped in an...
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Mel Gibson Shocked Over Suicide On His Property
Actor Mel Gibson is reportedly feeling "terrible" after a dead body was discovered at one...
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Naomi Campbell Mysteriously Hospitalized In Brazil
Supermodel Naomi Campbell has been checked into a Sao Paulo hospital Monday night where she was...
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John Ritter's Family Sues Doctors
Johnathan Southworth "John" Ritter still cannot rest in peace more than four years after...
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Dr. Phil Just Won't Let It Rest
TV's Dr. Phil McGraw does not know when to keep quiet; Thursday, as a guest on “The...
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Unpaid Fashion Consultant Sues Britney
Wait, there’s more in Britney’s chaotic life! A Las Vegas fashion consultant has filed...
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On a Mission to Hospitalize Britney Spears
Britney Spears was hospitalized early Thursday morning for a psychiatric evaluation, after a...
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Rapper “Birdman” Arrested for Pot Possession
Rapper “Birdman” on his real name Bryan
“Baby” Williams numbered among 16 people charged with...
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Mary-Kate Olsen Hospitalized With Kidney Infection
Young Hollywood actress Mary-Kate Olsen was rushed to the emergency room in New York on Monday with...
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Britney Barred From Driving With Kids
Following another "emergency" hearing in the Britney Spears – Kevin Federline custody...
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Britney Runs over Third Foot in a Month
Pop singer Britney Spears allegedly made a third victim Wednesday by running over an overzealous...
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Nancy Grace Expected To Be Released From Hospital
The Headline News anchor’s condition improved after she was hospitalized on Sunday due to...
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Kanye West’s Mother Dies after Cosmetic Surgery
Donda West, 58, the beautiful mother of the 30-year-old
rapper Kanye West, passed way Saturday...
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Did Britney Fail Her Drug Test or Not?
Surprisingly or not, Britney Spears may or may not have failed one of her court-ordered random...
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Britney Breaks The Law While Kids Asleep On Backseat
Nothing can stay in the way of pop star Britney Spears, not even the red lights she ran through...
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Britney Fails Drug Tests Because She’s A ‘Pop Star’
The main issue discussed during today’s emergency hearing in the Spears-Federline custody case was...
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