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 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama won support
from top bankers on Friday for his efforts to rid financial
institutions of bad debts, but differences remained over
broader U.S. plans for the financial industry.
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 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facing anger over corporate bonuses
and skepticism about his massive budget, President Barack
Obama holds a news conference on Tuesday to explain his
economic strategy to a recession-weary public.
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 Hamas says it has released the top representative of
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party
in the Gaza Strip.
Zakaria Agha was held for four days after being seized by
Hamas gunmen. He was detained as part of a wave of arrests
of Fatah supporters after a beachside bombing killed five
Hamas militants and a young girl.
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 Iraqi forces backed by American troops are pressing ahead
with a major operation against insurgents in the
north-eastern Iraqi province of Diyala.
The region is one of the last al-Qaeda militant strongholds
in the country.
The operation was launched at dawn on Tuesday. A curfew was
imposed across the province as troops and police deployed in
its capital, Baquba
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 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
said on Tuesday the September rescue of American
International Group was warranted to avoid a potential
1930's style meltdown, but showed new rules were essential.
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 A former informant of the US secret service has been accused
of being the ringleader in the country's biggest and most
complex identity theft case.
The US Department of Justice claims that Albert "Segvev"
Gonzalez and 10 others stole, and then sold more than 40
million bank card numbers.
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 HSBC has warned that conditions in financial markets are at
their toughest "for several decades" after suffering a 28%
fall in half-year profits.
Europe's largest bank saw profits drop by $3.9bn to $10.2bn
(£5.2bn) in the first six months of the year, as its North
American arm made a $2.8bn loss.
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 Ryanair has warned it could make an annual loss of up to 60
million euros (£47.4m) if oil prices stayed high and it
continued cutting fares.
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 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Louisville hammered Arizona 103-64 to
advance to the last eight of the NCAA tournament on Friday,
while last year's champions Kansas were knocked out by
Michigan State.
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 PHOENIX (Reuters) - The red hot Phoenix Suns registered a
fifth consecutive victory on Monday when Grant Hill scored
23 points to inspire the home team to a 118-115 win over the
Denver Nuggets. |
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 Talks are taking place with the top test cricket playing
nations of the world in a bid to bring two major
international tournaments to Dubai, starting next year.
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 The humpback whale, nearly hunted into history four decades
ago, is now on the "road to recovery" and is no longer
considered at high risk of extinction, an environmental
group said Tuesday.
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 The world of mobile internet devices is set to explode in
the next four years says chip maker Intel.
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 Attack code that exploits flaws in the net's addressing
system are starting to circulate online, say security
experts.
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 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The leader of a youth movement
that swept the world this past year by encouraging Web users
to share bits of their lives with selected friends, spoke on
Wednesday of spreading his service across the Web, even
while apologizing for past excesses.
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 A giant Batmobile drove down the red carpet and flames shot
into the sky at the European premiere of Dark Knight in
London's Leicester Square. |
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 The tactic of shops ending prices with 99p is nothing new,
but a study has found it's as effective as ever in getting
shoppers to part with their cash. So why is one of the
oldest tricks in the retail trade hard to resist?
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 Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have pleaded with Australian
journalists and photographers to back off while they
introduce their newborn daughter, Sunday Rose, to their
families.The celebrity couple were greeted by a media pack
when they flew into Sydney on a private plane last night.
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 Socialite Paris Hilton has made a spoof advertisement in
response to a jibe by US presidential hopeful John McCain.
A commercial suggested Mr McCain's Democratic rival, Barack
Obama, was no more than a lightweight celebrity, like Hilton
or Britney Spears.
But in a spoof recording placed on the comedy website Funny
or Die, Hilton referred to Mr McCain as "that wrinkly,
white-haired guy".
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 SYDNEY (Reuters) - Hollywood star Nicole Kidman and singer
husband Keith Urban asked the paparazzi on Thursday to leave
them and baby daughter Sunday Rose alone, saying she was a
"tiny doll" who would be scared by the attention.
"Keith and I are both appealing to the press and stuff just
to give us a little space so we can walk around Sydney and
show the baby our town," Kidman told Sydney radio station
2Day FM.
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 Batman film The Dark Knight has broken another box office
record after taking just 18 days to make more than $400
million (£204m) in North America.
That was less than half the time which previous
record-holder Shrek 2 needed to pass the milestone, having
taken 43 days to cross the $400m mark in 2004.
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 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People who eat the most red meat and
the most processed meat have the highest overall risk of
death from all causes, including heart disease and cancer,
U.S. researchers reported on Monday |
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 The UN goal of achieving "universal access" to anti-HIV
drugs and care by 2010 is unlikely to be reached worldwide,
two leading figures in the campaign against AIDS say.Looking
to the mounting bill for the drugs that keep millions of
poor people alive, they also say China and other
fast-advancing economies could shoulder more of their own
burdens in the future, freeing up resources for countries
mired in poverty.
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 The body's own immune system may cause pre-eclampsia, a
common condition which is potentially dangerous for pregnant
women and their babies.
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 It was January 2000 and I'd just started a new job, my dream
job as political correspondent for BBC Scotland.
I was very busy, working long hours, so I didn't have much
time to pay attention to this strange tingling in my face,
but the tingling grew until eventually everything to the
left was tingling and pins and needles, and everything to
the right was fine.
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