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Jackson, Cronkite among arts world deaths in 2009
It was only a rehearsal, and he was twice the age of the dancers accompanying him. But the video doesn't lie: Michael Jackson was looking ahead to a smash opening in London -- and giving it his all.
And then he was gone.
With his thrilling music and
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Deported Uighurs told UN of fears of China return
In statements to the U.N. refugee agency, the Uighurs said they witnessed and documented the rioting - China's worst ethnic violence in decades - and that they feared lengthy imprisonment or even the death penalty if they were returned to
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Former Playboy model Louise Glover found guilty of vicious nightclub attack
A former Playboy Model of the Year was found guilty today of attacking a woman in a nightclub toilet cubicle in a jealous bust-up over her husband.
Louise Glover, 26, struck Maxine Hardcastle's head against a toilet rim up to 10 times and tried to
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Highly decorated Army colonel dies in Texas
A man considered to be America's most decorated soldier has died.
Oak Crest Funeral Home in Waco, Texas, says retired Col. Robert Lewis Howard died Wednesday. He was 70. The funeral home obituary said that at the time of his death he was the most
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Taliban video claims to be of captured GI
KABUL - The Taliban released Friday a video purporting to show a U.S. soldier who was captured more than five months ago in eastern Afghanistan.
The media arm of the Afghan Taliban announced last week on an affiliated Web site that a new videotape of
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Family pleads for release of captive soldier
KABUL — The Taliban released a video Friday of an American soldier captured in Afghanistan, showing him apparently healthy but spouting criticism about the U.S. military operation.
In Idaho, Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl's family pleaded on Christmas for his
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The decade in travel: Technology and terrorism
NEW YORK -- Remember getting through an airport without removing your shoes, dumping your water bottle or showing ID?
Remember when buying plane tickets by phone was faster than using a clunky Web site with a dial-up connection?
Remember when you
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New form of malaria threatens Thai-Cambodia border
If this drug stops working, there's no good replacement to combat a disease that kills 1 million annually. As a result, earlier this year international medical leaders declared resistant malaria here a health emergency.
"This is not business as usual.
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New York Review Caricaturist Dies: David Levine Dead at 83
NEW YORK — David Levine, an artist whose witty caricatures illustrated The New York Review of Books for more than 40 years, has died. He was 83.
Levine died Tuesday at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan of prostate cancer and complications
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Jackson, Cronkite among arts world deaths in 2009
It was only a rehearsal, and he was twice the age of the dancers accompanying him. But the video doesn't lie: Michael Jackson was looking ahead to a smash opening in London - and giving it his all.
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A look at economic developments around the globe
A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Thursday: ___ LONDON - World stocks mostly edged higher as traders headed into the long New Year holiday weekend in a fairly upbeat mood following a nine-month bull run
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£1m donated for overseas disaters
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2 ships reported hijacked off Somali coast - USATODAY.com
LONDON (AP) A cargo ship and a chemical tanker have both been hijacked by pirates in the perilous waters off the coast of Somalia, bringing to four the number of ships seized in the past week, officials said Saturday.
The multiple hijackings indicate
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Mourners have great memories of Jim Padgett
RENO — Former University of Nevada men's basketball coach Jim Padgett was
remembered Saturday as a man who supported his players during a three-decade
career.
A memorial for Padgett, who died at the age of 79 on Dec. 19 of congestive
heart failure,
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Guard, gunman die in Vegas building shooting
A passer-by said he counted at least 40 shots.
"The first shot that I heard was a shotgun blast. I knew it wasn't fireworks," said Ray Freres, 59, a sandwich shop manager and Vietnam veteran who said he was behind the federal court building at the time.
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Guard, gunman dead in Vegas shooting
LAS VEGAS A gunman opened fire at a federal building in downtown Las Vegas on Monday, killing one court officer and wounding a second before he was shot to death.
The gunfire erupted moments after 8 a.m. at the start of the work week and lasted for
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China, Iran qualify for Asian Cup finals
China and Iran qualified for the 2011 Asian Cup finals on Wednesday, but Indonesia and Vietnam crashed out of contention.
They join Uzbekistan and Syria who had already booked their places at the showpiece in Qatar, along with the host nation and Iraq,
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Number of Indian students going to Australia plummets by almost 50 percent
Sydney, Jan 7 (ANI): The number of Indian students applying for visas to study in Australia has fallen by almost half, increasing fears for the country's 17 billion dollar international education industry.
The Immigration Department figures, for the
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Qantas bosses held in Vietnam
TWO Australian Qantas executives have been held in Vietnam and the former boss of joint venture Jetstar Pacific arrested over losses at the budget carrier.
Qantas executives Daniela Marsilli and Tristan Freeman have not been formally charged but were
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Qantas backs workers held in Vietnam
QANTAS is confident that two senior employees currently prevented from leaving Vietnam have done nothing wrong.
Vietnamese authorities prevented Jetstar Pacific chief operating officer Daniela Marsilli and chief financial officer Tristan Freeman from
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Review: 'Committed: A Skiptic Makes Peace With Marriage' by Elizabeth Gilbert
As she wanders, Gilbert decides she cannot enter into another marriage as uninformed as she was the last time. Having thus been sentenced to marry once again, she sets out to define what in the name of God and human history this befuddling, vexing,
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Zen master: Vietnam paid mobs to evict followers
A famous Zen master has accused Vietnam's communist government of hiring mobs of people to violently evict his Buddhist followers from two monasteries.
Thich Nhat Hanh, who helped popularize Buddhism in the West and has sold millions of books worldwide,
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WHO survey: Half of China's births are C-sections
HANOI, Vietnam - Nearly half of all births in China are delivered by cesarean section, the world's highest rate, according to a survey by the World Health Organization - a shift toward modernization that isn't necessarily a good thing.
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Saudis struggle against Yemeni rebels
Arab diplomats, speaking from the Saudi capital Riyadh, said Saudi troops are moving slowly in their two-month campaign against the rebels to establish a six mile (10-kilometer) deep buffer zone on both sides of the border.
"The Yemeni rebels are
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Massive international relief effort to aid Haiti
"As a country that has been itself devastated by a similar situation, we are absolutely saddened by what's happening in Haiti," Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said at a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Vietnam. "We call
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Recalls: drop-side cribs, glitter tea lights
The following recalls have been announced:
- About 1,000 "Diane" drop-side cribs, made in Slovenia and distributed by Caramia Furniture of Mississaugua, Ontario, and Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Toronto, because slats on the drop-side can detach from
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FIFA World Cup Trophy unveiled in Kolkata
Kolkata (West Bengal), Jan 16 (ANI): German football legend Lothar Mathhaus unveiled the FIFA World Cup trophy 2010 in Kolkata.
The tour began its journey from the FIFA headquarters in Zurich on September 21, 2009 and will end in South Africa on May 4,
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Maghami takes sole lead in Parsvnath Chess
With his sixth victory on the trot, Maghami remains the only player in the field to have won all his matches in the tournament so far.
Intense battles on the top boards produced a series of exciting results on the day as overnight joint leader Uzbek
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1st Wave Of U.S. Marines Pull Out Of Iraq
AL-ASAD, Iraq (AP) ―
The base loudspeaker no longer wakes them up with calls for blood donors; armored trucks sit idle in neat rows. The U.S. Marines who stood at some of the bloodiest turning points of the Iraq war are packing up and
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Koreas hold 'serious' talks amid North's threats
SEOUL, South Korea - North and South Korea discussed development of their joint industrial complex Tuesday, despite Pyongyang's recent threats it might break off all dialogue with its neighbor and could even stage an attack.
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Study: Asian smog discovered above western USA
Smog covers downtown Los Angeles in a May 2009 file photo. A new study in the journal Nature finds that while U.S. controls on air pollution have been driving down a major ingredient of smog, ozone blowing over from Asia is raising background levels
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Clinton urges China to investigate Google case
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday urged China to investigate cyber intrusions that led Google to threaten to pull out of that country - and challenged Beijing to openly publish its findings.
"Countries that restrict free access to
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China: Clinton Internet speech harms ties with US
A Chinese flag flutters near the Google logo on top of Google's China headquarters in Beijing, China, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday urged China to investigate cyber intrusions that led search angle
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China blasts 'information imperialism'
BEIJING - Beijing issued a stinging response Friday to Hillary Rodham Clinton's criticism that it is jamming the free flow of words and ideas on the Internet, accusing the United States of damaging relations between the two countries by imposing its
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Killer's son finds solace in unlikely ally
And yet, eventually the sleuth and the son would profess love for each other like mother and child.
Talk show host Tyra Banks once called Lynn-Marie Carty "the reunion angel." Carty liked that, because of how much she loved her job. Fifty-two, blonde,
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China rejects claims of Internet hacking attacks
"We are firmly opposed to that," the spokesman said, according to a transcript of an interview with the official Xinhua News Agency posted on the ministry's Web site Monday.
The State Council, China's Cabinet, defended the country's regulation of the
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On Campus, Female Majority Levels Off
(AP) More men are attending college and graduating with a bachelor's degree, reversing the tendency of female undergraduates to outnumber men and outperform them academically, according to a new report out Tuesday.
One notable exception is young
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On The Call: Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo Inc.'s inability to attract more Web surfers and online advertisers outside the United States is one of the reasons the company hasn't performed as well as Internet search leader Google Inc.
Carol Bartz,
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Asian nations urged to shut private tiger farms
Privately run tiger farms are inhumane and fuel demand for the endangered big cat's bones and skin, World Bank warns 13-nation tiger summit
A Sumatran tiger. Tiger farms are found principally in China, as well as Laos, Vietnam and Thailand. Photograph:
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Vietnam sentences democracy activist to 4 years
HANOI, Vietnam An author and democracy activist who criticized Vietnam's communist government has been sentenced to four years in prison for spreading propaganda against the state.
The lawyer for Pham Thanh Nghien, 32, says she was also given three
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We are addicted to disaster porn
The black T-shirt so tight, so come-hither. And oh, those safari button-downs joke-worthy on Eddie Bauer mannequins, but on news correspondents, so ... enticing.
America missed these sartorial seductions, pined for their sweet suggestive nothings. And
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Obama's Presidency Draws Comparisons to Jimmy Carter
The similarities between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter are undeniable.
Carter studied nuclear physics and taught Sunday School. Obama edited the Harvard Law Review and taught constitutional law. Both can flash a million-dollar smile. And both won the
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2 Koreas hold talks despite military tensions
Officials from the two Koreas met Monday in North Korea to discuss their joint industrial complex, just days after a testy exchange of gunfire at sea emphasized the precariousness of peace on their shared peninsula.
Last week, the North lobbed
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Rep. John Murtha Hospitalized in Intensive Care
Spokesman Matt Mazonkey says the 77-year-old Pennsylvania congressman underwent scheduled surgery last week and is currently at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington.
Murtha was also hospitalized in December with gallbladder problems.
The 19-term
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First Female Black POW Speaks Out in Book
(AP) Shoshana Johnson survived gunshot wounds to both legs and 22 days as a prisoner of war in Iraq. Life wasn't so easy when she came home, either.
In a new book out this week, the 37-year-old single mother describes mental health problems
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China hauls EU to WTO in shoe tariff dispute
GENEVA —
China launched an unfair trade case against the European Union on Thursday, accusing the 27-nation bloc of imposing illegal duties on Chinese shoes, the World Trade Organization said.
The dispute concerns an EU decision in December to extend
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Vietnam convicts dissident writer of assault
HANOI, Vietnam Vietnam has convicted a journalist and democracy activist of assault and sentenced her to three-and-a-half years in prison after she disrupted her trial and demanded to be freed.
Tran Khai Thanh Thuy, 49, was sentenced Friday after a
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Federal law barring lies about medals is tested
Jonathan Turley, a professor at George Washington University Law School who is not involved in the two cases, said the Stolen Valor Act raises serious constitutional questions because it in effect bans bragging or exaggerating about yourself.
"Half
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Legal fights testing law against war medal lies
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DENVER - The federal courts are wrestling with a question of both liberty and patriotism: Does the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment right to free speech protect people who lie about being war heroes?
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Rep. John Murtha dead at 77
Education: Bachelor's degree in economics, University of Pittsburgh, 1962; also attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1963-64
Family: Wife, Joyce; a daughter and twin sons; three grandchildren.
Military career: Marine Corps, 1952-1955, 1966-67 (
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Rep. John Murtha dead at 77 - USATODAY.com
Education: Bachelor's degree in economics, University of Pittsburgh, 1962; also attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1963-64
Family: Wife, Joyce; a daughter and twin sons; three grandchildren.
Military career: Marine Corps, 1952-1955, 1966-67 (
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Cuba sharply reduces US food imports amid hardship
Kavulich said Cuba has increasingly turned to other countries like Vietnam that will sell it lower-quality food and not ask for payment for as long as two years.
Despite the half-century feud across the Straits of Florida, the United States is the
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2 popular Web sites that challenged government policies blocked in Vietnam
HANOI, Vietnam
- Two pioneering Web sites that stretched the limits of free expression in Vietnam say they have been hacked and shut down, just months after the communist government blocked the social networking site Facebook.
Both sites had been
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Shia LaBeouf to run L.A. marathon for U.S. Vets
Shia LaBeouf is set to run the Los Angeles Marathon.
The 'Transformers' actor will undertake the grueling 26.2 mile race on March 21 as he aims to raise money for America's largest non-profit organization U.S. VETS.
The charity - which provides
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President calls for agricultural renaissance
"With availability of land and water limited, growth in agriculture can be achieved by increasing productivity per unit through effective use of improved technology. Our need, therefore, is for a critical mass of agricultural scientists who work
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Angelina Jolie "in no rush " to adopt Haitian orphan
While visiting Port-au-Prince, the actress, in her role as a goodwill ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, voiced her concerns about the risk of child trafficking in earthquake-torn Haiti and misguided actions by prospective adopters,
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Civilian Deaths Mar Marjah Offensive
(CBS/AP) Two U.S. rockets slammed into a home outside the southern Taliban stronghold of Marjah, killing 12 civilians after Afghanistan's president appealed to NATO to take care in its campaign to seize the town.
Inside Marjah, Marines
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Rep. John Murtha To Be Laid To Rest In Pa.
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) ―
The funeral for congressman John Murtha is expected to bring former President Bill Clinton and a congressional delegation led by House speaker Nancy Pelosi to the Pennsylvania Democrat's hometown of Johnstown.
Murtha will be
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US nominates Anthony Lake to be UNICEF chief
Rice's letter, obtained by The Associated Press, stressed Lake's long-standing commitment to advancing the rights of children, noting his nine years on the board of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, including serving as chair from 2004-2007.
"As chairman,
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Ex-ICE agent gets 2 years in drug case
MIAMI A federal judge in Miami has handed a two-year prison sentence to a retired U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who admitted leaking law enforcement information to drug traffickers.
The sentence was imposed Thursday on
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Landlords told to sniff out dope farmers
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IRS worker killed in crash was a loyal family man
The family of a longtime Internal Revenue Service employee
killed when a pilot harboring an anti-IRS grudge flew his plane
into his office remembered the Vietnam veteran Saturday as devoted
family man who likely would have tried to save his co-workers
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Simmering for decades, engineer's grudge explodes
"It sounds like he went down that same path," said Dennis Riness, who did time in federal prison for running a church-styled tax shelter. "And ran into the same brick wall."
Riness and most others gave up the fight. It seems Joe Stack could not,
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Daughter says pilot in Texas IRS crash was a hero
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In this undated photo provided by Texas Department of Public Safety, Joseph Stack is shown. Stack, authorities said, flew his small air plane into an office building in North Central Austin, where several employees of the Internal
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Thousands give last rites to dead whale in Vietnam
A dead whale is dragged ashore in Vinh Thinh, Bac Lieu province, Vietnam, on Monday, Feb. 22, 2010. Thousands of Vietnamese fishermen gave a royal send-off to the 15-ton dead whale, gathering at the village to pay homage to the creature they call "Your
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Review: `Crazies' taps into our fear of infection
Breck Eisner's insane-in-the-membrane update of the George A. Romero cult horror movie "The Crazies" opens with a brief shot of fire, devastation and small-town apocalypse, followed by a title card that takes us back to the same Iowa farm community two
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Rugby helped Mandela to convert white supremacists!
New Delhi: Sports movies too often veer uneasily between off-field drama and on-pitch action without portraying either with much conviction.
"Invictus", the tale of Nelson Mandela's role in South Africa's triumphal 1995 rugby World Cup victory over
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Somali pirates holding Singaporean ship get ransom
A spokesman for the EU Naval Force says that a ransom has been delivered by parachute to Somali pirates holding a Singaporean-flagged chemical tanker.
Cmdr. John Harbour says he does not know how much money was paid for the release of the chemical
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For this poet, bombing at a reading won't be bad
Poetry readings have always been a blast for S.A. Griffin, but the tour that the venerable Los Angeles poet plans this spring may be his most explosive.
This time the author of such collections as "Unborn Again" and "One Long Naked Dance" will be
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Video of Taliban commander leaves fate unclear
The Pakistani Taliban released a video of their militant chief, Hakimullah Mehsud, but his taped comments fail to prove he survived a U.S. missile strike earlier this year.
U.S. and Pakistani officials have become increasingly confident that the brash
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AIA Sold To Prudential: AIG's Asian Unit Sold For $35.5 Billion
LONDON -- British insurer Prudential PLC said Monday it will buy the Asian unit of American International Group Inc. in a deal worth $35.5 billion that will allow AIG to pay back some of the money it owes U.S. taxpayers.
AIG, which was rescued in a $182
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Journalist and MP Churchill dies
Winston Churchill, a former journalist and Tory MP, died Tuesday. He was the grandson of Britain's wartime leader. (John Stillwell/Associated Press)
Winston Spencer Churchill, a former British MP and grandson of the famous prime minister, died
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Drought drops Mekong River to nearly 2-decade low
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BANGKOK Severe drought has dropped the Mekong River to its lowest level in nearly 20 years, halting some cargo traffic and boat tours on the Asian waterway that is the lifeblood for 65 million people in six countries, a draft report
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Cannabis farm discovered in quiet suburb
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Recalls this week: Soups, dips and window shades
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In this product image provided by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, a sample of a Ten 1 West boys jacket with drawstring through the hood imported by Ten West Apparel of New York, N.Y. is shown. The jackets were recalled
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Vietnam veteran claims $9M Hoosier Lotto jackpot
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A Vietnam veteran who has played the same numbers for 20 years is $9 million richer after winning a Hoosier Lotto jackpot.
Jerry Jones of Muncie matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing.
The winning numbers of 5, 17, 21, 27, 29
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Cambodia Drug-Resistant Malaria Stirs Health Fears
PAILIN, Cambodia (Reuters) - In a dusty village near the Thai-Cambodia border, 24-year-old Oeur Samoeun sits on a dark green hammock recovering from a strain of malaria that has resisted the most powerful drugs available. Ravaged by days of fever and
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Songbird smuggler to be sentenced in LA
A man who smuggled songbirds into Los Angeles from Vietnam by hiding them in his pants is facing up to 20 years in federal prison.
Sony Dong of Garden Grove is scheduled to be sentenced Monday in Los Angeles.
Dong was arrested at Los Angeles
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Cancer breakthrough with papaya
Papaya has been used as a folk remedy for a variety of ailments in many parts of the world, especially Asia.
Dr Deng said the results are consistent with reports from indigenous populations in Australia and his native Vietnam.
The researchers
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Can papaya fight cancer cells?
This could lead to therapeutic treatments that use the immune system to fight cancers, they said in the February issue of the journal and released on Tuesday by the university.
Papaya has been used as a folk remedy for a variety of ailments in many
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Australia is on internet watchlist
Russia and Turkey were also added to the watchlist, which is a category below RSF's top "Enemies of the internet", the countries it considers the 12 worst web freedom violators.
These include Saudi Arabia, Burma, China, North Korea, Iran
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US slams rights abuses in China, NKorea and Iran
The United States accused China and Iran of increasing human rights abuses as it raised the alarm about growing anti-Semitism worldwide and discrimination of Muslims in Europe.
In its annual report on human rights for 194 countries, the State
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New Florida case thwarts Calif. molester's release
England will be ordered to a federal court for hearings on removal, identification and bond. It was not known if England had an attorney. State corrections spokespersons were unavailable due to a work furlough.
The new charges were announced a day
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Bolivia drops bid to host Miss Universe contest
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LA PAZ, Bolivia Bolivia is dropping its bid to host the Miss Universe pageant because it would cost more than anticipated.
President Evo Morales has lobbied foreign leaders to help him bring the glamorous contest to the impoverished
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Vietnam releases leading dissident from prison
Vietnam released one of its leading democracy activists from prison Monday after the dissident Catholic priest spent three years and suffered two strokes in solitary confinement, his lawyer and sister said.
Authorities released Father Nguyen Van Ly
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Calif. man sentenced for bilking $7M from casinos
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SAN DIEGO A San Diego man who led a card-cheating scheme that bilked dozens of casinos across the country out of a total of $7 million has been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison.
Phuong Quoc Truong was sentenced Monday
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'American Idol''s Top 12 Sing the Rolling Stones
The "American Idol" Top 12 took to the stage on Tuesday night for a two-hour concert of songs made famous by über British rock band, the Rolling Stones.
Michael Lynche kicked off the tribute night with "Miss You." Randy Jackson told him, "We are
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AstraZeneca wins 1st trial over alleged drug harm
British drugmaker AstraZeneca wins the first trial brought by a patient alleging its psychiatric drug Seroquel caused harm.
AstraZeneca says a jury in Middlesex County Superior Court in New Jersey ruled in favor of the drugmaker.
The case was brought
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Taliban lose control of Marjah but remain strong
U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Mathew Gorzkiewicz, of North Liberty, Indiana, with the First Battalion, Sixth Marine Regiment, Alpha company, takes part in a patrol in Marjah, Afghanistan, Thursday, March 18, 2010.
In the capital of Afghanistan's Helmand
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Amateur artist, musician and traveller who undertook walks for charity
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A family friend David Jacobson described her as an "example to all of how to retire and not grow old". She remained young "in mind and heart", he said.
DEIRDRE HAMILTON: DEIRDRE HAMILTON, who has died aged 90,
