| World News  | Chávez urges close Russian ties
The Miami Herald
MOSCOW -- Amid talks about a billion-dollar arms purchase from Russia, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said Tuesday that he wanted the two nations to become strategic partners to ensure ``Venezuela's sovereignty, which is currently being threatened by the United States.'' Chávez's remarks, reported by the Russian state news wire RIA Novosti, came a day after a Russian newspaper reported that Russia's military is considering whether...
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|  | Is Bobby Jindal The One Republicans Have Been Waiting For?
National Review
There's no rush for the nation's junior governor. By Kathleen Parker Drum roll. Suspense. Who will it be? In this corner, we have Stormin' Mormon Mitt Romney. In the other, we have Brain-Buster Bobby Jindal. Amid speculation that John McCain will announce his vice-presidential pick soon, political nail-biters have begun placing bets. Favorites include Louisiana Gov. Jindal, with whom McCain is meeting Wednesday, and former Massachusetts Gov....
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|  | Rice To Press North Korean Envoy On Nukes
CBS News
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice began talks with Asian officials Wednesday before meeting North Korea's top diplomat in what will be Washington's highest-level contact with the Stalinist state in four years. Rice is hoping to gauge North Korea's commitment to efforts to get the country to abandon its nuclear weapons programs when she meets Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations annual...
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|  | Zimbabwe president under pressure to share power
San Diego
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Europe turned up pressure on Zimbabwe's president to share power with the opposition, toughening sanctions Tuesday against Robert Mugabe just as his ruling party was to begin talks with its chief rival mediated by South Africa. Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai met face-to-face Monday for the first time in 10 years and agreed to formal talks about power sharing after three months of state-sponsored...
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|  | Ahern first witness in September
Irish Times
In this section � Gilmartin 'made a mess of everything'COLM KEENA, Public Affairs Correspondent RESUMPTION: THE FORMER taoiseach Bertie Ahern is to be the first witness called when the Mahon tribunal resumes hearings after the summer break. Mr Ahern is scheduled to give evidence for one and a half days. It is expected he will be questioned about the Quarryvale, now Liffey Valley development in Dublin in the early 1990s. Mr Ahern has denied...
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|  | Rudd's two cold fronts in climate war
The Australian
KEVIN Rudd is fighting a climate change battle on two fronts today, with unions and the Coalition warning that getting the timetable wrong could send jobs offshore. Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson has again restated the Coalition's intention to delay the introduction of a carbon trading scheme in the Senate until after the next election. In recent weeks the Opposition has consistently raised two...
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| Business News  | Corn price swoons as sun shines
Star Tribune
Corn price swoons as sun shines Corn prices have fallen $1.96 per bushel, or 24.9 percent, since reaching their 52-week high last month. Why? The nation's corn harvest looks promising because of five weeks of good weather. That suggests that corn will be in ample supply. Also, the growth in demand from ethanol makers has slowed. document.write('...
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|  | Survey: Hawaii hotels, Hawaiian Airlines among best
Business Journal
> Massage therapist hopes catchy name will help her business grow [Honolulu] Hualalai resort gets new manager [Honolulu] Survey: Four Seasons Maui most romantic [Honolulu] WATG designed three T+L 'Best Family Resorts' [Honolulu] Trendy Waikiki hotel finds renewed life [Honolulu] Hawaii's islands, hotels and an airline received honors as part of the "World's Best," according to readers of Travel + Leisure magazine. The Four Seasons Resort Lanai,...
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|  | Vodafone cuts revenue outlook, Sarin sees 'hard times'
The Australian
VODAFONE lost almost 11 billion British pounds in market value after the world's largest mobile phone company said its profit would suffer. Shares in fell 20p, or more than 13 per cent, to 129p in Britain last night, after it said that it had trimmed its full-year revenue forecast to the bottom end of the �39.8 billion to �40.7 billion range given in May. Arun Sarin, Vodafone's outgoing chief executive, admitted that the company had been hit by a...
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|  | Take your customer's complain seriously
The Times Of India
Pointing to the large number of service staff at a luncheon in her honour, Janelle Barlow says, “Such a waste — all these people standing around. From an American point of view, this is too much service.” She actually has a point. There’s a buffet and a bar, but the banquet hall still has a large number of waiters carrying trays of hors d’oeuvres , and beer, which no one seems to want....
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|  | Sony Aims to Step Up Sales and Dethrone Nintendo
Newsfactor
Nintendo's Wii may be in the lead, but Sony is looking to reach the 150 million sales mark for its PlayStation 3 video-game console within the next few years. Kaz Hirai, CEO of Sony's PS3 game-console division, told E3 convention attendees last week that sales of the original PlayStation reached 102 million units since 1994. The popular PlayStation 2, now in its ninth year on the market, has sold 140 million units. Hirai hopes the PS3 will...
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|  | Panic buying continues on cotton market
Dawn
By Our Staff Reporter KARACHI, July 22: Panic buying continued on the cotton market on Tuesday for the second consecutive session as mills and spinners were not inclined to take even a technical breather to have an overview of the developing situation on the supply front. Most of the deals in the ready section were finalised...
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| Entertainment News  | Belly dancing flap in St. Marys
Florida Times Union
ST. MARYS - A restaurant owner says city officials intimidated him into stopping weekly belly dance performances when they delivered a copy of an adult entertainment ordinance and told him he was violating the law. Issa Atrash, owner of Kick Back Cafe, said two St. Marys officials told him residents complained after they saw an advertisement in a local newspaper for the belly dancers at his restaurant. "They told me the phone...
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|  | Rumors and tell-all take a toll on Madonna
MSNBC
The Queen of Pop needs a break. According to , Madonna now suffers from stress and exhaustion thanks to her busy schedule, alleged marital woes, and the release of her brother’s tell-all biography. “Madonna is doing less than OK,” an insider told the paper. “She has been rehearsing for the (Sticky & Sweet) tour and she is totally miserable. She’s down physically and mentally.” The source claims the “situation with (her husband, Guy Ritchie)...
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|  | Hyundai makes its offering for the very crowded city car market
Irish Times
In this section � The Rio's grand Good city cars are hard to find, although there is a wide variety of choice. Hyundai's new i10 hopes to make its mark, says Michael McAleer , Motoring Editor, and while it's worth a test drive, it doesn't head this particular poll. WHAT'S THE secret to a good city car? It's a question that is all the more relevant on the Irish market, as buyers look to cut their motoring costs at a time when the small city car...
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|  | Food, fun, dancing and Greekfest - and did we mention the food?
Journal News
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 The musical "Mamma Mia" has already filled theaters with Greek vistas, and now it' s Greekfest's turn. Middletown's Greek festival starts Friday , July 25 and runs through Sunday July 27, featuring the customary well-loved mix of Greek food, music and dancing. These Greek Dinners will be served: Moussaka, pastitsio (Greek lasagna), Greek-style green...
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|  | Jade Goody's ex boyfriend Jack Tweed faces jail after golf club attack
The Daily Mail
Jade Goody's ex boyfriend could be jailed after being convicted of attacking a 16-year-old boy with a golf club. Jack Tweed, 21, of Buckhurst Hill, Essex, and his friend James Mattock, 29, of Ongar, Essex, were today found guilty of assaulting Daniel Steele, now 18, in Ongar in December 2006. A judge adjourned sentencing until September 1 following a trial at Chelmsford Crown Court. Tweed, who has appeared in Channel 4's Celebrity Big Brother,...
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|  | Berliners get a crash course in glittery celebrity culture
International Herald Tribune
: Aside from Romy Schneider hanging out naked on the Riviera and an aged Marlene Dietrich hiding her face from a nosy photographer on an airplane, the most prominent German in a hugely diverting paparazzi show at the Helmut Newton Foundation here through mid-November is Albert Einstein. He's now surrounded by the Sean Penns and Brigitte Bardots of the world, looking as out of place as he must have felt when he arrived in New Jersey in 1933. In a...
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|  | Dolphy can't marry Zsa Zsa
Journal Online
By: Aster Amoyo If I Know COMEDY King Dolphy turns 80 on his birthday on July 25 but the celebration will happen on July 23 yet at the NBC Tent in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City. Coinciding with his 80th birthday celebration is the launching of his first book titled "Dolphy: Hindi Ko Ito Narating Mag-isa" which was supervised by his son Eric Quizon and was written by Bibeth Orteza. Even if he's already on a retireable age, Dolphy has no intention of...
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|  | TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS
The Columbus Dispatch
TALK SHOWS â 9 a.m., WBNS-TV (Channel 10): Live With Regis and Kelly -- actor Will Ferrell (N) â â 10 a.m., WSYX-TV (Channel 6): Rachael Ray -- businesswoman Ivanka Trump; animal expert Jarod...
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| Health News  | Obstacles for Obama in meeting health care goal
International Herald Tribune
It is one of the most audacious promises in a campaign that has been thick with them. In speech after speech, Senator Barack Obama has vowed that he will lower the country's health care costs enough to "bring down premiums by $2,500 for the typical family." Moreover, Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, has promised that his health plan will be in place "by the end of my first term as president of the United States." Whether Obama can...
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|  | Apple stock falls despite rise in profit
Taipei Times
UNCERTAINTIES: Apple’s soft guidance on fiscal fourth-quarter earnings and questions about Steve Jobs’ health sent the firm’s shares down 10.8 percent Macintosh and iPod sales helped boost Apple Inc’s fiscal third-quarter earnings 31 percent, beating Wall Street’s expectations on Monday, but investors pummeled the stock after Apple issued soft guidance for the current quarter. Apple chief executive Steve Jobs did not join the conference call with...
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|  | S.Africa experts hope drugs can curb HIV infection -
Yahoo Daily News
29 minutes ago CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Researchers in South Africa are investigating whether taking AIDS drugs daily will prevent infections among gay and bisexual men, in the latest effort to combat the epidemic. In a study launched on Tuesday, researchers want to find out whether antiretroviral drugs normally used by people already carrying the HIV virus could protect...
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|  | Prostate cancer drug 'promising'
The Australian
AN experimental drug for prostate cancer has shown early promise in treating the most difficult cases of the disease, including men who have failed all other treatments. Normally, such men have an average of 18 months to live, but British researchers have reported almost doubling this to 32 months in men treated with a drug called abiraterone. The study's London-based authors have already...
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|  | Roche pursues Genentech to fight off rivals
The Times
Roche, the Swiss drugs company, made a $43.7 billion (£22 billion) cash bid for the remaining stake in Genentech, its San Francisco-based partner, yesterday. The deal would be one of the most expensive acquisitions in the pharmaceutical sector for years. Roche, which already owns 55.9 per cent of the cancer drug specialist, said that it would pay $89 a share - a 9 per cent premium to the biotech company's closing price on Friday. Genentech would...
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|  | Glaxo settles Relenza suit with Biota
Taipei Times
“Our expectations were somewhere between A$50 million and A$100 million. Does that make this a bad outcome? No.” — Scott Power, healthcare analyst at ABN Amro Morgans GlaxoSmithKline Plc, which licenses the flu drug Relenza from Biota Holdings Ltd, paid the Australian company A$20 million (US$19.5 million) to settle a lawsuit. Biota agreed to the payment, which is less than its legal costs, after the trial was postponed in May and lawyers said...
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|  | Radio host angers parents of autistic children
The Boston Globe
NEW YORK -- Radio talk show host Michael Savage, who described 99 percent of children with autism as brats, said Monday he was trying to "boldly awaken" parents to his view that many people are being wrongly diagnosed. Some parents of autistic children have called for Savage's firing after he described autism as a racket last week. "In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out," Savage said on his radio program...
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|  | Children's Hospital expansion on track
Omaha World-Herald
BY MICHAEL O'CONNOR WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER A $55 million expansion at Children's Hospital that will provide more space for outpatient care remains on track for completion by early 2010. The five-level outpatient building and a new parking garage are being built at 84th Street and West Dodge Road. They will be connected to the hospital. The project started in January. Work has focused on the three-level parking...
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|  | On the front line of climate change
The Australian
UNIVERSITIES should have a formal role in developing the new low-emissions technologies and training the interdisciplinary professionals required to help the country cope with climate change, Ross Garnaut is advising the Government. And leading research managers are calling on the Government and universities to adjust the national research effort in line with the new priorities. The necessity of creating and adapting low emissions technologies...
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| Politics News  | Armys withdrawal from politics is strategic
Dawn
By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, July 22: The Pakistan Armys withdrawal from politics is strategic and not tactical and it will not return to politics unless theres a crisis in the country, scholars said at a seminar in Washington. The army realises that the last years have hurt the institution badly, said Shuja Nawaz, the author of a recent book on the Pakistan Army. They are out and they want to stay out. The discussion on US-Pakistan military...
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|  | How Iraq became safe for Obama
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Patrick McIlheran That’s that. Sen. Barack Obama’s been to Iraq. The war thing is so tidied up, issue-wise. Not so fast: It’s got something left to tell us. Voters are eager to move on. Polls say the economy is now their top worry. “I’m looking for someone who’s going to help get us unstuck,” one Fox Valley woman-on-the-street told a TV reporter the other day, and I’m sure Ben Bernanke was taking notes. What would she have said six months...
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|  | Job done, Somnath loses no sleep as CPM set to expel him
The Times Of India
NEW DELHI: As the Lok Sabha Speaker announced the result of the trust vote on Tuesday night, the Manmohan Singh government will not be the only one readying for a life without the Left. Mr Somnath Chatterjee, having accomplished his daring mission of presiding over the two-day session by breaching the `Karat-rekha’, also looked prepared for a brand...
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