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Rice meets Kadhafi on historic Libya visit
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi on a landmark visit to Tripoli Friday, heralding a new chapter in Washington's reconciliation with the former enemy state. ...
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US may scrap Russia nuclear cooperation
The United Sates wil likely scrap a US-Russia civilian nuclear cooperation pact next week in response to Moscow's actions in Georgia, a US official said Friday. ...
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Man jailed for imprisoning woman
A 58-year-old man was remanded in custody Friday on suspicion that he held a woman suffering from multiple sclerosis captive in a tiny cabin in southern Sweden for nine years, media reported. ...
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Indian military warns PM over poor wages
The Indian military on Friday took its long-running battle for higher wages to the prime minister, warning poor perks were hurting morale in one of the world's biggest armies. ...
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NZ sweat on Carter, drop Howlett World Cup favourites New Zealand are sweating on the fitness of Dan Carter ahead of the quarter-final clash with France at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. ... more
Aust will miss Larkham, says Dallaglio Australia will miss the mercurial talents of Stephen Larkham at outside-half against England in this weekend's World Cup quarter-final, according to English forward Lawrence Dallaglio. ... more
Parks out for revenge over Pumas Dan Parks will be a man on a mission when Scotland's Australian born fly-half runs out against Argentina in their World Cup quarter-final on Sunday. ... more
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Kallis dream comes true in Pakistan Test
IRB and press at loggerheads
Italy have All Blacks on their minds
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US jobless rate jump sparks fears
US unemployment jumped to a five-year high of 6.1 percent in August as 84,000 jobs were slashed, according to a report Friday that sparked fresh fears about recession in the world's biggest economy. ...
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Nokia shares plunge 10 pct
Shares in Nokia, the world's biggest maker of mobile handsets, shed nearly 10 percent of their value on Friday after the Finnish group cut its forecast for its market share in the third quarter. ...
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Canada adds 15,000 jobs
Canadian employers added 15,000 jobs in August while the jobless rate held unchanged at 6.1 percent, Statistics Canada said Friday. ...
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World economic growth may slow
World economic growth could slow to 1-1.5 percent in 2009, about half of the projected 2.9 percent growth for 2008, the UN trade and development body's chief economist said on Thursday. ...
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Michael Moore to release new film online
Oscar-winning film-maker Michael Moore is to release his new film via the Internet for free as a gesture to fans, the film-maker said in a statement on Friday. ...
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Mickey Rourke punches up Venice filmfest
"The Wrestler" starring Mickey Rourke joined an impressive crop of American entries on Friday to help save the day at the Venice film festival, initially hit by a slew of negative reviews. ...
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Hendrix's burnt guitar fetches half-million
The first guitar that rock legend Jimi Hendrix burned on stage fetched 280,000 pounds (345,000 euros, 495,000 dollars) at an auction in London on Thursday. ...
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Obama gets second nod at Venice film festival
Filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow cast her vote for US presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Thursday as she presented her gut-wrenching Iraq war movie "The Hurt Locker" at the Venice film festival. ...
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Rio drug gang used alligators: police
A Rio de Janeiro drug gang used alligators to terrify residents of the slum they ran, and possibly even to make the bodies of murdered rivals "disappear," police said. ...
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Daddy, I'm in love - and he looks like you!
Men tend to wind up with life partners who look like their mother, while a woman is lured to a partner who looks like her father, scientists reported on Wednesday. ...
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Shark protester suspended by hooks
A British woman was suspended from the ceiling of a London shop by hooks put through her skin, in protest Wednesday against the practice of slicing fins from sharks and throwing them back into the ocean alive. ...
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Dullest August in Britain since 1929
Last month was the dullest August in Britain since records began in 1929, with just 105.5 hours of sunshine over the entire month ...
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Indian flood affected families shelter in a makeshift relief camp in Banmankhi some 400 kms north-east of Patna. Hundreds of thousands of flood victims huddled into makeshift camps in India and Nepal face major disease outbreaks if help fails to reach them quickly, aid workers have warned.@AFP
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