| World News  | Mbeki seeks team to help mediate Zimbabwe crisis
The Star
HARARE (Reuters) - South African President Thabo Mbeki has proposed forming a team drawn from regional bodies and the United Nations to help him mediate in the worsening crisis in neighbouring Zimbabwe. South African President Thabo Mbeki is seen in Pretoria in this June 19, 2008 file photo. Mbeki has proposed forming a team drawn from regional bodies and the United Nations to help him mediate in the worsening crisis in neighbouring Zimbabwe....
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|  | Blast kills 9 Indian soldiers in Kashmir
CNN
From CNN's Mukhtar Ahmad SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir (CNN) -- A blast from an improvised explosive device killed nine Indian soldiers traveling Saturday in an army convoy and wounded more than 10, an army spokesman said....
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|  | Angelina Jolie, Newborn Twins Leave French Hospital
Fox News
PARIS - Angelina Jolie and her newborn twins early Saturday left the French hospital where she gave birth, the Fondation Lenval said. Before dawn, the Hollywood superstar left the clinic in the Riviera city of Nice with twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt, according to a hospital statement. It was not immediately clear...
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|  | Bishops urged to show 'true remorse' after Pope's apology
Irish Times
Catholic bishops and priests were today urged to demonstrate true remorse for clerical child sex abuse after Pope Benedict publicly apologised to victims in Australia. The One-in-Four support group welcomed the Pope's strong apology but warned previous words had not been matched by actions in the Catholic Church's hierarchy. The Pope told Australian bishops and seminarians he was deeply sorry for�clerical abuse and that perpetrators must be...
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|  | Ancient Egyptian boat to be excavated, reassembled -
Yahoo Daily News
By JASON KEYSER, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 25 minutes ago CAIRO, Egypt - Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the craft, Egyptologists announced Saturday. The 4,500-year-old vessel is the sister ship of a similar boat removed in pieces from another pit in 1954 and painstakingly reconstructed. Experts believe...
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|  | Gordon Brown agrees to cut British troops in Iraq
The Times
Gordon Brown, on a flying visit to Baghdad and Basra, said today he plans to further cut the number of British troops in southern Iraq following a drop in attacks, but he declined to set a timeframe for their departure. An Iraqi Government official said he hoped British forces would exit within a year. The British Prime Minister also agreed with Nouri al-Maliki, his Iraqi counterpart, to set up two teams, Iraqi and British, to study the...
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|  | US General: Al-Qaida May Be Easing Effort In Iraq
CBS News
Senior leaders of al-Qaida may be diverting fighters from the war in Iraq to the Afghan frontier area, the top American commander in Iraq told The Associated Press on Saturday. Gen. David Petraeus also said al-Qaida may be reconsidering Iraq as its highest priority war front....
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|  | Iran rules out suspending enrichment program
The Associated Press
GENEVA (AP) -- Iran on Saturday ruled out freezing its uranium enrichment program, casting doubt over the value of its talks with six world powers less then an hour after they started. The talks - with the U.S. in attendance for the first time - had raised expectations of possible compromise on a formula under which Iran would agree to stop expanding its enrichment activities. In exchange, the six powers - including the five permanent U.N....
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| Business News  | Govt jobs lead pay stakes
NZ Herald
Businesses are struggling to attract staff tempted by less-stressful roles in the booming public sector. The number of people working for Government departments grew by 11 per cent between 2002 and June last year, to almost 325,000. In Wellington, the public sector workforce leapt from 11,940 in 2000 to 18,530 last year. David Lowe, of the Employers and Manufacturers Association, accused Government departments of...
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|  | Top tips: Business on the web
NZ Herald
Michael Turner Michael Turner, founder of Eventfinder Ltd, discusses business on the web. What's the first step in launching a website? You need to clearly define what your objective is. A cost-effective way for people to find and contact your business? An easier way for people to do business with you? Whatever your business, you need to...
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|  | Crossed lines on bills
NZ Herald
Some Vodafone customers have been overcharged thousands of dollars but the telco is tight-lipped about its "revolutionary billing system". Vodafone denied Herald on Sunday requests for an interview and refused to answer certain written questions,...
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|  | Epson launches new products
The Philippine Star
Japanese electronics giant Epson has unveiled a new line of business solutions for the Philippine market in its bid to strengthen its presence in the local corporate sector. The company is targeting a 10 percent growth in revenues this year from its Philippine operations, thus the need to revamp its selling strategy in the local corporate market. From printers that cut paper and energy consumption to high-quality projectors that minimize the need...
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|  | Investors flock to forced house sales
NZ Herald
This Half Moon Bay property is currently for sale by mortgagee tender. Photo / Doug Sherring As homeowners struggle under high interest rates on top of escalating food and fuel bills, mortgagee sale numbers are rising - attracting property investors who are snapping up homes for a fraction of their valuations. High-profile property investor and educator Dean Letfus says, "pretty much any" investors are monitoring mortgagee sales at present....
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|  | A champion of women
Canada Dot Com
Promoting female execs a global priority This is more than a story about numbers. However, the numbers are significant -- impressive, even. And they make a compelling business case for why more women should occupy the executive suite in companies across the land and hold more seats around board-of-director tables. Catalyst, a non-profit advisory group working toward inclusivity in business, looked at the relationship between women's...
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|  | Keeping tabs on the internet
NZ Herald
Mako Networks CEO Bill Farmer If you suspect your employees are wasting too much time surfing unproductive internet websites, here's a company with a technology product that may internet you. Savvy businesses first leapt on the broadband bandwagon in the late 1990s. They had to if they wanted to keep up with competitors. But, as Simon Gamble and Chris Massam realised while working for internet service provider Telecom Xtra, many were...
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|  | Fuel economy ratings for cars soon
The Times Of India
19 Jul 2008, 0138 hrs IST, Nitin Sethi,TNN NEW DELHI: The government is set to launch a system of fuel economy ratings for cars by the year end that will enable you to know exactly what mileage to expect from the new car you wish to buy and how it stacks up with other models in its class. To begin with, the government will invite carmakers to voluntarily get their models labelled by the designated agency...
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|  | Tsang Legco appearance ends on sour note
Hong Kong Standard
Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam- kuen yesterday gave his description of what he meant by "close and distant relationships." //--> Diana Lee Thursday, July 17, 2008 Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam- kuen yesterday gave his description of what he meant by "close and distant relationships." "Close means close to the public and considering their interests ahead of oneself," an agitated Tsang told a Legislative...
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| Entertainment News  | Teri Garr standing tall
The Providence Journal
HOLLYWOOD - When rumors started circulating in the late 1990s that she had multiple sclerosis, actress Teri Garr discovered a lot of Hollywood was afraid to even meet with her about potential acting gigs. Although she managed to keep working, interviews went from rare to nonexistent for the popular comedic actress who was Oscar-nominated for Tootsie. "When you hear the word 'disabled,' people immediately think about people who can't walk or talk...
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|  | Priyanka: High on life
The Times Of India
18 Jul 2008, 0000 hrs IST, Sukanya Venkatraghavan,TNN She is the stuff purple-hued fantasies are made of. She is sugar and spice and all things nice. She looks vulnerable, yet she knows her mind. Priyanka Chopra sure has the world at her feet. And while she may look like the perfect blueprint for beauty with brains, this former Miss World has also used the mystical combo of luck with perseverance to get...
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|  | Producer smooths 'Grey's' snit
Toledo Blade
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - ABC put on a panel with executive producers from their hit series, and despite some uncomfortable questions to Grey's Anatomy executive producer Shonda Rhimes about Katherine Heigl's perceived diss of the show's writers, it was a pretty good-natured exchange among a group of smart, funny panelists. (For those who don't remember, Heigl refused to allow her name to be put in contention for an Emmy nomination, saying, "I did...
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|  | Hollywood celebs hunt UFOs
News24
Los Angeles - David Beckham's sons are avid UFO spotters. The soccer star's friend Robbie Williams - who has previously admitted that UFOs fascinate him - heard about nine-year-old Brooklyn, five-year-old Romeo and three-year-old Cruz's passion and has made it his mission to ensure they have a close encounter of the third kind. Whenever Robbie hears that an unidentified object has been seen above Los Angeles, he phones David so he can take his...
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|  | Big Three consoles compete at E3
Canada Dot Com
One thing was clear at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, the annual video-game industry trade show in Los Angeles: there may be three companies in a struggle for world domination, but all three are betting on different paths to victory. After Microsoft's Xbox 360 news conference Monday and Nintendo and Sony's presentations Tuesday, the once-murky picture for the coming year has become much more clear, but the only thing the companies...
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| Health News  | Flu hits hard this year
NZ Herald
If you think this winter's flu season is worse than last year, you're right. Photo / Martin Sykes About 3300 people visited GPs with flu-like symptoms last week, twice the number for the equivalent period last year. Environmental Science and Research based the figure on reports of 253 consultations from 75 general practices around the country. Experts say...
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|  | Tomato growers: Salmonella scare damages industry
The News & Observer
RICHMOND, Va. - The 6,000 acres of tomatoes grown on Virginia's sea-swept Eastern Shore were never implicated in the national salmonella outbreak - they were still on the vine weeks after people starting getting sick. Still, that hasn't made much difference to tomato broker Batista Madonia III, who has seen sales and prices plummet in the wake of a salmonella outbreak that sickened people in 42 states and left the nation's tomato industry feeling...
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|  | Church told: Leave govt population policy alone
The Manila Times
By Rhaydz B. Barcia, Correspondent LEGAZPI CITY, Albay: Sen. Francis "Chiz" Escudero told Catholic Church leaders in the country to stop intervening in the government's population policy because they are not demographers. The church leaders "have no right to interfere in the population policy of the government because they don't know about and don't have the expertise regarding population management," Escudero told reporters during a...
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|  | Traffic deaths a public health crisis like aids
The Manila Times
By Brian Afuang, Motoring Editor On April 25, the United Nations General Assembly, driven by the worsening global road safety situation—despite action taken by various UN agencies through the decades—passed "Resolution 62/244 Improving global road safety." The resolution: 1.Invites Member States to actively participate in the development of the global road safety status report being prepared by the World Health Organization;...
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|  | Falls Are Top Cause of Injury, Death Among Elderly
Healthfinder
Not all homes are the same, but common sense measures can reduce the risk, expert says. this article to news version (SOURCE: American Geriatrics Society, news release, July 2008) SATURDAY, July 19 (HealthDay News) -- Falls are a leading cause of serious injury and death among elderly people in the United States, and most of those falls occur in the home, says the American Geriatric Society (AGS). "There are many steps people can take to make...
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|  | Stores and restaurants affected by the state's jalepeno and avocado recall
The News & Observer
Alamance County Plaza Latina Grill 502 W. Elm St., Graham Plaza Latina Meat Market 502 W. Elm St., Graham Guzmans Market 813 E, Webb Ave., Burlinton Compare Food Burlington 2210 W. Webb Ave., Burlington Anson County Carolina Produce 310 Dunn St., Morven Buncombe County El Mariachi 503 New Leicester Hwy, Asheville Caldwell County Pancho Villa 231 Pinewood Road, Granite Falls Pancho Villa 2153 C Morganton Blvd., Lenoir Cabarras County Casa Grande...
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|  | Healthy people cost a bundle
Seattle Times
The word "prevention" has a nice ring in any health-care discussion. Thus, many politicians argue that programs to stop smoking, improve diets and otherwise promote wholesome living save money in the long run. A healthier population at less cost - sounds like a win-win situation. Unfortunately, that formulation is a pleasant fantasy. Medical economists agree that cancer screenings and gym classes can lead to physical well-being and longer lives....
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| Politics News  | Turkey turns westwards
The Guardian
If, as is widely expected, the Islamist AKP party is thrown out, an electoral earthquake is possible The perennial, passionate debate over the place of Islam in Turkish society is reaching another crossroads. Within the next few weeks, the constitutional court will conclude a case brought against the ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) by the military for "anti-secular activities". It is widely expected that it will close down the...
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|  | Pakistan's uneasy alliance with US
BBC News
Lately though, the anti-Americanism has swelled to a tide, not only in the border region but in the more Westernised urban centres as well. Even the usually cloistered American ambassador, Anne Patterson, felt the chill. "I'm surprised at the depth of anti-Americanism," she admitted in a recent meeting with Pakistani businessmen, "especially in the middle classes." She reminded her audience of how Pakistan benefits from US economic assistance and...
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|  | FM downplays Fitch rating
The Statesman
NEW DELHI, July 18: Union finance minister Mr P Chidambaram today downplayed the lowering of India's credit outlook by global rating agency Fitch, saying it was not a cause for concern as economic fundamentals were strong. One rating agency has revised the outlook from stable to negative. I do...
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|  | Barack Obama: All the world's his stage
The Guardian
Europe gets ready for a media hoopla over the visit of America's Democratic darling John McCain's no-nonsense style had made him a darling of the media, but only a gaggle of hacks followed the Republican hopeful on his recent foreign trips. Contrast that with the attention the US media is about to lavish on Barack Obama's whirlwind tour to Europe, Iraq and Afghanistan next week. All three main US...
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