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Republican efforts to delay President Barack Obama's new policy allowing gays to serve openly in the military and limit his authority to slash the nation's nuclear arsenal face formidable opposition in the Democratic-controlled Senate. Early Thursday morning, the House Armed Services Committee approved a broad, $553 billion defense bill that would provide a 1.6 percent increase in military pay,

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Sheila Bair is stepping down as chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. this summer, ending a five-year term in which she helped craft the government's response to the 2008 financial crisis. Bair will leave her post as one of the top banking regulators on July 8, the FDIC said Monday. She was among the first officials to raise concerns about the explosion of high-risk lending to borrowers

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What do dozens of American billionaires talk about when they get together? Their topic this week was of course money; not how to make it, but how to give it away. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Friday that a private gathering was a great chance for the billionaires who have pledged to give away at least half their wealth to meet each other, compare notes, eat and laugh. The media was

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LONDON (AP) -- The son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has pleaded guilty to participating in a rampage during student protests that included an attack on a royal convoy. Charlie Gilmour was among thousands of students who demonstrated on Dec. 9 against rising university tuition fees. Some protesters broke away from the main demonstration and attacked cars accompanying the Rolls-Royce of

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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- A bloody border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia threatened to dominate an annual summit of Southeast Asian nations Saturday, with Myanmar's bid to become chair of the regional grouping and talks on easing economic disparities across borders also on the agenda. In his speech that opened the two-day summit, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Visa Inc.'s fiscal second-quarter profit leaped 24 percent, as consumers used their credit and debit cards more often in the U.S. and abroad. In fact, 60 percent of revenue growth for the quarter came from outside the U.S., Visa Chairman and CEO Joseph Saunders said Thursday after the San Francisco-based payment processing company released its results. That growth came despite

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Elvis has left the list. Ending a run that started in 1955, Elvis did not make the list of 1,000 most popular baby names compiled by the Social Security Administration. The name never topped the charts, peaking at No. 312 in 1957 and making a slight comeback after Elvis Presley died in 1977. But The King's first name was in the top 1,000 for 55 straight years, something that

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Victor Wald and Harry Ramos did not know each other until Sept. 11, but they died together trying to flee down a stairwell of the World Trade Center. Their names will be next to each other's on the national memorial at ground zero, one of hundreds of arrangements that emphasize victims' connections, not in alphabetical order. The National September 11 Memorial & Museum on

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- So much could have gone wrong as SEAL Team Six swept over Pakistan's dark landscape, dropped down ropes into a compound lined by wall after wall, exchanged gunfire and confronted "Geronimo" face to face. The vital things went right. Just about every contingency the 25 commandos trained for came at them, rapidly, chaotically and dangerously, in their lunge for Osama bin Laden.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- CBS Corp. produced a strong first-quarter performance and doubled its quarterly dividend in a sign that the television broadcaster believes it has recovered from the latest advertising downturn. The company's management on Tuesday credited the first-quarter gains to overhauling unprofitable businesses. CBS, which airs "Hawaii Five-O" and "CSI," also has been trying to lessen

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POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (AP) -- Thunder roared and tornado warning sirens blared, and all emergency workers in the southeast Missouri town of Poplar Bluff could do Monday was hope the saturated levee holding back the Black River would survive yet another downpour. Murky water flowed over the levee at more than three dozen spots and crept toward homes in the flood plain. Some had already flooded. If the

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States has never defaulted on its debt and Democrats and Republicans say they don't want it to happen now. But with partisan acrimony running at fever pitch, and Democrats and Republicans so far apart on how to tame the deficit, the unthinkable is suddenly being pondered. The government now borrows about 42 cents of every dollar it spends. Imagine that one day soon,

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Health insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc. trumped first-quarter earnings expectations Thursday and eased investor worry about the impact of a new health care overhaul requirement. The Minnetonka, Minn., company also raised its 2011 earnings and revenue forecast after net income rose 13 percent in the first quarter and enrollment grew. Its stock soared about 8 percent, or $3.52,

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DALLAS (AP) -- The U.S. government is adding new protections for travelers when airlines lose their bags, bump them off flights or hold them on the runway for hours. The airlines will also have to more clearly disclose the fees they charge. Consumer advocates say the wide-ranging regulations announced Wednesday would improve the flying experience. Still, they wanted regulators to get even tougher

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BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- A former bishop's televised admission that he sexually abused two of his nephews caused an uproar in Belgium on Friday, with the prime minister, senior clergy and a prosecutor expressing shock at the way the ex-prelate made light of his offenses. In an interview that aired Thursday Roger Vangheluwe, the former bishop of Bruges, spoke of his sexual abuse as "a little game

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CRESCENT CITY, Calif. (AP) -- Since the tidal gauge was installed in the boat basin in 1934, this small port on California's rugged northern coast has been hit by 34 tsunamis, large and small. The latest on Friday took one life about 20 miles to the south at the mouth of the Klamath River, where a young man was on the beach with friends taking pictures. The waves also roared into the boat basin

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MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Saturday he believes leaders in Persian Gulf ally Bahrain are serious about addressing grievances that have spawned a growing protest movement, but swift action is needed to deny rival Iran the chance to exploit the current instability. Gates told reporters on his flight home from the Mideast that he urged rulers in the kingdom,

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A Tunisian court has dissolved the political party of deposed President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. The court Wednesday also decided to liquidate the assets and funds of Democratic Constitutional Rally, or RCD. Pro-democracy activists had demanded that the party be dismantled since the president was driven from power on January 14. The interior ministry suspended the party from official activities

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Friday that the Pentagon has assured him that the Army private believed responsible for the largest leak of classified American documents ever is being held under appropriate conditions. He commented after the State Department's top spokesman made waves by describing the military's treatment of the suspect as "ridiculous" and "stupid." Pfc. Bradley

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NEW YORK (AP) -- There's something about the guy leaning on a post and checking his phone that catches Brandon Stanton's eye. So he stops, asks if he can take a photo, clicks and continues on his way. Stanton's been doing this for the past half an hour, walking the streets of the city, looking at the people he passes, stopping some and asking for a photo. And, surprisingly, in a city known more

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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) -- Long after the nets had been cut down, St. Peter's players sat courtside, looking around the arena where the team had just secured the school's first NCAA berth in 16 years. They almost couldn't believe it. Jeron Belin scored 17 points and the Peacocks (20-13) beat second-seeded Iona 62-57 to win the MAAC championship Monday. Nick Leon added 15 points for the

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. government quietly green-lighted a $77 million deal to provide at least 50 refurbished armored troop carriers to Moammar Gadhafi's army, approving a license that signaled growing American business contacts with his regime in the months before Libya imploded in civil war. Congress balked, concerned the deal would improve Libyan army mobility and questioning the Obama

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Estonia's center-right coalition will hold on to power after winning the most seats in Sunday's parliamentary election. With almost all the votes counted, Prime Minister Andrus Ansip's Reform Party appears headed to win 33 seats, while its partner, the Pro Patria and Res Republica Union, is set to win 23 seats. That would give their coalition a 56-seat majority - a gain of six seats. According to

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ELK GROVE, Calif. (AP) -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations has offered a $5,000 reward after two Sikh men were gunned down - one of them fatally - on a sidewalk in a Northern California suburb. The executive director of the council's Sacramento Valley chapter noted that Sikh men in beards and turbans are often targeted by those who mistake them for Muslims. "The Muslim community offers

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Hundreds of protesters upset at human rights violations under the previous Egyptian government tried to storm a building of the internal security service Friday in Alexandria, even as demonstrators in Cairo welcomed Egypt's new prime minister. In Cairo's Tahrir [Liberation] Square, Essam Sharaf, told the crowds that he is working to meet the people's demands. Sharaf, a U.S.-educated civil

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Belarus has denied allegations of large-scale torture in a secret service jail for political prisoners. The statement comes after a just-released former presidential candidate and a leading activist spoke to reporters about the alleged mistreatment of inmates. The secret service of Belarus, known as the KGB, has strongly denied allegations of wrongdoing in its detention facility. But former

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VIENNA (AP) -- The TV cameras were told to ignore her, and Austria's rich and powerful sought to avoid her. But amid all the bling on display at the Vienna Opera Ball, most eyes were still on one particular jewel - Ruby. With Ruby, a.k.a. Karima el-Mahroug, at the center of the scandal plaguing Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, her scheduled appearance at Austria's ball of balls on Thursday was

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BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese Communist Party-run newspaper on Saturday attacked anti-government protest movements in the Middle East and dismissed the possibility of something similar happening in China. Such movements have brought nothing but chaos and misery to their countries' citizens and are engineered by a small number of people using the Internet to organize illegal meetings, the Beijing

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RAS ADJIR, Tunisia (AP) -- Bangladeshis washed themselves with bottles of drinking water and Egyptians fought over bread handed out by aid workers Thursday as thousands fleeing chaos in Libya took refuge in this border town that didn't have enough toilets, beds or food to meet the needs of a growing humanitarian crisis. The stench of feces made the air uncomfortable to breath, trash was

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LONDON (AP) -- Both Portugal and Greece could see their debts further downgraded in the next two months, ratings agency Standard & Poor's warned Wednesday, depending on what happens at a crucial European leaders' summit later this month. The agency said in a report it is maintaining its A- rating on Portugal and its BB+ rating on Greece but has kept both countries on so-called "CreditWatch with

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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) -- Nervous? Not at all. Bryce Harper said he was perfectly comfortable during his much-anticipated debut with the Washington Nationals - maybe even too comfortable. The 18-year-old phenom struck out twice and didn't see any action in the field Monday as the Nationals beat the New York Mets 9-3 in their spring training opener. But the top pick in last year's amateur draft

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Construction barriers have gone up around a Beijing site that activists have designated for regular Sunday afternoon protests. The bright blue barriers stand in the plaza in front of the McDonalds on Beijing's Wangfujing Street, which is where an online campaign urges people to demonstrate. A notice on the barrier Friday said the pavement has sunk, and so needs to be repaired. The campaign drew

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MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) -- Jacob Pullen scored 24 points, including a rare career milestone, and Kansas State pulled away in the final minutes to beat No. 20 Missouri 80-70 on Saturday. Curtis Kelly added 15 points and six rebounds for the resurgent Wildcats (20-9, 8-6), who have won six of seven and are battling Missouri (22-7, 8-6) for the fourth and final bye in the Big 12 tournament. Pullen

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(CNN) -- World No. 1 Lee Westwood's miserable record at the World Match Play continued as more top names crashed out of the $8.5 million tournament in Arizona. The Englishman lost to American Nick Watney for the second year in a row as he followed fourth-ranked Phil Mickelson, two-time runner-up Paul Casey, former world No. 1 Ernie Els and rising star Rory McIlroy in making a second-round exit.

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(CNN) -- World No.1 Caroline Wozniacki came through her opener against Nadia Petrova at the WTA Qatar Open after a string of seeded players crashed out Wednesday. Wozniacki, fresh from her triumph in Dubai, had little trouble against 2006 champion Petrova, running out a 6-3 6-2 winner in their second round match. "It's great to start off with a win and continue with my good form after Dubai," the

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The gap between the average sale price of a foreclosed home and that of other properties grew wider last year, giving homebuyers who snapped up bank-owned homes big discounts. And homebuyers can expect to see more of those bargains this year, because fewer foreclosed homes were sold in 2010 than were taken back by banks, foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday.

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Pakistani officials have again said the country's courts will decide the fate of a detained U.S. consulate employee accused of murder, who media reports say works for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Reuters news agency on Tuesday quoted President Asif Ali Zardari's spokesman, as saying the matter is in court and "we will wait for the court decision in this case." Raymond Davis was arrested

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Heads of state from the African Union are traveling to Ivory Coast Monday in hopes of resolving the political crisis between rival governments there. Members of a high-level African Union delegation began arriving in Abidjan Monday to meet with the country's rival presidents, though many Ivorian's remain doubtful that diplomacy will solve the violent post-election crisis, now nearing the end of

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NEW YORK (AP) -- In a city of millions, how many people go knocking on the door of City Hall? Most citizens know that, at least in theory, they can bring their problems and ideas to elected officials. But in reality, speaking at a public hearing, calling a complaint line or writing a letter can be time-consuming and seem to make little impact, with small-scale concerns getting bogged down in

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(CNN) -- Sri Lanka opened their 2011 Cricket World Cup with a thumping 210-run win over Group A outsiders Canada in front of a home crowd in Hambantota. An 81-ball century from Mahela Jayawardene -- the fastest by a Sri Lankan at a World Cup -- and 92 from captain Kumar Sangakkara laid the foundations for Sri Lanka's formidable total of 332 for seven. The pair shared a third wicket partnership of

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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Randy Loughner was always reclusive. But since his son's alleged shooting rampage last month, the father has shut himself behind what one neighbor calls "an elaborate cage." In recent weeks, Loughner has built a substantial wooden enclosure, more than 6 feet high, obscuring his front door and windows. The four horizontal windows on the garage door have been papered over, the

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Organized labor is trying to re-energize and take advantage of the growing backlash from the wave of anti-union sentiment in Wisconsin and more than a dozen other states. President Barack Obama and his political machine are offering tactical support, eager to repair strained relations with some union leaders upset over his recent overtures to business. The potent combination

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When you are Prefering diamond engagement rings, prefer carefully as this ring is something that your future wife will hopefully wear for the rest of her life. Not whole diamond rings are engagement rings. Diamond engagement rings generally have one diamond larger than the rest or consist of a single diamond. These types of diamond engagement rings are called a solitaire. A long time ago, women

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HA LONG BAY, Vietnam (AP) -- Italian traveler Stefano Corda felt an ominous tilt as dinner was served, but his tour boat crew assured him everything was fine. A few hours later, Corda and his friend jumped for their lives into Vietnam's famed Ha Long Bay as water raced inside the wooden vessel, sucking it down and killing 12 people from nine countries. Vacationers from the U.S., Britain,

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DARWIN, Australia (AP) -- A cyclone struck a glancing blow on Australia's main northern city Wednesday, two weeks after a much stronger storm devastated another part of the weather-weary country. Cyclone Carlos knocked down trees and power lines and caused limited flooding as it passed by the city of Darwin with heavy rain and wind gusts up to 80 mph (130 kph). Schools, the airport and government

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Dating, flirting, cheating - social media and other online venues are ripe for making and breaking romantic alliances, suggests an online survey of 1,000 Americans 18 and older being released today. "Fundamentally, what social media has done is make it unbelievably easier to flirt and meet people and follow up," says David Jones, global CEO of ad and marketing agency Euro RSCG Worldwide. Its

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Residents of a town in eastern Congo have found the bodies of 11 civilians who were kidnapped by Ugandan rebels. Authorities in the eastern town of Beni, in North Kivu province, had launched a search for the victims after they were abducted about two weeks ago. Local officials said Tuesday that the bodies were badly decomposed and showed signs of torture, though it was not immediately clear how

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Philadelphia police suspect a London woman who died after a botched buttocks enhancement may have been killed when a fumbled injection filled her lung with silicone and caused a fatal embolism. Authorities were seeking to question a local singer who may have injected Claudia Aderotimi, 20, who died after the illegal procedure at a Hampton Inn near the Philadelphia International Airport earlier

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They're a dream of numerous Peoples to own up a Newport Beach Home, because we all Cognize Newport Beach is among the world's fullest and opulent urban center to domicile. Newport Beach, integrated in 1906, is a metropolis in Orange County, California, United States 10 miles (16 km) south of Downtown Santa Ana. Newport Beach is one of places with bluest universe concentration as its entire

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Milan, Italy (CNN) -- A judge in Italy is set to announce whether Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will face an immediate trial on charges of abuse of power and sex with an underage prostitute. Prosecutors in Milan filed the request for trial last week, setting in motion a five-day clock for Judge Cristina di Censo to make a decision. She can order the trial to go ahead without the traditional

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Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- At least 19 people were killed and 49 wounded when armed attackers targeted a police headquarters in southern Afghanistan Saturday, Afghan and NATO officials said. The attackers entered a hotel and opened fire at a Kandahar police post. There were also suicide bombers involved, said a statement from NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). After first

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WASHINGTON -- If the mood at the Conservative Political Action Conference is any gauge, Republican presidential hopefuls have a lot of convincing to do in order to sway the base to their side. As candidates jockey for position ahead of the 2012 campaign, conservative activists are projecting a whole lot of uncertainty about the field that's starting to take shape. Attendees at the annual

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He'll be back: Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sent out a Twitter message Thursday saying he's ready to start acting again (no jokes about his performance in Sacramento, please). "Exciting news," Schwarzenegger tweeted. "My friends at CAA have been asking me for 7 years when they can take offers seriously. Gave them the green light today." His camp isn't saying what roles he might be

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Liberal groups and bloggers have launched radio ads targeting House Republicans in some swing districts for voting for repeal of the nation's health care law. Americans United for Change, Daily Kos and Blue America have teamed up on the campaign, which targets House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and fellow Republicans Charlie Bass of New Hampshire, Sandy Adams of Florida and

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(CNN) -- Australian Open finalist Andy Murray suffered his second successive defeat as he was bundled out of the World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam on Wednesday. The British player, second seed in the absence of his injured Melbourne conqueror Novak Djokovic, lost in straight sets to Marcos Baghdatis in the Dutch hardcourt event. The big-serving Cypriot triumphed 6-4 6-1 to take a 3-1 career

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A drug derived from the popular curry spice turmeric could help aid the recovery of stroke patients, U.S. researchers found. Scientists from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center announced Wednesday that they created a new molecule from curcumin -- a chemical component of turmeric -- and found in laboratory experiments that it affects mechanisms that protect and help regenerate brain cells after a stroke.

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Egypt's vice president says the government will not tolerate prolonged anti-government protests in Cairo's main square, where hundreds of thousands of people gathered Tuesday in the latest effort to force the ouster of long-serving President Hosni Mubarak. Egypt's state-run MENA news agency quotes Vice President Omar Suleiman as saying that a crisis triggered by 16 days of anti-Mubarak protests

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(CNN) -- Injured Formula One star Robert Kubica needs more surgery before he can start rehabilitation following his crash at the weekend. The Polish driver's team said the 26-year-old would remain in hospital for up to three weeks after the operations in Italy, where he had been competing in a rally event. "On Thursday, Robert should undergo some more surgery in order to stabilize the fractures

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Indonesia's foreign minister is in Bangkok for talks aimed at ending border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia that have killed and wounded dozens of people since Friday. The border area near Preah Vihear temple, where troops exchanged automatic weapons and artillery fire for four straight days, was reported quiet but tense on Tuesday, with villages on either side of the border largely emptied

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They may fall off the pop charts, some might even lose the muse. But these days old rock stars need not worry about fading away, not when there's a college classroom nearby. Rock's gangster of love himself, Steve Miller, created some buzz recently when he became an artist-in-residence at the prestigious University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music. But it turns out the guy who

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In the coming months, parts of southern Africa may experience the worst flooding in the last 20 or 30 years. That's the warning Monday from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). It says the La Nina weather phenomenon has brought heavier than normal rainfall, destroying thousands of hectares of agricultural land and crops so far. The seasonal rainy season is only half over and the

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(CNN) -- Two men were arrested Sunday in connection with a shooting that left an Ohio university student dead and 11 other people wounded, police said. The men, 19 and 22, were arrested without incident and with help from the FBI, Youngstown Police Chief Jimmy Hughes said. Their names were not released. Neither has yet been charged, but Hughes said police are not looking for any other suspects.

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Lindsay Lohan hit headlines (again) last week when she was accused of stealing a $2500 necklace from a Venice boutique, which she claimed she simply borrowed and her stylist forgot to return, but the matter is turning into something much bigger than a mere miscommunication. Lohan will be charged with felony grand theft as early as next week, according to TMZ, and faces a maximum three years in a

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ATLANTA - Deepwater permits in the Gulf of Mexico have been withheld largely because the industry is unable to prove it could contain another major blowout at the bottom of the sea, the head of the agency that oversees offshore drilling said Friday. Michael Bromwich, director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, made the disclosure in a letter he sent to

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In honor of Super Bowl XLV, we give you the bets made by politicos cheering for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers. Food is almost always on the line when it comes to these big game wagers, and the bet placed by freshman Republican senators Pat Toomey and Ron Johnson will make a doctor wince. If the Steelers win, Johnson will send Wisconsin's finest cheese, bratwurst and beer. If the

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Will fans on the sidelines violate the NFL's rules? U.S. prosecutors have recently shut down a group of websites that planned to live-stream the NFL's moneymaking Super Bowl. But there's little prosecutors can do to stop the real problem in the stands: smartphones. Ten websites that provided links for pirated streams of games in the National Football and Hockey Leagues, the National Basketball

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Embattled drugmaker K-V Pharmaceutical Co (KVa.N) (KVb.N) said U.S. health regulators approved its drug for reducing the risk of preterm birth in women with singleton pregnancy, and its shares more than doubled to their highest in a year. According to the terms of an existing agreement with Hologic Inc (HOLX.O), worldwide rights to the drug - Makena - will be transferred to K-V pending certain

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The Office of Naval Research, the high-tech research and all-things-awesome arm of the Navy, has begun testing blast-proof ballistic eyewear that instantly alters tints in response to changing light conditions -- going from shaded to clear in barely a quarter of a second. The super sunglasses -- to which the ONR has assigned the functional yet boring name of Fast-Tint Protective Eyewear -- rely

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has marked his 12th anniversary in power, saying "the battle has begun" for his 2012 re-election. President Chavez made the comment Wednesday in a broadcast speech in which he listed his accomplishments and apologized for his mistakes. Mr. Chavez - who is a sharp critic of the United States and ally of communist Cuba - took power in 1999. Three years later, he

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The head of the International Monetary Fund says the global lending agency has learned from mistakes it made handling the Asian financial crisis in 1997 and 1998. IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn made the admission during an Asian tour that brought him Wednesday to Indonesia for a meeting with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The agency remains highly unpopular in the country

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The Senate Ethics Committee has appointed a special counsel to investigate whether Sen. John Ensign broke Senate rules stemming from his affair with a former aide. The Justice Department said last year that it would not seek criminal prosecution against Ensign, R-Nev. Ensign is up for re-election in 2012. The New York Times reported in 2009 that Ensign helped Douglas Hampton, a former aide,

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Even in the age of the Internet and DVDs, classical theater is flourishing in New York. Some of the plays in the Brooklyn Academy of Music's 2011 classical theater season are over 400 years old but ticket sales have been brisk. Joe Melillo, BAM's executive producer, says theatergoers are hungry for a diet of Ibsen, Gogol and Shakespeare. "They're flying, they have, like, little wings," he says. "

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Researchers have found a compound that tumors make when they are likely to spread, and said they hope to use to it predict which patients are most at risk of dying from their cancers. And experiments in mice show there may be a way to block the protein, preventing cancer from spreading and becoming deadly. The findings, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, are at a very early stage

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The African Union has named five heads of state to work toward resolution of Ivory Coast's political crisis. The African Union says it expects the panel to complete its work within one month. The leaders of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania, South Africa and Tanzania will work alongside the current head of the African Union and the leader of the Economic Community of West African States, or ECOWAS.

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LONDON - Scientists have shown how an "artificial pancreas" can help pregnant women with type 1 diabetes and say their finding could significantly reduce cases of stillbirth and death among diabetic expectant mothers. British researchers used a so-called "closed-loop insulin delivery system" or artificial pancreas, in 10 pregnant women with Type 1 diabetes and found it provided the right amount

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More than 25 African leaders are in Ethiopia's capital for a two-day summit focusing mainly on political and security concerns. The annual gathering, beginning Sunday, will feature mini-summits on Ivory Coast, Sudan and Somalia, as well as discuss several other hotspots, such as Niger and Madagascar. However, AU Commission Chairman Jean Ping says two of the continent's late-breaking political

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For-profit colleges are reaping hundreds of millions of dollars in federal higher education aid for military personnel and veterans, a Democratic senator reported Thursday. The money represents a fast-growing source of revenue for an industry that has come under government scrutiny because of allegations that its students are often overloaded with debt and fail to obtain jobs whose salaries

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Egyptians armed with low-tech electronic gadgets like dial-up modems, landlines and old-school satellite phones are finding ways to get their message out, despite efforts by the teetering government to block communication. Those who had been using social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to distribute images and video to the outside world have had to come up more creative ways to

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Six months after Pakistan was struck by devastating floods, United Nations aid agencies report the crisis is far from over. They say millions of people still are in need of humanitarian aid. The United Nations reports the situation in many parts of Pakistan, especially in the southern province of Sindh, is still dire. Floods have affected around 20 million people and damaged or destroyed around

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U.S. police say an American missionary was fatally shot in Mexico on Wednesday. They say gunmen tried to stop the vehicle the 59-year-old woman and her husband were travelling in near San Fernando. The men shot at the car as her husband sped away. The woman later died at a hospital in the U.S. town McAllen, Texas, which is near the Mexican border. The couple was returning from a mission near San

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HONOLULU - The top enlisted sailor on a Pearl Harbor-based nuclear submarine has been fired after his arrest on a drunken driving charge. Senior Chief Petty Officer Savan Patel was relieved as chief of the boat on the USS Louisville on Jan. 5 by the vessel's top officer, Cmdr. Lee Sisco. The Pacific Fleet Submarine Force told The Honolulu Star-Advertiser that Sisco had lost confidence in Patel's

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(CNN) -- There has been no claim of responsibility yet for the devastating suicide bombing at Moscow's airport on Monday -- but analysts say it bears all the hallmarks of the "Caucasus Emirate" and its leader, Doku Umarov. Umarov, thought to be 46 years old, is a seasoned fighter who has survived more than three years as the self-styled leader of the Caucasus Emirate -- an achievement in itself

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EXCLUSIVE: A book celebrating suicide bombers has been found in the Arizona desert just north of the U.S.- Mexican border, authorities tell Fox News. The book, "In Memory of Our Martyrs," was spotted Tuesday by a U.S. Border Patrol agent out of the Casa Grande substation who was patrolling a route known for smuggling illegal immigrants and drugs. Published in Iran, it consists of short

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DALLAS -- A woman described by police as a U.S. missionary died at a Texas hospital Wednesday after her husband brought her mortally wounded over a Rio Grande bridge from Mexico, where he said she had been shot in the head by gunmen in a pickup truck. The husband relayed to Texas authorities a frantic episode of the couple being fired upon in Mexico and then flooring their truck at top speed back

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Two months ago, North Korea shelled a South Korean island, killing four people. Most residents of that island and a neighboring islet have yet to return to their homes, in part for fear of another attack. But the islanders hope that the chance of talks between Seoul and Pyongyang will make it easier to go home. Post-attack About 900 Yeonpyeong islanders are staying in government-supplied

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Remember that time, in Mississippi in 1977, when the number-crunchers fed into the mainframe computer one more district than the state actually had -- and the darned thing worked anyway? Spat out a perfect redistricting plan -- for the whole state! And remember all those times when lawmakers sidled right up to the redistricting guys, and discreetly leaned on 'em, to make sure the lawmakers'

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Russia's State Duma has ratified a landmark nuclear arms pact with the United States, sending the treaty to the upper house of parliament for final approval. Following the vote Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama called Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to congratulate him. The White House says the two leaders pledged to build on this progress during the coming year. The Duma voted 350-to-96

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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Despite a weak U.S. economy and a drug war that has turned this city into Mexico's deadliest, the maquiladoras are on the rebound. These assembly-for-export plants that crank out everything from brake pads to plasma TVs for U.S. companies are opening new facilities, expanding existing ones and hiring more employees. Some firms looking for lower costs have even begun

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When life gets stressful for Mary Kammerer, she retreats into a spare bedroom in her house. She lights candles or burns incense, listens to meditation music - sometimes she talks to her mom, whose ashes she keeps in the room. She doesn't allow any interruptions. Her husband and pets know to stay away and she leaves her cellphone in the other room. She lies on the air mattress, closes her eyes and

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Newly energized by their success in November's midterm elections, conservative legislators in dozens of states are mounting aggressive campaigns to limit abortions. The lawmakers are drafting, and some have already introduced, bills that would ban most abortions at 20 weeks after conception, push women considering abortions to view a live ultrasound of the fetus, or curb insurance coverage, among

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President Barack Obama delivers his second State of the Union Address to the nation on Tuesday, before a joint session of the U.S. Congress. President Barack Obama will face a dramatically altered balance of power in the House of Representatives when he addresses Congress and the nation Tuesday in his State of the Union address. Republicans are now in the majority in the House, and they have

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SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- President Barack Obama said Friday that "putting the economy into overdrive" is a top priority, even as a new poll showed the public giving his economic policies poor marks so far. The Associated Press-GfK poll underscored the selling job that confronts the president as he prepares to seek a second term: People like Obama personally, but just 35% say the economy's gotten

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