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AFP – Southeast Asian health ministers will meet next Friday to discuss a common regional approach to the swine flu threat, Thailand’s public health ministry said.
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AP – Anil Ambani does not wait in traffic.
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AP – President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that his government will not tolerate incursions by Colombian rebels into Venezuelan territory.
Read More: Chavez says Colombia rebels unwelcome in Venezuela
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AP – Fiji’s military ruler defied international pressure to announce elections by Friday, confirming that he would not hold them for at least five years and setting the stage for his country’s ouster from a South Pacific bloc.
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AP – An 8-year-old Saudi girl has divorced her middle-aged husband after her father forced her to marry him last year in exchange for about $13,000, her lawyer said Thursday. Saudi Arabia has come under increasing criticism at home and abroad for permitting child marriages. The United States, a close ally of the conservative Muslim kingdom, has called child marriage a “clear and unacceptable” violation of human rights.
Read More: 8-year-old Saudi girl divorces 50-year-old husband
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AP – A jetliner struggled to liftoff and only took flight after slamming its tail into the runway in March because someone entered the wrong weight for the plane into the flight’s computer, Australian investigators said Thursday.
Read More: Jet takeoff in Australia marred by bad weight data
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AP – Mexican health authorities said Thursday they confirmed 300 swine flu cases and 12 deaths due to the virus among a total of 679 people tested so far.
Read More: Mexico: 300 confirmed swine flu cases, 12 dead
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AP – North Korea said Friday it is intensifying its investigation into a South Korean worker detained on suspicion of denouncing the communist nation’s government, indicating it had no intention of releasing him any time soon.
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Reuters – The Disney Channel is grooming “Wizards of Waverly Place” as its next blockbuster tween franchise in the mold of “High School Musical” and “Hannah Montana.”
Read More: Disney conjures up more "Wizards"
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Reuters – Jim Carrey has emerged as a leading candidate to star in “The Beaver,” an offbeat comedy-drama that centers on the relationship between a man and a beaver puppet he wears on his arm.
Read More: Carrey eyed for lead in "Beaver"
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AP – A Georgia man who told police he and Tyra Banks “had a thing together” was convicted Thursday of stalking the supermodel-turned-TV host.
Read More: US man convicted in NYC of stalking Tyra Banks
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E! Online – Given the bomb that was the Jonas Brothers’ 3-D movie, it’s understandable that the Disney dudes get a little nervous before they drop their new album.
Read More: Jonas Brothers Ready to Get "Paranoid," Channel Johnny Depp
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AP – Prosecutors have decided not to charge a Japanese pop star who was arrested for allegedly getting naked while drunk in a Tokyo park, media reports said Friday.
Read More: Report: Case dropped against Japan pop star
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Reuters – “Accent on Youth” is a 75-year-old play, and with its new Broadway revival it looks every bit its age.
Read More: Vintage drawing-room comedy showing its age
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AP – Elizabeth Edwards writes in a new memoir to be published in May that news of her husband’s affair made her vomit in a bathroom.
Read More: Elizabeth Edwards: John's affair made me throw up
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Reuters – After failing to stop recent gay marriage approvals in several states, opponents have found an attractive, telegenic poster woman in Miss California, a move reminiscent of beauty queen Anita Bryant’s 1970s crusade against gay rights.
Read More: Miss California appears in anti-gay marriage ad
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AP – Jazz crooner Tony Bennett handed out dozens of new instruments Thursday to students at a charter school founded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, hoping the tubas, trumpets and trombones would be used to carry on New Orleans’ vibrant musical tradition.
Read More: Tony Bennett donates instruments during jazz fest
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AFP – Australia ordered an investigation into a nursing home where elderly and bed-ridden residents were gnawed by a swarming plague of mice.
Read More: Australia orders probe into mouse plague
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AP – No matter what you call it, leading experts say the virus that is scaring the world is pretty much all pig. So while the U.S. government and now the World Health Organization are taking the swine out of “swine flu,” the experts who track the genetic heritage of the virus say this: If it is genetically mostly porcine and its parents are pig viruses, it smells like swine flu to them.
Read More: Swine flu name change? Flu genes spell pig
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HealthDay – THURSDAY, April 30 (HealthDay News) — Almost 12 percent of
children in the United States live with a parent who has a substance abuse
problem, says a federal government study released this week.
Read More: Millions of Kids Live With Substance-Abusing Parents
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HealthDay – THURSDAY, April 30 (HealthDay News) — Two new studies provide
more evidence that drugs such as Procrit and Aranesp, often used by cancer
patients to fight anemia-linked fatigue, may boost the risk of death and
serious adverse events such as blood clots.
Read More: Anemia Drugs May Raise Death Risk in Cancer Patients
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AP – Hundreds of schools scattered around the country closed as the nation’s swine flu caseload passed 100 Thursday, and U.S. authorities said they eventually could produce enough vaccine for everyone if necessary — but that shots couldn’t begin until fall at the earliest.
Read More: More schools close, swine flu cases pass 100
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AP – A hundred cases of swine flu in the U.S.? Health officials say there are likely more. Just how many is not important, they say. As the world faces a potential pandemic, swamped labs are not testing all possible cases. Getting an exact tally has taken a back seat to finding new outbreak hot spots or ways to limits its spread, health officials said.
Read More: State labs: US swine flu cases likely higher
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Reuters – Women who survive childhood cancer are no more or less likely to opt for an abortion during pregnancy than unaffected women, new research from Denmark suggests.
Read More: Abortions not increased among cancer survivors
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AP – Mexico’s top medical officer voiced optimism Thursday that swine flu has slowed in the nation hardest hit by the virus, but the World Health Organization cautioned there is no evidence the worst of the global outbreak is over.
Read More: AP: Mexico health chief optimistic; more US cases
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AP – A new $50 unlimited-calling plan sold under the Boost brand has been a badly needed success story for Sprint Nextel Corp., luring hundreds of thousands of new customers, by industry estimates.
Read More: Texting delays mar popularity of $50 Boost plan
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NewsFactor – Two years ago, Pure Digital revolutionized the capture and redistribution of digital video with the release of its Flip Ultra camcorder. The small, simple video cameras were designed to do just one thing: Take good-quality digital video that users could then post to YouTube and other video-sharing sites.
Read More: Pure Digital Announces New Flip UltraHD Camcorder
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Investor’s Business Daily – You wouldn’t know it from McAfee that personal-computer sales and corporate spending on technology are weak.
Read More: Acquisition Boosts Top-Line Growth At Computer Security Company
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AFP – Facebook Thursday said it has blocked a link at the heart of a “phishing” scam being used to dupe members into revealing passwords to accounts at the social networking website.
Read More: Facebook fights "phishing" scam
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AP – Twitter quitters outnumber the flock of habitual tweeters on the rapidly growing online communications service, a new study suggests.
Read More: Is quitting Twitter more popular than re-tweeting?
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NewsFactor – This week, the rumor mill was busy with speculation about Microsoft and Verizon Wireless developing a smartphone to compete with Apple’s iPhone.
Read More: Report: Microsoft, Verizon Think Pink, Plan Smartphone
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Reuters – McAfee Inc , the No. 2 security software maker, reported a stronger-than-expected quarterly profit, helped by new software modules and partnerships with PC vendors.
Read More: McAfee profit beats Street view, shares rise
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AP – AOL, the struggling Internet unit that Time Warner Inc. is likely to spin off, said Thursday that it will put a new executive in charge of its online advertising business — making him the fourth person to hold that title in little over a year.
Read More: AOL names yet another head of online ad business
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AFP – Intuit is offering iPhone owners free Quicken software designed to help them live within their means during these tough economic times.
Read More: Quicken helps budget-minded iPhone owners
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EU slashes cell phone roaming costs
CNN International (CNN) — European Union lawmakers voted Wednesday to slash the cost of texting and surfing the Internet on cell phones abroad. European consumers are expected to enjoy huge savings when using their cell phone abroad in the EU. European Parliament approves 70 year copyright for sound recordings EU Lawmakers Agree To Data, Text Roaming Price Cuts |
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Heavy Battles Are Raging With Taliban in Pakistan
New York Times - Carlotta Gall, Salman Masood By CARLOTTA GALL and SALMAN MASOOD ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Heavy fighting raged for a third day in Pakistan's northwest on Thursday as civilians flooded from the area and the Pakistani military reported some gains in pushing back Taliban insurgents. US Sees Promising Shift in Pakistan's Fight With Taliban Pakistani Military Pledges ‘Zero Tolerance' Against Taliban |
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Commerce Dept. releases $53M for salmon disaster
The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – The Commerce Department released $53 million to Oregon and California on Thursday to help West Coast salmon fishermen after the third fishery failure in four years. Salmon disaster declared, again Good news for commercial salmon fishermen |
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 Straits Times |
Souter appears set to leave high court
Boston Globe - Peter S. Canellos, Milton J. Valencia, Lisa Wangsness By Peter S. Canellos and Milton J. Valencia WASHINGTON – David Hackett Souter, the intensely private New Hampshire jurist who emerged on the Supreme Court as a crucial defender of abortion rights and the separation of church and state, is retiring from … Supreme Court Justice David Souter plans to retire at end of term … Source: Liberal-leaning Justice Souter retiring |
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 Los Angeles Times |
Ali Saleh Kahlah Marri admits helping 9/11 architects
Los Angeles Times - Joel Hood, Josh Meyer Ali Saleh Kahlah Marri faces up to 15 years in prison. He is seeking to serve his time in Qatar. His plea agreement is seen as disposing of a legally thorny case that was once bound for the Supreme Court. Former 'enemy combatant' pleads guilty Marri Admits Conspiring With Al-Qaeda Operatives; Faces Up to 15 Years |
Read More: Ali Saleh Kahlah Marri admits helping 9/11 architects – Los Angeles Times
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Ex-Citigroup Banker Sued by SEC for Insider Trading
Bloomberg - David Scheer, Karen Gullo By David Scheer and Karen Gullo April 30 (Bloomberg) — Former Citigroup Inc. investment banker Maher Kara was sued for insider trading by US regulators who claim he fed tips on health-care industry deals to people who reaped more than $6 million in … BRIEF-US SEC accuses ex-Citi banker of insider trading Ex-banker, others accused of insider trading |
Read More: Ex-Citigroup Banker Sued by SEC for Insider Trading – Bloomberg
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Swiss bank refuses US tax request
BBC News Switzerland's largest bank, UBS, has asked a US court not to go ahead with a tax case involving more than 50000 US customers with Swiss accounts. UBS asks to keep account holders a secret UBS Cites Swiss Law in Tax-Data Standoff |
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Huge impact crater discovered on Mercury
msnbc.com - Clara Moskowitz By Clara Moskowitz New observations from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft reveal about 30 percent of the planet Mercury that has never been seen up close before. CU device detects magnesium on Mercury Magnetic Twisters "Dance" Across Mercury, Study Says |
Read More: Huge impact crater discovered on Mercury – msnbc.com
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Shuttle layoffs begin as program winds down
CNET News - William Harwood by William Harwood With retirement of the space shuttle program looming next year and just nine flights remaining, NASA managers announced Thursday the first major wave of job losses, saying 160 contract workers would face layoffs Friday, … Final mission to Hubble Mandatory Shuttle Retirement Temporarily Postponed |
Read More: Shuttle layoffs begin as program winds down – CNET News
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IPhone Developers Focus on Quality After ‘Anything Goes' Era
Bloomberg - Connie Guglielmo By Connie Guglielmo May 1 (Bloomberg) — IPhone developers, who flocked to Apple Inc.'s App Store in search of a quick profit, are finding it's getting more difficult to come up with breakout hits. Nine Essential iPhone Apps From iLightswitch to iBurrito, Stanford Students Concoct iPhone Apps |
Read More: IPhone Developers Focus on Quality After ‘Anything Goes' Era – Bloomberg
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Twitter Quitters Just Don't Get It
ABC News - Robert Strohmeyer By ROBERT STROHMEYER A Nielsen report this week revealed that Twitter has an uncanny knack for hemorrhaging users. More than 60 percent of US Twitter users don't return the following month, according to a new Nielsen report. Twitter Dropoff Reports Suggests That 60 Percent Of Twitter Users Leave After 30 Days |
Read More: Twitter Quitters Just Don't Get It – ABC News
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 Ars Technica |
Verizon Busy Calling On Apple, Microsoft
ChannelWeb - Jennifer Bosavage By Jennifer Bosavage, ChannelWeb Verizon's got a number of pots on the fire in the mobile phone business. It seems Verizon is not only in talks with Apple, but also Microsoft. AT&T's iPhone Dilemma Verizon Possibly Playing Microsoft Against Apple For Phone Deal |
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Google Tries Viral Campaign to Goose Interest in Chrome
AdAge.com - Michael Learmonth by Michael Learmonth NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Why would Google take on Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla in the web-browser war and not try to win it? Firefox, Chrome, and Safari are gaining on IE paidcontent.org – Google Uses youtube Clips To Hype Chrome |
Read More: Google Tries Viral Campaign to Goose Interest in Chrome – AdAge.com
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 USA Today |
NASCAR: Richmond can be home to chaotic finishes, too
Atlanta Journal Constitution - Bill Marx Earnhardt was two laps away from victory last spring. Kyle Busch nudge gave Bowyer the win. By Bill Marx Sunday's wild finish at Talladega has been the talk all week. Richmond rivalry: Kyle Busch, Junior could keep sparks flying Top 5 and 5 to watch: Richmond |
Read More: NASCAR: Richmond can be home to chaotic finishes, too – Atlanta Journal Constitution
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Six-run 10th caps Florida Marlins' comeback
MiamiHerald.com - Manny Navarro The Marlins rallied in the eighth inning to tie the score before putting the game away with an explosive 10th. BY MANNY NAVARRO CHICAGO — Jorge Cantu hit another home run, Chris Volstad delivered another quality start and the Marlins put together some … Cantu, Marlins score six in the 10th to down Cubs Marlins score six in 10th to beat Cubs |
Read More: Six-run 10th caps Florida Marlins' comeback – MiamiHerald.com
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AP – Police said a man wanted to go to jail with his arrested brother, so he shoved an officer and got his wish. David Jacob Ginnis, 35, pleaded guilty Wednesday to assault on a police officer and was sentenced to 30 days in jail, with the full sentence suspended.
Read More: Man asks to join brother in jail and gets his wish
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