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It’s not much, but the flimsy bamboo lean-to on the side of the road is all Aye Shwe has to keep his family dry. They lost their home to the cyclone and may soon be uprooted again _ this time by soldiers ordering them to leave.Three weeks after the...
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Trying to keep the Michael Phelps glow, NBC has agreed to televise next year’s World Swimming Championships from Rome along with the 2010 and 2011 national...
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Police say they’ve taken a suspect into custody after a shooting at a Knoxville, Tenn. high school.
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Barnes & Noble Inc., the nation’s largest bookseller, is reporting a 15 percent decline in second-quarter profit and is reducing its full-year sales outlook...
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State police are trying to reach a peaceful end to a standoff at a motel in western Maryland with a suspect wanted in four states.
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IAC/InteractiveCorp, which finished its division into five publicly traded companies Thursday, also enacted a one-for-two reverse stock split.
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Kohl’s Corp. announced Thursday that Chairman Larry Montgomery has resigned as chief executive and will be replaced in that role by the retailer’s...
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The reputed underboss of the New England mafia, awaiting trial on bribery charges, is asking a federal judge to release him from home confinement for two hours a day so...
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Stock futures are still trading lower, even after the Labor Department reported a larger-than-expected drop in unemployment benefit claims.
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The government says the number of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, the second straight weekly drop from a...
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The government says the number of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, the second straight weekly drop from a...
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Burger King Holdings says its profit surged 42 percent in its fiscal fourth quarter, driven by improved sales and marketing. The results are above Wall Street...
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H.J. Heinz says its fiscal first-quarter profit rose 11 percent, fueled by double-digit sales growth in North America and Europe.
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Former “American Idol” contestant Sanjaya Malakar is pitching Nationwide Insurance. He’s in a new ad that’s part of the company’s...
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Most states don’t recognize gay marriage _ but now Hallmark does.
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Wall Street appeared headed for a lower open Thursday amid growing anxiety over the financial sector, particularly the embattled investment bank Lehman Brothers...
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The Lake County sheriff is behind bars _ voluntarily.
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Two little girls from New Jersey have been reunited with their father after being trapped by violence in the Republic of Georgia for two weeks.
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The Lake County sheriff is behind bars _ voluntarily.
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Firefighters sent more than 30 distress calls from a burning ground zero skyscraper where two firemen died, but not all were heard in the confusion, a fire department...
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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s legal issues will cause Gov. Jennifer Granholm to miss some of the Democratic National Convention.
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Rape victims seeking compensation are having their payouts reduced if they had been drinking before they were attacked.
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Victims of the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks said Thursday they are satisfied with the investigation’s outcome that pinned the blame on a scientist. And now, the...
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New research released Thursday before the anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s construction start date said 136 people lost their lives at the Cold War barrier that...
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Survivors of the anthrax attacks and relatives of the victims expressed relief Friday that the long-running case appears finally to be closed, but they wondered about...
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Survivors of the anthrax attacks and relatives of the victims expressed relief Friday that the long-running case appears finally to be closed, but they wondered about...
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On Saturday came the news of 24 blasts ripping the heart of Ahmedabad, the flourishing industrial market of India. Some 50 people were reported killed, while many lay...
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Victims of a former economist who admitted swindling hundreds of investors testified through tears Thursday that he ruined their lives, including one who said his...
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Almost a third of men have been victims of domestic violence, though their trauma is often hidden and understudied — just as in the case of women 10 years ago,...
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Landmine victims are to take part in a beauty contest in Angola, where tens of thousands have been injured by mines. The pageant has been organised by Angola’s...
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Critically injured in a highway crash that killed five others, mourned as dead by relatives and friends after a stunning identity mix-up, Whitney Cerak still marvels at...
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The jagged scar on 9-year-old Mustafa’s scalp tells two stories of the Iraq war.One begins last August. His father was driving toward a U.S. checkpoint near...
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A proposed design for a national memorial to victims of terrorism showing grieving, naked women has been rejected by Washington officials.The sculpture, called...
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The recent poll of some 100,000 Israeli children being victimized and sexually abused is very alarming. It seems most parents in Jerusalem cannot protect their children...
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As tensions continue in the war-torn country, a number of Iraqi children being victimized by countless bombings and abuses in Baghdad remain a major problem.
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A look at the eight victims who died in Wednesday’s shooting at the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Neb.:___Gary Scharf was on his way home to Lincoln after a business...
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Based on the recent statistics of Children’s Rehabilitation Center (CRC) report from 2001 to 2006, more than 200,000 Filipino children suffered from various...
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Jeff Schaffart didn’t realize right away that the bangs he heard at Westroads Mall were gunshots.Then he saw the blood streaming down his left arm and felt a...
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With the record of 33.2 million patients infected with AIDS globally this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations AIDS agency said this number is...
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A look at some of the seven South Carolina college students who died in a weekend beach house fire in North Carolina. Officials have not released the victims’...
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Israeli Ambassador to Hungary Aliza Bin-Noun, right, lights a candle at the commemoration event, organized by Emanuel Foundation, to pay tribute to the 600 thousand victims of the Holocaust in Hungary, in the yard of the central synagogue of Budapest,...
