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  Microsoft guidance for 2009 sees strong worldwide sales AP - 55 minutes ago

  SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. is looking ahead to a strong fiscal 2009, with or without Yahoo. The software maker gave Wall Street a first peek at guidance for next year indicating that strong worldwide sales would overpower hiccups in the U.S. economy that could depress information technology spending.

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  Yahoo plans makeover with elements of social network AP - 57 minutes ago

  SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. plans to make its Web site a social hub by hosting applications from other online services, part of the Internet pioneer's effort to spawn more advertising opportunities.

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  Judge sentences Snipes to 3 years for tax convictions AP - 58 minutes ago

  OCALA, Fla. - Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison on tax charges Thursday, a victory for prosecutors who sought to make an example of the action star by aggressively pursuing the maximum penalty.

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  Penguin's wetsuit puts him back in the swim of things AP - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

  SAN FRANCISCO - What's black and white and warm all over? A penguin in a wetsuit, naturally. Sounds like a joke, but it's quite serious for biologists at the California Academy of Sciences, who had a wetsuit created for an African penguin to help him get back in the swim of things.

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  Canadiens, Red Wings win 2nd round NHL series openers AP - 1 hour, 2 minutes ago

  MONTREAL - The Montreal Canadiens and Detroit Red Wings have opened their respective NHL conference semifinal series with 4-3 victories. The Canadiens went the comeback route while the Red Wings almost blew a three-goal lead.

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  China to meet Dalai Lama aides amid Tibet tension Reuters - 51 minutes ago

  NYIMU COUNTY, China (Reuters) - China is to hold talks with envoys of the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism whom it blames for a wave of unrest, state media reported on Friday, as the Olympic flame arrived in Japan.

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  IAEA to probe U.S. report of Syrian atom reactor Reuters - 25 minutes ago

  VIENNA (Reuters) - The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog pledged on Friday to investigate what he called serious U.S. accusations that Syria secretly built a nuclear reactor with North Korean help.

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  U.N. official to visit Iran again for nuclear talks Reuters - Fri Apr 25, 4:10 AM ET

  TEHRAN (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog's top investigator will arrive in Tehran next week to hold more talks over Western allegations the country had studied nuclear bomb designing, a news agency reported on Friday.

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  Israel snubs Hamas offer of six-month Gaza truce Reuters - 49 minutes ago

  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel dismissed on Friday a Hamas proposal for a six-month Gaza Strip truce during which an embargo on the territory would be lifted, saying the Palestinian Islamists wanted to prepare for more fighting rather than peace.

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  More teenage mothers emerge in Texas polygamy probe Reuters - Thu Apr 24, 9:13 PM ET

  SAN ANGELO, Texas (Reuters) - Texas authorities said on Thursday they identified 25 more mothers below age 18 among those removed from a polygamist compound, raising to about 460 the number of minors at the heart of a huge abuse probe.

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  U.S. Marine faces court-martial over Okinawa rape Reuters - Thu Apr 24, 11:11 PM ET

  TOKYO (Reuters) - A U.S. Marine faces a court martial on charges of kidnapping and raping a 14-year-old schoolgirl on Japan's southern island of Okinawa in February, U.S. military officials said on Friday.

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  Rice price surge frustrates and puzzles Asians Reuters - Fri Apr 25, 3:08 AM ET

  MANILA (Reuters) - From the airconditioned supermarkets of Tokyo to the open-air stalls of Manila reactions across Asia to record leaps in the price of rice vary from fear and frustration to a nonplussed shrug of the shoulders.

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  Zimbabwe police raid opposition HQ, scores held Reuters - 53 minutes ago

  HARARE (Reuters) - Armed riot police raided the headquarters of Zimbabwe's main opposition party on Friday and detained scores of people in the biggest crackdown on the MDC since disputed elections last month, officials said.

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  China to meet with Dalai Lama representative: Xinhua AFP - Fri Apr 25, 4:36 AM ET

  BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese officials will meet soon with a representative of the Dalai Lama, state-run Xinhua news agency reported Friday, in what would be the first known encounter since last month's deadly unrest.

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  IAEA chief hits out at US, Israel over Syrian reactor claims AFP - 1 hour, 17 minutes ago

  VIENNA (AFP) - The UN atomic watchdog hit out Friday at the United States for withholding intelligence that Syria had been building a secret nuclear reactor with North Korea's help.

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  Scores held as Zimbabwe police raid opposition HQ AFP - 1 hour, 9 minutes ago

  HARARE (AFP) - Scores of supporters of Zimbabwe's main opposition Movement for Democratic Change were rounded up Friday in a raid by riot police on the party's headquarters in downtown Harare.

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  Olympic torch relay hit by protests in Japan AFP - Fri Apr 25, 3:41 AM ET

  NAGANO, Japan (AFP) - Protesters Friday waved the Tibetan flag and denounced China's rulers as the Beijing Olympic torch came to Japan for the latest leg of a worldwide relay marred by demonstrations.

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  UN calls for an end to malaria deaths in Africa AFP - 2 hours, 27 minutes ago

  PARIS (AFP) - An ambitious global drive led by UN chief Ban Ki-moon to end malaria deaths in Africa "in the near future" was to be launched Friday on World Malaria Day, according to Britain's leading medical journal.

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  Humans lived in tiny, separate bands for 100,000 years AFP - 2 hours, 34 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - Human beings for 100,000 years lived in tiny, separate groups, facing harsh conditions that brought them to the brink of extinction, before they reunited and populated the world, genetic researchers have said.

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  Ericsson posts sharp profit fall but beats expectations AFP - 2 hours, 18 minutes ago

  STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Swedish telecom infrastructure group Ericsson reported on Friday a dramatic fall in first-quarter net profits compared to the equivalent figure last year, but the result beat expectations and sent its share price soaring.

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  Lying? Your face will give you away: study Reuters - Thu Apr 24, 10:51 AM ET

  NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Liars might think they are good at covering up their deceit but a new Canadian study shows there's one thing they can't control that will give them away -- flashes of emotion in their faces.

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  Hold the marbles: Abstract approach best for math Reuters - Thu Apr 24, 5:05 PM ET

  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Frustrated math students may have a good excuse -- some of the teaching methods meant to make math more relevant may in fact be making it harder to understand, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

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  Wesley Snipes jailed for 3 years in tax case Reuters - Fri Apr 25, 3:39 AM ET

  OCALA, Florida (Reuters) - A "very sorry" Wesley Snipes, star of the "Blade" movies, was sentenced to three years in prison on Thursday for willfully failing to file U.S. income tax returns for 1999 through 2001.