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  At least 32 dead after train catches fire in India AP - 33 minutes ago

  HYDERABAD, India - At least 32 people were killed after a train caught fire in southern India early Friday, a government statement said.

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  17 students dead in Turkey girls dorm collapse AP - 2 hours, 23 minutes ago

  ANKARA, Turkey - A three-story girls dormitory collapsed in central Turkey on Friday, killing at least 17 students and setting off a search for a half dozen people believed to be under the rubble, authorities said.

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  Siberian Russians marvel at solar eclipse AP - 25 minutes ago

  MOSCOW - An enormous swath of western Siberia was submerged in darkness Friday afternoon as the moon completely blocked the sun, enrapturing huge crowds of Russians and foreign tourists.

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  People mag snags US rights to Jolie-Pitt twin pix AP - 28 minutes ago

  NEW YORK - People magazine has scored the U.S. rights to exclusive photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's newborn twins, a representative for the magazine told The Associated Press on Friday.

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  APNewsBreak: Source says Sharapova out of US Open AP - 22 minutes ago

  A U.S. Open official says Maria Sharapova's shoulder injury will force her to miss the year's last Grand Slam tournament.

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  Jobless rate highest in 4 years Reuters - 2 hours, 34 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. unemployment rate hit its highest level in four years during July as employers cut non-farm jobs for a seventh straight month, though less severely than predicted, a Labor Department report on Friday showed.

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  Israel's foreign minister has edge in party race Reuters - Fri Aug 1, 8:18 AM ET

  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has a clear edge in the Kadima party race to replace scandal-hit Ehud Olmert, polls showed on Friday, but officials questioned her ability to form a coalition and become prime minister.

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  Obama calls for tax rebates to pay energy costs Reuters - 18 minutes ago

  ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama proposed a package of measures on Friday to help workers fight rising energy costs, including an immediate $1,000 tax rebate for low- and middle-income families.

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  No verdict in London July 7 bombing case Reuters - 27 minutes ago

  LONDON (Reuters) - A jury failed to reach a verdict on Friday in the trial of three Britons accused of helping to plot suicide bombings in London in July 2005, the capital's worst peacetime attack which left 52 dead.

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  EU awaits Iran nuclear response Reuters - Fri Aug 1, 8:12 AM ET

  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The clock is ticking for Iran to respond to an offer by major powers on its nuclear program, but European diplomats say they are ready to wait a few more days beyond Saturday's informal deadline for an answer.

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  U.S. scientist in anthrax case kills himself: report Reuters - Fri Aug 1, 6:54 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. government scientist who helped investigate a series of deadly anthrax attacks in 2001 has died from an apparent suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to charge him with carrying out the attacks, the Los Angeles Times reported on Friday.

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  Pakistan denies spies behind Indian embassy attack Reuters - 2 hours, 2 minutes ago

  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan angrily rejected a New York Times report on Friday that said U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded members of Pakistan's spy agency helped plan the suicide bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul last month.

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  Karadzic sees no chance of fair trial Reuters - Fri Aug 1, 8:27 AM ET

  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has said it is unimaginable he could get a fair trial at the U.N. war crimes tribunal because the world's media have already branded him a war criminal.

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  US wants me dead: Karadzic AFP - 54 minutes ago

  THE HAGUE (AFP) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic claimed Friday the United States wanted him dead after reneging on a deal to shield him from trial by the UN war crimes court.

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  Five NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan: ISAF AFP - 8 minutes ago

  KABUL (AFP) - Bomb blasts killed five NATO soldiers in Afghanistan on Friday, the alliance force said, in the latest in a surge of extremist attacks that have raised alarm about deteriorating security.

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  Japan's beleaguered PM reshuffles cabinet AFP - 1 hour, 52 minutes ago

  TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on Friday named a new cabinet filled with heavyweights, vowing to jump-start a lacklustre economy in a last-ditch bid to revive waning public support.

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  Gasps, nervousness greet total solar eclipse AFP - 5 minutes ago

  MOSCOW (AFP) - Thousands of people gathered across Arctic regions, Siberia and China on Friday to see a total eclipse of the sun, despite Chinese warnings that it could augur bad luck.

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  World's first transplant of two full arms: German team AFP - 21 minutes ago

  BERLIN (AFP) - A German medical team said Friday it had performed what it called the world's first transplant of two full arms, on a farmer who had lost both his limbs in an accident.

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  US employers shed 51,000 jobs in July AFP - 56 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - US employers shed 51,000 nonfarm jobs in July marking a seventh straight month of job cuts as the economy struggles for momentum, a Labor Department survey showed Friday.

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  GM posts $15.5 bln loss as US sales slump AFP - 1 hour, 15 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - General Motors, the leading US automaker, posted Friday a 15.5 billion dollar net loss in the second quarter, citing hefty restructuring charges, plummeting US sales and union strikes.

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  World's oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC Reuters - Thu Jul 31, 8:01 AM ET

  LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The world's oldest recorded joke has been traced back to 1900 BC and suggests that toilet humor was as popular with the ancients as it is today.

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  Hidden Van Gogh revealed in color by scientists Reuters - Wed Jul 30, 11:33 AM ET

  AMSTERDAM (Reuters Life!) - Scientists have made a colored view of an early rejected painting underneath Vincent van Gogh's 'Patch of Grass' painting, using advanced X-ray techniques, a Dutch university said on Wednesday.

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  Exercise in a pill? Researchers find two Reuters - Thu Jul 31, 12:17 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers who genetically engineered "marathon mice" that could run for hours have found two pills that can mimic the effects -- and they have already developed a test for the drugs in case athletes try to cheat with them.