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  Afghan official suggests Pakistan linked to bomb AP - 6 minutes ago

  KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan officials have evidence that foreigners were behind a massive suicide bombing against India's embassy in Kabul, President Hamid Karzai's spokesman said Tuesday, implying that Pakistan orchestrated the attack.

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  Siemens cutting 16,750 jobs worldwide to cut costs AP - 1 hour, 14 minutes ago

  FRANKFURT, Germany - Industrial conglomerate Siemens AG said Tuesday it would cut 16,750 jobs, or 4.2 percent of its global work force, to streamline operations and cut nearly $2 billion in costs in the face of a slowing economy.

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  NASA sets date for final shuttle mission in 2010 AP - 1 hour, 11 minutes ago

  HOUSTON - NASA has tentatively set the final space shuttle mission for May 31, 2010, four months before the shuttle fleet retires.

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  Bon Jovi helps bring down a house in Detroit AP - 1 hour, 11 minutes ago

  DETROIT - Jon Bon Jovi is giving some people who are living on a prayer something a bit more substantial. The Grammy winner was in a neighborhood on Detroit's East Side Monday to announce the building of five new homes as part of a partnership among his Philadelphia Soul Charitable Foundation, Saturn and Habitat for Humanity Detroit.

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  Kuroda lifts Dodgers, Mets bullpen hangs on in win AP - 1 hour, 12 minutes ago

  Hiroki Kuroda was nearly perfect in lifting the under-.500 Dodgers into a first-place tie in the NL West. Pedro Martinez was sharp, too. The Mets bullpen, though, almost denied New York its first winning record in a month.

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  G8 papers over differences on climate change Reuters - Tue Jul 8, 4:56 AM ET

  TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - G8 nations, papering over deep differences on how to set goals to combat global warming, said on Tuesday they would work toward a target of at least halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 with other participants in U.N. talks.

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  Obama to propose overhauling bankruptcy laws Reuters - 1 hour, 2 minutes ago

  ATLANTA (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will propose overhauling U.S. bankruptcy laws on Tuesday to ease their impact on people unable to pay their bills because of medical expenses or military service.

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  Bernanke says Fed may extend Wall Street lending Reuters - 23 minutes ago

  ARLINGTON, Va (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday the U.S. central bank may keep an emergency lending facility for big Wall Street firms open past year-end while it seeks to restore financial market stability.

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  Iran to "hit Tel Aviv, U.S. ships" if attacked Reuters - 26 minutes ago

  TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will hit Tel Aviv, U.S. shipping in the Gulf and American interests around the world if it is attacked over its disputed nuclear activities, an aide to Iran's Supreme Leader was quoted as saying on Tuesday.

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  Rice in Prague to sign radar deal, Poland wary Reuters - 1 hour, 13 minutes ago

  PRAGUE (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said talks with Poland on a European missile shield remained unresolved, hours before she was to sign a treaty in the Czech Republic on Prague's part of the accord.

• Siemens to cut 16,750 jobs amid economic downturn Reuters - 47 minutes ago

  FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG (SIEGn.DE) plans to cut around 4 percent of its workforce as part of an overhaul and as a result of the global economic downturn, Siemens said on Tuesday.

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  New round, old questions for N.Korea nuclear talks Reuters - Tue Jul 8, 4:17 AM ET

  SEOUL (Reuters) - Five regional powers will hold talks with North Korea from Thursday on ending its atomic weapons plans and verifying an account the secretive state gave in June of its nuclear programs, officials said on Tuesday.

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  New guidelines stress heart screening for kids Reuters - 2 hours, 30 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some children as young as two should be screened for high cholesterol, high blood pressure and other heart disease risks, according to new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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  G8 leaders agree on halving emissions by 2050 AFP - Tue Jul 8, 3:39 AM ET

  TOYAKO, Japan (AFP) - The Group of Eight major powers agreed Tuesday to at least halve global carbon emissions by 2050, in what leaders hailed as a breakthrough but environmentalists called toothless.

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  Afghan officials accuse Pakistan of Indian embassy attack AFP - 20 minutes ago

  KABUL (AFP) - Afghan officials accused Pakistan Tuesday of being behind a suicide blast at the Indian embassy that left 41 people dead, saying the attack had the hallmarks of its intelligence agency.

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  Iran says would strike Israel, US navy if attacked AFP - 1 hour, 49 minutes ago

  TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran would "set on fire" Israel and the US navy in the Gulf as its first response to any American attack over its nuclear programme, an aide to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned on Tuesday.

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  Wikipedia opens online library on human genes AFP - Mon Jul 7, 9:39 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - A group of US researchers laid out the foundations Monday for a new online library on human genetics stored within the existing framework of open-access encyclopedia Wikipedia.

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  Higher CO2 levels may be good for plants: German scientists AFP - 5 minutes ago

  BERLIN (AFP) - The dangerous rise in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere may be troubling scientists and world leaders but it could prove to be a boon for plants, German researchers said Tuesday.

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  GM to build world's biggest rooftop solar station: report AFP - Mon Jul 7, 10:28 PM ET

  LONDON (AFP) - US automobile giant General Motors (GM) will announce on Tuesday that it will build the world's largest rooftop solar power station at its biggest factory in Europe, the Financial Times reported.

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  Siemens unveils huge layoff plan involving 16,750 jobs AFP - 13 minutes ago

  BERLIN (AFP) - German engineering giant Siemens unveiled on Tuesday one of its biggest restructuring plans ever, saying 16,750 jobs would be cut worldwide, almost one-third of which would be at home.

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  Study shows value of food diary in losing weight Reuters - Tue Jul 8, 3:25 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Keeping a food diary -- a detailed account of what you eat and drink and the calories it packs -- is a powerful tool in helping people lose weight, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

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  Atlantic storm Bertha may soon turn to hurricane Reuters - Sun Jul 6, 3:24 PM ET

  MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Bertha, moving briskly across open ocean waters, may strengthen into the first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic storm season sometime during the next 48 hours, U.S. weather forecasters said on Sunday.

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  Hardwired for fat: scientists identify obesity gene AFP - Sun Jul 6, 11:23 PM ET

  PARIS (AFP) - British and French scientists have identified several variants of a single gene that boost the risk of obesity, according to a study published Sunday in the British journal Nature.