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This edition was generated on Fri Jul 25 08:45:01 EDT 2008

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General News Update
Sports News Update
Business News Update
Miscellaneous Daily Information
Boston Area Weather


General News Update

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-General News:

Germans say Obama speech sent 'positive signal'
AP - 1 hour, 5 minutes ago

BERLIN - Barack Obama's speech to a huge Berlin crowd sent a "positive signal" to Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman said Friday, praising the presidential candidate's focus on working with America's partners.

  • In this Sept. 3, 2006 file photo, a spectator watches the aurora borealis rise above the Alaska Range, in Denali National Park, Alaska. On Thursday, July 24, 2008, NASA released findings that indicate magnetic explosions about one-third of the way to the moon cause the northern lights, or aurora borealis, to burst in spectacular shapes and colors, and dance across the sky.  (AP Photo/M. Scott Moon, File)
    Scientists expose mystery behind northern lights AP - 1 hour, 13 minutes ago

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Scientists have exposed some of the mystery behind the northern lights. On Thursday, NASA released findings that indicate magnetic explosions about one-third of the way to the moon cause the northern lights, or aurora borealis, to burst in spectacular shapes and colors, and dance across the sky.

  • Specialists work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Thursday, July 24, 2008.  Wall Street abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower Thursday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales and worries about the financial sector chilled the market's recent optimism. The major indexes fell about 2 percent, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which lost more than 275 points. (AP Photo/Ed Ou)
    Stocks head to a slightly lower open ahead of data AP - 33 minutes ago

    NEW YORK - Wall Street headed for a slightly lower open Friday ahead of economic reports on durable goods, new home sales, and consumer sentiment.

  • In this July 2, 2007 file photo, visitors play on-line shooting game at an international animation, cartoon and game fair in Shanghai, China.  China's booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported Friday, July 25, 2008. (AP Photo/ Eugene Hoshiko, File)
    China says has more people surfing the Web than US AP - Fri Jul 25, 2:43 AM ET

    BEIJING - China's booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported Friday.

  • US actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt pose as in Cannes, May 2008. Jolie checked out of a maternity clinic in the south of France on Saturday a week after giving birth to twins(AFP/File/Francois Guillot)
    Police: Paparazzi, guards, fight at Jolie chateau AP - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

    PARIS - It sounds like a scene from "Fight Club." French police say camouflaged paparazzi who got on to the grounds of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's chateau in southern France fought with the Hollywood couple's guards.

  • Milwaukee Brewers', from left to right, Corey Hart, Ryan Braun and Mike Cameron celebrate after defeating the St. Louis Cardinals 4-3 in a baseball game for a four-game sweep Thursday, July 24, 2008, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
    Brewers stay hot behind Braun and Hardy AP - 1 hour, 19 minutes ago

    No team in baseball is playing as well as the Milwaukee Brewers and no hitter is on a tear like Ryan Braun. The left fielder hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning to cap his second straight four-hit game and Milwaukee won its eighth straight, 4-3 over the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday night.

  • Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) greets supporters after a speech at the Victory Column in Tiergarten Park in Berlin July 24, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)
    Obama says his foreign tour will reassure Americans Reuters - Fri Jul 25, 3:10 AM ET

    BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama hopes his visit to Europe and the Middle East will show U.S. voters that he is a safe pair of hands, the Democrat said in an interview on Friday.

  • A foreclosure sale sign sits in front of a house in Falls Church, Virginia, just outside Washington D.C. July 23, 2008. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
    Foreclosures rise 14 pct in Q2: RealtyTrac Reuters - Fri Jul 25, 5:08 AM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Home foreclosure filings rose 14 percent in the second quarter, the eighth consecutive quarterly climb, and more than doubled from the same period a year-earlier, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said on Friday.

  • U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab smiles during a news conference at the World Trade Organization (WTO) headquarters in Geneva July 21, 2008. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters)
    Time running out for deadlocked trade talks: WTO Reuters - 1 hour, 8 minutes ago

    GENEVA (Reuters) - Deadlocked global trade talks will fail unless countries can find compromise in the coming hours, the chair of World Trade Organization negotiations warned on Friday.

  • Seven small bombs exploded in quick succession across the south Indian IT city of Bangalore on Friday, killing a woman and wounding at least 15 people, police said. (Graphics/Reuters)
    Seven small blasts hit Indian IT city of Bangalore Reuters - 1 hour, 47 minutes ago

    BANGALORE, India (Reuters) - Seven small bombs exploded in quick succession across the south Indian IT city of Bangalore on Friday, killing a woman and wounding at least 15 people, police said.

  • Scenes aboard Qantas Airways QF30 after the cabin lost pressure in this July 25, 2008 combination made from video stills of an eyewitness. (REUTERS TV./Reuters)
    Holed Qantas plane in emergency landing at Manila Reuters - Fri Jul 25, 4:45 AM ET

    MANILA (Reuters) - A Qantas Airways plane made an emergency landing in Manila on Friday after part of its undercarriage blew off, triggering a loss in cabin pressure during a flight from Hong Kong to Melbourne.

  • Paramilitary soldiers patrol near Bara, a town in the Khyber tribal region near the Afghan border, June 28, 2008. (Mohammad Shahkar/Reuters)
    Pakistani PM expected to hear price of U.S. support Reuters - Fri Jul 25, 5:02 AM ET

    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - New Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani can expect U.S. demands for action against militants in tribal lands on the Afghan border, along with usual statements of support, when he visits Washington next week.

  • Iran's former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani greets worshipers during Tehran's Friday prayers July 25, 2008. (Raheb Homavandi/Reuters)
    Iran cleric says ultimatum won't help atom talks Reuters - 1 hour, 31 minutes ago

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - An influential Iranian cleric told the West on Friday an ultimatum would not help talks with Iran over its nuclear plans, after Washington told Tehran it had two weeks to respond to a package of nuclear incentives.

  • Iraqi PM says troop withdrawal must satisfy all Reuters - 1 hour, 25 minutes ago

    CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Friday that any U.S. troop withdrawal would have to satisfy both parties and protect Iraq's sovereignty.

  • US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama walks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on July 24. Obama fired back at Republican foe John McCain in a new row over Iraq, as his Europe and Middle East tour took him to France, after a massive campaign event in Berlin.(AFP/Paul J. Richards)
    Obama heads for Paris after rapturous scenes in Berlin AFP - 1 hour, 17 minutes ago

    PARIS (AFP) - Barack Obama headed for Paris Friday on a European tour that saw 200,000 cheering fans turn out in Berlin to hear the US presidential hopeful call for the world to tear down walls of division and hate.

  • The scheduled route of a Qantas flight from London to Melbourne, forced to make an emergency landing in Manila after a dramatic mid-air rupture that left a "gaping hole" in its fuselage.(AFP Graphic)
    Qantas jumbo lands with 'gaping hole' in fuselage AFP - 1 hour, 7 minutes ago

    MANILA (AFP) - A Qantas Boeing 747 flying to Melbourne made an emergency landing in Manila on Friday after a dramatic mid-air rupture that punched a "gaping hole" in its fuselage, officials and passengers said.

  • This picture released by the PIO press office shows the President of the Republic of Cyprus Demetris Christofias (right) and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat in Nicosia. The United Nations has said the leaders of divided Cyprus are to resume direct peace talks on September 3 on ending the 34-year-old division of the eastern Mediterranean island.(AFP/PIO)
    Cyprus leaders set a date for peace negotiations AFP - 43 minutes ago

    NICOSIA (AFP) - Rival Cypriot leaders on Friday set September 3 as the date when they will begin direct negotiations on ending the island's 34-year-old division.

  • A man with his Olympic tickets in Beijing. Violence broke out among the more than 50,000 people who queued to grab the last batch of Olympic tickets on sale in Beijing, as police struggled to control the frustrated fans.(AFP/Teh Eng Koon)
    Police struggle to control Beijing Olympic ticket chaos AFP - 1 hour, 2 minutes ago

    BEIJING (AFP) - Police struggled on Friday to control surging crowds of more than 50,000 people desperate to grab the last Olympic tickets in Beijing, as a Hong Kong journalist trying to cover the chaos was detained.

  • A display of the northern lights in Erikslund, Medelpad in Sweden. Explosions of magnetic energy between Earth and the moon are behind the sparkles and wavy glows of the Northern Lights that color the night sky, NASA has said.(AFP/File/Sven Nackstrand)
    Magnetic energy blasts make Northern Lights 'dance': NASA AFP - 2 hours, 54 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - Explosions of magnetic energy between Earth and the moon are behind the sparkles and wavy glows of the Northern Lights that color the night sky, NASA has said.

  • World Trade Organisation director general French Pascal Lamy at the WTO headquarters in Geneva on July 23. Lamy warned that talks on a global free-trade pact faced collapse as leading nations searched here for a way to break a seven-year log jam.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)
    WTO talks face collapse AFP - 1 hour, 34 minutes ago

    GENEVA (AFP) - WTO head Pascal Lamy warned on Friday that talks on a global free-trade pact faced collapse as leading nations searched here for a way to break a seven-year log jam.

  • A Japanese farmer. Japan's core inflation rate accelerated to a new decade high of 1.9 percent in June amid surging energy and food costs, the government said(AFP/Nicolas Asfouri)
    Japan's inflation hits fresh decade high AFP - Fri Jul 25, 3:48 AM ET

    TOKYO (AFP) - Worries about the health of Japan's economy mounted Friday as inflation hit a new decade high on soaring commodity costs, casting a pall over the outlook for consumer spending.

Most Popular Top Stories

  • A dogsled team carries tourists down the frozen Torne River in Jukkasjarvi, above the Arctic Circle in northern Sweden, December 24, 2006. (Bob Strong/Reuters)
    Arctic's oil could meet world demand for 3 years Reuters - Wed Jul 23, 5:41 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Arctic Circle holds an estimated 90 billion barrels of recoverable oil, enough supply to meet current world demand for almost three years, the U.S. Geological Survey forecast on Wednesday.

  • U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., center, poses with German police officers before he boards his campaign charter plane in Berlin, Friday, July 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
    Obama presses Europe on Afghanistan in Berlin Reuters - Thu Jul 24, 4:15 PM ET

    BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama urged Europe to stand by the United States in stabilizing Afghanistan in a speech to over 200,000 in Berlin that stressed the need for unity in the face of new threats.

  • Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., greets audience members seated on the stage during a campaign stop at the F.M. Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Wednesday, July 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
    McCain camp cries foul The Christian Science Monitor - Thu Jul 24, 4:00 AM ET

    Washington - In a campaign week dominated by Barack Obama's trip abroad, the pro-John McCain camp has made headlines by complaining about coverage of Senator Obama's trip abroad.

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Delgado lifts Mets over Phillies 3-1, into first

AP - Fri Jul 25, 2:15 AM ET

NEW YORK - Carlos Delgado hit a tiebreaking, two-run double in the eighth inning and Oliver Perez stifled the Philadelphia Phillies again, helping the New York Mets earn a 3-1 win Thursday that gave them sole possession of first place in the NL East.

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

Durable goods orders up 0.8 percent in June

AP - 7 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Orders to factories for big-ticket manufactured goods such as cars, appliances and machinery rose at the fastest pace in four months in June, a much stronger showing than had been expected.

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Lateshow Top Ten List

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 25, 2008
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Amy Carter, (President Jimmy Carter's daughter) when asked by a reporter if she had any message for the children of America
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
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Burt Bacharach (1928 - )
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
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Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
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