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  US stocks head for lower open as oil tops $143 AP - 49 minutes ago

  NEW YORK - Stocks headed for a moderately lower open Monday as oil prices set a new trading record and investors awaited a regional manufacturing reading for hints about where the market might be headed after last week's steep sell-off.

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  Vets OK sea turtle Dylan for release into wild AP - Mon Jun 30, 3:12 AM ET

  JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. - Weighing 150 pounds and strong enough to require five men to wrestle her out of her saltwater tank, Dylan the sea turtle is ready to be set free after nine years in captivity and a final checkup by her veterinarian.

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  Verizon Wireless gets Rhapsody music subscriptions AP - 1 hour, 14 minutes ago

  NEW YORK - Cell phones are becoming more useful devices for listening to music. Verizon Wireless is introducing Rhapsody's subscription music service Monday, allowing its customers to download as much music as they want to their phones for $15 per month.

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  Maher and Shandling honor George Carlin at service AP - 1 hour, 2 minutes ago

  LOS ANGELES - He was the comedian who actually said the seven words you can never say on television, but close friends and family members remembered George Carlin as a man who, when he was off stage, had only a kind word for everyone he met.

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  Still a chance for all-American final at Wimbledon AP - 1 hour, 17 minutes ago

  WIMBLEDON, England - Despite a rough week for U.S. tennis at Wimbledon, there's still a good chance for an all-American final. No U.S. men reached Monday's fourth round, but the Williams sisters swept their first three matches without dropping a set. And upsets that claimed No. 1-ranked Ana Ivanovic and No. 2 Maria Sharapova improved the chances of the first Serena-vs.-Venus final at a Grand Slam tournament since Wimbledon in 2003.

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  African summit will press Mugabe to negotiate Reuters - 1 hour, 17 minutes ago

  SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe came under pressure at an African Union summit on Monday to negotiate with the opposition after being re-elected in a one-candidate election condemned by regional monitors.

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  Six killed as two helicopters crash in Arizona Reuters - Mon Jun 30, 2:02 AM ET

  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Six people were killed and one was seriously injured on Sunday when two medical helicopters collided on their way to a hospital in Flagstaff, Arizona, air officials said.

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  Malaysia's Anwar leaves Turkish embassy Reuters - 46 minutes ago

  KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Anwar Ibrahim, leader of Malaysia's revitalized opposition, left the Turkish embassy on Monday where he had taken refuge following sodomy accusations, the latest thunderbolt in Malaysia's political tempest.

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  Mississippi flooding closes St. Louis to barges Reuters - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Flooding on the Mississippi River has closed the St. Louis harbor to barge traffic, halting commercial traffic at an important junction of several major waterways, said the U.S. Coast Guard.

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  WTC rebuilding faces delays, report to show: source Reuters - Mon Jun 30, 12:47 AM ET

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rebuilding at the World Trade Center site will take longer and cost more than previously projected, a report from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is set to say on Monday, a source familiar with the contents said.

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  U.N. expands food aid to N.Korea; U.S. help arrives Reuters - Mon Jun 30, 4:42 AM ET

  SEOUL (Reuters) - The U.N. World Food Program, which has warned of a humanitarian crisis in North Korea due to a food shortage, said on Monday it reached a deal with Pyongyang to rapidly expand aid, and that a U.S. ship carrying wheat had arrived.

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  Iran sentences man to death for spying for Israel Reuters - Mon Jun 30, 4:47 AM ET

  TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian court on Monday sentenced to death an Iranian businessman on charges of spying for Israel after a two-day trial, media said.

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  Accidental fungus leads to promising cancer drug Reuters - Sun Jun 29, 6:28 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A drug developed using nanotechnology and a fungus that contaminated a lab experiment may be broadly effective against a range of cancers, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.

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  AU slams Zimbabwe vote as Mugabe faces peers AFP - 47 minutes ago

  SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AFP) - African Union observers on Monday condemned Zimbabwe's one-man election as undemocratic, intensifying pressure on Robert Mugabe as he faces his peers after a vote much of the world has dismissed as a farce.

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  French soldier shoots 17 in hostage-taking exercise AFP - 1 hour, 44 minutes ago

  CARCASSONNE, France (AFP) - President Nicolas Sarkozy promised swift and severe punishment Monday after a soldier shot and wounded 17 people, including a three-year-old boy and both his parents, at an open day at an army barracks.

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  Oil prices surge to record heights near $144 AFP - 39 minutes ago

  LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices hit record high points close to 144 dollars per barrel on Monday as the dollar fell further and amid a conference and protests staged in response to soaring crude, analysts said.

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  Iraq to award oil contracts to foreign companies AFP - 1 hour, 34 minutes ago

  BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq on Monday will award oil contracts to dozens of foreign companies in a bid to boost production that could also give multinationals a foothold in the country's huge but underdeveloped oil fields.

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  Malaysia's Anwar leaves Turkish embassy refuge AFP - 1 hour, 29 minutes ago

  KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Monday left the Turkish embassy where he fled after being accused of sodomy, and filed a lawsuit against his accuser.

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  Eurozone inflation spikes to record four percent AFP - 1 hour, 59 minutes ago

  BRUSSELS (AFP) - Inflation in the 15 eurozone countries shot up to a record 4.0 percent in June over 12 months amid soaring oil prices, according to a first estimate from the EU's Eurostat data agency on Monday.

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  eBay fined for selling fake Louis Vuitton goods online AFP - 34 minutes ago

  PARIS (AFP) - A Paris court on Monday ordered Internet auctioneer eBay to pay 40 million euros (63 million dollars) in damages to Louis Vuitton for selling fake luxury goods online.

Most Popular Top Stories

• Accidental fungus leads to promising cancer drug Reuters - Sun Jun 29, 6:28 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A drug developed using nanotechnology and a fungus that contaminated a lab experiment may be broadly effective against a range of cancers, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.

• 8 Ways to Spot Skin Cancer Before It Kills U.S. News & World Report - Fri Jun 27, 2:58 PM ET

  When skin cancer is spotted early, it's almost always curable. For melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, the 5-year survival rate is 99 percent--if the tumor is spotted when it's nothing more than a spot on the skin, according to the American Cancer Society. But that survival rate plunges to 15 percent once the fast growing cancer has spread. I spoke with the president of the American Academy of Dermatology, William Hanke, about how to spot skin cancer before it spreads. Some of his advice:

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  Fund manager pays $2.1 million to lunch with Warren Buffett Reuters - Sun Jun 29, 5:24 PM ET

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Chinese fund manager has won a lunch with famed U.S. investor Warren Buffett after bidding $2.11 million for the opportunity in a charity auction, more than three times what the lunch fetched last year.