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• Durable goods dip but many sectors show strength AP - 4 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON - Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods fell by a smaller-than-anticipated amount in April with many sectors outside of transportation showing unexpected strength.

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  Microsoft demos future Windows with touch-screen AP - 13 minutes ago

  CARLSBAD, Calif. - Microsoft Corp. said its next operating system will be made for touch-screen applications, an alternative to the computer mouse, and its top executives reaffirmed interest in joining forces with Yahoo Inc.

• Agreement may mean end of cable set-top boxes AP - 1 hour, 4 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON - The set-top box, a necessary appendage for millions of cable television customers for decades, is moving toward extinction.

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  Earle Hagen, `Andy Griffith' composer, dies at 88 AP - 44 minutes ago

  LOS ANGELES - Earle H. Hagen, who co-wrote the jazz classic "Harlem Nocturne" and composed memorable themes for "The Andy Griffith Show," "I Spy," "The Mod Squad" and other TV shows, has died. He was 88.

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  Maria Sharapova advances to French Open 2nd round AP - 39 minutes ago

  PARIS - Top-seeded Maria Sharapova struggled with her serve in the wind at the French Open and barely managed to beat Evgeniya Rodina 6-1, 3-6, 8-6 Wednesday in the first round.

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  Olmert coalition ally demands he step aside Reuters - 1 hour, 48 minutes ago

  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak called on Wednesday for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to step aside or face the collapse of his coalition and an early election after damaging allegations of corruption.

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  Bush was not "forthright" on Iraq: ex-spokesman Reuters - Wed May 28, 12:34 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan says in a new book that President George W. Bush "veered terribly off course" and was not "open and forthright on Iraq," Politico.com reported on Tuesday.

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  No new evidence of al Qaeda threat despite report: U.S. Reuters - Wed May 28, 12:04 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There is no evidence of a direct threat from al Qaeda or that the group has obtained weapons of mass destruction, U.S. intelligence officials said on Tuesday, despite reports that al Qaeda will release a new video urging jihadists to use such weapons to attack the West.

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  Obama admits reference to Auschwitz was wrong Reuters - Tue May 27, 6:10 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama admitted on Tuesday he was wrong to say his uncle helped liberate the Nazis' Auschwitz concentration camp after Republicans said Soviet troops freed the camp.

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  China "quake lake" fears force new evacuation Reuters - 1 hour, 15 minutes ago

  BEICHUAN, China (Reuters) - China has evacuated more than 150,000 people living below a swollen lake formed by this month's devastating earthquake amid fears it could burst and trigger massive flooding, state media said on Wednesday.

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  McCain edges away from Bush but seeks his help Reuters - Tue May 27, 6:25 PM ET

  DENVER (Reuters) - Republican candidate John McCain edged further away from U.S. President George W. Bush on foreign policy on Tuesday even as he accepted Bush's help in raising much-needed campaign dollars for his White House bid.

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  West dismayed over Suu Kyi detention Reuters - 59 minutes ago

  YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's military has started to bury cyclone victims in communal graves, villagers said on Wednesday, as Western nations pledged to keep aid flowing despite anger at its detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

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  Pisa's leaning tower safe for 300 years: expert Reuters - 1 hour, 19 minutes ago

  ROME (Reuters) - The leaning tower of Pisa has been successfully stabilized and is out of danger for at least 300 years, said an engineer who has been monitoring the iconic Italian tourist attraction.

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  Nepal set to abolish monarchy AFP - 2 hours, 5 minutes ago

  KATHMANDU (AFP) - Nepal was set for historic change Wednesday with a new assembly dominated by former Maoist rebels poised to sweep away the Himalayan kingdom's 240-year-old monarchy and declare a republic.

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  Defence minister demands Israeli PM step down AFP - 1 hour, 10 minutes ago

  JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak on Wednesday demanded that embattled Prime Minister Ehud Olmert quit promptly over corruption allegations or face early elections.

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  World response needed to oil crisis: British PM AFP - 2 hours, 19 minutes ago

  LONDON (AFP) - Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Wednesday that the world faced a "great oil shock" that could only be addressed by urgent action on a global scale.

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  US child obesity may be stabilizing after huge rise: study AFP - Wed May 28, 4:46 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - The obesity rate among American children and teenagers may have stabilized after a dramatic rise in the 1980s and 1990s that has been described as an epidemic, according to a US study on Wednesday.

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  Pressure China on human rights post-Olympics: Amnesty AFP - 1 hour, 54 minutes ago

  LONDON (AFP) - The world needs to maintain pressure on China for human rights reform after the Beijing Olympics, the head of Amnesty International said, as the group published its annual report Wednesday.

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  Indonesia to pull out of OPEC: minister AFP - 2 hours, 2 minutes ago

  JAKARTA (AFP) - Indonesia will withdraw from the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries after years of declining exports, the energy minister said Wednesday even as other producers cash in on soaring oil prices.

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  Future IMF chief economist 'relatively' upbeat on global economy AFP - 1 hour, 29 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - The International Monetary Fund's future chief economist, Frenchman Olivier Blanchard, says he is "relatively optimistic" about the global economy, despite a financial crisis and surging oil prices.

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  Archaeologists discover statues of Cleopatra, Aphrodite AFP - Mon May 26, 3:35 PM ET

  CAIRO (AFP) - An alabaster head of Cleopatra and a mask thought to belong to her lover Mark Antony have been found near Egypt's Mediterranean city of Alexandria, antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said on Monday.

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  Single-family home prices tumble in March Reuters - Tue May 27, 4:36 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prices of U.S. single-family homes plunged a record 14.4 percent in March from a year earlier, while consumer confidence slumped to its lowest in 16 years in May as gasoline prices surged.

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  Iran's housing prices turn many into millionaires Reuters - Tue May 27, 8:05 PM ET

  TEHRAN (Reuters) - Negar Ehteshami just paid the equivalent of $6 million in rials in cash for a luxurious apartment. But it is not in New York or London. It is in the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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  New aftershocks bring terror to quake-hit China Reuters - Tue May 27, 12:34 PM ET

  MIANZHU, China (Reuters) - New aftershocks toppled 420,000 houses and injured dozens in southwest China on Tuesday, heaping destruction and fear on a region struggling to recover from the country's worst earthquake in decades.

• Obama admits reference to Auschwitz was wrong Reuters - Tue May 27, 6:10 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama admitted on Tuesday he was wrong to say his uncle helped liberate the Nazis' Auschwitz concentration camp after Republicans said Soviet troops freed the camp.