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  Stock futures fall amid credit concerns AP - 29 minutes ago

  NEW YORK - U.S. stock futures fell sharply Monday as concerns about soured debt mounted after Citigroup Inc. warned it plans to book $8 billion to $11 billion in additional losses.

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  Egypt puts King Tut on public display AP - Mon Nov 5, 2:22 AM ET

  LUXOR, Egypt - King Tut's buck-toothed face was unveiled Sunday for the first time in public — more than 3,000 years after the youngest and most famous pharaoh to rule ancient Egypt was shrouded in linen and buried in his golden underground tomb.

• MySpace expands program for targeted ads AP - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

  NEW YORK - The popular online hangout MySpace is expanding its program for letting advertisers target their pitches using personal details on users' profile pages.

• Couple from Hell wins Halloween lottery AP - 52 minutes ago

  HELL, Mich. - Life in Hell just got a little easier for John and Sue Wilson. The couple, who live in the unincorporated town 45 miles west of Detroit, were blessed with a $115,001 windfall from the Michigan Lottery.

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  Dodgers to introduce Torre as manager AP - 1 hour, 3 minutes ago

  LOS ANGELES - Joe Torre will be front and center for his first day in a Los Angeles Dodgers uniform. The new manager's introductory news conference Monday was to be held in center field at Dodger Stadium, not in some room in the ballpark's interior, a first according to team spokesman Josh Rawitch.

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  U.S., Britain pressure Musharraf Reuters - 54 minutes ago

  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The United States and Britain heaped pressure on Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf on Monday, urging him to hold elections on time, as police detained hundreds of lawyers angry at his imposition of emergency rule.

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  Citigroup may face $11 billion writeoff Reuters - 6 minutes ago

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Charles Prince resigned on Sunday as chairman and chief executive of Citigroup Inc, as the bank said it may write off $11 billion of subprime mortgage losses, on top of a $6.5 billion write-down last quarter.

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  Hollywood writers begin strike after talks collapse Reuters - 1 hour, 58 minutes ago

  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Film and television writers went on strike on Monday, after last-minute talks aimed at averting the Writers Guild of America's first walkout in almost two decades collapsed.

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  Rice seeks Mideast peace deal while Bush in office Reuters - 26 minutes ago

  RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice joined Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Monday in voicing hope they could reach a peace agreement before President George W. Bush leaves office in January 2009.

• Russian spying distracts from Qaeda threat: MI5 Reuters - 1 hour, 9 minutes ago

  LONDON (Reuters) - Russian spying against Britain remains at Cold War levels, diverting intelligence resources that would be better devoted to fighting al Qaeda, the head of the MI5 intelligence agency said on Monday.

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  Turkish soldiers freed after diplomatic push Reuters - Mon Nov 5, 3:35 AM ET

  ANKARA (Reuters) - Kurdish rebels on Sunday freed eight Turkish soldiers captured in an ambush last month in northern Iraq, a move which could ease public pressure on Turkey's government to launch a major cross-border incursion.

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  Queen Elizabeth in fashion top 50 Reuters - 34 minutes ago

  LONDON (Reuters) - One is in vogue. At the age of 81, Queen Elizabeth on Monday joined models Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell on Vogue Magazine's list of the world's most glamorous women.

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  Fiji charge six over PM assassination plot Reuters - 1 hour, 44 minutes ago

  SUVA (Reuters) - Fiji police charged six men on Monday, some former senior army and intelligence officers, with plotting to assassinate the South Pacific island nation's coup leader and prime minister.

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  Pakistani police smash emergency rule protests AFP - 33 minutes ago

  ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistani police used tear gas and batons to crush protests by lawyers against President Pervez Musharraf on Monday, despite spiralling international anger at the imposition of a state of emergency.

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  Bush to hold talks with Turkish leader on Iraqi Kurds AFP - 16 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - President George W. Bush on Monday faces crisis talks with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he vies to dissuade his "war on terror" ally from an incursion into Iraq to hunt down Kurdish rebels.

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  Rice hopes for Mideast peace deal during Bush presidency AFP - 14 minutes ago

  RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday she hopes a planned Middle East conference can be a "launching pad" for a peace deal before the end of President George W. Bush's presidency.

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  World's top bank Citigroup names new chief AFP - Mon Nov 5, 12:12 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - The world's biggest bank Citigroup named ex-US Treasury chief Robert Rubin as its new chairman Sunday, replacing Charles Prince who retired as it posted massive losses from the subprime mortgage crisis.

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  US shuttle Discovery undocks from space station AFP - 19 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US space shuttle Discovery successfully undocked from the International Space Station early Monday to begin a journey back to Earth, space officials said.

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  PetroChina becomes world's top-valued company AFP - Mon Nov 5, 3:23 AM ET

  SHANGHAI (AFP) - PetroChina became the world's largest company by market value Monday, worth about one trillion dollars -- double the value of ExxonMobil -- as its shares surged in their debut on the Chinese mainland.

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  Plane delays cost Airbus up to 1.4 billion euros AFP - Mon Nov 5, 5:10 AM ET

  PARIS (AFP) - European aerospace group EADS said Monday that delays in Airbus' new A400M military transport plane announced last month will cost between 1.2 and 1.4 billion euros (1.7 to 2.0 billion dollars).

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  Best bottoms come from Balkans AFP - Thu Nov 1, 10:15 PM ET

  BERLIN (AFP) - A Bulgarian woman and a Romanian man have the world's best-looking bottoms, according to the jury of a backside beauty contest sponsored by a lingerie firm, a company spokeswoman said Thursday.

• Avoiding Cancer: Your Nine-Point Action Plan U.S. News & World Report - Fri Nov 2, 1:03 PM ET

  The gist of a long-awaited analysis of cancer-prevention studies out this week: Be slim, very slim. The report by the World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research states in no uncertain terms that the more pounds you're packing, the greater your risk of developing a number of cancers, everywhere from the colon and the breast to the kidney and the pancreas. And it gave detailed advice on avoidance. Here's what you can do:

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  Cargill recalls 1 million pounds of ground beef Reuters - Sat Nov 3, 4:47 PM ET

  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Agricultural giant Cargill Inc said on Saturday it was recalling more than 1 million pounds of ground beef distributed in the United States because of possible E. coli contamination.

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  Lights, beings, beams: Just a typical night in Australia's UFO capital AFP - Sun Nov 4, 12:21 AM ET

  WYCLIFFE WELL, Australia (AFP) - On a desert highway in Australia's flat, dry centre is a petrol station by a watering hole where extraterrestrials have been stopping off for millennia, or so "witnesses" say.

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  SUV with mind of its own wins robot car race Reuters - Sun Nov 4, 4:02 PM ET

  VICTORVILLE, California (Reuters) - A souped-up Chevy Tahoe sports utility vehicle with a mind of its own was declared the winner of a robot car race on Sunday after it traveled without help from humans for six hours and 60 miles