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• Coors, Miller to combine operations AP - 22 minutes ago

  NEW YORK - Brewers Molson Coors Brewing Co. and SABMiller PLC plan to combine their U.S. operations in a joint venture, which the makers of Miller Lite and Coors Light said should help them compete more effectively.

• GM OnStar system could halt stolen cars AP - 55 minutes ago

  DETROIT - Say some clown steals your car from the parking deck at work. If it's equipped with General Motors' OnStar service, he could be in for a big surprise and you could get a little revenge — and even see your car again.

• TiVo to feature Rhapsody music service AP - 57 minutes ago

  SAN JOSE, Calif. - TiVo Inc. is introducing music to its mix of entertainment services, offering owners of the company's digital video recorders access through their TVs to the Rhapsody music service.

• Man jailed for trying to pass $1M bill AP - 42 minutes ago

  PITTSBURGH - Change for a million? That's what a man was seeking Saturday when he handed a $1 million bill to a cashier at a Pittsburgh supermarket. But when the Giant Eagle employee refused and a manager confiscated the bogus bill, the man flew into a rage, police said.

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  Indians eliminate Yankees with 6-4 win AP - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

  NEW YORK - Paul Byrd and the Cleveland Indians bullpen closed out the New York Yankees 6-4 in Game 4 of their American League Division Series last night, completing the third straight first-round debacle for the Yankees, one that might cost manager Joe Torre his job.

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  Iraq wants Blackwater to pay $136 million compensation Reuters - 1 hour, 45 minutes ago

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi government wants security firm Blackwater to pay $8 million in compensation to each of the families of 17 people killed in a shooting, a senior government source said on Tuesday.

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  Unrepentant North Korea marks "miracle" nuclear test Reuters - Tue Oct 9, 2:02 AM ET

  SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea on Tuesday marked the first anniversary of the nuclear test that made it globally ostracized and the target of painful sanctions by calling it a "great miracle" for all Koreans.

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  Nanotechnology pioneers win physics Nobel Reuters - 34 minutes ago

  STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - France's Albert Fert and Germany's Peter Gruenberg won the 2007 Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for discoveries allowing the miniaturization of hard disks in electronic devices from laptops to iPods.

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  Greenhouse gas emissions hit danger mark: scientist Reuters - Tue Oct 9, 1:01 AM ET

  SYDNEY (Reuters) - The global economic boom has accelerated greenhouse gas emissions to a dangerous threshold not expected for a decade and could potentially cause irreversible climate change, said one of Australia's leading scientists.

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  Chrysler, UAW talks intensify as strike deadline looms Reuters - Tue Oct 9, 4:14 AM ET

  DETROIT (Reuters) - With just over a day remaining until a strike deadline, representatives of the United Auto Workers union and Chrysler LLC bargained into Tuesday morning in a bid to reach a new contract for some 49,000 U.S. factory workers.

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  Myanmar names trusted fixer as Suu Kyi go-between Reuters - 1 hour, 27 minutes ago

  YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's main opposition gave a cautious welcome on Tuesday to the junta naming its main trouble-shooter as "Minister of Relations" to act as a go-between with detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.

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  Japan plans unmanned mission to the moon Reuters - 2 hours, 1 minute ago

  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan plans to launch its first mission to land a spacecraft on the moon in the next decade, officials said on Tuesday, joining China and India in a race among Asian nations to explore the lunar surface.

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  Car bombs kill 22 in northern Iraq Reuters - 21 minutes ago

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two suicide car bombs killed at least 22 people in northern Iraq on Tuesday in attacks targeting a police chief and a Sunni Arab tribal leader working with U.S. forces to fight al Qaeda.

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  Pakistani civilians flee after clashes kill 195 AFP - Tue Oct 9, 3:37 AM ET

  MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) - Hundreds of people fled a Pakistani tribal town on Tuesday after some of the heaviest-ever clashes near the Afghan border left 150 militants and 45 soldiers dead, officials and witnesses said.

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  Suicide truck bombers kill 19 in Iraq attacks AFP - 17 minutes ago

  TIKRIT, Iraq (AFP) - Two suicide bombers blew up fuel-laden trucks against the homes of an Iraqi police chief and a tribal leader in simultaneous bombings that killed 19 people on Tuesday, police said.

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  Darfur rebels say Khartoum using growing violence ahead of peace talks AFP - 8 minutes ago

  KHARTOUM (AFP) - The only Darfur rebel group to have signed a peace deal with Khartoum said on Tuesday that four of its fighters were killed repelling an attack on a town by Sudanese government forces as violence mounts ahead of new peace talks this month.

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  Israeli police grill Olmert in corruption probe AFP - 45 minutes ago

  JERUSALEM (AFP) - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was grilled by police on Tuesday over his alleged abuse of influence in the privatisation of Israel's second largest bank two years ago.

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  Thanks for the memory: Hard-disk breakthrough wins Nobel Physics Prize AFP - 42 minutes ago

  STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Albert Fert of France and Peter Gruenberg of Germany on Tuesday won the Nobel Physics Prize for pioneering work that led to the miniaturised hard disk, one of the breakthroughs of modern information technology.

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  EU urges flexibility from China over exchange rates AFP - 2 hours, 51 minutes ago

  LUXEMBOURG (AFP) - China came under European pressure on Tuesday to allow its currency to trade more freely in foreign exchange markets amid growing concerns that its huge surpluses are destablising the global economy.

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  World Bank chief says lender wants to help Arab states AFP - 5 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Arab countries have been "underserved" by the development lender and that he wants to develop an initiative to get more involved in the Arab world, according to an interview published in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.

Most Popular Top Stories

• Board the plane, turn off your phone ... and surf the Web The Christian Science Monitor - Tue Oct 9, 4:00 AM ET

  NEW YORK - Coming soon to an airplane near you: broadband.

• Greenhouse gas emissions hit danger mark: scientist Reuters - Tue Oct 9, 1:01 AM ET

  SYDNEY (Reuters) - The global economic boom has accelerated greenhouse gas emissions to a dangerous threshold not expected for a decade and could potentially cause irreversible climate change, said one of Australia's leading scientists.

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  Jones returns Olympic medals and accepts two-year ban Reuters - Mon Oct 8, 11:30 PM ET

  SALVO, North Carolina (Reuters) - Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones has relinquished the five Olympic medals she won at the 2000 Sydney Games and accepted a two-year ban after admitting she used performance-enhancing drugs, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) said on Monday.

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  Nanotechnology pioneers win physics Nobel Reuters - 34 minutes ago

  STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - France's Albert Fert and Germany's Peter Gruenberg won the 2007 Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for discoveries allowing the miniaturization of hard disks in electronic devices from laptops to iPods.

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  Chrysler, UAW talks intensify as strike deadline looms Reuters - Tue Oct 9, 4:14 AM ET

  DETROIT (Reuters) - With just over a day remaining until a strike deadline, representatives of the United Auto Workers union and Chrysler LLC bargained into Tuesday morning in a bid to reach a new contract for some 49,000 U.S. factory workers.