| World News  | Williams sweeps Dementieva to reach seventh Wimbledon final
The Australian
DEFENDING champion Venus Williams beat Elena Dementieva 6-1, 7-6 (3) to advance to the Wimbledon final Thursday, setting up a potential championship matchup with sister Serena. Venus Williams, a four-time Wimbledon winner, overpowered the fifth-seeded Russian in the first set and then prevailed in an error-strewn tiebreaker to improve her record to 7-0 in semifinals at the All England Club. Her opponent in Saturday's final could be two-time...
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|  | Zambia denies president's death
The Times Of India
3 Jul 2008, 2012 hrs IST,REUTERS LUSAKA: Zambia's vice president denied media reports on Thursday that President Levy Mwanawasa had died, saying he was in a stable condition in a Paris hospital. "The president had (a) satisfactory night at the Percy military hospital in France. The news reports are not true," Vice President Rupiah Banda said in a statement....
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|  | Darling and Paulson lay out blame for crunch
The Times
Chancellor Alistair Darling and Henry Paulson, the US Treasury Secretary, today admitted mistakes by regulators, banks and investors had led to the credit crunch but fell short of critising the huge pay packets awarded to failed financial executives. Mr Paulson, on a two-day visit to the UK, was meeting Mr Darling and 40 business leaders to discuss Britain and America's response to the financial turmoil sparked by the credit crunch, including the...
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|  | Google Keeps Code but Viacom Gets YouTube User Data -
Yahoo Daily News
Peter Sayer, IDG News Service 1 hour, 14 minutes ago need not reveal its search code to Viacom, but its subsidiary must disclose a database listing who watched what video, when, and from where, a New York judge ordered Tuesday. Viacom International filed suit against Google and its video-sharing subsidiary YouTube in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 2007. It accused the companies of illegally distributing copyright...
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|  | Jerusalem fears Arab enemy within
The Australian
FOR the second time in four months, a terror strike on Jerusalem has been carried out by a resident of the Holy City, leaving Israelis confronting the potential nightmare that terrorists have found a new front line. One day after a resident of the Palestinian half of the city drove a bulldozer on a deadly rampage through the city heart, security officials were trying to establish whether he was sent on a mission by an established militant group,...
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|  | Many spared from Pakistan gallows
BBC News
The Pakistani cabinet has approved a proposal to commute the sentences of thousands of prisoners on death row to life imprisonment, officials say. The move will benefit some 7,000 prisoners condemned to death in various cases,...
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|  | European Central Bank boost interest rates
USA Today
Updated | Comment | Recommend | | | FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank raised its benchmark interest rate Thursday a quarter percentage point to 4.25% in an effort to reign in escalating inflation in the 15-nation euro zone. Higher euro zone interest rates tend to send its currency higher against the dollar as investors park money where it earns more interest. Meanwhile a sinking dollar generally boosts...
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|  | Will Ingrid Betancourt's release end Colombia's civil war?
The Guardian
The hostages held by Farc rebels are free at last, and a peace settlement to Latin America's last intractable war may be in sight The dramatic release of Ingrid Betancourt from her jungle captivity in a daring Israeli-style operation by the Colombian army is an extraordinary triumph for Alvaro Uribe, the hardline Colombian president who has always preferred military action to peaceful negotiation in the long battle against the Farc insurgency....
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| Business News  | Airport ‘go-arounds’ probed as safety hazard
MSNBC
1,500 reported in last half of '07, none fatal; ‘it only takes one,’ critic says Jeff Chiu / AP file> NEWARK, New Jersey - A United Airlines jetliner was coming in for a landing at the Las Vegas airport in 2006 when the tower radioed that a smaller plane was still crossing the runway. So the United pilot executed a "go-around," a routine maneuver in which an incoming plane pulls up at the last...
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|  | US presidential elections 2008
The Philippine Star
I lived in the United States for almost two decades, as a student and as a young professional, and mostly in Washington, D.C. Having served in various capacities with three Presidents, I dealt with US government officials for another decade. In these circumstances, I have been an avid observer of American politics - and continue to be. So it was only natural that when I recently spent two weeks in Washington D.C. and New York City, my attention...
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|  | BA price rises leave a quarter of seats empty
The Times
British Airways flights are now taking off with almost a quarter of their seats empty after higher airfares and a slowing economy led to 87,000 fewer passengers using the airline last month. The airline said it carried 2.9 per cent fewer passengers than the same month last year with traffic to Africa, the Middle...
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|  | Water: The next big crisis
The Philippine Star
Once upon a time, Metro Manilans took it for granted that they can drink clean water straight from the tap. You can still do that in some places in the metro area but more and more people believe they have to buy bottled water just to be on the safe side. In a December 2005 report, the World Bank noted that water quality does not meet government standards, and that waterborne diseases remain a public health concern. Ramon Alikpala, executive...
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| Entertainment News  | Aamir’s perfectionism hits Salman!
The Times Of India
Aamir has always been a perfectionist and his selection of roles, one film per year funda only elaborates his knack of striving for perfection. Bollywood of late has been spoofing Aamir and his perfection a lot... what’s with Riteish aping his attitude at the IIFA this year! However Salman doesn’t seem to be the one to join those who make a mockery of Aamir’s perfectionism! In fact, his...
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|  | Shakira signs £70m deal with Live Nation
The Guardian
Maybe the Rolling Stones just don't speak enough Spanish. Despite months of rumours that the Stones were set to sign with concert promoter Live Nation, it seems that the next artist to ink a mega-million deal is an act of a more sultry, hip-wriggling kind. Colombian pop star Shakira finalised a $70 million (£35 million) deal last week, according to the New York Post, to be announced within...
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|  | Did Peter 'Cook' Books?
Fox News
Did Peter 'Cook' Books? | Is David Blaine Next for Madonna?; Shakira, Nickelback Deals; 'Dark Knight' Sees Daylight Did Peter 'Cook' Books? Of all the crazy and terrible things that were revealed about Peter Cook yesterday on the stand in his divorce trial, here's something worse than internet porn, adultery, and physical cruelty: he could be in hot hot water with the Internal Revenue Service. Cook revealed on the stand in Islip, Long Island that...
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|  | Big Brother lovers? Stephanie and Ziggy share coffee and a kiss
The Daily Mail
It seems another reality TV wannabe has fallen under the spell of Big Brother Romeo Ziggy Lichman. The failed boyband star was spotted holding hands and kissing Stephanie McMichael from Big Brother nine in a west London coffee shop. An onlooker said smooth Ziggy was seen mouthing to Stephanie: 'I'm the happiest man in the world,' according to the Star newspaper. New romance: Former Big Brother contestants Ziggy Lichman and Stephanie McMichael...
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|  | Shilpa's new love!
The Times Of India
Shilpa Shetty is taking lessons in playing the violin. Her role in Sunny Deol's The Man that demands that the actress get well versed with the art of playing the violin. A source close to the actress revealed, "Shilpa's character in The Man is of an actress. She is playing herself in the film. But her character also has a interesting side to her. She is a violin expert just like pop...
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| Health News  | Schools told to monitor pupils' health and homes
London Evening Standard
Schools and local authorities are to be made accountable for tackling drug abuse, pregnancies and obesity among pupils under measures to improve "wellbeing". Schools Secretary Ed Balls will today publish guidance which requires teachers to track pupils using 18 new indicators, including levels of bullying, neglect and home life. The Department for Children, Schools and Families insisted schools were not being asked to solve society's problems....
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|  | Nationwide shortage of vaccines puts babies' health at risk
The Daily Mail
There is a shortage of a vaccine called Pediacel used against against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough and polio Babies could be put at risk by a critical shortage of vital vaccinations. Every GP practice in the country has been warned that limits will be imposed from Monday on three types of vaccine which protect youngsters from tetanus, polio, diphtheria, whooping cough and meningitis. Doctors say the restrictions - which could last...
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|  | Hot women, cold men will live longer
The Australian
LOOKING to live to a ripe old age? A triumvirate of sun, sand and surf may be the key if you're a woman, while men might do well to consider relocating to cooler climes. Minister for Ageing Justine Elliot yesterday released a list of regions where populations enjoy Australia's highest life expectancies, with Queensland's Sunshine Coast leading the way for...
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|  | A kick in the teeth for the government
The Guardian
A select committee's criticism of dental policy is not news to dentists, who've been struggling for years to meet unrealistic targets The dental drama continues and this time there's a twist. A report published by the government yesterday condemned the new NHS dental system. Kevin Barron, chair of the health select committee, expressed astonishment at the Department of Health's oversight in not conducting a pilot study before introducing a new...
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