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The entire England squad, including waverers such as Andrew Flintoff and
Stephen Harmison, will leave this afternoon for a warm-up camp in Abu Dhabi,
but it is by no means certain that all the players will be in India for the
Test series, which is scheduled to begin a week today.
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Patients with debilitating diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s
risk being exploited by websites offering expensive stem-cell treatments,
scientists said yesterday.
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One of the conjoined twins born last week has died and her sister was
critically ill last night after emergency surgery to separate them.
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Some parts of northern Britain could see snowfalls, while the south could see heavy rain, forecasters warn.
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Troubled Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse says it is shedding another 5,300 jobs from its workforce.
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Troubled Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse says it is shedding another 5,300 jobs from its workforce.
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AP - "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" (Children's High Level Group, $12.99, 111 pages), by J.K. Rowling: Just in time for the holidays, J.K. Rowling has given Harry Potter fans a little gift.
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US rapper Lil' Wayne is nominated for eight Grammy awards, while Coldplay follow with seven mentions on the shortlist.
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US rapper Lil' Wayne is nominated for eight Grammy awards, while Coldplay follow with seven mentions on the shortlist.
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AP - India suspects two senior leaders of a banned Pakistani militant group orchestrated the three-day siege of the country's financial capital that killed at least 171 people, Indian officials said Thursday.
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PC World - Hit by the global economic slowdown, Adobe Systems said Wednesday that it would cut 600 jobs and lowered its revenue expectations for the fourth quarter.
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TOKYO/ BEIJING (Reuters) - Central banks in Europe are poised to slash interest rates on Thursday to try to contain a global economic slump that appears to be spreading faster than policy makers in the industrialized countries had anticipated.
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AP - Thailand's battered political parties tried to find a replacement for the ousted prime minister as airport authorities hurried Thursday to restore international air links severed by protesters who occupied Bangkok's two airports for a week.
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PC World - Online criminals took control of the Domain Name System (DNS) record for payment processor CheckFree and briefly redirected the site's visitors to a their own server.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rapper Lil Wayne, whose new album was the biggest seller of the year, led the field of Grammy contenders, while rock bands Coldplay and Radiohead led a British invasion of the music industry's top honors.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rapper Lil Wayne, whose new album was the biggest seller of the year, led the field of Grammy contenders, while rock bands Coldplay and Radiohead led a British invasion of the music industry's top honors.
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AP - A chartered bus carrying students collided with a semitrailer Wednesday night on icy roads in north-central Illinois, sending at least 18 people to the hospital, authorities said. None of the injuries appeared life-threatening.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss bank Credit Suisse said on Thursday it had a net loss of about 3 billion Swiss franc ($2.5 billion) at the end of November and it was shedding another 5,300 jobs, mainly in investment banking.
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(Reuters) - General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC are considering accepting a pre-arranged bankruptcy as the last-resort price of getting a multi billion dollar government bailout, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with internal discussions.
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Reuters - Politicians in Australia's most populous state could be breath-tested for alcohol before voting on laws after a series of late-night incidents that have embarrassed the centre-left government.
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Reuters - Politicians in Australia's most populous state could be breath-tested for alcohol before voting on laws after a series of late-night incidents that have embarrassed the centre-left government.
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AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday the Pakistani government must mount a "robust response" to the terror bombings in India, which blames the carnage on terrorists operating from neighboring Pakistan.
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AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday the Pakistani government must mount a "robust response" to the terror bombings in India, which blames the carnage on terrorists operating from neighboring Pakistan.
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AP - Briann January scored a career-best 25 points, tying a school record with seven 3-pointers in No. 25 Arizona State's 73-59 victory over UC Davis on Wednesday night.
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Reuters - China has told artists on its annual top-rating TV gala show on Chinese New Year's Eve not to lip-synch their songs, local media reported on Thursday, a controversy that overshadowed the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony.
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