LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran U.S. television journalist Ted Koppel has been named as a contributing political analyst for the BBC's internationally broadcast "World News America" program.

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A young Manchester United footballer whose career was ended by a reckless tackle has been awarded record damages of more than £4.3 million. The payout is the highest to a sportsman or woman and sports law experts said yesterday that it would set a precedent.
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Two longtime House members say computers in their Capitol Hill offices have been hacked by sources apparently working out of China.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Play started after a two-hour-50-minute rain delay at the French Open on Tuesday.

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CC Sabathia threw a three-hitter, his third consecutive complete game for his new team, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 on Wednesday night.

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Red Sox DH David Ortiz has live cage session for first time since May 31st.
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AP - Suspected militants bombed a bus carrying prisoners in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least nine people as fighting between security forces and extremists flared across the country's tribal belt.

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Scientist celebrated after the Phoenix Mars lander successfully filled its oven with soil for testing, after previous attempts had failed.
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A tool designed to deter fraudsters from registering fake e-mail accounts has been recruited to help digitise books and newspapers dating back hundreds of years.
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A cell phone with a fading battery helped locate the hikers missing in Alaska.
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Jared Allen can't turn away. The highest-paid defensive player in NFL history is sitting on the plush sectional sofa in his spacious off-season home in Scottsdale, Ariz., eyes fixed on his 50-inch flat screen. Allen has seen Deliverance enough times to know that Ned Beatty is about to be sodomized by a lanky hillbilly. Yet he still frowns in disgust, as if he were watching the movie for the first time. "Why doesn't he fight back?" Allen says. "I'd at least try to punch the guy a couple of times." For the 6'6", 270-pound Allen—the Vikings' new QB-hounding defensive end—the instinct to fight back is as natural as breathing. His own life is proof of that. Two years ago he might have been sprawled across this same couch nursing a nasty hangover after yet another all-nighter. Today, all the 26-year-old Allen cares about is where he'll eat lunch after his morning workout and why Beatty is squealing like a pig. Allen's transformation from hard-partying upstart to sober Pro Bowler has been...
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AFP - German conglomerate Siemens wants to attract investment from sovereign wealth funds to enlarge its long-term investor base and improve access to fast-growing markets, its chief financial officer said in comments published Thursday.

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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scientists have identified around 100 genes that the H5N1 bird flu virus needs in a host in order to replicate, and this finding may help in the hunt for ways to block its proliferation.

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Hillary Clinton summoned millions of voters who supported her in the primaries to send Barack Obama to the White House, declaring in a DNC speech that the man who defeated her "is my candidate and he must be our president."
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Most news stories about global warming recommend that consumers switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs. But are they really that good for the environment?
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Urban Meyer calls him the greatest player of our era. He rolls with a mini entourage and treated the Winfrey Hotel to one of the wildest days in its history. Like most everyone else, Dennis Dodd is star struck by the maturity of Tim Tebow.

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"Dot.Com" is a charmingly funny and beautiful firmed comedy about a small village in Portugal whose residents are being threatened with an $800,000 lawsuit because the town"s Web site happens to have the same name as a trademarked brand of mineral water.
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Prove you were coerced, defrauded, threatened, drugged or didn't have a lawyer.
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