AP - The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet.

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More than a million 11 and 14-year-olds in England will get their Sats results late this year because of administrative chaos.
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Chinese tourists arrived in Taiwan on the first direct flights in nearly six decades, a move aimed at easing tensions between the old foes.
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Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable have agreed with New York state officials to block access to child pornography.
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Reuters - Paradoxically, obesity may offer some protection against heart-related "events," like heart attack, in people who have a stent placed to prop open a clogged coronary artery, research shows.
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PARIS (Reuters) - If anyone was pleased to see the back of Justine Henin, it was Jelena Jankovic.

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What a week! Between iPhone 3G in San Francisco and the Webby Awards here in New York there was a lot going on. (By the way, Stephen Colbert's five-word acceptance speech managed to be both funny and reflect the current narcissism often associated with the Web and social networking: "Me, me, me, me, me.")
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WEtv.com is serving up videos of men the way coffee bars serve up morning beverages, offering daily jolts of the "tall, dark, and extra strong."
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More evidence has emerged that a chemical imbalance in the brain may play a key role in cot deaths.
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Al Sharpton, facing probes of his charity's finances, hires former U.S. Attorney
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As dozens of people injured in a tornado at an Iowa Boy Scout camp recovered, families and friends tried to make sense of the tragedy that claimed the lives of four teenagers who had gone to the elite camp to learn how to be leaders.
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State Treasurer Richard Moore has asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate the timing of stock sales made by the chief executive of mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp.
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ASA upholds complaint about advertisements lodged by rival broadband provider BT.
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3 women drown in severe flash flood in southwestern Germany.
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AP - Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.

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Oldest woman in the world at the time she died, Henrikje van Andel-Schipper, showed little sing of aging, memory loss, and Alzheimer's in her brain.
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BETHESDA, Maryland (Reuters) - Tournament host Tiger Woods will be a conspicuous absentee at this week's AT&T National where South Korean K.J. Choi defends the title he won by three shots last year. World number one Woods had reconstructive surgery on his left knee last Tuesday and has been advised by his doctors to take extra care for the first three weeks of his recovery. "Flying, unfortunately, swells up my leg pretty good," Woods said in a teleconference call on Monday. "When I flew home from the procedure, it ballooned up a little bit. So my doctors advised me to lay low and stay away from planes. "Missing this week being the host of the event, it's very disappointing," added the 14-times major winner, who has shut down his playing schedule for the rest of the year. Five of the world's top 20 are competing this week at Congressional Country Club, led by seventh-ranked American Steve Stricker and holder Choi (10th). Stricker, voted the 2007 PGA Tour...
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Women who get a replacement kidney from a male donor are more likely to reject the new organ, scientists suggest.
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