20/06/2008,
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese police arrested two Greenpeace activists on suspicion of theft on Friday after they admitted taking a box of whale meat as evidence of what they said was embezzlement by Japanese whalers.
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09/07/2008,
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - So you thought Batman's Gotham City was a stand-in for New York, just like Metropolis in the Superman comics?

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27/08/2008,
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A man is convicted of child cruelty after forcing two boys to flog themselves during a Shia Muslim ceremony.
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11/10/2007,
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Countrywide Financial Corp on Thursday said September mortgage lending fell 44.3 percent from a year earlier as it tightened underwriting standards, even as delinquencies surged.
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09/06/2008,
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Steve Jobs is expected to introduce an iPhone with faster Web access.
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23/06/2008,
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Skyrocketing fuel costs have led the airline to cut back on flights and pilots.
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15/08/2008,
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The days when families huddled in silence round the TV are a thing of the
past. A typical scene today would be children shouting excitedly over their
games consoles while mothers look for bargains on the internet and fathers
struggle to catch a few words on the radio - with a TV contributing in the
background.
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09/07/2008,
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Madonna's brother says she loves Guy Ritchie but not as much as herself.
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18/07/2008,
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Pope Benedict XVI apologized for the sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic clergy in Australia while celebrating Mass in Sydney.
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19/08/2008,
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Children's Minister Beverley Hughes allocates £4.5m to programmes to unite youngsters from different backgrounds.
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09/07/2008,
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Medicare bill opposed by the White House won final congressional approval on Wednesday with the help of Sen. Edward Kennedy, who returned to the Senate floor for the first time since brain surgery last month.

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17/08/2008,
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The most courageous students are least likely to cheat in class, US researchers say.
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11/08/2008,
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London The number of people charged with possessing a knife in the
country’s crime hotspots has fallen by half in the past four years,
according to new figures.
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27/08/2008,
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Arsenal cruise into the Champions League group stage with an easy win against Steve McClaren's FC Twente.
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28/08/2008,
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AP - Talk about an extreme makeover: Scientists have transformed one type of cell into another in living mice, a big step toward the goal of growing replacement tissues to treat a variety of diseases.
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30/07/2008,
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TechWeb - InformationWeek - We've pulled together a passel of little-known software backup and repair techniques so you won't have to reinstall Vista from scratch, if it gets trashed or hits a fatal startup error.
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23/06/2008,
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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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23/05/2008,
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Pakistan's main stock index falls almost 5% after interest rates jumped to 12.5% from 10% to slow the inflation rate.
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