SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Authorities ordered more than 10,000 residents of Paradise, California, to leave their homes on Wednesday as a stubborn wildfire threatened to jump a river and spread into town where a blaze destroyed 74 homes in June.

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Reuters - Caterpillar Inc expects weakness in rich-country economies to persist into 2009 but its sales in China will remain strong, Jim Owens, chairman and chief executive of the U.S. construction and mining equipment firm, said on Thursday.

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The government learned of five dozen previously unknown cases. The number of states affected jumped to 23.
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An expert told Maggie Rodriguez her body language may have belied the strong support she expressed for Barack Obama.
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There is growing evidence that babies who gain weight rapidly during the first few months or years of life may be at increased risk for obesity as they get older.
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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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Two teen athletes in New Jersey died this week from events that occurred during football practice.
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Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is released after eight hours of police detention, a spokesman says.
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Researchers say obese men have lower-quality sperm than their slim counterparts.
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(CBS/Daniel Sieberg) Hard to believe it"s been exactly a year since I traveled to the Arctic with our CBS crew - myself, producer Chloe Arensberg and cameraman Mark LaGanga. For those who remember our blog postings, you might also recall another passenger onboard that journey: my father, Doug. To mark the one-year anniversary, I"m posting a "video postcard" that encompasses both our time onboard the ship and some of my father"s history in the Arctic.
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A rapid response service will be set up to help trap and kill grey squirrels across southern Scotland.
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Friends and relatives are attending funerals for the two girls, who were mysteriously shot and killed on a country road in the small working-class town of Waleetka.
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Former London mayor Ken Livingstone is to work as a consultant for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
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Modified car crosses Europe fuelled on fat alone
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A real-life Indiana Jones globe hops in search of the Holy Grail of meteorites.
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Stereotypes prompt a new push to empower people commonly called albinos.
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AP - A pivotal moment in the 1998 movie "Pleasantville" comes when an unusual remote control pulls a brother and sister into their television set. They emerge on the other side, inside the world of the show they are watching.

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The U.S. economy remained "generally weak" heading into summer as rising costs for energy and food pounded consumers and forced some companies to push their own prices higher.
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