| World News  | Venus Williams Defeats Sister Serena, Taking Fifth Wimbledon Title
Fox News
WIMBLEDON, England - Tennis star Venus Williams won her fifth Wimbledon singles title Saturday, beating younger sister Serena 7-5, 6-4. Venus and Serena Williams faced off in the women's Wimbledon final, their first Grand Slam championship match in five years. Between them, four-time champion Venus and two-time winner Serena have won six of the last eight Wimbledon titles. Click here for photos. It was the third time the Williams sisters met for...
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|  | Belarus president dismisses assassination plot: report -
Yahoo Daily News
37 minutes ago MINSK (AFP) - Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko on Saturday rejected the possibility that a bomb attack at a concert he was attending in Minsk on Friday could have been an assassination attempt. "I don't think that it was aimed at me, although it would have been a bonus for them. This was an attack against ordinary people," Lukashenko was quoted...
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|  | PM's plea to G8 on world poverty
The Guardian
Rich nations must not abandon action to tackle climate change and world poverty in the face of the credit crunch, Gordon Brown has warned fellow G8 leaders. Amid campaigners' fears next week's summit in Japan could see previous pledges on aid and global warming scaled back, the Prime Minister said they should in fact be accelerated. "The world is suffering a triple challenge:...
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|  | Lebanon 'set to announce cabinet'
BBC News
Lebanon is reported to be on the verge of announcing the formation of a new government, following months of political deadlock. The breakthrough, if confirmed, ends weeks of arguments over cabinet posts between the pro-Western majority coalition and Hezbollah-led opposition....
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|  | Colombia Defense Minister Denies Paying Ransom
Voa News
Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos during a press conference in Bogota, 04 Jul 2008 Colombia's defense minister has denied reports that his government paid a ransom for the release of 15 rebel-held hostage earlier this week. Juan Manuel Santos rejected as false Swiss radio reports that 20 million...
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| Business News  | Victory for Vodafone in battle with taxman
The Independent
Vodafone won a crucial victory in the High Court yesterday in a £2bn dispute with the Government over its tax liability from an overseas subsidiary. Mr Justice Edward Evans-Lombe ruled against government claims that the mobile phone giant's Luxembourg holding is a "controlled foreign company" (CFC) and should therefore be taxed as if it were part of the UK business. Vodafone says that because the division is a genuine operating subsidiary, rather...
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|  | Mass. lobstermen show they're whale friendly
The Providence Journal
BOSTON - The rubber bands that bind lobster claws in Massachusetts are now about more than protecting people from their dinner. They're also about protecting whales. Beginning this weekend, lobsters caught off the state's coast will have green bands on their claws stamped with "Massachusetts" and images of whale tails. It's part of a campaign to highlight how state lobster harvesters are trying to make the seas safer for whales. Massachusetts is...
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|  | Intel's dominance challenged by a low-power upstart
The Times Of India
SAN DIEGO: From mainframes to minicomputers and then PCs, each new computing generation has displaced its predecessor by reaching a broader audience and costing far less. And each time, the dominant company in one generation loses control in the next. That’s why the PC industry’s commanding chip maker, Intel, might do well to be alarmed by the computer chips being designed by...
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|  | No holiday from high gas prices this July 4th
Business Journal
> San Antonio July 4th gas prices hit new record [San Antonio] AAA expects fewer travelers this July 4th [Dallas] High gas prices not keeping Texans off the road this summer, survey says [Austin] Fourth of July travelers are paying the highest prices ever for a gallon of gasoline this week, according to AAA Texas. In Texas, the average price for regular self-serve gasoline hit $3.96 a gallon, up 3 cents from last week. Nationally, the average...
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| Entertainment News  | (Semi-) talented by association?
Canada Dot Com
The ink is still wet on the reports about Lindsay Lohan having a Dull Normal half-sister, age 13, and already the young lady in question is making her bid to escape Dull Normalcy. You saw the story last week: Men are pigs, and Michael Lohan more than most, and about 14 years ago Mike, though married, got together with one Kristi Kaufmann. Now this kid Ashley Kaufmann says she's Lilo's half- sister. The blood tests aren't even back yet, but...
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|  | Nicole Kidman wants James Galway playing while she gives birth
Belfast Telegraph
Film star Nicole Kidman could make it a smooth and easy delivery if she gives birth listening to Sir James Galway playing The Vocalise by Sergei Rachmaninov. Who says so? None other than the First Knight of the Flute himself who is aware that the actor hopes to be listening to one of his tracks when the moment for her to give birth arrives. "If Nicole really wants to listen to a piece of mine at the vital moment then I would recommend a track of...
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|  | Guess who's a country hit? Jessica Simpson
Buffalo News
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - When Jessica Simpson announced plans to go country after her last pop album flopped, there was a collective eye roll in Nashville. To some skeptics, it appeared to be a calculated move to follow in the footsteps of other pop stars who have found success by crossing over to country radio. After lackluster album sales, acting disappointments and bad press over her high-profile romances, Simpson certainly needed a boost. But "Come...
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|  | Bollywood loses Rs 1.5 bn in six months
The Times Of India
MUMBAI: The year is halfway through, but Bollywood has very little to cheer about. More than Rs 3 billion ($70 million) has gone into making films, but half of the amount sank beyond recovery. The ratio of success and failure in Bollywood has for the past many years been 5/6:100, it means, out of 100 movies released in a given year, only five or six manage to hit the jackpot. The...
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|  | The daily dish... a spicy serving of celebrity news
Buffalo News
Under the influence ... Brad Paisley says he got to mark a biggie off his wish list when Andy Griffith agreed to be in the video for his new single, "Waitin' On a Woman." "He has influenced my life more than most people that I grew up with, more than most people that I actually knew my whole life," Paisley said recently. "I wrote Andy a letter telling him what he has meant to me over the years and asked him to be in the video." In the video, the...
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|  | 'Jaane Tu...' got a superstar opening: Aamir
The Times Of India
MUMBAI: Light college drama "Jaane Tu...Ya Jaane Na" won the hearts of audiences on the day of its release and Aamir Khan, whose nephew Imran debuted in the film, says it got an opening only a superstar's movie would get. "'Jaane Tu...' got a response as strong as 'Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak' (Aamir's debut film). It got...
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| Health News  | Anti-smoking photos do little good: survey
Canada Dot Com
OTTAWA -- Graphic health warnings on cigarette packages are failing to move the majority of smokers to quit, a new government survey has found. During the last five years, the percentage of smokers who say the warnings are ineffective at getting them to try to kick the habit has increased, according to the newly released Health Canada poll. More than half -- 57 per cent -- say they are unmoved by these graphic warnings, up five points from five...
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|  | Can we move beyond the headlines?
The Guardian
Children are not 'being given sex lessons' - they are simply being helped to have happier, healthier lives "Call for sex lessons at age four," screamed one headline yesterday on the BBC website. It surely can't be long before the media will print pieces on how toddlers are being taught to give blow-jobs. Please, let's get things in perspective and look beneath the attention-grabbing headlines. The story is much broader than is being made out....
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|  | Smoke forces more residents to evacuate
Canada Dot Com
SASKATOON -- Four days after blazing Saskatchewan forest fires began forcing residents of northern communities from their homes, another 650 evacuees are being sent away due to a heavy smoke threat, bringing the total of displaced residents to over 2,800. About 250 residents from Pelican Narrows were evacuated from the community Friday afternoon, with 150 arriving at the Sasktel Soccer Centre in Saskatoon and 100 at the University of Regina. The...
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|  | Risky HPV detected in human breast milk
Canada Dot Com
NEW YORK -- Human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV-16), which has been linked to cervical cancer, can be detected in human breast milk collected during the early period after a woman delivers her baby, doctors from Finland report. It is possible that HPV DNA present in breast milk may be transmitted to the infant during breast feeding, study chief Dr. Stina Syrjanen suggested in correspondence with Reuters Health. In previous research, Syrjanen,...
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|  | Climate change may worsen health woes
Canada Dot Com
GENEVA -- Climate change stands to exacerbate health crises in many countries already strained by inadequate hospitals, too few medical staff and uneven access to drugs, the head of the World Health Organization said on Monday. WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said that new patterns of global rainfall, droughts and storms could accelerate the spread of diseases such as malaria and dengue fever in some regions, creating serious problems for poor...
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| Politics News  | Comelec certain no automated fraud in ARMM polls
The Daily Tribune
07/06/2008 The Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday assured the voters in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) that automated cheating will never happen in the polls on Aug. 11. Although it may not solve the entire problem of election fraud, the automated elections in the ARMM will surely address the serious concerns of dagdag-bawas (vote padding or shaving). This is mainly due to the almost complete removal of human...
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|  | We must have equality before the law
The Guardian
In the sharia debate, it's crucial we uphold English common law. The alternative is a society divided along religious lines In a speech to the London Muslim Centre yesterday, Britain's most senior judge, Lord Phillips, reaffirmed the boundaries between religion and law and argued forcefully for a universal law: So far as the law is concerned, those who live in this country are governed by English and Welsh law and subject to the jurisdiction of...
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|  | Courage of the flip-flop
The Guardian
It's easy to be a conviction politician. Real bravery consists of changing tack according to the evidence For months all the US presidential hopefuls have been accusing their rivals of flip-flopping. Politicians want to be like Margaret Thatcher, whose insistence that "the lady's not for turning" was a turning point in her popularity. Where are the conviction politicians of today, people ask. I'll tell you: in Zimbabwe, in Tehran, and in the...
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|  | US claim about action in tribal areas rebuffed
Dawn
By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD, July 3: Pakistan has bluntly told the United States that the authority to undertake military action on its territory is the exclusive prerogative of Pakistani armed forces and no country can arrogate that right to itself. Nobody has the right to arrogate to himself the right of action on Pakistans territory. It is something for Pakistan to decide, Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Sadiq said at his weekly press...
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