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Boyzone singer Gately dies in Spain at 33 - 10/12/2009

MADRID- Boyzone singer Stephen Gately, 33, died on Saturday while on holiday in Majorca off the coast of Spain, the Irish band with a string of hits in the 1990s said on its website. "Stephen...

Studio shake-up reflects changing Hollywood - 10/12/2009

LOS ANGELES, Romain Raynaldy - Management shake-ups at movie giants Universal and Disney reflect the industry's difficulty in adjusting to the digital age and failure to halt sliding DVD sales,...

Africa wants polluters to pay for climate change - 10/12/2009

OUAGADOUGOU, Christophe Parayre - Africa will demand billions of dollars in compensation from rich polluting nations at a UN climate summit for the harm caused by global warming on the continent,...

Ahmadinejad sees no obstacle to further nuclear talks - 10/12/2009

TEHRAN- Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday that talks in Geneva on his country's nuclear programme had been positive and he saw no obstacle to continuing discussions with world powers....

Imagine Peace Tower lights in Second Life - 10/10/2009

SAN FRANCISCO - Just hours after Friday's annual lighting of the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, a virtual version of the tribute to late Beatle John Lennon opened in online world Second Life. "I...

Man held in France over 'Qaeda links' released - 10/10/2009

PARIS - The younger of two brothers arrested in France on suspicion of links to the Al-Qaeda militant network was released on Saturday without charge, a judicial official said. The detention of...

Wall Street Journal to pass USA Today as top US paper - 10/10/2009

WASHINGTON- The Wall Street Journal said Saturday that it expects to become the largest US newspaper by weekday circulation when the latest figures are released, leapfrogging USA Today. According...

Burundi says it will 'firmly' relocate Tutsi refugees - 10/10/2009

BUJUMBURA - Burundi on Friday said it would act "firmly" in relocating Congolese Tutsi refugees to a camp in the east of the country after the Democratic Republic of Congo closed its borders to...

Twitter plans French, German, Italian and Spanish sites - 10/10/2009

WASHINGTON- Twitter, the fast-growing micro-blogging service, is seeking volunteer French, German, Italian, and Spanish translators to render its website into other languages. Twitter's website,...

As kids' swine flu deaths spike, vaccine reaches public - 10/10/2009

SILVER SPRING, Karin Zeitvogel - Amid warnings that child deaths from swine flu are spiking, toddler Bronwen English nervously clutched her teddy bear and waited to be innoculated against the H1N1...
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