China calls for rich country help on climate change - Reuters

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China calls for rich country help on climate change - Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) - Addressing climate change head-on is in China’s best interests, but it needs developed countries to do their fair share, President Hu Jintao said in a speech reported by the Xinhua news agency on Saturday. Hu called on developed
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Entertainment News from AP - WLNS
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Jurors serving in trials for murder and other violent crimes can often suffer from stress and depression after trials end, and some jurisdictions around the country have begun to offer services like counseling to help. Experts
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Body found in search for teenager - BBC UK News
Det Con Insp Steve Strong, of Norfolk Police, said: “I am as satisfied as I can be at this stage that the body we have located in Mautby is that of Simon Everitt. The family have been notified of the discovery.” The teenager’s bicycle was found at
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CBS in $1.8B deal for online news, info site CNet - Los Angeles Times

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CBS in $1.8B deal for online news, info site CNet - Los Angeles Times
NEW YORK — Media and entertainment company CBS Corp. is buying CNet Networks Inc., an online news and information provider, for $1.8 billion in cash in its latest bid to expand its reach on the Internet, the companies announced Thursday. The price
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Official: CPC and Hu welcome visit of KMT chairman - Xinhua News Agency
BEIJING, May 17 (Xinhua) — The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and its General Secretary Hu Jintao welcome and invite Taiwan’s Kuomintang (KMT) Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung to visit the mainland, an official said Saturday. “The Taiwan
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Obama’s ’sweetie’ is a pickle - Chicago Tribune
NEW YORK - Welcome to “Sweetie-gate,” a place paved with eggshells, where terms of endearment turn into political peccadilloes at the drop of a diminutive. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois found himself in just such a place this week when the Democratic
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AP Top News at 12:00 am EDT - The Associated Press

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AP Top News at 12:00 am EDT - The Associated Press


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AP Top News at 12:00 am EDT
The Associated Press - 59 minutes ago
The official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday that the school collapsed in Beichuan county, just east of the epicenter of Monday's 7.9-magnitude earthquake.
Worry and hope as news trickles out of earthquake zone Xinhua
Oakland's Chinese seek out news Contra Costa Times
CHINA Quake hits, 3000 to 5000 feared dead, 10000 wounded - Asia News AsiaNews.it
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AP Top News at 10:20 am EDT - The Associated Press

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AP Top News at 10:20 am EDT - The Associated Press


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AP Top News at 10:20 am EDT
The Associated Press - 1 hour ago
The official Xinhua News Agency said 80 percent of the buildings had collapsed in Beichuan county in Sichuan province after the 7.8-magnitude quake.
Video: Powerful Earthquake Shakes China AssociatedPress
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News roundup: Quake buries 900 Chinese students; Burma faces … - USA Today

News roundup: Quake buries 900 Chinese students; Burma faces
USA Today - 3 hours ago
The world's major news organizations are covering a number of big stories. Quake: An earthquake buried 900 students today in China, according to the top

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Kaka selected as one of the most influential people in the world - Xinhua News Agency

Friday, May 2nd, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Kaka selected as one of the most influential people in the world - Xinhua News Agency
BRASILIA, May 1 (Xinhua) — The midfielder for the soccer team of Milan as well as the Brazilian national team, Kaka, was chosen on Thursday by Time magazine as one of the most influential people in the world today. He is the only soccer player to
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Tables turn in college classes - MSNBC
Kristi Upson-Saia is known as a tough grader. So she’s entitled to feel a little nervous this time of year, when the tables are turned and her religion students at Occidental College in Los Angeles are the ones grading her. “Personally, it can be
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