One of the biggest talking points of 2009 is sure to be the timing of Tiger Woods' comeback from the knee injury that has seen him sidelined since hi
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HARARE, Zimbabwe - International aid agencies warned on Saturday that Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis is deepening, with a sharp rise in acute child m
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GARHI KHUDA BAKHSH, Pakistan -- Hundreds of thousands of supporters of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto gathered in her home town on Sa
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UPBEAT: : Wachovia Securities said valuation levels were ‘very attractive’ and that the risk of a depression was ‘extremely unlikely,’ with the reces
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LONDON: The end for Woolworths, a century-old British retail institution, will move a step closer with the shutting down of a quarter of its stores.
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TOYOTA--Temporary workers like Toshie Helena Oguihara were a driving force behind Japan's economic recovery in recent years, but when the recession r
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BAGHDAD: Iraqi voters next month will see 14,500 candidates vie for 440 open seats on provincial councils, an outpouring of interest in a new phase o
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Reuters DUBAI: Iran's Gulf neighbor, the United Arab Emirates, has signed a deal worth $3.3 billion to buy missiles from US firm Raytheon, a newspape
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AFP GAZA CITY: A Hamas fighter was killed in an Israeli air raid yesterday after Palestinian gunmen pounded Israel with rocket and mortar fire in an
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: Chinese authorities in the restive mountainous region of Tibet have arrested 59 people for spreading rumours and trying to stir up racial hatred an
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators are moving to sell the remnants of failed IndyMac Bank before year end, mopping up from the second-largest bank
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There's no leap of imagination needed to expect the arrival one day of a T-Mobile "G2" Android-based smartphone, an expected though still hypothetica
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