Sir Edmund Hillary, who made a historic first ascent of the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, dies aged 88.
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AP - President Bush said Friday that he would return to the Mideast in May to continue pressing the Israelis and Palestinians into reaching a peace agreement and to help Israel celebrate its 60th anniversary.
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TEHRAN (AFP) - UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei was holding talks in Tehran on Friday, seeking answers over Iran's contested nuclear drive in his first visit to the country in over one-and-a-half years.
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AFP - Wire stories | 11 Jan 2008 | 11:43 am
AP - Consumer confidence fell to an all-time low as worries about jobs, energy bills and home foreclosures darkened people's feelings about the country's economic health and their own financial well-being.
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Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 11 Jan 2008 | 11:38 am
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Kenya's main opposition party called Friday for mass rallies nationwide in the wake of the African Union's failure to resolve a deadly election dispute....
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AP - Kenya's main opposition party called Friday for mass rallies nationwide in the wake of the African Union's failure to resolve a deadly election dispute.
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Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 11 Jan 2008 | 11:33 am
AP - The revelation that the Army threw out the conviction of the only officer court-martialed in the Abu Ghraib scandal renewed outrage from human rights advocates who complained that not enough military and civilian leaders were held accountable for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners.
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Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 11 Jan 2008 | 11:33 am
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to stand atop the world's highest mountain, was remembered Friday as a deeply driven but unassuming man who strived to help the people of Nepal in the decades after his ascent of Mount Everest....
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AP Top International News At 6:33 a... | 11 Jan 2008 | 11:32 am
AP - Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to stand atop the world's highest mountain, was remembered Friday as a deeply driven but unassuming man who strived to help the people of Nepal in the decades after his ascent of Mount Everest.
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Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 11 Jan 2008 | 11:32 am
AP - Democrats controlling Congress are looking at tax rebates, extended unemployment benefits and more food stamps to stimulate the sagging economy.
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Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 11 Jan 2008 | 11:31 am
AP - Republican presidential rivals backed a blend of tax and spending cuts Thursday night to head off an election-year recession they generally agreed is avoidable. "We should reduce taxes on middle-income Americans immediately," former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said in a debate in the run-up to presidential primaries in Michigan and South Carolina, two states where unemployment exceeds the national average.
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Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 11 Jan 2008 | 11:31 am
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- One of the largest bombing campaigns of the war destroyed extremists' "defensive belts" south of Baghdad, allowing American soldiers to push into areas where they have not been in years, a top commander said Friday....
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AP Top International News At 6:33 a... | 11 Jan 2008 | 11:18 am
LONDON (AFP) - Stricken British bank Northern Rock said Friday it had sold part of its mortgage book to US investment bank JP Morgan for 2.25 billion pounds (4.39 billion euros, 2.97 billion dollars) in cash.
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AFP - Wire stories | 11 Jan 2008 | 11:18 am
Nepal's government sets 10 April as the date for delayed elections to decide the country's future.
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BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Jan 2008 | 11:15 am
Reuters - Sending a symbolic
message to Israeli and Palestinian leaders, U.S. President
George W. Bush visited on Friday the site where Jesus is
believed to have intoned "blessed are the peacemakers."
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Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 11 Jan 2008 | 11:10 am
MOUNT OF BEATITUDES, Israel (Reuters) - Sending a symbolic message to Israeli and Palestinian leaders, U.S. President George W. Bush visited on Friday the site where Jesus is believed to have intoned "blessed are the peacemakers".
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Reuters: Top News | 11 Jan 2008 | 11:10 am
TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's parliament cleared the way Friday for its navy to return the Indian Ocean on a U.S.-backed anti-terror mission, after stiff lobbying from Washington in support of the measure....
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AP Top International News At 6:33 a... | 11 Jan 2008 | 11:10 am
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidates said on Thursday the U.S. economy was going through a difficult slowdown but an election-year recession could be avoided with the right mix of policies.
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Reuters: Top News | 11 Jan 2008 | 11:09 am
JERUSALEM (AP) -- President Bush had tears in his eyes during an hour-long tour of Israel's Holocaust memorial Friday and told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the U.S. should have bombed Auschwitz to halt the killing, the memorial's chairman said....
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AP Top International News At 6:33 a... | 11 Jan 2008 | 11:08 am
Powerful thunderstorms packing heavy rain and high winds pushed across Alabama and Mississippi on Thursday, causing scattered ...
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CAPERNAUM, Israel (AFP) - US President George W. Bush wrapped up his landmark Middle East tour on Friday after boldly predicting the signing within a year of a peace treaty to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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AFP - Wire stories | 11 Jan 2008 | 10:51 am
Disgraced Olympian Marion Jones is asking a federal judge to keep her out of prison, but the only real question may be how much time she gets.
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FOXNews.com | 11 Jan 2008 | 10:48 am
A US army officer who ran the interrogation unit of Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail is cleared of any wrongdoing.
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BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Jan 2008 | 10:48 am
The World Trade Organization could impose trade sanctions because of restrictions on GM crop imports.
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BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Jan 2008 | 10:43 am
Kenya's main opposition party says it will resume mass protests after last month's disputed elections.
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BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Jan 2008 | 10:41 am
NAIROBI (AFP) - Kenya's opposition vowed Friday to resume mass protests following the failure of international mediation to end the country's political crisis which has led to hundreds of deaths, a spokesman told AFP.
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AFP - Wire stories | 11 Jan 2008 | 10:27 am
SAN JOSE DEL GUAVIARE, Colombia (Reuters) - With tears, smiles and long hugs, two women hostages were freed by Colombia's Marxist rebels on Thursday after years in the jungle, raising hopes for dozens more languishing in secret camps.
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Reuters: Top News | 11 Jan 2008 | 10:23 am
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WELLINGTON (AFP) - Edmund Hillary, the modest New Zealand beekeeper who shot to global fame as the first person to climb Mount Everest, died Friday aged 88.
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AFP - Wire stories | 11 Jan 2008 | 10:20 am
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with a representative of Myanmar's ruling junta Friday for the first time in nearly two months, a government official said....
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AP Top International News At 6:33 a... | 11 Jan 2008 | 10:08 am
The head of the UN nuclear watchdog visits Tehran for two days of talks on Iran's nuclear programme
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BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Jan 2008 | 10:02 am
Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi meets an official from Burma's ruling junta for the fourth time.
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BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Jan 2008 | 9:34 am
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, who along with Nepal's Tenzing Norgay Sherpa became the first to conquer Mount Everest, died in hospital on Friday.
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Reuters: Top News | 11 Jan 2008 | 9:24 am
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Here is the cold, hard reality of the 65th annual Golden Globe Awards that will be handed out Sunday at the Beverly Hilton: A lot of people are going to lose a lot of money.
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Reuters: Top News | 11 Jan 2008 | 9:03 am
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The head of women's tennis suspects organised criminals, including the Russian mafia, are trying to fix matches.
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BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Jan 2008 | 8:57 am
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - U.N. atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei was in Tehran on Friday for talks on outstanding questions about Iran's nuclear ambitions, a program the West fears will ultimately yield warheads.
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Reuters: Top News | 11 Jan 2008 | 8:40 am
President Bush set out U.S. expectations for a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, saying the two sides need to get serious about talks "starting right now."
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FOXNews.com | 11 Jan 2008 | 8:19 am
President Bush set out U.S. expectations for a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, saying the two sides need to get serious about talks "starting right now."
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FOXNews.com | 11 Jan 2008 | 8:19 am
The first time a climber lays eyes on Everest, it's hard not to imagine what it was like when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay topped out on the world's highest peak shortly before noon on May 29, 1953....
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AP Top International News At 6:33 a... | 11 Jan 2008 | 8:10 am
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan rejected on Friday a call by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for President George W. Bush to consider cutting Pakistani aid unless it restores full civil rights and does more to fight terrorism.
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Reuters: Top News | 11 Jan 2008 | 7:54 am
SEOUL (AFP) - The chairman of Lone Star on Friday rejected allegations that colleagues of the US equity fund had conspired to manipulate a share price to acquire a South Korean credit card company on the cheap.
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AFP - Wire stories | 11 Jan 2008 | 7:40 am
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Helicopters sent by Venezuela's president picked up two hostages freed by Colombian rebels in the jungle Thursday and flew the women across the border in a mission that could open a new path to freedom for dozens of captives....
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AP Top International News At 6:33 a... | 11 Jan 2008 | 7:35 am
A fiery wreck on a bridge that spans the U.S.-Mexico border killed at least four people, police said.
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FOXNews.com | 11 Jan 2008 | 7:27 am
Japan's ruling coalition forced a bill through parliament Friday to revive a U.S.-backed anti-terror mission in the Indian Ocean, clearing the way for Japanese ships to return to the region after a months-long absence.
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FOXNews.com | 11 Jan 2008 | 7:12 am
President Pervez Musharraf ends Pakistan's six-week state of emergency and restored the constitution ahead of jan. 8 elections.
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FOXNews.com | 11 Jan 2008 | 6:55 am
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan welcomed on Thursday U.S. plans to send an extra 3,000 troops to fight the Taliban insurgency, but Washington's move highlights divisions between Western allies over how much to commit to the country.
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Reuters: Top News | 11 Jan 2008 | 6:48 am
Three-quarters of the billions in federal money earmarked to replace schools, firehouses and other public works after the 2005 ...
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USATODAY.com News - Top Stories | 11 Jan 2008 | 6:43 am
CARACAS (AFP) - Two women hostages who were released by Colombian rebels on Thursday were greeted with hugs, kisses and tears as they were reunited with their families after years of captivity in the jungle.
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AFP - Wire stories | 11 Jan 2008 | 6:28 am
Christopher Bowman, a former U.S. figure skating champion and child actor, was found dead of a possible drug overdose in Los Angeles motel.
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FOXNews.com | 11 Jan 2008 | 6:17 am
At least two injuries were reported Thursday as powerful thunderstorms packing heavy rain and possible tornadoes pushed across Mississippi.
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FOXNews.com | 11 Jan 2008 | 3:55 am
Their bones grow even when they are lying dormant.
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U.S. News & World Report | 11 Jan 2008 | 3:03 am
Floodwaters that left three people dead and hundreds of families homeless in nine north-central Indiana counties this week entered ...
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President George W Bush has said that it was "absolutely possible and necessary" for there to be an agreement on a Palestinian state by the time he leaves office next year.
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Telegraph News | Top News | 11 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
The Work and Pensions Secretary has admitted failing to declare more than £100,000 in donations to his campaign to be Labour deputy leader.
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Telegraph News | Top News | 11 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
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