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This aerial photo shows a tornado damaged structure in Riegelwood, N.C. The tornado flipped cars, shredded trees and ripped mobile homes to pieces in this little riverside community early Thursday, killing at least eight people, authorities said. (Photo by Gerry Broome / AP)

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Down East tornado kills 8

A tornado killed eight people in North Carolina, pulverizing a mobile home park, crushing brick houses and scattering cars.

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Raleigh News and Observer

Royal wins race to run for French presidency

Segolene Royal emerged triumphant after party members anointed her by a heavy majority as the Socialist candidate in the elections next spring.

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Times of London

In Vietnam, Bush speaks on Iraq

President Bush says the United States’ unsuccessful war in Vietnam offered lessons for the American-led struggle in Iraq.

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MSNBC

Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman dies

Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who advocated free markets, and had the ear of U.S. presidents, was 94.

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USA Today

Agreement reached on Darfur peacekeepers

Sudan reversed its opposition to allowing U.N. peacekeepers within its borders, agreeing in principle to a plan that will permit an international force to bolster African troops in Darfur.

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Yahoo!News

Soldier gets 90 years in Iraqi rape case

A soldier was sentenced Thursday to 90 years in prison with the possibility of parole for conspiring to rape a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and kill her and her family.

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MSNBC

Convoy of civilians hijacked in Iraq

The Pentagon said a convoy of Iraqi civilians traveling near Nasiriyah was hijacked, in a move certain to inflame already raging sectarian violence in the country.

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US News & World Report

Iraq government orders arrest of top Sunni cleric

Iraq's Shiite-led government ordered the arrest of the country's most prominent Sunni cleric on suspicion of terrorism.

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Reuters

Pelosi makes history as female speaker

Democrats embraced Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California as the first woman House speaker in history, then quickly snubbed her by selecting a majority leader she did not want.

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San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

Democrats prepare to raise minimum wage

It looks like full steam ahead for a significant boost to the federal minimum wage when Democrats assume control of Congress in January.

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AOL

McCain forms presidential exploratory committee

First Rudy Giuliani. Now the man many insiders think can beat New York's former mayor is dipping his toe into presidential waters.

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San Jose Mercury News

WORLD

Despite energy wealth, Myanmar is mired in poverty

An Asian energy rush is on in Myanmar, but poverty continues to wrack the nation, despite its great potential for wealth.

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Cracked it!

Britons have been issued with a new hi-tech passport, designed to frustrate terrorists and fraudsters. But a computer expert cracked the security codes in 48 hours.

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Guardian

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Misery deepens as Janjawid infiltrate the refugee camps

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Times

Moroccan convicted over 9/11 plot

A German appeals court has found a Moroccan, Mounir al-Motassadek, guilty of being an accessory to murder in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S.

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BBC

Another day, another Dow record

Stocks gained for a fifth straight session, with the Dow Jones industrial average achieving its third straight record close on optimism over falling prices.

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MSNBC

Clear Channel agrees to $19 billion buyout

Clear Channel Communications Inc., the largest U.S. radio broadcaster, agreed to a leveraged $19 billion buyout by Thomas H. Lee and Bain Capital Partners LLC.

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Bloomberg

Hostile bid for Delta stirs consolidation talk

US Airways Group Inc.'s $8 billion hostile bid for Delta Air Lines Inc. jolted the airline industry, spurring more speculation about the future of United Airlines, which is a big proponent of consolidation.

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Chicago Tribune

Michael Jackson disappoints in stage return

Michael Jackson made his long-awaited live stage comeback night in London at the World Music Awards.

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People

Media execs outraged over Simpson book 'If I Did It'

O.J. Simpson created an uproar with plans for a TV interview and book titled "If I Did It" -- an account the publisher pronounced "his confession" and media executives condemned as revolting and exploitive.

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Sports Illustrated

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GOOD NEWS

Mouth of the south: Give until it hurts

Media mogul Ted Turner told fellow philanthropists at the Clinton Presidential Library in Arkansas this week to give all they could but keep some spare change in case things got tough.

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Forbes

Leonid meteors set to dazzle

Sky watchers in western Europe and Africa, northeastern North America and Brazil may get a brief treat this weekend with the height of the Leonid meteor shower.

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Happy people may suffer fewer colds

Staying positive through the cold season could be your best defense against getting sick, new study findings suggest.

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Reuters

Hospital accused of 'dumping' homeless

Los Angeles prosecutors filed criminal charges against a major hospital company, Kaiser Permanente, accusing it of dumping a homeless patient suffering from dementia on the city's Skid Row.

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CBS News

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Enron's Skilling agrees to $85 million settlement

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Houston Chronicle

Foley focus of Florida criminal probe

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has opened a criminal investigation of former Rep. Mark Foley, who resigned in September after his e-mails with teenage congressional pages came to light.

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CNN

SPORTS

Countdown to judgment day

The greatest rivalry in college football may also determine the nation's best team as No. 2 Michigan and No. 1 Ohio State prepare to meet.

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ESPN

Blake secures semi-final spot

James Blake booked his place in the semi-finals of the Masters Cup after he produced a remarkable turnaround to leave Nikolay Davydenko stunned.

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TECHNOLOGY

Hole-in-wall thief used MP3 player

A fraudster outwitted sophisticated banking security systems by using an ordinary MP3 music player to bug cash machines and steal customers’ credit card secrets.

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Times

Software maker in data leak makes deal with feds

A leading seller of software for investigating computer crimes has reached a settlement with federal regulators, after a hacking incident exposed data on thousands of its customers.

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ZDNet

Activists: Chinese-language Wikipedia reopened

The Chinese-language version of online encyclopedia Wikipedia has been unblocked by Beijing authorities, activists said.

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Sydney Morning Herald

ENVIRONMENT

U.S. out of step with world on environment

Most adults in 20 countries express a commitment to ecological responsibility, according to a poll by Angus Reid Strategies for Maclean’s.

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Angus Reid

Brazil mourns as anorexia claims another model's life

The mother of a Brazilian fashion model who died from complications of anorexia has made an emotional appeal for parents to take better care of aspiring young models.

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Reuters

EDUCATION

Colleges push women to the top

In most graduate business programs, three of every 10 students in the classroom are women. But in one Master of Business Administration course at the University of Washington, all 24 are women.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

RELIGION

Vatican reaffirms celibacy for priests

Pope Benedict XVI and top Vatican officials have reconfirmed the Catholic Church's rule of celibacy for priests after considering an excommunicated archbishop's demand that it be dropped.

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CBC

U.N. asked to acknowledge new religion

Two self-acclaimed Jedi Knights want their faith to be formally recognized. Umada and Yunyun want the United Nations to acknowledge Jedi as worthy of being called a religion.

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Independent

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