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An elephant removes a fallen tree that created a road block in Barishal,75 miles south of Bangladesh's capital Dhaka. A cyclone slammed into Bangladesh's coast with 150 mph winds, killing at least 242 people, leveling homes and forcing the evacuation of 650,000 villagers before heading inland and losing power. (Photo by Pavel Rahman / AP)

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Bhutto rejects interim cabinet

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Musharraf frees Bhutto

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Pakistani government resigns; caretaker government announced

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International Herald Tribune

Barry Bonds indicted on perjury, obstruction charges

Barry Bonds was indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice, charged with lying when he told a federal grand jury that he did not knowingly use performance-enhancing drugs.

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Scores dead as powerful cyclone hits Bangladesh

At least 242 people have been reported dead after a powerful cyclone battered southern Bangladesh, levelling villages and uprooting trees.

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Housing slump likened to depression

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San Jose Mercury News

Democrats unable to bring troops home

Nearly a year after anti-war voters put them in power, congressional Democrats remain unable to pass legislation ordering troops home from Iraq.

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Guardian

Blackwater guard recounts shooting

A guard from the U.S. security firm Blackwater says his motorcade came under fire and that he feared for his life in a deadly shootout in Iraq.

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FBI finds Blackwater in violation

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Response to Wal-Mart’s ‘green’ report

Wal-Mart published its first report on the environmental and social sustainability drive it launched just over two years ago.

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Financial Times

NATION

Surging oil price pushes up cost of living for Americans

The cost of living increased 3.5 percent compared to a year ago after consumer prices rose another 0.3 percent last month, driven by higher fuel costs, according to official figures.

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Financial Times

Volunteers to be told who got HIV vaccine

Volunteers in a failed AIDS-vaccine study headed by Seattle researchers will be told whether they were given the experimental vaccine, and may face a higher risk of getting HIV than those who got a placebo.

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China spying 'biggest U.S. threat'

Chinese espionage poses "the single greatest risk" to the security of U.S. technology, a panel has told Congress.

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BBC

POLITICS

Clinton says rivals 'throwing mud'

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton fired back at her rivals for "throwing mud" in a contentious debate marked by sharp clashes with opponents Barack Obama and John Edwards.

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Top 10 debate zingers

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Mexican president denounces candidates

Mexican President Felipe Calderón has inserted himself into the U.S. presidential campaign, denouncing the candidates for demonizing Mexican immigrants.

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Airport screening failures draw criticism from Congress

How serious is it that undercover teams were able to smuggle bomb components, including liquid explosives, past passenger checkpoints in all 19 airports they tested this year?

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BUSINESS

Soft landings for CEOs

Some shareholders may object, but heads of most major financial services firms will have very secure futures, even if they're forced out.

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BusinessWeek

Starbucks' cup half-empty

Starbucks reported a 35 percent increase in profit for the fourth quarter on the strength of a price increase, but same-store traffic in the U.S. declined for the first time since it began reporting the statistic.

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Forbes

He fixed the NYSE. Can he fix Merrill?

Merrill tapped John Thain, CEO of NYSE Euronext and a former Goldman executive, to be its new chief. He faces the challenge of cleaning up the subprime mess at the investment bank.

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BusinessWeek

HEALTH

Virulent form of cold virus worries experts

A new and virulent strain of adenovirus, which frequently causes the common cold, killed 10 people in parts of the United States earlier this year and put dozens into hospitals, U.S. health officials said.

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Reuters

Effects of isolation traced to hormone

The anxiety and aggression that result from social isolation have been traced to altered levels of an enzyme that controls production of a brain hormone.

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SPORTS

Selig sees bright financial future for Major League Baseball

Baseball revenue climbed to $6.075 billion this year, and Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig envisions an even rosier financial future.

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ESPN

Padres' Peavy unanimously voted Cy Young Winner

San Diego Padres right-hander Jake Peavy unanimously won the Cy Young Award after leading the National League in wins, strikeouts and earned run average.

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GOOD NEWS

Your check may be on the IRS list

Any extra cash — even an unexpected check for $30 or $40 — is a welcome bonus. So why not see if the IRS is holding onto some money that it still owes you?

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Detroit Free Press

Singing Boston University law professor rocks the classroom

For nearly 20 years, Professor Mark Pettit has been spicing up his classes by singing legal spoofs of Top 40 hits.

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WORLD

10 injured in ground test of Airbus

France: Ten people were injured when an Airbus 340-600 slammed into a wall during engine tests on the ground at a French airport, the planemaker and government officials said.

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International Herald Tribune

Hamza can be tried in U.S., judge rules

A judge ruled that the jailed radical Islamist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri can be extradited to the U.S., where he could face terror charges.

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Guardian

15,000 homeless in Chile quake

Aftershocks from a powerful earthquake hit northern Chile as the government erected a military hospital and promised hundreds of other portable dwellings for 15,000 left homeless.

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Thousands of Chileans homeless after quake, mayor says

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Powerful earthquake hits Chile

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ENVIRONMENT

Big Chevy Hybrid SUV wins 'Green Car of Year' at auto show

An eight-passenger sport utility vehicle, the Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid from General Motors Corp., won the "Green Car of the Year" award at the Los Angeles Auto Show.

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Bringing the sun to the car market

Steve Titus is among those entrepreneurs trying to create and market an affordable, renewable-energy vehicle.

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Christian Science Monitor

Australians 'worst per capita emitters'

Australians have been found to be the world's worst polluters per capita, producing five times as much carbon from generating power as China.

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Broadway strike: new talks planned

The stagehands union, which walked off the job on Nov. 10 and shut down several shows on Broadway, has agreed to return to the bargaining table.

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Entertainment Weekly

Faking it: Craigslist becomes a workshop for aspiring writers

Aspiring writers are using Craigslist not just as a place to offload their futons, but as a pixeled writing workshop where they test their stabs at social satire on some of the more than 30 million visitors to the site.

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International Herald Tribune

McCartney: Beatles likely to go digital

As he rolls out a new DVD and expanded edition of his latest album, Paul McCartney is predicting the Beatles’ catalog will make its long-awaited arrival in the digital realm next year.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Clones of monkey embryos raise hopes for stem cell research

Oregon researchers revealed that they have successfully cloned embryos of rhesus monkeys and made stem cells from them that could be transformed into heart and nerve tissue.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Dino with 'vacuum mouth' revealed

This bizarre-looking dinosaur "mowed" through ground vegetation using its vacuum cleaner-shaped mouth more than a hundred million years ago, a new study has found.

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National Geographic

Rocky planets may inhabit popular nearby star cluster

Astronomers have spotted a thick cloud of dust surrounding a star in the Pleiades, or "Seven Sisters," star cluster that they speculate is debris created from the collisions of planets.

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Space.com

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Russian doomsday sect members threaten mass suicide

To locals in the Russian village of Nikolskoye they were simply a group of eccentric Christian believers. And when 29 members of the sect abruptly vanished, villagers assumed they had left.

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Guardian

British Airways acted 'reasonably' over employee wearing cross

British Airways has suspended an employee who insisted on wearing a cross necklace, an employment tribunal was told. Nadia Eweida claims the decision amounted to religious discrimination.

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BBC

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Robots may become essential staff on some U.S. farms

With authorities promising tighter borders, some farmers who rely on immigrant labor are eyeing an emerging generation of fruit-picking robots and high-tech tractors.

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People make their way across the Brooklyn Bridge which is shrouded in low morning clouds as a fog breaks up in New York. (Photo by Kathy Willens / AP)

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