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An Israeli tank arrives at a military staging area near Kibbutz Mefalsim in southern Israel, after leaving an operation in the Gaza Strip. Israel and the Palestinians agreed to a cease-fire Saturday, officials from both sides said. (Photo by Tsafrir Abayov / AP Photo)

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Police kill groom on day of wedding, reports say

New York police shot three young men who had just left a bachelor party at a strip club, killing one man on the day of his wedding, according to police and witnesses.

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CNN

Iran and Syria helping Hizballah rearm

As Lebanon's government tries to maintain its shaky grip on power, sources tell TIME that Tehran and Damascus are shipping weapons to the militant Shi'ite group

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TIME

Showdown time in Lebanon

Factories, banks and many shops in Lebanon have remained closed as a mark of protest at the killing of the industry minister, Pierre Gemayel.

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BBC

Blair offers 'sorrow' but stops short of apology for British role in slavery

Prime Minister Tony Blair will express "deep sorrow" for Britain's role in the slave trade nearly 200 years after the legislation that led to its abolition, Sunday's Observer newspaper reported.

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CNN

Notorious killer disrupts N. Ireland talks

As both sides of Northern Ireland's political divide refused to meet a key deadline, one of the conflict's most notorious killers launched a brazen attack on the parliament building.

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UN group: Israel laid mines in Lebanon

A UN agency said Saturday that Israel laid mines in Lebanon during this summer's war between the Jewish state and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah group.

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USAToday

U.S. tries broader approach to Iraq conflict

With Iraq near all-out civil war, the Bush administration is renewing efforts to break the cycle of violence there by enlisting the help of moderate Arab nations while also seeking to tackle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Reuters

Wal-Mart predicts decline in holiday sales

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. predicted a rare decline in monthly sales, even as U.S. bargain-hunters jammed stores in search of gifts at the start of the crucial holiday shopping season.

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USA Today

Nintendo's Wii game console sells out of U.S. stores

Nintendo Co.'s Wii game console sold out in some U.S. stores as shoppers snapped up limited supplies in today's kickoff to the holiday shopping season.

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Chicago Tribune

Qantas cash landing

Qantas chief executive Geoff Dixon was in Singapore advising people getting worked up over the ambitious bid to take over his airline to "take a cold shower and settle down."

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South Korea to slaughter 236,000 poultry after outbreak of bird flu

South Korean quarantine officials will slaughter 236,000 poultry after an outbreak of the virulent H5N1 form of bird flu at a chicken farm, the agriculture ministry said.

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USA Today

Canadian cancer plan could save 423,000

Ottawa will hand Health Canada's role as a cancer information clearinghouse to an independent group with the goal of saving more than 400,000 lives over 30 years.

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CBC News

SCIENCE

Fossil research suggests 'mass dying' triggered teeming oceans

A cataclysmic mass extinction that devastated life on earth millions of years ago is the unlikely reason such a rich variety of life is found in the oceans today, scientists have discovered.

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Remote island may be opened for tourism

Isolated from most of the world, Midway Atoll, an historic World War 2 military site, could open to visitors next year on a limited basis.

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CNN

Giving Day hits country's most tightfisted state

With the declaration of Giving Day in New Hampshire, generosity was supposed to be up from its normal position as the lowest in the country.

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Concern grows for missing boys

Authorities grew concerned about two young brothers missing for three days from the Red Lake Indian Reservation after temperatures dipped below freezing overnight.

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MSNBC

Task force finds similarities in NJ killings

Authorities have identified the second of four women whose bodies were found dumped behind a string of seedy motels in Atlantic City earlier this week.

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CNN

CIA crafts online test with humorous bent to seek out job applicants

The CIA has scrapped its ho-hum test that steered job applicants toward mysterious careers and devised one that's cloaked in jest.

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USA Today

Podcasts gaining in popularity

According to a national telephone survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 12 percent of Internet users say they have downloaded a podcast so they can listen to it or view it at a later time.

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Playfuls.com

LSU's BCS hopes pinned on others

With LSU knocking off no. 5 Arkansas, the BCS picture may change dramatically.

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Northwest Arkansas News

Unranked Butler completes dream run with NIT trophy

The Bulldogs capped the tournament with a 79-71 victory over No. 23 Gonzaga, a team that might not have the conference pedigree of their other victims but still has an impressive recent history.

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ESPN

Jolie, Pitt tour Vietnam orphanage

Hollywood superstars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie doled out candies and toys during a surprise visit to an orphanage in southern Vietnam, according to a state-run newspaper.

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CNN

'Borat' nominated for Kazakh arts award

A leading Kazakh writer has nominated actor Sacha Baron Cohen for a national award for popularizing Kazakhstan in America.

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CNN

Fledgling hope for endangered cranes as chick migrates

One of the first whooping crane chicks hatched in the wild in more than a century is making more history as it migrates south with its parents from a Wisconsin refuge.

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CNN

SCIENCE

Scientists measure flow of heat at earth's core for the first time

Seismolgists attached with Arizona State University have found the earth's core has a dynamic environment containing a host of exotic materials and substances roiling under intense heat and pressures.

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Daily India

Fishing nations block U.N. trawling ban

Fishing nations led by Iceland and Russia have blocked U.N. negotiators from imposing a complete ban against destructive bottom trawling.

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