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Optimism over Gaza ceasefire plan - BBC News
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Hopes of a diplomatic resolution to the conflict in Gaza have risen with the news that Israel has agreed "on the principles" of a ceasefire proposal.
Video: UN pushes for Gaza ceasefire
Sierra Leone: Strips At Southern Israel, Gaza Strip
Burris Getting Closer to Obama's Senate Seat? - ABC News
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By Z. BYRON WOLF, JONATHAN KARL and HUMA KHAN Senate Democrats are in conversations today that could lead to a deal to accept Roland Burris for the Illinois Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama, despite statements last week that they ...
Video: Obama Comments On Burris
Burris Likely to Be Seated
EU calls for immediate solution as supplies of Russian gas are cut - International Herald Tribune
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By David Jolly, Stephen Castle and Andrew E. Kramer PARIS: All gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine were shut down Wednesday as the pricing dispute between Russia and Ukraine escalated.
Video: Ukraine has shut all gas pipelines to Europe - Gazprom
Russia gas dispute hits EU security, aids rivals
Pakistan acknowledges Mumbai link for first time - CNN
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By Zein Basravi ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan's government acknowledged Wednesday that there is a connection between November's attacks in Mumbai, India, and elements inside Pakistan.
Pakistan acknowledges surviving Mumbai gunman is a Pakistani
Indian Mumbai dossier details gunmen's calls with handlers
Ghana president takes office after tense election - The Associated Press
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ACCRA, Ghana (AP) - Ghana's new president took office Wednesday following a peaceful but tense election that secured the country's status as one of the continent's few stable democracies.
John Atta Mills Sworn in as Ghana’s New President
Chiefs congratulate Atta Mills
Obama announces 'chief performance officer' - Reuters
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WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama, who faces trillion-dollar government deficits stretching into coming years, named on Wednesday a former Treasury official as the first US "chief performance officer" to oversee budget and ...
Obama pledges to take on entitlement spending
Obama targets budget waste
Atlanta doctor, CNN reporter Gupta as surgeon general? - Atlanta Journal Constitution
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By Craig Schneider, Jamie Gumbrecht WASHINGTON - CNN medical reporter and Grady hospital neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta has been approached by the Obama administration to fill the post of US Surgeon General, CNN officials confirmed Tuesday.
Video: CNN Correspondent Approached for Surgeon General
Obama's Top Doc Pick: Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Bush meets Obama ahead of presidents' lunch - Reuters
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush met successor Barack Obama for the second time at the White House on Wednesday ahead of a lunch with all living US presidents some two weeks before Obama's inauguration.
Video: Obama To Meet Ex-Presidents
Obama at White House for meeting with Bush
Wall Street's jobs jitters - CNNMoney.com
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Stocks slip after weak reports spark worries ahead of Friday's big national employment report. Alcoa job cuts also in focus. By Alexandra Twin, CNNMoney.
US Stocks Drop on Concern Over Worsening Jobs, Profit Outlook
US STOCKS-Wall St drops on jobs gloom, Intel warning
Intel issues another revenue warning - CNNMoney.com
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By Aaron Smith, CNNMoney.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Intel issued another revenue warning Wednesday, blaming the weak demand for its technology products, and said that it expects to lose more than $1 billion on stock investments.
Intel warns again on Q4; shares fall
Intel will miss its already-lowered 4Q targets
Time Warner to Report Loss After $25 Billion Charge - Bloomberg
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By Greg Bensinger and Sarah Rabil Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Time Warner Inc., the owner of HBO and AOL, will report its first annual loss in six years after writing down the value of its cable-system, publishing and Internet assets by about $25 billion in ...
Time Warner sees $25 billion Q4 charge
Movers: Intel, Time Warner, Alcoa, Monsanto, Family Dollar Stores
Hands On: Apple iWork '09 - PC Magazine
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iWork '09 receives numerous enhancements, including cloud-computing-like functionality and a slick Keynote Remote iPhone app. by Jamie Lendino SAN FRANCISCO—On Tuesday, Apple announced iWork '09, an update to the company's innovative suite of office ...
Alternate Universe of Macworld News
Is it time to kill the Apple press event?
Apple iTunes Music Store Going DRM-Free - InformationWeek
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The company will also offer new price points to offset competition from Amazon.com and will let iPhone users buy songs over 3G networks.
Apple allows over-the-air iTunes song downloads on iPhone
Apple iTunes tracks go DRM-free
CES: Consumer electronics to stay ahead of other sectors in recession - Computerworld
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By Matt Hamblen January 7, 2009 (Computerworld) LAS VEGAS -- The 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show officially kicks off tomorrow, bringing the latest in global technology ingenuity to the forefront in the midst of a recession that some ...
CES: Savior For Traditional TV Companies? Probably Not This Year
CES News: CEA: Consumer Spending To Decrease In ’09
Travoltas Turn to Scientology, Hometown in Trying Times - ABC News
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By SHEILA MARIKAR and LUCHINA FISHER As John Travolta and his wife, Kelly Preston, prepare to say goodbye to their 16-year-old son Jett Travolta, it's likely they'll draw on support from Scientology, the religion that has seen them through tragedies in ...
Loving and losing Jett
Rare Disease Not Seen As Cause Of Travolta Son Seizure
Brad Buttons Up Angie vs. Jen - Extra TV
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In the curious case of when their relationship began, "Curious Case of Benjamin Button" star Brad Pitt is setting the record straight on rumors that he and Angelina Jolie began dating while he was still married to ex Jennifer Aniston.
Brad Comes Clean
Brad Pitt Defends Aniston's "Uncool" Comment
PEOPLE Top 5 are the most-viewed stories on the site over the past ... - People Magazine
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By Jennifer Wulff With Cheers from Loved Ones and a Bumper Crop of Presents (Love Those Baby Uggs), Ben Affleck & Jennifer Garner Welcome Their Own Little Red Sox Fan... Not long after Violet Anne Affleck came into the world on Dec.
It's another girl for Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck
Jennifer Garner delivers another daughter
Los Angles Lakers (27-6) at Golden State Warriors (10-26), 10:30 pm - Kansas City Star
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By Sports Network The Los Angles Lakers hope to rebound from their first home loss in six weeks when they travel up the California coast to take on the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday.
Golden State
Lakers run into a buzz saw
Jagodzinski’s BC days could be over - Boston Herald
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By Steve Conroy It appears as though Jeff Jagodzinski’s days as the head football coach at Boston College are over. According to a source, BC’s athletic director Gene DeFilippo and Jagodzinski met face to face earlier today.
BC Coach And Jets Talk Amid Job Threat
BC will fire Jagodzinski
Sooners offense must prove its worth - FOXSports.com
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by Mark Kriegel Mark Kriegel is the national columnist for FOXSports.com. He is the author of two New York Times best sellers, Namath: A Biography and Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich, which Sports Illustrated called "the best sports biography of the ...
Give me Sam Bradford over Tim Tebow
Core curriculum for Sooners
Parkinson's treatment shows promise in patients, study says - Chicago Tribune
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By Deborah L. Shelton | Tribune reporter Patients with advanced Parkinson's disease who received deep brain stimulation showed greater improvement in movement and quality of life after six months than those treated with medication, a new study shows.
Brain implant better than meds for Parkinson's disease
Deep Brain Stimulation Helps Those With Advanced Parkinson's
Health Buzz: Bird Flu Kills in China and Other Health News - U.S. News & World Report
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A 19-year-old woman from northern China died from the H5N1 bird flu virus on Monday, after being admitted to the hospital on December 27, CNN.
China alert over bird flu death
China moves to prevent bird flu outbreak
Study raises hope for obesity treatment - Reuters
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By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - US researchers may have found an obesity treatment that unlocks the fat-fighting promise of leptin, an appetite-suppressing hormone once hailed as the answer to the battle of the bulge.
New hope for failed obesity drug
Leptin Hormone Could Be Key To Combat Obesity
Budget deficit to reach $1.2 trillion - USA Today
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By Rich Wolf, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - The federal budget deficit will rise to a record $1.2 trillion this year, and a package of new spending increases and tax cuts planned by President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats will push that ...
Obama Pushes States to Cover More Unemployed
2009 budget deficit is estimated at $1.2 trillion
Panetta hints he's willing to head CIA - San Jose Mercury News
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MONTEREY -- In his first public appearance since being outed as likely CIA director, Leon Panetta said little about taking the reins of the nation's top spy agency and spoke only in broad terms about the need for change in Washington.
Obama Is Under Fire Over Panetta Selection
Leon Panetta? Say It Ain't So
New Voices in Congress Will Change the Tone of the Democratic Majority - New York Times
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Members of the House of Representatives of the 111th Congress, accompanied by family members and guests, were sworn in on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
Pelosi: Pass stimulus by mid-February
Pelosi urges mid-February action on stimulus
