| World News  | Inmates offended by 'killing' remark
Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines -- Prisoners confined at the New Bilibid Prisons in Muntinlupa City were 'angered and gravely hurt' by scathing remarks by Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez Jr. regarding their supposed propensity to 'kill each other' inside their detention cell. The convicts belied Gonzalez's claim and even challenged him to cite any recent violent incidents directed against wealthy prisoners inside the state penitentiary. 'If he were telling...
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|  | Bush vows 'serious global response' to financial crisis
CNN
'Serious global response' Bush appears with world financial leaders - vows nations will work together. | | | RSS Paste this link into your favorite RSS desktop reader See all CNNMoney.com RSS FEEDS (close) By Tami Luhby, CNNMoney.com senior writerOctober 11, 2008: 8:20 AM ET AMERICA'S MONEY CRISIS Photos The crisis: A timeline A shocking series of events that forever changed the financial markets. View photos NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- President...
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|  | Hurricane Norbert strengthens to Category 3 storm
Philadelphia Daily News
KIRSTEN JOHNSON The Associated Press PUERTO SAN CARLOS, Mexico - As Norbert bore down on Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula, it gathered strength overnight and was classified as a Category 3 hurricane early Saturday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Norbert became better organized overnight and its winds grew to 115 mph. As of 5 a.m. EDT, the hurricane's center was located about 90 miles south of Cabo San Lazaro and about...
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|  | Bush hopes to reassure nation after economic woes
CNN
By Elaine Quijano CNN White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush has tried to strike an awkward balance between reassurance and reality about the nation's financial crisis. On Friday, he will do so again, but the repetition raises the question: to what effect?...
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|  | World stocks fall sharply again
The Boston Globe
LONDON—European stock markets slumped further on Friday following massive losses on Wall Street and Asia on mounting fears that this week's efforts by central banks and governments to break the logjam in credit markets have failed to ease lending rates between banks. At midday London time, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was down 328.03, or 7.6 percent, at 3,985.77, below the 4,000 mark earlier for the first time in five years....
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| Business News  | Bush, allies pledge joint action on global crisis
Philadelphia Daily News
JENNIFER LOVEN and MARTIN CRUTSINGER The Associated Press WASHINGTON - President Bush and foreign financial officials displayed joint resolve Saturday to combat the unfolding financial crisis, hoping to calm investors whose panic has spread despite bold and accelerating government action. Yet there was no concrete offer of new moves when Bush spoke on a Rose Garden stage just after daybreak, flanked by representatives from nearly a dozen nations...
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|  | General Motors likely to ask for Fed loans -report
The Guardian
(Adds comment from GM, analyst) DETROIT, Oct 11 (Reuters) - General Motors Corp is likely to seek a direct loan from the U.S. Federal Reserve as it seeks to bolster its cash position to survive a deepening downturn in automobile sales, Barron's said on Saturday. The business publication said GM was expected to make the unusual request to the U.S. central bank based on two unnamed people it said had direct knowledge of the situation. A Fed...
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|  | Nashville ranks 16th as 'Sports City'
Business Journal
> Phoenix among top 10 sports cities Minneapolis-St. Paul No. 18 on 'Best Sports Cities' list Buffalo competitive in sports ranking The Titans, Preds and a host of college sports teams helped make Nashville 16th on the this year's Sporting News list of Best Sports Cities. The annual ranking is based on 12-month snapshot of each city's sports. It puts a heavy premium on regular-season won-lost records, playoff berths, bowl appearances and...
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|  | Sarkozy and Merkel discuss crisis
Al Jazeera
EU leaders are meeting to try to come up with a European response to the global economic crisis. The 15 countries that all use the euro as currency are trying to decide a plan of action on Saturday in Paris, the French capital, to strengthen individual efforts made over the past few days. Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, and Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, have held a news conference in the city. Al Jazeera's Mark...
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|  | Is an industrial recession staring us in the face?
The Times of India
11 Oct 2008, 0109 hrs IST,TNN NEW DELHI: On a day when finance minister P Chidambaram reiterated that the fundamentals of the Indian economy were sound, official data showed that industrial growth in August had plummeted to just 1.3% over the same month in 2007, raising doubts about whether the economy could achieve even 7.5% growth in the current year. While a member of the prime minister's Economic...
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|  | Pepsi to reinvest in soft drink business
The Boston Globe
NEW YORK (Reuters) - <PEP.N> said on Friday it is making a major multi-year investment in its soft drink business to restore growth in a business that has declined as U.S. consumers seek drinks they view as healthier. The first step of the plan is to change the graphics and logo on cans of Pepsi, Mountain Dew and Sierra Mist drinks, said Pepsi spokeswoman Nicole Bradley. Pepsi plans to follow...
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|  | This turmoil is good news for schools
The Guardian
Economic woe could end the stranglehold of business so we can build an education system to help Britain's poorest In the long term, Britain's economic woes could be good news for our schools, for two reasons. First, they will decouple business from academies, which may mark the beginning of an end to the most damaging and divisive education policy Britain has seen in six decades of universal state education. One business is already reported to...
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|  | E-series blues
Arab News
Molouk Y. Ba-Isa I Arab News Nokia calls its E-series "Achieve Devices." These are top of the line products designed specifically with the needs of business users in mind. E-series devices offer quick and easy access to key business applications such as e-mail. But somehow Nokia forgot certain requirements of E-series users. People who own an E-series device depend on that handset 24/7. Many E-series users have a couple of extra batteries...
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| Entertainment News  | Actress shuns celeb lifestyle
News24
Los Angeles - Vanessa Paradis is "intimidated" by the red carpet. The French singer says she and partner Johnny Depp deliberately shun the showbiz lifestyle and she feels uncomfortable when forced to attend glamorous events or socialise with other celebrities. "The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny," she admitted. "I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live...
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|  | Automakers push key vehicles through fall TV shows
Philadelphia Daily News
BREE FOWLER The Associated Press NEW YORK - In this fall's TV season, a secret agent speeds around in a Chevrolet Camaro, a man tries to save the world with the help of a Dodge Ram pickup, and a famous talking car returns to the streets in the form of a Ford Mustang. With auto sales at 15-year lows and traditional TV advertising less appealing than it used to be, automakers are hoping such starring roles for key vehicles will boost interest in ,...
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|  | Met Opera in town
Canada Dot Com
Move over Hockey Night In Canada, there's a new Saturday tradition in town. It's New York's Metropolitan Opera live on a movie screen near you! Talk about your sex and violence -- you can't do much better than grand opera. Cineplex Entertainment launches its third and most ambitious season so far of The Metropolitan Opera: Live in High-Definition today at 1 p.m. at Devonshire Cinemas. The opener is Richard Strauss' Salome, based on the...
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|  | 10 new TV faces to watch
The Providence Journal
Each year since 1998, I've compiled a "10 to Watch" list of actors on TV. This year was a nightmare. So instead of trying to boil down dozens of potential actors with the skill to find real stardom, this year's list is just the best of what is a very weak 2008-09 television season field. 1. Kyle Bornheimer, Worst Week, CBS: The actor has appeared in a host of shows from The Office to Jericho. This comedy puts him in the spotlight. Because he is...
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|  | Kerry Fox on The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall
The Times
Win an award, don't work again for a year!" says Kerry Fox cheerfully as she tucks into lunch at a North London pub. "That's the classic one!" And she roars with laughter. Fox laughs a lot as she chats about the highs and lows of her 18-year career. This is surprising, given her reputation for being extremely serious about her work; for being, as they say in Hollywood, all about the craft. It was her eerie intensity that marked her out as a...
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|  | Movie tells tale of young Graham
Knox News
Rated PG for thematic material including some disturbing images, brief language and smoking Released: October 10, 2008 Limited Cast: Martin Landau, Armie Hammer, Lindsay Wagner, Kristoffer Polaha, Josh Turner Director: Robby Benson Producer: William Paul McKay Writer: Jana Lyn Rutledge Genre: Drama Distributor: Rocky Mountain Pictures Director Robby Benson, right, speaks with actor Armie Hammer on the set of "Billy: The Early Years," in...
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| Health News  | Pa. health-care battle shows states struggle alone
Penn Live
10/11/2008, 11:15 a.m. EDT> The Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — When Gov. Ed Rendell first proposed an ambitious plan to expand subsidized health insurance to uninsured Pennsylvania adults, he wanted the state to step into a void left by the federal government's failure to act. Nearly two years later, access to health insurance has become a hotly debated issue in the presidential race. But the void remains. The current two-year...
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|  | Toxic toy recalled by Health Canada
Canada Dot Com
A brand of toy dump trucks was recalled by Health Canada yesterday after being tested positive with the toxic chemical barium. The toy dump trucks, made by the company Fast Lane, were sold at Toys R Us stores across Canada. The recall affects about 7,000 trucks sold in Canada between February 1999 and September 2008. Testing by Health Canada revealed that the surface paint on the toy contains barium in excess of the allowable...
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|  | Limit on cold remedies for kids was FDA's idea
MSNBC
Pediatricians wanted meds banned for 6 and under, FDA named 4 as cutoffThe Associated Press WASHINGTON - When drug makers made a surprise announcement this week that they no , they didn't let on that it was the government's idea. And why age 4 rather than the age 6 that pediatricians' wanted? Because the Food and Drug Administration suggested that, too. FDA officials proposed the cutoff earlier this year in private discussions with the industry,...
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|  | Boy sick after drinking tainted milk
Gulf Daily News
HONG KONG: A 10-year-old boy in Hong Kong has suffered from kidney stones after drinking Chinese-made milk tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, the government said yesterday....
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|  | Fat study focus of grant
The Examiner
Sign On San Diego - 1 hr 8 mins ago When most people think of fat, they imagine expanding waistlines and clogged arteries.But work by a national team of researchers led by scientists at UCSD is shedding new light on the active role that these molecules, known as lipids, play in diabetes, stroke, cancer, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease and many other...
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|  | Breastfed babies brighter, says new Canadian study
Canada Dot Com
Canadian researchers following nearly 14,000 Belarusian children report that those who were exclusively breastfed longer score higher on IQ tests and in academic performance in reading and writing. This is not the first study linking breastfeeding to an IQ advantage, but many observers haven't been convinced. That's because it has been impossible to separate out how much of the difference was due to breastfeeding and how much to differences in...
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|  | Bollywood legend hospitalised
News24
Mumbai - Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan, who turned 66 on Saturday, was taken to hospital after reportedly suffering abdominal pain, an AFP photographer at the scene said. The actor, who has superstar status in India, was seen leaving his home in the northern Mumbai suburb of Juhu with his actor son, Abhishek, and daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai, in an ambulance. Bachchan, wearing a brown-coloured woollen cap and blue ensemble, was spotted lying...
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|  | Breastfed babies not iron-deficient
Canada Dot Com
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Full-term babies who are exclusively breastfed are not at heightened risk of low iron stores by the age of 6 months, even if their mothers were iron-deficient during pregnancy, a new study shows. The findings, published online in the International Breastfeeding Journal, support experts' belief that breast milk alone provides most infants with adequate nutrition for the first 6 months of life. Breast milk is low in...
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| Politics News  | As governor, Palin at times bonds church and state
Houston Chronicle
WASILLA, Alaska - The camera closes in on Sarah Palin speaking to young missionaries, vowing from the pulpit to do her part to implement God's will from the governor's office. What she didn't tell worshippers gathered at the Wasilla Assembly of God church in her hometown was that her appearance that day came courtesy of Alaskan taxpayers, who picked up the $639.50 tab for her airplane tickets and per diem fees. An Associated Press review of the...
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|  | Palin uses her elected office to promote religious causes, at times with public money
Star Tribune
WASILLA, Alaska - The camera closes in on Sarah Palin speaking to young missionaries, vowing from the pulpit to do her part to implement God's will from the governor's office. What she didn't tell worshippers gathered at the Wasilla Assembly of God church in her hometown was that her appearance that day came courtesy of Alaskan taxpayers, who picked up the $639.50 tab for her airplane tickets and per diem fees. An Associated Press review of the...
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|  | Justice Iftikhar to visit Hyderabad on 18th
Dawn
By Our Staff Correspondent HYDERABAD, Oct 9: The deposed chief justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, would visit Hyderabad on Oct 18 amid a warm welcome by lawyers, said a meeting of the office-bearers of the High Court Bar Association (HCBA), Hyderabad District Bar Association (HDBA) and Karachi Bar Association (KBA) here on Thursday. The meeting attended by the...
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|  | Official: 500 Christian families flee Iraq's Mosul, ML
The Guardian
%2(%%xhl(%2(Official: 500 Christian families flee militant attacks in northern Iraq city of Mosul%%xhl) By SINAN SALAHEDDIN Associated Press Writer= BAGHDAD (AP) - An upswing in insurgent attacks against Christians in Mosul has forced 500 families to flee in the last week and seek shelter at churches, monasteries and relatives' homes, the governor of northern Iraq's Ninevah province said Saturday. Duraid Mohammed Kashmoula estimated some 3,000...
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|  | Bush: US will work with partners on credit crisis
Buffalo News
President Bush emerged from a meeting with foreign financial officials on Saturday and pledged a global response to the credit crisis that will lead toward a "path of stability and long-term growth." Bush announced no new strategies to attack the economic woes circling the globe, stressing instead, "We will do what it takes to resolve the crisis and the world's economy will emerge stronger as a result." The president spoke in the Rose Garden...
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