SINGAPORE – Oil prices rose to six-month highs Wednesday in Asia as an increase in U.S. consumer confidence fueled optimism that the world’s largest consumer of oil is emerging from a severe recession. Traders were also watching an OPEC meeting in Vienna amid expectations the oil cartel isn’t likely to …
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MARDAN, Pakistan – The Pakistani army says 54 Taliban and nine troops have been killed in the northwestern Swat Valley and that government forces are fighting their way in on the ground. Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said troops were engaged Thursday in intense fighting about four miles south …
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A badly decomposed human body discovered Wednesday by a cleaning crew on the shores of the Des Plaines River prompted speculation that the find could be connected to one of the Chicago area’s high-profile missing women cases, and sparked hope for families looking for closure. Illinois State Police Sgt. Tom …
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PURCHASE, New York – PepsiCo is removing the iPhone application that promised to help men “score” with different types of women about a week after it was criticized for stereotyping. The soft drink and snack maker said in a statement it decided discontinuing the application was the “most appropriate course …
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This is a rush transcript from “On the Record,” October 19-20, October 22 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: You are going deep into the heart of communist North Korea. For the second time in 14 …
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A 66-year-old woman died after being struck on the head by a golf ball hit by her playing partner last week. Janet Llewellyn was playing a round of golf with a friend at Strathendrick Golf Club in Stirlingshire in Scotland on Oct. 1 when the freak accident happened. She was …
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On October 29, 1969, Leonard Kleinrock sent the first message across the Internet, and it was all of two letters: “lo.” It crashed the entire system. The Internet was born. Kleinrock, at UCLA, was trying to to communicate with the Stanford Research Institute, and he was trying to write the …
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – The Beverly Hills doctor who gave fertility treatments to octuplets mom Nadya Suleman has been expelled from a professional organization. Dr. Michael Kamrava was kicked out of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine last month. Group spokesman Sean Tipton said Monday that Kamrava has repeatedly violated …
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NEW YORK – Women remain far behind men in economic and political power, but the Nordic countries come closest to closing the gender gap, according to a survey of 134 nations released Tuesday. The four Nordic countries — Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden — have topped the Global Gender Gap …
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Turns out David Letterman doesn’t just live on a TV show. He also lives in a glass house, where for years he’s hurled comedy zingers at misbehaving politicians, even as he brashly engaged in hanky-panky of his own. In March 2008, Letterman was taking potshots at Eliot Spitzer, then governor …
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