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US jury awards $US300m in ex-smoker’s suit
Record award for Florida woman who is suffering emphysema.
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Palin memoir flying off shelves in US
Publisher HarperCollins says Sarah Palin's memoir sold 300,000 copies its first day, among the best openings ever for a nonfiction book.
November 21, 2009, 8:55 am -
LA attorneys distance Polanski from French lawyer
* French lawyer says Polanski will fight extradition
26 minutes ago -
Jackson's doctor says others gave him propofol
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Jackson's personal
1 hour, 27 minutes ago
physician told investigators he was not the first doctor to
give the pop star propofol, the powerful anesthetic that was
one of the drugs to cause his death, according to court papers
unsealed Friday. -
Skier Stiegler out for season with broken leg
VAIL, Colorado (AFP) - American skier Resi Stiegler is out for the Olympic season after breaking two bones in her left leg in a crash in giant slalom training, the US Ski Team said Friday.
November 21, 2009, 8:06 am -
Britney Spears' ex-boyfriend, photographer jailed
LOS ANGELES, Nov 20 (Reuters) - A celebrity photographer
November 21, 2009, 8:03 am
who briefly dated Britney Spears at the height of her career
meltdown was sentenced to 45 days in jail on Friday after
clashing with an official trying to serve him a restraining
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Cuba offers free penis implants
Cuba's government has offered its first free penis implants, part of a program set to be expanded across the communist island, a newspaper has reported.
November 21, 2009, 7:39 am -
Knox weeps as prosecutor sums up case
American exchange student Amanda Knox wept at the trial in which she is accused of murdering her British housemate in Perugia two years ago.
November 21, 2009, 7:37 am -
Albania opposition protests to demand vote recount
TIRANA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Albanian opposition Socialist Party supporters launched their latest protest Friday to demand the government either recount the vote in a controversial June 28 election or hold another.
November 21, 2009, 7:28 am -
U.S. to drop charges against one Blackwater guard
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Justice Department prosecutors asked a federal judge on Friday to dismiss the charges against one of five Blackwater security guards accused of killing 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in a 2007 shooting in Baghdad.
November 21, 2009, 6:48 am -
Driver dies in Miley Cyrus tour bus crash
(Adds statement from Cyrus family in paragraph 5)
November 21, 2009, 6:46 am -
Afghan govt would fall if NATO withdraws: UK minister
LONDON (Reuters) - The Afghan government would quickly be overthrown if NATO troops pulled out of the country now, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Friday.
November 21, 2009, 6:42 am -
Afghan government would fall if NATO withdraws - Miliband
LONDON (Reuters) - The Afghan government would quickly be overthrown if NATO troops pulled out of the country now, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Friday.
November 21, 2009, 6:40 am -
Sears plot mastermind jailed 13 years
A US judge sentenced the leader of a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago to 13 years in prison Friday, far less than the 70 years sought by prosecutors.
November 21, 2009, 6:37 am -
Amazon countries to hold climate talks
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is calling a meeting of eight Amazon countries to forge a common stand on climate talks, officials said.
November 21, 2009, 6:31 am -
Hershey Trust backs bid for Cadbury: report
NEW YORK (AFP) - A charitable trust controlling US chocolate maker Hershey is backing a bid of 17 billion dollars for Britain's Cadbury, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
November 21, 2009, 6:28 am -
CERN atom-smasher restarts after 14-month hiatus: official
GENEVA (AFP) - The world's biggest atom-smasher, shut down after its inauguration in September 2008 amid technical faults, restarted on Friday, a spokesman for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said.
November 21, 2009, 6:22 am -
Barnes & Noble sells out of new e-reader
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US bookstore giant Barnes & Noble said Friday it had sold out of its new electronic book reader, the "Nook," and the next shipments would not be available until after the holidays.
November 21, 2009, 6:12 am -
Swine flu may have hit one peak; more to come
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the Northern Hemisphere, global health officials said on Friday, but they cautioned it was far from over.
November 21, 2009, 5:58 am -
Leader of Sears Tower plot sentenced to 13 years
MIAMI (AFP) - A US federal judge sentenced the leader of a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago to 13 years in prison Friday, far less than the 70 years sought by prosecutors.
November 21, 2009, 5:58 am -
Five million given swine flu jab in EU
The European Medicines Agency announced that five million people in the European Union have been vaccinated against swine flu.
November 21, 2009, 5:42 am
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Dennis Cometti
November 2, 2009, 6:23 amAFL versus the World Cup, round 2If you remember, I did threaten another column.Today I'm in Milan (this is worse than than having a slide night when I get back) and I'm wearing a Sporting Lisbon top.The best soccer news to come out of the weekend was Fulham's striking victory over...
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Gareth Parker
November 18, 2009, 7:45 pmAn inelegant solution but now the genie is outWhile Treasurer Troy Buswell will be applauded in many quarters for his extension of trading hours in an expanded area of inner Perth, it is at best an inelegant solution.The problem now is that the genie is out of the bottle and the inherent...
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Tiffany Fox
November 20, 2009, 7:30 amTiff's Friday Timewaster: Beauty editionIt's Friday, and after days of cloudy and rainy weather the weekend has never looked so good.There has been some controversy this week over a poorly photoshopped picture of Demi Moore on the cover of W magazine. Is anyone really surprised by this? Just...
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