LIMA, Peru - President George W. Bush, faced with a dwindling number of days in office, worked Saturday at his final world summit to keep a virulent economic crisis that started in the U.S. from triggering protectionism across the globe. Bush was pushing to get the 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic ...
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WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama intends to name Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve, as his treasury secretary to confront the nation's intense economic turmoil, senior Democratic officials said Friday. The stock market soared on the news. Word of Geithner's likely ...
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MIAMI — The family of a college student who killed himself in front of an Internet audience say they're horrified his life ended before virtual spectators and infuriated that viewers and Web site operators didn't act sooner to save him. Only after police arrived to find Abraham Biggs dead in his ...
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LOS ANGELES - The Screen Actors Guild said Saturday it will ask its members to authorize a strike after its first contract talks in four months with Hollywood studios failed despite the help of a federal mediator. The guild said it adjourned talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television ...
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BEIJING -- A college student in southern China was bitten by a panda after he broke into the bear's enclosure hoping to get a hug, state media and a park employee said Saturday. The student was visiting Qixing Park with classmates on Friday when he jumped the 6.5-foot (2-meter) -high fence around ...
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COURTESY PHOTO/NATION TV -- The chief officer, no name given, of the MV Kapitan Maslov, points to bullet holes in the side of his ship Tuesday in Kenya. The Maslov was recently attacked by Somali pirates but managed to escape. AP PHOTO/PETTY OFFICER 2ND CLASS JASON R. ZALASKY -- This photo by the U ...
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MEXICO CITY: Mexican media called on Sven Goran-Eriksson to quit as national coach on Thursday, a day after his side lost to Honduras and avoided an early World Cup exit by the skin of their teeth. Eriksson's team sneaked into the final stage of the CONCACAF zone qualifiers on goal difference ahead ...
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