AP - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said Wednesday the company isn't pursuing any other major deals immediately following the withdrawal of its $47.5 billion takeover bid for Yahoo.
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Gates: Microsoft going 'independent' way (AP)
Posted: May 7th, 2008, 9:50pm EDT
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Olympic torch lit on top of Everest (AP)
Posted: May 7th, 2008, 9:41pm EDT
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AP - An Olympic flame reached the top of the world Thursday.
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2 Japanese women freed after being kidnapped in Yemen (AP)
Posted: May 7th, 2008, 7:50pm EDT
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Bank of England likely to sit tight on interest rates (AFP)
Posted: May 7th, 2008, 7:41pm EDT
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AFP - The Bank of England is expected to leave interest rates on hold at 5.00 percent on Thursday, ruling out a second successive cut amid stubbornly high inflation, according to analysts.
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U.N. chief condemns recent Darfur bombings (Reuters)
Posted: May 7th, 2008, 6:23pm EDT
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Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon on Wednesday strongly condemned recent deadly bomb
attacks on a school, water installation and market in Sudan's
warring Darfur region.
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US envoy says toll from Myanmar cyclone might reach 100,000 (AP)
Posted: May 7th, 2008, 6:01pm EDT
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AP - Hungry people swarmed the few open shops and fistfights broke out over food and water in Myanmar's swamped Irrawaddy delta Wednesday as a top U.S. diplomat warned that the death toll from a devastating cyclone could top 100,000.
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US: Ex-Gitmo prisoner in recent attack (AP)
Posted: May 7th, 2008, 5:47pm EDT
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AP - A Kuwaiti freed from Guantanamo Bay carried out a suicide car bombing recently in Iraq, the U.S. military said Wednesday, confirming what is believed to be the first such attack by a former detainee at the U.S. military detention center in Cuba.
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Cyclone survivors: journey from horror to misery in Myanmar (AP)
Posted: May 7th, 2008, 5:04pm EDT
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AP - Some survivors arrived half-naked, others wore clothes they scavenged from the dead.
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Medvedev sworn in as Russia's president, but will he rule? (AP)
Posted: May 7th, 2008, 2:11pm EDT
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AP - With the swearing in of Dmitry Medvedev as Russia's president, the Kremlin leadership now mirrors one of its most potent symbols the double-headed eagle.
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Cyclone has devastated Myanmar's rice region, experts say (AP)
Posted: May 7th, 2008, 10:17am EDT
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AP - Myanmar's rice-growing heartland has been devastated by Cyclone Nargis, posing worries of long-term food shortages for the impoverished country and political problems for its military regime, experts said Wednesday.
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Koalas at risk from climate change (AP)
Posted: May 7th, 2008, 7:07am EDT
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AP - Koalas are threatened by the rising level of carbon dioxide pollution in the atmosphere because it saps nutrients from the eucalyptus leaves they feed on, a researcher said Wednesday.