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ATHENS (AFP) - Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou outlined sweeping public spending cuts on Monday to bring Greece's deficit into line and warned that a spiralling debt crisis could sink the economy. Full Story »
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KABUL (Reuters) - At least four civilians were killed on Tuesday by a suicide car bomb outside a hotel used by foreigners in Kabul's main diplomatic area and across the street from the home of a former vice president. Full Story »
BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - Chinese police have detained some 3,470 people so far this year during a crackdown on online pornography and closed thousands of pornographic websites, state media said on Saturday. Full Story »
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KABUL - The top U.S. military officer said the Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan is harder to defeat now than it was a year ago, and said he will take up concerns about strengthening ties to al-Qaida with government leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Full Story »
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DETROIT - A decade-long decline in teens' use of pot has stalled and some teen attitudes on how harmful marijuana can be may be softening, according to a federal survey on teen drug use released Monday. Full Story »
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COPENHAGEN (AFP) - Climate change threatens the survival of dozens of animal species from the emperor penguin to Australian koalas, according to a report released Monday at the UN climate summit. Full Story »
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KABUL - A suicide car bomber struck a heavily guarded neighborhood Tuesday near the home of a former Afghan vice president and a hotel favored by Westerners, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens, officials said. Full Story »
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WASHINGTON - Twenty-six operations put healthy kidneys into 13 desperately ill people: Doctors in the nation's capital just performed a record-setting kidney swap, part of a pioneering effort to expand transplants to patients who too often never qualify. Full Story »
LONDON - Those baby-faced people now have another reason to be smug: a new Danish study says looking young apparently means a longer life. Full Story »
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SYDNEY - Australian scientists have discovered an octopus in Indonesia that collects coconut shells for shelter — unusually sophisticated behavior that the researchers believe is the first evidence of tool use in an invertebrate animal. Full Story »
ST. LOUIS - The North Face Apparel Corp. is suing a small suburban St. Louis-area company called The South Butt and the teenager who started it. The lawsuit filed last week in federal court in St. Louis seeks unspecified damages and asks the court to prohibit The South Butt from marketing and selling its parody product line. Full Story »
LOS ANGELES - OMG! Earthquake! Full Story »
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LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Beleaguered US rocker Courtney Love has lost custody of her 17-year-old daughter Frances Bean, child of the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, according to court documents. Full Story »
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Alicia Keys, "The Element of Freedom" (J Records) Full Story »
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GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. - After three days of searching the flanks of Mount Hood for two missing climbers, officials were assessing what to do next as a winter storm barreled toward Oregon's largest peak. Full Story »
NEW YORK - A Canadian doctor who has treated golfer Tiger Woods, swimmer Dara Torres and NFL players is suspected of providing athletes with performance-enhancing drugs, according to a newspaper report. Full Story »
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MIDLAND, Michigan (AFP) - The signs posted along Michigan's Tittabawassee River warning of dangerous dioxin levels don't really worry fisherman David Mitchell. Full Story »
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CAIRO - The sexual harassment of women in the streets, schools and work places of the Arab World is driving them to cover up and confine themselves to their homes, said activists at the first-ever regional conference addressing the once taboo topic. Full Story »
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