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Putin's hard man image targeted by spoof Web song

Reuters.com -- A spoof song which makes fun of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's hard man image as the savior of Russia's battered economy has been winning fans on the Internet. Public satire of Putin, who stepped down as president in 2008 to become prime minister, is rare and state media present the former KGB spy as the main figure handling the crisis.Putin last month publicly humiliated factory owners in the to...     07-29     采编 VincentZhang
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Goat's crowning as king of Ireland in doubt

Reuters.com -- DUBLIN (Reuters) - The annual crowning of a goat as king of Ireland at one of the country's oldest fairs is in doubt after organizers said the heir to the throne may be stopped from traveling to the festival.Traditionally a male goat is caught in the mountains of Kerry in southern Ireland and paraded through the town of Killorglin where he reigns for the three days of Puck Fair, a centuries-old fe...     07-23     采编 VincentZhang
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Roche bullish on markets, ups flu drug capacity

Reuters.com -- Swiss drugmaker Roche (ROG.VX) gave a bullish forecast for the next two years after its $47 billion acquisition of Genentech and said it would expand capacity for H1N1 flu drug Tamiflu.Roche missed forecasts with a 29 percent drop in first-half net profit on Thursday, hit by costs related to the Genentech purchase earlier this year, but its stock rose thanks to the strength of its underlying busin...     07-23     采编 VincentZhang
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Clinton: North Korea has "no friends"; must denuclearize

Reuters.com -- PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) - North Korea has no friends left to shield it from the international community's demands that the country scrap its nuclear activities, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday.Clinton said many nations had told a low-level North Korean delegation at a regional security meeting on the Thai island of Phuket to give up its nuclear weapons. Speaking at a ne...     07-23     采编 VincentZhang
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U.S. company converts onion juice to electricity

Reuters.com -- LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Onions make you cry, add flavor to food and are touted for their medicinal benefits. Now the vegetable has another use -- powering up green energy.A new system debuts on Friday that converts onion juice into electricity at Gills Onions, the largest fresh onion processor in the United States. The Oxnard, California-based company expects its new onion-fueled power to re...     07-23     采编 VincentZhang
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Miss Plastic Hungary contest seeking "new" faces

Reuters.com -- BUDAPEST (Reuters Life!) - Most beauty queens would go pale when asked about cosmetic surgery. But face lifts, breast implants or other "body work" are the requirements for contestants of the Miss Plastic Hungary pageant."Ever had plastic surgery to become beautiful? Are you proud of your body? Would you like to put yourself to the test?," says the website www.missplastichungary.hu which advertise...     07-23     采编 VincentZhang
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Naked Cowboy for NYC mayor: briefs or Bloomberg?

Reuters.com -- A man who makes his living posing for pictures with tourists as "The Naked Cowboy" in New York's Times Square plans to run for mayor on a platform of "bringing transparency to a whole new level." A fixture in Times Square for a decade, Robert Burck has made a profitable business from strumming a guitar dressed only in cowboy boots and hat and tight-fitting white briefs, asking tourists to pay a fe...     07-23     采编 VincentZhang
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Microsoft CEO still sees chance to work with Yahoo

Reuters.com -- PALO ALTO, California (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp CEO Steve Ballmer said he sees opportunities to work with Yahoo Inc to create a "better search product" but would not comment on discussions that the two may be engaged in.Ballmer's trip to the San Francisco Bay area has prompted speculation he might be meeting with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz about a potential deal.Ballmer, asked about Microsoft's unsucc...     05-07     采编 saraa
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GM eyes Fiat stake: report

Reuters.com -- (Reuters) - U.S. carmaker General Motors Corp (GM.N) is eyeing a stake in Italian peer Fiat SpA (FIA.MI) in exchange for the U.S. automaker's European and Latin American operations, the New York Times reported on its website.Fiat chief executive Sergio Marchionne, has indicated a willingness to give up less than 10 percent of Fiat to GM, the paper said, citing two people close to the negotiations....     05-07     采编 saraa
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Obama seeks budget savings as huge deficits loom

Reuters.com -- By Richard Cowan and Jeff MasonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, facing criticism over huge budget deficits, will propose on Thursday shaving $17 billion from a 2010 budget that will still hover around $3.5 trillion, administration officials said.About half of the proposed cuts would come from the defense budget, and a total of 121 programs in areas including education would be trimme...     05-07     采编 saraa
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Thai protesters blockade parliament for second day

Reuters.com -- BANGKOK (Reuters) - Anti-government protesters blockaded Thailand's parliament for a second day on Tuesday hours before Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was due to give a policy speech aimed at reviving an economy on the brink of recession.     2008     采编 littleones
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President Hu calls on nation to continue reforms, opening up

Reuters.com -- BEIJING, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- President Hu Jintao has called China's 30-year reforms a new type of "great revolution" and urged the country to press forward.     2008     采编 luckycat
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Bin Laden happy with September 11 toll, war court told

Reuters.com -- GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden's driver overheard the al Qaeda leader saying he was happy about the death toll in the September 11 attacks and thought the hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania was shot down, according to one of the driver's interrogators.The evidence by Ali Soufan, a former FBI agent, was meant to support the case by prosecutors at the Guant...     2008     采编 ben0542
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Bush, Obama condemn Mumbai attacks, U.S. offers help

Reuters.com -- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House and President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday condemned the deadly attacks in Mumbai, India, as the U.S. government convened defense and intelligence officials and offered help to Indian authorities.     2008     采编 suiyuan
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Britney Spears son released from hospital: report

Reuters.com -- LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop star Britney Spears' 2-year-old son, who was hospitalized over the weekend after he had a reaction to something he ate, has been released from a Mississippi medical facility, according to a report on Monday on celebrity website TMZ.com.     2008     采编 Jana_Chow
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YouTube to post full-length MGM films

Reuters.com -- NEW YORK (Reuters) - YouTube, the largest video-sharing website, will show full-length television shows and films from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's archives in its latest step to boost advertising revenue by adding professional programing, the company told Reuters on Sunday.     2008     采编 Jana_Chow
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China tackles confidence crisis as economy swoons

Reuters.com -- BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese economy right now is like a big beetle on its back with its legs waving in the air, wondering what knocked it over.     2008     采编 Jana_Chow
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MP3 player headphones may hinder pacemakers: study

Reuters.com -- Headphones used with MP3 digital music players like the iPod may interfere with heart pacemakers and implantable defibrillators, U.S. researchers said on Sunday.     2008     采编 Jana_Chow
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China envoy: US should stop Taiwan arms sales

Reuters.com -- China's top diplomat in the United States says Washington's approval of a multibillion-dollar arms package for Taiwan is a "gross violation" of U.S. commitments to Beijing.     2008     采编 52ANAN
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Shell plans Russian oil exploration project-source

Reuters.com -- Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) plans a new exploration project in Russia and is considering three oil fields in Kalmykia in the Urals as possible sites, a source familiar with the plans said on Friday.     2008     采编 eric_c_hill
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