Friday, July 01, 2005

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BofA leaps to top of credit card industry
Charlotte Observer - 32 minutes ago Bank of America Corp. on Thursday made another bet on the consumer, snapping up credit card giant MBNA Corp. in a $35 billion bid to sell more banking products to consumers in the US and abroad. As banks search

Day of the comet
CNN - 56 minutes ago By Peggy Mihelich. ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Six months after it blasted off from Earth, the Deep Impact spacecraft is poised to meet its cosmic fate -- in a hyper-speed smashup with a comet. In the early morning

Shuttle to return to space July 13
Birmingham News - 1 hour ago CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA will return the shuttle Discovery to space this month, after almost 2� years on the ground since the loss of the shuttle Columbia, officials said Thursday. "Based on a very thorough

Spain legalizes gay marriage
Chicago Sun-Times - 1 hour ago MADRID -- Spain became the third country to legalize gay marriage Thursday in a parliament vote that left gay activists blowing kisses to lawmakers and the powerful Catholic Church issuing veiled calls for defiance.

'CIA kidnap:' US envoy meets PM
CNN International - 1 hour ago ROME, Italy (CNN) -- The US ambassador to Italy will meet with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Friday in the expanding controversy over the alleged CIA kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003, the US Embassy's press office in Rome said.

Huge opening day for Cruise movie
BBC News - 1 hour ago War of the Worlds took $34.6m (�19.5m) on its opening day, making it the most successful first day of a Tom Cruise film, according to studio estimates. Paramount Pictures said Steven Spielberg's sci-fi thriller

Senate OKs CAFTA free trade pact
CNN - 44 minutes ago WASHINGTON (CNN) - The Senate has approved a free trade pact known as CAFTA that includes five Central American countries and the Dominican Republic. The vote Thursday night was 54-45 in favor of the agreement

Schr�der attempts to trigger early elections
Guardian Unlimited - 33 minutes ago The German chancellor, Gerhard Schr�der, will today hold a vote of no confidence, asking parliament to defeat his government and enable him to hold early general elections in September. Mr Schr�der will

Israeli army lifts closure on Gaza Strip settlements
Xinhua - 2 hours ago JERUSALEM, July 1 (Xinhuanet) -- The Israeli army lifted a closure on Gaza Strip settlements on Friday, a day after it declared the area a closed military zone. The Ha'aretz daily quoted a military spokeswoman

Federer's foes find it very hard to hate a class act
San Francisco Chronicle - 37 minutes ago Wimbledon, England -- They want so much to hate him. Beating Roger Federer would seem a bit more plausible for Lleyton Hewitt or Andy Roddick if they could bring a rip-roaring feud to the proceedings. The

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