Monday, August 15, 2005

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'Farewell, cousin, we are frozen': then disaster struck
Times Online - 51 minutes ago ALL 121 people on board a Cypriot airliner died when it crashed into a mountainous area north of Athens yesterday after it apparently suffered a catastrophic loss of cabin pressure or oxygen minutes before it was due to land.

Smokin! Stewart blows away Sirius at the Glen field
Kentucky.com - 54 minutes ago By DAVID POOLE. Tony Stewart, fresh off his emotional victory a week ago at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, just kept on rolling Sunday, putting on an absolute road-racing clinic in winning the Sirius at the Glen.

British Airways Says 95% of Its Flights Are Back to Normal
New York Times - 4 hours ago LONDON, Aug. 14 - British Airways said today that it had almost cleared up the backlog of passengers left stranded by last week's strikes, which forced it to cancel hundreds of flights last week. Greek security

Action film tops weekend box office in North America
Xinhua - 2 hours ago LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14 (Xinhuanet) -- The action flick "Four Brothers" zoomed into first place at the weekend box office in North America, with an expected take of 20.7 million dollars in its debut, according to preliminary figures released Sunday.

Tehran Warns US Against Military Action Over Nuclear Program
Voice of America - 46 minutes ago By Stephanie Ho. Iran is warning the United States that any military attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would backfire. At the same time, Tehran says it will not suspend conversion of uranium ore, days after

Google pauses on book search after copyright flap
Reuters - Aug 12, 2005 By Eric Auchard. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc., responding to an outcry by publishers, has temporarily scaled back plans to make the full text of copyrighted books in five of the world's great libraries searchable via the Internet.

First Steps of Gaza Pullout Begin
Washington Post - 44 minutes ago By Scott Wilson. GUSH QATIF, Gaza Strip, Aug. 14 Israeli soldiers fanned out across the settlements Sunday in the first scripted step of a military evacuation that thousands of Jewish settlers encamped here

Woman chef wins White House cook-off
International Herald Tribune - 2 hours ago More than six months after Laura Bush asked the White House executive chef to pick up his knives and leave the kitchen, the first lady on Sunday announced a winner in a reality cooking show with a very limited but influential audience.

Shadow over the isle
Indian Express - 1 hour ago The murder of Sri Lanka�s foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is a reminder that the island nation is yet to emerge from the spiral of violence that had it in its grip, these past two decades and more.

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