Thai judges acquitted the Democrat Party on Wednesday of all charges of breaking election laws that could have seen it disbanded and their leaders banned from politics.Sources

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France:Nicolas Sarkozy a demandé aux Français de lui “donner une majorité” aux élections législatives des 10 et 17 juin.Sources France2.fr

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President Bush chooses former top diplomat Robert Zoellick to replace Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank, officials say.

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The Bush administration’s new sanctions against Sudan aim to squeeze the country’s economy by freezing Sudanese companies out of American financial institutions and curtailing their dollar transactions.Sources

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Dane Bjarne Riis on Friday became the first rider to admit having used performance-enhancing drugs while winning the Tour de France.Sources

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Talk about hitting the ground running. Social networking site Facebook rolled out a new developer platform here, along with new applications created by more than 65 developer partners.Sources

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DELL said it would launch three computer systems, including one notebook, on that will ship with the open-source Linux operating system already installed.

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Facebook announced yesterday that it is taking the unusual step of allowing the public to develop features for the popular social-networking Web site, permitting any software designer to access the company’s millions of members.Source

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Placing pragmatism over symbolism, Congress on Thursday agreed to spend $120 billion on the war and Gulf Coast hurricane recovery and approved a $2.10 hike in the minimum wage after Democrats dropped demands for a deadline …Source

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Jordin Sparks flew from obscurity to fame Wednesday, becoming the youngest performer to be named American Idol. The 17-year-old from Glendale, Ariz., was crowned Idol No. 6 over 25-year-old syncopated Bothell, Wash., beat-boxer Blake Lewis.

“Mom, Dad, I love you,” she said, crying, from the stage.
Jordin triumphs as youngest Idol ever – USATODAY.com.

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A Vietnamese man was hospitalized in the country’s suspected first human case of avian influenza in 18 months, a World Health Organization (WHO) official and local media said Wednesday.Source

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A Liberty University student arrested after homemade explosive devices were found in the trunk of his car was planning to be among thousands attending the funeral of the Rev.Sources USA Today

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MySpace, the social networking website owned by News Corp., is providing state attorneys general with information on registered sex offenders who created pages on the site before they were identified and removed.Sources Latimes

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Prosecutors accused a former KGB agent Tuesday of murder in the radioactive poisoning of fellow ex-operative Alexander Litvinenko and sought his extradition from Russia. The case is sure to challenge already-tense relations between London and Moscow.

Ex-KGB agent accused in Litvinenko death | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle.

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A controversial new idea suggests that a large space rock exploded over North America 13,000 years ago. The blast may have wiped out one of America’s first Stone Age cultures as well as the continent’s big mammals such as the mammoth and the mastodon.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ice Age blast ‘ravaged America’.

An obese American tourist who fell ill on a cruise ship had to be carried off by helicopter because of his size.

BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Edinburgh and East | Obese tourist airlifted from ship.