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Software giant Microsoft said Friday it will slash the retail price of its Windows Vista operating system by between 20 percent and 40 percent.”Our retail partners will

Google Inc said that it is testing in the United States an online storage bank where individuals can store and access their medical records.Recently the web search company said that it has teamed with Cleveland Clinic, a leading academic medical center, to test an exchange of medical data that Google says will put the [...]

The UK Ministry of Defence said on Thursday that Prince Harry,23,third in line to the British throne, has been secretly serving as a combat soldier on the front lines in Afghanistan for 2-1/2 months.
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According to People magazine Naomi Campbell 37-year-old British supermodel,has been hospitalized in Sao Paulo and is being treated for the removal of a small cyst.”Naomi Campbell was admitted to hospital … to have a small cyst removed,” Jeff Raymond, said in a statement.
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An iron worker Robert Harris, 47,has won a $275m (£140m) jackpot in the US state of Georgia.He played the dates of his grandchildren’s birthdays in two $1 tickets his wife bought in Portal, the small town where they live. The lucky winners have opted to take $167m now rather than $275m over 26 years.
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Some 3,000 villagers have attended an elaborate Hindu wedding ceremony in eastern India for two monkeys.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Crowds flock to monkey ‘wedding’.

Google Inc said in a joint statement with five telecoms operators,Bharti Airtel, Global Transit, KDDI Corp, Pacnet, and Singapore Telecommunications that they had agreed to build an undersea cable that will link the United States to Japan, and provide the capacity to sustain a surge in Internet traffic between the continents.NEC Corporation and Tyco Telecommunications [...]

“No Country for Old Men” wins four Academy Awards, including best picture, in a ceremony that also featured a strong international flavor.
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Daniel Day-Lewis in “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Javier Bardem in “No Country for Old Men” [...]

The french President Sarkozy has been caught swearing at a visitor to a farming fair.A video clip which has been posted on the website of the French daily newspaper Le Parisien, shows a man at the Salon International de l’Agriculture refusing to shake the president’s hand.
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Ralph Nader anti-establishment consumer advocate has announced plans to run again for the US presidency in a televised interview, NBC’s Meetthe Press, on Sunday.”I’m running for president,” said Ralph Nader.Ralph Nader, 73, was born in Connecticut in 1934 and was educated at Princeton and Harvard universities.
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The mayor of London Ken Livingstone has said he will contest car maker Porsche’s threatened legal challenge over his plan to tax gas guzzling cars driving in the city centre, a mayoral “The Greater London Authority Act 1999 gives the Mayor the power to do this” spokeswoman said on Saturday.Porsche is seeking a judicial review [...]

According to various reports,Youtube has been banned in Pakistan.
Dear Valued Customer:
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (www.pta.gov.pk)has directed all ISPs

Three former British bankers,David Bermingham, Gary Mulgrew and Giles Darby were each jailed for more than three years yesterday for a £10million fraud linked to collapsed US energy giant Enron.They pleaded guilty in November after being extradited to the US.
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Rescue crews confirmed Friday that the French-made ATR 42-300 carrying 43 passengers and three crew members crashed Thursday at an altitude of 13,500 feet in an area known as Los Conejos plateau within the Sierra La Culata National Park,are all dead.According to Gen. Ramon Vinas, head of the civil aviation authority, the way the Venezuelan [...]

A representative for Jennifer Lopez and her singer husband,old People magazine that the pop star and actress has given birth to twins, a boy and a girl, early this morning in Long Island, New York and that their parents are “thrilled”.
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A group led by a Princeton University computer security researcher has developed a simple method to steal encrypted information stored on computer hard disks.