Housing rescue on track to pass Senate by Saturday
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Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:43:44 GMT
AP - The Senate cleared the last hurdle Friday to passing a housing rescue aimed at sparing hundreds of thousands of homeowners from foreclosure and bolstering troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Obama's brief stop in Paris belies his popularity
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Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:10:19 GMT
AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama expected to spend just enough time in Paris on Friday for talks with the French president and a joint news conference, not a rousing speech like the one he delivered in Berlin.
Qantas jet lands with gaping hole in fuselage
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Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:30:34 GMT
AP - A hole the size of a small car in the underside of a Qantas jumbo jet carrying 346 passengers over the South China Sea forced the pilot to make an emergency landing Friday after a rapid descent.
Power outages widespread in Texas after Dolly
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Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:31:33 GMT
AP - Business at reopened restaurants was humming, grocery store parking lots were packed and residents of south Texas were venturing out on the newly dry roads again as the remnants of Hurricane Dolly moved well away from the Rio Grande Valley.
New home sales drop 0.6 percent in June
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Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:44:20 GMT
AP - Sales of new homes fell in June for the seventh time in the past eight months, more proof that the worst housing slump in decades is getting deeper.
Stocks advance on upbeat economic reports
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Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:24:56 GMT
AP - Upbeat economic data lifted stocks Friday, placating a market pummeled a day earlier by concerns about housing and the financial sector.
Prof whose 'last lecture' became a sensation dies
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Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:20:29 GMT
AP - Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47.
China says has more people surfing the Web than US
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Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:43:54 GMT
AP - China's booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported Friday.
Police: Paparazzi, guards, fight at Jolie chateau
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Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:43:29 GMT
AP - It sounds like a scene from "Fight Club." French police say camouflaged paparazzi who got on to the grounds of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's chateau in southern France fought with the Hollywood couple's guards.
Olympic ticket sale in Beijing starts stampede
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Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:59:43 GMT
AP - Thousands of eager fans who had waited for up to two days swarmed sales windows Friday for the final batch of tickets to next month's Olympic Games, knocking people to the ground and bending metal barricades in the chaotic crush.
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