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Sep 3, 2010

GUARDIAN News, Sep 03, 2010

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Australian PM hopes of retaining office boosted by pact with independent MP

Australian PM hopes of retaining office boosted by pact with independent MP
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Tony Abbott in Sydney, Australia
Julia Gillard is the front runner in the battle for independent support
Tony Abbott's Liberal/National coalition emerged as the single largest party in the Australian election but fell three seats short of a majority
Miss Gillard's Labour Party is now just two seats away from sealing an overall majority after election victory after winning support of Tasmanian MP Andrew Wilkie, a day after the announcment of a pact with the Green Party.
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Mistresses and wives clash over trapped Chilean miners

Susana Valenzuela holds a picture of trapped miner Yonni Barrios Rojas

Susana Valenzuela holds a picture of trapped miner Yonni Barrios Rojas
Authorities at Camp Hope have had to deal with a rush of women coming forward claiming to be first in the Chilean miners' affections in order to receive government handouts.
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders agree to work for draft treaty with fortnightly meetings

The leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority concluded their first direct talks in nearly two years yesterday by agreeing to meet personally every two weeks in a bid to cement a peace deal in the Middle East within a year

Mr Netanyahu and Mr Abbas will meet on Sep 14 and 15 at a location in the Middle East
Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, held what was described as a "long and productive discussion" in which they concurred that they would start striving for a draft treaty.
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Elephants 'scared of ants'

Mice are bad enough, according to the myth - but the creature that really fills an elephant with fear is a lot smaller 

Any elephant foolish enough to approach an ant-protected tree is liable to find swarms of the angry insects crawling up its trunk Photo: CORBIS
Ants are getting the better of nature's biggest land beast on the African savannah, scientists have discovered.
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Osteoporosis drug 'doubles cancer risk'

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Doctors often prescribe bisphosphonates as a preventative measure for those who might be at a higher risk of osteoporosis
Those who have taken oral bisphosphonates for five years or more are twice as likely to develop the cancer than those who have not, the analysis of medical records found. Every year almost 8,000 people in Britain are diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus, or gullet cancer, and ...
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Winston Churchill 'ordered assassination of Mussolini to protect compromising letters’

Churchill chose to holiday under a false name only a few miles from the spot Mussolini was seized 

Churchill chose to holiday under a false name only a few miles from the spot Mussolini was seized
Pierre Milza, an expert on fascist Italy, theorizes that the wartime prime minister may have wanted Mussolini dead to prevent the letters, in which Churchill expressed his admiration for his Italian counterpart before the outbreak of the Second World War, coming to light.
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Sep 2, 2010

Hurricane Earl: Obama declares emergency as storm nears east coast

Barack Obama in the Oval Office
Barack Obama has declared an emergency as hurricane Earl approaches North Carolina. Photograph: Pool/Getty Images
States along the eastern coast of the United States were today preparing evacuation plans to be put in to operation if hurricane Earl moves inland instead of glancing the shoreline.
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Dublin gangland boss John Traynor arrested in Netherlands

Investigative journalist Veronica Guerin, who was killed in 1996
Veronica Guerin, who was shot dead shot dead by the pillion passenger on a motorbike as she stopped at traffic lights in Naas, just outside Dublin, in June 1996 Photograph: PA/PA Archive/PA Photos
A convicted Dublin criminal who fled the Irish Republic after the murder of investigative journalist Veronica Guerin by another gangland boss has been arrested in the Netherlands.
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Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi banned from Venice film festival

Juliette Binoche protests at jailing of film director Jafar Panahi at Cannes
'An attack on art' ... Juliette Binoche protests against the imprisonment of Iranian director Jafar Panahi earlier this year. Photograph: Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images
The Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi has been denied the right to attend this year's Venice international film festival. Due to open the short film section of the festival with The Accordion, his request was refused by officials in Tehran.
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Middle East peace talks - live

Middle East peace talks get underway
Middle East peace talks get underway at the State Department in Washington, with Hillary Clinton flanked by Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas (right). Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP
3.20pm ET: Here's a first look at an article on the peace talks by Chris McGreal that will be appearing in tomorrow's Guardian print edition:For many diplomats though the...
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To Kosovans, Blair is a true hero

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair visits Kosovo.
Nine Kosovo Albanian children named after Tony Blair pose in front of his picture during an official welcoming ceremony in Pristina on 9 July 2010. Photograph: Kushtrim Ternava/EPA
"The king is dead, long live the king" is an expression about monarchy, but it rings true in modern democracy. Some in Britain appear to have forgotten that Tony Blair led their country on the world stage for 10 ....
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Greece: refusing to quit | Helena Smith

Man smoking a cigarette
Man smoking a cigarette. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images
One year and two months ago to this day, I walked into a bar in Athens where, in a haze of smoke and much to my surprise, I was allowed to break the law. A ban on smoking in public places, imposed by the then conservative government, had just come into force.
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Kosovo offers to bury differences with Serbia

Hashim Thaci
Hashim Thaci, the prime minister of Kosovo, right, at a meeting in Pristina with (from left) foreign minister Skender Hyseni, German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle and the president of Kosovo, Fatmir Sejdiu. Photograph: Hannibal Hanschke/EPA
The prime minister of Kosovo, which seceded from Serbia and declared independence two years ago, has offered...
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Binyamin Netanyahu opens Middle East talks with two 'pillars to peace'

Benjamin Netanyahu, Hillary Clinton and Mahmoud Abbas
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, right, at the opening session of peace talks hosted by US secretary of state Hillary Clinton. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP
Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, opened peace talks with the Palestinians today by saying that two issues – recognition of his country as a Jewish ...
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Britain and France will not share aircraft carriers, officials say

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Officials have denied reports that Britain and France are to share aircraft carriers. Photograph: Sipa Press / Rex Features
British and French officials engaged in high-level defence talks have denied reports the two countries are considering sharing aircraft carriers, but are paving the way for unprecedented military co-operation, according to sources on both sides of the Channel....
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Tibetan nomads struggle as grasslands disappear from the roof of the world

Tibetan nomad Phuntsok Dorje outside his tent on grasslands turning to desert, Tibet
Tibetan nomad Phuntsok Dorje outside his tent. The green prairie that used to surround it has become a brown desert. Photograph: Jonathan Watts for the Guardian
Like generations of Tibetan nomads before him, Phuntsok Dorje makes a living raising yaks and other livestock on the vast alpine grasslands that provide a thatch on the roof of the world.
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Jewish director Julian Schnabel brings Palestine to Venice

Yasmine Al Masri attends the Miral photocall 
Yasmine Al Masri attends the Miral photocall during the Venice Film Festival. Photograph: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images
The American artist and film-maker Julian Schnabel said he felt a "responsibility" as a Jew to tell the story of Palestine when he opened his new movie at the Venice film festival.
Schnabel's film Miral, competing with 22 others for the Golden Lion award, ....
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Burger King sold for £2.6bn

Burger King, Leicester Square, London
Burger King has been sold for the second time in its 55-year history. Photograph: Alex Segre/Alamy
Burger King has been sold to 3G Capital, a private equity firm backed by three of Brazil's best-known businessmen, in a deal worth $4bn (£2.6bn).
The $24-a-share agreement is 46% more than Burger King shares closed at on 31 August, the day before rumours of ......
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British man piloted Congo death crash plane

Plane crash in Goma
The aftermath of a plane crash in the Congolese city of Goma which killed more than 40 people in 2008. The country has one of the world's worst air safety records. Photograph: Karel Prinsloo/AP
The pilot of a plane that crashed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo killing 20 people has been named as a Briton who had worked as an air steward but loved flying so much he trained as a pilot.
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Chief rabbi challenges Stephen Hawking in row over origins of universe

Chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Lord Sacks warns that the hostility between religion and science is equally damaging to both. Photograph: David Sillitoe.
The chief rabbi, Lord Sacks, hit back at Stephen Hawking after the astrophysicist said God did not create the universe.In his new book, The Grand Design, published next week, Hawking concludes that science excludes the possibility of a deity and that it is unnecessary to "invoke...
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Breaking News as it happens from around Australia and the world

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Knoxville.com | Latest News stories for Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

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AUCTOR & HITA Daily News

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Download Norton AntiVirus Virus Definitions September Free Trial - Contains the latest free virus databases for Norton AntiVirus Virus (NAV)

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Scores for Thursday, September 2, 2010

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Judge: Detroit must turn over cell phone records in slain stripper case

Robert Snell / The Detroit News
Detroit -- A federal magistrate judge today ordered the city of Detroit to produce cell phone records and other documents within 16 days to a lawyer representing the family of a murdered stripper
The city must produce personnel files of six city officials, including ex-Detroit Police Chief Ella Bully-Cummings and officers who served on ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's security detail. But U.S. Magistrate Judge R. Steven Whalen will let the city redact personal information and details that could endanger the person's safety.
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Eminem, Jay-Z fans await 'epic' show | detnews.com

Santiago Esparza / The Detroit NewsDetroit -- Tonight's concert featuring Eminem and Jay-Z, iconic hip-hop stars for more than the last decade, is one of the biggest bills to come through the city in years, and fans were lined up this morning to ensure close access to the stage at Comerica Park.
About 40 people braved the heat, humidity and on-and-off drizzle to make sure they are in a good position to enjoy their beloved rappers for tonight's sold-out show. The stars will perform another concert Friday at Comerica and then again Sept. 13 and 14 at New York's Yankee Stadium.
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WWE-TNA News

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NXT Season Three Pros and Rookies announced.

If you watched WWE NXT Tuesday, you will have noticed that throughout the show the NXT pros and rookies were announced.

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Health Highlights: Sept. 2, 2010

    * Michael Douglas Says He'll Beat Throat Cancer
    * Oregon Children Least Likely To Be Hospitalized For Asthma
    * Botox Maker Pays $600 Million To Settle Marketing Investigation
    * Obama Administration Appeals Judge's Order Banning Stem Cell Research
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
Michael Douglas Says He'll Beat Throat Cancer
Actor Michael Douglas says he's treating his recently-diagnosed throat tumor as "a curable disease."
A walnut-sized tumor was found at the base of the 65-year-old actor's tongue in early August and he's now undergoing an eight-week course of radiation and chemotherapy. Doctors say there is no evidence the cancer has spread, the Associated Press reported.
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Child’s Ordeal Shows Dangers of Antipsychotic Drugs

Chris Bickford for The New York Times
Kyle Warren, at 6 years old.
OPELOUSAS, La. — At 18 months, Kyle Warren started taking a daily antipsychotic drug on the orders of a pediatrician trying to quell the boy’s severe temper tantrums.Kyle Warren at 6 years old. At 18 months, Kyle started taking a daily antipsychotic drug on the orders of a pediatrician trying to quell the boy’s severe temper tantrums.
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Maker of Botox Settles Inquiry on Off-Label Marketing

"Allergan agreed to pay $600 million to settle charges that it illegally promoted and sold Botox for unapproved uses.",
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"More information about Allergan Incorporated">Allergan, the maker of Botox, agreed on Wednesday to pay $600 million to ....
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In Alaska, Feud Fueled by Palin Claims Senator Murkowski


“Thank you for your service, Sen. Murkowski,” Sarah Palin wrote on her Twitter account on Tuesday night after Senator Lisa Murkowski conceded to Joe Miller, the political novice Ms. Palin had endorsed in Alaska’s Republican primary. Yet in the same message, Ms. Palin had reveled in Mr. Miller’s stunning upset, writing, “Do you believe in miracles?”
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Netanyahu and Abbas to Begin Direct Mideast Peace Talks

Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
President Obama with President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, King Abdullah II of Jordan and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt at the White House. More Photos »
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Despite war chest, Fenty trails in poll

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Four years of incumbency and an overwhelming fundraising advantage have not translated to public support for D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty in his bid to fend off a Democratic primary challenge, according to poll figures released Wednesday.
A Clarus Research Group survey shows D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray leading Mr. Fenty 41 percent to 36 percent among respondents who say they are "very likely to vote" in the city's Sept. 14 primary. Other candidates collected 2 percent support, and 21 percent of respondents said they remain undecided. Mr. Gray's lead is just outside the poll's margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.
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Miss Mexico Is Crowned Miss Universe 2010

LAS VEGAS - AUGUST 23: Miss Mexico 2010, Jimena Navarrete, competes in the 2010 Miss Universe Pageant at the Mandalay Bay Events Center August 23, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Navarrete went on to be crowned the new Miss Universe.
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Meet overnight sensation Jimena Navarrete.

Less than 24 hours after she was crowned Miss Universe, Mexico's Navarrete has become a top trending topic on Twitter and thousands of fans have flooded her Facebook fan page.

So who is the woman who ousted 82 other competitors for international beauty bragging rights? Here are five things to know about the 22-year-old from Guadalajara.
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