Daily Archives: July 15, 2008

Bush vetoes Medicare bill

Payment cuts of more than 10% to Medicare-participating doctors took effect two weeks ago
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Bernanke details economic woes at hearing

Appearing before the Senate, Bernanke faced a tough examination
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VW to spend $1bn on new US plant

Business & economics: Europe’s largest car-maker says Tennessee factory will initially produce 150,000 cars a year
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Double bombing kills 23 in Iraq

Dozens of Iraqi army recruits killed just days after promised government crackdown
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Obama lays out foreign policy plan

Barack Obama promised to work with allies to tackle the threats of the 21st century
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Poll shows split over Iraq exit plans

Months of debate on the presidential candidates’ Iraq war policies has produced a stalemate
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Climate change may cause increase in kidney stone cases, say US scientists

US scientists today proposed adding a new cost of warming: millions of new kidney stone cases
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China allowed to buy ivory stockpile

Science & environment: China has been approved as a buyer for a 100-tonne stockpile of elephant ivory
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GM scrambles to save $15bn

Business & economics: Cost-cutting moves include scrapping healthcare cover for all its retired workers and their families
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Taking back the web

Comment is free America: Lola Adesioye: The Obama campaign can’t prevent false rumours from circulating, but it can harness the internet to spread the truth
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Black carpet for Dark Knight premiere

Absence of late actor Heath Ledger dominates world premiere of Batman sequel in New York
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Children of conflict

On the Gaza-Israel frontline violence is traumatising a whole generation
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First Guantánamo video released

First footage of interrogation at Guantánamo Bay shows Canadian teenager Omar Khadr
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441085 at the VSM Historical Train Depot

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Just a cool looking HDR image. The 441085 at the VSM historical train depot at Lieren, the Netherlands.
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Google and Viacom hit YouTube deal

Business & economics: Google strikes deal to protect YouTube users’ data in $1bn copyright case brought by Viacom
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China may veto ‘genocide’ arrest

China expresses ‘grave concerns’ at moves to arrest Omar al-Bashir for genocide in Darfur
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Obama Chastises Bernie Mac

Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama asked comedian Bernie Mac to “clean up his act” after some of his jokes rankled audience…
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Obama pledges Afghan troop rise

Presidential candidate to visit war regions as he pledges to shift focus from ‘misguided effort in Iraq’
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Double suicide bombing kills 23 in Iraq

Dozens of Iraqi army recruits killed just days after promised government crackdown
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How to calculate a celeb baby’s value

Arts & entertainment: Hadley Freeman on the birth of the ‘Brangelina’ twins and the subsequent magazine bidding war
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President lifts oil drilling ban

The symbolic move is aimed at pressuring Congress into lifting its own similar ban on coastal oil drilling
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Sudan’s Bashir charged with genocide

International Criminal Court prosecutor calls for arrest of Omar al-Bashir
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[audio] Car-Wash Employee Tragically Simonized

Onion Radio News - with Doyle Redland
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