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- David S. Touretzky discusses Scientology, Anonymous and Tom Cruise
- Day 6 Results - Olympic Winter Games
- Deadliest Year Ever for Journalists?
- Deadline to release Muslim prisoners passes, Gaza-held journalists released
- Deadly forest fire in Spain claims lives of firefighters
- Death of Michael Jackson causes last minute changes to films and dramas
- Death sentences in 2008 Chinese tainted milk scandal
- Demand for biofuel irrigation worsens global water crisis
- Department of Defense releases 9/11 video of plane hitting Pentagon
- Details emerge of Honda's withdrawal from Formula One
- Developing nations bring technology transfer on agenda against resistance of Canada, Japan and US
- Dharam Singh steps down as Karnataka Chief Minister
- DHS video confirms details of leaked internal memo on al-Qaeda threat, and more
- Distributed computing climate change model gives bleak results
- Doha round of trade talks suspended after negotiations fail
- Drug-resistant flu rising, says WHO
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- Earth Day 2009 celebrated around the globe
- Earthquake in China kills three, injures hundreds
- Economic opportunities for women still lagging: World Bank and OECD
- Egyptian official states Al-Qaeda explosives expert killed in airstrike
- Election of new 7 wonders of the world: deadline approaching
- English Football: Manchester United clinch Premier League title
- English Football: Roundup for April 25, 2009
- English Football: Roundup for Easter weekend
- Environmentalists: "Turn everything off!" on February 1st
- Erosion influences Nigerian climate policy
- EU adopts renewable energy measures
- EU cuts sugar subsidies
- EU, US declare intent to cooperate on climate change at summit
- European telescope searches for planets
- European Union calls for release of British crewmen in Iran
- European Union gives Iran two more weeks to comply with UN resolution
- Explosion rocks Jama Masjid in India
- Explosions rock 'Green Zone' inside Baghdad
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- Facebook reaches 500 million users
- Failings identified in response to Iranian seizure of Royal Navy personnel
- Fans of OS/2 want IBM to release it as open-source software
- Farmers clash amidst high security at APEC summit in South Korea
- FBI's covert "Operation Site Down" targets top international warez and piracy sites
- FDA warning on Honduran cantaloupes after salmonella outbreaks
- Federal judge rules warrantless wiretaps illegal
- FIA lays out cost cutting measures for Formula One
- Fifty killed in commuter plane crash in Clarence Center, New York
- Final Harry Potter book goes on sale
- First Guantánamo Bay prisoner sentenced
- First person infected with Bird Flu in China has clean bill of health
- Five members of US patrol killed; Three missing in Iraq
- Five South Korean workers kidnapped from Nigerian natural gas facility
- Five tourists die in car crash in South African park
- Forget driving to the Olympics, says Beijing
- Former Austrian President Kurt Waldheim dies at 88
- Former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic found dead in his cell
- Formula One set to see standardised engines
- Founder of Amnesty International dies, aged 83
- French newspaper suggests Osama bin Laden may be dead
- Full lunar eclipse due on March 3, 2007
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- G20 Summit plans to inject US$5tn into economy before 2011
- G8 leaders set new emissions target
- G8 reaches deal on African aid for health issues
- Galloway and Pasqua deny any wrongdoing on their part in the oil-for-food program
- Gates pledges $600 million for Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis
- Gay not an option on MySpace profiles
- Gerald Ford oldest living US President ever
- German court upholds surveillance of Scientology
- Gibson has given his first interview since anti-Semitic rant
- Global economy could lose up to 51 million jobs this year, says UN agency
- Global stock markets plunge
- Globalization and trade deficit are connected says Greenspan
- Google News seeks patent for search system that returns ‘quality’ links
- Google suffers DNS outage
- Greenland assumes self rule Sunday
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- H5N1 Avian Flu virus has mutated, study says
- H5N1 Avian Flu virus mutates; shows resistance to drug
- H5N1 strain of Avian Flu found in the UK
- Hackers try to use German Wikipedia to spread links to malicious code
- Hamshahri newspaper plans cartoon response
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince released
- Healing ozone layer may contribute to global warming
- Helicopter crash kills eight, injures one in Louisiana
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie in theaters
- Home of Stonehenge builders found
- Home video captures alleged UFOs in Haiti
- Honey bee decline spreading globally
- Hopes for treaty on climate begin to wither
- HP to aquire EDS for 13.9B
- Human to human transmission of the H5N1 Avian Flu may have infected seven Indonesian family members
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- ICANN rejects .xxx top-level domain name proposal
- ICANN top-level .xxx domain name not dead yet
- Ice shelf breaks free in Canadian Arctic
- IEA warns: bleak future for the World without more energy investment
- Illegal drug found to be used in the manufacture of toys
- Illegal version of Star Wars III hits the internet hours after world-premiere
- Immediate life insurance website launched, first in world
- Inauguration of the 71st Thessaloniki International Fair in Greece
- Indian Premier Manmohan Singh undergoes heart bypass; Pranab Mukherjee takes charge
- Indonesia reports 100th human death from bird flu
- Indonesian Health Ministry: Two new human clusters of Bird Flu suspected in Sumatra
- Indonesian human-to-human bird flu infection may be false alarm
- International controversy over UN declaration to stop anti-homosexuality legislation
- International experts probe deadly Ebola Reston virus outbreak in Philippine pigs
- International Red Cross condemns Myanmar regime
- International Talk Like A Pirate Day held on Saturday
- Interview with Sue Gardner of the Wikimedia Foundation
- 'Invitational Games for the Deaf, Taipei 2008': Review of soccer preliminaries
- IPCC chief refuses to apologize for glacier error
- IPCC claims about Himalayan glaciers were not based on science
- Iran airs new video of UK crewmen, releases new letters from Turney
- Iran Foreign Minister: Britain must admit to trespassing before soldiers are released
- Iran tests torpedo, plans more tests
- Iran to expand military and economic ties with Iraq; will reconstruct nation
- Iran warns disruption of oil may be a consequence of U.S. "wrong moves"
- Iran: Detained British troops do not need to go to trial
- Iran: We will also take 'illegal actions' if UN imposes sanctions
- Iranian diplomat kidnapped by men with Iraqi defense ministry IDs
- Iranian president sends letter to Pope Benedict XVI
- Iranian student protesters face expulsion
- Iraq says leader of the insurgent group Mujahideen Shura Council killed
- Islamic web forum releases videotape of Ayman al-Zawahiri
- Israel elects 18th Knesset
- Israeli group announces anti-semitic cartoons contest
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- Jack Herrick, wikiHow founder interviewed by Wikinews
- Japanese man retains title at Air Guitar World Championship in Finland
- Jewel in King Tut's necklace created by possible asteroid impact
- Jews around the world recite special sun blessing
- Jimbo Wales to lead development of 'code of conduct' for bloggers
- JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect on his way to America
- Judge in Nebraska says thou shalt not sue God
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- Last American survivor of the Titanic disaster dies
- Leaders throughout the world deliver Christmas messages
- League table of world universities published: top three from USA
- Lethal earthquakes rock western Iran, 70 or more die
- Letter bomb explodes near Scotland Yard in London, England
- London Zoological Society reports on health of planet Earth
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- Major earthquake strikes Peru followed by multiple large aftershocks
- Man confesses to 1996 murder of JonBenet Ramsey
- Man wakes up from coma after 19 years
- Many horses in Sweden lack passport
- Markets down across the world; Dow Jones falls below 9,000
- Martin Luther King Jr.'s oldest daughter Yolanda King dies at age 51
- Mascots for Vancouver 2010 Olympics based on native mythology
- Masterminds of USS Cole and Limburg bombings escape from Yemeni prison
- Mel Gibson makes anti-semitic statements while drunk
- Michael Jackson film "This Is It" to be premiered in at least 15 world cities simultaneously
- Microsoft develops anti-virus product
- Microsoft launches its anti-piracy campaign in the United States
- Microsoft Network users experience international outage
- Middle East peace conference begins in Annapolis, Maryland
- Millions worldwide still in slavery
- Mime Marcel Marceau dies at age 84
- Missing Los Alamos Laboratory documents found in drug bust
- Montenegro becomes 192nd UN Member State
- More earthquakes shake the South Pacific
- More from APEC: EU not backing down
- More political, soccer-related unrest in Iran follows Bahrain victory
- More worries of further contamination of food from China
- Mothers around the world on Mother's Day
- Mount Merapi erupts
- MTV and VH1 to broadcast Live 8
- MySpace removes 90,000 sex offenders
- Mysterious power failure takes down Wikipedia, Wikinews
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- NASA extends Space Shuttle Atlantis' mission
- NASA: Arctic Sea's icecap is melting
- NASA: Old Arctic sea ice continues to melt
- Nearly a dozen killed in suicide bomber attack in Iraq
- Nebraska Senator sues God
- Neste Oil to build world's largest biodiesel plant in Singapore
- New 'failed states index' report published
- New comet to be visible to naked eye for several days
- New Italian government proposes withdrawal of troops from Iraq
- New rocky planet discovered in orbit around nearby star
- New strain of Bird Flu appears in China
- New top level domain approved
- New video of captured British troops aired; protests at UK embassy in Tehran
- New Year fire kills at least 59, injures 212 more at Bangkok pub
- New Zealand Green party rates other parties on climate change policies
- Newly discovered extra-solar planet may be Earth-like
- News of Michael Jackson's death overloads Internet sites and sparks hoaxes
- Niece of Scientology's leader goes public with criticism
- Nigerian kidnappers release 8 oil workers
- No breakthrough in the WTO trade talks
- North Korea reportedly planning nuclear bomb test
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- Obama declares tougher emission targets before Copenhagen summit
- Obama delays arrival to Copenhagen summit by one week
- Obama succeeds Bush as 44th president of the United States
- Obama's Inaugural Celebration "We are One" attracts 400,000
- Obituaries: January 21, 2008
- Obituaries: January 21-27, 2008
- Oil prices drop as inventories grow
- Oil prices reach all-time high; pass US$91.00 per barrel
- Oil prices reach six-month high
- Oil workers kidnapped off of Nigerian oil rig
- Olympic flame for Beijing Games lit amidst protest
- One of Saddam Hussein's defense lawyers thrown out of court
- OPEC cuts production by 2.2 million barrels a day
- OPEC to keep oil production at current levels