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AP - A federal judge has set aside nearly seven hours for opening statements in a trial over the deadly rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that resulted in the nation's worst offshore oil spill.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The UK's greenhouse gas output climbed 3.1 percent in 2010 as people used more gas to heat their homes amid colder weather and more nuclear plants were closed for maintenance, according to final government estimates published Tuesday.
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Skydiver Felix Baumgartner would be the first person to break the sound barrier outside an aircraft.
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Forecasters say restaurant revenues will reach record levels in 2012 - jumping 3.5 percent over last year - while the industry's employment numbers return to what they were before the recession. It's a fry cry from the...
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran has dismissed the new U.S. sanctions on Tehran, with the Foreign Ministry spokesman saying Tuesday they are part of a "psychological war" meant to sow discontent among Iranians and insisting the measures would not halt the country's nuclear program....
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BRUSSELS (AP) -- Steel maker ArcelorMittal was cautiously optimistic about its near-term prospects even after it reported a heavy fourth quarter loss generated by a deteriorating European economy and big tax and restructuring charges....
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AP - Rescue workers on Tuesday pulled a 65-year-old woman out alive after she was trapped for 31 hours in the rubble of a collapsed factory in an eastern Pakistan city, as the death toll from the accident rose to 18.
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Margaret Deming had no money and her kids were crying with hunger. ... Hers is the kind of "poor" family that Mitt Romney doesn't worry about.
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US President Barack Obama's election campaign is to return some $200,000 of funding linked to the family of a Mexican fugitive.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Chargers for electric cars may become a "billion dollar business" by 2017, said an executive at Swiss engineering firm ABB, which is teaming up with governments and companies such as RWE to roll out a network.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Two top 10 shareholders in miner Xstrata said on Tuesday they would vote against a takeover by commodities trader Glencore, threatening the industry's biggest deal to create a powerhouse spanning mining, agriculture and trading.
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Reuters - Tears tracing lines of dirt on his face, six-year-old Pakistani boy Nabeel Mukhtar cries while crouching on a pavement to scrub motorbikes, his job for nine hours a day, six days a week.
