Friday, June 20, 2008

Woman sues Victoria's Secret claiming thong injury (Reuters)

A Victoria's Secret store in Encinitas, California is shown here May 20, 2008. (Mike Blake/Reuters)Reuters - A woman who says she was hurt by her thong panties when a metal clip flew off and hit her in the eye has sued Victoria's Secret, saying in a TV interview on Thursday that the injury caused her "excruciating pain."




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Obama, Hillary Clinton to campaign together (AP)

Hillary Clinton and her former Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama are seen here before a debate in Los Angeles in January 2008. Obama aides have announced Clinton will join Obama on the campaign trail June 27.(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)AP - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama's campaign announced Friday that he will campaign with former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton next week, a step toward unifying a fractured Democratic Party after a bruising primary fight.




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Afghans count Taliban dead in valley near Kandahar (Reuters)

Afghan national army soldiers look at bodies of Taliban after fighting in Manara village of the Arghandabad district in the southern city of Kandahar June 20, 2008. (Ismail Sameem/Reuters)Reuters - NATO and Afghan forces held mopping up operations, hunting Taliban fighters and burying the dead on Friday, after an air and ground offensive routed hundreds of insurgents from a valley near Kandahar city.




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Zimbabwe opposition asks voters to end Mugabe rule (AP)

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero answers questions during a media conference after an EU summit in Brussels, Friday June 20, 2008. European Union leaders have acknowledged that their much-maligned reform treaty, in the works for the better part of this decade, was off the rails again, after Irish voters rejected it last week. They also threatened tougher sanctions against Zimbabwe amid violence ahead of elections there, and against Sudan over its refusal to hand over officials wanted for war crimes in Darfur. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)AP - Zimbabwe's opposition leader called on his supporters Friday to challenge President Robert Mugabe's rule in next week's runoff election despite a "wave of brutality" he says the government has unleashed.




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Russia's Lavrov warns against attack on Iran (AP)

Israeli F-16 jets perform over the Mediterranean Sea in Tel Aviv during a military parade marking Israels 60th anniversary, in May 2008. US officials say a major military exercise carried out by Israel earlier this month seemed to be a practice for any potential strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, US media reported.(AFP/File/Jack Guez)AP - Russia's foreign minister on Friday warned against the use of force on Iran, saying there is no proof it is trying to build nuclear weapons.




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Poison sues label over royalties (AP)

In this Oct. 27, 2007 file photo, guitarist C. C. DeVille, left, and Bret Michaels of the rock group Poison perform at the Guitar Hero III 'Legends of Rock' launch party in Los Angeles.  (AP Photo/Gus Ruelas, file)AP - Members of Poison say their record label has consistently underpaid them royalties throughout their career, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday.




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"Wanted" an audacious adrenaline rush (Reuters)

Scottish actor James McAvoy poses during a photocall to present his new film 'Wanted' in Berlin June 10, 2008. (Johannes Eisele/Reuters)Reuters - It's good to be "Wanted."




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When a Parent Doesn't Handle Money Responsibly (Dear Margo)

Dear Margo - DEAR MARGO: I am 40. My grandfather died when I was a teenager, and his will skipped over my mother and left his modest life savings to me for my education.

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House prepares to debate new surveillance law (AP)

In this March 13, 2008 file photo, President Bush makes a statement on FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) legislation on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. The House prepared Friday to vote on a measure that effectively protects telecommunication companies from civil lawsuits but also sets out steps for investigating the wiretapping program to determine its scope and legality. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, file)AP - For months the debate over whether telecommunications companies should face lawsuits for cooperating with the government's warrantless wiretapping program has been the sticking point for updating a surveillance law.




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US mortgage fraud probe nets 406, plus Bear Stearns two (AFP)

A foreclosure sign hangs in front of a house in Miami, Florida. Two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers were indicted Thursday, officials said as they unveiled charges against more than 400 people in a wide-ranging probe of mortgage abuses during the US housing boom.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)AFP - Two ex-Bear Stearns executives were indicted Thursday as officials unveiled charges against 406 people in a huge probe into fraud, which helped fuel the housing crisis and infect the global economy.




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Japan suicides near record high in 2007 (Reuters)

Media crew walk in front of the Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital where doctors, nurses and patients developed breathing problems after a Japanese farmer threw up when doctors were trying to pump his stomach, spraying his rescuers with toxic fumes before his death in Kumamoto, southern Japan, Thursday, May 22, 2008. A total of 54 people were sickened by Chrolopicrin released by the 34-year-old man who committed suicide by drinking pesticide and 10 of them were hospitalized. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)Reuters - Over 33,000 people took their lives in Japan last year, topping 30,000 for the tenth consecutive year despite a government campaign to reduce what is one of the highest suicide rates in the world.




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Reports: Teen girls made pact to get pregnant (AP)

AP - A pact made by a group of teens to get pregnant and raise their babies together is at least partly behind a sudden spike in pregnancies at Gloucester High School, school officials said.

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With money, Obama to try to widen the battleground (AP)

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) addresses a news conference after meeting with his foreign policy advisory panel of former Democratic U.S. government officials at a hotel in Washington June 18, 2008. (Jim Bourg/Reuters)AP - Barack Obama faced two critical questions: where to play and how to pay.




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Scientists believe Mars lander exposed ice crumbs (AP)

This image provided by NASA shows the before, left,  and after images of possible sublimation of ice in the trench informally called 'Dodo-Goldilocks' over the course of four days. The dice-size crumbs of bright material  in the bottom left of the the trench in the left image taken June 15, 2008 have vanished from inside a trench where they were photographed, right image taken June 19, 2008 by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, convincing scientists that the material was frozen water that vaporized after digging exposed it.  (AP Photo/NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University)AP - Scientists believe NASA's Phoenix Mars lander exposed bits of ice while recently digging a trench in the soil of the Martian arctic, the mission's principal investigator said.




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