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Howard Leads U.S. All-Stars Over Japan

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Ryan Howard hit a three-run homer Sunday and the MLB All-Stars defeated the stars of Japanese baseball 11-4 for a 3-0 lead in a five-game tour.  more
Iraqi Tribunal Sentences Saddam to Hang

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Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced Sunday to hang for crimes against humanity in the 1982 killings of 148 people in a single Shiite town, as the ousted leader, trembling and defiant, shouted "God is great!"  more
Power Shortage Leaves Europe in the Dark
A power shortage in Germany triggered a cascade of blackouts across Europe, a German electricity said Sunday, halting trains, trapping people in elevators and plunging millions of homes into darkness.  more
USC Rebounds With 42-0 Rout of Stanford

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John David Booty threw three touchdown passes in the second quarter and Terrell Thomas scored on a 71-yard blocked field goal return to help No. 9 USC rebound with a 42-0 victory over winless Stanford on Saturday.  more
Chan: Delivering English Lines Is Tough

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It may be a well-worn cliche, but for Hong Kong star Jackie Chan, action really does speak louder than words _ at least when it comes to English dialogue.  more
Market Reports
China, Africa Sign $1.9B in Trade Deals

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China and Africa ended an unprecedented summit Sunday, signing deals worth $1.9 billion and pledging to boost trade and development between the world's fastest-growing economy and its poorest continent.  more
Power Shortage Leaves Europe in the Dark
A power shortage in Germany triggered a cascade of blackouts across Europe, a German electricity said Sunday, halting trains, trapping people in elevators and plunging millions of homes into darkness.  more
Gas Station Sees Sales Drop After Speech
Some gas station owners in Oklahoma are dropping the Venezuelan state-owned Citgo brand, saying sales have dropped significantly since the Venezuelan president criticized President Bush in a speech last month.  more
Chavez Threatens to Halt Oil to U.S.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened Saturday to halt oil exports to the United States and said opponents of his leftist government are not welcome within the military or the state-run oil company.  more
Northwest May Recall Hundreds of Pilots
Northwest Airlines Corp., which is working to emerge from bankruptcy, is planning to recall hundreds of furloughed pilots this year and next, more than it initially said it would recall, the pilot's union said.  more
Entertainment
O'Reilly Abortion Report Riles Kansas MD

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An abortion doctor plans to ask for an investigation of the state attorney general and Bill O'Reilly over comments by the Fox television host that he got information from Kansas abortion records, the doctor's attorneys said Saturday.  more
Music Row Looks to Hispanic Audience

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When country music acts started noticing more Hispanic fans at their concerts, it didn't take long for Music Row to start dreaming of its Next Big Audience.  more
Oscar-Nominated Writer Schrader Dies
Leonard Schrader, who earned an Academy Award nomination for his adaptation of "Kiss of the Spider Woman" and co-wrote the critically praised "Mishima," has died. He was 62.  more
Sir Paul: No Grudge Despite Ugly Divorce

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Paul McCartney said Saturday he bears no grudge against his estranged second wife _ despite acrimonious divorce proceedings that have seen lurid allegations about their marriage reported across the world.  more
U.S. Seeks to Dismiss Filmmaker's Suit
The U.S. government filed a motion Friday seeking to dismiss a lawsuit filed by an aspiring American filmmaker who spent two months in an Iraqi prison without being charged.  more
Health & Medical
Supreme Court to Examine Abortion Cases

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Americans still will be chewing over election results Wednesday morning when the nine Supreme Court justices file into their courtroom for two of the biggest cases of the young term.  more
Calif. 'Pot Docs' Put Selves at Risk

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Dr. Mollie Fry never thought telling her patients where to get the medicine she recommended for pain, depression and nausea would be a problem.  more
47 Chinese Children Have Lead Poisoning
Forty-seven primary school children in eastern China have been found to have excessive lead in their blood, the latest such case to hit the country.  more
O'Reilly Abortion Report Riles Kansas MD

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An abortion doctor plans to ask for an investigation of the state attorney general and Bill O'Reilly over comments by the Fox television host that he got information from Kansas abortion records, the doctor's attorneys said Saturday.  more
Libya AIDS Verdict to Be Issued Dec. 19
Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with AIDS addressed a court hearing their retrial for the first time on Saturday, reiterating their innocence.  more
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High Tech
Dems Seek Answers on Iraq Documents Site
Four Democratic senators demanded on Saturday that the Bush administration explain its decision to post documents from Saddam Hussein's covert nuclear program on a now-shuttered federal Web site.  more
Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight

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Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets his porch and car if a few days go by without rain. His electricity goes out repeatedly when the coal miners accidentally knock down power lines.  more
Pa. Man Accused of Raping Online Dates

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He was an online dater's dream: Tall, clean-cut, with a fashionable address and a taste for upscale bars and restaurants. He said he was a doctor, an astronaut, a spy _ though he was really an on-and-off nursing student. With woman after woman, he would slip something in their drinks and then rape them, police say.  more
Starbucks Loses Laptops With Worker Data
Starbucks Corp. said Friday it had lost track of four laptop computers, two of which had private information on about 60,000 current and former U.S. employees and fewer than 80 Canadian workers and contractors.  more
Microsoft Backs Novell's Linux Platform

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Microsoft Corp. has embraced Novell Inc.'s open-source software platform, forming a technological truce between two longtime antagonists who want to make it easier for the still-dominant Windows operating system and the increasingly popular Linux system to work together.  more
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