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Candy giant Pez takes aim at Peninsula museum - San Jose Mercury News border=

Candy giant Pez takes aim at Peninsula museum - San Jose Mercury News

San Jose Mercury News
Gary Doss, curator and owner of the PEZ Museum in Burlingame, shows off his collection Thursday July 9, 2009. Doss is in the Guinness book …
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News of the World phone-hacking affair 'very serious', says Gordon ... - guardian.co.uk border=

News of the World phone-hacking affair 'very serious', says Gordon … - guardian.co.uk

guardian.co.uk
Gordon Brown said today the questions raised by the phone-hacking affair were "very serious". The prime minister told a press conference at the G8 in L'Aquila, Italy: "This raises questions that are very serious, that will have to be considered. …
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Top Obama Aides: Second Stimulus "Might Eventually Be Needed" - U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report
Media outlets are reporting that as rising unemployment continues to take a toll on the economy, some top aides to President Obama think a second economic stimulus package may become necessary. The Financial Times reports "senior administration …
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President Barack Obama signs first US climate pact at G-8 meeting - New York Daily News border=

President Barack Obama signs first US climate pact at G-8 meeting - New York Daily News

New York Daily News
Japanese PM Taro Aso, Canadian PM Stephen Harper, President Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev attend the G-8 meeting. How much of a priority should …
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News Analysis In Mexican Vote, Nostalgia for Past Corruption - New York Times border=

News Analysis In Mexican Vote, Nostalgia for Past Corruption - New York Times

New York Times
Rodrigo Abd/AP In Tegucigalpa a child looked into the coffin of Isy Murillo, 19, who died in clashes at the airport. By ELISABETH MALKIN MEXICO CITY — “The PRI comes back” shouted the front page headline of the daily newspaper El Universal on Monday, …
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US serial killer 'shot by police' - BBC News border=

US serial killer 'shot by police' - BBC News

BBC News
Police in the US say they have shot dead a serial killer who had terrorised a town in South Carolina. Patrick Tracy Burris, 41, was killed during an attempted burglary 30 miles (48km) from Gaffney, South Carolina. Bullets in his gun reportedly matched …
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CNN International
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Michael Jackson by the Numbers - ABC News border=

Michael Jackson by the Numbers - ABC News

ABC News
The desire by Michael Jackson fans to know more about the singer's death reverberated on the Internet, breaking records for Web site traffic and digital downloads. From the moment the world learned the tragic news, the volume of …
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Obama in Moscow for nuclear talks - BBC News

BBC News
US President Barack Obama has arrived in Moscow for talks with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, focusing on further reducing nuclear stockpiles. Officials on both sides were quoted as saying a document had been agreed, though Russia said it …
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New York Times
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Steve McNair's famous face becomes just another victim of American ... - New York Daily News border=

Steve McNair's famous face becomes just another victim of American … - New York Daily News

New York Daily News
Steve McNair put up Pro Bowl numbers during his illustrious career but became just another statistic of nation's troubling gun violence. Steve McNair, dead by gun now in America, came out of Mount Olive, Miss., whose population still came up short of …
USA Today
San Francisco Chronicle
New York Times
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Mr Zelaya had planned a dramatic return to the capital - BBC News border=

Mr Zelaya had planned a dramatic return to the capital - BBC News

BBC News
Maybe that was what President Manuel Zelaya was thinking as he flew, in a Venezuelan jet, through the sunset, towards the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa. Just a week ago he had been bundled from his official residence, and sent - in his pyjamas - into …
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