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- San Francisco-area homes sales rise nearly 39 percent
Category: US News
Publish Date: 11-20-2008 10:23 AM -0800
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Home sales in the San Francisco Bay area rose nearly 39 percent in October from a year earlier and the median home price posted a record fall as bargain hunters bought...[more]
- Over 1,000 melamine babies still in China hospitals
Category: World News
Publish Date: 11-20-2008 10:22 AM -0800
BEIJING (Reuters) - Over a thousand Chinese infants are still in hospital receiving treatment for kidney damage caused by tainted milk, China's Health Ministry said on Thursday, more than two...[more]
- Astronauts venture out for spacewalk No. 2
Category: Technology
Publish Date: 11-20-2008 10:22 AM -0800
Astronauts vowed to double-check, even triple-check, to make sure a bag of tools is properly tied down during a spacewalk Thursday so it doesn't float away like one did earlier this week.[more]
- WHO: More research on foodborne ills needed
Category: Health
Publish Date: 11-20-2008 10:20 AM -0800
Foodborne diseases appear to be on the rise in both rich and poor countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.[more]
- Suicide bomber kills 9 in Afghanistan
Category: World News
Publish Date: 11-20-2008 10:20 AM -0800
KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide car-bomber killed nine people and wounded 16, including two U.S. soldiers, in an attack on Thursday on a government compound in eastern Afghanistan, a...[more]
- I Bet You've Never Seen Water Bounce Before [Science]
Category: Technology
Publish Date: 11-20-2008 10:20 AM -0800
Here's something you don't see every day: water bouncing. GE has developed some pretty incredible superhydrophobic surfaces in it's Global Research Nanotechnology lab, and they've captured the...[more]
- Stocks reverse losses on hopes for car makers
Category: Business
Publish Date: 11-20-2008 10:19 AM -0800
Stocks have reversed steep morning losses to push higher today after aides to a bipartisan group of senators say they have reached a compromise to funnel emergency loans to Detroit's car makers.
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- Georgia race key in Senate power struggle
Category: Politics
Publish Date: 11-20-2008 10:18 AM -0800
ATLANTA (Reuters) - A contest for a U.S. Senate seat from Georgia has become a last stand for the Republican Party to block Democrats from gaining a majority big enough to push their legislation...[more]
- GM shares rebound on news of bailout deal
Category: Business
Publish Date: 11-20-2008 10:18 AM -0800
DETROIT (Reuters) - Shares of General Motors Corp and Ford Motor Co jumped on Thursday, rebounding from multi-decade lows after U.S. senators reached a bipartisan agreement on a government...[more]
- U.S. convicts "Prince of Marbella" of arms deal
Category: US News
Publish Date: 11-20-2008 10:17 AM -0800
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal jury convicted a Syrian arms dealer and a co-defendant on Thursday of conspiring to sell $1 million in weapons to Colombian rebels who intended to use them...[more]
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