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The judge at the trial of Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens refuses a defence request to have the charges against him dismissed.

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Porsche designer goes battery-powered

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A glimpse of five whales brightens a Canaries morning

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Stocks tumbled today as frozen credit markets and weak economic reports amplified jitters ahead of the House vote on the $700 billion bank rescue plan. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 348 points, and the Standard & Poor’s 500 index lost 4 percent, CNNMoney.com reports.

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Russian PM Vladimir Putin voices anger at reports that Ukraine armed Georgia as he holds talks with his Ukrainian counterpart.

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Seats for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver go on sale Friday, but fans won’t have to worry about getting a wristband or camping out all night to get a space in line.

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Sen. John McCain said Thursday that Sen. Barack Obama’s poll numbers are rising as the economy seems to sink “because life isn’t fair.”

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An Ontario man who spent 12 years in jail after being wrongfully convicted of killing his four-year-old niece has launched a $13-million lawsuit against the disgraced former chief pathologist whose testimony helped convict him.

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Industry calls on the UK government to invest more in Kopernikus, the world’s biggest environmental monitoring project.

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Animal welfare authorities in Quebec have raided a second puppy mill in less than a week, rescuing more than 150 dogs from squalid conditions north of Montreal.

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