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  1. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The Central Intelligence Agency failed to pass on to President G...
  2. LONDON (AFP) ??” Oil prices rose, lifted by a weekend pipeline attack in Iraq and inc...
  3. PARIS (AFP) ??” The collapse of part of a roof at a Paris airport terminal killing fo...
  4. VIENNA (AFP) ??” Austrian President Thomas Klestil remained on the critical list more...
  5. JERUSALEM (AFP) ??” Riot squad officers regained control of a high security prison in...
  6. ATHENS (AFP) ??” Greek President Costis Stephanopoulos has scolded Portuguese striker...
  7. LISBON (AFP) ??” Porto defender Ricardo Carvalho, outstanding during Portugal's Euro ...
  8. PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AFP) ??” Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry annou...
  9. FRANKFURT (AFP) ??” A number of leading economic think-tanks upgraded their forecasts...
  10. DUBAI (AFP) ??” An armed group calling itself the "Salvation Movement" threatened in ...
  11. THE HAGUE (AFP) ??” Under-fire Dutch coach Dick Advocaat has handed in his resignatio...
  12. ROME (AFP) ??” Public transport was paralysed in Rome, Milan, Palermo and other major...
  13. JOHANNESBURG (AFP) ??” Max the gorilla, who became a national hero in South Africa fo...
  14. VIENNA (AFP) ??” Austrian President Thomas Klestil, in an artificially induced coma a...
  15. MANCHESTER, England (AFP) ??” FA Cup holders Manchester United have completed the sig...
  16. DETROIT, United States (AFP) ??” The Midwestern state of Michigan could soon join the...
  17. LOS ANGELES (AFP) ??” Late Hollywood legend Marlon Brando was laid to rest at the wee...
  18. SYDNEY (AFP) ??” A suspected Australian terrorist was tortured during interrogation i...
  19. BEIJING (AFP) ??” A long-awaited new airport in the southern Chinese metropolis of Gu...
  20. PHNOM PENH (AFP) ??” Twenty-six children have died in Cambodia from mosquito-borne de...
  21. TEL AVIV, Israel (AFP) ??” UN atomic energy chief Mohamed ElBaradei took his campaign...
  22. JERUSALEM (AFP) ??” Israel's beleaguered Prime Minister Ariel Sharon received a boost...
  23. RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) ??” Barcelona striker Ronaldinho has been ruled out of Brazil's ...
  24. BAGHDAD (AFP) ??” Another huge explosion rocked central Baghdad in the vicinity of th...
  25. VALENCIA, Spain (AFP) ??” Valencia coach Rafael Benitez appeared headed for Liverpool...
  26. FRANKFURT (AFP) ??” The European Central Bank is widely expected to hold its key inte...
  27. LONDON (AFP) ??” Ryanair, the Irish budget carrier, reported the first fall in annual...
  28. NEW DELHI (AFP) ??” Cricket's senior statesman Steve Waugh joined the growing chorus ...
  29. BEIRUT (AFP) ??” Kuwaiti Energy Minister Sheikh Ahmad Fahd al-Sabah said his country ...
  30. PARIS (AFP) ??” Russian sixth seed Anastasia Myskina beat fourth-seeded American Venu...
  31. THAI BINH, Vietnam (AFP) ??” The trauma of bird flu lingers in the northern Vietnames...
  32. SAN JOSE, United States (AFP) ??” Global semiconductor sales surged 36.6 percent in A...
  33. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” President George W. Bush warned that the new Iraqi government wo...
  34. DUBLIN (AFP) ??” Irish rock star and activist Bono took EU ministers to task for prom...
  35. FAR HILLS, United States (AFP) ??” Australian Craig Parry, Japan's Shigeki Maruyama a...
  36. PARIS (AFP) ??” Tim Henman became the first British player to reach the semi-finals o...
  37. MANCHESTER, England (AFP) ??” England's final preparations for Euro 2004 were left in...
  38. UNITED NATIONS (AFP) ??” The United States and Britain presented the UN Security Coun...
  39. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The United States and Saudi Arabia are to announce this week add...
  40. MADRID (AFP) ??” Syria's President Bashar al-Assad was set to discuss Iraq and the Mi...
  41. LONDON (AFP) ??” Jose Mourinho, who guided Porto to Champions League glory this seaso...
  42. JERUSALEM (AFP) ??” Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon voiced confidence that his Ga...
  43. LUXEMBOURG (AFP) ??” EU finance ministers meeting kept steady pressure on OPEC to pum...
  44. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded a group...
  45. LONDON (AFP) ??” Foreign troops could stay in Iraq, albeit in reduced numbers, beyond...
  46. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” US media met the formation of Iraq's new interim government with...
  47. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” The former journalist wrongly accused of having an affair with pre...
  48. NAIROBI (AFP) ??” Kenya were handed an indefinite ban from all international competit...
  49. PHNOM PENH (AFP) ??” Cambodia has a battle ahead to reduce its child mortality rates ...
  50. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” US businesses have lost more than 30 billion dollars since 2002 ...
  51. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” Looking at the past is no guide to predicting how quickly and ag...
  52. GENEVA (AFP) ??” The World Trade Organisation's 147 member states locked horns to dis...
  53. COLORADO SPRINGS, United States (AFP) ??” US President George W. Bush likened World W...
  54. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The United States warmly welcomed a truce agreed to this week be...
  55. LONDON (AFP) ??” British church leaders have cleared the way for the heir to the coun...
  56. PARIS (AFP) ??” A 120,000-signature petition on Tibet was delivered to the French pre...
  57. BEDFORD, United States (AFP) ??” The small Virginia hill town of Bedford has the grim...
  58. SYDNEY, (AFP) ??” The Olympic torch is to return to Sydney after an absence of four y...
  59. LONDON (AFP) ??” European stock markets stumbled in early trading as investors stayed...
  60. PARIS (AFP) ??” Ninth seed Elena Dementieva became the first Russian woman to reach t...
  61. BRUSSELS (AFP) ??” The European Commission condemned a decision by Russia to suspend ...
  62. BONN (AFP) ??” Germany warned the biggest-ever conference on renewable energy that th...
  63. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” CIA director George Tenet, who has been under attack over the in...
  64. INDEPENDENCE, United States (AFP) ??” Democratic presidential contender John Kerry sa...
  65. NEW DELHI (AFP) ??” Indian software exports jumped 30.5 percent to 12.5 billion dolla...
  66. UNITED NATIONS (AFP) ??” Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari meets the UN Security ...
  67. EAST RUTHERFORD, United States (AFP) ??” National Football League newcomer Eli Mannin...
  68. CHICAGO (AFP) ??” A Chicago-based human rights group alerted US officials to the abus...
  69. ROME (AFP) ??” Amid expectations of mass anti-war demonstrations, Italy's Prime Minis...
  70. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to restrict th...
  71. ELMONT, United States (AFP) ??” The elevation of Stewart Elliott from journeyman jock...
  72. HONG KONG (AFP) ??” Police erected barricades and protesters painted banners as organ...
  73. TAMPA, United States (AFP) ??” Oleg Saprykin scored 14 minutes and 40 seconds into ov...
  74. ROME (AFP) ??” Italian actor Nino Manfredi has died in Rome at the age of 83, Italy's...
  75. LONDON (AFP) ??” The dollar trod water before publication of a US employment report e...
  76. MOSCOW (AFP) ??” An explosive device caused the powerful blast that killed at least 1...
  77. ROME (AFP) ??” Nino Manfredi, who has died at the age of 83, was the last survivor of...
  78. LEEDS, England (AFP) ??” New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming led from the front with ...
  79. MANCHESTER (AFP) ??” Sven-Goran Eriksson has decided to abandon his midfield diamond ...
  80. ADELAIDE, Australia (AFP) ??” Australia will finish top of the World Cup qualifying O...
  81. LONDON (AFP) ??” Expectations that the Bank of England (BoE) will hike interest rates...
  82. KINGSTON, Jamaica (AFP) ??” Bangladesh won the toss and chose to bat on the opening d...
  83. NAIROBI (AFP) ??” If he had followed African customs and listened to his mother, Isma...
  84. NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) ??” Shiite Muslim militia and US troops took a step back from the b...
  85. MADRID (AFP) ??” Joseba Beloki has slammed Tour de France organisers and his own Fren...
  86. VENEZUELA (AFP) ??” Backers and detractors of President Hugo Chavez faced off, one da...
  87. PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) ??” A new storm could ravage four southeastern Haitian towns, th...
  88. DOHA (AFP) ??” Around 100 Arab intellectuals and activists ended a seminar on reform ...
  89. ROME (AFP) ??” President George W. Bush named John Danforth, a former senator and pea...
  90. UNITED NATIONS (AFP) ??” The United States and Britain offered Iraq's interim governm...
  91. SINGAPORE (AFP) ??” US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld delivered a strong justifica...
  92. CAEN, France (AFP) ??” Ceremonies were beginning to pay homage to the tens of thousan...
  93. PARIS (AFP) ??” Russia's Anastasia Myskina and Elena Dementieva must put their lifelo...
  94. KUWAIT CITY (AFP) ??” OPEC member Kuwait's oil earnings in the first two months of th...
  95. BAGHDAD (AFP) ??” US President George W. Bush expressed confidence that plans for the...
  96. CLAIREFONTAINE, France (AFP) ??” France captain Marcel Desailly, who plays his last m...
  97. BERLIN (AFP) ??” Germany have had some inspirational captains in the past with Franz ...
  98. PARIS (AFP) ??” US first lady Laura Bush went on a charm offensive in Paris on, insis...
  99. NAIROBI (AFP) ??” Sudanese Vice President Ali Osman Taha and rebel leader John Garang...
  100. BERN (AFP) ??” Pope John Paul II started a 32-hour visit to Switzerland, struggling w...
  101. NEWPORT, Wales (AFP) ??” Briton Paul Casey carded a third round 65 to put him on 19-u...
  102. SEOUL (AFP) ??” Thousands of South Korean workers, buoyed by the first-ever election ...
  103. BAGHDAD (AFP) ??” Two sailors for the US-led coalition were killed during an operatio...
  104. WARSAW (AFP) ??” Venus Williams will face Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova in the final o...
  105. LONDON (AFP) ??” Frank Lampard scored two second-half goals as Chelsea strengthened t...
  106. HAVANA (AFP) ??” Cuban President Fidel Castro urged US President George W. Bush not t...
  107. DETROIT, United States (AFP) ??” Detroit captain Steve Yzerman was struck in the face...
  108. ROME (AFP) ??” Felix Mantilla is hoping he can upset the odds and spring another surp...
  109. WASHINGTON, (AFP) ??” US Federal Reserve policymakers, pondering a hotter economy and...
  110. RIYADH (AFP) ??” A Westerner's body was stripped naked and dragged behind a car as su...
  111. JERUSALEM (AFP) ??” Israel branded the killing of five Gaza Strip settlers a "massacr...
  112. WARSAW (AFP) ??” Poland's deeply unpopular Prime Minister Leszek Miller resigned, say...
  113. TEHRAN (AFP) ??” Iranian hardline judiciary authorities in a rare move have allowed s...
  114. PARIS (AFP) ??” A new Internet computer worm caused disruptions over the weekend but ...
  115. MADRID (AFP) ??” Albacete and Real Mallorca almost guaranteed their Spanish first div...
  116. BOLTON, England (AFP) ??” A tearful Alan Smith admitted he would have to leave Leeds ...
  117. JERUSALEM (AFP) ??” Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was dealt a huge blow by his ...
  118. PARIS (AFP) ??” "Ugly! Dilapidated! A failure!" This is the verbatim description of L...
  119. SAN ANTONIO, United States (AFP) ??” The San Antonio Spurs launched their National Ba...
  120. PANAMA CITY, (AFP) ??” Social Democrat Martin Torrijos, son of a former dictator, has...
  121. SYDNEY, (AFP) ??” Environmental activists from Pacific nations threatened by rising s...
  122. SEOUL, (AFP) ??” US-German auto group DaimlerChrysler has delayed for a week a board ...
  123. ANKARA (AFP) ??” Police in northwestern Turkey said they had detained 16 militants be...
  124. COLOMBO (AFP) ??” Sri Lankan authorities sought divine intervention to calm a colony ...
  125. MEXICO CITY (AFP) ??” Cuba suffered a stunning diplomatic setback as two major countr...
  126. AMMAN (AFP) ??” A Libyan and a Jordanian sentenced to death last month for the assass...
  127. BRUSSELS (AFP) ??” French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and EU Competition Commiss...
  128. GLASGOW (AFP) ??” German midfielder Christian Nerlinger has parted company with Scott...
  129. PARIS (AFP) ??” The Sasser internet worm picked up pace at the start of the workweek,...
  130. NOUAKCHOTT (AFP) ??” A Mauritanian court will rule next month in a case involving con...
  131. NILES, United States (AFP) ??” US President George W. Bush will welcome Australian Pr...
  132. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” China's special envoy for North Korea flew in here for talks wit...
  133. PHILADELPHIA, United States (AFP) ??” Undefeated Kentucky Derby winner Smarty Jones w...
  134. BERLIN (AFP) ??” A home-grown winner at the Berlinale, the unexpected success of "Goo...
  135. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” Former US diplomats and government officials are collecting sign...
  136. PARIS (AFP) ??” Air France and KLM announced that Air France has been successful in a...
  137. HELSINKI (AFP) ??” The Sasser Internet bug was still spreading, but at a slower pace ...
  138. ZURICH (AFP) ??” Switzerland's largest banking group, UBS, reported its best-ever qua...
  139. LONDON (AFP) ??” Batsman Darren Lehmann has revealed that he has concerns about Austr...
  140. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The US Senate's top Democrat said Congress should condemn the "a...
  141. PARIS (AFP) ??” The rating agency Standard and Poor's said it had it lowered its seni...
  142. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” The world's top five music companies, agreed to pay 50 million dol...
  143. NAIROBI (AFP) ??” At least six people have drowned and several thousands displaced by...
  144. TBILISI (AFP) ??” The renegade leader of Georgia's Adjara region was desperately clin...
  145. PARIS (AFP) ??” Cofidis, the French cycling team tainted by drug allegations which is...
  146. LA CORUNA, Spain (AFP) ??” UEFA Cup holders Porto became the first Portuguese side fo...
  147. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” World oil prices soared to 1990 closing highs and gasoline set a r...
  148. LONDON (AFP) ??” Fifty years ago on Thursday a tall English medical student thrust ba...
  149. BORACAY, Philippines (AFP) ??” The murder of three foreigners and a local maid on the...
  150. CHICAGO (AFP) ??” US doctors have used genetic testing to help five couples conceive ...
  151. BEIJING (AFP) ??” Tents and other supplies were being rushed to an area of western Ch...
  152. MUNICH, Germany (AFP) ??” BMW, the German luxury car maker, said business got off to ...
  153. BAGHDAD (AFP) ??” Enraged Iraqis protested against "American savagery" in US-run jail...
  154. MADRID (AFP) ??” The biggest Spanish mobile telephone operator Telefonica Moviles sai...
  155. NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) ??” A series of loud explosions rocked the Iraqi Shiite holy city o...
  156. GENEVA (AFP) ??” Some 3.2 million people die every year in the world as a result of d...
  157. LONDON (AFP) ??” Britain's Countryside Agency, which rules on which areas should be o...
  158. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld came under fire from member...
  159. PHNOM PENH (AFP) ??” A multi-million dollar mass-media campaign including television ...
  160. LONDON (AFP) ??” The euro staged a sharp climb against the dollar here Wednesday, hit...
  161. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” US President George W. Bush and Singapore Prime Minister Goh Cho...
  162. PARIS (AFP) ??” Pygmies holed up in remote forests in the Republic of Congo are being...
  163. MARSEILLE, France (AFP) ??” Newcastle manager Bobby Robson has told his players to pr...
  164. LIMA (AFP) ??” Peru's Congress voted to censure Interior Minister Fernando Rospiglios...
  165. SOFIA (AFP) ??” A Libyan court sentenced to death six Bulgarian health workers and a ...
  166. DUBLIN (AFP) ??” An EU-led push to solve the stalemate over peace in the Middle East ...
  167. LONDON (AFP) ??” British Prime Minister Tony Blair called for an all-out effort to ha...
  168. DUBAI (AFP) ??” Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television broadcast footage of a blindfolded ...
  169. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” Fifty million Americans will bid a fond farewell to their "Friends...
  170. MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) ??” One in 10 teenage Australian boys has used steroids to...
  171. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The release of new pictures of abuse of Iraqi prisoners stepped ...
  172. BARCELONA (AFP) ??” Hopes of a radical reformation of Formula One were dampened when ...
  173. TAMPA, United States (AFP) ??” A law that ordered a feeding tube to be reinserted int...
  174. TAMPA, United States (AFP) ??” Warm-weather clubs Tampa Bay Lightning and San Jose Sh...
  175. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” President George W. Bush apologized for the first time for the a...
  176. GENOA, Italy (AFP) ??” Two-time winner Gilberto Simoni will start as one of the main ...
  177. TEHRAN (AFP) ??” Polling stations in Iran opened Friday in a second round of voting i...
  178. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld goes before irate members o...
  179. MOSCOW (AFP) ??” Russian President Vladimir Putin was sworn in to a second four-year ...
  180. LONDON (AFP) ??” Real Madrid coach Carlos Queiroz has dismissed speculation that Engl...
  181. WARSAW (AFP) ??” One of Poland's star television reporters, Waldemar Milewicz, and hi...
  182. BEIJING (AFP) ??” A Chinese observatory is seeking agreement with an international sp...
  183. COLOMBO (AFP) ??” Sri Lanka deployed thousands of troops ahead of Friday's parliament...
  184. DORTMUND, Germany (AFP) ??” Borussia Dortmund cancelled the contract of troublesome B...
  185. JERUSALEM (AFP) ??” Three senior US envoys were due to hold separate meetings with Is...
  186. GLASGOW (AFP) ??” Celtic defender John Kennedy was doubtful for the UEFA Cup quarter-...
  187. BAGHDAD (AFP) ??” The horrific killing and dismemberment of American civilian contrac...
  188. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average will be reshuffled next...
  189. PARIS (AFP) ??” French President Jacques Chirac set out to regain voter confidence af...
  190. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” American manufacturers boosted activity for the 10th straight mo...
  191. SINGAPORE (AFP) ??” Singapore downgraded the threat of SARS hitting the city-state to...
  192. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The United States and Russia called for the creation of an anti-...
  193. ISTANBUL (AFP) ??” US President George W. Bush praised the Turkish prime minister, Re...
  194. ABIDJAN (AFP) ??” Ivory Coast said there was "incontestable evidence" that atrocities...
  195. GLASGOW (AFP) ??” Celtic and Scotland defender John Kennedy faces a year or more out ...
  196. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” US national security advisor Condoleezza Rice will testify under...
  197. DULUTH (AFP) ??” Two-time Masters champion Jose Maria Olazabal fired a seven-under pa...
  198. AUGUSTA, United States (AFP) ??” A revitalised Colin Montgomerie and a confident Padr...
  199. LONDON (AFP) ??” US officials knew months before September 11, 2001, that the Al-Qaed...