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    Voodoo priest predicts Togo glory

    Togo's chief voodoo priest is predicting success for Togo's football team at the World Cup in Germany. "The ancestral spirits say that Togo will go far at the World Cup," Togbui Assiogbo Gnagblondjro III says. His prediction is giving hope to fans angered with their players' lacklustre...
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    Boy survives tiger attack

    A 14 years old Tamil boy shot by members of Wanni Tiger organization for not joining they organization. The boy was shot at Mamangama in Batticaloa, yesterday at about 8:30 pm. Thinking that the was dead the tigers had left leaving the body at the place. The people in the vicinity had taken the...
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    Sun Micro to cut up to 5,000 jobs

    US computer company Sun Microsystems is to cut up to 5,000 jobs, or 13% of its workforce worldwide, in an attempt to turn around five years of losses. The firm aims to eliminate the jobs over the next six months, which it said should yield annual cost savings of up to $590m (£313m). But the...
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    Former Air Force Chief says he did not drive car

    Former Air Force Commander Air Marshal Jayalath Weerakkody said he did not drive the car that met with an accident at Borella on June 15, 2002 that caused death of one person. He made this observation in his dock statement before the Colombo High Court Judge Deepali Wijesundara. Weerakkody...
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    Mega power supply project for North

    The Government has launched a mega power project to rehabilitate electricity transmission lines from Kilinochchi to Jaffna for the provision of an uninterrupted electricity supply to the Northern Province. The Power and Energy Ministry will commence the restoration of the 132 KV transmission...
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    The birth of a nation

    On Wednesday, February 17, 1982, Sri Lanka became cricket's eighth Test-playing country when Bob Willis bowled to Bandula Warnapura. Minutes earlier, Warnapura had become the first Sri Lanka captain to win a toss; minutes later, he was their first batsman to be dismissed when he was taken high...
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    Video games can help cut surgical errors

    A new study suggests that people preparing for surgery ask their doctor: "Have you played your video games today?" Surgeons who warmed up by playing video games like "Super Monkey Ball" for 20 minutes immediately prior to performing surgical drills were faster and made fewer errors than those...
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    Admire her beauty

    Ok guys, here's a riddle for ya all.... she's a new face in cinema and she's a babe by all means.... find her name if possible cos i don't have any idea abt it ::D
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    Apple wins iTunes pricing battle

    Four largest record companies defeated in behind-the-scenes battle to charge different prices for songs; downloads still 99 cents, paper says. Apple Computer said that it has renewed contracts with the four largest record companies, ensuring that songs will still be sold at 99 cents each...
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    The end of 'Alias'

    "I think we have done these characters justice and to do any more would be pushing it," says series star Jennifer Garner, who plays double-agent Sydney Bristow, perhaps TV's most gorgeous female spy since Diana Rigg played Emma Peel on the '60s British series "The Avengers." After five seasons...
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    'Da Vinci Code' a hot ticket

    Moviegoers gave their blessing to "The Da Vinci Code" over the weekend, spending an estimated $77 million to see the Tom Hanks religious thriller. Although the film didn't set a domestic box office record, it was the largest weekend opening of the year so far and became the second-largest...
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    Three new planets found around sun-like star

    Three medium-sized planets of roughly the same mass as Neptune have been discovered around a nearby sun-like star, scientists announced today. The planets were discovered around HD 69830, a star slightly less massive than the sun located 41 light-years away in the constellation Puppis (the...
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    Voyager II detects solar system's edge

    Voyager II could pass beyond the outermost layer of our solar system, called the "termination shock," sometime within the next year, NASA scientists announced at a media teleconference today. The milestone, which comes about a year after Voyager 1's crossing, comes earlier than expected and...
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    Earth-solar cycle spurs greenhouse gases

    Greenhouse gases are known to spur global warming, but scientists said on Monday that global warming in turn spurs greenhouse gas emissions -- which means Earth could get hotter faster than climate models predict. Two scientific teams, one in Europe and another in California, reached the same...
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    Rodriguez sentenced to jail, again

    Actress Michelle Rodriguez was sentenced to 60 days in jail for violating her probation, a spokesman for the city attorney said Monday. Judge Rex Hesseman also sentenced the 27-year-old "Lost" star to 30 days of community service with the Sheriff's Department, stints with the Mothers Against...
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    Google plugs into video advertising

    Google says it is ready to help Web sites run video advertisements, putting the Web search leader into competition with television for the biggest chunk of ad spending. The company is seeking to take the pay-per-click model it refined for text ads and apply the approach to video, cleaning up a...
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    No increase in bus fares within the year

    The National Transport Commission yesterday pledged it will not allow further increase in bus fare during the current year even if the world fuel prices go up again. The Commission's Director General M. A. Jiffrey said that the formula adopted in the recent revision of bus fares leaves no room...
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    Country will be in dark if electricity bill was not withdrawn

    If the bill to reconstruct Electricity Board compiled by the Government was not withdrawn the whole country would be plunged in darkness warn trade unions of the Electricity Board. Trade Unions say the bill has been prepared to privatize the Electricity Board and point out that it was against...
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    Prince Voted Sexiest Vegetarian

    Prince has been voted the "world's sexiest vegetarian" in PETA's annual online poll, the animal rights group announced Monday Prince, 47, shares the honor with Kristen Bell, the 25-year-old star of "Veronica Mars," which is being carried over from UPN to the new CW Network this fall. A...
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    Toward Immortality: The Social Burden of Longer Lives

    To live forever while preserving health and retaining the semblance and vigor of youth is one of humanity's oldest and most elusive goals. Now, after countless false starts and disappointments, some scientists say we could finally be close to achieving lifetimes that are, if not endless, at...

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