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GnR, McCartney, Elton & Billy Joel tour, Zeppelin not Zeppelin
Posted 11/16/2008

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Tour Stop San Fran & LA
Posted 10/27/2008

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Tour Stop San Francisco & LA
Posted 10/16/2008

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Eddie Vanhalen, McCartney vents, Mark Knopfler records, David Gilmour
Posted 10/6/2008

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Sports

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21.11.2008

SCORECARD:

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21.11.2008

President Rogge says IOC must control cost of Olympic Games

ISTANBUL, Turkey - The Olympic movement is on sound financial footing but must hold down the size and cost of the Games to cope with the global economic downturn, IOC president Jacques Rogge said Friday.

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21.11.2008

Montreal Alouettes quarterback Calvillo named CFL's outstanding player

MONTREAL - Anthony Calvillo is living in the moment.

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National News

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21.11.2008

N.B. government pressed to compensate wrongfully convicted man

FREDERICTON - The wife of a dying Ontario man who was wrongfully convicted of a murder in New Brunswick 33 years ago is accusing the New Brunswick government of waiting for him to die before addressing the issue of compensation.

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21.11.2008

PQ Leader Marois gets reporters out of bed for morning walk

MONTREAL - They may never write stories about her health again.

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21.11.2008

Headline inflation rate eases to 2.6 per cent as gasoline prices recede

OTTAWA - Sharply falling energy prices took the steam out of inflation last month, cutting the overall rise in Canadians' cost of living to 2.6 per cent, down from 3.4 per cent in September.

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Entertainment News

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21.11.2008

Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce by British court

LONDON - The show-business marriage that began in a Scottish castle came to an end in a drab London courtroom Friday as Madonna and Guy Ritchie were granted a preliminary decree of divorce.

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21.11.2008

Michael Jackson's former assistant says Bahraini sheik was a generous friend

LONDON - Michael Jackson's former personal assistant told a British court Friday that a Bahraini sheik who is now suing the singer was a generous friend, eager to give Jackson money and other gifts.

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21.11.2008

Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce by British court

LONDON - The show-business marriage that began in a Scottish castle came to an end in a drab London courtroom Friday as Madonna and Guy Ritchie were granted a preliminary decree of divorce.

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World News

Recent World Headlines

21.11.2008

Iraqis burn Bush effigy at square where Saddam statue was toppled in 2003

BAGHDAD - Thousands of followers of a radical Shiite cleric protested a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security deal Friday, burning an effigy of President George W. Bush in the same square where Iraqis beat a toppled statue of Saddam Hussein five years ago.

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21.11.2008

Lower house of Russian parliament extends presidential term to 6 years from 4

MOSCOW - The lower house of Russia's parliament has given final approval to a bill extending the presidential term from four to six years.

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21.11.2008

U.S. attorney general "alert" after collapsing during speech

WASHINGTON - U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, the no-nonsense ally in President Bush's war on terror, was hospitalized Thursday after he collapsed during a late-night speech and lost conciousness.

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Oddities

Recent Oddities Headlines

20.11.2008

New York couple and trucker help injured butterfly migrate south

LAKE LUZERNE, N.Y. - A monarch butterfly has a chance at completing its species' famed migration to central Mexico, thanks to some tiny cardboard splints, a bit of contact cement and a trucker from Alabama.

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20.11.2008

N.L. school board's warning over 'Kick a Ginger Day' causes stir

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland teachers were told to be on "heightened alert" Thursday after the province's largest school board warned them about an unusual prank targeting red-headed students that may have been inspired by the popular animated TV show "South Park."

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20.11.2008

Sky-high birth on Finnair flight at 11,000 metres

HELSINKI, Finland - Finnair says a Swedish woman gave birth to a girl 11,000 metres over Kazakhstan on a flight from Bangkok to Helsinki.

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