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Saturday, September 8th, 2007
Guests gave the tenor one last standing ovation when "Panis Angelicus," the 1978 duet Pavarotti sang with his father, Fernando, inside Modena's Duomo came to a close.
The duet was one of the most poignant moments of the funeral, which began with a moving rendition of Verdi's "Ave Maria" and a ...
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Saturday, September 8th, 2007
Early analysis indicates the voice on a recently released videotape is that of Osama bin Laden, a U.S. official said Friday, as President Bush called the tape "a reminder of the dangerous world in which we live."
Although the United States launched the war in Afghanistan to find bin Laden and ...
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Saturday, September 8th, 2007
High waves batter a breakwater in front of houses at Yokosuka city. A strong typhoon crashed into the Tokyo region on Friday, September 9, 2007, bringing downpours and violent gusts that killed one person, injured dozens more and disrupted hundreds of flights, officials and reports said. [Photo: AFP]
A strong typhoon ...
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Saturday, September 8th, 2007
Britain's air force scrambled four Tornado warplanes yesterday to intercept eight Russian long-range bombers, the Ministry of Defense said.
The ministry said the Russian aircraft had not entered British air space.
"In the early hours of this morning four RAF (Royal Air Force) Tornado F3 aircraft from RAF Leeming and RAF Waddington ...
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Friday, September 7th, 2007
Turkish telecommunication company Turkcell got the license of the Third Generation Mobile Communication System (3G) by offering 321 million euro, the semi- official Anatolia news agency reported on Friday.
During the tender held at the Telecommunication Authority in the Turkish capital of Ankara, Turkcell raised its bid from 10 million euro ...
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Friday, September 7th, 2007
The United Nations system in Bangladesh has mobilized additional funds of 6 million U.S. dollars to alleviate the sufferings of the flood affected people of the country.
This is in addition to UN system assistance of approximately 11 million dollars since the flood started at the end of July.
This support was ...
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Monday, August 13th, 2007
(Fortune) -- Dear Annie: I've always loved to travel - my dad is British and my mom is Israeli, so I grew up traveling extensively in Europe and Africa. I also speak 3 languages. I'll be graduating from college in January and, since "global" is the big buzzword in business ...
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Sunday, August 12th, 2007
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President George W. Bush said Thursday he is confident in the ability of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to crack down on militants at the Afghan border and cooperate with the United States.
President Bush gestures during a news conference, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2007, in ...
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Saturday, August 4th, 2007
The tallest man in the world is Chinese!
Bao Xishun becomes world's tallest man.
He was born in 1951 in Wenniete league, Inner Mongolian Autonomous region, said Wu Xiaohong, an official with the Guinness submitting office of Liaoning Publishing Group, China. There are five brothers and sisters in his family. And all ...
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