NEW YORK – Oil prices jumped over $1 to near $67 a barrel Thursday following threats that Al Qaeda was preparing attacks on the United States and supply concerns from crude oil exporters Iran and Nigeria. Dealers ignored bearish weekly U.S. data that showed oil inventories piling up and focused …
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VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI said Thursday that doctors should not give women the abortion pill because it hides the “gravity” of taking a human life, and also said it was wrong to give legal recognition to gay unions. Benedict reaffirmed church teaching on both abortion and the sanctity …
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – About 20 percent of government staff in one Malaysian state use the Internet for personal activities including downloading pornography, music and games, the national news agency reported Tuesday. This was one of the main causes of poor work performance in Johor state, Bernama said, quoting a …
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Weekdays at 3 p.m. in the East and high noon in the West! The news begins anew with “Studio B”… Senate confirmation hearings continue for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. FOX News is live with continuing coverage. Stay with FNC for the latest. Watch gavel-to-gavel, streaming live video of the …
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The following is a timeline of major events in Ariel Sharon life: 2006 Jan. 4: Sharon is rushed to a Jerusalem hospital after suffer a “significant stroke” and cerebral brain hemorrhage. 2005 Dec. 20: Sharon leaves hospital, says he wants to return to work. Dec. 18: Sharon is hospitalized after …
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NEW YORK – Boeing Co.’s (BA) commercial plane orders more than tripled to a record 1,002 for 2005 on demand from Asia and the Middle East but the planemaker’s shares fell on Thursday as a broker downgraded the stock, warning of limited upside. The net order total, skyrocketing from 272 …
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MADISON, Wis. – For years, police and city lawyers refused to believe a blind woman who said an intruder raped her at knifepoint. They even charged her with lying about it. Now, five years after DNA connected a sex offender to the attack, the city has apologized to the woman, …
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BEIRUT, Lebanon – Hundreds of thousands of protesters from Hezbollah and its pro-Syrian allies massed Friday in downtown Beirut seeking to force the resignation of Western-backed Prime Minister Fuad Saniora, who was holed up in his office ringed by hundreds of police and combat troops. The protest, which police estimated …
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VIENNA, Austria – Oil fell nearly a dollar Monday as mild weather blanketed much of the United States, cutting into heating oil demand in the world’s largest energy consuming nation. Click here to visit FOXBusiness.com’s Energy Center. The drop in prices was limited, however, as dealers looked ahead to OPEC’s …
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LONDON – A woman with two wombs has given birth to triplets, in what is believed to the first case of its kind, a hospital official said Friday. Hannah Kersey, 23, gave birth to three girls in September, said Richard Dottle, a spokesman for Southmead Hospital in Bristol where the …
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