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Ship hits object in Antarctic waters; some 150 people being evacuated

Associated Press
Nov 22, 2007 10:00 pm - LONDON -- More than 150 passengers and crew took to lifeboats in Antarctic waters on Friday after their cruise ship hit an object and began taking on water through a hol...
'Porno-prof' pulled from the classroom

Reuters
Nov 22, 2007 10:00 pm - ROME -- An Italian teacher has been suspended from school because of her extra-curricular activities as a porn star, local authorities announced Thursday. The off-work b...
American chestnut tree ready for a comeback

Associated Press
Nov 22, 2007 10:00 pm - INDIANAPOLIS -- Growing up in the 1920s, Bill Lord remembers feasting on the sweet, rich nuts of American chestnut trees -- the majestic species that a fungus would soon...
Danes to take fresh look at euro

Associated Press
Nov 22, 2007 10:00 pm - COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Danes will get a new chance to adopt the euro in a referendum, the prime minister said Thursday. Denmark opted out of the European Union's common ...
Thanksgiving in Iraq

Associated Press
Nov 22, 2007 10:00 pm - CAMP SPEICHER, Iraq -- Five years ago, Vincent Lobo was working as a tobacco salesman in his native India and had no idea what Thanksgiving was. Now Lobo is spending a f...
Charities fear impact of the housing slump

By Christopher S. Rugaber Associated Press
Nov 22, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The housing market bust has punished homebuilders, lenders and investors. Now the homeless and the hungry may be victimized. Charity executives are nervous...
French rail workers back on board

Associated Press
Nov 22, 2007 10:00 pm - PARIS -- A transport strike that has crippled France for nine days in open defiance of President Nicolas Sarkozy's reform agenda was in its last gasp Thursday as rail wo...
Sotheby's finds a suitor for Elizabeth

Reuters
Nov 22, 2007 10:00 pm - LONDON -- The earliest known full-length portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, thought to have been commissioned to help the English monarch "advertise" herself to potential su...
Proposal could lighten mutual fund statements

Associated Press
Nov 22, 2007 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- The disclosure statements that come with mutual funds can seem so impenetrable that many investors don't bother slogging through them and instead toss them a...
Energy futures falter on run to $100 a barrel

Associated Press
Nov 21, 2007 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- It didn't happen Wednesday, it may not happen today on Thanksgiving, but the price of oil seems destined to burst through the $100 mark sometime soon, leavin...

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