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David Wright?s two-run double, his fourth hit of the night, broke a 10th-inning tie and the New York Mets beat the Washington Nationals 3-1 on Friday night to snap a three-game losing streak.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President barack obama said 'it's time to deliver' on his health care agenda, using his weekly radio and Internet address to focus on his domestic priority even while traveling overseas....

You are killing our creative industries. 'Downloading costs billions,' said the Sun. 'MORE than 7 million Brits use illegal downloading sites that cost the economy billions of pounds, government advisers said today. Researchers found more than a million people using a download site in ONE day and estimated that in a year they would use £120bn worth of material.'That's about a tenth of our GDP. No wonder the Daily Mail was worried too: 'The network had 1.3 million users sharing files online at midday on a weekday. If each of those downloaded just one file per day, this would amount to 4.73bn items being consumed for free every year.' Now I am always suspicious of this industry, because they have produced a lot of dodgy figures over the years. I also doubt that every download is lost revenue since, for example, people who download more also buy more music. I'd like more details.So where do these notions of so many billions in lost revenue come from? I found the original report. It was wr

The nation''s unemployment rate continues to cause havoc for millions of Americans when it comes to personal finance and other areas. The latest government statistics, released Thursday, show that 345,000 jobs were lost in the month of May, which is almost half the average monthly rate of decline...

Voters delivered a brutal verdict to Labour yesterday, as the party lost control of all its remaining ­English county councils in Thursday's voting.Staffordshire, Derbyshire and ­Nottinghamshire fell out of Labour's hands for the first time in 28 years, and Lancashire for the first time since 1989 - all to the Tories.With 32 of the 34 local authority results declared, the Conservatives had control of 28 councils, and had won an additional 230 seats and nine more councils, including Devon and Somerset from the Liberal Democrats, and the previously hung Wiltshire and Warwickshire.The Tories also gained overall control of a new unitary authority, Central Bedfordshire, where Labour failed to win a single seat, and grabbed the mayoralty in North Tyneside back from Labour.Labour saw sweeping losses across the 27 shire councils and seven unitary authorities, losing a net of 268 council seats.The Liberal Democrats gained Bristol. Gordon Brown was forced to admit Labour had plunged to 'a painf

The Conservatives have been the big winners in the English local elections - with Labour losing heartland authorities.

Humorous look on how our need to be efficient has increased our waist size.Source: Judy ElizabethPublished: Jun 05, 2009

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A very bizarre new ABC promo video raises a few questions.

. Obama rebukes Iranian leader's Holocaust denial. Trip to Nazi camp builds on totalitarism warning barack obama visited a former Nazi concentration camp which his great-uncle helped to liberate, laid a white rose at a memorial to its victims, and described the site where 56,000 people died as the 'ultimate rebuke' to Holocaust deniers.After seeing the crematoriums, guard towers and barbed-wire fences, and a clock set at 3:15 - when the camp was liberated on 11 April 1945 - Obama said: 'These sites have not lost their horror. More than half a century later, our grief and our outrage have not diminished.'Obama's visit to Buchenwald, which because of the US military's role in its liberation has had a big impact on the US understanding of the Holocaust, gave him the opportunity to revisit themes touched on in his Cairo address on Wednesday, including the need to fight totalitarian ideology. It was also a chance to underline what he described in Egypt as america's 'unbreakable' bond with