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Australian authorities urge residents to flee floods
February 05, 2012 11:31 
cnn.com
Australian authorities on Monday pleaded with hundreds of people, who had chosen to remain in a town in the path of rising flood waters, to vacate their homes.
Asia
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Brady laments 'missed opportunities' in Super Bowl loss
February 05, 2012 11:24
reuters.com
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said his team paid the price for missed opportunities as he suffered his second Super Bowl loss to the New York Giants on Sunday.
World
Weather Forecast
China iPad assemblers speak out
February 05, 2012 11:19
cnn.com
Miss Chen stares curiously at the iPad. Even though she works overtime in a factory in southwestern China that manufactures them, she's never seen the finished product.
Asia
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One dead, local tsunami alert in 6.7 quake off Philippines
February 05, 2012 11:18
reuters.com
MANILA (Reuters) - One child died and a local tsunami alert was issued after a magnitude 6.7 earthquake followed by two aftershocks struck off the Philippines island of Negros on Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and a local...
World
Incidents
Senator ridicules Qantas CEO over claims of risk
February 05, 2012 11:05
news.com.au
CLAIMS by Qantas that paying foreign crew domestic wages a threat to its operations "ridiculous", says senator.
Australia & Oceania
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Avoiding Congress’s fiscal bombs
February 05, 2012 11:00
washingtonpost.com
A grim surprise was tucked inside the Congressional Budget Office’s latest budget outlook. Economic growth, it said, would be only 2 percent in 2012, falling to 1.1 percent in 2013. That’s horrible. It’s far beneath the growth rate required...
World
Economics & Finance
Super Bowl halftime: NBC, NFL apologize for M.I.A.’s gesture, expletive
February 05, 2012 10:59
washingtonpost.com
This time, the problem with the Super Bowl halftime show was a flip, not a slip. NBC and the NFL have apologized for an obscene gesture and expletive by M.I.A. near the end of the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show starring Madonna. Read full article ...
World
Sports
Earthquake strikes off Philippines coast
February 05, 2012 10:56
cnn.com
A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Monday off the coast of the third-largest island in the Philippines, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
World
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Libya: Saif Gadhafi trial within weeks?
February 05, 2012 10:55
cnn.com
Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son of Libya's deposed leader Moammar Gadhafi, could go on trial "within weeks or months," the country's interior minister said Sunday.
World
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Relief finally in sight for flood-hit region
February 05, 2012 10:49
news.com.au
UPDATE: Rising waters threatening town may peak below feared levels experts say.
Australia & Oceania
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English