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  <updated>2006-08-22 08:28:38</updated>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA[Russian refuses to accept math prize 
    (AP)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?138117"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?138117</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 08:22:59</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    AP - A reclusive Russian won an academic prize Tuesday for work toward solving one of history's toughest math problems, but he refused to accept the award &#151; a stunning renunciation of accolades from the top minds in his field.  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA[Friendster looks to recover lost glory 
    (Reuters)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?138116"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?138116</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 08:22:58</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    Reuters - Friendster Inc. said on Monday it 
received $10 million in new funding to expand abroad and help 
its pioneering social-networking site survive in a market 
dominated by younger successors who stole its thunder.  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA[Australia's Coles Myer says it won't be pressured on takeover bid 
    (AFP)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?138115"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?138115</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 08:22:57</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    AFP - Australia's Coles Myer has said it would not be pressured into accepting a &quot;highly conditional&quot; takeover bid from private equity funds potentially worth 15 billion dollars (11.25 billion US).  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA[Wal-Mart marks progress in Japan market 
    (AP)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?138106"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?138106</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 08:07:53</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    AP - Wal-Mart's Japanese subsidiary said Tuesday its first-half losses grew fivefold, but the unit's chief executive reaffirmed his commitment to Japan even as the U.S. retailer abandons the German and South Korean markets.  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA[Elusive Russian recluse declines top mathematics prize 
    (AFP)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?138104"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?138104</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 08:07:53</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    AFP - A Russian recluse who solved a complex riddle has won the mathematics world's version of a Nobel prize, but true to form refused to accept the honour nor attend the royal awards ceremony.  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA[Home builder Toll Brothers profit falls 
    (AP)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?138101"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?138101</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 07:57:15</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    AP - Luxury home builder  Toll Brothers  Inc. said Tuesday its fiscal third-quarter profit fell 19 percent as a downturn in the housing market resulted in a dip in revenue and caused the company to reduce the number of lots it controls.  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA[AP Blog: Candy protocol in Iraqi towns 
    (AP)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?138096"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?138096</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 07:52:52</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    AP - AP Correspondent Robert H. Reid covers  Iraq  events from Baghdad. AP Correspondent Rebecca Santana is embedded with the First Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division. Antonio Castaneda is embedded with the U.S. Marines, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Regiment.  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA[Willy the Tortoise comes home 
    (AP)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?138093"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?138093</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 07:41:31</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    AP - Willy the tortoise made a break for freedom &#151; well, break may be too strong a word. It was more like a slow crawl. But after a month on the lam, the 40-pound tortoise with a 2-foot-wide, gold-colored shell is back in the wading pool at his owner's home.  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA[Some Dems want Lieberman out of party 
    (AP)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?138085"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?138085</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 07:38:32</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    AP - Critics of Sen. Joe Lieberman's independent run to keep his job attacked on two fronts Monday, with one group asking an elections official to throw him out of the Democratic Party and a former rival calling on state officials to keep his name off the November ballot.  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA[Israeli police search president's home 
    (AP)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?138082"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?138082</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 07:38:10</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    AP - Police raided the official residence of Israeli President Moshe Katsav as part of a sexual harassment investigation, seizing computers and documents, officials said Tuesday.  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA[Bomb hits Canadian convoy in Afghanistan 
    (AP)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?138083"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?138083</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 07:38:10</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    AP - A suicide car bomber hit a Canadian military convoy in  southern   Afghanistan  on Tuesday, witnesses and a police officer said. There was no immediate word on casualties.  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA[EU reinforces troops in Congo as fighting flares 
    (Reuters)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?138084"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?138084</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 07:38:10</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    Reuters - The European Union rushed more 
peacekeepers to Congo on Tuesday as the U.N. and foreign 
leaders struggled to end fighting between soldiers loyal to 
President Joseph Kabila and supporters of his election rival.  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA[Suicide bomber hits NATO convoy in Afghan south 
    (Reuters)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?138079"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?138079</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 07:29:50</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    Reuters - A suicide bomber rammed a 
car into a convoy of NATO troops in the  southern  Afghan city of 
Kandahar on Tuesday, but there was no immediate report of 
casualties, witnesses said.  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA[Bush urges GOP to focus on economy 
    (AP)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?138061"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?138061</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 07:07:37</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    AP - Even though he's not running for re-election this year, President Bush knows just what he would focus on if he were: the economy and taxes.  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA[Some 427,000 eastern Europeans come to UK to work 
    (AFP)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?138058"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?138058</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 07:07:32</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    AFP - More than 427,000 people from the eight EU member states in eastern  Europe  have come to work in the UK since the bloc's enlargement in May 2004, according to government figures.  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA[Police: Bomb found, defused in Sri Lanka 
    (AP)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?138059"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?138059</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 07:07:32</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    AP - Police acting on a tip discovered and defused a powerful bomb planted in a box of vegetables on a bicycle in a busy shopping district in the Sri Lankan capital Tuesday, an official said.  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA[EU to act Wednesday on tainted US biotech rice 
    (Reuters)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?138052"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?138052</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 06:52:23</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    Reuters - EU authorities plan to act this week 
to ensure that an unauthorized biotech rice detected in the 
United States does not enter the bloc's food chain, an official 
at the European Commission said on Tuesday.  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA[YouTube expands types of advertising: report 
    (Reuters)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?138050"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?138050</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 06:52:22</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    Reuters - Closely held YouTube Inc., a video Web 
site, is expanding the type of advertisements it sells to 
include videos on its home page and on special 
advertiser-created pages, the Wall Street Journal reported on 
Tuesday, citing company executives.  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA[Iran defiant as world awaits nuclear response 
    (AFP)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?138042"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?138042</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 06:37:35</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    AFP - Iran is set to respond to a deal aimed at ending a nuclear standoff but has already signalled it was likely to defy the international community and refuse to freeze sensitive atomic work.  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA[Royal Dutch Shell signs Ukrainian gas deal with JKX 
    (AFP)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?138038"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?138038</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 06:37:28</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    AFP - London-listed energy group JKX Oil and Gas has said that its Ukrainian unit had signed a deal to supply gas to Anglo-Dutch giant Royal Dutch Shell.  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA[Lack of change blights Zimbabwe currency switch 
    (AFP)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?138039"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?138039</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 06:37:28</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    AFP - Shoppers and commuters in Zimbabwe have been left out of pocket as a severe lack of low denomination banknotes blighted the first day of a new currency.  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA["Holocaust joke" comedians hit back at critics 
    (Reuters)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?138005"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?138005</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 06:37:06</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    Reuters - Two stand-up comics accused of making 
light of the Holocaust at the Edinburgh Fringe festival hit 
back at their critics on Tuesday, igniting a debate about 
where, if anywhere, to draw the line in comedy.  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA[Martin Short satirical stage show wildly uneven 
    (Reuters)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?137989"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?137989</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 06:37:05</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    Reuters - The quality of Martin 
Short's musical revue is well encapsulated by what has become 
his trademark pose. Hands on hips, staring off into the 
distance, he embraces the adulation of his audience while at 
the same time slyly mocking his need for it.  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA[Summer camp kids mount "High School Musical" premiere 
    (Reuters)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?137992"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?137992</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 06:37:05</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    and now it's been adapted for the stage. REUTERS/Phil McCarten" border="0" /> Reuters - At a kids' summer camp in the 
Catskill Mountains, a bunch of self-described " theater  geeks" 
are singing their hearts out rehearsing a show that will appeal 
to more than just their parents.  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title><![CDATA[Elvis-themed show planned for new MGM Vegas resort 
    (Reuters)
]]></title>
    <link href="http://livepress.com/go/?137994"/>
    <id>http://livepress.com/go/?137994</id>
    <updated>2006-08-22 06:37:05</updated>
    <summary><![CDATA[    Reuters - Attention Elvis impersonators: you 
may soon have a new way to make a living.  ]]></summary>
  </entry>
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