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Britain wins 5 International Emmys; 1st for Brazil
AP - Tuesday, November 24NEW YORK - Julie Walters and Ben Whishaw took the top acting awards as British TV productions won five International Emmys on a night that saw Brazil get its first ever for a Bollywood-style telenovela.
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Mankind using Earth's resources at alarming rate
AFP - Tuesday, November 24WASHINGTON (AFP) - - Humanity would need five Earths to produce the resources needed if everyone lived as profligately as Americans, according to a report issued Tuesday.
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RPT-UPDATE1-India Mahindra arm to bid for $3.5 bln defence deals
Reuters - Tuesday, November 24(Repeats story issued late on Monday)
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Troops deployed after Philippine massacre: military
AFP - Tuesday, November 24MANILA (AFP) - - Hundreds of extra troops have been deployed in the southern Philippines after gunmen believed linked to a local politician kidnapped and killed at least 22 people, a military spokesman said Tuesday.
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KLM flies world's first "passenger flight on biofuel"
AFP - Tuesday, November 24THE HAGUE (AFP) - - A Boeing 747, one of four engines powered by a 50-percent biokerosene mix, circled the Netherlands for an hour on Monday for what airline KLM called the world's first passenger flight using biofuel.
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Success for Large Hadron Collider as first atom smashed
AFP - Tuesday, November 24GENEVA (AFP) - - Two circulating beams on Monday produced the first particle collisions in the world's biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), three days after its restart, scientists announced.
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Man pleads innocent to taping Erin Andrews nude
Reuters - Tuesday, November 24LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Chicago insurance man pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges that he peeped into television sports reporter Erin Andrews' hotel room when she was nude, took video of her and tried to sell the footage.
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ABC gets complaints about Lambert's performance
AP - Tuesday, November 24NEW YORK - ABC says more than 1,500 people have called to complain about Adam Lambert's sexually charged performance at the American Music Awards.
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Susan Boyle set for biggest UK album of 2009: HMV
Reuters - Tuesday, November 24LONDON (Reuters) - Scottish singer Susan Boyle, who shot to fame after her audition for "Britain's Got Talent" was aired in April, appears set to have the biggest album in Britain this year, music retailer HMV said on Monday.
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Darwin book found on shelf worth up to $100,000
Reuters - Tuesday, November 24LONDON (Reuters) - A first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species," which had been kept in a toilet bookcase for years, will go on sale this week and is expected to fetch 40-60,000 pounds ($66-100,000).
