Raw Video: Successful Missile Test
Tuesday, two ballistic missile targets were hit simultaneously in space above the Pacific Ocean in a test done by the U.S. military. Engineers say it's the first time the U.S. missile defense system has shot down two ballistic targets at once.
Nov 7, 2007
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Raw Video: Successful Missile Test |
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Oregon Professor Missing After Weekend Hike |
Oregon Professor Missing After Weekend Hike
63-year-old Daming Xu, a professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of Oregon, went missing Sunday after going for a hike by himself. Officials found his car but there is still no sign of the professor.
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Oil races to 100-dollar mark |
Oil races to 100-dollar mark
It is no longer a question of whehter oil will hit 100 dollars a barrel, but when. On Wednesday it came within a dollar and a half of this highly symbolic threshold, and analysts forsee only rising demand as China and India's growing thirst for fuel combines with instability in the world's biggest oil producers.
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Finnish school shooting rampage |
Finnish school shooting rampage
Seven students and a school principal have been killed in a shooting in Finland just hours after a video was posted on YouTube. The eight died when a gunman opened fire at the school at Tuusula in southern Finland. Hours before a video had been posted on the YouTube site on the internet predicting a massacre at the school.
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Trabant still a moneyspinner at 50 |
Trabant still a moneyspinner at 50
The car was intended as a communist version of the Volkswagen Beetle, but was built on the cheap, had a top speed of around 100 kilometres per hour and was hardly altered before production halted in 1991. But since German reunification the Trabi, as it's affectionately known in Germany, has won over legions of new fans and there are many fan clubs devoted to the two-cylinder car. And a business which lets people drive a Trabi around Berlin or Dresden is still a hit with tourists and Germans alike.
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Melting ice and hot debate |
Melting ice and hot debate
While Russia recently sought to stamp its authority on the North Pole by planting a flag on the seabed beneath it - angering Canada and the U.S. - a host of nations are claiming or preparing to claim rights to the land and sea resources around the South Pole.
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Discovery shuttle returns safely |
Discovery shuttle returns safely
US Space Shuttle Discovery lands in Cape Canaveral, Florida after a 15-day mission to the International Space Station.
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Tom Cruise Honored for Acting Career |
Tom Cruise Honored for Acting Career
Tom Cruise and wife Katie Holmes were at NYC's Museum of the Moving Image Tuesday night, where Cruise was honored for the 25-year long acting career.
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Matisse sells for record $33M |
Matisse sells for record $33M
American collectors went home with half of the artworks at Christie's auction of impressionist and modern art. Christie's sold nearly $400 million US dollars worth of art, putting to rest fears that the subprime mortgage crisis would keep bidders at bay.
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Today in History for Wednesday, November 7th |
Today in History for Wednesday, November 7th
Highlights of this day in history: Bolshevik Revolution takes place; America's 2000 presidential vote faces limbo; Nixon loses Calif. governor's race; Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses; Evangelist Billy Graham and singer Joni Mitchell born.
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AP Top Stories for Wednesday, November 7 |
AP Top Stories for Wednesday, November 7
Here's the latest news for Wednesday, November 7: U.S.-France relations; deadly Afghanistan blast; search for sergeant's wife continues; doggie washing machine
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A Future for Time Inc.? |
A Future for Time Inc.?
With the advent of Jeff Bewkes, Time Warner Inc.'s chief executive-elect, the financially embattled Time Inc. faces an uncertain future.
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Starlings' spectacular display |
Starlings' spectacular display
Thousands of starlings engage in aerial acrobatics, an annual autumn display in Scotland in the UK.
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No New Adventures for 'Christine' |
No New Adventures for 'Christine'
The CBS sitcom is one of seven TV shows halting production as a result of the strike by the Writers Guild of America. The AP's Warren Levinson reports from the picket line in Manhattan.
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A New Way to Keep Canines Clean |
A New Way to Keep Canines Clean
Put down your garden hose and sudsy water, it appears there's a better way to bathe your pet. It's a machine that looks like a front-loading washing machine, and it's starting to appear at pet spas.
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Playing and paying for Singapore's dating game |
Playing and paying for Singapore's dating game
Once a champion of voluntary sterilization and abortions, Singapore's government is now doling out funds to dating agencies in a bid to raise one of the world's lowest birth rates.


