Monday, July 17, 2006

Royalty, actors sign up for Virgin space flights (Reuters)


Reuters - Former soap star Victoria Principal, designer Philippe Starck and a senior member of an unidentified royal family have all bought tickets for the world's first tourist space flights planned for 2008.



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Prodi plays truant from G8 school photo (Reuters)
Reuters - The world's most powerful politicians were all there, or almost all. In the final photograph at a Group of Eight summit on Monday, Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi was noticeably absent.
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Unplugged Bush, Blair speak frankly on Mideast (Reuters)

A video image shows U.S. President George W. Bush (L) speaking privately to British Prime Minister Tony Blair during lunch at the Group of Eight (G8) summit in St. Petersburg, July 17, 2006. REUTERS/Pool via Reuters TVReuters - A microphone picked up an unaware U.S. President George W. Bush saying on Monday Syria should press Hizbollah to "stop doing this shit" and that his secretary of state may go to the Middle East soon.



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London leading shares close lower (AFP)

The headquarters of the London Stock Exchange. The UK's leading shares closed lower with miners pulling on the market as commodity prices retreated whilst across the Atlantic Wall Street rallied after adjusting to a mixed bag of economic data.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - The UK's leading shares closed lower with miners pulling on the market as commodity prices retreated whilst across the Atlantic Wall Street rallied after adjusting to a mixed bag of economic data.



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posted by Don @ Monday, July 17, 2006

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