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    <title><![CDATA[Megan Fox, Brad Pitt tops "guilt-free celebrity hook-ups" survey]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Groupola recently polled 1, 198 couples in the United Kingdom to ask them: Who tops your list of guilt-free celebrity hook-ups? Sixty-nine  percent (69%) of the women participating in the survey chose  Angelina Jolie&#039;s man Brad Pitt.  Hollywood&#039;s Megan Fox is the top choice of seventy-two percent (72%) of the men.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:10:52 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Hugh Jackman appears in cancer patient's birthday tribute to his wife]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[&quot;Australia&quot; and &quot;Wolverine&quot; star Hugh Jackman appears in a video to send a cancer patient&#039;s love and thanks to his wife for the support  she has given him. Jackman is shown in a video uploaded in YouTube saying &quot;He loves you Rachel. He loves you.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:09:55 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bundesbank pushes to dismiss board member Sarrazin]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Germany&#039;s central bank, the Bundesbank, requested the dismissal of executive board member Thilo Sarazin on Thursday, an unprecedented move taking place amid political pressure to oust him following controversial comments in a new book.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:47:44 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Sweden again hikes interest rate amidst export-led recovery]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Sweden’s central bank raised its benchmark lending rate by 25 basis points to 0.75 percent, on the heels of another rate hike in July.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:37:21 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[William Hague affair shows we need a more mature politics]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The latest non-revelations about William Hague are a sad indictment of the level to which our politics has sunk and will hopefully mark the end of the August &quot;silly season&quot;, if not a maturing of our political discourse.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:34:59 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Swiss economy grew better than expected in Q2]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs stated that the country&#039;s GDP expanded by 0.9 percent from the first quarter – slightly above the 0.8 percent gain forecast by economists, according to Bloomberg On an annualized basis, Swiss GDP increased 3.4 percent after rising 2.3 percent in the first quarter.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:19:58 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[ECB keeps interest rate at record low, but upgrades 2010 GDP forecast]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The European Central Bank (ECB) held interest rates at a record low of 1.00 percent, as expected, and also extended its liquidity measures through the end of 2010 in response to an uneven recovery in the euro zone as well as continuing fears about the viability of some banks.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:57:01 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[3D TVs, tablet PCs, tech gadgets set to woo visitors at Berlin IFA trade fair]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The 50th edition of Europe&#039;s largest consumer electronics trade fair IFA is all set to open its doors to the public on Friday in Berlin promising to attract industry captains from all over the world and serving as a global information and business platform.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:41:05 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Hedge fund ex-manager, friend, settle insider trading case]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The insider trading case involving the 2007 takeover of biotechnology company MedImmune by AstraZeneca has been settled, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Wednesday.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:40:33 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[EU, Euro Zone GDP posts fastest growth in four years]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[GDP growth in the EU and the euro common area was the fastest in four years, outstripping rivals United States and Japan.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:49:38 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[US embassy issues security alert ahead of New Delhi Commonwealth Games]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The U.S. embassy in India posted the alert on its website on Thursday alerting its citizens traveling to or residing in India during the 2010 Commonwealth Games, as part of its August 12 Worldwide Caution issued by the Department of State over planned terrorist threats throughout the world.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:42:18 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Pruning debt crucial for advanced economies: IMF]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Advanced economies which are severely impacted by global economic crisis must adopt detailed long-term plans to cut their debt levels in the coming years, said a report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:28:57 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[New test can detect TB in two hours]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The Xpert MTB/RIF test successfully identified 98 percent of all TB cases, according to a study.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:22:12 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blair says did not foresee Iraq "nightmare"]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Former prime minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday he could have not have imagined what he called the &quot;nightmare&quot; that unfolded in Iraq but still did not regret joining the U.S.-led invasion.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:53:37 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[McBride to buy 70 pct stake in Dermacol for $12.3 mln]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[McBride has agreed to buy an initial 70 percent interest in Dermacol, a privately owned, Czech-based maker of skincare products for an expected 8 million pounds to expand its presence in the growing Central European markets.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:00:49 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[EU seeks to stop abusive short-selling]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The European Union (EU) is working on legislation that will enable EU regulators to stop abusive short-selling in all member states for three-month periods, and which will ban the naked-selling of credit default swaps and sovereign debt.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:03:12 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Solar plasma erupts from Sun]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[An enormous magnetic filament slowly rose off the surface of the sun and arched out in a horseshoe shape eruption on August 25, according to a viewing by NASA’s STEREO-A spacecraft. There will be no effects from the blast on Earth.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:34:01 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Rights groups sue US over 'kill or capture' list]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Two human rights groups have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government over naming a religious scholar, who praised the failed Christmas day plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airplane, in a CIA &quot;kill or capture&quot; list.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:31:32 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Roma get respite as French court blocks some deportation orders]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[A French court blocked the deportation of seven Roma people, giving a little respite to the much criticized plan of President Sarkozy to remove &quot;illegal camps&quot; from the country. An administrative tribunal in the town of Lille, a town in northern France, canceled deportation orders on Tuesd...]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:05:59 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Fruits, vegetables may reduce smokers' lung cancer risk]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[More variety in vegetable and fruit consumption was linked to a lower risk of lung cancer, independent  of the quantity, a European study showed.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:43:14 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blairite Catharsis: Brown effectively tried to "blackmail me"]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The attack on Brown was so fierce that political circles were aghast at the power and persuasion of Blair&#039;s revelations. BBC&#039;s political editor Nick Robinson apologized for his reporting of the Blair-Brown conflict in light of Blair&#039;s new revelations, saying : &quot;I now accept that I made mistakes. Things were worse - much worse - than I reflected at the time.&quot;.]]></description>
    <guid>http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/48173/20100901/tony-blair-gordon-brown-my-journey-autobiography-bbc-telegraph-iraq-war.htm</guid>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:15:26 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ecuador, China sign $1 billion cash-for-crude loan deal]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Ecuador and China signed on Tuesday a $1 billion loan deal as the Asian giant is pushing ahead with the policy of securing energy resources in Latin America and Africa]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:20:34 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Dutch hold two men on "terrorism" suspicion]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Dutch authorities have detained two Yemeni men at Amsterdam&#039;s Schiphol airport on suspicion of terrorist conspiracy, though a U.S. official on Tuesday cast doubt that they were part of a terrorism plot.]]></description>
    <guid>http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/48135/20100901/dutch-hold-two-men-on-terrorism-suspicion.htm</guid>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:06:19 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Internet users in BRICI countries set to double by 2015]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Internet users in the BRICI countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Indonesia - is set to exceed 1.2 billion by 2015, well over three times the rates of the U.S. and Japan combined, according to a report.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:20:02 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA["Harry Potter" author JK Rowling funds multiple sclerosis clinic]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[JK Rowling donated £10million to fund a multiple sclerosis clinic named after her mother.  The Harry Potter books author expressed hope that the new research facility would attract &quot;world-class minds&quot; to find cures.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:40:43 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[COLUMN: Russian export ban mirrors old error]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[A specter is haunting the world economy -- the specter of self-sufficiency.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:42:49 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bruni should die after stoning comments - Iran paper]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[An Iranian newspaper said on Tuesday that Carla Bruni, the wife of France&#039;s president, deserved to die after she expressed solidarity with a woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:22:25 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Dutch hold two Yemenis after terrorism alert]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Dutch authorities detained two Yemeni men at Amsterdam&#039;s Schiphol airport on suspicion of terrorist conspiracy after a tip-off from the United States, prosecutors said on Tuesday.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:14:32 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[European unemployment stays high at 10 percent; Spain worst hit]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[As many as 23 million men and women in the EU were unemployed in July, according to data released by Eurostat on Tuesday. Of these, 15.833 million are from the Eurozone countries]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:13:14 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[World Bank report ponders new water strategies]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[More information and integrated approach is the need of the hour for sustainable water management in view of rising global population, additional food demand from economic development and variations in water levels on the earth impacted by climate change, said a report from World Bank.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:41:40 +0100</pubDate>
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