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Nike Unveils New iPhone App Just for Runners (Mashable)

Mashable - Nike has just rolled out a new iPhone app for runners, available for download now [iTunes link].
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AP source: Oracle, ex-HP CEO Hurd in talks for job (AP)

AP - Former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd is in talks to take a top executive job at Oracle Corp., the database software maker run by his friend Larry Ellison, a person with direct knowledge of the discussions said Sunday.
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Taiwan's HTC: iPhone's `quiet' challenger (AP)

AP - East Asia is the world's electronics factory, yet unless they are Japanese, producers are largely anonymous. Now HTC Corp., a Taiwanese maker of smart phones, is moving out of the shadows and trying to establish its own brand name as it competes with Apple's iPhone.
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Earthquake Sets Back Economic Recovery in New Zealand

New Zealand’s prime minister warned Monday that the country’s economic recovery will be hurt by the weekend’s powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake in the city of Christchurch.
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Floods in Pakistan Carry the Seeds of Upheaval

As devastating floods appear to widen divisions, Pakistani officials, some accused of ineptitude and favoritism, are trying to repair the political damage.
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Suicide Bomber Hits Pakistani Police Station

A bomber rammed a vehicle into a police station on Monday, killing 19 people and injuring at least 46, according to officials.
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Land Known for ‘Jobs for Life’ Takes to Dual Careers

With salaries down more than 12 percent over the past decade, young Japanese in an uncertain job market are making ends meet by working second or even third jobs.
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In North Korea, Signs Point to Key Political Conference

Workers’ Party delegates from across North Korea were converging in Pyongyang on Monday, as children and soldiers rehearsed a celebration for their country’s biggest political gathering in 30 years.
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Afghanistan Pledges Support for Troubled Bank

The chairman of the Central Bank of Afghanistan promised Monday to lend the embattled Kabul Bank “as much as it wants” to stave off a collapse.
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Plan to Woo Taliban Foot Soldiers Stalls

Lack of funds and organizational issues have plagued a program meant to lure fighters away from insurgency.
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Gay slur costs Stephanie Rice a sponsor

STEPHANIE Rice has been dumped by sponsor Jaguar Australia for tweeting the "other" f-bomb - the incendiary gay slur.
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Politician's wife exposed as prostitute

TEARFUL politician had no idea wife was working in "massage parlours" for $118-an-hour.
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Woolies takes on Coles in fresh food fight

SUPERMARKET giant launches plan to take over rival's massive growth in the grocery market by taking a leaf out of Aldi's book.
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Teen faces castration after police beating

A RUSSIAN teenager is facing castration after being severely beaten by police in the Volga river town of Kstovo.
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Miss Universe is actually 'a bitchy world'

AUSTRALIA'S Jesinta Campbell says dirty tricks ran rife at pageant with her outfit "sabotaged".
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Katter 'unrepentant' over delay

MP says 17 day wait to find out who will form government is in the best interests of the bush.
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'Crazy taxman won't dare trap me again'

PAUL Hogan arrives in Los Angeles, taking a swipe at 'crazy' ATO who treated him badly.
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Naked truth about nudist beaches

NATURIST is one name given to those with a penchant for social nudity, but for Lonely Planet author Tamara Sheward, there was nothing natural about going starkers in public.
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Police hunt body in bag in Kiesha twist

SEARCH for missing schoolgirl Kiesha Abrahams takes a bizarre twist as blood-stained shirt found.
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Dark Mysteries, Written From a Bright Beach

The British novelist Colin Cotterill, who lives on a Thai beach, stands apart from his books’ setting, the Communist Laos of the 1970s.
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