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<title>Nervous markets take heart from Aussie rate cut</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:58:07 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2008/10/07/topnews/nervous-markets-take-heart-from-aussie-rate-cut.html&amp;template=/news/feeds/story-template-reuters.html"><img src="http://www.tiscali.co.uk/media/images/feeds/reuters/topnews/2008/10/07/2008-10-07t013316z_01_btre49604bj00_rtroptp_1_ouktp-uk-financial.jpg" align="left" alt="Nervous markets take heart from Aussie rate cut" border="0" /></a> Guarded optimism mounted on Tuesday for a unified international response to the credit crisis ricocheting around the world after Australia cut interest rates far more steeply than expected.<br clear="all" />]]></description>
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<title>U.S. dismisses Afghan war comments as &#34;defeatist&#34;</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:58:07 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2008/10/07/topnews/us-dismisses-afghan-war-comments-as-34defeatist34.html&amp;template=/news/feeds/story-template-reuters.html"><img src="http://www.tiscali.co.uk/media/images/feeds/reuters/topnews/2008/10/07/2008-10-07t024346z_01_btre496002d00_rtroptp_1_ouktp-uk-afghan-usa.jpg" align="left" alt="U.S. dismisses Afghan war comments as &#34;defeatist&#34;" border="0" /></a> Britain's military commander and ambassador in Afghanistan are being "defeatist" by thinking the war cannot be won, U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates said, as Washington seeks more troops for the conflict that started exactly seven years ago.<br clear="all" />]]></description>
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<title>Big Australia rate cut spurs Asia stocks rebound</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:58:07 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2008/10/07/topnews/big-australia-rate-cut-spurs-asia-stocks-rebound.html&amp;template=/news/feeds/story-template-reuters.html"><img src="http://www.tiscali.co.uk/media/images/feeds/reuters/topnews/2008/10/07/2008-10-07t021501z_01_btre49605q500_rtroptp_1_ouktp-uk-markets-global.jpg" align="left" alt="Big Australia rate cut spurs Asia stocks rebound" border="0" /></a>HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian stocks outside Japan rose for the first time in four days on Tuesday and the yen fell after a surprisingly large interest rate cut by Australia's central bank raised hopes that other policymakers would follow suit.<br clear="all" />]]></description>
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<title>Obama has 3-point national lead on McCain</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:58:07 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2008/10/07/topnews/obama-has-3-point-national-lead-on-mccain.html&amp;template=/news/feeds/story-template-reuters.html"><img src="http://www.tiscali.co.uk/media/images/feeds/reuters/topnews/2008/10/07/2008-10-07t050543z_01_btre4951ch200_rtroptp_1_ouktp-uk-usa-politics-poll.jpg" align="left" alt="Obama has 3-point national lead on McCain" border="0" /></a>NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama has a narrow 3-point lead in the U.S. presidential race on Republican John McCain less than a month before the election, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Tuesday.<br clear="all" />]]></description>
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<title>Firms&#39; confidence at record low</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:58:07 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2008/10/07/topnews/firms39-confidence-at-record-low.html&amp;template=/news/feeds/story-template-reuters.html"><img src="http://www.tiscali.co.uk/media/images/feeds/reuters/topnews/2008/10/07/2008-10-07t035545z_01_btre4951s7j00_rtroptp_1_ouktp-uk-britain-bcc-survey.jpg" align="left" alt="Firms&#39; confidence at record low" border="0" /></a> Confidence among firms fell to its lowest on record in the third quarter as sales and orders tumbled, a survey from the British Chamber of Commerce said on Tuesday.<br clear="all" />]]></description>
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<title>Government considers bank options</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:58:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Safer prenatal Down&#39;s syndrome test found in U.S.</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:58:07 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ A prenatal blood test can be used to determine if an unborn baby has Down's syndrome without the small risk to the foetus posed by invasive testing methods such as amniocentesis, U.S. researchers said on Monday.<br clear="all" />]]></description>

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<title>Mohammad wife novel released early in U.S. after fire</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:58:07 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters) - A controversial novel about the Prophet Mohammad's child bride was rushed to U.S. stores on Monday, nine days ahead of schedule, after the office of the book's British publisher was attacked.<br clear="all" />]]></description>

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<title>Taiwan suggests SARS a China warfare plot</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:58:07 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Taiwan legislators wearing surgical masks and displaying banners with a skull and crossbones took over parliament's floor on Tuesday after the island's security chief accused China of starting the global SARS epidemic six years ago as part of a biological warfare campaign.<br clear="all" />]]></description>

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<title>U.S. official says online drug videos threaten teens</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:58:07 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The director of the White House war on drugs said on Monday that Internet videos that show people getting high pose a dangerous threat to teenagers by encouraging them to use drugs and alcohol.<br clear="all" />]]></description>

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