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Long queues to vote as ravaged Liberia chooses new president
Guardian Unlimited - 8 hours ago In queues that spilled out of polling stations and wound through the streets, Liberians turned out to vote in their thousands yesterday in the first elections since the end of a 14-year civil war - elections that could see a former Chelsea and AC Milan

Businesswomen look expectantly to country's first female leader
Financial Times - 4 hours ago By Gerrit Wiesmann in Frankfurt. With Angela Merkel set to run the country, Germany's businesswomen hope the country's first Bundeskanzlerin - female chancellor - will do a thing or two to help working women

How serious a threat is avian flu?
Philadelphia Daily News - 16 hours ago By WILLIAM BUNCH. Bird flu, or specifically avian flu, that is. Suddenly, you can't turn on your TV set without seeing a report on the possibility of a deadly flu epidemic that might reach the United States.

Chargers can't catch the Bus
Sports Network - 7 hours ago By Dan Di Sciullo, NFL Analyst. (Sports Network) - The San Diego Chargers were just under five minutes away from a big Monday night win, but then "the Bus" started to pull away. Pittsburgh running back Jerome

Timeline: China's space quest
CNN International - 41 minutes ago October 12, 2005: Two astronauts, Fei Junlong, 40, and Nie Haisheng, 41, blast off on Shenzhou 6 on a longer, riskier mission that is set to last five days. In a show of confidence, the launch is shown live on Chinese state television.

One large steppe for millionaire space tourist
Guardian Unlimited - 6 hours ago A 60-year-old communications millionaire and the world's third space tourist clattered back down on to the barren steppes of Kazakhstan early yesterday morning after an eight-day stay at the International Space Station.

Are Wallace, Gromit really cursed?
Chicago Sun-Times - 21 hours ago BRISTOL, England -- Fire destroyed a priceless archive of Aardman Animations props, sets and models early Monday, just hours after the company learned its animated clay movie stars Wallace and Gromit had topped the US box office.