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Apple's Cook to face Senate questions on taxes
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate panel says Apple Inc. is avoiding billions of dollars in U.S. taxes by shifting profits to foreign affiliates and is prepared to question the company's chief executive Tuesday about the "loopholes."
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The Indian doctor revered in China
Why does every Chinese leader want to salute this Indian?
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Afghanistan: Deadly 24 hours leave 14 police dead
A coordinated Taliban assault on checkpoints in southern Afghanistan killed four police before a counterattack drove the insurgents back, Afghan officials said Tuesday. Also, at least 10 other police died in two attacks in the country's west.
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Manchester City and Yankees to Own M.L.S. Club in New York
Manchester City and the Yankees teamed up to buy the club, which is expected to begin competing in 2015.
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VIDEO: Apple 'avoided $1m tax per hour'
A Senate committee has accused Apple of using "a complex web of offshore entities" to avoid paying billions of dollars in US income taxes.
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Saudi Arabia arrests 10 spy suspects
Saudi Arabia has arrested 10 more suspects in what it says is a spy ring linked to Iran, state media report.
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Pacy pigeon Bolt sets world record
A Belgian racing pigeon called Bolt is sold to a Chinese businessman for a world record price of 310,000 euros (£260,000; $400,000).
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Bank Danamon stake sale approved
Singapore's DBS Group receives long-awaited regulatory approval to buy a 40% stake in Indonesia's Bank Danamon
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Okla. Senator says tornado aid should be paid for
WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn says that any additional federal aid to help tornado victims and to rebuild devastated areas of his state should be financed with cuts to other programs in the government's $3.6 trillion budget.
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Tornado threat continues, including Dallas-Fort Worth area
By Greg McCune CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tornadoes could form across a wide area of the southern Plains and into the U.S. southeast again on Tuesday, including metropolitan Dallas-Fort Worth, the most populous urban area in the threatened area, a government meteorologist said. "There could be a few more tornadoes again, particularly in northern and central Texas," said Brynn Kerr, meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma. ...
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Anchoring of putters to be banned
Golf's ruling bodies announce that anchoring of putters will be banned from competition from January 2016.
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Deadly virus kills Tunisian man
A man has died of the novel coronavirus (NCoV) in Tunisia, in what is believed to be the first such case in Africa.
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WikiLeaks hearing focuses on classified evidence
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — The Army private who gave more than 700,000 secret U.S. documents to WikiLeaks is back in court for the last scheduled hearing before his military trial next month.
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Ray Manzarek, 74, Rock Keyboardist And a Founder of the Doors, Is Dead
Mr. Manzarek played a key role in creating the group’s psychedelic sound, which could be haunted, meditative and circuslike, but which was also widely imitated.
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NHS boss set to retire next year
The head of the NHS in England Sir David Nicholson is stepping down from the post next year.
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Manzarek, founding member of The Doors, dies at 74
Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complemented Jim Morrison's gloomy baritone and helped set the mood for some of rock's most enduring songs, has died. He was 74.
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Obama offers help for Oklahoma tornado victims
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he is instructing his disaster response team to get tornado victims in Oklahoma everything they need "right away."
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Leading Senate Democrat: IRS behavior intolerable
WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading Senate Democrat says the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups was intolerable, and he is promising to get to the bottom of how it happened.
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Teen star Zendaya finishes 1st on `Dancing' finals
Four finalists are vying for the "Dancing With the Stars" title, and just one point separates the top two contestants.
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