NEW YORK (Reuters) - Director Martin Scorsese won’t say the Rolling Stones are like the underworld characters in many of his movies, but he admits the band’s music evokes memories of the rough, mob-tinged street life he grew up around.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Clothing company Belstaff has hit back at Steve McQueen’s heirs with a damages claim against them over use of the film star’s Trailmaster black biker jacket.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - World number four Svetlana Kuznetsova will lead Fed Cup champions Russia in next month’s semi-final against the United States in Moscow.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - The Kansas Jayhawks brought the Davidson Wildcats’ dream NCAA championship run to a heart-stopping end with a 59-57 win in the Midwest Regional final on Sunday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rain postponed opening day at Yankee Stadium on Monday, the last season-starter at the park before the team moves to a new venue next year.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet jobs site CareerBuilder.com is teaming up with Facebook to help clients run job recruiting campaigns within the online social network, the two companies said on Monday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Live Nation Inc said on Monday it has reached an agreement for a 12-year global contract to handle the merchandising, digital and branding rights as well as the touring of Irish group U2.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - A continuing mobile phone boom in emerging markets in Asia and Africa mostly offset a drop in demand for expensive models caused by global market turmoil, a survey showed on Monday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Political rock band Rage Against The Machine will headline the first day of this summer’s Reading music festival, organizers said on Monday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Baltimore Orioles released designated hitter Jay Gibbons on Sunday, a day before the start of their regular season, the team said on its Web site (www.baltimore.orioles.mlb.com).
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) said it would reveal on Wednesday whether Microsoft had won the support needed to have its document format made into a global industry standard.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For life-long couch potatoes in their 60s, 70s and beyond, the prospect of starting an exercise program can be daunting — but it doesn’t have to be, a researcher told the American College of Sports Medicine’s 12th annual Health and Fitness Summit in Long Beach, California.
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MILAN (Reuters Health) - Women with lower urinary tract symptoms, or LUTS, are more likely to have sexual problems than women without LUTS, researchers reported here at the annual meeting of the European Association of Urology.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Washington Nationals edged the Atlanta Braves 3-2 in the stateside season-opener on Sunday, allowing the league, fans and players to forget, at least temporarily, the sport’s scandal-scarred winter.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Doctors should prescribe the lowest doses of Celebrex possible in patients at high risk of heart problems, researchers who did a combined analysis of six studies of the Pfizer Inc pain drug said on Monday.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - Flushed by Indian Wells glory, Serb tennis champions Novak Djokovic and Ana Ivanovic tasted early defeat in Miami before aiming a swipe at the sport’s schedule.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - World number one Roger Federer advanced to the fourth round of the Sony Ericsson Open on Monday when his Swedish opponent Robin Soderling retired from their third-round match because of illness.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two months after the soundtrack to the pregnant-teen comedy “Juno” hit No. 1 on the U.S. album charts, a second volume is being prepared for digital-only release.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bystanders who see someone suddenly collapse should quickly give the person chest compressions even if they are not trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the American Heart Association said on Monday.
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LAS VEGAS (Hollywood Reporter) - Sony Pictures Television is looking to launch the first movie network on mobile phones in the United States.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Baseball must continue to improve its ability to test for performance-enhancing drugs, especially human growth hormone, Commissioner Bud Selig said on Sunday.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Bloggers mixed wild rumors with gallows humor on Monday as Zimbabweans waited on tenterhooks for the result of the most crucial election since independence.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing will ban or restrict smoking in most public venues in May as part of its pledge to hold a smoke-free Olympics, local media reported on Monday, citing the city’s legal office.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The bad blood between Hollywood’s two major actors’ unions reached Hatfield and McCoy levels during the weekend just as they prepare to negotiate new labor contracts for their members.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Minnesota Wild clinched a spot in the playoffs before taking the ice on Sunday, then celebrated by beating the Colorado Avalanche 3-2 in overtime.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The popular diabetes pill Actos prevented the build-up of fatty deposits in heart arteries in a study of patients with type 2 diabetes, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia’s president urged his predominantly Muslim nation on Monday not to use violence in protests at a film on Islam by a right-wing Dutch lawmaker, and said world leaders had a moral responsibility to take action.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Apple brand has the biggest impact on the world’s consumers, while Microsoft and the United States nation brand are those considered most in need of a remake, a survey showed on Monday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French defence electronics firm Thales denied accusations by human rights campaigners it sold equipment to China that has helped Beijing scramble radio broadcasts.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp expects that shipments to China of handsets with its software will more than double in the next year amid an expected boom in demand for Web access once the country launches 3G wireless services.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For people with diabetes, the likelihood of having a major heart-related event is as high as for non-diabetics who’ve previously suffered a heart attack, Danish researchers report.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Softening of the skull bones in normal-appearing newborns is tied to a vitamin D deficiency in the womb, according to Japanese researchers.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The San Antonio Spurs won their seventh consecutive game, crushing the Houston Rockets 109-88 to move within a percentage point of first place in the Western Conference on Sunday.
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NASSAU (Reuters) - Tabloid star Anna Nicole Smith’s son Daniel died of a drug overdose, an inquest jury in the Bahamas ruled on Monday.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Lotrel, a pill combining two blood pressure drugs in one, was so effective at preventing heart attacks and other problems in a clinical trial that the study was stopped early, and its findings may change the way hypertension is treated, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Even after undergoing breast cancer surgery, about half of women don’t know that survival rates with removal of the cancerous portion of the breast only, along with radiation treatment, are equal to those seen with removal of the entire breast.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scientists in Japan have designed artificial molecules that when used with rats successfully reversed liver cirrhosis, a serious chronic disease in humans that until now can only be cured by transplants.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - The short-handed Boston Bruins, continuing to cope with a season-long barrage of injuries, have picked the perfect time to hit form as the NHL playoff race enters its final stages.
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COMMERCE CITY, Co. (Reuters) - David Beckham made a losing start to his second season in Major League Soccer when his Los Angeles Galaxy team were crushed 4-0 by the Colorado Rapids on Saturday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Curlin, runaway winner of the $6 million Dubai World Cup, will be rested before connections decide on his campaign for the rest of the year, trainer Steve Asmussen said on Sunday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The new gambling drama “21″ played a winning hand at the weekend box office in North America, earning an estimated $23.7 million in its first round, distributor Columbia Pictures said on Sunday.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - The Detroit Pistons, a division title and playoff spot secured, set their sights on the Boston Celtics and a run at the Eastern Conference crown by crushing LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers 85-71 on Saturday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Photojournalist Dith Pran, whose harrowing survival of genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge was dramatized in the film “The Killing Fields,” died on Sunday at the age of 65.
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PHOENIX (Reuters) - North Carolina and UCLA, both number one seeds and two of the most successful ever college basketball teams, advanced to the Final Four of the NCAA tournament on Saturday.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece handed the Olympic flame to China, the hosts of the 2008 Games, on Sunday despite attempts by pro-Tibet protesters to disrupt the ceremony.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Many stars vied for honors at the Kids Choice Awards on Saturday, but only two mattered to the thousands of screaming children on hand.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - In a radio ad sponsored by the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti, Grammy Award-winning musician Wyclef Jean is asking his fellow citizens to give up crime and work to improve the country.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland’s foreign minister faced calls for his resignation on Saturday after a tabloid newspaper published a suggestive text message he had sent to an erotic dancer.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A unified front by Hollywood’s two actors’ unions engaged in labor talks with movie studios has dissolved in acrimony, leaving them to negotiate separate deals before a strike deadline.
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MANCHESTER (Reuters) - American Jennie Reed won the women’s keirin gold medal at the track cycling world championships on Sunday to deny Britain’s Victoria Pendleton a third world title.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Treating a stent-related blood clot with an additional stent in an emergency procedure sharply raises the risk that a patient will get a second clot and should be avoided, Dutch researchers said on Saturday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Baseball fans came out in record numbers to watch the Los Angeles Dodgers play the Boston Red Sox in an exhibition game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Saturday.
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