#1 — BBC | China hits back at US over trade and currency
China has hit back at the US a day after President Barack Obama promised to take a tougher line with Beijing over currency and trade.
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#2 — BBC | Toyota rues Prius brake software ‘clash’
Troubled carmaker Toyota has admitted a software problem in the new Prius’s brakes, but says it has now been fixed.
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#3 — BBC | Vegetative state patients can respond to questions
Scientists have been able to reach into the mind of a brain-damaged man and communicate with his thoughts.
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#4 — CNN | Scott Brown could be sworn in Thursday
(CNN) — The election victory of Massachusetts Sen.-elect Scott Brown is expected to be certified Thursday, which could allow him to be sworn in as early as Thursday afternoon to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy.
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#5 — Fox | Gov’t to Pay More Than Half of U.S. Health Costs
WASHINGTON — For all the hue and cry over a government takeover of health care, it’s happening anyway.
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#6 — Fox | House Faces Tough Vote on $1.9T More Debt
WASHINGTON – Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives are counting on new budget deficit curbs to help smooth the way for a bill allowing the government to go $1.9 trillion deeper into debt over the next year — or about $6,000 more for every U.S. resident.
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#7 — NY Times | Research Group’s Report Urges Radical Changes in Russia
MOSCOW — A liberal-leaning policy organization that advises President Dmitri A. Medvedev on Wednesday recommended a startling agenda of long-term changes, including restoration of elections for governors, an end to censorship of the news media, Russian membership in NATO and dissolution of the Federal Security Service, successor to the Soviet-era K.G.B.
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#8 — Times | IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri under pressure to go over glacier error
The head of the UN’s climate change body is under pressure to resign after one of his strongest allies in the environmental movement said his judgment was flawed and called for a new leader to restore confidence in climatic science.
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#9 — Times | Video shows fighter jets shooting down US missionaries
A video has emerged showing a bungled CIA operation that led to the shooting down of a light plane carrying American missionaries in Peru.
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#10 — Telegraph | Millions of people ‘waste their time by jogging’
Millions of people who strive to keep fit by jogging, swimming or going to the gym are wasting their time, scientists said.
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