Jobless claims unexpectedly fell last week (Reuters)

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Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly fell 4,000 last week to its lowest in six weeks, government data showed on Thursday in a report underscoring a healthy labor market.



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U.N.'s Ban shaken by blast near Baghdad briefing (Reuters)

Residents watch U.S. soldiers patrolling a road in Baghdad March 21, 2007. U.S. forces have released a senior aide to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who had been held for more than a year, on the orders of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the prime minister's office said on Wednesday. (Kareem Raheem/Reuters)Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was left shaken but unhurt on Thursday after a suspected rocket exploded, sending shock waves through a building where he was giving a news conference.



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Activity Levels Key to Childhood Obesity (HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 21 (HealthDay News) — Low levels of activity — especially a lack of moderate and vigorous exercise — play an important role in the development of childhood obesity, says a British study that compared the amount of fat in children to their levels of physical activity.
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Rocket hits near U.N. chief in Baghdad (AP)

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reacts to the noise from a loud explosion during a news conference with Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad in this March 22, 2007 image taken from video footage. Ban ducked and appeared shaken as the blast briefly interrupted the news conference, which was being held in Maliki's residence in the heavily fortified Green Zone. Both men were unhurt. Ban held talks with Iraqi leaders on a five-year reconstruction plan unveiled last week as he made his first visit to Iraq since taking office in January.  REUTERS/Iraqi TV (IRAQ)AP - A rocket landed near the prime minister’s office Thursday during the first visit to Iraq by the head of the United Nations in nearly a year and a half, sending Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ducking unharmed behind a podium at a news conference.



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Heavy fighting erupts in Somali capital (AFP)

Ethiopian soldiers leave the Presidential Palace in southern Mogadishu. Somali troops and their Ethiopian allies have exchanged heavy mortar and machinegun fire with insurgents as terrified residents streamed out of the Somali capital fearing a wider war.(AFP/Mustafa Abdi)AFP - Somali troops and their Ethiopian allies exchanged heavy mortar and machinegun fire with insurgents on Thursday as terrified residents streamed out of the Somali capital fearing a wider war.



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Borders Group posts 4Q loss (AP)
AP - Book retailer Borders Group Inc. announced a fourth-quarter loss on Thursday as it disclosed plans to close nearly half of its Waldenbooks stores and the possible sale of some international businesses as part of a restructuring plan.
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Brown cuts British income tax (AFP)

Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown shows his red 'budget briefcase' as he leaves 11 Downing Street in London. Brown has announced a voter-friendly budget of big tax cuts seen as cementing his bid to become prime minister later this year.(AFP/Chris Young)AFP - British finance minister Gordon Brown announced on Wednesday that he would cut the basic rate of income tax in Britain from 22 percent to 20 percent in April 2008.



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Chinese restaurant food draws criticism (AP)

A plate featuring steamed meat dumplings, spring rolls,  sweet and sour pork, orange beef, General Tso's chicken, Szechuan shrimp, eggplant in garlic sauce, and combination fried rice are arranged on a plate in Washington, Tuesday, March 20, 2007. The typical Chinese restaurant menu is a sea of nutritional no-nos, a consumer group has found. A plate of General Tso's chicken, for example, is loaded with about 40 percent more sodium and more than half the calories an average adult needs for an entire day. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - The typical Chinese restaurant menu is a sea of nutritional no-nos, a consumer group has found. A plate of General Tso’s chicken, for example, is loaded with about 40 percent more sodium and more than half the calories an average adult needs for an entire day.



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