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MasterCard prices IPO at $39 a share, below forecast range
USA Today - 16 hours agoBy Joe Bel Bruno, Associated Press. NEW YORK MasterCard stock begins trading Thursday in a $2.39 billion offering that will go down as one of the largest in two years, eclipsing the $1.7 billion raised when Google (GOOG) went public in 2004. ...

Chimp Virus Is Linked to HIV
New York Times - 3 hours agoBy studying chimpanzee droppings in remote African jungles, scientists reported yesterday, they have found direct evidence of a missing link between a chimpanzee virus and the one that causes human AIDS. Scientists ...

What House Speaker Dennis Hastert Thinks Is Behind ABC Report
FOX News - 3 hours agoBy Brit Hume. House speaker Dennis Hastert says the ABC News story claiming he is "in the mix" of the federal investigation into Jack Abramoff could be political push back for his criticism of the FBI raid on Congressman William Jefferson's office. ...

Tough-talking Putin rejects EU proposal on energy supplies
Independent - 6 hours agoBy Andrew Osborn in Moscow. President Vladimir Putin has icily rejected US and EU criticism of Russia's purported use of its energy resources as a political weapon, and publicly rebuffed European attempts to ...

Aging US School Buses Still Fouling Air
Los Angeles Times - 23 hours agoA report says $16 billion is needed to replace or upgrade 500,000 of the worst-polluting vehicles. By Janet Wilson, Times Staff Writer. Aging school buses continue to spew harmful diesel across the United States ...

Seven Timor-Leste policemen killed: Antara
Xinhua - 54 minutes agoJAKARTA, May 26 (Xinhua) -- At least seven Timor-Leste's national police members were killed on Thursday during a shootout in the country's capital of Dili between Timor-Leste regular forces together with national police personnel and soldiers who had ...

Dell signs for Google software
Australian IT - 7 hours agoGOOGLE and Dell have reached an agreement that will see Dell install a package of Google software on its systems, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said. In a potential blow to Microsoft, Google will incorporate ...