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TOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp is planning to stop production of equipment compatible with the HD DVD format for high-definition video, allowing the competing Blu-Ray camp a free ...

WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. government pushed on Saturday to finalize a plan to ... warned markets could drop another 20 percent in a worst-case scenario. Full Article

... has a four-point lead over his Republican rival John McCain in the U.S. presidential race, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby tracking poll released on Monday. Full Article

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs, dirty words and the demise of humanity, died of heart failure at a Los ...