Factbox-US government shutdown: What closes, what stays open?
Many U.S. government services would be disrupted and hundreds of thousands of federal workers furloughed without pay if
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Child dies after entering water at Irish beach
Irish police say a young girl has died after she entered the water at a beach in County Cork.
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US intelligence agencies buy Americans' personal data, new report says
The vast amount of personal data for sale online is an "increasingly powerful" tool for intelligence gathering by US and foreign spying agencies but also represents a privacy risk to ordinary people, according to a newly declassified US intelligence report.
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As US credit risk looms, former S&P officials see 2011 downgrade as vindicated
By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON As the United States stares at the risk of a credit downgrade, former Standard
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Communities in Bangladesh and Myanmar brace for the worst as Cyclone Mocha intensifies
Aid agencies in Bangladesh and Myanmar say they are bracing for disaster and have launched a massive emergency plan as a powerful cyclone barrels toward millions of vulnerable people.
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