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Will Smith tops Hollywood moneymakers list


Survey on money making by Hollywood actors in the last year suggested that the Hancock star Will Smith earned an impressive $80 million and topped the highest earners of Hollywood list. Cameron Diaz made an earning of $50 million and topped the female list.
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Asian and African immigrants to U.S. should be screened for TB

A Journal of the American Medical Association said that the people immigrating to U.S. from African and Asian countries should be screened for TB to prevent importing the disease into U.S.
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Researchers link cancer to cell phone use

The cell phones use electromagnetic rays and these rays are harmful for human beings .The children are most sensitive to these rays and this was suggested by the Pittsburgh Cancer Institute that warned its 3000 faculty members to limit their usage of mobile.
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Facebook to weep out programs that violate rules

The online social networking company Facebook Inc. will be introducing tools to help the users and online developers’ .The Company will be strict on users that are violating rules. The website will remove the users that did not follow the piracy rules.
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Microsoft executive leaving job

The executive who proposed to bid for the internet company Yahoo, Kevin Johnson, is planning to leave the job and to join Sunnyvale-based Juniper Networks. Johnson was president of Microsoft’s Platforms and Services Division.
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U.S. fed raises minimum wages value

The rate of minimum wages was raised by Federal on Thursday and the new legislation on wages will be effective from the day itself. The previous rate of minimum wage was $5.85 per hour that has been increased to $6.55 per hour.
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Bill Gates donate $125 million for anti –tobacco mission


The World Health Organization estimated that the number of people killed by tobacco in 21st century will be ten times the number in 20th century and it is expected that most of these people will be from small countries like Bangladesh and middle income group people from Russia.
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Dolly becomes weak hurricane to hit Mexico-Texas border

The hurricane dolly downgraded to tropical storm after striking between the borders of the states Texas and Mexico yesterday as the winds fell from 100 mph to 70 miles per hour and it is expected that the hurricane will continue to weaken and become one of the weakest hurricanes to hit Mexico-Texas border.
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Earthquake injures more than hundred in Japan

A strong earthquake measuring 6.8 on Richter scale hit the central Japan region and the tremors lasted for 40 seconds .The earthquake caused injury to more than hundred people in Japan. About 6700 were left without powers and electricity and the Meteorological department issued warnings of aftershocks.
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Sudan President visits Darfur

The Sudan President Umar al-Bashir who has been convicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court met the United Nations-African Union representative in Darfur and said that he will protect the relief workers in the region.
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