ANKARA, Turkey - An Atlasjet plane crashed shortly before it was to land in central Turkey early Friday, killing all 56 people on board, the airline’s chief executive said.
A rescue helicopter had reached the wreckage of the plane on a mountainous region near the town of Keciborlu, in Isparta province, and reported back that no one had survived the crash, airline CEO Tuncay Doganer said.

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“In an unprecedented move, Google Inc has agreed to supply the IP address of an Israeli blogger who used ‘Google Blogger’ for a blog in which he slandered Shaarei Tikva council members running for reelection. The election is being held today,” reports Israel’s Globes Online newspaper.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Online pornography hunters’ Internet adventures are already fraught with danger from malicious code many porn sites use to commandeer visitors’ machines or steal personal data.

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NEW YORK (AP) - The desire for greater control over how search engines index and display Web sites is driving an effort by leading news organizations and other publishers to revise a 13-year-old technology for restricting access.
Currently, Google Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG), Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) (YHOO) and other top search companies voluntarily respect a Web site’s […]

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Britney Spears and Paris Hilton open their stockings on Christmas Day, they shouldn’t be surprised to find a lump of coal.

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There’s no need to panic - Britney Spears is not eating for two again. There were rumors this week, sparked by a story in In Touch Weekly, that the already custody-challenged Britney Spears might be adding another mouth to the custody battle that is her life. BritBrit herself shot down the story, claiming that a published report that she was expecting baby number three, supposedly with music producer and sometimes-beau J.R. Rotem was completely untrue.

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Google launched a location service for mobile users on Wednesday that doesn’t rely on GPS.
Google Maps with My Location, currently in beta, locates users who don’t have GPS-enabled phones based on their location to nearby cell towers. The result isn’t as accurate as GPS (Global Positioning System) but works for people who lack the positioning […]

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Behold the new winner of Dancing With the Stars: not Marie Osmond! (That’s all most people cared about, right?) Race-car driver and champion of smiling Helio Castroneves edged out Scary Spice to win the coveted ‘’splendid” mirror-ball trophy, which always looks smaller in person, even when that person is Helio. We can rest assured that […]

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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - Pervez Musharraf stepped down as Pakistan’s military commander Wednesday, fulfilling a key opposition demand a day before he was to be sworn in as a civilian president.

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I’ve been using Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader for about a week now, and I like it quite a bit. Here is a truly novel gadget, a device that delivers a fantastic service — thousands of books anywhere, on the go — in a pleasant, mostly hassle-free package.

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