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NEW YORK – The next U.S. president will inherit a world of trouble, not least of all the global financial crisis, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said on Thursday.
Albright delivered a list of problems when he was asked about Campbell Brown “No Bias, No Bull” on CNN on behalf of the three main challenges that the new president will face.
“Something that was not on the table a few weeks ago is the international financial crisis,” said Albright, who became the first woman secretary of state at the service of the Clinton administration from 1997-2001.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Hewlett-Packard Co. on Wednesday presented a new mini-notebook in an attempt to gain ground in the fastest-growing PC category, which so far has been dominated by its smaller rival.
Netbooks – ultraportable, low-cost laptops designed for Web browsing and functions of light – have taken the PC market by storm this year, with smaller computer companies such as Acer and Asustek Inc team leading the charge .
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LONDON – British rockers Led Zeppelin are looking at the possibility of traveling and recording without a leader Robert Plant, which has resisted pressure to join his former bandmates.
The band, which sold an estimated 300 million albums and is considered one of the most influential in rock music, briefly regrouped for a single concert in London in December 2007, leading to calls from fans for a tour meeting.
WAM, Pakistan – About 175 people were killed when a powerful earthquake struck the southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan on Wednesday, around 1,500 flattening mud-walled homes and causing landslides, officials said.