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Google Profit Soars

SAN FRANCISCO – Web search leader Google Inc. (GOOG) Thursday posted a quarterly profit nearly six times higher than a year earlier, blowing past Wall Street targets as search advertising continued to grow at a rapid clip. The results sent shares of Google more than 6 percent higher in after-hours …

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Report: Ben Affleck Proposes to Jen Garner

Bennifer 2 might be making it official. Hollywood hunk Ben Affleck (search) proposed to his girlfriend, “Alias” star Jennifer Garner (search), after her 33rd birthday party Saturday at her Brentwood, Calif., home, Star magazine reported. Affleck, 32, bought Garner a $500,000, 4.5-carat Harry Winston engagement ring — as compared to …

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U.N. to Evaluate Haiti Peacekeeping Mission

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The U.N. Security Council (search) lands Wednesday in the capital of this shellshocked nation, making its first visit to a country scarred by gunfights and plagued with violence more than a year after the ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide (search). The United Nations’ year-old mission to stabilize …

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