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A survey conducted recently showed 151,000 deaths of Iraqis. The deaths took place during the three years of violence and the invasion of the U.S. troops in the country. According to the statistics nine out of ten deaths were the consequences of the military operations performed by the U.S. troops, insurgent attacks and sectarian warfare.

Japan's officials look forward to set aside $10 billion for further five years in order to provide help to developing countries regarding the fight against global warming.

Nicholas Negroponte, head of the charity, stated that Intel repetitively undetermined its non-for-profit scheme, meant to provide cheap laptops to children living in developing countries.

Three students aged seventeen and who have been living in Long Island, were arrested after police caught them printing fake ten, twenty and fifty dollar bills. The place where the printing took place was the back of a pickup truck.

Mark Berg was able to discover the first three $10 notes dated 1837 and launched by the Saginaw City Bank. The three banknotes feature serial numbers 1, 2 and 3. All of the ten dollar notes are in perfect condition.

Back in 1836 Saginaw City's founder, Norman Little, was the president of the bank and signed these banknotes Dec. 26, 1837, which is exactly 170 years ago.

The man, who calls himself Paul Brant refers to himself as a penny pitcher. However, the quarters and dollar coins he saved really paid off.

The 70-year-old Brant used all his savings in change in order to purchase a new Dodge Ram half-ton pickup truck, it is interesting to note that he bought his previous track 13 years ago using spare change as well.

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger mentioned that he is going to sue the government of the United States because it does not grant a waiver that would permit California to enforce its own standards on emissions coming from motor vehicles.

Statistics registered that gamers from the United Kingdom spent not less than a record £1.52 billion on titles this year. This is a 25 percent increase in comparison with the last year and still more than a week to count till 2008.

Officials from the American vendor of computers, components, software, and IT services, Sun Microsystems, have stated that the company started a new program aimed towards independent software developers. The winner of the program will receive a prize of $1 million. Companies willing to take part in the program will have to contribute to the open source software projects launched by the company.

The annual meeting with financial analysts, held by AMD, turned into a wave of apologies from the company's representatives to experts from Wall Street. AMG said sorry for the mistakes that occurred this year. The company stated that in 2008 it would get in full shape by launching its renewed version of Barcelona quad-core line, the functionality of which is seriously crippled due to its design flaw.