Newvel/entailment_dataset · Datasets at Hugging Face

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40	YES	IR	The disputed waters lie close to the Sipadan and Ligitan islands, which Indonesia lost to Malaysia in a legal battle in the International Court of Justice in December 2002.	There is a territorial waters dispute.
224	YES	SUM	On Friday evening, a car bomb exploded outside a Shiite mosque in Iskandariyah, 30 miles south of the capital, killing seven people and wounding 10, doctors said on condition of anonymity.	The car bomb at the mosque in Iskandariyah exploded.
637	YES	QA	IBM is now at the top of my list of where I want to work. Ivy alone had nine interviews when the team visited the company's headquarters in Armonk last week.	IBM's has its headquarters in Armonk.
19	YES	IR	Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health say that people who drink coffee may be doing a lot more than keeping themselves awake - this kind of consumption apparently also can help reduce the risk of diseases.	Coffee drinking has health benefits.
687	UNKNOWN	SUM	Michaela Roeder, 31, was found guilty of six counts of manslaughter and mercy killing.	A German nurse was convicted of manslaughter and mercy killing of patients by lethal injection.
145	NO	QA	When Adolf Hitler heard of how Mussolini was executed and put on public display, he vowed he would not let this happen to him. Hitler shot his mistress and new wife, Eva Braunn, and then swallowing some poison, he shot himself in the mouth.	Mussolini's mistress was Eva Braunn.
555	YES	QA	Not counting the 1986 catastrophe at Chernobyl, where the nuclear reactors are of a different design, the industry has so far succeeded.	The catastrophe at Chernobyl happened in 1986.
618	YES	SUM	Some passengers were escorted off the ship in wheelchairs by crew wearing blue gloves.	Wheelchairs were used to lead passengers off the ship.
528	YES	PP	Swedish massage is used to help relax muscles, increase circulation, remove metabolic waste products, help the recipient obtain a feeling of connectedness, a better awareness of their body and the way they use and position it.	Swedish massage loosens tense muscles.
443	UNKNOWN	QA	Addressing a function organized here by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Anand said, the greatest and most urgent challenges of human rights in India were in the areas of maternal and child care, child education, child labor, child abuse and protection of minorities and weaker sections.	Amnesty International takes care of human rights.
175	UNKNOWN	IE	The memo, written by Marc Allen Connelly (who was general counsel to the funeral services commission at the time) and sent to Dick McNeil (the Bush-appointed chairman of the funeral commission) stated that Connelly "received information" from Texas state officials that two of the funeral commissioners worked for SCI.	Dick McNeil was an employee of Bush.
1164	YES	MT	Ramadan told reporters at the opening ceremony of the Baghdad International Exposition, "No cooperation and no inspection or monitoring by the American Zionist espionage commission (the Special Commission for disarming Iraq's banned weapons - UNSCOM) before Iraq's demands are met."	Ramadan announced that Iraq will not cooperate with the inspectors.
136	UNKNOWN	QA	Today in the city of Sao Paulo (from May 1 to May 30) we have a display on Ayrton Senna.	Ayrton Senna was from Sao Paulo.
455	UNKNOWN	QA	The curious Belgian compromise over the weed has some logic, even for a country which says it wants to reduce drug use. Surveys show that as many as 40 percent of the country's 10 million population has experienced cannabis and with the Dutch border an hour away for most of the population, some liberalisation seems inevitable.	People can legally have 40 grams of cannabis in their possession.
271	YES	IR	The May 3 ferry sinking in the Meghna River that claimed the lives of at least 370 people is a reminder of the dangers inherent in this sort of travel.	100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.
435	UNKNOWN	IE	SCI, Houston's largest funeral services company, was headed by Robert Waltrip--a close associate of the Bush family.	Robert Waltrip works for the Bush family.
647	YES	SUM	GM established grounds for suspicion of industrial spying by presenting affidavits from its employees. The aim will be to determine if VW's project was copied from GM data - essential if industrial espionage is to be proved.	There was an industrial espionage case involving GM and VW.
1806	UNKNOWN	CD	Vanunu, 49, was abducted by Israeli agents and convicted of treason in 1986 after discussing his work as a mid-level Dimona technician with Britain's Sunday Times newspaper.	Vanunu's disclosures in 1968 led experts to conclude that Israel has a stockpile of nuclear warheads.
799	YES	SUM	Chinese Premier, Zhu Rongji, and German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, opened the world's first commercial magnetic levitation (maglev) train yesterday, with both sides having much to gain from its success.	Both Mr. Schroeder and Mr. Zhu have much to gain if maglev succeeds.
723	YES	SUM	The motor industry accounts for as much as 40 per cent of the 450,000 installed industrial robots worldwide but their use is changing and applications are expanding.	The most common use for robots is the manufacture of automobiles.
2177	UNKNOWN	CD	Only 14 percent of U.S. mothers exclusively breast-feed their babies for the minimum recommended six months.	There are many benefits from breast-feeding.
763	YES	CD	Treasures belonging to Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn have raised £3.2m at a two-day auction in America.	A two-day auction of property belonging to actress Katharine Hepburn brought in 3.2 million pounds.
691	UNKNOWN	QA	Arabic, for example, is used densely across North Africa and from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Philippines, as the key language of the Arab world and the primary vehicle of Islam.	Arabic is the primary language of the Philippines.
195	UNKNOWN	SUM	Still, the storm surge was both stronger and earlier than expected, apparently coming through waterways southeast of the city, said Col. Richard Wagenaar, the Army Corps of Engineers' district chief in New Orleans.	Col. Richard Wagenaar said the problems would set back repairs at least three weeks, but June was still the target for having the levees back to pre-Katrina strength.
23	NO	IE	A.C. Milan is in second place with 13 points, after two first-half goals from captain Paolo Maldini earned them a 2-1 victory over Reggina.	Paolo Maldini plays for Reggina.
355	UNKNOWN	IR	The investigation came about following the collapse of Barings Bank, when one of its traders based in Singapore, Nick Leeson, amassed losses of the order of 600-700 million without the bank being aware of it.	Nick Leeson was arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC.
322	UNKNOWN	IR	Research workers of the German archaeological institute have discovered a mummy in permafrost at excavation work in Mongolia of approximately 2,500 years old.	Altai ice maiden triggers major dispute.
565	YES	QA	Soprano's Square: Milan, Italy, home of the famed La Scala opera house, honored soprano Maria Callas on Wednesday when it renamed a new square after the diva.	La Scala opera house is located in Milan, Italy.
425	YES	QA	Brazilian cardinal Dom Eusbio Oscar Scheid, Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro , harshly criticized Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva after arriving in Rome on Tuesday.	The Brazilian President is Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
626	YES	IE	The Bank of Italy, the ultimate arbiter of Italian banking mergers, has been engulfed by scandal since police wire taps revealed Fazio and his wife advised a local banker in a bid for bank Antonveneta against Dutch bank ABN AMRO.	Dutch bank ABN AMRO bids for Bank Antonveneta.
251	YES	IR	The university server containing the information relating to Mason's ID cards was illegally entered by computer hackers.	Non-authorized personnel illegally entered into computer networks.
11	UNKNOWN	IE	I recently took a round trip from Abuja to Yola, the capital of Adamawa State and back to Abuja, with a fourteen-seater bus.	Abuja is located in Adamawa State.
600	UNKNOWN	QA	Prolonged exposure to UV-B light can cause sunburn, and there are worries that damage to the ozone layer may lead to an increase in the incidence of skin cancer.	UV-B light is damaging the ozone layer.
797	YES	QA	Civic Alliance, the umbrella group of civic groups involved in rebuilding, hosted a large, public, town-hall meeting for 5,000 people, called "Listening to the City" in July 2002.	The Civic Alliance is an umbrella group.
1959	UNKNOWN	PP	Kerry hit Bush hard on his conduct on the war in Iraq.	Kerry shot Bush.
17	YES	QA	John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln as he sat in the presidential box of Ford's Theater watching the light comedy, "Our American Cousin."	Lincoln was assassinated in the presidential box of Ford's Theater.
345	UNKNOWN	IE	Craig Conway, fired as PeopleSoft's chief executive officer before the company was bought by Oracle, was in England last week.	Craig Conway works for Oracle.
2143	NO	IR	There is none. They found as many weapons in this masjid as they found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.	Weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq.
2072	NO	QA	In 1932 he joined the then illegal Communist party and held high government and party posts from 1942, becoming home secretary in 1948, when the Communist party took control in Hungary.	Communist control in Hungary ended in 1948.
2115	UNKNOWN	CD	A senior al-Qaeda operative who was said to be planning an attack on Heathrow Airport has been arrested.	Despite rumors, the British Home Office denied any specific threat had been made to target Heathrow airport.
69	UNKNOWN	IR	Anorexia in males accounted for approximately six percent of cases seen in an eating disorder clinic.	Anorexia becomes common in males.
441	YES	IE	The automobile industry, led by General Motors and Ford, offered price discounts from June-August that temporarily boosted sales, but these discounts may have masked underlying weakness.	Ford is part of the automobile industry.
114	UNKNOWN	IR	International journalists' organisations are accusing the U.S. government of committing war crimes in Iraq by intentionally firing at war correspondents.	US withdraws war crimes
551	YES	IR	The result in Denmark shows that people are fundamentally opposed to joining the euro.	The introduction of the euro has been opposed.
682	UNKNOWN	SUM	Companies are working to reduce the interval between drug discovery and marketing.	Companies are working to shorten the new drug development period to an average of eight to nine years in the US.
236	UNKNOWN	IR	The greatest threat to life and property associated with a hurricane and tropical storm is storm surge.	A tropical storm has caused significant property damage or loss of life.
198	UNKNOWN	RC	Even though the rug was ripped out from under Lollapalooza this week, Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell is optimistic that the eclectic music festival he co-founded in 1991 will resurface and it might be sooner than you think.	Perry Farrel hopes to found another music festival.
1228	YES	MT	An official of Abyan police, where 16 Western tourists are being held since yesterday, announced that the hostages are held by the Yemeni "Islamic Jihad" group, which is demanding the release of its leader and lifting the embargo on Iraq.	The Yemen branch of the "Islamic Jihad" group, kidnapped the 16 Western tourists.
603	YES	IR	This taught postgraduate masters degree programme will provide specialised training at a postgraduate level in the methods and uses of remote sensing applied to the ocean.	Ocean remote sensing is applied.
984	YES	RC	Cool, humid weather Sunday helped slow the advance of a fire that caused the evacuation of hundreds of homes and businesses in Alaska's Interior.	There was a fire in Alaska.
746	UNKNOWN	IE	Sunday's explosion outside the Al-Rashi police station in the Al-Mashtel neighbourhood in the southeast of Baghdad, left a huge crater in the street.	Al Rashi is an executive of the police.
339	UNKNOWN	IR	The conference found that many Australians experience discrimination through the Governmental, penal, legal and health care systems because of their mental health, race, skin colour, sexuality, sexual formation or refugee status.	Mental health problems increase in the young.
754	YES	SUM	A team from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control boarded the ship when it docked in St. Maarten to oversee the cleaning operation and try to determine what caused the outbreak, Carnival said.	The causes of the outbreak were searched for by a team from the U.S. CDC.
397	YES	QA	The widow of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, may take legal action against a new breakfast cereal called "Strawberry Fields," which she believes is too close in name to Lennon's song.	Yoko Ono is John Lennon's widow.
133	UNKNOWN	SUM	Verizon Communications Inc. said on Monday it would buy long-distance telephone company MCI Communications Inc. in a deal worth $6.75 billion, giving Verizon a foothold in the market for serving large corporations.	Verizon Communications Inc.'s $6.7 billion takeover of long-distance provider MCI Inc. transformed the telephone industry.
498	YES	PP	Medieval Christians said the rosary as Catholics still do today: by praying five decades of Ave Marias (Hail Marys), each introduced by a Pater Noster (Our Father), while meditating on three series of five mysteries each.	Christians pray the rosary.
50	YES	IE	Edison decided to call "his" invention the Kinetoscope, combining the Greek root words "kineto" (movement), and "scopos" ("to view").	Edison invented the Kinetoscope.
638	YES	QA	And, despite its own suggestions to the contrary, Oracle will sell PeopleSoft and JD Edwards financial software through reseller channels to new customers.	Oracle sells financial software.
96	YES	IR	Moscow believes that the waters of the Sea of Azov should remain in common use, but Kiev insists on a clear division.	There is a territorial waters dispute.
638	UNKNOWN	SUM	The official visit of the Argentine minister marks a further step in the normalisation of UK-Argentine relations.	Relations between Argentina and Great Britain are growing more cooperative.
628	YES	QA	The human species may be more than 100,000 years old but the bulk of its numerical growth has come in just the last few decades: 2.6 billion of today's 5.6 billion people have been born since 1960.	The world population is 5.6 billion.
768	NO	CD	A small bronze bust of Spencer Tracy sold for £174,000.	A small bronze bust of Spencer Tracy made £180,447.
296	UNKNOWN	IR	Mozambique's Maria Mutola and Israel's Alex Averbukh produced the best performances of the year, in the women's 800 metres and men's pole vault, at the Super Grand Prix in Madrid on Saturday.	The women's ten thousand metres champion is from Mozambique.
779	YES	IR	A joint venture led by Australia's Global Petroleum Ltd. said, yesterday, it had won the right to explore for oil and gas in the inhospitable waters south and east of the Falkland Islands.	Petroleum will be explored in the South Atlantic.
320	UNKNOWN	IR	Rabies is a viral disease of mammals and is transmitted primarily through bites. Annually, 7,000 to 8,000 rabid animals are detected in the United States, with more than 90 percent of the cases in wild animals.	Rabies is fatal in humans.
328	YES	IR	Epiphyte is the name applied to the class of plants which typically do not root in the soil but, rather, attach themselves to trees or other tall objects where they can obtain light and moisture.	Plants are grown in substances other than soil.
595	UNKNOWN	SUM	The Bills will announce the release of 12-year veteran Drew Bledsoe on Wednesday afternoon, leaving J.P. Losman as the No. 1 QB.	The Bills announced that they will release the 33-year-old Bledsoe.
223	NO	IE	Cage is a big fan of "Superman" (who was born on the fictional planet Krypton) and was to play the role in a film planned for the 1990s that never came to be.	Cage played Superman.
451	UNKNOWN	IE	Ordonez Reyes accused Jose Jesus Pena, alleged chief of security for the Nicaraguan embassy in Tegucigalpa, of masterminding the January 7th assassination of contra-commander Manuel Antonio Rugama.	Manuel Antonio Rugama was killed by Jose Jesus Pena.
435	UNKNOWN	QA	Global markets should be "quite strong enough to absorb it without lasting damage", he said . "I would stress that these circumstances are unique to Barings and should not apply to other banks operating in London." Barings faced losses of at least 600m in contracts on three stock exchanges in Singapore , Osaka and Tokyo , he said , but 'further unquantifiable losses' were expected .	The banking firm Barings collapsed due to speculations made by Nick Leeson.
11	NO	IE	The chaotic situation unleashed in Bogota last night, with the assasination of Justice Carlos Valencia, began on 28 July in Medellin, when motorized paid assasins murdered third public order Judge Maria Elena Diaz.	Justice Carlos Valencia was killed on 28 July.
331	UNKNOWN	RC	Chancellor Schroeder has presided over three years of almost zero growth in the economy and an unemployment rate that has remained stubbornly above four million people.	More than four million people have remained stubbornly unemployed in the last three years.
392	NO	IR	U.S. space shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member crew concluded their pursuit of the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday and docked with the orbital outpost at 12:05 EDT (1605 GMT).	US shuttle Atlantis docks with the Mir space station.
66	YES	IR	The Royal Navy servicemen being held captive by Iran are expected to be freed today.	British servicemen detained
202	YES	RC	Passions surrounding Germany's final match at the Euro 2004 soccer championships turned violent when a woman stabbed her partner in the head because she didn't want to watch the game on television.	A man was stabbed because of a soccer game.
741	UNKNOWN	SUM	Although most Palestinians crossed into Egypt in order to shop and see relatives, Palestinian officials say that the recent border chaos enabled smugglers to bring drugs and weapons into Gaza.	Egyptian and Palestinian border guards failed repeatedly in efforts to end the chaos and to close the border.
449	YES	SUM	Thompson, a renegade journalist whose 'gonzo' style threw out any pretense at objectivity and established the hard-living writer as a counter-culture icon, fatally shot himself at his Colorado home on Sunday night, police said.	Thompson's 'gonzo' journalism throws objectivity out of the window.
784	YES	SUM	Three nurses in one of Vienna's oldest hospitals have been arrested on suspicion of killing 35 patients.	Three Vienna nurses are under suspicion for killing patients.
656	UNKNOWN	IR	After two years, the aspirin subjects experienced a reduced risk of fatal and nonfatal stroke.	People experienced adverse effects while taking aspirin.
49	UNKNOWN	QA	As regards the headquarters building, the Swiss are stipulating that they would transfer it to the WTO for a value of about 51 million swiss franks.	The WTO headquarters are in Switzerland.
515	NO	PP	After trial, Family Court found defendant guilty of willfully violating the order of protection and sentenced him to six months incarceration.	Family Court cannot punish the guilty.
698	UNKNOWN	CD	Saint John's Cathedral is the oldest church in Warsaw.	In the Old Town, the Gothic St . John's Cathedral and the red-brick fortifications known as the Barbican remain from the medieval period.
669	YES	QA	On July 8th, the Mozilla team released a configuration change which resolves this problem by explicitly disabling the use of the shell: an external protocol handler.	A shell is an external protocol handler.
95	UNKNOWN	QA	The Chicago White Sox are a major league baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois.	The Bulls basketball team is based in Chicago, Illinois.
512	NO	IE	The murders of Galan, a high-ranking police officer, and a judge last week, were probably carried out by an Israeli mercenary paid by the Medellin cartel - the world's most powerful drug-trafficking mafia - which has set up paramilitary squads accused of hundreds of individual murders and massacres against political and labor leaders, as well as peasants and patriotic union leftist militants in different parts of the country.	Galan was killed by patriotic union leftist militants.
542	YES	QA	Even while accepting the Russian plan, IMF Managing Director Michel Camdessus noted that the efficiency of Russia's State Taxation Service "is declining rapidly."	Michel Camdessus is managing director of IMF.
158	UNKNOWN	IE	He said that his daughter was told that Clark had been cited to General Sessions Court.	Clark is employed at General Sessions Court.
668	YES	CD	Some of the buildings around the city square in the Kota also date from colonial times, including the old city hall ( 1710 ), which has been restored and now serves as the municipal museum.	The city hall is a museum now.
826	YES	CD	A car bomb exploded outside a U.S. military base near Baji.	A car bomb exploded outside a U.S. military base near Beiji.
1454	YES	QA	In fact, Woolsey had had no first-hand experience with the world of spies until President Bill Clinton appointed him Director of Central Intelligence.	James Woolsey is the director of the CIA.
587	UNKNOWN	QA	The bet, which won him dinner for four, was regarding the existence and mass of the top quark, an elementary particle discovered in 1995.	The Top Quark is the last of six flavors of quarks predicted by the standard model theory of particle physics.
603	UNKNOWN	SUM	Two portraits, one by Reynolds, the other by Gainsborough, since 1990 among the most looked-after works in the Art Loss Register database, were recovered this week when they were brought into Sotheby's for evaluation. Also a lithograph by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, stolen from an Oslo art gallery in April, has been recovered, news reports said today.	These two portraits and a lithography by Edvard Munch were recovered using the Art Loss Register database.
547	YES	QA	For the case of Aldrich Hazen (Rick) Ames , and his Colombian-born wife , Maria del Rosario Casas Ames arrested by the FBI on charges that they were Russian spies , is so rich in mysteries , puzzles , riddles and contradictions that the answers may never be untangled even as the CIA's counterintell.	Aldrich Hazen Ames is married to Rosario Casas Ames.
668	UNKNOWN	SUM	RJ Reynolds Tobacco announced yesterday that it plans to build a factory in Turkey to produce cigarettes by late 1993.	RJR built factories in Turkey.
520	UNKNOWN	QA	Beamon's jump was a world record that eclipsed the previous record by 21 3/4 inches. The jump still stands as an Olympic record, and stood as a world record until Mike Powell leapt 29' 4 1/2" at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo.	2,45 m is the world record in the high jump.
2188	UNKNOWN	RC	A second man, aged 24, technically freed yesterday was bailed after being questioned over alleged forged identity documents, but has been further detained on immigration matters, a spokesman for Scotland Yard said.	A spokesman for Scotland Yard was freed yesterday.
30	NO	IE	In announcing plans today to prepare the nation for combating a future worldwide wave of bird flu, President Bush used vocabulary and tactics that are familiar from his confrontation with global terrorism.	Bush supports global terrorism.
417	NO	QA	Today's best estimate of giant panda numbers in the wild is about 1,100 individuals living in up to 32 separate populations mostly in China's Sichuan Province, but also in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.	There are 32 pandas in the wild in China.
1490	YES	QA	"It's Only a Play" is Terrence McNally's "Give My Regards to Broadway," a lightweight tribute to the theater as seen from the lofty but limited vantage point of Broadway artists who are consumed by New York's hit/flop mentality.	Broadway is in New York.
771	UNKNOWN	CD	Nichols, 49, was convicted in the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.	Nichols was sentenced to life in prison for the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building.

40

YES

IR

The disputed waters lie close to the Sipadan and Ligitan islands, which Indonesia lost to Malaysia in a legal battle in the International Court of Justice in December 2002.

There is a territorial waters dispute.

224

YES

SUM

On Friday evening, a car bomb exploded outside a Shiite mosque in Iskandariyah, 30 miles south of the capital, killing seven people and wounding 10, doctors said on condition of anonymity.

The car bomb at the mosque in Iskandariyah exploded.

637

YES

QA

IBM is now at the top of my list of where I want to work. Ivy alone had nine interviews when the team visited the company's headquarters in Armonk last week.

IBM's has its headquarters in Armonk.

19

YES

IR

Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health say that people who drink coffee may be doing a lot more than keeping themselves awake - this kind of consumption apparently also can help reduce the risk of diseases.

Coffee drinking has health benefits.

687

UNKNOWN

SUM

Michaela Roeder, 31, was found guilty of six counts of manslaughter and mercy killing.

A German nurse was convicted of manslaughter and mercy killing of patients by lethal injection.

145

NO

QA

When Adolf Hitler heard of how Mussolini was executed and put on public display, he vowed he would not let this happen to him. Hitler shot his mistress and new wife, Eva Braunn, and then swallowing some poison, he shot himself in the mouth.

Mussolini's mistress was Eva Braunn.

555

YES

QA

Not counting the 1986 catastrophe at Chernobyl, where the nuclear reactors are of a different design, the industry has so far succeeded.

The catastrophe at Chernobyl happened in 1986.

618

YES

SUM

Some passengers were escorted off the ship in wheelchairs by crew wearing blue gloves.

Wheelchairs were used to lead passengers off the ship.

528

YES

PP

Swedish massage is used to help relax muscles, increase circulation, remove metabolic waste products, help the recipient obtain a feeling of connectedness, a better awareness of their body and the way they use and position it.

Swedish massage loosens tense muscles.

443

UNKNOWN

QA

Addressing a function organized here by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Anand said, the greatest and most urgent challenges of human rights in India were in the areas of maternal and child care, child education, child labor, child abuse and protection of minorities and weaker sections.

Amnesty International takes care of human rights.

175

UNKNOWN

IE

The memo, written by Marc Allen Connelly (who was general counsel to the funeral services commission at the time) and sent to Dick McNeil (the Bush-appointed chairman of the funeral commission) stated that Connelly "received information" from Texas state officials that two of the funeral commissioners worked for SCI.

Dick McNeil was an employee of Bush.

1164

YES

MT

Ramadan told reporters at the opening ceremony of the Baghdad International Exposition, "No cooperation and no inspection or monitoring by the American Zionist espionage commission (the Special Commission for disarming Iraq's banned weapons - UNSCOM) before Iraq's demands are met."

Ramadan announced that Iraq will not cooperate with the inspectors.

136

UNKNOWN

QA

Today in the city of Sao Paulo (from May 1 to May 30) we have a display on Ayrton Senna.

Ayrton Senna was from Sao Paulo.

455

UNKNOWN

QA

The curious Belgian compromise over the weed has some logic, even for a country which says it wants to reduce drug use. Surveys show that as many as 40 percent of the country's 10 million population has experienced cannabis and with the Dutch border an hour away for most of the population, some liberalisation seems inevitable.

People can legally have 40 grams of cannabis in their possession.

271

YES

IR

The May 3 ferry sinking in the Meghna River that claimed the lives of at least 370 people is a reminder of the dangers inherent in this sort of travel.

100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.

435

UNKNOWN

IE

SCI, Houston's largest funeral services company, was headed by Robert Waltrip--a close associate of the Bush family.

Robert Waltrip works for the Bush family.

647

YES

SUM

GM established grounds for suspicion of industrial spying by presenting affidavits from its employees. The aim will be to determine if VW's project was copied from GM data - essential if industrial espionage is to be proved.

There was an industrial espionage case involving GM and VW.

1806

UNKNOWN

CD

Vanunu, 49, was abducted by Israeli agents and convicted of treason in 1986 after discussing his work as a mid-level Dimona technician with Britain's Sunday Times newspaper.

Vanunu's disclosures in 1968 led experts to conclude that Israel has a stockpile of nuclear warheads.

799

YES

SUM

Chinese Premier, Zhu Rongji, and German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, opened the world's first commercial magnetic levitation (maglev) train yesterday, with both sides having much to gain from its success.

Both Mr. Schroeder and Mr. Zhu have much to gain if maglev succeeds.

723

YES

SUM

The motor industry accounts for as much as 40 per cent of the 450,000 installed industrial robots worldwide but their use is changing and applications are expanding.

The most common use for robots is the manufacture of automobiles.

2177

UNKNOWN

CD

Only 14 percent of U.S. mothers exclusively breast-feed their babies for the minimum recommended six months.

There are many benefits from breast-feeding.

763

YES

CD

Treasures belonging to Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn have raised £3.2m at a two-day auction in America.

A two-day auction of property belonging to actress Katharine Hepburn brought in 3.2 million pounds.

691

UNKNOWN

QA

Arabic, for example, is used densely across North Africa and from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Philippines, as the key language of the Arab world and the primary vehicle of Islam.

Arabic is the primary language of the Philippines.

195

UNKNOWN

SUM

Still, the storm surge was both stronger and earlier than expected, apparently coming through waterways southeast of the city, said Col. Richard Wagenaar, the Army Corps of Engineers' district chief in New Orleans.

Col. Richard Wagenaar said the problems would set back repairs at least three weeks, but June was still the target for having the levees back to pre-Katrina strength.

23

NO

IE

A.C. Milan is in second place with 13 points, after two first-half goals from captain Paolo Maldini earned them a 2-1 victory over Reggina.

Paolo Maldini plays for Reggina.

355

UNKNOWN

IR

The investigation came about following the collapse of Barings Bank, when one of its traders based in Singapore, Nick Leeson, amassed losses of the order of 600-700 million without the bank being aware of it.

Nick Leeson was arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC.

322

UNKNOWN

IR

Research workers of the German archaeological institute have discovered a mummy in permafrost at excavation work in Mongolia of approximately 2,500 years old.

Altai ice maiden triggers major dispute.

565

YES

QA

Soprano's Square: Milan, Italy, home of the famed La Scala opera house, honored soprano Maria Callas on Wednesday when it renamed a new square after the diva.

La Scala opera house is located in Milan, Italy.

425

YES

QA

Brazilian cardinal Dom Eusbio Oscar Scheid, Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro , harshly criticized Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva after arriving in Rome on Tuesday.

The Brazilian President is Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

626

YES

IE

The Bank of Italy, the ultimate arbiter of Italian banking mergers, has been engulfed by scandal since police wire taps revealed Fazio and his wife advised a local banker in a bid for bank Antonveneta against Dutch bank ABN AMRO.

Dutch bank ABN AMRO bids for Bank Antonveneta.

251

YES

IR

The university server containing the information relating to Mason's ID cards was illegally entered by computer hackers.

Non-authorized personnel illegally entered into computer networks.

11

UNKNOWN

IE

I recently took a round trip from Abuja to Yola, the capital of Adamawa State and back to Abuja, with a fourteen-seater bus.

Abuja is located in Adamawa State.

600

UNKNOWN

QA

Prolonged exposure to UV-B light can cause sunburn, and there are worries that damage to the ozone layer may lead to an increase in the incidence of skin cancer.

UV-B light is damaging the ozone layer.

797

YES

QA

Civic Alliance, the umbrella group of civic groups involved in rebuilding, hosted a large, public, town-hall meeting for 5,000 people, called "Listening to the City" in July 2002.

The Civic Alliance is an umbrella group.

1959

UNKNOWN

PP

Kerry hit Bush hard on his conduct on the war in Iraq.

Kerry shot Bush.

17

YES

QA

John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln as he sat in the presidential box of Ford's Theater watching the light comedy, "Our American Cousin."

Lincoln was assassinated in the presidential box of Ford's Theater.

345

UNKNOWN

IE

Craig Conway, fired as PeopleSoft's chief executive officer before the company was bought by Oracle, was in England last week.

Craig Conway works for Oracle.

2143

NO

IR

There is none. They found as many weapons in this masjid as they found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq.

2072

NO

QA

In 1932 he joined the then illegal Communist party and held high government and party posts from 1942, becoming home secretary in 1948, when the Communist party took control in Hungary.

Communist control in Hungary ended in 1948.

2115

UNKNOWN

CD

A senior al-Qaeda operative who was said to be planning an attack on Heathrow Airport has been arrested.

Despite rumors, the British Home Office denied any specific threat had been made to target Heathrow airport.

69

UNKNOWN

IR

Anorexia in males accounted for approximately six percent of cases seen in an eating disorder clinic.

Anorexia becomes common in males.

441

YES

IE

The automobile industry, led by General Motors and Ford, offered price discounts from June-August that temporarily boosted sales, but these discounts may have masked underlying weakness.

Ford is part of the automobile industry.

114

UNKNOWN

IR

International journalists' organisations are accusing the U.S. government of committing war crimes in Iraq by intentionally firing at war correspondents.

US withdraws war crimes

551

YES

IR

The result in Denmark shows that people are fundamentally opposed to joining the euro.

The introduction of the euro has been opposed.

682

UNKNOWN

SUM

Companies are working to reduce the interval between drug discovery and marketing.

Companies are working to shorten the new drug development period to an average of eight to nine years in the US.

236

UNKNOWN

IR

The greatest threat to life and property associated with a hurricane and tropical storm is storm surge.

A tropical storm has caused significant property damage or loss of life.

198

UNKNOWN

RC

Even though the rug was ripped out from under Lollapalooza this week, Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell is optimistic that the eclectic music festival he co-founded in 1991 will resurface and it might be sooner than you think.

Perry Farrel hopes to found another music festival.

1228

YES

MT

An official of Abyan police, where 16 Western tourists are being held since yesterday, announced that the hostages are held by the Yemeni "Islamic Jihad" group, which is demanding the release of its leader and lifting the embargo on Iraq.

The Yemen branch of the "Islamic Jihad" group, kidnapped the 16 Western tourists.

603

YES

IR

This taught postgraduate masters degree programme will provide specialised training at a postgraduate level in the methods and uses of remote sensing applied to the ocean.

Ocean remote sensing is applied.

984

YES

RC

Cool, humid weather Sunday helped slow the advance of a fire that caused the evacuation of hundreds of homes and businesses in Alaska's Interior.

There was a fire in Alaska.

746

UNKNOWN

IE

Sunday's explosion outside the Al-Rashi police station in the Al-Mashtel neighbourhood in the southeast of Baghdad, left a huge crater in the street.

Al Rashi is an executive of the police.

339

UNKNOWN

IR

The conference found that many Australians experience discrimination through the Governmental, penal, legal and health care systems because of their mental health, race, skin colour, sexuality, sexual formation or refugee status.

Mental health problems increase in the young.

754

YES

SUM

A team from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control boarded the ship when it docked in St. Maarten to oversee the cleaning operation and try to determine what caused the outbreak, Carnival said.

The causes of the outbreak were searched for by a team from the U.S. CDC.

397

YES

QA

The widow of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, may take legal action against a new breakfast cereal called "Strawberry Fields," which she believes is too close in name to Lennon's song.

Yoko Ono is John Lennon's widow.

133

UNKNOWN

SUM

Verizon Communications Inc. said on Monday it would buy long-distance telephone company MCI Communications Inc. in a deal worth $6.75 billion, giving Verizon a foothold in the market for serving large corporations.

Verizon Communications Inc.'s $6.7 billion takeover of long-distance provider MCI Inc. transformed the telephone industry.

498

YES

PP

Medieval Christians said the rosary as Catholics still do today: by praying five decades of Ave Marias (Hail Marys), each introduced by a Pater Noster (Our Father), while meditating on three series of five mysteries each.

Christians pray the rosary.

50

YES

IE

Edison decided to call "his" invention the Kinetoscope, combining the Greek root words "kineto" (movement), and "scopos" ("to view").

Edison invented the Kinetoscope.

638

YES

QA

And, despite its own suggestions to the contrary, Oracle will sell PeopleSoft and JD Edwards financial software through reseller channels to new customers.

Oracle sells financial software.

96

YES

IR

Moscow believes that the waters of the Sea of Azov should remain in common use, but Kiev insists on a clear division.

There is a territorial waters dispute.

638

UNKNOWN

SUM

The official visit of the Argentine minister marks a further step in the normalisation of UK-Argentine relations.

Relations between Argentina and Great Britain are growing more cooperative.

628

YES

QA

The human species may be more than 100,000 years old but the bulk of its numerical growth has come in just the last few decades: 2.6 billion of today's 5.6 billion people have been born since 1960.

The world population is 5.6 billion.

768

NO

CD

A small bronze bust of Spencer Tracy sold for £174,000.

A small bronze bust of Spencer Tracy made £180,447.

296

UNKNOWN

IR

Mozambique's Maria Mutola and Israel's Alex Averbukh produced the best performances of the year, in the women's 800 metres and men's pole vault, at the Super Grand Prix in Madrid on Saturday.

The women's ten thousand metres champion is from Mozambique.

779

YES

IR

A joint venture led by Australia's Global Petroleum Ltd. said, yesterday, it had won the right to explore for oil and gas in the inhospitable waters south and east of the Falkland Islands.

Petroleum will be explored in the South Atlantic.

320

UNKNOWN

IR

Rabies is a viral disease of mammals and is transmitted primarily through bites. Annually, 7,000 to 8,000 rabid animals are detected in the United States, with more than 90 percent of the cases in wild animals.

Rabies is fatal in humans.

328

YES

IR

Epiphyte is the name applied to the class of plants which typically do not root in the soil but, rather, attach themselves to trees or other tall objects where they can obtain light and moisture.

Plants are grown in substances other than soil.

595

UNKNOWN

SUM

The Bills will announce the release of 12-year veteran Drew Bledsoe on Wednesday afternoon, leaving J.P. Losman as the No. 1 QB.

The Bills announced that they will release the 33-year-old Bledsoe.

223

NO

IE

Cage is a big fan of "Superman" (who was born on the fictional planet Krypton) and was to play the role in a film planned for the 1990s that never came to be.

Cage played Superman.

451

UNKNOWN

IE

Ordonez Reyes accused Jose Jesus Pena, alleged chief of security for the Nicaraguan embassy in Tegucigalpa, of masterminding the January 7th assassination of contra-commander Manuel Antonio Rugama.

Manuel Antonio Rugama was killed by Jose Jesus Pena.

435

UNKNOWN

QA

Global markets should be "quite strong enough to absorb it without lasting damage", he said . "I would stress that these circumstances are unique to Barings and should not apply to other banks operating in London." Barings faced losses of at least 600m in contracts on three stock exchanges in Singapore , Osaka and Tokyo , he said , but 'further unquantifiable losses' were expected .

The banking firm Barings collapsed due to speculations made by Nick Leeson.

11

NO

IE

The chaotic situation unleashed in Bogota last night, with the assasination of Justice Carlos Valencia, began on 28 July in Medellin, when motorized paid assasins murdered third public order Judge Maria Elena Diaz.

Justice Carlos Valencia was killed on 28 July.

331

UNKNOWN

RC

Chancellor Schroeder has presided over three years of almost zero growth in the economy and an unemployment rate that has remained stubbornly above four million people.

More than four million people have remained stubbornly unemployed in the last three years.

392

NO

IR

U.S. space shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member crew concluded their pursuit of the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday and docked with the orbital outpost at 12:05 EDT (1605 GMT).

US shuttle Atlantis docks with the Mir space station.

66

YES

IR

The Royal Navy servicemen being held captive by Iran are expected to be freed today.

British servicemen detained

202

YES

RC

Passions surrounding Germany's final match at the Euro 2004 soccer championships turned violent when a woman stabbed her partner in the head because she didn't want to watch the game on television.

A man was stabbed because of a soccer game.

741

UNKNOWN

SUM

Although most Palestinians crossed into Egypt in order to shop and see relatives, Palestinian officials say that the recent border chaos enabled smugglers to bring drugs and weapons into Gaza.

Egyptian and Palestinian border guards failed repeatedly in efforts to end the chaos and to close the border.

449

YES

SUM

Thompson, a renegade journalist whose 'gonzo' style threw out any pretense at objectivity and established the hard-living writer as a counter-culture icon, fatally shot himself at his Colorado home on Sunday night, police said.

Thompson's 'gonzo' journalism throws objectivity out of the window.

784

YES

SUM

Three nurses in one of Vienna's oldest hospitals have been arrested on suspicion of killing 35 patients.

Three Vienna nurses are under suspicion for killing patients.

656

UNKNOWN

IR

After two years, the aspirin subjects experienced a reduced risk of fatal and nonfatal stroke.

People experienced adverse effects while taking aspirin.

49

UNKNOWN

QA

As regards the headquarters building, the Swiss are stipulating that they would transfer it to the WTO for a value of about 51 million swiss franks.

The WTO headquarters are in Switzerland.

515

NO

PP

After trial, Family Court found defendant guilty of willfully violating the order of protection and sentenced him to six months incarceration.

Family Court cannot punish the guilty.

698

UNKNOWN

CD

Saint John's Cathedral is the oldest church in Warsaw.

In the Old Town, the Gothic St . John's Cathedral and the red-brick fortifications known as the Barbican remain from the medieval period.

669

YES

QA

On July 8th, the Mozilla team released a configuration change which resolves this problem by explicitly disabling the use of the shell: an external protocol handler.

A shell is an external protocol handler.

95

UNKNOWN

QA

The Chicago White Sox are a major league baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois.

The Bulls basketball team is based in Chicago, Illinois.

512

NO

IE

The murders of Galan, a high-ranking police officer, and a judge last week, were probably carried out by an Israeli mercenary paid by the Medellin cartel - the world's most powerful drug-trafficking mafia - which has set up paramilitary squads accused of hundreds of individual murders and massacres against political and labor leaders, as well as peasants and patriotic union leftist militants in different parts of the country.

Galan was killed by patriotic union leftist militants.

542

YES

QA

Even while accepting the Russian plan, IMF Managing Director Michel Camdessus noted that the efficiency of Russia's State Taxation Service "is declining rapidly."

Michel Camdessus is managing director of IMF.

158

UNKNOWN

IE

He said that his daughter was told that Clark had been cited to General Sessions Court.

Clark is employed at General Sessions Court.

668

YES

CD

Some of the buildings around the city square in the Kota also date from colonial times, including the old city hall ( 1710 ), which has been restored and now serves as the municipal museum.

The city hall is a museum now.

826

YES

CD

A car bomb exploded outside a U.S. military base near Baji.

A car bomb exploded outside a U.S. military base near Beiji.

1454

YES

QA

In fact, Woolsey had had no first-hand experience with the world of spies until President Bill Clinton appointed him Director of Central Intelligence.

James Woolsey is the director of the CIA.

587

UNKNOWN

QA

The bet, which won him dinner for four, was regarding the existence and mass of the top quark, an elementary particle discovered in 1995.

The Top Quark is the last of six flavors of quarks predicted by the standard model theory of particle physics.

603

UNKNOWN

SUM

Two portraits, one by Reynolds, the other by Gainsborough, since 1990 among the most looked-after works in the Art Loss Register database, were recovered this week when they were brought into Sotheby's for evaluation. Also a lithograph by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, stolen from an Oslo art gallery in April, has been recovered, news reports said today.

These two portraits and a lithography by Edvard Munch were recovered using the Art Loss Register database.

547

YES

QA

For the case of Aldrich Hazen (Rick) Ames , and his Colombian-born wife , Maria del Rosario Casas Ames arrested by the FBI on charges that they were Russian spies , is so rich in mysteries , puzzles , riddles and contradictions that the answers may never be untangled even as the CIA's counterintell.

Aldrich Hazen Ames is married to Rosario Casas Ames.

668

UNKNOWN

SUM

RJ Reynolds Tobacco announced yesterday that it plans to build a factory in Turkey to produce cigarettes by late 1993.

RJR built factories in Turkey.

520

UNKNOWN

QA

Beamon's jump was a world record that eclipsed the previous record by 21 3/4 inches. The jump still stands as an Olympic record, and stood as a world record until Mike Powell leapt 29' 4 1/2" at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo.

2,45 m is the world record in the high jump.

2188

UNKNOWN

RC

A second man, aged 24, technically freed yesterday was bailed after being questioned over alleged forged identity documents, but has been further detained on immigration matters, a spokesman for Scotland Yard said.

A spokesman for Scotland Yard was freed yesterday.

30

NO

IE

In announcing plans today to prepare the nation for combating a future worldwide wave of bird flu, President Bush used vocabulary and tactics that are familiar from his confrontation with global terrorism.

Bush supports global terrorism.

417

NO

QA

Today's best estimate of giant panda numbers in the wild is about 1,100 individuals living in up to 32 separate populations mostly in China's Sichuan Province, but also in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.

There are 32 pandas in the wild in China.

1490

YES

QA

"It's Only a Play" is Terrence McNally's "Give My Regards to Broadway," a lightweight tribute to the theater as seen from the lofty but limited vantage point of Broadway artists who are consumed by New York's hit/flop mentality.

Broadway is in New York.

771

UNKNOWN

CD

Nichols, 49, was convicted in the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

Nichols was sentenced to life in prison for the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building.