Millions of tracks to be given away
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Arts & entertainment: Record industry to offer 25m tracks to download for free as big-name advertising funds new services
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By Graham Brough  THE Beatles are set for a pounds 500million-a-year bonanza after settling a long dispute with computer giant Apple.  The settlement means the Fab Four's entire back catalogue will be available on iTunes at 79p a song.
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A company that many expected never to make it to launch has opened up offering 770,000 songs.
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Plans are underway to organise a huge charity concert in the Millennium Stadium in the Welsh city of Cardiff, with all profits going to the victims of the Asian tsunami disaster.
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People worldwide opened their hearts and wallets on Thursday to give millions of dollars to the victims of Asia&#39;s tsunamis, jamming phone lines and web sites and outpacing their own governments in their generosity.
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The final major-label holdout plans to make unrestricted songs available in the near future.
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National strike will hit public transport across nation.
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In a bid to ease severe overcrowding on trains, the Department for Transport will Wednesday announce the provision of an extra 1,000 railway carriages.
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A very large and valuable pile of assets now stands to change hands, possibly quite soon.
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Millions of pounds of public money aimed at helping the most deprived areas of Wales is being sent back unused, it has emerged.
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It is a licensed file-sharing service with almost an unlimited selection of tracks that will give record labels a degree of control over file-sharing.
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The capacity of people to give never ceases to amaze me. In Washington, Donnie Simpson, a local radio personality, recently helped raise funds for the American Red Cross's tsunami relief efforts. Listeners were encouraged to donate a minimum of $100 for a song request or shout-out.
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Four environmental projects are going head to head to win Â£50m of lottery cash - the largest ever pay-out.
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A collector's treasure trove of more than 6 million songs -- on vinyl and CDs, in genres from rock and jazz to country and Broadway -- goes up for auction. Bidding starts at $3 million.
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The four major tracks in Massachusetts filed for 2005 racing dates with the state racing commission yesterday, one day in advance of the deadline.
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The X Prize Foundation, famous for its 2004 Ansari award aimed at encouraging private space travel, offered 10 million dollars to the team of researchers able to develop technology that can map 100 human genomes in 10 days.
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A global campaign is underway to ban the transportation of millions of live animals over long distances.