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WASHINGTON – Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) on Wednesday said the company was adopting voluntary principles to guide development of its flagship Windows operating system, which will include allowing computer manufacturers to set Google (GOOG) and other non-Microsoft search engines as a default. Brad Smith, Microsoft senior vice president and general counsel, …

LONDON – A spokesperson for David Hasselhoff denied a report Thursday that the former “Baywatch” and “Knight Rider” star had been turned away from a British Airways flight because he was drunk. Judy Katz, the actor’s publicist, called the story by the tabloid Sun “totally untrue.” Katz said Hasselhoff had …

Up to 9 inches of rain brought flooding to Indiana and Ohio on Wednesday, killing a woman, while a tornado in a county north of New York City partly collapsed a commercial building and ripped the roof off a hotel. Firefighters recovered the body of an Ohio woman who had …