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San Francisco - Social networking site Facebook has won an 873-million-dollar damages award against a spammer who inundated users of the site with millions of unwanted messages, the company said Monday.
In a blog posting, the company's director of security Max Kelly said the award by the US District Court in San Jose was the largest...
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 Daniel Craig plays James Bond in the new 007 movie: “Quantum of Solace.” The franchise reached its 22nd movie and its success doesn’t seem to shrink at all. Craig said that his character is still “too headstrong and doesn't always make the right decisions.” The movie is made by EON Productions and will be released in the UK on 31 October...
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Agent 007 is back once again. The trailer of the new Bond
movie, “Quantum of Solace” debuted online on Monday morning.
Daniel Craig makes his comeback as 007 after his prior film,
“Casino Royale”, in 2006. It’s
for the first time when a James Bond movie sequels a previous one. Probably the
most famous agent in the world finds...
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 A $250,000 Aston Martin due to be used for the latest James Bond movie, “Quantum of Solace,” took a bath in a Italian Lake yesterday, when a stuntman drove the wheels off a cliff, BBC News reports.
According to the producers, it appears that the car was being delivered to a film scene in heavy rain, when the driver lost control...
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 Fox announced Monday that “Prison Break” will return for its
fourth season. Another 22 episodes were ordered from 20th Century
Fox TV and will give fans the opportunity to watch Wentworth Miller’s
character, Michael Scofield in back action. Unlike this season, the previous one had
only 13 episodes, due to the writers’ strike. The...
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 “Girls Gone Wild” creator Joe Francis went mild in court and
pleaded no contest to charges of filming underage girls for his adult videos on
Wednesday.
Francis was sentenced to 11 months in jail, a sentence that
he had already completed and thus he was freed to go back to his racy DVDs.
The “Girls Gone Wild” empire was built...
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 If celebrity sex tape lovers are eager for something fresh,
well, their wish is fulfilled.
A tape allegedly featuring KISS bassist Gene Simmons having
sex with a blonde model surfaced on the internet. The web site SecretGenes.com
shelters a footage of a man bearing a strong resemblance to Simmons having sex
in several different...
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Ecuador has formally notified the United
States that it must vacate a base used to combat drug trafficking when
the lease expires next year, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
Ecuadorian officials informed the US embassy of the plans, which
have long been a pledge by President Rafael Correa despite objections
from surrounding...
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 According to new satellite images, the once treacherous Northwest
Passage in the Arctic Ocean, impracticable
by even the largest ships and ice breakers, has shrunk to the lowest level on
record, making the ice so thin that it may yet become a navigable shipping
channel.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has been tracking various...
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 The US National team routed the Virgin Islands 123-59 at the FIBA Americas basketball tournament last night. Michael Redd and Carmelo Anthony came up with 22 points each to lead the U.S. to its second victory in the tournament that will send the first two teams at the Olympics held in Beijing next year. The US missed a chance to earn a...
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Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou is using his first overseas' trip since his May 20 inauguration to unveil a "diplomatic truce" proposal to China, but analysts cast doubt Monday that Beijing would cooperate.
On his trip to Panama, Paraguay and the Dominican Republic which ends on Tuesday, Ma has called for both Beijing and...
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Ma Ying-jeou departed Tuesday for his first overseas trip as Taiwan's president as he seeks to achieve a balancing act of building better relations with China while also consolidating ties with three of Taiwan's 23 diplomatic allies.
Similar trips by previous Taiwan presidents along with transit stops in the United States, which Ma...
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Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou left Tuesday for three Latin American countries in a visit he described as cementing bilateral relations and winning trust from China and the US.
"I hope to consolidate ties with allies and promote cross-strait relations," while rebuilding trust with the US, Ma said before departing Taiwan on...
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The Chinese government has revoked the licenses of three companies that had exported mislabeled drug ingredients and tainted pet food ingredients to the United States and other countries. The move is part of a broad effort to repair the loss of confidence in their products as a result of several incidents.The most important such incident...
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A British man who faked his own death in a canoeing accident
and his wife were each sentenced to more than six years of imprisonment on
Wednesday after a trial which unveiled how they organized the cheat in order to
collect insurance money.
John Darwin, 57, was put behind bars for six years and three
months, while his wife, Anne...
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Britain's "back from the dead" canoeist John Darwin and his wife, now
both in custody for faking his death for suspected insurance fraud, are
longing to be reunited for their upcoming wedding anniversary, their
lawyers said Tuesday.
However, their wish looked far from being fulfilled as Anne Darwin,
55, was "tearful...
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British canoeist John Darwin who turned up alive more than five years
after he was believed to have died in a drowning accident appeared in
court Monday on fraud charges.
Darwin, 57, was remanded in custody at the Magistrates' Court in
Hartlepool, north-east England, and was ordered to appear again on
December 14.
He was...
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The wife of a British man who had gone missing for over five years in a
presumed drowning accident with his canoe was arrested Sunday on her
return to Britain, the Daily Mirror reported in its online edition.
The tabloid said Anne Darwin was arrested on her arrival on a flight from Miami.
The Daily Mirror has secured the...
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 A British man who reappeared five and a half years after he was
believed to have drowned in a canoeing accident hid at his family home
for three years, media reports said on Saturday.
Fifty-seven-year-old John Darwin hid at their house in the county
of Cleveland in north-east England, his 55-year-old wife Anne told
reporters of...
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 A diplomatic feud between Spain and Britain is looming after the Spanish navy seized a US boat near Gibraltar, believed to have taken a treasure from a Spanish galleon. According to British officials, the ship has been intercepted in international waters and not Spain’s, as Madrid sustains.The MS Ocean Alert was approached by a Spanish...
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 United States will face Canada in the semi-finals of the Gold Cup after both teams eliminated their Central American adversaries on Saturday.Landon Donovan scored another big goal for his team as the Americans defeated Panama 2-1. The 25-year-old opened the score converting a penalty-kick in the 59th minute after he had been fouled by...
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 The United States national soccer team will meet Panama on Saturday in the quarterfinals of the Gold Cup. The Americans won the previous edition of this tournament after a penalty-kick shootout against the above mentioned team.Panama might be the tougher obstacle for the U.S. team, who rolled over Guatemala, Trinidad and Tobago and El...
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 United States national soccer team advanced to the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup after wining 4-0 over El Salvador on Tuesday night.The Americans were already qualified for the net round but with this win they consolidated their first spot in Group B with nine points out of nine.DaMarcus Beasley put the United States ahead in...
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 Since the first Concacaf Gold Cup tournament was staged in 1991 the prestige and the importance of this competition grew constantly amongst the teams from the North and Central America and the Caribbean. The most wanted finalists of the Gold Cup are undoubtedly United States, the defending champions, and Mexico.Will that highly...
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 A fisherman found the body of a Santa
Monica High School
teacher on Sunday, on the shore of a beach in Panama. According to the late
teacher’s mother, the body washed ashore three days after a wave swept him out
to sea while he was walking in shallow water.
The fisherman discovered Joey Lutz’s body at Playa Wizard, a
beach town...
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 After its opening in 1914, the 93-year-old canal is ready to
“grow up.”
Construction on expanding the Panama
Canal started on Monday. The project is said to be worth a
staggering 5.25-billion-U.S.-dollars and is to be completed by 2014, in time
for the centenary anniversary of its opening.
The canal represent a milestone in...
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 Cuba continued its war of words with the United States Wednesday after a court decided to drop the charges against alleged terrorist Luis Posada Carriles."The decision to free Posada was made a long time ago by the White House. Prosecutors never charged him for what he is: a terrorist, and legal devices were used to cover up the...
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 U. S. health
authorities suspect that the Chinese factory where Baxter International
produces heparin might be the source of the recent problems reported by the
patients who used the blood-thinner. The Food and Drug administration has never
inspected the factory, but they plan to do that as soon as possible.
"While no FDA...
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 China has responded to a recent warning from the FDA for consumers to avoid Chinese toothpaste because it may contain a poisonous chemical by calling it “unscientific, irresponsible and contradictory.”
The Food and Drug Administration warned American consumers last week about Chinese made toothpaste that may contain...
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 The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning for drugmakers, suppliers and health professionals about contaminated glycerin.
Glycerin is a sweetener frequently used worldwide in over-the-counter and prescription pharmaceutical products. The FDA is urging drug manufacturers, suppliers, repackers and health professionals to...
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