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New Delhi - Indian forces continued their battle with terrorists in luxury hotels in the financial hub Mumbai where scores remained trapped on Thursday, nearly 24 hours after the gunmen fanned out to high-profile locations and indulged in shooting sprees that left 119 dead and more than 315 injured.
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Up to 2,000 residents rallied against rumoured plans to relocate a north-western Chinese city devastated by the Sichuan earthquake, with some protestors smashing windows and attacking government cars, reports said on Tuesday.
The crowd had grown since early Monday in response to rumours that the local branch of China's ruling...
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At least five people were killed and 30 wounded on Monday in a bomb blast targeting a military bus on the outskirts of the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli, Lebanese security sources said.
Hospital officials said three of those killed were soldiers. At least 30 people who sustained medium and serious injuries had been admitted,...
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Rescuers found more bodies from the gutted Marriott Hotel in the capital Sunday, increasing the official death toll to 52 in one of Pakistan's worst suicide bombings to officials said.
Raging fire that completely destroyed the six-storey building held back the rescuers through the night, before they could conduct room-to-room searches...
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 Inhabitants of northern Japan said on Friday that thorough
preparations and lessons learned from the outbursts of other earthquakes
reduced the destructions generated by the most recent major tremor to affect
the region, according to AFP.
Because the country is so predisposed to earthquakes,
residents are constantly organizing for...
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 A 5-magnitude aftershock rattled windows in Sichuan’s provincial capital of Chengdu in the early hours of Tuesday, scaring
residents who feared another earthquake after the devastating May 12 main
quake.
According to China’s
Xinhua news agency, the number killed in that province had risen to 39,577.
A number of fresh...
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A plane belonging to the budget One-Two-Go Airlines carrying
123 passengers amongst which 78 foreign tourists and 7 crew members crashed
Sunday as it tried to land in stormy weather on the resort island of Phuket, one of the southern provinces of Thailand.
As it crashed, the airplane was engulfed by flames burning a
number...
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 Typhoon Sepat hit the south coast of China on Sunday,
forcing about one million people to flee from their homes. Also, the typhoon
generated a tornado that caused the death of 13 people and destroyed dozens of buildings.
China's Zhejiang Province was severely smashed by the
tornado that smashed 156 houses and injured 60 people,...
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 A fierce explosion ripped through a karaoke bar in northeast China,
killing 25 people and injuring 33, media reported Thursday.
The blast occurred in the Tianshifu township, Liaoning
province late Wednesday and levelled the two-story building serving as bath
house also.
According to Chinese news agency Xinhua, 25 bodies were...
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The headquarters of Egypt's opposition al-Ghad party were set on fire on Thursday amid clashes between rival factions in the party, security sources told the Deutsche Presse-Agentur, dpa.
Twelve fire trucks were called in to extinguish the flames in the party's offices in downtown Cairo.
The clashes involved supporters of the...
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 An overnight fire killed eighteen children and an adult in
their dormitory at a Ugandan junior school near the capital, Kampala. The students were between the ages
of seven and ten. It is unknown why so many children were sleeping in the room,
which had 63 beds, at the time of the fire. However, survivors claim the death
toll could...
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 Kenyan opposition politicians called off what was called a
"million-man" rally Thursday to protest allegedly flawed polls which
have sparked mass rioting and violence that continued as supporters
tried to reach the gathering.
As disgruntled Kenyans fought police and condemned the so-called
flawed poll results that...
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 More than 60 people were killed, including 10 United Nations employees,
when two car bombs exploded in the Algerian capital Algiers on Tuesday,
Algerian security and hospital sources said.
In addition, dozens were reported injured and in hospital in the worst terrorist attack to strike Algeria in nearly a decade.
One bomb...
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 The general director of a local independent radio station in Mogadishu and another colleague have been brutally assassinated Saturday in Somalia, apparently for criticizing the poor conditions of Somali people today and the people responsible for it. They are Ali Iman Sharmarke, the owner of the Somali media group HornAfrik, and Mahad...
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Microsoft released key details Tuesday of the next generation of software that it hopes will run the world's computers.
The software giant, whose dominance is under threat, said Windows 7 will replace the disappointing Windows Vista in January 2010.
Microsoft said the new operating system was designed to function like a tighter...
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 Nearly 2,500 people were forced to leave their homes after a toxic cloud took over the area. On Saturday, a tank from a chemical plant in Pennsylvania released a corrosive liquid which caused about three residents to have some serious respiratory problems. The liquid, called oleum, is similar to sulfuric acid and leaked from a tank at...
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Travis Air Force Base was covered with fully contained fire on Saturday. The blazes have been brought by the wind and they destroyed 80 vacant homes in the area. The fire started at 3:15 p.m. and it was an eight-alarm one. It spread very quickly to an area of the base that was full of houses. The fire began as a small grass fire and...
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 Flash floods inundated parts of the Midwest on Monday. Swollen rivers and lakes overflowed
their banks, broke through dams and forced residences to evacuate. The swollen Kickapoo River spilled over its banks again and inundated
nearly the entire town Monday morning, the Associated Press reported. By evening,
the village looked like a...
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 It appears that a wounded man who died after being taken to a
California Highway
patrol parking lot in Corte Madera was a 27-year-old Hells Angels associate, identified
as a San Leandro man who attended a Hells Angels
funeral earlier that day in Daly City.
The victim’s name was not released.
Sunday, the man was shot on...
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 A white policeman was disciplined after acting “in a
discourteous manner” when he ordered the NYPD’s highest-ranking black officer to
get out of his car, an agency spokesman said Saturday, according to the
Associated Press.
It seems that Chief Douglas Zeigler, the head of the NYPD’s
Community Affairs Bureau and the highest...
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 A magnitude-5.2 earthquake shook southern Illinois early Friday, the U.S. Geological
Survey (USGG) said. It appears there were no immediate reports of major
damage after the quake, which struck at 4:36 a.m. The Associated Press mentioned
that a porch collapsed in Mount Carmel,
Illinois, briefly trapping a woman
in her home. She was...
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 A huge blast wrecked a retail building on Thursday in Waukegan injuring eight people. The powerful explosion lifted the roof and reduced the structure of the building to debris. "The whole back of the building was pancaked," Deputy Fire Chief Dan Young said according to the Associated Press. Two people were trapped in the...
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 The northeastern Nevada town Wells was rocked by a powerful earthquake
Thursday at 6:16 a.m. according to The Associated Press. The 6.0 magnitude
earthquake was felt from northern Idaho and Utah to Southern California.
Despite people’s shock no serious injuries were registered.
However, there were great damages in Nevada. According...
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 A fierce fire broke out Friday on the upper floors and roof of the Monte Carlo Resort and Casino, forcing the evacuation of visitors and employees, officials said.The Clark County Fire Department said no injuries were reported, as firefighters managed to fully contain the blaze. The 32-story hotel on the Las Vegas Strip appeared to...
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 Nearly one month after plunging 47 floors to the ground, a window
washer has spoken for the first time in a hospital bed, startling his
wife who admonished him not to touch the nurses, news reports said
Friday.
The small platform supporting Alcides Moreno, 37, and his brother
Edgar broke loose and the two plunged into a free fall...
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 A smoky fire at a building next to the White House on Wednesday damaged
an office used by US Vice President Dick Cheney and forced more than
1,000 employees to evacuate.
Cheney was in a meeting with President George W Bush across the way
in the White House when the blaze broke out, but the vice president's
ornate ceremonial office...
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According to local media reports, a pair of brothers washing
windows on an upper East Side skyscraper plunged 43 stories to the sidewalk
below Friday after their scaffolding suddenly collapsed.
Edgar Moreno died on impact; his brother Alcides was still
clinging to life in the hours after the terrifying 10:30 a.m....
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 According to local authorities, a strong earthquake struck
the eastern Caribbean yesterday, damaging buildings on several islands and
killing at least one person.
France's overseas minister, Christian Estrosi, told French
television that about 100 people on the French island of Martinique had
required medical treatment for minor...
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 Dell announced today that is has released a new class of portable in the form of the Inspiron Mini 12. The system uses the Atom processor, 1GB of RAM and 80GB storage of a higher-end notebook, but has the profile of an ultraportable: it carries a 12-inch display, it weighs 2.7 pounds and it’s thicker with one inch. It seems that it’s...
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In a departure from their dependence on domestic mobile phone brands like Samsung or LG, South Korean mobile carriers are preparing to launch non-Korean brands for smart-phones.International vendors such as HTC, RIMM, Apple and Nokia will be able to sign up with local carriers to put their international bestsellers in the hands of South...
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 On Tuesday, a prototype of One Laptop Per Child’s upcoming technology was unveiled by chairman Nicholas Negroponte. According to him, the machine’s price could be as low as $75, as this particular laptop "comes from a different point of view."The new XO 2.0’s size has been significantly reduced and targets students who must...
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 On Thursday, Microsoft officials announced that a deal was reached with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. Its Windows XP operating system will thus be made available on the low-cost notebook computers which are intended to reach developing countries’ students. According to Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy...
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 Google Gears
represents the prototype of one of tech industry’s most important current
trends; it is an application that can keep browser-based applications running
while also offline, thus, allowing people to use their computers even if they
have no connection to the Internet. Google Gears was launched less than a year
ago, but now...
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 The U.S. Geological Survey, the National Science Foundation and the British Antarctic Survey, which form a NASA team, brought to light a new extremely detailed map of Antarctica on Tuesday. The new Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica is expected to bring another perspective to the frozen continent research.The map was made thanks to...
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 The Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), has been delayed by Microsoft from the spring until the fall of next year. The current year WinHEC had took place in May, but the software vendor announced that it would not be held until the fall, as a response to “industry feedback”.The WinHEC conference usually is the place where...
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 This could be just a rumor, but
on the other hand the idea is quite coherent. Microsoft has been reported by a
web site that it will embed in its Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) also some
tough features borrowed from Windows Vista. Although this could be just a
thought, the idea could be coherent, as this way the users will be able...
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 The famous Finnish mobile device
manufacturer Nokia and Microsoft have announced they have become partners.
Through the new deal Microsoft will start to provide Nokia devices’ users with
a new suite of Windows Live services. The American company has designed the
suit specifically for the Finnish-branded devices.
So, starting with...
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 The popular company Toshiba has
had to recall once again some batteries from safety fears. This would be
already the fourth time in about one year that the hardware company has been
forced to this move.
Toshiba has recalled through the United States’
Consumer Product Safety Commission three of its popular notebook...
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 On April 18, Web-search behemoth Google filed an anti-trust complaint against Microsoft, alleging that the Redmond-crafted Vista OS is interfering (i.e. impairing) its own software.In 2004, Google introduced the highly praised Google Desktop Search, bridging the Web-search and the offline search and thus gaining more ground on...
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 After reporting in March that the first month of availability for Windows Vista meant 20 million copies sold, the Redmond behemoth is now boasting with 40 million licenses sold in 100 days.The news was reported by Microsoft founder and Chairman Bill Gates himself, during a press conference held in Los Angeles.Vista’s impressive success...
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 The previously known Live Drive that was supposed to compete with Google’s GDrive (both of them being online mass storage devices) has made a short debut this week-end under the name of Windows Live Folders.Google once let the cat out the bag with some details from a CTO meeting about a possible online storage space called GDrive, that...
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 ComCast and Zimbra, an open-source company from San Mateo, California, have joined forces bring Zimbra’s next-generation collaboration and messaging software to ComCast customers.[more]Zimbra, which is backed by venture capital firms like Benchmark Partners and Redpoint Ventures, both of Menlo Park, CA, and Accel Capital of Palo Alto,...
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 Motorola is postponing the spin-off of its mobile division due to less encouraging financials. This was initially planned for the third quarter of 2009. The cell phone maker said it will refocus mobile device development on two platforms, Android and Windows Mobile, reducing costs. Motorola will probably launch its first Android...
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 Apple told the media yesterday that is has applied a major update to MobileMe last month, outlining about 30 fixes to the problem-plagued online e-mail and sync service. Even so, users kept complaining about the MobileMe. Among the enhancements to MobileMe that were pointed out by Apple we find improved performance in Internet Explorer...
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 California mobile video company Qik announced on Sunday that it has released version 1.0 of Qik for BlackBerry. It is a free, downloadable application that allows cell phone filmmakers stream video live from their mobile phone to Qik.com, social networks like MySpace, Facebook and to any personal blog. Furthermore, Qik also plays a...
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 Thanks to T-Mobile, starting July 7, US residents will be
able to purchase Motorola’s Rokr E8. The device will be made available for the
price of $199, with a two-year service agreement.
The one thing that really makes this smartphone special is
its keyboard. It can go through a series of successive phases, each one
revealing a...
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 On Wednesday, Panasonic unveiled its new Toughbook CF-U1
ultra mobile PC.
This is the first time a Panasonic machine packs the Intel
Atom processor (Z520 1.33GHz with 533MHz FSB, 512KB L2 cache). The CF-U1 features
a 5.6-inch touch screen, 16GB solid state hard drive, 1GB memory, Intel
Wireless WiFi Link 5100 Series, Bluetooth®...
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 On Monday, South Korea-based Samsung Group released a new touch-screen smartphone. Also today, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference begins and the event is very likely to bring the new 3G version of the iPhone; this is most definitely not a coincidence.Samsung's Omnia was designed for easy Internet browsing; it features a wide screen...
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HTC Touch Pro is the next generation business phone to be released by
the Taiwanese company HTC. This is a continuance to the touch screen
smartphones from the HTC Touch lineup.
The new business-focused enhancements make him the new model to follow
after HTC Touch Diamond. Not only the look, but also his new improved...
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 According to information provided by inside sources of technology blog Gizmodo, iPhone’s 3G version will indeed be launched on June 9. Apple is expected to produce at least 11 million 3G iPhones by the end of the third quarter of 2008. This new phone will operate on AT&T’s faster network, which will provide Internet users with a...
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 According to Bank of America Corp., Apple will produce at
least 11 million 3G iPhones by the end of the third quarter of 2008. This new
phone will operate on AT&T’s faster network, which will
provide Internet users with a significant speed boost. The range of its uses
will be diversified even further, as it will also feature...
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 Nokia will run Microsoft's Silverlight cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in on select phones which use its Symbian OS platform. This comes as a large surprise mainly because Microsoft and Nokia are the biggest competitors in the mobile phone OS market: Microsoft tries to push its Windows Mobile while handset leader Nokia promotes...
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 According to the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, it seems that the ones using digital photo frames have
another reason to worry about when it comes to security. The computer security
vendor said that it had identified a brand new Trojan Horse virus that had already
infected lots of computers.
Called Mocmex, the new Trojan
virus...
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 During the Mobile World Congress 2008, Microsoft Corporation announced it collaboration with Sony Ericsson in order to deliver a new Windows Mobile phone, named XPERIA X1, which is expected to be launched in the second half of the current year.Microsoft said that the device would assure a premium experience by combining mobile Web...
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 Sony Ericsson announced today a
brand new smart cell phone that is going to rival Apple’s popular iPhone. Sony
Ericsson’s new mobile phone will also be the company’s first product using
Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system.
Called Xperia X1, the smart phone
will hit the market in the second half of the year, when it starts...
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 LiveScribe revealed recently a
new interesting gadget, the so-called Pulse SmartPen. It sounds really great,
but what exactly does this cool gadget do?
LiveScribe’s Pulse SmartPen is
nothing else than a piece of high technology incorporated in a regular-sized
pen; thus, the writing tool is integrated with a microphone and...
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 Nokia Corp. is to license Microsoft's brand new PlayReady copy protection system, alongside Windows Media DRM 10 and Open Alliance Mobile DRM. "It's all about choice," Steven Knuff, a spokesman at Nokia's multimedia division, said. "If customers want a particular DRM technology, then we'll provide it."The new digital...
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 The OLPC project (One Laptop per Child) has received a serious coup from chip manufacturer Intel, which has recently unveiled at Computex, in Taiwan, another type of cheap laptop.Nicholas Negroponte, the initiator of OLPC project, said about Intel’s intentions to bring out a competitor for his small-form factor PC that the Santa Clara...
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 HTC, one of the most important partners for Microsoft concerning mobile devices, has recently joined the anti-iPhone frenzy with its latest model HTC Touch, a Windows Mobile-powered phone with no keyboard.HTC Touch uses similar touch-screen controls to the up-coming iPhone or the already available LG Prada, based on recognizing and...
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 The new Ultra Mobile Device (UMD- an acronym also used by Sony to designate the mini-DVDs inserted in PlayStation Portable) from VIA Technologies aims to compete with the recently launched Palm Foleo.The UMD is built in collaboration with design partner First International Computer Inc. (FIC) and is called NanoBook. It features an almost...
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Five people were found dead Thursday after a fire in an apartment in the southern German town of Heidenheim, police said.
The building's landlord called police after noticing soot on the windows. The fire had ceased. Police in Heidenheim, 75 kilometres east of Stuttgart, were investigating the cause of the deaths.
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Incest suspect Josef Fritzl is not only charged for raping and imprisoning his daughter for 24 years, but is also indicted for murder, as a boy he fathered with his daughter died after birth, a spokesman of the prosecution said Thursday.
Fritzl, who has admitted most of the allegations, now faces imprisonment for life. In total, the...
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Unknown vandals have knocked over and, in some cases, destroyed 131 headstones in Bucharest's Jewish cemetery.
According to the Mediafax news agency on Friday, the vandals also smashed windows in the administrative offices of the cemetery in Romania's capital.
Some office equipment was also destroyed.
No anti-Semitic slogans...
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More than 30 people were injured and 28 were arrested in violent pro-Serbia protests in the Montenegrin capital Podgorica Monday night, local media reported Tuesday.
Podgorica was calm on Tuesday, but Montenegrin police banned a further protest planned for Thursday. The government will hold an emergency session to discuss Monday's...
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Five students were killed when a school stairwell collapsed on Wednesday, a spokesman for the Russian Civil Defence Ministry said.
Conflicting reports gave the number of people initially trapped in the debris as between eight and 11, but Russian media reports agreed emergency teams reached and freed all trapped individuals within...
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 The capital of Syria was the victim of a car bomb which was carrying nearly 400 pounds of explosives. The car exploded on Saturday and killed over 17 people and Bassim Abdel Majid, the Interior Minister, blamed the “terrorists” for the attack. Still, he didn’t know any exact data about who carried out the explosives. He added that they...
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Looming up and up and ... creaking worryingly, it looks like the evil masterpiece of a fairytale villain, built to imprison his princess.
But the architect of what is thought to be the world's tallest wooden house is a character right out of a Russian gangster film.
There may have been more than one Rapunzel for the man, who isn't...
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A massive army munitions depot fire and exploding ammunition forced the evacuation of thousands of villagers in east Ukraine, Channel 5 television reported Thursday.
The nighttime blaze near the town Lozova in Ukraine's Kharkiv province had produced hundreds of detonations so far, threatening firefighters with shrapnel and making...
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A former convict is now washing windows at Prince Charles's new Llwyny Wormwood Estate in Wales after having been apparently hired without any screening, the Daily Mirror reported Wednesday.
Matthew Bell, 35, has previously served two jail terms, 9 months for burglary and 21 days for not paying a traffic fine.
Bell, who at the...
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French students Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23,
were stabbed 240 times and killed, inside their apartment in Sterling Gardens,
New Cross, London.
They were tied up, gagged and burnt. Scotland Yard declared that this is the
most “frenzied, brutal and horrific” murder they have ever investigated.
They were drowned and...
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 A strong earthquake of 6.2 magnitude has
hit Iceland, a geologically unstable
volcanic island in the north Atlantic, injuring
15 to 30 people and damaging several buildings. The U.S. Geological Survey said
the quake, with its epicentre near the town of Selfoss,
50km southeast of the capital Reykjavik,
had a magnitude of 6.2 and hit...
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 An accident that took place in London on Tuesday morning,
ended with one dead woman and other nine injured people who were taken to the
hospital. Moreover, other nine people were registered with minor injuries and were treated by paramedics. A
double-decker bus crashed into a tree on Tower Bridge Road as it was
travelling on the 188...
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Albanian troops are searching for survivors of massive
explosions at an army base near the capital Tirana that killed at least seven people.
More than 240 others, including many children were injured in the blast.
Rescuers did not reach the main blast by nightfall on
Saturday, as ammunition continued to explode into the night, but...
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 Kosovo’s parliament voted 109-0
yesterday in favor of breaking up connections with Serbia, presenting a declaration of
independence that caused the meeting of the emergency Security Council.
Serbia
expressed its strong opposition to the decision of the newly-formed European
state, and it was supported by Russia,
which...
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 At least 25 police officers and one firefighter were injured when gangs
of youths rioted in several Paris suburbs after two teenagers were
killed when their motorcycle was struck by a police car, police sources
said Monday.
Dozens of youths attacked police stations, ransacked stores,
smashed windows and set cars ablaze late Sunday...
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 Finland held a national day of mourning Thursday the day after a
Finnish high-school student killed eight people in a shooting rampage
where he fired 69 shots.
Police told reporters that Pekka-Eric Auvinen, a student at the school, had at least 300 bullets in his possession.
Auvinen, 18, died late Wednesday in a Helsinki hospital...
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 According to Irina Doroshenko, a spokeswoman for the
investigative wing of the local prosecutor’s office, a bomb exploded on a
passenger bus during the morning rush in a central Russian city today, killing
at least eight people and wounding about 50 in what could be a terrorist
attack.
The explosion in Tolyatti, about 600
miles...
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 With just two days to go before the 33rd Group of Eight summit
kicks off in Heiligendamm, new clashes erupted Monday in Rostock
between police forces and anti-globalization activists.
A group of about 300 asked persons attacked the security
forces with bottles, again disrupting the peace and triggering clashes. But the
turmoil was...
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 The 33rd Group of Eight summit sparks new demonstrations ahead
of its start in Heiligendamm next week, as demonstrators once more took the
streets of the northern city of Rostock
on Saturday.
Thousands of people marched on the port’s streets, under the
strict supervision of numerous police forces. But as expected the...
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