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Singapore Airlines says it will defend allegations by the watchdog Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) that its cargo subsidiary was involved in an illegal international price-fixing freight cartel, ABC radio reported on Monday.
The ACCC claims a number of airlines fixed the price of a fuel surcharge on freight...
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An Australian lawyer used the social networking website Facebook to track down a defaulting couple when all other conventional methods to find them failed, news reports said Tuesday.
A judge of the Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court allowed lawyer Mark McCormack to use Facebook to serve legal documents to a couple who...
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Kevin Rudd needed something to give his poll ratings pep and it came in the ghastly form of a stock market meltdown that wilted the pension plans of millions of Australians.
Now, the approval ratings of the 50-year-old former diplomat, a year into his first spell as prime minister, suggest he could walk on water.
"It puts him...
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United Nations forces operating in Lebanon have received warnings of a possible attack by al-Qaeda terrorists, Lebanese newspapers reported Wednesday.
The daily al-Akhbar, a pro-Syrian newspaper, said the United States had warned United Nations Interim Forces in southern Lebanon on December 10 of an imminent terrorist attack.
The...
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New Zealand's competition watchdog Commerce Commission launched legal action Monday against 13 international airlines and seven executives, accusing them of operating an illegal air freight cartel.
The commission filed papers in the Auckland High Court alleging that airlines throughout the world colluded to raise the price of...
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The new Ecuadorian constitution, promoted by leftist President Rafael Correa, was approved by 64 per cent of votes cast, election authorities TSE said Monday after counting out roughly 80 per cent of the votes.
According to the figures, around 28 per cent of the 10 million voters had rejected the constitution with the remaining ballot...
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Vietnam will suspend operations of a Taiwanese-owned Vedan condiment factory in southern Dong Nai province that was found to be emitting illegal pollutants, a senior government official said Wednesday.
"We will halt Vedan's operations until the company remediates its environmental effects," said Deputy Minister of Natural...
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Malaysia has jailed a popular anti-government internet blogger for two years under a draconian security law that can keep him detained indefinitely without a trial, a minister said Tuesday.
Raja Petra Kamarudin, who is known for his sensational online articles targeting top government leaders, was served with an order Monday night...
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The second-largest party in Pakistan's ruling coalition on Friday pushed forward a deadline for the reinstatement of judges sacked by former president Pervez Musharraf, as authorities set the date for the election of a new head of the state on September 6.
"Our position on the issue is that a resolution should be tabled in the...
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 The Election Commission of Pakistan announced Wednesday that crucial
elections meant to usher in a return of civilian rule would be delayed
for six weeks following the assassination of opposition leader Benazir
Bhutto.
"The polling will now be held on February 18, 2008," Qazi Mohammed
Farooq, the chief election...
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 Islom Karimov was announced as the re-elected Uzbekistan President on
Monday amid criticism by the Organization for Security and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE) over the course of Sunday's elections.
Karimov received 88.1 per cent of the vote, according to
provisional official results announced by the electoral commission
Monday, the...
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 A mass election boycott threat by Pakistan's political opposition
collapsed Sunday after an alliance of 33 parties failed to reach
consensus on skipping crucial upcoming polls in defiance of President
Pervez Musharraf.
Following a five-hour meeting in the eastern city of Lahore, the
All Parties Democratic Movement, led by former...
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 Hundreds of protesters led by opposition leader Nawaz Sharif marched
Thursday to the residence of Pakistan's deposed chief justice Iftikhar
Chaudhry, who has been under house arrest since the imposition of
emergency rule five weeks ago.
Chaudhry and about five dozen other senior judges were sacked after
President Pervez Musharraf...
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 Pakistani opposition leader Nawaz Sharif was barred Monday from running
in crucial forthcoming parliamentary elections due to a criminal
conviction following his ouster as prime minister eight years ago.
Election officials in the eastern city of Lahore, Sharif's home
base and political stronghold, rejected his nomination papers for...
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 Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto refused Friday to rule
out joining other opposition leaders in boycotting forthcoming
parliamentary elections after President Pervez Musharraf kept a state
of emergency in place.
Musharraf, who resigned as army chief on Wednesday and was sworn in
to another five-year term as president...
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 Hours after being sworn in for a second five- year term, Pakistani
President Pervez Musharraf said Thursday he would not lift the current
state of emergency until December 16.
Despite "improvement in the general situation" and earlier
expectations that he would bow to pressure by the Bush administration
to end the...
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 Pakistan's ex-premier Nawaz Sharif on Monday refused to accept
President General Pervez Musharraf even as a civilian ruler, as the
government hinted that he could be barred from contesting upcoming
elections just one day after his return from exile.
"I will not become prime minister if Musharraf is president," he
told...
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 The North Korean regime is offering evidence that it was not pursuing a
uranium-enrichment programme, the Washington Post reported Saturday,
citing unnamed US and South Korean officials.
North Korea is in secret talks with Washington and Seoul and has
provided what it says is evidence refuting the alleged...
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 According to the British auction house Christie's, the draft of a seven-page handwritten article penned by Mahatma Gandhi a couple of days before his assassination in 1948 has been withdrawn from auction on Tuesday. The priceless document will be acquired by the Indian government."The Christie's have agreed to withdraw Mahatma...
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Ratiopharm, one of Germany's best-known drug companies, was put up for sale Wednesday, two days after its struggling owner committed suicide by throwing himself under a train.
Adolf Merckle, 74, a billionaire who was formerly Germany's fifth- richest man, killed himself Monday after months of pleading with banks to throw him a...
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The Catalan media have gone into overdrive on Monday in their praise for record-breaking Barcelona.
Barca's 2-1 win away to Villarreal on Sunday, which has broken several records, is front-page news in every Catalan paper on Monday morning.
The new records established by Josep Guardiola's slick side are as follows:
- seven...
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Police in Budapest announced on Friday that they have established the movements of a young Frenchwoman who disappeared after leaving a bar in central Budapest only as far as a bridge across the Danube. From there, the trail goes cold.
The 22-year-old French Erasmus student Ophelie Bretnacher disappeared in the early hours of...
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The alleged kingpin of the main Russian organized-crime family in Germany's Bavaria state went on trial Friday.
Lawyers for the alleged mobsters showered the court with motions to stop the trial. Security at the Munich courthouse was strict.
The defendant, 39, was indicted with running a criminal organization.
Two alleged mafia...
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Political chaos in Ukraine intensified on Wednesday with parliament sacking speaker Arseny Yatseniuk but failing to name a replacement.
An alliance of pro-Russia, pro-Europe, and independent MPs assembled a 233-vote majority in the 450-seat house, to give the pro-Europe Yatseniuk his walking papers.
Yatseniuk, a former ally of...
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Russian investigators have detained a suspect who confessed to the murder of two Jesuit priests in their Moscow apartment, the Interfax agency reported Thursday.
Interfax quoted a police source Thursday as saying the Russian suspect was arrested at 6 am (0300 GMT) and was a repeat sex offender from the town of Tver north of Moscow. He...
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Secret Vatican archives on Pope Pius XII's controversial World War II pontificate will not be made public for at least another "six or seven years," the papal spokesman said Thursday.
"Before then, it is unrealistic to think (they) will be made accessible to researchers," Father Federico Lombardi was quoted as...
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A Dubai court sentenced a British couple on Thursday to three months in jail for having sex on a public beach in the Gulf emirate.
Michelle Palmer, 37, a resident in Dubai and her visiting partner Vince Acors, 34, were also fined 1,000 dirham (202 euros) for drinking alcohol in public.
Their lawyer, Hassan Mattar, said that he...
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Serbian newspapers on Thursday announced a "great diplomatic victory" following a UN decision to seek an advisory legal opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence.
"Serbia's first diplomatic triumph in New York," "Great diplomatic victory" and...
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Thinner, a bit greyer and older, but otherwise
the same old Bosnian Serb warlord. Still living in the past and
rambling about conspiracy theories. Don't come back to Serbia, ever.
Comment from Serbs on Radovan Karadzic's first appearance before the
UN war crimes tribunal display little nostalgia. Belgrade coffee shops
and...
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 An audio message attributed to Osama bin Laden was released late
Wednesday and was addressed to Europeans. At first, a militant website posted
it and the English transcription was available due to the Intelligence Group in
Bethesda, Md.,
a site which tracks Al Qaeda postings on the Internet.
The tape especially accused Pope...
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 Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili secured re-election Wednesday
according to official vote counts vehemently rejected by the
opposition, which vows to continue its ongoing protest.
With barely two per cent of the vote left to tally, the election
commission website showed Wednesday that Saakashvili led decisively
with 52.21...
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 With damage costing over £3 billion, and wreaking the
biggest impact on Britain's infrastructure since the Second World War, Britain
was entirely unprepared for the floods which devastated large parts of the
country this summer.
The floods, which brought devastation to 55,000 homes and
businesses, were a "wake up call"...
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 After ETA announced the end of a 14-months-old ceasefire, both
Spanish and French authorities were put on high alert and the consequences
emerged in France
on Thursday, three ETA members being arrested.
A woman and two men were detained in the Bagnères-de-Bigorre commune
in southwestern France
near the Spanish border, as they...
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 The tanning industry which shows that sunbathing and the use of indoor tanning beds are safe and good for people raises some important concerns for the health experts, who try to fight the aggressive campaign and show to the consumers that these tanning beds aren’t healthy at all.The experts in the melanoma research and the cell biology...
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Premier League giants Chelsea are determined to buy Robinho from Real Madrid, according to Spanish media reports on Friday.
Sports daily Marca said Chelsea were prepared to pay up to 37 million euros (54.77 million dollars) for the Brazilian winger.
Rival daily AS suggests that Chelsea's offer is closer to 32 million euros.
Both...
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C-Rod files for divorce in Miami saying that she couldn’t bear her husband’s acting anymore. She accuses him of extramarital affairs and other marital misconduct. “Alex has emotionally abandoned his wife and children and has left her with no choice but to divorce him,” said the petition filed in Miami Dade County.Alex Rodriguez doesn’t...
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Alex Rodriguez, also known as A-Rod,
the highest-paid player in baseball history and wife Cynthia Rodriguez, also
known as C-Rod, split up after three months of problems in their marriage. The
couple has two daughters, Natasha, 3-years-old, and Ella, 2-months-old.
In spite of the affairs Alex
Rodriguez was thought to have with a...
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Kazakhstan-born director Timur Bekmambetov brings together
Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy in a very “Wanted” movie, although its merits
are not truly justifiable.
In its opening weekend, “Wanted” earned an estimated $51.1
million in 3,175 theaters in the United States
and Canada,
ranking number two at the box office and...
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Federal agents checked three medical centers and they found out that three hospitals from California were using homeless people as “human pawns.” Official also sued the medical centers. The homeless people were taken from Skid Row and hospitals in Los Angeles and Orange got Medicare bills for them.The operator of health assessment center...
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 Dr. Victor McKusick, internist and medical
geneticist, University Professor of Medicine at the John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore,
died Tuesday at his home in Baltimore. He was 86.
Officials at Johns Hopkins
University said he died after
complications from cancer.
McKusick, a winner of the National Medal of
Science, was a...
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The Justice Department informed Friday that they have
reached a $4.6 million settlement with former U.S. Army scientist Steven
Hatfill, who was the prime suspect in the deadly anthrax letters of 2001.
The mailings were common hand-addressed letters, but they
contained tiny quantities of deadly anthrax powder. The first letter...
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 The newspaper circulation in the United States has decreased, the latest survey shows, as more and more customers choose the Internet version over the printed one and as the publishers make strong efforts to streamline their businesses, cutting back from promotion in order to lower the costs.The Audit Bureau of Circulations released the...
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 The Washington Post won 6 Pulitzer Prizes for journalism in a
single year. The prize was seen as a confirmation of the value of artful
writing and tenacious working.
The newspaper won the prestigious public service award for
revealing the true story of the tragic event which happened at Walter Reed
Army Medical
Center, when...
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Nearly 50% of the world's primates are in danger of extinction as a result of human activity, reveals a report carried out by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).The burning and clearing of tropical forests for farmland, as well as the hunting of monkeys and apes for their meat, were the two greatest threats leading...
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 Canadian Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier, who left
classified papers in an insecure area, has resigned, according to a statement
made Monday by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Harper did not reveal what the documents were about or where they were left. But
a government source disclosed last night that they were NATO summit...
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 British papers The Daily Express and Daily Star apologized
to the parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann after making allegations
against them suggesting they might have killed their daughter and settled in
court to pay damages consisting in 555,000 pounds.
“We accept that a number of articles in the newspaper have suggested...
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 On Monday, Silicon Valley
electric sports car-maker, Tesla Motors sued a competing company over allegations
of design idea and trade secret theft.
The story began last year when Tesla hired a Danish
designer, Henrik Fisker, to work on the body design of a new four-seat sedan,
called White Star. This is where things get hot, as the...
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 According to a report that was released on Friday, four of the largest US newspaper companies will team up in order to form one advertising distributor that can help the national advertisers that only want to target a certain local audiences.Gannet Co., the producer of 90 daily papers, The New York Times, The Tribune Co. and the Hearst...
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 Researchers seeking schizophrenia genes have discovered new genetic variants that indicate a distinct understanding of the brain disease. They identified three genetic hot spots where deletions of big lumps of DNA seem to increase a child's possibilities of developing the disease up to tenfold.The findings of the study stem from an...
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 Researchers from the National Institute of Drug
Abuse proved that consuming marijuana limbers up the chances to develop heart
diseases. It seems that smoking marijuana determines the body to produce a
greater quantity of a protein that increases levels of blood fats, which are
closely linked to heart attack and stroke. The study was...
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 According to a new study, it
seems that most web sites dedicated to breast cancer contain reliable
information, as only 5 percent of the web pages contain inaccurate notes.
Analysts said that complementary medicine and alternative medicine web sites
are 15 times more likely to contain misleading or false info.
"There is no...
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 China pledged to remove several subsidies by the beginning of 2008, as a result of the controversy regarding its trade issues, which are considered to make its exports unjustly cheap as it restricts the imports.Pressured by the United States, China affirmed that it would eliminate some tax breaks and other subsidies that were aimed to...
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 Turkey's military has said the United States gave the go-ahead for its
attacks on Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq on Sunday while
Iraq indicated that it formally protested the raids, reports said
Monday.
US forces in Iraq had opened the airspace for Turkish fighter
planes targeting the banned Kurdish Worker's Party, the...
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 Visiting Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said Wednesday that his
country sought closer ties with Israel, since "we have a common bond,
we are like family."
"We had a common enemy - evil, but even in the darkest days, your
people gave us an example how to withstand the worst atrocities. You
believed in liberty...
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 On Friday, May 23, 53-year-old artist and inventor Paul St George unveiled his "Telectroscope," a telescope-like apparatus, which is said to connect New York and London through a 3,471 mile-long tunnel. What it does is it uses a complicatedly arranged series of mirrors in order to transmit images from one side to another. As...
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 The Northeastern University has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Google Inc., charging it of using misappropriated technology in its core web system. The University affirmed that the database architecture that Google uses to feed up search results had been stolen from it.The legal papers were filed on November 6, in Marshal,...
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 Bob Marley’s family plan to sue Universal Music Group and mobile phone company Verizon Wireless for using the reggae icon’s music in ringtones without their permission.
Fifty Six Hope Road Music Ltd, owned by the Marley family, issued a press release informing that Universal Music has agreed to grant US mobile phone provider Verizon...
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Casey Anthony was supposed to be released from jail on Tuesday but recent announcements have stated that she will still be in prison as the prosecutors couldn’t collect enough information about Caylee’s disappearance. The little girl has been missing for about 2 months and she is only 3 years old.Tony Padilla, a bailbondsman, came all...
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 According to the Washington Post, officials are allowed to take and examine travelers’ laptops or other electronic devices to an off-site location for an undetermined period of time without suspecting them of unlawful activity, as part of boundary search policies the Department of Homeland Security lately disclosed.Furthermore, federal...
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Samuel Snow, 83, black veteran from World War II, died after he had arrived to Seattle to receive an apology from the Army because he had been wrongfully convicted on rioting charges. Snow died several hours after the ceremony took place. The ceremony was honoring him and other 27 soldiers who were convicted on the same charges. While...
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 New York City will start offering services in six foreign languages most commonly spoken in the city besides English. These idioms are Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Italian and French Creole. The new program is designed to broadly enlarge the town’s translation and interpretation services.An executive order signed Tuesday by Mayor...
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Federal authorities arrested
on Thursday two superintendents at Agriprocessors Inc., Iowa's biggest
kosher meatpacking plant, on criminal immigration charges. They are said to
have aided illegal immigrants to secure forged IDs before the raid, to have
persuaded them to inhabit in the U.S. and to have encouraged them to
labor at...
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The body of Brook Bennett, the Vermont girl missing since June 25, was found
Wednesday, hours after incriminating papers emerged, which led to accusing her
uncle of intending to initiate her into a child sex ring.
The corpse of the 12-year-old child was found in
the environs of her uncle’s property. Michael Jacques was...
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The tragedy occurred on the June 17, after the Celtics’ victory. David Woodman, 22, a former Emmanuel College student, faced respiratory problems when police tried to arrest him after they had noticed the young man was drinking from an open container of what thought to be alcohol.
The boy’s parents accused the police...
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 Jack Klugman, 85, the actor who played a medical examiner on
“Quincy, M.E.,”
sued NBC Universal on Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Mr. Klugman said the network has reported to him that at the
end of the fiscal year 2006, “Quincy
M.E.” had accumulated over $66
million in net losses. He and...
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 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton proposed
on Monday several remedies to raise the U.S. economy and ease the housing
crisis.
The New York
senator recommended bigger protection for lenders and said she would propose
legislation in order to provide mortgage companies with security against the
threat of lawsuit...
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Naperville
police was alerted Friday morning when a two-month-old Pomeranian dog was
stolen from a pet store. Sgt. Ken Keating said the theft occurred at about
11.40 a.m. when a man aged 18 to 22 entered the store and asked for more
information about the puppy, the Chicago Tribune informs.
The dog’s recuperation can be easier...
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 According to records of Hillary Clinton’s 11, 000-pages schedule
which was released Wednesday, the first lady was at the White House during the seven
days when her husband Bill Clinton had sexual encounters there with Monica
Lewinsky.
A year later, the first lady’s schedule describe her
pressing ahead with public events and...
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 A woman from Michigan was arrested after she advertised on
the popular Web site Craigslist for a hitman to murder a California woman,
authorities said.
Authorities accused Ann Marie Linscott, 48, of seeking a person
to perform a "freelance" job. Only those who responded to the ad
posted in November received additional...
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Foley…Ring a bell? Mark Foley…that’s right, last September,
congressman, accused of Internet sex with a male high school student. Well not
even after a year authorities couldn’t find anything to indict him.
Apparently the conversations between the two couldn’t
demonstrate that they were involved in any kind of relationship.
Even...
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 On Monday, the federal government was sued by twelve groups of environmentalists and animal rights activits, in an attempt to reinclude the gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains on the endangered species list. When the wolf population reached 1,500 individuals, The United States Fish and Wildlife Service considered that the...
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 For the first time in history,
scientists were able to replicate the entire genome of a living organism! They replicated
a bacterium’s genetic structure, in a move that represents a giant step towards
creating artificial life. Despite the controversy of this topic, researchers as
well as common people were amazed by this astonishing...
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 Recent research shows that our Sun is not the cause of the dramatic climate changes witnessed on Earth and that the global warming cannot be entirely explained through Sun’s activity.
The UN’s allegations that the climate changes are mainly caused by industrial activities here on Earth have been countered by some scientists who claim...
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 Kenya's electoral commission will go before the courts this week to
have the results of the country's controversial presidential elections
reviewed, a Kenyan newspaper reported Sunday.
The ballot papers were being guarded around the clock by police,
the Sunday Nation quoted the commission's vice-chairman Kihara Muttu...
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 According to local officials, a bus and a lorry collided in
southern Tanzania
on Sunday killing 28 people.
The accident took lace near the town of Mbeya, 630 km southwest of Dar el Salaam.
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