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 Legacy Locker, probably the most morbid online venture, has been launched. The service will automatically put your online affairs in order when you finally, and inevitably, kick the bucket. How beautiful is that?Due to the fact that for many of us, the internet is quickly becoming a comprehensive digital archive of our lives, housing our...
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In Chitungwiza, a sprawling township about 30 kilometres south-east of Zimbabwe's capital Harare, a group of women and girls are lining up with tin cans to fetch water from a shallow well near a river.
It's a scene common in southern Africa but rare in urban areas, where piped water is usually available in homes or at a communal...
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Zimbabwe's health services, once regarded among the best in Africa, are "in a state of collapse" with its main hospitals closed and a cholera epidemic raging, a leading medical body said Wednesday.
The country's four main hospitals, in the capital Harare and the western city of Bulawayo, were "virtually closed,"...
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Tributes began pouring in Monday for South African singer and anti-apartheid icon, Miriam Makeba, who died Sunday from a heart attack in an Italian clinic.
Makeba, 76, collapsed shortly after a performance on Sunday evening and was brought by ambulance to a hospital in Castel Volturno in southern Italy, where she died, a hospital...
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Unidentified gunmen kidnapped on Monday a Lebanese engineer in southern Nigeria's oil hub of Port Harcourt, the Lebanese authorities said.
According to a government source, the Lebanese government was informed by the Nigerian police that a Lebanese man was abducted in Nigeria late morning.
The source failed to give the name of the...
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A German man and his Somali wife were abducted by armed men in northern Somali region of Bossaso, an official reported Sunday.
According to Yusuf Ahmed Jama, head of local rights agency Action Against Human Trafficking, the couple were kidnapped at gunpoint on late Saturday while visiting relatives in the area, and were taken away to...
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Ugandan chimpanzee Zakayo, the star attraction at the Uganda Wildlife Education Center (UWEC) near Kampala, is scheduled to cut a cake on Friday as he turns 44.
The ageing primate, who will share a birthday drink with well- wishers, was plucked from the wild in western Uganda in 1972 after losing his parents to poachers.
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 Susan Atkins, a follower of Charles Manson who took part in
the killing of pregnant actress Sharon Tate nearly 40 years ago was denied
compassionate release Tuesday.
Atkins, who was a leading character in one of the most
horrible crimes in California history, hoped to be allowed to go home, because
she is dying due to brain...
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 On Saturday, Paso Robles recorded its highest temperature in over twenty years, as no less than 103 degrees could be seen on airport thermometers. As found in the data base of the National Weather Service in Oxnard, something similar goes back to 1973, when the place experienced a heat wave of 102 degrees.Along the coast however,...
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 Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll reveals more than
150 interviews and thousands of documents in “The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family
in the American Century,” an exciting history of bin Laden’s siblings, the
famous villain who orchestrated the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The book is a family biography and not...
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 Best-selling autobiographical book depicting the story of a
young Jewish girl living with the wolves while hiding from the Nazis turns out
that it was actually fiction.
“Survivre avec les Loups” or “Misha, a Memoir of the
Holocaust Years” in English, written by Misha Defonseca also inspired a movie
with the adventures described....
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 Chimps are nice
and always comic! They jump, play and sometimes even “speak.” No matter how sad
you might be, seeing a chimpanzee dressed like a human being or just wearing a
funny hat will always make you laugh.
Chimpanzees are
man’s closest relatives and it is probably because of this fact that they have
always been used in...
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 A team of
scientists discovered recently North America’s
oldest primate fossil! The newly found species seems to have been so small that
it fitted in the palm of a hand.
Called
Teilhardina magnoliana, the tiny animal is very, very old and scientists have
also realized that it was related to similarly aged fossils from Europe,...
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 Is this a hint that humans and
gorillas are old relatives or is it just an isolated phenomenon that has no
explanation? The Wildlife Conservation Society’s scientists were amazed by the
first pair of wild western lowland gorillas that had engaged in face-to-face
mating. The Society announced on Tuesday this surprising fact, which...
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 It seems that our planet still
has secrets from us. The so-called grey-faced sengi has been one of them until
zoologists eventually uncovered it in the mountains of Tanzania.
The grey-faced sengi is a
strange-looking new species of mammal and the first addition to the giant
elephant shrew family in over 100 years, as until now,...
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Manama, Bahrain - The trial of 35 men charged with allegedly taking part in a foiled bombing terror plot last December in Bahrain opened in Manama on Monday - but was immediately postponed for one month.
The Criminal High Court was placed under heavy police guard for the opening hearing, amid skirmishes between police and relatives of...
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Pristina- Kosovo declared independence from Serbia a year ago, but foreign diplomats and local observers agree that it is more dependent than ever before.
The illusion fomented by politicians, that independence would quickly end economic and social misery, has evaporated. Instead, the majority of Albanians have come to a rude...
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Sri Lanka held remembrance ceremonies in various parts of the island nation to mark the fourth anniversary of the devastating tsunami on Boxing Day, 2004, that claimed over 40,000 lives and displaced more than half a million people..
An island-wide two-minute silence was observed Friday morning as friends and relatives of those...
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Twelve people died from their injuries Friday, the day after twin suicide bombings at Pakistan's largest arms and ammunition factory, hospital authorities said, as investigators interrogated at least a dozen suspects.
The latest casualties raised the death toll to 78 in the two synchronised attacks at the gates of the Pakistan...
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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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Hezbollah handed back to Israel the bodies of
two Israeli soldiers Wednesday, two years and four days after snatching
them in a July 12, 2006 cross-border raid that sparked one month of
deadly and destructive fighting. Under a deal brokered by a
United Nations-appointed German mediator that closes the final chapter
of that 33-day...
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A court in The Hague is due to rule on
Thursday whether or not it is authorized to hear a case about the role
of the United Nations during the fall of the Muslim enclave Srebrenica
in 1995. After Bosnian Serbs reconquered the Muslim enclave,
they deported and murdered at least 8,000 people. Dutch UN peacekeepers
who were supposed...
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A British terrorist suspect in an alleged plot to blow up
trans-Atlantic commercial jetliners managed to escape from a mosque
when his police escorts allowed him to say prayers on their way back to
the prison, police investigators said Monday.
Rashid Rauf, a British citizen of Pakistani origin, escaped from
guards on Saturday...
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 New Cuban President’s Raul Castro recent reforms in order to
improve access to consumer products are “cynical” since most of the people do
not afford them, U.S.
officials say. U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez told Reuters that “It's
somewhat cynical that some time in the future they will have the right to buy a
cell phone,...
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An ATR 42-300 plane, belonging to
Santa Barbara Airlines, with 46 passengers on board is missing after it took
off Thursday, at 4:59 p. m. local time from the Venezuelan city of Merida, heading to Simon
Bolivar International
Airport, near Caracas.
According to AFP, the plane has
allegedly crashed in the Coyado del...
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 Hundreds of thousands of
Colombians marched Monday in Colombia
and in many other countries asking the Marxist FARC rebels to stop kidnapping
people and release those it holds. The demonstrators were wearing white
T-shirts saying "No more FARC" and "No more kidnapping."
It is the largest protest ever against the...
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 The much-awaited handover of three high profile hostages by left-wing
rebels in Colombia has been postponed until Sunday at the earliest,
Venezuelan officials said.
A complicated handover process, involving multiple countries in the
region, was supposed to take place at a secret jungle location
Saturday. The release has been...
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 Three high profile hostages being held by left-wing rebels in Colombia
could be released as early as Saturday as a complicated process
involving multiple countries in the region has begun.
The expected release is the latest twist in the mediation efforts
of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has been a key figure in
trying to...
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 Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Friday offered to talk directly
with leftist rebels to secure an exchange of hostages for imprisoned
guerrilla fighters, saying he would create a "meeting zone" for the
talks.
There was no immediate response from Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia (FARC) rebels, but the families of...
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 Colombia has put a stop to efforts by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
to negotiate a prisoner swap with leftist Colombian guerillas.
Conservative President Alvaro Uribe withdrew the leftist-
nationalist Chavez's authority as a mediator after Chavez spoke by
telephone Wednesday with the head of the Colombian military,...
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A Sydney coroner claimed Friday that Indonesian troops deliberately
killed five Australian-based journalists to prevent news getting out
about the 1975 invasion of the former Portuguese colony of East Timor.
Dorelle Pinch said the death of those who have become known as the Balibo Five could constitute a war crime.
Her finding...
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After a few tragic cases in which people died after being
treated with heparin, the Food and Drug Administration requires the American
Congress to extend the sum it assigns to the activities necessary for
inspecting foreign drug shipments in the U.S., the Los Angeles Times reports.
Heparin is frequently used during kidney...
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 If this is true and Alzheimer’s
disease can be (somehow) treated, it means that we witness nothing else than a
miracle! Alzheimer’s disease is a serious health problem that has been thought
to be also irreversible until now, when a team of British researchers invented
this so-called infrared-blasting helmet.
According to Dr....
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 According to the Alzheimer’s Society electronic tagging
should be offered to dementia sufferers, allowing their relatives to locate
them quickly should they wander off.
The charity said that satellite tracking systems similar to
those used for offenders, could help families to care for patients at home for
longer.
People...
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 According to the ACS (American Cancer Society), breast
cancer accounts for nearly one in three cancers diagnosed in American women.
About 178,480 women will be found to have invasive breast cancer in 2007,
according to the ACS. More than 40,000 will die. Breast cancer is the second
leading cause of cancer deaths in women, exceeded...
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 The authorities released a report announcing that a man shot and killed his wife inside a hospital, in her bed. The 88-year-old man then shot himself. Michael Mastronardy, police chief, stated that the man was in a critical condition and immediately after he had shot his 87-year-old wife he was taken to the trauma center at Jersey Shore...
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The Department of Justice has released a report announcing that federal immigration agents made a criminal search warrant at a poultry processing plant in Greenville, South Carolina, and arrested nearly 300 workers. The federal agents went to the Columbia Farms at 9 a.m. after 10 months during which they tracked down numerous employment...
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Hannah Upp, 23, a teacher from New York City, was reported missing almost three weeks ago, but found on Tuesday while she was floating in the New York’s Upper Bay. Deckhands from a Staten Island Ferry managed to rescue her, plucking her from the swells and took her to Richmond University Medical Center on Staten Island.Officials at the...
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Kenyan police have set up a 24-hour guard outside the home of US presidential candidate Barack Obama's grandmother after thieves targeted her home, reports said Friday.
Obama's grandmother Sarah, 86, said burglars broke in through her kitchen door in the western Kenyan village of Kogelo and attempted to steal a solar panel from her...
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The seventh commemoration of the 2001 terrorist attacks on Washington and New York began Thursday morning with a nationwide solemn moment of silence at 8:46 am, the time that one of four hijacked passenger planes smashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York.
Family members of the more than 2,500 who died in New...
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A major US aerial attack on Monday killed at least 20 people and wounded 25 others in Pakistan's restive North Waziristan tribal district near the Afghan border, locals and security officials said.
Missile-armed Predator drones targeted houses and a seminary linked to Afghan Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani in Dandai Darpakhel...
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 China Arnold was convicted on Friday after she had killed her daughter of only a month by cooking her in the microwave oven. Even if her attorneys say that there is evidence that someone else had done it, the 28-year-old woman bent her head when she heard the jury’s verdict. Relatives were shocked and started crying, as nobody believed...
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 Joseph Edward Duncan III was given the death sentence on Wednesday. He had kidnapped and murdered a boy of only 9 years old from Idaho back in 2005. The federal jurors reached the death verdict after they had watched a video of the violent murder. The video was recorded while Duncan was torturing the little boy for more than three...
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 A 10-year-old girl from Milwaukee drowned in a swimming pool during a visit she was making to her relatives in Minnesota. The swimming pool where the incident happened was making part of an apartment complex in Crystal, where her relatives were living.The little girl was found on Sunday, when she was pulled out from the bottom of the...
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 During the weekend the risk of rip currents in New York Oceans was “moderate” and stronger instances were expected. Even if only experienced surfers were allowed to enter the water, a 10-year-old girl disappeared in the deep waters, four people died and three others are missing.Long Island and New York Beaches were extremely dangerous...
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Kent Jermaine Jackson was executed by lethal
injection on Thursday at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt,
Virginia. Jackson, 26, was convicted for the brutal killing of an elderly widow
who lived in his apartment building.
He died at 9:18 p.m. in Greensville Correctional
Center, after eight years in prison. Both...
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Clarence J. Weber, 58, killed his wife, Adelina Weber, 51,
stabbing her to death Saturday afternoon in the parking lot outside a suburban Chicago hotel, near the
pancake house where she worked as a server. She collapsed in Spring Hill Suites
Hotel, in Lincolnshire.
Weber was caught by the police on Tuesday in a Crown Point...
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Capt. David J.
Covell, fromVermont State Police, said family
members of Brooke Bennett are to hold a candlelight vigil for the missing
12-year-old girl at the gazebo situated in the center of Randolph Village at 8 p.m., Wednesday, July 2.
Consequently, the Randolph Police will close Main Street/Vermont 12 at the...
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Yesterday, a 12-years-old girl disappeared after being
dropped off by two of her family members at a convenience store.
Brooke Bennett, resident of
Braintree, Massachusetts, told her relatives she would meet a friend of hers in
order to pay a visit to an ill relative of the friend in Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Medical Center, in Lebanon,...
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 Yesterday, a 12-years-old girl disappeared after being
dropped off by two of her family members at a convenience store.
Brooke Bennett, resident of
Braintree, Vermont, told her relatives she would meet a friend of hers in
order to pay a visit to an ill relative of the friend in Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Medical Center, in Lebanon, N.H.,...
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The mother of a 5-year-old boy and her girlfriend who are suspected of starving and beating the child have been arrested, police said Saturday. According to the police, the boy had many cigarette burns all over his body and he was unable to open his hands, as he had been forced to put them flat on a hot stove. The child was repeatedly...
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Convicted killer Karl Eugene Chamberlain was executed Wednesday night for
the rape-slaying of a woman in Dallas 17 years ago, the first Texas prisoner in nearly nine months to be
put to death, the Associated Press reports.
38-year-old Chamberlain lived upstairs in the same apartment complex as his
victim, Felecia Prechtl. At the...
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 State officials announced the release of more
than 460 children seized by state authorities in April in an investigation of possible sex abuse at the ranch
owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The
state Supreme Court ruled that the seizure was not justified.
The announcement was
made after a...
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 Nine days after suffering a seizure and
undergoing a brain biopsy that diagnosed him with cancer, Sen. Edward M.
Kennedy took the helm of his sailboat “Mya” on Monday and rode a stiff southern
wind from Nantucket back to Hyannis
in a regatta, the Associated Press reported. Aboard for the journey were his
wife, Vicki, Sen....
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 Homicide detectives are investigating the deaths of five
family members found Sunday inside a home in a gated community in Orange County.
It appears that the bodies of an elderly woman, a man and woman in their 40s
and the bodies of two sisters in their early 20s had been found in the house
after three weeks, Sheriff's Lt. Erin...
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It appears that authorities at yet another college campus
are currently searching for a killer, as a Northeastern University
student was found dead inside her off-campus apartment Tuesday morning. 22-year-old
Rebecca Payne was discovered fatally shot in her chest and legs by a building
manager inside her apartment complex in the...
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Police say a teenage boy was arrested Tuesday night after driving
without a license on a Brooklyn street and hitting
a nine-year-old boy with his vehicle.
16-year-old Shyquan Burns was charged with leaving the scene of an accident and
operating a motor vehicle without a license.
Authorities claimed it appeared to be a...
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 A group of 216 people led by Rev. Al Sharpton was arrested
Wednesday after it snarled traffic across New York City in an attempt to
boycott the acquittal of three officers involved in the shooting death of Sean
Bell, the young unarmed man shot 50 times right on his wedding day. Bell’s friends who were
present at the scene, some of...
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 Newspaper carrier Bruce Pitts felt something was wrong when
the newspapers began pilling up in the roadside tube outside the southern Illinois home of Fred
and Blanche Roberts. Pitts delivers the Southern Illinoisan, a newspaper
published in nearby Carbondale,
III.
“It was never like them to leave a newspaper in their...
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 Custody hearings continued at the courthouse in San Angelo. Parents and
relatives of more than 400 children who were removed from the polygamist compound a couple of weeks ago tried to get custody of the children.
Some of the girls removed in the raid at the ranch owned by
the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of...
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 A Southbridge man and his
cousin accused of plotting the killing of the man’s 18-year-old former
girlfriend during a trip to New York were held
without bail at the city’s Rikers
Island prison after
pleading not guilty yesterday. The girl was fatally shot in front of the couple’s
toddler son during a staged mugging, police...
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 Chelsea M. Frazier’s boyfriend, Carlos Cruz, was arrested
Tuesday for staging the murder of his 18-year-old fiancé. Cruz was accused of
hiring his cousin, 25-year-old Devon Miller, to kill her. Apparently the couple
had some problems and they were arguing a lot lately. The two had a
one-year-old son, who during the assault was on the...
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 According to the settlement proposed by officials and accepted by most families involved in the Virginia Tech tragedy, each family will receive $100,000, as well as the chance to meet and discuss with the governor and the university’s officials about the shootings.Each family will also receive medical and counseling expenses, according...
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 An Ohio man was arrested on
charges that he threatened to blow up the U.S. Supreme Court and attack black
men, including a justice on the court, Clarence Thomas, according to an indictment
filed in federal court in Cleveland
on Wednesday, the Associated Press reports.
It appears that David Tuason, 46, targeted...
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 Authorities made a new discovery at the religious retreat
from Eldorado, Texas, where they continued investigations
to find evidence for the 16-year-old girl’s case. She is allegedly married with
Dale Barlow, 50, and they have a baby aged 8 month.
According to the Los Angeles Times it was discovered a bed
inside a towering...
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 After more than 400 children have been taken from polygamist
compound in Eldorado, Texas, investigation continues. Texas officials are trying to
find out how many girls were sexually abused by adults.
“This is the biggest single removal in the history of this
agency,” Child Protective Services spokesman Darrell Azar...
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 Texas authorities are looking for evidence that Dale Barlow, 50, who lives in a polygamist religious community, is married to a 16-year-old girl and has a child with her, after the girl complained of physical abuse.
They planned to continue interviews Monday with some members of the religious community who lived there.
The retreat was...
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 Officials continued raids on a Texas ranch belonging to a withdrawal Mormon sect, removing 183 women and children since Thursday. Authorities began the raids after reports that a 16-year-old girl was sexually abused. It appears that the investigators are searching for evidence of a marriage between the teen and a 50-year-old man, as...
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The remains of two kidnapped US
security contractors in Iraq
were recovered and sent back to their families. The families had not heard
anything about the two men since 2006.
John Roy Young, 45, who was working for the Crescent
Security Group Inc. in Iraq,
had been missing since November 2006. He was kidnapped in an...
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Pillco, a construction worker, admitted Thursday he murdered actress Adrienne Shelly in
November 2006, the New York Times reports.
In his
first declaration, the man had said he and the actress had started an argument
over the construction noise, while he was working in the building where she lived. Apparently,
the...
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 A SWAT police officer was killed
and another was wounded during a standoff in the Winnetka
area of Los Angeles, California, at the home of a man who claimed
he had killed three relatives, police reported Thursday, according to the
Associated Press.
The conflict began Wednesday night
when a man called the police, saying he had...
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 Two people died after they were overcome by rapidly rising
water in a cave often used by school children on outdoor adventure trips.
The 33-year-old man and the 28-year-old woman drowned as an
underground stream, usually ankle deep, became swollen by heavy rain.
Emergency services were alerted at 1am by the man's wife
when he...
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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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 Authorities are looking for two convicts that escaped from Florence Correctional Center
around one o’clock on Monday morning.
Kollin Folsom 24 convicted of first-degree murder for the
November 1999 stabbing death of Clinton Williams, his girlfriend's father and
was sentenced to 35 years in jail.
The other escapee, Roy...
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 An infant that died after falling down the eight-floor
stairwell in Arlington, Texas
had traces of cocaine in his system, according to an autopsy report.
The boy, Joshua Thorne, died just before his second
birthday, and although the baby had been exposed to the illegal narcotic, this
was not the cause of death, according to the...
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 Two girls found themselves in a heap of trouble when they
both fell down a mineshaft earlier today while riding their ATVs (all-terrain-vehicles).
The accident took place in Chloride, Arizona about 6.20 am today.
The two girls Rikki Howard aged 13 and Casie Hicks 10 went
missing last night around 7 pm.
The 10-year-old girl...
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Dhaka - Convoys of army troops Friday entered the headquarters of the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) to search for missing army officers, while police arrested more than 200 border troops involved in a mutiny against their commanders two days ago.
"The army entered the compound with the prime minister's permission to...
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Six suspects in the kidnapping of a Pakistani businessman and his Filipino friend were arrested in the northern Philippines, a police spokesman said Monday.
The suspects were apprehended late Sunday shortly after releasing the victims in a remote highway in Hermosa town in Bataan province, 75 kilometres north of Manila, according to...
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Rescue workers in Ukraine had recovered three more bodies by Friday morning from the rubble of a block of flats that collapsed in an explosion on Christmas Eve, bringing the total number of dead in the accident to 27, the Interfax news agency reported.
No survivors were found during the night, when temperatures hovered around zero,...
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North Korea's urgent need to trigger economic growth and an Egyptian telecommunications firm's desire to establish a new outpost were key factors in opening restricted mobile telecom service in the secretive communist nation, analysts said Tuesday.
The Cairo-based Orascom Telecom Holding SAE signed a 25-year contract with the North...
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A popular Myanmar comedian known for his criticism and satire of the country's military junta was sentenced Friday to 45 years in prison in a closed-door court session in Yangon, an opposition spokesman said.
Zarganar, who had provided food and water to monks involved in anti-government demonstrations in September 2007, was...
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Relatives of the 18 Indian sailors aboard a ship hijacked by Somali pirates two months ago said Monday they were celebrating the release of the ship and were waiting for it to arrive in India's western city of Mumbai.
The Japanese-owned Stolt Valor was freed by the Somali hijackers on Sunday after the ship's owners paid a ransom of...
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Three civilians, including a 5-year-old boy, were killed and nine were taken hostage by Muslim separatist rebels in two attacks in the southern Philippines, police said Friday.
The civilians were slain when Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels attacked a military outpost Thursday in Midsayap town in North Cotabato province,...
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The sun is shining through coconut palms and the air is warm and moist. Poinsettias, about three metres high, bloom at roadside among wild roses and hibiscus. A rental car is headed toward the beach, its driver looking forward to white sand and turquoise sea.
Thud.
The car has hit a pothole the size of a baby's bathtub. Nothing is...
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A group of unknown gunmen abducted a French aid worker Monday in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and shot dead an Afghan driver who tried to rescue him, police said.
The Frenchman was kidnapped as he was walking to his office with a colleague, said Zemarai Bashary, an interior ministry spokesman.
The two men, who were working with a...
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A stockbroker in India's financial capital of Mumbai killed his pregnant wife before committing suicide due to the financial downturn, media reports said Wednesday.
Parag Tanna and his wife Neha were found dead by relatives in the city's Kandivali area Tuesday night, police told CNN-IBN network.
Police suspect that Tanna, who...
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One soldier was killed Tuesday in a clash with Muslim rebels in the southern Philippines, a regional military spokesman said.
Major Randolph Cabangbang said the firefight between government troops and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels erupted in Mamasapano town in Maguindanao province, 960 kilometres south of Manila.
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Police said on Monday that a group of gunmen abducted an Afghan former presidential candidate in the capital Kabul.
Humayun Asifi and two relatives were kidnapped by unknown gunmen at 11 pm on Sunday night when he was on his way to his home in western part of Kabul city, Zemarai Bashary, interior ministry spokesman, said.
Bashary...
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Pressed by military and partly disgusted by brutality exercised by Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, Pakistani tribesmen are rising up against Islamic militancy in some parts of the tribal region along Afghan border and other areas.
Three ethnic Pashtun tribes in Bajaur district - the Salarzai, Tarkhani and Utmankhel - raised a...
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A Malaysian couple was beaten to death during a "cleansing ritual" which was supposed to rid them of health and financial problems, a news report said Friday.
The couple, aged 47 and 41, went on Wednesday to seek the help of their nephew who claimed to have the power to heal and cleanse.
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A day after a stampede at a Hindu temple, police in the north-western Indian town of Jodhpur said the death toll was likely to rise to more than 190.
"We put the death toll at 147 on Tuesday, but many victims whose bodies were taken home directly from the accident site and were not admitted to hospital were not included,"...
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Four more miners were rescued overnight after being trapped for one week in a flooded mineshaft in the northern Philippines, bringing the total number rescued to six, a regional police chief said Tuesday.
Gary Gano, one of the rescued miners, said they were forced to eat their clothes and drink water dripping from the ceiling of...
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About 20,000 people had fled to the north-eastern Afghan province of Kunar to avoid fighting across the border between Taliban militants and security forces in a Pakistani tribal district, the UN refugee agency said Monday.
The fighting in the restive district of Bajaur started in August when thousands of Pakistani military troops,...
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Two miners were rescued alive on Monday after seven days trapped inside a flooded mineshaft in the northern Philippines, a local official said.
The rescued miners from the shaft in Itogon town in Benguet province, 225 kilometres north of Manila, were identified as Ngitit Pagulayan and Jose Panio, said provincial Governor Nestor...
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Rescuers struggled Wednesday to save 13 miners trapped for two days in a flooded shaft in the northern Philippines, but the operations ground to a halt due to toxic fumes and high floodwaters, a regional police chief said.
Chief Superintendent Eugene Martin said rescuers had not yet made contact with the trapped miners in the flooded...
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The Palestinian who drove his car into a group of Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem late Monday, injuring 19 people, did not carry out a premeditated attack, his family said Tuesday.
The Palestinian was identified Tuesday as Qassem Mughrabi, 19, from the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabel Mukhaber.
Witnesses and Israeli police said...
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Kenyan police are stepping up security in the village of US presidential candidate Barack Obama's grandmother after thieves targeted her home, reports said Thursday.
Obama's grandmother Sarah, 86, said burglars broke in through her kitchen door in the western Kenyan village of Kogello and attempted to steal a solar panel from her...
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Chinese Security forces detained 500 members of the ethnic Uighur minority in the Xinjiang region over the past two weeks, Uighur activists said Monday.
More than 100 people were arrested in the desert town of Kashgar alone, the in-exile Uyghur World Congress said. The organization called on the international community to lodge...
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Vehicles containing 198 Palestinians freed from Israeli prisons crossed into the Palestinian territories on Monday to cheers and whistles from a watching crowd, under an Israeli prisoner release undertaken as a goodwill gesture to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The vehicles were being driven from the Betyunia checkpoint, near...
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The son and daughter-in-law of Taiwan's ex-president Chen Shui-bian Monday returned to the island to face a probe into alleged money laundering implicating the former leader.
The couple, listed as defendants along with the ex-leader and his wife Wu Shu-chen over their alleged roles in the scandal, insisted they knew nothing about a 20...
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Olympic fever that has swept most of China seems to have limited influence in Lanzhou, considered the geometrical centre of China.
For many, the 3-million-inhabitant city capital of Gansu province is still a frontier town, and while the Games' influence is hard to miss in the city centre with flags on mass display in shops and cars,...
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An Israeli ministerial committee Monday approved a list with the names of 200 Palestinian militants who will be freed from Israeli prisons later this month, an Israeli official said.
The release is a "goodwill gesture" to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, to start this...
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At least 145 pilgrims, mostly women and children, most of them women and children, died in a stampede at a temple in northern state of Himachal Pradesh, northern India, the authorities said.Between 20,000 and 25,000 worshippers were at the temple at the time the stampede happened. An iron railing along a steep staircase leading to the...
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Indonesian police on Monday unearthed five
more bodies buried outside the house of an alleged serial killer in
east Java, bringing the number of victims to 10, police and media
reports said. Two weeks ago, the capital city police arrested
Verry Idham Henyansyah after a bag of body parts was discovered on a
roadside in southern...
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 While divers were preparing to bore a hole in the ferry in
order to accelerate the recovery of the bodies belonging to the victims that
had died in the Philippines sea tragedy, a Catholic priest said a mass over the
location of the turned over vessel.
The seven-storey Princess of Stars had on board more than
800 passengers and...
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Over 800 people were missing Monday after a Philippine ferry turned over in one of the most powerful typhoons the archipelago has ever seen. The capsizing of the Princess of the Stars, on Saturday, was the worst catastrophe in a weekend of tragedy for the Philippines, as typhoon Fengshen razed the islands, bringing torrents and wind...
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 The troubled Himalayan nation of Nepal went to the polls Thursday in
historic elections that could mark the end of a centuries-old Hindu monarchy.
The elections were marked by sporadic reports of violence, as authorities had
to suspend voting at 12 polling stations after several clashes between
supporters of different political...
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 Indonesia's ailing former strongman Suharto has survived from a stage
of multiple organs failure on Saturday, though his condition remains
critical and still dependent on medical machines after a week of
hospital treatment, doctors said.
Dr Mardjo Soebiandono, head of the team of doctors treating the
former dictator, said at a...
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 Pakistani authorities launched an investigation Thursday into the
derailment of a passenger train that killed dozens of people the
previous day, while lowering the final death toll to 40 and increasing
the number of injured.
The government remained mum on what caused 15 wagons of the
17-carriage express train bound from Karachi to...
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A British murder suspect who escaped while in Pakistani police custody
last weekend, touching off an international media frenzy, is not facing
terrorism charges back home relating to a plot to blow up
trans-Atlantic commercial jetliners, an official here said Tuesday.
Rashid Rauf, a British citizen of Pakistani origin, is only...
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 Rescuers struggled to pump water out of two Chinese mines flooded by the swollen river nearby the city of Xintai in Shandong Province in order to save 181 miners that are missing and probably trapped underground. According to a Xinhua News Agency official, who was citing Wang Ziqi, director of Shandong province's coal mine safety agency,...
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 Iraq defeated Saudi Arabia 1-0 on Sunday to win its first ever Asian Cup title. The Saudis were attempting to become first four-times winners of the tournament, but the Iraqi team drawn together in ad-hoc circumstances from all parts of the Gulf, and with its players straddling the bitter and violent ethnic divides prevailed. "This...
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 Will greed weigh more than love?
Does a son’s life have a price? Will anger be ever calmed down?
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the families of those killed in the Virginia Tech shootings will have to answer
until March 31. Until this date, the grieving families are asked by Virginia
Tech’s officials and by the state’s governor...
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 Thanks to a social mapping
service everyone will know where he or she is, where their friends, relatives,
children and entire family are, while distances will really remain just
fugitive ideas, disappearing when grabbing your phone. The brand new social
mapping service has been announced by Sprint Nextel Corp. and loopt to...
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Sofia - Bulgaria was in shock Thursday over a macabre family murder in the south of the country which left two children dead and five others seriously injured.
The 29-year old man, apparently distraught by feuding with his in- laws, killed and decapitated his two sons, aged five and eight, in a street in the village of Osikovo on...
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Czech-born architect Jan Kaplicky, creator of organic-shaped buildings and a design visionary, died suddenly at the age of 71, medical services confirmed Thursday.
Kaplicky collapsed on a Prague street on Wednesday evening. He died of heart failure despite efforts to resuscitate him just hours after his daughter was born, his...
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Eight people were killed and dozens injured in an explosion in the North Caucasus region of Ingushetia that destroyed an official building, Russian news agencies reported.
Rescue workers were still searching for people in the rubble of the three-story building late Tuesday.
"A total of 30 people were pulled from under the...
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The pilot of a Boeing 777 due to fly from London to Mumbai in India was taken off the plane by police after a breath test showed he had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at a Christmas party the night before, Britain's Sun newspaper reported Tuesday.
It said armed police swooped the cockpit of the Indian-based Jet Airways plane at...
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An Iraqi doctor described in court as a "religious extremist and a bigot" was Wednesday sentenced to 32 years in jail for plotting major car bombings in Britain in the summer of 2007.
Bilal Abdulla, 29, who has dual British and Iraqi nationality, was given two life sentences for plotting to murder hundreds of innocent...
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Police in Belgium have arrested 14 suspect members of al-Qaeda accused of preparing a terrorist attack on its territory, Belgian media reported Thursday.
The arrests were the result of "dozens" of early morning raids carried out by the police, the Flemish VTM television channel reported.
Police sources said three of the...
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Fourteen suspect members of al-Qaeda were arrested in Brussels on Thursday, just hours before European Union heads of state and government were due to meet in the Belgian capital, media reports said.
The arrests were the result of 16 early morning raids involving more than 240 policemen in Brussels and Liege.
Police sources said...
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A man shot dead his wife and two sons before turning his gun on himself, prosecutors said Thursday.
Police said the 38-year-old sent a text message to relatives Wednesday evening, warning that "a tragedy" was about to happen and urging them to come to his house in the west German town of Rheine.
When they arrived they...
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Italian university students and lecturers staged demonstrations Friday in several cities around the country against government plans to streamline Italy's tertiary education sector.
The protests which have the support of two of the four main labour union confederations, and most of Italy's centre-left opposition, included a march...
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A Spanish judge has ordered the remains of eight people to be exhumed from the Valley of the Fallen, late dictator Francisco Franco's huge mausoleum near Madrid, where many of his opponents were also buried, the daily El Pais reported Thursday.
Judge Baltasar Garzon ordered the exhumations as part of his investigation into human...
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The All Saints' holiday weekend claimed 41 lives, while 533 were injured as 1,416 drivers were pulled over for drunk- driving across Poland, Polish media reported on Monday.
Poles celebrated the Christian holidays of All Saints' Day on Saturday and All Souls' Day on Sunday. Christians traditionally visit the graves of relatives on...
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Four bodies, including that of a 14-month-old girl, have been discovered in the north-eastern Estonian town of Kohtla-Jarve, police said Wednesday.
Murder was suspected as all four bodies had multiple lacerations and stab wounds. The gruesome discovery was made on Tuesday but not made public until Wednesday.
The victims were two...
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The verses of Spain's most beloved poet Federico Garcia Lorca are read all over the world, but his admirers cannot lay flowers or observe a moment of silence at his grave.
Seven decades after Lorca was shot dead by General Francisco Franco's nationalists at the start of the Spanish civil war, his remains are believed to lie in an...
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The Dutch government cannot be held responsible for the failure of Dutch United Nations troops to protect the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre committed by Bosnian Serb forces, a court ruled in The Hague Wednesday.
The Mothers of Srebrenica, relatives of the 8,000 men and boys killed while the enclave was under the formal...
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The Spanish health authorities are investigating the death of a woman whose son died earlier of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), the human variant of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease, experts said Wednesday in Madrid.
If it is confirmed that the woman and her son died from the same cause, they would be the...
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 153 people died after Madrid plane crashed. Investigators are now searching for the causes of the accident. The plane crashed and exploded shortly after it took off in Spain’s capital. Only 19 people remained alive from the crash and King Juan Carlos already met the relatives of the victims.Spanair flight JK 5022 had 172 people on board...
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At the start of what became a journey into catastrophe was a take-off like any other. The plane taxied to its starting position at Madrid airport and began rolling down the runway.
But then it happened.
The McDonnell-Douglas MD-82 of the airline Spanair did not rise up into the blue skies above the Spanish capital, but instead...
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Tens of thousands of people displaced by recent fighting in Ossetia could be doing worse - in no small part because Georgia has a lot of practice helping people who have just lost their homes in a war.
Nuri Sarlidze, 44, is a resident of the Georgian town of Gori, but on Wednesday he was killing time in a place called Mkhehti, as the...
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 Helicopter-borne French troops are holding six pirates after the 30-member crew of the luxury yacht “Le Ponant” hijacked a week ago, were released, officials said Friday. It appears that sacks of money were also recovered – apparently, ransom paid by the yacht’s owners, the Associated Press reports. French President Nicolas Sarkozy...
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 An exploding fondue set left a family of nine injured by
burning hot oil.
Three of the relatives, including a 15-year-old girl, were
in hospital with serious burns to the face, arms and hands after the mini 220g
butane gas cylinder blew up.
Hot oil from the small burner which cooks the fondue was
sent flying everywhere,...
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 Forty-nine passengers and seven crew were killed when an Atlasjet
flight crashed early Friday morning in central Turkey, according to
Atlasjet chief executive officer Tuncel Doganel.
"We have reached the crash site by helicopter. There is no one to be rescued," Doganel told reporters in Istanbul.
The budget airline's...
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The European Court of Human Rights ordered Russia to pay the families of civilian Chechens killed by its military in 2000. Under the order, the eleven families must receive $196,000 from Russia as compensation for their losses."The astonishing ineffectiveness of the prosecuting authorities in this case can only be qualified as...
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 Britain remembered Saturday the horrific moments that filled the soles of hundreds on July 7, 2005 in London, when four bombs exploded on three Underground trains and a double-decker bus during the morning rush hour.Survivors of the terrible incidents and relatives of the slain ones brought an homage to those killed by Islamic...
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 Last week’s attacks in London and Glasgow triggered a massive hunt for the culprits and the entire terrorist structure, British authorities announcing on Friday the cell was tracked down.The country’s premier Gordon Brown said British security and intelligence forces “got to the bottom of the cell,” but people have to maintain their...
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 Just as expected, Rihanna’s family was far from pleased to learn she got back together with Chris Brown, who allegedly beat her up and left her unconscious on February 8. Though her father publicly stated that he supported whatever decision she made, other family members think she is making the wrong decision and worry for her safety,...
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 The Chicago police department is hopeful to find the responsible in the deaths of Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother and nephew. Until now, they have two crime scenes and one suspect. Police Superintendent Jody Weis said that maybe the surveillance cameras throughout the city will help them finding more clues. "I suspect we'll have...
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 It seems that R&B singer Sean Levert was physically
restrained by guards at the Cuyahoga County Jail in Ohio shortly before his death, according to
the jail personnel.
Before he went to the hospital on Sunday, Levert, 39, was
“out of control” and “hallucinating”, so the jail personnel had to put him in a
restraining chair...
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 Heath Ledger’s funeral was held Saturday, in the actor’s
Australian hometown of Perth.
Noticing the impressive number of media workers camping around the area, Kim
Ledger, the actor’s father, announced that the family intended to have a very
small funeral, only among very close relatives.
"The funeral will be very, very...
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 The family and close friends of “Brokeback Mountain”
star Heath Ledger plan a wake to say good-bye to their beloved at spot Heath
spent pleasant moments.
Relatives and friends will gather on Saturday at a
restaurant at Cottesloe Beach, a resort village in the southern of Perth, Ledger’s hometown.
According to an Australian...
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 The death of rapper Pimp C, who was found dead in December
in his hotel room, was accidental, as the Los
Angeles coroner office announced.
Captain Ed Winter of the Los Angeles County coroner's
office revealed on Monday that Promethazine/Codeine syrup and
sleep apnea were the main factors that generated the rapper’s death....
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 The star of the drama series “Grey’s Anatomy” Katherine
Heigl is no emotional confused in real life, as her character seems to be. She
and her sweetheart, musician Josh Kelley, 27 said their ‘I do’s firmly this
Sunday.
Deer Valley,
Utah was the location for the
exclusive ceremony which gathered close friends and relatives of...
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 From now on, the legendary Rat Pack will be history, as the
last member of the famous comic group passed away at his Newport Beach home. Joey Bishop follows the
tragic suite of his colleagues, Peter Lawford who died in 1984, Sammy Davis Jr.
in 1990, Dean Martin in 1995, and Sinatra in 1998.
The Rat Pack started the comic career at...
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 Louis J. Pearlman, best known for managing boy bands like the Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync and US5, was arrested in Indonesia after 6 months in hiding. Pearlman was arrested Tuesday on the island of Bali in Indonesia, turned over to the FBI, and taken to Guam, where he is being held by the FBI.Pearlman was charged in a sealed indictment on...
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 R&B singer Chris Brown has been charged with two felonies counts of assault and making a criminal threat following the "brutal argument" he had with girlfriend Rihanna on February 8, which left the singer with shocking facial injuries.Just hours after Brown was formally charged, one of the Barbados-born pop star's relatives...
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 Former music mogul Lou Pearlman, the man
who launched Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync, was sentenced to 25 years in federal
prison after he pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy and single counts of
money laundering and presenting a false statement during a bankruptcy
proceeding.
But Pearlman had the chance to cut his
prison...
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 Ray Charles’ children called Sunday for an investigation of
the late singer’s estate, including a profit-making company that manages rights
to his music and a charitable foundation he set up. The late entertainer’s
family blames longtime manager Joe Adams of mismanaging Charles’ estate and
trusts, and tarnishing his legacy by...
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 The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, or more commonly, the Tony Awards, have announced their winners for 2007. "Spring Awakening," a dark rock musical based on a 19th century German play about sexually anguished teenagers, snatched 8 prizes, including best new musical, leading the pack. The play had led the...
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 Three broadcast networks, ABC, CBS and NBC will
donate an hour of commercial-free, prime-time television on Sept.5 for a national
show to raise funds for cancer research and treatments.
The broadcast, “Stand Up To Cancer,” will
feature live performances from recording artists as well as movie stars who
will give information about...
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It was revealed at the last moment that a controversial Dutch show which featured a "terminally ill" woman deciding who will receive her kidney, was in fact a hoax. Played by an actress, "Lisa", 37, was said to be dying of a brain tumour and was to decide which of three patients selected by the producers - aged...
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A controversial Dutch show will go ahead despite heavy criticism, featuring a a terminally ill woman deciding who will receive her kidney. Lisa, 37, is dying of a brain tumour and must decide which of three patients selected by the producers - aged between 18 and 40 - should receive her kidney.The show is called The Big Donor Show and it...
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Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston published a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association for June 4. No matter how shocking it may sound, they showed colon cancer patients who have a family history of the disease may live longer when treated than those people who do not have it in their family...
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 Smokers who are willing to give up this unhealthy habit have
many means of doing it: nicotine patches, nicotine chewing gum, medical help.
But they often fail. A new study found the reason: it is more difficult to quit
alone but in groups. The research was published yesterday in the New England
Journal of Medicine.
Findings show...
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 According to researchers from the University of Cambridge,
people with OCD and their close family members share distinctive patterns in
their brain structure.
The findings, published in the journal Brain, could help
predict risk of OCD and lead to more accurate diagnosis of OCD, the researchers
said.
OCD is known to run in...
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 Researchers have identified a genetic mutation that raises the risk of cancer that could be carried by over 60 per cent of the women in the U.S.
The findings, published Sunday in the journals Nature and Nature Genetics, identified four new breast cancer susceptibility genes, as well as several genetic markers that are associated with...
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 Last movie from the Harry Potter series, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” announces to be just spectacular! The movie hits theaters on November 21. Its trailer was released today online and it reveals a young Voldemort, which is presented as Tom Riddle. The audience has met Tom Riddle since “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of...
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 At the beginning, actress and
director Adrienne Shelly’s murderer confessed that he killed the young woman
because of an old argue. He said that he was working as an illegal immigrant in
the United States
and had a renovation job in the building where Shelly had her office. Shelly
confronted him over construction noise, they started...
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Life’s not fair, not even in a
magic family the Claus’, the relatives of Santa Claus that is. Or at least this
is what the protagonist Fred Claus (Vince Vaughn) of the homonymic movie feels,
always being compared and losing the battle with his bother (Paul Giamatti).
By the way, has it ever crossed
your mind that Santa’s name...
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 As Paul Haggis accustomed us in his previous films, he
approaches one strong central theme and then combines it with additional themes
to create a powerful, gripping story. His most recent production, “In the
Valley of Elah” brings in the centre of attention the Army mystery.
A young soldier (Jonathan Tucker) is declared AWOL...
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 The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, or more commonly, the Tony Awards, have announced their nominations for 2007. "Spring Awakening," a dark rock musical based on a 19th century German play about sexually anguished teenagers snatched 11 nominations, including chances at awards for best musical, director and...
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Israel’s Cabinet approved on Sunday an exchange with Hezbollah. The accord will last two weeks to fulfill and will consist of Hezbollah’s return of two Israeli soldiers in exchange for five Lebanese and an indeterminate number of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.
The Israeli don’t have any proof that the soldiers...
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 A Christian archbishop, who had been previously kidnapped, was found dead, local authorities said.The corpse of Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paul Faraj Rahho was found on Thursday on the outskirts of Mosul. The Archbishop was abducted on February 29, when his car was ambushed by several gunmen. In the ambush, Rahho’s driver and his two...
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 Israeli and Palestinian officials negotiating an end to the decades-old
conflict between the sides met for more than two hours Monday night in
Jerusalem but failed to make any progress on settling the issues
dividing them.
The second round of talks since the sides announced a revival of
peace talks last month at Annapolis,...
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 The last King (Shah) of Afghanistan, Mohammed Zahir Shah, died Sunday at 92. "I want to inform all my compatriots that his majesty, the Father of the Nation, Mohammed Zahir Shah, passed away today at 5:45 am," President Karzai said.Zahir was proclaimed shah in 1933 at the age of nineteen after the assasination of his cruel...
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 Pervez Musharraf’s decision to storm the Red Mosque and bring a swift and bloody end to a week-long standoff unleashed the outrage of thousands across the country on Friday.More than one hundred people died during the siege and direct confrontations with governmental troops. Soldier cordoned off hospitals and the compound in Islamabad...
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 Lebanese troops began shelling remaining Fatah al-Islam positions inside the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp early Thursday, three soldiers being killed during intense fire exchange.Several members of the al-Qaeda inspired terrorist group refused to surrender, prompting the army to renew artillery fire against them. Militants sniped down a...
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 The standoff at Lal Masjid ended in a dramatic manner, with thousands of soldiers storming the compound and dozens of alleged militants dying in the fire exchange that brought a funeral calm in Islamabad after a week of turmoil.Thursday, the remains of those killed were buried in a cemetery on Islamabad’s outskirts, the authorities...
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 Another Iraqi journalist was killed Wednesday in Iraq,
while a mortar attack left behind six dead and at least twenty wounded in the
central city of Fallujah.
Fallujah was under a siege of mortars, at least six people
being killed in the attack and dozens gravely wounded. A US
base located in the center of the Euphrates town...
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The IAF (Israeli Air Force) hit a house in Gaza City late Sunday, killing at least eight people, residents and hospital officials said, as a response to the rocket launches last week. The obvious target, Hamas lawmaker Khalil al-Haya, was not at home and was unscathed.Six of the eight dead were relatives of the Hamas politician. The IDF...
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Afghan authorities have buried Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah, who has been killed over the weekend by U.S.-led forces. The execution is thought of as the biggest blow against the Taliban insurgents following the overthrow of their government in 2001."Even though he was a merciless person, we buried his body on the basis of Islamic...
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