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An Australian on Tuesday bet 50,000 Australian dollars (40,000 US
dollars) on Barack Obama winning the November US presidential election.
"Until the last week, the money was fairly evenly split between
McCain and Obama, but it has been all one-way traffic this week, with
punters jumping off the McCain train," Sportingbet...
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Maria Belen Dutto fulfilled on Wednesday her dream of competing at the Olympic Games. However, the Argentine could not hear the shouts of the crowd gathered at the BMX circuit, and she will not be able to hear her national anthem if she wins a medal on Thursday.
Dutto is 98 per cent deaf, but she represents Argentina alongside Maria...
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Lewis Hamilton dominated qualifying for
Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix ahead of McLaren-Mercedes team-mate
Heikki Kovalainen as he seeks his third successive Formula One victory.
The 23-year-old Briton set a best time of 1 minute 20.899 seconds,
0.242 seconds ahead of Finland's Kovalainen to capture his fourth pole
position of the...
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 Beneath the cupola of a Parisian palace in the shadow of a worldwide economic crisis, the world's top art buyers gathered on Monday for a historic auction: the sale of 733 pieces of art owned by the late designer Yves Saint Laurent who died last year at 71, valued at as much as $380 million.The proceedings took place under chandeliers...
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 “Dr. Horrible's
Sing-Along Blog,” conceived by “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” creator Joss
Whedon, has become a sensation on the internet since its release Tuesday.
The musical miniseries is supposed to have three parts, and
the heavy traffic crashed the server for the free-view website when the first
part was posted. The iTunes...
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 During a news conference on Tuesday, Eddie Wu, Microsoft Corp managing director of OEM embedded devices Asia, told Reuters that the company expects the global unit sales of phone software Windows Mobile to record an annual increase of at least 50 percent for fiscal years 2008 and 2009. In the 2006/2007 fiscal year, the company sold...
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 Pilots or air traffic controllers will no longer be allowed
to use the anti-smoking drug Chantix. This appeal of the Federal Aviation
Administration is argued by the side-effects of the drug, which have been
discovered and announced in the last months. These negative influences on the
human body may be a threat to the safe operation...
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 This Memorial Day weekend, a rather unusual meteorological phenomenon snuck up on unsuspecting Sierra-bound travelers. Several mountain roads had to be closed as certain segments were covered with no less than four inches of snow. The routes which were considered to be unfit for traffic included the Tioga Pass Road in Yosemite National...
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 Rates of heart attacks, strokes and potentially
fatal blood clots in the leg increase after exposure to air pollution from
traffic fumes. It alters the blood’s coagulation properties and heightens the
risk of deep vein trombosis.
As many as 24,000 deaths annually in California are linked to
chronic exposure to fine particulate...
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 Starting with May 14, the polar bears have
become a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, because of the
global warming. This represents an alarm signal that something must definitely
be done. But what are the implied consequences of listing the polar bears among the
animals to be protected? What are the measures to be...
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 The Air Transport Association of America (ATA), which is representing the largest airlines in the United States, has released a statement as a response to the Department’s of Transportation’s criticized proposal to reduce delays at the seriously congested LaGuardia Airport by decreasing the number of flights and auctioning those slots...
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 Deborah Shank, 52, who suffered severe brain damage in a
traffic accident, doesn’t have to pay back the company the cost of her medical
expenses.
Eight years ago, in 2000, she was stocking shelves at night for
Wal-Mart. She signed up for Wal-Mart's health and benefits plan. That same year, she lost much of her memory and...
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 Gazprom, the Russian monopoly natural gas supplier, said on Wednesday that Ukraine's oil and gas company, Naftogaz, has warned that it might lower the amount of gas that is travelling through pipelines across Ukraine toward other parts of Europe.As a response to Russia’s move to cut 50 percent of the amount of gas delivered to Ukraine...
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 Millions of people were left without power on Tuesday, due to an unexplained equipment failure, devastating traffic in intersections and leaving some trapped in elevators.The massive blackout affected at least two million people, as the incident, which occurred at about 1:09 pm, caused the customer demand for electricity to exceed...
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 A new German study has found that getting stuck in traffic may have a lot of unwanted consequences for your health. The researchers found it may triple a person’s risk of suffering a heart attack.For those people who already are at higher risk for a heart attack, because of additional factors such as smoking or being overweight, traffic...
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 Being exposed to traffic fumes increases your risk of heart attack by a third, according to a German study presented at this week’s American Heart Association meeting in Palm Harbor, Florida.The study was made by Annette Peters, PhD, and colleagues at the Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Center, Munich, Germany. They interviewed...
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 A new study presented at the American Heart Association's
49th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention in
Florida found that people were three times more likely to have an attack if
they had recently spent time on the roads, possibly because of the exhaust
fumes and other pollution they...
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 Exposure to air pollution from traffic fumes raises risks of
potentially fatal blood clots in the leg; it alters the blood’s coagulation
properties and heightens the risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a Harvard research
study showed.
The Harvard School of Public Health published the results of
the first study focused on air...
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 A new research study states that
there might be a link between regular unintentional daytime dozing and the risk
of stroke in seniors.
The study looked at 2,153 adults
with an average age of 73. The researchers asked the subjects involved in the
two-year study to say how often they nod off during daytime activities such...
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 Cisco Systems, the popular network
equipment maker, revealed on Monday a data center new switching product, called
Nexus 7000. The brand new product was created especially for large data centers
and is expected to sell very well despite current concerns of a slowdown in the
United States’
technology spending.
Cisco Systems...
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 The online encyclopedia of species, which debuted Tuesday, appears
to be more successful than its creators had imagined. In only 5 hours and a
half, the site logged 11.5 million hits. The computers were overwhelmed, so the
site crashed on its very first day.
"We've been overwhelmed by traffic," encyclopedia
founding...
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 A new (media) war involving the
controversial Church
of Scientology has just
started! This time it is a group of hackers, which calls itself “Anonymous” or “Anon”,
that hit the popular Church’s web site, in a move that reportedly tries to open
people’s eyes on the real truth about the Church of Scientology.
The group’s attack...
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 Danish researchers found that the
use of HEPA filters for reducing fine particles or particulates from the air
improves cardiovascular health of elderly non-smoking people.
The study published in the second
February issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care
Medicine, involved 21 non-smoking couples with...
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 According to government advisers on Tuesday, the most widely
used influenza drug in the world should carry a stronger warning label about
psychiatric problems seen in a handful of patients.
A panel of experts for the Food and Drug Administration
recommended that the drug maker, Roche, change the warning label for Tamiflu,
which...
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 The German government moved Friday to head off a looming unlimited
strike by train drivers, saying the state-owned rail company would
resume talks Saturday with a drivers' union, the GDL.
Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee convened a crisis meeting at
an undisclosed venue with Hartmut Mehdorn, the chief executive of
Deutsche...
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 The French CGT union, one of the most powerful unions of the public transport workers, called on Saturday to a one-day strike for December 13 at SNCF national railway, according to France Info-Radio.Unions’ officials previously called for a strike at RATP, which is Paris’ urban transit system, for the next Wednesday.The new threat comes...
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 The French railways and the public transport system workers have entered the sixth day of strike, on Monday, as unions’ officials gave more and more signs that they would want to negotiate and put an end to the strike.The leaders of two trade unions that are involved in the strike declared that they were disposed to hold talks with...
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 The French transport strike continues for the second day, on Thursday, in and around Paris, as the train service and public transport workers protested against the government’s pension reform proposal.The SNCF railway network declared that on Thursday only one of five high speed TGV trains operated, and one of three regional trains...
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 Apple Inc. has recently launched
the latest version of its Mac OS X operating system and has sold already more
than 2 million of copies of the software. Leopard has become a hit even before
landing on the tech stores’ shelves. But, the people who have already bought
Leopard have also started to use it, which is obvious. And...
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 Martin Lawrence, who starred in
blockbusters like “Bad Boys” with Will Smith, “Big Momma’s House,” “Wild Hogs”,
and his recent sitcom series “Martin,” is back with two new films: Universal's
“Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins,” which opens Friday, and the upcoming Disney...
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 After the last week’s premiere of
‘Michael Clayton’, this week reserves a drug-traffic story that combines the
threats the illegal bonds imply with the complications of a blood family being
on opposite sides – trafficker and NYPD detectives.
James Gray’s “We Own The Night”
recalls the struggles that the New York policemen fought...
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 The winding road of singer Scott Weiland, 40, doesn’t seem to get back on track as he gets himself in trouble time and time again.
After he left Stone Temple Pilots for Velvet Revolver in 2003, he is now getting back with his old band because Velvet Revolver doesn’t want him anymore, declaring on April 1 that the...
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 Radiohead and Jack Johnson will be the headlines of the
inaugural All Points West Music&Arts festival, Reuters informs.
The festival will be held August 8-10, in Liberty State
Park, in Jersey City. The festival will last three days, with Radiohead
performing the first two nights and Johnson the third. Singer/songwriter...
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 Britney Spears’ comeback performance at the MTV’s Video
Music Awards brought her in the limelight again, but this time the discussion
is controversial.
On one hand, there are critics that expected to see at least
the explosive shows she used to deliver during her gigs, on the other hand,
there are those who take into...
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A tense calm reigned Friday as Houston braced for the arrival of Ike, the first major hurricane in 25 years to bear down on the fourth-largest US city in full strength.
Hundreds of thousands of people were leaving nearby coastal areas to flee what the National Hurricane Centre (NHC) warned would be "certain death."
Jim...
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 Three people died in a car crash last night in Los Angeles. Among the dead there were a pregnant woman and a little girl of only 12 years. Two other people were seriously injured as their car ran into a tree. Authorities believe that the car was participating in a possible drag race in northeast Los Angeles, in Eagle Rock community.The...
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Denver police arrested 31 protesters outside the Democratic presidential nominating convention on Tuesday, including 13 anti-abortion demonstrators.
Eighteen people including out-of-state residents were arrested by the Denver police, bringing to 135 the total number of arrests since Saturday, before the convention opened, police said...
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 Heavy rain and winds came together with tropical storm Fay in the Florida Keys. Fay broke down trees and headed southwest Florida on Monday, after it had killed nearly 50 people in the Caribbean. This is the sixth storm this year in the Atlantic hurricane season and had hit Florida with winds reaching 60 mile per hour.Fay didn’t reach...
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 On Sunday a tragic accident took place on the Bay Bridge. A tractor-trailer fell into the Chesapeake Bay leaving its driver dead and closing the bridge during one of the busiest weekends of the year. The accident happened at about 4 a.m. during the two-lane traffic on Bay Bridge.The busiest lane was stretched to 11 miles by afternoon on...
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 A charter bus that was running off a highway near north of Dallas crashed onto one side on a roadway below. 12 people were killed on Friday at about 12:45 a.m. CT (1:45 a.m. EDT) as the bus rolled over and endangered the life of nearly fifty-five people who were inside it.The bus crashed about 60 miles north of Dallas, nearly half a mile...
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 Two people were taken to hospital in order to be treated for critical burn injuries Sunday night after their rental truck upturned and burst into flames on a main freeway interchange in downtown Los Angeles. Brian Ballton, spokesperson for Los Angeles Fire Department, stated that a Ryder truck caught fire Sunday on southbound Interstate...
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 Jim Giuntoli found a large golden retriever mix, named Ben, together with another terrier-mix in the traffic on Interstate 5 near Kent, last month. Giuntoli took Ben at a King County animal shelter, but they wanted to euthanatize it. A non-profit animal-rescue organization saved the dog’s life.At Animals First Foundation in Seattle Ben...
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A forest fire that has blanketed Yosemite
National Park in smoke threatens around 4,000 buildings near the
California natural attraction, local media reported Tuesday.
Four days after the blaze broke out about 20 kilometres from
Yosemite, firefighters had contained about 10 per cent of the place,
which has destroyed 40 buildings,...
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A brief earthquake rattled Los Angeles on
Tuesday, causing downtown buildings to sway, sending a jolt to outlying
areas and causing parents to rush to schools to check on their
children.
The US Geological Survey said the quake was a magnitude 5.4 on the
Richter scale, after earlier saying it had been as strong as 5.8.
There were...
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 50 homes in Southern California were considerably damaged by massive mudslides provoked by a monsoon. Officials said yesterday that heavy rains brought thunderstorms to the Sierra Nevada Mountains, generating the mudslide near the city of Independence that was 300 yards wide and up to 3 feet deep. Nature’s fury also triggered to flooding...
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A 48-year-old non-conformist man succeeded Sunday in conquering the American skies, flying about 230
miles for nine hours across the Oregon
state. On this third attempt, this time successful , he used a lawn chair rigged with more than
150 helium-filled balloons.
Having a GPS gadget, an altimeter
and coffee, Kent Couch, owner...
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 This morning, a blaze destroyed a beachfront house in Malibu and damaged two others. The authorities shut down traffic in both directions on Pacific Coast Highway for hours so the firefighters could fight the spreading of the fire. The trailer house fire happened in Las Virgenes Canyon Road and has spread and burned more than 20 acres...
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A man was arrested Wednesday after supposedly threatening the police to having planted a bomb at Los Angeles International
Airport, provoking
authorities to ground several flights and close down traffic in the area.
However, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller reported that
no explosives were found on the man, not even in the rucksack...
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Federal officials began sifting Monday through the wreckage of two medical helicopters that collided in mid-air on approach to a hospital Sunday in Flagstaff, Arizona.US aviation officials said that the mishap capped a disturbing increase in the number of medical aircraft crashes, which have killed 16 people so far this year.The...
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Five people, including a 12-year-old boy, died in a fiery
six-vehicle collision in South Los Angeles,
the Associated Press reports. According to Los Angeles Police spokeswoman Karen
Smith, the crash took place just before 6 p.m. Monday, when a van ran a red
light and hit another van in the Hyde Park
neighborhood.
The accident...
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 The US Supreme Court upheld a federal law that
punishes people who advertise or solicit child pornography. The court, in a 7-2
decision, upheld the PROTECT Act (Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to End
the Exploitation of Children Today), the law that makes a federal crime to “pander,”
of offer for sale or trade material that is...
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 Glenn Messenger, a trooper from Troop A in Southbury was
injured Sunday after another car rear-ended his patrol vehicle, a Ford Crown Victoria. The accident occurred
on Interstate 84, near Exit 28 on the highway's eastbound side at about 10 a.m.,
while Messenger was writing a traffic ticket. Lt. J. Paul Vance, a state police...
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 A 16-year-old Jewish teenager was attacked on Friday,
shortly after midnight. He was robbed and beaten by two African-American teenagers
right near his home in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Officials
are now investing the case trying to find out whether it was a robbery or a
hate crime. Meanwhile, hundreds of Jewish people strongly...
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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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 Lawmakers said that Mayor Bloomberg’s quest to persuade
the state Legislature to agree to congestion prices, an important issue for
PlaNYC, appears to have failed. In December 2006, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
challenged New Yorkers to generate ideas for achieving 10 key goals for the
city’s future. The plan, named PlaNYC,...
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 Strong winds from what appeared to be a tornado damaged
several buildings on Central US. It killed one
person in a massive traffic pileup caused by the snow.
The Associated Press reports three people were taken to
hospital and treated for minor injuries after a strong storm flattened an
antique store and damaged a gas station in...
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A giant crane collapsed Saturday afternoon at a construction
site on Manhattan’s East
Side, killing four construction workers and injuring more than 10
other people, officials report. Mayor Michael Bloomberg named the crush one of New York City's worst
construction accidents.
“It is a tragic event,” he said in a news conference....
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 The Californian police may be dealing with al sorts of crimes and murders, but to find a dead man with an arrow through his chest isn’t an everyday case.However, it was today’s case as police found the corpse of a Lancaster man on the street, authorities said.The dead man was spotted by a passerby at about 1:45 a.m. and shortly after he...
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 After encountering mechanical problems, the pilot of a small jet was forced to make an emergency landing on a Scottsdale highway on Monday.One can only imagine the surprise experienced by the drivers who were driving on the highway and, all of a sudden, found out that an unusual vehicle joined the traffic.The pilot of the...
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 It’s Business as usual in New York City’s Times Square after a military recruitment center was bomb attacked on March 6. The same goes for the police as the investigators of the explosion searched through dozens of security video tapes, but couldn’t identify the man who threw the bomb and the incendiary device. They managed, however, to...
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 Ten Congress members received letters saying “We did it” and also containing a picture of the recently-attacked Armed Forces Recruiting Station in New York’s Times Square. The military recruiting station was bomb attacked yesterday. The attacker was apparently a man on a bicycle, who threw an explosive device and an incendiary...
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 An explosion that occurred in New York City's Times Square determined the police to cordon off a section of the area for investigations. According to preliminary reports, the target of the explosion was the Armed Forces Recruiting Station at which a man riding a bicycle threw an explosive device and an incendiary device. The blast...
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 Defense
Secretary Robert Gates could not be present at a hearing on Capitol Hill, after falling on
ice Tuesday and breaking his shoulder.
There was
an ice storm in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, which made traffic very
difficult on sidewalks and roads. Gates
was just leaving his house when he fell on the ice.
In...
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 Rain and snow battered both coasts of the United
States Thursday, while powerful winds raged through the northeast, causing the
death of a construction worker in New York.
New York City officials said the worker fell 12 stories
Wednesday when the scaffold platform beneath him collapsed, apparently because
of high winds, The...
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 20 inches of snow fell around Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and 71
homes have been evacuated due to the avalanches, which destroyed four houses
and a garage in northwest of Ketchum. The heavy snow has left without
electricity thousands of people from Idaho, Utah, Colorado and Washington.
John Livingston, a National Weather Service...
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 The Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge in South Texas
reopened early Friday following a fiery wreck that killed four people and
injured six.
Authorities said a van burst into flames Thursday night when
it was hit by two 18-wheelers that collided on the bridge, which spans the
Texas-Mexico border. The cause of the wreck, which...
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 Rain and snow pummelled the California region Saturday, dumping nearly
two metres of snow in the Sierra Nevada and bursting a levee in Nevada
that forced the evacuation of thousands of people.
The levee broke along the Truckee Canal in Fernley, Nevada,
trapping about 3,500 people who were being rescued by US military
helicopters...
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 Hundreds of north-east families lost their personal belongings after a massive fire burned a removal company's warehouse to the ground.The building, belonging to international firm Clark and Rose in Portlethen, was full to capacity when the fire broke out on Saturday, destroying 800 storage containers and their contents.It took...
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 Instead of a “clear for takeoff” signal, thousands of
holiday travelers at Logan International Airport faced canceled flights and
long delays yesterday, with some trapped in planes on the tarmac for hours, as
the third snowstorm in eight days hit Greater Boston.
Like the previous Thursday's 10-inch storm, which plunged
Greater...
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 The Ohio Highway Patrol reports a cargo container truck with
a boom arm in the up position hitting a bridge overpass on Route 11 just after
4:30 a.m. The accident occurred in Vienna Township, east of Warren in Trumbull
County.
It was major crash and it killed one person and shut down a
busy road in Trumbull County on Tuesday...
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 Local authorities report over 88,000 homes and businesses in
Oklahoma in darkness more than a week after an ice storm swept the county and produced
heavy power surges.
Utility crews estimated that crews would have power restored
by late Wednesday or Thursday. Meanwhile, overnight temperatures in the state
in the past week have...
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 At least 23 people died as a result of heavy ice storms that froze the central United States, US media reported Tuesday.
The storm that glazed the central US Monday and was to last for
several more days turned ice-coated branches into falling, lethal
debris and sent cars spinning on slippery highways.
About 600,000 households...
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 Interstate 5 opened to vehicle traffic just before noon Friday, with all lanes open to both cars and trucks. Crews worked around the clock to get the vital highway back open.On Thursday, one lane of traffic in each direction was opened at 5 p.m., but only to large commercial trucks over 10,000 gross vehicle weight.Friday morning, the...
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 Recent news reports say that at least 200 people were
evacuated from their homes, including 84 residents of an apartment building for
the elderly, after a tanker truck carrying 9,000 gallons of gasoline erupted
early Wednesday in a northern Boston suburb.
No serious injuries were reported in the Everett,
Massachusetts, blast, but...
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 After being found with more the 60 pounds of marijuana in
the trunk of his car ,a California appeals court has ordered the police in
Garden Grove to return the seized marijuana, ruling that enforcement of federal
drug laws did not supersede the state’s allowance of marijuana for medicinal
purposes.
The man, Felix Kha, had a...
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 According to an official report released on Wednesday, a Chicago-bound jet came within seconds of a midair collision at 25,000 feet over Indiana, but a cockpit safety device alerted the pilots flying the other plane of the danger ahead.The near collision Tuesday evening was attributed to an error by an air-traffic controller who directed...
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 According to a police statement made public yesterday, a
66-year-old man was killed and three people were injured over the weekend when
a drunken driver crossed the median of a Queens street into oncoming traffic,
causing a three-vehicle, chain-reaction crash, police said yesterday.
Christopher Rivera, 25, of 149-38
85th St.,...
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 According to the German Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, in
an article citing the German train drivers' union, the GdL, the union said it
may halt commuter, long-distance and freight trains in a wave of fresh strikes
this week, if Deutsche Bahn AG does not make a new offer today.
Regional heads of GdL even called for open-ended...
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 What started almost one year ago is quickly reaching its end
as the culprit behind the disappearance of dozens of parking meters from city
streets will finally be brought to justice.
After conducting an ample investigation all the way to the installation on
surveillance cameras on city streets, police officials were finally able...
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 US traffic control in Memphis had to deal with a real
problem on Tuesday after a communications failure lead the employees having to
direct the flights in and out of the airport using their personal mobile
phones.
The three-hour midday disruption in a telephone line
prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to clear all...
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 The National Park Services noticed an oily substance on the
wall last week and were not sure if the
substance had been put there purposely or accidentally.
The material, which appeared to be gone yesterday, was
noticed along the paving stones and the bottom of some of the panels and
reported to US Park Police at about 5 p.m. on...
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 More than 25 people lost their lives and more were killed
when a trailer truck carrying several tons of highly combustible chemicals
exploded after colliding with another truck in the state of Coahuila in northern
Mexico,
officials reported Monday.
Amongst the victims are numerous police officers, soldiers,
rescue workers,...
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 After its opening in 1914, the 93-year-old canal is ready to
“grow up.”
Construction on expanding the Panama
Canal started on Monday. The project is said to be worth a
staggering 5.25-billion-U.S.-dollars and is to be completed by 2014, in time
for the centenary anniversary of its opening.
The canal represent a milestone in...
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Jakarta - Seven people were killed and dozens injured on Monday when a passenger train slammed into a bus in Indonesia's East Java province.
The bus was passing a level crossing in Kediri district when it was hit by the train, the state Antara news agency reported.
It appeared the bus driver could not see the the...
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Athens - Dozens of international flights at Greek airports were cancelled Wednesday morning after air traffic controllers walked off the job in a show of solidarity with farmers protesting falling commodity prices.
The 24-hour strike began at midnight despite a court ruling that declared the walkout illegal.
Most...
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Russian combat forces began a slow withdrawal from Georgia on Friday but were still operating road checkpoints deep in the country despite a pledge to leave by the end of the day.
The Russian general staff said that troops were "in the final stage of pulling back," but they would continue to hold buffer zones and maintain...
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Russia's army on Wednesday continued its occupation of two enclaves in Georgia as Kremlin officials claimed they would accelerate what they said was an already in-progress withdrawal.
President Dmitry Medvedev promised his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy that all but a 500-strong contingent of peace keepers would leave Georgian...
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On Sunday, an unfortunate crash
killed four people and blocked a few traffic lanes of Interstate 10 for several
hours. The California Highway Patrol reopened those about 12.30.
Heather Hoglund, CHP spokesperson
Officer, states access slopes on the westbound Santa Monica Freeway at Western Avenue carry
on being closed but the...
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A Palestinian driving a bulldozer
went on a downtown Jerusalem street
Wednesday, plowing into a bus, cars and pedestrian people. The regrettable
episode finished up with the death of at least 3 individuals and the injuring
of minimum 45.
Traffic was brought to a
standstill, and countless terrified people ran off on the...
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 Two undersea cables carrying
Internet traffic snapped in the Mediterranean Sea Wednesday, causing slowdown and outage
in the Middle East and South Asia. This caused
the internet service to be reduced by 50 percent in Egypt
and by 60 percent in Saudi Arabia
and India.
India is one of the most affected countries.
Dubai...
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 According to a government report released this morning the
rate of close calls between aircraft on the ground approached record highs in
recent years at Los Angeles International and airports around the nation. LAX
also recorded one of the largest total numbers of serious runway incursions.
The findings come despite much-touted...
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 According to a police statement, a San Jose woman and her 6-year-old son on their way home from a neighbor's birthday party on Monday were struck and killed by a car as they jaywalked across a street near downtown San Jose.Dalila "Sonia" Araujo, 43, and her son Angel Jesus Hernandez Araujo were crossing the street to their home...
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 According to a statement given by federal safety officials
on Wednesday the famous Chinese automobile manufacturer, Toyota, will recall
floor mats from 55,000 Camry and Lexus ES 350 models due to complaints of unintended
acceleration caused by the mats sticking underneath the accelerator pedal.
Toyota Motor Co. will recall...
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 The San
Francisco Bay Bridge opened its gates eleven hours
earlier than scheduled. The bridge was closed down for major renovations as
part of a seismic retrofitting project.
Commuters had a nice surprise that the bridge was open for
traffic eleven hours earlier than the 70 hours predicted initially.
“I’m just glad the bridge...
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 The recently elected president of the United States, Barack Obama, is the subject of a malicious malware campaign designed to steal information from infected computers. Malware authors created a Trojan that exploits the high volumes of Web traffic around Obama, 60 percent of all spam messages using his name in what has become a...
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 Wikia has confirmed that about 30 percent of its workers have been laid off, but points out that it is still trying to hire for open positions. Co-founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, officially launched at the beginning of this year an attempt at a human-powered search engine (Wikia Search). It looks like the experimental search engine is...
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 The Federal Communications Commission might sanction Comcast for blocking traffic in what is supposed to be an arbitrary manner. The complaint was filed to the commission at the end of 2007 by the consumer group Free Press, which said that the internet service provider was blocking some users’ access to some peer2peer applications among...
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 Wednesday night, in-browser social network Me.dium took the next step in developing its service as it launched a new social search tool. The new system, called Crowd Rank, combines regular Yahoo results with separately obtained social ones, taken from Me.dium users. According to David Mandell, Me.dium founder, the novelty of Wednesday’s...
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 A Florida judge has given a rather surprising sentence when he made the two YouTube pranksters upload a video apology on the same website that made them famous. As they thought what they did was hilarious, the two boys, aged 15 and 16, posted a video of themselves throwing a soft drink at a Taco Bell employee, at a restaurant in Merritt...
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 This week, Comcast will start trying out a new method of traffic management in three U.S. markets. The novelty of the company’s move consists of a protocol-agnostic approach that will cover all traffic, as opposed to the current strategy of peer-to-peer traffic targeting. According to Comcast officials, the company is considering the...
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Comcast lost control of its Web mail portal for more than five hours on
late Wednesday night, when two hackers unleashed chaos on the site. The
hackers, two groups from the Kryogeniks, redirected the site traffic, shut down the service and did not allow the users to access their personal e-mails. Two hundred
domain names were breached...
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 On Wednesday, Facebook finally talked openly about the
soon-to-be-deployed website redesign, which will clean up profile pages and
improve the website’s organization. Now that it has over 20,000 applications,
things are getting a bit crowded visually and some feel that a change is really being called
for.
The user’s information...
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 According to a study from the German-based Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, U.S. cable broadband providers Comcast and Cox Communications are not slowing down BitTorrent traffic during peak hours alone, but all throughout the day. The study, conducted between March 18 and May 15, involved around 8,000 users from all over the...
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 Ask.com and Lexico Publishing Group, owner of the three very popular websites Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com, have announced that an agreement was reached and thus the first will acquire the latter for an undisclosed price. There is however some available information that can roughly point out what the company is worth:...
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 On Friday, at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Matt Cutts, Google engineer, head of Google's Web spam team, kept a very informative speech ("What Google Knows About Spam") on spam and ways to go around it. Keyword spam, widely covered by the session, represents the use of words, oftenly having to connection what so ever with...
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 Google's Urchin Web analytics server software has finally received that very important upgrade it has been waiting for. Urchin 6, initially announced for late 2004, can now be purchased from authorized resellers for the price of US$2,995 per license for up to 1,000 domains. Users who had already paid for Urchin 5 can redirect the sums...
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 Microsoft announced on Thursday its plan to introduce a service for driving directions that would help users stay away from traffic jams. The new web-based service’s software technology is called Clearflow and it has been developed by an artificial-intelligence research group for the past five years.The Clearflow system will be made...
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 Comcast Corp. promised yesterday that it would not
discriminate against specific Internet traffic. With more than 24 million
subscribers, the company is the largest cable TV and Internet provider in the U.S. The
announcement comes after criticism received by the company last year on the
alleged blocking of a software program utilized...
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 Google’s highly
popular video sharing web site YouTube had some problems this week following
Pakistan’s trying to block access to the web site only inside its borders. Pakistan’s
action was caused by a so-called “blasphemous” video clip about the Koran made
by a Dutch politician and lawmaker called Geert Wilders. The movie...
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 According to a
spokesman’s recent announcement, the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority
ordered the country’s Internet service providers to restore access to YouTube,
Google’s popular video sharing web site. Pakistan’s telecommunications
regular lifted the ban, after it had disrupted worldwide access to the popular
web site during...
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 Search engine king Google Inc. has joined other companies to lay a new data cable between the United States and Japan. Five other telecommunications companies are involved in the bold project, which will eventually see a new 6,200 mile undersea fiber optic cable installed on Pacific's bottom.A consortium was formed, Unity, which...
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 Pakistani ISPs were ordered to block access to the popular video sharing website YouTube after several anti-Islam videos were posted on the site. Apparently, this was improperly done and it disrupted access to YouTube across the world due to routing errors.YouTube said in a statement that users around the world could not access the site...
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 The Federal Communications Commission has grilled Comcast Monday over their policy of slowing down or canceling certain types of data transfers, which are using peer-to-peer technology. Although initially the company has denied such accusations that it violates the "net neutrality" principles, it was eventually forced to admit...
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 CBS Mobile announced on Wednesday
that it had joined forces with Loopt, a mapping and communications provider. Thanks
to this new deal, CBS Mobile will be able to offer its users location-based
mobile ads on its news and sports web sites.
CBS Mobile and Loopt are very
proud of their project, which is reportedly the first of its...
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 According to the statement of industry officials on Friday, another Internet carrying undersea cable was cut, following the disruption of the Internet and telephone traffic in India and the Middle East. This is actually the third cable that is being damaged over the last three days.The first two undersea cables were cut on Wednesday off...
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 Millions of Internet users in India and countries across the
Middle East had to cope with slow connections after two undersea cable systems
in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged, officials informed.
Telecommunications companies said damaged cables near
Alexandria, Egypt, and Marseille, France, were to blame for the massive...
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 Last month, Radiohead announced the release of a new album, In Rainbows. Nobody would have guessed that this album would be such a great surprise and a blast of publicity, through its unusual marketing strategy.The well-known band’s album was available online, for download at a price that was set by the fans. Thus, Radiohead asked their...
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 Having no less than 11 million
customers, Comcast represents the second largest high-speed Internet provider
from the United States.
Any move that Comcast would theoretically make for favoring or blocking certain
types of content moving over its network would practically have serious, large
consequences. The Internet principle of...
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 Despite an American blog has
posted that the users from Shanghai and Beijing have not been
able to access Google Inc.’s search engine on Friday, the users themselves have
just denied the news. They have said that they have been able to successfully access
Google’s search engine, as well as other search engines, and that the...
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 According to a researcher’s
report that has been made public on Tuesday, the brilliant dark minds behind
the risky and persistent Storm trojan have started to sell pieces of the botnet
that their malware has been creating. This way the hackers are selling in fact access
to the compromised personal computers that have been infected by...
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 The famous company Yahoo Inc. has
announced today that it is to sell display ads for one of the most popular social
networking web sites. The deal that Yahoo Inc. has signed with Bebo Inc.
represents the first one that Yahoo has ever had with a social networking web
site. However, this move is welcomed and represents as well an...
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 Although some of us might have
not even noticed yet, starting with Friday Google has started to host The
Associated Press’ news material on its own web site and has stopped to send
only readers to other destinations. Google has signed this deal not only with
The Associated Press, but also with Agence France-Presse, with The...
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 Last week, a group of six teenagers has had quite a wild night
out. According to Newsday, they robbed a man, stole a pack of cigarettes from a
driver, tested the resistance of a passing van’s body with a bat and eventually
blocked traffic and started harassing motorists.
According to Nassau county police spokesman Det....
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This is it guys, the moment we’ve all been waiting for, Burnout 5 is closer to its release.Sorry for all you PC gamers but it’s only available for Xbox and PS3.Not long now, Paradise should be in stores by the beginning of winter this year.Set in the city of Paradise, were anything and everything is possible. the player has the...
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 Rapper Leon Ivey Jr., better known after his stage name Coolio, was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday on suspicion of possessing drugs, according to TMZ.com.The 45-year-old artist, who shot to fame with his 1995 “Gangsta's Paradise,” was found with illicit drugs at an LAX terminal. Officials gave no further details...
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 Friday, actress
Heather Locklear pleaded no contest to a reckless driving charge following a
September incident that resulted in her being arrested for driving under the
influence of prescription drugs.
Santa Barbara Assistant District Attorney Lee
Carter informed that the 47-year-old actress had been sentenced to three...
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 Heather Locklear, 47, was arrested in Montecito on Saturday night. The police suspected her of driving under drug influence. She was arrested by the California Highway Patrol at about 7 p.m. because a citizen had called 911 saying that a woman was driving like she was out of her minds. The actress, who is no longer in police custody, got...
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A 52-year-old Los Angeles woman is suing lingerie giant Victoria’s Secret for an eye injury she said she suffered after an allegedly defective “low-rise v-string” flew apart and struck her in the eye. The sexy piece of clothing was a part of Victoria’s Secret collection called “Sexy Little Thing.”“I was putting on my underwear from...
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Artis Leon Ivey Jr., better known after his stage name Coolio, was
retained by a routine patrol from the Los
Angeles police this morning for driving with his
license suspended. The 44-year-old rap singer was stopped by the police in Hollywood, near Sunset Boulevard
and Sweetzer Avenue,
around 1 a.m. At the beginning, the...
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 Robert Rauschenberg, a major American pop artist, who rose
to fame in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art, died Monday
of heart failure, as it was announced Tuesday by Jennifer Joy, his
representative at PaceWildenstein gallery in New York. He was 82.
His unique artistic style, which mixes odd articles...
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 A Los Angeles
judge extended a restraining order against Britney Spears’ former manager Sam
Lufti until July 31, under an agreement between lawyers for both sides, BBC
News reports. The restraining order was originally put in place in February.
According to Britney Spears’ attorney, Vivian Thoreen,
extending the order was “in...
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 Unfortunately for the former pop princess, Britney Spears,
another issue will shadow her good behavior. The problem is now a car crash. The
fact is that it is hard for her to be left alone considering her past, but let’s
take it this way: it could happen to anyone! Saturday night Spears was involved
in a minor collusion while driving...
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 The outcome of Mischa Barton’s December DUI arrest is not
that bad.
The former “O.C.” star entered a guilty plea and was
sentenced to three years of unsupervised probation and to complete an alcohol
education program of three months. In addition, she was also ordered to pay a
$2,000 fine. The lenient sentence is common among...
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 Actress Mischa Barton is going to plead no contest to DUI,
which is alike a guilty plea, part of the deal that will spare her any jail
time, People.com reports. The actress agreed to serve a three-year unsupervised
probation term and attend three months of an alcohol education class. She will
also pay a fine of approximately $1,700....
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 Following her arrest in December the last year, “The O.C.”
star Mischa Barton was charged with four misdemeanor charges related to a
traffic violation while drunk.
Barton gathered four charges in the incident, including
driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, driving while having a blood
alcohol level higher than the...
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 Lindsay Lohan can breathe relieved as she got rid of a legal
nuisance. The starlet succeeded in settling a lawsuit stemming from a traffic
collision that took place two and a half years ago.
Los Angeles-based Raymundo Ortega filed a lawsuit against
the “Mean Girls” actress in June accusing her of negligence. The busboy...
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 Rebecca De Mornay, who became
famous after starring opposite Tom Cruise in “Risky Business,” was sentenced to
three years’ probation on Tuesday after pleading no contest to driving under
the influence charges.
Apart probation, Superior Court
Judge H. Chester Horn also ordered the 48-year old actress to complete a
three-month...
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It seems that the world indeed revolves around Britney
Spears.
The LAPD is mobilized to accompany her to the hospital, a
paparazzo is quitting his job and makes it public, what’s next? Bin Laden
sending suicide bombers in the name of Britney Spears?
Early on Thursday Spears was admitted to U.C.L.A. Medical
Center, but in...
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 Mischa Barton might have got used to getting into trouble
from her former character Marissa Cooper of Fox's defunct teen drama “The O.C.”
The 21-year old actress was arrested early on Thursday
morning due to charges of driving under the influence, driving without a
license and illegal possession of narcotics. She was later released...
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 In the Lost drama universe, he is the one to follow the
others’ lives. In real life, he is followed by the police, like any other of
us. Actor Daniel Dae Kim, who walks in tough
guy Jin-Soo Kwon’s shoes in ABC’s famous series was arrested in the small hours
on Thursday on DUI charges.
After staying 2
hours in the police custody...
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 The troublesome rapper distracted the media from her legal trouble by announcing her pregnancy and revealing wedding plans. According to a report in the New York Post, Foxy Brown said: "I'm getting married in September: I'm pregnant." The former Def Jam recording artist, who recently landed a multi-million dollar deal with...
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 Just when you thought Lindsay Lohan was doing better, with two rehab stunts so far this year, the troubled star got arrested again for driving under the influence and later on, cocaine was found in her possession. This could mean the end of her career. The 21-year-old starlet was arrested in Santa Monica on Tuesday morning (at...
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 Kimi Raikkonen put Ferrari on top for the first time this season, after winning the Magny-Cours race on Sunday, while his team mate Felipe Massa clinched the second position. “Finally the start worked for me. That helped a lot. The car was good all the time but not exactly perfect. It worked out in the end and I couldn't ask for more,” a...
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The contemplative peace of
the idyllic resort of Toyako on Japan's northern Hokkaido island has
been shattered temporarily by the G8 summit. The 10,000
residents of the village surrounded by stunning nature have never
before experienced such an invasion of journalists, politicians and
police officers. Everywhere you look there...
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 The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected Bush administration’s new standards for pollution for sport utility vehicles, pickups and other light trucks and vans, ordering a new plan that would be more strict regarding the auto emissions, on Thursday.The federal appeals court in San Francisco stated that the National Highway...
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 After resuming the 42 hour freight train strike on Sunday, the German train drivers expect a new contract offer from the state-owned rail operator Deutsche Bahn. The chairman of GDL union, Manfred Schell, who called the strike, has declared that the strike might affect both passengers and cargo services beginning on Tuesday if they will...
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 BMW has launched a convertible and new coupe of the 6-Series
featuring several advanced drive technologies and driver assistance
safety systems.
Both the coupe and convertible have strong lines extending from the
A-pillars along the engine compartment lid to the BMW kidney grille,
forming a dynamic arrow further emphasised by...
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Demand for classic cars from all eras has soared in
recent years, but what many owners fail to realise is that safety
systems cannot be compared to those in modern cars and that driving has
to be adapted accordingly.
"Driving a very old vehicle is a special responsibility," says
Josef Ernst, the spokesman for...
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 Young and old drivers are most in danger of road deaths even though the total number of deaths on the roads are falling, according to German traffic accident researchers.
According to the German Office of Statistics, around 5,091 people were killed on the roads last year - the lowest level ever recorded - in a country with a...
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 Severe storms hit the Southeast on Thursday, damaging houses and shopping areas in at least four states. Some northeast Mississippi counties and areas of northwest Alabama were under tornado warnings until midafternoon Thursday. One person was killed and three were injured by a tornado which hit North Carolina, authorities said. A strong...
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The rescue teams announced Friday that the aircraft carrying
46 passengers from the provincial city of Merida,
to Simon Bolivar
International Airport
near Caracas, crashed in the Andean mountains of
western Venezuela
and that there are no survivors.
The French-made ATR 42-300 aircraft lost contact with air
traffic towers 30...
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 Peru is confronted with the jeopardy of infectious diseases
spreading and looting in the aftermath of the Wednesday 8
magnitude earthquake. Pisco is the most devastated town and President Alan Garcia has been monitoring
rescue efforts since Friday.
Though at first the first man in the state dismissed the
looting as rumors, the...
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 A powerful earthquake rattled Guatemala and parts of El Salvador Wednesday sending terrified residents rushing into the streets for safety and causing traffic chaos in Guatemala City.Land slides were reported in the southwest province of Escuintla and phone service was interrupted in some areas According to the U.S. Geological Survey the...
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 On Wednesday, Comcast Corp. said it would work together with Internet phone company Vonage Corp., as it wants to make sure the latter’s service has an easy ride over its broadband network. The two companies are in fact competitors and Comcast has been suspected of fowl play, more exactly, there have some opinions hinting to the fact that...
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 The search giant Google has been working for months, in
order to develop a new service in the field of consumer health. The service is supposed to give doctors and
patients easy access to electronic medical records, Business Week reports.
The U.S. health care system is very expensive and also old-fashioned.
90 percent of the...
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 The US giant aircraft manufacturer Boeing stated on Thursday that it has received 2 billion dollars in new orders for its long- range jet 787 Dreamliner and the mid-range aircraft 737-800.The orders came from Brazil’s largest airline by market value, GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA, which increased its order by 40 Boeing 737-800...
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 The Brazilian low-fare airline GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA announced on Thursday that it has increased its firm orders for 34 Boeing 737-800 aircraft with 40 additional aircraft.The Sao- Paolo based company, which is scheduled to receive the planes between 2012 and 2014, did not disclosure the price of the order, but according to...
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 The largest chain of coffee shops in the world, Starbucks, has reduced its profit and earnings forecast, on Thursday, revealing the first decline of US visitors, which could possibly bring an abrupt fall of the company’s shares.The company has forecast that the earnings for the next fiscal year would be of 1.01.05 dollars per share, the...
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 US President George W Bush on Thursday announced a series of steps to
improve delays on US flights ahead of the busy holiday travel season.
"Holiday travelers faced with the prospect of long delayed and
cancelled flights and lost baggage, and other problems have become all
too often an occurrence," Bush said in announcing...
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 United States air traffic was severely interrupted due to a computer failure in the control system and thunderstorms, adding to the year's record airline delays, the Federal Aviation Administration said.Eleven major East Coast airports, including New York's LaGuardia and Kennedy, New Jersey's Newark and Teterboro, Dallas' Fort Worth,...
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Amsterdam - Speculation about the cause of the Turkish Airlines crash near Schiphol Airport that left 9 people dead and 86 injured on Wednesday, continued Thursday while investigators were still studying the accident.
Thirty of the injured remained hospitalized, with six people still in critical condition.
Information about the...
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Athens - Flights to and from Greece were halted Wednesday as air traffic controllers were to walk off the job for three hours to join a 24-hour public sector strike to protest pension reforms and low salaries.
All flights to and from Greek airports were scheduled to be grounded from 10 am to 1 pm (0900 to 1200 GMT), forcing the...
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Malaga, Spain - A storm with winds blowing at up to 180 kilometres an hour injured 25 people overnight in the southern Spanish city of Malaga, the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) said Monday.
The storm, which was accompanied by rain and which Aemet described as a tornado, uprooted trees, knocked over advertising billboards, tore...
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London - Heavy overnight snowfalls in many parts of Britain Monday paralyzed rush-hour traffic and shut down major airports and schools across the country.
The south-east of Britain was worst affected as forecasters predicted up to 15 centimetres of snowfall Monday.
London's Gatwick airport was closed and one of the runways at...
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Madrid - Heavy rains sparked flooding Tuesday in northern Spain, while another death increased the number of fatalities claimed by storms to 16, officials and hospital sources said.
A 53-year-old man died at a Tarragona hospital on Monday after a wind gust pulled him down from his balcony on Saturday, hospital sources said.
The...
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A South African Airways (SAA) flight attendant was arrested Thursday in connection with the discovery of a large stash of drugs in baggage that came off an SAA flight to London, police said.
The flight attendant is the second person to be arrested in connection with Tuesday's seizure of 50 kilogrammes of cannabis and four...
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Despite a November fire that continues to hamper rail traffic through the Channel Tunnel, the high-speed Eurostar train linking Paris and London carried a record 9.1 million passengers in 2008, Eurostar president Guillaume Pepys said Tuesday in Paris.
That figure represents an increase of some 800,000 passengers - or roughly 10.3 per...
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Heavy snowfall hampered traffic in several parts of Spain on Friday, forcing Madrid's Barajas airport to suspend flights temporarily and creating kilometres-long traffic jams in the capital.
Airport operating company AENA said flights would be resumed as soon as possible at the airport, which has also been affected by an alleged...
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Outgoing flights were resumed at Madrid's Barajas airport Friday afternoon after more than five hours of suspending operations owing to snowfall, the airport operator AENA said.
The airport was also about to resume landings after more than 50 flights were diverted to other airports.
Only 268 of the 1,205 scheduled flights had...
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The cold wave affecting Spain claimed a possible victim on Friday, when police found the body of a homeless woman near a Barcelona railway station.
Police said she appeared to have frozen to death.
Heavy snowfall meanwhile hampered traffic in several parts of the country, forcing Madrid's Barajas airport to suspend flights...
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It is "extremely urgent" to get a ceasefire and end the violence in Gaza including the Israeli ground and air offensive as well as rocket attacks by Hamas on Israel, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said Thursday.
Bildt - just back from a visit to the Middle East as part of a European Union delegation - told reporters he...
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An unusually heavy snowfall accompanied by a cold snap paralyzed travel in sections of southern France on Wednesday, with the city of Marseille particularly badly hit, French media reported.
The Marseille-Marignane Airport was shut down early Wednesday as 18 centimetres of snow fell on France's second-largest city.
The snow also...
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The organisation People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) on Monday called for banning Vienna's traditional horse carriages, following a recent accident in which a drunken coachman lost control of his horses.
The carriages are a popular tourist attraction. Visitors can book the coaches, many of which are over 100 years old,...
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The death toll of traffic accidents has fallen to the lowest level in 44 years in Spain, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said Monday.
In 2008, at total of 2,181 people were killed in traffic accidents, 20 per cent down from the previous year.
The death toll has gone down despite the number of cars on the streets and roads...
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Madrid's Barajas airport was Monday gradually returning to normal after delays and cancellations of flights affected thousands of passengers, the airport operator AENA said Monday.
Spain's main airline Iberia, however, was still struggling to deal with hundreds of stranded passengers.
The problems at the airport are largely due to...
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An EU naval mission to deter pirate attacks on aid shipments to Somalia is likely to succeed, the head of the German Navy forecast Monday.
A Germany Navy frigate, the Karlsruhe, is set to leave the German base in Djibouti on Tuesday to join Operation Atalanta. Vice-Admiral Hans-Joachim Stricker and German Defence Minister Franz Josef...
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A Russian man described as a major international arms dealer told a Thai court Monday that he was a harmless businessman who posed no threat to anyone.
The court heard testimony that Viktor Bout, the model for Nicolas Cage's arms dealer in the 2005 film Lord of War, was caught in a sting in Thailand set up by US undercover agents...
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Hundreds of demonstrators clashed Thursday with police in front of the Greek parliament in central Athens, with protesters hurling paint and riot police retaliating with tear gas.
The clashes took place while thousands marched in anti-government demonstrations across Greece to protest against the conservative government's reforms and...
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Hundreds of demonstrators battled rain on Thursday to march through the Greek capital and cities across the country against the conservative government's reforms and the recent police shooting of a teenager.
All flights to and from Athens' International Airport were halted for several hours due to a strike by air traffic controllers...
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A Polish bus company is telling the city of Gdansk to pay up after citing 10,000 zloty (3,520 dollars) in losses resulting from traffic jams delaying the company's operations, the daily Wyborcza reported on Thursday.
Buses were stuck in traffic for up to an hour and a half during road renovations, Planetobus owner Jakub Sachse told...
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Hundreds of Spanish students Thursday disrupted traffic, causing traffic jams in the Barcelona region in protests at the temporary expulsion of six students.
The six had been accused of staging violent incidents against the so-called Bologna university reform.
A protest movement against the reform based on a 1999 declaration and...
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Protesters in Athens hung two giant banners from the ancient Acropolis on Wednesday with the words "resistance" in five different languages, calling for mass demonstrations across Europe after days of the worst riots in Greece in decades.
Dozens of protesters could be seen holding the banners over the ancient walls of the...
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An alleged gigolo who seduced Germany's richest woman, Susanne Klatten, 46, has been indicted for professional fraud, a court in Munich said Thursday.
Helg Sgarbi, 43, has been in pre-trial custody since January after Klatten, a brunette billionairess with a husband and three children, called police to say the Swiss man was trying to...
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Injury and violence were responsible for 900,000 children's deaths each year, 90 per cent of which were accidental, a United Nations report released Wednesday said.
The leading cause of death resulting from an injury was road traffic accidents, followed by drowning and fires or burns.
War made up only 2.3 per cent of child-injury...
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London's Stansted airport reopened to traffic Monday after being shut down for several hours by environmental protestors, an airport spokesman said.
The early morning action by some 50 protestors from the group Plane Stupid had closed the airport's single runway, paralyzing all traffic.
A total of 21 flights were cancelled, as...
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Greece braced Monday for a third day of demonstrations and civil unrest after the shooting of a teenager by police over the weekend.
The widespread rioting and looting by thousands of self-styled anarchists left Athens and the northern port of Thessaloniki resembling war zones as youths destroyed businesses, cars, banks, police...
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Commuters passing through downtown Helsinki were Thursday advised to expect snarling traffic as foreign ministers and other dignitaries from the 56-nation Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) were arriving for a two-day meeting.
Finnish President Tarja Halonen was to formally open the session by...
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Swedish heavy-vehicle maker Scania Wednesday said it has inked a deal to assemble trucks and buses with the government of Iraq.
The deal was announced in connection with a visit to Iraq by Swedish Trade Minister Ewa Bjorling and a delegation of Swedish businesses, including Scania and telecommunications equipment maker...
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A power cut Thursday left more than 500,000 households without electricity on the Spanish holiday islands of Majorca and Menorca, officials said.
The black-out affected all of Majorca and a part of Menorca. It caused traffic jams, cut fixed phone lines and affected mobile phone connections. Firefighters rescued people who got stuck...
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Thousands of German factory workers walked off their jobs Tuesday and attended demonstrations, demanding wage rises of 8 per cent on the fourth day of nationwide labour disruption.
In the port city of Hamburg, 5,000 repair workers left a riverside shipyard and trooped through a pair of 100-year-old tunnels originally built for...
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During her 33 years as queen, Sofia of Spain had been known for her gentleness and discretion.
But at the time of her 70th birthday, the Greek-born wife of King Juan Carlos stunned the country with a sudden outburst of outspokenness, reigniting a debate about the role of the monarchy.
The queen opened up to journalist Pilar Urbano,...
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Spain's Queen Sofia opposes gay marriage and doesn't understand the need for gay pride parades, according to a report in the daily El Pais about a newly published biography on the queen.
According to the report, the queen is not opposed, in principle, to homosexuals living together or forming unions. "But you can't characterize...
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Greek state carrier Olympic Airlines will cancel around 100 domestic and international flights on Thursday as air traffic controllers and flight crews launch a 24-hour strike in protest against government plans to privatize the airline.
The cancellations will cover approximately 100 flights to European destinations such as London,...
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Norwegian telecommunications group Telenor shares dropped Wednesday after the group unveiled plans to expand into India in connection with its third-quarter report.
The group's share price was off some 15 per cent at midday on the Oslo bourse, since the Telenor management said it would need a cash injection of 12 billion kroner (1.7...
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All flights to and from Greece will be suspended for several hours on Tuesday during the latest nationwide strike which will also shut down banks, schools, public transport and enforce a news blackout to protest drastic economic policies.
Air traffic controllers were due to stop work for four hours, as of noon, as part of the strike...
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Greek state carrier Olympic Airlines will cancel more than 70 domestic and international flights on Tuesday as air traffic controllers and flight crews join a nationwide 24-hour strike against government plans to privatize the airline.
The cancellations, which will affect Olympic and Aegean Airlines, will cover a total of 100 flights...
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A British Airways (BA) Boeing was Monday forced to request a priority landing at London's Heathrow airport after fumes were detected in the passenger cabin, the airline said.
No one was hurt or taken ill as the Boeing 757, travelling from Nice in southern France with 137 passengers on board, landed safely just after 0700 GMT...
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The Church of England has found that an increasing number of people turn to its prayer website for support in the current global financial crisis, the church said Friday.
A Church of England website focusing on advice to those concerned about rising personal debt had seen a 70-per-cent increase in traffic in recent weeks, the church's...
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Amid renewed world interest in thrifty little motor scooters, the world's biggest motorcycle trade show, Intermot, opened Wednesday in the German city of Cologne.
"There is a gigantic boom going on in scooters," said Thomas Alber, a motorcycling specialist at Germany's national motoring club ADAC. In Germany alone, new...
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Nearly a quarter of the world's mammals are threatened by extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) warned Monday.
The congress, which brought together some 8,000 United Nations officials, experts and business representatives from 160 countries in the Spanish city of Barcelona, made public an alarming...
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Nearly a quarter of the world's mammals are threatened by extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) warned Monday.
The congress, which brought together some 8,000 United Nations officials, experts and business representatives from 160 countries in the Spanish city of Barcelona, made public an alarming...
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Rainstorms wreaked havoc Monday in Spain's north African enclave of
Ceuta, forcing the closure of schools, disrupting maritime traffic and
damaging the border fence separating the autonomous city from
surrounding Morocco, officials said.
Police patrols were increased on the border to prevent the entry of
undocumented immigrants,...
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Not a single member of the opposition won a seat in Belarus' parliamentary elections, which was slammed on Monday by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) as "undemocratic."
Among the problems noted by OSCE preliminary findings as "bad" or "very-bad" was Belarusian ballot counting...
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No opposition member won a seat in Belarus parliamentary elections, the country's election commission said Monday, as protestors slammed the outcome as a "farce."
Commission head Lidia Yermoshina said the opposition still scared off voters, the official Belapan news agency said.
"The fear of mass demonstrations and...
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Hundreds of workers with Greek state carrier Olympic Airlines blocked the main runway at Athens International Airport Tuesday over plans to privatise the airline.
The demonstrators, including pilots, air stewards and technicians, prevented planes from taking off and landing on the runway.
Airport officials said the protest forced...
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Heavy rains sparked flooding in several parts of Spain on Monday, causing traffic jams and cutting rail links, officials said.
A elderly woman was found dead underneath a car in Coslada near Madrid. It was not immediately clear whether she had been carried away by floodwater. Four people were reported injured.
Garages and...
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A German court rejected Thursday a claim that a pilot from the Russian Federation was partly to blame for a July 2002 air disaster that killed all 71 occupants of two planes.
Inquiries have already laid the blame on Skyguide, the Swiss air- traffic control system, which put two jets on a course leading to their mid-air collision over...
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Russia's recent attack on Georgia highlighted "the importance of a well-considered foreign, defence and security policy," Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said Tuesday when parliament reconvened after the summer recess.
Reinfeldt said Sweden "supports the European Union's support of Georgia's territorial...
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Russian investigators ruled out a terrorist attack as the cause of a plane crash that killed all 88 people on board Sunday, saying an engine fault was to blame.
The Aeroflot Boeing 737 crashed near Russia's Ural mountains as it readied to land in the city of Perm on a flight from Moscow. Twenty- one foreigners and seven children...
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The Channel Tunnel linking Britain and France will remain closed to all traffic Friday as fire crews were continuing to battle a blaze on a freight train, police said.
Some 300 French and British firefighters contained the blaze overnight and have just "mastered" it, Gerard Gavory, the sub-prefect of Calais,...
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 Although initially scheduled for June, Research In Motion Ltd. has delayed the launch of its latest Blackberry smartphone, code named "Meteor," for August. While the device will be the first phone to use the 3G technology for AT&T, another 3G Blackberry was released for a different type of wireless technology for Verizon...
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 The new handset from AT&T fits perfectly with the current
trend of continuously evolving technologies, bringing together an increasing
number of features that, until quite recently, have always been available only
separately, on different devices.
The company launched the new smartphone on Wednesday. The
BlackBerry Pearl 8110...
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 Israeli company Fring has made its VoIP application (also
known as Fring) available on the iPhone and on the iPod Touch. Users will now
gain access to Skype, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, ICQ and SIP (both voice and
chat) plus Twitter, Yahoo and AIM (chat only).
On one hand, Skype hasn’t been able to come up with a iPhone
version...
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 Microsoft recently unveiled a new type of interactive computer that is set to revolutionize the way we perform day-to-day activities, like paying a bill at a restaurant or transferring files.Today at the Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital conference, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled Microsoft Surface, a new type of...
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With finite reserves of oil and gas, Iran is
desperately looking for alternative revenues to fuel, which makes up
more than 80 per cent of the country's income. Iran believes it has found the perfect solution in tourism and is therefore planning huge investments in the travel industry.
The aim is easier said than done,...
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A cautious calm prevailed over the northern
city of Tripoli early Thursday as weary citizens waited for the army
and security forces to carry out a redeployment plan and halt clashes
that have killed five people and wounded more than 80. The
Mufti of Tripoli, Sheikh Malek Shaar, told Deutsche Presse- Agentur dpa
that an 'agreement...
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Clashes raged in the northern Lebanese city of
Tripoli Wednesday between followers of the ruling minority and the
majority led by Hezbollah, leaving at least two people dead and more
than 39 wounded, according to police and hospital records. Police reports said four Lebanese soldiers and a police officer were also wounded by sniper...
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 US Army Maj. Gen. David Rodriguez said Wednesday that progress
in the political and military fields is visible in eastern Afghanistan, even if
challenges continue to exist.
The senior commander said security has been beefed up in the
area and insurgents focused on other regions in nearby Pakistan, where instability
has increased....
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 Israel Saturday continued its military operation against targets in the
Gaza Strip, killing two Hamas operatives and wounding four in an air
attack on northern Gaza.
Acting Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad meanwhile called on
Hamas to stop provoking Israel with rocket attacks, saying these only
brought "disaster"...
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 After further looking into the incident in which Blackwater
security guards opened fire a few weeks ago on unarmed Iraqi civilians, Iraqi
prime minister’s office said Sunday that the government’s investigation had lead
to the belief that they committed “deliberate murder” and should be punished
accordingly.
Iraqi investigators,...
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 Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad backed up his decision to ration petrol throughout the country, saying Iranians must reduce their fuel consumption with more than 20 per cent.“We currently have a daily consumption of 80 million litres and we would prefer to reduce this to under 60 million litres,” President Ahmadinejad said Sunday.The...
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 After President Ahmadinejad decided to ration the fuel, Iranians took the streets in protest, riots erupting in Tehran where some gas stations were torched Wednesday.Iranian media said at least five gas stations were torched by angry mobs, while several robberies were also reported. The violence was sparked by the government’s decision...
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 A bridge linking Tikrit to Kirkuk was blown up Wednesday, blocking the traffic in the area, Iraqi police announced.Powerful charges placed on the bridges understructure were detonated simultaneously, bringing the whole construction down, but without causing any casualties. The region surrounding Kirkuk has been torn apart by numerous...
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 At least three people were wounded Wednesday after a bomb went off in a city 17 kilometers east of Beirut, local police reported.About ten kilos of explosive were planted near a building in the center of Aley according to preliminary reports, the powerful blast seriously affective the integrity of the construction. This is the third...
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Kuala Lumpur - International demand for air freight recorded a dip of 23.6 per cent in January because of a lull in world trade amid the global economic downturn, the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines said Friday.
The drop in freight ton kilometres was seen from the same month a year ago as total cargo loads registered a mere...
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Beijing - Nearly 1,500 new cars drive out every day onto the already-clogged streets of Beijing, which has been ranked among the world's most polluted cities.
"The growing number of automobiles is creating serious traffic pressure and safety risks in the city," Song Jianguo, head of the Beijing Traffic Management...
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Hundreds of protestors burnt tyres and blocked streets in Kathmandu Tuesday as protests escalated over the Maoist-led government's appointment of top clergy at the country's largest Hindu temple.
The protests followed demonstrations by junior priests at the Pashupatinath temple objecting to the appointment of new high priests by...
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Two domestic flights in the southern Philippines were forced to circle an airport for almost half an hour on Friday after five air traffic controllers were tardy reporting for work a day after Christmas.
The affected flights of Philippine Airlines (PAL) and Cebu Pacific Air both came from Manila, according to Celso Bayabos, chief...
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Authorities in Japan have issued snowstorm warnings for the north of the country and certain coastal areas, Japanese media reported Friday.
Dozens of flights have already been cancelled to and from the northern island of Hokkaido, the reports said.
The meteorological authorities issued warnings for heavy snowfalls, rough seas and...
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The amount of cargo shipped through Hong Kong International Airport fell by 18.7 per cent year-on-year in November, officials announced Monday. The airport handled 296,000 tons of cargo during the month and 3.8 million passengers, a 5.6 per-cent compared to November 2007. The Hong Kong Airport Authority blamed the steep fall in...
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Thailand's domestic airlines resumed flights to Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport Wednesday after anti-government protestors vacated the premises, ending a siege that has cut the capital off from commercial air traffic for a week.
Suvarnabhumi received its first arrival, a Thai Airways International (THAI) domestic...
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The Indian Navy has been given formal approval for "hot pursuit" of pirates in Somali waters and will be deploying another warship to tackle piracy in the region, officials and news reports said Friday.
The United Nations has recently authorized the Indian Navy to enter Somali territorial waters to take anti-piracy measures,...
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Police in Vietnam have shut down the country's largest pornographic website, arresting a dozen people, most of whom are students, a high-ranking police official said Tuesday.
"This is the first time we have arrested so many people involved in spreading pornography in Vietnam," said Senior Lieutenant Colonel Tran Van Hoa,...
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Airlines in the Asia-Pacific are preparing for increasingly difficult times as passenger and cargo traffic dips in the global economic downturn, a regional airline group said Friday.
In response, the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines appealed to governments, airports and aviation service providers in the region to refrain from...
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Shi Han Min, who led the Beijing's effort to clean up its air for the 2008 Olympic Games, on Wednesday won the first Kong Ha Award for excellence in air quality management.
The award, which included a 10,000-dollar purse, was granted to Shi at the Better Air Quality 2008 workshop in Bangkok, which has drawn 900 delegates from the...
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A consortium of Indian engineering major Larsen and Toubro and Malaysian firm Scomi International have been awarded the contract to build India's first monorail in business hub Mumbai, a company release said.
The consortium will implement the 24.6-billion-rupee (519-million-dollar) project for the Mumbai Metropolitan Development...
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Malaysia proposed Tuesday to limit the number of vessels plying the Malacca Strait, one of the world's busiest waterways, in a move to ensure the safety of seafarers.
Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said 70,718 ships passed through the straits last year, a sharp 40 per cent increase from 43,965 in 1999.
"Malaysia believes...
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Thai prime minister Somchai Wongsawat on Friday rebuffed intense pressure to resign following a violent police crackdown against anti-government protestors.
Somchai, elevated last month, rejected a strong suggestion on Thursday by army commander Anupong Paojinda that he step down.
"This government was produced by the...
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Authorities in Bangladesh have given the nod to launch a feasibility study for constructing a 60-kilometre subway system for Dhaka to ease the capital's nagging traffic congestion, officials said Tuesday.
The military-backed interim government, led by Fakhruddin Ahmed, on Monday asked an inter-ministry panel to launch the study by...
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Typhoon Hagupit targeted Vietnam over the weekend, killing at least 42 people, while Typhoon Jangmi left two people dead in Taiwan before weakening to a tropical storm, officials reported Monday.
Flash floods, heavy rain and landslides triggered by Hagupit also left four missing and 61 injured in northern Vietnam, the National...
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Typhoon Hagupit targeted Vietnam over the weekend, killing at least 42 people, while Typhoon Jangmi left two people dead in Taiwan before weakening to a tropical storm, officials said Monday.
Flash floods, heavy rain and landslides triggered by Hagupit also left four missing and 61 injured in northern Vietnam, the National Steering...
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Typhoon Jangmi lashed Taiwan with powerful winds and torrential rains Sunday, forcing a standstill in domestic air traffic and some railway services.
The typhoon packed center winds of up to 184 kilometres per hour and gusts of up to 227 kilometres per hour, making landfall in the north-eastern county of Ilan in the afternoon, the...
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Hundreds of Catholics massed Friday in downtown Hanoi, singing and praying, after the government sent police and earthmovers to clear a disputed piece of property and turn it into a public park.
Priests said construction crews arrived at 4 am Friday to break down walls and clear structures on the site of Hanoi's former papal...
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Pakistani lawyers, backed by human rights activists and political workers, staged countrywide sit-ins Thursday to press the government to reinstate dozens of senior judges sacked by former president Pervez Musharraf.
The powerful legal community resumed protests three days after the 6-month-old ruling coalition collapsed on...
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Police found three more bodies Wednesday of people killed in clashes between Hindus and Christians in India's eastern state of Orissa, bringing the death toll to 11, news reports said.
A few fresh incidents of rioting and arson led authorities to impose shoot-on-sight orders in parts of the curfew-bound Khandamal district, where the...
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Police found three more bodies Wednesday of people killed in clashes between Hindus and Christians in India's eastern Orissa state, bringing the death toll to 11, news reports said.
Large parts of Kandhamal district, where the death of a Hindu leader has sparked an orgy of violence since Monday, were under curfew and police called the...
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Hundreds of homeless residents from East Java province demanded compensation for their properties destroyed by a massive mudflow caused by an industrial accident.
More than 14,000 homes, 33 schools, 65 mosques and an orphanage have been buried since May 2006 when a "mud volcano" began oozing to the surface following an...
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Shouting "We want freedom," tens of thousands of protestors joined a rally called by Muslim separatist groups in Jammu and Kashmir state capital Srinagar on Friday.
At least 50,000 people from Srinagar and its outskirts gathered at the Idgah, a historic prayer ground in central Srinagar, which also has a cemetery where many...
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Police in Vietnam have arrested two of their colleagues accused of accepting a bribe of 1 billion dong (60,000 dollars), an official said Friday.
The Police Department of the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau arrested Major Vo Van Ly, 43, and Lieutenant Vo Chi Thanh from the provincial Marine Police Department Thursday, said the...
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Indian capital Delhi and other major cities were placed on high security alert on Thursday amid threats of terrorist strikes ahead of the country's Independence Day, officials and news reports said.
The area around Delhi's Red Fort, where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to deliver the annual Independence Day speech on...
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Bomb disposal experts carried out two controlled explosions on suspicious objects in busy areas of Hong Kong Thursday.
The first, a mobile phone wrapped in wires, was found in the Tsim Sha Tsui area shortly after midday and was detonated by experts.
The second, found in the Mongkok area at around 2:30 pm, caused traffic chaos for...
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Singapore's Changi Airports International (CAI) and its Russian partner Basic Element have cleared the initial round of the bidding process to develop and operate St Petersburg's main airport, CAI said Thursday.
The Pulkovo International Airport development is Russia's first public-private partnership project for an airport.
The...
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 Typhoon Fung-Wong lashed Taiwan Monday, bringing strong winds and heavy rains which triggered landslides and floods. Schools, offices, banks and the local stock exchange had to be closed. Moreover, the railway traffic was stopped due to the powerful winds of up to 126 kilometers (90 miles).The typhoon made landfall on the east central...
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One of the worst suicide attacks ever to strike the Afghan capital, as the Los Angeles Times reported, happened today and killed nearly 41 people, wounding 140 others, just outside the Indian Embassy.It all took place so quickly, that afterwards all became chaotic. Ambulances tried to rush to the place where the accident took place, but...
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 More than 44 school children and three adults were killed on
Wednesday when their bus veered of a bridge and plunged into a canal in western
India,
police said, according to Reuters. Some witnesses say the driver may have been
driving too fast and lost control of the bus.
Police officers are still looking for other...
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 At least four people were killed and 16 other badly wounded in two suicide bomb attacks that took place at Pakistan's Navy War College. The attacks brought panic across Lahore, a city relatively tranquil until now, compared with the rest of the country.This is the fifth day of attacks carried out by the Pakistani pro-Taliban militants...
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Internet cables providing service for the Middle
East and several parts of Asia were
mysteriosuly severed, and Internet service was interrupted for nearly two
weeks. The incident has given birth to several theories that explain the
causes, including terrorism. It has been believed that someone might have
wanted to stop...
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 Severe winter weather struck China, stranding thousands of people ahead of next week's Lunar New Year holiday.Heavy snowfalls stopped trains in their tracks across southern provinces, snapped power lines and disrupted the transport of coal, the primary fuel used at most Chinese power plants.Entire cities were left in the dark by...
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 Power outages, flash floods and landslides hit the northern Philippines
Monday amid heavy rains and strong winds brought by a powerful typhoon
that has already killed eight people.
The National Disaster Coordinating Council said more than 140,000
people were evacuated in the northern Philippines, which was suffering
the brunt of...
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 At least 20 people lost their lives in the Indian city of
Hyderabad, when the overpass they were taking shelter under during a rainstorm
collapsed on top of them Saturday.
Rescue workers have managed to recover two bodies crushed
under the ruble and twisted steel. Pedestrians were injured and near parked
vehicles were...
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 China's
parliament gave the executions sentence today to former delegate to the
National People's Congress, Duan Yihe.
Duan was executed today for killing his mistress with whom
he had been having an affair since 1993.
According to Chinese media, this has been the harshest
sentence given to a corrupt official.
Chen Zhi ,...
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 City officials have pulled hundreds of private cars off the streets of Beijing in a attempt to test whether such a ban could help ease the smog levels and traffic gridlock during forthcoming 2008 Olympic Games. The car ban will last four days and the selection method uses the odd-even license plate number, so only vehicles with...
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 The powerful typhoon Man-yi lashed out at southern Japan on Saturday with strong winds and torrential rains, 44 people reportedly being injured and thousands displaced due to the intense storm.After ravaging the southernmost islands of Okinawa on Friday, the tropical storm struck Kyushu, the third-largest island of Japan and is moving...
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 China is battered by torrential rain which caused flash floods and landslides in seven provinces, 94 people being reported dead and 25 missing over the last week, as no amelioration is in sight, authorities informed Monday.Southern China was the most affected, thousands of houses collapsing under the heavy rain or were swept away by...
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 Saturday was supposed to be a national holiday in Nepal, as King Gyanendra celebrates his 61st birthday, but opponents of the king’s regime staged mass protests and ended up clashing with supporters and security forces.The Narayanhity royal palace was prepared to greet the loyal subjects on Saturday, but pro-democracy activists blocked...
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 Karachi is battered by fierce storms for the past two days, more than 200 people being killed in Pakistan’s largest city, the authorities reported Sunday.Most of the fatalities were caused by fallen power lines and crumbling buildings, that trapped hundreds under piles of rubble and mud.The powerful winds trampled trees, billboards and...
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 India’s southern region is under water after the monsoon season came with heavy rains that fell incessantly in the past days, causing floods and landslides that took at least 49 lives since Friday.Indian authorities informed that 45 persons died in the coastal state of Andhra Pradesh in the past 24 hours, most of them drowning or falling...
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 Two soldiers were killed in Kashmir by
a hand grenade, while 25 other were injured by a roadside bomb in the same
region, government officials reported.
Unknown persons threw a hand grenade into a military camp belonging
to the Indian paramilitary troops, gravely injuring five soldiers. Two of the
injured servicemen died at the...
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 The northern Indian state of Rajasthan is ravaged by a series of demonstrations that degenerated into riots, as the protestors clashed with security forces which didn’t hesitate to open fire on the rage-driven crowd.Protests actions were initiated Tuesday by the ethnic Gujjar community, which demanded they have a special status in order...
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 The Yongbyon nuclear facility in North Korea remains open despite several calls from the US and IAEA to close the facility and permit the visit of nuclear inspectors in the country.North Korea refused to shut down the main reactor at the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center after the United States blocked some funds in a Macau...
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 Road accidents claim more lives, as 51 people died and several others were injured in two brutal crashes on the unsafe Indian roads. A first accident occurred in the southern Andhra Pradesh state when a van carrying several people that were attending a weeding collided with a speeding truck. 23 persons were killed and 25 others...
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 According to an announcement made by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) on Wednesday, Smart ForTwo performed excellently during the side and front crash tests it was put to. However, the car is not going to be named a Top Safety Pick; although the Institute doesn’t have any size restrictions when evaluating cars, Smart...
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 The US Cyber Command (AFCYBER) military unit, which began
preparations for entering the cyberspace fight in September 2007, is getting
ready to start its activity. The project should be fully operational by autumn
and it will be led by U.S. Eighth Air Force Lieutenant general Robert J. Elder
Jr., who is the commander of the Eighth...
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 Bush
administration’s recent initiative regarding a cyber security plan has started
to raise concerns among lawmakers, as new details about the largely classified
plan have emerged recently. House lawmakers raised concerns yesterday related
to the connection between the new cyber security program and its privacy
implications. Bush...
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 Nokia, the Finnish cell-phone company, is collaborating with
the University of California, Berkeley,
in order to test if traffic can be predicted and monitored through cell phones.
The test lasted all day Friday and 100 Berkeley
students were involved, Cnet News reports.
Each student’s car was endowed with a Nokia N95 phone...
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 President
George W. Bush signed earlier this month a directive that allows the National
Security Agency (or NSA) and other intelligence agencies to snoop on the
states’ federal agencies. Practically, the National Security Agency was given
the right to access and monitor the federal agencies’ Internet traffic.
According to analysts,...
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 NASA’s release of the National Aviation Operations Monitoring Service (NAOMS) study on Monday dragged sharp criticism from the Air Transport Association of America (ATA), which is the industry trade organization that represents the leading US airlines that transport more than 90 percent of the US airline passenger and cargo traffic.The...
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 A Pentagon sponsored robot race at a former Air Force base in Victorville, California, took place on Saturday in the final event of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Urban Challenge. The race consisted in a 60 miles course in a simulated city that had to be finished in less than six hours.The race proofed that even...
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 iBiquity Digital Corporation, the
company that has first started to develop the HD Radio technology, has recently
announced that a new service is to become available for the HD Radio devices’
users. So, soon the users of the HD Radio devices coming from Polk Audio and
JBL will be able to tag the songs they are hearing on the radio so...
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 Intel Corp. has announced on Monday it is to reinforce the
desktop PCs’ security thanks to the next generation Intel vPro processor
technology. The platform, which targets at customers from the business field,
has been said to feature new innovations that will bring better protection
against all kind of threats, such as viruses,...
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 Who said that Google is the
company where only important amounts of money are taken into account? Google’s
AdSense program is just one of the proofs that the famous company is used to
finding ways of transforming common people into less or more creative bloggers
only for gaining some money. The same mind seems to be behind this new...
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 The US Army has ordered its active soldiers serving overseas to cut the chatter. No, really, it’s an order that should be effective starting Monday, May 14, in all areas where the US has deployed soldiers (Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.).US soldiers will not be able to access sites like YouTube, MySpace and 11 other popular social-networking...
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 After a year of interviews, reviews, data analysis and mental efforts, Google has announced the redesigned version of its Analytics Web-service.The free tool that provides detailed information about traffic and users’ interests to many site owners all over the world has undergone a face-lift. Jeff Veen, UI Design Manager at Google...
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Cholera deaths in Zambia have reached 28 as the southern African nation battles to contain about 2,000 reported cases of cholera, according to radio reports Tuesday.
Ministry of Health spokesman Cannisius Banda told a private radio programme that traffic from neighbouring Zimbabwe and poor water and sanitation systems, mainly in...
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Cholera deaths in Zambia have reached 28 as the southern African nation battles to contain about 2,000 reported cases of cholera, according to radio reports Tuesday.
Ministry of Health spokesman Cannisius Banda told a private radio programme that traffic from neighbouring Zimbabwe and poor water and sanitation systems, mainly in...
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An Egyptian man being held hostage on a pirated ship off the coast of Somalia for nearly two weeks has accused the pirates of mistreating their captives and appealed for help, Egypt's leading independent newspaper reported Monday.
Ibrahim Etman, one of 28 Egyptian crew aboard the cargo ship Blue Star when it was seized by pirates on...
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Piracy in Somalia cannot be defeated by military means alone, and dialogue with pirates is needed to address the root causes of the problem, a Kenyan maritime official said Wednesday as an international conference on piracy got under way.
"Piracy can't be solved by a military solution," Andrew Mwangura, head of the Kenyan...
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Somali pirates achieved a new milestone in their seemingly unstoppable rise this weekend when they seized a Saudi Arabian supertanker laden with two million barrels of oil worth almost 100 million dollars.
It seems that every month there is a new first for the pirates, who have dramatically increased the frequency of their attacks...
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Somali Islamist insurgent group al-Shabaab, which last month ordered the closure of Mogadishu's main airport, said Thursday it may allow air traffic to once again land.
"Our decision to close the airport is not Holy Koran verse; we can change our decision to close the airport if the people come to negotiate," Sheikh...
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Rainstorms wreaked havoc Monday in Spain's north African enclave of Ceuta, forcing the closure of schools, disrupting maritime traffic and damaging the border fence separating the autonomous city from surrounding Morocco, officials said.
Police patrols were increased on the border to prevent the entry of undocumented immigrants, who...
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 At least 29 people were killed inside a Sudan Airways burning plane, while
171 managed to escape, said Sudan Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Abdel
Hafez Abdel Rahim Mahmoud, according to The Press Association.
Authorities are currently examining the wreckage in order to determine the
cause of the crash, police spokesman Major...
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 Chaos descended on parts of Kenya Wednesday as the first of three days
of rallies saw opposition backers clash with police who fired tear gas
and live rounds into crowds to thwart the demonstrations over disputed
presidential polls.
A sense of normalcy returned to some areas of the capital Nairobi
in the morning, with Kenyans...
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 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed shock on Wednesday at the
reports of 300 civilians killed in the wake of presidential elections
in Kenya and the deteriorating humanitarian situation there.
He reminded leaders of the Kenyan government, religious and
political parties of their "legal and moral responsibility" to...
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 According to local media reports, security forces were patrolling Senegal's
capital Thursday, where streets were reopened to traffic a day after hundreds
of young men protesting a move to clear the city of hawkers clashed with police
throughout Dakar.
The government late Wednesday agreed to allow vendors back onto certain
streets,...
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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.
“The bus with registration number T443 APF owned by SABCO
Company was heading to Dar el Salaam
from Tunduma when the accident occurred...
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"We are trying to determine the cause of the
accident," spokesman Maj. Felix Kulayigye said after a truck transporting
more than 100 soldiers and their families crashed. The accident took place on
Monday in the eastern part of Uganda,
Kampala, after
the truck hit the concrete side railing. The cause of the event is...
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Kenyan Airways confirmed that the Nairobi-bound airliner
that was lost after issuing a distress signal shortly after takeoff from Cameroon has
been found after a two full days of searching.
The crash site of the Boeing 737-800 was in a mangrove
swamp, 20 kilometres southwest of Douala, a
business centre on the Cameroon
coast....
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