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Spitzer successor vows no scandal

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New York’s new governor was sworn in yesterday, becoming the state’s first black chief executive and vowing to move past the prostitution scandal that forced his predecessor to resign.
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Burrell ‘removed ring from body of Diana’

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Paul Burrell took an engagement ring off the dead body of Princess Diana and kept it, his former bodyguard claimed yesterday.
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Ship Discovery May Unlock WWII Mystery

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CANBERRA, Australia (March 17) - The discovery of the wreckage of a
warship that sank with all 645 men aboard in a fierce World War II
battle promises clues to one of Australia’s most enduring mysteries
- how the pride of its navy could have been lost to a lightly armed
German cruiser.

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Boy, 14, charged with murder of British backpacker in New Zealand

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Boy, 14, charged with murder of British backpacker in New Zealand
Last updated at 12:26pm on 18th March 2008
A 14-year-old Maori boy was last night charged with the murder and aggravated robbery of
Scottish backpacker Karen Aim in New Zealand.

The youth appeared in court charged with beating the 26-year-old to death on January 17 as she […]

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‘English Patient’ film director Anthony Minghella dies

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LONDON - Film director Anthony Minghella, who won an Oscar for “The English Patient”, died in a London hospital on Tuesday after a short illness, his agent said. He was 54.
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Overview: Africa's Civil Wars

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This list, though hardly exhaustive, provides an overview of some of Africa’s major contemporary civil conflicts.
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What Makes a Suicide Bomber?

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An excellent article in The Australian by Nichole Argo, a freelance journalist and doctoral student in political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, takes a look at recent scholarship on terrorism, suicide bombing, and religious extremism in the Muslim world, highlighting data that strongly suggest terrorism is not born of madrassas and radical clerics, […]

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Britain’s Most Famous Divorce Since Lady Di Over

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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism

Beatle = royalty = world news! The divorce settlement of Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills was decided by a judge today for about $48.6 million, or more than $10 million for each year of the pair’s marriage (or the annual budget revenue of Comoros). Also, Sir Paul will […]

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WBOB AM 820

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If you’re a supporter of Barack Obama,  you will find your views ardently argued and advanced every weekday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Chicago radio station WCPT AM 820.
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Sky.Com News: Tonight’s Agenda

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Sky.Com News is on-air and online from 7.30pm tonight.
The most-clicked stories on Sky News Online:
Super Tuesday II: Crunch Time For Clinton
Birmingham Child Abduction Attempt
Missing Shannon: Police Have Her Prints
Wikipedia Man Uses Site To Dump Lover
Newsreader Carol Barnes Suffers A Stroke
Princess Eugenie In Birthday Photoshoot
‘YouTube Rape’ Mum’s Disgust At Viewers

The stories moving up the web agenda:
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‘Nineteen Tibet Protesters Shot Dead In China’

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China has accused the Dalai Lama of masterminding violence in Tibet. Tibetans say at least 80 people have been killed in clashes, but China says its response has been restrained, as Sky’s Affairs Correspondent, Lisa Holland reports.
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Clooney offers Winehouse $$1 million

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Troubled singer Amy Winehouse will reportedly earn $1 million (£500,000) if she sings at a party thrown by George Clooney and Julia Roberts, reports The Mirror.
The pair are courting Winehouse to perform at the event taking place on May 5 at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute.
“Amy was taken aback when she learned […]

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Royal College Warns Abortions Can Lead To Mental Illness

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Women may be at risk of mental health breakdowns if they have abortions, a medical royal college has warned. The Royal College of Psychiatrists says women should not be allowed to have an abortion until they are counseled on the possible risk to their mental health.
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CORPSE FURY AT DI BUTLER

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March 18, 2008 — LONDON - Princess Diana’s butler, Paul Burrell, took an engagement ring off her dead body, Burrell’s former bodyguard told the inquest into her death yesterday.
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Big State, Swing State Cha Cha

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By AP counts, Sen. Barack Obama erased eight of the 13 delegates Sen. Hillary Clinton won in Ohio last week with his latest victories in Mississippi and Wyoming. By his own count, which includes his Texas caucus victory, he more than erased Clinton’s gains, and is now back to a commanding lead of 161 pledged […]

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The dollar sinks. Economic crisis worsens. Is anyone in charge?

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That sound of tectonic plates shifting, crushing under their massive weight the head of a little bird that has been running around Wall Street crying, “The sky is falling in!”, is the sound of the American dollar’s once rock-solid value plummeting and of the Bush gang’s yawning indifference to the fate of the nation’s currency […]

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The story of seven Baghdad families

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Here are the stories of seven different Baghdad families and how their lives have changed since the United States and Britain invaded Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein. Largely interviewed by Ali Hamdani, an Iraqi journalist for The Times, these individuals offer a personal insight into the impact of the past five years and the violence […]

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The lost of Ikebukuro

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My piece in yesterday’s paper was about internet cafe “refugees”; a few days earlier I had the melancholy experience of visiting one of the places they gather, the Manga Hiroba (which I translate as ‘Comic Plaza’) at the north exit of Ikebukuro Station (I was accompanied by the excellent Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert who took these photographs).
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Materia gris vs. materias primas

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Latinoamérica está entrando a su sexto año de su más prolongado periodo de crecimiento en décadas. La inversión externa y las reservas internacionales han alcanzado niveles históricos y los gobiernos están avanzando en la reducción de la pobreza y el desempleo. Los elevados precios de materias primas -petróleo, gas natural, soya, cobre y azúcar - […]

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It Wasn’t Just Miller’s Story

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The Judith Miller-Valerie Plame-Scooter Libby imbroglio is being reduced to a simple narrative about the origins of the Iraq war. Miller, the story goes, was an anti-Saddam Hussein, weapons-of-mass-destruction-hunting zealot and was either an eager participant or an unwitting dupe in a campaign by Bush administration officials and Iraqi exiles to justify the invasion. The […]

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