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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
But will they have to testify before a congressional subcommittee about their steriod use?
More from Agence France-Presse:
“Bulls will face tighter controls for steroids and other drugs at bullfights held next month as part of Madrid’s San Isidro festival, daily Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported Monday, citing organisers.
Any bull that […]
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When asked if he believes that Barack Obama is Muslim, [Pastor Roger Byrd of the Jonesville Church of God in Jonesville, S.C.] said, “I don’t know. See it asks a question: Are they brothers? In other words, is he Muslim ? I don’t know. He says he’s not. I hope he’s not. But I don’t […]
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Back from holiday and back into the hotseat for tonight’s sky dot com show.
First a plug for another web & news active exclusive. Next Monday, 28th April, Sky News is broadcasting a live debate between all the candidates in the election for London Mayor. The event takes place at 8pm and is due to last […]
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Mr Brown said urgent action is needed to stimulate food production, including a review of the impact of biofuels on global agriculture.
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‘Waking The Dead’
A one-off Taggart on ITV1 lost out in the ratings to rival police drama Waking The Dead last night.
The long-running BBC One drama attracted 6.3m (26%) in the 9pm hour, 500,000 down on last week’s instalment but still comfortably ahead of Taggart’s 4.7m (20%).
On BBC Two, documentary Am I Normal? improved by 400,000 […]
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Russia said on Tuesday that a Georgian unmanned reconnaissance flight over the Georgian rebel region of Abkhazia had violated United Nations ceasefire agreements.
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FAKE OLIVE OIL NO VIRGIN: ITALY
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It’s only April, but our White House wannabes just scaled the pinnacle of pandering: On Monday all three candidates appeared via taped message on the highly-rated cable pro wrestling program “WWE Raw.” There, each pandered to fans of the blue-collar ballet with suck-ups so shameless, you will want to leap over the top rope in […]
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The United States and China are two of the world’s biggest sellers of weapons of all kinds that do a very good job of killing people. It’s big business for both big countries, and the governments in Washington and Beijing know it. (George W. Bush’s endless war in Iraq has been a easy money-maker - […]
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The sandstorm swept in without warning overnight, covering everything in its wake in fine particles of dust.By morning Baghdad was cocooned inside a yellow haze of dirt. Visibility shrank to a few meters, erasing almost all trace of the Tigris River that slices through the capital.
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WASHINGTON — King Juan Carlos of Spain made a lot of people happy when he recently told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to shut up. Yet to many in the Latin American underclass, the incident was proof that, politically, they had finally arrived.
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TOKYO, April 21 - North Korea told the United States in December it has produced a total of around 30 kg (66 lbs) of plutonium, about 20 kg less than what the United States estimates, a Japanese newspaper reported on Monday.
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NASSAU, Bahamas, April 21 — Haitians fleeing their impoverished homeland met tragedy when their boat went down off the Bahamas, killing at least 20 people and leaving only three known survivors, including an alleged migrant smuggler, authorities said Monday.
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BUENOS AIRES, April 20 — A former Roman Catholic bishop ended the 61-year rule of Paraguay’s dominant political party on Sunday, promising to replace the country’s reputation for corruption with one of honesty.
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NEW ORLEANS, April 21 — With the North American Free Trade Agreement taking a pounding on the campaign trail, President Bush met here Monday with the leaders of Mexico and Canada to defend the pact and to seek new ways to cooperate on border, economic and regulatory issues.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia, April 21 — Hundreds of residents fled Somalia’s capital on foot, by car and on donkey carts Monday and others cleared the streets of corpses after a weekend of clashes that left scores dead.
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BAGHDAD, April 21 — At the Rev. Thair Abdal’s church, where on Sunday mornings sweet songs of prayer stream from the doorway, the congregation’s fear of death leaves the sanctuary half-filled.
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MANILA — Maria Susana Espinoza wanted only two children. But it was not until after the birth of her fourth child in six years that she learned any details about birth control.
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ACCRA (Reuters) - Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai urged U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and African leaders to intervene in his country’s post-election crisis on Monday, saying the military were terrorizing the people.
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SCRANTON, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Pushing for a strong win to keep her White House hopes alive, Democrat Hillary Clinton touted her toughness on Monday ahead of a showdown with presidential rival Barack Obama in Pennsylvania.
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