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The wacky American comedienne Phyllis Diller used to ask at the end of her litanies of side-splitting, self-deprecating one-liners, in a gravel-rattling voice: “And you think you’ve got problems?”
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Little more than a day since the start of our poll, the Tories are storming into a huge lead.
With more than 2,000 votes cast by Times readers on who you’d vote for on Thursday’s local and London mayoral elections, David Cameron’s party has achieved close to 70 per cent of the total vote, with […]
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El Rey Juan Carlos de España mandó a callar al Presidente venezolano Hugo Chávez el sábado y el mundo de habla hispana se estremeció.
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Today we’re inaugurating a new feature called Field Notes to give you a sense of the story behind the story. These journals — a glimpse at the way our correspondents work — will occasionally accompany dispatches from abroad on the web and in print.
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BEIJING, April 29 — A Chinese court Tuesday sentenced 30 people to jail for their alleged participation in last month’s deadly riot in Lhasa, the first convictions following an aggressive manhunt to find the leaders of anti-government protests that swept through Tibetan areas on China’s western plateau.
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SAN JUAN DEL SUR, Nicaragua — He was 27, living in an exotic country and dreaming of a bright future. Now, Eric Volz, a brash and ambitious magazine editor from San Diego, is serving a 30-year prison term for a heinous crime he says he didn’t commit: the rape and murder of his ex-girlfriend.
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ORURO, Bolivia, Dec. 9 — Defying an opposition boycott, Bolivia’s constitutional assembly approved a new charter Sunday that would empower the poor South American nation’s indigenous majority and let President Evo Morales run for reelection indefinitely.
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At Stephen Fleishman’s busy Bethesda shop, the era of the 95-cent bagel is coming to an end.
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SEQUEDIN, France — Samia El Alaoui Talibi walks her beat in a cream-colored head scarf and an ink-black robe with sunset-orange piping, an outfit she picked up at a yard sale.
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BAGHDAD, April 28 — Four U.S. soldiers were killed in two rocket attacks in Baghdad on Monday as clashes between U.S.-backed Iraqi forces and Shiite militiamen intensified, the military said.
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BEIJING, April 28 — At an airport in northeast China, a young security guard recently spotted a foreign airline passenger with shaving cream in his carry-on bag. “No,” he said sternly, wagging his finger like a cross schoolteacher. “No, no, no.”
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court jailed 17 people for terms ranging from three years to life on Tuesday for their roles in Tibet’s deadly riots, which triggered anti-China protests ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. agencies and the World Bank pledged on Tuesday to set up a task force to tackle an unprecedented rise in global food prices that is threatening to spread social unrest.
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FOOD PRICE CRISIS
IN VIDEO
Global rice supply
Raids on hoarders, aerial planting and other snapshots from around the world
Food riots in Haiti
NEWS AND FEATURES
UK biofuels caution welcomed
Assessing the global food crisis
Liberians drop rice […]
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“If the goal was ISAF they failed,” O’Donnell said of Tuesday’s violence. He speaks for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. “But if the goal was to injure and kill Afghans they succeeded.”
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Barack Obama’s pastor plunged back into the Democratic presidential race yesterday with a defiant performance in front of the media in which he refused to recant any of his views.
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THE secrets of Austria’s ”house of horrors” were revealed yesterday as retired engineer Josef Fritzl, pictured, confessed to keeping his daughter locked up in a cellar for 24 years and fathering seven children by her.
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VATICAN CITY (April 28) - Americans are among the world’s most ‘Bible-literate’ people and Spaniards, French and Italians are among the most ignorant about what the “good book” says, according to a new study released on Monday.
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As 73-year-old Josef Fritzl faced court on charges of incest, abduction and imprisonment, the unimaginable horror began to emerge of his secret family’s life in their windowless dungeon.
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Britons ditch seaside donkeys for spas
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Tuesday April 29, 2008
LONDON - Say farewell to Punch and Judy. Forget donkey rides and saucy postcards.
The attractions of a traditional seaside holiday in Britain are fading fast, according to a survey published yesterday.
Holidaymakers would rather relax at a spa, try their hand at extreme sports or head […]