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Ferrari Nets Record Price at Auction

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NEW YORK (May 19) — A 1961 Ferrari California Spyder sold for $10,894,900 at an auction in Maranello, Italy, Saturday. It was the highest price ever paid for a vintage car at auction, according to RM Auctions and Sotheby’s, the companies that organized the sale.

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MPs reject IVF 'right to father' as Government defeats fresh challenge to fertility laws

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Pictured: Woman estate agent, 23, killed by falling branch as bus crashes into tree near Tower Bridge

200,000 Britons leave the UK each year as record 160,000 foreigners are granted citizenship

Furious customer smashes SIX TVs in shop after staff refuse to replace his faulty set

Police pelted with bricks after schoolgirl, 16, is killed by patrol car […]

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Obama to take big step in Democratic race

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WASHINGTON - Barack Obama will take a major step toward the Democratic presidential nomination when Oregon and Kentucky vote on Tuesday, but rival Hillary Clinton still hopes to spoil the party.
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A Mangled Mess

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A man rides a bike past an uprooted tree on May 8, 2008, in downtown Yangon, Myanmar. Villages remained in ruin and cities in disrepair as international aid efforts were stymied.

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Will Zimbabwe Opposition Leader Live to See the Runoff?

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Morgan Tsvangirai has known for years that it’s dangerous to take on strongman Robert Mugabe — just consider the number arrests, beatings, and assassination attempts (four on Tsvangirai thus far) that the Movement for Democratic Change leader and his supporters have endured already. Now Tsvangirai — who’s agreed to face Mugabe in a runoff election […]

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OK, admit it, your ride has looked better

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When I took our car into a body shop last week for an estimate, a manager was eager to have me leave it because, he said, business is slow and he wants to keep the workers busy. It’s slow at shops all over, added the guy who set me up with a loaner.
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Sky.Com News Tonight

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Tonight’s Sky.Com News will feature Adrian Sudbury, from Baldy’s Blog, in the studio to talk about his dying wish - that more of us will join the bone marrow donor list. You can read Adrian’s moving plea on the blog post below.
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Burma Cyclone: Three Days’ Mourning For Thousands Dead

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Authorities in Burma have called for three days of mourning - two weeks after a cyclone killed 70,000 people. But thousands are still waiting on aid. A Sky reporter filed this report from inside Burma.
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Johansson denies premiere snub

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Scarlett Johansson has dismissed claims that she snubbed the premiere of her new film because her “diva” demands were not met.
The actress sparked speculation when she failed to show up at the screening of Woody Allen movie Vicky Christina Barcelona at Cannes on Saturday.
It was rumoured that the French arm of distributor Warner Bros […]

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Warning of major aftershock sparks panic in China

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A government warning of a major aftershock sent thousands of panicked survivors running into the darkened streets Monday night following an unprecedented display of mourning for more than 34,000 people killed in a powerful earthquake one week ago

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COULD BE BYE-BYE, BIRDIES

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COULD BE BYE-BYE, BIRDIES

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May 20, 2008 — BONN, Germany - One in eight of the world’s bird species are at risk of extinction as climate change puts them under great pressure, a leading conservation group warned yesterday. […]

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Lanny Davis: Will superdelegates change their minds?

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Former U.S. Senator John Edwards has now endorsed Barack Obama, but Hillary Clinton’s staunchest supporters, like longtime friend and attorney Lanny Davis, say that West Virgina landslide victory has them all fired up — and thinking about the end game.
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Bush in the Middle East (again): Big talk, big disappointment

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The headline of the latest editorial in France’s sober daily, Le Monde, refers to “the fiasco of Bush.” As George W. Bush returns to Washington after a five-day junket to the Middle East, where he gushed over the 60th anniversary of Israel’s founding but offered the beleaguered Palestinians nothing, two big components of the “balance […]

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Ironía e integridad

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Poco después de que el ex presidente Alberto Fujimori fuera extraditado a Perú para enfrentar cargos de corrupción y violación a los derechos humanos, su hija Keiko, congresista peruana, empezó a clamar por sus derechos. Aseguró que su celda era demasiado pequeña y que debiera poder hacer ejercicio y recibir visitas de sus familiares, además […]

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Britain’s Former First Lady Shares Conceptional Details

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LONDON — Cherie Blair, Britain’s former first lady, has written a memoir fessing up that her baby Leo, born in 2000, was the product of prime ministerial whoopee under Queen Elizabeth II’s royal roof at the Balmoral estate.

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Chinese Gather to Mourn Victims of Sichuan Quake

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MIANYANG, China, May 19 — China observed three minutes of silence Monday to mourn the tens of thousands of people who died in last week’s earthquake, as state media reported that more than 200 rescue workers had been buried in mudslides.

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3 Salvadoran Officials Kidnapped, Killed in Guatemala

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MEXICO CITY, Feb. 20 — Three Salvadoran representatives to the Central American Parliament were kidnapped and killed during a trip to Guatemala for a parliamentary meeting, then their bodies were burned, authorities said Tuesday.
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In Venezuelan Schools, Creating ‘a New Man’

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CARACAS, Venezuela — At the sprawling Fermin Toro School, students take classes that extol President Hugo Chávez’s brand of socialism and highlight the menace posed by the imperial power to the north, the United States.

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Bush Vows Anti-Drug Aid for Mexico

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MONTEBELLO, Canada, Aug. 21 — President Bush on Tuesday pledged to develop a robust aid package to help Mexico battle that country’s murderous drug cartels, saying that the two neighbors must join forces to confront “a common problem,” the illegal drug trade.
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South Africans Fear Backlash of Violence

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RAMAPHOSA INFORMAL SETTLEMENT, South Africa, May 19 — Gift Mahlakametsa, 33, leaned on a long, carved club on Monday and pointed to the brown mountain of mine waste that passes for a hillside in this grim patch of South Africa. Just beyond the ridge, he warned, Mozambicans were waiting for darkness, spears and guns at […]

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