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Barcelona is a dry city. It is dry in a way that two days of showers can do nothing to alleviate. The Catalan capital’s weather can change from one day to the next, but its climate, like that of the whole Mediterranean region, is inexorably warming up and drying out. And in the process this […]
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TOKYO (May 30) - A homeless woman who sneaked into a man’s house and lived undetected in his closet for a year was arrested in Japan after he became suspicious when food mysteriously began disappearing.
Police found the 58-year-old woman Thursday hiding in the top compartment of the man’s closet and arrested her for trespassing, police […]
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A family has won compensation from a tour operator because their hotel was dominated by Germans.
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Texas overstepped its authority when it removed 460 children from a polygamist ranch last month, the state’s Supreme Court said, upholding a lower court ruling.
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details:
“The couple resembled […]
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A. It’s definitely a possibility. In the wake of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lead a lifting of the ban on headscarves in universities — and a charge by his party, the AKP, to ban booze in restaurants — the 11-member Constitutional Court agreed at the end of March 2008 to hear the case charging […]
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Dmitry Medvedev has hit the road, and his first major diplomatic act as president of the Russian Federation is aimed at angering the United States.
It’s twofold: First, he and Chinese President Hu Jintao agreed to a $1 billion pact under which Russia would build a nuclear-enrichment plant there and supply uranium. Then, they criticized the […]
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The possibility that former Bulls’ head coach Doug Collins will return to coach the team sparked a somewhat vague memory that he had a son who was an excellent high school basketball player in the Chicago suburbs and went on to be a standout at Duke University.
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Take a sneak preview of what is coming up on the show tonight here.
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While thousands of Burmese wait on aid, the UN has lashed out at the Government. After being criticised for not accepting foreign help, the UN has accused the military government of forcibly removing cyclone victims from refugee camps.
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Ubisoft has announced a video game for the Nintendo DS that claims to help smokers quit their health-damaging habit.
Allen Carr’s Easyway To Stop Smoking is being developed for the DS and is based on Carr’s best-selling book of the same name, which is on sale across 50 countries.
Self-help guru Carr has, according to Ubisoft, helped […]
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A strong earthquake of 6.1 magnitude hit Iceland Thursday, 30 miles southeast of the capital Reykjavik, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
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May 30, 2008 — British prosecutors slapped cantankerous catwalker Naomi Campbell with criminal charges yesterday for her dust-up with airport cops in London.
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With her presence this weekend at the VIP John McCain veepfest in Sedona, Arizona, Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay, confirmed she’s not only seriously exploring a new career in politics — but she’s also part of the GOP presumed presidential nominee’s trusted inner circle. With her choice spot as the only high-profile woman […]
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After ten days of negotiations, yesterday, in Dublin, delegates from 111 countries agreed to the terms of a proposed new treaty that calls for all of them to eliminate their stocks of cluster bombs.
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WASHINGTON — Latin America’s oldest guerrilla movement, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, couldn’t ask for a better opportunity to do what is right. For 43 years the FARC has been waging war against the Colombian state and more recently profiting from drug trafficking and kidnappings. Now it is using 45 high-profile hostages, including a […]
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LONDON — After Linda Davies reported to police that her 15-year-old daughter had been raped, it took three months — plus two dozen phone calls and a threat of legal action — before police questioned the suspect, a 28-year-old neighbor.
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An international effort led by Nobel laureates has failed to secure the release of a prominent Indian doctor and activist who was honored here yesterday with the prestigious 2008 Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights.
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TORONTO, Jan. 12 — Canadian and U.S. citizens are lining up for passports to meet tougher U.S. border rules that take effect this month, and Canadian authorities fear the rules will keep more Americans at home.
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BOGOTA, Colombia — President ¿lvaro Uribe has overwhelming influence in many of this country’s institutions and enjoys the support of 70 percent of his countrymen.
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