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Senior advisers to Senator Hillary Clinton prepared the ground yesterday for her to abandon her presidential ambitions within days rather than disputing the Democratic nomination all the way to the party convention in August. Read more
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Millions of men and women who suffer from premature baldness or hair loss could soon be able to regain their original lustrous locks — by cloning their remaining hair in the laboratory. Read more
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SAO PAULO, Brazil (June 2) – A shark ripped off the right hand of a teenager swimming along the coast of northeastern Brazil, fire department officials said Monday. Pernambuco state fire department spokesman Marcio Maia said 14-year-old Wellington dos Santos was attacked on Sunday after he swam beyond a coral reef that keeps sharks away [...]
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A teenage girl was brutally stabbed to death in a lift just yards from her front door as she returned home from school today. Read more
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A race car driver kept going to the finish line despite hitting seven spectators, seriously injuring a policeman and his daughter. Read more
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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It only took a day of decidedly deadly voting to arrive at that parliamentary victory. Nikola Gruevski, Macedonia’s 37-year-old prime minister, said his center-right party, VMRO-DPMNE, will control about half the seats in parliament, but the blood shed on election day will likely mar the country’s hopes of joining NATO and the European Union. More: [...]
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At the conclusion of Hillary Clinton’s victory speech Sunday afternoon in Puerto Rico, the public-address system played the 1998 song “La Copa De La Vida (The Cup of Life).” Read more
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Take a sneak preview of what is coming up on the show tonight here. Read more
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More than five people have been killed in an explosion near the Danish Embassy in the Pakistani capital Islamabad. Eyewitnesses say the blast left a crater in the road and damaged dozens of cars and nearby buildings Read more
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Nintendo’s US senior director of product development Tom Prata has announced there are around 100 games in development for its WiiWare service. Prata said: “Currently, there are about 100 games in development for WiiWare at various stages of completion”. Speaking to IGN, the US boss said Nintendo wants gamers to enjoy the titles as soon [...]
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Kenyan police fired teargas to disperse several hundred demonstrators calling on the government to introduce subsidies to battle rising food prices. Read more
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June 2, 2008 — SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Hillary Rodham Clinton cleaned up in the Puerto Rico primary election yesterday – but her overwhelming victory in the tropical US territory did nothing to right her listing campaign. Read more
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The following email leaked to us from a prominent supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton shows us firsthand the anger among the older women who are the mainstays of her campaign, and a necessary ingredient of a victory for rival Sen. Barack Obama in November: Read more
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was in Myanmar late last week to plead with the Himalayan nation’s military rulers to allow international relief workers to enter their territory to provide much-needed aid supplies to victims of Cyclone Nargis. The storm hit Myanmar’s agriculturally important Irrawaddy Delta more than three weeks ago. Read more
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WASHINGTON — Probably no event could stand as better proof of a U.S. foreign policy failure than the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, to be marked on Jan. 1. Nineteen days later, a new U.S. president — the 11th since Fidel Castro toppled Fulgencio Batista’s regime — will inherit that policy. Read more
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PARIS — When French super chef Alain Ducasse won the contract to operate an upscale restaurant in the Eiffel Tower, he faced a multitude of challenges. How to maximize the tiny space and capitalize on the views? How to complement the structure and capture its sense of history? And most important, how to match the, [...]
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Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, on a state visit to North Korea in 1993, smuggled in critical data on uranium enrichment — a route to making a nuclear weapon — to help facilitate a missile deal with Pyongyang, according to a new book by a journalist who knew the slain politician well. Read more
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HAVANA (Reuters) – A Cuban rafter who was sent back to communist Cuba by the United States 11 months ago said Monday he would take to the sea again in a 19th bid to get to Florida if Cuban authorities do not allow him to emigrate legally. Read more