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Lesbians Lose Court Battle Over Twins

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CANBERRA (July 24) - An Australian lesbian couple have lost
a controversial court battle after trying to sue their doctor
for having healthy twins from an in vitro fertilization
procedure (IVF), with doctors on Friday praising the verdict.
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Huge hole in terror plunge plane 'could have been caused by corrosion, spotted in March'

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Terrified passengers cried and prayed when a hole the size of a van was blasted out of the side of their jumbo jet at 29,000ft.
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Gaping hole in Qantas plane after mid-air bang

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MANILA - Australian passengers have told of a terrifying mid-air emergency that left a gaping hole in the side of a Qantas plane, forcing an emergency landing in Manila.
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France's Worst Serial Killers?

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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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France's Worst Serial Killers?

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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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Nazi Hunter on Trail of ‘Dr. Death’

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Exciting news from Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff: The head of the Israeli branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Center believes he’s pinpointed the location of Dr. Aribert Heim, known as “Dr. Death” and the “Butcher of Mauthausen.” Heim, who conducted gruesome, lethal experiments on concentration camp victims, would be 94 years old now. His children claim […]

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Q. What’s Barack Obama’s favorite satirical newspaper?

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That’s pretty much all I’ve come up with in my search to find or make up a Barack Obama joke that plays off an identifying mannerism, character trait or aspect of speech. It’s a riddle that plays off Obama’s distracting habit of filling nearly every silence with “uhhh” and “ahhh” whenever he goes off script […]

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Jet Terror Over Gaping Mid-Air Hole

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I noticed that it was meal time when this incident happened. I would have been upset if i was unable to finish my meal, especially if it could of been my last meal. Top marks to the pilots for bringing this big bird down safely.



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Ronson to play Lowe’s mum’s wedding?

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Mark Ronson is reportedly going to play a gig at Daisy Lowe’s mother’s wedding.
Lowe is in charge of the entertainment at the ceremony and wants her boyfriend to help her out by performing.
“She’s made me in charge of the music so I’ve got to kind of organise the bands that are playing,” she told Transmission.
“I […]

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China Presses Hush Money on Grieving Parents

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Local governments in southwest ChinaÂ’s quake-ravaged Sichuan Province have begun a coordinated campaign to buy the silence of angry parents whose children died during the earthquake, according to interviews with more than a dozen parents from four collapsed schools. Officials threaten that the parents will get nothing if they refuse to sign, the parents say.

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‘HUNKA’ STONE

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‘HUNKA’ STONE
ROMAN ARTIFACT AN ELVIS-ALIKE

By HASANI GITTENS

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Posted: 3:23 amJuly 25, 2008
It appears Elvis was always the King of Rock.
A 1,800-year old Roman bust that looks strikingly like Elvis Presley is set to go on the auction block in London.
The hunka hunka chiseled stone is a marble acroterion […]

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Der Spiegel Calls the Election for Obama!

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Oh my: they’re still picking up the trash after the big Obama speech in Berlin, and already the powerhouse German publication, Der Spiegel, has weighed in with a prediction for the 2008 election: ”No. 44 has spoken.”

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The campaign, abroad: Obligingly, Obama does Israel

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A report about presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s whirlwind visit to Israel yesterday in the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth noted, somewhat breathlessly, that the senator from Illinois “landed at Ben-Gurion Airport” and stepped out of his campaign’s chartered jet “like a rock star, into a particularly emotional reception.” The news report added: “Israel’s political […]

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Obama Says Walls Must Come Down

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BERLIN, July 24 — Addressing a huge throng in the middle of this once-divided city, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Thursday implored Americans and Europeans to renew the partnership that once defeated communism to address 21st-century threats that he said put the security of all nations at risk.

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With Indian Politics, the Bad Gets Worse

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NEW DELHI, July 23 — There were backroom deals. There were wads of cash waved about as alleged evidence of bribery. There were six lawmakers on hand who had just been sprung from jail so they could cast their ballots.

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South African Named U.N. Commissioner for Human Rights

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UNITED NATIONS, July 24 — South African judge Navanethem Pillay was named Thursday as the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, culminating a remarkable ascent for a lawyer who was once barred from entering a judge’s chamber during South Africa’s apartheid era because of the color of her skin.

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U.S. Can’t Keep Up On Visas for Iraqis

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The State Department cannot resettle in the United States about 25,000 Iraqi translators and other refugees who worked for the U.S.-led coalition over the next two years because of limits on the number of applications that can be reviewed, according to Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte.

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Iraqi President Vows Veto of Election Bill

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BAGHDAD, July 23 — President Jalal Talabani said Wednesday that he would veto a measure governing provincial elections scheduled for this year, making it all but certain that the balloting will be delayed until 2009.

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WTO talks live another day, little progress so far

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GENEVA (Reuters) - Marathon trade talks limped into another day on Friday but with little progress so far on the tortuous negotiations ministers said it would soon be time to decide whether a deal was at all possible.
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Obama presses Europe on Afghanistan in Berlin

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BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama urged Europe to stand by the United States in stabilizing Afghanistan in a speech to over 200,000 in Berlin that stressed the need for unity in the face of new threats.
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