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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three female suicide bombers killed 28 people and wounded 92 when they blew themselves up among Shi’ites walking through the streets of Baghdad on a religious pilgrimage on Monday, Iraqi police said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Presidential rivals Barack Obama and John McCain shifted the campaign focus back to the faltering U.S. economy on Monday, with Obama convening an all-star panel of advisers to help him hatch new approaches to a deepening problem.
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Suicide bombers have killed at least 53 people and wounded about 240 in attacks on crowds in the Iraqi capital Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk.
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AP - Four suicide bombers believed to be women struck a Shiite pilgrimage in Baghdad and a Kurdish protest rally in northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and wounding nearly 300 in one of this year’s deadliest attacks, police said.
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HAVING won hearts and minds overseas, Senator Barack Obama will turn today to the more difficult task of persuading Americans that he is the best candidate to revive the domestic economy.
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For the first time since Margaret Thatcher was booted out by her cabinet colleagues 18 years ago, there is, once again, a woman in charge of the British government this week.
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BEIJING (July 28) — Four giant panda cubs were born within 14 hours at a breeding center in southwest China, a mini baby boom for the rare animals, a state news agency reported Sunday.
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The iconic pier at Weston-super-Mare was destroyed by fire today after a huge blaze, possibly started by an electrical fault, took hold in the early hours.
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SYDNEY - A former Sydney schoolteacher convicted of using a hidden camera to film up the skirts of schoolgirls has walked free from court.
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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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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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It’s turning out to be a really deadly weekend: Two bombs exploded about 10 minutes apart tonight in a busy shopping district in Istanbul. The mayor of Turkey’s largest city said the bombs had been placed in trash bins. From Al-Jazeera:
“At least 15 people have been killed and more than 150 others injured in two […]
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Click here to submit your Obama jokes (and here to read earlier efforts)
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7:06am UK, Monday July 28, 2008
The death toll from two bomb blasts in a packed Istanbul square has risen to 16.
Forensic officers at the scene of the bomb blasts in Istanbul
More than 150 others were wounded in the deadliest attack against civilians in Turkey in almost five years.
The city’s governor called it a “terror attack” […]
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Maysoon said she saw no reason to defend herself tonight, after the housemates from Heaven watched her Big Brother profile and called her a liar.
The model laughed off suggestions that she portrayed herself as something she is not, stating: “I don’t feel like I’ve said anything that I have not said in the house.”
Rex claimed […]
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Two bombs exploded minutes apart in a packed Istanbul square Sunday night, killing 15 and injuring more than 150 in the deadliest attack against civilians in Turkey in almost five years.
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GUMMIS ARE GOOD FOR YOU
By JOSHUA GORDON
Posted: 4:06 amJuly 27, 2008
Here’s some sweet news for those with a sweet tooth.
A new study suggests that chewing Gummi bears made with the natural sweetener xylitol might […]
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It’s 1980 All Over Again
The new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows why Sen. John McCain still has a chance in a year when everything is going Barack Obama’s way.
Plug today’s generic political factors into any of the many forecasting models pitting Candidate A against Candidate B, and the Democrat wins in a landslide. The […]
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Yesterday at the Randwick horse-racing track in Sydney, Pope Benedict XVI addressed an international crowd of Roman Catholic faithful on the last day of the annual World Youth Day festivities that had brought the German-born pontiff to Australia for a week-long stay. At the racetrack, around mid-morning yesterday, “there were pilgrims stretching as far as […]
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Mi madre acaba de terminar su visita anual. Antes acostumbraba a encargarse de nuestra casa y nuestras vidas, pero esta vez fue diferente. A las dos semanas, me miró a los ojos y señalando con el dedo me dijo enfáticamente: “Ojalá nunca llegues a vieja”.
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