Fossett’s Plane Wreckage Is Found
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7:12pm UK, Thursday October 02, 2008
Search teams have found the wreckage of Steve Fossett’s plane in California, authorities have confirmed.
Fossett’s plane wreckage recovered
The 63-year-old millionaire adventurer disappeared in his single-engined Bellanca in September 2007 after taking off from a desert ranch in nearby Nevada.
The wreckage was located about 10,000 feet up the Sierra Nevada Mountains […]
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Mel B plans new fashion reality show
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Rex Features
Mel B is to star in a new reality TV show based around her Catty Couture fashion label.
The singer is teaming up with Project Runway creator Eli Holzman to produce the project.
She is quoted as saying: “It’s a thing that’s in development that I’m really excited about.”
The former Spice Girl is also working on […]
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Evidence of Skype Monitoring in China
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Shades of the “Great Firewall of China.” But rather than blocking of outbound Internet access to certain, er, sites China would prefer its populace to avoid, what has been found is monitoring of Skype usage.
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YOU NEED THERAPY: DOCS
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Long-term psychotherapy is effective at treating complex mental disorders, German researchers reported yesterday in a finding that offers rare evidence that this type of treatment works. “There is evidence that for patients with chronic mental…
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VP Debate Tailgate Party: McCain changes tune on Ifill
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On Wednesday, while the rest of the conservative world belatedly — or was it perfectly-timed — decided to call out a potential conflict of interest for tonight’s debate moderator Gwen Ifill, John McCain stood above the fray.
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Lame-duck Bush now a “dead duck,” and other meltdown woes
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Lame-duck Bush now a “dead duck,” and other meltdown woes
Snapshots from the still-unfolding, U.S.-born financial crisis that has spawned a growing - and increasingly alarming - worldwide credit crunch:
Last night, the U.S. Senate passed its version of the $700-billion banking-and-financial-services sector bailout proposal the U.S. House of Representatives rejected on Monday. Now the bill […]
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Europe Beginning to Realize Its Lenders Share in the Blame
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BERLIN, Oct. 1 — Europe moved to shore up more teetering banks Wednesday, as officials struggled to answer a basic question: How did their highly regulated banks, many of them state-owned, get suckered by the same speculative investments that have flattened Wall Street?
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China Keeps Car Rules Imposed for Olympics
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BEIJING, Oct. 1 — The government began taking 30 percent of its cars in the capital off the roads Wednesday in an attempt to make permanent some of the traffic restrictions imposed during the Olympic Games, officials and media reports said.
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Somalia Embraces Foreign Assistance Against Pirates
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CAIRO, Oct. 1 — With U.S. warships offshore and a Russian missile frigate on the way, Somalia’s president, Abdullahi Yusuf, said Wednesday that he welcomed international intervention against Somali pirates roaming a main East-West shipping route.
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A Delicate Changing of the Guard
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 1 — The Iraqi government on Wednesday began assuming control of the U.S.-backed armed groups that have helped curtail violence here, in a high-stakes test for the American strategy to stabilize Iraq.
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Senate Backs Far-Reaching Nuclear Trade Deal With India
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The Senate last night approved a historic agreement that opens up nuclear trade with India for the first time since New Delhi conducted a nuclear test three decades ago, giving the Bush administration a significant foreign policy achievement in its final months.
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U.S., South Korea try to cool tensions with North
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SEOUL (Reuters) - A senior U.S. envoy extended talks in North Korea on Thursday in a bid to save a troubled disarmament pact and convince secretive Pyongyang not to restart its nuclear plant.
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Senate endorses bailout, uncertainty remains
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HONG KONG/LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate endorsed a revised $700 billion plan to tackle a financial crisis that has shaken world markets and drawn warnings of approaching economic catastrophe.
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US Senate backs new bail-out bill
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The Senate has approved a new version of a $700bn (£380bn) rescue plan for the troubled US financial system.
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Iraqi police: bombs kill 11 in Baghdad
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi police say a roadside bomb has killed four people and injured nine near a Shiite mosque in Baghdad.
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Brown urged to offer £1.1 trillion guarantee
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GORDON BROWN is under pressure to offer a £1.1 trillion (e1.3trn) cast-iron government guarantee that all money in savings accounts will be repaid if a British bank collapses.
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World’s Heaviest Man to Marry Girlfriend
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MONTERREY, Mexico (Oct. 1) - The world’s most obese man is getting hitched. Manuel Uribe says he will wed longtime girlfriend Claudia Solis on Oct. 26 in Monterrey, Mexico. The two will be married in a civil ceremony at a location still to be decided.
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Unhealthy people to be offered £20 ‘bribes’ to force them to see a doctor
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Unhealthy people could be offered cash payments as an incentive to go and see their GP.
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Obama’s lead up to seven points in latest poll
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WASHINGTON - A new poll released Wednesday showed Democrat Barack Obama pulling ahead of Republican opponent John McCain in the key swing states of Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania, as their vice presidential running mates were sequestered in preparations for a much-anticipated debate.
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