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PERTH - Passengers aboard an international Qantas flight today told of their horror as the plane plunged up to 2,000 metres over Western Australia, hurling people around the cabin, seriously injuring 20 of them.
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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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Saudi Arabia’s king called for greater dialogue and openness between the world’s monotheistic religions on March 24, 2008. In the face of rising tensions over Mohammed cartoons, al-Qaida claiming Pope Benedict XVI is leading a crusade, and a stalled Middle East peace process, King Abdullah’s outreach took on extra weight. From the International Herald Tribune:
“‘The […]
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As Americans’ eyes last week were trained upon the vice presidential debates, the O.J. Simpson verdicts, and, of course, the $700 billion bailout that found new legislative life after a tweak here and a sweetener there, the European Union was assessing its own brewing financial crisis. Germany has intervened to save the country’s second-largest mortgage […]
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A friend wrote to express her wry amusement that a man with a last name echoing of retail commerce — “Kashkari,” as in “cash and carry” — is the assistant Treasury secretary just appointed to head the office created under the emergency bailout (story).
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4:28pm UK, Tuesday October 07, 2008
John McCain will try to reclaim the political high ground during his second US presidential debate with Barack Obama.
The Republican is looking forward to the clash in Nashville, Tennessee, which will take the form of a town hall style meeting – his preferred format.
He had previously challenged Mr Obama to […]
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Fun Lovin’ Criminals singer Huey Morgan has revealed that he once told two groupies to get out of his hotel room.
The 40-year-old, who recently signed up to front a radio show for 6 Music, told The Mirror that he was annoyed with the women for ignoring a ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign.
He explained: “Once in Eastern […]
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Explosion killed 17, injured 40 in Bhakkar, Pakistan. The explosion occurred at the residence of MP Rashid Akbar Novani. The injured MP has been hospitalized. The Number of injured men are being specified.
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Posted: 3:40 amOctober 7, 2008
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Three European scientists will share the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine for separately discovering viruses that cause AIDS and cervical cancer, it was announced yesterday.
French researchers Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier were cited for identifying the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, in 1983.
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The McCain camp seems to have run out of LHC because they’re recycling old ones — ones that Mitt Romney used against Obama a year ago. Mitt’s seconds? Oh, senator.
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Politicians cook up wars, whether they’re legitimate or not. Generals and their troops are sent to fight them. The failure of George W. Bush’s Iraq boondoggle, which was based on lies and has chalked up an unfathomable expense in American taxpayers’ dollars and an inestimable cost in human lives, speaks for itself.
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LONDON, Oct. 6 — World stock markets suffered one of their worst days ever Monday amid fears that government responses to the global financial crisis, including the U.S. bailout and inconsistent moves by European leaders, would not be sufficient to prevent a worldwide recession.
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NEW DELHI — Clutching a bunch of bank papers, Lakshmi Rajgopal squeezed through a narrow gated entrance and walked past a long line of customers jostling at the cashier’s window. Some were complaining about the slow service, their voices muffled by the whir and creak of old printers.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, June 26 — Morgan Tsvangirai once embodied his nation’s soaring hopes. Boisterous and bold in his trademark cowboy hat, the longtime opposition leader would predict the defeat of President Robert Mugabe and wave a red card — like a soccer referee ejecting an unruly player — to the joyous howls of overflowing crowds.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 6 — The Arab League dispatched an ambassador to Baghdad on Monday, the latest sign of progress in the Iraqi and U.S. effort to ease this country’s diplomatic isolation.
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BERLIN, Oct. 6 — German lawmakers said Monday that they were drawing up a massive intervention plan to protect the country’s financial system as Europe’s biggest economy braced for the possibility of more bank failures.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Britain’s military commander and ambassador in Afghanistan are being “defeatist” by thinking the war cannot be won, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, as Washington seeks more troops for the conflict that started exactly seven years ago.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks slid for a fourth straight day on Monday, leaving the Dow below 10,000 for the first time in four years, on fears the global economy was hurtling into recession despite government efforts to contain the fast-spreading financial crisis.
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Asian stock markets have opened down sharply amid investor panic that global government action might not be enough to stem the financial crisis.
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The Hamas resolution demands Abbas issue a decree by Wednesday to hold new presidential elections within three months, to coincide with what Hamas says is the end of his term.
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