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CHICAGO (Reuters) – President-elect Barack Obama promised on Thursday to strengthen financial regulatory agencies and crack down on runaway “greed and scheming” in an effort to restore stability to a reeling U.S. economic system. Read more
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President Bush will not allow a “disorderly collapse” of the US car industry, the White House has said. Read more
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – The global economy appears likely to contract next year for the first time in decades as the financial crisis bites, an international banking group said Thursday. Read more
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Play Video Video: Rwanda aide questioned in France BBC AP – Theoneste Bagosora reacts as he sits in the court at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, … ARUSHA, Tanzania – A former Rwandan Army colonel behind the 1994 slaughter of more than 500,000 people was convicted of genocide Thursday and sentenced to life in prison, the most [...]
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Madonna claimed last night that a statement issued by her own spokeswoman saying that she had agreed to pay £60m to her former husband Guy Ritchie as part of the couple’s divorce was “misleading and inaccurate”. Read more
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ARUSHA, Tanzania (Dec. 18) – A former Rwandan Army colonel behind the 1994 slaughter of more than 500,000 people was convicted of genocide Thursday and sentenced to life in prison, the most significant verdict of a U.N. tribunal set up to bring the killers to justice. Read more
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A series of police blunders meant that detectives missed at least seven chances to catch the man who was today convicted of killing Rachel Nickell Read more
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A trip to see Santa has saved a mother and baby who would otherwise have been home when a light plane crashed into their Sydney house, killing two female pilots. Read more
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Answer: In Persian, the suffix “stan” means “place of.” In Russian — remembering that Kazakhstan borders Russia, and five ‘stans used to be part of the Soviet Union — the word “stan” means “settlement.” So we have seven countries in Central Asia that share the “stan” suffix: Afghanistan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Pakistan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan The [...]
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Perhaps foes of President Bush will be cheering for a good solid week at this image, but the flying footwear assault at a press conference with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki turned into a melee that was no laughing matter. White House Press Secretary Dana Perino got whacked in the face with a microphone as security [...]
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A pet peeve of mine is that TV news stations too often send cameras to big high school football games and then place the camera operators on the field of play. Read more
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8:17am UK, Thursday December 18, 2008 Cholera has infected 18,000 people in Zimbabwe with millions of pounds needed to stop the outbreak, a charity has warned. Two Zimbabwean men rest in [...]
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Rex Features Alexandra Burke has said that she considers her debut single ‘Hallelujah’ to be a love song. The track is thought to address issues of sexuality, with Jeff Buckley claiming that his rendition of the Leonard Cohen song depicted “the hallelujah of the orgasm”. However, Burke revealed that she thinks the track is more [...]
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WASHINGTON : About 35 Iraqi officials have been arrested at the interior ministry, some accused of planning a coup, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing senior security officials in Baghdad. Read more
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BAGHDAD – Iraq’s parliament speaker announced his resignation Wednesday after a parliamentary session descended into chaos as lawmakers argued about whether to free a journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush. Read more
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Fun with numbers: Proposition 8 edition A press release the other day from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force referred to “the slim passage of Proposition 8″ in the Nov. 4 election. That’s been pretty much a theme for many of the groups that opposed the measure, which banned same-sex marriage in California. Prop. [...]
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On Monday of this week, George W. Bush’s scowling sidekick and secretive Svengali, Dick Cheney, emerged from his hiding place to speak with ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl. In his interview with the American TV network, Cheney acknowledged his approval of the torture methods the Bush-Cheney gang has employed in its hapless “war on terror.” [...]
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British soldiers in Basra are experiencing a very different deployment to past tours, with time spent protecting the airport base just outside the city or conducting reconstruction missions rather than dodging rockets and bullet fire. They are also learning to mingle with US soldiers who are gradually moving into the base with a view to [...]
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By Nico Hines and Gareth Richman A leading American surgeon claims that full face transplants will be possible within the next 12 months, which got us thinking about who should sign up for a fresh visage. Gordon Brown struggles to connect with the public – something that loveable clown Boris Johnson finds all too easy, [...]
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PARIS, Dec. 16 — Police found five sticks of dynamite in a landmark Paris department store Tuesday after an unknown group warned that bombs were hidden there and threatened more attacks unless France withdraws its military forces from Afghanistan. Read more