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The Turkish Airline’s plane may have run out of fuel before crashing near Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport yesterday killing at least nine people, airport officials suggested last night. Read more
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CAIRO (Feb. 24) – Maintenance workers at Egypt’s Giza Pyramids have found an ancient quartzite statue of a seated man buried close to the surface of the desert, the culture ministry said on Tuesday. Read more
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Disgraced bank boss Sir Fred Goodwin has written to the Government to say he refuses to give back any of his £650,000-a-year pension despite widespread outrage at the ex-bank chief’s lavish retirement package. Read more
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A member of Britain’s House of Lords has been jailed for 12 weeks for dangerous driving after a court heard he sent and received a series of text messages minutes before a fatal accident on a motorway. Read more
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A Srebrenica Memorial worker holds a large sheet with the names of approximately 8,000 Muslims who died during the Srebrenica massacres while preparing for the 10th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre on July 9, 2005, in Srebrenica, Bosnia Herzegovina. Read more
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Lynn, God is not in control, the pilot is. Get over it and get real. Posted By :Neil Report This The three recent plane incidents (landing on the Hudson, crash in Buffalo, and now the Turkish Airways crash) point to just how [...]
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Princess Beatrice’s cameo role in upcoming movie The Young Victoria has been cut to only a few seconds, it has been claimed. The Royal plays a lady-in-waiting for the young queen in the film, which is due for release on March 6. A movie insider told The Sun: “It has been cut, as is the [...]
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At least nine people were killed when a Turkish Airlines plane with 143 people aboard slammed into a field while attempting to land at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport and broke into three pieces, officials said Wednesday. Read full story from www.msnbc.msn.com Read more
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HAARLEMMERLIEDE, Netherlands – A Turkish Airlines jetliner plummeted out of the mist and plowed into a muddy field yesterday near Amsterdam’s main airport, but nearly everyone on board – 125 people – survived. The nine dead included both pilots. Read more
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A Los Angeles Assemblyman has introduced legislation that would require 30-minute work rest breaks for mothers who are extracting milk for babies and require insurance companies to include coverage for lactation training and rentals of breast pumps. Read more
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One of the touching, and sometimes disturbing, things about living in Japan is the extent to which people here experience a sense of personal responsibility for things – which, by my dry, individualistic, Western standards – they deserve no credit or blame either way. Read more
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 Eu: looks lovely but very hard to find The people of Eu (pronounced like the second syllable of mother), a picturesque spot in Normandy, have put up with centuries of teasing about the unusual name of their town. In French it’s indistinguishable from the mumble that marks a pause in speech like [...]
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BERLIN, Feb. 25 — Germany is the world’s leading exporter and fourth-biggest economy, but during the global financial meltdown, it has also been among the most tightfisted. For months, German leaders have warned that spending and lending huge sums to fend off recession — such as the United States’ $787 billion stimulus package — will [...]
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CIA Director Leon Panetta said yesterday that U.S. aerial attacks against al-Qaeda and other extremist strongholds inside Pakistan would continue, despite concerns about a popular Pakistani backlash. Read more
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, Feb. 25 — A United Nations-sponsored war crimes court on Wednesday found three top rebel leaders in Sierra Leone guilty of multiple crimes against humanity in the West African nation’s disastrous civil war. Read more
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BAGHDAD — Ali Basheer no longer avoids the market, where Shiite militiamen once preyed on Sunnis like him. He no longer instructs his 12-year-old son to lie about his name — Omar, so clearly Sunni that only a year ago it could have gotten him kidnapped, even killed. And the graffiti outside their house that [...]
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LONDON, Feb. 25 — A Turkish Airlines passenger jet crashed into a muddy field in Amsterdam and broke into at least three pieces Wednesday morning, killing nine and injuring dozens, officials said. Read more
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A Turkish Airlines plane with 134 passengers and crew aboard crashed in light fog while trying to land at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport on Wednesday, killing nine people and injuring dozens. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama called on Wednesday for a sweeping overhaul of Wall Street regulations, saying big changes were needed to avoid a repeat of the financial meltdown. Read more
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Nearly 50 people are feared dead in Bangladesh after border guards staged an armed mutiny, reports say. Read more