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A mother watched in horror as her baby was driven away by a thief who posed as a policeman to commandeer her car. Read more
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Disgraced Aussie judge stays out of jail 5:58PM Friday Feb 27, 2009 SYDNEY- Marcus Einfeld has avoided being locked up behind bars for now, but faces more humiliation by having to report weekly to his local police station. The disgraced former Federal Court judge was granted conditional bail on Friday, despite opposition from [...]
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Why the Valentine’s Day party poopers? Valentine’s Day = St. Valentine = not an Islamic holiday. Plus, as an Islamic scholar told the Saudi Gazette, “As Muslims we shouldn’t celebrate a non-Muslim celebration especially this one that encourages immoral relations between unmarried men and women.” So in Saudi Arabia, the religious police — agents of [...]
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The Reader’s Ben Joravsky takes a hard, skeptical look at the city’s Olympic bid and notes that, among other astonishing outlays, Chicago intends to spend $10.5 million to come up with a suitable Olympic mascot. Read more
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US combat troops will leave Iraq by the end of August next year, Barack Obama has announced. A transitional force of between 35,000 and 50,000 personnel will [...]
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The Saturdays have claimed that Lady GaGa probably leads a “great private life”. Read more
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A Russian analyst has warned that a Moscow-dominated military bloc`s forces would become involved in the Nagorno-Garabagh conflict if Azerbaijan moves to free its territories that have been under Armenian occupation since the early 1990s. Read more
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The Yves Saint Laurent sale of the century ended yesterday after netting an outrageous $484 million in winning bids – including $28.3 million for an ugly, 90-year-old armchair crafted by famed Irish designer Eileen Gray. Read more
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The federal court panel that told the state earlier this month to release tens of thousands of inmates in two to three years to relieve prison overcrowding that has played havoc with health care, carefully labeled its ruling ”tentative” and encouraged both sides to try to work out a settlement. Read more
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“You commie, homo-loving sons of guns!” declares Sean Penn after winning Best Actor for Milk, the biopic of America’s first openly gay politician. ”I did not expect this,” he continues, adding that, “I do know how hard I make it to appreciate me.” Read more
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THE HAGUE, Feb. 26 — U.N. judges on Thursday acquitted former Serbian president Milan Milutinovic of ordering a deadly campaign of terror against Kosovo Albanians in 1999, saying he had no role in what they ruled was a criminal plot to drive ethnic Albanians out of Kosovo. Read more
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BERLIN, Feb. 26 — A United Nations special investigator has concluded in a report scheduled for release Friday that foreign intelligence agents sent to question U.S.-held terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay had violated international human-rights laws. Read more
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, Feb. 26 — President Robert Mugabe in a published interview rejected demands that he dismiss two discredited officials, while the Zimbabwean government asked its neighbors Thursday for a $2 billion loan package to aid its collapsed economy. Read more
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President Obama sought yesterday to quell growing complaints from members of Congress about his plans for drawing down troops in Iraq, inviting lawmakers to a White House meeting on the eve of a North Carolina speech in which he is expected to announce that he will pull out many combat troops by August of 2010. [...]
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RIO DE JANEIRO — When Deutsche Bank determined that strategist Rod Manalo was, in the merciless language of hard times, “redundant,” it was an abrupt and humbling end to a seven-year career in finance. Read more
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) – Mexico is sending thousands more troops and federal police to the country’s most violent city, where law and order is on the brink of collapse in a war between gangs supplying drugs to the United States. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama forecast the biggest U.S. deficit since World War Two in a budget on Thursday that urges a costly overhaul of the healthcare system and would spend billions to arrest the economy’s freefall. Read more
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President Barack Obama has unveiled a $3.6tn (£2.5tn) budget for 2010, aiming to pull the US out of financial crisis. Read more
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LONDON (AFP) – Insurance giant Royal & Sun Alliance (RSA) on Thursday revealed plans to slash 1,200 jobs as it struggles to reduce costs amid the global financial crisis. Read more
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Play Video AP  – Passenger: No warning before Turkish plane crash Slideshow:Turkish plane crashes in Amsterdam Play Video Video:What caused the Amsterdam crash? BBC Play Video Video:Dutch mayor: 4 Americans killed in plane crash KING5 Seattle AP – A Forensic expert is seen near the wreckage of a Turkish Airlines plane at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport … AMSTERDAM – Engine [...]