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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Militants attacked a hotel popular with foreigners in the Pakistani city of Peshawar with guns and a truck bomb on Tuesday, killing five people including a U.N. worker, authorities said. Read more
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A suicide bomb attack on a luxury hotel in the north-west Pakistani city of Peshawar, has killed 11 people and injured at least 52. Read more
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Play Video Economy Video:Geithner sees signs of improvement Reuters Play Video Economy Video:Google CEO on Outlook, Expected Job Growth FOXBusiness Related Quotes Symbol Price Change ^DJI 8,763.06 -1.43 ^GSPC 942.43 +3.29 ^IXIC 1,860.13 +17.73 By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer Martin Crutsinger, Ap Economics Writer – 37 mins ago WASHINGTON – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Tuesday [...]
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Suicide attackers detonated a truck bomb Tuesday outside a luxury hotel in Peshawar that U.S. officials were in negotiations to make into an American consulate, officials said. The attack killed at least five people and wounded dozens more. The motive for the assault was not clear, and two U.S. officials in Washington [...]
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WHEN Michelle Obama, America‘s First Lady, gets back to the White House she will be able to say that she went to London and all she got was a lousy pamphlet with a photo of Michael Martin — the first Speaker to be sacked in over 300 years — on the front cover. Read more
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(June 9) – Elisabeth Fritzl, the Austrian woman who was held captive in a cellar for decades by her rapist father, has dropped out of psychiatric therapy after falling in love with her bodyguard, Britain’s Daily Mail reports. Skip over this content The 43-year-old, who bore seven children (one of whom died as an infant) [...]
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Leader of the British National Party Nick Griffin was today forced to abandon a press conference after being pelted with eggs by furious protesters. Read more
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SYDNEY – Australian and Indonesian researchers have excavated the 200,000-year-old skeleton of a giant elephant which remained preserved in east Java thanks to its extraordinary death. Read more
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Security staff leading police dogs patrol at Tiananmen Square after the opening ceremony of the second session of the 11th CPPCC National Committee on March 3, 2009, in Beijing, China. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images) Read more
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Chinese policemen march on the side of Tiananmen Square on the second day of the Olympic Games on Aug. 10, 2008, in Beijing, China. (Photo by Andrew Wong/Getty Images) Read more
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Most shopping malls install cameras to catch thieves. In Saudi Arabia, the religious police want to install security cameras in malls to catch women and men mingling. Or exchanging pleasantries. Or exchanging phone numbers. Or, worse, snuggling outside the Cinnabon! From Al-Arabiya: “The religious police defended their suggestion, which they said they [...]
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Clout gets the best tables at restaurants and the box seats at ballgames. Clout gets the contract, the job offer and the wave under life’s velvet ropes. Read more
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10:14am UK, Tuesday June 09, 2009 A Brazilian navy ship has pulled the tail fin of Air France Flight AF447 from the Atlantic Ocean as officials prepare to identify the first of the bodies recovered. [...]
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John Travolta has thanked the cast and producers of The Taking Of Pelham 1-2-3 for giving him the time he needed to mourn the death of his son. Read more
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Stephen Colbert is spending this week in Iraq, and he’s coming back with a souvenir: a shaved head. Read more
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RECIFE, Brazil — Search ships methodically worked through a “sea of debris” from a doomed Air France jet yesterday, recovering 15 more bodies near the spot where the Airbus A330 is believed to have gone down a week ago. Read more
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Cash-strapped California is getting financial help from an unlikely place: Louisiana. A woman in Baton Rouge last month sent a pair of checks to the state Department of Finance, apparently after hearing… Read more
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Saddam would have had a fit. Echoing through the vast marble entrance chamber of his Al Faw palace came the Star Spangled Banner, sung in harmony by Stephen Colbert – of Daily Show and Colbert Report fame – and Sergeant Adrienn Falk. They held the last note as long as they could before the crowd went [...]
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Another school very evident at Chelsea Flower show was Writhlington School. Pupils embarked in March 2009 on a trip to Sikkim in the Himalayas to take part in the Gangtok Schools’ Orchid project. This has furthered the work of the botanical team at the school and resulted in a stand in the Continuous Learning area [...]
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Cargos de corrupción en contra del gobernador de Puerto Rico pusieron a la isla brevemente en las noticias la semana pasada. AnÃbal Acevedo Vila es acusado de solicitar miles de dólares en contribuciones inapropiadas para cubrir deudas de campaña y lujosos gastos personales. El gobernador ha rechazado las acusaciones y continua su campaña de reelección [...]