Arrests at new Iranian protests
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Iranian riot police are reported to have arrested a number of pro-reform protesters in Tehran after demonstrations turned violent. Read more
Bernanke says Fed can take on supercop role (AP)
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Play Video AP  – Bernanke: Problems will remain through 2011 Slideshow:Ben Bernanke Play Video Video:The Fed’s Exit Strategy CNBC Related Quotes Symbol Price Change ^DJI 8,915.94 +67.79 ^GSPC 954.58 +3.45 ^IXIC 1,916.20 +6.91 AP – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivers a report on the country’s economic and financial health … By JEANNINE AVERSA, AP Economics Writer [...]
AP IMPACT: Mexican drug cartels expand abroad (AP)
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GUATEMALA CITY – Guatemalan drug boss Juan Jose “Juancho” Leon was summoned by Mexican traffickers for what he was told was business. Instead, dozens of attackers ambushed his entourage with grenades and assault rifles, killing Leon and 10 others in a brazen demonstration of power. Mexican drug traffickers are branching out as never before — [...]
Baboons make monkeys of tourists
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A leading visitor attraction has developed its own Asbo scheme because of worsening problems with local vandals. Read more
Man Catches Fire After Being Tasered
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A man whose relatives say had been sniffing gasoline burst into flames after a police officer Tasered him as he ran at officials carrying a container of fuel, police said Tuesday. Read more
Fears for low-cost flights as Ryanair slashes passenger numbers from Britain for first time
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The 40 per cent cut in operations from October indicates the depths of the aviation recession, which is leading to forecasts that there will be 10 million fewer passengers in the UK this year and which could cost 10,000 jobs in the airline industry. Read more
Gangland widow calm over murder charge
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Gangland widow calm over murder charge 5:19PM Tuesday Jul 21, 2009 MELBOURNE – She’s charged with her brother-in-law’s murder, but gangland widow Judy Moran was all smiles at her court appearance on Tuesday. Pursing her deep red lips, she beamed and waved to her legal representatives like a benevolent grandmother, seemingly unperturbed by [...]
France's Worst Serial Killers?
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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 [...]
France's Worst Serial Killers?
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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 [...]
Breathing a Bit Easier in Turkey
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It’s so California — or EU, actually, a body that the Turkish Republic fervently hopes to join. But banning smoking in indoor establishments may not be so easy to accept for a country where half of the men light up. The ban went into effect today in the country that is the 10th largest consumer [...]
Sidewalk activism `strangling progessive politics’ one disillusioned employee at a time
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Do you have a minute to learn more about the people who stop you on the sidewalk to ask if you have a minute to learn more about their good cause? Read more
Swine Flu: UK Kids Freed From China Hotel
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7:58am UK, Tuesday July 21, 2009 Eighteen British schoolchildren and three teachers have been released from a hotel in Beijing after being quarantined for suspected swine flu. The children were quarantined in [...]
Three more added to ‘Emmerdale’ cast
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Former Coronation Street actor Chris Bisson is to head up a new trio of entrepreneurial siblings in Emmerdale. Jai, Nikhil and Priya Sharma – played by Bisson, Torchwood‘s Rik Makarem and Hollyoaks: In The City‘s Effie Woods respectively – are to take the helm managing the new local confectionary factory. Speaking of his new role, [...]
Serb cousins guilty of burning more then 100 Muslims alive
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A U.N. tribunal convicted two Serb cousins Monday of having burned alive more than 100 Muslims in what the presiding judge called a part of the “wretched history of man’s inhumanity to man.” Milan Lukic and Sredoje Lukic were convicted of crimes dating back to the early 1990s, during the bitter ethnic conflict that ravaged [...]
NATO: 4 US TROOPS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN
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Boxer’s D.C. dustup “racial”? Start with the color green
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If you heard about an exchange at a Senate climate change hearing last between Sen. Barbara Boxer and Henry Alford, the head of the Black Chamber of Commerce, the headline-grabbing words were Alford… Read more
Staying at the Basra ‘B&B’
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It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private [...]
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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 [...]