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AN EPIDEMIC of suicides in one of France’s largest companies claimed another victim yesterday when a 51-year-old man threw himself from a bridge. He become the 24th France Telecom employee to take his own life in the past 19 months. Read more
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Archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled what they think are the remains of Roman emperor Nero\’s extravagant banquet hall, a circular space that rotated day and night to imitate the Earth\’s movement and impress his guests. Read more
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The Prime Minister made a last-gasp plea to the vital middle-class vote as he insisted he had not run out of steam and was a leader for the future. Read more
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MANILA, Philippines – Victims of floods in the Philippines trudged to crowded relief centres in search of food and clean water on Tuesday, as the government strained to distribute supplies, dig out the sprawling capital from under the mud and prevent looting. Read more
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When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and [...]
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When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and [...]
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday scored another term as her Christian Democratic Union party scored a resounding victory in parliamentary elections. The margin of victory — 33.5 percent — will allow Merkel to abandon the centre-Left Social Democrats (which got 22.5 percent) in her ruling coalition and ally with the pro-business Free Democrats (15 [...]
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The death of Lucy Vodden, the little girl name-checked in the famous Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” prompted WGN AM 720 newsman Steve Bertrand to remark/admit yesterday that he never, ever cared for that song. We all have popular songs we’re sick of, but Bertrand was touching on a stronger,  [...]
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2:03pm UK, Tuesday September 29, 2009 Typhoon Ketsana has hit Vietnam’s central coast – as the storm’s death toll in the Philippines rose to 246. A man walks along a highway as [...]
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Megan Fox has laughed off speculation that she once dated her Transformers co-star Shia LaBeouf. Read more
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Years of torment from young neighbors led a despairing single mother to kill herself and her disabled daughter, and police inaction contributed to the deaths, a British inquest jury ruled Monday. Read more
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Ex-Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiornia wasn’t at GOP confab this weekend (she has another week or so of radiation treatments for her breast cancer), but she had a table set up and signs all around. A hat… Read more
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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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CHICAGO. Sept. 28 — In the final days of Chicago’s quest to host the 2016 Olympics, President Obama is making himself a central player in the effort to bring the Summer Games to his adopted home town, raising the political stakes for the White House with no assurance that the Windy City will win. Obama [...]
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 28 — The Obama administration pledged Monday to increase humanitarian assistance to Burma and start its first detailed talks with Burmese authorities in an effort to build better relations with the reclusive military junta. Read more
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EL FASHER, Sudan — The volatility of this East African nation — from the Darfur conflict to the threat of renewed civil war in the south — is becoming a test of how President Obama will reconcile a policy of engagement with earlier statements blasting a government he said had “offended the standards of our [...]
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The Obama administration is laying plans to cut Iran’s economic links to the rest of the world if talks this week over the country’s nuclear ambitions founder, according to officials and outside experts familiar with the plans. Read more
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduras’ de facto government sent troops on Monday to shut down two media stations loyal to ousted President Manuel Zelaya, digging in to resist international pressure for his return to power. Read more
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TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran test-fired missiles on Monday which a commander said could reach any regional target, flexing its military muscle before crucial talks this week with major powers worried about Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. Read more
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Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said Americans should set aside any doubts about the commitment of other Nato members to the war in Afghanistan. Read more