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THE family of convicted murderer Amanda Knox faces financial ruin after a court in Perugia ordered millions of euro in compensation be paid, including a lump sum to relatives of her British victim, Meredith Kercher. Read more
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she hasn\’t yet looked into the case of the American college student in Italy who was found guilty of murdering her British roommate. Read more
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Roger Day strode alongside 600 genuine war heroes wearing a beige SAS beret and a dazzling selection of 21 military medals and badges. Read more
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Police say an Arizona man died after parachuting from a 122m cellphone tower at night and hitting 12,000-volt power lines. Darrell Dunafon and two friends jumped from the tower about 50km south of Phoenix but Dunafon’s parachute became tangled in power lines. 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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Amazing and scary video via Nancy Nall: If you have just a moment, look at about 2:45 in this second video taken on the Illinois River: Read more
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11:23am UK, Sunday December 06, 2009 Adam Arnold, Sky News Online Russians are carrying out the grim task of identifying victims of a nightclub fire as the death toll rises to 112. [...]
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Olly Murs and Danyl Johnson are reportedly no longer talking to each other after nearly coming to blows in the X Factor house. Read more
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Romanians began voting Sunday in a hotly contested presidential runoff that could resolve almost two months of political crisis and unfreeze an international loan Romania needs to emerge from its worst recession since communism was overthrown in 1989. Read more
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Carly Fiorina is getting some national exposure Saturday after Senate GOP czar Mitch McConnell tapped her to give the GOP weekly Republican address today. Mitch’s assignment was to address the health care… 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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President Obama’s expansion of the war in Afghanistan meets the tests of strategic necessity abroad and political equilibrium at home. He can reasonably hope that his surge will buy time for things to improve, particularly in Pakistan, the war’s vital theater. Read more
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RUSSIA On TV, Putin hints at return to presidency Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday gave his strongest signal yet that he plans to return to Russia’s presidency, telling millions of TV viewers that he will consider running in 2012. The former KGB spy, who retains significant power despite formally stepping down in 2008 [...]
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RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN — Pine coffins were ceremonially placed on an army soccer field Saturday as Pakistan’s prime minister, army chief and other officials gathered to mourn three victims of a suicide attack at a military mosque Friday that killed at least 40 people and injured 80. Read more
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CARACAS, Venezuela — Every day, Pascual Cicenia plays golf on an emerald course that is 18 holes of tropical heaven in the middle of this chaotic city. He doesn’t take it for granted, he said, especially now that President Hugo Chávez has disparaged the sport as an elitist endeavor with few friends in his populist [...]
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MEXICO CITY — The subway here is a real deal, the cheapest in the world, at 15 cents a ride. But those days could soon be over as the city government plans to increase fares by 50 percent — to 3 pesos, or about 23 cents a ticket. Read more