Auto-Tune Martin Luther King Jr.
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Snowstorms Cause Travel Chaos In China
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3:12pm UK, Tuesday January 19, 2010 David Williams, Sky News Online Four people have died and more than 1.6 million have been affected by blizzards and extreme cold weather in northwestern China. [...]
Thom Yorke to co-host Radio 1 show
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Rex Features Thom Yorke has been confirmed to co-host a show on Radio 1 tomorrow night. The Radiohead frontman is due to appear on Gilles Peterson’s late-night programme. According to the BBC, Yorke and Peterson’s show will “join the musical dots – soul, hip-hop, house, Afro, Latin, dubstep, jazz and beyond”. The broadcast is due [...]
Suspected US drone kills 4 in Pakistan
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A suspected U.S. drone attacked a compound in Pakistan’s volatile tribal area Tuesday, killing four people as part of an unprecedented wave of strikes since a deadly attack against the CIA across the border in Afghanistan, said intelligence officials. Read more
Boxer may feel the heat after MA Sen race, but she’s raising good money
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If Scott Brown wins Tuesday’s Senate race in Massachusetts , eyes and dollars will head south — to Florida’s Senate race — and west to California. But CA Sen. Barbara Boxer has been fundraising at a… 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 [...]
In earthquake-ravaged Haiti, daunting challenges hobble relief efforts
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — The United States and other countries rushed more emergency stocks of aid and supplies to Haiti on Friday in an intensifying effort to resuscitate the earthquake-ravaged nation from a state of collapse. Read more
Gates, in New Delhi, encourages stability between India and Pakistan
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NEW DELHI — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Tuesday that it was “statesmanlike” of India to refrain from retaliating against next-door neighbor Pakistan after the 2008 Mumbai hotel attacks. But Gates said the United States was not directly involved in trying to broker peace between the two nuclear-armed rivals. Read more
In Leogane, Haiti, rebuilding starts with scavenging
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LEOGANE, HAITI — Townspeople say as many as 500 nuns, priests and students were crushed to death when the cream-colored walls of the Sainte Rose de Lima School collapsed in last Tuesday’s earthquake, a disaster that destroyed the emotional and physical centerpiece of this city. Read more
Venezuela’s Chávez Takes a Mighty Swing at Golf
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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 [...]
One year later: How Obama has learned to become a wartime commander in chief
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Through a haze of grief, Dona Griffin watched President Obama turn toward her, opening his arms to offer a hug. Read more
Kabul “under control” after brazen Taliban assault
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KABUL (Reuters) – Taliban gunmen launched a brazen assault on the center of Kabul on Monday, with suicide bombers blowing themselves up at several locations and militants battling security forces from inside a shopping center engulfed in flames. Read more
Haiti aid picks up, doctors fear disease risk
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The pace of food and medical aid deliveries picked up in earthquake-shattered Haiti, providing some hope to desperate survivors, but doctors worried disease would be the next big challenge for the tens of thousands left injured and homeless a week ago. Read more
US starts aid airdrops into Haiti
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The US military has begun airdropping food and water supplies into earthquake-hit Haiti. Read more
Universal Studios resort in SKorea to open in 2014 (AP)
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AP – Universal Parks & Resorts CEO Thomas L. Williams, second from right, and Kim Moon-soo, governor of Gyeonggi … Related Quotes Symbol Price Change GE 16.44 -0.26 ^GSPC 1,136.03 -12.43 By KELLY OLSEN, AP Business Writer Kelly Olsen, Ap Business Writer – 1 hr 28 mins ago SEOUL, South Korea – Developers of a Universal Studios theme park and resort in [...]
Help steps up, but so does scale of Haiti tragedy (AP)
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Play Video AP  – Survivors found 126 hours after Haiti earthquake Slideshow:Massive earthquake hits Haiti Play Video Video:Tensions rise as Haitians wait for help AP Play Video Video:UN survivor pulled from Haiti rubble Reuters AP – People try to capture water in buckets flowing from a broken water main in Cite Soleil, Port-au-Prince, … By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU and [...]
Rabbi raps Benedict over wartime Pope
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A Jewish leader told the Pope yesterday that his controversial wartime predecessor, Pius XII, should have protested more forcefully against Jews being sent to the “ovens of Auschwitz“. Read more
BA strikers to target Easter after being foiled at Christmas: Union threatens family holidays again
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Around one million passengers could see their travel plans ruined if the union organises a 12-day strike during the school holidays in April. Read more
World's Worst Earthquakes
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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 [...]
World's Worst Earthquakes
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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 [...]