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Members of the tea-party movement really hate to be called “teabaggers” because, as many of them have learned only recently, “teabagging” is a slang term for a sex act. Some critics of the tea-party movement enjoy calling them “teabaggers” — not to suggest that those in the movement practice this sex act (I rather [...]
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4:15pm UK, Wednesday February 10, 2010 Tim Hewage, Sky News Online A television news helicopter has crashed near a busy highway in Brazil’s largest city killing the pilot and seriously injuring a [...]
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Rex Features Lindsay Lohan has revealed that her ex-girlfriend Samantha Ronson never struck her following rumours that the two recently engaged in a physical brawl. The actress defended her former lover via Twitter against claims that the DJ was violent with her at a club in Los Angeles. “This is become a bit much. Samantha [...]
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Israeli aircraft are making daily incursions into Lebanese air space, creating a very dangerous situation, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said in an interview broadcast on Wednesday. Read more
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Peace has descended on Washington. Everything is stopped by the snow: the photo ops, media availabilities, faux press conferences, the jockeying, leveraging, posing, spinning, posturing whirl of talking heads and power seekers is quieted by the blizzard. 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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ATHENS — Europe scrambled for ways to prop up Greece’s crumbling government finances Tuesday, restoring some stability to this unlikely keystone of the global financial system and sending markets higher around the world. Read more
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BANGKOK — A court in Burma has sentenced Nyi Nyi Aung, a Burmese-born U.S. citizen, to three years in prison for using forged identity documents and carrying undeclared foreign currency. Read more
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — This was not the kind of stage Esceline Belcombe was accustomed to. She sang with sandaled feet planted deep in the dust of a footpath that cuts across a steep hill and turns down toward a river of tattered-cloth shelters. 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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TEHRAN — When Niloofar, a 24-year-old Iranian blogger and anti-government activist, sees people throwing stones at baton-wielding paramilitaries during opposition protests, she feels happy. “They are beating us,” she said. “So we are allowed to fight back.” Read more
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TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran believes a nuclear fuel exchange with the West is still possible, state television said on Wednesday, a day after the Islamic Republic’s expansion of uranium enrichment drew a U.S. warning of more sanctions soon. Read more
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TOKYO/DETROIT (Reuters) – Honda Motor Co said it would recall another 440,000 cars around the world for faulty airbags as rival Toyota Motor Corp faced further probes over its largest-ever safety crisis. Read more
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FROM OTHER NEWS SITES Financial Times* Honda airbag risk triggers global recall - 28 mins ago Citizen.co.za Honda airbag problem, 437,763 vehicles recalled - 34 mins ago AFP via Yahoo! Honda airbag recall adds to Japan auto sector woes - 39 mins ago Mail [...]
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SINGAPORE – Oil prices fell to near $73 a barrel Wednesday in Asia after a report showing unexpected growth in U.S. crude inventories cast more doubt on the recovery in the world’s biggest economy. Read more
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Parents of some of the children who 10 U.S. missionaries tried to take out of Haiti after its catastrophic earthquake told a judge Tuesday that they freely handed over their kids, the Americans’ lawyer said. The parents’ testimony means no law was broken and “we can’t talk any more about trafficking of [...]
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Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder is giving away every penny of his €3.4m fortune after realising his riches were making him unhappy. Read more
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The Aviva poll of more than 1,200 people warns that retirement is no longer the ‘golden years’, but ‘a worrying time of financial and social change’. Read more
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Defendant Scott Roeder leaves the Kansas courtroom. Photo / AP The convicted killer of a Kansas abortion provider has little sympathy for the family of his victim, comparing them to the relatives of a hit man in a recording posted online. In his first public comments since his trial [...]
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The news stories that shaped the first decade of the new millennium, from terrorism to natural and humanitarian disasters. (Note: These are not ranked in order of importance.) Read more