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With a tragic beginning with the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili on a training run hours before the opening ceremonies, the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games came to an end tonight. Some of the good flashbacks to check out are from BBC Sport and the International Herald Tribune. Other memorable moments? Russia’s temper tantrum, [...]
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Vital Voice, a St. Louis publication aimed at the LGBT community, takes note of a bill from State Sen. Bill Brady, the likely GOP gubernatorial nominee, that will further underscore his identity as a cultural warrior: The bill would carve out exceptions to the (Illinois Human Rights) Act allowing certain employers and tax-exempt organizations [...]
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7:29pm UK, Monday March 01, 2010 Rob Cole, Sky News Online Ex-Bosnian president Ejup Ganic has been arrested at Heathrow Airport over alleged war crimes committed during the break-up of the former [...]
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Rex Features John Lydon has dismissed the Arctic Monkeys as a band stuck in the past and “not writing from the heart”. The former Sex Pistols frontman said that the Humbug rockers are making a “mockery” of real music by simply copying the style of groups that have come before them. He told Q: “That’s [...]
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Somalia’s main militant group has banned the United Nations food agency and ordered its aid workers to leave the impoverished country. Read more
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Attention Mike Murphy , Henry Gomez, Jeff Randle and the roster of political strategists and advisers behind the ” Meg Whitman for Governor” team. Democrat Jerry Brown has announced this week he’s got his… 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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FRANCE Basque separatist leader arrested The leader of the armed Basque group ETA was arrested in France on Sunday, officials said, in another setback for the separatists, who have seen five of their commanders taken into custody in the last two years. ETA chief Ibon Gogeascoechea and two other suspected separatists were arrested in a [...]
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SEOUL — In a full-page newspaper advertisement headlined “I Am a Bad Woman,” Hwang Myoung-eun explained the trauma of being a working mom in South Korea. Read more
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MIAMI — From down the hall, a high-pitched voice speaking Haitian Creole came booming into Clermond Junior’s little hospital room. 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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MARJA, AFGHANISTAN — More than 2,000 U.S. Marines and about 1,000 Afghan troops who stormed the town of Marja as part of a major NATO offensive against a resurgent Taliban will stay several months to ensure that insurgents do not return, Marine commanders said Sunday. Read more
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Four Afghan civilians were killed on Monday when a suicide car bomber hit a NATO-led convoy in southern Afghanistan, a hospital doctor and witnesses said. Read more
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CONCEPCION, Chile (Reuters) – A massive earthquake and tsunamis killed 350 people in one Chilean coastal town, doubling the total death toll on Sunday as the government tried to get aid to hungry survivors and halt looting. Read more
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Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has announced emergency measures to deal with the destruction caused by Saturday’s massive earthquake. Read more
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HONG KONG – Asian stock markets advanced Monday, with Hong Kong’s index up nearly 2 percent, after China said manufacturing continued to grow last month albeit at a slower pace. Read more
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Play Video AP  – Still images capture quake’s power Slideshow:Massive earthquake strikes Chile Play Video Video:Raw Video: Looting in Chile AP Related Quotes Symbol Price Change WMT 54.07 -0.08 ^GSPC 1,104.49 +1.56 ^IXIC 2,238.26 +4.04 AP – Rosa Neira, 36, stands in front of a damaged house after an earthquake in Pelluhue, some 322 kms, about … By MICHAEL [...]
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CONTROVERSIAL rules on prosecuting assisted suicide cases could lead to “back-door euthanasia” and must be fully debated, British MPs warned yesterday. Read more
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As a shock poll suggested Labour could still be in office after the election, the Tory leader admitted that Britain still had ‘big questions’ about him and his party. Read more
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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