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Facebook girl jailed after posing with machine gun as mobster’s moll

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Chloe Goodman was 17 when she posed with the replica Mac 10 in what looks like a school locker room as a friend stands back-to-back with her brandishing a similar firearm. Read more

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‘Tell no-one about your dead sisters ? or else’

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A North Carolina father sent his daughter to school for two weeks with a dire warning: Tell anyone about your two dead siblings at home, and I’ll kill you and your brother, too. She didn’t tell anyone. In fact, police said no one found out the children and their mother were dead until officers [...]

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Top 10 News Stories of '00s

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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

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World's Worst Wildfires

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Whether sparked by Mother Nature or by the carelessness or maliciousness of man, these fires have ripped across the Earth with alarming ferocity and deadly consequences. Read more

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Residency requirements: Yes, but only if the connection to job duties is strong

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The very stated justification for requiring certain municipal employees– including teachers — to live in the towns where they work has long been the thin argument that living in a community puts you better in tune with its needs and sentiments. Read more

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Moscow Attacks: The Faces Of The Bombers

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Rob Cole, Sky News Online The bloodied faces of the two female suicide bombers who attacked Moscow’s underground system have been revealed in a picture taken after the explosions. [...]

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Cheryl Cole ‘facing book dilemma’

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Rex Features Cheryl Cole cannot decide whether to include pictures of her estranged husband Ashley in her new book, a report has claimed. Yesterday, the X Factor judge announced that she is to release My World, a hardback collection of personal photographs charting the story of her life. According to the Daily Star, Cheryl is [...]

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Dutch appeals judges rule that Srebrenica victims’ relatives cannot sue UN in Hague court

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Relatives of Bosnian Muslims killed in Europe’s worst massacre since World War II lost another round Tuesday in their attempt to sue the United Nations for responsibility. Read more

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Dem AG candidate Kamala Harris aims to get out front on AB32

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In a move suggesting California’s greenhouse gases bill will become a central issue in the 2010 elections, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris — a Democratic candidate for State Attorney… Read more

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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 [...]

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Stem cells and strikes

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“How long does it take the average visitor to mention Tony Blair?” I asked the teacher at Fettes College who accompanied me a couple of weeks ago on my portrait shoot with student Iona Haig. “About as long as it took you…” she said, before listing a number of prominent – [...]

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Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms treaty to Congress by late April

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The Obama administration plans to send the new arms-control treaty package with Russia to Congress by the end of April, hoping for ratification by year’s end, officials said Monday as they laid out details of the proposed agreement. Read more

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World news roundup: Pakistani court orders government to reopen corruption cases

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PAKISTAN Corruption cases ordered reopened Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered the government on Monday to reopen a slew of corruption cases within 24 hours, including at least two against the president, escalating tension with the government. The two branches have been at odds since President Asif Ali Zardari was elected in 2008, and some analysts think [...]

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Haiti to release far-reaching spending plan to rebuild country

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UNITED NATIONS — Haitian President René Préval will unveil a $3.9 billion plan Wednesday to begin radically reshaping his country’s post-earthquake economy and infrastructure, according to a Haitian reconstruction action plan. Read more

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World Digest: Opponents of Venezuela’s Chávez jailed in crackdown

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VENEZUELA Chávez opponents jailed in crackdown Two foes of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez who had publicly criticized the socialist government in recent days found themselves in jail this week as part of a crackdown on opposition figures that has prompted alarm about the state of democracy in the oil-rich Latin American country. On Monday, former [...]

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Whooping cranes will be tracked with GPS units to study their habits and hazards

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WOOD RIVER, NEB. — Each dawn and dusk, numberless birds stopping here to feed on their migration north take to the air. Against the steel-colored sky they look like iron filings wheeling and milling to an invisible magnet. Read more

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In Iraq, candidates seek an edge with post-election maneuvers

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BAGHDAD — An Iraqi commission that removes government workers who are loyalists to the outlawed Baath Party announced Monday that it would contest the results of the March 7 parliamentary elections, a move sure to create further chaos in the aftermath of balloting that hardened Iraq’s sectarian divide. Read more

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Pirates seize Somalia-bound ships, others rescued

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Pirates seized a ship with 24 crew members off the port of Aden on Monday and Mogadishu traders said seven additional vessels headed for the Somali capital had been hijacked over the past two days. Read more

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Suicide bombers kill at least 38 in Moscow subway

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Two female suicide bombers killed at least 38 people on packed Moscow metro trains on Monday, stirring fears of a broader campaign in Russia’s heartland by Islamists from the North Caucasus. Read more

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Moscow vows to avenge bomb blasts

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The masterminds behind a double suicide bombing on the Moscow Metro will be “destroyed”, Russian leaders have said. Read more

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