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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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It’s been days of riots in France as striking workers have protested — and burned cars and tires against, and smashed storefronts, and blocked roads to airports, and stopped deliveries of gas to fueling stations — in opposition to a government proposal to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. Put it this way: [...]
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“Once you cede power to an invisible force for which there is no evidence—whether it’s Jesus or Allah or a dead child—you cede power to other human beings who can then claim to use those invisible forces against you. It licenses charlatanry.” Read more
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2:26pm UK, Sunday October 31, 2010 Pete Norman, Sky News Online The hand-picked candidate of Brazil’s hugely popular outgoing president is poised to replace him as voters cast ballots in the run-off [...]
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ITV Cheryl Cole has heaped praise on Cher Lloyd’s performance on last night’s X Factor. Lloyd sang Shakespeare’s Sister’s ‘Stay’ on the Halloween special and broke down in tears at the end of the song. Speaking on The Xtra Factor about her act, mentor Cole said: “I think it was a really important that she [...]
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The hand-picked candidate of Brazil’s hugely popular president is poised to replace him as leader of Latin America’s biggest nation when voters case ballots Sunday in a runoff election. Read more
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HANOI — Russia and Vietnam signed a deal yesterday, worth an estimated $5.6 billion, for the Southeast Asian country’s first nuclear power plant. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev witnessed the signing, part of an effort to boost ties with his country’s former Soviet-era communist ally. Vietnam wants to build eight nuclear facilities in the [...]
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Carly Fiorina campaign manager Marty Wilson just threw out his Election Night prediction. Forget the polls turning against GOP Senate candidate Carly , including the latest Field Poll . … Read more
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Farmer Darrell Anderson burns whins in the hills on the outskirts of Menstrie in Perthshire. Fires are lit to clear undergrowth so that lambs don’t get trapped. I had hoped that this silhouette might work with a piece about the odd rural consituency of Ochil and Perthshire south, in which Gordon Banks is defending a [...]
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MOSCOW – In Russia, the greased palm has overtaken the strong hand. For the past decade, Vladimir Putin, now the prime minister, has been building a tightly centralized, practically unaccountable political structure – a structure that tolerates and is highly susceptible to corruption. But now that corruption appears to have expanded beyond the Kremlin’s control. [...]