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BEIJING – South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Wednesday described international talks as the necessary means to coax North Korea’s denuclearization, opening a narrow window for resuming long-dormant negotiations. Read more
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Police arrested five people on Wednesday suspected of planning a Mumbai-style attack to kill as many people as possible in a building housing a Danish paper that outraged Muslims in 2005 with cartoons of Prophet Mohammad. Read more
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – China has raised fresh international trade concerns after slashing export quotas on rare earths minerals, risking action from the United States at the World Trade Organization. Read more
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Five men have been arrested in Denmark and Sweden for planning to attack a newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, police say. Read more
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – China has raised fresh international trade concerns after slashing export quotas on rare earths minerals, risking action from the United States at the World Trade Organization. Read more
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) – A delegation of three West African presidents who met incumbent Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo on Tuesday to deliver an ultimatum to step down or face force left saying more meetings were needed. Read more
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ALMOST half of women are putting themselves at risk of cancer due to their bulging waistlines, experts warned yesterday. Read more
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As police revealed the landscape architect died from compression of the neck, David Yeates said: ‘Things were made just that little bit less terrible when we saw Jo’s body yesterday. Read more
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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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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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A tour bus on its way to the southern city of Aswan in Egypt crashed into a parked truck on Sunday, killing eight Americans and injuring at least 23 people. More from the Los Angeles Times: Read more
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Devoted fans of “A Christmas Story,” of which I’m one, won’t be shocked by the National Enquirer exposé on the film, but might be interested in following the link to the audio archives of the author, Jean Shepherd, who was a beloved radio monologuist. Flick’s Tongue (mp3 link), for instance, is said to contain the [...]
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1:34pm UK, Tuesday December 28, 2010 Ruth Barnett, Sky News Online A man found guilty of spying on Iran’s missile programme for the Israeli intelligence agency has been hanged. [...]
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ITV Dancing On Ice has been hit by the extreme winter weather, a report claims. The Mirror has said that the reality show’s new Surrey set was dismantled by the local council. Following an outbreak of snow in the UK, the council is thought to have needed equipment to cope with chaotic roads, leaving the [...]
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A man shot dead by police following an armed siege has been named locally as Alistair Bell. Read more
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Meet the world’s most unusual siblings — they missed being triplets by 11 years. The story of the medical miracle that led to the birth of Ryleigh Shepherd last month began in 1998, when her mother, Lisa, who had had trouble conceiving, underwent fertility treatments. Doctors collected 24 of her eggs, 14 of [...]
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Assemblywoman Fiona Ma has apparently heard a lot of outcry since she introduced a bill last week that would make raves illegal in California. Most of that feedback has not been positive, and some of it… 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… Read more
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What to do about Russia’s overwhelming advantage in tactical nuclear weapons was among several tough issues for the Obama administration that emerged from the Senate debate on the strategic nuclear arms reduction treaty. Read more
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NEW DELHI – A day after issuing a terror alert for the holiday week, police in India’s commercial capital of Mumbai launched a manhunt Friday for four terrorist suspects thought to have sneaked into the city. Read more