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Feb 3 2011, Sindhu Kamaraju

There is something common between Penelope Cruz, Aishwarya Rai and Cinderella apart from the great looks. Yes. Luscious locks, lustrous manes and flawless skin. Who doesn’t vouch for all those? Truth is, they are not just characteristic of the...

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Ruben Gonzalez, Reynosa
We are living an emergency situation in Tamaulipas…mainly at border cities like Reynosa, Matamoros and Nuevo Laredo but even at Tampico that is the most southern...
made popular Nov 24 2010
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Cutee Williams, Canada
Raising the dose of cholesterol-lowering drugs could prevent many more heart attacks and strokes, say researchers. increase ‘will save lives’
made popular Nov 10 2010
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
We’ve feared the worst, some of us said ‘no it could never happen’, we prayed for a happy outcome, but now we must face facts: legal marijuana has...
made popular Nov 4 2010
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Mexican soldiers and police officials have seized a whopping 105 tons of marijuana in the border city of Tijuana, the largest drug bust in the Latin American nation in...
made popular Oct 20 2010
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Sreeja, Mumbai
Close on the heels of the arrest of 88 students of Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies (SIMS) in Pune in Maharashtra on August 1 for attending late night...
made popular Sep 10 2010
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Laura, Birmingham
Gunmen armed with assault rifles stormed a shoe factory in Honduras, killing at least 18 people and wounding several others, police said. At least four men burst into...
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Mark, Mexico City
The kidnapped mayor of a northern Mexican town was found dead Wednesday, extending a rash of deadly attacks on political figures in an area besieged by drug gang...
made popular Aug 19 2010
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Oscar, Oaxaca
n 2006, an image made headlines showing a man sewn into a car seat in an attempt to illegally cross the Mexican/U.S. border. Now U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP)...
made popular Aug 6 2010
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Markus, Mexico City
Crossing from Mexico to the United States over the Arizona border is becoming ever more dangerous and July is shaping up to be the deadliest month in 10 years for...
made popular Jul 22 2010
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What could the Caribbean drug lord be thinking, known as one of the world’s most dangerous men by the USA be thinking now that Uncle Sam has a hold on him? Read...
made popular Jun 26 2010
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Marcus Brooks, des moines
*Taboo* Taboo means forbidden. A taboo is something barred, shunned or excluded by a society or a group. *Definition in a sentence* From Reconstruction to the...
made popular Jun 21 2010
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Nirav, Birmingham
At least two tonnes of cocaine with a street value estimated at $1bn has been seized in The Gambia, bound for Europe. In addition to the huge haul of drugs, the...
made popular Jun 9 2010
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Ela Singh Rathore, new delhi
The case of drug addiction among youth is the problem of prime concern.Students and teenagers have indulged in this heinous act and it is extremely impossible to...
made popular May 25 2010
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Doa, Mexico City
The former governor of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo has pleaded not guilty in New York to drug trafficking and money laundering charges. On Sunday, Mario Ernesto...
made popular May 13 2010
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Glenn, Ottawa
The lawyer for Canada’s so-called Prince of Pot said Monday that his client has been ordered extradited to the United States. Marc Emery has sold millions of...
made popular May 12 2010
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Pedro, Bogota
The government-backed candidate for the Colombian presidency, Juan Manuel Santos, admitted Sunday that during his university studies in the United States he smoked pot...
made popular May 3 2010
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Jacki, Los Angeles
This story is about as sad as it gets. 25-year-old mom Jessica Adams was hyped about her birthday. She had big plans — which namely involved going on a multi-day...
made popular Apr 23 2010
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G, Canberra
Mexico’s authorities say that two of the country’s most powerful drugs cartels have overcome their rivalry to form an alliance against a third. Nearly...
made popular Apr 13 2010
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Nearly three years after Mexico launched its war against the drug cartels, Gallup data show drug traffickers and gangs remain entrenched in many neighborhoods —...
made popular Apr 10 2010
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
An unidentified Saudi prince was recently stopped at the Beirut International airport after it was discovered he was carrying cocaine. The prince is believed to be the...
made popular Apr 2 2010
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Mark, Mexico City
Federal police have arrested Mexico’s “King of Heroin,” a powerful drug trafficker allegedly responsible for running thousands of pounds of heroin...
made popular Mar 26 2010
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Shane, Kansas City
Police arrested Angela Blackwell on charges that she allowed 67-year-old Johnnie Griffin have sex with a 10-year-old girl in her care in exchange for cocaine. Police...
made popular Mar 25 2010
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When their kids turn 12, parents are concerned about peers pressuring them to smoke cigarettes, drink and use drugs, but it turns out 12-year-olds are doing something...
made popular Mar 15 2010
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Departed’ is the best film to be made on police corruption and the drug trade in recent years (it is based on a South Korean...
made popular Mar 12 2010
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
I normally do not care about ’stars’ and even less about their troubles, but this story caught my attention: Turkish police detained Tarkan, the country’s...
made popular Mar 6 2010
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Aaron, Helsinki
Police have busted a gang of youth who distributed at least seven kilos of cannabis in Kokkola, western Finland. The street value of the drugs is around 140,000...
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Richard, Bogota
Two Colombian police were killed and five others wounded Thursday in an ambush by leftist FARC rebels in the southwestern province of Cauca, authorities said.
made popular Feb 26 2010
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Bijoy Ranjan Dey , tinsukia
If International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) , regulatory body overseeing the usage of drugs is to be believed, very soon India would get this sobriquet. The rampant...
made popular Feb 26 2010
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Philip, Nairobi
I had a flashback the other day when I was looking at photographs from Haiti of 15-year-old Fabianne Geismar, shot dead in the head after stealing wall hangings from a...
made popular Feb 24 2010
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
America’s revolutionary independence from the British Empire was sparked in part due to opposition to British-levied taxes (for the purposes of paying off British...
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Korey, Houston
Police seized one ton of cocaine apparently bound for Mexico and hidden in the panels of a truck on a highway in the northwestern Colombian province of Cordoba,...
made popular Feb 11 2010
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Can anyone say the War on Drugs is working? Is it reasonable to think drug trafficking can be terminated while demand runs endlessly? Is it even possible supply and...
made popular Feb 10 2010
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Jack, Los Angeles
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says a U.S. military plane entered Venezuelan airspace and was met by his military’s F-16s, which escorted it out.
made popular Jan 11 2010
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Jamie, Manchester
Contaminated heroin may have caused an anthrax outbreak among drug addicts in Scotland, killing six people and infecting 12 in total, health officials said Thursday.
made popular Jan 8 2010
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Domonique, Washington
Caribbean islands battling drug-fueled crime had one of their bloodiest years on record in 2009, with Jamaica, the Bahamas and Puerto Rico hitting or coming close to...
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Mark, Mexico City
Reporting from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico — The mayor had good news: A notorious thug from one of the drug cartels had been found...
made popular Dec 31 2009
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Six Mexican forensics experts have been suspended for allegedly altering the crime scene after the killing of top drugs cartel boss Arturo Beltran Leyva.
made popular Dec 30 2009
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Shane, Mexico City
The streets of Laredo are awash in money, stacks of grimy bills tainted with cocaine residue, wrapped in plastic and stowed in secret compartments built into the...
made popular Dec 29 2009
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Chad, Tempe
At first, Luis F. Alarid seemed well on his way to becoming a customs agency success story. He had risen from a childhood of poverty and foster homes, some of them...
made popular Dec 18 2009
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Blake Taylor, 19, poses for a photograph on the campus of University of California in Berkeley, Calif., Friday, April 24, 2009. Taylor has been on medication since he was diagnosed with ADHD at age 5.