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What started as a killer swine/bird/human mystery flu in Mexico city last week and spreading first throughout the nation, then the continent, and now globe is slowly beginning to ebb.
Mexico City was first to suspend all schools,...
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Costa Rica is the greenest and happiest country in the world, according to a new list that ranks nations by combining measures of their ecological footprint with the...
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Parents were banned from attending an inter-school sports day to protect pupils from kidnappers and paedophiles.
The host school said they could not prevent...
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Human Rights Watch said Friday that Zimbabwe’s armed forces have taken over diamond fields in the east and killed more than 200 people, forcing children to search...
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The candidacy of Mario Anguiano, running for governor in a state election here Sunday, says a lot about Mexican politics amid the rise of the drug cartels.
A brother...
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United States Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on...
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Very few like me have a gut feeling that BJP will come back. It was a painful experience to witness rise and fall of a substitute to family-run congress. Congress which...
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Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal....
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The African Union refused to act on an international war crimes warrant for Sudan’s president, at a summit that also yielded a deal on the powers of a new...
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The latest two-yearly study of the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission damningly reveals that indigenous children are six times more likely to suffer...
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Thirty-one teenage boys have died from complications after botched traditional circumcision rites in South Africa’s rural Eastern Cape region, officials said on...
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From Angela Merkel to Barack Obama, few have emerged unscathed from his peculiar brand of music hall humour, adolescent japes and sexist quips.
As Italy prepares to...
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The crown of the famed New York Statue of Liberty will reopen tomorrow for the first time since September 11th, 2001, and what better day than the celebration of...
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American nuns could be said to have their habits in a twist in the face of two investigations by the Vatican into whether they have come to espouse lifestyles and views...
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The Jackson family has decided to hold a memorial for their late son at Los Angeles’ Staple Center. Jackson died last week from what was probably a strong...
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Days before a historic visit of the US President to Russia gambling was narrowed just to four geographical areas of a country, far away from capitals and significant...
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In Penitents Compete (Tovbekarlar Yarisiyor in Turkish), religious leaders will seek to convert at least one of the 10 atheists in each episode to their faith. Those...
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Iran’s nuclear threat was never in doubt during its presidential campaign, but the post-election resistance raised the possibility of some sort of regime change....
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Besides blocking access to food and construction to Palestinians in the Gaza Stripe - and even to a lesser degree in the West Bank - Israel also prevents Palestinians...
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As many as 41 security personnel have been killed after their military helicopter fell down in Feroz Khel area, bordering the Orakzai and Khyber agencies, yesterday...
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For all the complaints from American right-wingers that the European Union is a nation of appeasers whom do not stand up to thuggish regimes, the EU is actually more...
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Fear of swine flu is a good reason to wash your hands, but not to take pork off the menu.
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Fear Alma - again. F.E.A.R., the seminal classic shooter, revitalised a tired FPS genre with a great mix of horror, gunplay and Matrix style slow-motion action...
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To celebrate the launch of F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is hosting its Whatisfear live event on Thursday 12th February 2009 at a...
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AP, Detroit
Fear of more plant closures and other cuts that are likely to cost thousands of jobs is spreading through General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC as the companies...
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AP, Washington
The growing intensity of public fear and anger has caught Washington and Wall Street by surprise.
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I watched a movie the other night about terrorism and it got me thinking about the causes that lead people and organizations to follow such act. Is it a retaliation to...
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Since taking office on Dec. 1, 2006, Calderon has sent more than 40,000 soldiers to battle drug trafficking across Mexico. So much has been said, and not said,...
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The world police at times creates fear in the minds of people. We are so used to picturing them taking bribes and favoring the rich or the bad guy that we hesitate in...
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Fear is the true root of all mishap.
A creator of victims, that starts as a
small spark of insecurity.
Igniting our frame with the doubt of ourselves
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AP, Nara
Masayuki Miura’s restaurant is radically out of step with modern Japanese tastes. No Australian beef hamburgers, no mountains of fried Brazilian chicken, no...
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Be it America, Pakistan or India, every country has people we all say is a common man and in their day to day life they come across things that needs a tigers heart to...
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AP, Nogales
The recent spate of drug-related killings in Nogales, Mexico, is driving apart what have long been close-knit communities, discouraging some residents of its Arizona...
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Funny world, funny ideas, funny life. In this afternoon as the sun is shining high in the sky and life approaches another lovely December I see the news channels...
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Daddy, I don’t want to die. Why is the world so ugly, why do they want to kill us, what did we do?
Can someone tell me how to respond to this? Can someone...
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AP, Washington
Fear and loathing is spreading as signs mount that the economy is in danger of losing its balance.
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AP, New York
Fear of the government in some communities after the Sept. 11 attacks and years of debate over immigration policy could create problems in getting an accurate count of...
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AP, New York
Fear swept across the financial markets Monday, sending the Dow Jones industrials down as much as 705 points, after the financial bailout package failed the House.
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AP, Nashville
As anxiety on Wall Street led banks and other investors to hoard cash last week, a different kind of market fear gripped cities across the Southeast.
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Run! Run!! Bomb scare!! These words caught mine and my husband’s attention on Saturday. Shopping peacefully and enjoying every moment of it at Lajpat Nagar market, we...
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A Pakistani soldier guards suspected militants in Pakistan’s troubled Swat valley, Thursday Dec. 4, 2008. Taliban militants are beheading and burning their way through the Swat Valley and now control most of the picturesque northwest region once dubbed...
