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Ricky Ponting, the Australian captain, may not be known to be generous towards his opposition on the field. But he has a heart for those suffering from childhood cancer for whom he will let his bat talk.
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The Los Angeles police chief has raised the prospect of a homicide charge over the death of Michael Jackson.
Homicide does not necessarily mean murder — it could...
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Recently, an Army National Guardsman and Arabic translator who openly challenged the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, was...
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The aunt of a soldier killed in Afghanistan has joined Charles Krauthammer and Bill O’Reilly in decrying the media coverage surrounding Michael Jackson’s death. Her...
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Bill O’Reilly needs a hug. But who will oblige him?
The Fox News point man needs a hug so desperately that he runs the risk of losing his sanity.
All those in show...
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I really regret for not covering this one in atypical housing. The portable at the Lakeshore Catholic High School definitely deserved to be there for a reason or two....
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Police have charged four people in connection with an alleged scheme to dig up graves at a Chicago cemetery in order to resell the plots.
Bones from more than 100...
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It has been touted as a successful treatment for everything from insomnia and depression to Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis. Now supporters of...
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Two gay men kissed at a Chico’s Tacos restaurant, prompting guards to eject them and a police officer to endorse their ouster.
Civil-rights lawyers say the...
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U.S. and South Korean computer networks were besieged for days by a series of relatively unsophisticated attacks, possibly from North Korea, that were among the...
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“We got 30 minutes!” It was 1:30 P.M., half an hour before the start of the commercial salmon-fishing season in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and I was sitting on...
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Google is to launch a new operating system, in its most direct challenge yet to the dominance of Microsoft.
Google Chrome OS will be a development of its Chrome web...
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“I just wanted to say, Ever since I was born, daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine, And I just wanted to say I love him so much”.
A...
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During the First World War, his father, Ezeobidi, was drafted to fight for the British crown as a militia in the Cameron. Ezeobidi was conscripted because he had nobody...
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A study conducted by the New Economics Foundation using the Happy Planet Index determined that Costa Rica is the greenest and the happiest place in the world. The HPI...
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President Obama today offered to scrap plans for a missile defence shield in Eastern Europe if Russia helped to stop Iran developing a nuclear bomb.
He appealed in...
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We’re just minutes away from the Michael Jackson Memorial of the Century, which we understand will cost Angelenos their public swimming pools and the 710 bus line,...
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Many were stunned by the abrupt resignation of Alaska Republican Governor Sarah Palin over the weekend. While she says legal troubles are not the primary reason for her...
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Michael Jackson ‘happened’ to me twice—in life, and near death!
By: Rajbir Deswal
I am more amazed at my association (?) with Michael Jackson who I didn’t...
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As Russian-American summit is going ahead fruitfully these days in Moscow where participants, according to President B. Obama ,are “committed to leaving behind the...
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Their bags were packed. Their farewells had been said.
Like the rest of the British 38th Regiment Royal Engineers, Mark Quinsey and Patrick Azimkar had shed their...
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American Deena Kastor has pulled away from the field to win her first race since breaking her foot in the Olympic marathon, winning the 10-kilometer Great Edinburgh Run...
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It’s a challenge, all right.
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Thomas Dold of Germany and Suzy Walsham of Singapore have repeated as winners of the Empire State Building Run-Up in New York City.
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Thomas Dold, of Germany, poses for photographers with his trophy after winning the men’s division of the Empire State Building Run-Up, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009 in New York.
