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President Jacob Zuma’s new government faces a tough ride as South Africa slides into recession amid mounting pressure from public servants demanding better wages, analysts say.
Growth figures released Tuesday shocked analysts, who had expected the...
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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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A serial killer who terrorised a rural community in the American south has been killed in a shoot-out with police in North Carolina.
He has been named as 41-year-old...
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* Vice minister sees dollar pre-eminence for years to come
* Idea of new reserve currency is ‘academic discussion’
* China appreciates U.S. govt efforts...
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Sarah Palin, the soon-to-be ex-Governor of Alaska, was rumoured to be fishing with her family yesterday, though firm information on her whereabouts was scant. So too...
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Is it the heat of recession that is stopping people from their presence in fashion shows? In the present scenario saving money has become more fashionable for majority...
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The hirings are part of a record-breaking influence campaign by the health-care industry, which is spending more than $1.4 million a day on lobbying in the current...
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Sprawled along the edge of a giant coastal wetlands area, John F. Kennedy International Airport shares airspace with thousands of birds _ many of which wind up as...
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Airplane collisions with birds have more than doubled at 13 major U.S. airports since 2000, and New York’s Kennedy airport and Sacramento International report the...
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The public is getting its first uncensored look at the government’s records of where and when airplanes have struck birds over the last 19 years, thanks largely...
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Government secrecy apparently won’t fly at the Transportation Department under the Obama administration.
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Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is scrapping a proposal by the Federal Aviation Administration that would make secret its data on when and where birds and airplanes...
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Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he intends to overrule the Federal Aviation Administration on its plan to keep secret data on where and when collisions between...
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Federal safety officials are objecting to the Federal Aviation Administration’s proposal to make secret its data on when and where collisions between birds and...
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A survivor of the US Airways jet that ditched in the Hudson River after the plane was struck by birds opposes a government proposal to make secret its data on when and...
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AP, Monaco
Hotel service in Monaco was limited and casino roulette wheels were expected to stop spinning Thursday as employees in the wealthy Mediterranean principality went on...
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In India, the sky always seems to reverberate with slogans of people on strike. Every now and then, one or the other department of the Government or a unit of the...
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A new wave of nationwide strikes by angry workers demanding that French President’s Nicolas Sarkozy do more to fight the economic crisis hit France on Thursday.
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The Pakistan government does not believe Taliban or al-Qaida officials have moved from the tribal border region to Pakistan’s southwestern-most province and would...
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Strikes that have nearly frozen everyday life on France’s Caribbean islands burst into clashes on Monday as police battled protesters angry at high prices and...
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Birds like those believed to have crippled a US Airways jetliner in New York have been a danger to aviation since the days of Orville and Wilbur Wright, so airports use...
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Recent cases of birds causing damage to U.S. commercial planes:
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India is presently faced with the challenge of containing terrorist and destructive elements. How should a nation behave in these troubled times? We, the Indians,...
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AP, Jerusalem
Israeli jet fighters have flown 500 bombing missions in its offensive against Gaza-based Hamas, a senior officer said Wednesday. There have also been hundreds of combat...
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The Washington state clemency board has recommended the release from prison of a purse-snatcher serving a life sentence under the state’s “three...
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In dramatic costumes dripping with fake blood, La Scala workers took to the stage to vent their frustration after the last three performances of “The Merry...
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FILE - In this Sept. 22, 1995, file photo provided by the U.S. Air Force a section of the Elmendorf Air Force Base runway 5 is seen in Anchorage, Alaska, after an E-3 AWACS jet collided with more than 30 Canada geese, causing a crash shortly after...
