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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.
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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.
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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”.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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