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Hobson Yahoo buys itself some cool with Tumblr deal
Yahoo announced the acquisition of the blogging site Tumblr , after the Yahoo board approved the $1.1 billion purchase on Sunday. The Tumblr acquisition is said to be part of Yahoo CEO Marissa ...
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Lotto winners with tragic story thank guardian angel
Isn't it funny how so many of the lottery winners are about to lose everything!! Buying lottery tickets is probably one of the reasons, along with the other foolish ways they spend money. I get sick of hearing ...
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Eight Dead In Daghestani Car Bombings
Two car bombs have exploded with deadly effect in front of the Court Bailiffs' Directorate in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Daghestan. Daghestan's Interior Ministry officials say nobody was hurt when the first car exploded near the building. However, a second blast hit 15 minutes after the first explosion, killing at least eight people. ...
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Lawmakers Urge Kyiv Mayor To Ban Gay Parades
Sixty-one Ukrainian lawmakers have signed a petition urging Kyiv's mayor to ban a gay-pride parade in the Ukrainian capital scheduled for May 25. Ukraine's Family Movement leader Pavlo Unhuryan, who is also a parliamentary, announced on May 20 that the petition requests a total ban on gay-pride parades "and similar events in Kyiv in May-June 2013." The petition states ...
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Gunmen Attack Pakistani Polio Team Kill Policeman
Pakistani officials say gunmen attacked a polio vaccination team in the country's northwest, killing a policeman who was escorting the health workers. The group was assaulted on May 20 in the Bajur tribal area, one of Pakistan's seven tribal areas along the Afghan border. A local official said more than 600 teams are taking part in the latest campaign in Bajur to vaccinate ...
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Have fun with fennel
This week's flavor is fennel, and young chef Itzik Asulin of the Italian trattoria Lulu Kitchen and Bar in Neveh Tzedek suggests using this aromatic vegetable to add freshness and flavor to a light seasonal ...
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Hashimoto’s sex comments rejected - poll
Tokyo - A large majority of Japanese people disagree with a high-profile politician who said women forced to provide sex during World War 2 were a military necessity, according to polls issued on ...
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Steven Rolfe Ex-soldier told to repaint his St Georges flag front door by housing association after it was deemed offensive and distressing
Steven Rolfe painted the red and white colours of the English flag upon on his rented home in 2003 but was told ten years later he had to cover it up as it could be considered ...
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Montys return Pictures emerge of Field Marshal Montgomery visiting pivotal El Alamein battlefield 25 years after he defeated the Germans
The candid images show Montgomery as an old man setting foot at El Alamein in Egypt to mark the anniversary of the Allies' first major triumph against Germans in World War ...
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Kate Middleton does a Marilyn Gust of wind that lifted Duchess of Cambridges dress
But windy weather and her flimsy outfit had other ideas. Kate was left red-faced after the gusts lifted up ...
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Suspected drink driver 41 sexually assaulted policeman while offering him and a colleague a threesome
Celina Hodge, 41, groped a police officer's groin and buttocks while offering him and a colleague a threesome as they tried to give her a breath ...
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Grandmother 71 died of dehydration at care home because of gross neglect by staff
Norma Spear, 71, died in Moseley Hall Hospital on November 6, 2011, three days after she was admitted from Druids Meadow residential home in Highter's Heath, ...
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Law firm faces paying out to trainee lawyer denied a permanent role because she became pregnant
Trainee lawyer in line for payout after being denied a permanent role at City firm which discriminated against her over pregnancy in final stages of ...
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Cyprus-style crash could hit independent Scotland because banking sector is 1250 bigger than its economy Treasury warns
If Scotland goes it alone its banking sector would be 1,250% bigger than its national economy, leaving the government powerless to act in the event of a financial ...
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Social worker who cared for disabled people sues NHS after a bungled hip operation left him permanently paralysed
The grandfather, who had spent years working with disabled people, asked staff not to use an epidural to numb the area because he was aware of the risk of spinal ...
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Engineers shock as he finds nest of SNAKES in cable box
The engineer found a nest of what he believed to be snakes when he opened the Virgin cable box to investigate interference with television, internet and telephone ...
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Furious Tory grandees will quiz PMs friend on claims he called party faithful swivel-eyed loons
Embattled Tory chairman Lord Feldman faces a showdown with furious party grandees today over claims he described grassroots activists as ‘mad, swivel-eyed ...
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Hezbollah Suffers Losses in Fierce Battle for Syrian City
BEIRUT, Lebanon ...
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Uproar in France over move for more English at universities
A proposal to introduce more courses in English and other foreign languages at French universities is set to be debated in parliament from Wednesday amid concerns it will undermine the country's soul and ...
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6.8-magnitude quake strikes off Chile USGS
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Chile on Monday, the US Geological Survey said, with no immediate tsunami warning issued or reports of casualties or significant ...
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Do you know your Dakar from your Dhaka Airline mix-up sends couple 7000 miles off-course to wrong continent
All irritating, no doubt; but spare a thought for US couple Sandy Valdiviseo and her husband Triet Vo who ended up 7,000 miles from their destination after an airport code mix-up.The couple had planned to fly from Los Angeles to Dakar, Senegal, but instead found themselves 7,000 miles away in Dhaka, Bangladesh, after their carrier mixed up the airport codes.The bizarre situation resulted in a ...
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Justin Bieber Tops Elton John On Singles List
Justin Bieber's Baby has become the highest-certified single in music history, overtaking Sir Elton John's tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales. The teenage pop star's hit climbed above the double-sided Candle In The Wind/Something About The Way You Look Tonight after the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) changed the way it measures gold and platinum ...
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Iran electoral watchdog hints at Rafsanjani rejection
Iran 's electoral watchdog said on Monday it would bar physically feeble candidates from running for president, in an apparent hint that it could disqualify 78-year-old former ...
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Car bombs kill eight in Russias Dagestan investigators
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - Two car bombs exploded in the capital of the Russian province of Dagestan on Monday, killing at least eight people and wounding about 20 others, investigators ...
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Firefighter missing in massive Dallas condo fire
DALLAS Emergency responders have been searching for a Dallas firefighter who reported by radio being trapped while battling a six-alarm blaze at a condominium complex. Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans says the search continues for the firefighter unaccounted for in the blaze still burning early Monday. Officials have not discussed that firefighter's condition, or if he is able to ...
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London bike sharing a success
London in July of 2010 became one of over 44 cities in the world to introduce an aspect of communal consumerism into its public transport system with the implementation of a bike-sharing network and just ten weeks later had recorded over 1 million trips taken, proving the initiative to be feasible and sustainable.
Bike-sharing has been around since as early as the 1960s when the first community bike-sharing scheme was introduced in the Netherlands, but it lacked formal sharing systems and was overly-reliant on the good nature of the public, leading to mass theft, which ultimately destroyed the system. Read more
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