Not surprising, but an interesting legal case. At what point is a gambling operator liable to the same degree that a bartender is?"A compulsive gambler has lost his bid at the High Court to force bookmaker William...
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Continuing signs of Sarkozy's troubles in the polls."Candidates looked to cut deals with adversaries in a bid for victory in next week's second round of French municipal elections after a first vote that sent a...
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"NEW YORK: The U.S. economy shed 63,000 jobs in February, the government said Friday, the fastest falloff in five years and the strongest evidence yet that the country is headed toward - or may already be in - a recession.
The unexpected decline raised expectations that the...
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Taylor Wimpey, the UK's second largest housebuilder, has revealed a £19.5m loss after its US business took a hammering from falling land values and house prices.
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"Once again the Dems with snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Selecting a naive far left candidate in OBama will ultimately do them in.
The prresidential race will come down to race and security.
Security first. Ultimately the case should or will be made that we must...
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GOP hired gun Ralph Nader began yet another presidential run thinly veiled to derail the Democrats this November."Consumer advocate Ralph
Nader, blamed by many Democrats for their loss of the White
House in the 2000 election, said on Sunday he is launching
another...
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"Thousands of sick bats have been found in caves in New York state. While bat experts do not know what is causing the bats' demise, telltale signs include weight loss and white fungus around their noses."
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"In spite of his wide stance defense that turned Idaho into a national joke, Sen. Larry Craig got people to their toe-tapping in feet to applaud the three-term Republican.
As if suffering from short-term memory loss, the party loyalists attending the Mini-Cassia Lincoln Day...
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Go Kirstie. You go girl. I mean, what else are you going to do? I don't think commercials and oddball acting gigs are going to pay for the pills...I mean the bills. And, how sweet, she's going to do it for the...
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The Australian Government has offered a formal apology for past mistreatment of Aborigines. Note: Also see our member sremmah3's earlier story on the speech. The Associated Press is working with NowPublic...
This story could very well have gone either way, so it's heartening to learn that Mr. Uribe is on the road to better health."The world's fattest man, according to the Guinness Book of Records, proudly announced...
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"The Siege is Broken
The Palestinian people took their destiny in their own hands today and smashed down the wall that divided Gaza from Egypt. Hundreds of thousands of people left their prison and walked into Egypt and bought up food, fuel and everything else in sight. It...
I'm sure this is just a natural heating cycle and has nothing to do with the massive amounts of garbage we're pumping into the atmosphere every day. After all, what's a few square million miles of water,...
"He has the advantage of being a white, Southern man in a contest with a white woman and a black man — a fact that he made the heart of his stump speech as he toured the state in the week after the New Hampshire primary."
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"The information watchdog is to grill the Ministry of Defence over its data protection policies after it lost the personal details of 600,000 people.
Defence Secretary Des Brown will also speak in the Commons next week about the latest loss of personal data, which went...