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Network Ten's fragile anchor Charmaine Dragun was renowned for her humour, inner strength and courage, her memorial service in Perth was told today.
The highly popular 29-year-old fell to her death at The Gap, in Sydney last week, after struggling with depression."
If you walk around any town in the UK this week you will find a large number of people wearing paper red flowers on their jackets and coats. These flowers, poppies, mark Remembrance Sunday, which is...
"Immigration detention is one of the fastest growing
forms of incarceration in the United States. Deaths in custody will
only increase if we neglect to care for people who are withering away
and dying unheard and...
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"PANAMA CITY, Panama –
Local officials are reporting that 42 people have died, almost all of them children, in an outbreak of a still unidentified disease in the remote Ñurum district of Panama’s...
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"At first glance, the photographs seem innocuous enough. Men and women in uniform lie back in deckchairs, listen to accordion music, decorate a Christmas tree.
Karl Hoecker and his dog, Favorit (courtesy United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
It seems like a carefree...
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UPDATE: The Iranian leader plans to go to Ground Zero on Monday at 10 AM with a Secret Service escort - over NYPD objections. (WABC-TV)Also: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney requested that the UN...
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9/11
I felt helpless and still do to a large extent when it comes to my reaction and the memory of Sept. 11, 2001. However, there is one thing I can do, and that is to pray. The New York Times’ Portraits of...
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Chief of Department Kevin MacCurtain along with Local 718 President Ed Kelly held a press conference yesterday at 1:30 regarding the tragic 4 alarm fire in West Roxbury that claimed the lives of two veteran...
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"The Duchess of Cornwall is to fly off for a Mediterranean holiday without Prince Charles. Sources say she will use the weeklong break to cool off after she had to pull out of tomorrow's memorial service for Princess Diana at the last minute.
Camilla was invited by William...
Two years on, and New Orleans is still a shadow of its former self. President George Bush promised to rebuild the city on his visit to New Orleans this week, but it appears too late to avoid the reported resentment that has built up amongst the depleted community.""People are...
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"A memorial service to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, will take place in the Northamptonshire church which serves her childhood home at Althorp.
The service will be held at St...
This news has not been made official by Police, but by the slain man's friends.August 22, 2007 Update on Paul Boyd, go to Story "Paul Boyd + Mental Illness+ Police= Tragedy""A group of friends who gathered at a...
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""Much as the rehabilitation of Grand Central Terminal has sparked the revitalization of midtown, the restoration and enhancement of Lower Manhattan's transportation system will accelerate the economic recovery of...
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Camilla cannot seem to shake off the ghost of Princess Diana. The Duchess of Cornwall aka Camilla Love-of -Prince Charles is naturally not really welcome to Princess Diana's memorial...unfortunate Charles once again is unable to grasp this simple fact! His kids the princes...
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Dr. Anita Borg (1949 - 2003) devoted her adult life to revolutionising
the way we think about technology and dismantling barriers that keep
women and minorities from entering computing and technology fields. Her
combination of technical expertise and fearless vision...
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