Jodie Bullock, daugter of longtime smoker Betty Bullock who died of lung cancer in 2003, has been awarded $13.9 million in damages by the cigarette company Phillip Morris. The recommendation was made on Monday, in the third trial between Bullock and Phillip Morris. Jodie...
Three Sierra Leone rebel leaders were convicted today of war crimes including murder, rape and sexual enslavement. Issa Sesay, Morris Kallon and Augustine Gbao were all thought to have ordered their troops to cut off opponents' hands or other limbs to get their hands on what...
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The Reverend Richard Hart, who became notorious in the UK after 56,000 images of child pornography were discovered on his computer, has today started his prison sentence. On the same day, a charity has used the opportunity to warn that child pornography is currently growing...
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" GRANVILLE COUNTY, N.C. – A team of about 20 friends, family, and volunteers continued combing parts of Stem and Granville County on Wednesday in search for Kelly Morris. The 28-year-old was last seen Sept....
Today, Wednesday, the 17th day of September 2008, marks the 221st anniversary of the signing of the Constitution for the United States of America by the nation's founders, and with the hope of forming a more...
"Yes, you read my title correctly. Today's New York Times includes an op-ed piece by Benny Morris, a Professor of Middle Eastern history at Ben Gurion University. He claims Israel will most certainly attack Iran...
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No, we don't mean Bill and Hillary. We mean the separation now under way between the Clintons and the Democratic Party. Like all divorces after lengthy unions, this one is painful and has had its moments of...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorYadda, Yadda, Blah, Blah, what else is new in Nancyville, BC. Crime is becoming so much White Noise to Citizens of BC and inept, clearly the most stupid Prison...
Fox & Friends New look, Megan Henderson "Megan Henderson, the Texas brunette beauty, is gracing our screen on Fox & Friends Weekend as a guest co-host in the center spot. (It appears that she is...
UPDATE: 12:35PM EST - April 4It has now been confirmed that members from three generations of the same family died in yesterday's fire in Pennsylvania - most of them were children.Investigators are still sorting...
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It's all starting to look like a protein shortage looming very soon...
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We know the meat industry is in trouble when sheep farmers start turning up from the UK to see what on earth is going on over here....
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Well, this is certainly a first. Seems a teenager decided to fly low over a high school football game and dropped a ball in the endzone. I wonder why kind of touchdown dance he did?"A teenager flew a small...
One of the main aims of this Iraq war was to help the people of this nation - to free them of their despair and suffering under the brutal regime of Sadam. The picture that has emerged is that again we have...
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A strange twist in the PR war that is now intensifying in the Middle East between the US and Iran. What does this signal?"Tehran - Iran started building a huge new cultural and sports complex for its Jewish...
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This is really awful. A woman's body has been found in the woods behind a well-known Kitsilano highrise condominium. The building is a landmark because it has olive panels on the outside and residents often cover...
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