" LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, set up in April 2005 to oversee the dismantling of old nuclear power stations, said on Thursday it would cost 65 billion pounds ($122 billion) to clean up civil nuclear sites. "The latest version of our...
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" BOSTON - The "Freshman 15" is more like 5 to 7, but it is followed by the "Sophomore 2 or 3," say researchers who led two of the largest and longest studies ever done of weight gain among college students. The research also showed that males piled on significantly more...
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"LONDON (AFP) - As rocketing property prices leave many struggling to buy, Britain's image as a nation of debtors was fuelled by a report that Britons hold a third of all unsecured debt in western...
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"Jack Neal briefly became the proud owner
of a pink convertible car after he managed to buy it for 9,000
pounds ($17,000) on the Internet despite being only three years
old."
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"LONDON, Sept 26 (Reuters) â Jack Neal briefly became the proud owner of a pink convertible car after he managed to buy it for 9,000 pounds ($17,000) on the Internet despite being only three years old.
Jack's mother told the BBC she had left her password for the eBay...
" LONDON (AFP) - US rap superstar Sean Combs must change his name once again after losing the right to call himself Diddy in Britain to a disgruntled little-known music producer. Combs, 36, who used to call himself Puff Daddy, Puffy and P Diddy, agreed to pay more than...
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" LONDON - London's luxury homes are now the most expensive in the world, experts say, with foreign buyers, salary bonuses and steady interest rates driving prices up in the capital's overheated property market. Prime residential property in London now costs around 1,200...
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Nationwide outrage over the prosecution of two Border Patrol agents for performing their duty. Rep. Walter Jones, Republican from North Carolina, added his voice by sending a letter to President George W. Bush expressing his own concern over the case.
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"should have been commended by our government for their actions last year in attempting to apprehend a Mexican drug smuggler who brought nearly 800 pounds of marijuana across our border."
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They were seeking up to 150 people, about half of them illegal aliens. They smuggled heroin from Mexico. They even offered phone-up home deliveries like a pizza shop.
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" BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israeli airstrikes pounded south Beirut and border crossings to Syria " /> SEARCH News | News Photos | Images | Web " /> Syria , killing at least 14 people across Lebanon as ground fighting picked up intensity in the south. Jets struck twice at a busy...
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" Twelve Palestinians, including a toddler, were killed on Wednesday as Israel pounded Gaza with air strikes and spearheaded a fresh incursion, one day after president Mahmud Abbas demanded a ceasefire. Nearly 130 Palestinians have now been killed in Israel's offensive in...
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" Israel pounded Beirut's southern suburb on Sunday, the fifth successive day of an offensive on Lebanon, with no sign that its attacks on the Hizbollah guerrilla group and civilian installations were near an end. Lebanon has repeated its demands for an immediate...
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"Ever wondered what old amounts of money would be worth today? Or what you could buy with your current salary if you went back 200, 400, or 600 years? Now you can find out with a tool that converts English currency from 1270 onwards into today's prices. Based on Treasury...
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