" PROUD Lorraine Fleming had more reasons than most mums to shed a tear as she saw her son’s bride approaching in all her wedding finery. For bridegroom Reece was just eight years old — and getting “hitched” to his sweetheart Elleanor Pursglove was his last dying...
Head of a waxwork of Adolf Hitler's has been restored and it will be reinstalled at the Germany's Madame Tussauds . "A waxwork of Adolf Hitler will return to Berlin's new Madame Tussauds as soon as experts have restored the head ripped off by a demonstrator on its...
Carl Icahn's campaign to broker a marriage between "Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) just got a lot more complicated -- and expensive -- thanks to the search ad outsourcing deal Yahoo struck with Google late Thursday. According the deal's fine print, disclosed...
US decision of granting political asylum to former Bolivian defense minister Carlos Sanchez Berzain has unleashed big protest in the capital La Paz. Thousands of protestors demanded extradition of former defense minister who is accused of ordering...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorSomething is seriously wrong in our Society, when a life is worth more than a Loaf of Bread, as thousands demonstrate against the Egyptian Government rationing of flour,...
"Haitians stormed the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince to demand the resignation of Rene Preval, the country's president, while going on a rampage in the capital over soaring food prices. United Nations (UN)...
Police say around 3,000-4,000 people were gathered in East Lansing, Michigan on Saturday night after an attempt to re-start the Cedar Fest parties that were shut down in 1987 after the parties got too crazy.People...
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Everyone from monks in Tibet to George Clooney seems to be using the Olympics to bring attention to bear on China's extremely controversial human rights record.At least 600 monks were protesting in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, today and were tear gassed by police. This marks...
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"Trepidation over Wilders' anti-Islam film
by Michel Hoebink*
18-01-2008
Islam specialist Maurits Berger talks to RNW's Edwin Mooibroek (mp3)
Tensions are growing over the expected release of a film by Geert Wilders,...
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Adding more flames to the fire, a local television station published video of a Kenyan police officer allegedly killing a protester. According to one of my sources in Nairobi, the ethnic segregation has gotten so systemic in some parts of the country that bankers aren't being...
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Adding more flames to the fire, a local television station published video of a Kenyan police officer allegedly killing a protester. According to one of my sources in Nairobi, the ethnic segregation has gotten so systemic in some parts of the country that bankers aren't being...
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"Tuesday, December 11, 2007
By Billy Turner
ATLANTA -- A second examination of Reggie Bush's injured left knee by Birmingham orthopedist Dr. James Andrews confirmed the original diagnosis of a torn posterior cruciate ligament and Bush will miss the rest of the season, a...
I wonder if she would do the same for him in the case of an awkward zipper malfunction."They fly, they bike, they tour refugee camps — and they save each other from the occasional fashion disaster.
As Angelina...
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"Pakistani police placed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest Friday, uncoiling barbed wire in front of her Islamabad villa, and reportedly rounded up thousands of her supporters to block a mass protest against emergency...