" Mon Mar 23, 2009 4:29am GMT LONDON (Reuters) - A quarter of government databases in Britain should be scrapped or redesigned because they are fundamentally flawed and probably illegal, a report from a social...
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A bomb disposal squad officer, center, takes a suspicious box to the police station after diffusing a bomb at Chhatrapati Shivaji train station in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008. Police on Wednesday...
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"A judge denied a request Friday to toss out two civil charges against a group of defendants accused of running a fictitious foreclosure-prevention company, said a district attorney prosecutor.Five people who ran a Carlsbad business were arrested in May on charges of...
Update 2: 8/29/08 -- It may be encephalitisUpdate 8/27/08 -- 35 more have died""“We really don’t know what exactly it is; we are depending on the finding of a team of specialists from New Delhi.”...
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A big blow for the Scottish club, no European football for them this year, with no Uefa cup parachute in this round, they will lose a significant amount of money from this, a total contrast to the Uefa Cup...
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"Reborn Baby" artist Deborah King's skills at their best expression as she reproduces babies into look alike dolls at her home in Fountainhall, near Edinburgh, Scotland. Proud parents around the world...
People in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will find their ability to get local services greatly hampered today as thousands of council staff go on strike over pay. The strike will close libraries, stop rubbish collection and close schools and town halls. It will last...
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" A new analysis of volcanic glass recovered from the moon decades ago found the rocks contain traces of the constituents of water, challenging a long-held notion that the moon is perfectly...
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"by David Hammer, The Times-Picayune Friday June 13, 2008, 11:23 AM In the first Road Home fraud indictment in the New Orleans area, a woman was charged Friday with stealing a $132,000 Road Home check for an Uptown home she didn't rightfully own. "
Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle have developed a new type of robotic fish which moves through the water as a real fish does: with fins. Such locomotion makes the mechafish more...
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"He wasn't even there but he did overshadow the Bachchans- the Mega Family of Bollywood. There were many who doubted the integrity of the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA Awards). IIFA is too close to...
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This week's crafty news, collected here just for you. Short and sweet this time, as I've spent much of the weekend at the studio, and am home only to eat, shower (maybe), and pet the turtles. Here we go:Crafty...
"JERUSALEM — Israel's powerful defense minister on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to step down amid a burgeoning corruption scandal and said he would bring down the government if the...
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"Sanjay Jha has been appointed South Asia Bureau Chief at NowPublic. He will be based in Delhi, where he would be reporting on Indian and South Asian affairs. NowPublic is a participatory news network that...
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Very frightening to think what was averted in this case."An 18-year-old South Carolina student was in jail Sunday after he collected bomb-making supplies, including ammonium nitrate, in a plan to attack his high school, authorities said. Ryan Schallenberger was arrested...