"President Bush summoned Barack Obama, John McCain and legislative leaders to an extraordinary White House summit, warning Americans and Congress on Wednesday night that failing to act on a $700 billion financial industry bailout could lead to "a long and painful...
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Ouch.....the pain must be beyond words "These stomach-churning pictures capture what could be the most painful event of the Beijing Olympics so far.Hungarian weightlifter Janos Baranyai's first Olympics ended in...
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" Mikey was hit by a car, fracturing his upper front leg. Mocha had severe degenerative joint disease that affected his elbows, hips, knees and back. Doc had a painful ruptured disk, causing him to be unable to...
"Coming soon to the airline boarding pass clutched in your hot little hand: advertisements.Printing advertisements on the boarding pass is part of airlines’ continuing frantic search for new sources of revenue to offset higher fuel prices. Here’s betting it will be less...
Britons to be hit by a sharp drop in living standards....."Britons must steel themselves for a fall in living standards which could be as sharp and painful as in the 1970s, as the western world faces up to a new era of stagflation, a former Bank of England policymaker has...
A new craze is starting to take off in the world of extreme sports and intense fitness training. It's called 'tower running', and it involves running up hundreds of stairs in the world's tallest buildings in...
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About 1,000 people in the United Kingdom have already been treated for horrific burns from leather sofas sprayed with a toxic substance to stop them going mouldy. They bought these sofas from two different high...
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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...
Did they ever make Arachnophobia 2? If not here's a real-life movie script in the making." SYDNEY, Australia - A tiny Australian hospital is closing temporarily because of an infestation...
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"SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Yellow police tape and wooden barricades no longer block the entrance to Northern Illinois University's Cole Hall, but it remains empty nearly two months after a gunman killed...
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"A Papua New Guinea woman gave birth prematurely as she struggled to free herself from a hangman's noose, after villagers lynched her and her husband believing they were involved in sorcery, local media...
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A look at why we shirk the people we love."Cold winters can make early mornings painful, but lately I've had good reason to get up an entire 15 minutes earlier than required -- to avoid people I know and...
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"Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO - A 72-year-old San Rafael man has sued several major health companies, claiming the dyes used to scan his failing kidneys caused a rare, painful and incurable disease.
Peter Gerbe contends that injections of dyes containing the heavy metal...
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The level of hypocrisy here is staggering even by political standards:"WASHINGTON - The Justice Department under Alberto Gonzales's leadership issued a secret opinion in 2005 authorizing use of painful...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorOnly in Canada can Canadian Taxpayers get more for less, that being more higher paid civil servants to do less work, provide less services, less...