London mayor Boris Johnson has said that he thinks the UK should start building "first-timers only" prisons. so that people who have committed only their first crime don't mix with repeated offenders.q...
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Birmingham Salvo have won Counter-Strike: Source here at i35, their third I-series in a row. After both Reason Gaming and Birmingham Salvo eliminated maps from the map pool they were left playing de_tuscan, followed by de_nuke if a third map was needed. Salvo would start on...
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"MADERA, Calif. (AP) — Searchers have found what appears to be two large human bones near the crash site of adventurer Steve Fossett’s plane in California’s Sierra Nevada, authorities said Thursday. Madera County Sheriff John Anderson said at a...
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Margo MacDonald, a member of the Scottish parliament, has introduced legislation that would make assisted suicide legal in Scotland. The announcement comes a day after a British high court rejected an English petitioners request to clarify the law on whether it is illegal for...
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"Fairfax County Registrar Rokey Suleman is disqualifying an overwhelming majority of the military federal write-in absentee ballots received in his county on the basis that no address had been given for those...
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"CareToLive Sends Writ to Supreme Court of the United States October 24th, 2008 | Posted by CTL Share This While the FDA continues to tow the untenable line they have chosen and while they continue...
After a period of criticism of speed camera, a number of councils in England are opting to ban them, following the lead of Swindon Council. That area's highway councillor has been critical of speed cameras, saying they aren't effective in increasing road safety."Several more...
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The trial of two Britons in Dubai for having sex on the beach and unmarried sex has finished with the pair being found guilty and jailed. This will hammer home the responsibility that travellers carry to make sure...
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Passengers overpowered a man who attempted to hijack a Turkish plane.He couldn't write very well and was very drunk. The Russian officials when hearing this description were suprised that he was not British."The...
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" delivery records,” there were “only two failures to deliver.” So Deutsche Bank systematically failed to even locate the stock that it sold, but the NYSE isn’t calling it “naked short selling,” and...
"Presidential spokesperson Mohamed Hussein Shareef (Mundhu) has accused opposition politician Dr Ahmed Shaheed of “knowing the details” surrounding Christian organisation the Joshua Project operating in the...
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There has been increasing alarm over the past week over the hateful rhetoric being used by attendees at McCain/Palin rallies. Attendees have been heard to scream out "terrorist!" and "kill him!" at Sarah...
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And you think American divorces are weird!"(CNN) -- A Cambodian couple who separated after 40 years of marriage may have taken things too literally when it came to splitting their assets: ...
"Treasury Department May Take Ownership Stake in BanksHaving tried without success to unlock frozen credit markets,the Treasury Department is considering taking ownershipstakes in many United States banks to try...
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"WHITE PLAINS, New York (AP) -- An autopsy has revealed that a man found dead in a suitcase in a suburban park was a drug "mule" who had 50 packets of heroin in his body and probably died when one or two of them broke open. Investigators expressed surprise that the man's body...