5 months after the female whale was born at the Vancouver Aquarium, baby beluga has got a new name. The aquarium held a contest over the past couple of months to name the calf. The belugas are one of the big...
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"(CNN) -- With 10 days to go until Election Day, long-brewing tensions between GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and key aides to Sen. John McCain have become so intense they are spilling out in public, sources say. ...
UPDATE: 4:51PM PSTApparently the powder is harmless." An employee of The New York Times opened a letter Wednesday containing a white powder that officials later said was harmless.The discovery comes after more...
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"Metro eyes sky-rise farmingSurrey may be home to region's first vertical greenhouseKelly Sinoski, Vancouver SunPublished: Tuesday, October 21, 2008Rooftop gardens and vertical greenhouses could be a sign of the times in Metro Vancouver as the region wrestles with...
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Anti-terror raids took place early this morning in the British city of Birmingham, police said. The raided locations included five residences and two businesses."Five people have been arrested in Birmingham in a series of dawn anti-terror raids, police said today. West...
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"Cindy McCain lawyer invokes Obama drug use John Dowd, Cindy McCain's attorney, complained in a letter to New York Times executive editor Bill Keller earlier this month that the paper had scrutinized...
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Sign of the times..Harley Davidson:NEW YORK - Harley-Davidson Inc. said Thursday its third-quarter profit fell sharply, as the slowing economy and tighter credit markets took their toll on sales of its iconic...
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"ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (AP) -- You can call her Cutout Dissection.com, or Cutout for short, but just don't call her Jennifer. The former Jennifer Thornburg -- whose driver's license now reads Dissection.com, Cutout -- wanted to do something to protest animal dissections...
"U.S. atmospheric scientists say satellite data indicates northern Greenland experienced a record number of melting days this summer. City College of New York Assistant Professor Marco Tedesco said the northern...
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"NEW YORK - A newspaper report Thursday said tens of thousands of eligible voters have been removed from rolls or blocked from registering in at least six swing states. Election officials lined up to defend their registration procedures and said they had done nothing...
ACORN hounds Voters to Register more then once. New VideoVideo 1: Testimony of Voter who registered several times due to Pressure from ACORN WorkersVideo 2: Stealing Elections: Concerns about ACORN causing...
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A couple has supposedly set a new Guinness World Records for watching 57 movies in 123 hours. It will take two weeks to verify the record, but it was done in a plastic-glass house in Times Square."You may want...
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All the efforts by several governments - including the mother of all bail out plan the establishment of a US$700 billion (S$1 trillion) rescue fund is not yielding any results and have failed to revive the investors confidence. Many Asian and European governments have...
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The 42-day detention law, which would have extended the amount of time a person suspected of terrorism could be held without charge, has reportedly been dropped from Prime Minister Gordon Brown's agenda. The issue has been enormously controversial in the UK across party...
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"Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar tops the list of world’s best 100 Test cricketers named by legendary spinner Shane Warne in his book Shane Warne’s Century, which also features as many as 10 other Indians. The list in Warne’s book released on October 2 is almost...