"The story of a police officer hit and killed by a train last year in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, while trying to rescue a woman on the train tracks has been turned into an illustrated book.
The commemorative publication will be offered at a memorial service in Tokyo on Saturday to...
"Detectives in Moscow yesterday confirmed they have arrested Russia's most notorious mafia boss, who is wanted by both the US and British authorities for his alleged involvement in decades of major international crime."
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"Fred Thompson’s supporters are rightfully disappointed. Today was a tough one.
I’ve often thought, and several times written, that if Fred wanted the nomination half as much as his supporters wanted him to have it, the whole thing would have been wrapped up in...
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"Heath Ledger recently said he felt good about dying, now that he was a parent, because he was alive in his daughter Matilda.
But at the same time, the Australian actor, who died in New York today, said he wanted...
A series of attacks between militants and Pakistani security forces ended in the deaths of up to 90 militants, said military officials. The attacks are thought to be the work of al Qaeda-linked militant leader Baitullah Mehsud. "Pakistani forces killed up to 90 militants in...
"Some bright spark wanting the freedom to go off and ski the red runs, leaving his less able companions on the nursery slopes, wanted a way to communicate where to meet up later for apres ski beers. So he made these walkie talkies and gave them to all his pals, no line...
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The Times gets into some new condos designed by SF architect Lorcan O'Herlihy:"WHEN Bob Harper began his search for a new home in West Hollywood, Calif., last summer, what he thought he wanted was a house. But he quickly changed his mind after his real estate agent took him...
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Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor
When comparing Canada's Notorious Serial Killer Wally Pickton's sentence of 4.1 years per murder victim versus 4 Criminals ongoing past Drug and present Kidnapping...
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Will the One Laptop Per Child dream ever be fully-realized?"Intel Corp (INTC.O: Quote, Profile , Research) said on Thursday it will drop out of the One Laptop Per Child project and resign from the board after...
Oh Britney, who will help you now? "In a surprise move Britney Spears' legal team has asked to quit, describing working with her as 'impossible'.
In a motion filed today at a Los Angeles Superior Court, law...
What a surprise to see so many presidential candidates on this list! Whatever can be the matter?What's with this Judicial Watch crowd? Well, they seem to be lawyers. And they plainly state that they are "conservative," whatever the heck that means. In...
"Researchers at Tokyo University managed to turn off the receptors in a mouse's brain that react to the scent of its main predator.
They wanted to prove that fear is genetically programmed and not, as is commonly...
"the weird $400,000 prepayment to American Express, which appears to have been yet another method of taking city money and running it through enough buckets that it could be used for pretty much anything Rudy and his crew wanted to use it for. [...]The Shag Fund not only paid...
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Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES) and the social commentaries from the DTES Ladies of the Evening on the Willie Pickton Murder Trial. "VANCOUVER, B.C. -- The shadow of Willie Pickton still looms over this...
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"David Lam, a 55-year-old Vietnamese-born American, was captured last Saturday on the Indonesian resort island of Batam and deported Tuesday afternoon to Los Angeles, accompanied by agents from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Interpol, and Indonesian police...
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