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Indian Navy destroys Somali pirate ship as hijackers demand $10m ransom for captured...
Daily Mail News (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | International
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'People will hate me for what I've done': The moment Shannon's mother 'babbled' over her...
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Britain to clamp down on "sex-slave trafficking" (Roundup)
Monsters and Critics (subscribe) | 24 minutes ago | UK Politics
London - The British government announced plans Wednesday to clamp down on prostitution involving women who are controlled by -
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Bill Clinton helping Hillary's bid for State job
Belfast Telegraph (subscribe) | 44 minutes ago | International
Rumours that Hillary Clinton was poised to become the next US secretary of state strengthened today with reports her husband and former president was actively helping her selection. -
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US missile strike kills six in Pakistan village
Times Online (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | International
A suspected American missile strike hit a village well inside Pakistani territory today, killing six alleged militants, according to local officials, despite Pakistan's repeated demands for the United States to stop such attacks. -
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Lloyds TSB shareholders overwhelmingly approve £4.3bn takeover of HBOS
Daily Mail News (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Economy
Lloyds TSB shareholders today overwhelmingly backed the proposed takeover of ailing rival HBOS. The shareholders voted 95.98 per cent in favour of the controversial deal at a meeting in Glasgow.
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Sergeant quits Strictly Come Dancing
EADT24 - News (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Entertainment
VETERAN broadcaster John Sergeant has pulled out of Strictly Come Dancing, it emerged this lunchtime. -
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Gordon Brown promises tax cuts to help families and business
The Guardian (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | UK Politics
Gordon Brown today promised tax cuts to boost growth in the economy as he sought to draw clear dividing lines between Labour and the Tories over tax and spending. Speaking ahead of next Monday's critical pre-budget report, the prime minister said there would have to be "fiscal expansion" to help hard-pressed families and businesses as he insisted only his party would "help families through difficult... -
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Bag lost deep in outer space
The Sun (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | Science
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Muslim peer charged over death crash
Exposing Islam. (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | UK Politics
MUSLIM peer Lord Ahmed is to appear in court accused of dangerous driving after he was involved a Christmas Day motorway crash that claimed the life of a 28-year-old driver. The 51-year-old was allegedly at the wheel of his gold X-Type Jaguar when it was involved in a collision with an Audi A4 that had broken down on the southbound M1, near Rotherham.South Yorkshire Police said last night they had... -
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Students' bonfire started California blaze that destroyed more than 200 homes
Daily Mail News (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | Entertainment
A bonfire built by students caused the weekend wildfire in California that destroyed 210 homes, including multimillion dollar mansions, and injured more than two dozen people. -
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The great rental giveaway begins....
The UK Housing Bubble (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | Economy
Falling house prices, now falling rents; how will buy-to-let survive. Ah, yes, it won't. From the Times..... "Rents fell for the first time in five years between July and October as home-movers flooded the rental market with properties that they could not sell. According to a new survey, 12 per cent more lettings agents said that rents had fallen rather than risen between August and October. That was... - see all breaking news
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BNP member list mashed with Google maps creates a sea of red dots
TechCrunch UK (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | Politics
As news about the leaking of the membership list of the far-right/racist British National Party broke in the UK, it quickly became a headline story in the mainstream media. But the chatter amongst geeks on Twitter this morning was about the possible “mashup” that could be done of the members’ postcodes with a Google Map. [...] -
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Did someone say 'ignorant witch-hunt'?
The Devil's Kitchen (subscribe) | 17/11/2008 | Politics
[Note: this post is absolutely and unequivocally not by DK] Unity at Liberal Conspiracy (yes, evil lefties, hang them all) has done some actual research , rather than just demented ranting, into the Baby P case. The most important fact his detailed evidence based on the trial and on other published sources brings out, and which has been almost completely ignored by the latest media circus, is that... -
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Prototype Macbook Air from mid-2007 surfaces on eBay
TechDigest (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | Technology
I can't make up my mind whether Macrumours forum member Brett33 is lucky or not. He bought an 'as is' Macbook Air off eBay, and it showed up with a black aluminium base and no 'Macbook Air' written on the bezel of the display. On further investigation, Brett discovered that it was a very early prototype of the device, built in May 2007. The laptop was running a build of OS X 10.5, and the device was... -
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Reg Varney's role in economic history
Stumbling and Mumbling (subscribe) | 17/11/2008 | Politics
The death of Reg Varney has rightly led to many tributes. However, his largely pernicious - albeit inadvertent - contribution to economic and political history should not go unnoticed. His portrayal of Stan Butler did much to perpetuate the image... -
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Blogging with Parliamentary Allowance
The ThunderDragon (subscribe) | 7 hours ago | Politics
MPs who blog are being censored by the Commons authorities - if they use the £10,000 Communications Allowance to pay for it. A Labour MP says he has been stripped of a Parliamentary allowance for making fun of other MPs on his blog. Paul Flynn was told to remove posts including ones calling ex-Labour minister Peter Hain [...] -
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Offworld
xlab (subscribe) | 17/11/2008 | Technology
Gaming blog from Boing Boing. RSS feed is busted, but looks promising. Permalink
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That BNP member list thing
Scorched Earth (subscribe) | 8 hours ago | Politics
As tempting as it is to revel in the news that the BNP’s whole member list has been posted on the internet and as much as it’s easy to laugh at and mock the party, it’s actually not that funny. Thinking it might not be a genuine list I was at first reluctant to pass comment [...] -
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The Wrist Light for when you can’t hold a flashlight
Coolest Gadgets (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
Some jobs you really need someone there to hold a flashlight for you. However, there isn’t always someone around to help out with odd jobs like that. That’s where these bracelets come in. Yes they do look a bit like something that belongs at a party or something along those lines. However, they also would [...] -
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The BNP leak
tygerland.net (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
For the record. It will surprise no-one that I’m not on the BNP list. As someone who’s liberal to a fault, I think it’s fair to say that the party is run by a group of hateful fucktards. That said, whoever leaked the list online, should be arrested for incitement to violence - or whatever else [...] ShareThis -
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Microsoft to reduce Zune price
Coolest Gadgets (subscribe) | 14 hours ago | Technology
Microsoft’s Zune is not exactly the iPod killer as intended, and the device has been languishing in terms of sales for quite some time already since its release. Well, guess Microsoft isn’t going to kill the device anytime soon but they hope to boost its sales figures by slashing prices on the flash-based models. The [...] -
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Banned in Barack Obama office: BlackBerry Storm and BlackBerry 8700c
Phones Review (subscribe) | 17/11/2008 | International
It’s no secret that the 44th president of America Barack Obama can’t leave his BlackBerry 8700c alone, he obviously loves the 8700c so much, wait until he gets his hands on the BlackBerry storm! which will be out on Verizon on November 21. So the President Elect Barack Obama is sure to upgrade, but some [...] -
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Eh ...
Talking Points Memo (subscribe) | yesterday | Election 2008
About that Guardian story reporting that Hillary's going to accept Obama's State Department offer ... Regular readers know I put next to no stock in what the British papers report about American politics. And in this case, I'll believe it... - see blog ranking see all discussions
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