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Pictured: The British twin sisters ripped apart after one was swept to death by flash...
Daily Mail News (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | International
This is the first picture of the British twin sisters ripped apart after one was swept to her death in flash floods in Spain. Lauren Cullen, 14, and her mother were killed but sister Samantha survived. -
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Pictured: The horrific moment a hot air balloon exploded, leaving one dead and another...
Daily Mail News (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | Lifestyle
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Grandmother wins fight for life-saving NHS cancer drugs in landmark ruling
Daily Mail News (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | Health-Fitness
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More personal data goes missing... this time the details of 100,000 pensioners are stolen
Daily Mail News (subscribe) | 14 hours ago | UK
A laptop storing data on around 100,000 pensioners has been stolen, it was admitted on Friday.
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Ulrich selling Basquiat painting
Daily Express (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | Entertainment
METALLICA drummer LARS ULRICH looks set to cash in on an artwork by late graffiti artist JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT - the piece is going to auction with an estimated value of �£6 million. -
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World leaders pledge united response to credit crisis
Times Online (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | International
Georgw W Bush pledged a united and global response to the credit crisis as he emerged from a meeting with finance officials in Washington today. -
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Robert Mugabe goes back on his word - shock, horror
Not a sheep (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | International
The BBC report that: "Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has allocated key ministries to his own party - in defiance of a power-sharing deal, reports say. The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said the move had put the deal "in jeopardy". The MDC had signed the power-sharing agreement with Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF party on 15 September. But the parties have been deadlocked in allocating ministries... -
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[Blogs] Hague in £500,000 junket
Labourhome (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | UK Politics
From the mail (shock horror...) "He spent Friday on the sunny shores of Lake Como, on the final day of a luxury break organised by the hard-pressed bank's private wealth division. While he enjoyed the balmy surroundings of one of Europe's most expensive hotels, where rooms can cost £1,000 a night, markets in London and America went into freefall." Richard Caborn added: ' This is classic Tory hypocrisy... -
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Joerg Haider, Austria's far-right leader, dies in car crash
Times Online (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | International
Austrian far right leader, Joerg Haider, was killed in a car crash early this morning just weeks after making a major comeback in national elections last month. - see all breaking news
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The 2008 Nobel Prize Winner
Alterdestiny (subscribe) | yesterday | Other
No big surprise here - a non-American (North or Latin!) winning the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature . Still, it's pretty wild to me that Le Clezio apparently spends most of his year in Albuquerque. As has been the case in the past, I suspect this will lead to broader availability of his works in English. Nonetheless, I'm a little cautious of any literary work that "contrasts the ugliness and ignorance... -
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"Austria's Haider dies in accident"
Mark Wadsworth (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | Politics
I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but when an EU-sceptic politician dies in a mysterious accident ...? -
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PSP Wi-Fi Store opening Oct. 15 in Japan; all future first-party titles to be downloadable
Joystiq (subscribe) | 09/10/2008 | Video Games
Filed under: Sony PSP , Business Sony has announced that all future first-party PSP games will be available through download in Japan beginning later this year via the Wi-Fi Store. The store is scheduled to open in Japan on October 15th with the firmware v5.00 update. Games to be sold by direct download include Secret Agent Clank (11/20), Patapon 2 (11/27), and LocoRoco 2 (12/4) (these titles will... -
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Schappert Claims Not to Know When GTA4 DLC Will Be Released
Evil Avatar Forums - News Items (subscribe) | 09/10/2008 | Video Games
Eurogamer has an interesting piece today regarding GTA4 Downloadable Content. They interviewed John Schappert , who is in charge of Xbox Live and he had this to say: Quote: "Frankly, I don't know," said the Xbox Live boss. "Rockstar are the people to ask for that." He went on to add, "I hope as a gamer, just like I'm sure you do as a gamer, the sooner the better. I can't wait for it." Even though,... -
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Local Councils Do It Again
Burning our money (subscribe) | 09/10/2008 | Business
Oranges are not the only hopeless local council We don't know exactly how much our local councils have lost on their deposits with busted Icelandic banks - figures vary from "a few hundred million, up to £1bn plus". But what we do know is that this is only the latest in a long history of such disasters. Everyone remembers BCCI, where 28 local councils lost taxpayers' money on deposits they had placed... - see blog ranking see all discussions
