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'Crackpot' guilty of TV star harassment
EADT24 - News (subscribe) | 6 hours ago | UK
TELEVISION star Martin Shaw last night said justice had been done after seeing his stalker convicted of a five-year campaign of harassment - then added that he hoped she would be able to move on in life. -
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Israel 'astounded' as Vatican labels Gaza 'one big concentration camp'
Daily Mail News (subscribe) | 7 hours ago | International
A diplomatic row has broken out between the Vatican and Israel after a senior Catholic official slammed Gaza as 'one big concentration camp'. -
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Lord Mandelson warns of further job cuts in car industry as Nissan axes 1200 staff
The Telegraph (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | Economy
As Nissan announces it is shedding 1200 staff the Business Secretary warns of further job losses in the UK car industry. -
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Atheist adverts reported to industry watchdog
Times Online (subscribe) | 49 minutes ago | UK
London An atheist advertising campaign with the slogan “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life” has been reported to the Advertising Standards Authority. The advert is to be carried on 800 buses in England, Scotland and Wales, and on the London Underground, in a four-week campaign costing £140,000 that has been supported by the British Humanist Association and the atheist scientist... -
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Fire crews forced to flee NE Scotland gas blast hotel
The Herald (subscribe) | 6 hours ago | High-Tech
Firefighters were today forced to flee a hotel in the north east of Scotland which was hit by a suspected gas blast over fears the building was about to collapse. -
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UK's Serious Fraud Office To Investigate Madoff
Mondo Visione (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | UK
The Serious Fraud Office has announced today that it is opening an investigation into Bernard Madoff's UK business operations. The focus of the investigation will be on UK victims and any criminal offences that might have been committed in the UK.
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UN aid agency suspends work after Gaza strike
Times Online (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | International
The main UN aid agency in the Gaza Strip said today that it was suspending operations after an Israeli tank shell hit one of its convoys, killing two drivers. -
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Sony TV watches viewers and turns off when they sleep
The Telegraph (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | High-Tech
Sony has developed a Television that keeps an eye on viewers and turns itself off when no one is watching. -
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President-Elect Obama on the American Recovery and Reinvestment: "That work begins with...
Obama HQ (subscribe) | 58 minutes ago | International
Today, President-elect Barack Obama delivered a major new speech at George Mason University, where he made the case for urgent action on an American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan to address the current economic crisis. He offered up the outlines of a plan that includes both new policy and new approaches, with the goal of saving or creating over three million jobs while investing in priorities like... -
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Job fears at clothing firm Viyella
icWales (subscribe) | 14 hours ago | Economy
Fears were mounting last night over the security of almost 700 jobs after another high street chain collapsed into administration. -
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How on earth did Cristiano Ronaldo escape injury here?
Football Corner (subscribe) | 46 minutes ago | Sport
A s most of you will know by now, Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo was involved in a crash this morning. The Portuguese ace crashed his Ferrari so bad that the car had to be written off. Luckily for Ronaldo he escaped injury and was even picked up by team-mate Edwin Van Der Sar who was following behind in his Bentley . As you can see by the picture, the car is very badly damaged , which begs the... -
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Bank cuts rates to 315-year low to boost lending
Financial Times (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Economy
Warning the 'world economy appears to be undergoing an unusually sharp and synchronised downturn', the Bank said it needed to cut interest rates by a further 0.5 percentage points - see all breaking news
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Tory Reshuffle: Do It Quickly Or Not At All
Iain Dale's Diary (subscribe) | 6 hours ago | Politics
Reshuffle speculation is now getting out of control and threatens to do damage to the Conservatives. Either David Cameron should conduct a reshuffle as soon as Parliament returns on Monday or he should announce that there won't be one. The demonisation of Alan Duncan over the past few days in various parts of the press (but principally the Daily Telegraph ) has been unedifying to say the least. But... -
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Reznor 'Leaks' 400 GB Of High Def Concert Footage
Techdirt (subscribe) | 6 hours ago | Other
Trent Reznor is making it awfully difficult for me to finish the presentation I'm giving about him next week at MidemNet, because he keeps on doing stuff that should be mentioned in that presentation (I may have to ask the MidemNet folks for more time!). The latest is a post on the NIN.com site (which, annoyingly, doesn't have permalinks for his posts -- though others repost it in the forums on the... -
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UFO Destroys Wind Turbine
The Inquisitr (subscribe) | 18 hours ago | Sciences
A wind turbine in England has been destroyed, and one of it’s 65 foot long blades is missing in a strange case locals are blaming on UFO’s. Locals started reporting strange “flashing orangey-yellow spheres over Lincolnshire” the evening before the mystery destruction. Then at 4am, locals heard a “massive bang” and reported lights in the vicinity [...] -
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Arshavin Moves Closer to Arsenal and is the Sell Off Beginning at West Ham United
EPL Talk (subscribe) | yesterday | Football
So Andrei Arshavin is starting to make loud noises about his future, and it doesn’t look like playing in Russia is a part of it. He’s telling Zenit St. Petersburg that if he has to, he’ll buy out his contract (this is the only link that is currently available, the Telegraph also reported the same [...] -
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In small doses: Tetris is a PTSD 'vaccine,' prevents flashbacks, study finds
Joystiq (subscribe) | yesterday | Sciences
Filed under: Culture , Puzzle Believe it or not, the image above is not some ten-year-old's 5th grade collage. It's real science, by the fine chaps in the department of psychiatry at the University of Oxford. The study sat individuals in front of a 12-minute clip of "traumatic scenes of injury and death" (we're not talking Mario falling into a pit here), gave them a 30-minute break, and then split... -
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Cindy Knows Best
PerezHilton.com (subscribe) | 8 hours ago | Fashion
Not all parents are fans of Miley Cyrus and her shiteous Disney Channel show, Hannah Montana. In fact, Cindy Crawford has banned her daughter from watching the show! Why'??? It seems her 7 year-old daughter has been learning to talk back from watching the clips. Cindy says about her daughter Kaya, "I love Hannah Montana, but she learns to [...]
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Twittering With Tony Benn
Iain Dale's Diary (subscribe) | 06/01/2009 | Politics
One part of the Tony Benn interview I did yesterday, which won't be appearing in Total Politics , concerned the attempt to fake his identity on Twitter. I thought my blogreaders might enjoy this exchange in which I try to explain the joys of Twitter and Tony Benn givs his views on blogging. ID: What do you make of Twitter? TB: Someone said I was on it. Someone had pretended they were me. I got an... -
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Uninformed Liberals Clap Over Panetta, Creator of "Extraordinary Renditioning" Policy...
Chicagoray (subscribe) | yesterday | International
The good policy by the way that enabled us to snag ragheaded Khalid Sheik Muhammad, which oddly enough was created during the Clinton administration by Panetta , a story American media will shy away from as much as possible, although credit CNN with at least publishing the truth on this matter. Thanks should also go out to Media Matters (sarc on) for their 4 years of misinformation on this issue where... -
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Blog closed and GONE
Old Holborn (subscribe) | 06/01/2009 | Other
This is my last post Today, a fellow Libertarian decided to post my name , address, email address, business address, photo of me and my children on the web. Because he was angry with me over my stand on Israel. Tonight, my wife and family have read the consequent death threats and insults to them that have poured in and asked me to close this blog. Many people now know where I live, where my children... -
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+++ Clegg reshuffles Shadow Cabinet
Liberal Democrat Voice (subscribe) | 9 hours ago | Politics
Highlights from the full story: Simon Hughes: Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Steve Webb: Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions David Heath: Shadow Leader of the House Jenny Willott: Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster David Howarth: Shadow Secretary of State for Justice Susan Kramer: chosen to leave the shadow cabinet to take up [...] -
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Spanish atheist bus riles Catholics
mediawatchwatch.org.uk (subscribe) | 11 hours ago | Other
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s successful Atheist Bus Campaign launch comes news that the Spanish equivalent, Bus Ateo, has been ruffling religious feathers in Barcelona. Next week Barcelona will be the first city to follow in the footsteps of the British campaign. Madrid will follow suit on the 26 Jan. Javier Maria Perez-Roldan of the church’s [...] -
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Is it really foreign policy, stupid?
Harry's Place (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
This is a guest post by Garvan Walshe The trilby hat and mackintosh once served to disguise an agent at a time when all other men wore coats and hats, then came to be his uniform. So it was with the blacked-out face shapes and letters used to designate senior intelligence officers. But now the mystery [...] - see all discussions
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