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Pictured: The British twin sisters ripped apart after one was swept to death by flash...
Daily Mail News (subscribe) | 6 hours 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) | 9 hours ago | Lifestyle
These amazing pictures show the horrific moment a hot air balloon exploded, killing one man and critically injuring another. -
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More personal data goes missing... this time the details of 100,000 pensioners are stolen
Daily Mail News (subscribe) | 18 hours ago | UK
A laptop storing data on around 100,000 pensioners has been stolen, it was admitted on Friday. -
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Turkish planes hit 31 PKK targets in Northern Iraq
Reuters UK (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | International
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Grandmother wins fight for life-saving NHS cancer drugs in landmark ruling
Daily Mail News (subscribe) | 8 hours ago | Health-Fitness
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U.S. removing North Korea from terrorism list
Reuters UK (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | International
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States announced on Saturday it would take North Korea off its terrorism blacklist amid faltering denuclearization talks in the final months of the Bush administration. -
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Troopergate: The Report
Will and Testament (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | International
Did Sarah Palin use her powers as governor of Alaska to try to have a former family member removed from his position as a state trooper? It's called Troopergate , and the investigation into those alleged abuses of power has found against the Republican candidate. Money quote: "Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110 (a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act."... -
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North Korea Off Terror Blacklist
Sky News (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | International
The US is to remove North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism as it tries to salvage talks on scaling back the rogue state's nuclear weapons programme. -
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Bush backs global response to financial crisis
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Ulrich selling Basquiat painting
Daily Express (subscribe) | 9 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. - see all breaking news
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Let them go...
Be about your business citizen... (subscribe) | yesterday | International
The financial system is in chaos the taxpayer is riding to the rescue and all of a sudden the idea that these city workers with their gigantic salaries and even bigger bonuses might be overpaid has moved from being the rantings of left wing, politics of envy madmen like me to commonly held popular opinion. Despite the chaos, the city's PR machine appears to be in full on spin mode, here, for example... -
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"Austria's Haider dies in accident"
Mark Wadsworth (subscribe) | 9 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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MoD Data Loss - Can It Get Any Worse?
Webtorque (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | Politics
Another day, another… hardly a week goes by without… if I had a fiver for…. I’ve lost count of how… The latest incident of data loss really, really plumbs the depths. I’ve started to pay less attention to the detail of such cases recently because it’s plain they’re simply endemic, human failings and not something we [...] -
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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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Iceland’s rise and fall
Flip Chart Fairy Tales (subscribe) | yesterday | International
It is but eighteen months since I sat in Manchester’s Radisson Hotel, once the great Free Trade Hall, discussing Iceland’s economic miracle with some Icelandic businessmen. They explained to me that their success was due to their speed and decisiveness. “We don’t spend hours in meetings discussing things,” one of them told me, “we just get [...] - see blog ranking see all discussions
