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CAIRO (AP) _ A woman activist who posted nude pictures of herself on her blog to protest limits on free expression has triggered an uproar in Egypt, drawing condemnations from conservatives and liber...
Updated : 2011.11.18 17:17
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(MCT) A Russian woman said she kept a frozen alien corpse in her fridge for two years and unveiled five pictures of it to prove its existence. Daily Mail reported that Marta Yegorovnam in the weste...
Updated : 2011.11.16 15:59
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COMPTON, California (AP) -- Some parents have filed complaints with the Parent-Teacher Association after a former adult film star said she read to children in a classroom at a Los Angeles County elem...
Updated : 2011.11.13 16:28
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The son of Equatorial Guinea's president plundered his country's natural resources through corruption, spending more than $70 million in looted profits on a Malibu mansion, a Gulf...
Updated : 2011.10.26 12:35
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KATHMANDU (AFP) - An environmental group is asking the Nepal government to consider installing portable toilets on Mount Everest for climbers caught short at the roof of the world. Eco Himal says th...
Updated : 2011.10.13 17:18
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TAMPA, Florida (AP) -- A Florida deep-sea exploration company with a record of finding sunken treasure has discovered a ship filled with silver 8,000 feet beneath the North Atlantic Ocean, the firm s...
Updated : 2011.10.11 15:19
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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A woman who faked a pregnancy and panicked as her supposed due date grew near attacked a pregnant mother with a baseball bat and cut her full-term fetus from her womb, killing the m...
Updated : 2011.10.11 11:42
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TOKYO (AFP) - An anonymous donor has left a wad of cash worth $131,000 in a public toilet in Japan, with instructions it be used to help victims of the March earthquake and tsunami, an official said ...
Updated : 2011.09.29 15:37
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ROME (AFP) - Italy's flamboyant ex-porn star and former politician Cicciolina plans to set up a new political party as the antithesis to her country's corrupt politics, according to excerpts from an ...
Updated : 2011.09.28 11:01
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BEIJING (AFP) - Officials in eastern China have triggered public outrage by claiming that a $425,000 yacht bought with government money was intended for collecting taxes. Images of the 32-metre (100...
Updated : 2011.09.27 13:44
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Five years after she went missing from her Colorado home, Willow the cat has been reunited with her owners in New York City. How the calico cat ended up on a Manhattan street remain...
Updated : 2011.09.25 10:27
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MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian tycoon has punched a fellow billionaire on a television panel show after a discussion on the financial crisis degenerated into petty name-calling. Alexander Lebedev, a former...
Updated : 2011.09.19 00:14
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ATLANTA (AP) -- The top court in the U.S. state of Georgia on Monday upheld the conviction and life sentence against a vegan couple over the death of their malnourished 6-week-old boy, who was fed a ...
Updated : 2011.09.13 14:32
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BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese police have detained 32 people in a nationwide crackdown on ``gutter oil,'' or old kitchen oil that has been illegally recycled, authorities said Tuesday. The campaign is par...
Updated : 2011.09.13 13:07
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Updated : 2011.09.08 12:12
