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numerology for Utoya victims Trond Berntsen, Johannes Buo, Gunnar Linaker, Monica Bosei, Tore Eikeland, Hanne Kristine Fridtun, Emil Okkenhaug, Ismail Haji Ahmed, Torjus Blattmann, Simon Saebo, Snorre Haller, Marianne Sandvik, Havard Vederhus, Jamil Rafal Yasin, Syvert Knudsen, Tarald Mjelde, Sondre Dale, Andrine Bakkene Espeland, Guro Vartdal Havoll, Aleksander Aas Eriksen, and Christopher Perreau

2:38pm UK, Tuesday July 26, 2011 Details have begun to emerge of some of the 68 victims who were killed by Anders Breivik during his shooting spree on the Norwegian Island of Utoya. The names of the dead were revealed as an estimated 150,000 people gathered to mourn them and the eight others who died [...]

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October 31, 2011       6:52PM THE stepfather of a teenage killed in a horrific car accident remembered her as “gorgeous girl” who had made a fatal mistake. Ebony Dunsworth, 16, was a passenger with four men in a car which appeared to have rolled at the intersection of Bessie Creek Rd and Princes Highway just after midnight. [...]

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June 17, 2011 Bill Haast figured he had handled more than three million poisonous snakes over the years, and he had the hands to prove it. An eastern diamondback rattlesnake left one hand looking like a claw. A Malayan pit viper mangled an index finger. A cottonmouth bit a finger, which instantly turned black, prompting [...]

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December 26th, 2011 A missing 9-year-old Indiana girl has been found dead, and the family friend who was watching her before she disappeared was charged with murder Monday night, authorities said. Allen County sheriff’s spokesman Cpl. Jeremy Tinkel said investigators found the body of Aliahna Lemmon in the county, but he wouldn’t say where. He [...]

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10:43 PM EST        Sunday December 18, 2011 North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is dead, North Korean state TV said Monday. Kim, 69, died at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, state TV said. A broadcaster reported that Kim died due to “overwork” after “dedicating his life to the people.” South Korean news agency Yonhap [...]

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Sunday December 18, 2011 Vaclav Havel wove theater into revolution, leading the charge to peacefully bring down communism in a regime he ridiculed as “Absurdistan” and proving the power of the people to overcome totalitarian rule. Shy and bookish, with a wispy mustache and unkempt hair, the dissident playwright was an unlikely hero of Czechoslovakia’s [...]

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Dec 17, 2011 11:45 AM ET The Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora, known as the “barefoot diva,” died Saturday, according to the culture minister of the country. The Portuguese weekly, Expresso, reported she died in hospital in her native country. Cape Verde, a country comprised of of 10 islands, is located 570 kilometres off the [...]

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December 17, 2011 Five people, including a baby and two children, who were found shot to death in a small Illinois farming town were killed in a murder-suicide, authorities said Saturday, though they wouldn’t identify the shooter. Livingston County coroner Michael Burke identified those killed as: 30-year-old Sara McMeen, 29-year-old Daniel Warren, 8-year-old Skyler Lemke, [...]

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Dec. 16, 2011 The Boston-area couple that was gunned down in their multi-million dollar mansion was reportedly found lying head-to-head, shot in their necks, with all shell casings cleaned from the scene of the crime, all signs pointing to a well-planned murder. Police investigating the murder of real-estate developer John “Jack” Magee, 69, and his wife Geraldine, [...]

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16 December 2011          07:27 ET British-born author, literary critic and journalist Christopher Hitchens has died at the age of 62. He died from pneumonia, a complication of the oesophageal cancer he had, at a Texas hospital. Vanity Fair magazine, which announced his death, said there would “never be another like Christopher”. [...]

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December 15, 2011 George Whitman, the legendary founder of the Paris bookshop and literary institution Shakespeare & Co., died Wednesday. He was 98. The Left Bank bookshop was closed Wednesday, and a note on the door said Whitman had suffered a stroke a few months earlier. He “died peacefully at home in the apartment above [...]

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02:10 PM ET        12/15/2011 JOE SIMON, NEARING THE CENTURY MARK, still sounded like a man energized by the passions of his boyhood. Simon, that son of upstate New York who grew up inspired by “Krazy Kat” and “Prince Valiant” and “The Gumps,” waxed thoughtful this past summer of a career that spanned superheroes [...]

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15 December 2011        07:12 ET Cult author Russell Hoban, who was best known for writing the science fiction novel Riddley Walker, has died aged 86, his publisher has announced. A Bloomsbury spokeswoman said: “We are very saddened by the news that this much-loved and hugely treasured author has died.” Hoban was also [...]

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December 12, 2011 The 911 caller reported a robbery in progress early Monday, and the first officers who arrived at the Brooklyn basement apartment found a tenant bloodied from a beating. They had no idea that the robbers were still there, hiding in a dark room behind them. The robbers, in turn, did not know [...]

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  13 December 2011          21:52 ET Police in Belgium are trying to determine what motivated a local man to open fire on a busy marketplace in Liege, killing at least four people. Nearly 125 people were wounded, some critically, when 33-year-old Nordine Amrani fired bullets and hurled grenades before killing himself. [...]

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December 10, 2011          9:17 am The Los Angeles County Coroner’s office has identified the man who shot at motorists in Hollywood Friday morning, wounding one, before he was shot and killed by police. Tyler Brehm, 26, died near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street minutes after wandering up the street [...]

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December 8th, 2011 Nearly five years after a massacre at Virginia Tech that was the deadliest ever on a school campus, two men, including a campus police officer, died of gunshot wounds there on Thursday afternoon. The police officer, Deriek W. Crouse, 39, of Christiansburg, Va., was shot at close range by a man who had walked [...]

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2:11 PM EST     Tuesday December 6th, 2011 A 7-year-old girl whose body was found in a trash bin outside her Georgia apartment building died of blunt force trauma to the head, was stabbed and had been sexually assaulted, authorities said Tuesday. The killer probably lives in the apartment complex where the child lived [...]

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6 December 2011        05:12 ET Blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin, who played with Howlin’ Wolf and inspired the likes of Eric Clapton, has died at the age of 80. He was with Howlin’ Wolf for the best part of 20 years – his guitar can be heard on tracks such as the 1956 [...]

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4 December 2011      00:44 ET Legendary Bollywood actor-director Dev Anand has died in London of a heart attack, aged 88, family members say. Anand, who produced and acted in dozens of films, was unwell and had gone to London for a check up. He was known as the Adonis of Indian cinema for [...]

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