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May 28, 2012         02.47PM IST SRK was ecstatic post his team KKR won the Indian Premiere League 2012 championship in Chennai.  On Sunday night SRK’s Kolkata Knight Riders won the IPL for the very first time after long five years of hard work. The actor was ecstatic and so was Gauri. The superstar’s wife came [...]

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HIGH SCHOOL Only the second player to win the Naismith National High School Player of the Year award following both junior and senior prep seasons…the 2007 Gatorade National Player of the Year…also selected as the 2007 WBCA National Player of the Year…2007 Parade Magazine All-America of the Year…named 2007 Miss Georgia Basketball…two-time McDonald’s All-America selection…Guided [...]

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Sunday May 27, 2012        2:25pm EDT The Vatican faces a widening scandal that in one short week has seen Pope Benedict’s butler arrested, the president of its bank unceremoniously dismissed and the publication of a new book alleging conspiracies among cardinals. It was a poisonous Pentecost Sunday for the pope, who likely [...]

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Sailing has been in Debbie Capozzi’s blood since childhood. As crew member or skipper, this woman knows how to maneuver through traffic, utilizing only wind power. Finishing in seventh place at the 2008 Olympic Yngling competition, Capozzi brought that experience home with her, determined to hone her skills at the tiller. In 2012, first place [...]

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Born in Texas and raised in Hawaii, Bryan Clay is a staunch figure of physical athletic prowess and deserving of the title “World’s Greatest Athlete.” Since winning silver in the 2004 games, Clay has pushed forward with the gold in Beijing and the 2010 IIAF World Indoor Championships. Throughout his career, injuries have set him [...]

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May 23, 2012             6:18 PM ET Human Resources Minister Diane Finley is expected to put an end to speculation about the government’s planned changes to employment insurance when she holds a news conference Thursday morning. Officials from her department are holding a technical briefing ahead of her “important announcement” [...]

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May 23, 2012           12:44 AM ET The Canadian Pacific Railway strike means more than 2,000 non-striking unionized CP employees will be laid off, a spokesman for the company said Wednesday, as the federal labour minister said she may force an end to the work stoppage. “Unfortunately, with this unnecessary strike [...]

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May 20, 2012         11:03 am Members of Tibet’s government-in-exile urged those living and working around the Dalai Lama to remain on alert Sunday after the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader voiced concern that Chinese agents might be plotting to kill him. Ngodup Dongchung, security minister for the Tibetan exiles based in the Indian [...]

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May 16, 2012 Governor Walker’s Revised Employment Data in Context (To be updated on Thursday with the release of official BLS data.) Today, the Wisconsin DWD took the unusual — one might say unprecedented [1] [2] – step of announcing their estimates of what they call “actual job numbers” (see press release here). These are based on the unemployment [...]

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11 May 2012              11:52 ET A 44-year-old Hawaiian surfer has entered the Guinness Book of Records for riding the biggest wave ever thought to have been ridden. Last November Garrett McNamara caught a 78ft wave off the coast of Portugal, beating the previous 2008 record by more than a [...]

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    10 May 2012           11:52 ET Rescuers at the wreckage of a Russian Sukhoi Superjet plane that crashed into mountains in Indonesia on Wednesday say they have found no sign of survivors. The Sukhoi Superjet 100 vanished from radar screens 50 minutes after taking off from Jakarta for a [...]

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May 10, 2012 In a loosely coordinated strategy, the EU’s top officials, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, have telephoned Greek party leaders in recent days to spell out that if Greece wants to stay in the euro it must abide by the terms of the EU/IMF bailout, [...]

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May 7, 2012        8:23 a.m. As longtime Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar fights for his political life, he is warning Hoosiers that if his “tea party“-backed opponent wins this week’s primary, it would hand the longtime Republican-held seat to Democrats this fall — and dampen GOP chances to gain majority control of the Senate. In an email push, “Forewarn [...]

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6 May 2012          16:37 ET The rivals for Serbia’s presidency, liberal incumbent Boris Tadic and ex-nationalist Tomislav Nikolic, are heading for a run-off, results suggest. Mr Tadic polled around 26% of the vote, early estimates said, while Mr Nikolic was around one point behind. Serbia won EU candidate status in March [...]

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May 3, 2012         4:00 am Joshua Ledet “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg”: It was a particularly good night for Ledet. After hearing Ledet tackle this Temptations song in rehearsal, Iovine was moved to declare that Ledet “has a gift.” Ledet, looking supersharp in a stripey-sleeved suit and flanked by backup singers, worked [...]

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May 2, 2012, 11:30 p.m. A season that started so disappointingly for the Angels was quickly forgotten among the roaring crowd of 27,288 at Angel Stadium on Wednesday night watching Jered Weaver throw the first individual home no-hitter since Nolan Ryan in 1975.Backed by chants of “Weaver, Weaver, Weaver,” the 29-year-old right-hander was surrounded by teammates near the mound after Alexi Casilla‘s deep fly ball [...]

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April 27, 2012   Spain’s unemployment rate spiked to nearly 25 percent in the first months of the year, the government reported Friday, highlighting the risks facing Europe’s fifth largest economy as officials struggle to avoid the need for a massive international bailout. Spanish unemployment jumped more than 1.5 percentage points with the economy hemorrhaging jobs across [...]

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25 April 2012         07:34 ET UK detectives reviewing evidence into Madeleine McCann’s disappearance have issued a computer-generated image of what she might look like now. The picture, created with the McCann family, shows how she would look aged nine, the Metropolitan Police said. Having analysed the evidence, the Met said it [...]

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10:57 PM EDT       Tuesday April 10, 2012 Bobby Petrino has been fired as head football coach at the University of Arkansas, the school’s athletics director said Tuesday. Petrino’s lack of candor about his “personal and professional relationship” with a female employee who was riding with him on a motorcycle that crashed earlier [...]

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April 8, 2012        5:04 a.m. Police said special operations officers and other agents arrested two white men early Sunday, saying they were suspects in recent shootings that left three people dead and two others critically wounded, all black, in the Tulsa area. Tulsa police spokesman Jason Willingham said the two men were [...]

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