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27 May 2012            11:33 ET A Bosnian couple enslaved a German girl for eight years, starving and beating her, local media have reported. The girl, now aged 19, was forbidden from meeting people and was not allowed to attend school, prosecutors say. She was rescued from the couple and taken [...]

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Peter Jones (far right) has died of brain cancer 20 May 2012          07:07 ET Crowded House drummer Peter Jones has died at the age of 45. According to newspaper reports, the Liverpool-born musician had been suffering from brain cancer. A statement published on the Antipodean band’s website read: “We are in [...]

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May 18, 2012            11:11 AM ET A man who is in a detention centre for allegedly swallowing a 1.7-carat diamond May 10 in Windsor, Ont., expelled a fake gem Friday. Police said in a media release that Richard Matthews, 52, passed a cubic zirconia early Friday. Matthews then underwent an [...]

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May 16, 2012 A 58-year-old woman paralyzed by a stroke was all smiles after sipping her cinnamon latte with the help of a mind-controlled robotic arm. Cathy Hutchinson is one of two tetraplegic patients able to reach and grasp with a robotic limb linked to tiny sensor in her brain, according to a study published today in [...]

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May 16, 2012 Greece appointed a senior judge Wednesday to head a caretaker government for a month as it lurches through a political crisis that threatens its membership in the euro. The political uncertainty is worrying Greece’s international creditors as well as Greeks themselves, who have withdrawn hundreds of millions of euros from banks since [...]

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Travis A. Nicolaysen is on the run from police, but he’s still posting periodic updates on his Facebook page, and has even changed his status  from “in a relationship” to “single.” The 26-year-old  from Port Angeles, Wash., is wanted by the state’s Department of Corrections for failing to check in with his community corrections officer since [...]

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March 31, 2012 Record Mega Millions Numbers: 2-4-23-38-46, MB 23 Across the country, Americans plunked down an estimated $1.5 billion on the longest of long shots: an infinitesimally small chance to win what could end up being the single biggest lottery payout the world has ever seen. The numbers drawn Friday night in Atlanta were [...]

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December 9, 2011 The mystery surrounding the disappearance nearly five years ago of a former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent in Iran was rekindled Friday with the release of a hostage videotape showing him alive as of a year ago. In the video, the former agent, Robert A. Levinson, is shown sitting in a makeshift cell looking gaunt and [...]

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November 28, 2011, 4:33 p.m. The Atlanta woman who says she carried on a 13-year affair with Herman Cain said she came forward because she believed the story eventually would surface.”I’m not proud,” Ginger White told Atlanta’s WAGA-TV in a report that aired Monday evening. “I didn’t want to come out with this. I did not.” Cain preemptively addressed White’s [...]

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October 5, 2011    5:00 p.m. Steven P. Jobs, the charismatic technology pioneer who co-founded Apple Inc. and transformed one industry after another, from computers and smartphones to music and movies, has died. He was 56. Apple announced the death of Jobs — whose legacy included the Apple II, Macintosh, iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad. “We [...]

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Most of us are not archaeologists or astronomers, anthropologists or astrologers. Yet the majority of what is written about one of the most exciting and relevant subjects of our day – the approaching Winter Solstice 2012 end-date of the Mayan Calendar – appears in words aimed at specialists and couched in language that can be [...]

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Sep 1, 2011   3:08 PM ET A Renfrew, Ont., contractor has been sentenced to 71 days in jail and his company fined $90,000 for making deceptive claims and failing to refund customers. Phil Slobodzian and his company PSC New Home Construction Inc. were found guilty of: engaging in unfair practices by making false, misleading or [...]

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Aug. 11, 2011 Gary Giordano had a history of sending aggressive, angry texts to missing Maryland woman Robyn Gardner, according to her best friend and roommate. Christina Jones said Giordano, who is being held in an Aruba jail in connection with Gardner’s disappearance, had previously asked Gardner to go on a cruise with him. When [...]

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Aug. 4, 2011 Rumors surrounding Vladimir Putin’s love life have been lighting up the Russian gossip columns yet again recently, after it was announced the prime minister hired a former beauty contestant and lingerie model as his official photographer. Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitri Peskov, insisted that Yana Lapikova had been hired on merit not because of [...]

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17 July 2011 Last updated at 15:04 ET  The UK’s most senior officer, Sir Paul Stephenson, survived the first two major crises of his reign – the arrest of Conservative MP Damian Green and the student protests. But he resigned without warning, as the Metropolitan police force became drawn ever closer into the phone hacking [...]

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July 7, 2011  1:20 pm Elizabeth Smart captured the nation’s attention after being kidnapped and held captive by a Salt Lake City street preacher for nine months at age 14. Now, at 23, Smart is joining ABC News as a commentator focusing on missing-person and child-abduction cases. “We expect that she can add some insightful, [...]

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07/3/11 10:25 AM ET The sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra led Thailand’s main opposition party to a landslide victory in elections Sunday, heralding an extraordinary political turnaround five tumultuous years after her fugitive billionaire brother was toppled in an army coup. The vote paves the way for 44-year-old Yingluck Shinawatra, who has [...]

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Fri Jun 24 11:16am EDT Chair umpire Graeme Jones was mangling the name of German tennis player Julia Goerges at Wimbledon on Thursday, mispronouncing her name in various ways but especially in saying her last name as “gorgeous.” It’s a joke Goerges has heard many times before. “Julia Gorgeous” they call her, partially because she’s [...]

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Sunday May 29th, 2011 A hundred years is a long time. How long? When the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race was first held in 1911, the RMS Titanicwas still under construction in Ireland, Orville and Wilbur Wright were touring the country and showing folks their newfangled “aeroplane,” and Yale University had America’s best college football program. The [...]

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May 25th, 2011 2011 has been one of the most dangerous severe weather years in recent history, with over 400 fatalities to date and massive damage between the Southeast’s tornado outbreak in late April to the current spate of tornadoes that are devastating parts of the Midwest this week. Dr. Greg Forbes, severe weather expert [...]

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