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1fda752dffef927eeddb4e628c876229e9f06289 | (CNN) -- Say what you will about Facebook, but the social network is not too proud to copy. Facebook is reportedly considering co-opting the hashtags that first emerged on Twitter, following its previous aping of the Twitter model of following strangers and sharing content publicly. Facebook is testing the idea of supp... | Facebook is reportedly considering adding a Twitter-like hashtag .
The feature pulls together all posts that use that tag .
Doing so would create new real estate to offer to advertisers . |
1fdc35e82b0c2e29206c2524fba808c07e7e48b7 | Paris (CNN) -- Former French President Jacques Chirac was found guilty Thursday on corruption charges stemming from his time as mayor of Paris and given a two-year suspended sentence, a court in the French capital announced. He was convicted of breach of trust, misappropriation of public funds and illegal use of influe... | Chirac has always denied wrongdoing while mayor of Paris .
The former president was accused of embezzling and misusing funds .
He was mayor from 1977 to 1995 .
Nine others were accused of corruption . |
1fdc78cb61a844afaf85ebd89424f52a5d794001 | By . Lucy Waterlow . PUBLISHED: . 13:22 EST, 27 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 17:44 EST, 27 February 2013 . At the age of just 20, Hannah Cockroft is a multiple world record holder, double paralympic gold medallist and an MBE thanks to her talent for wheelchair racing. But while no-one can doubt her sporting prowess, ... | Gold medallist told MailOnline she's often patronised because she's in a wheelchair .
But she said there have been big improvements in perceptions of people with disabilities since London 2012 Paralympics .
She's now helping charity Whizz-Kidz build on this to improve the lives of those with disabilities .
Hannah said ... |
1fdd28620ec47cf53fffce740c55bdaff7b3d80f | Singapore (CNN) -- A Singapore court ruled Friday that four people can be extradited to the United States to face conspiracy charges after electronic components from a U.S. company were smuggled to Iran and ended up in explosives in Iraq. The case is part of an effort by the U.S. to link Iran with attacks on its forces... | A Singapore judge says the four can be extradited .
The United States has requested their extradition after an indictment .
They are accused of illegally sending devices from a U.S. company to Iran .
Prosecutors say the U.S. electronics turned up in undetonated improvised explosives in Iraq . |
1fde13ed84f9811e94e8d81439ed812ced2f76da | (PEOPLE.com) -- Heather Locklear was in "medically stable" condition at a Thousand Oaks, California, hospital Thursday night with her parents at her side. "She is in no danger and she's going to be just fine," Bill and Diane Locklear said in a statement issued by Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center. The "Melrose Place... | Heather Locklear was taken to the hospital after a 911 call .
"She is in no danger and she's going to be just fine," Bill and Diane Locklear said .
The hospital declined to disclose any medical information beyond Locklear's condition . |
1fdf898731442f2a78a85a4c45d773eb70e9bd56 | For the past few weeks, she has broken with tradition by declining to accept flowers from crowds at Sandringham. But the Queen appears to have had a change of heart after she stopped to collect bouquets from children outside St Peter's Church in Wolferton today. Wearing a pale apricot coat and matching hat, Her Majesty... | The Queen received flowers from waiting children after morning service .
She looked delighted as she chatted to well-wishers and collected gifts .
Follows Her Majesty's refusal to accept bouquets for two weeks in a row . |
1fdf97d52caac4361316768911b51f6753e2ccd0 | A man charged with killing an Auburn University football player opened fire because the athlete also was shooting a gun during a party, a defense lawyer said on Monday. Markhale Hart, 22, was defending himself when 18-year-old Jakell Mitchell was shot to death in Auburn last month, said Mark Allen Treadwell, an attorne... | Markhale Hart, 22, was defending himself when 18-year-old Jakell Mitchell was shot to death last month, said an attorney for Hart today .
Hart acknowledged killing the player during a late-night party at an apartment complex in Auburn on December 14, according to testimony . |
1fdffaea04dbe0ab06e21a39f6bdbaf42fb36711 | At the age of 20, I was going to have to spend the rest of my whole life . looking like Albert Steptoe. Or at least that's what I told myself on . the day a dentist grabbed my cracked front tooth, tore it out without . warning and gave me a denture. For the past 18 years I've lived with a plastic plate on the roof of m... | James Coney's front tooth had been knocked out twice while playing hockey .
He'd asked about replacing the denture, but procedure 'sounded terrifying'
Last December he saw Dr Eddie Scher, a 'walking, talking anaesthetic'
The supportive dentist fitted him with a colour-matched dental implant . |
1fe0638ca5babd1aa2da1002ba0454910a7a7100 | By . Ray Massey, Transport Editor . If the hectic pace of life and international travel is getting too much – British Airways believes it has the answer to calm you down – ‘Slow TV’. Forget the action packed shoot ‘em up ’ Hollywood blockbusters, the Star Wars-style space epics or break-neck speed car chases. BA bosses... | Passengers will de-stress to on-screen equivalent of watching paint dry .
Will be added to the usual 130 movies and 650 TV shows on board .
Staff will trial the train journey before expanding to other ‘slow’ shows .
'Slow TV’ is already popular in Scandinavia for its relaxing quality .
Others feature gentle tasks such ... |
1fe1b75e6504764bffa326bd80b5f82378933a61 | It's the latest off-the-wall craze in celebrity decor – bed linen designed to look like fast food. Miley Cyrus and socialite Lady Mary Charteris are among those who have posted pictures of their wacky bedspreads online. The aristocrat, 27, posted a picture of herself swathed in hamburger-print bedding on Instagram, say... | Linen printed with fast food decor is latest craze sweeping celebrity homes .
Miley Cyrus and Lady Charteris among those to post pictures of bed linen .
Baked potato beanbags, pizza duvets and broccoli cushions all available . |
1fe1f1b361cc32f697e043ed174519e1e609becb | (CNN)News that the United States has suspended operations at its embassy in Yemen -- and reports that Houthi rebels have seized U.S. Marines' weapons -- have laid bare the failure of U.S. policy in the country. The Houthis -- a Shiite insurgent group backed by Iran -- are now the key power brokers in Sanaa, Yemen's cap... | The United States suspended operations at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen this week .
Katherine Zimmerman: Even before, U.S. Yemen policy had only limited success . |
1fe25ec5f78506328c37c0ea8ad5293c15ea5780 | (CNN)It's three down, two to go for Tina Maze. Monday's gold medal win in the Alpine Combined, to go with a silver in the Super-G and gold in the Downhill at this year's Alpine World Ski Championships, means Maze is on the verge of making history. Should success in the Giant Slalom and Slalom follow then the 31-year-ol... | Tina Maze wins gold in the Alpine Combined at Alpine World Ski Championships .
Maze's third medal at Beaver Creek after silver in Super-G and gold in Downhill events .
Slovenian aiming to become first woman to win five individual medals at single World Championships .
Aiming for fourth in Thursday's giant slalom . |
1fe35dce98c803df6f065547c0717f06ff3e73d6 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 10:56 EST, 8 August 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 02:23 EST, 9 August 2012 . Stomach ulcers could have handed in their chips - thanks to the humble potato. Scientists at Manchester University have discovered spuds contain unique antibacterial molecules that can treat the condition. Membe... | Scientist at Manchester University was told of the potato's curative properties by her boyfriend's grandma . |
1fe423f2b8b032a1d5212e20a13203ad859e7f33 | By . Lucy Crossley . A schoolgirl fraudster aged just 12 scammed money out of members of the public by pretending she was collecting money in aid of a cancer charity. The child was reported to police after she approached Elaine Walton and asked her to donate. Mrs Walton gave the girl £5 after seeing her in Brighouse, W... | Girl approached Elaine Walton and asked her to donate to Cancer Trust .
Mrs Walton gave her £5, but was suspicious so checked up on the child .
She called Bradford Grammar School, where the girl said she studied .
But school had no record of her, and said pupils were not raising money .
Mrs Walton then called the polic... |
1fe44c771065e7722d3932fd9d5d31c08a76ed83 | Eight primary school children were rushed to hospital and more than 20 were treated by paramedics after a lorry slammed into the side of their school bus as they travelled home from a carol concert. The 40-seater bus was pulling out of a side street across a busy road on Tuesday afternoon when it was hit by a HGV, lea... | Bus was pulling out of side street onto busy road when it was hit by a HGV .
Vehicle was travelling through Pershore, Worcestershire, at 3pm yesterday .
One child taken to hospital on spinal board after complaining of neck pain .
Children, aged between nine and 11, attend St Nicholas CofE Middle School in Pinyin, Worce... |
1fe4ca2d38cd3f44500226aba4464484d379bf85 | It's not often you see a member of the Royal family wearing New Look. Even Kate, who has earned herself the nickname the Discount Duchess thanks of her love of Topshop, Reiss and Zara has never, as far as we know, shopped at New Look. And that makes trendy Beatrice a High Street pioneer. The cut-price princess hit the ... | The princess visited Peyote restaurant in Cork St, Mayfair .
Wore faux leather skirt from High St store and paired with bargain slippers . |
1fe4d2f9243c2817ab4f096e1ae5d2a3806edefe | The Kansas City Chiefs paid tribute to their safety Eric Berry at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday night during their game against the Denver Broncos. Berry, a 25-year-old safety in his fifth season with the Chiefs, will miss the rest of the season with what the team fear could be lymphoma. Berry experienced discomfort in h... | Eric Berry has been ruled out for the rest of the season .
Chiefs safety has a mass on his chest that is feared to be lymphoma .
Kansas City players and fans paid tribute to Berry on Sunday .
Players wore Berry's favourite all-red kit for game against Denver Broncos . |
1fe56d35b47f7585b6c95f047d922c2cc460fd84 | By . Inderdeep Bains . PC Saheena Tegally, 35, is accused of swapping numbers and sending a Porsche 911 driver flirty texts after pulling him over on the road . A policewoman is accused of telling colleagues to let an uninsured Porsche driver off the hook after sending him a flirtatious message reading: ‘It’s really ho... | PC Saheena Tegally 'began texting driver hours after pulling him over'
She had been on patrol with two colleagues in Highgate, north London .
Tegally is accused of concealing fact that a .
car driven without insurance .
The 35-year-old denies one charge of perverting the course of justice . |
1fe576eaf7006a4b814835560fd93434b6e962b0 | (CNN) -- When it comes to accommodation, Berlin is still the cheapest of the major European capital cities. The Flying Bed room makes for a unique stay at the Propeller Island City Lodge. Although you'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise if you stayed at the Ritz-Carlton (Potsdamer Platz 3). With its sumptuous interior... | Berlin is one of the cheapest European capitals to stay in .
The city has its fair share of top-of-the-range luxury hotels .
You can find cheaper options that still offer great modern design .
There are a number of themed 'novelty' hotels that offer a unique stay . |
1fe61b20c5e4e50fde07a1afc39cc603f68c99eb | By . Hugo Gye . PUBLISHED: . 08:35 EST, 29 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:04 EST, 29 October 2013 . A man was today arrested after a young woman was apparently stabbed to death on a busy commercial road. The 24-year-old Romanian immigrant collapsed in a fast-food chicken shop in Ilford, Essex shortly after midnight. ... | Woman collapsed in fast-food shop in Ilford, Essex after being stabbed .
Police are investigating after the 24-year-old died in hospital this morning .
A man was arrested this afternoon in connection with her death . |
1fe7d1602da1975b3f33c00fbb8deb50d6de53b0 | Sydney (CNN) -- Backpacking across India in 1981 as a young man fresh out of Sydney University, Tony Abbott found what he called "a country of contrasts, where bullock carts would take supplies into nuclear power stations." Now the man who opinion polls predict will be Australia's next prime minister after the Septembe... | Hiscock: If elected, Abbott and Rudd will likely adopt different positions towards India .
Sales of uranium, which India seeks, is a touchstone issue in the Australia-India relationship .
Abbott has stated that India is the emerging superpower Australia will never take "for granted"
Rudd, a former diplomat to Beijing, ... |
1fe7d16db2c7a742dc1bcf04bfb8e285e7909f03 | African Union soldiers in Somalia have raped and sexually exploited women and girls as young as 12 on their peacekeeping bases, a new report by an international human rights group has alleged. Human Rights Watch said the soldiers, relying on Somali intermediaries, have at times targeted women and girls who enter the ba... | Human Rights Watch said soldiers targeted women and girls on their bases .
Group interviewed 21 women and girls since 2013 who described being sexually abused or sexually exploited by military personnel .
Ten separate incidents of sexual abuse and 14 cases of sexual exploitation .
were documented during the period, the... |
1fe844305054474677e5e06e108918ae559b5002 | (CNN) -- In an attempt to reduce open street prostitution and to improve security for sex workers, Switzerland's largest city, Zurich, is opening "sex drive-ins" Monday. The nine garage-style structures, located in Sihlquai, a former industrial zone in the city, are equipped with alarm buttons and guarded by security p... | Sex workers will operate from garage-style structures with alarm buttons and guards .
The move is intended to take prostitution off the streets of Zurich, says project leader .
Some 30 to 40 women are expected to work at the site in Sihlquai each night .
The women can get health checkups on site, as well as advice from... |
1fe89a8e5acfe9855a02b5c6dcf0bf9c1e7369e4 | General Martin Dempsey says the hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment demonstrates that the military superiority enjoyed by the U.S does not necessarily carry over to the cyberworld. As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dempsey serves as President Barack Obama's chief military adviser. Dempsey was recently asked ... | US military boss says a cyber attack could 'disable critical infrastructure'
He is 'very uncomfortable' about competition in the cyber space .
He made the comments after North Korean hackers attacked Sony Pictures . |
1fe8e81f4158be6bb82931c90ad5aabe8a7f4540 | Paris (CNN) -- Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrived in Paris on Sunday morning, less than two weeks after a judge dismissed sexual assault charges against him in an international scandal that altered France's political landscape. The former International Monetary Fund chief was greeted with applause at a Paris airport before... | NEW: The former International Monetary Fund chief arrives at his apartment .
His homecoming marks the end of four-month court struggle .
A judge dismissed sexual assault charges against him .
A New York hotel maid had accused him of assaulting her . |
1fe941695b28fd93ef6fc1e81d139aa75fe6d8e2 | As any music fan knows, stuffing headphones into a bag causes them to become tangled, or damaged. The Mous Musicase attempts to solve this problem by storing the headphones inside a phone case fitted with a ‘winder.’ This means the headphones are protected, but they can also be extended or retracted easily, by spinning... | The Mous Musicase is available for the iPhone 5, 5S and 6 .
It is only currently compatible with Apple’s proprietary headphones .
Designers have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise £10,000 ($15,850)
Pre-order prices range from £15 ($23) up to a limited edition £21 ($33) model .
Once the campaign ends, on 9 Decembe... |
1feac820c0dfce70657ec53fc228f3c258a83b1d | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 06:31 EST, 6 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:37 EST, 6 December 2013 . A signed copy of a book by assassinated US president John F Kennedy, said to be intended as a gift to the Queen, is to go under the hammer. The copy of Why England Slept, by John F Kennedy, which bears the d... | Why England Slept is being sold online on auction site Picollecta.com .
JFK wrote book, about events that led to WWII, while studying at Harvard .
The dedication reads: 'To Elizabeth (II) with affection John F Kennedy'
Below signature he adds in brackets: 'We must not fear to negotiate'
Expected to fetch hundreds of po... |
1feb4ba71a8d253c678adeed791b2d6dcbbbeafe | Brendan Rodgers insists Mario Balotelli can still forge a career with Liverpool – and believes he is ready for the fight. The Italy striker has not started a game for Liverpool since November 8, when they lost 2-1 to Chelsea at Anfield, and there is a doubt about whether he will even be in the squad for Tuesday’s Capit... | Mario Balotelli has not started a game for Liverpool since November 8 .
Brendan Rodgers insists the Italy striker will be given another chance .
Rodgers says that Balotelli is ready to fight for his place in the team .
Liverpool play Chelsea in the Capital One Cup semi second leg on Tuesday .
Click here for more Liverp... |
1feb9e4855c603b6481ff556abed6be74862b2c5 | By . Becky Evans . PUBLISHED: . 21:31 EST, 1 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 03:59 EST, 2 October 2013 . They may not have had an aristocratic start in life but these abandoned puppies are hoping to move up in the world now they are named after the stars of Downton Abbey. The nine lurcher puppies were named after the cha... | The puppies were discovered crying in a box left in a park in Southampton .
Staff at Blue Cross named them after famous characters from ITV1 drama . |
1fec95f87666c6c00d6234491af9b91b8aee82b0 | New York (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday unveiled what she described as a "blueprint" to guide global efforts in wiping out the AIDS virus, focusing on improving treatment and prevention practices to "get ahead of the pandemic." The initiative is part of a plan to "usher in an AIDS-free gen... | The announcement comes amid significant gains in fighting the virus .
AIDS-related deaths have dropped more than 25% over the last six years, U.N. says .
About 1.1 million people in the U.S. live with HIV, the CDC says .
Roughly 50,000 people contract the virus each year . |
1feca1205b4b9a32f41cd29b155ed6ca559db07b | Fly-tippers face losing the cars or vans they use to illegally dump old furniture and rubbish. Under tough new laws, enforcement officers are to be given the power to seize vehicles from outside offenders’ homes or businesses without having to go to court for a warrant. They will then be able to keep them for up to 30 ... | Fly-tippers face losing cars used to dump rubbish under tough new laws .
Enforcement officers to be given power to seize vehicles without warrant .
Offenders could be jailed for five years and face fines of up to £50,000 .
852,000 fly-tipping incidents in England cost taxpayers £4million last year . |
1fed503af1d64a9568cdeaf8fff3c5f30669ad76 | (CNN) -- Last week, we gave you digital tips and tricks for surviving a layoff -- the first seven days, at least. Now, here we are again, an entire Wednesday later, prepared to help you gird your loins for the job search ahead. So, wipe the Cheeto dust from your fingers and peel yourself out of that body-shaped imprint... | Our Netiquette columnists offer advice on digital job-hunting tools .
Follow companies on LinkedIn to see what current employees are in your circle .
While there's no shame in being let go, your cover letter should shimmer with hirability .
Massive job listing sites are often disorganized, crowded and teeming with huma... |
1fee7ee10e35661c1d71824a1d28a0018e3b7749 | By . Snejana Farberov . PUBLISHED: . 16:57 EST, 19 March 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 17:18 EST, 19 March 2012 . A nine-year-old boy shot his grandfather dead while turkey hunting in a rural part of central Florida in what authorities are calling a tragic accident. Kenneth Lindsey Beach, 69, died Sunday morning after being sh... | Authorities say boy shot his grandfather, Kenneth Lindsey Beach, in the head .
No charges are expected to be filed in the shooting .
Victim described by a detective as a seasoned hunter . |
1fef30aab2f712d6b6b6fb22cb00f227cd2a8cfd | They have plagued feet for centuries, but only now have physicists revealed what causes ingrown nails. Experts have come up with the first mathematical formulae that describe how human nails grow. They have discovered that ingrown toenails are caused when the forces holding nails in place, and their rate of growth, be... | Scientists at the University of Nottingham have come up with the first mathematical formulae that describe how human nails grow .
They say ingrown toenails are caused when the forces holding nails in place, and their rate of growth, become unbalanced .
Other factors, such as the thickness of the nail, biomechanical str... |
1fefa395760cf6e1226ec5ee24eb75526d7753ca | Coronation Street actress Barbara Knox is to go on trial for drink-driving in February next year. The 81-year-old, who plays Rita Tanner in the ITV soap, did not attend Crewe Magistrates’ Court today, where a two-day trial was fixed, starting on February 9 next year. The actress denies the offence. Knox was charged fol... | Knox was charged following incident in Knutsford, Cheshire in March .
She visited police station after her daughter who caught drink-driving .
Officers thought she appeared intoxicated and ordered breathalyser test .
Sample of blood was taken which gave alcohol reading over legal limit .
The veteran actress denies the ... |
1ff19985c97190ff48c7bed98456dd7f254b1d5e | By . Lydia Warren . and Snejana Farberov . A basketball coach who suffered a brain injury in a car crash that killed his fiancee just days before their wedding has shown 'miraculous' progress in hospital, family friends have said. John Redman, 25, was driving his bride-to-be, Brittany Huber, 23, from Dalton, Georgia to... | Brittany Huber, 23, was killed on impact when fiance John Redman, 25, lost control of his Lexus on Interstate 85 in Meriweather County, Georgia .
The couple was heading to Alabama where they were set to get married .
But a memorial was held at the church instead - with her bridesmaids wearing their matching dresses .
R... |
1ff23e790395786af7db401235c2c3d491a74a32 | By . Kate Lyons . The U.S. Justice Department has filed papers accusing Russian Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, pictured, as being the leader of the gang behind the software . The dangerous cyber pandemic known as Gameover Zeus could have infected thousands of Australian computers and be lying dormant gathering data, ex... | Up to one million computers have been infected by 'Gameover Zeus'
The software can lie dormant on computers before draining accounts .
Thousands of Australian computers may be infected with the malware, which is extremely sophisticated and can evade anti-virus software .
An international police effort has halted the sp... |
1ff269148d56ad46c735dffc056a6244c38daba6 | (CNN) -- The unlikely alchemy of a hard-rock legend and a bluegrass superstar created Grammy gold Sunday night, as Robert Plant and Alison Krauss picked up five awards -- including album and record of the year -- for their work, "Raising Sand." Alison Krauss and Robert Plant's song "Please Read the Letter" won record o... | Robert Plant, Alison Krauss "Raising Sand" is album of year .
Plant, Krauss' work wins five Grammys total .
Coldplay wins song of the year for "Viva La Vida," best rock album .
Jennifer Hudson wins best R&B album . |
1ff29e4b2d15705a1e614a749868eeef28eb6527 | Editor's note: Tara Wall is deputy editor for The Washington Times. Before joining the newspaper, she was a senior adviser for the Republican National Committee and was named a public affairs director in the Department of Health and Human Services by President Bush. Read her columns here. Tara Wall says President Bush ... | Tara Wall: Barack Obama praised President Bush for cooperative nature of transition .
Wall: It was a final act of civility by Bush; she says he wasn't given same by Clinton .
She says Bush delivered on national security and many domestic issues .
Bush will be remembered for keeping America safe, Wall says . |
1ff363a09611b7283d2902e8498ff0096effbad4 | (CNN Student News) -- April 19, 2013 . Download PDF maps related to today's show: . West, Texas; Boston, Massachusetts; Mississippi . Click here to access the transcript of today's CNN Student News program. Please note that there may be a delay between the time when the video is available and when the transcript is pub... | The daily transcript is a written version of each day's CNN Student News program .
Use this transcript to help students with reading comprehension and vocabulary .
Use the weekly Newsquiz to test your knowledge of stories you saw on CNN Student News . |
1ff4728ec9d683b0b1cd4c8d1cb696f9942055bc | For all the talk of a possible cease-fire, residents of Israel and Palestinians in Gaza are living under a daily barrage of attacks. More than 1,200 Palestinians have been killed, as have 53 Israeli soldiers and three civilians in Israel. Israel said it has wiped out the majority of Hamas' rocket supply, but the fighti... | Hamas vows it has "a lot to surprise the enemy"
Israel vows to stop threats "diplomatically or military"
Israel believes about 60% of Hamas' rockets depleted .
More than 500 Iron Dome missiles have been used . |
1ff476f60b103817cdd5ebe925cc7c31e9039276 | By . Alex Ward . PUBLISHED: . 07:51 EST, 30 July 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 17:30 EST, 30 July 2012 . Thirty two sleeping passengers were killed last night as a fire tore through an express train carriage in India. The horrific blaze broke out on a long distance service from New Delhi as passengers slept in the early hours ... | The fire gutted a carriage on the express train from New Delhi .
32 people are dead and another 26 injured, two critically .
It is believed to have been caused by an electrical short circuit .
The train was less than 120 miles from its destination of Chennai .
The accident comes after two fatal Indian train accidents i... |
1ff53ff37ee481dd8815cc6929521d50e232491b | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 08:33 EST, 27 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 09:02 EST, 27 November 2012 . A father and daughter shared a terrifying moment when a whale nearly capsized their boat during a canoeing expedition. The pair were in a small boat off Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia, when the giant... | Pair were in a canoe off Fraser Island when two of the mammals swim beneath her vessel, threatening to capsize it. |
1ff78e38387af873150f8c53225795dfa3d72539 | Alan Pardew will attempt to bring goals to Newcastle as he prepares for an intensely difficult start to the Christmas campaign. The Magpies travel to in-form Manchester United on Boxing Day on the back of three successive defeats, the last of them a 1-0 reverse at the hands of neighbours Sunderland, an unprecedented fo... | Newcastle United lost 1-0 against Sunderland at St James' Park .
Alan Pardew's men face Manchester United next at Old Trafford .
Newcastle have lost three in a row in all competitions . |
1ff7d4ab5364e0d0ef583cf481ad2f3c471a0323 | Boko Haram insurgents kidnapped at least 185 women and children, and killed 32 people in a raid in northeastern Nigeria this week, local officials and residents said. Gunmen in pickup trucks attacked the village of Gumsuri, just north of Chibok, on Sunday, shooting down men before herding women and children together. "... | Boko Haram overruns a Nigerian village in pickup trucks, shooting at men .
The insurgents douse houses with gasoline and set them on fire .
They round up women, girls and boys and kidnap them .
News takes days to get out, since telecommunications towers had been destroyed . |
1ff84b6522290e8e8ba157f263d8d3f4fbc93258 | Spain, one of the eurozone's economic giants, is widely expected to become the bloc's next victim of the debt crisis. The eurozone's fourth-largest economy appears headed toward a sovereign bailout, market watchers say. The question now is when. Spain faces regional dissent ahead of local elections, 20 billion euros ($... | Spain faces regional dissent ahead of local elections, 20 billion euro in debt repayments due this month .
Spain is already poised to tap Europe's bailout funds to help its banks, which require almost 60 billion euros .
The eurozone's fourth largest economy will need a sovereign bailout, market watchers say . |
1ff8b7f2567b4dad3b4712e7379df802b82b0776 | In the run-up to Christmas, one pet store owner in New Hampshire was horrified to find 13 dogs worth more than $5,000 had been snatched Tuesday morning. But thanks to swift action from police, the puppies from Bill's Pet and Aquarium in Manchester were recovered unscathed. An officer attending the scene spotted a teena... | 13 puppies were stolen from Bill's Pet and Aquarium in New Hampshire Tuesday morning .
Police were called to the scene with four teen suspects quickly identified .
The animals were located at a home nearby and returned to the store . |
1ffbd08c6eb908534bf7e9446010fd40d912ee5a | By . Fiona Macrae . PUBLISHED: . 14:35 EST, 4 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 10:22 EST, 6 December 2013 . Tragic: Beth Warren with her husband Warren before he died . Beth Warren and her husband dreamt of having two children – a boy and a girl. But he died of cancer before they could start a family and she has launched... | Beth Warren, 28, from Birmingham said she needs more time to think .
Her husband, Warren Brewer, died from a brain tumour in 2012 .
The couple got married in a hospice six weeks before he passed away .
His sperm was stored before he underwent radiotherapy treatment in 2005 .
But fertility regulator has said the sample ... |
1ffc2003bd1067c1562c535c0c6a73408d68ee2b | Photographer Jason Cole has been behind the camera at almost 1,400 weddings, but there is one he will never forget - the one where he met his future wife. The only snag was she was the bride. The 44-year-old, from Woollongong, south of Sydney, first met Julie Bridges, 28, in 2009 when he sat down with her and her husba... | Woollongong couple Jason and Julie Cole got married on June 7 .
They met in 2009 during a photo consultation for Julie's first wedding .
Jason was the wedding photographer for his now-wife's special day .
The Coles got together after the breakdown of Julie's first marriage . |
1ffc59836f9a7b9e45a122354f384cc98448e483 | (CNN) -- Every non-democratic government faces the following problem: when they tell the truth, everyone thinks it is a lie. Recently, the new leadership of the Chinese government has launched one of the most intense anti-corruption campaigns in decades to, as President Xi Jinping put it, fight both "flies" and "tigers... | Wang: The recent corruption crackdown creates problems for China's political elite .
The conviction of Bo Xilai follows a familiar pattern during Chinese leadership changes .
Few observers believe Bo conviction marks a success in the anti-corruption campaign .
The Communist Party needs to institute strong independent i... |
1ffc6cd2b8d58acc3f3e5e4dda999a2188b41f1f | A New York man pleaded guilty Thursday to three charges over online threats he posted against the creators of the television show "South Park," the Department of Justice said. Appearing before a Virginia federal court, Jesse Curtis Morton admitted to charges of using the Internet to conspire to solicit murder, making t... | The former Brooklyn resident, also known as Younus Abdullah Mohammad, pleaded guilty .
The Muslim convert faces a maximum of five years in jail for each of three charges .
Morton is the co-founder of Revolution Muslim, a radical group based in New York City .
He threatened writers of "South Park" over an episode depict... |
1ffeb53de382a8f9b289e174b77e3e81e4f90f0c | By . James Chapman . PUBLISHED: . 18:25 EST, 5 December 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 08:01 EST, 6 December 2012 . George Osborne targeted workers at the top, middle and bottom of the financial heap yesterday with a raft of money-saving measures. He ordered a tax raid on higher earners’ pensions, warning that Britain is only a... | Mr Osborne targeted workers at top, middle and bottom of financial heap .
Hardest hit by measures will be top 10% and bottom 10% of earners .
Economy predicted to shrink by 0.1% in 2012 according to statement .
Schools given discretion to raise teachers' pay if they perform well .
Extra £5bn to be used for infrastructu... |
1fffdc7fefbae08431aac1d3c99a8055192e2d19 | (CNN)Way to make us weep, Taylor Swift. As if she didn't smash 2014 enough with a blockbuster album and dominance of the headlines, Swift had one final gift for the world on December 31. The superstar posted a video of her gift-giving to fans, which has become known as "Swiftmas." Here's how it worked: After the succes... | Taylor Swift released a video December 31 .
In it, she sends fans gifts for the holidays .
The reactions are tears, squeals and meltdowns . |
20014c3229adacd086634462507756cfad889c1d | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 16:00 EST, 21 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 22:27 EST, 21 July 2013 . An Arizona mother is furious after her two-year-old son's former daycare center posted a public warning with his picture online accusing him of 'biting'. After kicking little Ryan Jones out of Tiny Tots in Chandle... | Arizona mom devastated after daycare center posted warning on Craigslist accusing her son of biting .
Other parents have come forward complaining about owners, Maria and Carmella Sul . |
2002a7846e14337ccebdd3d4182f497362e57318 | (CNN) -- Novak Djokovic's tennis shoes turned into dancing shoes when he returned to action at the Rogers Cup. The world No. 1 polished off Germany's Florian Mayer 6-2 6-1 in under an hour on Tuesday and then boogied on center court to the hit song, "Get lucky" by Daft Punk. Djokovic hasn't always had the fans on his s... | Novak Djokovic beats Florian Mayer in under an hour in his first match since Wimbledon .
Rafael Nadal also returned at the Rogers Cup and won his doubles encounter .
Nadal and Andy Murray play their opening singles matches Wednesday in Montreal .
Venus Williams loses at the women's event in Toronto after claiming the f... |
2003f781b7152d9f91228e522882a591f82ca52b | By . Amanda Williams . PUBLISHED: . 04:46 EST, 23 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:54 EST, 23 December 2013 . Heather Mills has accused Paralympic officials of 'having it in for her' in an six-minute YouTube rant over a row about a specially adapted ski-boot which saw her disqualified from competing. Sir Paul McCartne... | Sir Paul McCartney's ex-wife quit UK Paralympic team in row over boot .
She was said to have lunged at official Sylvana Mestre after disqualified .
According to IPC sources, the 45-year-old had to be restrained by staff .
The mother-of-one was preparing for the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games .
Now, she has denied the cla... |
200528a6ee0165811f06b133041d7d82ca60b00d | (CNN) -- When trash disappears into the dumpster, where does it go? A straightforward question for many of us, but in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte there's seldom a simple answer where garbage is concerned. That's because the catadores (trash collectors) of the ASMARE cooperative are adept at transforming any ol... | Catadores are waste collectors who pick through trash to source recyclable materials .
There are an estimated one million catadores across the country .
The ASMARE organization is transforming recyclable materials into works of art . |
20055e07c5cd539c436bc68de547f98f643bb58d | A UK Border Agency officer read secret files at work to give migrants 'tailored' visa advice in a £113,000 scheme run by her fake lawyer boyfriend. Anjali Patel passed on confidential information to 28-year-old law student Abdul Farooq, who was charging desperate immigrants up to £13,000 while posing as a fully-qualifi... | Anjali Patel, 31, read secret files at work to give migrants 'tailored' advice .
Running the scheme was her boyfriend Abdul Farooq, 28, a law student .
He was still at London's Brunel University but claimed to be qualified .
People from Bangladesh to Colombia paid him up to £13,000 for help .
They both had large gambli... |
200612122b517548b7de291c6573cddfddb731bf | London (CNN) -- Hugh Grant took aim at the British press Monday, calling the hacking of a murdered schoolgirl's voice mail "cowardly and shocking." The British actor also accused newspapers of using criminals as paparazzi and the Mail on Sunday of hacking into his voice mail. The "Four Weddings and a Funeral" star was ... | NEW: Grant calls the hacking of a murdered girl's phone "cowardly and shocking"
Milly Dowler's mother describes how phone hacking gave her false hope .
Journalists hacked Milly Dowler's phone before her body was discovered .
Police say up to 5,800 people were targets of phone hacking . |
2007bd0b7b7ad08d8e4850afef7463962081ba19 | A young woman has documented the moment an annoying pothole in her street grew so large within an hour that she could climb into it. Taking local road maintenance into her own hands, trainee paramedic Krystal Chapman live-tweeted hilarious pictures of her body sinking into the tarmac hole outside her home in North Curl... | Trainee paramedic Krystal Chapman found the pothole outside her home .
She took a series of photos showing the gap getting worse .
Ms Chapman stuck her legs into the pothole to illustrate it getting worse .
Warringah council, in Sydney, fixed the hole within 24 hours . |
2007c5da4924f04c67a3df00274316e8d4108733 | By . Chris Wheeler . Follow @@ChrisWheelerDM . The scandal surrounding FIFA over Qatar’s World Cup bid is reminiscent of the crisis that engulfed the International Olympic Committee over the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. The IOC and its late president Juan Antonio Samaranch had long been suspected of corruption ... | Allegations of corruption in 1998 saw 10 IOC members expelled .
Olympic bid gave cash and gifts to voting members .
Members had children's tuition paid and even free cosmetic surgery .
FIFA facing similar scandal over Qatar 2022 World Cup bid . |
20084fece77e9b082e4c0a2adcbfa0542a18a257 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 05:05 EST, 13 June 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 12:58 EST, 13 June 2012 . France has called for the United Nations to enforce envoy Kofi Annan's six-point peace plan for Syria - in a move which could see force used against Assad's regime. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said he was hopi... | French Foreign Minister hopes Russia will agree to invoking UN's Chap. 7 .
It allows the use of force to impose a peace plan on Assad's brutal regime .
Echoes UN peacekeeping chief's comments that Syria now in 'civil war'
Hilary Clinton had said she was worried Russia was sending helicopters .
Russia replies by saying ... |
2008a3d23057225e42392a5292c70db63d6223ea | (EW.com) -- The New Year will bring with it a new era of late-night TV. In preparation for the big change, Time magazine asked Seth Meyers -- who will take over "Late Night" in February when Jimmy Fallon moves on to host the "Tonight Show" — to grace the cover of its 2014 forecast issue. In the cover piece, available... | Time magazine asked Seth Meyers to be on its 2014 forecast issue cover .
He'll take over "Late Night" in February .
His studio is still being built, but the format is not .
Amy Poehler is expected to be on his first show . |
2008c0585b9320dbcb6e40eeb38a81bbd795d821 | (CNN) -- Aung San Suu Kyi, the Myanmar democratic freedom activist who spent 15 years under house arrest, accepted the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal on Wednesday. Suu Kyi called the ceremony one of the most moving days of her life. "From the depths of my heart, I thank you, the people of America and you, their represen... | NEW: Obama praises Suu Kyi's "courage, determination and personal sacrifice"
Aung San Suu Kyi thanks U.S. for support .
She expressed support Tuesday for easing U.S. sanctions on Myanmar .
Suu Kyi is on her first visit to the United States since being freed in 2010 . |
2009042c49da8b92c1a40f29cb9ff483d13c7ccd | By . Ryan Gorman . PUBLISHED: . 20:45 EST, 7 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 03:51 EST, 8 December 2013 . A Pearl Harbor survivor trying to fly to a remembrance ceremony this week almost missed it entirely. Ewalt Shatz, 90, is upset with United Airlines after he was bumped from his Los Angeles to Honolulu flight despite... | Ewalt Shatz was bumped from the United Airlines flight along with 41 others because the plane was 'overweight'
He took an American Airlines flight booked by a United agent and landed a few hours later than originally scheduled . |
20094a2b01f0368ba3fa8459bfeba3fb0f712a9a | Sean Abbott has emerged from the darkest two weeks of his life to power NSW to a dramatic Sheffield Shield victory over Queensland at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Abbott tore through the Queensland batting order to claim 6-14 and dismiss the Bulls for 99 in pursuit of 179 in the second session on the final day of the cla... | Abbott receives a standing ovation as his stellar bowling performance drives New South Wales to dramatic Sheffield Shield victory .
Proud Australian batsman David Warner clapped his bat in his hand upon learning of the result on the screen at Adelaide Oval .
He tore through the Queensland batting order to claim 6-14 an... |
200a9e7059228961c0912ba25930791b9bdc8565 | By . Rob Waugh . PUBLISHED: . 05:35 EST, 9 July 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 06:11 EST, 9 July 2012 . Olympus is to release a pair of 'techno-glasses' that put a computer display directly in front of your eyes - and can also make the world itself look cheerier by turning up the brightness. The MEG4.0 glasses work with a see-t... | Camera giant takes on Google and Apple with 'wearable computer'
Prototype links to smartphones using Bluetooth .
Lenses can 'brighten up' view of world .
Can also display computer information from a phone direct in the lens . |
200b3c51c6ab13f2e549483d87dd3d5b5686a421 | The parents of the model shot dead by Oscar Pistorius have attacked the 'volatile' and 'trigger-happy' athlete saying 'sooner or later he would have killed someone'. They have sat through an agonising seven-month trial, but June and Barry Steenkamp said justice for their daughter Reeva, 29, has not been served as the '... | Barry and June Steenkamp said justice has not been served for Reeva .
They said Oscar Pistorius would have killed someone 'sooner or later'
He has been jailed for five years, but could be out in 10 months .
Mrs Steenkamp described him as 'pathetic' in book Reeva: A Mother's Story .
Both parents have a recurring image ... |
200c54885ecbad13f78b4997bae21f7e502f8571 | ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- At its worst, Melissa Miller's blood pressure measured 153 over 95, dangerously high for anyone, never mind a woman who is 36 weeks pregnant. Melissa Miller, put on bed rest because of preeclampsia, prepares for a doctor-ordered Caesarean section. Miller, 29 of Atlanta, Georgia, had preeclamps... | Preeclampsia is also known as pregnancy-induced hypertension .
Occurs in up to 8 percent of all pregnancies, is among most serious complications .
Symptoms include blood pressure higher than 140 over 90, severe headaches .
Patients usually put on bed rest; only cure is to deliver the baby . |
200d3120cdf75d3a6d9d4977605ea4640186ee33 | The overall documented death toll in devastated Syria has reached 92,901, the United Nations said Thursday. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay announced the figure, saying it was a result of an updated analysis carried out by specialists and covers the period between March 2011 and the end of April 201... | More than 5,000 people a month are dying in Syria, the U.N. says .
The actual death rate is believed to be much higher .
More than 80% of the victims are male, U.N. says, and thousands are minors . |
200e42ab0e6d994343c4dc4cc75bc547891b5fd9 | (CNN) -- He was barely a teenager, while on the other side of the net stood his country's most famous face. A towering figure who had won Wimbledon just one year earlier. Despite the pressure, budding tennis star Marin Cilic handled both his nerves and his racquet well enough to impress Goran Ivanisevic. "It was an ext... | 2014 has been Marin Cilic's most successful year .
26-year-old won four titles, including first major grand slam, the U.S. Open, in September .
Croatian has had to wrestle back credibility following failed doping test in April 2013 .
Big server says his time out of the game has contributed to his fantastic year . |
200f92f262b6431febbca8c56f03207b0eed702c | By . Simon Jones . Newcastle misfit Hatem Ben Arfa is wanted by Serie A giants AC Milan. And the Frenchman has been told he can leave and Newcastle want around £12million. The 27-year-old was left out of the first team squad that toured New Zealand and has been training with the reserves. Wanted: Hatem Ben Arfa is a ta... | Newcastle's Hatem Ben Arfa is wanted by AC Milan .
Frenchman told he can leave for £12million .
Club also linked with Sochaux midfielder Sanjin Prcic . |
20111e02a0c3afeed0ecfac42fb24966854d1fd7 | Washington (CNN) -- Family members of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. were involved in a bus accident Wednesday after the high-profile ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of King's "I Have a Dream" speech, police said. The bus and a car collided near Washington's Tidal Basin just off the National Mall where the cerem... | A bus was carrying members of King family after 'Dream' speech ceremony .
The bus and a car collided near Washington's Tidal Basin just off the National Mall .
Reality star Omarosa Manigault said she was on the bus: 'We were very afraid'
Mall Police say a person in the car taken to hospital; no report yet on bus passen... |
20119a8bef4fa480043b13f9a6c361268e50a3ee | More than 6,000 new recruits have joined ISIS since America started targeting the terrorist group with air strikes last month, it has been claimed. Of those radical Muslims flocking to ISIS' ranks, at least 1,300 are foreigners who have arrived from outside the vast swaths of Syria and Iraq currently under the group's ... | Thousands of radical Muslims have joined ISIS since first airstrike in August .
At least 1,300 are young foreigners arriving from outside Syria and Iraq .
Vast majority of new Western recruits aged between 15 and 20-years-old .
20 new militants said to be arriving daily in Syrian town of al-Bab alone .
News comes as Fr... |
2012b71d8909d5f40c5917b3e2d57f975806bbaa | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Barack Obama poked fun Saturday night at his chief of staff and ribbed Washington's elite during a black-tie dinner at Alfalfa Club, a 93-year-old Washington social club. Colin Powell chats with other guests at the Alfalfa dinner in Washington on Saturday night. The first African-American ... | Obama pokes fun at D.C. power dinner hosted by once-exclusive club .
At the annual Alfalfa dinner, Obama makes fun of his chief of staff's potty mouth .
Obama jokes about his BlackBerry and how no one has his e-mail address . |
2012eb5e4fb3fb51afc07e4c79a1873e87036bad | (CNN) -- Roma romped to a third successive league win on Sunday to close the gap with league leaders Juventus to six points. Cote d'Ivoire striker Gervinho provided the attacking flair with a goal and an assist as Serie A's second placed side won 3-1 on the road at Hellas Verona. Reigning champions Juve could only draw... | Roma record a 3-1 against Hellas Verona to move to within six points of leaders Juventus .
AC Milan record back-to-back wins for the first time this season with a 2-1 win against Cagliari .
City rivals Inter, who play Juventus next weekend, played out a goalless draw at Catania . |
20131c65091fddeb41bdd69ea47637d14643a81e | Shocking claims of abuse within a secret NSW-based religious group have come to light after former members revealed the years of torment they endured at the hands their 'cult leader'. Self-styled guru Pastor Scott Williams allegedly used his warped brand of evangelical Pentecostalism to run a secret homosexual sex ring... | Former members of NSW-based religious group have detailed claims of sexual abuse at the hands of leader Pastor Scott Williams .
One woman revealed she was told she was evil from the moment she was born and detailed the horror of growing up in the cult .
A former male member told of how his wife was beaten with a stick ... |
201396e794767516a2bf8c3d013e69525081fc80 | A stirring social campaign to highlight the issue of homelessness at Christmas has launched by making those who so often go unnoticed impossible to miss. A video circulated by Adot.com begins with homeless people rummaging in bins only to find what appears to be pieces of wire, which they then wrap around the arms, fac... | Adot.com launched #ShedLight campaign with stirring video .
Advert illuminates homeless people with Christmas lights .
Campaign makes those who so often go ignored unmissable . |
2014a3bd70be3b01c056dabed879d5eaa0a8a8a7 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 08:05 EST, 6 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 13:23 EST, 6 March 2013 . This badger had the RSPCA and firefighters running around in circles after giving both emergency services the slip. The creature was discovered at the foot of cliffs in Saltdean, near Brighton, East Sussex, at 8am... | Creature discovered at the foot of cliffs in Saltdean near Brighton .
Animal got stuck underneath RSPCA van which had to be lifted up .
As it was freed the cheeky badger ran to another van to hide .
The animal was finally caught and will be released back into the wild . |
2014aa562c1d05dbbba727db120d9e163fb8f43a | Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Five U.S. service members were killed when a helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan, a U.S. official said early Tuesday. The chopper went down Monday in the Daman district of southern Kandahar during a rain storm, said Jawid Faisal, a government spokesman for the province. There was no e... | NEW: A U.S. official says those killed were Americans .
Crash happens in southern Afghanistan on Monday .
Military says there was no enemy activity in the area .
There have been 18 coalition deaths in 2013 . |
2016929a500fcae2132c3149f947ac3f567035ff | A sham marriage operation was uncovered after a couple who could not speak the same language had to resort to an iPhone translation app in the register office, a court heard. The cross-Channel ‘delivery service’ scam which brought in brides from Eastern Europe was well organised and was compared by prosecutors to the r... | Jury told Klement Buncik, 43, brought Czech women to UK on ferries .
One bride booked flight to Prague after tying knot, court was told .
Another couple celebrate their wedding by getting a KFC afterwards .
Two couples deny conspiracy to assist illegal immigration after sting . |
2017a52f544c24fb5eafeaec32cc8150da394612 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . A black man has been accused of being an illegal cab driver after city investigators spotted him dropping of his white wife to work, their lawsuit has revealed. Dan Keys Jr., 66, and his wife Symone Palermo, 53, have accused the Taxi and Limousine Commission of racially profiling them and ser... | Dan Keys Jr., 66, dropped off his wife Symone Palermo, 53, at work in Queens, New York and was promptly stopped by authorities .
He was driving a black Town Car and his wife had been sitting in the back because rainwater had made the front seat wet the day before .
They 'accused him of running a cab service without bei... |
201a4960235f4847560fd1eb0b895722af352a6b | Engineers from McLaren and Ferrari are used to going head-to-head on the Formula One race track in order to give drivers the best chance of taking poll position. But the two racing thoroughbreds are now competing in bobsleigh and skeleton events at the Winter Olympics too as they have both built cutting-edge equipment ... | McLaren applied the .
same technologies used in the F1 world to improve aerodynamic .
efficiency and structural integrity of the team's new sleds .
Company explained how it makes tiny design tweaks to make the sleds faster within strict sporting rules in a top secret process .
McLaren used huge wind tunnels and compute... |
201a83866446856dc3c7759525e90927e8fcee3d | Cristiano Ronaldo has had quite a career. From Sporting Lisbon, to Manchester United, to the very top at Real Madrid. To celebrate his third Ballon d'Or title, and second in a row, one Ronaldo fan has created a flipbook animation of his most memorable moments, shown while walking through the streets of Manchester to Ma... | Cristiano Ronaldo won his third Ballon d'Or title on Monday evening .
One fan of the Real Madrid man has created a flipbook animation .
The clip shows his career from Manchester United to Real Madrid .
In the background, the creator travels from Old Trafford to the Bernabeu . |
201ac92e0d5cdcd6cfb309817b0aa7e1668552e4 | Diego Costa trained with Chelsea on Thursday hours after it was confirmed that he's highly likely to miss the crunch Premier League clash against Manchester City this weekend. The Spain striker was charged by the FA on Wednesday evening for stamping on Emre Can during the Capital One Cup semi-final win against Liverpoo... | Diego Costa was present at Cobham on Thursday afternoon .
The Chelsea striker has contested his charge for violent conduct .
The Spanish striker is still likely to face a three-match ban . |
201ac98b8667e86c409b23c9d780f0df530edfb4 | Miss Nebraska may not have won the crown at this year's Miss America pageant, but she certainly left a lasting impression on viewers when she accidentally flashed the audience during the live broadcast. Megan Swanson, 21, of Omaha, Nebraska, was seated directly behind host Chris Harrison when she leaned over to chat wi... | Miss Nebraska Megan Swanson accidentally flashed the audience her underwear during the Miss America pageant last night .
Swanson was seated behind host Chris Harrison as he introduced the evening wear portion of the competition, and the camera saw up her skirt .
The 21-year-old ended up becoming a trending topic on Twi... |
201af9949136fec841532ea7825b54c2d49f6fd8 | (CNN) -- At least six people were killed Thursday when a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Honduras, President Jose Manuel Zelaya told CNN en Español Thursday. Thursday's quake leaves part of a bridge damaged over the Ulua River in El Progreso, Honduras. Another 17 people were injured, said Jose Reyes, a spok... | Eighty homes destroyed, another 175 damaged, official says .
Original quake centered about 200 miles (320 km) north of the capital, USGS says .
Quake centered 27 miles (43 km) from Roatan, popular scuba diving destination . |
201b42351fbce28a960b76449fabb4f44c94f53f | By . Simeon Gholam . Follow @@SimGholam . Algeria's historic progression to the last-16 of the World Cup was somewhat marred on Thursday night, as riots broke out on the streets of Marseille. Vahid Halilhodzic's side went up against Russia in what was effectively a knockout game from Group H, and a 1-1 draw secured the... | Algeria secured qualification to the second round of World Cup on Thursday .
But the victory was marred by riots on the streets of Marseille in France, where there is a large Algerian population .
1-1 draw with Russia left them second in Group H on four points .
First time in their history they have made it out of the ... |
201b4f1c717aff038043a957a9079445c803602a | (CNN) -- The future of a reality show that Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein was working on for MTV remains undecided after his death Friday night, his publicist said Monday. Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein claimed to have 11 years of sobriety after being addicted to crack cocaine. "It is too soon to have made any decisions at this time r... | "It is too soon to have made any decisions," publicist says of MTV reality show .
Show cast Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein in role setting drug addicts on path to recovery .
Goldstein told MTV he purchased crack pipe for show, faced other intense moments .
Goldstein, 36, reportedly found dead with crack pipe, crack cocaine in ... |
201c00c9274b7e322a671684001cb737a52f2906 | A wedding reception turned ugly when a bride suffered alcohol poisoning and a groom was charged with disorderly conduct after coming to blows with the crowd. Paramedics were called to the wedding accepting venue in South Hobart just after midnight on Friday, when the bride became ill. After witnessing the disorderly co... | Paramedics were called to the venue in South Hobart just after midnight .
The bride was taken to Royal Hobart Hospital with alcohol poisoning .
Six police cars were needed to quell the violent and disorderly party .
The groom and the best man were charged after throwing punches . |
201e8561deb3b12693069222b01ef03039d7d8f8 | Men who are obsessed with porn are to be given the chance to meet the stars of sex films to look at the realities of their lives for a Channel 4 documentary. Three men who are frequent users of pornography will be introduced to women who star in adult movies to see if they are able to distinguish between fantasy and re... | Show investigates if obsessives can distinguish between fantasy and real life .
Three men who regularly watch porn will be introduced to stars of adult films .
Show is part of new Channel 4 season looking at effect of porn on the nation . |
201eac1fecd4239697eb95c5a6fab2b2a8cdad1e | There's a lot of information out there on the Ebola crisis. And now, the issue's gone political with increasingly vocal talk on Capitol Hill and in midterm campaigns calling for a travel ban to keep the disease from spreading in the U.S. Let's sort through the muck and get to the facts: . What's all this talk about a t... | The last time the U.S. enforced some kind of health-related travel ban was with HIV/AIDS.
The U.S. didn't enforce travel bans with the more contagious SARS and swine flu epidemics.
Top health officials say a ban wouldn't work and would make the problem worse. |
20218a684c9161e7f88c9de07bab77915150aa48 | (CNN) -- Everything you thought you knew about Rosie Perez as the feisty and candid Puerto Rican actress will quickly dissipate after reading her recently released memoir "Handbook for an Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy Mother, and Still Came Out Smiling (With Great Hair)." "People make me... | Rosie Perez recently published a new memoir, "Handbook for an Unpredictable Life"
Perez describes how she survived physical, mental and sexual abuse .
Perez is known to be feisty and candid, and she reveals her backstory . |
2021c9ee5c226bc86085a0173a3fc550c8d11a6d | A Saudi preacher who tortured his five-year-old daughter to death has been released after agreeing to pay 'blood money', activists said. Lama al-Ghamdi died in October having suffered multiple injuries including a crushed skull, broken ribs and left arm, extensive bruising and burns. The child had also been repeatedly ... | Lama al-Ghamdi's back was broken and she had been raped and burned .
She died in October from her injuries after ten months in hospital .
Her father Fayhan al-Ghamdi, a prominent Islamist preacher, admitted beating her but was freed after agreeing to pay £31,000 compensation .
Campaign to give women and children better... |
20233f9f75e059aa112972d38978e4e3da1a333c | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Grandparents, retirees and struggling seniors have waited months for this. Seniors will receive their stimulus payments the same way they receive their Social Security funds. Tens of millions of Social Security recipients will see their bank accounts jump by $250 starting Thursday, when the governme... | Stimulus payments to be sent to 55 million recipients between now and June 4 .
$250 payments are for people who receive Social Security, SSI funds .
Money will come in same form as regular payments -- mailed check or direct deposit .
Social Security chief says many people will spend their checks rather than saving . |
202340a05a84b461f22f570a6d645b5be513945e | Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday announced new regulations for the more than 200 halfway houses operated by federal contractors, requiring them to provide transportation and allow inmates to use cell phones to reconnect with family and friends, and to start looking for jobs. The new regulations also require the h... | Justice Department steps impact more than 200 facilities run by contractors .
Rules require transportation for inmates and help for them to reach family, get work .
Government says steps taken are reducing federal prison population . |
202373c53b7d04c6d7b72465b8a194da2a795647 | By . Chris Pleasance . Mark Lakinski, a paramedic of 30 years, dropped a sick patient off at an ambulance station instead of at hospital because he was due to finish his shift . An experienced paramedic abandoned a sick patient who later died because he was due to finish his shift. Mark Lakinski, from Teesside, Middles... | Mark Lakinski was called out to patient eight minutes before his shift ended .
Instead of taking the man to hospital he took him to an ambulance station .
Lakinski then went home, leaving colleagues to take patient to hospital .
While on the way man stopped breathing, had a heart attack and later died . |
2023a72bf5e3717b5308e7a94fdf2c64e4d71a3f | An academy has sent home 152 pupils in one day after they failed to meet the school's new strict uniform policy. Hanson Academy in Bradford, West Yorkshire, strictly enforced a new dress code on Tuesday and nearly ten per cent of its pupils failed to meet the standards on its first day. Today, another 63 students had t... | Around 10 per cent of pupils at Bradford academy sent home yesterday .
Hanson Academy says their uniform did not meet the new strict standards .
Another 63 students were sent home today - taking the total to 215 .
The new rules include a ban on hooped earrings and no jumpers indoors .
Parents have hit back at the schoo... |
20246cc51e691c2e8e83795744c037f1afea3f78 | By . Chris Greenwood . Radical: A British militant in Syria on a YouTube video - one of a growing number going to fight . Hundreds more British jihadists have now travelled to Syria, the UK’s police counter-terrorism chief admitted yesterday. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Helen Ball said the authorities are powerless t... | Scotland Yard said Assad regime is 'magnet' for young extremists .
Children as young as 16 left to fight as well as women caring for militants .
Mothers, wives, sisters of potential fighters were asked to contact police . |
2025fb9ea8f1b1f5659e4f8fea16508b01aa9386 | RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (CNN) -- The death toll in flood-ravaged southern Brazil has reached 116 and the first cases of a water-borne, potentially fatal disease are being investigated, the nation's Civil Defense agency reported. People use a boat to navigate flooded streets in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina last ... | Death toll from flooding in southern Brazil reaches 116; 31 people missing .
Officials report 10 suspected cases of potentially deadly leptospirosis .
Authorities warn people to avoid flood-contaminated food, water .
More heavy rain forecast for parts of Brazil . |
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