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257e7e0f809bd753eaa6316a6e57c326f3180842 | Dressed in fatigues and flanked by younger Kurdish soldiers, Brian Wilson uses the Arabic acronym Daesh, a name ISIS reportedly hates, to refer to the extremist group he plans to fight in Syria. The 43-year-old Desert Storm veteran from Ohio says in a video released by Reuters he is one of a few Americans that traveled... | Brian Wilson spoke to Reuters from Qamishli, east of the beseiged town of Kobani, where Kurdish militia members were fighting with ISIS militants .
A relative said that Wilson served in the U.S. Air Force during Operation Desert Storm .
He joins other Americans, including Jordan Matson, 28, who the YPG confirmed was fi... |
257efde1ee40726d0d3d7d6e57cd61c88399bbcf | (CNN) -- Watch out! Lock up your loved ones! Another bloated, over-produced, high-concept monstrosity has escaped from the labs at Dreamworks Animation, and it's out to devour your kids. Susan, aka "Ginormica," has to save the world in "Monsters vs. Aliens." But don't be too alarmed. "Monsters vs. Aliens" is relatively... | "Monsters vs. Aliens" about Earth-born "monsters" taking on megalomaniacal alien .
Film's main character is almost 50-foot woman voiced by Reese Witherspoon .
"Monsters" has great talent but no script to speak of, says Tom Charity . |
2580f4784363e9e4d83935fbbb89840826d08d12 | Darcy Smith, 41, is accused of having sex with the boy - a former student - when he was just 14 years old and living at their home in Washington state . An award-winning elementary school teacher in Washington state is facing child rape charges following allegations that she sexually abused a former student. Darcy Smit... | Darcy Smith, 41, is accused of having sex with a former student when he was just 14 years old and living at their home in Washington state .
She has been on administrative leave from her job at McMicken Heights Elementary School since August after the boy contacted authorities .
The alleged victim moved in with Smith, ... |
258398dc2b9f83e41828de05e4d3c5e437efd05c | Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City ensure the Premier League will have three teams represented in the Champions League last 16, despite Liverpool's limp group stage exit. The Gunners and Jose Mourinho's team cruised through their respective groups and are joined by the Premier League champions, whose stunning win in ... | Arsenal and Manchester City unseeded for Champions League last 16 draw .
Chelsea set to be dealt kinder fate in knockout stages as group winners .
Real Madrid and Barcelona could be drawn against Gunners or City .
The UEFA Champions League last 16 draw will be on Monday at 11am GMT . |
258410b7625e02bfb8645ae77d930a20912ef01b | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 13:25 EST, 30 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:50 EST, 30 November 2013 . The man who created the 3D plastic gun is revelling in a title that has seen him voted the 14th most dangerous person in the world. Cody Wilson, a former law student at the University of Texas in Austin, s... | Cody Wilson does not believe he is dangerous despite building a weapon that is unable to be seen by metal detectors .
Pistol uses only one metal piece - a small nail for the firing pin .
Blueprints for the weapons were downloaded 100,000 times over two days when they were online in May . |
25843df7a6e73bbb2e2180a2b0acf4bfb3bc6221 | Depression should be re-defined as an infectious disease rather than an emotional disorder, argues one scientist. The condition could result from a parasitic, bacterial or viral infection and future research into the condition should search for these micro-organisms, argues Dr. Turhan Canli, of Stony Brook University, ... | Dr. Turhan Canli is a professor from Stony Brook University, in the U.S.
Argues depression should be re-conceptualised as an infectious disease .
Condition is caused by parasites, bacteria or viruses, he claims .
People with depression show sickness like those suffering infection .
If his theory is true, a vaccination ... |
2585c2244816e835c8ca0b3a7c13cf5a8d7e12fb | Most expectant mother's would laugh if someone were to ask them if they were a man or a woman because the answer may seem obvious. However, one simple question on a health questionnaire has the power to change the way society defines motherhood as a whole. A New York City Health Department form for parents requesting b... | The change in form is aimed at transgender women who may identify as male but still are able to give birth because of their female anatomy .
In 2008 Governor David Patterson changed the form everywhere in New York state except New York City who changed their policy in 2009 .
Before the change on the form was made, marr... |
25860ddbd5e2419576f708d28a37ab32c82bd2df | (CNN) -- The past year has seen the number of CIA drone strikes in Pakistan plummet. In the first three months of 2012, there were 11, compared with 21 in the first three months of 2011 and a record 28 in the first quarter of 2010. On Monday, Pakistan's parliament started to debate whether the United States should be m... | Authors: America's drone war in Pakistan is much diminished .
They say it's a victim of a deeply troubled relationship between U.S., Pakistan .
U.S. raid on bin Laden and other incidents sparked anger from Pakistanis, they say .
Drones have killed many al Qaeda leaders, and some targets are low level, they say . |
2586bb2b86783fb1969255ef9229ed11578802bb | By . Daniel Martin, Whitehall Correspondent . PUBLISHED: . 18:02 EST, 29 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 02:04 EST, 30 July 2013 . Councils will be banned from imposing minimum distance limits that would help protect communities from the scourge of wind farms. New planning guidance says local authorities will not be able to... | Blow to anti-wind power campaigners who want to impost limits of around three quarters of a mile .
Number 10 argue their plans take landscape into account more effectively .
Guidelines introduced by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles . |
258730245bfcbb00590d7cbddc0d9fbb336a03d3 | Johannesburg (CNN) -- A novel skin graft treatment appears to be working for a 3-year-old South African girl burned over 80% of her body in January, a spokeswoman for her family said Tuesday. A medical team led by reconstructive surgeon Ridwan Mia spent four hours Monday night removing wrappings from Isabella "Pippi" K... | First-of-its-kind South African skin graft appears to be taking, a spokeswoman says .
Doctors hope to wake 3-year-old Isabella "Pippi" Kruger by Thursday .
She had third-degree burns on 80% of her body, and complications are still possible .
She could be well enough for physical therapy next week, the spokeswoman says ... |
2587452ccb098bb17eb74ec7161b751a02804e73 | By . David Kent . Gareth Bale became the world's most expensive footballer when he signed for Real Madrid last summer - but is Nemanja Vidic trying to tempt the Welshman to join him in Italy? The pair were pictured talking after Inter Milan's victory on penalties on Saturday in California, with Vidic appearing to be po... | Vidic was pictured pointing backwards and talking to Gareth Bale in tunnel .
Inter Milan beat Real Madrid 3-2 on penalties after drawing 1-1 .
Bale opened the scoring after just 10 minutes at California Memorial Stadium .
Welshman struck from outside the box following a burst into space .
Inter equalised through a Maur... |
25874b02f2d9cf0307b04886c0ad54d82cd8f91a | By . Josh Gardner for MailOnline . A fire alarm test gone awry left a fleet of Black Hawk military choppers buried in fire suppression foam at an Oklahoma base Tuesday. An outside contractor at the Oklahoma Army National Guard base was testing the safety system when the foam was accidentally triggered. The result was a... | Ten Black Hawk helicopters were buried Tuesday morning at the Tulsa, Oklahoma Army National Guard base .
At one point, cyclonic winds created a foam-devil on the base .
Officials say none of the aircraft were damaged . |
25876bc29fdaee08ac787ded827b94beb832b931 | By . Stuart Woledge . PUBLISHED: . 11:32 EST, 21 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:03 EST, 21 July 2013 . A thug who beat his ex-girlfriend and mother of their daughter to death with a dumbbell is facing life behind bars after being found guilty of her murder. Jack Wall, 22, attacked pretty hairdresser 19-year-old Amelia ... | Killer of teenager faces life behind bars having been found guilty of murder .
Jack Wall beat his ex-girlfriend around the head with dumbbell eight times .
He then dumped her body in a popular wood with families and dog walkers . |
258885107f626de7060a39933178249398239368 | Lazio teenager Keita Balde Diao has walked away unscathed after crashing his £158,000 yellow Lamborghini Gallardo. The 19-year-old, who has been linked with a move to Liverpool this month, wrote off his car over the weekend. The front of Diao's vehicle was left in pieces after the incident, but the forward was said to ... | Keita Balde Diao walked away from the crash unharmed .
The Lazio forward wrote off his Lamborghini Gallardo .
Liverpool have been linked with a move for the Spaniard . |
258921bee36f7c1680ea616fe146086985582594 | Saber rattling rose to new levels Monday on the Korean Peninsula as Pyongyang officials "scrapped" the armistice credited for nearly 60 years of uneasy peace and then failed to answer a hotline phone. "The Korean Armistice Agreement is to be scrapped completely just from today," said a spokesman for the North Korean mi... | White House: "The DPRK will achieve nothing by threats or provocations"
North Korea declares invalid the armistice agreement that started 60 years of an uneasy peace .
North Korea has called annual training exercises "an open declaration of a war"
U.N. Command says the drills are defensive in nature . |
258a16935e3f1ead2654ca14fc0b9d113324b9ad | (CNN) -- Thomas Eric Duncan traveled from Liberia to Texas before testing positive for Ebola. The first Ebola case diagnosed in the U.S. has raised many questions and concerns, which CNN has been responding to on social media using the hashtag #EbolaQandA. You can check out the latest updates on the story at CNN.com/He... | People on the same flights with Ebola patient are not at risk, CDC says .
Ebola symptoms typically appear eight to 10 days after infection .
The Ebola virus can live for up to six days on a surface in a perfect environment .
Bleach is the method used in West Africa to kill it . |
258a6ccb9b02a7bc3b7b8f66e90e0343d88dee2e | By . Emma Glanfield . An illegal immigrant who smuggled himself into Britain on a fake passport has mounted a ‘human rights’ battle to stay in the UK - after fathering five children since his arrival. Mohammed Zulfiqar, 55, paid £15,000 to a mystery person for forged travel documents so he could enter the country illeg... | Mohammed Zulfiqar paid £15,000 for a forged passport to enter UK in 2002 .
The 55-year-old now has five children who are all under the age of six .
He claims being deported would breach his 'right to a family life' |
258adf8a441ec7b373922800a71db5b81695831f | Real Madrid's new signing James Rodriguez said winning the Golden Boot was a 'dream come true' as he posed with trophy. The 23-year-old posted pictures on Twitter with the trophy he won after scoring six times at the World Cup in Brazil. To celebrate, the Colombian midfielder will also play in gold boots this season - ... | James Rodriguez poses with Golden Boot .
23-year-old scored against Greece, Cameroon, Japan, Uruguay and Brazil .
Colombian midfielder signed for Real Madrid for £63m . |
258cdf9bc388d76eaaaae33c78ca0e0d9f04a471 | (CNN) -- Even during difficult times, Iraqi Airways is aiming high. Earlier this year Iraq's national carrier started expanding its route network for the first time in 23 years. It added flights between Baghdad and London, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, and even Kuwait. In the next few months, the airline is planning on adding... | Iraqi Airways is expanding its fleet and destinations .
Expansion stalled in 2010 because of multi-billion dollar lawsuit from Kuwait .
Being a post-war recovering nation puts country at advantage, says transport consultant .
Airline has ordered ten Boeing Dreamliner 787s . |
258eba5c0c7aed7cbe3f3d98564919d9727ff3ed | (CNN) -- Evangelist Billy Graham is showing signs of improvement as he continues to recover from pneumonia in a North Carolina hospital, a spokeswoman for Asheville's Mission Hospital said Sunday. The 93-year-old Graham was admitted to the hospital Wednesday in stable condition. "Doctors are encouraged by Mr. Graham's ... | Evangelist, 93, showing progress in recovery from pneumonia, hospital says .
He is walking more, North Carolina hospital spokeswoman says .
Graham was admitted to the Asheville hospital Wednesday in stable condition .
No discharge date has been set; he also was hospitalized in May . |
258f11494752f92fc8356d61c49bee6d1aa45328 | By . Sophie Jane Evans . Four people are being treated in hospital after the upper deck of a car ferry collapsed on to the level below as passengers disembarked. The forward mezzanine deck, carrying nine cars, gave way after the ferry docked at Fishbourne terminal on the Isle of Wight just before 10.30pm yesterday. Thr... | Upper deck gave way after ferry docked at Fishbourne terminal last night .
Collapsed on level below as passengers disembarked just before 10.30pm .
Three passengers and one crew taken to hospital with 'variety of injuries'
Incident occurred on Wightlink Ferries St Helen car ferry from Portsmouth . |
258f922b237df95ad0a28b5db8458082849dddf4 | By . Leslie Larson . PUBLISHED: . 09:56 EST, 11 September 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 11:08 EST, 11 September 2012 . A New Jersey congressman is under investigation for using campaign funds to cover personal expenses for a luxurious vacation in Scotland for his wife and two daughters. U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews (D-1st Dist.) spla... | U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews (D-1st Dist.) spent $7,725 for two rooms at the exclusive Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh, in addition to nearly $17,000 for family's business class airfare .
Use of campaign money was approved by his wife, who serves as his compliance officer .
Democratic Representative has served in Congress for 21 ... |
258fbacc994c2ec3e3d32b40693af2a610cc2eeb | Teachers at a Los Angeles high school have found a unique way to educate students about social media etiquette, by reading aloud mean tweets written about themselves by people in their class. In a hilarious video the teachers read out the offensive statements ridiculing their habits and appearances, as the tweets flash... | Video made by three students at a Los Angeles area high school and broadcast in school .
Many of the tweets are about teachers' personal appearance or habits .
More than 500,000 hits for video on YouTube . |
2591fc909cb8ff7320caf79846360ff570a42fe3 | When the sky over Yellowknife, Canada, lit up one cold March night with a spectacular Northern Lights display, Korean photographer Kwon O Chul was on hand to record the breathtaking phenomenon in real time with his camera. Chul, who describes himself as an astrophotographer, traveled to Canada's rugged Northern Territo... | Korean astrophotographer Kwon O Chul recorded the video in March 2013 in Yellowknife, Canada .
Aurora Borealis occurs when highly charged electrons from the solar wind collide with atoms of oxygen and nitrogen in the earth's atmosphere . |
259291908b8e2fe4ddad42b5d7293131f199b356 | (CNN) -- Zambia lifted the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time after beating the Ivory Coast 8-7 in a dramatic penalty shootout in Sunday's final in Libreville. Ivory Coast captain Didier Drogba missed a penalty in the second half of regulation play as the match ended scoreless after extra time. Both teams were su... | Zambia win Africa Cup of Nations in Libreville .
The Copper Bullets beat Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties .
Match had ended goalless after normal and extra time .
Didier Drogba missed penalty for Ivory Coast in second half . |
2592ab17b444e6e23669c2bfb5ac7fe7416031a2 | An 11-year-old boy is reported to have fathered a child with the 36-year-old mother of a schoolfriend (file picture) An 11-year-old boy in New Zealand has fathered a child with the 36-year-old mother of his schoolfriend. The revelation has prompted sexual abuse counsellors to call for a reform in the country's rape law... | Schoolboy started contact with woman after spending day at friend's house .
Case was revealed when boy informed the principal at his school .
Justice Minister Judith Collins is now looking into country's rape laws . |
259362a704a88f90d8632bc0135a54a8998a639e | By . Louise Cheer for Daily Mail Australia . For the first time, James Ashby - the man who filed sexual harassment claims against Peter Slipper two years - has personally detailed the allegations he brought against his former employer. During his first week on the $160,000 job as Mr Slipper's adviser in 2010, Mr Ashby ... | Peter Slipper, 64, hired James Ashby, 35, as one of his advisers in 2010 .
In 2012, Mr Ashby filed a sexual harassment claim against the then-speaker .
Mr Slipper quit the job and went on to lose his Queensland seat as an MP .
Mr Ashby said he had contemplated suicide after the scandal came to light .
He also alleged h... |
25943b6d55a83c2c3b779d9fe5b7002dc2c97e05 | (CNN) -- African football has been left reeling following the tragic deaths of two players in two days over the weekend, both while appearing for their clubs. On Saturday, Nigerian striker Endurance Idahor collapsed on the pitch and died on his way to hospital while playing for Al Merreikh against Al Amal in a Sudanese... | African football has been left reeling following the tragic deaths of two players .
Nigerian striker Endurance Idahor collapsed on the pitch and died in a match in Sudan .
Teenage defender Bartholomew Opoku collapsed while playing for Ghanaian side Kessben . |
259469a0f2b698d25e2ed1be8168bf574eb749d4 | Jamie Carragher and Gleen Hoddle believe Jose Fonte was central to Southampton's historic 1-0 victory against Manchester United at Old Trafford. The Saints centre back took home the man of the match award after a commanding display against Louis van Gaal's side who failed for land a single shot on target for the first ... | Jose Fonte claimed the man of the match award at Old Trafford .
Manchester United did not have a single shot on target in the entire game .
Fonte has taken up the mantle from Dejan Lovren, says Jamie Carragher .
The Saints defender was the best player on the pitch, says Glenn Hoddle .
Southampton are now third in the P... |
2595a38861fc4b559de50b644f57725055d35d5d | By . Steve Doughty . Michael Irwin, a campaigner nicknamed Dr Death, claims to have helped at least 25 people who have died at Dignitas. He says an 83-year-old man wants to be the first person to die at the clinic solely because of dementia . An 83-year-old dementia sufferer plans to die at the Dignitas assisted suicid... | Michael Irwin says pensioner wants to die at Swiss clinic .
He believes topic of 'old-age rational suicide' should be debated .
Claim alarms disability and right-to-life campaigners . |
25960abdbda079cd82871798529236469b83afc8 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . A teen from a Chicago suburb is being hailed as a hero these days after he saved the life of another child who fell through the ice on covering a retention pond earlier this week. Zac Thomas, 14, was walking near the pond when he saw a younger boy in the water and in distress. Footprints seen... | The 9-year-old's body was almost completely submerged in icy water .
Zac Thomas credits his knowing what to do if someone falls through the ice to his time as a boy scout .
The 9-year-old's mother is incredibly grateful Thomas just happened to be walking by when her child fell through the ice . |
25966bba33c1d16519b0d47f7c1ee33794f17d0a | CLICK HERE to see all the stats from the game at the King Power Stadium from our brilliant Match Zone . There was a warm hug between Nigel Pearson and Gus Poyet at the end of this draw that sums up the worth of this point for both managers. It ends Leicester’s run of four successive defeats that has taken the wind out ... | Leicester City drew 0-0 with Sunderland in their Premier League clash at the King Power Stadium .
The Foxes have not won in seven matches, and have not scored in their last five league games .
Jamie Vardy missed a golden opportunity early on after rounding Black Cats keeper Costel Pantilimon .
Sunderland's Lee Cattermo... |
259898732cbadcca24aad0ec7430f0d099585ed1 | (CNN)Rafael Nadal insists he is on the "right path" in his latest comeback but his defense of the Rio Open title was ended in a late night defeat to Italy's Fabio Fognini -- snapping an incredible record in ATP Tour semifinal matches on his favorite clay surface. Nadal had racked up 52 straight wins over 12 years to re... | Rafael Nadal slips to shock defeat in Rio .
Defending champion beaten in semifinals by Fabio Fognini .
First semifinal defeat on clay in 52 matches for Nadal .
Simona Halep wins WTA tournament in Dubai . |
2599d2553e516816eae00094656f1ec2f2dd0cf6 | (CNN) -- English champions Manchester United agreed a deal to sign highly-rated young goalkeeper David de Gea from Atletico Madrid on Wednesday. The 20-year-old, who helped Spain's under-21 team to win the European Championship title last weekend, passed a medical at Old Trafford on Monday and will join on a five-year ... | Spain under-21 goalkeeper David De Gea to sign five-year contract at Manchester United .
English champions agree deal with Atletico Madrid for the 20-year-old .
De Gea is expected to replace United's retired Dutchman Edwin van der Sar .
His under-21 teammate Thiago Alcantara signs new contract at Barcelona . |
2599e7c9d474a4c7a02a3b58579b22ef6396385b | Johannesburg (CNN) -- South Africa's president fired two ministers and suspended his chief of police Monday after they were implicated in the misuse of millions of dollars of public funds. The actions by President Jacob Zuma against ministers Sicelo Shiceka and Gwen Mahlangu-Nkabinde, and chief of police Bheki Cele com... | President Jacob Zuma dismisses two Cabinet ministers, suspends police chief .
Luxury trip, shady deals on police offices among alleged misues of public funds .
Zuma also to launch inquiry into contentious arms procurement contract .
Challenge likely lies ahead for Zuma during ruling party's elective conference . |
259c58da429fb70844a23fc4265ffaf7850148d3 | (CNN) -- A 14-year-old boy who allegedly fired a gun at another fleeing male on a New York street early Sunday morning was shot and killed by a uniformed police officer, the New York City Police Department said. The teen, identified as Shaaliver Douse, was pronounced dead at the scene, the department said in a news rel... | Police says a 14-year-old boy was pursuing someone in the Bronx and fired his gun .
An officer fatally shot the teen when he did not drop his weapon, NYPD says .
The neighborhood where the shooting occurred is a designated high-crime area . |
259cc1db3d4c814dafc02ed071327f65a7b9eaad | By . Steve Nolan . PUBLISHED: . 13:02 EST, 4 December 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 13:07 EST, 4 December 2012 . Free: Ezekiel McCarthy, at the Old Bailey, pictured outside the Old Bailey was giving a nine month suspended sentence after stabbing his nephew . A pensioner who fatally stabbed his nephew after mistaking him for a ... | Confused Ezekiel McCarthy thought that Desbert Welsh, 50, was an intruder in his Cricklewood, north London, home .
The pair had been out celebrating McCarthy's birthday the previous night .
McCarthy, one of the oldest people to appear at the Old Bailey, was handed a nine month prison sentence suspended for two years . |
259d8cccfcb9b9edc00d757ec6efecde6fc06110 | By . Helen Collis . PUBLISHED: . 10:23 EST, 19 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:26 EST, 19 August 2013 . Police in Australia have released CCTV footage of a gang storming a car workshop and shooting a worker dead as they try to identify the men. Nine hooded men are seen striding into the garage, some of them holding gun... | Jason De leso was gunned down in broad daylight nine months ago at work .
Nine hooded men stormed his garage with guns and shot him .
Police in Adelaide, South Australia, have yet to find the killers .
They have released CCTV footage and offered $500,000 reward for identities . |
259e17727084c960eda8f46661316cef306c7f86 | One hundred million worlds in our galaxy are able to host alien life, according to a ‘conservative’ prediction by Nasa. And the space agency claims that we will be able to find that life within the next 20 years, with a high chance it will be outside our solar system. During a public talk yesterday in Washington, the s... | Nasa predicts that 100 million worlds in our galaxy can host alien life .
During a talk yesterday in Washington, the space agency outlined a roadmap to search for alien life using current and future telescopes .
It will launch of the Transiting Exoplanet Surveying Satellite in 2017 .
This will be followed by the James ... |
259ee84bc8e0f5d6ec565be46ee2d2f8cf7bcadb | By . Kate Lyons . A Darwin man has died after he was struck by a falling tree branch while playing golf. William ‘Bill’ Brown, 62, was waiting to tee off during a game with friends at the Gardens Golf Links in Darwin last Friday when a branch snapped off and came down on top of him. The branch caused damaged to his spi... | William Brown was struck by a tree branch during a golf game on Friday .
Mr Brown, 62, was airlifted from Darwin to Adelaide .
It was thought he would survive as a quadriplegic, but he died yesterday . |
259f2f04de8cdb03a974545c66ed7c31db2667cd | The gun used in an assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II is to be displayed in the late pontiff's childhood home in Poland, ahead of his expected canonization next month. Italy's Justice Ministry has loaned the weapon, a Browning 9mm, to the John Paul II Museum in his hometown, Wadowice, for three years. "It is a ... | Gun used in assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II to be displayed in hometown .
Mehmet Ali Agca shot then-Pope in St Peter's Square, Rome, on May 13, 1981 .
Agca has never explained reasons for attack on pontiff; he was jailed, but later pardoned .
Pope John Paul II, who served from 1978 until his death in 2005, t... |
259fb181ef1e5c2db9027ff3860e4c52b03ed713 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 09:18 EST, 22 August 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 10:21 EST, 22 August 2012 . The 22-year-old student who fell from a University of Oklahoma building to her death in June was drunk at the time of her fall, according to her autopsy report. Casey Lauren Cooke's cause of death has been rul... | Casey Cooke found with a blood alcohol level of 0.19 per cent .
Officials described the 22-year-old's death as a 'tragic accident'
Her family said she was climbing a fire escape on the University of Oklahoma when she slipped and fell . |
25a293282d6fe72552b29f9cc47dcc37c3e64499 | By . Alex Ward . PUBLISHED: . 09:55 EST, 16 October 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 10:04 EST, 16 October 2012 . A Buddhist monk is moving to Loch Ness to be closer to the legendary monster after fleeing Tibet with the Dalai Lama. Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche wants to open an inter-faith peace and healing centre, practising yoga, t... | Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche wants to open a peace and healing centre in Loch Ness to be closer to the Loch Ness monster .
He fled Tibet with the Dalai Lama in 1959 and remains close with him .
Lama Yeshe runs health centres around the world .
Local businesses and tourism groups have welcomed the plans . |
25a2947e53fcbf8e4a70e08616f2955382e3aa11 | By . Hugo Gye . PUBLISHED: . 16:16 EST, 10 October 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 19:32 EST, 10 October 2012 . Barack Obama has come up with another excuse for his poor performance in last week's presidential debate - he now says he was 'too polite' towards Mitt Romney. The President and his allies have suggested a number of ex... | President promises to go on the offensive during second presidential debate next Tuesday .
Admits to radio host Tom Joyner on Wednesday morning that he was too polite in first debate .
'I had a bad night. It's not the first time' he told ABC's Diane Sawyer on Wednesday evening .
Obama initially believed he had won desp... |
25a30e6aad2a5ec45a42cc27a6f7740c6a6acf57 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . Last updated at 3:47 PM on 28th July 2011 . A record £161m worth of assets, including watches, diamonds, sports cars and other luxury goods was seized by criminals in Britain last year, it has been revealed. The Home Office revealed the record recovery of stolen goods after announcing plans f... | Organised crime costing UK up to £40bn a year . |
25a33eb65b222fa7f605dd717337e63189e037ba | (CNN) -- The U.S. Marshals Service announced Friday the arrest of Felipe Alexander Torrealba, one of its 15 most wanted fugitives. The agency said he was captured Thursday at an apartment complex in Fort Myers, Florida. It did not say if he resisted when he was apprehended. Authorities recovered two handguns, about $15... | Felipe Torrealba was among the U.S. Marshals Service's 15 most wanted .
He had eluded capture at least three times before .
He was arrested Thursday in Fort Myers, Florida . |
25a375b2bc1ede8f7b4e8067750a7c3857928eb2 | World Cup-winning coach Marcello Lippi has retired from football management. The 66-year-old Italian announced his decision on Sunday, after winning a third successive Chinese league title with Guangzhou Evergrande. Lippi, who spent most of his playing career with Sampdoria, entered management in in 1982. He went on to... | Marcello Lippi has retired from football management .
The 66-year-old said he was 'too old' to carry on .
Lippi made announcement after securing his third Chinese league title .
The Italian won the World Cup, Champions League and five Serie A titles .
Lippi managed (among others) Juventus, Inter, Napoli and Italy . |
25a382b290b0e6527a822fafa23587be6a05608b | (CNN) -- "When the history is written of this era, this is how you'll be remembered: 'He was the first black president.' Okay, not a bad accomplishment, but that's it. That's it, Mr. Obama."-- Michael Moore . We have become used to sky-is-falling rhetoric from filmmaker Michael Moore, but what isn't hyperbolic about th... | LZ: Syria bombing a reminder that Obama is not the president his supporters expected .
Polls show Dems, independents disappointed. Will war, in the end, be Obama's legacy?
Elected as war-ending change agent, Obama spoke this week about U.S. strikes on terror .
LZ: Despite Obamacare, better economy, and more, many are d... |
25a413990d359dc62ccd777e27a1582027959e5f | By . Harriet Arkell . PUBLISHED: . 12:17 EST, 11 December 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 12:28 EST, 11 December 2012 . A quarter of parents now regard heating up baked beans or putting a frozen pizza in the oven as ‘cooking’, according to a new study. The researchers concluded that British people are in danger of losing their c... | Only a third of British parents spend more than 40 minutes preparing food .
Just 19 per cent of us cook properly every night, while old favourites like Bakewell Tart are dying out . |
25a480e88673bc6a717afe7237395acf7ff15c1c | (CNN) -- Venus Williams claimed her first singles title in more than two years with a straight sets victory over Monica Niculescu of Romania Sunday to win the Luxembourg Open. The 32-year-old American has slipped down the rankings after battling Sjögren's syndrome, an auto-immune disorder that causes fatigue and joint... | Venus Williams wins Luxembourg Open title .
First singles title for 32 year-old American since 2010 .
She has battled a disorder which affects the auto-immune system .
Caroline Wozniacki takes Kremlin Cup in Moscow . |
25a6c4cee3240207ff47f2f85333ee594f9a5084 | WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (CNN) -- To pick up the morning paper and see the word "recount" in a headline stirs an ominous case of déjà vu. Judge Robert Rosenberg examines a ballot in Broward County, Florida, during the election recount in 2000. At issue in recent days in Palm Beach County is a local judicial race that i... | Palm Beach County, Florida, has changed voting systems twice in past eight years .
County GOP chairman says "no confidence" election will go off without problems .
2000 recount drama in Florida led to changes in election procedures in 40+ states .
Indiana official says it's people, not machines, that make elections run... |
25a845fa89e9291aabf455a52d48648f4498e8c5 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . UPDATED: . 10:43 EST, 10 August 2011 . Police have arrested a 21-year-old man over the fire that destroyed the 140-year-old Reeves furniture store in Croydon at the height of the riots. House of Reeves has stood on the same corner for more than a century but was targeted by rioters as violenc... | House of Reeves, established in 1867, is now just a charred shell .
Family owners say 'Our lives have been ruined by the fire' |
25a85b9d0db72a7eb4d874019fd3d43ca7faf7b7 | (CNN) -- Maria Sharapova has been forced out of the U.S. Open with a right shoulder injury, continuing a turbulent few months for the four-time grand slam winner. The world No. 3 is suffering from bursitis, which occurs when a small, fluid-filled sac forms under the skin. "I have done everything I could since Wimbledon... | Maria Sharapova pulls out of the U.S. Open with a shoulder injury .
The world No. 3 was a champion at Flushing Meadows in 2006 .
She is replaced as third seed by Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska .
Former U.S. No. 1 Mardy Fish to miss the U.S. Open due to health issues . |
25a892ac9ba22a2f0fc6cd9a6577f84dcdc0bb2b | (CNN) -- Germany's intelligence service has intercepted phone calls by two U.S. secretaries of state, German media reports reveal. The news comes several months after Germany complained about the United States eavesdropping on its politicians. German intelligence service BND intercepted a phone call from then-U.S. Secr... | German media: German intelligence agency accidentally recorded Clinton, Kerry calls .
German officials say they don't have widespread eavesdropping program, media sources said .
Germany has criticized the U.S. for tapping Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone .
Last month, Germany threw the CIA station chief in Berlin out o... |
25a906fefd7aa5bf5456d14f475b1905085057dc | By . Catherine Townsend . PUBLISHED: . 16:11 EST, 20 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 17:13 EST, 20 August 2013 . For the first time in over 60 years, the fragrance that was created for John F. Kennedy by a French aristocrat in 1937 is now available to the public. The intriguing story of Eight & Bob reportedly began when t... | Perfume retails for $195 and is packaged inside a hardcover book .
Kennedy family has never confirmed or denied the story . |
25aa2c05f6023d0b9a8a48f0860c06c643209180 | Crook: Chaudry Ali could face another decade in prison if he does not repay £4.3m in criminal gains . A '24-carat' smuggler who brought £100million worth of gold into Britain must repay £4.3million of the tax he dodged - or spend an extra decade in prison. Chaudry Ali, 52, was jailed for nine years in 2012 for spearhea... | Chuadry Ali, 52, was jailed for nine years in 2012 for massive VAT fraud .
Couriers flew Dubai gold through Frankfurt in elaborate bag-swap con .
Now a judge has ordered him to pay £4.3million profits within 4 months .
But figure is still less than half what he owes as assets cannot be proved . |
25aa81db20aa11fb97a6634e2b3d1b8c74e7ce47 | (CNN) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was discharged from a New York hospital on Wednesday, three days after she was admitted for treatment of a blood clot in a vein between her skull and brain, the State Department announced. "Her medical team advised her that she is making good progress on all fronts, and they ... | Clinton is "making good progress on all fronts" and has been discharged .
She has been hospitalized since Sunday after doctors found a blood clot in her head .
Clinton has been on the phone and talking with aides, a spokeswoman says .
The 65-year-old secretary plans to step down once the Senate confirms a successor . |
25ab93f2bc5c0fe04f7a1fa52ae0e19224f6df71 | (CNN) -- A federal grand jury in New Hampshire has indicted a former hospital worker on fraud and product-tampering charges in connection with an outbreak of hepatitis C that sickened more than 30 people, prosecutors announced Thursday. Investigators say 33-year-old David Kwiatkowski injected himself with syringes of f... | Investigators say David Kwiatkowski stole drugs, treated patients with used syringes .
Kwiatkowski carried the hepatitis C virus and infected more than 30 people, feds say .
He's been charged with product tampering and fraudulently obtaining drugs . |
25abf3839a063d6a06aea03b1964182cc3e6445e | By . Helen Lawson . PUBLISHED: . 14:46 EST, 4 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 15:13 EST, 4 March 2013 . David Kean met women through online dating sites and admitted 13 charges of theft after stealing from them . A conman was jailed today for stealing from 13 lovers he met on the internet. Former barman David Kean, 41, mov... | David Kean stole jewellery, computers and cars totalling £8,000 .
Kean used 19 aliases and five dates of birth to keep up his fraud .
Judge at Derby Crown Court tells Kean his actions were 'spiteful and mean' |
25abfd6bf83eb62bdd4daf1f542d61b54ab2871d | A group of university students have been branded 'shameful' and 'insensitive' after they 'blacked themselves up' to look like the cast of cult movie Cool Runnings. The four young men smeared black paint all over their faces and bodies - and one of them wore a dreadlock wig. A picture of the group, posted on one student... | Group of four York University students included one Old Etonian .
University threaten to discipline the undergraduates .
Union brand the group 'incredible insensitive' and 'arrogant' |
25aceeb7f4383ea61242a8894f331f434ee639e2 | (CNN) -- Scientists descended into a deep cave, hoping to find Ice Age mammals' remains. What they found stunned them: the remains of hundreds of big prehistoric mammals. The treasure trove was discovered in the Natural Trap Cave at the base of Bighorn Mountains in north-central Wyoming. "We didn't know what to expect.... | Hundreds of prehistoric animal remains were discovered in Wyoming .
Scientists suspect some remains date back 20,000 years .
Remains will be transported to universities in the U.S. and Australia . |
25acfab9491bcfd9ce2dab41127ab3cd14bac9bd | By . Fiona Greig . PUBLISHED: . 07:51 EST, 15 November 2012 . | [updated . Convicted paedophile, Gary Cooper found and groomed his victims on social networking sites . A 'devious' internet paedophile has been jailed for 14 years for raping a 12 -year-old girl after grooming her on a social networkingsite. Father of fou... | Cooper caused 'incalculable psychological damage'
Judge labelled him a 'sexual predator'
Victim's mother said she lost her daughter the day of the rape .
Groomed victim over period of nine months . |
25ad42b72bd425a1da7f6ad341471b0bfe0b0bdc | (CNN) -- After a day spent being trailed by a photographer who taunted him, mocked his clothes and hurled insults about his family, actor Jonah Hill had had enough. "Suck my d***, you f****t," he said to the guy, very likely giving the paparazzo exactly what he wanted: a reaction and a profanity-and-slur laced one at t... | Jonah Hill called photographer a gay slur after being antagonized by him all day .
Peggy Drexler: Hill publicly apologized, but paparrazi should lay off celebrities .
Hill's response was rooted in the same crude immaturity as that exhibited by his provoker .
Drexler: No excuse for the slur, but it does not reflect Hill... |
25ad98fc9b36b4e4e57e0650a2d22d45f82b8e86 | (CNN) -- Presidential candidates Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are detailing their plans for solving the country's energy crisis and criticizing each other's proposals this week as they campaign in battleground states. Here's a look at the candidates' energy proposals: . Overall strategy . McCain, the presumptive ... | Sen. Barack Obama lays out comprehensive energy plan this week .
Obama vows to eliminate the need for Mideastern, Venezuelan oil in 10 years .
Sen. John McCain proposes an energy strategy relying on technology and science .
McCain says the federal government should lift restrictions on offshore drilling . |
25ad9b52092a27d4e40be5cb594d1fd2c4e9ea55 | Rome, Italy (CNN) -- The man convicted of killing British student Meredith Kercher has given an interview from his Italian jail cell, insisting Amanda Knox is a "sweet girl" incapable of murder. Raffaele Sollecito, who was sentenced to 25 years for his role in Kercher's death, told an Italian newspaper that he was stru... | Raffaele Sollecito gives first interview since being convicted of murder of Meredith Kercher .
Sollecito says former girlfriend Amanda Knox is "a sweet girl"
Knox sentenced to 26 years, Raffaele Sollecito sentenced to 25 years . |
25ae0b8550e4c849da5f5ca99580804bca43727e | By . Jonathan O'Callaghan . What’s the best way for single men to land a girlfriend? According to one study the answer turns out to be a bit of a catch-22 - women prefer men who have had previous relationships, but having too many partners is detrimental. In fact, Australian researchers found that having too partners m... | Australian scientists say that women take part in 'mate copying'
Their study showed that females preferred men who had ex-girlfriends .
Researchers found optimum number of previous partners was one or two .
Men with no old flames were less desirable especially with younger women .
But males with five previous partners ... |
25ae7aec755ea7b35c8e6d33c14b66fd133a4ab0 | The most powerful nuclear bomb remaining in America’s arsenal was dismantled yesterday after nearly 50 years of service. The B53 was capable of releasing nine megatons of energy – 600 times more than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. On explosion, the 9,000lb ‘bunker buster’ would have caused lethal burns to anyon... | Built during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 .
Broken up after talks between Obama and Russian President Medvedev .
Its accuracy was 'horrendous', according to experts . |
25af98a3611718b3ee5de990c23c1b34b42abb16 | For the last ten years, Sarah Wulchak has been one very busy woman - and her sad decline and radical physical transformation is illustrated in 23 mugshots from her arrests over 10 years. From grand theft auto to trespass and aggravated battery, the 34-year-old woman from DeLand, Florida, has managed to be arrested 23 t... | Sarah Wulchak, 34, of DeLand, Florida, has been arrested 23 times .
Her first arrest was in 2003 and her most recent was December 5, 2013 .
All charges have been laid in Volusia County .
Wulchak's most controversial arrest involved a domestic dispute with her boyfriend Steve Bolin in January 2013, when she allegedly bi... |
25afbc3605666f39926128daedb44485baef9db2 | Stores using larger sized mannequins have been accused of 'normalising' Britain's obesity crisis, according to a report by England's chief medical officer. Dame Sally Davies has warned that larger mannequins are making people think being overweight is acceptable. She also said that many people do not . recognise they h... | Dame Sally Davies says plus-sized mannequins normalising obesity .
Chief medical officer's report suggests 'size inflation' is also to blame .
25 per cent of adults in the UK are obese, compared with 7 per cent in 1980 .
Dame Davies also suggested the introduction of a 'sugar tax'
Claims companies needed to reduce the ... |
25b04f0b2fe79f55ee96e89fa6f751b28a9622b2 | Wales prop Adam Jones has announced his retirement from international rugby - just five days after being left out of Warren Gatland's squad for this season's RBS 6 Nations Championship. Jones, a triple Grand Slam winner who played in 95 Tests for Wales and five as a British and Irish Lion, has called time on his Test c... | Adam Jones has retired from international rugby .
The Wales and Irish Lions prop has decided to quit, although he says it was not the way he would have wanted to end his international career .
The 33-year-old was left out of the Welsh Six Nations squad after missing out on the 2014 . |
25b09a87b2e351d91f9c9fce645ac80fd8dc9fc2 | Tottenham Hotspur are willing to make an offer for Burnley striker Danny Ings in this window but Sean Dyche is hopeful the England Under 21 international will still see out his contract. Leicester City have already bid £8million for the 22-year-old but the prospect of moving to Tottenham now is more tantalising. Burnle... | Danny Ings is out of contract in the summer and is likely to leave Burnley .
Sean Dyche wants the striker to see out the remainder of his contract .
Tottenham are willing to make a move for the 22-year-old in January .
Leicester have bid £8 for Ings but he is more interested in a move to Spurs . |
25b0ab34ecc38143c9e45fc45ccb458f960353b1 | By . Julian Robinson for MailOnline . A youth who beat a homeless man to death when he was just 16 and avoided jail for burglary just a few weeks ago has been given yet another let-off. Craig Real, 21, was sentenced to nearly five years for the manslaughter of Big Issue seller Ralph Millward, in Bournemouth, Dorset. Bu... | Craig Real was 16 when he was jailed for beating a homeless man to death .
Released early from sentence for manslaughter of Big Issue Ralph Millward .
After breaching the terms of his licence he was returned to prison .
The 21-year-old carried out a burglary shortly after being released for second time .
But he was no... |
25b2ae3e465b42c6380c3a0e4c3b225066048ffe | Given the global attention - and the challenge of making a mainstream blockbuster out of a kinky novel - it is just as well that director Sam Taylor-Johnson has great reserves of courage. Having faced colon cancer when her daughter was an infant, and breast cancer three years later, she is not easily spooked. ‘Survivin... | The popular film's director says she is 'not confrontational'
No secret was made of the disagreements between author and director .
Sam saw the film as a ‘dark fairy tale’ and E.L. viewed it as an erotic epic .
They are now said to ‘despise’ each other . |
25b34278cf4244598851eebee5a39f27040f40e4 | By . Ashley Collman . and Snejana Farberov . and Barbara Mcmahon . and Zoe Szathmary for MailOnline . The Connecticut woman was who left brain dead after being hit by a swerving cyclist last week has died, her family announced Monday. Jill Tarlov, 59, of Fairfield was was in New York City on Thursday to buy her daughte... | The family of Jill Tarlov, 59, announced her death on Monday .
The mother of two was left brain dead after being hit by a cyclist in Central Park last Thursday .
The cyclist, 31-year-old saxophonist Jason Marshall, has not been charged yet . |
25b559c3687cc80007800d5db6f64abfa3ed652b | (CNN) -- Federal authorities indicted 24 people Wednesday on charges of selling, buying or exchanging archaeological artifacts stolen from Native American lands -- part of what Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar called a crackdown on smugglers of such relics. The artifacts include burial and ceremonial masks, decora... | 24 indicted for selling, buying, exchanging archaeological artifacts .
Artifacts stolen from Native American lands .
Authorities recovered 256 artifacts worth about $335,685 .
Undercover investigation tracked suspects for more than two years . |
25b5683d89af0518ff6bc3e2bbbff74511d089d3 | Andy Murray will be recommended for a knighthood for ending Britain’s 77-year wait for a Wimbledon men’s title, it emerged last night. Downing Street sources indicated that the Government would pass his name to the Honours Committee because he had matched the achievement of cyclist Bradley Wiggins, who was knighted for... | Sources say triumphant Scot is set to be awarded prestigious title .
David Cameron and Nick Clegg are both keen tennis fans .
PM 'can't think of anyone' who deserves knighthood more than Murray .
Bradley Wiggins knighted for unprecedented British Tour de France win . |
25b64f4002b950f45352863857b0d3d4c4c8c9f2 | (CNN) -- IN FOCUS: Gaza's struggling economy . As an IMF delegation heads to Egypt to bash out a deal for a multi-billion dollar loan, MME headed over the border to take a look at one economy that relies heavily on Egyptian stability: Gaza. Some goods can only be smuggled into Gaza through tunnels, but they have been s... | MME looks at the economy of Gaza, which relies heavily on Egyptian stability .
As tensions in Syria continue, its neighbor, Lebanon, is feeling the pain too .
Lebanese tourism sector is hit hard, as Gulf countries urge their citizens to leave . |
25b7add05d62b9bc21ed831defd6d98d755eca3d | Russell Brand has taken aim at Tony Abbott and Australia's asylum seeker policies. The British comedian, who has rebranded himself as a political activist, says mandatory offshore detention and resettling asylum seekers in other countries is not in tune with modern-day globalised society. 'Anything where people are sen... | Brand criticises Australia's offshore detention for asylum seekers .
He claims PM answers questions on the subject as if he is on a quiz show .
Comedian also said Rupert Murdoch and his companies pay too little tax .
'We should be closing the doors for corporations who already have wealth and affluence and opening the ... |
25b7adf8bfe43c2953a874b18c7766370158638a | Per Mertesacker has described his frustration after Arsenal conceded late against Liverpool to squander a 2-1 lead. Arsenal came back from a goal down through Mathieu Debuchy and Olivier Giroud, only to let Martin Skrtel convert a header in the dying moments - and Mertesacker appeared to duck out of the way. 'We realis... | Arsenal squandered a 2-1 lead to draw against Liverpool on Sunday .
Martin Skrtel scored a header in the dying moments to secure the point .
Per Mertesacker appeared to duck out of the way of the header .
The German said Arsenal did not defend as well as he had hoped .
The Arsenal Champions League checklist: five thing... |
25b867512c59eb2585dc7af875cf4a77ec2caff1 | By . David Kent for MailOnline . Jenson Button’s future is uncertain after McLaren boss Ron Dennis said on Thursday he was monitoring other leading drivers who might become available. Button, Britain’s 2009 world champion with Brawn, has been at McLaren since 2010 and, aged 34, is in the final year of his contract. The... | Jenson Button is in the final year of his contract with McLaren .
McLaren boss Ron Dennis revealed he is monitoring other F1 drivers .
Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso has been linked with a reunion with Dennis .
McLaren No 2 Kevin Magnussen is seen as a face for the future .
Lewis Hamilton's future at Mercedes is also u... |
25b8e62f132f772c04636916a1d6a898990b2229 | By . Dan Bloom . and Lucy Osborne . A British couple who attempted suicide hours before they were due to be extradited to the U.S. say they felt like they had no options left. Paul Dunham, who is accused of over-claiming £600,000 in expenses from a U.S. firm, spoke out as a judge warned he was at real risk of harming h... | Paul Dunham, 58, accused of over-claiming £600,000 expenses from U.S. firm .
His wife Sandra, both from Northampton, accused of aiding and abetting .
Both 58, they were held in custody last night after double suicide attempt .
Alarm raised by journalist when meeting at Northampton home fell through .
Denied seeking pub... |
25b96a41f2418bc4f5f249ebc79c237e9ffce201 | (CNN) -- Was the third time a charm for Jim Carrey as the host of "Saturday Night Live?" The stakes were pretty high for the elastic-faced funnyman, whose new movie "Dumb and Dumber To" comes out next month. Preliminary reviews of his SNL performance were mixed, but there's no denying that Carrey rose to the occasion, ... | Jim Carrey hosts "Saturday Night Live" for third time .
"Dumb and Dumber" co-star Jeff Daniels makes cameo .
Carrey plays Matthew McConaughey's role in Lincoln car commercial . |
25ba252692983e78338d3a170af70fd2ada69546 | (CNN) -- Sometimes I think the media live in a time warp. There's so much talk about Hillary Clinton and the expanding/shrinking/expanding field of possible Republican candidates, you'd think we're in the middle of an Olympics ratings battle. The media focus on 2016 is like a "Rocky Horror Picture Show," without Rocky.... | Donna Brazile says the media is spending way too much time focusing on Hillary Clinton .
Brazile: Clinton's possible presidential run in 2016 is not guaranteed .
There are other races in 2014 that deserve media attention right now, she says . |
25ba5847e6badb12535a9428428ff8891f9c2b5d | LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British woman won a major legal victory Thursday in her fight to die with her husband by her side if she travels abroad for assisted suicide. Debbie Purdy has said she wants to die next to her husband, Omar Puente. Debbie Purdy, 46, who has multiple sclerosis, has been waging a lengthy legal ... | British woman wins case over traveling abroad for assisted suicide.
Before ruling, husband faced jail for taking her to where assisted suicide legal .
Purdy challenged High Court judgment that refused to say when he's breaking law . |
25bbd28cfa95aa305d6a1dfb2b0164d59936c60a | (CNN) -- Thinking of treating your sweetheart to a fragrant bouquet this Valentine's Day? Think again. When it comes to smelling the roses, most sold in U.S. supermarkets and flower shops have no scent, or at least none of their own. Amy Stewart bemoans the lack of fragrance. "When a fragrant flower like a rose loses i... | Most flowers sold in U.S. supermarkets and flower shops have no scent, author says .
Roses are bred to last long, often at the expense of scent .
What people likely smell is combination of chlorophyll and fillers used at flower shops . |
25bc581fe12ea662e704beb420ee9d34bd98f8ce | (CNN) -- By distance, the running of the bulls course in Pamplona is pretty short: just 850 meters, or half a mile. But with six, half-ton raging bulls and their menacing horns closing fast, the run can strangely seem like an eternity. An eternity of thrills, of bravery and bragging rights, and sometimes, of tragedy. T... | Running of the Bulls begins this year on July 7 and is expected to attract thousands of participants .
The annual event usually results in scores of injuries and occasionally fatalities .
The Spanish fiesta was immortalized in print by Ernest Hemingway in his novel "The Sun Also Rises."
Hemingway's grandson is among th... |
25bc84d2d66cfd4590c328a8c9b73b06ee84eff8 | (CNN) -- It didn't take Maria Sharapova long to find a new coach. Two days after announcing she was ending her successful three-year partnership with Thomas Hogstedt, Sharapova said former great Jimmy Connors will be Hogstedt's successor. "I have known Jimmy for many years and we briefly worked together in 2008 just be... | Maria Sharapova hires Jimmy Connors as new coach after splitting with Thomas Hogstedt .
The coaching shuffle comes after Sharapova lost in the second round at Wimbledon .
Connors won eight grand slam titles before working with former world No. 1 Andy Roddick . |
25bcf688b7808533045cff1852c26ba71b7d23f9 | (CNN) -- A man accused of screaming racial slurs while beating an Army reservist in front of her daughter outside a restaurant in Morrow, Georgia, was jailed and held without bond Wednesday after being indicted on felony charges. Troy Dale West Jr, of Poulan, Georgia, is being held without bond on new felony charges. T... | Man accused of racially charged attack at restaurant held without bond .
Grand jury on Wednesday indicted Troy Dale West Jr. on new felony charges .
Army reservist said West yelled racial slurs, beat her in front of her child .
Charges against West include aggravated assault, battery, false imprisonment . |
25c1383646031a6eeeefe068e1a445ab7098c2dc | Editor's note: Below is an excerpt from Larry King's autobiography, "My Remarkable Journey," published by Weinstein Books and available at bookstores nationwide. Larry King anchors "Larry King Live at 9 p.m. ET on CNN. Larry King recalls a much-needed win at the track during one of the lowest points of his life. I was... | At age 37, Larry King had $42 to his name, no job and a daughter to support .
He became reclusive but decided it would be "good therapy" to go out with a friend .
They went to the track, and Larry bet on a female horse whom the odds were against .
Larry won a much-needed $8,000 that day . |
25c26cfb67d84f80268ead13034b8a57e54672b7 | (CNN) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has identified bacterial and fungal growth in unopened vials of a steroid injection from a Tennessee pharmacy under investigation for links to reported infections. Main Street Family Pharmacy of Newbern, Tennessee, issued a voluntary recall nationwide of all lots of steril... | The CDC reports 24 cases of infection from four states .
The steroid in question is preservative-free methylprednisolone acetate .
The FDA and CDC are evaluating samples of this steroid and other products . |
25c324516319058502f825b15d406ccb822d1676 | (CNN) -- Thirty-six people in northern India are dead and another 28 are injured following a collision between a bus and a vehicle carrying mourners from a funeral, an official news agency reported Sunday, citing local officials. The crash occurred late Saturday outside Badaun, in Uttar Pradesh state, District Magistra... | Crash occurs late Saturday near Badaun, an official tells Indian state-run news agency .
In addition to the 36 killed, 28 needed treatment .
One vehicle was bringing people back from a ceremony marking the last rites of a relative .
Provincial government giving payments to those hurt and relatives of those killed . |
25c3642c63969a36d6f745c7802fbd4031f9ae04 | Editor's note: Below is an excerpt from Nancy Grace's new novel "The Eleventh Victim." published by Hyperion. Nancy anchors "Nancy Grace" on HLN nightly at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. ET. HLN's Nancy Grace makes her fiction debut with "The Eleventh Victim." A little something. What was it? Something...some detail was wrong. .... | "The Eleventh Victim" is about an Atlanta assistant DA whose fiance is murdered .
The novel's heroine, Hailey Dean, relocates to New York for a fresh start .
She becomes a therapist whose patients begin dying -- they are murdered .
The murders are similar to 11 Atlanta killings and Hailey must solve the case . |
25c50a62adc78acfd20df1230d3003559d7201c5 | A man who was feared dead after the truck he was driving exploded and tore apart a section of highway joked about having a headache when his rescuers arrived. The B-double truck, carrying more than 50 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, exploded on the Mitchell Highway in central Queensland last Friday night. The driver had cr... | B-double truck carrying 50 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded in central Queensland on Friday night .
Truck driver had crawled from cabin and was lying on road in torn blanket when a police officer found him .
Four firefighters and a police officer were also injured in the explosion .
Crews were at the scene after the... |
25c5cc4b0c6c583100a17ed0c973fdc7bca48130 | (CNN) -- A far-right party recorded the biggest ever share of the vote for a political party in Switzerland's history on Monday, after a controversial campaign that blamed foreigners for much of the country's crime. A Swiss People's Party supporter waves a sticker featuring the Swiss flag during Sunday's elections. The... | Nationalists ride anti-immigrant wave in Swiss elections to win record share .
Switzerland to be ruled by coalition under system of consensus government .
Swiss People's Party called for a law to throw out entire immigrant families .
Greens, also in coaltion, make gains by appealing to environmental concerns . |
25c60f2d74eeab2737d19aa870c7802b58c660e3 | By . Sarah Griffiths . Extreme weather events fuelled by unusually strong El Niños are expected to double, according to new research. Climate scientists have warned that countries could be struck by devastating droughts, wild fires and dramatic foods approximately every ten years. The impact of extreme El Niño events i... | An international team of scientists has predicted a 'substantial' increase in extreme El Niño events from the .
present-day through the next 100 years .
An unusually .
strong El Niño event occurs every 20 years, but this new research shows this will double .
to one event every 10 years .
The impact of El Niño events is... |
25c6363302346e6887d140e5694a5da2f7f173f8 | Chelsea came from behind at St Mary's to draw 1-1 with Ronald Koeman's Southampton. Sadio Mane opened the scoring for the hosts before Eden Hazard netted a brilliant equaliser. Morgan Schneiderlin was sent off late on whistle Cesc Fabregas was booked for simulation in the penalty area. Find out how the other players go... | Chelsea and Southampton drew 1-1 in their Premier League clash .
Sadio Mane opened the scoring for Southampton in the first half .
But Eden Hazard equalised for Jose Mourinho's side .
Morgan Schneiderlin was sent off late on at St Mary's . |
25c6577dea0a8359e0157db3e54ce9c9f221fb0b | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush on Thursday called on Congress to approve billions of dollars in additional funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan before lawmakers leave for their Christmas break. President Bush wants Congress to approve his request for war spending before the holidays. He said the Army will h... | Dems have said they plan to hold Bush's request for war spending until next year .
$50 billion war spending bill passed the House but stalled last week in the Senate .
Bush called on Congress to approve funds "without strings and without delay"
Pentagon says Army will have to make major cutbacks if it doesn't get the f... |
25c6d54d89cf68db98e3a471f54a14a252562295 | He can't even walk yet but Prince George took a momentous step on Monday in what's set to be a lifetime of royal duties. When he arrived in Wellington, New Zealand, he was carried off the plane by his ever-glamorous mother and greeted by a long a line of dignitaries, including Prime Minister John Key. This was Prince G... | Prince George arrives in New Zealand for his first public engagement .
Photographers battle dreadful weather to capture the historic moment .
His sizable entourage includes a new nanny, dresser, and hairdresser . |
25c721052b14275b0bf71f3339c22e0c21c4d262 | Mafraq, Jordan (CNN) -- There are so many refugees living in one neighborhood here that locals have started calling it Syria Town. In Syria Town's dusty streets, children peer out from storefronts and shop windows partially covered by blankets, sheets and cardboard. Refugees are renting out shops that once sold sweets ... | One neighborhood in Jordan has been dubbed Syria Town .
Refugees are renting out shops and converting them into makeshift homes .
A group of wealthy Syrian expatriates has started a new aid program . |
25c7b215a6ec8d92782841da713623e33d4169e8 | By . Sarah Harris . PUBLISHED: . 14:14 EST, 17 August 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 14:16 EST, 17 August 2012 . Women are enrolling on DIY courses to improve their homes and set up their own businesses . Rising numbers of women are turning to DIY and skilled trades amid the recession, it has been revealed. They are enrolling o... | DIY workshops have seen five-fold increase in female take up . |
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