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0532746e7d2df3818a30d63d0b42e74b048be346 | By . Taylor Auerbach . Three hoarders who have amassed a jaw-dropping mountain of rubbish at their Bondi home over the past 20 years are now camping on a footpath alongside their festering heap to prevent rubbish collectors from taking it from them. Cyprus-born Mary Bobolas and her daughters Elena and Liana live in squ... | Three hoarders refuse to abandon their festering pile of trash .
Bondi locals describe their absence as 'heavenly peace'
Neighbours complain of 'sickening' stench emanating from the house .
Council win right to have the eyesore dismantled .
Trio camp in van provided to them free of charge for help with cleanup . |
05329c589f13ca691110aec348b3e674f47406dd | (CNN)The slaying of prominent Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov in the heart of Moscow has shocked Russia and the wider world. His murder, two days before a planned opposition march, has also outraged fellow opposition figures and prompted a slew of speculation over who could be behind it. Some government critics pointed fi... | Boris Nemtsov was a former deputy prime minister who became an opposition leader .
He was a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, including his policy on Ukraine . |
0532fff741c2d090398731050704f56b3000c6e9 | By . Nazia Parveen . PUBLISHED: . 03:13 EST, 25 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 19:47 EST, 25 September 2013 . A former teacher who was found dead at her home left a suicide note blaming a routine procedure carried out at a leading cosmetic surgery clinic for making her life ‘hell’. Victoria Meppen-Walter, 44, spiralle... | Victoria Meppen-Walter was found dead at her home in Heywood, Cheshire .
Her husband Ashley found a series of notes describing her 'endless suffering' following routine surgery .
Mrs Meppen-Walter blamed the Transform clinic in Cheshire for leaving her in severe pain .
But the highly regarded clinic says that it provid... |
0534499a7189bca47c6c103c0507926bc1e55899 | A crew of Saks Fifth Avenue employees have been arrested after going on a $400,000 shopping spree at the luxury store using customers' credit cards. The six members of staff treated themselves to hundreds of pairs of designer shoes and handbags through an elaborate scheme that fraudulently used the credit cards of at ... | Six employees bought hundreds of pairs of designer shoes and handbags .
Used elaborate scheme that affected at least 22 customers .
Ringleader Tamara Williams, 36, is alleged to have stolen credit card data from the store computers and shared the information .
Group have all been charged with grand larceny and identit... |
0534697013f80aeaebd88c82c051ad370d7c7c2e | Crystal Palace boss Alan Pardew has called on fans to use social media to name and shame anyone caught throwing coins following incidents during the club's last two home games against Newcastle and Liverpool. The Eagles will upgrade their security measures this weekend for the visit of Arsenal in the hope that they can... | Crystal Palace have launched investigations in two separate incidents of objects being thrown on to the pitch .
Newcastle's Fabricio Collocini was hit with a coin in his side's 1-1 draw .
The second incident occurred after Daniel Sturridge equalised for Liverpool in the FA Cup tie .
The Eagles have invested in upgradin... |
05355370bf47ed665349b425dd6211d62f7b6282 | By . Helen Pow . PUBLISHED: . 13:03 EST, 8 October 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 01:49 EST, 9 October 2012 . Vandals have desecrated the grave of a 13-month-old baby girl, littering it with smashed beer bottles and stomping on toys left by grieving family members. Police are hunting the culprits who attacked baby Chloe Elliot'... | Baby Chloe Elliot's grave was littered with smashed beer bottles and broken toys .
Scores of other graves at Plymouth's Efford cemetery were destroyed in the attack on Wednesday night .
Families are devastated, labeling the vandalism 'disgraceful, immoral and beyond belief' |
0537cb3beed70475e9f3784b9cb7a7c5d37c206c | For Manchester United’s executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward, the summer months of 2013 amounted to a quite brutal induction into the highly-charged arena of transfer dealings at the highest level. On a damp Monday evening in September, as the lights went out on Manchester United’s frantic attempts to recruit stars of e... | Herrera impressed at Old Trafford for Athletic Bilbao in 2012 .
United tried to sign him last summer, including a fiasco with 'impostors'
David Moyes opted to sign Juan Mata instead in January .
Herrera finally set to sign for Louis van Gaal's side for £28.7m . |
053807e2c95e38ce2ba87c08211cf0751670165b | Mexico City (CNN) -- Rescuers overnight recovered four bodies from a coal mine in northern Mexico that suffered an explosion last week, making a total of 11 bodies that have been extracted so far, the country's labor secretary said Saturday. Javier Lozano says at this point -- more than four days after the blast -- the... | Eleven bodies have been recovered and rescuers are looking for three more .
Lozano says crews are close to reaching those .
He says there is no hope of finding the miners alive . |
05381bbbfe2ab7b909ec500d72a153090e92e30d | By . Bianca London . PUBLISHED: . 08:08 EST, 6 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:39 EST, 6 June 2013 . National treasure Cheryl Cole regularly tops polls for her million dollar smile, glossy locks and style credentials, so it come as no surprise that the average 20-something female wants to look just like her. Experts who ... | Duchess of Cambridge is most copied style for women in their 30s .
Lorraine Kelly came top of the pile for women in their 50s .
Helen Mirren was the style icon for women in their 60s .
15% said they often dressed like their favourite celebrity .
More than a quarter have tried to find out where a piece of clothing was f... |
053967199088b6902f10b3f05e56c1611de9fcf1 | By . David Kent . Filipe Luis has moved a step closer to sealing a £20million move to Chelsea, after the Blues confirmed they had agreed a fee with Atletico Madrid. The 28-year-old Brazilian had been banished to train with the reserves in Spain after expressing a desire to follow Diego Costa to Stamford Bridge. But now... | Chelsea and Atletico Madrid agree £20million fee for Filipe Luis .
Transfer now subject to Luis agreeing personal terms with the Blues .
28-year-old Brazilian banished to train with Atletico reserves after expressing desire to follow Diego Costa to Stamford Bridge .
Atletico bought replacement in Granada's Guilherme Si... |
0539bd2998780345c4212eec81ee6863bbf0f95e | By . Peter Allen In Paris . Last updated at 1:46 PM on 1st March 2012 . A joke about the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America was cut from Jean Dujardin's new film so that he could win an Oscar, it emerged today. The 39-year-old French star of the silent comedy The Artist scooped the Best Actor statue at the Academy Award... | Actor seen conducting affair in hotel as he tells wife he is working hard...
... as footage shows terror attack on World Trade Center in the background . |
053ac2f67829f2e1ce5132ba10e10a4291c140f4 | (CNN) -- Basketball star Dennis Rodman seemed to get pretty upset Tuesday when asked whether he should be visiting North Korea with a group of former NBA players as part of his "basketball diplomacy" efforts. In the exclusive interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo on "New Day," Rodman supported his controversial trip and cal... | Dennis Rodman becomes angry while being interviewed by CNN's Chris Cuomo .
Rodman bristles when asked if it's appropriate for him to lead a visit to North Korea .
The former NBA star tells Cuomo, "I don't give a rat's ass what the hell you think"
Rodman implies that an American imprisoned in North Korea did something w... |
053add68eab8f231278896e4966b9b0c4702ed1e | By . Ryan Kisiel . Asia Parveen: Caused 57 injuries to the child and later claimed her violent outburst was prompted by hormones . A Muslim woman who repeatedly beat a ten-year-old girl with a steel ladle for not reading enough verses of the Koran was jailed yesterday. Asia Parveen, who was five months pregnant at the ... | Asia Parveen, 31, inflicted 57 separate injuries during attack .
Parveen blamed her hormones and stress from fasting during Ramadan for launching the assault .
Police found the young victim wandering the streets in the early morning . |
053afa139e6a1b01443307f42f8d2386726ccd51 | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A lawsuit alleging that civilian American interrogators subjected Iraqis to torture and severe mistreatment at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad can move forward, a federal judge ruled Thursday. Detainees leave Baghdad Central Prison -- also known as Abu Ghraib -- in 2006. U.S. District Cou... | Judge rejects immunity claims from defense contractor CACI .
In lawsuit, four Iraqi detainees accuse interrogators of physical, mental abuse .
Interrogators also accused of destroying evidence, misleading officials .
Contractors not facing criminal charges stemming from scandal . |
053d9e42872e7da4bc9c8794593c6c48d1f7bcf5 | By . Harriet Arkell . PUBLISHED: . 07:27 EST, 26 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:43 EST, 26 March 2013 . This is the 20-stone heavyweight of keepy-uppy who became an online star after a video of his skills appeared on youtube. Andrew Cassidy, 50, from Milton Haven in Pembrokeshire, became an online sensation after a 46-... | Andrew Cassidy known in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, for football skills .
He started keepy-uppy when he lost his fisherman's job in 2002 .
Invited to appear at World Freestyle Football Champsionships in Dubai . |
0540e8c4d7afd0dd356bfe8286b9a50bfded9b54 | A nine-months pregnant teenager who claims she was raped by seven men in Sudan is now facing the death penalty after being charged with adultery. The married Ethiopian woman was just 18 years old, and three months pregnant, when she was subjected to the attack in August last year. She says she was searching for a new h... | The Ethiopian teenager was three months pregnant when she was attacked .
She was raped by seven men in Omdurman, Sudan in August last year .
The rape was filmed and later spread on social media by the perpetrators .
The married woman is now facing the death penalty for adultery . |
054120d8b1df99fd7a0a08595b6e9a30a8902289 | By . Martin Robinson . PUBLISHED: . 11:11 EST, 22 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:19 EST, 22 August 2013 . Two police officers were injured when a brawl involving 20 people broke out during a wedding reception at a luxury hotel. Four men were arrested after two groups from separate parties became involved in a drunken ... | Two police were injured in drunken fracas involving at least 20 people .
Incident happened at four-star Ramside Hall, County Durham on Monday .
Four people, including a 16-year-old, were arrested after the brawl . |
05433c8c1c09593ed7d2ac6af13af9c02d417b19 | By . Daniel Martin . PUBLISHED: . 13:01 EST, 13 May 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 06:24 EST, 14 May 2012 . George Osborne is under intense pressure to attend the Leveson inquiry after it emerged he entertained Rebekah Brooks at his country estate . George Osborne is facing growing pressure to appear before the Leveson inquiry ... | Chancellor entertained News International boss Rebekah Brooks at his ministerial mansion . |
054349cf1bc7514a8a9ebc0f65607bf6c0563b7c | London (CNN) -- Decades after the crime, police are investigating what could be a clue to the burial place of the last unrecovered victim of one of Britain's most notorious killers, "Moors Murderer" Ian Brady. Keith Bennett was just 12 years old when he went missing on June 16, 1964, in northern England on his way to v... | 12-year-old Keith Bennett was a victim of notorious killer Ian Brady in 1964 .
Brady admitted his murder in 1987 but has not revealed the location of the body .
Police are investigating the possibility he has put the information in a sealed letter .
The boy's mother has never given up hope of finding his body but is se... |
0543697f98234911c31eb066d216bdd6393840dd | Killed: Sandor Horvath, 65, was chased and pulled off the scooter at a farm in Magyarszecsod . A Hungarian pensioner was dragged off his mobility scooter and mauled to death by a pair of killer donkeys. Sandor Horvath, 65, was bitten and trampled on so much that when his body was found it was believed had been torn apa... | Sandor Horvath, 65, was attacked by donkeys in Hungary .
Bitten and trampled on so much looked like he had .
been attacked by wolves .
Postmortem revealed the bites and markings had come from the donkeys .
Pair responsible for killing him are now waiting to be put down . |
054479da0c70038800810c3cc7df59c833068cf7 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 12:04 EST, 18 December 2013 . Tragic: James Marcus Howe had just moved to the neighborhood with his wife and young son when he was killed . Police have released two surveillance camera images of a dark Ford Mustang in the hope of catching the two thugs who broke into a reality TV... | James Marcus Howe, 42, worked on television shows such as 'America's Next Top Model' and 'A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila'
The three intruders allegedly posed as door-to-door salesmen .
Howe and his wife moved to the neighborhood with their 6-year-old son .
The identity of the shooters is still unknown . |
054501cd83ade961eeabf29fd2393559116975c0 | By . Daniel Bates . PUBLISHED: . 20:07 EST, 23 October 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 08:07 EST, 24 October 2012 . Barack Obama created an instant internet hit with his comments during the Presidential debate about ‘horses and bayonets’. Responding to claims by Mitt Romney that the US had fewer warships now than it did in 1916,... | Obama was responding to claims by Mitt Romney that the US had fewer warships now than it did in 1916 .
President quipped: 'Well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military has changed' |
05455a3390b2bbe32dd969363fc55f5a17ffa56d | JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CNN) -- South Africa has refused the Dalai Lama a visa to attend an international peace conference in Johannesburg this week, a presidential spokesman said. The Dalai Lama fled China in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule. The Tibetan spiritual leader and Nobel Laureate did no... | Spokesman: "Not in South Africa's interest for him (Dalai Lama) to attend"
South Africa says it is worried focus will switch away from 2010 World Cup .
It added South Africa has gained much from its trading relationship with China .
Fellow laureate Desmond Tutu said he would boycott the conference . |
05459636a0162b2c7d71cb546ce4577f8aa82b44 | Berlin (CNN) -- An Italian anarchist group has claimed responsibility for a failed mail bomb attack on Deutsche Bank CEO Josef Ackermann, German investigators said Thursday. A suspicious package sent to Ackermann contained a functioning bomb, law enforcement officials in the state of Hesse said. The package also contai... | NEW: Note from anarchist group mentions "three explosions," raising possibility of other bombs .
The package was intercepted Wednesday at Deutsche Bank mail room in Germany .
Police in Germany say it was a functioning bomb, but did not detonate .
New York police increase security around Deutsche Bank in Manhattan . |
0545aacd79b2d10262ccb3230217a5f8db6765a5 | (Wired) -- When Toshiba announced its 13-inch Excite tablet Tuesday, the company made an argument that one size does not fit all when it comes to touchscreen devices. But who will actually use such a large slab of mobile computing? "The Excite 13 is what we see as a home tablet," Jared Leavitt, a Toshiba spokesman, tol... | Toshiba's 13-inch Excite tablet runs on Google's Android 4.0 operating system .
The Excite will weigh 2.2 pounds and measure only 0.4 inches thick .
The tablet sports a 1,600×900 screen resolution, a micro-USB port and a micro-HDMI port . |
0545cddb3ea167e3e738bdcabc8f724d2998cc2e | By . Mark Prigg . PUBLISHED: . 11:48 EST, 15 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 11:57 EST, 15 November 2012 . For committed fans of retro photography apps such as Instagram, it could be the ultimate way to continue the retro theme. A London firm has created a £10 ($15) micro-sized projector that can display instagram pictu... | Design based on slide carousel projectors .
Reached its funding target on Kickstarter in less than 24 hours . |
0545d6613887c5dfce01ce2ea63b513d6af175ba | By . Kerry Mcdermott . PUBLISHED: . 04:06 EST, 27 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 10:38 EST, 27 November 2012 . Talae Thomas, 30, is understood to have confessed to murdering her five-week-old son because she believed he was the devil . A woman accused of murdering her newborn son is alleged to have told police she drow... | Talae Akei Thomas said her newborn had died in the hospital and the baby boy she brought home with her was the devil, police say .
Officers found five-week-old Chase Harrison floating in a bathtub at Thomas' home in Plant City, Florida, U.S. |
0545f3c8c6f09c482bb7c281aa05c0b8ca4efe94 | They are the gruesome crimes that have appalled - and intrigued - the world. First came so-called Miami 'zombie', Rudy Eugene, who stripped his victim before savaging his face by the side of the road. Then, gay porn star Luka Magnotta allegedly murdered his former lover with an ice pick before dismembering him and devo... | William Buehler Seabrook spent time with a cannibal tribe in Africa in the 1920s .
He described the texture and taste of human flesh in his 1931 book Jungle Ways . |
0545f93b66b2d76798d20155d77863a001e25162 | By . Emily Crane . and Aap . A man has handed himself in almost 12 hours after allegedly running from the scene of a fatal car accident during a police chase northwest of Melbourne. Police were responding to reports that three men and a woman wearing balaclavas were allegedly trying to rob a ticket machine at Macedon r... | Police were pursuing a sedan with four people following reports of alleged robbery at Macedon railway station, northwest of Melbourne .
The car was found a short time later on its side early on Saturday morning .
Police found one man dead after being ejected from the vehicle .
A 27-year-old woman was arrested at scene ... |
0547b8a97e20e5ae051daca4899321e454f6e884 | (CNN) -- FACETIME: Mahmoud Jibril, former Libyan interim Prime Minister . After the death of Colonel Gadhafi, Libya is looking towards a new and very different future. This week in a special edition from the shores of the Dead Sea in Jordan, MME sits down with the country's former interim prime minister Mahmoud Jibril ... | MME talks to Libya's former Interim prime minister Mahmoud Jibril about the country's future .
King Abdullah of Jordan has made several changes in the government this year .
As Jordan struggles with high poverty rates, MME looks at the country's economic pressures . |
054864973615e62cf86b4f58e8b8952bf8b0203b | By . Emma Innes . PUBLISHED: . 07:33 EST, 5 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:38 EST, 5 September 2013 . A little boy given just days to live when he was born four months prematurely is starting school today. Owen Piper weighed just 1lb 9oz when he was born and his head was a small as an egg. His parents, Hayley and C... | Owen Piper, four, was so small at birth his head was the size of an egg .
His parents were told he probably would not survive more than a few days .
Spent 17 weeks in intensive care but discharged the day after his due date .
Now the only noticeable difference between Owen and other children is his .
oversized uniform ... |
054867c4e7c02464b93802ad5dc61409a6fffb3b | By . Ellie Zolfagharifard . Time and again ancient ‘bog bodies’, and their remarkably well-preserved features dating back thousands of years, have left scientists speechless. These eerie cadavers are naturally mummified within a peat bog that preserves intricate details, such forehead creases and even laughter lines. N... | Bill Kenny from Croghan Hill launched the peat Ógra skincare range .
Peat is the bog material formed when plant remains partially decompose .
He was inspired by finding of a well-preserved Iron Age body in 2003 .
Body, dubbed Old Croghan Man, hadn't decomposed because of peat .
Mr Kenny claims peat creams are high in a... |
054891b9199a73152564cc5be925250ea282bb00 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . CREATED: . 05:42 EST, 25 June 2012 . A burglar begging a judge to send him to prison must be a rare sight in any court. And in the case of housebreaker Kierran Batchelor, the reason was equally unusual – his 10am meetings with his probation officer were wrecking his sleep patterns. The 21-ye... | The judge was prepared to give Kierran Batchelor a second chance after he broke supervision order .
Burglar said daily probation meetings were 'getting too much' and asked judge for prison instead .
He thanked judge and smiled as he was led away for 40-week sentence . |
0548a16488051ef6b9ab3f77e97f5b3a53193021 | An Indonesian grave robber has admitted stealing the bones of twin babies for black magic spells which he believed would enable him to fly and be invisible, police said today. Police detained Resi Rokhis Suhana, 27, in the south of the main island of Java on Sunday, following reports that bones had been stolen from gra... | Resi Rokhis Suhana was arrested in Java following grave robbing reports .
He had bones, white burial shrouds, women's underwear and a sickle .
Police said during questioning he admitted to grave robbing and wanting to perform black magic .
He was admitted to hospital for a mental evaluation .
Black magic is thought to ... |
054954d43f97fada7e4c6dea34d2ae5738e8869b | Real Madrid have been warned to not expect an easy ride when they compete in this month's Club World Cup, by 1978 World Cup-winning Argentina coach Cesar Luis Menotti. The Spanish giants are the heavy tournament favourites, with the Champions League holders currently on a 19-game winning streak in all competitions. Re... | Real Madrid will be competing at the Club World Cup later this month .
Real are currently on a 19-game winning streak in all competitions .
Real will face either Cruz Azul or Western Sydney Wanderers in the semi-finals on December 16 .
Club World Cup final to be staged on December 20 . |
054bfc9d97027c82f15f3b12484133b4b0fecbdc | By . William Turvill . PUBLISHED: . 07:58 EST, 1 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:40 EST, 1 October 2013 . A respected cancer specialist killed a 21-year-old cyclist who was on a bike ride with her boyfriend while driving on the bend of a road, a jury heard today. Dr Helen Measures told the jury how she overtook two cy... | Dr Helen Measures, 51, drove into the path of cyclists on road bend .
She was driving back from garden centre with daughter and boyfriend .
Denisa Perinova, 21, was with her boyfriend, Ben Pontin .
Waitress Miss Perinova died after she was flung 15 yards from her bike . |
054cf733280ab456a52f50b2918d657a848f21e4 | Many men have been known to experience a nauseating sinking feeling the moment they utter those two life-changing words - 'I do'. For Peter Bolton, it wasn't cold feet that left him feeling queasy - but the prospect of falling hundreds of metres to his death after he lost his balance during the cliff-top ceremony in S... | Peter Bolton was confirming love for wife, Faith, in Santa Fe, New Mexico .
The couple chose to hold the ceremony in dramatic cliff-edge location .
But disaster strikes when Mr Bolton appears to accidentally lean backwards .
Luckily, wife comes to the rescue - quickly clutching hold of his flailing arm . |
054de19b1c5e94bdf6132f842e2cfbdb5b7055ed | A dog suffered severe burns after his owner dumped her boyfriend who then poured hot water on the animal in a suspected revenge attack. The dog's owner, Mariah Facca, said she was breaking up with 27-year old Alain Williams Sunday when he told her he poured hot water on her dog Moon at his home, according to police. Th... | Dog's owner, Mariah Facca, was breaking up with 27-year old Alain Williams .
He then told her he had poured hot water on her dog Moon .
Moon has second-degree burns covering 30 to 40 percent of her body .
Vets are concerned her organs may fail as a result of the burns .
Moon's medical costs are expected to exceed $10,0... |
054e351e313ecec3b9c47d701a1491cdbbff07e1 | By . Ted Thornhill . PUBLISHED: . 05:43 EST, 1 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 05:55 EST, 1 October 2013 . When artworks by famous landscaper John Constable go under the hammer, they can expect to fetch well in excess of £20m. But now the beautiful countryside on which arguably Britain's most famous painter based many of... | A total of 231 acres of land on the Suffolk and Essex border is up for sale .
Whoever snaps it up will enjoy 1,200m of fishing rights on the River Stour . |
054eb94e96e3976546e32036660682ee79a56236 | Venezuelans have taken to the streets in recent days, leading to gruesome clashes between protesters and police. Their demands are varied, from economic to social. Here's a Q and A to bring you up to speed with what's going on. When did the protests in Venezuela begin? Nationwide student protests started this month. On... | Murder, terror charges against opposition leader Lopez dropped; new charges brought .
Nationwide student protests started this month .
They attracted global attention when three people were killed .
Protesters want better security, an end to goods shortages, protected freedom of speech . |
0550be9865e8fcd68068c3cfab4bdba15f93d8e7 | By . Daniel Bates . Joe Jackson has vowed to make Michael Jackson’s son Blanket into a star as big as his father - so long as he is ‘trained’ properly. The 75-year-old family patriarch said that he disagreed with those who said there would never be another King of Pop because Blanket was ready to take his place. He sai... | Joe Jackson has vowed to turn the 11-year-old into a big star .
Said the youngster is a 'spitting image' of his father when he was that age .
His comments evoke memories of how he pushed the Jackson family into show business . |
05513f69ca4c4b3f582363c52ede0ef8a80433bb | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 07:22 EST, 29 August 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 07:22 EST, 29 August 2012 . People living in Scotland and Northern Ireland can expect to spend a smaller proportion of their lives in good health than their English and Welsh neighbours, new figures suggest. The amount of life spent in g... | Scottish boys can expect to enjoy four fewer years of good health than English boys . |
055353988c91a4de23ffbae21dba3e2648c9cc48 | Two Pennsylvania brothers were charged with theft, conspiracy and receiving stolen property after allegedly stealing nearly $500,000 worth of sewer grates and selling them for scrap metal. Brian Vetrulli, 36, and John Vetrulli Jr, 38, of Gilbertsville, were arrested on Saturday in the King of Prussia section of Upper M... | The Vetrulli brothers were arrested on Saturday in Upper Merion Township .
John Vetrulli Jr, 38, and Brian Vetrulli, 36, are charged with theft .
The brothers had receipts showing they sold more than 1,000 missing grates for $9 apiece .
Each grate weighs about 100 pounds and costs about $475 to replace . |
0553606e0f941891281ec2aedec5155faacbbf16 | LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Massive dogs belonging to "Mission: Impossible" star Ving Rhames attacked and killed a live-in caretaker at the actor's Los Angeles home Friday, police said. A sign on the gate of actor Ving Rhames' home points out that a dog is on the premises. The caretaker, whose name was not re... | Dogs kill man at Ving Rhames' L.A. house .
Man was caretaker at house .
Rhames, known for "Mission: Impossible," not at home when attack occurred . |
055429c683720ab4ecca6890e37df67c5ac61d19 | Tottenham has confirmed Paul Mitchell's move from Southampton to become the north London club's head of recruitment and analysis. Mitchell is hailed as a driving force in the successful scouting and hiring structure that has seen the Saints turn a troubled summer into a remarkable success with their improved squad comi... | Paul Mitchell move confirmed from Saints, where he's worked since 2012 .
Spurs technical director Franco Baldini could be heading for the exit door .
Tottenham sold Gareth Bale to Real Madrid for a world record £86m .
The north London side have brought in 13 faces with the money raised from Bale's move to the Spanish c... |
05542b701e2624ae375b03c2c609da9ae865da43 | While blizzards, snow and freezing conditions batter parts of the East Coast, unseasonably warm temperatures across the rest of the country mean the U.S. is experiencing one of its warmest winters on record. Almost the entirety of the country's West has experienced significantly warmer than average temperatures across ... | Blizzards, snow and freezing conditions are currently battering the East .
But overall, the U.S. is experiencing its sixth-warmest winter on record .
In this month alone, thousands of warm weather records were broken .
The West is experiencing much higher than average winter temperatures .
Drought conditions across par... |
0554412038f5deecf7c001ec68853952e92bdb21 | Police in Georgia are searching for a retired couple who disappeared after going to purchase a car from a seller they contacted online. Vietnam War vet Elrey 'Bud' Runion, 69, and his 66-year-old wife, June Runion, drove from Marietta to McRae on Thursday to meet someone who had responded to a Craigslist ad placed by B... | Bud and June Runion, who are both in their late 60s, had drove to meet someone who responded to Bud's ad seeking a 1966 Mustang .
Cell phone data shows the couple made it to McRae, Georgia, by Thursday evening but they haven't been heard from since .
The couple were driving a champagne colored 2003 GMC Envoy .
The coup... |
0554ad9869cfebadb13c78dba03919ae9c02eef6 | BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Six U.S. soldiers were killed Wednesday in Iraq when a bomb exploded in a booby-trapped house while they were on patrol north of Baghdad, the military announced. U.S. soldiers conduct a house-to-house assessment mission in Baghdad on Wednesday. Four soldiers were also wounded in the attack and ev... | NEW: Troops were taking part in new offensive, dubbed Operation Iron Harvest .
Six soldiers die when bomb explodes in booby-trapped house .
Blast also leaves 4 U.S. soldiers wounded .
It's the first incident involving multiple deaths of U.S. soldiers in Iraq since September . |
0554d66c1f08e118eb0bdaff44bb813d2c93a446 | (CNN) -- Paris is perpetually one of the world's most popular cities. And the 16 million tourists who travel to the home of La Tour Eiffel and the Louvre leave a whopping $17.8 billion behind during their trips, according to MasterCard's 2012 Global Destination Cities Index. While Paris isn't generally a place you go t... | Free programs pair tourists with locals to explore the city .
Take in views from the top of the Left Bank's Institut du Monde Arabe at no cost .
Free concerts and museum admission give visitors a complimentary taste of culture . |
05558f66489ed2eefd95f3fe37a7918377b43f3b | Beijing (CNN) -- If the latest U.S. intelligence reports are true then North Korea is planning to test-fire not one but multiple missiles, the latest provocative act by its unpredictable young leader. While the region has become used to the posturing from Pyongyang, the recent wave of rhetoric has been unusually sustai... | New intelligence reports suggest North Korea planning multiple missile launch .
Traditional ally China increasingly irritated by regime under Kim Jong Un .
President Xi Jinping: No country should be allowed to throw region into chaos .
Analysts believe Kim is under pressure to justify his position at home . |
0555bda88856e4ac5101e202f6c88606c25b634d | By . Lizzie Edmonds . PUBLISHED: . 06:25 EST, 4 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 15:49 EST, 4 October 2013 . When Margot and Valerie were rescued from a battery farm things started to look up. No longer stuck in cramped cages, they were suddenly free to roam around the garden to their hearts’ content. But it seems their n... | Chickens Margot and Valerie rescued by Trevor and Samantha Stickley .
Couple from Bournemouth were told ex-battery hens often struggle to adapt to the cold in the winter months .
So owners took pair to Zip Yard tailors, who made the fleece-lined jackets after measuring under their drumsticks and across their chests .
T... |
05561b55698e0da9a31e4671f4cb672c8c70e618 | (CNN) -- An American student is in critical condition after undergoing two operations after chimpanzees tore at his body in front of tourists at a South African animal sanctuary, a hospital spokeswoman told CNN on Tuesday. Andrew Oberle, a primatology student from the University of Texas at San Antonio, was being treat... | Chimps attacked student Andrew Oberle at a South Africa sanctuary .
Oberle is in critical condition at a Johannesburg hospital .
The sanctuary is closed and its staff is receiving counseling .
There are no plans to euthanize the chimps involved, investigator says . |
05569e0262f8aaced52fee518c11b8652e29dca9 | By . Harriet Sargeant . Under fire: Labour MP Ann Clwyd has has been attacked by the NHS and her own party after she complained that her husband Owen died 'like a battery hen' in hospital . Yesterday, the hospital where Ann Clwyd’s husband died issued an official report dismissing her claims against it. The Labour MP i... | MP claimed in Parliament that a lack of care caused husband Owen's death .
Mr Clwyd died of hospital-acquired pneumonia in October 2012 .
David Cameron asked her to overhaul NHS complaints system .
Investigation by hospital staff dismissed 21 of the MP’s 31 complaints . |
05575a5965cfa30001cb505ffc04b05ff0211d31 | An army of Islamic State terrorists has advanced to the outskirts of Vienna, Spain has cut off routes to Gibraltar and Nigel Farage – prime minister of 'Great England' – has deported all immigrants who have arrived in the past ten years. This, according to the BBC, is what the world would be like if the European Union ... | Apocalyptic vision of Europe descending into social chaos aired tonight .
BBC4 programme condemned by Eurosceptics as 'pro-EU propaganda'
BBC say The Great European Disaster Movie is 'authored documentary'
It shows terrorists advancing to Vienna, Nigel Farage as Prime Minister .
In the film, Mr Emmott warns: 'Our worry... |
055a276b1e49334d1dae623301578903975b87b3 | By . Lizzie Edmonds . PUBLISHED: . 13:28 EST, 24 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 14:03 EST, 24 January 2014 . Daniel Rodriquez jailed for a total of 12 years after an armed siege at his home in Kidlington, Oxon, in July last year . A man who took a cocktail of drugs before holding his two-year-old twin girls hostage in a... | Daniel Rodriquez, 38, held twin daughters hostage at home in Kidlington .
Armed himself with air rifle and imitation gun and 'took cocktail of drugs'
Fired twice at officers who surrounded the home in July last year .
Twin daughters were eventually rescued by riot officers and taken to safety .
Rodriquez was jailed for... |
055ac0791f3028c130fc21d8a16aac70202ed5d7 | Regret is etched across Samir Nasri’s face when talk turns to last season’s Champions League defeat against Barcelona. It still rankles. Not only the result, not only Martin Demichelis’s decisive red card in the first leg, but also Manchester City’s approach. ‘Were we naive against Barca? Yes, we were,’ says the French... | Manchester City welcome La Liga club Barcelona to the Etihad on Tuesday .
Barcelona defeated Manuel Pellegrini's side in the last 16 last year .
Samir Nasri believes City were naive in the 4-1 aggregate defeat last year .
City beat Newcastle 5-0 on Saturday as Barcelona lost 1-0 to Malaga . |
055b152834e8f97a16f958cd9409fc35617bef6d | Denial: Andrew Hamade, brother of Bryan 26 (pictured), has denied accusations that his brother leaked nude celebrity pictures online . An American software engineer has denied stealing nude photos from celebrities’ iCloud accounts and claimed his life was being ruined after being identified as the hacker online. Bryan ... | Bryan Hamade, 26, was named as source of leak of nude celebrity photos .
He tried to sell intimate pictures of Jennifer Lawrence in return for Bitcoin .
He posted images on Reddit and allegedly tried to sell them for $100 each .
But he was forced to deny that he was original hacker users identified him .
Admitted he ha... |
055b9974ef6271af20387d3244f084116958cd91 | In the weeks following Christmas, thousands of children across Britain sat down to write thank you letters to friends and family kind enough to give them a present. But parents at one primary school were left fuming after they discovered their children had been told to do the complete opposite and complain about the gi... | Children were told to write a letter of complaint about Christmas presents .
Pupils aged seven were marked gold, silver or bronze for their complaints .
Furious parents refused to allow their children to complete the assignment .
'I teach my son to be grateful, not to complain,' fumes one appalled mother .
But the sch... |
055ecf62987ba22f49bd7e45a9338f9a60e0b9ce | Deon E. Warren, 19, is charged with first-degree murder for allegedly shooting dead a father of two . Police in Maryland have arrested a 19-year-old suspect in the fatal shooting of a father of two who tried to break up a fight to protect his teenage son. Deon E. Warren, of Upper Marlboro, was arrested late Wednesday n... | Deon E. Warren, 19, has been charged with first-degree murder in Maryland .
He's accused of killing 39-year-old Mitchell White, a father of two who was set to get married in the Bahamas next spring .
White jumped into a fight to protect his teenage son when he saw the 16-year-old boy in a physical altercation with anot... |
055f3cbfb9110f60ec3f13ea3b9c81ff8fc057f5 | MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- Dozens of gay and lesbian rights activists planning a parade in southwestern Moscow Saturday have been detained, Russia's Interfax news agency reported. Gay and lesbian rights activists are detained in Moscow Saturday ahead of a planned march. The arrests included Nikolai Alexeyev, a prominent ... | News agency: Police barricade park where demonstrators due to meet .
Arrests come ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest, being held in Moscow Saturday .
Most famous winners of the contest were ABBA, who came to attention in 1974 .
Contest is traditionally taken more seriously in eastern Europe . |
055fce9f71d006da42a9fb549df03bdb443bb814 | By . Amanda Williams . Michael Green, 84, was dragged from his car and left with a broken hip and needing surgery to a head wound after he was carjacked by a gang of thug . A pensioner was dragged from his 'pride and joy' car and beaten up with a metal weight during a carjacking by a gang of as many as six teenagers ou... | Michael Green suffered a broken hip and head wounds in brutal attack .
The retired musician was leaving his local pub when he was yanked from car .
Widower was then kicked and punched and attacked with a metal weight .
He was left badly injured and lying in the gutter at The Trumpet in Bilston . |
05604447e7aa49dcfbb4afc4da451e58c8268577 | The iPhone may just put the 'I' in phone as a new study reveals that those who left their devices behind for even a few minutes felt a 'lessening of self.' A study from the University of Missouri called 'The Extended iSelf: The Impact of iPhone Separation on Cognition, Emotion, and Physiology,' found that being separat... | The University of Missouri published a study called 'The Extended iSelf: The Impact of iPhone Separation on Cognition, Emotion, and Physiology'
The 40 subjects were asked to a complete two puzzles and had their iPhone confiscated during the second puzzle .
Subjects' anxiety spiked when being separated from their devic... |
0560a8536bed8e2cd353b4c9828bf03774186e5e | (CNN) -- New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush announced Tuesday that he would forfeit the Heisman Trophy he won in 2005 when he was at the University of Southern California. "I will forever appreciate the honor bestowed upon me as a winner of the Heisman," Bush wrote in a statement released by his pro team, the ... | NCAA investigation: Reggie Bush received payments, gifts while playing at USC .
Investigation led to harsh sanctions against University of Southern California .
Star says he wants to help young athletes "avoid some of the mistakes I made" |
0561885fa27b3eaf9fd0f2f6936dd3250a04003d | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 11:50 EST, 6 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 17:46 EST, 6 January 2013 . A dental assistant fired because her boss thought she was too attractive wants the Iowa Supreme Court to reconsider its decision rejecting her discrimination lawsuit. Melissa Nelson's attorney asked the all-ma... | A lawyer for Melissa Nelson on Friday asked the Iowa Supreme Court to void its Dec. 21 ruling .
Court ruled 7-0 James Knight legally dismissed Nelson .
Knight fired 10-year assistant because she wore tight outfits and was 'irresistible'
Assistant says she was happily married and only wore scrubs .
Knight's wife demande... |
05621db24ddf5470a10304ad10d5c0ba71403238 | Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN) -- He might have some 60 albums under his belt and numerous awards to his name but iconic Zimbabwean musician Oliver Mtukudzi has no plans to slow down. "Retiring from what?" he asks purposefully when asked if he'd consider a break from music. "This is me," explains 60-year-old Mtukudzi... | Oliver Mtukudzi, 60, is an award-winning Zimbabwean musician .
His latest album is a tribute to his son who died in a car crash in 2010 .
Mtukudzi, known as Tuku to his fans, uses his music to campaign against AIDS stigma and polygamy .
He's also ventured into feature films to address social challenges in modern day Af... |
0562316358df673dec5d5611ee741dcb7d4180ed | It is almost 28 years to the day since Diego Maradona knocked England out of the 1986 World Cup, but Gary Lineker let bygones be bygones as the former England striker joked with the Argentina legend about his infamous 'Hand of God' goal. Lineker took time out from his role as a BBC pundit in Brazil to appear on Maradon... | Gary Lineker jokes and pats Diego Maradona on back about 'Hand of God' goal that - 28 years ago today - knocked England out of 1986 World Cup .
Both played in the quarter-final that Argentina won 2-1 with Lineker scoring a consolation goal for England after Maradona had struck twice .
Lineker was a BBC pundit for Russi... |
05628910023dc986fceaa84b997faf7f3f0af260 | It's considered a time honored Thanksgiving tradition to devour the delicious turkey dinner. But one woman has created the ultimate Thanksgiving meal...using nothing but Rice Krispies. Jessica Siskin, a New York-based food artist, decided to create the incredible life-like plate of food with all of the trimmings, inclu... | The meal is the brainchild of Jessica Siskin, a New York-based food artist .
She created the incredible Thanksgiving dinner with all of the trimmings .
The delicious-looking plate of food has turkey, mashed potatoes and corn .
She showcases her art on Instagram under the handle 'Mister Krisp' |
0562ec9ff16cc8951817045a85daa63effb54148 | (CNN) -- A former detention deputy with an Idaho sheriff's office has been charged with raping his wife, placing her in a car trunk and driving to his mother's residence, where he allegedly killed his mother, authorities said Wednesday. Michael James Lee, 24, of Meridian, had no previous criminal history and was fired ... | Former deputy charged with murder, rape and kidnapping .
Idaho deputies arrrested him after discovering dead mother .
Suspect was arraigned on charges Wednesday . |
0564132428d3f924e5a6a09c8fc1e77eed66b33b | By . Sam Webb . PUBLISHED: . 20:05 EST, 26 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:25 EST, 27 September 2013 . Reality TV stars attended a party at the Big Brother house to celebrate The National Trust's controversial move to open the iconic building to the public. Model Sophie Anderton and cage fighter Alex Reid were among... | Launch party sees former stars of the reality TV show return to the set .
Visitors will be able look around the famous house for two days .
Trust said it will allow people the chance to experience the iconic TV location .
But former MP Ann Widdecombe called it 'tawdry' and 'celebrity-obsessed' |
0564a8673db999ebbbcb18979987a40462e29417 | Universal Studios has a sealed an agreement to open a £2bn theme park in Beijing, the culmination of a 13-year effort to enter China's fast-growing entertainment market. US theme park operators are rushing to build in China, where there are few high-quality parks and park revenues are growing rapidly as city dwellers s... | Theme park operators are rushing to enter China's fast-growing market .
A local newspaper says the 1,000-acre resort will open in 2019 .
Hollywood director Steven Spielberg will contribute to its design .
Resort will compete with Walt Disney's proposed Shanghai theme park . |
0564b2a2894749d64d0c9bb519e7625d61251952 | (CNN Student News) -- October 5, 2010 . Download PDF maps related to today's show: . • Washington, D.C. • Germany • Massachusetts . Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Broadcasting from the CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia,... | Hear why some say that World War I actually ended last Sunday .
Discover what scientists have learned about marine biodiversity .
Weigh in on a plan to put ads on school notices .
Use the Daily Discussion to help students understand today's featured news stories . |
056542ee30fc3bc9b418cf4c5eec6211b01b8518 | By . Francesca Infante . PUBLISHED: . 19:25 EST, 10 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 05:42 EST, 11 March 2013 . He suffered a very public humiliation when his apology over tuition fees was turned into a spoof video that went viral. And it seems Nick Clegg was hoping for a greater success from this keynote address by incorpo... | Nick Clegg seemed to imitate the Gangnam Style dance made famous by Psy .
He compared Tories to a faulty supermarket trolley for veering to the right . |
05657b871694c3a5b31a0fc63746ef382b31e32c | A mother-of-nine who claims £38,000 a year in handouts and demanded a bigger council house for her huge family is pregnant again - this time with twins. Cheryl Prudham, 32, and her husband Robert, 29, are set to receive at least a further £1,400 in handouts when the baby girls arrive. Mrs Prudham said she will 'not be ... | Cheryl and Robert Prudham last year demanded a bigger council house .
Eventually they arranged house swap - but are still not happy with choice .
Mrs Prudham said she will 'not be made to feel guilty' for having children'
The couple work 20 hours a week - but are still entitled to benefits . |
05658accda2d6f9deb9c07477bb1cb112a0ce664 | By . Ian Drury, Defence Correspondent . PUBLISHED: . 19:36 EST, 30 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 03:28 EST, 31 January 2014 . David Cameron yesterday cited the success of fictional television spies as a reason for reviving the controversial ‘snoopers’ charter’. The Prime Minister said he wanted to resurrect plans to al... | 'There’s hardly a [TV] crime solved without using... a mobile', PM claimed .
But his appearance before Parliamentary security committee was mocked .
Tory MP David Davis: 'You can’t derive policy from watching fictional crime' |
0566204fefd08ea40567efcf93f212a21b44eb33 | Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Haitian police shot and killed a man they suspected of stealing rice in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince on Thursday, leaving his body on the sidewalk for hours as his family mourned. The dead man's mother identified him as Gentile Cherie, a 20-year-old carpenter. A companion with him wa... | Dead man's mother identified him as Gentile Cherie, a 20-year-old carpenter .
Companion with him was wounded, and third man nearby says hit by stray bullet .
A CNN crew spotted police stopping the two men Thursday afternoon .
CNN crew heard 4 gunshots while getting out of the car, saw 2 men on ground, shot in back . |
0566c9eaf0825cda885b15ade107a9e0b2534a9b | (CNN) -- Former baseball slugger Jose Canseco accidentally shot himself in his left finger while cleaning a gun, police said. He was in surgery Tuesday night, his fiancee tweeted. "This is Leila . Thank you all for the kind words and prayers . Jose is in still surgery and will be ok. Please pray for his finger !!," she... | Canseco hit more than 450 home runs .
His semiautomatic handgun accidentally went off . |
0568708c5ba4a20dad94155c940c1bc8ecf12536 | (CNN) -- The arrest of a Connecticut town's finance director -- who is accused of embezzling $2.3 million while financially supporting his mistress in Florida -- has left the small community in financial crisis. Henry L. Centrella Jr., 59, was arrested in August on five counts of first-degree larceny after several mont... | Henry L. Centrella Jr., 59, was arrested in August on five counts of first-degree larceny .
Investigation has found that more than $2 million has been misappropriated .
Winchester, Connecticut, has been left scrambling for a way to pay its bills . |
05688bac0e46542be65a6df240428a6f26c86fd0 | By . Anna Hodgekiss for MailOnline . The number of parents who can correctly identify their children as overweight or obese has fallen over the past two decades . Obesity is skewing the way we view those who are overweight - and could be wreaking havoc on children's health, a study has warned. New research has revealed... | U.S. researchers looked at data from 1988-1994 and 2005-2010 .
More parents in the earlier date range were able to tell if a child was fat .
Increasing trend of weight underestimation is 'extremely alarming' |
05690aec38784eb1abc29b0d4d40fbecf06746bf | When Jewish schoolgirl Helga Weiss was ordered off the train at Auschwitz in 1944, she was destined for death in the gas chambers - along with all the others considered too young or too old to work. But instead of being killed, Helga, not long in her teens, managed to convince 'Angel of Death' doctor Josef Mengele she ... | Czech teen Helga Weiss lied about her age .
Now in her 80s, she is a celebrated artist . |
05699234fb9cb66ce2f41eee6ee8b8a639d794dd | Jailed: Christopher Birch fled to Spain after being charged with raping his wife and indecent exposure to his step-daughter. He has been jailed for 15 years . A rapist who forced his wife to have sex with him in front of her eight-year-old daughter has been jailed for 15 years after fleeing to Spain. Christopher Birch... | Christopher Birch repeatedly attacked his wife Louise over six years .
Louise's daughter Sophie, then 8, walked in but he continued his attack .
When the pair told police he was charged but did not appear in court .
Sparked three-year manhunt during which Louise died of an illness .
Jailed for 15 years, judge said it i... |
0569b529449c1d208699182e24347fb0eeb250c8 | Police have revealed that the couple whose candle-lit marriage proposal was caught on a helicopter night vision camera from the sky are to marry. The words ‘will you marry me’ were written in flames as the Metropolitan Police’s helicopter flew over a north-west London's Gladstone Park near midnight on Saturday. Remarka... | Police were looking for a stolen car when they came across the message .
It was spotted in Gladstone Park, London, near midnight on Saturday .
Officers had wanted to track down the couple to pass on the photos .
Bride-to-be has accepted the proposal and the pair will get married .
Are you the romantic groom, or the hap... |
0569d66dbf7560eafab5326bf447866642c36863 | The team that supported Vincenzo Nibali to victory in this year’s Tour de France were faced with suspending themselves from racing on Friday after one of their riders failed a test for the banned blood-boosting drug, erythropoietin. Maxim Iglinskiy was a member of the nine-man Astana squad that helped Nibali secure vic... | Atsana team member Maxim Iglinskiy has tested positive for erythropoietin .
He was one of riders supporting Vincenzo Nibali to Tour de France victory .
Regulations demand that the team must suspend themselves, meaning they could miss the Tour of Beijing . |
056a7137ea7e9072f1c5ba378beef18603bf984e | By . Beth Stebner and Reuters Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 01:04 EST, 24 May 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 01:23 EST, 24 May 2012 . Though the recession all but left the housing market on its knees, new home sales are being driven by an unlikely factor – the rise in demand for new, larger housing. These houses - dubbed McMansions -... | New home sales up 3.3 per cent in April, up 9.9 per cent from last year .
'McMansions' construction helping modest development boom, as larger houses offered for same price in hopes to entice buyers . |
056d31d7097348f32b15309ff7ea12240d6d749d | Hong Kong (CNN) -- I can't even remember the last time I thumbed a message on its itty-bitty qwerty keyboard. And yet, I stubbornly keep my BlackBerry in my bag and on my desk, fully charged. As with my Palm Vx of yesterday, breaking up with a beloved gadget is hard to do, especially when you have history. My BlackBerr... | Struggling BlackBerry announces it plans to become a private company .
CNN's Kristie Lu Stout refuses to let go of her BlackBerry device .
But she says other smartphones offer better apps, functionality . |
056d4493718c77f2ebc0a9aacd4f1fce984b1d05 | (Oprah.com) -- A businesswoman, a mother of four, an international fashion icon, a woman committed to making the world a better place for women and children -- Queen Rania of Jordan is truly changing the world. Queen Rania says cultural dialogue, education and increased opportunities are ways to combat terrorism. Rania... | Queen Rania is a businesswoman, a mother of four and a fashion icon .
The queen of Jordan says she has responsibility to help her country .
She is well known for efforts to improve education for girls .
Rania would like to break stereotypes the West has about Arab culture . |
056db00a74f0e9fd96de34881e23bae534026a8e | By . Mark Duell . PUBLISHED: . 14:13 EST, 23 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:01 EST, 24 June 2013 . First published in 1923, it’s a magazine that has adorned many coffee tables for decades since - and given us a fascinating insight into broadcasting over the past nine decades. Now an exhibition at the Museum of London wi... | Memorable covers at exhibition include World Cup 1966, EastEnders launch and George VI's coronation .
Also included in set is first issue from September 1923 and the first Christmas issue from the same year .
A Luftwaffe map from 1941 plots magazine's printing plant in north-west London as a Nazi air-raid target .
'Cov... |
056e01a3ffaecd3dd16a828746094c691cad8316 | By . Simon Jones . Petr Cech's agent has confirmed that Paris Saint-Germain and Monaco have both made contact about the Chelsea goalkeeper. The 32-year-old Czech could leave if Thibaut Courtois returns to Stamford Bridge. Cech has been Chelsea No 1 for a decade after joining from French side Rennes, and long been regar... | Petr Cech is in battle for Chelsea No 1 shirt with Thibaut Courtois .
Chelsea braced for bids for Czech star .
Paris Saint-Germain and Monaco have been in contact .
But Jose Mourinho has not told Cech he can leave Stamford Bridge . |
056ea4346b8d1a5ea37205e309d5115dac9dd2e4 | (CNN) -- Two-time champions Nigeria failed to qualify for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations after being held 2-2 by Guinea on Saturday. Second-half goals from strikers Victor Obinna and Ikechukwu Uche put Nigeria 2-1 ahead in Abuja, but Ibrahima Traore's 90th-minute equalizer ensured that Guinea finished top of Group B by... | Nigeria and South Africa fail to qualify for 2012 Africa Cup of Nations .
Super Eagles eged out by Guinea in Group B after conceding late equalizer .
South Africa also missed out on overall runner-u spot after being held at home .
Ghana qualified along with Mali, Libya, Niger, Angola and Tunisia . |
056f680f5e691cfe04b22a5b3d094425f1e738de | By . Rob Preece . PUBLISHED: . 12:33 EST, 5 August 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 08:40 EST, 7 August 2012 . To its residents, Yorkshire is known as 'God's Own County'. And were it a country in its own right, the white rose county would be riding high in the Olympic medal table. Four Yorkshire athletes, including Sheffield's Je... | Four Yorkshire athletes have won gold at London 2012 so far .
Olympic champion heptathlete Jessica Ennis, 26, comes from Sheffield .
Other Yorkshire medal winners include Ed Clancy, Andrew Triggs Hodge and Katherine Copeland . |
056fb13816aacf2dbf60b439a547cccd498254ed | By . David Derbyshire . Last updated at 10:38 PM on 18th July 2011 . Animal testing for household products such as bleach, washing-up liquid and air fresheners could soon be banned. Ministers yesterday took the first steps towards ending experiments on rabbits, mice and other laboratory animals. Testing of cosmetics on... | After cosmetic ban, Home Office to outlaw 'unacceptable' tests for household products . |
0570c24661f112a2f164b2c7ac2495edef64c5e6 | Karim Benzema snubbed a move to Manchester United in 2009, according to Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas. The France striker left his boyhood club for Real Madrid that summer, but Aulas claims an offer to move to Old Trafford was also on the table. United sold Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid the same summer, with Benz... | Manchester United sold Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid in 2009 .
Lyon president claims that Man Utd wanted Karim Benzema that summer .
However Jean-Michel Aulas says striker always wanted Bernabeu transfer .
Benzema completed a €35million (£28million) move to Real in 2009 .
United instead signed Michael Owen on a free... |
0571232be4a8197d2e396e139b3f0e21446fcbe3 | Denver, Colorado (CNN)A federal judge gave a four-year prison sentence Friday to a 19-year-old Colorado woman who admitted guilt in wanting to become an ISIS bride and participate in its jihad in the Mideast. Shannon Maureen Conley is one of the first Americans to be sentenced for conspiracy to support ISIS and receive... | Shannon Conley, 19, receives prison sentence that prosecutors requested .
Judge weights "what is it that will cause others to stop" endorsing jihad .
"I do not believe I am a threat to society," Conley pleads before sentencing . |
0573109d9ee241a51843a125be103ae5930ef50d | By . Kristie Lau . PUBLISHED: . 17:22 EST, 30 May 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 17:34 EST, 30 May 2012 . A woman is suing Neiman Marcus after the luxury retailer refused to refund $1.4million worth of goods that her ex-husband gave to her. Patricia Walker from University Park, Texas wanted to return the goods after learning th... | Patricia Walker from Texas received the gifts over the three years she spent recovering from a serious car accident .
Husband had been helping cheating partner earn commission on his purchases to help start new life together . |
05734e4b1ca09822bfdd322ce09fce064ec2996d | Landing in the UK by private jet is normally the preserve of the rich and famous. But then six-week old Dax is used to making unusual entrances, having arrived prematurely while his parents were on a short break in New York. Mum Katie Amos and dad Lee Johnston were overjoyed at his birth just after Christmas - but face... | Katie Amos and fiancé Lee Johnston went to New York for four-day break .
Miss Amos went into labour 11 weeks early while sightseeing in the city .
Couple welcomed son Dax, weighing just 3lbs, after two days in Big Apple .
But doctors said the baby couldn't fly until March and the couple feared that they would be strand... |
05735dc02fed0630b660e140048d25ea556cffea | Way back in the mists of time, when schoolkids were expected to learn seemingly endless lists of facts off by heart, they chanted a poem to remember the names of England's kings and queens. "Willie, Willie, Harry, Ste," it began. "Harry, Dick, John, Harry three / One, two, three Neds, Richard two / Harrys four, five, s... | Speculation about what baby boy will be called has reached fever pitch .
Prince William and Catherine are expected to opt for a traditionally "regal" name .
Bookies' favorites are George and James -- but you can also place bets on unusual names . |
057442248251775f342c6024e2afd6961b07bf2e | London (CNN) -- As we prepare to embrace a new year, women have been sharing their plans to improve their work lives in 2013. We asked women to tell us their career New Year's resolutions, and you have inspired us with your ideas. Whether they're big ambitions, a change in attitude or new priorities, the women who cont... | Women offer their career resolutions for 2013 .
Women contacted us through CNN comments and social media .
We highlight the key themes for professional development for 2013 . |
0574557a949a767f8e1aaf7600bb4fd6d43ff8da | (CNN) -- Rafael Nadal has admitted he is unlikely to play again this year as he set his sights on a return from injury at January's Australian Open. The former world No. 1 has been sidelined with tendonitis -- inflammation in the knee -- since withdrawing from July's Olympic tournament and has not played since losing t... | Rafael Nadal has targeted a return from injury at January's Australian Open .
The 11-time grand slam winner has been out of action since July .
The Spaniard has not ruled out playing for his country in next month's Davis Cup final .
Nadal is currently fourth in the world rankings . |
0575a137366d5d0e8c3622e6d3fb6b1ecdb94bb8 | EL CALABOZ, Texas (CNN) -- Eloisa Tamez said she isn't scared anymore, just determined. "I am not backing down," she said. The U.S. government wants to build a border fence like this one. About 100 landowners are fighting it. Tamez owns three acres of land along the Texas-Mexico border where the Department of Homeland... | Government wants land for border fence; landowners refuse .
Secretary Chertoff says he won't relent "for a particular individual"
Eloisa Tamez says her property has been in her family since 1767 .
Border town mayor calls the fence "a multibillion-dollar speed bump" |
0575c84f139d4f0181a7ecc287205e5b4c4aaf4d | By . Mark Duell . PUBLISHED: . 08:04 EST, 13 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 09:40 EST, 13 January 2014 . Jailed: Conner Newall, 19, hijacked a car at gunpoint then held up a village post office . These dramatic images show a teenager fleeing armed police at speeds of up to 100mph after he went on a gun rampage to pay of... | Conner Newall, 19, hijacked a car at gunpoint then held up a post office .
Attempted escape in Cumbria before officers scrambled police helicopter .
Detectives tracked his stolen car as he sped through towns and villages .
Was eventually rammed off road as he tried to turn into a country lane .
Jailed for ten years and... |
0576133f6c2201f8f319375ce5a6e5a37d424c29 | Lagos, Nigeria -- Nigeria's president ordered security forces Tuesday to step up their search for 15 children kidnapped in the country's southeastern region when gunmen hijacked a school bus. President Goodluck Jonathan condemned the "utterly callous and cruel kidnapping" of 15 nursery and primary school pupils on Mond... | The incident occurred in Abia state .
Kidnapping has been rampant there for years .
NEW: The president urges the children's parents and relatives "to remain calm" |
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