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f55384e22c4a86ec0117b16391d45d0a4b9f538c | An emaciated boxer dog - its bones clearly visible beneath its fur - stares sadly into the camera after being rescued. He is one of two boxers, two-year-old brothers, which were rushed to a veterinary centre run by the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) for life-saving treatment. They featur... | Inspectors said dogs were amongst most emaciated they had ever seen .
The two-year-old boxers were severely anaemic and malnourished .
Part of 'epidemic' of neglected and discarded dogs in Ireland . |
f553973340706ed4903f81c9eae9719bbbb2b9b1 | LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- America faces an economic calamity. Trouble brews in faraway lands. Superman #14, cover art. Artist: Fred Ray. (c) 1941 DC Comics. All rights reserved. Sound familiar? More than 70 years ago, the very first superheroes debuted in the dire times of the Great Depression and the early year... | Superman, Batman, others born during Great Depression, early World War II years .
New exhibit shows "golden age" of superhero characters .
Artist Jerry Robinson, who created The Joker: "We're looking for heroes" |
f5540794a3f8e1d5f2fb9b8c1818a08a6fdb5348 | (CNN) -- The events on Beijing's Tiananmen Square that resulted in the death of five people and the injury of dozens more were tragic, but are they representative of a serious terrorist threat to the Chinese state as is now being suggested by official sources? According to Chinese security organs, this act of driving a... | Chinese government has created a virtual police state within Xinjiang .
Crude instruments used in attack suggest not work of well-organized group .
No evidence Uyghurs involved substantively in a global Muslim militant movement.
Claims of a Uyghur terrorist threat maybe becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
f5543c193a3f08ec636e5dff84f83d21d3d307e5 | By . Steve Hopkins . A man who killed a university student after losing control of his car has walked free from court because he had an epileptic seizure when the accident happened. Chloe Adkins, 20, a student at Aston University in Birmingham, died after being struck by a silver Mercedes as she walked along Hagley Roa... | Ian King arrested for death by careless driving but his case was dismissed .
Doctors said King had suffered an epileptic seizure moments before crash .
He had 'no recollection' of the accident and was found unconscious .
The court heard alcohol withdrawal might have sparked the seizure .
Chloe Adkins' family said the u... |
f554558705d7c2b3cd80f8f7148fccd8e71f885f | By . Hugo Gye . A cyclist has filmed himself nearly running over dozens of pedestrians in a bid to shame them into improving their awareness of the road. He claims he posted the footage online for their own good, to help them realise the risks they take while walking around the roads of busy town centres. However, some... | Cyclist pedals around the streets of York filming pedestrians in the road .
He claims to have posted the footage online for the good of those featured .
But some observers claim he fails to take enough care and control his speed . |
f554a6f827de6f4db6d71dd1dc416d828112dd92 | It might not just be men who are from Mars, claims a new study which suggests that all life on Earth actually began on the red planet. An element believed to be crucial to the origin of life would only have been available on the surface of Mars, it is claimed. Geochemist Professor Steven Benner argues that the 'seeds' ... | Molybdenum mineral is thought to have been crucial to the origin of life .
Material may have been available on the surface of Mars and not on Earth .
This could suggest that life came to Earth on a Martian meteorite . |
f554cd6c43f248dab946e63dafbe635a8b8f9f62 | These never-before-seen images show a teenage Reeva Steenkamp in her days as a law student through the eyes of a close friend before her sparkling modelling career took off. As her boyfriend Oscar Pistorius begins a five-year jail sentence for her manslaughter, they offer a poignant insight into the innocent and beauti... | Pictures taken by close friend Kerry Smith during their time at university .
Some show her posing on a beach, others enjoying time with her friends .
Miss Steenkamp graduated with law degree but went on to become model .
She was shot dead by lover Oscar Pistorius on Valentine's Day last year .
Mrs Smith: 'If ever there... |
f55550db92abb9f703ee818e2631972d37a81b28 | (CNN) -- The Force is strong with this one. This year's San Diego Comic-Con is in full swing -- and that means plenty of cool stuff debuting to make geeks and fanboys/fangirls go crazy. Mattel got in on the fun Thursday, unveiling the special-edition "Darth Car," which heralds the toymaker's partnership with the "Star ... | Hot Wheels has a line of "Star Wars" cars coming out .
The Darth Car is based on a Corvette .
Only one life-size Darth Car has been made . |
f555656d34813df8bd0202f0839ddf5b31f6e394 | Natalie DuBose was pictured weeping outside her bakery on Monday after vandals broke her windows during the Ferguson protests . A mother-of-two whose cake shop in Ferguson, Missouri, was vandalized and looted during Monday night's protests has received almost $200,000 in donations to help rebuild her business. Natalie ... | Natalie DuBose was pictured weeping outside her bakery on Monday after vandals broke her windows during the Ferguson protests .
She had only opened Natalie's Cake's & More in early June after finally raising enough money to open her own business .
A friend suggested she start a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to clean... |
f5564e541fa11106b21a2b8833310e8e67be239d | Manchester City face the ignominy of being relegated to a third-placed Champions League seeding for next season’s competition if they don’t beat Bayern Munich at home on Tuesday night. Manuel Pellegrini’s side need victory over the German champions at the Etihad to have any hope at all of qualifying for the next stage ... | Manchester City haven't won a Champions League game in 2014-15 .
Manuel Pellegrini's side are in danger of dropping down a seeding .
City face Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich on Tuesday night . |
f5566a1a6cf00efb4540269d8cd7139f8ab62c51 | By . Alex Gore . PUBLISHED: . 08:17 EST, 22 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 09:06 EST, 22 March 2013 . Russia has urged the world's other major emerging economies to join forces to counter Western clout. President Vladimir Putin, a frequently critic of Europe and the U.S., said the BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China and ... | Mr Putin tells BRICS nations to 'get more involved' in geopolitics .
Xi Jinping's visit to Russia is his first foreign trip as leader .
It underlines importance of Beijing's growing alliance with Moscow .
Visit overshadows Moscow meeting of Russian and European officials .
It follows £1.3bn coal deal between Chinese an... |
f5574e6af6c1475ed4a2b0e97e349df8b954ee0b | By . Rebecca Camber and Jack Doyle . PUBLISHED: . 18:01 EST, 13 June 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 01:42 EST, 14 June 2012 . Murdered: Steven Grisales, 21, was stabbed through the heart by a 15-year-old boy who had ripped off his tag just days earlier . The full extent of how thugs on electronic tags routinely breach their cur... | The 15-year-old killer of Steven Grisales had ripped off his tag just days before stabbing him through the heart in Edmonton, North London .
The boy, whose identity cannot be revealed for legal reasons, had repeatedly flouted his tagging order but wasn't recalled to court .
Probation inspectors' report reveals there ar... |
f557b170e6f92ffc61648ad377e73760095ec304 | Online retailing giant Amazon has launched its own brand of diapers, opening a new front in retail battles - and a direct challenge to name-brands already selling on the site. Amazon said the first offerings in its new Amazon Elements line of consumer products would be diapers and baby wipes, and that other competitive... | Suppliers had long feared Amazon would eventually elbow them aside .
Amazon Elements is a new line of Amazon-branded 'everyday essentials' available exclusively to Prime subscribers .
Amazon's pack of 40 diapers will sell for $7.99 - 19 cents a diaper compared to national brands like Huggies and Pampers that go for abo... |
f557b59deeea566c4a1035dbb05e65333ce4dfa6 | David Cameron last night vowed to strip Scottish MPs of the power to decide policy on health, education and tax rates in England. The Prime Minister said the introduction of ‘English votes for English laws’ at Westminster was a matter of ‘fairness’ in the wake of Scottish devolution, and vowed to make it a priority if ... | PM says introducing 'English votes for English laws' at Westminster was a matter of 'fairness' in wake of Scottish devolution .
David Cameron vowed to make this a priority if he wins the next election .
Intervention followed talks in Edinburgh with SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon .
She had angered Tory MPs by threatening to... |
f558bc32395b2ed4fe7c9407e47a6623cfcbb9e3 | (CNN) -- The 12-year-old Arkansas girl who was infected with a rare brain-eating parasite is showing remarkable improvement, her doctors said Tuesday. Kali Hardig is still listed in critical condition at Arkansas Children's Hospital, but over the past 48 hours, she's grown alert to the point where she can gesture in re... | Kali Hardig, 12, is in critical condition at Arkansas Children's Hospital .
Amoeba causes fatal brain infection, according to the CDC .
Parasite generally found in people who swim in warm, fresh water . |
f55970f0296a05c6d83aad9ba8559afcda594ba4 | Everton fear they will be without Kevin Mirallas for at least four weeks after he suffered a hamstring tear in Saturday’s Merseyside derby. The Belgium forward pulled up after just 30 minutes of the game and early signs are not good. Manager Roberto Martinez said afterwards: ‘It seems bad. It’s a hamstring. We’re going... | Everton forward Kevin Mirallas out for at least four weeks .
Belgian forward tore his hamstring against Liverpool .
Roberto Martinez described injury as 'very unfortunate' |
f559b440d05a9895e4f0ebb448a67b05c668fe3d | By . Gemma Mullin . A suspected stowaway has been killed after the coach he had clung to for almost 200 miles hit him as he emerged from underneath it. The man, who is believed to be in his 20s or 30s and of African or Arabic origin, is thought to have climbed beneath the coach as it left Calais in an attempt to smuggl... | Man clung on for 200 miles unknown to driver who hit him at coach depot .
Stowaway in 20s or 30s and of African or Arabic origin has not been named .
He died of multiple injuries after attempting to smuggle himself into the UK .
Coach company on three-day trip to France had appropriate border checks .
Home Office post-... |
f55a1eb8fe2a3ded554c721ee7a5df3de2d8f93c | A migration agent who has been banned for five years after he allegedly groomed a client to act gay so that he had more chance of getting an Australian visa has vowed to clear his name. Sydney based lawyer Issam Sam Issa is reported to have taken a wannabe migrant to Oxford Street and Kings Cross, areas of the city pop... | Sydney based lawyer Issam Sam Issa has been banned from acting as a migration agent for five years .
A ruling by the Migration Agents Registration Authority found he 'was not a person of integrity'
He allegedly advised clients to say they were gay to gain protection visas .
Protection visas allow migrants to live and w... |
f55aca161fc6ea8dc3dce94ba6aa88710c5aa2e3 | By . Sara Malm . A British family on holiday in France ‘could have died’ after thieves piped gas from a car exhaust into their camper van to knock them unconscious before robbing them. Linda Chadwick and five members of her family had stopped for the night near Bourges when robbers broke into the vehicle and stole a su... | Family suffered carbon monoxide poisoning as thieves raided van .
Robbers piped gas from a car exhaust into their mobile home .
Family, from Derby, was travelling through France from Spain .
Thieves stole a suitcase, phones, jewellery and £1,900 in cash . |
f55ad8c5ce8d8c103d96844c599e7605866f52c9 | The remains of U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans landed on U.S. soil Friday afternoon in flag-draped caskets. The four men were killed in an attack this week on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. Teams of seven Marines carried the caskets off a C-17 plane at Joint Base Andrews in Ma... | "There's no doubt these are difficult days," president says .
But "the United States of America will never retreat from the world," Obama adds .
Prime minister says evidence for arrests is based on photos around compound, witnesses .
An aide says those arrested are not directly tied to the attacks . |
f55ae2ee6540e4e8d6ea2ba672b8a148d5f4d752 | Washington (CNN) -- Republicans in Washington say they are breathing a sigh of relief now that the Kansas secretary of state has ruled that the Democratic Senate candidate will stay on the ballot in November even though he dropped out. It's a case of political whiplash for national Republicans, who just hours earlier s... | Kansas secretary of state rules Democrat must stay on ballot even though he dropped out .
GOP feared with no Democrat, an independent could beat incumbent Pat Roberts .
Independent Orman is running on a libertarian platform, which could take votes from Roberts . |
f55b7cb8e6903816f5e8e744706a16adf9b96ddb | A Missouri mom who claims her son was 'kidnapped' by social workers in a hospital on the grounds of medical child abuse is desperately fighting to regain custody. Michelle Rider says her son Isaiah - now 16 - has had health issues since he was child, beginning with breaking his leg at age six and the bones never fully ... | Michelle Rider lost custody of her son Isaiah, 16, on April 15 .
He has been in and out of hospital from the age of six after breaking his leg .
Doctors and social workers claim she insists on giving him drugs and that his health won't improve while she is around . |
f55c360b46d0b6bba325df06404485639d54a330 | By . Emma Clark . PUBLISHED: . 08:30 EST, 29 October 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 04:14 EST, 30 October 2012 . This is the dramatic moment two fishermen are forced to abandon their sinking vessel and jump into the freezing Irish Sea. Crew on board The Tribute spotted Snowdonia beginning to tip ahead of them as the two boats s... | The two men are forced to jump into the Irish Sea as their fishing vessel sinks .
Rescuers from a nearby boat manage to pull the pair to safety after capturing the events on camera . |
f55c9de3dc9000bb4335ab7450f6d098edf0cf0d | By . Daily Mail Reporter . Last updated at 10:57 PM on 6th February 2012 . Police will begin scouring a landfill for the body of five-year-old Jhessye Shockley - four months after the youngster was reported missing. It could take Glendale police in Arizona up to six weeks to sift through more than 6,000 tons of trash a... | Jhessye Shockley reported missing in October .
Mother Jerice Hunter primary focus of investigation .
Police say they know exact date remains were dumped and will search specific section of landfill .
40 officers will sift through 6,000 tons of trash for body in search that could take between four and six weeks . |
f55cc7068ba38c7d8e0769da7683ce2c4116b16b | (CNN) -- Ahead of the biggest game of his life, Mahamat "Iggy" Ignegui has mastered the diplomatic language, if not his nerves. "I am completely focused on the first match. We have to do it, we cannot lose," the Sudanese midfielder tells CNN before boarding a plane from Chad's Ndjamena airport that will continue his re... | ConIFA World Cup is a soccer tournament for stateless teams not recognized by FIFA .
This year's event will be played in Sweden, from May 31-June 8 with a record 12 teams .
Darfur United squad is made up of players from refugee camps from Sudan conflict .
Trip to Ostersund was funded with the help of a U.S. humanitaria... |
f55cd3ee0f73c70731269b9d4e60eccf843000e6 | The George Zimmerman investigation was hijacked "in a number of ways" by outside forces, said the former police chief of Sanford, Florida. Bill Lee, who testified Monday in Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial, told CNN's George Howell in an exclusive interview that he felt pressure from city officials to arrest Zimm... | Martin family attorney disputes ex-police chief's rationale for his firing .
Bill Lee says he refused to arrest George Zimmerman just to placate public .
Lee: Department didn't release 911 tapes because they could have hampered probe .
Lee defends "sound" investigation and says race never played a role in probe . |
f55d739e98053c1793539c724978c05b7fb11041 | (CNN) -- When it comes to negotiating a salary for a new job it can pay to ask for a precise figure. New research has suggested that asking for an amount that is less "round" -- like $105,000 instead of $100,000 -- increases the final outcome. The idea is that precise numbers give recruiters the impression a candidate ... | In negotiations, there is an advantage to offering a figure that is not a round number .
Precise numbers give recruiters the impression that the candidate has thoroughly researched the job .
But actually researching the job is more important, experts say .
Good negotiators should be able to justify a high salary . |
f55de5ac4890fbb790ddb2f88bab35f7ded37951 | Ralph Ellis runs you through what we . learned from the weekend's football. This week, West Ham supporters show their frustrations with Sam Allrdyce's tactics, David Moyes' original back four provided Ryan Giggs with victory in his first game in charge of Manchester United while Cardiff have lost the ability to defend ... | West Ham fan's frustrations explained during defeat to West Brom .
David Moyes' original back four help Ryan Giggs earn victory in first game as Manchester United boss .
Cardiff have lost the ability to defend set-pieces since Malky Mackay's sacking from the club .
Jack Cork is Southampton's unsung hero this season .
S... |
f55e4dbe26b12c94467a6095844155b3b8375a38 | By . Mark Prigg . PUBLISHED: . 17:41 EST, 16 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 08:30 EST, 17 January 2014 . Americans are reading more ebooks than ever before - but also more print books, it has been revealed. 28% of Americans read at least one e-book in 2013 up from 23% the year earlier, according to a new survey of more ... | Pew Research found half of respondent say they have a tablet, Kindle or some other kind of ereader .
3 out of 10 adults read an e-book over the past year .
Respondents also read printed books, with just 4% saying they are electronic only . |
f55e5600cf6172f2843cd1f2cd8303aaa6a4b6c3 | (CNN)Thanks to the resilience of U.S. workers and businesses of all sizes, "Made in America" is making a comeback. According to data released last week by the Department of Commerce, American businesses exported $2.35 trillion in goods and services in 2014, hitting a record high for the fifth straight year. The United ... | American businesses exported $2.35 trillion in goods and services in 2014 .
Penny Pritzker and Mike Froman: Unfair foreign practices threaten U.S. progress . |
f55e5b010184e381dbd8ef9155fe0f923b8c9fb6 | (CNN) -- An elderly man suspected of Nazi war crimes has been arrested in Hungary, prosecutors said Wednesday, after a worldwide Jewish rights organization discovered him living in Budapest. Laszlo Csizsik-Csatary is accused of sending more than 15,000 Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp in the spring of 1944, the... | Laszlo Csizsik-Csatary tops the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most-wanted Nazis .
Center says he participated in sending 15,700 Jews to Auschwitz in spring 1944 .
Csizsik-Csatary denied the allegations to British tabloid The Sun .
The center says eyewitnesses on three continents describe acts of cruelty . |
f55e95222156b84d914c2de08bbea33720bc5ab3 | By . Chris Pleasance . PUBLISHED: . 03:49 EST, 12 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 05:21 EST, 12 September 2013 . Studies of the skeleton have shown that Fortune suffered from a fractured left hand, a severely sprained ankle and lower back pain (stock image) The bones of a slave known as Mr Fortune will be laid to rest ... | Fortune died in 1798 of a suspected broken neck but wasn't hung .
Fortune's owner, a bone doctor, boiled his skeleton to preserve and study it .
Slave was 5ft 5in tall, died aged 55, and suffered from back pain . |
f55f23e37bb19aaf219e5ee335ed8e1458690c87 | By . Mario Ledwith . PUBLISHED: . 20:58 EST, 1 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:52 EST, 2 January 2013 . Escalating violence between between government troops and rebel fighters forced authorities to close the airport in Aleppo, Syria's largest city. Rebels have stepped up their attacks on airports in the province in a... | Rebel forces targeting airports in attempt to curb President Assad's air force .
Use of air strikes one of military's key advantages over opposition forces .
Civil war has raged for 21 months with a death toll of 40,000 people . |
f55fe0861e3fbae1777622bf995ca426cffc337c | Facebook is buying mobile messaging service WhatsApp for up to $19 billion in cash and stock in the firms biggest ever acquisition. The world's biggest social networking company said that it is paying $12 billion in Facebook stock and $4 billion in cash for WhatsApp. In addition, the app's founders and employees will b... | Social network will pay $12 billion in Facebook stock and $4 billion in cash .
App's founders and employees will be granted $3 billion in Facebook stock .
App and brand will continue in same way as Instagram . |
f5600f4ea1b45a0ea6b09ec6762be4b0cc48451d | Living to the ripe old age of 500 might be a possibility if the science shown to extend worms' lives can be applied to humans, scientists have said. U.S. researchers tweaked two genetic pathways in the tiny lab worm Caenorhabditis elegans and boosted the creature's lifespan by a factor of five. The research raises the ... | Californian scientists tweaked two genetic pathways in the worm Caenorhabditis elegans to amplify its lifespan .
They said the worms lived to the human equivalent of 400 to 500 years .
Research raises the prospect of anti-ageing treatments based on genetic interactions, and the next step is to investigate if the effect... |
f56084aa504b37904992ac23c275777e208fe081 | By . Sam Webb . PUBLISHED: . 10:39 EST, 18 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:29 EST, 18 July 2013 . These absolutely astonishing pictures of utterly incompetent parking are made all the more amazing because they come from a single town in the UK. Doncaster may be in the running for being Britain's worst town for selfish, t... | Facebook page shames dreadful parking in Doncaster .
It invites users to send in pictures of shoddily-placed cars .
Irate drivers often go on site to defend their parking .
Site also has a serious message about the dangers of blocked pavements . |
f560ac45dd37fdd239e4464b7a67d87296f5c065 | AC Milan missed the chance to go third in the Serie A table after suffering a 2-0 home defeat to Palermo on Sunday evening. The Rossoneri would have dislodged Sampdoria from the final Champions League place with three points at San Siro, but an early own goal from Christian Zapata set the tone for an under-par display.... | Cristian Zapata own-goal and Paulo Dybala strike secure win .
Palermo record first away win in the season and move up to 13th in the Serie A standings .
Milan stay in seventh after three games without a win . |
f5611650aea22983fd2b152d22aedbaf6fba3f68 | By . Sarah Griffiths . PUBLISHED: . 05:45 EST, 17 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 07:32 EST, 17 January 2014 . A tiny spider that lives in the Amazon has been filmed catching its prey using a method that would not look out of place in a comic book. The spider, which is likely the species Naatlo splendida, stretches its w... | Naatlo splendida, stretches its web into a cone shape and then slings the sticky structure at flying insects .
Speedy manoeuvre was caught on camera at the Tambopata Research Centre in Madre de Dios, Peru .
Spider measures 3mm and is thought .
to be unique in its approach to snaring insects and belongs to the .
family ... |
f5620fa72cf55a1efc5efc519565802511b6e237 | (CNN) -- Syrian government officials will attend the international conference dubbed "Geneva II" that is charged with bringing about an end to the violence that has wracked the country since March 2011, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported Wednesday. Presidential adviser Bouthaina Shaaban told Russia Today TV... | Presidential adviser Shaaban says the government will attend without preconditions .
She ridicules the opposition coalition as a front for Saudi intelligence .
Women, children, laborers are among those killed, SANA reports. |
f5621ec8d189b40da05d66f5cd23eed4a37df9c2 | By . Ben Spencer and Craig Mackenzie . PUBLISHED: . 06:31 EST, 7 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 07:44 EST, 8 July 2013 . Suncream? Check. Parasol? Check. Towel? Check. Now all you need is space to put them all. That would have been a tall order at Southend-on-Sea yesterday, where these crowds proved that when Britain bakes... | Hottest parts of Britain yesterday were Bournemouth and Heathrow, which at 29.7C were warmer than Ibiza .
Glorious weather set to last into next weekend and beyond as crowds of 250,000 were drawn to Bournemouth .
Met Office: Dominant high pressure will keep mercury high for rest of week in best July warm spell since 20... |
f5628f5f45aa2a65f3f6653060dfeed53733e0e1 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (CNN) -- A Malaysia Airlines flight to South Korea made an emergency landing in Hong Kong early Monday after its main electrical generator stopped working, the airline said. The plane, an Airbus A330-300, landed in Hong Kong safely around 3 a.m., Malaysia Airlines said, and the 271 passengers on ... | The plane's electrical generator stopped working, the airline says .
It was diverted to Hong Kong, where it landed safely .
The flight was meant to go to Incheon airport in South Korea .
Malaysia Airlines is in the spotlight over its missing Flight 370 . |
f5631869fae02818ad4630241358c39f97ddbfe4 | (CNN) -- The final day of the European transfer window produced the usual flurry of frantic activity Friday but no big deal to match the $61 million transfer of Juan Mata from Chelsea to Manchester United earlier this month. Jose Mourinho's Chelsea continued to re-invest the money until the last day, landing promising ... | Final day of European winter transfer window sees usual round of frantic trading .
Former Manchester United star Dimitar Berbatov goes from to Ligue 1 Monaco on loan .
Greece international striker Konstantinos Mitroglou signs for Fulham from Olympiakos .
EPL clubs have spent record of over $1.1B on transfers in the 201... |
f563921a8b0ab392a3b1da1cd585f86293474181 | By . Associated Press . Charla Nash, the Connecticut woman disfigured in a 2009 chimpanzee attack, has appealed for permission to pursue a $150million lawsuit against the state. She appeared before lawmakers on Friday to argue that officials knew the animal was a threat and failed to take action. In brief remarks to a ... | Charla Nash has made a personal appeal to Connecticut state officials to overturn a law that prevents her from suing the state .
Nash wants to sue the state for $150million because she argues they knew about the threat of the 200lb chimpanzee and did nothing .
Her friend's chimpanzee, Travis, attacked her in 2009 .
She... |
f563bbb7e72edaf35e1e15baf68bb777dcb4285f | Vladimir Putin last night pointed to Russia’s nuclear arsenal and warned the West: ‘It’s best not to mess with us’ on Ukraine. In a menacing intervention, the Russian president denied Nato, British and American reports that Russian forces are operating in eastern Ukraine. And he warned the West against any attempt to s... | He said Russia's nuclear programme means 'nobody would think of conflict'
He also tells rebels to release trapped enemy to 'avoid senseless deaths'
He compares Ukraine's sieges of two cities to Nazis' siege of Leningrad .
He referred to 'Novorossiya' - or 'New Russia' - as he praised rebel 'success'
Kiev said the edict... |
f563d20527b3fddf82c6bee04f3a918dc730d7da | (EW.com) -- In just a few years, digital video has overtaken film-based shooting by an overwhelming margin. But in the interest of staving off premature extinction, a group of directors have banded together to keep the Eastman Kodak Co. making movie film. The Wall Street Journal reports that a group of directors, led b... | Digital video has overtaken film-based shooting .
The directors are trying to get studio heads to negotiate with Kodak .
One studio head called it a "financial commitment" |
f564c20306a6d0f5e468bbb49b5e664e18429364 | (CNN) -- New York's Staten Island was broiling under a life-threatening heat wave and borough President James Molinaro was seriously concerned about the area's Little League baseball players. It was last July's Eastern heat wave and Consolidated Edison was responding to scattered power outages as electricity usage ne... | Non-disaster U.S. power outages up 124 percent since early '90s .
U.S. electricity reliability low compared to some nations .
Experts: "Smart grid" would avert blackouts, save billions .
Austin "Easy Button" controls tens of thousands of Texas thermostats . |
f564d6ae8529f75801e83abbd14e9534fc3d2fe0 | By . John Hall . This is the dramatic moment an 88-year-old man was rescued after driving his car into a lake while suffering a suspected medical emergency. The man, whose identity has not yet been revealed, remains in intensive care after driving his white Cadillac into the Sinclair Inlet near Bremerton in the U.S. st... | The elderly man drove his white Cadillac into Sinclair Inlet at full speed .
He was rescued from the water by a firefighter and a police officer .
Two employees of a local boat manufacturer also assisted the rescue .
Man did not appear to brake, suggesting a possible medical emergency .
Incident took place at Sinclair ... |
f56530da885e42c1c7b7ff261336b446db1e01de | London (CNN) -- British lawmakers meeting in emergency session approved a motion Friday to participate in airstrikes against ISIS targets in Iraq. The 524-43 vote came after Prime Minister David Cameron told Parliament that the country had a "duty to take part" in international efforts to combat the extremist group. Th... | NEW: Parliament overwhelmingly backs UK airstrikes on ISIS targets in Iraq .
Prime Minister David Cameron says a military campaign against ISIS in Iraq is legal .
"The hallmarks will be patience and persistence, not shock and awe," he says .
The motion approved by Parliament ruled out troops on ground in Iraq, action i... |
f566e97e2944891dc8aa116eea31e897d2f09ac7 | By . Associated Press Reporter . A new class of experimental medicines can dramatically lower cholesterol, raising hopes of a fresh option for people who can't tolerate or don't get enough help from Lipitor and other statin drugs that have been used for this for decades. The first large studies of these drugs were pre... | First large studies of new anti-cholesterol drugs presented at the American College of Cardiology conference in Washington on Saturday .
They are being developed by several companies aimed at 70 million Americans .
Current drugs, such as Liptor, have been used for decades .
Doctors say they want evidence the new drugs ... |
f568653a7d2fa5d71e2f823edcce976b0654b832 | A woman who plummeted 150 feet off a seaside California cliff only to land upside down at the start of what became a 72-hour battle to survive has now shared the tale of how she made it out alive. Debbie Lopez, 57, says at first she didn't realize her truck had landed on its roof February 7 after she skidded off the ro... | Debbie Lopez, 57, is lucky to be alive after landing upside when the truck fell off the cliff near Ragged Point, California late on February 7 .
The Atascadero woman's truck landed on its roof after she skidded off the road while distracting from putting out a cigarette .
She now says she remained focused on her family... |
f5686e738118cead7aab6b29d5208f8bfe5af6b1 | (CNN) -- Liberia's chief medical officer is on a 21-day Ebola quarantine after her assistant died from the illness, according to health officials. The assistant died Thursday, prompting the closure of the the Ministry of Health headquarters building for decontamination, officials said. The ministry reopened on Friday, ... | Liberia's chief medical official is in a quarantine, after her assistant died of Ebola .
Health Ministry closed for a day to decontaminate from Ebola .
A U.S. doctor who was exposed to Ebola in Sierra Leone will go to an NIH Clinic .
At least 6,553 cases of Ebola are reported in West Africa, WHO said . |
f5687088764aefc0d4dd7131b6f56dd343b905b6 | Camilla Long, who alleges that Travis groped her during an interview, was demanded to move by the former DJ because she was making him feel 'uncomfortable . Travis demanded one of his alleged victims move seats in the courtroom, saying she was making him ‘uncomfortable’. In a bizarre episode moments before he was sente... | Travis demanded columnist Camilla Long move from the public gallery .
He banged on the glass between them moments before he was sentenced .
Miss Long alleged in 2012 that the former DJ groped her during an interview .
Travis was not charged with any offence in connection with her account . |
f568862f2edf4982baeb9022f780ee91504067a4 | Anxiety, depression, guilt, sleeplessness, marital strife, drug and alcohol abuse — these are some of the mental health issues facing residents in Newtown, Connecticut, two years after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. Only now is the scope of the psychological damage to children, parents and others becoming c... | On Dec. 14 2012, Adam Lanza killed 26 at Sandy Hook, mostly children .
2 years on, guilt, insomnia, marital strife and alcohol abuse among issues .
Agencies working to set up a support system for the next 12 to 15 years .
Newtown's Resiliency Center, formed after massacre, has seen rising demand for its offerings, whi... |
f56895cbb142fdbe2be97b58e71fed724a631ab4 | Dhaka, Bangladesh (CNN) -- Bangladesh hanged an Islamist leader Thursday despite pleas not to from the United Nations. The execution came after the country's Supreme Court upheld the death sentence against Abdul Quader Mollah, state-run news agency BSS reported. Mollah was sentenced in September after being convicted o... | NEW: Abdul Quader Mollah was hanged Thursday, state media reported .
But the court postponed the execution shortly before it was to take place .
After further hearings, it has now said the hanging can go ahead .
U.N. officials have expressed concern about the standards of his trial . |
f5689bd0b8a4d0dd0dc78c6513e6725ec10203e0 | Washington (CNN)The massacre of some of France's top cartoonists has turned a American nightmare -- that Western jihadists could return from war on terror battlefields to wreak carnage at home -- into reality. One of the two brothers suspected in the slaughter at the offices of a satirical magazine on Wednesday recent... | Paris attack underscores shift away from spectacular, large-scale attacks waged by foreign terror groups .
Instead, homegrown radicals inspired by or affiliated with jihadist organizations are launching more limited strikes . |
f568d326083753f745281a09edd46f201d830022 | A Spanish town is looking to the past to safeguard the future of its ailing economy by reintroducing the peseta. Fed up with the failing euro, rebellious locals in Villamayor de Santiago have reverted to using the old currency, which was phased out a decade ago. Around 30 shops in the historic town, 75 miles south-ea... | Thirty businesses have started using old currency .
Spain estimated to have saved 1.7bn euros in pesetas .
Jobless rate in Villamayor de Santiago above national average - with a third out of work . |
f568e46745b9a9661bcc796c6ab5a2a8e611be56 | A 23-year-old university student in China will be executed after hanging two prostitutes and having sex with their corpses. The student, whose surname is Lee, was studying design at Jilin University in Changchun and told police that he had been failing a lot of classes and called the prostitutes to help relieve the pre... | The Jilin University student told police he'd fantasised about necrophilia .
He said he ordered prostitutes to help relieve the pressure of his studies .
He was found guilty of intentional homicide after hanging them .
He'd had sex with the cadavers and then dismembered them . |
f5695577da9389a5c3a08f8a1bbfbba6f88c0bd6 | There's been a significant breakthrough in a suspected double murder, with a handbag, driver's license and other personal items being found close to the discovery of human remains on a Queensland property. Police launched an investigation following the disappearance of Chantal Barnett, 27, and Robert Martinez, 26 in Ma... | Personal items including a handbag were found close to the discovery of human remains on a Queensland property .
The Rockhampton property was previously searched in the investigation into a suspected double murder .
Chantal Barnett, 27, and Robert Martinez, 26, disappeared in March last year .
A $250,000 reward is now ... |
f5697623e60b2cf536f21d91e2d634318f802d9c | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 20:34 EST, 28 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 23:02 EST, 28 January 2014 . Unseen home video footage of the 1986 Challenger shuttle disaster has surfaced and dramatically shows what the tragedy was like for Florida residents living right beneath the explosion. Frances and Michael V... | Frances and Michael VanKulick lived in Melbourne, not at all far from Kennedy Space Center .
The launches were a common sight, but the one on January 28, 1986 was strange from the start .
Something went terribly wrong and it became clear this wasn't a shuttle launch like all the others as the Challenger broke apart ove... |
f56ab5008160d5e353278a5156f7f52e49ce6101 | Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel dramatically upgraded the U.S. government's estimation of the threats America faces from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Thursday, saying its jihadi network represents 'an imminent threat to every interest we have, whether it's in Iraq or anywhere else.' ISIS is 'as sophis... | Defense Secretary spoke alongside Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey on Thursday .
Terror network in Iraq and Syria is 'an imminent threat to every interest we have,' he said .
Tensions are high in the Obama administration following a gruesome video showing an ISIS Islamist beheading American journalist James Fo... |
f56ad9d9b3fce0c731d7c2813e838b84744b9f06 | It was once considered simple manners but now opening a door for a woman might see her call security, according to Sir Terry Wogan. And after decades in the public eye, this is not the only change the veteran broadcaster, 76, has seen befall modern Britain. Along with the death of chivalry, Sir Terry also laments the d... | Sir Terry Wogan offers his fans 100 snippets of wisdom in his new book .
The veteran broadcaster claims that chivalry is dead in modern society .
He also complains about the lack of common sense and celebrity culture . |
f56af7626a0efe6578dbd49a530e5592915b1c2b | By . Harriet Arkell . PUBLISHED: . 07:11 EST, 25 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 10:28 EST, 25 January 2013 . Jailed: Nurse and mother-of-two Andrea Hughes, 47 . A nurse was jailed today after being found guilty of crashing her caravan in a drunken stupor as she set off on a weekend camping holiday. Mother-of-two Andrea ... | Andrea Hughes, 47, was heading to nearby Cheshire campsite for weekend .
She crashed the caravan into the kerb near a pub, ripping two wheels off .
Mechanic called to fix the caravan saw she was drunk and called police .
Mother-of-two Hughes, a staff nurse for 28 years, jailed today for 12 weeks . |
f56b018d2a9138bc0a8ba4aaf78c15711f8ad369 | Children born within the next generation will live for 100 years on average, according to newly released statistics. As life expectancy across Britain increases, current projections place female babies born as soon as 2057 to reach 100 years old - a remarkable milestone once previously thought impossible. The study, p... | The average life expectancy has steadily increased in past three decades .
Girls born in 2057 will on average live to 100, an official study has revealed .
Projections were published in a report by the Office for National Statistics .
But life expectancies will place huge strain on NHS and transport services . |
f56b1fc56e4a506f7de00bdf0a2afe1795124318 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 16:35 EST, 3 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 16:37 EST, 3 May 2013 . Wounded: Lisa Simmons was shot in the legs last year by her boyfriend during a camping trip . A woman who almost died after her boyfriend mistook her for a hog on a camping trip and shot her has revealed that the coup... | Lisa Simmons was looking for fruit when he mistook her for a hog .
She needed 14 pints of blood and nearly died twice while in surgery .
Comedians laughed at her expense following the April 2012 incident .
Simmons said she has never blamed her boyfriend for the shooting . |
f56b22d1cc36943911be7200f7611bcc0b7dd6f8 | A Red Cross official who had worked in Iraq, Sudan, Yemen and Gaza was shot dead Wednesday in Libya, the organization said. Gunmen attacked the vehicle of Michael Greub, 42, around midday as he left a meeting with two colleagues in the Mediterranean Sea city of Sirte, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. ... | The Red Cross official killed is Michael Greub, a 42-year-old Swiss national .
He'd been with the ICRC the past 7 years, including stints in Yemen, Iraq and Sudan .
Grueb was shot dead by gunmen in the Mediterranean city of Sirte . |
f56bcf4e971524eaca56903256c15adb0a6cc48f | A Spanish court says 'black box' data recorders show that a train driver was on the phone and traveling at 95 mph (153 kph), almost twice the speed limit, when the vehicle derailed, killing 79 people. Investigators say the train had been going as fast as 119 mph shortly before the derailment and that Francisco Jose Gar... | Driver Francisco Garzon, 52, has been under house arrest since crash .
Investigators say he was on phone and also reading a piece of paper .
He was provisionally charged with multiple cases of negligent homicide .
Passenger train derailed near Santiago de Compostela on Wednesday .
Experienced driver was travelling at m... |
f56be3593544b162374c9bec0d627dd275270797 | Sure, Wolverine's claws were impressive, but how would one of the most famous X-Men have coped if he'd tried to survive at a height of over 14,000ft (4,270 metres)? The answer would most likely be 'not well', but while off-limits to some, it turns out that people such as Tibetans can thrive in the thin air of high-alti... | Researchers say Tibetans have a genetic variation that enables them to survive in high altitude, low oxygen environments .
This could explain how they can survive at heights of 14,800 feet (4,510m)
The mutation is believed to have originated 8,000 years ago .
It gives them a selective advantage in their environment ove... |
f56c2f61107b571b9994c1581c1b91b32f9901cf | A male whale that was stranded on a Gold Coast beach for two days is finally free after a third rescue operation was successfully pulled off. The juvenile humpback at first remained trapped on a sand bank on Thursday morning when the tow rope snapped towards the back of the breakers and the whale ended up back on the s... | The whale escaped on Thursday morning after it was beached on Palm Beach, Queensland, since Tuesday night .
Rescuers tried to free the juvenile whale three times before it swum away .
Onlookers attempted to help the whale in darkness on Wednesday night .
The rope that was used to pull it out to sea snapped three times ... |
f56c55a7ffd8c56ed56d5a11ac36435daf4491ff | With the Baftas taking place this Sunday, we’re all looking forward to seeing the stars in their finery on the red carpet. Everyone always talks about the dresses, but no one sees the hard work that goes into creating the make-up and hairstyles that provide the sparkling finishing touches. Shehla Shaikh, head make-up a... | It's time for the Baftas and we're ready to see our favourite glamorous stars .
But instead of just focusing on the dresses, let's look at the small touches .
This week, readers, Annie and Rachel Poulter received a makeover .
Shehla Shaikh, head make-up artist for Lancome, transformed their looks . |
f56d2a5f0238a550a444dec4482086b76b6b1b6f | Los Angeles (CNN)Conrad Hilton, the younger brother of celebrity heiress Paris Hilton, allegedly threatened and intimidated flight attendants on a British Airways flight from London to Los Angeles last summer, using profanity, smoking in a bathroom and calling passengers "peasants," federal authorities said this week. ... | Conrad Hilton, younger brother of Paris Hilton, is free on $100,000 bond .
He's charged with interfering with flight crew members and faces up to 20 years in prison .
He allegedly disabled a smoke detector, called passengers "peasants" and punched a bulkhead . |
f56d60736dbfd013c2a50761a525dfce5b609072 | A pensioner on social security who accidentally sent her rent check addressed to her landlord to Comcast found the company had cashed it when she asked for it back. Francis Wilson from Albuquerque, New Mexico unwittingly put her $235 rent check for her landlord in an envelope along with her $20 Comcast subscription pay... | Francis Wilson, 79, wrote out $235 rent check addressed to her landlord .
But she accidentally put it in an envelope with her Comcast payment .
She sent the envelope to Comcast but called them as soon as she realised .
Found check was cashed by Comcast even though it was not for them .
Company refused to pay her back a... |
f56d673895e6f27284bc87786a80cf8277d5683c | The US Defense Department is investigating video footage appearing to show Islamic State fanatics with at least one cache of weapons airdropped by coalition forces that was meant for Kurdish militiamen battling the extremist group in a border town. The cache of weapons included hand grenades, ammunition and rocket-prop... | Video appears to show IS soldiers with American-supplied arms .
The weapons include hand grenades, ammunition and grenade launchers .
The caches were airdropped to Kurds in the Syrian town of Kobane .
US Defense Department said that it is investigating the video . |
f56d68fd9bfce10fcd34a6fc930cbe3ffeb96f49 | (CNN) -- The latest constitutional amendment being floated by some Senate Republicans -- to deny citizenship to children born in the United States to unauthorized immigrants -- is not new. Calls for modification of the 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship guarantee have appeared during other moments of immigration-r... | 14th Amendment guarantees U.S. citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil .
Cristina Rodriguez says that's been crucial for cohesive, casteless U.S. society .
She argues modifying Constitution would not reverse tide of illegal immigration . |
f56d7b1076ecb90950698bced52ce5deb006c11b | Moscow (CNN) -- Russia said Wednesday that it blamed "unfriendly" actions by Britain for a recent diplomatic spat that led both nations to expel each others' diplomats. "The British side has recently took an unfriendly step, groundlessly declaring persona non grata a diplomat at the Russian Embassy in London. We were c... | London expels a Russian diplomat on suspicion of spying .
Russia expels a British embassy staffer in response .
London says the Russian embassy staffer was working "against UK interests" |
f56dc29c92d2f97c419a4d44a9272c76d713d9b9 | A sprawling, 100-acre New Zealand farm that shares its name with a popular nursery rhyme has gone on sale for £3.5 million. Old Macdonald's Farm in Marahau, on the northern coast of the country's South Island, boasts panoramic views of the nearby Abel Tasman National Park and overlooks the picturesque Tasman Bay. Buyer... | Old Macdonald's Farm is situated in Marahau, on the northern coast of New Zealand's South Island .
The 100-acres site boasts panoramic views of the Abel Tasman National Park and overlooks Tasman Bay .
It currently brings in £350,000-a-year, mostly through its popularity with tourists who come to camp in the grounds .
T... |
f56e0f71431dab0c7b93cfef950613318c23185c | The cuckolded husband of a woman involved in a 'close relationship' with the Bishop of Arundel has called for him to be sacked from the Catholic Church. Simon Hodgkinson, whose wife, Olivia, 43, is the latest woman to be linked to the bishop, is compiling a formal complaint against Kieran Conry over his intimate friend... | Simon Hodgkinson's wife had a 'close relationship' with a Catholic bishop .
Bishop Kieran Conry resigned a fortnight ago for being 'unfaithful' to Church .
Mr Hodgkinson says Conry abused his position of power in the Church .
He discovered his wife, Olivia, was cheating after she missed choir practice .
Now he has comp... |
f56e6e27321e9bb3317a16dfa0db282bd3b2b2bd | Chelsea forward Andre Schurrle has become the latest player to withdraw from the Germany squad after falling ill. Mesut Ozil, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Marco Reus and Sami Khedira are all missing for Germany's Euro 2016 qualifier against the Republic of Ireland, and now Schurrle has been added to that list. A statement f... | Andre Schurrle has pulled out of the Germany squad .
The Chelsea midfielder has caught a cold according to the DFB .
Mesut Ozil, Marco Reus and Bastian Schweinsteiger are also out .
Schurrle also said Jose Mourinho has helped him become world class . |
f56e90ae80ea5ff127010536415405b76f2e75b4 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 05:01 EST, 20 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:17 EST, 20 February 2013 . David McMahon was blinded in one eye after he was hit by a golf ball struck by golfer Gavin Dear. The pensioner is now suing the pro for £50,000 . A pensioner is suing a professional golfer for £50,000 aft... | David McMahon was hit in the eye by a ball hit by pro Gavin Dear .
He claims he had no warning that the ball was coming .
Mr Dear claims the man was out of sight when he hit the ball . |
f56f42089415247571ff5bfac15e1ec890dbfbfe | London, England (CNN) -- Britain's Prince William and fiancee Kate Middleton made their first official engagement as a couple Thursday, launching a lifeboat in Wales. The pair, who are due to marry in April, officially named the "Hereford Endeavour" lifeboat in a ceremony at the Trearddur Bay Lifeboat Station in Angles... | Prince William and Kate have conducted their first official engagement together .
The couple attended a lifeboat naming ceremony in Anglesey, north Wales .
The pair currently live in Anglesey while Prince William serves as an RAF pilot . |
f56f547dae3c8e5f63c4b770dfa492f256f6098c | Manuel Pellegrini praised his Manchester City players for keeping the pressure on leaders Chelsea with a record-equalling victory at the start of what he called a ‘key’ week. City beat West Bromwich Albion 3-1 without a recognised striker and head into their match against Burnley with the chance of winning 10 consecuti... | Manchester City won their ninth consecutive match against West Brom .
Manuel Pellegrini has said there are more than two teams in title race .
He believes rivals Manchester United have chance of winning league . |
f56f89ea41deb06342ee69fa436e9c1551bbe732 | By . Corey Charlton . Game of Thrones exploded in popularity when it was first brought to our screens, and now a dedicated couple of fans have created their very own homage - by dressing their dogs up as the show's main characters. 'The Pugs of Westeros' sees canine trio Roxy, Blue and Bono playing doggy versions of th... | U.S. couple create their own Game of Thrones opening sequence, constructing a set and using their three pet pugs as actors in costumes .
Homage titled 'The Pugs of Westeros' features dogs Roxy, Blue and Bono all dressed up as main characters from the critically acclaimed HBO series .
Couple say they have been dressing... |
f56f9a7d04d43233069ff336ec3def3ef3b4dd55 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 19:00 EST, 6 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 19:00 EST, 6 November 2012 . The economic cost of lung cancer is higher than any other cancer . There is an 'urgent' need to reduce the number of teenagers taking up smoking, after experts estimated that the cost of lung cancer to the U... | Cost is higher than other common cancers, such as bowel or breast .
Each lung cancer patient costs the UK healthcare system £9,071 annually .
157,000 children aged 11-15 start smoking in the UK each year . |
f5709249828f492fad775ec8bb9df0b77f110fd2 | Washington (CNN) -- The chairman of the Republican Party and a leading GOP senator called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to give up his post Sunday, following the publication of remarks he made about President Obama's race in 2008. A new book quotes Reid, D-Nevada, as saying privately in 2008 that Obama could be ... | NEW: Congressional Black Caucus rejects calls for Reid to step down .
Michael Steele calls for Reid to step down, accuses Dems of "double standard"
GOP chair says Senate majority leader's language "harkens back to the 1950s and '60s"
New book quotes Reid discussing "light-skinned" Obama's lack of "Negro dialect" |
f570d7fae7f9ca97dc6f55ce91762fb50fd77309 | By . Anthony Bond . PUBLISHED: . 13:40 EST, 29 July 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 04:18 EST, 30 July 2012 . Brave: Sam Nagy has just become the youngest ever 'Good Samaritan' organ donor in Britain . Risking your own life for a complete stranger is a tough decision at any age. But at the tender age of 20, it is even more remar... | Sam Nagy took the decision despite his mother expressing her concerns . |
f5715153c618ad706d1f88c3ba5cd69efe1e8678 | (CNN) -- Two international staffers supporting the peacekeeping mission in the volatile Sudanese region of Darfur were kidnapped Saturday morning, a spokesman for the peacekeeping force told CNN. Soldiers with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) pictured in June. The man and the woman, whose identi... | United Nations estimates 300,000 people have been killed in the conflict in Darfur .
Force began operations in Darfur in December 2007, expected to remain till 2010 .
Violence erupted in 2003 after rebels began uprising against Sudanese government . |
f57202a6669d913f9228a7b340bd29aa67bc762b | Washington (CNN) -- By now, many Americans are used to getting random e-mails allegedly from "friends" with weird-looking links embedded in them, or what looks like SPAM from fake companies inviting you to click on a link to reset your password. But what you may not know is that shady Internet practices could be playin... | Internet attacks against U.S. citizens, companies are increasing, research shows .
Senate committee hearing from Obama administration on threats from overseas .
Facebook, Microsoft, banks, media companies all hit with cyber attacks .
The Obama administration wants China to curb hacking . |
f57327fdaa74fc8887ea91ffd520e918a0a2dea5 | By . Sam Creighton . A jealous ex has been slapped with a restraining order for taking revenge on his former fiancee by posting naked pictures of her on Facebook. Ben Haddon, 29, uploaded two intimate images of his former partner Lisa Beckett, 29, on the social network site just weeks after they split up in January. Th... | Ben Haddon, 29, posted two racy pictures of his ex on social network .
The couple broke up in January, after being engaged for three months .
Father-of-two also tried to get his ex sacked and threatened to attack her .
He described himself in court as a 'first class idiot' for posting the pictures .
Lisa Beckett, 29, c... |
f57332cf5fb763d1414778abf9e31e9e88144d57 | By . David Kent . Basketball legend Michael Jordan has reached billionaire status. Forbes Magazine estimates that Jordan's equity as owner of the NBA's Charlotte Hornets is $416million and his net worth outside of the team to be $600million. It reported Jordan now owns 89.5 per cent of the Hornets. Jordan's spokeswoman... | Jordan won six NBA titles with Chicago Bulls during an illustrious playing career .
He now owns NBA team Charlotte Hornets .
Forbes Magazine estimates that Jordan is worth more than $1billion . |
f57336367abf4a7fd946d1422c6abebd79f3d4b9 | (CNN) -- FC Moscow have pulled out of the 2010 Russian Premier Liga after the club's owner withdrew financing of the club. After days of speculation Sports Projects, a subsidiary of the club's owners Norilsk Nickel, confirmed on Friday the company could no longer justify financing the club. The club's future now looks ... | FC Moscow have pulled out of competing in the 2010 Russian Premier Liga .
The decision comes after the their owner withdrew financing of the club .
Alania Vladikavkaz are now expected to take FC Moscow's place in the top flight . |
f573530657495d2032f7ae8d9224f0f13f8f8824 | By . Helen Pow . PUBLISHED: . 21:41 EST, 27 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 22:16 EST, 27 November 2013 . A high-profile New York jewelry designer whose uncle founded the French fashion house Givenchy has been arrested for punching a police office in the face. Taffin jewelry boss James de Givenchy, 50, allegedly assault... | Taffin jewelry boss James de Givenchy, 50, allegedly assaulted the NYPD cop after refusing to get out of his black Mercedes SUV, which was sitting on the back of a tow truck .
The altercation happened outside the Valbella Italian restaurant at 421 W. 13th St. in Manhattan's Meatpacking district about 2 a.m. Saturday .
... |
f5736ef1c4c2e68facb41fc81202fff3eb780a28 | By . Rachel Quigley . Last updated at 3:18 PM on 20th December 2011 . A social work professor accused of rape and performing other lewd acts on teenage girls has been formally charged. Dwain Pellebon, 54, of the University of Oklahoma, was arraigned on two counts of rape, two counts of lewd acts with a child and two co... | Dwain Pellebon, 54, arrested for rape and lewd acts .
Denies charges but admitted being 'affectionate and sensual'
Admitted watching child porn . |
f5736f642a743b156fa577be790d7279296d3cf8 | (CNN) -- On November 24, 1859, the first edition of a book that would shake the most deeply established beliefs about life was published in London. What would eventually be known as "The Origin of Species" was the opening shot in a debate that hasn't ended, even 150 years later. In a series of books starting in 1976 an... | Darwin's "Origin of Species" was published 150 years ago on November 24 .
In a TED Talk, Richard Dawkins said evolution and religion are at odds .
He urges atheists to be forceful in making their case for science .
Dawkins: "Religion teaches us to be satisfied with non-explanations" |
f57426386dbe27e9c475c39853559083eb0050c9 | By . Sara Malm . PUBLISHED: . 13:26 EST, 20 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 13:27 EST, 20 September 2013 . A pony had to have an eye amputated after impaling itself onto the three which it had been chained to with a metal tether. Owner James Smith has been banned from keeping horses for a year after RSPCA inspectors fo... | Bertie the pony impaled himself onto a tree branch and lost his eye .
He had been tied with a metal chain which had wrapped around the tree .
Bertie was saved by RSPCA inspectors who found him bleeding .
His owner James Smith has been banned from keeping horses for a year . |
f5742e7aaf2066a3eff56860795a2cfc2328197f | By . Associated Press Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 05:01 EST, 17 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 05:12 EST, 17 May 2013 . More than a quarter of gay people have been subjected to violence, abuse or hate-filled threats in the past five years, according to 'the most comprehensive study' of homophobia in Europe. The European Union a... | European Union is calling for action to counter discrimination and violence .
Poorer and younger respondents were more likely to face discrimination .
Majority of attacks in public and usually carried out by men in groups .
More than half who have suffered violence did not .
report it to police . |
f5745a47aa0d4bc5fb6c1c23373e8d3d9348feed | (CNN) -- "Hi I'm Mindy Grossman. I'm a mom, a wife, the CEO of HSNi but most of all I'm a disruptor." Mindy Grossman has been the driving force behind making the Home Shopping Network both hip and profitable, by bringing in celebrities from Jessica Simpson to P. Diddy and boosting sales dramatically. Digital sales now ... | Mindy Grossman is the CEO of a TV shopping network .
She changed people's view of home shopping with celebrity endorsements .
She cites risk taking and being your own customer as keys to her success . |
f574eb3679c021f9162dc4c92d1ea23b9d1aed3a | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 10:57 EST, 24 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:38 EST, 24 August 2013 . Many men are often told how much they . look like their fathers, especially as they get older, a statement that . sparked an idea for a photo project for Craig Gibson. The . UK-based photographer decided to ov... | Photographer Craig Gibson has combined photos of fathers and sons to show how similar their facial features are . |
f574f605a318c5966a4237e71aaf4bcb91c442f0 | A girl who wrote to DC Comics after she was fed up of the misogynistic nature of her favourite comic books was delighted when the company transformed her into her very own hero. Rowan Hansen, 11, from Illinois, wrote a letter to the comic giants at the beginning of February expressing her annoyance with the lack of f... | Rowan Hanson, 11, complained to DC about the lack of female characters .
Her father posted it online and it received thousands of shares .
DC responded by reimagining Rowan as her very own superhero .
Rowan says she will continue to campaign for more girl characters . |
f57513782abd8a05d2345e3b520748dc3204af56 | By . Associated Press . PUBLISHED: . 10:42 EST, 18 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 02:20 EST, 19 September 2013 . Tonight's Powerball jackpot in the U.S is estimated at $400 million, making it the nation's fifth-largest ever, though its jackpot hit $590 million earlier this year. The game's rules were changed in early ... | Mega Millions is also changing its rules to create less huge wins and more smaller, but still hefty prizes . |
f5754f6bb3c23a592eea5305a56bd64170764310 | By . Ryan Gorman . and Ashley Collman . Dozens of Calgary police are searching a sprawling farm outside the Canadian city after a tip in the disappearance of a young boy and his grandparents led them to the property. Authorities released a CCTV image of a pickup they believe is . linked to the disappearance of five-yea... | Nathan O'Brien, 5, and grandparents Alvin and Kathryn Liknes, 66 and 53, were reported missing Monday morning .
Calgary Police were led to a property outside the city after releasing images of a green 1980s - 1990s Ford F-150 .
A man has been taken into custody for questioning but not identified .
Investigators .
don'... |
f575904c7dfb9aa8af8235ddac48720452fde949 | New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday called a six-month halt on deepwater drilling "needed, appropriate and within our authorities" in announcing he will issue a new order on a moratorium just hours after a federal judge blocked such a mandate. "We see clear evidence every day, as o... | NEW: Salazar says ban is "needed" and "appropriate"
Judge blocks government's temporary ban on deepwater drilling .
White House says it will appeal decision .
Louisiana governor, senator, urge administration not to appeal . |
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