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f674cf2a3839f63a6c6a811e5d71073ea96b8baa | By . Emma Lowe . PUBLISHED: . 10:30 EST, 8 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:25 EST, 9 December 2013 . As Susan Boyle was catapulted into the public eye on Britain’s Got Talent, fans watched as she struggled to cope with the rigours of a rapid rise to fame. Yesterday the multi-millionaire singer opened up for the first... | Performer has previously said she suffered 'learning difficulties' as a child .
Her condition was wrongly diagnosed as 'brain damage'
Singer revealed she was cruelly dubbed 'Susan Simple' in school .
The performer, 52, said she is 'more relaxed' about herself now she has been diagnosed . |
f674ff55b4eada92ba0fd989c14a2d756acc837b | Washington (CNN) -- The United States will ease some restrictions on defense sales to Vietnam, the State Department announced Thursday, following a meeting between Secretary of State John Kerry and his Vietnamese counterpart. While this change is limited to maritime security-related sales, it is a significant step forw... | U.S. will ease restrictions on defense sales related to maritime security .
The United States has previously maintained a full arms embargo on Vietnam .
The policy shift follows aggressive Chinese drilling efforts in disputed seas . |
f67620810f247e935ac618a423bbaba45247e6fc | By . Katy Winter . Trendy grandfather Allan Bradbury is still a 'dedic-aged' follower of fashion - at the age of 70. The former construction worker may have his bus pass and is entitled to 20 per cent discounts in DIY stores and garden centres - but he spends up to £160 a month on Gucci and Vivienne Westwood designs, i... | Allan forks out £160 a month on designer clothes despite being retired .
The 70-year-old gets stopped in the street by people who love his look .
Claims fashion has nothing to do with age and will never dress 'normally'
The grandfather says he has loved fashion since an early age .
Local Vivienne Westwood store invited... |
f6765d77b555355569c366bca3e23e8f99cce963 | By . Sara Nathan . Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli has split with her boyfriend Adi Ezra in a blazing row over Rolling Stones frontman Sir Mick Jagger - ruining her 29th birthday. Bar recently admitted she was serious about Ezra and the couple were pictured on an intimate vacation in Thailand in March. However, Israeli ... | Leo DiCaprio's ex was celebrating her 29th birthday at Rolling Stones Tel Aviv gig last Wednesday .
Bar's boyfriend, Israeli businessman Adi Ezra, reportedly pulled her off the dance floor at after-party when she got too close to womanizer Mick . |
f676e9bbdea898b9444bed56aa85075c486656bd | NEW YORK (CNN) -- The death of a 12-year-old student in Brooklyn from the staph infection MRSA has prompted fear among parents and students throughout the New York City school system, forcing officials to respond. Omar Rivera, 12, a New York seventh-grader, died of drug-resistant staph on October 14. Omar Rivera, a se... | NEW: Brooklyn student's death from drug-resistant staph infection confirmed .
NEW: School officials unable to confirm where student contracted infection .
No reason to think other students or teachers are at risk, department says .
25 to 30 percent of the population carry the staph bacteria, according to CDC . |
f676ebc23bd80b2ff8302800680f8461a8fdd6eb | By . Sam Creighton . Criminals are piecing together heat-detecting drones using kit they can buy from supermarkets . Criminals are using cheap kit bought from supermarkets to build heat seeking drones they can use to track down cannabis farms to rob. Tech-savvy thieves are buying drones for as little as £60 from superm... | Thieves are modifying the drones by attaching infra-red cameras .
They can monitor the camera images on an iPad .
Cannabis farms give out heat, meaning the cameras can pick them up .
The criminals then rob the drug dens and sell the cannabis themselves . |
f677393d3e2d336b1a9ec6d634a0f48f143cab24 | Los Angeles (CNN) -- Jurors hearing the Michael Jackson wrongful death case seem to be enjoying themselves after 15 weeks of testimony, even after the judge told them they could be in court through September. They've leaned forward, taken close notes and often laughed while watching lawyers for Michael Jackson's mother... | The jury will watch a video deposition of Michael Jackson's youngest brother Friday .
Kenny Ortega testified Michael Jackson seemed sleep-deprived a week before his death .
Lawyers use Ortega's testimony to debate who's responsible for Jackson's death .
Jackson's ex-wife Debbie Rowe is expected in court next week . |
f6778e4358917483b75f4638eeb4bb81340a7723 | By . Amanda Williams . PUBLISHED: . 09:32 EST, 13 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 05:15 EST, 14 January 2013 . The pool at the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's new home could be moved to a sunnier and more private site it has today been claimed. And the decision may have been influenced by the publication of topless phot... | Plans submitted to relocate pool at Anmer Hall which is expected to be gifted to the royal couple .
Topless photographs were taken of Kate while she was beside a pool on holiday in France last year . |
f677b6024a6911bf88c13893916369b7485a5f8e | Washington (CNN) -- Some Marine Corps families, mourning a son or daughter killed in action, received an unexpected surprise for the holidays: an ornament of the Purple Heart, a letter addressed to their fallen hero and even information about athletic reconditioning. The Marine Corps was apologizing Tuesday for sending... | Families of fallen Marines received packages meant for injured veterans .
The parcels offered information about athletic reconditioning .
Wounded Warrior commander: "We accept full responsibility for this error"
1,150 packages went to families of Marines who had died . |
f677d17988598c23173cc9fb09d0dfc0d684733c | Campaigners have warned that shoppers are being hoodwinked by organic beauty products laced with chemicals found in antifreeze, floor cleaners and engine oil . Shoppers are being hoodwinked by organic beauty products laced with chemicals found in antifreeze, floor cleaners and engine oil, campaigners warned last night.... | Soil Association surveyed shampoos and creams labelled as organic .
Boots Botanics and Nivea skin care ranges criticised in findings .
'Pure and Natural' hand cream contained preservative methylisothiazolinone .
Chemical found in window cleaner and can cause cancer . |
f678334a4d78586f126d5984744e496485b23d64 | Scott Quigg faces former world champion Paulus Ambunda on September 13 at the Phones 4 U Arena in Manchester in what I believe will be the toughest fight of his career. Ambunda won the WBO bantamweight title in 2013 before losing to the hugely talented Tomoki Kameda in the only loss of his career. I give Ambunda plenty... | Quigg has terrified the super bantamweight division .
Leo Santa Cruz was offered a Quigg unification in the US but said no .
Slow progress on Froch-Chavez .
Golden amateurs like Antony Fowler face huge decision .
Ricky Burns comeback has been delayed . |
f6787908245fa5067bc0e9dabe0f9f320aeea952 | (CNN) -- Taliban official Hakeemullah Mehsud has been selected the new head of the Pakistani Taliban, a local Taliban commander in Pakistan's federally administered tribal areas told CNN Saturday. Baitullah Mehsud, right, former leader of the Pakistani Taliban, and a bodyguard in Pakistan, in 2004. Mehsud was selected ... | Taliban official Hakeemullah Mehsud was selected Friday by 42-member panel .
Taliban officials say former leader Baitullah Mehsud is alive but ill .
Taliban official Maulvi Faqir Mohammad tapped as new leader's deputy . |
f678a06b7a0776e5fda1a57a45f7962bff0a06ed | A Boston housing director who earned a hefty $360,000 salary and managed low-income housing only spent 15 days on the job this year. The rest of the year, Michael E. McLaughlin was travelling the country, doing business elsewhere, working remotely, or not putting in a full eight-hour workday. He served as one of the hi... | McLaughlin claimed over $80,000 in unused vacation .
Reported only 3.5 hours of sick leave and was reimbursed $114,000 .
FBI investigating if he diverted federal funds . |
f6791ff9b090efe4e14f6b113d877df394759a94 | Marseille extended their winning streak to eight games with a 2-0 home win against Toulouse in Ligue 1 on Sunday, but not before manager Marcelo Bielsa sat on a scalding hot cup of coffee. There were laughs all round when Bielsa, widely regarded as the man who has transformed Marseille into an exciting team, accidental... | Marseille extended their winning streak to eight with a 2-0 win over Toulouse .
But Argentine manager Marcelo Bielsa wasn't smiling for the whole game .
He sat on a coffee cup placed on his ice cooler by a coach .
Bielsa then kicked the cup away in anger and turned to his bench .
Marseille are now seven points ahead of... |
f679845d4caca735f9cdcee981ac1a8620ce659f | Doctors and nurses have been warned by David Cameron that ‘standards are not good enough' after one in three patients said they would not recommend their local hospital to family and friends. The Prime Minister said the new test would give a single measure for the quality of NHS care across the country. The first set o... | Patients asked if they would recommend wards to friends and family .
David Cameron says new test reveals where standards not good enough .
Minister Anna Soubry says it could have prevented Mid-Staffs deaths . |
f67a7e233546bf58dd02ef4e2bfe5914d6ec1fbd | By . Australian Associated Press . Robert Xie is accused of killing two children, their parents, and their aunt at their home in northwest Sydney in 2009 . Accused murderer Robert Xie has 'a human face, but animal's heart', the Lin family matriarch says. 'I used to think he had higher education and could not be that ba... | Xie is accused of killing two children, their parents, and their aunt at their home in northwest Sydney in 2009 .
The Lin family matriarch, Feng Qin Zhu, made the comments during another day of evidence at the Supreme Court trial of her son-in-law .
Mrs Zhu said she views Xie as a monster since learning of his regular ... |
f67b6ae0da20f5991e43b137736a6c5357b230ab | By . Associated Press . PUBLISHED: . 01:54 EST, 13 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 05:21 EST, 13 January 2014 . When authorities searched the apartment of Boston gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger, they found $822,000 in cash and a large collection of guns hidden in holes cut into the walls. Other than the cash, there were f... | Authorities are planning to auction James 'Whitey' Bulger's possessions to raise money for his victims .
The items come from the Santa Monica, California apartment he shared with his girlfriend while in hiding .
He didn't have much of value, but a few items may realize large sums, including a ring and a 40-inch TV . |
f67b7925ad2d3c2951ec46069e53991c862fc1ec | Michael Carrick may be relaxing on holiday for the time being but the Manchester United midfielder's summer could be about to get a lot more hectic. Carrick is in with a chance of being promoted from the standby list to Roy Hodgson's England squad, should Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain fail to recover from an injury that seem... | Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's World Cup looks over after injury in England's feisty 2-2 draw with Ecuador on Wednesday .
Michael Carrick is on standby list of Roy Hodgson's England squad alongside Manchester United team-mate Tom Cleverley .
Carrick is on holiday with wife Lisa in Ibiza . |
f67c480d4bf0e7d6a80d38fea994a443690bedf9 | (CNN)Money makes the world go round, they say, but what if notes and coins were replaced with online code? Bitcoin -- the world's much talked about cryptocurrency -- is just that. It can't be printed, it can't be directly controlled by governments or central banks, but it can be sent around the world instantly at a lo... | It costs less to send Bitcoins overseas than traditional money .
In Sub-Saharan Africa, 75% of the population don't have a bank account .
African services like Beam and BitPesa convert Bitcoin to local currencies .
Established money transfer players pose a challenge to Bitcoin . |
f67c6f3d9b57ab8166dd3a214748c1c89d4522ae | Would your marriage work better if you lived separately? Claire and David Burke, a married couple from from West Yorkshire, argue yes. They've been together 14 years and never lived under the same roof. The perks (they say) you too could have if you live separately from your spouse: You don't take each other for grante... | Claire and David Burke argue the pros of living in separate houses .
They argue it keeps them from becoming too over-familiar .
Tracey says good couples balance each other out in their home . |
f67c7d2779b09c8b5036569c10942de99fe49116 | By . Mark Duell . PUBLISHED: . 03:46 EST, 8 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:12 EST, 8 August 2013 . A pub worker was overcome by toxic fumes and felt his lungs burning while he cleaned a toilet. Jason Smith unwittingly mixed descaler and bleach at the Leg of Mutton and Cauliflower in Ashtead, near Epsom, Surrey, to pro... | Incident happened at Leg of Mutton and Cauliflower in Ashtead, Surrey .
Assistant manager unwittingly mixed descaler and bleach last Saturday .
Jason Smith 'had no idea pouring both down urinal would create gas' |
f67cd854243ed6b57391a6758d98c61107337622 | Minneapolis (CNN) -- It's hard to find a lot of things in Williston, North Dakota, where thousands of workers have flocked for high-paying oil jobs. Houses and apartments are in short supply, and those living in temporary abodes must wait for hours at run-down truck stops for a hot shower at the end of a long workday. ... | Evan Jensen, 18, noticed a lack of showers on a recent visit to Williston, North Dakota .
Williston is the epicenter of the region's oil boom .
Many oil workers have to wait for hours to shower at local truck stops .
Jensen hopes his shower truck will help him earn money for music college . |
f67d09f29fcb392a5572ecfcbf2974ec5141fc2b | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 07:58 EST, 14 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 04:35 EST, 15 January 2013 . A mother was jailed today for stealing money from her sister's struggling electrical company to fund her own luxury holidays. Divorcee Deborah Price, 56, turned to her businesswoman sister for help when she ... | Deborah Price managed the accounts at an electrical firm run by her sister .
The mother-of-three repeatedly overpaid herself - stealing a total of £16,470 .
Price said she took the money from the company owned by her sister Kenis and brother-in-law Gareth Thomas 'because it was so easy'
Mother was today jailed for eigh... |
f67d6b1b5a4ace160c101d3247f6effe554af003 | By . Suzannah Hills . PUBLISHED: . 05:37 EST, 7 September 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 15:59 EST, 7 September 2012 . On the run: Christopher Maffei, 43, is accused of abducting his two children . A father who is believed to have abducted his two young children from their home and stole a yacht to sail away with them has been ... | Christopher Maffei, 43, is accused of abducting his two children Brooklynn, three, and Devin, two, from their mother's home in San Francisco .
Police allege he stole a yacht to sail to Mexico or Thailand .
Coast Guard boats and planes on their way to intercept boat seen Friday . |
f67ded18c05dd5214ed1f042d77fa1955edb78bc | DAVENPORT, Iowa (CNN) -- Bob Konrardy carried the guilt with him for more than 40 years. A platoon commander in Vietnam, Konrardy was wounded when shrapnel tore through his body. Four comrades carried him to safety in a poncho for more than an hour while the firefight raged. Bob Konrardy says the fallen soldier monume... | Army veteran went to Iraq hoping to expunge "Vietnam demons"
Bob Konrardy spent four days on patrol in March 2007 as an embedded journalist .
"I couldn't sleep before, but now it's worse. I hate to see it get dark," he says .
Konrardy says nation must be ready for when troubled soldiers return from Iraq . |
f67e565e1d083d38b871947ff0e676b69b255420 | A plumber has died and a family taken to hospital from a block of flats which was evacuated because of chemical fumes. The man was believed to have suffered an electric shock and was pronounced dead at the scene. He is understood to have been unblocking a sink using a drain cleaning fluid when the tragedy happened on t... | Man thought to have suffered electric shock and pronounced dead at scene .
Residents said explosion happened when plumber poured fluid down drain .
Described it as being like a 'disaster movie' and 'crazy, absolutely crazy'
A family of five were taken to hospital from the flats in New Cross, London .
All 20 flats in bu... |
f67ef38d733e73f0bce84f18d96b9930691b4da6 | By . Pa Reporter . Hull KR hooker Josh Hodgson is to leave for Canberra Raiders at the end of the season, Rovers have confirmed. The Hull-born 24-year-old, who since joining the Robins from city rivals Hull FC in 2010 has made more than 100 appearances and earned a call-up for the second-string England Knights side, ha... | Josh Hodgson will join Canberra Raiders at the end of the season .
Hull KR hooker has played more than 100 appearances for the club .
24-year-old has agreed a two-year contract with the NRL side . |
f67f3ba36b9f719a186ba180f924426c353b0df1 | Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Tensions rippled through Pakistan's tribal region Saturday as three drone strikes killed 18 people and the government continued to block a NATO supply route into Afghanistan. Pakistani intelligence officials said 10 people died in one drone strike targeting a militant hideout, four people d... | NEW: Pakistan continues to block the border crossing .
The attacks come amid an increase in drone strikes in Pakistan .
The strikes occurred in Pakistan's tribal region . |
f680b0ee67c8174fb07eb8e1ad94b99a5cb68fd8 | Crystal Palace have completed the permanent signing of academy product Wilfried Zaha from Manchester United for a fee of £6million. Despite initially jumping the gun by announcing the deal before United believed the finer details had been finalised - which saw the south Londoners then quickly remove the confirmation fr... | Wilfried Zaha signed for Manchester United in 2013 for £15m .
However, he was frustrated with the lack of first-team opportunities .
Zaha returned to Crystal Palace, impressing on loan at Selhurst Park .
The winger has signed a permanent £6m deal with his boyhood club .
CLICK HERE to see how transfer deadline day unfol... |
f680c16c60a61bdd4b108c291a368a9024bc6fff | Los Angeles (CNN) -- Zsa Zsa Gabor's daughter got her wish when a Los Angeles judge appointed a conservator to oversee the 95-year-old actress's finances and medical care Wednesday. Judge asked to intervene in Zsa Zsa Gabor's care . But the man named temporary conservator is Gabor's ninth husband, Prince Frederic von A... | Francesca Hilton is happy with conservator arrangement for her mom, lawyer says .
Gabor's ninth husband must share financial and medical info with daughter .
Hilton can visit her ailing mother once a week, the judge orders .
Prince Frederic von Anhalt and Hilton have feuded over Gabor for years . |
f680e3086616478d853a072ae282733c5432638c | Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton is worried that European governments are being "too wimpy" in dealing with Russian President Vladimir Putin, London's mayor Boris Johnson said Friday. Johnson, on a trade mission to the United States, said that he was struck by the former secretary of state's insistence that Europe must ... | Johnson says Clinton wants tougher European response .
Also slams Jindal 'no go zone' comments as "nonsense" |
f681517959b9a8f6fe5c42f3f7c99ffc77e993d6 | Former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has said he would welcome the chance to speak to ex-manager David Moyes. Ferdinand has been critical of of the Scot's methods at Old Trafford in his imminent autobiography but rejects the idea that Sir Alex Ferguson should be blamed for United's downfall. The 35-year-old,... | David Moyes' play was described as 'embarrassing' by Rio Ferdinand .
Former Manchester United defender left the club at the end of the season .
Ferdinand also jumped to the defence of Sir Alex Ferguson . |
f681c4cdca15eac5032d99cdc634d0f5c4c83769 | (CNN) -- Six members of the Newtown Strong team who ran the Boston Marathon on Monday are OK, according to a Facebook post from the group. "Members of the Newtown Strong team which ran in today's marathon are safe. All runners completed the race before the explosions happened," the post said. The runners ran the 26.2-m... | Runners ran the 26.2-mile race to honor 26 victims killed at Sandy Hook Elementary .
Newtown Strong's Facebook post says all of them are safe .
The group raises money for siblings of those killed in December . |
f681cf5a1ce78292df8059f55f889dc78d2f7541 | Katie Couric has has ditched cold and snowy New York City to soak up some sun down in Barbados. Couric was showing off her impressive beach body as she and her financier husband John Molner were spotted frolicking on the beach and stealing a few kisses while swimming in the ocean. This as the former anchor of CBS Eveni... | Katie Couric was showing off her impressive beach body on a trip to Barbados with new husband John Molner .
Molner and Couric married last June at her home in East Hampton, New York .
This as some have singled out Couric as a possible replacement for disgraced NBC Nighly News anchor Brian Williams . |
f681f75929f7f34901bfa75ad46dd3d43e6fee66 | By . Anna Hodgekiss . PUBLISHED: . 10:36 EST, 15 October 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 07:06 EST, 29 March 2013 . A mother died of a broken heart after her daughter was stillborn, her husband has claimed. Darren Clift, 41, said his wife Lindsay was so devastated by the death of their daughter that she died just five hours afte... | Lindsay Clift collapsed soon after Katy May was born .
The first time mother, 29, never regained consciousness .
Devastated husband Darren, 41, said: 'She was so heartbroken that she wanted to be with the baby' |
f6821dc9f1585c5987f36da562e2b788e3ad4c95 | (CNN) -- The cigarette companies -- and, boy, it's hard to say this -- may turn out to be right. Not "right" in the sense we usually think of the word. The death, suffering and heartache that cigarettes have brought to millions of families is no longer in serious dispute. But in the courts right now, it is beginning to... | Bob Greene: Cigarette companies fighting a government mandate; they may be right .
They say requiring them to show graphic warnings on packs hurts free speech .
Whatever you think about scourge of cigarettes, their argument is compelling, he says .
Greene: Cigarette companies have long pushed a dangerous product. Do th... |
f682641ca1195bd5528ec0cb76d3dfd7c31a92ce | Editor's note: Gene Seymour has written about movies, music and culture for The New York Times, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly and The Washington Post. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Gene Seymour says we want to relive Michael Jackson's youth, not the sad and bizarre aspects of his later life. (CNN) -- Seconds after th... | Gene Seymour: We want to relive the promise of Jackson's eternal youth .
He says the final years of his life were bizarre and sad .
Seymour: Jackson pooled heavy metal, disco and funk audiences .
Jackson's "Thriller" LP will never be surpassed, he says . |
f6827ee9a542288a7e2b46932bead24a39cae826 | By . Martha De Lacey . PUBLISHED: . 10:11 EST, 28 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 05:34 EST, 18 November 2013 . His internationally renowned 'Clean & . Lean' diet has picked up a host of celebrity fans, from supermodels Elle Macpherson and . David Gandy, to actor Hugh Grant and Victoria's Secret model Rosie Huntington-Wh... | Australian health warrior James Duigan promotes strong, lean body shape .
Founder of Bodyism and author of Clean & Lean diet books .
Clean & Lean diet has celebrity fans all over the world .
Updated version now available to everyone on Kindle .
Elle Macpherson, David Gandy, Hugh Grant and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley .
He... |
f683130fbde07c36241da74a525fd6fddf97987e | Judges’ copies of the leading Oscar and Bafta contenders – 12 Years A Slave, Gravity and American Hustle – have leaked on to the web for illegal download. The pirated versions of the films appear to have originally been sent to members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who decide the winners of the Os... | Preview copies are sent to 6,000 judges who pick Oscar and BAFTA winners .
Branded with screen alert reading: 'For Your Consideration Only'
Same alerts appear on pirated films such as Gravity and 12 Years A Slave . |
f6831d3ab117c3a4f52a61093b0ba10e95f313a1 | U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has called on the international community to form a coalition to stop the 'cancer of ISIS from spreading' in an opinion piece for The New York Times. Kerry described the Islamic group, which has become notorious for beheadings and terror campaigns in the Middle East a ‘unifying threat... | Kerry described the Islamic group as a ‘unifying threat to a broad array of countries’ in an opinion piece written for The New York Times .
The Obama administration is said to be considering its next move and may consider expanding U.S. airstrikes .
Kerry wrote: ‘With a united response led .
by the United States and th... |
f683407d1e20733deff3158cf45adc785d418ce3 | Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- Early this year Ukraine -- along with much of eastern Europe -- was caught in a deep and protracted cold snap. Many froze to death, energy demand spiked, and to top it all Russia accused Ukraine of stealing gas from transit pipes destined for western Europe for the second time in three years. Ukr... | Ukraine and Russia have long-standing feud over gas supply lines .
Ukraine is big importer of Russian gas, while Russia depends on Ukraine pipeline .
In recent years, Ukraine has tried to diversify its energy supply to reduce dependence .
Liquid gas imports, underground shale gas and green energy are among new sources ... |
f6836abb6818a2d0cea340234f4f7ef950bb722a | White House staff are tip-toeing around revelations that the French president has a mistress as they face the awkward question of just who will be his plus one at a state dinner next month. Francois Hollande, 59, faced the world's media for the first time on Tuesday after it was reported that he had been sneaking to a ... | Francois Hollande, 59, has refused to say if partner Valerie Trierweiler is still the de facto first lady of France .
President said he will decide by February 11 - just in time for a state dinner in DC with President Obama and First Lady Michelle . |
f684193a29e15ac4b5d265c92e4c49f35a34e042 | When President Obama first met Burma's Nobel prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi two years ago, their awkward embrace caught the media's attention. A kiss on the cheek by the Commander in Chief was branded by some as inappropriate and in poor taste. But it seemed the democracy activist was over-compensating for their last e... | Obama and Suu Kyi's embrace during 2012 meeting caught public attention .
Obama's kiss was seen by some as inappropriate and in poor taste .
But this time Suu Kyi kissed him twice before pulling him in for a hug .
Tweets accused her of 'over compensating' and branded move 'awkward' |
f6846b8aef6c798f3280d502e1301e00643b977d | Cape Town, South Africa (CNN) -- Mike Steenkamp still wakes up in the morning expecting a phone call from his niece. That call never comes. "It hasn't really sunk in to my way of thinking," he said. Steenkamp and his daughter Kim Martin told CNN this week that they aren't focusing on why Reeva Steenkamp is gone. She wa... | Reeva Steenkamp was shot and killed by boyfriend Oscar Pistorius .
Facing a murder charge, he says he mistook her for an intruder .
Steenkamp's uncle says the family will not attend the trial .
Mike Steenkamp says he wants to forgive Pistorius, face to face . |
f684ec0a4969e99d6afe5ba6fc7165ab94eedfb7 | Yemen's army has retaken most of Jaar, the final al Qaeda stronghold in the country's southern Abyan province, forcing hundreds of militants to flee the town, two local security officials told CNN. Hundreds of militants were still skirmishing with military forces Tuesday. The state-run Saba news agency also reported th... | Security officials and news agency: Troops forced al Qaeda militants from the town of Jaar .
Officials estimate that more than 80 militants were killed in the last 3 days in Abyan province .
They say that seven troops were also killed Tuesday .
Hundreds of militants are still fighting in Jaar, Defense Ministry official... |
f6861e287c2c3a39a8795ceedae67c5f845f7723 | Bordeaux coach Willy Sagnol is facing a barrage of criticism after the former France and Bayern Munich defender said African players are ‘powerful’ but seemed to suggest they lacked intelligence and discipline. In an interview with local newspaper Sud Ouest, Sagnol said: ‘The advantage of the typical African player is ... | Willy Sagnol hinted that he didn't want to sign too many African players because of the African Cup of Nations .
Sagnol's former team-mate Lilian Thuram was not happy with comments .
Anti-racism associations have hit out at the Bordeaux coach . |
f686267f06b037fec9e1673e584d67bb3e1a0fb8 | (CNN) -- "You can hear the horse hold its breath over the jump." Dennis Baxter has been listening to sounds for so long, he even listens to their absence. Baxter is not only a sound man, but "The Sound Man." His engineering helped form the beating, surround-sound heart of the revolution in televised sports coverage. "I... | Sound engineer Dennis Baxter helped revolutionize TV sports coverage .
Baxter uses dozens of microphones to capture detail of equestrian sport .
He prefers commentators to keep quiet -- and commentators often agree .
Dressage riders get music custom-made using video analysis . |
f68626a01e3832573149c4cc4f0d3ecfac9292b8 | (CNN) -- Josef Fritzl, the Austrian accused of keeping his daughter in a cellar for decades and fathering her seven children, will plead guilty to rape and incest when his trial opens Monday, Fritzl's lawyer told CNN. Josef Fritzl is expected to plead guilty to rape and incest on Monday, his lawyer tells CNN. However,... | Man accused of keeping daughter in a cellar for decades, fathering her 7 children .
Josef Fritzl, whose trial starts Monday, will plead guilty, his lawyer tells CNN .
Prosecutors: Fritzl raped his daughter over 24 years, said she had run away .
Fritzl also accused of killing one of the children he fathered with daughte... |
f6863678060eefc2a62d33b5005159df329af7f1 | (CNN) -- Christopher Carlson sprang into action when smoke and embers ushered a fire that threatened to envelop his Noble, Oklahoma, home. After taking his 12-year-old stepson to safety, Carlson raced against time to assist neighbors and try to save his trailer from one of more than a dozen wildfires that, as of Saturd... | NEW: Firefighters face challenges with extreme heat, winds .
Fourteen fires are burning Saturday in Oklahoma .
At least 120 structures are destroyed .
Strong winds, low humidity and high temperatures take a toll . |
f6866a224e4712712642a9470e0eb6f7df85ac2c | Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- An investigation continued Monday into a helicopter crash that killed five people, including prominent Mexican businessman Moises Saba Masri, the state-run Notimex news agency said. The Sunday night crash also killed Saba's wife, their son, their son's wife and the pilot, said Mexican Presi... | Helicopter crashed Sunday night into deep ravine, officials say .
Crash killed Moises Saba Masri, his wife, son and daughter-in-law, and the pilot .
Saba Masri, said to be worth billions, was planning major construction project . |
f686ae22e5a0dd2002acfa4018c7353686a42633 | Sam Burgess scored his first try in rugby union to help Bath academy beat London Irish A 44-5 in an A League game on Monday. The 26-year-old crossed just before half time to put Bath 20-0 up by the break, and played 63 minutes in the comfortable win at the Rec. Burgess, Sportsmail's new columnist, switched codes from... | Bath beat London Irish A 44-5 in an A League match on Monday night .
Sam Burgess got his first rugby union try since switching codes .
The 26-year-old crossed just before half time to put Bath 20-0 up . |
f686c1c3a2fce19f177aafc281d6c724977a6dfe | Tottenham will face Besiktas in the Europa League after north London rivals Arsenal relegated the Turkish club to European club football's second tier while Everton will contest a group including Wolfsburg and Lille after the draw in Monaco. The Gunners just overcame the Istanbul side over two legs in the Champions Lea... | Tottenham drawn in group C with Besiktas, Partizan Belgrade and Asteras .
Everton is in group H with Lille, Wolfsburg and Krasnodar .
Celtic face FC Salzburg, Dinamo Zagreb and HJK Astra Giurgiu in group D . |
f686e813b357aa748013ee7a1a93021b6c44d7eb | Caffeine is causing 'untimely deaths' and its 'lethality' is being underestimated, a leading expert has warned . Caffeine is so dangerous and is being consumed in such high quantities that it should now be regulated, a leading expert claims. Dr Jack James says that the stimulant is causing ‘untimely deaths’ and that it... | Dr Jack James claims that the stimulant is causing ‘untimely deaths’
Says its 'lethality' is being underestimated as it's widely considered harmless .
But caffeine is now in many everyday foods, drinks, medicines and toiletries, meaning we are unwittingly consuming or exposed to more than we think . |
f686ed2c120db9dd8597ed9d1c8a2006e0c72053 | Since the car radio was born 85 years ago there's been one golden rule - the driver picks the music. Now that could finally be about to change, thanks to technology which reportedly splits the family saloon into four 'personal sound zones' with no need for headphones. It works by having an array of speakers - in headre... | Technology is latest step in race for headphones-free personal music .
It will reportedly be unveiled at global conference in Las Vegas this week .
Speakers direct music and noise-cancelling 'inverse' waves to four areas . |
f686f8fda8f6923ff052b2474e1c519bd62d842e | Rachel Reeves: Labour frontbencher is set for a Cabinet role if Ed Miliband wins the election in May . David Cameron yesterday distanced himself from remarks by a Conservative MP who questioned a Labour frontbencher's plan to go on maternity leave straight after the election. Rachel Reeves hopes to become Work and Pens... | Rachel Reeves hopes to be Work and Pensions Secretary if Labour wins .
But she is due to have her second baby just five weeks after the election .
Tory MP questioned whether she would be able to give job full attention .
David Cameron has distanced himself from Andrew Rosindell's comments .
Despite this Miss Reeves acc... |
f68720b78faa1635d970c060f94e56778414bf04 | (CNN) -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government and the opposition demanded independent investigations Wednesday into countering accusations of the use of chemical weapons, allegations that prompted most members of the U.N. Security Council to call for a probe. The demands, made in writing to the United Nations,... | NEW: The Security Council asks Ban Ki-moon for a "swift, thorough and impartial" investigation .
U.N. Security Council calls for investigation to "shed light" on chemical weapons claims .
"We have no evidence" to prove chemical weapons use, U.S. ambassador to Syria says .
Medical evidence and satellite imagery are a fo... |
f6875de54737d4a705cfe0da9dba72559840c515 | Apple reportedly paid as little as $83 million tax in Australia last year despite racking up more than $6 billion through sales of its products - a tax bill which works out to just 0.01 per cent of the massive revenue. In figures provided by the global giant's Australian arm to the nation's corporate watchdog, the Aust... | Apple Australia reportedly paid $83 million in tax last year as its revenue comes in at a whopping $6 billion .
That is just 0.01 per cent tax on sales of popular products like the iPhone .
Tech giant disputes the accuracy of the numbers and says 'we are paying all taxes which are due'
The political focus has turned to... |
f68831147676dc6e0690d37668a5473ce0243852 | By . Simon Tomlinson . UPDATED: . 03:04 EST, 3 November 2011 . A bizarre pre-historic mammal that looked just like the fictional sabre-toothed squirrel in the Ice Age movies has been unearthed in South America. The primitive mouse-sized creature lived among the dinosaurs up to 100million years ago and sported a snout, ... | Mouse-sized creature found in Argentina scurried among dinosaurs 100million years ago .
Remains of two partial skulls and jaws show previously unknown dental and cranial features . |
f68864f39b595444ba0f32319ecc047520c32566 | (CNN) -- Two people were killed and 21 others were injured Wednesday when a tour bus went out of control and overturned on a freeway outside Austin, Minnesota, state authorities said. The bus, which was carrying senior citizens, overturned on Interstate 90 about three miles west of Austin, landing in a ditch off the ri... | Bus carrying senior citizens returning from casino trip in Iowa overturns in Minnesota .
Minnesota official: "All 23 people on board were either injured or killed"
At least 10 ambulances, several medical helicopters rush to the scene .
Weather conditions were good when the bus lost control on Interstate 90 near Austin ... |
f68907e239405a8e16e5fe4e6ab6e65b16837375 | (CNN Student News) -- September 9, 2011 . Download PDF map related to today's show: . • New York City; Shanksville, Pennsylvania; Arlington, Virginia . Click here to access the transcript of today's CNN Student News program. Please note that there may be a delay between the time when the video is available and when the... | The daily transcript is a written version of each day's CNN Student News program .
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f6892aea67442159a6266ab31c519e5f58f20b86 | Belgrade, Serbia (CNN) -- After more than 15 years in hiding, onetime Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic was in a Belgrade jail Friday to face charges that he presided over Europe's worst massacre since World War II. Mladic was the highest-ranking fugitive to remain at large after the conflicts that accompanied the br... | NEW: Mladic is "a ruin of a man," his attorney says .
NEW: A few supporters praise Mladic outside the courthouse .
Mladic was wanted on charges of genocide, extermination and murder .
Serbia's president says he expects extradition within a week . |
f6892e9ace2a6ba2dab246776eff7fdd13224f2c | By . Leon Watson . PUBLISHED: . 12:40 EST, 15 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 14:49 EST, 15 November 2012 . Hate preacher Abu Qatada is to be given a new home at the taxpayers' expense, it emerged today. The 52-year-old Jordanian that the Government has tried and failed to deport has asked to be rehoused. His lawyers co... | His family will move from their current London home to a secret address .
It follows noisy demonstrations staged outside his house by protestors . |
f689d11e6420fdfcbf4a7d6a19be648173d49299 | Manchester United’s lavish spending has not finished. In January another £50million has been allocated to sign more players in the wake of this summer’s £150m-plus spending spree which culminated in the signing of Radamel Falcao. Arturo Vidal, Mats Hummels and Sami Khedira remain top targets. Juan Mata will be sold in ... | Manchester United target January spending spree .
Juan Mata set to be sold as Louis van Gaal eyes Arturo Vidal, Mats Hummels and Sami Khedira .
Cristiano Ronaldo could also return to Old Trafford next summer .
I was underwhelmed by football in the Elite Development League .
Talented youngster Oscar Borg is ready to com... |
f68a6a8c7543b28efe3a05a059a19bfbbcc25a96 | Nine- year-old Jack Bristow is thought to be one of the youngest men in the world to be diagnosed with testicular cancer . A boy of nine has been diagnosed with testicular cancer – making him what is believed to be the youngest sufferer in the world. Jack Bristow has had to have his right testicle removed and has under... | Jack Bristow went to see doctors with a swollen testicle in September .
Thought to be inflammation after he suffered groin injury playing football .
But after second injury he went to hospital and doctors found his right testicle was significantly larger than his left .
Tests revealed he had seminomas - a testicular ca... |
f68b1467a2214503827da782c956f3619cb40387 | England's Andy Sullivan won his first European Tour title on Sunday after home favourite Charl Schwartzel suffered a dramatic collapse in the South African Open. Schwartzel took a five-shot lead into the final round at Glendower Golf Club in his native Johannesburg and, despite an error-strewn display, still led by fou... | Favourite Charl Schwartzel suffered a dramatic collapse on the final day .
Schwartzel took a five-shot lead into the final round .
But the South African suffered a nightmare outing that left him tied Sullivan on 11 under par .
Sullivan started the day seven shots off the lead .
The players returned to the 18th for a su... |
f68b2d6becb04539cdb53235d61beff7ef2cd8da | A single mum successfully juggles the contrasting worlds of caring for her daughter and writing gay erotic fiction. Not only did Toni Griffin hate English when she was at school but she had never even considered writing a book until an idea popped into her head on the way to pick up her daughter from school about five ... | Single mum of one writes gay erotic fiction and most fans are female .
Toni Griffin always hated English and preferred maths at school .
She came up with the idea on the way to pick up her daughter from school .
The 32-year-old, from Darwin, has no desire to write about straight fiction . |
f68b35094c544d2386aa70d76235a4c1be51bdd1 | By . Simon Jones . Swansea City have enquired about Holland international Jordy Clasie and are also showing interest in Crystal Palace midfielder Jonathan Williams. Feyenoord's Clasie, 22, is valued around £7m and highly regarded by his international manager Louis Van Gaal. He has made eight appearances for the interna... | Swansea have enquired about Feyenoord midfielder Jordy Clasie .
Clasie is worth around £7m and is a part of Holland's preliminary World Cup squad .
The Swans are also interested in Crystal Palace's Jonathan Williams . |
f68b6d596faf775db63a054e8982f4cc85bdac7c | (CNN) -- One of the world's most successful horse racing operations has undergone a major reshuffle in an attempt to close the stable door on a damaging doping scandal. The changes come after the publication of a report into Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoun's Godolphin stable, which criticized "management failings... | Simon Crisford resigns from role as Godolphin racing manager .
His exit is part of a major reshuffle at the prestigious racing stable .
Crisford takes on new role of racing adviser to Sheikh Mohammed .
Godolphin has won more than 200 Group One races since 1992 . |
f68bbf9dbf418e2cf3d32334de882c10cfc057a4 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 11:32 EST, 23 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:41 EST, 23 December 2013 . If you think your Christmas schedule is hectic, then spare a thought for mother-of-nine Rayna Warriner, from Bournemouth, whose festive preparations begin in January and are planned with military precisio... | Rayna Warriner, 39, from Bournemouth has nine children .
She starts shopping for Christmas presents during the January sales .
Festive food includes a 10.6kg turkey and eight tins of Quality Street . |
f68bfaed347f06cc5ba0b41bd27f645119711d87 | (CNN) -- The Philippines Department of Tourism has a lot to boast about. The country has beautiful beaches, great scuba diving and a culture that is known for its hospitality. What it doesn't have is a lot of money for a global tourism campaign. Thankfully, the country's social media mad population is happy to help. In... | The Philippines attracted around 4 million tourists last year .
Thailand attracted 19 million visitors during the same period .
Social media a huge help to promoting the Philippines as holiday destination . |
f68c34953406d878ef5695bdb0602a83d52b90ca | (CNN) -- An alleged gang member who was on the FBI's Top 10 List of most wanted fugitives and sought in connection with a 2000 attack on two Los Angeles, California, officers was captured in Mexico, authorities said Monday. Emigdio Preciado Jr., believed to be 39, was captured Friday in the hills Yagos, Mexico, accordi... | Sought in connection with 2000 attack on two Los Angeles, California, officers .
Emigdio Preciado Jr., captured Friday in hills near Yagos, Mexico, FBI said .
Preciado's identifying tattoos had been surgically removed, said FBI .
Mexican police and FBI agents confirmed his identity through fingerprints . |
f68c87312141eab4413a41cb19d456b2f659a2fb | A horrified Vanessa Feltz has spoken of her shock after being subjected to a torrent of online abuse - including being called a c*** and a whore - after going public about being molested live on TV by Rolf Harris. During an appearance on This Morning, the veteran presenter said the abuse had made her 'question my faith... | Feltz, 52, received a torrent of abuse after speaking out about Rolf Harris .
She was molested by the paedophile during a live TV show in 1996 .
Says she has been called everything from 'a c-word to a whore' this week .
Harris, 84, was jailed for five years last Friday for multiple sex offences . |
f68cf07dc8e3a88512d91a39d4e9b64a1b84e3f0 | It gives the phrase 'sleeping with the fishes' a whole new meaning. An unusual new room has officially opened as part of Africa's first underwater hotel has opened for business. The three floor little piece of luxury is situated 820ft from the little-known island of Pemba, off the mainland of Tanzania and Zanzibar and ... | The newly opened ‘Manta Underwater Room’ is 13 feet under the India Ocean off Zanzibar and Tanzania .
Hotel consists of three floors - a balcony, a dining area, and the underwater bedroom .
Costs £960 ($1,500) a night to stay there - but will leave memories to treasure forever . |
f68d14a3d2dd27ec1487215b72c6188f2824fc48 | James Noble, 25, was the captain of the Ocean Way which disappeared in the North Sea yesterday . A sailor who died after his trawler got into difficulty in the North Sea was the boat's captain according to rescuers. The 45-year-old skipper, who has been named as James Noble from Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, was airlift... | Skipper of the Ocean Way who died yesterday named as James Noble .
The 45-year-old captain was rescued from sea but died soon afterwards .
Two crew members plucked from the North Sea by RAF search and rescue .
Two others, said to be Filipino men aged 32 and 38, are still missing .
None of the rescued crew were wearing... |
f68db1e89c5292dd5a18c12f56424995883b7b5b | (CNN) -- Hillary Clinton on Thursday became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit East Timor since the developing Southeast Asian nation gained full independence from Indonesia 10 years ago. Clinton arrived in the capital, Dili, on Thursday morning for meetings with President Taur Matan Ruak and Prime Minister Kay... | East Timor is a young country still facing economic and political challenges .
Clinton is the first U.S. secretary of state to visit since independence .
Her schedule means she misses her husband's Democratic Convention speech .
She is in East Timor after a difficult visit to China on Tuesday and Wednesday . |
f68e6089cadc0933205ca95ad97ac988276853d7 | By . Leesa Smith . A homeless man who allegedly raped and killed a Chinese woman in Melbourne has been described as an 'average Aussie bloke’ by a stranger who bought him a drink just hours beforehand. The white collar worker, who requested not to be named, happened to meet Scott Allen Miller before he allegedly sexual... | A white collar worker met Scott Allen Miller just hours before he allegedly raped and killed pastry chef Renea Lau, 32, in Melbourne on Saturday .
The worker described Miller as ‘articulate and friendly’
Miller, 42, appeared in Melbourne Magistrates Court on Wednesday after being extradited from NSW .
He was remanded i... |
f68e971570e0f2e535cd2353a902d7f5fb70a299 | By . Becky Evans . PUBLISHED: . 10:48 EST, 29 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:07 EST, 29 March 2013 . As much of the UK freezes under a blanket of snow, spare a thought for this man. The father was forced to dig his way out of his home after heavy snowfall trapped him inside the house. The snow was more than 6ft high an... | Father trapped in his house by snow that reached to the top of his door .
He was filmed diving into the wall of snow to try and escape .
Ukraine has seen record snowfall in the past week as temperatures dropped to as low as -28C and soldiers were tasked with clearing the roads . |
f68eae3d562eaa358bd6c4054ec9ccea85871652 | Lynda Bellingham's son has claimed a simple test may have detected his mother's fatal colon cancer in time to save her life. Speaking for the first time since the actress's death last month, Michael Peluso said he believed a colonoscopy should have been carried out as it would have given her longer to live. The 31-year... | Michael Peluso, 31, said a colonoscopy would have saved mother's life .
Ms Bellingham died of colon cancer following 18-month battle in October .
Routine checks and screening failed to detect 66-year-old's condition .
In a final interview, Ms Bellingham urged over 60s to have colonoscopies . |
f68f17502d32d84915d58d19ce674d0e1e5dde0d | By . Gavin Allen . UPDATED: . 15:44 EST, 18 December 2011 . The wintry conditions claimed the life of a 37-year-old man today who reportedly fell through a frozen lake in East Dunbartonshire after trying to rescue his dog who had gone into the water. Strathclyde Police said the man's body was recovered from the Gadloch... | Temperatures plunge to -5C in Scotland .
Ice warnings still in place across entire country . |
f68f536481e2092c414f0c1561de1caba586cdd2 | (CNN) -- CNN's senior international correspondent Arwa Damon has won the 2014 Courage in Journalism Award, a prestigious accolade that honors female journalists who risk their lives reporting the news. "Arwa's outstanding courage comes from her deep conviction to journalism that really matters," says Tony Maddox, execu... | CNN correspondent Arwa Damon wins 2014 Courage in Journalism Award .
The accolade recognizes women who risk their lives reporting the news .
Damon started with CNN in 2004 and became correspondent two years later . |
f68f6107cf2b4b3ff1adaf4412bc62e8b5f507a6 | This week, House Speaker John Boehner announced that the House will not consider immigration reform this year. Despite growing numbers and increasing political influence of the nation's Latino population, the House leadership has chosen to show it disrespect. How shameful. Here is some context: Last year, 409,849 human... | Katherine Culliton-González: Boehner says House won't take up immigration reform .
She says this is shameful; a generation of immigrants live in shadows .
Promise of equal rights also hurt by Voter ID laws that tend to target people of color, she says .
Writer: For a just democracy, we must dismantle racial barriers to... |
f6901d60fcc671bac1641735c3231e25d472c96c | A star Vanderbilt student has testified in her alleged rapists' trial that she only knew she had been assaulted when she watched video footage of the alleged attack. The woman, whose identity is being concealed, took to the stand in Nashville, Tennessee on Thursday in the rape trials of former football players Brandon ... | Brandon Vandenburg and Cory Batey are accused of raping an unconscious student at Vanderbilt with two other men in June 2013 .
On Thursday, their alleged victim took to the stand and said the last thing she remembered was being in a bar and drinking with Vandenburg .
She awoke the next day in a friend's room and felt i... |
f690a8be0df8af4fbdcad5a6fcf9361e2ff2fc15 | The hunt for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 has been narrowed to the southern region of the previous search zone after a new analysis of satellite phone data. A failed attempt at a satellite phone call from the jet 'suggests ... the aircraft might have turned south a little earlier than expected,' said Warren Tr... | The overall search area in the southern Indian Ocean remains unchanged .
Officials from Australia and Malaysia agree to share costs of search .
Investigation into the crash can only begin once the wreckage is found . |
f690ed3b77871aee278637d93c392773bcf5acaf | (CNN) -- The man who allegedly lit an explosive on board a U.S.-bound international flight deserves none of the constitutional protections afforded American citizens, a former top Bush administration official said Monday. Tom Ridge, who served as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security from 2003 to 2005, made ... | Tom Ridge, secretary of homeland security 2003-05, appears on "Larry King Live"
He comments on Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, suspect in failed airline attack .
Ridge: "I don't think he deserves the full range of protections of our criminal justice system"
He passes on criticism of Janet Napolitano, current chief of Homela... |
f6914c168182090aaaec535d10f5da5d728cade5 | Turkey is in a tough spot. It has ISIS militants threatening the Syrian border town of Kobani, inching ever closer to confronting Turkish security forces. In addition thousands of Syrian Kurds, fleeing ISIS attacks, have massed along its border, adding further to Ankara's troubles. Amid mounting pressure to become more... | Gönül Tol: Turkey may be joining the anti-ISIS coalition to suppress Kurdish separatists .
The vote does not signal intervention against ISIS any time soon, she says .
Tol: The PKK has effectively become the West's best hope for on-the-ground troops .
The fight against ISIS has also empowered the PKK militarily, she wr... |
f69168c74ef1aadc0a8765814175b598e0e2d5a5 | By . Kieran Corcoran . PUBLISHED: . 08:49 EST, 12 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 03:48 EST, 13 January 2014 . Wolf: Leonardo DiCaprio, pictured on the Andrew Marr Show, said the attitudes it embraces are 'more damaging' today . For his latest Hollywood role he has become an icon of hedonism, recklessness and the worst e... | Actor plays a corrupt stockbroker in blockbuster The Wolf of Wall Street .
He said the recklessness and excess of the film is 'incredibly destructive'
But added that the hedonistic attitudes behind the film have worsened .
He also defended the decision to ignore victims and reward misdeeds . |
f691a01f82841a3bb67f3892652a64c6fbc5d43d | Levi Strauss CEO Chip Bergh has revealed that he hasn't washed his favorite pair of jeans for a year. The 56-year-old arrived at Fortune magazine’s Brainstorm Green conference on Monday in California wearing the dark denim pants, which he admitted were 'yet to see a washing machine.' He continued telling the crowd of b... | Chip Bergh arrived at Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Green conference on Monday wearing the unwashed dark denim pants . |
f692908f7408f258b06119f59dfcfb8bc2b451b2 | By . Gavin Allen . UPDATED: . 22:21 EST, 17 November 2011 . Ronnie Biggs, who is unable to walk or talk because of a stroke, has finally expressed remorse over the death of the driver who never recovered from his assault during the Great Train Robbery - as he launched an updated version of his autobiography. The deteri... | Biggs, 82, launches updated version of his autobiography in London .
Train robber compares himself to Katie Price: he was 'the Jordan of the 80s'
Expressed regret over death of train driver but book profits won't go to Jack Mills family: 'We haven't discussed that yet,' says son . |
f692f28a8f2216517fc33dadda6672b02f90f994 | A woman has been left paralysed from the waist down after contracting tonsillitis so severe that she was hospitalised on her 21st birthday. Samantha Siddell, 22, has spent months learning to walk again after she was diagnosed with a condition called transverse myelitis, thought to have been triggered by a virus. The ra... | Samantha Siddell, 22, was diagnosed with tonsillitis which triggered a rare condition called transverse myelitis .
The rare reaction caused a severe inflammation of her spinal chord .
Condition was so severe that she was hospitalised on her 21st birthday . |
f6932f9494b79ace3763febaab53b7811e389045 | Step too far: Jonathan Charles Stevens, 24, was arrested for impersonating a police officer on Sunday after he pulled over a real cop in Tampa, Florida . A Florida man pretending to be a police officer pushed his luck way too far on Sunday when he pulled over a real cop - and got arrested for his troubles. Incredibly, ... | Jonathan Charles Stevens, 24, of Palmetto, Florida, pulled over a real police officer to report a reckless driver .
Stevens told her that he worked for Homeland Security but she grew suspicious .
Officer discovered that his car was not registered to any government agency and he didn't have a concealed weapon permit .
T... |
f693cb79684cf13a17beebfb2e1e80edf3cc4295 | (CNN) -- The desperate search in Portland, Maine, for a Harvard Business School student missing since Sunday ended in heartbreak after his body was found just days before he was to graduate. Portland Police Chief Michael Sauschuck confirmed Tuesday that a body pulled from Portland Harbor in the city's Old Port area is ... | Body of missing Harvard Business School student pulled from Portland Harbor .
Nathan Bihlmaier, 31, was missing since Sunday; he was to have graduated Thursday .
Police chief in Portland says there's no indication of foul play .
Harvard Business School dean says commencement activities will be "bittersweet" |
f693e69bbf9d757954dea16cd71ad464605522f4 | (CNN) -- Syria's vice president is calling for a "historic settlement" of the country's civil war and the creation of a national unity government, according to an interview with a Lebanese newspaper to be published Monday. "The solution has to be Syrian, but through a historic settlement, which would include the main r... | Neither side can reach "a conclusive end," Farouq al-Sharaa says .
Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus hit by fighting .
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemns the violence .
At least 150 people were killed across the country Sunday, opposition group says . |
f6947c59cde2f21675e5cb1224515ad49ff7ba1e | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 21:21 EST, 19 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 04:09 EST, 20 November 2012 . They have taken to the celebrity jet-set lifestyle of Los Angeles with considerable ease. But despite clearly enjoying life in California, it appears the Beckhams could be about to move after David announc... | Paris, Australia and London are all possible new homes for the footballer and his family . |
f69521afd0c35cf89ccca6ebad06a00a1bd36d1f | The family of missing toddler William Tyrell have endured a heart-rending Christmas, with a stockpile of unopened presents from locals serving as a sombre reminder of his disappearance. Members of the Kendall Services and Citizens Club in NSW gave a collection of gifts and Spiderman merchandise to his parents in the ho... | Three-year-old William Tyrell has been missing for nearly four months .
Detectives are now adamant that he did not wander away on his own .
But a lack of evidence to support any scenario has left them stumped .
Locals from Kendall have donated a collection of gifts in his honour .
Investigators have outlined the seque... |
f6957f98e30629ab1955ca67be7fed8a5b95670c | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 17:27 EST, 3 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 17:31 EST, 3 January 2014 . An unremarkable porcelain dish valued at £70 has sold for £84,000 after it was found to be from the court of King Louis XV. It is believed the 13.5-inch French plate was displayed in a cabinet by its elderly o... | Part of set made by .
master goldsmith Jean-Claude Duplessis between 1753 and 1755 at the .
Royal factory in Vincennes .
Elderly owner may have kept it in china cabinet, unaware of its true worth . |
f6958e743566754efd82d0cb0cae30ee0860632f | By . Jason Groves - Deputy Political Editor, Daily Mail . Billionaire former Tory chairman Lord Ashcroft has released a series of polls carried out in key swing constituencies . Labour is tightening its grip on key election battlegrounds across the country as Tory voters desert to Ukip, according to a major new poll. T... | Survey of eight Tory-held marginal seats shows each one falling to Labour .
Poll in four Labour-held swing areas shows only one winnable for Tories .
The study was conducted by former Tory treasurer Lord Ashcroft . |
f695b4a9b6faa5d090c34f2fd22df4bdd7943aaa | Singapore (CNN) -- Dr. George Khoo vividly remembers the opium dens. Fifty years ago, they lined the street just down from his small Singapore clinic. It was the time just before independence in 1965, before the shiny skyscrapers, velvet freeways and almost-painfully spotless streets. Many of his patients were addicts ... | Singapore is using crowdsourcing to compile its recent history .
The city-state will celebrate 50 years of independence in 2015 .
It's calling on all citizens to upload memories to its Memory Project .
Singaporeans have shared memories in photos, blog posts, e-books and videos . |
f695b7d0906297d71be6a31012164eadad7d0ae3 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 16:15 EST, 17 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:51 EST, 19 September 2013 . A devastated mother has confronted her son-in-law in court as he finally goes on trial for allegedly strangling her daughter six years after she was found dead. Gael Schneider unleashed an emotional rant... | Nicole Pietz, 32, found dead in wooded area in Burien, Washington in 2006 .
Her husband claimed she had gone missing on way to a meeting but investigators claim evidence shows she had been killed at night .
David Pietz, 34, is now on trial for second-degree murder .
His mother-in-law Gael Schneider unleashed emotional ... |
f695f950ea62f43a00d34bce1b56d45a30c855e9 | By . Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor . The BBC licence fee should be scrapped and replaced with a voluntary subscription service, TV presenter Nick Ross has claimed. The former host of Crimewatch warned support for the BBC would ‘fall off a cliff’ if the mandatory charge for all owners of a television set is ... | Licence fee 'should be replaced with pay-per-view or subscription'
Warns people who support the BBC now could change their minds .
But BBC insists fewer people would pay much more under subscription . |
f696ae213165971d2e3802197687235958ed6664 | By . Mark Prigg . PUBLISHED: . 05:28 EST, 26 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:59 EST, 26 November 2013 . It is a truly hair-raising idea - a wig that can monitor your health, give you directions, and even change its shape. The bizarre patent for a 'wearable computing device, comprising a wig that is adapted to cover a... | Sony has filed a patent for a SmartWig packed with sensors and special devices that vibrate on the user’s head to give them messages .
The Japanese multinational said the wig could also include special fibres that move, changing its shape but claim it looks natural .
It has been used by employees who gave presentations... |
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