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f6bc60c873fd805431fc178f4fc31de50aae86d7 | Washington (CNN) -- President Obama's senior economic adviser said Sunday the government was delaying a report to Congress in order to provide more time to address China's alleged currency manipulation. Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council, told the CNN program "State of the Union" that major int... | Economic adviser Lawrence Summers wants to give China more time .
Critics argue China keeps currency low, hurting American businesses .
U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner announced delay of currency report .
Geithner admits China has maintained an "inflexible exchange rate" |
f6bcd344c7655dfa1e0478a7bc8d060c1b1b8b67 | By . David Wilkes . PUBLISHED: . 08:03 EST, 1 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 03:15 EST, 2 January 2013 . A couple who created their own children’s programmes because they were so appalled by ‘nonsense’ such as the Teletubbies have become an internet hit. Jezz Wright, 44, and Julianne Martin, 35, were regularly having to... | Jez Wright and Julianne Martin created cartoon 'Jack and Holly'
The educational cartoon has became a surprise internet hit .
Their films have had 500,000 hits a month online from across the world .
Parents said programmes like In The Night Garden are 'virtual e-numbers' |
f6bd547d611ba92818b5e31b32347ede65874d0a | (CNN) -- A federal appeals court on Monday affirmed a previous injunction of Arizona's controversial immigration law, another setback for legislation that has drawn sharp opposition from President Barack Obama's administration. In its ruling, a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit sided wi... | NEW: An immigrant activist says, "This decisions says ... Gov. Brewer is wrong"
Brewer says the ruling harms "the safety and well-being of Arizonans"
U.S. appeals court judges on Monday affirm an earlier ruling on Arizona's SB 1070 .
That ruling had blocked key provisions of the law, just before they became law . |
f6bdb25e635ed1494d102c35ce9af12d51fccda2 | Gratitude: Anna Wing was a regular at the Turkish restaurant in central London and left the tip in her will as a 'token' EastEnders star Anna Wing left £5 to a restaurant boss among the £90,000 legacy she bequeathed in her will. The actress, who the cantankerous Lou Beale between 1985 and 1988, stated that the legacy t... | Actress who played Lou Beale from 1985 to 1988 died in July this year .
Kazim Akkus, owner of Efes and Efes 2 in London, gets £5 'token' in will .
Wing used to be a regular at the restaurants until her health declined .
Star also left money to her two sons, family and charities .
The will bequeathed a piano to another ... |
f6be515fe817391a4ddf6eb396d2e63acaa8ecf0 | Cameron has vowed to wield a second veto in Europe if France and Germany insist on pushing ahead with an EU-wide financial transaction tax . David Cameron has vowed to wield a second veto in Europe if France and Germany insist on pushing ahead with an EU-wide financial transaction tax. The Prime Minister said countries... | 'Robin Hood' tax could cripple the City of London .
But Mr Cameron ready to give billions more to IMF for assisting eurozone . |
f6be7ec35219651db9e7cd48c375a2e215f0f1a8 | British authorities say Aslam Awan was a member of a militant cell in northern England who had fought in Afghanistan . Two wanted Al-Qaeda leaders killed by U.S. drone attacks are believed to have travelled from Britain to launch terrorist attacks against the West. One, Aslam Awan, studied in Manchester but joined an I... | He was one of four people killed in strike .
Member of militant cell in northern England .
Strike directed 'at a compound near the town of Miranshah in the border province of North Waziristan' |
f6be859b2b109d9b87ffe13f6b3519e3f91591ff | Manchester City defender Pablo Zabaleta apologised for his red card in the clash with title rivals Chelsea - but insists Diego Costa should have followed him down the tunnel. The Argentina full back received his marching orders for a second booking following a clash with Costa, who was only shown a yellow card. Zabalet... | Pablo Zabaleta was sent off after 66 minutes with the game goalless .
The Man City defender clashed with Diego Costa - and he is adamant the Chelsea striker should have seen red, too .
Zabaleta tweets a picture appearing to show Costa with his hands around his throat .
Apologises for his red card but adds 'I can't beli... |
f6bfa626eac9999cb7d260f28645d135b17eee36 | Joan Rivers is a tough act to follow, but E! Network has decided its hit show Fashion Police will continue - with Kathy Griffin filling Joan's Jimmy Choos. Show insiders tell MailOnline, that Joan's daughter Melissa Rivers agreed to continue to produce her mother's show and has given her blessing to the choice. E! exec... | E! Network has decided the hit show Fashion Police will continue - with Kathy Griffin at the helm .
Fashion Police producer Melissa Rivers has given Kathy her blessing as someone her mother would have approved of .
Griffin says Joan paved the way for women in comedy . |
f6c0624552cdd9b5fc3d63ed4182b38eee4a63f1 | (CNN) -- An Arizona couple who wanted to adopt a woman's baby know more than they're saying about the 8-month-old boy's disappearance, police say. Gabriel Johnson hasn't been seen since December 26, police said, and his mother was arrested last week in Miami Beach, Florida, after not reporting for a December 28 child c... | NEW: Would-be parents tell HLN they volunteered for polygraph tests .
Gabriel Johnson, 8 months old, hasn't been seen since December 26 .
Child's mother was arrested in Miami and is in police custody but won't say where he is .
Police believe they Arizona couple know more than they're saying . |
f6c104acbfe81aa6ef3a6927be47d670bd0e2b88 | Hebron, West Bank (CNN) -- Standing under a large poster of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock, Nabil Saeed lays out large rolls of red, green, white and black cloth on his workshop table. These are the colors of his homeland, one he hopes will soon become a fully recognized state. The flag-maker marks the cloth in precise s... | Flagmaker family sees more demand for Palestinian flags .
Palestinian Authority seeking statehood at the United Nations this week .
Many Palestinians see success for U.N. bid is low . |
f6c1136c2cb0fa950b085248d8640175ef484dc6 | By . Bianca London . She designs and models a lingerie range for M&S but Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is proving her worth as a clothes horse for the high street chain too. The 27-year-old supermodel is showcasing the store's summer offering in a series of high fashion images. Proving that she is the perfect lady, Rosie l... | Rosie, 27, showcases summer offering from M&S .
Look casual and cool as she models floral dresses and jeans and coats .
Star says she still swears by drinking a green juice every single day .
Has been spending a lot of time with boyfriend Jason Statham . |
f6c18471cb5e503bc3a63ae63c921a7c6ed5fe48 | Liverpool are exploring the possibility of sending Suso to Sevilla as part of a £16million deal to sign exciting left back Alberto Moreno. Moreno is training with Spain in Madrid, having just arrived home from Sevilla’s post-season tour of Indonesia and could play in his country's friendly against Bolivia. The 21-year-... | Liverpool step up effort to sign Sevilla left-back .
Suso spent last season at Almeria, and Liverpool could offer him in deal .
Liverpool played Jon Flanagan and Aly Cissokho at left back last season .
Brendan Rodgers keen to improve Liverpool's defence .
Liverpool still pursuing Emre Can and Adam Lallana transfers . |
f6c189602dfb262853ba8a531f50aa3ca4365aaf | The note that Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote on the wall of the boat where he was found after a massive manhunt has been released, showing the motivation behind the fatal attack. Stains of either red paint or blood are shown dripping down through the angry note and some words were blasted away ... | The note's message is broken up by bullet holes and 'blood stains'
Was written on the inside wall of the boat where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found five days after the dual blasts at the Boston Marathon finish line .
Identifies himself as a Muslim and shows disgust for the American government .
Comes one day after a judge ... |
f6c1a786be952d9467a80d0d00c7a4a1b22bd469 | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- JetBlue Airways and two TSA screeners will pay $240,000 to settle an Iraqi man's claim he was denied access to a flight until he covered a T-shirt that read in English and Arabic, "We Will Not be Silent." JetBlue and two TSA screeners settled a lawsuit for $240,000, but denied any wrongdoing. In the... | JetBlue and the TSA screeners denied any wrongdoing .
JetBlue, TSA screeners, said they only wanted to resolve the 2½-year-old lawsuit .
Iraqi Raed Jarrar immigrated to the United States three years ago .
Jarrar cast the settlement as a victory . |
f6c277678f0d890062e457cff7257961ec5dab28 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 19:45 EST, 25 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 05:58 EST, 26 January 2013 . PepsiCo Inc. is removing a controversial ingredient from its Gatorade sports drink in response to customer complaints. Molly Carter, a spokesperson for the company, said Friday the removal of brominated vege... | PepsiCo, Inc. said Friday it is removing brominated vegetable oil .
Company maintains action is not in response to online petition .
Health concerns attached to excessive consumption of the ingredient .
The controversial oil is used in much more than just Gatorade . |
f6c2fd1c0cea8818b2599ab40419e8ec1adeb6c1 | By . Ian Ladyman . Follow @@Ian_Ladyman_DM . Louis van Gaal is interested in appointing Roy Keane as his assistant manager if he is given the job of replacing David Moyes as Manchester United manager. The Dutchman is among the favourites to take charge at Old Trafford this summer, with owners the Glazer family keen to ... | Man United keen in retaining at least one former player to help manage the first team .
Keane's experience as a manager is attractive to both United and Van Gaal .
Keane is right personality to 'sort out' the club's .
problems, according to Hull midfielder David Meyler .
Ryan Giggs has been installed as the .
interim m... |
f6c33710f0348b0bf189da9a79088ec5528e6822 | Detained: Bradley Manning is escorted from the courthouse in Maryland today . Defence attorneys for Bradley Manning, the young soldier accused of leaking government secrets, revealed today that Manning, a gay soldier in the era of ‘don't ask, don't tell,’ had an alter-ego named Breanna Manning. In the pre-trial hearing... | Manning's defence claim his position in an environment hostile to homosexuality caused mental and emotional problems .
Also claim Manning created female alter-ego 'Breanna Manning'
The 24-year-old blamed for largest leak of state secrets in American history . |
f6c37dac01143b951a066a9ccb6da002b496925a | By . Nazia Parveen and James Tozer . PUBLISHED: . 10:19 EST, 27 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 20:51 EST, 27 March 2013 . A failed businessman was found guilty yesterday of shooting his parents dead four months after trying to drown them in a staged car crash. Fraudster Stephen Seddon blasted them with a sawn-off shotgun ... | Stephen Seddon shot Robert, 68, and Patricia, 65, with a sawn-off shotgun .
Four months earlier he tried to kill the couple by staging a fake road crash .
He drove into a canal with them strapped in the back seats of a car .
Found guilty of two counts of attempted murder and two counts of murder . |
f6c3cc0126980e42d356ea875984d130d473ba15 | (CNN) -- Former Sen. Tom Daschle has withdrawn his nomination to head the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a statement Tuesday from the White House. Former Sen. Tom Daschle apologized for making mistakes on his tax records. Daschle had been fighting to save his nomination after controversy over his... | NEW: President Obama accepts Tom Daschle's decision "with sadness and regret"
Daschle's nomination questioned due to tax problems, work in recent years .
Move follows withdrawal of Obama's pick for chief performance officer .
Daschle has long history with Congress, was Senate majority leader . |
f6c3d64d831a2b99929e8dd321ae823933e49b57 | (CNN) -- Rebels in the Central African Republic -- who took over numerous towns and threatened to overrun the capital -- will be part of a unity government under that nation's embattled president, a government spokesman said Friday. The apparent deal would appear to end violence that began last month, when the Seleka r... | Central African Republic rebels launched an offensive last month, upset at their president .
They had overtaken several towns in the nation's north and threatened the capital, Bangui .
Under the peace agreement, the rebels and opposition party leaders will pick a prime minister .
EU and U.N. officials laud deal, but sa... |
f6c4aade5385ae18de07a01e966f56f8edd4ab6c | Are you in the market for a new car but have trouble deciding between a Holden Commodore and a Ford Falcon? Well look no further because Bundamba Auto Wreckers in Ipswich, south-east Queensland, has morphed the two together to create a car lover's dream - the 'Falcodore'. Dean Hawkins, owner of Bundamba Auto Wreckers s... | The 'Falcodore' is every Ford and Holden lovers dream car .
Bundamba Auto Wreckers in Ipswich, south-east Queensland has morphed the two together .
The unique hybrid vehicle took only four weeks to create .
The Falcodore is able to drive but not registered . |
f6c4bb2b215e11171f764f93dff976ec6bb08334 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 16:56 EST, 6 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 05:04 EST, 7 October 2013 . 'Let me in': Betting shop robber Timothy Stern, 31, did not like being far from his family . A convict on the run from jail stunned guards when he knocked on the door of another prison and asked to be let in. ... | Timothy Stern, 31, escaped HMP Leyhill, near Bristol, to be near his family .
He knocked on the door of HMP Bullingdon, in Oxford, begging to be let in .
A judge agreed but added 21 days to his sentence for robbing a betting shop . |
f6c4c4bfdc2948142075f47908a04b58c388c249 | A singer who created a custom song for a newlywed couple has revealed the lyrics about falling and climbing up hills that seem spooky now that the wife admitted to killing her husband by pushing him off a cliff. Jordan Linn Graham has been released from police custody after allegedly telling police that she and her hus... | Jordan Linn Graham released on house arrest by Montana judge .
22-year-old told FBI she had been arguing with her husband, 25-year-old Cody Lee Johnson as they walked in Glacier National Park .
Graham said Johnson grabbed her arm, then she turned around and 'pushed Johnson with both hands in the back, and as a result, ... |
f6c4cd5d739a29e10ba19544fcd22b172bb345d7 | (CNN) -- It has now been certified officially: Germany is special, at least in the eyes of ratings agency Standard & Poor's. According to Standard & Poor's, Germany is the only country in the eurozone which still deserves the prized AAA rating with a stable outlook. Nine other countries, together accounting for more th... | Daniel Gros thinks the eurozone's public finances are still in shape despite downgrades .
Gros regards Europe's regional split of savings habits as one of the key problems in the crisis .
The European Central Bank has prevented a collapse of the banking system, but it has its limits . |
f6c4d81abad49343ccf49bc7016b84dd7ff6ad56 | By . Ian Sparks . PUBLISHED: . 11:33 EST, 25 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:43 EST, 25 January 2013 . Shamed former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn 'was fully aware' that young girls at orgies were being paid to have sex with him, a prostitute has told a court in France. The disgraced economist came face-to-face wit... | Disgraced economist insists he only ever had sex with 'willing young women'
Hooker named Jade told judge that Dominique Strauss-Kahn knew the girls involved were prostitutes .
His appearance at orgies was hailed 'like the arrival of the Messiah'. |
f6c4d982661c4aeef858c87e3507dc1a46819610 | Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- At least 40 people were killed and scores were wounded in overnight airstrikes by the Pakistani military on areas in the country's northwest where militants are based, a senior military official said Tuesday. Later Tuesday, in southwestern Pakistan, an explosion on a bus carrying pilgrims k... | NEW: Explosion on bus kills 22 in southwestern Pakistan .
Overnight airstrikes kill at least 40 people and injure scores, official says .
The airstrikes come after recent militant bombings that struck military targets . |
f6c58c0f350bad355549640248af8d2abf893697 | By . Paul Donnelley . Police searching for the body of murdered Suzanne Pilley have identified a key new search area. The 38-year-old bookkeeper who disappeared in May 2010 on her way to work in her Edinburgh office was killed by her ex-lover David Gilroy who is serving a life sentence for her murder. He has always ref... | Suzanne Pilley, 38, vanished on her way to work as a bookkeeper in Edinburgh .
Ex-boyfriend David Gilroy convicted of her murder and sentenced to life .
Parents made appearance on BBC crime show to ask for new information . |
f6c59fc17663233b4d414d6e55c445782b31b114 | (CNN) -- Hans Zimmer, the creative force behind some of Hollywood's best loved film music, including the Oscar-winning Lion King score, adjusts his chair in front of a sleek black instrument that looks something like the control panel of a stealth bomber. He raises his hands to the monochrome keyboard and presses gentl... | The Seaboard is a re-imagined keyboard that allows players to bend notes like a guitar .
Hollwood composer Hans Zimmer describes it as 'inspiring'
The Seaboard's inventor believes it opens up expressive potential . |
f6c60c85bd5648fabae7ba5f4b28543e583403d4 | (CNN) -- Just like some U.S. officials looking into the mystery, the man who captured video of an apparent fireball plunging from the sky over Texas on Sunday is perplexed about what it was. Video captured in Austin, Texas, shows a meteor-like object in the sky Sunday morning. "I don't know what I saw in the sky. It wa... | Video shot in Austin, Texas, shows meteor-like object in sky Sunday morning .
Fireball sightings, reports of sonic booms come days after satellite collision in space .
FAA told U.S. pilots to watch for "falling space debris" |
f6c629041a9240bd7ee454e12ccd57015d8ea34e | (CNN) -- Mourners gathered Saturday in a California church to remember slain Yale graduate student Annie Le, 24, whose body was found on the day she was to be married. Yale student Annie Le's family said in a statement that "her laughter was infectious." "You were born in my loving embrace," said Le's mother, Vivian Va... | Mourners gather in a California church to remember slain Yale student .
Le's mom: "You left life at too young an age, at the beginning of many great things"
Authorities have charged Yale lab technician Raymond Clark with Le's murder . |
f6c6637f0b178fc44e97e57715a5ca29b6e3bd52 | Thieves have stolen eight shoes belonging to Holocaust victims from a museum in Poland, the latest in a series of thefts targeting memorials to those killed in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. The shoes were stolen from a permanent exhibition at the Majdanek State Museum in Lublin, spokeswoman Agnieszka Ko... | Eight shoes belonging to Holocaust victims are taken from a museum in Lublin .
A cabinet containing some of 280,000 shoes displayed at the museum was broken into .
Some 80,000 people, among them 60,000 Jews, were killed at the Majdanek camp . |
f6c670b36de003491601d45acd99bfca7b3d8162 | From carpets that switch to wooden beams at the touch of a button, to floating beds and personal stylists built into mirrors – the bedroom of the future is set be a high-tech affair. Experts predict that, within the next decade, we could also be sleeping on bedding with built-in cooling and heating systems,and surround... | The bedroom of the future was designed by experts at Betta Living .
Predictions include carpets that switch to wooden beams at the touch of a button, floating beds and personal stylists built into mirrors .
Designs also feature bedding with built-in air heating and cooling systems .
And smart windows that provide chang... |
f6c77c97cd5654e0f82507be65fac8b9eb1f92a0 | By . Martin Robinson . and Rupert Steiner . Struggle: M&S boss Marc Bolland, pictures with Rosie Huntingdon-Whiteley, will lose his bonus and so will his staff after a fall in profits for the third year running . Marks & Spencer's army of 65,000 store workers have today all been denied a bonus because profits have fall... | Annual profits down to £623m in 2013/14 from £665.2m a year earlier .
Marc Bolland - who received a £829,000 bonus last year - will get nothing .
And he has decided that 65,000 store workers will also miss out .
Like-for-like general sales - including clothing - down but food sales are up .
Next overtakes M&S in terms ... |
f6c78a31538efa34d1606d1053d27b1ca323669e | Microsoft was left red-faced over Christmas when its Xbox One service was infiltrated by hackers, and now its facing a similar problem. Reports on a German website claim that a list of 1,800 Microsoft-owned Minecraft's usernames and passwords have been published online. With access to these details, a security expert w... | The hack was reported by German website Heise Online .
Many of the verified accounts are believed to belong to German gamers .
It is not known how the hackers got their hands on the credentials .
Microsoft, which owns Mojang, said that its service was not compromised .
It has reviewed credentials and reset account acce... |
f6c7aa3f867ca8fc458b52287af7c0e0fa532df7 | Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- The nephew of Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi was buried Wednesday, three days after he was killed in anti-government demonstrations. Seyyed Ali Moussavi's body was delivered to his family early Wednesday and buried at Tehran's Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery around 10:30 a.m. (2 a.m. ET).... | Saeed Ali Moussavi's body was delivered to his family early Wednesday .
Not clear how Moussavi died, though some claim he was shot .
Iranian government has denied that its security forces killed anyone . |
f6c89dbf82b90f3a9c3148e2d30fd3bd596cf26d | (CNN) -- LeBron James has been named the NBA's Most Valuable Player for the second year in a row after claiming 116 of a possible 123 first place votes. It gave him a landslide win over the runner-up, Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder, who had just four first place votes, with Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles La... | LeBron James named NBA Most Valuable Player for second year in a row .
Cleveland Cavs star gains 116 out of a possible 123 first place votes .
James is determined to bring the NBA Championship to Cleveland . |
f6c8e151b9b123f7394398142e0e1351362ba2a7 | By . Mark Prigg . PUBLISHED: . 05:06 EST, 23 July 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 09:52 EST, 23 July 2012 . It is a forbidding place where temperatures reach a million degrees, and violent storms can cause havoc on Earth. However, until today scientists have been unable to get a good look at the mysterious corona of the sun. Ast... | New images show the Sun 's corona up close for the first time .
Could reveal new clues to explain how how sunspots form .
Experiment lasted just five minutes . |
f6c91cbc27975102a473df0dc7aeead4fe919f27 | New York (CNN) -- A pizza deliveryman is accused of selling more than $45,000 in cocaine, hidden among pizza boxes, to undercover agents in New York. Ramon Rodriguez, 45, was arrested Wednesday after more than a yearlong investigation by the New York City Police Department's narcotics bureau in Brooklyn. Rodriguez has ... | Ramon Rodriguez, a Papa John's deliveryman, is accused of selling cocaine while on the job .
The NYPD has been running an undercover investigation on Rodriguez since fall 2011 .
Rodriguez was arrested after his biggest sale to the undercover agent: cocaine worth $27,500 . |
f6c9a6e389a019a0b65d216c5203ca2e2a9e20b1 | Pablo Zabaleta hopes Manchester City's higher Champions League seeding will prevent another 'group of death' when the draw takes place in Monaco on Thursday. City's current UEFA co-efficient will see Manuel Pellegrini's side in the pot of eight second seeds in the draw, which should hand his club an easier group than i... | Manchester City will be seeded higher in this year's Champions League .
Pablo Zabaleta hopes City can avoid a difficult group .
City have faced Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Dortmund in recent years . |
f6ca13cbcd4737c34b5f02159a4c1dbd9a0398da | A teenage boy has managed to survive a shark attack by tearing the animal off him while it was biting his leg. 15-year-old Garrett Sebesta was praised for his bravery following the incident, which occurred yesterday in waist-high water off the Gulf Coast in Texas. He has apparently been left with a seven-inch gash in h... | Garrett Sebesta bitten by shark while swimming in Surfside Beach, Texas .
Tore animal off his leg and was airlifted to hospital with bite wounds . |
f6caa4c20762bf561d8d2b23e094a2a7b234af76 | Brendan Rodgers has expressed his deep disappointment that Lazar Markovic has been given a four-match ban and described the punishment as 'harsh'. The Liverpool midfielder was sent-off against Basle in the final Champions League game in December for an innocuous hand flick but UEFA only revealed his punishment yesterda... | Lazar Markovic was sent off in Liverpool's final Champions League match .
The midfielder was shown red for an innocuous hand flick during the game .
Markovic has been banned for four games by UEFA for the incident .
Brendan Rodgers feels the punishment on Markovic is unjust .
CLICK HERE for all the latest Liverpool new... |
f6cac9badf089cba566d9dbf1838901dc169bfc1 | Hong Kong (CNN) -- Tens of thousands of people are fleeing violence in Myanmar only to be robbed, beaten and starved on boats helmed by human traffickers, according to a new report from the United Nations Refugee Agency. In the 12 months to June, around 53,000 people left ports in the Myanmar-Bangladesh border area -- ... | More than 50,000 people have fled Myanmar-Bangladesh border ports .
U.N. report details abuse, starvation and cramped conditions on boats .
Many fleeing are Rohingya Muslims who are being persecuted in Myanmar .
Around 140,000 are living in camps where supplies have run out . |
f6cb2719482615fbfde0233d015ca7b6629463fd | Astronomers around the world are . tracking with eager anticipation the arrival of a comet next year which . could even outshine our Moon in the night sky. Comet ISON is expected to draw . millions into the dark to witness what is likely to be the most . brilliant comet seen in many generations. It is visiting the inne... | Comet ISON to be visible to the naked eye by November 2013 in the Northen Hemisphere .
It could be brighter than any comet of the past century and may even be visible in DAYLIGHT .
Discovered by Russian astronomers, ISON is thought to originate from the Oort Cloud and may end up crashing into the Sun . |
f6cb7ae4fa0f2be6a2cc30552d3ef2fa3281d8fd | Bombs in Shiite areas of Iraq claimed the lives of 25 people Sunday, the second day of the Muslim holy month Ramadan. An Iraqi soldier and a policeman also died in separate incidents. The violence started in the morning, when a car bomb exploded outside a popular restaurant in the central city of Najaf, about 100 miles... | The bombs happened in predominantly Shiite areas .
99 people were wounded .
An Iraqi soldier and a policeman were killed in separate incidents . |
f6cbab169f6cc4fa642f51b0542cab040082c959 | Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. and NATO have been quietly talking to National Transitional Council officials for the last several weeks about securing Libya's remaining stockpiles of mustard gas and other weapons material in the event the Gadhafi regime fell, U.S. officials confirm. Topping the list of worries is Libya's... | Nations have been monitoring missiles, mustard gas .
Intelligence personnel have been in Libya to help secure sites, NATO says .
About 10 tons of mustard gas known to remain . |
f6cbec656369b3baece92e10d4957615dcaa7805 | (CNN) -- Android is finally getting Chromed out. Google launched a beta version of Chrome for Android smartphones and tablets Tuesday, delivering a mobile version of the popular desktop web browser after a very long wait. Indeed, both Android and Chrome launched more than three years ago, and users have demanded unific... | Google launches Chrome Web browser for Android devices .
Google says it wanted to make sure its browser was right for its operating system .
Chrome has already replaced Firefox as the second most-popular browser . |
f6cc70aa17bceeaf1711cdaf3c9c2f06232219db | Belgium midfielder Eden Hazard will not feature in tonight's Euro 2016 qualifier against Andorra due to a toe injury, national coach Marc Wilmots has confirmed. The 23-year-old joined up with his countrymen despite picking up the knock during Chelsea's 2-0 Premier League win over Arsenal on Sunday, but will not be risk... | Eden Hazard had 'blue toe' following Chelsea's last game .
Marc Wilmots says he will be rested against Andorra as a precaution .
Thibaut Courtois should be fit to feature, though . |
f6ccdf198d807c1045068a7f9dfae7eb8e4bdcc0 | By . Nathan Klein . and Maria Lewis . and Taylor Auerbach . AFL star Lance 'Buddy' Franklin has denied speculation he was texting or speeding while driving his girlfriend's SUV into four parked cars last night. The Sydney Swans player told reporters at a press conference this morning the incident was just 'an accident'... | AFL star Buddy Franklin collides with four parked cars in Rose Bay, Sydney .
Sydney Swans confirm their $10m recruit was involved in the accident and was not carrying any other passengers in his car .
He was driving model girlfriend Jesinta Campbell's Jeep at the time of the incident .
New South Wales police spokespers... |
f6cd25c4c68f018378b20b046fe91dbbbec260e4 | (CNN) -- Yemen says al Qaeda was behind a suicide bombing Sunday that killed four South Korean tourists, according to the Daily Yemen Post. The city of Shibam is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The explosion Sunday evening in the city of Shibam also wounded three other tourists, said Hakim Almasmari, editor-in-chief of t... | Yemen says al Qaeda behind bombing that killed 4 tourists, according to local press .
Four fatalities were South Korean citizens; nationalities of injured unknown .
Suicide blast occurred Sunday in city of Shibam, a UNESCO World Heritage Site . |
f6cfcff6bb2f5b85726c6dce3ccf8aac92497e57 | By . Mark Duell . PUBLISHED: . 11:45 EST, 19 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:24 EST, 19 February 2013 . Tragic: Freya James, 8, was taken ill after the incident at Trafalgar Junior School in Twickenham, Middlesex, last Thursday and died in hospital . An eight-year-old girl has died after apparently falling over in th... | Freya James 'fell over' at Trafalgar Junior School in Twickenham .
Schoolgirl was taken ill in playground and later died at hospital in London .
Police and Health and Safety officers investigating after Thursday death . |
f6cfeef47fde05157aba50527ddd1899eaa186f3 | (CNN) -- Barcelona, Buenos Aires and Miami top a list of 29 cities that attract single men on the go. The cities on the list, compiled by the editors of AskMen.com, were considered for factors from the cost of a pint of beer and a cab ride to culture, weather and food. Various aspects of the social scene also proved a ... | Barcelona, Buenos Aires and Miami top AskMen.com's 29 destinations for single men .
Besides accomodations, sports, nightlife and women were part of the criteria .
Bangkok, Miami and Tel Aviv are the top cities for available women . |
f6d0651a553157981df1aa766a2112ce73dffdfd | (EW.com) -- Kris Jenner worked her magic — and familial connections, of course — to land an interview with the typically media-shy Kanye West, the father of her granddaughter North. Kanye stopped by the set of Kris on Monday to tape an hour-long interview that will air this week. West, who welcomed his first child with... | Kanye West talked to his daughter's grandmother for her talk show .
He opened up about his new child, falling in love and coping with the press .
"Kris" appears on select stations around the country . |
f6d080ef2ca2cba2dd486c3c747441e3c0c7a195 | A new study has found arsenic could help cut breast cancer deaths . It is notoriously poisonous but arsenic may help cut the number of deaths from breast cancer, research suggests. A new study carried out in Chile has linked the chemical element with a 50 per cent drop in breast cancer deaths. Scientists at the Univers... | Study in north Chile found chemical is linked to 50 per cent drop in deaths .
Scientists at University of California, Berkeley hailed findings 'astonishing'
Focused on the town of Antofagasta where arsenic levels in drinking water were found to be 80 times higher than levels recommended by WHO .
Among women aged under ... |
f6d0d8d93ae31e1e91ca0023af6b0c24674f3531 | Several pods of sperm whales emerged off the Southern California coast in an extremely rare, hours-long sighting that had whale watchers and scientists giddy with excitement. More than 50 mothers and juveniles were rolling and playing with dolphins Monday a few miles off Laguna Beach, the Orange County Register reporte... | Dozens of female and juvenile sperm whales appeared off Orange County in the area's first mass sighting of the 45-ton beasts .
Individual and pairs of bachelor males have been spotted in the region before, but never so many as Monday's sighting . |
f6d123b2c90c32bc6e4c3dfa63aa38c296b3804b | LONDON, England (CNN) -- Perveen Crawford became Hong Kong's first female pilot in 1995 and is soon to be Hong Kong's first female astronaut when she blasts off to sub-orbital space as a paying customer on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipOne. Po Toi O is in Clear Water Bay in the New Territories, Hong Kong. The Hong Kong so... | Perveen Crawford, Hong Kong's first female pilot, shows us around her favorite spots .
For the best seafood try Po Toi O a small fishing village in the New Territories .
The retro-chic China Club in Central Hong Kong serves traditional Chinese food . |
f6d1bd30fea7c67ba5640f31c206945114345fc4 | By . Tara Brady . A baseball fan plucked a flying bat out of the air with one hand saving the child behind her from being hit in the face. Eileen Depasa's was sitting in the stands near the left-field line when Tyler Flowers lost the handle of his bat. Despite sending the bat flying into the stands, the Chicago White S... | Eileen Depasa's was sitting in the stands when Tyler Flowers lost his bat .
Chicago White Sox fan effortlessly grabbed the missile with one hand .
Flowers had the bat retrieved but gave Depesa an autographed bat in return . |
f6d21f27848388992fc1580ddecc26f30aee84a8 | A prisoner has been arrested after reportedly threatening to set himself on fire. The 44-year-old man who had a device strapped to his body surrendered after police negotiations at Barwon maximum security prison on Friday morning. 'Police were called to the correctional facility just before 9.30am and began negotiating... | Police were at the scene after a 44-year-old man strapped a device to himself .
The incident took place at Barwon prison in Victoria . |
f6d223ddd03532d3be20d2ca181e514887edbf3d | By . Anna Hodgekiss . PUBLISHED: . 05:49 EST, 20 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:25 EST, 20 March 2013 . A mother has credited her baby daughter with saving her life after she was diagnosed with cervical cancer while pregnant . Jane Heffey, 28, received the devastating diagnosis when she was 20 weeks pregnant with Ciara... | Jane Heffey, from Liverpool, suffered bleeding when 20 weeks pregnant .
Doctors discovered she had 9cm tumour in her cervix .
As the baby developed, it was put pressure on her cervix, causing bleeding .
Had to have chemotherapy while pregnant to save her own life .
Miraculously, baby Ciara, born at 32 weeks, was unaffe... |
f6d2267c0fe897841e697b9aecc277f252ba7545 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 11:05 EST, 20 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:57 EST, 20 August 2013 . A man pulled a pistol on his friends and opened fire, killing one and critically wounding another, in a dispute over beer money, a court heard. Gumaro Torres has been charged with first-degree murder, attempte... | Gumaro Torres allegedly turned a handgun on friends at a party .
He is being held with no bail after the incident on Friday night . |
f6d25b8412fd31e3dce0fca6c13ed4e1ff83d412 | (CNN) -- Scoobers, hammers and laying out - it's the "ultimate" flying saucer attack. And if Mark Poole is right, his sport could soon be coming to an Olympics near you. Poole is one of an estimated five million people who are taking to green spaces across the United States to play a game that is particularly booming a... | 'Ultimate' is a largely recreational sport that is growing in popularity .
Mark Poole is one of the leading proponents of the amateur side of the game .
American believes that ultimate should become an Olympic sport in future .
It involves two teams trying to pass a flying disc towards an end zone . |
f6d264be21262d563dda5b36b846f71d80e496b1 | By . Simon Tomlinson . and Chris Pleasance . A Subway restaurant in Chicago has installed a bulletproof glass screen to keep their employees safe, just as the city's police chief insisting the homicide rate has gone down. The 24-hour sandwich shop, on the city's south side, has put up a glass barrier around the serving... | Restaurant on city's south side installed glass shield to protect staff .
Spate of Easter weekend shootings saw nine killed and 36 wounded .
Those wounded included six children aged between 11 and 15 .
Despite that, Police Chief said murder rate has dropped since last year .
In 2013 there were 415 killings, the lowest ... |
f6d2a0c2e46f40c11d79965dd4183c1bca41d20e | By . Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor . PUBLISHED: . 06:58 EST, 7 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 07:14 EST, 7 May 2013 . Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg promised to end 'abuse' of the benefits system . Immigrants to Britain will not be able to claim benefits without proving they have contributed to the welfare sta... | Queen's Speech to include legal changes to limit access to public services .
Access to housing, the NHS and benefits to linked to contribution .
Nick Clegg vows to end 'abuse' of welfare system . |
f6d2dfa8d5190361d39784612bd60dc6dae1ee12 | Admit it, some days you just don't feel like going to work. And when those days come, whether we'd like to admit it or not, we call in sick -- even when we're not sick at all. The art of 'playing hooky' is a great way to get out of a day at the office, but with that comes one challenge: coming up with a credible excuse... | A survey for online career site Careerbuilder.com has revealed that 28 percent of employees played hooky in the past year .
'Sick' employee: 'My plastic surgery needed some tweaking to get it just right'
One in five employers say they've caught their lying employees by checking social media .
The amount of employyes w... |
f6d2f7bc221aa3cb37e96d62096150394371e043 | (CNN) -- A top Asian football official has urged the game's top law-making body to overturn a controversial ban on headscarves. Zhang Jilong, acting president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) requested the International Football Association Board (IFAB) review its ruling at their upcoming meeting in London on ... | Acting head of Asian football demands FIFA law-making body review headscarf ban .
Zhang Jilong says new designs now available which ensure safety of a player .
Meeting of IFAB scheduled to take place in London in early March . |
f6d3c0098ca292cd7c761e12f59286cb972f23db | Families hitting the road for the half-term holiday face paying double for lunch at motorway services compared with supermarket prices, a study has revealed. The average picnic lunch for a family of four costs nearly £32 from service stations but is just over £15 from Asda, research by the supermarket found. Some servi... | Motorway drivers could pay more for food if they stop off at service stations .
A survey reveals prices can be almost triple those of regular shops .
An average four-person picnic is £32 from services but is £15 from Asda . |
f6d3ebeb1edb71c172bcb670ec4564e26b0ff14b | By . Emma Innes . Twin brothers are getting stronger each day after they were saved by laser surgery while still in the womb. Nathaniel and Joshua Cavalier will be four months old this week, despite being given only a 33 per cent chance of survival. Their mother, Verena, has also seen her twins fight off blood poisonin... | Nathaniel and Joshua Cavalier developed twin to twin transfusion syndrome .
Causes one to have greater blood volume than the other and can lead to brain damage or death - so needed life-saving surgery at 21 weeks gestation .
Their mother, Verena, was told they had just a 33% chance of survival .
Amazingly, they survive... |
f6d48d878821ea5dd0ad82d2ae814f71ca18dd78 | Three-year-old covered in cuts and bruises and feeding tube held in place by tape . Neighbours didn't even know the child existed . Mother, 28, tells police she suffers from depression . By . Paul Thompson . UPDATED: . 12:32 EST, 10 November 2011 . A mother is . facing child abuse charges after she starved her three-ye... | Three-year-old covered in cuts and bruises and feeding tube held in place by tape .
Neighbours didn't even know the child existed .
Mother, 28, tells police she suffers from depression . |
f6d4d979a5645f10011b74fab10f6fac7833b09d | LONDON, England (CNN) -- When Nina Temple was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2000, then aged 44, she quickly became depressed, barely venturing out of her house as she struggled to come to terms with living with the chronic condition. Sing for Joy is a choir made up of sufferers of neurological conditions plus f... | London choir is made up of sufferers of neurological conditions, friends and carers .
Growing evidence that music has neurological, physical, psychological benefits .
Music used to boost rehabilitation of stroke patients, improve motor function .
New approaches to music therapy could bring field into mainstream rehab p... |
f6d4e29d93c8fcf9ca0aa4a1e71943afd94bdacf | Chelsea and Wolfsburg are inching closer to an agreement on Andre Schurrle with bonus payments the key. Wolfsburg general manager Klaus Allofs said: 'There is no agreement at the moment. The clock is running out. Our options are getting less hour by hour. It depends on money. We still would like to sign him.' Chelsea w... | Klaus Allofs confirmed Wolfsburg club are still keen to sign Andre Schurrle .
Chelsea will announce £26million signing of Juan Cuadrado on Monday .
Mohamed Salah will join Fiorentina on loan as part of the switch . |
f6d5b154335ed9b52200120e91c57263d112ad7b | The words Louis Vuitton and Karl Lagerfeld used in one sentence should have warned you of a high price tag, however this collaboration packs a particularly pricey punch. The German designer has collaborated with the French fashion house in order to produce a range of luxury boxing equipment. The collection includes a s... | Karl Lagerfeld has designed an exclusive boxing set for Louis Vuitton .
It includes a punch bag enclosed in a trunk costs £69,000 .
It is custom made and takes up to 12 months to build .
A pair of gloves are included but separately would cost almost £4,000 . |
f6d5fa18c2c3f93b99cb3614d9dc297c63bf5891 | (CNN) -- On Thursday in Tampa, U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel presided over a change of command ceremony during which Adm. William "Bill" McRaven handed over the reins of Special Operations Command to his successor, Gen. Joseph Votel. As McRaven stepped down he observed, "We are in perilous times." He pointed ou... | Peter Bergen: Adm. William McRaven stepped down as head of U.S. Special Operations Command .
He says McRaven not only led the bin Laden raid planning but wrote the book on special ops .
McRaven identified six key elements needed for success in special operations .
Bergen: Troops under his command have deployed to 92 na... |
f6d60aaad3af796fb091c1270ed897f2e6193d8d | By . Janine Yaqoob . PUBLISHED: . 12:32 EST, 18 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 13:41 EST, 18 February 2013 . War and Peace, one of the greatest novels of all time, is to be turned into an epic television drama by the BBC. Leo Tolstoy's classic book will be made into a six-part series, it has been announced today. It wi... | BBC announced it is turning classic book War and Peace into epic TV drama .
Award-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies will write series .
Les Miserables actor Eddie Redmayne tipped to star in it . |
f6d612d287a153b93d8813859f87913093dbe6cf | By . Steve Doughty . PUBLISHED: . 19:10 EST, 7 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 19:11 EST, 7 January 2013 . The Church of England yesterday expressed deep concerns over David Cameron’s plans to overturn centuries-old laws that govern succession to the throne. Senior bishops share the worries of the Prince of Wales that le... | Church of England expressed deep concerns over plans to overturn laws .
Concerns centre on Prime Minister's plan to remove 312-year-old ban .
Ban stops members of the Royal Family from marrying Roman Catholics . |
f6d62fbfd4488abc9c29882805c5f586dfc8ff0c | North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has today set foot on the slopes of the country's first ski resort... but he appears to have forgotten his skis. Kim took a test ride on one of the new lifts at Masik Pass Ski Resort but as he sat surveying the resort his legs dangled free. The leader was said to note 'with great satisfa... | Kim Jong-Un orders the nation's first resort be opened as soon as possible .
Switzerland educated leader surveyed the resort from a chair lift .
Masik Pass Ski Resort features 70 miles of runs, a hotel and heliport . |
f6d64e7fd4be35c84015feeba945b055d25fc121 | Kit Symons could move a step closer to landing the permanent Fulham manager's job with victory over Charlton on Friday. Symons has guided the Cottagers to four wins from seven matches since taking over on a caretaker basis from the sacked Felix Magath last month. Chairman Shahid Khan has a five-man committee to advise ... | Symons has improved Fulham's results since taking over in temporary role .
He has four wins from seven since stepping in after Felix Magath sacking .
A draw against Charlton would lift them out of the relegation zone . |
f6d6d3305febe4347e2e0d5d3d469a1bdd21d4ef | Manchester United striker Will Keane is the centre of a tug-of-war between Championship duo Reading and Blackpool. The 22-year-old has made just one first-team appearance for the Red Devils, appearing as a substitute in the 3-2 defeat to Blackburn back in 2011. Keane spent time out on loan at Wigan and QPR last season,... | Championship duo Reading and Blacpool eye loan move for Will Keane .
The 22-year-old has made just one first-team appearance for United .
Keane failed to find the net during spells at Wigan and QPR last term . |
f6d6df8afd63d8e68ff5c1c5aa5dd5a62cdaf138 | Fears that Ebola may reach Britain intensified last night after a passenger from a flight which stopped in Sierra Leone fell ill at Gatwick airport and died later in hospital. The 72-year-old woman became ill and collapsed after she left a Gambia Bird jet arriving from the West African country. A total of 826 people ha... | 72-year-old died after arriving at Gatwick airport on flight from Sierra Leone .
Was reportedly vomiting and sweating heavily and collapsed after leaving jet .
Was taken to hospital where she later died and was tested for Ebola .
Plane quarantined as officials traced those who she had been in contact with .
Tests which... |
f6d732fa893f18f8a15d5481c480998bea0e94aa | By . Aaron Sharp . PUBLISHED: . 12:28 EST, 10 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 15:59 EST, 10 December 2013 . They may look like scenes from a sci-fi fantasy film, but rather than being created by a Hollywood special effects unit, theses photographs are the work of two mountaineers and a photographer. Daniel Arnold and St... | Photos set up by two climbers and a photographer .
They illuminated frozen waterfalls with lamps and flares .
The trio set up rig for lights in freezing Norwegian caverns . |
f6d77a18ece2963727b2bd864913e486e6b97693 | The Eiffel Tower, Tower Bridge, the Sydney Opera House and the Lincoln Memorial - we couldn't imagine our cities without them. But what of the discarded designs that never made it off the drawing board? How different would our skylines have looked? Vincze Miklos from iO9 has unearthed some incredible drawings of great ... | One of the most unusual is a pyramid proposal for the Lincoln Memorial .
Three failed designs for Tower Bridge by Sir Joseph Bazalgette are revealed .
There is also a catalogue of 68 drawings for a structure in London to rival the Eiffel Tower in Paris . |
f6d7a283b322be6a4fb417d8dac72e181aca37d0 | By . Matt Blake . PUBLISHED: . 05:20 EST, 18 September 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 07:31 EST, 18 September 2012 . Caught: William Duncan, 43, was snared when he unwittingly sold the class-A drug to undercover officers outside Mae Luster Stephens Junior High in Linden, Texas . TV hit Breaking Bad is a gritty drama that reflec... | William Duncan, 43, was snared when he unwittingly sold the class-A drug to undercover officers outside Mae Luster Stephens Junior High, Linden, Texas .
He said Duncan admitted also using meth for physical pain .
He was charged with delivery of a controlled substance in a drug-free zone .
It comes after a man who share... |
f6d7a7cb32aa136fd22f1f843c0c56fb93fa1a64 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 12:16 EST, 25 July 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 06:54 EST, 26 July 2012 . Bungling: Neil Timmins, whose toy gun fell apart as he tried to hold up an off-licence in Dudley, West Midlands . A would-be robber who held up a shop with a toy gun tried to pretend his raid was a prank when the ... | Neil Timmins's fake firearm broke when the shopkeeper bravely grabbed it in an attempt to foil the robbery .
Timmins given three years after pleading guilty to attempted robbery and possession of imitation firearm . |
f6d8403d788e488ac7a2fa619023aae7ca48093f | By . Joel Christie . The efforts of a pilot who was forced to make an emergency landing in the middle of a Texas freeway on Friday have been hailed, despite the light aircraft crashing into a passing car. The single-engine aircraft reportedly lost oil pressure during a Friday afternoon flight near Arlington. Thinking q... | Crash occurred on Highway 287 in Airlington, Texas, on Friday afternoon .
Plane quickly lost oil pressure and needed to make an emergency landing .
Pilot managed to set down on grass median strip but smashed into freeway retaining wall .
Intercepted a passing truck .
No one was seriously injured . |
f6d9180bb9bcb528626e31856f19364dba5a9a96 | Arsenal's stars stepped back in time for a special photoshoot recently, donning the red-and-white kit worn by Gunners players way back in 1955. Theo Walcott, Laurent Koscielny, Mathieu Flamini and David Ospina all took part to celebrate 60 years since the release of Citroen's DS car. The four players posed with a 1961 ... | Arsenal's players took part in a photoshoot wearing 1955-style kits .
David Ospina and Mathieu Flamini were also involved at London Colney .
The pictures are to celebrate 60 years since the release of Citroen's DS .
The Gunners finished ninth in Division One in the 1954-55 season . |
f6d9ab29325e6440f7e00c45e6c3de729d3937d5 | By . Simon Tomlinson . PUBLISHED: . 05:43 EST, 23 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:59 EST, 23 December 2013 . It would have been regarded as a lucky escape for any able-bodied person. But one quadriplegic man has remarkably lived to tell the tale after getting trapped in his car on a snow-covered mountainside - then c... | Matt Gypin, 32, became trapped in a snow drift after driving into mountains .
With no mobile signal and sun setting, he hunkered down in Jeep overnight .
Had no option but to set out on foot after failing to dig his car out of snow .
Painstakingly made his way to nearby park using his wheelchair as walker .
Retains lim... |
f6da2910906bf4bb26a5e8b6c534957a028f5914 | By . Nazia Parveen . PUBLISHED: . 05:28 EST, 16 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 07:59 EST, 17 June 2013 . For Rosa De Filippo it seemed like a reasonable expectation – a seat next to her partner as they flew out on holiday. But when they head off to Sicily in August they will be sitting separately. Their holiday company cha... | Rosa De Filippo, 43, found she and her fiance were separated by an aisle .
Owner TUI Travel charges £7.50 per person to change the allocated seats . |
f6da37f7a10123f50ca6ecc00e4413f3ace64f8b | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 11:01 EST, 28 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:33 EST, 28 March 2013 . The Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled that a set of white foster parents should raise two toddler sisters instead of the black grandparents who have fought for them for three years. Steven and Liv Grosser, from ... | Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that Steven and Liv Grosser could better provide for the sisters who have lived with them since they were babies .
Grandmother Dorothy Dunning has argued that love, blood relations and staying connected with their heritage should come before wealth .
Girls were fostered by the Grossers, wh... |
f6dace2ed5be7ec28989fef0482ef91c006ac553 | Ed Miliband’s hopes of winning the General Election were fading last night after his leadership came under heavy fire from his own party. The embattled Labour leader faced a new crisis as the party’s biggest private donor joined the withering attacks on his NHS policies. And Mr Miliband was described as looking ‘haunte... | Ed Miliband's leadership comes under heavy fire from his own party .
Labour leader faces crisis as biggest private donor attacks NHS policies .
Millionaire donor John Mills says Labour is wrong to decry privatisation .
Miliband looks 'haunted' as he knows his party is set to lose the Election .
His aides are already di... |
f6db31e4700a393db70dbe52baa728dc16cfabef | Wisbech (CNN) -- Chatting casually over a pot of tea in the sleepy village of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, Nick Leeson remarks on his time spent in a maximum security prison in Germany in 1995: "That was the one time I contemplated suicide." Thrown in with Yugoslav gunrunners, Bolivian drug lords and sex offenders, "I woul... | Nick Leeson is dubbed the 'original rogue trader' for bad trades which collapsed Barings Bank .
Leeson now lives in Ireland and has joined GDP Partnership, an Irish restructuring firm .
Leeson said his time in a jail, with drug lords and sex offenders, made him consider taking his own life .
But he survived incarcerati... |
f6db9729437d479d5fca4b91543ab0d7a72e3790 | By . Associated Press . and Daily Mail Reporter . There is 'no compelling medical reason' for U.S. armed forced to ban transgender Americans from serving, according to a report released on Thursday. The independent commission led by a former U.S. surgeon general also concluded that President Obama could lift the decade... | Army Reserve Captain Sage Fox began taking female hormones and her battalion commander expressed support .
But days later, she was served inactive service papers .
A report led by a former U.S. surgeon general has said there is 'no compelling medical reason' for the outdated ban .
15,000 transgender personnel are servi... |
f6dbeb40fb20e20cf6b3aca18bb6a90af2082816 | Former Taliban prisoner Bowe Bergdahl will meet Wednesday with an Army general leading the investigation into the sergeant's disappearance five years ago, his lawyer said. Attorney Eugene Fidell wouldn't characterize the upcoming session as an interrogation. He called it an interview and said he assumed it would be "pe... | Bergdahl and Maj. Gen. Kenneth Dahl have met once before, briefly .
Many have called for investigation into Bergdahl's 2009 disappearance, five-year captivity .
Bergdahl, 28, is back on regular duty in San Antonio, Texas . |
f6dc2d9e244783a29675e8b051bf3f56db92b149 | It shows a hunched couple walking with the aid of a walking stick and is used to warn drivers to beware older people crossing the road. But the government's tsar for the elderly says the road sign should be banned because they convey a message that older people are 'frail and disabled' and discourage employers from hir... | Ros Altmann says sign 'colour stereotypes' and puts employers off .
Dr Altmann wants internships for over-50s to help them start new careers .
The government's business champion for older will bring issue to equalities minister Jo Swinson . |
f6dc329d767e6179633a31559383d2aa2bdb2255 | They are well known for their shocking adverts with some of the world's most famous people posing naked to help boost their animal rights message. But this time PETA may have gone too far with its latest campaign, which suggests those who swim or fish in waters containing sharks are attacked or killed as 'payback'. The... | Ian Redmond was killed by a shark in the Seychelles just last month .
'Insult' comes as British man Michael Cohen is left fighting for his life after being attacked off the coast of South Africa yesterday .
PETA want to put up billboards in areas where shark attacks happen, but locals say if they see them they will 'bu... |
f6dc6d031a6233185fa7309d1c37e60bfcc29e46 | (CNN) -- Gay men who've abstained from sex for one year would be able to donate blood in 2015, ending a lifetime ban for the gay community, under a proposed FDA policy change unveiled Tuesday. The current lifetime ban by U.S. Food and Drug Administration states dates back to 1983 and forbids men who have had sex with m... | Gay men who abstain from sex for one year may be able to give blood in 2015 .
The plan is now receiving public comments .
The proposal is recommended by an independent expert advisory panel .
The one-year deferral period would align with that of other men, women at HIV risk . |
f6dd27c47a3f683c16f40a23feb294daffc29294 | A couple who had their two young children placed in foster care for nearly a year because of their use of medical marijuana are seeking punitive damages after a judge ruled that local welfare officials had no grounds for ever taking the children. Michael Lewis and Lauren Taylor are suing local Health and Human Services... | Michael Lewis and his partner Lauren Taylor had their two young son taken from them by local welfare officials .
The official had determined that Lewis' medical marijuana was a hazard .
A Gulf War vet he had been prescribed the drug to help alleviate migraines .
It took a year before the couple had their sons returned ... |
f6dd5965812158c13264f6510df5df3488fcbe11 | A high-stress job which left her 'burning the candle at both ends', combined with her mum falling very ill were the triggers that forced Irena Macri to take a step back and reexamine her life. She quit her high-paying job in the corporate world and through her mum's battle with cancer began to reevaluate her own health... | Irena Macri is the brains behind popular food blog Eat Drink Paleo .
She began researching the diet after she quit her high-stress job and her mother got cancer .
Irena discovered the lifestyle in 2011 and her blog now has almost 200,000 monthly readers .
She takes a realistic 80/20 approach which means followers can i... |
f6ddcc8010815b10859862e006308f33f2c70f29 | Paul Scholes has questioned Roy Hodgson's decision to deploy Jack Wilshere as a holding midfielder, insisting the Arsenal star is an 'attacking' player who 'is stuck between two roles' at the moment. Wilshere was utilised in front of the back four for the Three Lions against Switzerland and Scholes feels that his talen... | Paul Scholes question Roy Hodgson's decision to play Jack Wilshere deep .
Ex-Manchester United star thinks Wilshere is better suited further forward .
Wilshere was given England's holding-midfielder role against Switzerland .
Scholes says the 22-year-old is an 'attacking' and not 'holding' midfielder .
Questions why Wi... |
f6de06adafeb9ccfbcea1b0ac2488b57be6ab669 | JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israel has expelled Venezuela's ambassador in response to Venezuela's expulsion of an Israeli envoy and the rupture of diplomatic relations earlier this month. A pro-Palestinian mural in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. Venezuelan head of mission Roland Betancourt and two other diplomats were given u... | Venezuelan ambassador to Israel and two others expelled .
Move in response to Venezuela breaking diplomatic relations over Gaza attack .
Venezuelan foreign minister says country is proud of the expulsion from Israel . |
f6de3eb5b4dfa7712623921e2f41e50f687b273d | By . Lee Moran . UPDATED: . 13:10 EST, 9 January 2012 . Flexing his pecs and showing off his speed, President Barack Obama stripped off for some beach football to round off his Christmas holidays in Hawaii. As his Republican rivals were deep in preparation for the Iowa caucuses, these photos show President Obama had hi... | Obama pictured playing football with Secret Service friends during family Christmas holiday in Hawaii .
Photo of him looking lean draws comparison to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's horseback picture . |
f6de43d36926d1a718a000c45ad608e592506954 | (CNN)Sri Lanka's current president Mahinda Rajapaksa has conceded defeat to rival Maithripala Sirisena in the country's presidential election, bringing an end to a decade of leadership increasingly criticized as corrupt and nepotistic. Rajapaksa acknowledged the defeat on his official Twitter account Friday, writing: "... | Sri Lanka's Mahinda Rajapaksa concedes defeat to rival in presidential elections .
Maithripala Sirisena was minister in Rajapaksa's cabinet before defecting .
A farmer turned politician, he has support of minorities and has pledged reform . |
f6de4ffc09de314d6c28b81904cea6fcea62176d | Karl Stefanovic's blue suit is now world famous after the internet went 'a little bit crazy' over the fact the television presenter had been wearing the same thing every day for a year. The Today show co-host has worn the exact same cheap Burberry suit on air to prove a point about the double standards women face, espe... | Australian TV host, Karl Stefanovic, has worn the same suit for a year to prove a point about double standards for men and women .
The Today host says he hasn't received one complaint about his cheap Burberry suit despite co-host Lisa Wilkinson copping regular criticism .
Stefanovic's experiment has since garnered wor... |
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