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fc13f35aadfccb22c43757df16a4e02a872eceb2 | A crime author and former LAPD homicide detective claims to have new evidence that proves his own father was behind one of Hollywood's most infamous murder cases, the Black Dahlia murder of 1947. Steve Hodel details evidence in his new book, Black Dahlia Avenger II, that he says implicates his father, a prominent LA su... | Crime author Steve Hodel claims his father was the Black Dahlia murderer .
The infamous slaying and mutilation of Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia in 1947 has never been solved .
Hodel says he has new evidence that links his father to the crime .
Dr George Hodel was a suspect in the case when he skipped town . |
fc14b6ef7479d5e6b347986c7b7ce7eb01f9e8e9 | By . Amanda Williams . PUBLISHED: . 07:44 EST, 28 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 09:32 EST, 28 February 2013 . It is surely the stuff of every little boy's dreams - a fully working 400ft outdoor model railway, right in the back garden. Now, in news that will excite rail enthusiasts everywhere, this six bedroom property... | Train firm executive Charles Howeson is selling his 'perfect' family home .
It features a 400ft working model railway, perfect for rail enthusiasts .
Also includes separate flat, landscaped garden, lake and an outdoor hot tub . |
fc150a3087b018e6240b95e803078b01421a39da | By . Inderdeep Bains . PUBLISHED: . 16:53 EST, 25 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:40 EST, 26 April 2013 . They are less than a month old but the Turner quads are already getting used to beating the odds. First their parents Julian and Sharon went through four rounds of IVF – and all their savings – to conceive them. The... | Born 11 weeks prematurely weighing just over 2lb .
Mother became pregnant after fourth round of IVF at a cost of £40,000 . |
fc15b3f05ea57abfdb42b8c3352bfbe43ccff467 | Venice, Italy (CNN) -- George Clooney, long considered Hollywood's most eligible bachelor, married British human rights attorney Amal Alamuddin Saturday in a private ceremony in Venice, Italy, his publicist, Stan Rosenfield, told CNN. Clooney arrived by motorboat at a star-studded bash at the Aman Canal Grande Venice r... | NEW: George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin are married in Venice .
Italians cheer Clooney as he arrives by motorboat for star-studded bash .
They were photographed Friday on a motor launch cruising Venice's canals .
Actor Clooney and Alamuddin, a human rights lawyer, got engaged in the spring . |
fc1618e56595bb38ea948d475f7cf2a27ce0d56a | (CNN) -- Tom Perkins, a well-known venture capitalist, got himself in hot water when he compared the "progressive war on the 1%" with Nazis' treatment of Jews in World War II. Although Perkins apologized for his comments, he stood by his main point that anger at the rich is a wrong and dangerous attitude. It's easy to ... | Prominent venture capitalist compares war on the 1% with Nazi treatment of Jews .
John MacIntosh: How can the 1% avoid embarrassing Perkins-like incidents?
He says while you can be pro-gun or pro-choice, it's impossible to be pro-inequality .
MacIntosh: If you sympathize with 99%, show it; if you don't, better to keep ... |
fc1693e5e77fd1d141c6a4e29b33bedc688f0526 | By . Bianca London . PUBLISHED: . 08:12 EST, 14 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:20 EST, 14 August 2013 . Many hopefuls find themselves under pressure when it comes to conjuring up an original way of proposing. But one romantic boyfriend pulled out all the stops when he asked for his girlfriend's hand in marriage - by w... | Jeremy Curtis popped question to Jennifer Ayris with proposal in the sand .
Chose romantic Petit Port cove in Guernsey .
Enlisted help of strangers through Twitter and local newspaper .
The couple have been together for three years and will marry next year . |
fc17cb822623c4c17e78c198a4e07d086e75f469 | New York (CNN) -- Leslie Buck, designer of New York City's iconic blue-and-white coffee cup, died Monday at home in Glen Cove, New York. He was 87 years old. Before there was a Starbucks on every corner, New Yorkers would stop into one of the city's many Greek-owned diners for their morning caffeine. They would most l... | Leslie Buck, designer of New York's iconic blue- and-white coffee cup, has died .
Cup has appeared in film, TV, including "Law and Order"and "Sea of Love"
He designed cup to honor Greek diner owners who bought his products .
Cup shows phrase 'We are happy to serve you", 2 cups, 2 Greek Amphora vases . |
fc180f1a42159853fb2368e767d2465afae0cc08 | By . Sami Mokbel . Follow @@SamiMokbel81_DM . Tottenham have turned their attentions to tying Jan Vertonghen to a new contract after safeguarding Hugo Lloris' future. The defender still has two years to run on his current deal, but preliminary talks over an extension for the Belgium international have started. Spurs wa... | Vertonghen has two years to run on his current deal at Tottenham .
The versatile defender joined the club from Dutch side Ajax in 2012 .
He played in all of Belgium's games at this summer's World Cup in Brazil .
Spurs chairman Daniel Levy is keen to ward off interest from elsewhere by handing Vertonghen a new deal . |
fc18205b5b6b706e3815f637a8641ab9766fe5d6 | By . Steve Nolan . PUBLISHED: . 04:33 EST, 21 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:15 EST, 21 June 2013 . According to a report, chemists and pharmaceutical companies are rigging the price of so-called 'specials' drugs to overcharge the NHS . Drug companies and pharmacies have been accused of striking up underhand deals to ov... | Companies are allegedly inflating the price of more than 20,000 drugs .
Daily Telegraph alleges that the price of so-called 'specials' has been rigged .
Undercover reporters tried to negotiate deals at a trade event in London .
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says an investigation has been launched . |
fc187731b75ab26f7edb27f37d2cdf276a4af785 | By . Lucy Waterlow . They have been dressed by some of the world's most famous designers but British models Jacquetta Wheeler, Jasmine Guinness and Jodie Kidd, say when it comes to style, mother knows best. The trio pose with their parents in a new shoot for Jaeger which celebrates their inherited fashion sense. Photog... | British models team up with their mothers for new photo shoot for Jaeger .
Campaign celebrates timeless style as brand celebrates 130th year .
Jodie Kidd, Jacquetta Wheeler and Jasmine Guinness showcase Autumn collection with help of their mothers .
Mothers and daughters are asked to describe one another in three words... |
fc18c2ba6b3e65480bca236a900ea6e6a97759fc | By . Alun Rees and Nick Craven . PUBLISHED: . 20:30 EST, 27 October 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 10:58 EST, 30 October 2012 . Sportsman: Jake Coplestone in action during a rugby match . A rugby player has accused police officers of trying to hack the phone he had used to record them taking a break - locking it for a staggerin... | Jake Coplestone was arrested after filming officers on his phone apparently having a coffee break in Wiltshire's Azuza bar .
The 20-year-old claims that following the filming he was approached by officers and accused of being drunk and disorderly .
When his phone was returned it was locked for more than 40 years .
Mr C... |
fc18e9af65c3684f1de29b76c08be5bc57e1b902 | The Dalai Lama issued a powerful call for personal responsibility yesterday, telling Britons hard work is the answer to economic difficulties. The exiled Tibetan leader also revealed he was shocked at last summer’s riots because he thought the English were ‘mature, sensible and law-abiding’. In his first visit to St Pa... | The exiled Tibetan leader spoke out before receiving the Templeton Prize for his contributions towards peace and science .
He also warned against feeling 'helpless' and 'hopeless' in the face of the country's economic problems .
Returns to Britain in June for 'Stand Up And Be The Change' events . |
fc19574deb56a8fa62fb50909bd2b8c0abb184f9 | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Pentagon said Monday that Chinese ships harassed a U.S. surveillance ship Sunday in the South China Sea in the latest of several instances of "increasingly aggressive conduct" in the past week. The Navy says this photo shows two Chinese trawlers forcing the Impeccable to make an emergency "all s... | State Department says U.S. Embassy in Beijing has lodged protest .
U.S. surveillance ship was in international waters, Pentagon says .
Pentagon says vessels came "dangerously close," so U.S. ship sprayed fire hoses .
Statement: Chinese crew stripped to underwear, tried to snag acoustic equipment . |
fc19cf092fe9dc2c1ea837396014028ea904077d | A TV presenter in Serbia almost lost her job as a sports reporter because she was so attractive she was distracting the footballers she was reporting on. The organisers of the television show dedicated to the Serbian capital Belgrade's team Red Star had been looking for a presenter for the show and decided to employ 25... | Serbian TV reporter almost lost her job because she was so attractive .
Katarina Sreckovic, 25, works as a presenter for Red Star Belgrade TV show .
Bosses unimpressed when the team's players became distracted by her .
Initially it was a problem but players have now grown used to her presence .
Sreckovic is passionate... |
fc1a5201bc720e450f0f71af7adc678975afd78a | Senegal led a list of six countries into the Africa Cup of Nations finals on Saturday as they eliminated record winners Egypt with a 1-0 win in Cairo to qualify for January’s tournament. Senegal ensured they would finish in the top two in Group G on a busy day of qualifiers which also saw Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Gabon,... | Senegal eliminated record winners Egypt with 1-0 win in Cairo .
Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Gabon, South Africa and Zambia also qualified .
The Africa Cup of Nations will take place in Equatorial Guinea . |
fc1a91708637a3707958f389996290764c34f00b | That nine states and the District of Columbia have legalized same-sex marriage is encouraging progress for those of us who believe that everyone deserves to have basic civil rights. But, even if every state in the country could pass a similar legislation, it would not be enough. What we need is for our federal governme... | Suze Orman: It is progress that a handful of states have legalized same-sex marriage .
Orman: The federal government should make this basic civil right a law of the land .
She says gay couples are penalized when it comes to taxes and Social Security benefits .
Orman: When will our government end financial, social and c... |
fc1ba792ed1b6fffcfa5e4b0f90b9e45208e4895 | (CNN Student News) -- August 15, 2014 . You know that current events are at the core of our coverage on CNN Student News, and today's show has them. But we're also including stories that involve mathematics and engineering, as we report on the Fields Medal and the 100th anniversary of a canal that bridged two oceans. W... | This page includes the show Transcript .
Use the Transcript to help students with reading comprehension and vocabulary .
At the bottom of the page, comment for a chance to be mentioned on CNN Student News .
The Weekly Newsquiz tests students' knowledge of events in the news . |
fc1bafef7e8aab0cba545d8535ed255df4533479 | By . Hugo Gye . PUBLISHED: . 10:10 EST, 24 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:23 EST, 24 December 2013 . A man has died after he jumped into a fast-flowing river in a bid to rescue his dog. The 46-year-old was rushed to hospital this morning with serious injuries after jumping into the water in Newton Abbot, Devon. The ... | Man was shopping with his family at Asda in Newton Abbot, Devon .
Jumped into river to retrieve his dog but quickly started struggling .
46-year-old was airlifted to hospital but died hours later .
The dog was rescued by members of the public and is unharmed . |
fc1be6fb52b2705bb25c32f11da866cc9edc751a | By . David Kent . Patrick Reed will take a two-shot lead into the final round of the Quicken Loans National at Congressional on Sunday after carding a third-round 71. Despite struggling with his short game the American, who was one of four leaders at the halfway stage, birdied the fourth and fifth but undid his hard wo... | Patrick Reed sits two shots clear ahead of the final round of the Quicken Loans National at Congressional on Sunday .
Reed carded a third-round score of 71 . |
fc1c740085a111235a6ce6962b5fb774842efe61 | By . Eleanor Harding . PUBLISHED: . 19:53 EST, 5 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 06:27 EST, 6 January 2014 . Veteran actor George Cole has become ‘deeply depressed’ over a dispute with a neighbour at his idyllic rural retreat, his wife claimed yesterday. The 88-year-old, who starred as loveable rogue Arthur Daley in Mind... | Veteran actor George Cole is battling neighbour's plans to build saw mill .
Has become 'deeply depressed' over dispute, his wife Penny, 75, claims .
The 88-year-old is already fighting illness and is on range of medication .
Neighbour James Morris has started to build 20ft high and 90ft long mill . |
fc1ca439babbd097a0bbccca8da554a6d2cac2b8 | Washington (CNN) -- While the presidential election has topped the news much of the year, it has been pushed aside by Sandy as the storm crashed into the East Coast. Both President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, their running mates, and backers have pretty much curtailed campaigning, some fundraising and advertising as ... | Campaign events were largely suspended Monday as Sandy approached the East Coast .
Obama: "I'm worried about the impact on families and I'm worried about the impact on our first responders"
Romney: " A lot of people are enduring some very difficult times, and our hearts and our prayers go to them"
The storm could also ... |
fc1d4e667ef87fe1dde8925556b57bd609eb3906 | By . Sharon Churcher . The US Government’s bid to put Abu Hamza behind bars for his alleged links to Al Qaeda has been thrown into doubt after the British terrorist who is the star prosecution witness refused to fly to America to give evidence against the preacher. Hate cleric Hamza is due to stand trial later this mo... | Terrorist Saajid Badat is a key witness in the prosecution of Abu Hamza .
He had agreed to testify via video link from a secret location in the UK .
But a judge on Friday asked him to fly to the U.S. to appear in court . |
fc1d8a367b825bb9453d4103a81d154acd262d2c | Liverpool are keen to add Barcelona and Spain forward Pedro to their ranks this summer, as Brendan Rodgers continues to plan for the dual challenge of Premier League and Champions League football next season according to the Daily Mirror. The Reds have already been heavily linked with Southampton's Adam Lallana, althou... | Liverpool want to strengthen attacking options .
Spain international is viewed as ideal candidate to add versatility .
New Barcelona manager could be prepared to clear the decks this summer .
Pedro Rodriguez faces an uncertain future at club .
Brendan Rodgers wants players with strong technique and intelligence .
Premi... |
fc1e032dffdcc665e93b5e3dc54eb20e1d91a44c | (CNN) -- "I don't think the euro should exist," said Saxo Bank co-CEO Lars Seier Christensen to CNN's Richard Quest, in terms that could hardly be less fractious to supporters of the 17-nation single currency bloc. "It's quite clear that what lacks here is fiscal union but it's also very clear that the populations of E... | Saxo co-CEO: 'Euro should never have existed'
Germany fears Greek exit from eurozone would spark monetary union breakup .
Euro has risen 10% against U.S. dollar since July 2012 .
Saxo's Christensen: 'Euro demise depends on Germany' |
fc1ec00b41cf60bd3698253b4359db0eeb9a9a97 | By . Graham Smith . PUBLISHED: . 05:11 EST, 13 July 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 11:07 EST, 13 July 2012 . A petrol tanker crashed, caught fire and exploded in Nigeria yesterday, killing more than 100 people who had rushed to the scene to scoop up fuel that had spilled. At least 50 others were injured in the incident in the s... | At least 50 others injured in incident in the southern Niger Delta region .
Witnesses said some charred corpses were still lying in the area hours after yesterday's explosion, including bodies the size of children . |
fc1f0f1580a86ebcdb78e67140a61d3d37e02c34 | By . Suzannah Hills . PUBLISHED: . 07:47 EST, 10 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:00 EST, 10 August 2013 . A man has died after he fell down the stairs on a double-decker bus in Greater Manchester, police have said. The 46-year-old man, who has not been named, was climbing the stairs of the bus with a crutch in his righ... | Man boarded the bus with his partner in Stockport .
He had a carrier bag in one hand and a crutch in the other as he attempted to climb the bus stairs .
The 46-year-old then fell backwards on to the floor .
He was taken to hospital but later died from his injuries . |
fc1f325a716ed175d03f6774e5695ae502b0f017 | New Jersey man Baer Hanusz-Rajkowski was stunned to receive a bill for nearly $9,000 when his local hospital fixed up a cut finger he hurt during some home DIY. Bayonne resident, Rajkowski, split his middle finger with the claw end of a hammer last August and was hit with the enormous charge by Bayonne Medical Center E... | New Jersey man Baer Hanusz-Rajowski was stunned to receive the huge bill after treatment last year .
After outrage from Rakowski Bayonne Medical Center wrote off his portion of the bill .
Rajowski was not given a X-ray during his treament . |
fc1f450eb68f003db633bf5a6797cb8b39bbed94 | Gareth Bale sustained a bloodied nose on Tuesday night after being caught in the face during Real Madrid's 4-0 win over Ludogorets in the Champions League. The Welshman had to be substituted after taking a hit on the nose as defender Georgi Terziev put in a forceful challenge during the Group B clash. Falling to the gr... | Gareth Bale was forced off during Real Madrid's win over Ludogorets .
The Welshman was sustained a bloodied nose after being caught by defender Georgi Terziev .
Spanish giants progressed having won all six of their Group B matches . |
fc1f4f1aad7875ae0e57b215bc82e60ec5f63bad | Warning: Alex Chisholm, head of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), said today that customers 'cannot be bothered' to move banks because it is too difficult to work out if they will be better off . Millions of customers are paying £400 or more a year in unnecessary overdraft fees because Britain's biggest bank... | Competition and Markets Authority to probe big banks control over sector .
Millions 'can't be bothered' to move banks because of confusing charges .
Lloyds, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays and HSBC under investigation .
Fears that competition in the industry has fallen since financial crisis .
Concerns raised that cus... |
fc1f600b2e8454bbbad4ba3e0abfcd80404f2aa9 | It's been more than four years since the McStay family went missing, and nearly eight months have passed since their remains were found in the Mojave Desert. Who would want to kill Joseph; his wife, Summer; and their two young kids, Gianni, 4, and Joseph Jr., 3? How did their bodies end up in two shallow graves some 10... | The bodies of the McStay family were found in the desert last year .
The family was last seen alive in February 2010 .
Detectives have not named any suspects . |
fc1fc288ad3f6cd8c5e5731c894d5e996ea66db5 | By SAM TAYLOR FOR THE DAILY MAIL . According to the fairy tale, the test of a true princess was whether she could detect a pea hidden beneath a pile of 20 mattresses and eiderdowns. Today, peas are out and thread counts are in. The higher the better. But what does it really mean? Technically, the term ‘thread count’ re... | Sam Taylor puts thread count to the test in today's challenge .
Literally referring to the number of threads woven together in one square inch of fabric, 'thread count' has become a popular buzz word .
But does it really make any difference to your nights sleep? |
fc201f271ae8d8c2680477f9924366835d3fcf42 | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Marine Corps knew of the threat posed by roadside bombs before the start of the Iraq war, yet did nothing to buy protective vehicles for troops, according to a report to be released by the Pentagon. Marines' armored Humvees are parked at a miltary camp in Fallujah, Iraq, in May 2007. Additi... | Report: Buying reinforced Humvees, not MRAPs, possibly cost lives .
Defense Department knew of roadside bomb risk ahead of Iraq war, report says .
Report: Department didn't immediately take available steps to get MRAPs .
MRAPs are designed to shield troops from mines and other explosives . |
fc203fc573b172e84bd204335bc38c12ef79adef | Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- An Iranian non-profit company says it will honor U.S. President Barack Obama's request that Iran return a drone that crashed there last year. But instead of the actual drone, the company says it will send miniature toy versions. A lot of them. "We plan to send a full squadron of 12 to the White Ho... | An Iranian company wants to send replicas of a downed drone to Obama .
Iran says the plane crashed in Iranian territory on December 4 .
Obama asked for the drone back in December . |
fc205003c97b27cafc813bcccbc89b5b574f2d1f | By . Toni Jones . PUBLISHED: . 13:00 EST, 15 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 13:42 EST, 15 April 2013 . Flamboyant English designer John Galliano lost his job at fashion house Dior two years ago after he was filmed delivering an anti-Semitic outburst. And although he has started to pick up the pieces professionally, landin... | Reports centre on a leaked memo from the Israel Broadcasting Authority .
Israeli contestant Manor Mazor's stylist in talks with several designers .
Galliano's rep denies he was ever involved, says he is working on 'sobriety' |
fc20e0bb8056d680d9ff4b68f563dbc743d9c176 | By . John Drayton . While many of Scott Sinclair's team-mates have been enjoying the sun by playing in the heat of Brazil for the World Cup, the Manchester City winger has taken a more relaxing route to soak in rays. Having spent the season on loan and featuring very little at West Brom, a trip to Copacabana was never ... | Manchester City winger enjoyed Mexico holiday with Helen Flanagan .
Former Swansea star struggled to make impact at Etihad Stadium since joining in 2012 . |
fc210a0c3cebc4c2fb79f8f1c7916f7ba470d80f | (CNN) -- Singer-actress Mandy Moore and rocker Ryan Adams were married this week in Savannah, Georgia, Moore's publicist told CNN on Wednesday. Mandy Moore first found recording success in 1999 with her single "Candy" and is now a well-known actress. The wedding took place Tuesday, said Jillian Fowkes, who gave no furt... | Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams married quietly in Savannah, Georgia .
Couple was first spotted together by paparazzi almost a year ago .
He recently announced he is leaving The Cardinals . |
fc2110ded4a55f7e4230692b84ebaf62d05593b4 | Maine authorities gave their most dire judgment yet Thursday as to what they believe happened to missing toddler Ayla Reynolds, with a police spokesman saying "there's nothing we have found that leads us to believe she's alive." "Based on everything we know -- the thousands of hours of investigation, the 1,127 leads th... | Ayla Reynolds was 20 months old when her father reported her missing .
166 days later, her body hasn't been found and no one's been named a suspect .
A police spokesman says "nothing" leads authorities to "believe she's alive"
He says he believes that Ayla's father "knows more than he has told us" |
fc21ad00baf81da3f0c317e56864b47a88014dcb | Comedian Adam Hills has raised over $90,000 for Robin William's favourite children's hospital after his public spat with a controversial American church group. Instead of giving money to Westboro Baptist Church to fly them 'first class' to Iraq to picket extreme Islamists - like he had joked - he donated the cash to th... | Adam Hills has raised over $90,000 for Robin Williams' favourite children's hospital in America .
He decided to turn 'hate into love' after he attacked the Westboro Baptist Church for threatening to picket Williams' funeral .
The group accused Williams of sinning because he played several gay characters on film .
Hills... |
fc2239d0753d6231db2ab9ad143b4a9a5bf8af9e | The former husband of Imran Khan’s new wife is demanding a public apology after she claimed he was violent toward her during their ten-year marriage. Dr Ijaz Rehman has given Reham Khan a week to withdraw allegations of abuse, which she made in an interview soon after marrying the Pakistani politician and cricketing ic... | Dr Ijaz Rehman has given Reham Khan a week to withdraw allegations .
Dr Rehman wants an apology for the slur to his 'good name and character'
Mrs Khan also claimed Dr Rehman left her penniless after their divorce .
But Dr Rehman says the comments are attempts by Mrs Khan to win sympathy from a Pakistani public hostile ... |
fc224cba570bf68df355be33bfa014c1f0f50725 | I wouldn't have missed a drug test like Rio . How I headbutted Schmeichel and gave him a black eye . I don't regret the tackle on Haaland . He didn't even own the bloody thing - Keane on the Rock of Gibraltar dispute . I knew Ronaldo would rule the world . Roy Keane has made the shocking revelation that he had an 'evil... | Roy Keane admits to being 'glad' of the timing with which Clive Clarke suffered a heart attack as it distracted from a terrible Sunderland display .
Keane says in his autobiography, The Second Half, he had an 'evil thought'
Premier League Sunderland, managed by Keane, were humbled 3-0 at Luton Town on night Clarke suff... |
fc2372a7aff37c9578579519f60224c372d71d7c | Should FIFA ban Luis Suarez after latest bite storm? Should FIFA ban Luis Suarez after latest bite storm? Now share your opinion . Luis Suarez sensationally appeared to BITE Giorgio Cheillini during Uruguay's decisive 1-0 victory over Italy in their final Group D game at the World Cup. The striker was given rough treat... | Luis Suarez appeared to bite Giorgio Chiellini during Uruguay's decisive 1-0 victory over Italy in their final Group D game at the World Cup .
Liverpool striker has previously been charged with biting TWO opponents .
Suarez received 10-game ban for biting Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic in April 2013 .
The former A... |
fc23d87ed9585a498061c93d7e45071edc0b17f8 | (CNN) -- Jon Voight had screwed up. In the early '60s, when he was a struggling actor, he'd had a big, emotional scene in the TV drama "Naked City." By his own account, he fell short. He wanted to apologize to the casting director who'd helped him get the role, Marion Dougherty. He drafted letters. He imagined talking ... | "Casting By" celebrates casting directors, especially pioneer Marion Dougherty .
Dougherty reshaped business by casting New York actors .
Casting director's role often overlooked, but it's key in shaping film . |
fc23fa19c45fdff321aa94af376c9a480eaab5c2 | A Grade II listed property that was nearly bought by a shipping heiress - until fears over cultists next door put her off - has been sold with an asking price of £45million. The mansion, in Balfour Place, Mayfair, boasts a staggering 19 bedrooms, seven reception rooms, six kitchens, 17 bathrooms and a roof terrace. It ... | The Mayfair mansion boasts 19 bedrooms, seven reception rooms, six kitchens, 17 bathrooms and a roof terrace .
Spread over 13,000sq/ft, the property is around 15 times the size of the average newbuild in the UK .
In 1978 shipping heiress Christina Onassis viewed the property, but was reportedly put off because a neigh... |
fc242fa665377abd5655ddd70442f20d2db29971 | (CNN) -- "Where your treasure is, there is your heart also." So goes one biblical quote that could be applied to the United States' intervention in Syria. In a letter to the U.N. secretary-general presented by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, the United States justified airstrikes in Syria as an ef... | U.S. airstrikes against ISIS costing around $52 million a week, Mark Ensalaco notes .
United Nations estimates there are more than 3 million Syrian refugees .
U.S. must place greater emphasis on humanitarian aid in Syria, Ensalaco says . |
fc246836ca3739a8a3e4ec38c936f0fd53934b61 | By . Anthony Hay for MailOnline . Follow @@Anthony_Hay . Former Chelsea goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini believes Petr Cech may decide to leave Stamford Bridge in January if he fails to win back his first-team spot. Cech has had to make do with a spot on the substitutes' bench during Chelsea's first two games of the season as... | Carlo Cudicini lost his place to Petr Cech during his time at Stamford Bridge .
Thibaut Courtois has started Chelsea's first two league games of the season .
Jose Mourinho has opted to start with Courtois due to his youthfulness . |
fc24a282f0c031e0446b408ad11fc634d38a7d72 | Bridesmaid: Laura Rees, 23, died in a car crash on her way to visit a friend who was getting married . A bridesmaid was killed in a car crash as she went to visit the bride-to-be on the day she went to be fitted for her dress, in inquest has heard. Nursery worker Laura Rees died in the head-on collision in South Wales ... | Laura Rees was buried in her bridesmaid dress after dying in crash on A40 .
Nursery worker was 'so excited about the wedding', her mother says . |
fc24c757e00079910a33b903bf4f6237a99f5bb2 | By . Derek Lawrenson . In a World of Golf special, Sportsmail's golf correspondent DEREK LAWRENSON picks out what he is looking forward to most when the best players on the planet descend on Hoylake this week for the 2014 Open Championship. 1) THE RETURN OF TIGER. OK, it’s certainly not the Tiger Woods of 2006 vintage ... | Open Championship begins at Hoylake on Thursday .
Three-time champion Tiger Woods plays despite recent injury problems .
Phil Mickelson defends the title he won at Muirfield last year .
Rory McIlroy must show consistency if he is to win his first Open . |
fc24e1a45e464b6d9ea62ed3de094e6dc79991b3 | With her floppy hat, designer boots and chic coat, Harper Beckham captured the hearts of parents everywhere on her way to New York Fashion Week recently. Yet some eagle-eyed mums and dads also spotted a business opportunity: with Victoria and David lookalikes forging lucrative careers mimicking the couple, surely the m... | Harper's floppy hat, designer boots and chic coat captured the hearts of parents everywhere on her way to New York Fashion Week .
Yet some eagle-eyed mums and dads also spotted a business opportunity .
Susan Scott’s Lookalikes agency has 32 Harpers on its books, with a rush of approaches from new hopefuls . |
fc251f07c9f99247c402d4254662f5ff072af807 | For a manager with a reputation for caution, it seemed a very odd decision to leave out Ashley Cole and plump for a teenager with one cap. Even as Roy Hodgson tried to explain his reasons he did not seem convinced, and yet nobody will have paid more attention to these two left backs set on radically different trajector... | Ashley Cole was left out of the 23-man England World Cup squad .
Luke Shaw will go to the World Cup ahead of the Chelsea defender .
Cole, who has 107 caps, will retire from international football .
Shaw, 18, is one of eight players in the squad aged under 24 . |
fc2589b23ddf7b8198dfdd9c73630b7febef4eda | For 12 months after police officers from the Democratic Republic of Congo 'summarily executed' at least nine people, including a child, Britain continued to fund them. But just two weeks after the police brutality scandal the first public reports on it were already available. That was on November 15. During the police ... | In November last year police in the Congo killed nine people .
They launched an operation that was meant to target organised crime .
The Department of International Developed had promised them £67million .
The first public reports about the killings were available within two weeks .
But the department kept paying the p... |
fc25b8f64cc383c87936b111c5fb8a5be23d3c82 | David Luiz became the first player to score against Barcelona this season as Paris Saint-Germain beat Luis Enrique’s side 3-2 in Paris. The French Champions have not been beaten at home in the Champions League since 2004 and their record continued in a five-goal thriller. PSG took the lead on 11 minutes and it was Luiz... | PSG defeated Barcelona in their Group F Champions League match at the Parc des Princes in Paris .
David Luiz opened the scoring for Paris Saint-Germain with a terrific first touch and turn on 11 minutes .
Luiz, a target for Barca in the summer, was responsible for the first goal conceded by Barca this season .
Lionel M... |
fc26208a96285c8bfd73e3f1fc77d1920bdc939d | (CNN) -- Two years ago, Egyptians toppled a longtime dictator and reveled in the hope of a new future. But frustration over the new leadership and controversial court verdicts have ignited clashes regularly. Here's what's behind the most recent unrest, which flared up on the two-year anniversary of the revolution. What... | Protests on the two-year anniversary of the revolution left seven people dead Friday .
Chaos erupted after 21 people were sentenced to death after a football riot in Port Said .
Critics have accused Morsy of becoming a new dictator .
Morsy announces a temporary curfew in three places and a meeting among different parti... |
fc268a299ed9be3af7b416ee09fca8f8167c7f86 | By . Dan Bloom . Dramatic footage has emerged of the moment a Chinese ship sparked a diplomatic stand-off by crashing into a much smaller Vietnamese fishing boat. The vessels were in disputed waters in the South China Sea - where China has erected a giant oil rig - when they collided last week, ramping up tensions betw... | China has erected a gigantic oil rig supposedly in Vietnam's waters .
Tensions came to a head last week when a small fishing boat capsized .
Now footage appears to show Chinese ship steaming towards the vessel .
China insists it is not its fault - claiming Vietnam had 'created tension' |
fc26f9d0acd2a31e9f38f57c1ea54f80c8df8456 | By . Anna Sanders . PUBLISHED: . 17:07 EST, 10 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 17:23 EST, 10 June 2013 . A Utah man who spoke about his 'temper' on Facebook was found dead Sunday night with his 2-year-old son in an apparent murder-suicide. Bryson Drew, 21, was found with a single gunshot wound to the head in the basement of... | Police found Bryson Drew, 21, in his grandparent's Spanish Fork home with a single gunshot wound to the head and a suicide note .
Drew's son Chanse was found with blunt force trauma injuries .
'my sis helps me keep calm any time my temper gets up' Drew wrote last month on Facebook .
Drew's family is 'devastated beyond ... |
fc2721683c0a7550e1f56cd0ce20d58ae4f41ee1 | A California chef abruptly quit his job Saturday after he says his cold-hearted bosses ordered an employee to drown a baby possum in bleach. Dany Pena was head chef at South beach Pizza Company in Santa Cruz until he arrived to work to find two workers hovering over the young marsupial, which they'd trapped in a trash ... | Dany Pena quit his job at South Beach Pizza Company in Santa Cruz, California over 'lack of remorse they had about this act of cruelty'
Pena says he arrived to work Saturday and found two employees had poured bleach on the young marsupial, which was trapped in a trash can .
Pena rushed the critter to an animal rescue c... |
fc2743ec27257232dc44763007646e28607e7e8f | Dust from a comet has been discovered on the Earth's surface for the first time, locked inside the ancient ice sheet that covers Antarctica. The discovery is expected to reveal new clues about how our solar system formed as scientists study the tiny comet particles more closely. Researchers found the comet dust after d... | Japanese scientists discovered comet particles at Tottuki Point, Antarctica .
They found more than 40 spherical fragments which contained glass-like material, iron, magnesium, potassium, sulphur, calcium and nickel .
Dust is similar to comet fragments collected by Nasa's Stardust mission .
Comet particles were not thou... |
fc27bd1c514e91c837a8d478c7f28a5767fc66eb | By . Bianca London . PUBLISHED: . 08:25 EST, 26 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 10:41 EST, 26 April 2013 . Cellulite is the bane of so many women's lives. That orange-peel effect, those unsightly dimples and that bumpy blubber that blights the thighs of everyone from the super slim to the ultra curvy. Even the most slender... | £43 Slimming Coffee Cream promises to banish cellulite .
Aims to drain toxins and break down fat . |
fc27e44559ac9333cfa7fcea3445250b35840ddd | A man suspected of abducting and killing a single mother who led a double life as a paid escort served time in prison for two kidnapping cases involving his former wife. Prosecutor Dan Rubenstein on Monday recounted Lester Jones' criminal history in court in Grand Junction, Colorado, arguing that the 63-year-old was a ... | Lester Jones, who was arrested Friday, was one of the last to call Paige Birgfeld before her 8-year-old daughter reported her missing in June 2007 .
Authorities allege he killed Birgfeld, dumped her body and torched her car .
In 1999, Jones received a five-year prison term for two kidnapping cases involving his ex-wife... |
fc282f8ea68ce08c631a49c9e6fcf68b01586232 | Outraged patients who have been left permanently injured as a result of medical negligence have spoken out against the system that they claim failed them. The World Health Organisation estimates nearly 50,000 Australians are left maimed or injured each year as a result of medical negligence, with Queensland Health spen... | The World Health Organisation estimates nearly 50,000 Australians are left maimed or injured each year as a result of medical negligence .
Queensland Health spending $55 million in 2013 alone on settlements from these cases .
Cathy Smith suffered permanent brain damage as a result of oxygen deprivation during surgery w... |
fc2885e61a0cbef3c373006cb5da7ecd17c3c8ee | (EW.com) -- Next week's episode of Parks and Recreation is going to have a VIP: the VP. Joe Biden — yes, the very guy who was re-elected Vice President of the United States — will guest-star in the Nov. 15 installment of Parks and Recreation, EW has learned. His cameo occurs at the beginning of the episode, in which fo... | Joe Biden will guest-star in the Nov. 15 installment of "Parks and Recreation"
The show scored camera time with him in July when they traveled to Washington, D.C.
The vice president is reportedly a fan of the show . |
fc28ee89831825db9a90b3c4bf1691fa8bfde1ee | By . Rachel Quigley . PUBLISHED: . 16:49 EST, 11 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 17:27 EST, 11 January 2013 . A court will appoint a lawyer to protect the interests of the four-month-old orphaned daughter of the late Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher as her grandparents argue over custody. Belcher fatally shot ... | Court will appoint a lawyer to protext the interests of Zoey Belcher .
Belcher and Kassandra Perkins argued over the paternity of the child on the day they died, with Kasandra telling the NFL player that he was not the father .
Child is worth $3million . |
fc2925cf73c26ed8a87c6b7a1e2e09b49bc8048c | By . Associated Press . PUBLISHED: . 19:24 EST, 16 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 10:09 EST, 17 June 2013 . A man walked into a Catholic church and shot his father-in-law in the back of the head while his wife watched during Mass on Sunday as parishioners were lining up for communion, according to police. Investigators say... | Shooting happened during communion at church in Ogden, Utah . |
fc293ed83a15593d9d3d8d4465790ecc0bbe7cfa | London, England (CNN) -- It may run contrary to the conventional image of a sport obsessed with the latest technological improvement but, from Stockholm to Shanghai, players are turning back the clock to take part in the latest craze -- hickory golf. The game, which involves using 19th century wooden-shafted clubs, has... | Hickory golf is enjoying a revival in all corners of the world .
Companies in the UK are paying up to $934 to hire hickory clubs for corporate team-building days .
The U.S. Hickory Open draws entrants from Europe and Asia with ages ranging from 20 to 70 .
Last year, a Chinese businessman paid $193,500 for 7,000 hickory... |
fc2a0aef30c304c656ec06dbe1e476c31d51dc29 | Britain and America nearly provoked the Soviet Union into launching a full-scale nuclear attack against the West at the height of the Cold War, according to newly released classified documents. They reveal that the world secretly came to the brink of a nuclear holocaust in 1983, in what some anti-nuclear campaigners sa... | Soviets panicked over massive Nato war games in November 1983 .
The military exercise was so realistic they launched nuclear bombers .
West only discovered the brush with disaster after briefing by defector . |
fc2a62d7afa44737e71ca91ed2516999dc96b419 | BINGHAMTON, New York (CNN) -- People who knew the suspected gunman in Friday's shooting at an immigration services center were not surprised by his actions, the police chief in Binghamton, New York, said Saturday. Police tape cordons off the crime scene in Binghamton, New York, on Saturday. "From the people close to hi... | NEW: Suspected gunman's action "not a surprise" to those who knew him, police say .
Mayor: Suspect spoke poor English, "felt people were looking down on him"
President Obama: "I am heartbroken for the families"
Fourteen people, including gunman, died Friday in N.Y. immigration center shootings . |
fc2acf6531480a690d4939a04e1615bc9ff14468 | Frank Lampard’s career at Manchester City took a turn for the bizarre at the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday night as a young pitch invader managed to grab a ‘selfie’ with the midfielder in the centre circle. Only minutes of the 7-0 Capital One Cup rout of Sheffield Wednesday remained when the fan evaded security to sprint... | Young supporter invades the pitch before hugging City midfielder .
Lampard agrees to pose for selfie with the cheeky fan .
The daring pitch invader was then led away by two policeman .
Lampard scored twice as City thrashed Wednesday at the Etihad . |
fc2ade72243f8a9b6f6accada87fe9c3eca34ec1 | Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- South Korea's foreign minister said Tuesday he wants five Somali pirates captured alive during the rescue of a hijacked ship last week to be put on trial in South Korea. "It's a given that we deal with pirates who have caused damage to our people and attack our military, and along those line... | Kim Sung-hwan says possibility being considered of bringing pirates to South Korea .
South Koreans rescued 21 sailors, killed eight pirates and captured five pirates last week .
The Samho Jewelry vessel was hijacked in the Indian Ocean .
A ship captain shot in the stomach is recovering, Kim says . |
fc2ae3be3edf17825b0ada8da00066ccbe1e6ecc | (CNN) -- The W Austin hotel is closing indefinitely after glass fell from the balcony panels of the Austin, Texas, building for a second day in a row and the third time in recent weeks, the hotel's parent company announced Tuesday. The hotel will be closed "until further notice" as the glass panels are replaced, the ho... | Falling-glass incident is the third in recent weeks involving the Austin, Texas, hotel .
Hotel says it will close while it replaces all balcony glass; guests are being relocated .
The hotel is being sued over a June 10 incident in which two people were injured . |
fc2afd7e0614ced93061e2661c2f2317bad3311f | Washington (CNN) -- House Republicans have hired a prominent conservative attorney to defend the federal Defense of Marriage Act in a pending lawsuit, legal sources say, and will make an effort to divert money from the Justice Department to fund its high-profile fight. House Speaker John Boehner disclosed the legal and... | NEW: Pelosi asks what the legal fight will cost taxpayers .
Attorney Paul Clement was solicitor general in the second Bush administration .
Boehner says he had no choice but to act after the Obama administration backed off .
House Republicans also want to divert Justice Department funds for the effort . |
fc2b0a55b9b7c2c5c453cf100b2d05ed274ad9e5 | (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama decisively defeated Sen. Hillary Clinton in North Carolina Tuesday, but Clinton's narrow victory in Indiana will likely send the race for the Democratic presidential nomination on to the next round of primaries. Sen. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, greet supporters in Raleigh, North Caro... | NEW: Final votes counted in Indiana's Lake County; Obama dominates .
Clinton wins squeaker in Indiana; Obama cruises in North Carolina .
Obama says he does not believe his party is "inalterably divided"
187 delegates were at stake in Tuesday's primaries . |
fc2b44712cd02a47573d43624cc034263573703c | Nicklas Bendtner has joined Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg to end a nine-year association with English football. The striker, who has scored 24 goals in 58 internationals for Denmark, has signed a three-year deal with an option for a further year at Wolfsburg, who finished fifth in last season's Bundesliga to qualify fo... | Nicklas Bendtner has finally found a new club after being released by Arsenal .
Danish striker will wear No 3 shirt at Wolfsburg because his mother chose it .
Bendtner scored 24 goals in 106 appearances for Arsenal . |
fc2bafbc3adace8903f886996033bd46addf0740 | By . Ted Thornhill . PUBLISHED: . 05:09 EST, 26 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 09:03 EST, 26 December 2013 . A nine-year-old girl who witnessed her mother being viciously assaulted wrote a letter to Santa asking for the assailant to be put ‘on the naughty list’. The girl’s mother, Christine Beckwith, appears to have be... | Christine Beckwith was attacked in Lake Mary, Florida on Sunday night .
The motive for the assault was simply that she'd parked badly .
Her nine-year-old daughter penned a letter to Santa asking for justice . |
fc2c7701dd3530b3db4cb19fff44fa6c47385998 | Gordon Ramsay faces a £10.8million bill for rent over the next 17 years after losing a High Court battle over one of his London restaurants. The celebrity chef will have to find a further £1.6million in legal fees and outstanding rental payments for the gastropub at the centre of the row. Ramsay’s personal ‘kitchen nig... | Gordon Ramsay disputed being liable for rent on London pub he bought .
He claimed his signature was forged on the lease for the York & Albany .
Ramsay argued a machine signed his name without his knowledge .
The chef said that his father-in-law Christopher Hutcheson was responsible .
Judge ruled Ramsay must have known... |
fc2d404542e3e18e5df46d291dd6260aa6a80003 | As the 2014 World Cup continues, Sportsmail will be providing you with all you need to know about every fixture in Brazil from team news and key battles to betting odds and Opta stats... Here is all the information you need for the first game in Group B between Spain and Holland. Click here to follow the Spain vs Holla... | Spain's clash with Holland is a repeat of the World Cup final in 2010 .
Vicente Del Bosque are the current holders of the World Cup .
Chile and Australia are the two other sides in Group B .
This is the first time the two World Cup finalists have met in the tournament directly after contesting the final since 1990, whe... |
fc2dc48e73466aaf876d84415b9247a7840c6254 | Madrid (CNN) -- He's fast on the football field but apparently even faster behind the wheel. Real Madrid star striker Karim Benzema was clocked driving 216 kilometers per hour (about 134 mph) -- more than double the speed limit -- before dawn on February 3 on a Madrid highway, and he could lose his license for at least... | Police say Karim Benzema was clocked at 216 kph in a 100-kph zone on a Madrid highway .
Authorities did not immediately pursue Benzema because of safety concerns, police say .
They say they tracked him down using the vehicle's license plate .
He could lose his license for at least a year, be jailed or fined, or face co... |
fc2e1be411b767970941d5d0665f9fb2f9ec279b | Sam Strange, 23, raped a four-year-old boy on Christmas Eve and has been jailed for nine years . A 23-year-old man who raped a four-year-old boy on Christmas Eve when he was drunk has been jailed for nine years after his victim gave evidence holding his teddy bear. Sam Strange, from Folkestone in Kent, had denied three... | Sam Strange, 23, from Folkestone, raped four-year-old on Christmas Eve .
Has been jailed for nine years after his victim gave evidence holding teddy .
Victim is one of the youngest people called to provide evidence at a trial .
Judge Norton told jury that it would be 'wrong' to challenge a child witness . |
fc2e5c660be203345a47ac1140e6f383ef081a91 | By . Travelmail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 04:47 EST, 24 March 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 10:38 EST, 24 March 2014 . Five people have been killed after a plane carrying a group of skydivers crashed and burst into flames as family members of those aboard watched in horror. Witnesses said the Cessna 206 disintegrated in a fireba... | Safety officer says plane was destroyed by flames within minute of impact .
New Zealand couple with six children believed to be on board flight .
Plane veered to the left after take-off before plunging to the ground . |
fc2eb738c87fdf534eb7568c1b8ea83137fd1fdd | By . John Preston . THE LONG RIDE HOME by Rupert Isaacson (Penguin £7.99) Horse sense: Autistic Rowan was stimulated in the saddle . Desperate people often do desperate things and in 2004 Rupert Isaacson did something very desperate indeed. In an attempt to ‘cure’ his six year-old son Rowan of autism, he took him to a ... | Author Rupert Isaacson sent his autistic son to a shaman who had both parents whipped and their genitals anointed with 'sacred vodka'
In order to cure his autism Isaacson's son had to visit faith healers around the world .
As the boy's autism improves his father begins to see his son's condition in a new light . |
fc2f6a8a85e308a0cffe92e5d81ee785e9660723 | By . Gerri Peev . PUBLISHED: . 17:38 EST, 9 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 02:00 EST, 10 May 2013 . Civil servants are getting paid an extra £1,000 a year simply for being able to type, it emerged last night. The award is one of a string of perks worth £7.5million available annually at the Department for Communities and Loc... | Award is one of a string of perks available annually at the DCLG .
Others include officials at the Local Government Ombudsman . |
fc308f962c5f6e5392be2897842f7ef31c9d7849 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . A Waterbury, Connecticut school teacher has been arrested on charges she spent the last two months having sex with a male student at her home. Crosby High School physical education teacher Meghan Eagan, 25, was charged with four counts of second degree sexual assault and has since posted $1,0... | Meghan Eagan is out on bond for having sex with one of her students at Waterbury's Crosby High School . |
fc30b5186422911b8a7965a47283ce7fd1408909 | A large column of Russian tanks, heavy weapons and combat troops entered eastern Ukraine earlier this week, NATO's top commander claimed today, prompting fears of an re-escalation in the seven month old conflict. U.S. General Philip Breedlove said his officials witnessed the force cross over the 'completely wide-open' ... | General Philip Breedlove said NATO officials saw force crossing border .
Claimed Russian tanks, artillery and air defense systems entered Ukraine .
Russian Defense Ministry quickly rejected his statement as 'groundless'
News comes amid concerns of re-escalation of fighting in east Ukraine .
UN Security Council held eme... |
fc30eb31b79281407167d44ec50b6863879f3cf8 | (CNN) -- The jury weighing the fate of a white Florida man accused of killing a black teen during an argument over loud music concluded its second day of deliberations Thursday after asking a judge for details about a letter written in the months after the shooting. The jury was scheduled to resume deliberations Friday... | NEW: Jury suspends deliberations for the day .
Jury has eight whites, two blacks, an Asian and Hispanic, CNN affiliate says .
Jury asks to see surveillance footage and mannequin .
If found guilty of first-degree murder, Michael Dunn faces up to life in prison . |
fc312497088a0419fa77cf4beccc567634cce12c | (CNN) -- Last year was the safest in aviation history for passengers flying on Western-built jets, an international aviation trade group said Wednesday. The 2010 global accident rate was 0.61 per million flights, a rate equating to one accident for every 1.6 million flights, according to the International Air Transport... | 2010 saw 17 accidents on such airplanes .
Africa has the worst rate .
Industry group leader calls for improvement . |
fc31284e5b4a492455e9a1dfc9744a7153a21d4f | Lily Allen is the latest famous face to be admitted to hospital but still manage to summon the strength to tweet a selfie from her sick bed. Exhausted from a heavy week of trans-Atlantic partying last night the make-up free star posted a photo of her in a hospital bed with a drip in her arm on Twitter writing: '#SHEEzU... | The singer shared a snap on her Twitter of her with a drip in her arm .
She wrote: 'Just need some fluids cause i can't keep anything down'
Follows a week partying, which included the Met Gala in New York, a Miley Cyrus concert in London and a Prada party .
The mother-of-two launched her album on Monday . |
fc313384c9030e2b2dc81c3499f9ca9e73dbad12 | By . Anna Edwards . PUBLISHED: . 07:36 EST, 24 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:55 EST, 24 October 2013 . It's an ancient game that has never quite worked out where its origins lay. But while it is generally considered to have been born in Scotland, a new Chinese mural could spark the battle of ownership over the sport... | Ancient scroll shows women playing chuinwan, which is similar to golf .
Could prove that game originated in China and not Scotland . |
fc314721ba050e3a36cec698082e18df782e91ef | (CNN) -- The county that brought us the Tour de France has notched up another cycling landmark -- the world's first self-service city rental bike for kids. City authorities in Paris have decided that their widely imitated Velib rental bike program is so popular it should be extended to children as young as two. On Wedn... | P'tit Velib program claims to be the first self-service bike rental scheme aimed at kids .
Four sizes of cycle aimed at kids as young as two are available for hire .
Paris hosts one of the world's most successful adult bike hire plans, with more than 20,000 cycles available . |
fc32696b944523808314df0146069469b2bf93d5 | By . James White . Last updated at 1:30 PM on 31st October 2011 . Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch are nowhere in sight. But there's Elmo. And new creatures too, like Baily, a kindly donkey who loves to sing, and Haseen O Jameel, a vain crocodile who lives at the bottom of a well. Sesame Street is coming to Pakistan but n... | U.S. taxpayers' cash used to cover $20m cost of production . |
fc32c0e204edcf7ed359a9c0309e713e81d4c33d | This is the moment a 13-year-old boy suspected of stabbing a teacher and a schoolgirl was arrested while clutching a box of Lego. The youngster, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was arrested after an attack at The Chase Technology College in Malvern, Worcestershire, at 8.45am on Monday. Iosac Nelson, 16, cap... | Male teacher and girl, 13, stabbed during attack at school on Monday .
Police found suspect eight hours later on a train from Hereford to Malvern .
Iosac Nelson, 16, took pictures of suspect as he stood among passengers .
Images show boy, 13, holding a box of Lego as he is arrested by police .
He has now been charged w... |
fc33162fe0bd4f90e677ce768ef24a51291aa1b0 | Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- Pro-Russian separatists struck two helicopters as well as a jet with portable air defense systems Wednesday in the Luhansk region of Ukraine. A source within the Ukrainian military confirmed the statement by the "South-East Army," which claims the group downed an Ukrainian Su-25 military jet and ... | NEW: Pro-Russian separatists hit two helicopters, Ukranian military confirms .
NEW: A Ukranian military jet also was struck on Wednesday .
Another Ukrainian fighter jet was shot down on Sunday .
Ukraine continues a battle with pro-Russian rebels in the country's east . |
fc3350474d348553e8d00a080b9c34d12fcd8be2 | President Barack Obama joked today during a New York speech that he doesn't seem to have the traffic problems the city's residents are always complaining about. 'It's actually pretty smooth for me during the week,' Obama said, after playfully arguing that everyone in New York 'hypes' the traffic. 'I don't know what the... | The president joked today during a New York speech that he doesn't seem to have the traffic problems the city's residents complain about .
'I don't know what the problem is,' he told attendees of the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting. 'I haven't noticed'
Obama said he told Bill Clinton that if Chelsea went in... |
fc33686d2cbc9c47662ec4c03a1c74e675ae0b0f | A police dog named Copper has been credited for saving the life of a missing 6-year-old Utah boy who accidentally fell into an open manhole and became trapped underground. Kollin Bailey presented a large bone and a stocking full of doggie treats to his new four-legged friend on Saturday, a day after his ordeal in cold ... | Kollin Bailey, 6, was flying his kite when he fell down an open manhole cover .
Despite screaming nobody could hear him in the area where he was laying .
Police K-9 found Kollin within minutes and he was found with a broken arm . |
fc3389b5f64d3c6365918fe7e5b7fab3c8a3b660 | Port au Prince, (CNN) -- The guard wearing a Haitian Football Federation T-shirt paces nervously in front of the heavy, blue steel door, his pump-action shotgun held tightly in his right hand. He presses his finger against the trigger when anyone bangs loudly on the metal to enter the Stad Sylvio Cator in downtown Port... | Haiti prepare for the 2014 World Cup qualifier against minnows U.S. Virgin Islands .
Country's first home match since 300, 000 people were killed in a 7.0 earthquake .
The earthquake leveled the Haitian Football Federation's headquarters killing more than 30 of its staff . |
fc33bb005825b7863db6d75de935034a6006273d | (CNN) -- French shoemaker Christian Louboutin is seeing red -- and will likely be seeing a lot more of it -- after a judge in Manhattan denied an injunction that would have kept fellow designer Yves Saint Laurent from selling shoes with red soles. The lawsuit, filed in June, takes issue with four specific shoes from Y... | Judge won't stop Yves Saint Laurent from selling shoes with red soles .
Designer Christian Louboutin had asked him to do so .
Attorney says color red is associated with Louboutin .
But judge said the claim is "overly broad" |
fc33c87f048b96bd248b5da91da98e1c3b0239bb | (CNN)Former supermodel Janice Dickinson accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault, telling "Entertainment Tonight" in an interview aired on Tuesday that the comedian raped her. Dickinson is the latest of a handful of women who have accused Cosby of sexual assault -- allegations the comedian has repeatedly said are untrue. H... | Bill Cosby's attorney calls ex-supermodel's claim of being raped "a fabricated lie"
Janice Dickinson tells "Entertainment Tonight" that Cosby drugged, raped her in 1982 .
Cosby has repeatedly said sexual assault allegations against him are untrue .
Dickinson alleges the assault occurred after Cosby gave her a pill and ... |
fc33f0148f17b74a8f5cdeed771a5c2a52ee63f7 | (CNN) -- European leaders are meeting to attempt to resolve the debt crisis in Greece and prevent it infecting other countries -- an outcome that could potentially tear apart the 17-member eurozone and lead to another global economic slump. So what can they hope to achieve, what's behind the crisis and how serious is i... | European leaders are meeting in Brussels to try to solve Greece's economic crisis .
France's Sarkozy and Germany's Merkel have reportedly thrashed out a plan ahead of summit .
Any deal will have to address threat of Europe-wide contagion leading to global financial slump . |
fc343d25cc0e95cba0b4f093ac444fbff6cb8eed | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama recently shared sensitive intelligence with Russia and China about Iran's newly unveiled nuclear facility to get the two countries' leaders on board with new sanctions against Tehran, senior U.S. officials revealed Friday. President Obama speaks with Chinese President Hu Jintao, left... | Senior U.S. official: Strategy is to build a coalition with Russia and China .
Iran admits to existence of second uranium enrichment plant, U.N. agency says .
Officials: President Obama recently shared sensitive intelligence with Russia, China .
Administration's goal is to impose new sanctions on Iran, officials say . |
fc345bed9fba72b25b1594a78df879538bd033ae | A federal judge ruled Monday that Chicago's ban on virtually all sales and transfers of firearms is unconstitutional. "The stark reality facing the City each year is thousands of shooting victims and hundreds of murders committed with a gun. But on the other side of this case is another feature of government: certain f... | The ordinance goes "too far," writes Judge Edmond Chang .
He does not rule out other types of regulation, short of a complete ban .
The judge stays his ruling to give the city time to file an appeal . |
fc34e475114ded8acaf314c25aaee6314f6ef6c9 | (CNN) -- Thousands of North Carolina voters hit the polls on Tuesday to cast their ballots on a referendum that would constitutionally ban same-sex marriage, even though state law already does not permit such unions. Amendment 1 would alter the North Carolina Constitution to say that "marriage between one man and one w... | Polls in North Carolina close at 7:30 p.m. ET .
Both chambers of N.C. legislature are GOP-controlled for first time in past 140 years .
Indiana and West Virginia also hold primaries on Tuesday . |
fc35d882be0fa9e57e51b1f9e7d00b7f86343e50 | By . Ryan Gorman . An Oregon woman leading police on a high speed chase ended it by jumping off a bridge. Rebecca Humphries, 26, of Troutdale, ran numerous red lights and stop signs and drove erratically Wednesday while leading police on a frenetic chase in a stolen car before she jumped off a bridge – she sustained se... | Rebecca Humphries fled from police in a stolen car .
She jumped from the bridge and into the ice cold water 35 feet below and sustained multiple injuries .
Her criminal record contains more than two dozen convictions . |
fc3637030a497a306532cf87895f523d67f37ac8 | (CNN) -- Cheick Diabate scored twice as Mali defeated 10-man Ghana 2-0 to finish third in the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations on Saturday. The Bordeaux striker opened the scoring in the 23rd minute stabbing home a rebound after Ghana keeper Adam Larsen failed to hold onto Bakaye Traore's low shot. Ghana offered little in re... | Mali finish in third place after defeating Ghana 2-0 .
Bordeaux striker Cheick Diabate scores twice to record Mali's best finish for 40 years . |
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