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187e20e96c08a9785efdeb904328956659abb67c | Despite ISIS wanting to introduce its own currency the terrorist group is offering to pay a cash reward for anyone who captures a Western spy - in American dollars. In a leaflet circulated via ISIS's social media accounts, the group offered to pay $5,000 to anyone who captures 'an agent of the crusaders' or provides in... | ISIS said it was 'imperative for every Muslim' to help them catch spies .
The ploy follows several successful U.S-led airstrikes on the group .
And comes as they try and bring back the original dinar as their currency . |
187e755aded3d80c27e34d725a76e28ce2d20b8e | (Mental Floss) -- It's a lot more difficult than you might think to find good parents in fiction: Perhaps unsurprisingly, a lot of fiction deals either with the lack of a parent -- being a cardinal rule of children's fiction to ditch the parents -- or a parent's complete unsuitability for the role. But there are a few ... | Good parents in fiction are often hard to find .
Some fictional parents, like Atticus Finch, teach their children an important lesson .
Mr. and Mrs. Quimby from "Ramona" are patient, loving and imperfect, like real parents .
"Jungle Book" has unconventional, but loyal, parents and godparents . |
187efc0cabb0fc1e604e4f41f18f81cd05d47ed3 | By . Martin Robinson . PUBLISHED: . 11:06 EST, 25 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 15:26 EST, 25 March 2013 . Members of a gang who abused shoppers, threatened staff and chased children before ripping phones and iPads off walls in 42 stores across London have been jailed for a total of 11 years. CCTV footage from one attack... | The thieves have been jailed for a total of 11 years for the violent burglaries .
They sprinted into shops across London and ripped electronics from walls .
'They were always mob handed and caused total chaos,' judge says . |
187fb5713b461232393e8f4565f71c37d88aa638 | The 32-year-old best friend of Katherine Jenkins whose eight-year battle with cancer inspired thousands of others coping with serious illness has died. Polly Noble was first diagnosed with cancer at 24 and said she wanted her plight to 'inspire others to have a happier and healthier life'. Her family told today how 'be... | Lifestyle coach Polly Noble, 32, died after a long battle with cervical cancer .
First diagnosed at 24, she tried to inspire others to have 'magnificent lives'
Her 'heartbroken' best friend Katherine Jenkins revealed she had died .
Pair first met as struggling singers and Jenkins says she was 'true star'
'Success is no... |
18800e1636ba5d785cbb19efb0a2e88a82ec88cd | By . Pa Reporter . Norwich defender Martin Olsson has been handed a further three-game ban by the Football Association after he admitted a charge of improper conduct. The 26-year-old Sweden international appeared to push referee Simon Hooper when he was sent off during the 1-0 defeat by Wolves at Molineux on August 10.... | Martin Olsson was sent off during Norwich's game with Wolves .
Swedish defender appeared to push referee Simon Hooper as he left .
Olsson has been banned for an additional three games . |
1880693e1a76699e924f07db581ddbbf55ab2216 | The suspected ringleader of the deadly terror attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, will remain jailed until trial, a federal magistrate ruled on Wednesday. Ahmed Abu Khatallah appeared at a brief detention hearing in federal court in Washington where he's accused of providing material support to t... | Brief detention hearing held in federal court in Washington .
Ahmed Abu Khatallah was captured this month in Libya and transferred to the U.S.
He has pleaded not guilty to a charge of providing support to terrorists .
The defense claims that prosecutors are not backing up their allegations . |
1880747ae836c2d458bab7e5613e344bc0f6c98d | (EW.com) -- A couple of high-profile openers couldn't force the animals of "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted" into their cages. The animated comedy topped the box office once again this weekend, while "Rock of Ages" and "That's My Boy" delivered majorly disappointing debuts. Dreamworks' $145 million effort "Madagasca... | Dreamworks' $145 million effort "Madagascar 3" had a $60.3 million start .
Worldwide, the 3-D film has grossed $278 million .
Some claim "Rock of Ages" debut is a sign Tom Cruise may have lost his Midas touch . |
1880e341295df6a32b9224767ebf45b01724b824 | A mother has won a restraining order against her 'childish' next-door neighbour after a bitter 18-month dispute over wheelie bins culminated in him being arrested for allegedly attacking her. Joanne Dowling, 42, of Aberdare, south Wales, became locked in a bin battle with neighbour Gary Jones, 58, after claiming he blo... | Joanne Dowling, of south Wales, got stuck in bin battle with neighbour, 58 .
After politely complaining, mother, 42, was hit by series of 'childish' pranks .
Row came to head when Gary Jones dumped half-eaten cake in her bin .
After she tossed it on his doorstep he burst into her home and attacked her .
Father is bann... |
1881c94541588d2b872a12a7343590bfcdee6f01 | The vice chairman of the Federal Election Commission told CNN on Monday he has seen numerous undisclosed e-mails between FEC staffers and the Internal Revenue Service that raise new questions about potential improper contact between two federal agencies in the alleged targeting of conservative political groups. Don McG... | Democratic chief of FEC says she doesn't know about the e-mails .
Top FEC Republican discusses additional e-mails between IRS and FEC .
Don McGahn: FEC staffer improperly contacted Lois Lerner of IRS about conservative group .
Republicans ask if FEC revelations indicate a broader targeting of conservatives . |
18820f6e4313015bce803fcdbaa977dd16e1a1a6 | (CNN) -- "Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only," Coco Chanel once said. "Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening". And what is happening, now that everyone is a smartphone owner, is that fashion and technology, traditionally uncomfortable be... | Fashion technology is beginning to enter the mainstream .
Brands like Burberry and Ralph Lauren are integrating new tech in stores and clothing .
Wearables, including smart fabrics, are the future of this unconventional marriage . |
18823ffe4e7d30056229c6b0c3b71f9c72c1d2e1 | By . Jennifer Smith . Molhem Barakat, 17, was killed while taking photographs of rebel fighters and regime forces as they battled over a hospital in Aleppo . A teenage photographer whose images of war-torn Syria were circulated around the world has been killed while covering a conflict at a hospital. Molhem Barakat die... | Molhem Barakat was killed while taking photographs of conflict at a hospital in Aleppo .
The 17-year-old had photographs published around the world after working for global news agency Reuters .
His portfolio depicts unrelenting violence and civilian life in Syria's largest city .
Schools in rebel-held parts of city cl... |
188259882ec1cc0ec3e04adf0698ea345c25aa9d | Contractors who helped develop the embattled HealthCare.gov website blame each other and the government, but not themselves, in testimony prepared for Thursday's first congressional hearing on the problems engulfing the online enrollment system. House Energy and Commerce Committee members will grill officials from CGI ... | A third House committee is investigating the HealthCare.gov website issues .
A House committee holds the first hearing on website problems Thursday .
Developers blame each other and the government, but not themselves .
A problem with the entry portal clogged up the system when it opened, they say . |
1882918f4cb0aafe04f98f966e714b5de3565dcf | Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- Nearly 130 people were killed and more than 400 wounded early Tuesday when a string of five suicide car bombings hit government buildings, a neighborhood and a commercial district in Baghdad, Iraqi authorities said. Iraq's Finance and Labor ministries and a courthouse were the targets of three of... | Four car bombs explode in central Baghdad, killing nearly 130 and wounding hundreds .
First of the vehicles blew up in southern Baghdad's Dora district .
Three other car bombs struck at heart of Iraqi capital, detonating a few minutes apart .
Fifth bomb blows up outside the Karkh Civil Court in western Baghdad's Mansou... |
1882947c3577ed1e591fb4ed0273b2cfaa4423d3 | By . Ellie Zolfagharifard . PUBLISHED: . 13:03 EST, 4 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 13:04 EST, 4 September 2013 . Researchers have discovered a protein that they claim is the missing link to the development of Alzheimer’s disease. They found that blocking this protein with an existing drug can restore memory in mice ... | Blocking the metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 protein may repair memory .
Tests have shown that it restores learning in mouse model of Alzheimer's .
Findings could help develop drugs to slow the degenerative illness . |
188464d37ce66c5573a984b70c817fbbc2d9ae31 | A woman who lost her pet rabbit was left sickened after the animal was apparently filmed being tortured to death by thieves in an online video. Rebecca Atkinson's white lionhead rabbit, Percy, is believed to have been stolen from its hutch in Seaham, County Durham this weekend. The whereabouts of the rabbit remained a ... | Family pet stolen from hutch near family home in Seaham, County Durham .
Owners then told of online video showing 'torture and killing of animal'
Film sparks outrage online with website users branding it 'vile'
Two men and two teenagers arrested after family alert police . |
1884de5f375a4881bf96494aa8845173a925ef55 | By . Stuart Woledge and Anthony Bond . PUBLISHED: . 12:40 EST, 1 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:44 EST, 2 August 2013 . A Chinese man has been left with horrific burns after he fainted and fell onto the scorching ground which started to melt his skin. These pictures show Yang Hao lying on a hospital bed in Changsha in... | Yang Hao left with severe burn marks on his back .
China declares level 2 emergency as temperatures hit record 42.7C .
Woman cracks eggs to make meal, only to find chicks incubating inside .
Chinese TV says cars have self-combusted and a billboard burst into flames .
Heatwave set to continue in the south and east for a... |
18855b3e16ecfffac3b599939a9e0ca9c4e80857 | Washington (CNN) -- The ongoing radioactivity releases from damaged nuclear reactors in Japan after last week's historic earthquake are creating "one of the most challenging humanitarian operations ever conducted," according to Cmdr. Jeff Davis, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet in Japan. Davis said Tuesday tha... | Second incident occurs where helicopter crew tests positive for low-level radiation .
"This will continue to happen," spokesman says .
Most U.S. Navy vessels off Japan involved in helicopter relief operations . |
1885e1b3458a51ce73782d4453875fac38efe61b | London Underground services were expected to return to normal this morning after huge delays and disruption caused by a 48-hour strike over ticket office closures. Fresh talks will be held today to try to resolve the bitter dispute which sparked the strike. The walkout by members of the RMT and TSSA unions officially e... | Fresh talks today to try to resolve bitter dispute which sparked the strike .
Walkout by members of RMT and TSSA unions ended at 9pm last night .
Further 48-hour stoppage planned from next Tuesday evening if no deal .
Journeys on Barclays bicycle hire scheme up by 50% again yesterday .
But wet and windy weather persuad... |
18888fef1ff1e94fddf5666333dcc8d728846255 | (CNN) -- Outrage over the possibility that a Van Gogh, Bruegel, or any other treasure at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) could be sold to pay down the city's debts prompted a Michigan state senator to propose legislation to protect the masterpieces. Under the bill presented Wednesday by Sen. Randy Richardville, any... | Detroit is in deep debt .
Officials ask for inventory of art collection in museum .
That's raised outcry from those worried about possible sale .
Spokesman for emergency manager says sale not planned . |
18896e4a80d773c3a40c854e9c080942dbfa413c | An expanded Violence Against Women Act won bipartisan approval on Thursday from the U.S. House after Republicans failed to pass their own proposal due to a party split on an issue important to women and minority groups. The measure now goes to President Barack Obama, who said in a statement that it was "an important st... | The measure now goes to President Obama to be signed into law .
House Republicans struggle again with an issue important to women, minorities .
The House rejects the GOP measure before approving the Senate version .
The legislation extends and expands the act that supporters credit with saving lives . |
1889e0d55f1e2c634b3206fccf6eb751c570eeb6 | (CNN) -- Holders Brazil were knocked out of the Copa America Sunday, after a woeful penalty shoot-out display against Paraguay in Argentina. The star-studded Brazilians missed all four of their spot-kicks as Paraguay went on to win 2-0 and earn a place in the last four of the competition. A disappointing match ended go... | Star-studded Brazil missed all four of their spot-kicks as Paraguay went on to win 2-0 .
Both sides were reduced to 10 men after Lucas Leiva and Antolin Alcaraz were dismissed .
Paraguay, who last won the Copa America in 1979, will now face Venezuela .
Venezula shocked Chile 2-1 in last quarterfinal with Gabriel Cicher... |
188c87c8f8bd9abf024087c8814a88aa18a98917 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 07:41 EST, 27 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:07 EST, 27 May 2013 . Guilty: Nurse Roger Dean, 37, has admitted killing 11 elderly residents of the nursing home where he worked . A nurse has pleaded guilty to murdering 11 elderly people by setting fire to the Sydney nursing home wher... | Roger Dean, 37, set fire to Quakers Hill Nursing Home in a Sydney suburb .
11 elderly residents died and eight had serious injuries caused by the blaze . |
188dbf5cc5b6a79b33040758b178254067083a9f | Daniel Perry, 17, took his own life after a Filipino cybersex gang threatened to send compromising images of him to his family and friends . Chilling 'sextortion' emails which urged a teenager to 'commit suicide now' after falling victim to online blackmailers have emerged for the first time since he threw himself off... | Daniel Perry, 17, was tricked by extortionists posing as women online .
Filipino gang said they would make graphic images public unless he paid .
He threw himself off Forth Bridge after they sent him chilling emails .
One urged him to 'commit suicide' and another asked 'are you dead yet?'
Two of the suspects have been ... |
188fb732462a54f5d6e578f3d78cce0ca37ee02f | (CNN) -- The government of China announced Friday that it plans to increase its defense budget by 12.7%, according to Xinhua news agency. Li Zhaoxing, a former foreign minister for the Chinese government, made the announcement at the Fourth Session of the 11th National People's Congress, the news service reported. Li i... | China announces 12.7% hike in defense budget, according to Xinhua news agency .
The draft defense budget is up 67.6 billion yuan from 2010, report says .
Defense spending accounts for 6% of nation's total budget, report says . |
18906845070eb2b151ff2f32af793923d0f1ebdc | By . Alex Horlock . PUBLISHED: . 02:33 EST, 4 March 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 19:36 EST, 4 March 2014 . Daniele de Rossi has been omitted from Italy's squad to face Spain in a friendly for punching opponent Mauro Icardi during Roma's Serie A feisty clash with Inter Milan. As the pair waited for a ball to arrive in the pena... | Daniele de Rossi gets three-game ban for 'deliberate' punch on Inter forward .
Inter Milan defender Juan Jesus also banned retrospectively for punching .
Cesare Prandelli's Italy squad without De Rossi and Mario Balotelli . |
1893009f99240ef59b6972df4b5d7f3204dc2d18 | By . Jaymi Mccann . PUBLISHED: . 11:27 EST, 20 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:45 EST, 20 June 2013 . A two-month-old Namibian boy has undergone dramatic surgery after being born with four legs. Andrew Palismwe, of Caprivi, is responding well to treatment after undergoing a nine-hour operation to remove two legs at the R... | Andrew Palismwe is recovering at Windhoek Central Hospital in Namibia .
Baby boy was born with two extra limbs below his stomach on April 6 .
Condition is thought to be a result of a twin that does not fully develop .
Operation at Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital in Cape Town . |
18933602467ef24ec33d5dab2592cc4b3c377142 | By . Associated Press . and Daily Mail Reporter . The mommy blogger who is accused of fatally poisoning her 5-year-old son with salt is on suicide watch in a New York jail while she awaits trial. At a hearing on Wednesday, Lacey Spears' lawyer asked the public to 'keep and open mind' about the charges. Spears 'looks fo... | Lacey Spears is accused of depraved murder in the death of 5-year-old Garrett-Paul Spears .
She chronicled her son's illnesses on social media .
Her lawyer says she is 'devastated' by her son's death, but did nothing wrong . |
1894a75855491d8e17e8e293f0753812bf646a5a | It may not be the obvious choice when looking for a hands-free way to use your phone, but a company in the Netherlands has developed an e-cigarette that can make and receive calls. Created by Netherlands-based firm Supersmoker, the e-cigarette is the world’s first electronic smoking device to wirelessly connect to smar... | The Supersmoker Bluetooth has a built-in speaker and microphone .
It connects wirelessly to Bluetooth devices including phones and tablets .
Users can use the e-cigarette to make and receive calls, and listen to music .
The device costs €79.95 (£65.72) and is sold by a Netherlands-based firm . |
18960ee998b98dac967f965521879a06320b4ccc | It's a breathtaking scenario. Hundreds of petrol-heads roaring across some of South America's most stunning landscapes in a grueling two-week endurance race where the competitors are at the mercy of treacherous terrain. The Dakar Rally's 465 competitors speed through the daunting sand dunes of Atacama desert one day, a... | The 33rd edition of the Dakar Rally will come to a conclusion on Sunday .
The South American endurance event has attracted the ire of environmental groups .
It has been held in Argentina and Chile since 2009, with Peru added this year .
Organizers say the grueling two-week race may expand to other countries . |
1896a2adc41dadf40230437d069b981fe418d6c2 | (CNN) -- I was living in Syria when the statues of Saddam Hussein in neighboring Iraq came toppling down. Saddam, who had arrogantly had his name inscribed on bricks at the ancient city of Babylon, did not expect his rule to end so abruptly, so humiliatingly. And at the University of Damascus, students told me that the... | Husain: Fall of Saddam Hussein pyschologically empowered Arab opposition .
Other, more direct developments had greater effect on Arab Spring .
Iraq War has prevented more from being done to aid Arab Spring, especially in Syria . |
189705e95b14f7bb4c4f210b561f8a95d48e5e07 | By . Associated Press . More than 100 years after dinosaurs were first displayed on the National Mall, T. Rex - the king - is joining the Smithsonian collection after a 2,000-mile journey from Montana. Paleontologists and curators unveiled parts of a nearly complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton Tuesday, including its jaw... | The nearly-complete dinosaur fossil was discovered in 1988 in Montana .
T. Rex will be the centerpiece of the museum's new 31,000-square-foot fossil hall, which will open in 2019 .
For the first time since its dinosaur hall opened in 1911, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History will have a T. rex skeleton... |
189741815e1d4a8e3c9425d7ea0ff6ef6953989b | Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos claims his side are underdogs for this weekend's Champions League final against Atletico Madrid following the Rojiblancos' Primera Division success. Real head into the match having won the European Cup a record nine times in their history and been runners-up on a further three occasion... | Atletico pipped rivals to La Liga title .
Madrid teams go head to head in Lisbon in the Champions League final .
Ramos believes Atletico start as favourites . |
18975fb353e4df176bf4d4da8fcc76af90de5aee | Buyers: Sol Campbell, 40, and his wife Fiona, 34 snapped up the six-storey townhouse in Chelsea . Having threatened to leave the country over Labour’s proposed mansion tax, it was perhaps of little surprise when Sol Campbell put his Chelsea townhouse up for sale. Far more surprising was the identity of the purchaser of... | Campbell threatened to leave country over Labour's proposed mansion tax .
So it was of little surprise when 40-year-old put his townhouse on market .
More surprising was that the former footballer bought property himself . |
18977474f70de8af0414c4c2433ca8bcd1d29493 | (CNN) -- Just within the past week, a disturbing video released by the hacktivist group Knight Sec exposed details surrounding the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl in Steubenville, Ohio; more protests erupted over the horrific gang rape of a young woman in India; and the final sessions of the 112th Congress did... | Katie Hanna, Monika Johnson Hostler: In the U.S. or abroad, violence against women persists .
They say there's often a "code of silence" among athletes and fraternities .
Hanna, Hostler: Athletic teams, coaches should educate boys about respecting women . |
18978ae701cefe71806d75e68b84f612411ab4d7 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 05:17 EST, 29 December 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 11:30 EST, 30 December 2012 . Former England captain and television commentator Tony Greig has died in Sydney at the age of 66 . Former England cricket captain and television commentator Tony Greig has died of a heart attack at the age... | South African-born star was diagnosed with lung cancer two months ago .
He told colleagues, 'It's not good, it's a case of what they can do'
Greig played for England in 58 tests before quitting to join breakaway series . |
18984b5575a226d1d391be2b3788a0ccb794011e | Jerusalem (CNN) -- A day after thousands of Israeli demonstrators demanded an end to rules that make ultra-Orthodox Jews exempt from the draft, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the nation's approach to military service must change. "The existing situation cannot continue. Neither the army, the economy... | "The existing situation cannot continue," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says .
More than 20,000 demonstrators demand reforms to military draft rules .
The controversial topic is a thorny political issue for Netanyahu's government .
A government committee will draw up a proposed new law, he says . |
18987c2adcb92cf136c13c970a4d9a818ec12eec | Most little girls would be absolutely thrilled at the prospect of having a baby sister. But this feisty two-year-old was none too pleased to learn that her newborn sibling was on the way home - and she certainly wasn't shy to show it. The adorable girl, named Piper, was filmed by her father launching into an incredib... | Two-year-old's temper tantrum racks up 400,000 internet hits in three days .
Young Piper does not seem impressed that her new sister is coming home .
Video captured by Piper's father who asks Piper about her sister . |
189946270fe1f64ee02f2877679c075b5645c0bb | It took 36 minutes for the first email to arrive. As the shockwaves from Rio de Janeiro were still reverberating, bookmakers began pumping out their blunt messages. Assessing how much of an impact Luis Suarez's suspension would have on Liverpool's ambitions for the new Barclays Premier League campaign, the words in the... | As it stands now, Suarez will miss the .
first nine Premier League matches of next season .
If the striker remains on Merseyside while serving his four-month ban, he will cast a heavy cloud .
Brendan Rodgers needs reliability and stability as well as talent to create title-winning team . |
18998df2cc2db359644e74c08f4502376900c628 | Letters containing the conclusions of the Chilcot Inquiry have been sent to the main participants, including Tony Blair, the Daily Mail understands . Letters containing the detailed conclusions of the public inquiry into the Iraq War have been sent to the main participants, the Daily Mail understands. The revelation wi... | Tony Blair is thought to have seen the findings of the Iraq War Inquiry .
Chilcot report has faced long delays but could be published in new year .
David Cameron previously said report would be published in 2014 .
Former Home Secretary Jack Straw is also thought to have seen findings .
Whitehall source says the letters... |
1899d42840083ddc351aeec39b76992d28e0bb6a | (CNN) -- Second seed Kim Clijsters suffered her earliest French Open exit in 11 years as she crashed out in the second round on Thursday. The Belgian, seeking to win the clay-court grand slam event for the first time, failed to capitalize on two match-points as she was eliminated by unheralded Dutchwoman Arantxa Rus. F... | World No. 2 Kim Clijsters beaten by 114th-ranked Dutchwoman Arantxa Rus .
The 20-year-old saves two match-points to earn third-round clash with Maria Kirilenko .
Maria Sharapova survives a scare against 17-year-old Caroline Garcia .
Australian Open runner-up Li Na reaches third round along with Petra Kvitova . |
189a1d5b1c578b1446d18e4587d6d572d1bcf72e | By . Lucy Buckland . Last updated at 9:05 AM on 13th December 2011 . Jobseeker: Bob Jewers has been rejected from 400 jobs in the last year . A teenager who applied for more than 400 jobs in a year only received four letters of reply and one offer of a job interview. From pot washer to McDonald's manager Bob Jewers, wh... | Bob Jewers, 19, turned down for every job, including working at McDonald's . |
189a5c44c1566b58acfaa6e4096a611e918e5b9f | (CNN) -- Liverpool new boy Joe Cole was sent off for the first time in his professional career in a 1-1 draw against Arsenal in their English Premier League opener on Sunday at Anfield. Despite being down to 10 men, Liverpool took a 46th minute lead through David Ngog, but were denied victory by a Pepe Reina own goal ... | Liverpool and Arsenal draw 1-1 in English Premier League opener at Anfield .
Liverpool's Joe Cole sent off just before halftime for foul on Laurent Koscielny .
Koscielny also sees red deep into injury time at the end of the match .
David Ngog puts Liverpool ahead but Pepe Reina own goal rescues Arsenal . |
189adce83c527882929108c234073a943b342676 | By . Mike Jaccarino . PUBLISHED: . 12:55 EST, 5 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 13:19 EST, 5 January 2013 . Mitt Romney garnered the same percentage of the popular vote he remarked represented the woebegone portion of the American electorate who will never 'take personal responsibility and care for their (own) lives.' In... | Romney was overheard saying 47 per cent of Americans would never vote for him because such government-reliant 'victims' didn't care about lower taxes . |
189b20f04b45801d00db1f6fb44420f3a4bacf73 | Britain’s floods crisis could get worse before it gets better, David Cameron warned today as he urged the whole country to ‘pull together’. The Prime Minister dramatically cancelled a planned visit to Israel next week to remain in charge of the government’s response to more storms forecast in the next few days. Vowing ... | Prime Minister cancels visit to Israel next week to remain in charge .
Warns the relief effort will take many weeks and the UK must pull together .
Vows that 'money is no object' as 80,000 back Mail's call to raid aid budget .
16 severe flood warnings, 133 flood warnings and 225 flood alerts in force .
Grants for homeo... |
189b7cc765f78ebb8478bee665a255d04063c4cd | (CNN) -- Officials at Princeton University were to meet over the weekend to decide whether to offer students a vaccine against meningitis after seven cases of the potentially fatal disease occurred on campus. "We will be discussing it with our trustees this weekend," school spokesman Martin Mbugua said Friday. The worl... | Seven cases of meningitis have been reported on the New Jersey campus .
University officials to discuss offering vaccine .
Feds OK use of vaccine not approved in the United States . |
189c07101274de9b93da19cb0bc8c5138bb9103d | By . Caroline Graham and Amy Oliver . PUBLISHED: . 17:21 EST, 16 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 17:21 EST, 16 March 2013 . Back in the UK: John Cleese and his wife Jennifer Wade . It has 300 days of sunshine a year, drips with glamour and has been a tax-free haven for 130 years. Which is why comedy legend John Cleese must... | Cleese's move back to UK will make him liable to pay a year's tax .
A friend said he was 'lonely and found it hard to plug into the culture .
Items listed on a website are being sold at 'deeply discounted prices'
They include a mahogany dining table and set of ice-blue velvet chairs . |
189d9415836938c00baa34ab087069b10a4d2d78 | Port-Au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- In the wake of Hurricane Tomas, cholera has reached the congested capital of Port-au-Prince, where as many as 73 people have come down with the potentially deadly infection. Dehydration is one of its tell-tale signs. In a camp in Cabaret, just east of Port-au-Prince, children lie on cots ... | NEW: Two more Port-au-Prince cases confirmed .
The official death toll from cholera in Haiti is 583 .
More than 9,000 cases have been confirmed .
As many as 73 people have come down with cholera in Port-au-Prince . |
189f1927f8d2156d840579c46d2fc32974ece90f | A New York City teacher got so frustrated with the rowdy students at the back of her classroom that she fantasized out loud about stabbing them. Investigators heard that Jacqueline Baffoni, 32, kept a knife for slicing fruit in her desk drawer. When her eighth-grade children wouldn't stop talking, Ms Baffoni said: 'I f... | Jacqueline Baffoni, 32, kept a knife for slicing fruit in her desk drawer at Manhattan school .
When eighth-grade students wouldn't stop talking, Baffoni said: 'I feel like stabbing some of these kids - I have a knife here.'
Ms Baffoni sacked in June 2012 . |
189f92bd5e36e4f6afd6f2be563585d49fce2ed9 | As images of the terrifying hostage crisis in a cafe in central Sydney were broadcast around the nation, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the government does not know the gunman's motivations and urged Australians to go about their lives as usual. At least thirteen people - possibly more - are being held hostage in the ... | Prime Minister Tony Abbott urges Australians to go about their normal lives .
He said all of our thoughts and prayers should be with the victims .
The government is in the dark about the militant's motivations .
'The whole point is to scare people out of being themselves,' he said . |
189f9b8eef9e1a4d09cb6add4e63ae3553bf724d | After reported lost for nearly 50 years, Pablo Picasso's masterpiece Seated Woman with Red Hat has been unearthed in the storage of an Indiana museum. Described as sparkling 'like a jewel,' the long-lost piece was discovered after an auction house in New York inquired about the art work's gifting to the Evansville Muse... | Picasso artwork was mislabeled when gifted to museum in 1963 causing it to never see the museum's walls .
Piece's authenticity discovered by New York auction house who inquired about their piece labeled as by a faux-artist named 'Gemmaux' - a type of glass medium . |
18a0ee988a90f9b4c823bc9f466faa337a09e5ac | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 12:46 EST, 7 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:59 EST, 7 May 2013 . Raul Sanchez Fuentes Villota can be sent back to Spain despite claiming he had previously been tortured there . A suspected terrorist who spent 17 years on the run can be sent back to Spain despite claiming he had pre... | Raul Sanchez Fuentes Villota, 46, allegedly member of separatist group ETA .
Wanted over link to a foiled car bomb attack on a police officer in June 1991 .
He claimed he was tortured with pencils by Spanish police in 1991 .
But judge has said he is 'not persuaded he was tortured' |
18a1d8bacc951d050f31aaf2c54fc9eec286ef0f | Brazil thought its nightmare was over -- but perhaps it's only just beginning. After the humiliation of being obliterated by Germany, those who had dreamed of a Brazilian World Cup triumph might have thought they would be left alone to quietly lick their words or perhaps console themselves with a sombre walk along the ... | Argentina defeats the Netherlands 4-2 on penalties .
Contest finished goalless after 120 minutes .
First World Cup semifinal to finish goalless .
Germany awaits in Sunday's final . |
18a33bd15af9836c6c6024641cb912e8b9777149 | By . Sean Poulter, Consumer Affairs Editor . Gammon joints, parmesan and coffee may not sound like the kind of essentials that would drive the desperate to theft. But they are now among the items most frequently stolen from the high street – as middle Britain goes shoplifting to maintain its lifestyle. The problem of f... | Chicken breasts, beef joints and Glen's vodka also frequently targeted .
Many supermarkets are introducing electronic tags to deter thieves .
'More people are stealing and they are stealing more,' says expert . |
18a35c09c4553aeacf3293cf8855428db93ad0c1 | The Pope has confirmed he will visit both New York and Washington DC as part of a trip to the U.S. later this year. The Vatican had previously announced that the Pontiff would visit Philadelphia to participate in a massive rally for Catholic families in September. But speaking to reporters on a plane returning to Rome ... | Pope Francis has confirmed he is set to visit New York and Washington .
Trip will be part of his U.S. tour where he will also stop off in Philadelphia .
In Washington he will take part in a sainthood ceremony for Spanish priest .
It is expected he will visit the White House as well as address Congress .
There's specula... |
18a4ee509dd69618a19873c4dfe1c4880a5ee7af | Washington (CNN) -- Latinos in the United States are divided over a host of issues, including what to do about unauthorized immigrants, a reflection of the national political controversy over illegal immigration, a national study released Thursday finds. Slightly more than half of the nation's Hispanics say illegal imm... | The divisions come from the national political row over illegal immigration, Pew says .
Latinos also feel heightened concerns over discrimination based on immigration status .
But Latinos also share areas of broad agreement, such as their opposition to SB 1070 .
The survey of 1,375 Latinos was conducted in August and S... |
18a732b4759a70051e51315aa1ea665621d96a3f | For astronauts struggling to get up in the morning, it could be a welcome relief. Researchers say they have perfect a zero gravity espresso cup that can deliver the perfect shot in orbit. It uses a series of channels to simulate the pouring needed to create the perfect drink. Scroll down for video . six of the 3D-print... | Series of channels simulates pouring needed to create the perfect shot .
Six 3D-printed cups are scheduled to fly to the International Space Station .
Will blast off in February 2015 aboard a SpaceX rocket .
Team already has a coffee machine on board to make hot drinks . |
18a7f0bb25e97072f17326393c98410d7fae59ef | By . Anthony Bond . PUBLISHED: . 05:28 EST, 14 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 03:12 EST, 15 August 2013 . The UK’s first cat DNA database has been set up to help solve criminal investigations – after cat hair was successfully used to trap a killer. The database, which currently holds records of 152 pets’ DNA, was started... | David Guy's body parts found wrapped in a curtain on a beach in Southsea .
Forensic scientists discovered the curtain had eight cat hairs on it .
They then used UK's first cat DNA database to analyse hairs .
It found the cat hairs belonged to Tinker which was owned by David Hilder .
Hilder was last month jailed for lif... |
18a887f1c68b102d2bba5a95c3852334a619b09c | Washington (CNN) -- Congress will miss President Obama's deadline to enact health care reform by the end of the year, a key Democratic senator said Tuesday. Illinois' Dick Durbin, the second-highest ranking Democrat in the Senate, said he hopes, at best, to pass the Senate's version of a health care bill by that time. ... | Dick Durbin hopes to have Senate version of bill passed by end of year .
President Clinton makes Capitol Hill visit to talk about health care reform .
Senate majority leader has expressed doubts about passing legislation .
Public option remains major obstacle to reform measure . |
18a96e128945f5bab4316cf62951b272ec9b4a24 | New Delhi (CNN) -- Flooding in southern India in the wake of a tropical cyclone has killed 25 people in the past few days and driven tens of thousands of others from their homes, authorities said Tuesday. The severe weather has caused flooding affecting 5,250 square kilometers (2,000 square miles) of agricultural land ... | About 70,000 people are in temporary shelters because of the floods .
Heavy rain from a tropical storm overwhelmed the water system .
The flooding has killed 25 people in the state of Andhra Pradesh .
It has also affected thousands of square kilometers of crops . |
18a9a3e16870c6f241f31af226aa96ef302d2f80 | (CNN) -- Good news: We're not going to war in Syria, at least not right away. Bad news: We're headed to a battle inside Congress that will pose its own grave threat to the U.S. and world economy. The most conservative Republicans in Congress are threatening to force default on the nation's obligations unless the presid... | David Frum: GOP effort to defund Obama's health plan is going nowhere .
He says it makes more sense to focus on the key flaws of Obamacare .
Republicans should push to make sure the plan has cost-control features, he says .
He says it makes sense to broaden funding so most Americans pay for it . |
18aad8dfea4b2f3c64d057af7d5cdda14bf13042 | (CNN) -- A very nice married couple from Canada struck up a conversation in a restaurant where we were having dinner. At one point the husband said that, earlier in his life, he had played with some buddies in a rock band. The name of the band, he said, was the Rock-Olas. "Like the jukebox," I said. "Of course," he sai... | Bob Greene learned the story behind Rock-ola jukeboxes' name; got curious about others .
He found Snickers candy was named after a favorite horse of the Mars family .
He learned how Conway Twitty picked a new name because the real one wasn't as exciting .
Greene: First there are products, then they need names; and behi... |
18ab1f261c40eeede23038b324d6ee92c2962424 | (CNN) -- The U.S. drone strike that killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an American cleric who was born in New Mexico and who would go on to become an al-Qaeda leader in Yemen, did not silence his siren call to jihad. That fact was underlined Thursday by the indictment against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who together with his brother, Tame... | Anwar al-Awlaki was killed by a U.S. drone strike in 2011, but continues to influence jihadists .
Peter Bergen notes that the cleric's influence was clear in Boston Marathon indictment .
Other terrorism cases in the U.S. bear imprint of Awlaki's statements, Bergen says .
Bergen: Will others sympathetic to al Qaeda cont... |
18ab7a561b479b38e20c9bb52ee675d339de215a | By . Martin Ziegler, Press Association . England will play four prestige friendlies against world champions Germany, Spain, Italy and France over the next two years. Football Association general secretary Alex Horne said the friendlies against teams who have won four out of last five World Cups had been arranged in the... | England will play four European powerhouses in the next two years .
FA organise friendlies against four of the previous five World Cup winners .
England friendly against Norway on Wednesday will be less than half full .
But FA denies low attendance will lead to financial troubles . |
18ab9d6effd7427bf91c82db63190e9e9e1672a1 | By . Helen Minsky and Richard Kay . PUBLISHED: . 17:04 EST, 18 September 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 18:26 EST, 18 September 2012 . Power couple: Former Labour culture secretary Tessa Jowell with her tax lawyer husband David Mills . She separated from her husband after he was accused of taking a bribe from Silvio Berlusconi ... | Former Labour culture secretary Tessa Jowell split up with her tax lawyer husband David Mills in 2006 .
Mills was found guilty of accepting a .
£350,000 bribe but conviction was later thrown out on a technicality .
Dame Tessa revealed the pair have reunited during a radio interview . |
18abbf24dc2ec2aeb1ff2ab2ed907eaa2ff934fb | By . Jason Groves, Political Correspondent . PUBLISHED: . 19:31 EST, 16 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 19:31 EST, 16 May 2013 . David Cameron has pledged to support women who stay at home and raise children . David Cameron has pledged to support women who stay at home to raise children, fuelling hopes that he will act on hi... | Prime Minister under fire from stay-at-home mothers over childcare plans .
Denied ministers were trying to force mothers back to work .
Hinted he was preparing to dilute controversial childminder plans .
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg withdrew support for increasing number of children a childminder can look after . |
18ac89c25bbe894e69f9ade6ed5acc3adbef7d17 | By . James Gordon . A father from Southern California is fighting for the right to adopt his own son who was apparently secretly put up for adoption by the baby's mother. Preston King, 19, says his constitutional rights were taken away from him when his ex-girlfriend, and mother to his child, decided she could no longe... | Preston King had his son given away for adoption without his consent .
He is currently fighting for his rights to adopt his own child .
A judge determined because he was not married to the mother that he was not considered the presumed father .
Currently he is appealing the decision with the Orange County Justice Court... |
18adba6e3a4816d9b5b714f5d2c061096545b704 | In Harry Potter the young wizard's life is changed forever when he receives hundreds of letters inviting him to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. So when a young Potter fan suffering from leukaemia was asked what would she wish for on her sixth birthday, she had an idea. Oliwia Gandecka, from Zielona Gora, Po... | Oliwia Gandecka's wish was to receive lots of cards on her birthday .
The six-year-old was inspired by a scene in Harry Potter .
Her parents set up the Birthday Card for Oliwia campaign .
On October 26 more than a million cards was delivered to the child . |
18af2fb13c74de0fda1707f0f79665d7c273b599 | (CNN) -- A chorus of "oohs," "ahs" and "I want ones" sounded from Taiwan Monday as the first giant panda to be born on the island, the six-month-old cub Yuan Zai, was unveiled to the public at Taipei Zoo. Conceived via artificial insemination, the bear was delivered on July 7 last year. Around 10,000 people lined up to... | First giant panda born on Taiwan unveiled to public at six months old .
10,000 visitors queue to catch glimpse of baby bear Yuan Zai .
Panda species, endemic to Sichuan province, is endangered in wild . |
18af62793bf6b88ce3127a8ecf166a147d8e5999 | Police fear two young girls who fled Austria are inspiring other teenagers to join Islamic State ranks after they successfully fled the country saying they were going to Syria. Samra Kesinovic was aged just 16 and her friend Sabina Selimovic 15 when the two vanished this year from their homes in the Austrian capital Vi... | Two teenage girls vanished from their homes in Austrian capital Vienna .
Interpol believe the two, aged 16 and 15, were tricked into going to Syria .
Police now concerned they may be inspiring other girls to join holy war .
Two other girls of the same age caught attempting to flee the country . |
18afd11bb49d8355f13c9c71c44681320972b337 | The fate of Syria's Western-backed opposition hangs on a knife edge in the northern part of the war-torn country -- and with radical Sunni militants and regime forces closing in on them from all sides, time may be running out. At least six villages north of Syria's largest city of Aleppo fell Wednesday to militants fro... | ISIS fighters reportedly seize villages just 30 miles from Aleppo, Syria's largest city .
Rebels fighting to topple Assad surrounded by ISIS on one side, and regime forces on the other .
Charles Lister says beleaguered Syrian opposition in Aleppo faces being wiped out . |
18b00f4fad7d98305ad49d38a142d4e8e36a614b | The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is readying an advertising blitz in the New Hampshire Senate race with a new television spot starring Mitt Romney, sources familiar with the ad buy told CNN. The chamber is launching the ad Friday on behalf of Republican Senate nominee Scott Brown, who trails Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen ... | Chamber to blitz New Hampshire with new Scott Brown ad starring Mitt Romney .
Romney won convincingly in 2012 Republican presidential primary .
Polls show Brown behind incumbent Jeanne Shaheen from 2 to 10 points . |
18b02f7d9b901dd03cc43d1d29867616b25a08aa | (CNN) -- It's a correction more than 160 years in the making. In its Tuesday edition, The New York Times published a correction for an article that ran on January 20, 1853. The newspaper has Hollywood and Twitter to thank for bringing the error to light. The Times explained that the article in question told the story o... | The article, published more than 160 years ago, misspelled Solomon Northup's name .
The New York Times issues a correction, saying a Twitter user pointed out the article .
Northup's memoir, "12 Years a Slave," won best picture at this year's Oscars . |
18b0bf820bbf541b5af4f2ba7ad5357e128be212 | By . Ryan Lipman . An Australian tennis player who allegedly threatened to post nude photos of his ex-girlfriend online has been charged in the U.S. with aggravated stalking. Mark Terry Henderson was once part of one of the world's top-60 doubles team and was ranked Australia's top-ranked tennis junior in 1999, before... | Australian man charged with stalking his ex-girlfriend in the U.S.
Mark Terry Henderson threatened to post naked photos of the woman online .
He returned to Australian after the break up .
Henderson went back the U.S. in May and approached the woman .
He was later arrested and released on bail . |
18b0c31a1d8c0bc3f7070814c2fcc59d0dbc7025 | Chris Martin was honest to the point of bluntness. After a full Scotland debut he instantly wanted to forget, the Derby striker is simply left hoping he gets another chance to prove his worth. Martin had made four previous substitute appearances in dark blue before an ankle injury to Steven Fletcher opened the way for ... | Chris Martin was substituted at half-time during Scotland's defeat to England on Tuesday evening .
Clash at Celtic Park was Martin's first start in a Scotland shirt .
Gordon Strachan's side lost 3-1 as Wayne Rooney scored a brace . |
18b23fc7e486851b895af63ce62e04ac145d2ad6 | By . Amanda Williams . and Luke Salkeld . Sunshine and blue skies warmed up large parts of Britain at the weekend, attracting picnickers, beachgoers – and even a minke whale. The massive mammal was spotted splashing away off the coast of Cornwall, eight miles south of Falmouth harbour, by holidaymakers on a wildlife cr... | Sunseekers made their way to beaches and parks, eager to make most of warm weather to kick off Easter holidays .
Temperatures are expected to hit around 19C in south east over coming days - well above average of 13C .
But Britons have been advised to make the most of it while they can, as rain is predicted to hit by ne... |
18b2c1f6bc809fd30b87c77bcaaefcfbf2e1379d | By . Mark Duell . Last updated at 4:05 PM on 15th September 2011 . Roller girl: Stacey Blitsch is fighting for the right to share information about ex boyfriends . When they felt betrayed by their former lover, two women allegedly went online to warn other women to stay well away. And while the posts have led to them b... | Gloria Allred was holding press conference in New York .
Lawyer is annoyed at ‘Heart Balm’ laws favouring men .
She was defending Stacey Blitsch and Amanda Ryncarz .
Both sued by ex-lover for allegedly defaming him online . |
18b3490026eb24f76123b12a0b30f706226e02f7 | Convicted rapist Ched Evans will be offered a day job by his fiancee's millionaire father if his return to football is blocked, it emerged today. Last week the 25-year-old was offered the chance to train with his former club Sheffield United after he was released from jail last month, having served half his five-year r... | Evans, 25, is allowed to start training with his former club Sheffield United .
Released from jail in October having served half five-year rape sentence .
He is engaged to Natasha Massey, whose father has reportedly offered Evans a job at his empire of businesses if footballing comeback fails .
Karl Massey reportedly s... |
18b35184cbc3bdc89ef3f6bb169882f22ebecdbc | Editor's Note: The staff at CNN.com has recently been intrigued by the journalism of VICE, an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York. VBS.TV is Vice's broadband television network. The reports, which are produced solely by VICE, reflect a very transparent approach to journalism, where viewer... | VBS travels to a spot in the Pacific where a massive pool of trash churns with the current .
Non-biodegradable bits of plastic make up much of the so-called "chemical soup"
VBS reporter says water sample tests were "worse than we thought" |
18b385f95072199770277439ce050be202786eca | (CNN) -- First it was the airlines, now it's the turn of hotels to take the budget concept into the mainstream. Demand is surging for cheaper hotel rooms, not just from thrifty tourists but also from business travelers in search of value. And budget brands are responding to the demand with ambitious expansion plans. No... | Growth of budget hotels has been three times that of overall hotel market .
Demand is strong among tourists and business travelers in Europe U.S. and China .
Boutique budget brands have helped raise the profile of the economical option . |
18b4174f100806432a62f0afbd96818aba14a724 | Gang leader Tavon 'Bulldog' White (pictured), described a culture of corruption inside Baltimore City Detention Center . A Violent gang had such control over a notorious jail that they had a Minister for Education and Minister for Finance, a court heard. Gang leader, Tavon 'Bulldog' White, described a culture of corrup... | Black Guerilla Family created positions at Baltimore City Detention Center, court told .
Leader Tavon 'Bulldog' White testifies that the gang controlled life in jail .
Claimed gang leaders, not guards, were the ultimate authority inside facility .
Five corrections officers, one kitchen worker and two inmates are on tri... |
18b50e52f58ca95712c022c460395efe5252f86e | According to the most recent NHS statistics, almost two thirds of British people are now overweight or obese and as a result, demand for gastric bypass surgery has shot up. But surgery doesn't always provide the hoped-for outcome and as Sarah, the 25-year-old star of Channel 4 documentary, My Baggy Body, knows only too... | My Baggy Body follows three slimmers left with excess skin .
Two have had operations, while Gregg, 30, spent three years on a diet .
Between them, they have lost 43st but all have pounds of baggy skin . |
18b5dcac48e040d1b1008d21446ed37cf130a8e4 | London, England (CNN) -- Police say they arrested a total of 153 people when students protested against planned hikes in university tuition. Police said that after the protest was scheduled to end Tuesday at 2 p.m., a large group of protesters still congregated at Trafalgar Square. "As a result a group of around 150-20... | Some arrested after being asked to leave Trafalgar Square .
The students are upset at planned hikes in university tuition .
The change is part of a government plan to cut a massive deficit . |
18b794c0303fb0d120845bea703f215059c8bad6 | United Nations (CNN) -- South Korea has formally asked the U.N. Security Council for action over what it says was North Korea's sinking of one of its warships in March, the Mexico U.N. mission said. A letter from South Korea arrived in the offices of Mexico, which holds the current council presidency. Ambassador Claude... | South Korea formally asks the U.N. Security Council for action over warship sinking .
It says a North Korean mini-sub fired torpedoes at the ship and killed 46 people . |
18be58b9246339a983f07f134a444d92aa5a606b | Heavy metal fans have been warned that headbanging can be bad for you after a Motorhead fan suffered a blood clot on his brain after performing the 'violent and rhythmic' movement at a concert. The 50-year-old German fan developed the potentially fatal condition after getting carried away at one of the hardcore British... | German fan, 50, developed condition after one of the band's concerts .
It is the fourth recorded case of subdural haematoma linked to headbanging .
Fan suffered a constant worsening headache for two weeks after gig .
Surgeons in Hannover removed the clot by drilling into his brain . |
18bf19541a8c1febf7d360919308095450ab35f3 | By . Alex Gore . PUBLISHED: . 10:52 EST, 21 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:29 EST, 21 January 2013 . Abuse: Denise Godefroid, 63, has been banned from speaking to her elderly Irish neighbors following a 14-year campaign of harassment . A woman who racially abused her elderly Irish neighbours and their grandchildren d... | Denise Godefroid, 63, screamed that the couple were 'f****** stupid Irish'
She yelled at them to keep 'those bloody Irish' grandchildren quiet .
The couple were also barracked with heckles to go back to Ireland .
Godefroid banged loudly on the wall while making whale noises at 3am .
Elderly woman too afraid to leave th... |
18c0057842a3f85c1b73a81017281e9b47ff152a | Serena Williams has sparked an intense backlash after she suggested the 16-year-old victim in the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case was asking to be assaulted. The world Number 1 tennis star made the astonishing indictment in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, which was posted online on Tuesday. In the article, Wil... | Tennis Number 1 made the astonishing indictment of the 16-year-old victim in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine .
Williams said: 'I'm not blaming the girl, but if you're a 16-year-old and you're drunk like that...'
High school football players Trent Mays .
and Ma'Lik Richmond were each sentenced to a year in juve... |
18c07e12ab82c113057a5e4e706bc395e8fa9436 | Twelve months ago, Ayoze Perez was playing Spanish second-tier football in front of just 10,000 short-sleeved supporters on the holiday island of Tenerife. Life was good; he was turning out for his hometown club and his friends and family were in the stands to enjoy his breakthrough season. Twelve months on and the 21-... | Ayoze Perez was playing second-tier Spanish football 12 months ago .
Now he is a Premier League regular playing in front of 52,000 at Newcastle .
The 21-year-old admits he has settled in much quicker than he expected .
Perez says he already has memories he will cherish for the rest of his life . |
18c1592862161d194866a5ff1440b8ac4d279ced | Hillary Clinton suggested Tuesday that President Barack . Obama bears no responsibility for his decision to pull American troops out of . Iraq at the end of 2011, a decision that created a power vacuum now filled by a . vicious Islamist terror group. 'In retrospect, that was a mistake by the Iraqi government,' she said... | During a CNN broadcast, former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton said President Obama isn't to blame for the lack of a US military presence in Iraq .
It's Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's fault, she said, for failing to sign a Status of Forces Agreement with the White House .
Obama reportedly didn't make the agreemen... |
18c1be3840fa426fb8dbf25ef7205cb82d648003 | By . James Black . PUBLISHED: . 13:48 EST, 23 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 13:48 EST, 23 November 2012 . William Peto, 90, outside Exeter Crown Court after receiving his lifetime ban from driving . A 90-year-old driver has been told he must never drive again after a pedestrian lost part of her leg when his car mounte... | 24-year-year-old shopper Laura Reddy suffered horrific injuries and needed emergency surgery to amputate the .
bottom of one leg .
Judge invoked rarely used powers under Road Traffic Act to extend the ban indefinitely on the grounds that Peto's age .
Pensioner voluntarily surrendered licence . |
18c21b2126b1439e4e500fce61328952bbcf5533 | Artist Bela Borsodi has created the clever optical illusion by arranging a collection of colorful household objects just so . By . David Mccormack . PUBLISHED: . 09:23 EST, 25 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:07 EST, 25 June 2013 . On first impressions this colorful image of household items looks like a clever montage of ... | Artist Bela Borsodi has created the clever optical illusion by arranging a collection of colorful household objects just so . |
18c2ae1fafe6f27bc5bb804dc64e12fca5933974 | An engineer who was told by colleagues that he was 'wasting his time' designing the world's first video games console in 1972 has died aged 92. Ralph Baer, who died this week at his home in Manchester, New Hampshire, first considered the possibility of a video games console while working as a television engineer in the... | Ralph Baer 'invented' the games console while waiting for a bus in 1966 .
His four-page idea was developed into the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972 .
The machine - which sold 330,000 units - had more than a dozen games .
One of the earliest machines is on sale on eBay for $20,000 . |
18c347c9fd34ae17b5bb694fe138aae6b207b7fe | Blood-red tears on their cheeks and stick figures looking out helplessly from behind bars - these touching sketches illustrate the plight of children being held in immigration detention centres across Australia and offshore, and will feature in a human rights inquiry today in Canberra. One of the drawings shows two fe... | Nine heart breaking drawings reveal the sadness that children are feeling in detention centres around Australia and in offshore centres .
They all depict their life behind bars and their longing to be free .
The federal government's medical health provider fronts the Australian Human Rights Commission inquiry into chil... |
18c52358d26c47f6bcd99fb96d322ce86405d1ff | When Anoop Kapitan left his home in South Africa to come to the UK in 1970, he had no idea it would be the last time he would see his brother for more than four decades. Anoop moved to Glasgow aged 20 to study at Strathclye University, but just a few years later his elder brother Karan moved to Australia, where he set ... | Anoop Kapitan, 64, moved from South Africa to Glasgow in 1970 to study .
He settled in Holmsfirth, Yorkshire, where he raised two children .
Meanwhile brother Karan left home to start accountancy firm in Australia .
Anoop diagnosed with cancer and he thought wouldn't see brother again .
But pair were reunite in Melbour... |
18c5804526fe5228ce456eae3d0990543d1a71e1 | (CNN) -- It may lack the grace of an airship, or the class of Concorde, but the "Multicopter" has a style all of its own. This somewhat awkward looking vehicle is the work of German company e-volo and a prototype has just made its first manned flight, after completing unmanned trials. With e-volo's Thomas Senkel strapp... | The German-made "Multicopter" has made its first manned flight .
It is powered by 16 small rotor blades, fueled by lithium batteries .
Creators say finished model could be used as an air taxi . |
18c7afc24df7093b43223df2be507f63416d6fdb | The only complaint Jose Mourinho could possibly have after this astonishingly one-sided contest was the fact that there was so little to complain about. Not a hint of controversy. Not a booking he could blame on a referee. Barely a misplaced pass that might have given him an excuse to criticise one of his players. It w... | Brazilian midfielder Oscar opened the scoring for Chelsea in the first minute of play .
Diego Costa then added a second goal for the Blues in the 20th minute and a third in the 34th .
Oscar scored his second, and Chelsea's fourth in the 36th minute to effectively end the match as a contest .
German international Andre ... |
18c9047abc800815205a08df6abe3b2aa54debd2 | San Francisco (CNN) -- Police here have opened an investigation into the search of a man's home by Apple employees, an official said Wednesday. San Francisco police were flooded with inquiries and barraged with criticism after releasing a statement on Friday saying four officers had aided Apple, which sent two of its s... | Police launch investigation into the search of a man's house by Apple employees .
An official declined to comment further, citing police policy .
Apple has declined to offer its side of the story . |
18ca1b064d55394be54c247c5315fd36096a5ef0 | By . Louise Boyle . PUBLISHED: . 12:46 EST, 4 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 02:02 EST, 5 June 2013 . The mother of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wailed as she heard her son's voice for the first time since he was charged with the deadly attack. The 19-year-old alleged terrorist revealed that he was in no pain a... | Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, has been allowed one phone call with his parents in Dagestan .
He told them he was fine, not to say anything and that he had been 'eating chicken and rice'
Tsarnaev is accused of planting bombs at Boston Marathon on April 15 with brother Tamerlan which killed three people and injured 264 . |
18ca32bc591d3571b2fcf0cf1b02f1d3de850335 | Luis Suarez says he can achieve his dreams at Liverpool, but thinks this season may just be a bit too soon to break the club's 23-year title drought. The Uruguayan striker, 27, also said he owes the club and its fans after they helped him through some 'difficult times' last summer. After being the subject of a £40,000,... | Luis Suarez says he can 'achieve dreams' at Liverpool .
27-year-old says club and fans helped him through 'difficult times'
But he's 'not sure' if Reds will win title .
But with with rivals all dropping points, 'you never know what can happen' |
18cc01085bb4ad8304b35b198c2545a8fb41d673 | President Obama and Russian leader Vladimir Putin put on an almost comically awkward show of unity for the cameras today as they made virtually no eye contact and grimaced as the other spoke following a bilateral meeting at the G8 Summit. Obama tilted his chair away from the Russian president who fidgeted with his fing... | Russian and U.S. presidents held bilateral meeting at G8 Summit in Northern Ireland on Monday .
Putin told Obama that their positions on Syria do not 'coincide' |
18cd8d8599ac9eab8a2288a641337a3928f4b711 | By . Mail On Sunday Reporter . Last updated at 9:50 AM on 20th February 2012 . Prince William has played a major role in a rescue mission in the Falklands. William was pictured in the cockpit of his Sea King helicopter after flying a patient to hospital last Monday. Mercy mission: William at the controls of the Sea Kin... | 29-year-old spotted at controls of helicopter for the first time .
Stationed in South Atlantic for six weeks as a search-and-rescue pilot . |
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