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1aab585ced8c8095056764a2234e2a147b6bca6a | By . Peter Allen . PUBLISHED: . 11:28 EST, 25 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 11:29 EST, 25 November 2012 . The search for an aristocratic Frenchman who is believed to have murdered his wife and four children in cold blood has returned to the isolated countryside where he was last seen. Police are preparing to visit und... | Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes could be hiding underground .
Aristocrat believed to have murdered family and pets last year .
Murder suspect spotted on CCTV in country region in April 2011 . |
1aac3f898a26ea9d8b0b895c3c731d6d031580a2 | Istanbul (CNN) -- Turkey's foreign minister applauded recent Libyan rebel advances against the forces of Moammar Gadhafi at an international diplomatic conference Thursday to plan for the post-Gadhafi era in Libya. Diplomats from 29 countries gathered in Istanbul for the meeting of the Libyan Contact Group, a coalition... | NEW: Much work lies ahead but the world supports the Libyan people, a U.S. official says .
Davutoglu: "Today we are all proud and pleased with developments in Libya"
Italy's prime minister pledges financial aid after a separate meeting with the NTC .
Twenty-nine countries, and Libya's rebels, are represented at the mee... |
1aacd4d10fbf4bcd75061c0ada13bc88d8042f8c | Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- First-time winners and new shows took the lion's share of the hardware Sunday night at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards. "Modern Family" beat out the heavily favored "Glee" for outstanding comedy honors, and wound up winning six Emmys out of 14 nominations while "Mad Men" and "Breaking Ba... | NEW: "Modern Family" beats "Glee" for best comedy Emmy win .
NEW: "Mad Men" wins Emmy for best drama series .
Claire Danes wins her first Emmy, in "Temple Grandin"
Aaron Paul of "Breaking Bad," Jim Parsons of "Big Bang Theory" score surprise wins . |
1aacea04816d0164cc2182045e8674a2735264c1 | New Delhi (CNN)A diamond merchant has plunked down $691,890 to buy India's most famous suit. The suit owned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi got tongues wagging when he wore it to a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama last month. Dubbed one of the world's most expensive suits, it sold at an auction Friday. It cos... | Proceeds of the auction go toward cleaning of India's holy river .
The suit is considered one of the world's most expensive . |
1aad220f90d8ee0fdbfb1493225fc79ed2c7c9cc | By . Hugo Duncan . PUBLISHED: . 17:52 EST, 11 September 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 03:36 EST, 12 September 2012 . Britain's economy received a much-needed fillip yesterday after exports to countries beyond Europe surged to an all-time high. Official figures showed UK firms sold a record £13.2billion worth of goods to non-Eu... | Shift to growing markets in Asia and Latin America hailed as a revolution in British trade . |
1aad323b3d9e8f8475bdeb956e6444bff614593c | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Security contractor Blackwater said any guards who acted improperly in a deadly 2007 shooting in Baghdad should be held accountable, but believes its team acted in self-defense, a company spokeswoman said. A woman walks past a burned car in September after an incident involving Blackwater security g... | Blackwater says any guards who acted improperly should be held accountable .
Guards receive target letters from Justice Department that often precede indictments .
Blackwater says its men were ambushed; witnesses say guards were not provoked .
Witnesses say motorists, children and innocent bystanders among those killed... |
1aadfa595525b305dbc486501baca46524ab424b | Thousands of cats rescued from the dinner table in Vietnam have been crushed to death beneath the wheels of a dumper truck in a grisly mass execution that has horrified animal lovers. The cargo of around three tons of cats crammed into bamboo cages stacked one on top of another were seized in the capital Hanoi last Tue... | Cats were being smuggled from China to the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi .
Police found three tonnes of them crammed into bamboo cages last week .
Were going to be sold to restaurants where they're considered a delicacy .
The cats were crushed to death and buried to prevent 'spread of disease' |
1aaf2c296ebc0fd6dc23ac2e1a8ac7b8dbc4ed14 | By . Wills Robinson . PUBLISHED: . 09:05 EST, 16 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:11 EST, 16 October 2013 . A 27-year-old school mistress has been banned from teaching for life after she invited a 16-year-old school boy to her home and kissed him. Heather Bartlett, who taught Geography at Hitchin Boys' School, was foun... | Heather Bartlett was a newly-qualified Geography teacher .
She was a member of staff at Hitchin Boys' School until March 2013 .
Admitted meeting the pupil on three separate occasions .
Cautioned twice by Hertfordshire Police for sexual activity with a teenager . |
1aaf82a278c550e9cd3b176fa43d1a10fddc9062 | A talented jeweller whose creations sell for thousands has told how she manages to create her intricate ornaments despite being born with no fingers. Annette Gabbedey, 48, creates delicate rings, earrings and bracelets, inset with with diamonds, opals and other precious stones in her workshop in Frome, Somerset. But th... | Annette Gabbedey, 48, is a goldsmith who creates intricate works of art .
She uses no special equipment to create rings, earrings and necklaces .
Frome-based jeweller says family always encouraged her to 'get out there'
Trained at Hatton Garden in London before moving to Somerset in 1990 . |
1aafcf7f9837fb7b19c061bc7efb2ec4fe2f1219 | (CNN) -- Mexican President Felipe Calderon's ruling party paid the price for a weak economy in midterm elections as the opposition Revolutionary Institutional Party rolled to victories in the lower legislative house as well as state and local posts. Mexican President Felipe Calderon wasn't on Sunday's ballot and has th... | NEW: German Martinez, president of PAN political party, resigns in aftermath .
Felipe Calderon's party loses lead in Mexico's lower house .
Mexican president held responsible for economic downturn, analysts say .
PRI has 36.8 percent of vote to 27.9 percent for Calderon's PAN, news agency says . |
1ab0e39e7dfea7c1bfe3873ed89ff84cf2eb1856 | (CNN) -- Manchester United have netted a sponsorship deal with American insurance giants Aon Corporation that will reportedly earn the Premier League champions a staggering $131 million over four years. United's worldwide appeal has brought them a reported record $131m sponsorship with a U.S. insurance giant. That woul... | Manchester United sign sponsorship deal with American insurance giants Aon .
Reports say it will earn Premier League champions $131million over four years .
That would send United to the top of football's sponsorship income league . |
1ab17ae3f11e328cada28a6ba4b9ff04a981c9e0 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . and Ap Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 11:18 EST, 9 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 14:43 EST, 9 January 2014 . Your next secretary could be one of the most famous Jeopardy! champs of all time because the supercomputer that beat Ken Jennings just moved a step closer to becoming available to businesses... | IBM announced plans to give the Watson Supercomputer its own New York City offices .
The business will have 2,000 employees and offer cloud-based customer service for banking, healthcare and other industries .
IBM says Watson 'thinks like a human' and can thus interact with customers like a person would on behalf of bu... |
1ab38458b6299726beed72979e7bcb289b9de357 | (CNN) -- What was the best moment of Willow Brugh's weekend? "Someone stood up on a chair (and) asked if anyone had Arduino skills," she said, in reference to the programming platform. "And someone jogged over to them with a huge grin on their face. The joy of sharing." It wasn't a traditional weekend, of course. Brug... | One dozen Random Hacks of Kindness events held around the world .
Events bring together disaster relief/climate change organizations and programmers/developers .
RHoK events end with fully functional, diverse products . |
1ab3ce54ee67b2b634b630f6bfccf4f6d14cada6 | Danny Cipriani has been named in England's preliminary squad for next week's training camp in south-west London, head coach Stuart Lancaster has announced. It is Cipriani's first Red Rose involvement since winning the last of his seven caps in 2008 and rewards a strong season at Sale Sharks, who he helped achieve a six... | Danny Cipriani has been included in Stuart Lancaster's England squad .
20-man squad will train next week ahead of tour of New Zealand . |
1ab3e1cef0ed7b40ad60638f0b911bd5065d5413 | By . Victoria Woollaston . PUBLISHED: . 12:48 EST, 20 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:49 EST, 20 November 2013 . If seeing GIFs across the web isn’t enough to satisfy your need for the short moving clips, you can now buy a machine that plays them without the need for electricity or an internet connection. Called a Gi... | Called a Giphoscope, it turns GIFs into 24 individual pictures .
These pictures are printed onto the machine in frame order .
User cranks handle and the pictures move in a similar way to a flip book .
Each Giphoscope is custom-built in Italy and costs €300 (£251) |
1ab3e2d59bb540822b17a03e2fb807c3c3b1c95c | Alex Salmond will demand the power to hold another independence referendum in return for propping up Ed Miliband in Downing Street next year. The outgoing First Minister has revealed his price for the SNP's support should there be a hung parliament following May's General Election. The move raises the prospect of Mr Mi... | Outgoing First Minister reveals price for SNP support in a coalition .
Miliband would have to choose between coalition or risking the Union .
Lib Dem Alistair Carmichael rules out referendum 'any time soon' |
1ab42010a1590df610d0563df78ed53cca40a3ce | (CNN) -- More than 20% of patients who received an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator -- a high-tech device that produces electrical impulses to regulate heartbeats and prevent life-threatening arrhythmias -- in recent years were not good candidates to receive the device, a new study suggests. Researchers at Duke U... | A federal health agency has a set of guidelines for evaluating implant candidates .
Duke University study: More than 20% of implant recipients weren't good candidates .
Among those patients, the risk of dying in the hospital was significantly higher .
Findings will have "major implications," the president of a cardiolo... |
1ab442d118a3a176d7102f5729e683bdd795f96a | Arsenal and Galatasaray will face UEFA charges following the behaviour of the Turkish fans at the Emirates Stadium on Wednesday night. The Gunners will be charged because they were responsible for security and organisation at the stadium, and are likely to face a fine for 'insufficient organisation'. Galatasaray have b... | Galatasaray fans disrupted Champions League clash with Arsenal by throwing flares onto the pitch .
Turkish fans threw flares and fireworks on to Emirates pitch during Champions League clash .
Arsenal could face a fine after failing to be responsible for security and organisation .
Turkish club could have section of the... |
1ab4e2136b78d70c12f4a5af19b49e75b75a191a | By . Victoria Woollaston . Forget Google Glass, smartwatches and even the biohacker who inserted a microchip under his skin, Motorola is hoping to trump them all with its microphone tattoo. According to a patent filed by the Google-owned phone maker, the tattoo would be placed onto a person’s throat and pick sounds cre... | Tattoo picks up sounds caused by changes in throat muscles when talking .
It sends these sounds wirelessly to a smartphone using Bluetooth or NFC .
Google-owned Motorola also claims it could be fitted to animals .
The technology could make it easier to hear callers in noisy places .
The firm has also said it is working... |
1ab63dab7c5da89ce6d9ba29ecda0276796da7c7 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 06:17 EST, 31 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:17 EST, 31 May 2013 . A blind Chinese woman has admitted to selling four of her new-born children to support her family because her husband can't hold down a steady job. Between 2005 and 2012 Du Xiurong, from Shibei Village in Mianyang, ... | Du Xiurong has sold three girls and a boy between 2005 and 2012 .
She says she did it to raise money to look after her two eldest children .
She denies 'selling' the children, saying she only charges 'pregnancy fees' |
1ab6b0f897acb655a30664c329624d2d31face7c | By . William Turvill . PUBLISHED: . 15:15 EST, 24 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 16:59 EST, 24 December 2013 . The South African public broadcaster has been warned not to report on calls for Jacob Zuma to step down as president, according to campaign groups. A spokesman from the country's Right2Know group said the inte... | Instructions for SABC make 'a mockery of the principle of freedom of expression', says campaign group Right2Know .
Right2Know and SOS Coalition were told of interference through union . |
1ab6f28ac527b422e53c3a9383b30cf78964356f | Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has echoed the sentiments of new Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal in criticising the demands of their pre-season tour. Wenger said it was 'impossible' to prepare his squad properly for the upcoming Premier League campaign, which begins on August 16, given the demands of their pre-seas... | Wenger unhappy with tour demands and late return of players .
Arsenal are without a host of internationals following the World Cup .
Arsenal to play New York Red Bulls in friendly before flying to Austria . |
1ab7f3f547d3607e15476bc0a340e7e0aeef32c8 | (CNN) -- Thanks to a wave of new mobile technology, I can store my calendar, car keys, credit cards, music and notes all on my smartphone. That kind of convergence is convenient, but my phone has an Achilles' heel. The battery doesn't last forever. Enter the Powerbag, a line of battery-equipped shoulder bags and backpa... | We review Powerbag, a line of battery-equipped shoulder bags and backpacks .
A full battery charge can fill up about two smartphones .
Unlike solar-powered bags, you can hardly tell it's a geek accessory .
Powerbag spokesman: The battery was rigorously tested for safety . |
1ab957a09213110f070bfaa6ff5c2de1f3261c70 | By . Chris Irvine . For Gregoire Alessandrini, the diner is a symbol of American nostalgia as wholesome as the apple pie that was served inside. So a recent trip back to New York - 25 years on from when he first lived there as a film student - inspired the photographer to share his old images of the relics, for Big App... | Photographer Greg Alessandrini spent the 1990s in New York as a film student armed with a camera .
Recent trip back inspired him to share old images of oldtime diners .
Diners symbolise 'a real part of the old New York' |
1abb8cf974dfa952cb21483b58c9c3714f299b2b | Tanith Lawrence, 12, was with a group of friends on a trip to see the Hunger Games when they were wrongly accused of filming the movie . A group of 12-year-old girls were left in tears after being hauled out of a cinema by police when staff falsely accused them of recording The Hunger Games on their mobiles and iPads. ... | Group of seven 12-year-old went to watch The Hunger Games in Brighton .
But they were hauled out of cinema by police suspected of recording film .
Children were left in tears outside Cineworld as they were accused of filming the movie on iPhones and iPads, and breaking copyright laws .
Sussex Police searched the device... |
1abc58459e985166f44bddf0d9b0c3aa4c015ab8 | A 33-year-old man has spent five years and $100,000 in an effort to look like his hero - teenaged pop idol Justin Bieber, whose attraction hasn't waned for him since the star's recent arrest. Toby Sheldon is a songwriter from Los Angeles who has used Bieber's youthful features as the inspiration for numerous surgeries,... | LA man Toby Sheldon says Justin Bieber is his inspiration .
He has had $100,000 worth of surgery since 2008 in an effort to look like the star, who is 14 years his junior .
Sheldon is an aspiring singer-songwriter .
He says he has no regrets about his surgeries . |
1abda14d404cead023b8174d753cb8a8670eeb5d | Australia survived a spirited Argentina fightback to claim their second win in the Rugby Championship at Robina Stadium. The hosts were looking to build on their victory over South Africa last time out, and things looked to be going their way when tries from Michael Hooper (two) and Peter Betham helped them open up a 2... | Michael Hooper scores twice to help Australia to victory .
Pumas still searching for their first win in the Rugby Championship .
Manuel Montero, Marcelo Bosch and Joaquin Tuculet scored for Argentina . |
1abdff8f53bcc566a7f4123fe7fc4856deb26ca5 | (CNN) -- He never told a lie, as the story goes. So maybe if he were alive today, President George Washington could tell a New York City library what he did with two books he checked out 221 years ago. The two books -- weighty discourses on international relations and parliamentary debates -- were checked out on Octobe... | George Washington has racked up a growing fine on two overdue books from NYC library .
The discourses on international relations, parliamentary debates were never returned .
New York Society Library would like to track down the books .
The library has known about the missing books since the 1930s . |
1abe33417cb0eb6526a396f8dd533222fb8af426 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . A shocking new story reveals that the U.S. army inadvertently had an 8-year-old boy turn into a spy and place electronic tracking devices on his surrogate father so that they could spot him and kill him in a scheduled drone attack. The 8-year-old boy and his biological father have confessed t... | New allegations claim that an 8-year-old Yemeni boy who was abandoned by his biological family was then roped back into their clutches .
The boy's biological father works for the Yemeni Republican Guard, which helps U.S. forces, and they asked have an al Qaeda operative located .
That operative had been added to the U.... |
1abe69721152db4f4c8812b685769768bb8151d1 | As chairman of Ofsted, she was the guardian of good behaviour for the nation’s schoolchildren. But a rather less wholesome side to Zenna Atkins has emerged after enraged parents complained about X-rated comments posted on her publicly available Facebook page. In one smutty post, the 49-year-old boasted of offering to p... | Zenna Atkins, 49, was Ofsted chairman for four years until 2010 .
She left post after commenting that every school needing a 's*** teacher'
She is now chair of governors at Portslade Aldridge Community Academy .
Parents complained over joke and photo posted on her Facebook page .
Mother-of-two's page was public but has... |
1abef54291d4c13632967765d377d7607b431f0f | A coastal cafe is bringing back good manners just one coffee at a time. Owners of Seven Mile Beach Kiosk in Gerroa, on the New South Wales' south coast, have put up a sign which is not only encouraging customers to be more polite, but it is putting a smile on their faces. For about two months, the sign which reads 'A c... | Seven Mile Beach Kiosk on NSW's south coast have put up the tongue-in-cheek sign .
The sign price points coffees depending on people's politeness, starting from $5 .
The Gerroa cafe is owned by locals Kev Chilver and his wife, Kylie Pickett .
The couple said they wanted to put up the sign to bring back 'common courtesy... |
1abf1f07d7d570a676a1071a60da9f213d4571c4 | MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- The Somali government has asked Russia to intervene against pirates who have seized a Ukrainian cargo ship, the Somali ambassador to Russia said Wednesday. The U.S. Navy released this observance photo of the MV Faina, which is loaded with weapons and tanks. But the Russian navy issued a statem... | NEW: Somalia wants Russian warships to intervene; Russia rules out using force .
Pirates captured Ukrainian MV Faina, loaded with weapons, off Somalia's coast .
Officials fear weapons will get into terrorists' hands .
Ships from 10 countries, including U.S., in region; Somalia fed up with inaction . |
1abf3260ab82aea0f39bd491880b55b1e2cec3ad | Save of the tournament? Given the magnitude of the game (a World Cup quarter-final) and the timing (the 94th minute), it’s certainly a contender. A heavy first touch took Karim Benzema wider than he would have liked, but his left-foot strike was still firm and true, the ball arrowing towards the roof of the net at Manu... | Germany goalkeeper pulled off a brilliant stop from Benzema in the dying stages to preserve Germany's one-goal lead .
Joachim Low's side won the quarter-final 1-0 thanks to a goal from defender Mats Hummels .
Afterwards Neuer said he made the save instinctively and that such things come naturally to him .
Germany will ... |
1ac09fa646ff705a284639f21807fd3fd6c82322 | By . Ruth Styles . From Zoe Jordan to Holly Fulton, John Rocha and Julien Macdonald, there's been no shortage of talented designers taking to the catwalk at Somerset House over the last two days. But one of the world's biggest fashion names chose to give proceedings a miss - in favour of attending a film screening. Vog... | The US Vogue editor joined Livia Firth and Amanda Harlech at the W Hotel .
The new film, Handprint, aims to highlight the plight of garment workers .
Others involved in the film include Natalie Massanet and Stella McCartney . |
1ac0f0a9ec2bff230d6a9627224079a87ef1e101 | Some of Britain's hottest acting talent has come together to support Stand Up to Cancer in a dramatic short film. Tom Hardy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michelle Dockery, Gillian Anderson, Idris Elba, Eddie Redmayne, Anna Friel, Sheridan Smith and Steve Coogan star in the exclusive film by renowned photographer and film dire... | The country's top acting talent join forces to star in a powerful short film .
Stars such as Idris Elba, Sheridan Smith and Michelle Dockery feature .
Actors run towards the camera to show urgency of fight against cancer . |
1ac1f48f0480835451b559f11d151ed8503eb235 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 07:16 EST, 26 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:25 EST, 26 August 2013 . A man who was rushed to hospital with a metal chair leg embedded in his skull after a bar brawl has stunned doctors by making a remarkable recovery. X-rays of the man's injury in Siberia, Russia, show the stoo... | Stool leg was stuck more than four inches into man's brain in Siberia .
But he has been able to feed himself and move normally after attack .
He spent more than two weeks in intensive care after attack . |
1ac20fab8eb8b13cf0778ec73099af105686fc09 | An unfeasibly slender mother-of-four has set a new Guiness World Record by eating 12lbs of pudding in just three minutes. Nebraska-based Molly Schuyler, 34, a competitive eater with several food guzzling accolades to her name already, smashed the previous world record, which was a paltry 2lbs 15oz of pudding in the sam... | Molly Schuyler, 34, consumed six times the quantity of pudding devoured by the previous Guiness World Record holder .
The human stomach can usually only expand to hold a capacity of 8lbs .
'I .
started doing this about a year ago, and I guess it's like a stupid .
human trick,' she says of her speed-eating abilities . |
1ac2a7ecdf466e11e820eb7813fc283f528370f1 | A lobby group that supports publicly funded universal health care has claimed that under the federal government's proposed changes to Medicare the average upfront cost of a 15-minute consultation with a GP could exceed $100 within two years. The Doctors Reform Society says Tony Abbott's government's plan to reduce the ... | Under government's proposed changes to Medicare the average upfront cost of a 15-minute consultation with a GP could exceed $100 in two years .
'We're predicting a rapid rise in the cost to see a family doctor,' says Doctors Reform Society national president .
About 82 per cent of GP visits are bulk-billed. For patient... |
1ac32cf34aa9624bf5665d5332f310d0a47109f4 | (CNN) -- Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho, the only coach to win European football's top three leagues, has told CNN in an exclusive interview that his remarkable track record of success and very public profile has had a devastating impact on his personal life. After winning league titles with Chelsea, Inter, Real as we... | Jose Mourinho's son taunted while playing football .
Portuguese coach wants to live a 'normal' life .
Will return to England at end of his spell in Madrid .
Wants to keep working until 70 or 75 like Sir Alex Ferguson . |
1ac33efcb0315c1ca87f702bb66385b79dcab4fb | (CNN) -- The Indigo Girls navigate the challenges of today's recording environment with their new two-disc album, "Poseidon and the Bitter Bug." The Indigo Girls, Amy Ray, left, and Emily Saliers released their latest folk-rock album on Tuesday. Rather than abandon ship amid the country's economic recession and after b... | The Indigo Girls released their latest album, "Poseidon and the Bitter Bug," Tuesday .
The folk rockers talk with CNN about working on the independent effort .
The Atlanta duo recorded the album in just three weeks .
Band member: Writing process is the same, but "we just trust it more now" |
1ac34b0adcc7b7ee4a67e9c996d751aa609c34ec | Gareth Bale just isn't content with being one of the best wingers in the world, the Real Madrid maestro clearly fancies his chances in goal, too. The 25-year-old was training with his Wales team-mates ahead of their Euro 2016 qualifying match against Belgium and, instead of putting balls in the back of the net, the for... | Gareth Bale and his Wales team-mates take on Belgium on Sunday evening in Euro 2016 qualifying match .
Wales sit top of Group B after three games, having beaten Andorra and Cyprus, and drawn with Bosnia-Herzegovina .
Wales manager Chris Coleman: 'We are a good side as well. We have an excellent squad, a tremendous squa... |
1ac38970b818653cc6a029e35ebac9558a8a3333 | (CNN) -- Five-time winners Brazil opened their World Cup campaign with a nervy 2-1 victory over a spirited North Korea in Johannesburg after the Ivory Coast and Portugal had played out a 0-0 draw in Tuesday's other Group G match. In a contest between the tournament's highest and lowest ranked teams, Brazil were unable ... | Five-time champions Brazil beat a stubborn North Korea 2-1 at Ellis Park, Johannesburg .
Maicon and Elano score for Brazil before Ji Yun-nam grabbed a late reply for Korea .
Ivory Coast and Portugal draw 0-0 in Group G opening match in Port Elizabeth .
Ronaldo strikes the post for Portugal and Drogba missed late chance... |
1ac3ea16e6da4c3c8d63e88f75971ba061d58755 | (CNN) -- An American contractor said Thursday that the U.S. mission in Iraq will be undermined if the Iraqi government succeeds in revoking blanket legal immunity for American security contractors. An armored vehicle of a foreign private security company drives in central Baghdad in October 2007. Carter Andress reacted... | Report says loss of contractor immunity could spark "exodus" from Iraq .
Contractor says Iraq reliant on firms like his, "for better or for worse"
Scholar skeptical that contractors would leave -- "Too much money to be made"
About 70 private security companies have operated in Iraq since 2003 . |
1ac4257b5bf26154dd9fcd75f57be1910dab8032 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 09:07 EST, 28 December 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 13:06 EST, 28 December 2012 . A nurse whose parked car was damaged by a football team's coach on Boxing Day was shocked to find two of the players laughing about the incident on Twitter. One tweet, apparently posted by Watford FC strik... | Car was found badly damaged after being parked for a few hours in Bristol .
Later found tweets by Watford FC players who appeared amused .
Vehicle was allegedly scraped by the Watford players' tour coach . |
1ac53438f08ac438000b9ca9ad3c0db70b7a5640 | (CNN) -- An Arizona woman is accused of injecting feces-laced fluid into her 66-year-old husband's IV as the couple was alone in his recovery room following his surgery, police said. Rosemary Vogel, 65, of Sun Lakes, was arrested after a warning alarm on the IV monitor sounded Thursday. She is now charged with attempte... | Rosemary Vogel, 65, is charged with attempted first-degree murder .
A nurse, she allegedly put feces-laced fluid into her 66-year-old husband's IV .
The couple was in his recovery room following his surgery .
"This is the first that I've heard where fecal matter has been injected into an IV," officer says . |
1ac6b157651fffa05b196e8f42256f1d4c8e8bfc | (CNN) -- Gabrielle "Gabby" Giffords stood next to her husband in court Thursday as he spoke directly to Jared Loughner, the Arizona man who tried to assassinate the then-congresswoman in a January 2011 shooting. "Mr. Loughner, you may have put a bullet through her head, but you haven't put a dent in her spirit and her ... | Jared Loughner gets seven consecutive life terms plus 140 years, without parole .
"Mr. Loughner, you have been given a gift," the prosecutor says .
Judge rules Loughner knew what he was doing "despite his mental illness"
Six people were killed and 13 wounded in the January 2011 shooting . |
1ac6b46aa765619a04702d583749633bb9f8687a | By . Daily Mail Reporter . Surveillance footage has revealed the terrifying moment three children suffered electric shocks after they touched a metal railing in a swimming pool at a Florida apartment complex. Diego Cabrera, 10, Daniella Gamez, six, and a five-year-old girl were swimming with friends and adults at the P... | Three children, aged 10, six and five, suffered electric shocks in the apartment complex pool in Florida last month .
A video shows their bodies falling limp and slipping beneath the water's surface before they are saved by adults .
All three children spent four days in hospital .
Inspectors said that it was due to fau... |
1ac6d5a5d3ef72267ca13511cce7b01c4de61a67 | Prime Minister David Cameron claimed a number of small amounts back from the taxpayer - including 38p for a staple remover . We have all heard of the £1,600 duck house, wide-screen TVs, moats cleared for £2,200 and many of the other extravagances that MPs put on their expenses. After the scandal was exposed and a new, ... | MPs accused today of squeezing every last penny out of taxpayer .
Cameron charged 7p for a bulldog clip and 38p for a staple remover .
Jeremy Hunt claimed 5p for a paperclip and 8p for a page marker .
Labour's Alistair Darling claimed 70p for a postage stamp . |
1ac8026a51511f420b22f00450d9533c0b783eb1 | By . James Nye . PUBLISHED: . 17:38 EST, 9 May 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 06:40 EST, 10 May 2012 . Doctors at Houston's Memorial hospital live-tweeted brain surgery on Twitter today, complete with graphic video, photos and up-to-the-minute commentary. Beginning at 8.30 a.m EST, approximately 14 million people from Mexico to... | Up to 14 million people followed the live-commentary on Twitter .
Surgery performed by Dr. Dong Kim one of the doctors who saved U.S Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford life last year after she was shot point blank in the head .
The unnamed patient was a 21-year-old girl who had a benign tumour .
She survived the operation... |
1ac8d61acdbe81547a181156d9161f2e94e48c4d | Thomas Eric Duncan's temperature spiked to 103F during the hours of his initial visit to an emergency room - a fever that was flagged with an exclamation point in the hospital's record-keeping system, according to his newly-released medical records today. Despite telling a nurse that he had recently been in Africa and ... | Thomas Duncan's family provided his medical records - more than 1,400 pages in all - from his treatment at Texas Presbyterian in Dallas .
The records encompass his time in the ER, his urgent return to hospital two days later and chronicle his steep decline as his organs began to fail .
He initially showed up at Texas P... |
1aca375dddc5083a48b9bd3b8b3b038bb382407b | (Mashable) -- Apple has taken firm root in America. Just over half of all households in the country own at least one Apple product, a new survey says, showing just how far the reach of the company has come in the last decade. At the turn of the 21st century, Apple was in rough shape. It had narrowly avoided bankruptcy,... | Of the U.S. households that own Apple products, they own an average of three .
The survey shows Apple buyers tend to skew male and young, with higher education and incomes .
If you have kids, the likelihood of being an Apple household grows 61% . |
1aca8b5b26a6f608ca00de604bf104f672a18e86 | (CNN) -- If you've ever been stuck for a jet lag cure, consider the experience of Singaporeans. A new survey reveals a dozen ways Singaporean travelers try to avoid the 5 p.m. shuteye, along with their success rates. Among them: Viagra, drinking alcohol and not drinking alcohol. "Our survey has shown that people will o... | A thousand people are asked what jet lag remedies they use .
Exercising and light exercise deemed most popular .
Other "cures" include drinking, not drinking and Viagra . |
1aca916d9851696270cf410a64424f4ce4f250fb | By . Ben Spencer . The EU has scrapped rules that bind countries to renewable energy targets, lifting demands that Britain build more wind and solar farms. The change paves the way for the Government to expand its use of nuclear power and develop fracking as a major energy source. Britain will still have to provide 15 ... | EU countries will no longer have to hit individual renewable energy targets .
The targets now force the EU as a whole to increase its renewable power .
Rule change allows Britain to expand nuclear power and develop fracking .
Energy Secretary Ed Davey says move is good for British energy security . |
1acab277a5e44e5d735762b1ccfb998c418fa2cf | The European Tour suffered a blow on Wednesday when Volvo announced they are ending a multi-million-pound commitment to sponsor two events. The Swedish car makers are pulling out of deals to sponsor the World Match Play Championship, to be played at the London Club next week, and the Volvo Champions in South Africa. Th... | Volvo to end sponsorship of the World Match Play Championship .
Swedish car makers pull out of Volvo Champions event in South Africa .
News will cast dampener when the Match Play returns to Britain . |
1acafd4b7ccbc6809b775f3a93364ba0fb97aa18 | By . Associated Press . Busted: Sarah Espinosa crashed her car into a fire house on Monday night and was found with a snake wrapped around her neck which she had stolen and in possession of marijuana . Authorities say a New York woman who crashed her car into a Long Island fire house was found to be in possession of ma... | Sarah Espinosa, 22, was also found to be in possession of marijuana after the crash on Monday night on Long Island . |
1acb6031f2d42963328caa93e310035770c257cc | (CNN) -- Iranian security officials say they have arrested an MI6 spy in southeastern Iran's Kerman province, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported Saturday. "The spy was arrested after several months of complex intelligence activities," ISNA quoted the head of Kerman's revolutionary court, Dadkhoda Salari, as sa... | The accused spy was arrested in southeastern Iran's Kerman province, news agency says .
The man allegedly met with British intelligence officers 11 times, ISNA reports .
The UK Foreign Office says it does not comment on intelligence matters . |
1acc3b8897c044fc2ba4ab668494da14774d7e34 | President Barack Obama on Wednesday outlined a foreign policy vision of "might doing right," arguing that modern pragmatism requires both a strong military and the diplomatic tools of alliances and sanctions to exert influence and provide global leadership. He told graduating cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West... | Sen. McCain says Obama has failed to properly exert America's might .
President Obama presents a broad vision designed in part to rebuff critics .
Obama has come under criticism for what opponents say is a passive approach .
He argues global leadership requires military might, alliances and diplomatic tools . |
1acc97fb2535a30b2e74048c14c1969de7ee4641 | The Tony Pulis trademark look has already set in at the Hawthorns, with his new side West Brom running out of navy baseball caps in their club shop. The former Stoke and Crystal Palace boss, who has won his opening two matches in charge of the Baggies, is a big fan of donning the tracksuit and baseball cap look on the ... | Tony Pulis has won his opening two matches in charge of West Brom .
His arrival has resulted in the club shop running out of navy caps .
The 56-year-old is a big fan of donning the tracksuit and baseball cap look on the touchline .
After wearing a suit in his first game in charge of the Baggies in the FA Cup win agains... |
1ace7173bec71d4b2fca8e7ead8f5b93b9a175c8 | COPENHAGEN, Denamrk (CNN) -- Actress Connie Nielsen hit the big time when she starred in "Gladiator" as Lucilla, sister of the deranged Emperor Commodus. Since then she has appeared in hit movies including "One Hour Photo" and "The Hunted". Connie Nielsen has always refused to play the Hollywood fame game. But Nielsen ... | Connie Nielsen says she refuses the fame and money side of acting .
She says the long winters mean the residents have to be creative .
Copenhagen is full of history and culture, and Nielsen loves its museums .
The city is very beautiful and the light has "a very special quality," she says . |
1aceea48124b61523034375f54235909443ca8a1 | By . Suzannah Hills . PUBLISHED: . 13:16 EST, 10 February 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 16:44 EST, 10 February 2014 . Jailed: Alison Potts, 51, was caught stealing from the Sainbury's store where she worked after police were called in to investigate missing donations for an injured soldier . A thieving Sainsbury's manager was ... | Alison Potts, 51, was entrusted .
with staff donations for an injured .
squaddie .
Police were called in when staff raised concerns the money was missing .
Officers discovered Potts carried out 254 cash refunds worth £5,000 without a customer present .
Potts was found guilty of fraud and theft but cleared of stealing t... |
1acf578365488404add590dd22aacaa9db4b37b8 | MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- A series of attacks and gunbattles between Mexican drug cartel suspects and police left at least 14 people dead and 22 wounded Thursday night, officials and news reports said. Nine cartel suspects and three police officers died in two ferocious gunbattles in the central Mexican state of Hi... | Nine drug cartel suspects and three police officers die in gunbattles, authorities say .
Two shootouts occur in central Mexican state of Hidalgo .
Drug suspects reportedly started shooting when police searched for missing agents .
Two killed in attacks on police stations in Guanajuato state . |
1acf6871758cf427e2a806930e6959084bcc9b47 | (CNN) -- Running along the banks of the Seine Sunday, I take a lap around the giant hot air balloon in the south of Paris hovering gently over the Parc André Citroen. Essentially a giant weather balloon, its LEDs sparkled green -- Parisian air quality is just fine, a significant change from just two days before, Friday... | Paris made public transport free and partially banned cars to contain pollution levels this week .
Drivers unhappy, though some report improved air quality as a result .
Biggest changes likely due to weather, long-term measures needed say campaigners . |
1ad0f16bbfebcbb0f7a3ff652c4d55b0b26a14c1 | By . Kirk Maltais . Tempers flared following the conclusion of the Toyota Owners 400 on Saturday, resulting in fisticuffs between drivers Marcos Ambrose and Casey Mears. After driver Joey Logano made some clutch moves in the final laps to take the top spot at the Richmond International Raceway, in Richmond, Virginia, A... | Ambrose hits Mears with a right hook after conclusion of Toyota Owners 400 on Saturday .
The cars of the two drivers may have come into contact during the last laps of the race .
NASCAR Official: Full review of event will take place on Monday or Tuesday .
The latest of several altercations between drivers in recent yea... |
1ad3eb2f54b040aac9dc4be70b49fba4dc83be06 | For those who feel the Barclays Premier League is becoming too predictable at the top end, it is always worth hanging around for Christmas. There is a reason the English continue to chase leather in the cold while the rest of Europe holidays at this time of year and here, at a rather flabbergasted Etihad Stadium, was i... | Manchester City are hot on the heels of leaders Chelsea, and went into the game just three points behind them .
David Silva opened the scoring in the first half when he spun in the 18-yard box to fire past Burnley's Tom Heaton .
Shortly after, Fernandinho doubled the lead with a brilliant strike into the top corner fro... |
1ad47f3fc9cdf7b2d91b94850fcea7a0c3ce4dab | (CNN) -- Barack Obama and his wife released their tax returns from 2000 to 2006 on his campaign Web site Tuesday, and the Illinois senator challenged Sen. Hillary Clinton to release hers. Later, Clinton said she expected to release her tax returns "shortly, I hope within the next week." Sen. Barack Obama is challenging... | Sen. Clinton says she expects to release returns "shortly"
Obama campaign releases senator's 2000-2006 returns on Web site .
Obama made nearly $1 million in 2006, returns show .
Campaign challenges Clinton to release 2006 returns . |
1ad4b56143438350cd6b98932c508621130c07e7 | By . Rob Cooper . PUBLISHED: . 07:01 EST, 12 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:47 EST, 12 April 2013 . An art student stripped off in protest after her university refused to display her erotic paintings at an exhibition. Cat Lee, 22, had her more risqué work covered up with bedsheets in the University of Brighton gallery ... | Cat Lee, 22, said she was 'outraged' at not being able to display her work .
University of Brighton says sexually graphic artwork is 'offensive' to some .
Student declined option of restricting gallery entry to over 18s only . |
1ad4d2ef990a1795c417176c86a4232e8fb2eeb1 | Danny Welbeck's Arsenal hat-trick was the story on everyone's lips on Thursday morning, but the FA still think he is a Manchester United player. Roy Hodgson's England squad for the Euro 2016 qualifiers against San Marino and Estonia has been announced, but in a gaffe from the FA, the official squad sheet listed Welbeck... | Arsenal signed Danny Welbeck from Man Unitedon deadline day .
Welbeck cost the Gunners £16million .
The FA referred to Welbeck as a Man Utd player in their official team-sheet released to the press . |
1ad511e64bcc8f92329a539fc9ccb24d519c13f1 | By . Lucy Waterlow . PUBLISHED: . 13:28 EST, 22 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 13:28 EST, 22 July 2013 . A woman who wanted bigger breasts so she could 'feel like one of the girls' was left with a lopsided, swollen cleavage after going under the knife. Support worker Susan Calvert, 39, from Sunderland, had a boob job in he... | Susan Calvert wanted bigger boobs because she 'looked like a boy'
But she didn't research surgeon because she rushed into op .
She was told implants would last a lifetime .
But years later they ruptured leaving her with painful, lopsided breasts . |
1ad567fea7f483b57f2869e5269b98a31028e625 | Withering: Lord Rennard has questioned whether Nick Clegg is still leading a ‘major party’ following his latest by-election humiliation . Lord Rennard has questioned whether Nick Clegg is still leading a ‘major party’ following his latest by-election humiliation. The former chief executive of the Liberal Democrats said... | Lord Rennard questions whether Nick Clegg is still leading a 'major party'
The Lib Dem peer was suspended early this year after a series of women accused him of making sexual advances .
Barbed comments will be seen as revenge for not being welcomed back . |
1ad671cdb69417002a8082b6ef118fa52cc95431 | CLEVELAND, Ohio (CNN/WKYC) -- An emergency room physician accused of murdering his wife with cyanide pleaded not guilty on Wednesday, nearly four years after her death. Rosemarie DiPuccio Essa's family say they want "justice for Rosie." A judge set bail for Yazeed Essa at $75 million at a hearing attended by members of... | Dr. Yazeed Essa pleads not guilty to wife's cyanide murder .
He is being held on $75 million bail as a flight risk .
Essa left the country and went to Beirut after being questioned by police .
He was arrested in Cyprus and extradited last week, nearly 4 years after wife's death . |
1ad6b557b5beb585df56674548e98eb53bbc326f | (CNN) -- Juventus will go into Italian football's winter break level on points with leaders AC Milan after being held 0-0 by third-placed Udinese on Wednesday. Antonio Conte's team extended their unbeaten run to 16 Serie A matches to keep pace with the defending champions, who beat Cagliari 2-0 on Tuesday. Claudio Marc... | AC Milan retain Serie A lead after second-placed Juventus draw 0-0 at Udinese .
Third-placed Udinese two points clear of Lazio, who also drop points .
German Cup holders Schalke beaten in last 16 by Borussia Monchengladbach .
Spanish club Villarreal sack coach Juan Carlos Garrido after exiting Copa del Rey . |
1ad735965b94c3d475f783efceb417a62d523dea | To match their skirts, flipflops and everything else in their doll-filled bedrooms, the girls have theirs in pink. The boys, of course, choose blue. But these are not toys, they are real guns — a U.S. gun-maker’s range of .22 calibre, single-shot rifles marketed for young children. The ‘youth model’ of the Crickett fir... | A US gun company sells 60,000 rifles a year for children between 4 and 10 .
The Crickett firearm is sold in a 'My First Rifle' range of guns .
Belgian photographer An-Sofie Kesteleyn met some gun owners aged from 6 .
The girls said they were scared of the devil, burglars, zombies and sharks . |
1ad7befb648fb278e0aaa19bbcdf3020bcbd337d | By . Steve Robson . PUBLISHED: . 12:25 EST, 19 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:57 EST, 19 January 2013 . Even the most patient of children might have difficulty recreating these Lego models. The world's third Lego hotel is under construction in Carlsbad, California, complete with lifesize bellhops, chefs and a huge dr... | Lifesize bellhops and huge dragon made from popular children's toy .
Includes swimming pool, restaurant and themed rooms .
First in North America after similar hotels opened in Windsor and Denmark . |
1ad7db30d9df9dbc988b5431079d1a273dfc573b | By . Ellie Zolfagharifard . PUBLISHED: . 09:11 EST, 28 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 09:57 EST, 28 August 2013 . These stunning images prove there is more to bees than meets the eye - in a kaleidoscope of colours which spectacularly show off their hidden differences. The pictures, taken by the U.S. Geological Survey's B... | The images were taken by the U.S. Geological Survey's Bee .
Inventory and Monitoring programme .
Each macro photo is a composite of between 20 and 300 individual photos, taken at slightly different distances .
Some bees have no stripes and their shapes range from large bumblebees to those as small as a grain of rice . |
1ad7f0226c4db346d16ae54c2cb90a59926792ff | By . Nina Golgowski . PUBLISHED: . 20:16 EST, 7 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 20:20 EST, 7 March 2013 . A Mexican man has pleaded no contest to beheading a man in Arizona who police say stole drugs from the El Chapo drug trafficking organization launching the grisly attack authorities fear to be spreading across the U.S.... | Crisantos Moroyoqui-Yocupicio, 39, has pleaded no contest to 2010 beheading in Phoenix apartment .
Only one of three suspected hit men have been arrested .
Cartel killings in U.S. are said to be rare out of fear of attention from American authorities .
Victim and four suspects all are from Mexico and were in the U.S. i... |
1ad936c29551827384dba9cbb08c310bf24dcac1 | One of the original Marlboro Men, who epitomized a rugged cowboy in the cigarette adverts, has died aged 85. Darrell Winfield passed away from an unspecified 'lengthy illness' at his ranch in Riverton, Wyoming, while in hospice care. The real-life rancher was working on a cattle farm in 1968 when he was first discovere... | Winfield passed away from an unspecified 'lengthy illness' at his ranch in Riverton, Wyoming, while in hospice care .
The real-life rancher was working on a farm in 1968 when he was discovered and transformed into a world-recognized model .
He is survived by his wife of 67 years, son and five daughters . |
1ad9fac4df0cc6090479a922354261dc1de17d47 | Finding water on Mars might be a bit of a challenge, but if you want to find ice you need look no further than the Martian poles. Here there is an abundant source of carbon dioxide ice that exists for most of the year. And in stunning images from Nasa the ice can be seen forming some bizarre and familiar shapes - in th... | Researchers in California have captured an image of a face on Mars .
Nasa’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the image .
The face is about 1,640ft (500m) across and has several facial features .
It was created by shifting carbon dioxide ice at the Martian pole .
The psychological effect of seeing faces is called pa... |
1adb57115809df3dc350ce4ae6f4f136693c5f11 | By . Keith Gladdis . PUBLISHED: . 07:25 EST, 30 December 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 02:45 EST, 31 December 2012 . The arrival of a first grandchild is usually a source of great celebration. And for Carole and Michael Middleton it would appear to be a good business opportunity too. Only weeks after the official announcement ... | Middleton's Party Pieces website features royal-themed first birthday sets .
It is also selling new range of baby shower celebration accessories .
The family has previously been accused of 'cashing-in' on events . |
1adbd6229c0f37218d57e5403bb5c2b22b0f8a0d | (CNN) -- The man suspected of a series of sex attacks that left an Oklahoma city on edge this summer has died, authorities said, two weeks after crashing his car as he fled the scene of one of the alleged assaults. Desmond Campbell, 30, was presented with charges related to seven sex crimes last week, even though he wa... | Desmond Campbell was in critical condition, unresponsive after June 29 wreck .
Authorities say he was fleeing an alleged sexual assault .
Campbell is suspected in at least eight attacks in Tulsa in June . |
1adccb8750e4f4105d9e62f9c11ffae7c33dca0c | There are certain traditions over Christmas and New Year that are inevitable - and the trip to the pantomime often tops the list. But for some of us who have been to our fair share of festive plays 'she's behind you' can start to sound like a broken record. So rather than suffer another year of bad jokes and questionab... | We pick three seasonal shows that buck the usual festive formula .
Sleeping Booty includes drag queens, smut and double entendres .
On-stage blizzard in Slava's Snowshow will captivate parents and children . |
1addd8716776493ad5dee55498047a66a0c1e5c7 | By . Marcus Townend for the Daily Mail . Frankie Dettori was described as ‘upset’ at losing the mount of Criquette Head-Maarek’s Prix De L’Arc de Triomphe favourite Treve. But Harry Herbert, racing manager to the filly’s owner Qatari Sheik Joaan Al Thani, said the decision would not cause a fracture in Dettori’s job a... | Italian jockey replaced in the saddle by French rider Thierry Jarnet .
Trainer Criquette Head-Maarek made the decision with the backing of owner Qatari Sheik Joaan Al Thani .
Harry Herbert explained the jockey was 'upset' at losing the mount . |
1adf05dcc67dde2be6b8e9154d24343968414924 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 10:14 EST, 10 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 07:15 EST, 11 April 2013 . Drowned: Julia Niswender, pictured, was found dead in her bedroom on December 11 with the cause of death now ruled asphyxiation by drowning . A 23-year-old college student who was found murdered in her Michigan ... | Eastern Michigan University student Julia Niswender's death ruled asphyxiation after found in a bathtub on December 11 .
Niswender, 23, was found dead in her locked bedroom described by police as disheveled with items missing .
Police have ruled her death a homicide but no suspects have been identified . |
1adf7077f505411ed64fa17cd8eebe3acc4f90ed | She could have at least bought of pair of pants that fit . And the bride wore — a thong. Ill-fitting, at that! All those millions in the bank, and you can’t even get a pair of pants to fit you right. Big things were expected from the wedding of heiress Tamara Ecclestone to her boyfriend of five minutes Jay WotsisName. ... | Heiress wed former banker on Tuesday in front of 150 guests at the Riviera's most luxurious hotel .
Tamara drank shots, groin-danced with a pal and threw herself into the sea . |
1adfb306c145d35f718358ee67ae24f4dcc5c0fb | By . Daily Mail Reporter . Jobless people are being offered a course on how to 'design your own tattoo' - paid for by taxpayers. The free sessions on tattoo art paid for by the Labour-run Welsh Government's anti-poverty programme was yesterday blasted as a 'waste of public money'. The skin ink sessions for the unemploy... | Free course is being offered in Bridgend, South Wales for unemployed .
Sessions paid by Labour-run Welsh Government anti-poverty programme .
Six-hour course is part of a scheme to help get unemployed back to work . |
1adff4d52200ba0cf297aca24b22678c793bd42a | By . Associated Press . PUBLISHED: . 09:32 EST, 21 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 09:33 EST, 21 August 2013 . We may be seeing more prominent gay and lesbian characters on TV shows, but the movie industry lags well behind the small screen, an advocacy group reports. Out of the 101 releases from Hollywood's six major stud... | Out of 101 releases of Hollywood's six major studios, just 14 included LGBT characters in 2012 .
Compared with TV shows, major studios are reluctant to include LGBT characters . |
1ae0158ee93d235a6dba582dba2db420db7684bd | (CNN) -- He's unlikely to break a world record or even win a medal but New Zealand's Blake Skjellerup is likely to generate plenty of headlines if he gets to February's Winter Olympics. The speed skater is currently the only openly gay athlete who could compete in Sochi, at a Games already tinged by Russia's controvers... | Openly gay speed skater Blake Skjellerup says he will stand up for his beliefs in Sochi .
New Zealander intends to wear rainbow-themed badge at Games if he qualifies .
28-year-old says he is standing in solidarity with "oppressed" Russians. |
1ae0733ee07ce20f7b41bcf89156f3e24e9f0095 | Two nine foot-tall polar bears raise their giant paws, bite and wrestle in the snow on a beautiful winter's day by Hudson Bay in Manitoba, Canada, in brilliant new photographs by Joyce Ferder. The image is a common one at this time of year says Ferder, who worked in TV news before becoming a full-time landscape and wil... | Photographer Joyce Ferder took images near Hudson Bay in Manitoba, Canada .
The two polar bears were 'practice sparring' bathed in perfect sunshine .
Ferder said it was like the pair were Greco-Roman wrestling before they walked off together . |
1ae139fd9b37c5e18a2c1e76bba353d0b7c832f3 | A curry-mad couple longed for their favourite Indian takeaway so much that they had it delivered almost 500 miles to their new home. Whitney and Adam Gardner, from Crawley, Sussex, moved to Brittany eight months ago but complained that they couldn't find a decent takeaway in France. So they convinced their mothers to p... | Whitney and Adam Gardner from Crawley moved to Brittany for business .
Couple claim it's impossible to get a decent takeaway in France .
Family members bring them meals from Tarana restaurant in Turners Hill . |
1ae13cbb8f747833ec97b76acefeeeb7e1ab9ca8 | Ahead of this weekend's Premier League action, Sportsmail will be providing you with all you need to know about every fixture, with team news, provisional squads, betting odds and Opta stats. Here is all the information you need for Liverpool's home clash with Hull... Hull have never won at Liverpool and lost 2-0 at An... | Liverpool host Hull City at Anfield in the Premier League (Saturday 3pm)
Mario Balotelli has been heavily criticised for his performances so far .
Italian however is expected to keep his place in Liverpool starting line-up .
Hull have been hit by a raft of injuries to their goalkeepers and forwards .
Liverpool edged pa... |
1ae2cb151e514e327c39561d6f6dfca4a7eb4ad0 | Los Angeles (CNN) -- Actor Charlie Sheen on Friday declared "we are at war" following canceled production of the hit CBS sitcom "Two and a Half Men" and his impending loss of $1.2 million per episode. "They know what they did is wrong," Sheen, who claimed he is clean, said in a call from the Bahamas to the "Loose Canno... | Producers picked "a fight with the wrong guy"
"Sheen's statements, conduct and condition" led to the shutdown, CBS says .
The show's producer "can't handle the truth," Sheen tells TMZ .
Four new episodes were to begin production next week . |
1ae4b46a398d85df373fb2be0ded214480cca832 | The deaf twins killed by euthanasia in Belgium chose to die because they 'had nothing to live for' after learning they would soon become blind, their brother revealed today. The 45-year-olds, named yesterday as Marc and Eddy Verbessem, had lived together their entire adult lives and could not communicate with the outsi... | Marc and Eddy Verbessem, 45, died from lethal injection four weeks ago .
They lived together and could not communicate with the outside world .
Brother, Dirk, 46, said they were terrified of ending up in an institution .
Took them nearly two years to find medical centre to carry out procedure .
Their family tried to ta... |
1ae54a070810b435f0743655f88492527429a4b5 | Scottish swimmer Dan Wallace was told yesterday he would face no further action after screaming ‘For Freedom’ following his gold medal victory in the men’s 400m individual medley. The swimmer had simply become carried away with patriotic fervour after watching his favourite Hollywood historical blockbuster, Braveheart,... | Scottish swimmer Dan Wallace screamed 'For freedom' after winning gold .
It was a reference to the Hollywood historical blockbuster Braveheart .
Games officials satisfied he did not breach ban on political statements .
Swimmer had watched the film on flight over from Florida ahead of Games . |
1ae9b8835fd3f0bb91fbbafec04bcd3f0532dbe7 | Victim Sandra Nowocinska,22, died in hospital four days after being rescued from the suspected arson attack . A 22-year-old mother has died in hospital four days after she was rescued from a suspected arson attack on a block of flats. Sandra Nowocinska, whose death is being treated as manslaughter, was injured along wi... | Sandra Nowocinska, 22, died in hospital four days after fire rescue .
Her son, five, remains in a serious but stable condition in hospital .
Detectives are treating the young mother's death as manslaughter .
Man, 41, arrested last week has been released on police bail . |
1ae9c41878d303fe637fd8615c3ade9212d62cdc | Imagine being a young 28-year-old woman, a mother to two children, but instead looking like their grandmother. This is the reality for Hu Juan of Zhengzhou, of Henan province in north-central China. Hu is the only person in China, and only one of ten people worldwide who suffer from a rare condition called Cutis laxa, ... | Hu Juan suffers from Cutis laxa, a disease which made her age prematurely .
The 28-year-old looks more like a woman in her 60s or 70s .
Hu is one of ten people in the world with the condition .
She is seeking cosmetic treatment in Shanghai to regain her looks . |
1aead812231f1fb87495da07757b132ba85e98ce | New York (CNN) -- A piece believed to be from one of the airliners that hit the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, has been found behind the site of an Islamic community center near ground zero, the New York Police Department said Friday. Investigators are looking into how a part of what appears to be lan... | NEW: The NYPD says Boeing has confirmed the part came from a 767 .
NEW: Both planes that slammed into the twin towers were 767s .
Police believe the piece is part of a landing gear from one of the 9/11 airliners .
The medical examiner will do an examination for human remains, Kelly says . |
1aeb788a9b3add64f7a4a49ebdfc237f847807ed | Egypt coach Shawky Gharib has blamed Mo Salah's lack of game-time at Chelsea for an African Cup of Nations qualifying defeat to Senegal. Salah was unable to inspire the Pharaohs to victory against Senegal as they went down 2-0 courtesy of goals from Stoke's Mame Biram Diouf and new Southampton signing Saido Mane. And G... | Mame Biram Diouf and Saido Mane scored as Senegal beat Egypt .
The Pharaohs lost the first qualifying game for the African Cup of Nations .
Coach Shawky Gharib blamed the defeat on a lack of fitness .
He picked out Mo Salah's lack of play-time at Chelsea as a problem .
Salah is yet to appear for Jose Mourinho's side th... |
1aebde15b9bfc59c96c4167e79a91ed87decb4b2 | London, England (CNN) -- A British aid worker who died during an operation to rescue her from kidnappers in Afghanistan may have been killed by a grenade thrown by American forces trying to free her, British Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday. Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, will launc... | U.S. Special Forces planned and carried out the failed rescue operation, official says .
Troops did not initially say they had thrown a grenade during the operation, the military says .
U.S. forces tried to rescue Linda Norgrove from captors in Afghanistan on Friday .
NATO and British officials said earlier she was kil... |
1aed328b57bdb5c0dfbd34407273b716ec4a2c54 | JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CNN) -- Reggae legend Lucky Dube, one of South Africa's most famous musicians, was killed in an attempted car-jacking as he dropped his children off at a relative's house, his record label said Friday. Reggae star Lucky Dube was much loved by his fellow South Africans. Dube, 43, was killed i... | South African reggae legend Lucky Dube killed in attempted hijacking .
Dube, 43, killed Thursday in Johannesburg after hijacker tried to steal his car .
Death casts shadow over South Africa's preparations for rugby World Cup final . |
1aed9e9e9ce288c1ba28438ceb545244af354a2e | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 12:33 EST, 4 June 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 12:35 EST, 4 June 2012 . Lashing out: Nikoleta Karoly, 24, was arrested for domestic violence on Saturday night in Naples, Florida . A woman was arrested after trying to choke her boyfriend because he refused to marry her, police said. Niko... | Nikoleta Karoly, 24, lost her temper after argument about immigration visa . |
1aee6a243bca17fef8035af136daaa2e47e6224e | By . Sadie Whitelocks . PUBLISHED: . 10:37 EST, 19 February 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 11:24 EST, 19 February 2014 . 19 Kids & Counting star and devout Christian Jessa Duggar has revealed that she won't kiss her boyfriend until their wedding day. In the eighth season of the show, due to premiere on April 1, the 21-year-old ... | The 21-year-old is only allowed to hug her boyfriend, Ben Seewald, briefly to say hello or goodbye .
Even when the couple text back and forth, Jessa's parents are looped into the conversation . |
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