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00eaf1c06f1e3ecd48160b43f3b3cd196a319c8a | (CNN) -- Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger whose posting of a sexually explicit photo of former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner led to the congressman's downfall, has died, his attorney confirmed Thursday. He was 43. Joel Pollak, editor-in-chief and in-house counsel for Breitbart's website, Breitbart.com, posted a st... | Breitbart was known for posting the Anthony Weiner Twitter photos last year .
He was also criticized for an edited clip of federal worker Shirley Sherrod .
He was a star on the right and a villain to the left .
Breitbart got his start at the Drudge Report . |
00eb52284bc064db000901988fb36173446e22c5 | By . Jack Doyle . PUBLISHED: . 15:33 EST, 29 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 02:44 EST, 30 November 2012 . Plans to store billions of pieces of private information from emails, Facebook, texts and internet use are set to be scuppered by the Liberal Democrats. They are ready to oppose a proposed £2billion law affecting e... | Party opposes £2bn law affecting everyone online or using mobile phone .
A series of damning criticisms of Communications Data Bill is expected . |
00eba10e15485b053b2246b587b83a8c51394601 | By . Scarlett Russell . The Czech Republic has long been regarded as one of the most popular destinations for British men's stag parties: At one point, it was reported that 20 per cent of all weekend crime in Prague was caused by them. Perhaps one reason so many tourists flock to the Czech Republic is because of its re... | Respondents all over the world were asked about eight moral issues .
Only 4 per cent of Brits find affairs acceptable .
Brits are relaxed about sex before marriage though .
Czech Republic most accepting of extra marital affairs closely followed by France . |
00ebb7109898734bde3ead005ebbc591cf8dbcc9 | By . Meghan Keneally . New spin: The parody video plays off of Sorkin's HBO show The Newsroom . Aaron Sorkin fans had reason to rejoice Tuesday morning as comedian Amy Schumer released a parody video of his show, The Newsroom. The parody version took the writer's iconic walk-and-talks, moral dilemmas and sexual politic... | Spoof video made by comedian Amy Schumer mocks The Newsroom .
Stars Josh Charles as a manager of a fast food restaurant who stands up against the higher-up's orders to add apple slices to the menu .
Sorkin fans will see many thematic jabs at the writer's distinctive style . |
00ec130aa4857442169aa027c5b38aadbebfd035 | Benghazi, Libya (CNN) -- CIA operatives are providing intelligence from Libya, where opposition forces are on the run and the defiant government suffered the embarrassing defection of its foreign minister Wednesday. The NATO-led coalition, which is enforcing a no-fly zone and protecting civilians from the intense fight... | Weather prevents new coalition airstrikes .
CIA operating in Libya, in contact with opposition, source says .
Libyan foreign minister quits, U.K. says .
Opposition says it is carrying out "tactical withdrawal" |
00eca9c1c3adbd297f9582003396db45b41ac710 | The deadliest outbreak of Ebola virus on record has sparked fears that the killer virus could spread from West Africa to other regions and continents. The outbreak began with just a handful of cases in Guinea in March. Since then, that number has grown to 909 confirmed cases and another 414 probable or suspected in tha... | There are more than 1,300 confirmed and suspected Ebola cases, hundreds of deaths .
Liberia closes all schools, sets day "for the disinfection ... of all public facilities"
"This epidemic is without precedent," a humanitarian official says .
Ebola is a viral hemorrhagic fever, affecting multiple organs and accompanied ... |
00ed935ebf9d55f2f888be9c5a3bfa7d22a33e59 | By . Snejana Farberov . Savannah the pit bull was found earlier this month dying of hunger and suffering from a painful eye infection after being abandoned in a Los Angeles park. More than two weeks later, the pup who got a rough start in life is ready for a second chance. On May 10, two women spotted a starving dog hi... | Savannah was found emaciated with a tumor in her ear and her left eye severely damaged in a Los Angeles park .
Pit bull was rescued by Hope for Paws group and had a surgery to remove her left eye . |
00ee21a748990441c0e8691f0cc9b54b98ece497 | By . Emily Crane . A shortage in Frozen merchandise has triggered an inflated online black market with desperate parents willing to shell out big money for the popular Disney toys after stores across Australia sold out. Parents are now spending hundreds of dollars to import merchandise toys from the Disney film, with d... | Disney dolls sell for up to $1,000 on eBay after Australian stores sold out .
Retailers reported shortages in toys after film's release on Boxing Day .
Parents forced to spend hundreds of dollars importing from overseas . |
00ef8d03b1e4caa590ac68f43d69cae5dc5733bb | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Most of the Supreme Court justices piled up a lot frequent flyer miles in 2007, jetting to such exotic locales as Austria, India and Hawaii, according to financial disclosure reports released Friday. The U.S. Supreme Court justices at a shoot for their 2006 "class photo." And they generally have a g... | Reports show David Souter may be the wealthiest member of Supreme Court .
Samuel Alito, the busiest traveler, made 33 expense-paid trips in 2007 .
Chief Justice John Roberts recorded 63 investments and trusts . |
00efdec5a2182499a8453a1c64ea5351a5550104 | Controversial: Former French fist lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has spoken of her views on feminism and a woman's role in society in an interview with Vogue magazine . Former French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has said that she believes a woman's place is in the home with her children and her generation of women 'don't n... | Carla Bruni-Sarkozy told Vogue magazine that she is not an active feminist .
While she shares many of her husband's conservative views, she admits that the pair disagree over gay marriage . |
00f222d27b211c4d83e77f297ccfebe6a652f900 | By . Victoria Woollaston . PUBLISHED: . 06:33 EST, 22 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 01:59 EST, 23 May 2013 . The Brazilian government has spent £4.2 million ($7.2 million) on robots to prepare the country ahead of the Pope's visit next year and the Rio Olympics in 2016. The iRobot 510 PackBots, built by Massachusetts-based... | iRobot Corp has won contracts to provide Brazil with 510 PackBot battle-tested robots .
The PackBots have previously helped soldiers fighting in Iraq and have been brought in to prepare Brazil for the Rio Olympics in 2016 . |
00f23c2ac2d8a4d208be808f6b5ed5077d5a274d | By . Sean Poulter . PUBLISHED: . 08:30 EST, 30 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 10:15 EST, 30 April 2013 . It seems there is only one thing more irritating than the rotund opera singer from the Go Compare TV commercials – any attempt to do away with him. Two commercials where the character was attacked drew more complaints ... | Top two ads reported to Advertising Standards Authority were Go Compare .
Over 1,000 people said ball kicked by Stuart Pearce into opera singer's stomach set bad example to children .
Another saw Sue Barker fire rocket launcher at character in bid to kill him .
Paddy Power transsexual and Kellogg's Crunchy Nut snake ad... |
00f4d5146e4ddea6f7879dc2f5ffa576a7eaf221 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 09:11 EST, 22 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 09:39 EST, 22 August 2013 . A disabled Iraqi war veteran is suing a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in the Bronx for refusing him service when he brought in his service dog. 50-year-old Charles Hernandez says he entered the location on... | Charles Hernandez says he was refused service at a KFC in the Bronx last February when he brought in his service dog .
According to the Americans with Disabilities act, his service dog Valor is allowed to accompany him in all public places .
Hernandez is now suing the KFC worker who denied him service as well as the st... |
00f4f2e971a3464255f317e5edaab0a0a3bfa9db | By . Jonathan O'Callaghan . In a series of images from Nasa’s Curiosity rover, a white dot appears to descend to the surface of the Mars. The images are claimed by one Youtuber to be evidence of a UFO landing on the red planet. But, says Nasa, the anomaly can be easily explained as a so-called 'hot pixel' in one of the... | Two images seem to show a white dot descending to the surface of Mars .
Nasa, however, explains how they can be attributed to hot pixel anomaly .
One Youtuber had claimed the images showed a UFO landing on the planet .
The images were taken by cameras on Curiosity on 20 June .
This was just a week before Curiosity cele... |
00f57381e1ee3d67cb1498181c2100932d56af16 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 17:43 EST, 25 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:39 EST, 26 July 2013 . For generations it has been the family friendly board game used to while away a rainy afternoon. But it seems the latest generation of Monopoly players are simply too busy for the full version of the game. Instead... | Youngsters simply don’t have the attention span to play for hours .
Makers of the US version have even eliminated the jail .
Toy industry are offering ‘snack toys’ to appeal to busy children .
More than a quarter only play board games with their families twice a year . |
00f5dfb4cafc85b50b652132f460e16b8ba61642 | (CNN) -- Iranian lawmakers have drafted a bill that would force the government to enrich uranium up to 60% if new sanctions are imposed, state media reported Wednesday. The move comes less than a week after bipartisan legislation was introduced in the U.S. Senate that would authorize new economic sanctions on Iran if i... | The move comes less than a week after legislation was introduced in the U.S. Senate .
U.S., others believe Iran is attempting to build a bomb through uranium enrichment .
Tehran says its nuclear intentions are peaceful . |
00f5ff4f7779f01de1bc6a2ac785895cb5f602fd | By . Mark Prigg . The man behind Apple's maps software has been sacked in a major restructuring of the computer giant's executives after he refused to apologise for its Maps software. Scott Forstall, a long-time lieutenant of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, was asked to leave following years of friction with other to... | Scott Forstall asked to leave after refusing to take responsibility for maps problems .
Major restructuring sees Sir Jonathan Ive given responsibility for the look of both hardware and software .
Ex-Dixons boss John Browett will also leave California firm . |
00f6432042db57bdc5c69479361e401aebb1bc61 | With 20 goals in his last 13 games, Cristiano Ronaldo's scoring record is beginning to resemble something that belongs to another planet. So naturally, the new Nike advert he stars in called 'Out of this World' adds poetic licence to his goals to games ratio, by showing him crash landing on earth via a meteor. The Port... | Cristiano Ronaldo stars in new Nike advert titled 'Out of this World'
He crashes to earth on a meteor, leaving a 'CR7' shaped crater .
The advert has been released to promote the new Mercurial football boots . |
00f74207e7a8531be17f38b85eadf4a875467072 | Fracking firms will be allowed to access vast reserves of underground gas without the permission of landowners under controversial laws being drawn up by the Government. Ministers are preparing an overhaul of trespass legislation to make it easier for firms to ignore objections. One source said the reform, which will i... | Scientists say UK is sitting on enough shale gas for 40 years' supply .
But critics warn fracking can pollute water and could cause earthquakes .
New rules will make it easier to fracking firms to ignore objections . |
00f8026e718cca411412d02e5bd940c6c4f00bb8 | A charming, never-seen-before picture of Prince George emerged on social media last night. The portrait shows the adorably chubby-cheeked royal, who would have been around ten months old, being cuddled by his glamorous mother and with his father Prince William standing behind. According to sources, it was taken by phot... | Taken by Jason Bell for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in March .
Prince George was ten months old at the time .
Commissioned as a thank you to people involved in their tour of Australia and New Zealand . |
00f83e0ba8db01ee2280938997a7c3d50ee29fed | ISIS militants are fighting Iraqi military and tribal forces close to the main government complex of Anbar province in the center of Ramadi, according to a local official there. The fighting started Friday after ISIS militants launched a coordinated assault from different direction around the city, according to Faleh a... | ISIS militants and military fight close to Anbar province government center in Ramadi .
All of Anbar could fall to ISIS, government official warns .
U.S. conducted two airstrikes near Ramadi, Central Command reports . |
00f88099cf4ede416782f845635a3578081e2fa5 | A seagull has become the surprise star of a horse race - after it was caught in a photo-finish pipping a top jockey to the post for second place. The bird swooped down to clinch second spot by a beak after it photo-bombed the dying seconds of the 19.10 at Brighton on Tuesday. The race was won by 7/2 favourite Jewelled,... | Bird swooped down to clinch second spot by a beak in 19.10 at Brighton .
Luke Morris, riding Sagesse came in second at the East Sussex racecourse .
But he was just edged by the seagull who was the unofficial second . |
00f893c908ed9c4d27fc9342b2d1e3fd7ad52f54 | A woman who was just 14 when she accompanied her 19-year-old boyfriend on a killing spree is set to ask for a pardon 57 years after she was jailed, insisting she didn't kill anybody and her sentence was unfair. Caril Ann Fugate, now 71, was on a two-month road trip with notorious mass murderer Charles Starkweather from... | Caril Ann Fugate, 71, was with Charles Starkweather during the 1957 killing spree that spanned Nebraska and Wyoming .
She was 14 at the time, and was convicted as an accessory to murder .
Starkweather was executed in 1959 while Fugate was released in 1976 .
Has always maintained that her sentence 'did not fit the crime... |
00f969abbc42a459375391e05139630732905e07 | From clumsily eating a bacon sandwich to posing in a ‘feminist’ T-shirt made by exploited female labour, Ed Miliband’s public appearances during recent months have been a catalogue of gaffes. Few of these moments have been more awkward than his spontaneous decision to give some loose change to a young beggar while he w... | John Bird co-founder the Big Issue in 1991 after being a beggar himself .
Says that Ed Miliband should never have gave money to beggar last week .
Explains that giving to beggars is not an act of kindness but one of cruelty .
Adds that it does nothing to alleviate the plight of the recipient . |
00f99f82c18f0de487dc73390b8cf71b0c8347c0 | This is the moment an inquisitive gorilla stunned visitors at a safari lodge by emerging from the jungle to climb onto the balcony and wander inside. Instead of having to trek through Uganda's 'impenetrable' forest of Bwindi to glimpse the elusive and endangered primates, this young gorilla paid the tourists a visit. S... | The hilarious incident occured in Uganda's 'impenetrable' forest of Bwindi .
The images were taken by Sherry McKelvie on the veranda of a lodge when .
The curious creature jumped over railing, poking its head through the door . |
00fa48a209242751af7814a89fd893895387a81d | The suicide note left by a former Senate chief of staff who killed himself after being charged with child porn posession has been revealed and makes allegations about his own history of sexual abuse. Jesse Ryan Loskarn's body was found on Thursday in his family's Maryland home where he was ordered to stay while out on ... | Ryan Loskarn, 35, left a suicide note explaining why he was drawn to child porn before he killed himself last week .
Said that the childhood abuse was his 'deepest, darkest secret' and happened between the ages of five and nine years old .
'In my mind, I instigated and enjoyed the abuse,' he wrote .
Apologized to the c... |
00fac17a8812644788bbf28cbeaf81cb783e952d | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 17:53 EST, 25 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 01:57 EST, 26 April 2013 . It could be all those mirrors. That unforgiving lighting. Or simply not knowing who you might meet or bump into – or may like to bump into. But it seems that, for most women, a visit to the gym calls for more th... | Nearly a fifth said that they would wear full face make-up for a marathon or public fun-run .
Around 67 per cent would wear it for a trip to the shops and more half would wear it on the school run .
Opera singer Katherine Jenkins raised eyebrows by wearing a full face of make-up for the London Marathon last week . |
00fb691a26a54c060cff232a7616723823e95245 | (CNN) -- Former motorsport chief Max Mosley is adamant the re-instated Bahrain Grand Prix will not go ahead because Formula One's 12 teams are unlikely to ratify the decision. The Gulf kingdom was due to host the opening race of the 2011 season in March but it was postponed because of civil unrest in the country. The b... | Max Mosley tells CNN the re-instated Bahrain Grand Prix is unlikely to go ahead .
Former head of FIA says decision won't be ratified by all 12 Formula One teams .
Original race was due to be season opener but was canceled due to civil unrest .
Red Bull driver Mark Webber criticized decision to reschedule the race . |
00fba75d30a50fb449de6df10e2dea1c3a270a5d | By . Mark Duell . Last updated at 11:07 AM on 26th September 2011 . Motorists can breathe a sigh of relief, as soaring gasoline prices are now in the rear-view mirror thanks to a sharp drop in the value of crude oil. For the first time in months, retail gasoline prices have fallen below $3 a gallon in places, including... | Sharp drop in crude oil value has pushed down prices .
National average for regular unleaded gasoline is $3.51 .
But it's below $3 in states such as Michigan and Texas . |
00fc2d66206c7c849601806d0c5c4861a12f354b | By . Martin Robinson . PUBLISHED: . 06:21 EST, 9 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:32 EST, 9 October 2013 . Prosecution: Gillian Astbury, 66, died at Stafford Hospital after staff failed to give her insulin and the Trust has now admitted breaking the law . A scandal-plagued hospital trust has today admitted breaching he... | Gillian Astbury, 66, was not given life-saving insulin after nursing blunder .
HSE prosecuted the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust over breaches .
Successful conviction could lead to an unlimited fine for under-fire trust . |
00fc56b8beb41ffede1b319b184b751bb2873ce8 | Beijing (CNN) -- Like many mothers, Yan breastfeeds her child. But she's also found a way of making it pay. After noticing she produces more than she needs, Yan -- who lives with her five-month-old baby in Shenyang, the capital of China's northern Liaoning Province -- decided to sell it. "I don't want to waste my milk,... | Some mothers in China have begun selling their excess breast milk online .
Fears about the safety of infant formula have prompted mothers to seek an alternative .
The sale of breast milk occupies a legal gray area in China .
Sales of breast milk also occur in other countries . |
00fc7a9bfa433b0dbfb87e77e33635a054140b8e | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 16:20 EST, 8 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 16:53 EST, 8 July 2013 . Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters who tried to enter an Istanbul park at the centre of protests against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government. Hundreds of people were forced to leave ... | People were forced to leave Gezi Park before the start of the protest on Monday over plans to redevelop the area .
Police intervened with a water cannon to break up the crowd marching towards Taksim Square . |
00fcb94b937a62afc6d4b8efac3828dbc1c78549 | (CNN) -- The wife of the president of Oral Roberts University is denying allegations of improper behavior, saying the claims "sicken" her. Richard Roberts and wife Lindsay appear on CNN's "Larry King Live" last week. Lindsay Roberts, in a statement on the university's Web site, said the allegations against her "sicken ... | Suit filed by three profs who say Oral Roberts University fired them unfairly .
Lindsay Roberts says charges sicken her, and she's never had extramarital sex .
Suit also claims university gave a convicted sex offender access to students .
University denies that, also denies shredding evidence . |
00fe9bc7ef1fa3e5d4dd7f09871e7165ace17aaf | You may not have noticed how tricky it is to snap a single strand of dried spaghetti in half, but the phenomenon has baffled leading physicists for decades - including a Nobel Prize winner. But now one engineer has filmed spaghetti fracturing at 250,000 frames per second (fps) to explain why this happens. The YouTube s... | Destin Sandlin filmed spaghetti snapping at 250,000 frames per second .
He noticed broken pieces of pasta rotate away from the first fracture .
Engineer confirms fracturing occurs because the pasta is trying to un-twist .
Leading physicists have previously been baffled by the phenomenon . |
010178277d04a94875853b0db1e58cc7846f7f70 | For every traveller on a shoe-string budget, every dollar counts. While it may seem as though Europe is one of the most expensive places in the world to holiday, it turns out that almost every single country has bargain buys. Hostelworld.com has compiled an infographic outlining what tourists can buy in each country fo... | Hostelworld's infographic shows what $1 will buy you in each country .
From a packet of crisps to a train ride, the results vary dramatically .
Norway, however, is the one country where nothing is available for a dollar . |
01019ef4116d76fe94945890cf777f206a072a85 | A mother-of-four who suffered a horrific reaction to a false widow spider bite says the pain still prevents her from hugging her children. Carol Veitch, 45, was bitten more than a year ago. But the agony she is in means giving her five-year-old son Paul a goodbye cuddle before school is impossible. While she had no fea... | Carol Veitch, 45 was bitten by a false widow spider more than a year ago .
Doctors were shocked as there had been no sightings of them in Harrogate .
She developed hundreds of sores on her body which makes contact painful .
Is now in too much pain to even hug her five-year-old son before school .
Before she didn't fea... |
0101b5249ff9f601639a70aea1138af9d16ccd7c | By . Abigail Frymann . PUBLISHED: . 05:39 EST, 7 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:06 EST, 7 December 2013 . A woman left heartbroken as a teenager after her date stood her up in the early 1980s has tracked down her man and now the couple are set to wed. Mandy Ashforth, 48, and Barrie Moat, 50, both from Rotherham, Sou... | Pair had a week-long whirlwind romance as teenagers .
Lovestruck Mandy Ashforth said she never forgot about her holiday beau . |
0101e62ee60bde1ca2ba34413f680bd1f71e990d | More than 500 refugees from Syria's bloody civil war have already been resettled in the United States, and U.S. officials and members of Congress are becoming increasingly worried that jihadis linked to the ISIS terror army could slip into the country along with them. Since war broke out in Syria nearly four years ago,... | Members of Congress are suggesting it's unwise to let Syrians into the country, but 524 have come in already .
State Department plans to admit thousands more in the coming years .
Reliable intelligence and databases don't exist in Syria, making it difficult if not impossible to thoroughly vet each asylum applicant .
Th... |
0101e95643d00082c667dc1e393cdc9775e3f51e | Hong Kong (CNN) -- China's move to abolish re-education through labor camps -- under which tens of thousands have been imprisoned without trial -- may be no more than a cosmetic change, a new report from Amnesty International warns. The human rights group says that while labor camps are being shut, research suggested t... | Amnesty says China's move to abolish labor camps may be a cosmetic change .
Rights groups says Chinese authorities are expanding use of other types of arbitrary detention .
China said on November 15 that it would close its labor camp system .
NEW: Chinese government declines to comment on the report . |
01034b1a55245a26c275a6ad409bd4222902d57a | Tim Howard's popularity in the United States has led to a White House petition being lodged requesting the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is renamed after him. Howard played a starring role in goal for the United States against Belgium on Tuesday night, but he could not stop them losing 2-1 after extra-time ... | Tim Howard caught imagination with starring role against Belgium .
United States goalkeeper set new record for most saves in World Cup game .
Photoshopped images of Howard in iconic situations went viral on internet .
White House petitioned to name Washington Airport after him . |
01039c671208a4d5f05fd5eeff97d8b9a178cb48 | Liz Hurley has become embroiled in fresh controversy over her range of children’s bikinis – with critics branding them unsuitable for young girls. The actress was bombarded with angry comments after she used Twitter to advertise her controversial collection, which includes skimpy designs aimed at under-eights. The mode... | Two years after she was accused of sexualising children with designs .
Includes items for under 8s, such as an animal-print ‘Mini Cha Cha Bikini’
Another in the 8-13 age range, is .
‘great for girls who want to look grown up’
Campaigners previously hit out at Miss Hurley’s 'disturbing' collection . |
0103efaf0741c10bef99df6d7a9d26a4fe6fbe38 | Sergeant Matthew Gallagher, 22, killed while on tour of duty in Iraq . By . Daily Mail Reporter . Last updated at 8:38 AM on 12th January 2012 . Dangerous games: Sgt Matthew Gallagher, 22, died of a gunshot to the head on an army base in Iraq . A soldier, who died after a colleague allegedly shot him at point-blank ran... | Sergeant Matthew Gallagher, 22, killed while on tour of duty in Iraq . |
010446098e67c9f93a5916646df3c3fe76c6da79 | By . Claire Bates . PUBLISHED: . 06:31 EST, 16 October 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 10:16 EST, 29 October 2012 . Hair straighteners are causing 'horrific injuries' to hundreds of young children across the UK, a safety charity has warned. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents said at one hospital in Northern Irelan... | The beauty product can reach 220C, which is hot enough to fry an egg .
Children's skin is up to 15 times thinner than adults so far more vulnerable to burns .
Straighteners takes 40 minutes to cool down . |
010498738c0d529311486c5fc25eb938c5e29d02 | Washington (CNN) -- House Republicans offered their own proposal Monday in the heated battle to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, but it was quickly rebuffed by President Barack Obama's administration for not demanding more from the nation's wealthiest taxpayers. The GOP plan promises $2.2 trillion in deficit savings o... | House GOP leaders call for some revenue increases, more spending cuts .
House Speaker John Boehner rejects any increase in tax rates .
Obama administration officials dismiss the GOP offer as not serious .
The tax issue has stymied deficit reduction talks for two years . |
010551dc8450fd90aee7b9b10541e230e493156a | (CNN) -- In 1834, Illinois voted whether to adopt Christmas as a legal holiday. Among those voting "nay" was the young Abraham Lincoln. In 1834, Lincoln had not yet grown out of his atheist phase, but the young Lincoln's lack of faith in God -- and his lifelong disbelief in the divinity of Christ -- does not explain hi... | David Frum: Lincoln, like many in 1834, didn't observe Christmas as an official holiday .
He says in late 19th century, Americans began to observe Christmas as a public holiday .
Early Americans kept a sharp separation of church and state, Frum says .
Frum: "War on Christmas" flap a reaction to a perceived threat to fo... |
0105f4555a30d5840f76358b352d53023293b3b8 | (CNN) -- It was a meeting apparently straight off the TV screen: Bart Simpson called before Mr. Burns after allegedly causing trouble. But the encounter did not play out in cartoon form, but rather at Warwick Crown Court in the English Midlands. Barton Simpson, known as Bart, appeared Monday before the judge, Mr. Recor... | Defendant named Bart Simpson appears before a judge named Mr. Burns .
The unlikely encounter plays out at Warwick Crown Court in England .
Simpson, charged with possession of a firearm, says he's not guilty . |
01076dbd82d585bc868a3d0eb08a1f280d73f088 | (CNN) -- The "conservagencia" is starting to give Jon Huntsman a second look. He deserves it. But the stirrings of respect may be too little, too late. Too bad, because he might stand the best chance of beating President Barack Obama. RINO hunting has become a reflexive sport inside the Republican Party. And so when Jo... | John Avlon says some conservatives are starting to give Jon Huntsman another look .
He says Huntsman a modern anomaly: a cool conservative with campaign of civility, ideas .
He says White House worries about him; as GOP candidates fall, his prospects are rising .
Avlon: GOP is wary of Huntsman's style, but should consi... |
01078a3dcdde35c465c741ac95f10323c6068ff6 | (CNN) -- The Constitution says that only "natural born citizens" are eligible to be president. Is Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas eligible, given that he was born in Canada of a U.S. citizen mother and a Cuban immigrant father? If Cruz runs, 2016 will be the third consecutive election in which there were questions about the rig... | Sen. Ted Cruz was born in Canada of a U.S. citizen mother and Cuban immigrant father .
Gabriel "Jack" Chin says Constitution is vague on the exact standards to run for president .
Chin says requirement to be a "natural born citizen" is not totally clear .
He says most scholars think Cruz is eligible, and courts likely ... |
0108788e2e0d0da342bc9f9a6dccadb16b8ad56b | Two boys aged just 11 and 12 (not pictured) were arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm after an attack in east London last night . Two boys aged just 11 and 12 have been arrested after a teenager was stabbed. A 19-year-old man was taken to hospital after the attack in Dagenham, east London, but his inju... | Two boys were arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm .
A 19-year-old man was taken to hospital after the attack in east London .
The teenager's injuries are not believed to be life-threatening .
Paramedics were called to the scene in Dagenham yesterday evening . |
01092242ce7fd97dc2acde70ce9fe8b708f67e05 | (CNN) -- Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Hajj arrived home in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum early Friday after nearly six years in the U.S. Navy prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Hajj at a hospital in Khartoum after his release from Guantanamo Bay. "I was so happy that I cried," al-Hajj ... | Sami al-Hajj arrives home in Sudan and is taken to hospital, network says .
Pakistani intelligence officers captured him in Afghanistan in December 2001 .
Al-Hajj was transferred to U.S. custody and held without charges or trial .
Al-Jazeera said he was on an assignment when he was apprehended . |
01098a6115982c00b6295c9c3cd26b7f51a3498a | Luke Shaw - Knee . Chris Smalling - Hip/Thigh . Jonny Evans - Ankle/Foot . Phil Jones - Hamstring . Ander Herrera - Fractured Rib . Jesse Lingard - Knee . Michael Carrick - Ankle/Foot . Ashley Young - Groin/Pelvis . Manchester United fear that Paddy McNair has joined their list of defensive casualties with the teenager... | It is understood McNair suffered a hamstring injury in win against Everton .
19-year-old could be ruled out for up to three weeks .
The defender was unable to join up with Northern Ireland squad ahead of their Euro 2016 qualifiers against the Faroe Islands and Greece .
Teenager has been impressive since making his Prem... |
010a42b81da3f3fab9c82900200127dc748d38ea | K9 Tragedy: Montville police say its K9 officer, Beny, died from injuries consistent with heat stroke, while in the back of a police vehicle in the parking lot of the police department on September 28 . An Ohio officer whose police dog died from heatstroke in his cruiser has pleaded not guilty on two misdemeanor counts... | German shepherd, Beny, died after his handler Sgt. Brett Harrison left him in a hot car .
Despite expressing remorse and his exemplary police work over seven years, the cop is facing charges . |
010b20cf1697b9809a7fe848871a51be02070cfc | By . Graham Smith . PUBLISHED: . 06:12 EST, 20 June 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 08:30 EST, 20 June 2012 . Travelling down a rural canal, the last thing you would expect to see is a Reliant Robin perched halfway up a tree. But that is exactly the bizarre sight that is greeting passers-by on the Stratford-Upon-Avon Canal in Pr... | Bizarre sight greets passers-by on the Stratford-Upon-Avon Canal in Preston Bagot, Warwickshire .
Gregan Thompson, who owns the land the tree is on, made a spur-of-the-moment decision to place the car up the royal oak . |
010c1ef212f56f27b86fd0d5d1b40d98748396b0 | (CNN) -- Defending champion Serena Williams will miss the Australian Open in January to give herself more time to recover from foot surgery. The former world number one has not played competitively since winning her fourth Wimbledon crown in July. She sustained the original injury after standing on broken glass at a ... | Defending champion Serena Williams pulls out of Australian Open .
Williams has not recovered from foot injury she picked up after stepping on broken glass .
Williams has not played since winning Wimbledon for the fourth time in July . |
010cb4b1c6f32c2a909cd6032edb8cb23df18d5f | By . Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor . PUBLISHED: . 05:36 EST, 14 March 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 05:40 EST, 14 March 2014 . Britain is ready for a gay Prime Minister, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband have claimed. The Lib Dem and Labour leaders said social attitudes had changed dramatically in the last 20 years. Voter... | Lib Dem Nick Clegg says being gay doesn't affect how you work .
Labour's Ed Miliband hails change in social attitudes over the last 20 years .
Prime Minister David Cameron called for gay role models in sport . |
010cd75a5b587285f7697cdb6db6526bcc0320b2 | (CNN) -- Police said Tuesday they are looking for a woman in connection to a fatal shooting and crash on the Las Vegas Strip that left three people dead. They are calling 22-year-old Tineesha Lashun Howard, aka Yenesis Alfonso, a "person of interest." "She's not considered a suspect," said Laura Meltzer, a spokeswoman ... | Police say they want to talk to Tineesha Lashun Howard, aka Yenesis Alfonso .
She was inside a black Range Rover at the time shots were fired, they say .
The fatal shooting and crash left three people dead . |
010d464b7a2a3d0beb1c064a1a1a0c3c583aece1 | A father has attacked a court's decision to fine him more than £400 for taking his daughter out of school to go to her grandmother's funeral - despite the fact she missed 40 days of term-time. Ikram Hussain, 51, took his daughter Imaan out of Paddock Junior Infant and Nursery School in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, to ... | Ikram Hussain angry at court decision to fine him over £400 for absence .
Father of four, 51, took his daughter out of school from March 4 until April 9 .
Travelled to Pakistan for funeral and stayed for traditional 40 days of prayer .
Taxi driver says it is unfair he has been fined for daughter's lengthy absence . |
010e9046b8bf3d817e91bbe817bed854b630b1f8 | Queiroz was Sir Alex Ferguson's No 2 at Manchester United . By . Joe Bernstein . Carlos Queiroz quit as manager of Iran on Wednesday night after a Bosnian side inspired by Edin Dzeko ended their hope of progressing into the knockout stages of the World Cup. Manchester City striker Edin Dzeko ensured already-eliminated... | Queiroz quit as Iran's coach on after the loss to Bosnia and Herzegovina .
A win for Iran would have earned them a place in the last-16 .
Instead, after the 3-1 defeat Queiroz's side finished last in Group F .
Bosnia finished third in the group behind Argentina and Nigeria .
Queiroz was Sir Alex Ferguson's No 2 at Manc... |
010f2e5073e692f924a0fccdf17ae079794996f3 | President Barack Obama defended the US government's willingness to cooperate closely with Saudi Arabia on national security despite deep concerns over human rights abuses, as he led an array of current and former American statesmen in paying respects Tuesday following the death of King Abdullah. Saudi Arabia's status a... | President Barack Obama defended the US relationship with Saudia Arabia despite funding for terrorism and human rights abuses .
Met with new King Salman, who took over after the death last week of his half-brother King Abdullah .
Several members of the all-male Saudi delegation refused to shake First Lady Michelle Obama... |
010f702d290fad77dfc35f4e188c2dfcc6f9b87c | By . James Nye . In his first interview since 2011, when he was exposed as fabricating large parts of his best-selling book Three Cups of Tea - author Greg Mortenson has claimed that he did it because he was willing to 'kill himself' to raise money for impoverished people. Speaking to NBC's Tom Brokaw for an interview... | Greg Mortenson has given his first interview since huge controversy over false claims in his best selling 2006 memoir Three Cups of Tea .
Mortenson asks for a second chance from the public - but denies he lied about events .
Claims that he simply changed the order in which they occurred in his life for dramatic effects... |
010f73477cd20c14cab78ad9cef350ac8c0f55b3 | It is the Christmas tree that children could only dream about and the 10-metre spectacular LEGO creation has arrived in Sydney. The phenomenal design took five people patiently building the tree from scratch with an astounding half a million pieces over 1,200 painstaking hours. On display outside the Westfield shopping... | LEGO Christmas tree is at Pitt Street mall outside Westfield, Sydney .
The spectacular design is the largest of its kind in Southern Hemisphere .
It took five people, 1,200 hours to build the ten-metre tall creation .
An astounding half a million blocks were used to put the tree together . |
0110884d2a279c6249d21c1480548ac9bf985cfb | A spacecraft that is due to arrive at the former planet Pluto later this year is carrying the ashes of the astronomer who first discovered the icy world. Clyde Tombaugh spotted the tiny gleaming object - which at 1,430 miles across is around two thirds the diametre of the Moon - as a dot on the edge of our solar system... | American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered the icy world in 1930 .
Upon his death in 1997 he requested that his ashes be carried into space .
His remains are inside a container fixed to Nasa's New Horizon's probe .
They have spent nine years travelling 3.67 billion miles towards Pluto .
The £460 million mission will... |
0110d245c9f9da9fc17de11bd32c433f9314533c | Gus Poyet was left to round on referee Kevin Friend and the media after a dismal performance at Bradford followed hot on the heels of Tuesday night's Premier League capitulation against QPR. Sunderland went down 2-0 against the League One side, who unceremoniously dumped them out of the FA Cup. Poyet clearly took issue... | Sunderland's season hit another low after a 2-0 FA Cup defeat to Bradford .
But manager Gus Poyet said 'the problem is you, not me' to the media .
Sunderland lost at home to Queens Park Rangers in the league in midweek . |
0110d5f739e969d2ad83175786078e9a2b795970 | War correspondent Michael Hastings may have been using marijuana to treat post-traumatic stress disorder before his death, but drug use doesn't appear to have been a factor in his fatal car accident, according to his autopsy report. Hastings, 33, likely died within seconds when his Mercedes-Benz slammed into a tree in ... | Michael Hastings likely died instantly, autopsy report states .
Drugs residues in his system don't appear to have played a role in the crash .
Hastings was known for a Rolling Stone piece that got a top general sacked .
He had been using medical marijuana to treat PTSD, the report states . |
0110e6a6724d51ee21c64e138ef7a41027a2cd39 | Washington (CNN) -- A 31-year-old Oklahoma woman helped make medical history and started a chain of "paying it forward" when she decided to donate her kidney to a stranger halfway around the world, a man in Athens, Greece, officials announced Friday. Elizabeth Gay was the history-making donor, and Michalis Helmis was t... | Elizabeth Gay, 31, of Oklahoma donates her kidney to a stranger in Greece .
The stranger's wife donates her kidney to someone in Pennsylvania .
The Greek Embassy in Washington announces the first intercontinental organ exchange . |
011135a42297e5212206d0209b8aba31859787a6 | Escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine are on the verge of spilling over into open conflict. Ukraine has accused Moscow of pushing more military equipment over the border, including three missile systems. Rebel separatists Russia is accused of arming yesterday shot down a Ukrainian Mig-29 fighter jet, although ... | Separatist rebels shot plane over Luhansk, in the eastern part of the country .
It was struck after government forces launched an attack on rebels .
Ukrainian forces claim to have taken police station in rebel-held Luhansk .
Though separatists have lost ground, the attack shows they retain firepower .
Comes amid report... |
01132c28c2bc8a8b7246b8784f5e65d0f9489da2 | By . Alasdair Glennie and Emily Allen . PUBLISHED: . 17:11 EST, 5 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 19:00 EST, 26 May 2013 . Waving her arms and yelling, this is the moment Dame Helen Mirren – dressed as the Queen – gave a band of drummers its marching orders. The actress admitted that she must have looked like a ‘batty old wo... | Dame Helen's lines in The Audience drowned in noise from drumming troupe .
Dressed as the Queen, she went outside and told them to keep quiet .
Helen Mirren's role in the play recently won her an Olivier award . |
0113354e89ebda83b483c1af954ba86498174bee | (CNN) -- London's new superyacht hotel is so enormous that when it first arrived in the city, authorities had to lower the water level by five meters just to fit it under a bridge. They even took the mast off the whopping vessel so it could squeeze underneath a motorway, with a gasp-inducing five centimeters to spare. ... | Five-storey superyacht hotel opens in London's East End .
Rooms cost between $300 and $1,600 per night .
Follows Gibraltar, plans for sister ship in Barcelona .
Was towed from Finland to England over two weeks . |
011404d8724d92181b63250cea9b6e801041efbd | (Rolling Stone) -- The digital archivist who restored the singles catalogs of the Smiths, Joy Division and New Order in a series of blog projects is being strongly discouraged from starting a similar project collecting R.E.M.'s earliest work. In a blog post on the nascent R.E.M.cycle site, the blogger known as Analog L... | A digital archivist is being discouraged from posting restored version of R.E.M's first cassette demo .
Universal issued a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice for on Analog Loyalist's site .
"These were demos freely given away by the band. On low-fi C45 cassettes," the writer said . |
01166936e87455f7b7e66a4f8c14f60043287b15 | Omaha, Nebraska (CNN) -- Sen. Rand Paul kicks off a three-day swing Monday across Iowa, holding campaign-style events and fund-raisers with local politicians as the potential Republican presidential contender barnstorms the first-in-the-nation caucus state. Paul's route will take him through nine cities from the state'... | Rand Paul kicks off a three-day swing Monday across the first-in-the-nation caucus state .
The state would be crucial for Paul if he runs for president in 2016 .
"You want to come in and do favors for Iowa politicians," Iowa political expert says .
This is Paul's fourth trip to the Hawkeye State since the 2012 presiden... |
01170d9c6028d852e4240b27f99f46ae5336414a | An Illinois-based high school's girls' basketball team has come under fire after a photo of players pointing at a Barbie doll stuck to a cross inside their Catholic hosts' school gym appeared online. In the image, members of Woodstock High School team are pictured beaming and pointing at the doll - their symbol for 'gi... | Woodstock High School's girls' basketball team widely criticized for photo .
In image, smiling teens are pictured pointing at Barbie doll stuck on cross .
Scene captured at Marian Central Catholic High School in Illinois last week .
Within minutes of the picture being posted online, it had sparked backlash .
Woodstock ... |
01176065ec41c9c63280f36a4d0b3b27e9143570 | (CNN) -- It's been a year since the Occupy Wall Street movement sprang up. Since then, it has fizzled, but this does not mean that the underlying issues that gave rise to the protests have gone away. Until last year, mainstream political discourse did not include nearly as much emphasis on such populist concerns as ris... | It's been a year since the Occupy Wall Street movement sprang up .
Stephen Zunes: The movement has fizzled, but it affected our political narrative .
He says Obama has taken on populist issues such as income inequality, unfair tax policies .
Zunes: If concerns of the 99% are not addressed, new versions of Occupy will e... |
011828b5f67bdd49df4bc786f8070c4d341a656c | (CNN) -- A report in South Korean media is fueling the ongoing speculation about the deteriorating health of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. Kim Jong Il, seen in an undated state-issued photo, has made only two public appearances since August. YTN News, citing unidentified intelligence sources in South Korea and China... | Media reports, citing unconfirmed sources, say Kim Jong Il has cancer .
South Korea's Unification Ministry denies claims of illness .
Transfer of power rules unclear, but youngest son expected to be next at helm . |
011846d425fe51206040208bb9ad2282e9e6b960 | At 49 years of age, Bernard Hopkins is not your average professional boxer. The Philadelphia-born fighter may be just two months shy of his 50th birthday yet he holds the IBF, WBA and IBA light-heavyweight titles and is looking to add the WBO and WBC belts to that collection on Sunday morning. A unification bout with R... | Bernard Hopkins fights Sergey Kovalev in Atlantic City (Sunday, 4am)
The 49-year-old American is oldest world champion in history of boxing .
He is looking to unify light-heavyweight division against Kovalev .
Originally nicknamed 'The Executioner', he now calls himself 'The Alien'
Here, Sportsmail looks at the statist... |
011987a371b5f29de9582ca8371152699bf51bd9 | By . Steve Nolan . With hundreds of plastic legs, arms, and heads stacked high in boxes, it looks like a haunting resting place for hundreds of unwanted dolls discarded by girls who no longer want to play with them. But although Sydney's Famous Original Doll Hospital does have a cemetery for doll parts that are beyond ... | Sydney's Famous Original Doll Hospital is celebrating its 100th birthday .
It was founded after some dolls were damaged in transit from Japan in 1913 .
Dolls are still sent from all over Australia and even New Zealand for repair . |
01198938399e94c1d4810e962b60a6014d28ab43 | By . Jessica Jerreat . A Minnesota air stewardess has finally welcomed home her three adopted daughters seven years after she first met the girls in a Guatemalan orphanage. Suann Hibbs met her daughters in 2008, but when the Guatemalan government cut back on foreign adoptions the family were left in legal limbo. It too... | Suann Hibbs was left in legal limbo after Guatemala put hold on foreign adoptions .
Air stewardess turned to senator for help to bring the sisters back to Minneapolis . |
0119b8517cfe7ae6fdc40631c9cbaea617453bce | (CNN) -- There is nothing new under the sun, the saying goes, and it could not be more true than with the recycled literature of the popular "mommy porn" trilogy "Fifty Shades of Grey." Just this week, Universal Pictures acquired the movie rights to the bodice ripper for reportedly more than $5 million as traditional p... | April Alliston and Susan Greenfield say "mommy porn" novel a big hit .
They ask: Is "Fifty Shades of Grey" about women's sexual freedom or their debasement?
They say plot device is centuries old: Older man dominates younger woman .
Writers: Times have changed, but political rhetoric, social norms still not good for wom... |
011a75eaed3c114857f6da9d56900c2879cf5b5d | A pensioner who said ‘I’m not Muslim’ when he was asked to remove his shoes at airport security has spent more than six months facing charges for racism. Paul Griffith, 75, pictured, set off the security scanner’s alarm at Stansted airport when travelling to Malaga for a week’s holiday. He removed his shoes as requeste... | Paul Griffith was stopped at Stansted airport on his way to Malaga .
The 75-year-old was asked to take his shoes off before he made the remark .
Airport staff called police and on his return from Spain he was arrested .
But 24 hours before appearing in court the CPS dropped all charges . |
011bbaa3b1b61a2ce1912fd62a31f516dd8316e8 | Three weeks before Jessica Hernandez was shot and killed by Denver police while driving a stolen car, the 17-year-old had been accused in a separate incident of eluding an officer and resisting arrest, it was revealed today. State troopers cited Hernandez January 1 for speeding down a highway north of Denver in her mot... | State troopers cited Jessica Hernandez January 1 for doing 80mph in 55mph zone .
Citation claims the girl was resisting arrest in a way that risked serious injury to state trooper .
Police shot and killed Hernandez early Monday morning in Denver .
The officers involved were placed on leave and an investigation is ongoi... |
011c6a42c94c5949a234d1a35d88d904ee9db463 | Seeking freedom: Daniel Villegas, 35, has spent the last 18 years in prison after being convicted of killing two men . A Texas man who has spent nearly two decades in prison after admitting to killing two men in a drive-by shooting when he was 16 year old is now asking for a new trial, and he may yet get a chance at fr... | Daniel Villegas, 35, was convicted in 1995 of gunning down two men in a drive-by shooting .
Villegas recanted his confession, saying that it was obtained by coercion .
There was no physical evidence linking Villegas to the crime .
Villegas' defense team claims his court-appointed attorney spent only 40 hours preparing ... |
011ce55ece7d96895c09fec5b3aa3352a67e21df | (CNN) -- Nothing tempts hackers quite like a high-profile new target. A website is offering a bounty of more than $16,000 in cash and other prizes for the first person to successfully hack the Touch ID fingerprint sensor on the new iPhone 5S. The site, IsTouchIDHackedYet, was created by Nick DePetrillo, an independent ... | NEW: German hackers' group claims to have hacked the iPhone 5S .
Website is offering a cash bounty for the first person to successfully hack the phone .
To collect, a hacker must lift a fingerprint and use it to unlock the phone's Touch ID sensor .
Site creator: "The whole point ... was to put up or shut up" |
011cfe059bfddd7dc3be107e5ec4502bc5b09abd | It's a disease that affects millions of women in Africa, yet talking about it has been considered a taboo, and that silence has been deadly. Nigeria's Princess Nikky Onyeri has dedicated her life to speaking out to raise awareness about breast cancer in Africa. Princess Nikky Onyeri is not a member of a royal family, "... | Health advocate from Nigeria campaigns for better awareness of breast cancer .
Lobbies Nigerian Government to do more for women with cancer .
Was misdiagnosed with cancer 15 years ago; issue still a taboo in Africa . |
011f4daee8769ab22e1b70b0a02bbc0f06239cf3 | (CNN) -- World number three Kim Clijsters eased past Russia's Dinara Safina with a 6-0 6-0 victory in the first round of the Australian Open on Tuesday. Safina, a finalist at this event in 2009 and a former world number one, lasted only 44 minutes against Belgium's Clijsters and lost without winning a game for the firs... | Third seed Kim Clijsters defeats Dinara Safina 6-0 6-0 in the Australian Open first round .
World number two Vera Zvonareva is safely through after a win against Sybille Bammer .
Australia's Samantha Stosur into the second round after beating Lauren Davis .
Former No. 1 Ana Ivanovic is out after a 3-6 6-4 10-8 defeat t... |
01209d29c982c9ced091bcee3768b285ecfa8af2 | Gus Poyet says only Jozy Altidore will determine his Sunderland future and is not concerned by the striker’s comments hinting he could quit the club in January. The USA frontman – who scored during Tuesday’s 1-1 draw with Honduras – admits he will look to leave the Black Cats if he is not given more first-team opportun... | Poyet says he's unconcerned by striker hinting he could quit Sunderland .
Altidore said he'd look to leave club without more first-team chances .
He has scored just one Premier League goal since joining last summer .
Former France defender Anthony Reveillere on trial at Black Cats . |
01227f8316c543eebc3058884ad14aab7039c479 | By . Jill Reilly . PUBLISHED: . 11:02 EST, 26 June 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 15:32 EST, 26 June 2012 . They are usually secretively hidden nearly 2,000 metres above eye-level in the cloud forests of south-eastern Ecuadorian and Peruvian. But an enthusiastic flower collector has snapped some stunning photos of the Monkey Or... | Found in south-eastern Ecuadorian and Peruvian cloud forests, the flowers scientific name is Dracula simia .
Dracula, literally means 'little dragon' referring to the strange aspect of the two long spurs of the two long sepals .
Simia is a nod towards the fact that this remarkable orchid bears more than a passing resem... |
01241b679cd9cef111e735550f3ae1d209a6fd6b | Animal rights activists have warned people in China against giving money to beggars asking for money to help mutilated animals. These pictures claim to show a camel deliberately mutilated to get people to feel sympathetic and donate more money, apparently towards its upkeep. The camel and two beggars were photographed ... | China has no law against cruelty to animals so these men can't be punished .
Mutilating animals is a new trend among beggars, according to police .
They used to mutilate themselves, but people are no longer sympathetic .
The men claimed it was a wild camel that got run over by a train . |
01244c2c92f5f1a6deb8c1d92f20df22f00c329f | By . Anna Edwards . PUBLISHED: . 03:02 EST, 19 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:25 EST, 19 September 2013 . An Egyptian police chief was shot dead today as security forces tried to regain control of an area where gunmen killed 11 policemen last month and mutilated their bodies. Police had earlier fired tear gas and e... | Troops stormed Kerdasa, near Cairo, to arrest those accused of torching police stations and killing security officers .
Policeman shot dead as officers and gunmen fired tear gas and bullets .
Explosive experts defused two bombs found on public metro line in Cairo . |
012493ecb0990390005b751fe76984e6ea41ea86 | By . Anna Hodgekiss . PUBLISHED: . 06:17 EST, 2 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 07:01 EST, 2 April 2013 . Hundreds of chidldren aged 10 and under have hospitalised suffering from mental and behavioural disorders due to alcohol use . Children as young as seven are being admitted to hospital with alcohol problems, an investi... | 380 children aged 10 or under treated for intoxication over four year period .
Figures are likely to be higher as 67 NHS trusts did not supply information .
One seven-year-old boy treated was deemed to be 'addicted' to alcohol .
Affected children often come from homes where alcohol already a problem . |
0124b043ee09f3029a1ffab20e53cbc7da42da49 | An international drug trafficking ring forced dogs to swallow bags of cocaine and then brutally sliced the animals open to retrieve them. Police said they arrested 75 people . across northern Italy and Rome for using the dogs in a drug scam - at least 50 were died after being cut open. Large breeds such as Great Danes,... | Dogs are sliced open to retrieve the wraps of drugs from their bodies .
Large dogs used such as Great Danes, Labradors and Mastiffs .
Gang is suspected of killing about 50 dogs .
Swallowed the bags containing 2.8 pounds of cocaine . |
0125419b924417a3c298e0e4a2f665f5271901f5 | (CNN) -- What's the first foreign policy issue the next U.S. president should tackle after the election? More than 1,000 aspiring foreign secretaries in 114 countries and territories around the world weighed in on CNN International's latest Facebook survey to give us their answer. Vote now on Facebook: What should be t... | 45% on Facebook poll say post-Arab Spring policies should be top task .
One in five believe euro debt crisis should be America's top priority .
18.5% think next commander-in-chief must focus first on China relations .
UK, U.S. and Egypt are top three participating countries in Facebook survey . |
01266530a77b160357d6a3d8e86d04fc80d41b13 | Former Rangers boss Walter Smith admits he should never have joined Charles Green's Ibrox board. And the nine-titles-in-a-row manager also confessed he should have walked away much sooner before he did finally quit in August 2013. The 66-year-old returned to the club in November 2012 after being appointed a non-executi... | Walter Smith regrets not resigning from role at Rangers before 2013 .
The former Rangers boss has said it was 'an error' on his part .
Craig Brown believes Smith should return to the club as manager .
However Smith has ruled out possibility of returning in official capacity . |
0126a31d2fd50c5bccbd00670f0d3a46b8136a64 | Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghan police have intercepted 41 children whom insurgents were planning to use as suicide bombers, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Tuesday. Four suspected insurgents were about to smuggle the children across the mountains into Pakistan from eastern Kunar province on Friday, said Sediq S... | Four suspected insurgents were trying to smuggle 41 children abroad, officials say .
Police suspect the 41 children were going for suicide-bomber training .
They have been returned to their families, the Interior Ministry says .
It's not the first time police have caught children trying to be suicide bombers . |
0126b202b8333bc2c56edffebb05fcd4234377ea | It seems that humans aren't the only ones who need forgiveness. Bizarre footage has surfaced of a fugitive pig grovelling in front of a temple in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province on Tuesday. Pictures and video of the bowing boar, which had escaped from a nearby farm, have spread like wildfire on Chinese social media, sparkin... | The 150kg pig had reportedly escaped from a local farm in search of food .
The pig was found kneeling on its forelimbs at a temple in eastern China .
It left the temple after a group of monks chanted a Buddhist scripture to it .
The images have sparked heated dialogues on Chinese social media sites .
Sadly, the pigs ow... |
012824cd1c5ad71f3f985ab6091124970c08e113 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 01:13 EST, 29 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 01:15 EST, 29 July 2013 . A sheriff's office in Lousiana is under fire from gay rights advocates for targeting men using an outdated law from the early 1800s. According to a report published Sunday in The Advocate, the East Baton Rouge Par... | The East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office set up a series of sting operations to arrest gay men in the community under an archaic law .
The office has been conducting the stings for two years .
Men were arrested under a law that contained a provision against same-sex copulation struck down by the Supreme Court in 2003 . |
01291466b0e4ce2a8da55f209ebe50b84a4d6ad2 | By . Leon Watson . PUBLISHED: . 20:05 EST, 23 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:16 EST, 24 December 2013 . Companions: But Little Joshua Carnegie had to be told his 'best friend' Tic Toc the pony is missing . A mother had to break the news to her five-year-old son that his pony has been stolen after crooks failed to re... | £6,000 reward was offered for Tic Toc's safe return by Christmas Eve .
But thieves failed to the the honest thing - and didn't return him .
Owner Joshua, five, was heartbroken when he was finally told .
Gordon Ramsay and Dawn French .
were among those who tried to help . |
0129aa6c6f670ce0728c24ef8d4bea7a3b4dfec4 | This thrifty bride bucked the normal trend of weddings which cost an average of $40,000 in Australia and kept spending down by making her own amazing wedding dress. Bride Chi Krneta from Washington, USA, crocheted the lace wedding dress while she was on the bus during her work commute for about five months. The talente... | Money saving bride Chi Krneta from Washington, US made her own wedding dress on her daily commute to work .
The beautiful creation is unique one off that the bride designed herself .
The bride says the dress is machine washable and doesn't need special care .
The average wedding in Australia costs between $36,700 and ... |
012c5bfe1ef1cf80d159dab760ff32fcbb270b70 | By . Gerri Peev . PUBLISHED: . 17:47 EST, 24 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 18:57 EST, 24 November 2013 . One in every four pounds collected in council tax in the last year has gone to funding local government pensions in England. Of the £22.4billion handed over by families in council tax in England in 2012-13, some £5... | Of the £22.4billion handed over by families in council tax in England in 2012-13, some £5.7billion went towards paying for council workers’ pensions .
In Scotland the figures are even worse where councils paid £1billion in employer contributions but collected just £1.9billion in council tax .
New figures show that high... |
012deed72132ed0ae83bfc2f77a5f3714d56373b | Tinder is set to launch its much awaited 'Tinder Plus' app allowing users to 'undo' accidental deletes in the US within weeks. The service has already been tested in the UK, but is now about to launch in the US, according to Techcrunch - with an expected price of $6.99 per month. The paid update is expected to allow al... | Tinder is set to monetise its app by launching a Tinder Plus subscription .
Paid-membership was tested in the UK, Brazil and Germany .
Subscribers will get access to an 'undo' button to prevent missed opportunities when they swipe left on a potential partner too soon .
Passport feature will allow them to search for ma... |
012e66126878710de4704bd506931d702582afcc | There was a rueful look on Martin Murray’s face as he emerged from the medical examinations which followed his brutally heroic defeat by the heir apparent to Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao as boxing’s pound for pound king. Here, in the plush surroundings of Monte Carlo, stood the second best middleweight on the pl... | Martin Murray's fight was stopped in the 11th round by referee .
Gennady Golovkin remains undefeated after win against Murray .
Murray heaped praise on 'terrific boxer' Golovkin after fight . |
012eeff83a404a0dbcd7e854e67564277b1c53fa | It sounds like something James Bond would have fitted to his Aston Martin, but Tesla’s latest car has an 'Insane mode'. It is a form of acceleration that takes the electric P85D from 0 to 60 in a little over three seconds. A car website has now taken passengers on a ride in the dual motor sedan and filmed their reactio... | The $120,000 (£80,000) Tesla Model S P85D was unveiled last October .
Electric car offers two acceleration options - Sport and Insane .
In Insane mode, the car goes from 0 to 60mph in around three seconds .
Tests have shown this creates a force of around 1.2Gs .
Video filmed reactions of passengers as the car hits Insa... |
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