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eae4cf28f7aaf7ba5fd7e7bed2fcffe600ce6f8a | Baghdad (CNN)Iraq's military abandoned a strategically important base in Anbar province after heavy fighting with ISIS militants, provincial security force sources told CNN on Monday. The base outside the city of Hit was one of the Shiite-led government's few remaining military outposts in Anbar, a predominantly Sunni ... | Iraq's military leaves an important military base in Anbar province to ISIS, sources say .
The base is a key control point for roads through the region, where ISIS is advancing .
CNN team on the Turkey-Syria border describe fierce fighting for the city of Kobani .
A Kurdish fighter said it would be "impossible" to hold... |
eae4da3b3c40407f9a3e92b52bec7e30e0ae4a0e | Top secret: The British Spy Manual was a compulsory read for members of the Special Operations Executive . From the cyanide cigarette to the deadly briefcase, the gadgets that Q presents James Bond with in each of the spy films are crucial to his operations. But according to a real-life spy manual, World War Two agents... | Book reveals ingenious equipment and weaponry offered to British spies .
Members of Special Operations Executive given manual during 1944-1945 .
Features expert disguise tips including early form of spray tan .
A plastic surgeon was also available to those needing permanent change .
The James Bond-style gadget manual w... |
eae51ea1601a0f5a76ff82aa6e82aa9fd77b558f | By . Mark Duell . Last updated at 5:45 PM on 29th November 2011 . It’s one of the most innovative uses of a shipping container ever seen - but this single mother’s only child hasn’t quite yet made her mind up about whether she likes living in what is essentially a shed. A California woman calling herself Lulu has creat... | California mother 'Lulu' creates 160 sq ft home in former shipping container .
She also converter trailer for her and her daughter to live in a backyard .
Decided to build home because she didn't want to work full-time to pay rent . |
eae53dfa36059cdfad7ab2f1921e8ddccaab9836 | The Tottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust have slammed the Football Association's 'extremely disappointing' decision to schedule the club's FA Cup third-round tie away at Burnley for a Monday night - and have also accused the governing body of 'damaging the magic of the cup'. The match has been scheduled for 7.45pm on Mo... | Tottenham Hotspur face Burnley at Turf Moor on Monday, January 5 at 7.45pm in the FA Cup third round .
Away fans will only be able to return home via coach that gets back at 4am .
The Tottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust have slammed the scheduling .
They say it is a 'disappointing decision' that 'damages magic of the c... |
eae567e517eacc2958ed3edee5c74d8b895757ce | Posing confidently for the camera, they exude the magnetic appeal of demure, yet alluring coquettes. The subliminal message shrieks that they are glamorous, glorious and – most importantly of all – real women who aren’t afraid to flaunt their flabby bits. Who can but applaud, we are encouraged to believe, the recent sp... | Dr Ellie Cannon: 'It is utterly wrong... obesity has taken its place alongside ageing and differing skin colours.'
' Two, if not three, are overweight, while the biggest girl is obese' the doctor claims . |
eae5a89c2401410f0921d73e78730f36fb53e4f9 | By . Deni Kirkova . PUBLISHED: . 07:15 EST, 8 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 07:42 EST, 8 October 2013 . A mother lost nearly four stone on a liquid diet after her husband told her: 'You look more like your mother every day.' Janet Nadolski, 48, from Stratford-Upon-Avon, ballooned to over 14 stone due to her fondness fo... | Janet Nadolski, 48, was 'deeply unhappy' and ate chocolate when stressed .
Husband's comment that she resembled size-24 mother was the last straw .
Janet: 'I love my mum dearly but she has never watched her weight'
Dropped from size 18 to size 12 and appeared on charity catwalk .
Husband now says she 'looks amazing' |
eae5f62168a042c5960ee1bd979ed63da8f28bc4 | LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- While automakers lay off staff and shut down plants in response to the economic downturn, one automaker announced Thursday that it will open a manufacturing plant in the United States, potentially creating hundreds of jobs in the area eventually chosen. Tesla unveils its Model S sedan,... | Tesla says manufacturing plant will be in California; hundreds of jobs possible .
The all-electric Model S sedan will go for a base price of about $50,000 .
Tesla's challenge: Will consumers pay that much for a car in recessionary times?
The company hopes to make 20,000 Model S sedans a year . |
eae61030da662c69ae62d74f72c9f3e376d41941 | By . Michael Day . PUBLISHED: . 07:25 EST, 19 October 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 02:26 EST, 22 October 2012 . Silvio Berlusconi yesterday said he believed the then 17-year-old dancer, Karima ‘Ruby the Heartstealer’ El Mahroug, was really 24 when he was alleged to have paid her for sex in 2010. The 76-year-old former Italian... | Mr Berlusconi, now 76, is accused of paying to have sex with Karima El-Mahroug in 2010 when she was 17 .
Denied ever paying for sex with any guest at his villa near Milan .
Ms El-Mahroug is widely known as Ruby Rubacuori ('heart-stealer') |
eae66331c01168fac2e5d956fd46877f8b48668c | By . Lizzie Edmonds . PUBLISHED: . 10:03 EST, 10 February 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 12:15 EST, 10 February 2014 . Mother-of-two Lisa Woodhead fought off a robber who entered her shop and demanded cash from the till by grabbing his genitals . A shop assistant fought off a hammer-wielding robber who demanded cash from the ti... | Lisa Woodhead, 33, was alone in the eCloud store in Rotherham, Yorkshire .
Hammer-wielding robber entered and demanded she hand over cash .
But mother-of-two put up a fight, grabbing the man by his privates .
After 15-minutes, two customers entered and the man ran off .
'I didn’t feel much. I wouldn’t say he’s too well... |
eae6ac99a2eff7044c6d0d06101684b8ef5a890a | By . Hugo Gye and Snejana Farberov . PUBLISHED: . 01:16 EST, 3 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:10 EST, 3 August 2013 . As Anthony Weiner's . floundering mayoral campaign rambled on Friday, posters began popping up . around New York City mocking the disgraced candidate's public relations . woes. The comedy website Funny... | Fake ads likely posted in Manhattan by staffers of comedy website Funny or Die .
Posters are a play on foul-mouthed tirade launched by Weiner's communications director about former intern Olivia Nuzzi . |
eae736785d41061e0db6cc8e81d8d0b4a484b079 | (CNN) -- This was not was your typical undercover sting. For starters, it was happening at an Indiana Dairy Queen. And the target was brains. Yeah, a brain bandit. The arrest last month of a 21-year-old suspect uncovered, police say, a macabre scheme to steal the brains of dead mental patients and sell them online. The... | Indianapolis man charged with theft of human brain samples from medical museum .
Some jars of human tissue allegedly sold on on the auction site eBay .
Buying or selling human organs is illegal and not allowed on eBay . |
eae794f059ed26a43f66876fbe2268c69a2a3176 | The humble postman is at enormous risk working in Australia’s number one most deadly job, according to startling new research. The top ten most dangerous professions for Australians are revealed in a list, with research revealing which industries experience the highest number of workplace deaths. The number one most da... | Research has revealed which ten jobs are the most dangerous for Australians .
The data reveals which industries experience the most workplace deaths .
Postal, delivery and transportation workers are at the highest risk of death .
One in three workplace deaths occur due to car crashes .
Australian farmers are second on ... |
eae85c9c5ba78c11cf091fa1ac353899e0c3fe65 | An American theatre is the latest to offer so-called 'Tweet seats' where audience members are encouraged to post comments about the performance on the social messaging site. The Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has formalised a growing trend in theatre audiences to use their phones from within auditoria by gi... | Twitter users given their own special section where they can't disrupt other patrons with the glow from their phones . |
eae982c3051b2c0d2287be45c6aa07fbb6b6d512 | (CNN) -- Pop quiz: What buttons are seen more than 22 billion times every day, embedded on 7.5 million websites? Answer: the Facebook Like and Share buttons, according to new numbers released by the social network. And now these most widespread of online icons are both getting their first ever redesign. SEE ALSO: Faceb... | The thumbs-up "Like" button on Facebook is no more .
Websites using the old button will be automatically updated .
Facebook says new design already giving more results . |
eae9da283f0a25531f132aa98628f8076d22dfdc | A UFC cage fight had to be stopped by a doctor after one of the fighters landed a punch on her opponent that made her ear explode. The bout between Jessica Eye, 28, and Leslie Smith at the UFC 180 match at Mexico City Arena on Saturday was stopped 90 seconds into the second round after the ear was ripped open. Fans wit... | UFC cage fight stopped in second round after fighter's ear ripped open .
The bout, in Mexico City, was between Jessica Eye and Leslie Smith .
Eye punched Smith's left ear until it exploded, with Smith covered in blood .
Despite the shocking injury Smith said that she had wanted to carry on .
Warning: GRAPHIC CONTENT . |
eae9e1c66ec63b05000c8d062b950ee7c8c66478 | By . Tara Brady . PUBLISHED: . 06:07 EST, 25 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:11 EST, 25 December 2013 . A teenager who wants to sleep outside for a year has built a home made of snow for the winter. Rudy Hummel, 17, originally built a tree house in his back garden in Hermantown, Minnesota, during the summer. But when... | Rudy Hummel originally built a tree house in his back garden .
When temperatures dropped he piled up the snow and made a quinzhee .
The 17-year-old has now lived outside for six-months . |
eaea980d64884048d21d035cf2ab3497ac9c7d1d | A newly discovered and often deadly virus related to one that causes the common cold has struck another victim, this time in France. A man hospitalized in April is infected with the novel coronavirus, France's Health Ministry said Thursday. The NCoV virus was recently found for the first time in humans and scattered ca... | Out of 31 confirmed cases of infection, the NCoV virus has killed at least 18 people .
The virus is related to one that causes the common cold, also a coronavirus .
NCoV has been compared to SARS, which killed about 10% of its confirmed victims . |
eaeaab1f32b0bd58ccbadc269331da95a227b77a | By . Tara Brady . PUBLISHED: . 12:21 EST, 30 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:15 EST, 30 October 2013 . A Norwegian shop has been forced to apologise to children and their families after it packed realistic looking severed plastic hands and feet in butchers' plastic trays and sold them as part of its Halloween collecti... | Parents horrified after discovering fake severed limbs in meat freezers .
Europris has been forced to withdraw the range of body parts . |
eaeb2b0d799c77845bf0e2cd8254469f65d18e24 | By . Simon Jones for MailOnline . Fulham have made moves to sign Mark Hudson and Matt Smith from Championshp rivals Cardiff and Leeds. Manager Felix Magath is keen to strengthen his squad before the close of the transfer window after a disastrous start to life in the second tier. The Cottagers find themselves second fr... | Fulham have had a disastrous start to their Championship season .
Cardiff's Mark Hudson and Leeds' Matt Smith are targets for Magath's side .
Hudson did not play for Cardiff in their draw against Fulham on Saturday .
Smith was an unused substitute for Leeds in their 1-0 at home to Bolton . |
eaeb380dfacc808b43c38a262bf4030036f3ef28 | (CNN) -- Four-time champions Barcelona will come up against rising power Paris Saint-German in the quarterfinals of the European Champions League. The draw for the last eight of Europe's premier club competition took place in Nyon, Switzerland on Friday, with Barca's match-up with Qatari-owned PSG the pick of the ties.... | Barcelona to play Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League quarterfinals .
The tie is a repeat of the 1995 quarterfinal, which PSG won .
Real Madrid will face Turkey's Galatasaray, while Bayern Munich drawn with Juventus .
Debutants Malaga to play 1997 champions Borussia Dortmund . |
eaec1c7bf6e51fa5482018c64ef10d6ac44bc63d | By . Daily Mail Reporter . Last updated at 6:51 PM on 21st October 2011 . Two men who helped gun down a man chatting to his estranged wife in a quiet residential street in a case of mistaken identity were each jailed for at least 28 years today. Michael Ofori, 35, fell victim to a 'drive-by' shooting as he sat in his M... | Victim was the cousin of England rugby star Paul Sackey . |
eaecc4cf7f367278546ba0478db6b2602e4267ff | By . Mark Duell . PUBLISHED: . 08:23 EST, 16 December 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 02:28 EST, 17 December 2012 . These pictures give a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at a 700,000 sq ft supermarket distribution centre as Britain goes Christmas shopping crazy. Goods were in storage at a Sainsbury's depot in Waltham Abbey, E... | Depot in Waltham Abbey, Essex, makes 1,800 deliveries a week to 90 stores in London and two other counties .
Amazing pictures give backstage look at 700,000 sq ft centre as British shoppers hit high streets across the UK .
Retailers aim to lure shoppers out of their warm homes with discounts of up to 50% nine days befo... |
eaed12b9ce6383223af93aaebbca121950bda3fd | By . Ian Ladyman . Manchester United's patience with manager David Moyes is being driven by an increasing belief that he was handed a questionable behind-the-scenes legacy by his predecessor Sir Alex Ferguson. One club source said post-Ferguson, ‘it was like looking behind the curtain of the Wizard of Oz and seeing the... | Manchester United's patience with David Moyes derives from misgivings over Sir Alex Ferguson's legacy .
United fans are growing disillusioned with new boss .
But the club's board are willing to stick by their man .
Sportsmail understands Ed Woodward believes the set-up Moyes inherited wasn't fit for purpose . |
eaed80dc8495ed175b5f4a3c37a044177f1393a2 | (CNN) -- There is an old African proverb: "If you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk together." That was the guiding principle behind the International Roundtable on China-Africa Health Cooperation this week in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana. This is the fourth such annual conference --... | 4th International Roundtable on China-Africa Health Cooperation held in Botswana .
China and African countries have a lot of common history, health and economic challenges .
Long history of China and Africa collaborating on health initiatives .
Africa could benefit from low-cost, high-quality, Chinese-made health produ... |
eaed9a0e59e6717bc0d64673c127ad8ff9bae69a | By . Meghan Keneally . Floyd Mayweather has opened up about his decision to post a picture of his ex's sonogram and publicly claim that she aborted their unborn twins, saying that at first he was trying to defend her. Mayweather said that his ex, Shantel Jackson, had told him that she had a miscarriage because of stres... | Mayweather said that at first he planned to post the sonogram picture because he thought the form would prove his ex had a miscarriage .
Says he only learned afterwards that she had been lying when a member of a reality show she had been filming contacted him .
World Champion boxer has since taken down the photo of his... |
eaee75abdf760245b6891250f8d73950042f153e | From stunning gemstones to glittering snowflakes, the mesmerising patterns of crystals can be found everywhere in nature. Their beautiful structure has provided scientists with an understanding of matter itself, giving them incredible insights into the intricate patterns of everyday objects. Now London-based photograph... | London-based photographer Max Alexander has shed light on a technique known as X-ray crystallography .
Process allows scientists to find the shape of molecules and then learn more about their atomic arrangement .
The technique has been vital to science, helping to uncover, for instance, the double-helical structure of ... |
eaee75c24b0ecb4fbfc384b311da1cc32b2e37f1 | By . Daily Mail Reporter and Ct . PUBLISHED: . 01:56 EST, 30 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 01:56 EST, 30 November 2012 . Batman's ride is up for sale -- just the thing for cruising on those Dark Knights. The original Batmobile from the 1960s TV series will be auctioned on January 19 at the Barrett-Jackson auction hous... | The original Batmobile from the 1960s TV series will be auctioned on January 19 at the Barrett-Jackson auction house in Scottsdale, Arizona .
The car could sell for millions says the chief executive of the auction firm . |
eaee9c05f369f6d38f739a9cc68f217f174b19cb | A Playboy model has sent a message to her football star ex-boyfriend - that love is about more than just looks - by posting a series of scantily-clad images online. Tilsa Lozano uploaded a series of seductive photos to Twitter as a way of showing Peruvian footballer Juan Vargas that he should have valued her mind and s... | Fiorentina star Juan Vargas was too obsessed with her body, says friend .
Tilsa Lozano claims she wanted to show fans photos 'without pretension'
Model believes people have the right to see raw un-Photoshopped images . |
eaeefd709fdc632c735e7357d773ddaadda6aaf0 | The good news is that news of the sign was shocking. Because there was a time, not so very long ago -- a time remembered vividly by many living Americans -- when the sign would not have raised eyebrows, much less warranted national headlines. You may have seen the story earlier this month. The Ohio Civil Rights Commiss... | Bob Greene: Case of a recent Ohio "Whites Only" sign points up ugly part of U.S. history .
He says such signs once not uncommon in South, and also North, even into the 1960s .
He says children, in particular, absorb messages on signs; internalize them as official .
Greene: It's meaningful that Ohio story made news; a r... |
eaef3a4349879c104e5652237ec3b8bda9ee0818 | By . Emma Glanfield . and Chris Pleasance . and Associated Press Reporter . Investigators are trying to positively identify a . body discovered burned beyond recognition last week in a charred Range Rover . near a luxury hotel on the north shore of this Caribbean island. Officials . released scant details at a news co... | Burnt-out Range Rover found on remote pathway in St Lucia Friday .
Charred body found inside car suspected to be that of British hotelier .
Victim named locally as 38-year-old multimillionaire Oliver 'Ollie' Gobat .
Local reports believe he was shot in head before being set alight in vehicle .
Mr Gobat's parents confir... |
eaef653688e51afcb6188ed08fede3ed020479fa | A long-forgotten radio interview has been uncovered where David Bowie tells how his first American tour bombed after he got the wrong visa - and immigration officials banned him from performing. The landmark visit to the States was planned to be a coast-to-coast publicity drive to promote Bowie's third album, The Man W... | The pioneering musician went to U.S. to plug The Man Who Sold The World .
But he was told he had wrong visa and could not play concerts .
Bowie was forced to promote album with secret small-scale gigs .
The glam rock star wasn't even allowed to perform songs on radio . |
eaefa5d0d3ba60104a9182adf898a5cb98aa33f8 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . Last updated at 1:16 PM on 29th July 2011 . Venezuela's flamboyant socialist leader Hugo Chavez has confirmed he has undergone an operation to remove a cancerous tumor. The announcement, which confirmed rumours that had been circulating for nearly three weeks, shocked the South American OPEC ... | Announcement confirmed rumours of ill health .
No indication of when he will return to Venezuela after surgery in Cuba .
Unclear whether he will be well enough for 2012 poll . |
eaf056c3f3746bb78b1f200f7fe694103d4beca1 | Beijing (CNN) -- Don't post rumors -- or else. That was Sina.com's message to millions of micro-bloggers recently, when China's leading content portal warned it will penalize users if they find them spreading false rumors on their Weibo account. Weibo is Sina's Twitter-like social media service, which boasts of 200 mil... | Sina.com CEO Charles Chao pledges to curb irresponsible rumors .
Chao said Sina has been working to set up a "credibility system"
Observers fear this is an attempt to tighten the control of the internet . |
eaf05866625acbdb707e415fcb6e6047d59fb0d5 | There’s nothing better than an upgrade. That frisson of excitement as you step onto a plane and turn left rather than right, knowing you haven’t paid full whack, can be better than the holiday itself. While it used to happen a lot more, being promoted to first or business class is still possible and nearly one in five ... | Learn how to dress, what to say and when to fly to win an upgrade .
Virgin Atlantic, TripAdvisor and Skyscanner give expert guidance .
If all else fails, give the check-in attendant a bottle of wine . |
eaf13c3d5f57715cd0286ee1d83076cd409f3e77 | (CNN) -- The parents of a 15-year-old Massachusetts high school student who committed suicide after being bullied by her classmates received a nearly quarter-million-dollar settlement, according to documents made public after a months-long attempt to uncover details of the agreement. The settlement was reached with the... | Phoebe Prince's parents receive $225,000 settlement after daughter's 2010 suicide .
15-year-old Prince hanged herself in January 2010 after being bullied by classmates .
Details of settlement made public after reporter sues Massachusetts town for access . |
eaf15b56999e96a1ec3fb0d32fd2c7b1275ceec2 | Athens, Greece (CNN) -- Explosions took place Tuesday outside two embassies in Greece, and police carried out controlled explosions of three more suspicious parcels addressed to embassies, officials said. The incidents come a day after one person was wounded when a parcel bomb addressed to Greece's Mexican Embassy expl... | Police detonate parcel addressed to German Embassy .
No one was hurt in the Swiss and Russian blasts .
Police carried out controlled explosions of two other parcels .
Parcel bombs were addressed to several embassies Monday . |
eaf216ef03e801ed38063d2b80420af172182447 | When stuntman Ben Toyer heard there was a role coming up in a Hollywood movie that would require being able to pole dance he thought he’d give it a shot. The blonde-haired model, who earns a living getting run over and set on fire in films, was 21 at the time and soon realised there was an added bonus to joining his lo... | Ben Toyer has performed stunts in Hollywood films such as Wolverine and The Great Gatsby .
He got into stunt work after doing parkour and free-running as a teenager in Sydney .
The model admits 'a lot of people don’t want to be hit by cars, set on fire or fall of buildings' for work .
Ben started pole dancing in Bondi ... |
eaf2198e7fc368a8f99a47c5bbf45029ca9ff861 | (CNN) -- Pope Francis arrived in Seoul Thursday, marking the first papal visit to the country in 25 years. The historic visit is also a nod to Catholicism's shifting demographics as an increasing number of believers come from Latin America, Africa and Asia instead of its historic stronghold in Europe. "The Pope's visit... | North Korea fires projectiles into the sea before the Pope's arrival .
Pope Francis is making his first visit to Asia .
His Asia trip is a nod to growing Catholicism outside Europe .
Pope is expected to hold Mass with Sewol ferry victims, North Korean escapees and former comfort women . |
eaf28e03d31f6fc3acac14bdf8770b1bf0814a74 | (CNN) -- The National Security Agency is reportedly capturing millions of images per day to feed facial recognition programs. Citing top-secret documents obtained by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the New York Times reported the agency 's reliance on such technology has grown in recent years. New software allows... | The New York Times publishes a report, citing documents from Edward Snowden .
Facial recognition is powerful but not always so straightforward .
An NSA spokeswoman declines to say whether imagery is collected from social media . |
eaf2c0e9fa6bf9159ec7b3232eb1f4dd1acdb354 | By . Rajvir Rai for MailOnline . Follow @@R_Rai . Newcastle striker Ayoze Perez is hoping to continue his remarkable rise after making his debut for Spain’s Under 21s on Thursday. Perez played in the 1-0 win over Hungary and with Newcastle team-mate Siem de Jong injured for several months, he will be hoping to force hi... | Spain's Ayoze Perez came on in the 77th minute against Hungary .
Newcastle new boy Perez sealed a £1.5m switch to St James' Park in June .
Perez has featured in Newcastle's three league games so far this season . |
eaf31958057ea70e7ce5c5d7ecb12c1d3899e9fd | Barack Obama tonight urged Scottish voters not to break apart ‘one of the closest allies we’ll ever have’ by voting for independence on Thursday. The dramatic intervention, just three days before Scotland goes to the polls, will infuriate Alex Salmond - with the battle for independence set to be decided by the smallest... | US President's intervention comes just 3 days before Thursday's referendum .
Up to 500,000 voters undecided amid concerns over membership of Nato .
Obama said US 'has a deep interest' in keeping the United Kingdom together .
Spokesman said he wanted the UK 'strong, robust, united and an effective' |
eaf3289f3b2726efe23eb4de8e94418d52c118b0 | By . Anna Edwards . PUBLISHED: . 06:31 EST, 15 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:59 EST, 15 March 2013 . A thief posing as a 'Good Samaritan' stole more than £6,000 from her blind neighbour after offering to do his weekly shopping for him. Callous Kim Spreadbury, 47, plundered around £1,000 cash a month from widower Alan ... | Blind Alan Grandfield had been struggling to cope after his wife's death .
Callous Kim Spreadbury offered to help do his weekly shopping for him .
Given nine-month suspended prison sentence and 100 hours of unpaid work .
Forgiving Mr Grandfield says he feels 'sorry for her' |
eaf3c8f6a36d4d179102cc4881e89bc867cd214c | By . Sam Webb . A former Royal Marine cleared of setting fire to footballer Andy Carroll's Range Rover 'tried to have sex with a car', a court heard. Rob Curran was caught in a state of undress in broad daylight on a busy street, 'gyrating and thrusting' his groin against the bonnet of a black BMW. He was spotted by a ... | Rob Curran, 36, was 'gyrating and thrusting' against a black BMW .
Witness said she 'couldn't believe' what she was seeing .
In 2010 he was questioned in connection with arson on footballer's 4X4 .
Hours earlier he had smashed the windscreen of a pub landlord's car . |
eaf3f88e29045bb029b2d393f6c50a840b292d5b | (CNN) -- The International Criminal Court has opened a probe into the North Korean shelling of Yeonpyeong Island last month and the March sinking of a South Korean warship, allegedly by a North Korean submarine, to evaluate if the incidents constitute war crimes, the court said Monday. "The office of the prosecutor has... | A preliminary investigation will determine whether a probe will be opened .
The international court is looking into the sinking of a South Korean ship in March .
The court also is probing the shelling on Yeonpyeong Island last month . |
eaf43ce0a4156c314749b4447910c84e17309af7 | By . Dan Bloom . With the amount of booze flowing in Germany this week, it's surprising anyone noticed at all. As the nation toasted its first World Cup final victory for 24 years, it emerged a gang of thieves had broken into a warehouse and stolen enough beer to fill 10 trucks. The raiders prised open a small gate at ... | Beer worth £1.7million stolen from a warehouse in western city of Krefeld .
Theft happened at some time over weekend as nation celebrated historic win .
Police statement asked: 'Has anyone noticed a large quantity of beer?' |
eaf571ac83b3e284587052515695e28c8fb5b153 | It is hard to know who our real friends are sometimes in the fast-paced modern world of virtual friends and virtual social networks. Now criminals are trying to blur the lines even further by posing as friends on the streets of Manchester so that they can take advantage of people who have been drinking to excess. Great... | Manchester police release CCTV footage of so-called hugger-muggers .
Thieves befriend people with excess drink taken and then mug them .
Assistant Chief Constable says people are 'vulnerable' when drunk . |
eaf5927817920dba0b008eafaa613ef34287cb0e | (CNN) -- How does a 14-year-old high school student, shot in the face and told he can never play football again, feel about his attacker? Forgiving. In a tweet he sent from his hospital, Nate Hatch says he forgives his cousin -- the shooter who opened fire at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Washington on Friday. Two... | Jaylen Fryberg sent a selfie with a gun to an ex-girlfriend, law enforcement source says .
The shooter used text messages to get victims to sit at same lunch table, sheriff says . |
eaf5b424a8387900785cfe7d0e0e59179a97b55e | A Wall Street investor who hoarded designer clothes and expensive silverware in his disheveled rent-controlled upper east side apartment left behind a massive $18 million fortune when he died last year. But his widow of 10 years says she still can't find the documents that detail the fortune's whereabouts because they'... | Lewis David Zagor, who died in December, lived modestly in a small, two-bedroom apartment costing $1,640 a month, yet his widow says his Wall Street investments amassed him an $18million fortune .
Valentina Phillips-Zagor says the details of her deceased husband's wealth are buried under piles of paperwork and boxes in... |
eaf60702e3cd820fd9946855d875d34ef6215d69 | By . Steve Nolan . PUBLISHED: . 06:29 EST, 30 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 09:56 EST, 30 August 2013 . For many new parents, the sight of their newborn peacefully asleep is one to behold - a moment to savour and a short respite from constant rounds of feeds and nappy changing. Dispelling the myth that sleep is an alien... | Alicia Gould takes portraits of babies as young as three days old .
The 32-year-old says she enjoys the 'simplicity' of newborn photography . |
eaf60d9c0f38e3d55251f98c4f950cd1001a2b53 | A small tsunami has hit the coast of northern Japan after a 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck on Tuesday morning. A wave of 10 centimetres was observed on the shore of Miyako, a small city of approximately 60,000 people on the eastern-most coast of Honshu, eastern Iwate, at 8:47 am. It followed a quake at a depth of abou... | Japan issued a tsunami advisory for the north east coast .
A tsunami of up to one metre was forecast to hit the coast of Iwate .
A 10 centimetre wave was then observed on the shore of Miyako .
Quake struck 77km east-northeast of Miyako, on the east coast of Honshu . |
eaf6276d6d11e39eb19506966e418e43ff4ea73a | Passengers crammed into rush-hour trains will not be surprised to learn that our over-crowded railway stations are getting even busier. At some the passenger numbers rose by eight per cent in one year, according to official figures. Waterloo was named the busiest station of the year with passenger numbers approaching t... | At some stations passenger number rose by nearly a tenth in one year .
Euston had the largest increase with numbers rising by 9.4 per cent .
Waterloo was named the busiest station with 98.44 million passengers .
Birmingham New Street Station and Leeds made the top ten . |
eaf653aee85c1d517eba5a08e01bb7c90be7158e | (CNN) -- Stalk much? Facebook Breakup Notifier, a new app for the site, is super simple -- and will probably be super popular. It lets users pick certain friends whose relationship status they'd like to monitor. If one of those relationships changes, the user gets notified by e-mail. "You like someone. They're in a rel... | Facebook Breakup Notifier lets users pick friends and monitor their relationship statuses .
If a relationship status changes, the app notifies the user .
Facebook just added civil unions and domestic partnerships to its relationship list . |
eaf6c02d64982d22f8756f9ac878b1d167d730ff | By . Claire Bates . PUBLISHED: . 06:43 EST, 4 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 07:44 EST, 4 March 2013 . When Lisa eats a banana... Eating the fruit every few hours helps keep the mother's blood sugar levels even . A mother-of-two who has been plagued by migraines for almost 20 years says she has been cured after snacking o... | Lisa Poyner has suffered from debilitating migraines since a teenager .
Mother-of-two, 38, realised they came on whenever she felt hungry .
She claims snacking on a banana stops an attack in its tracks .
Experts say eating fruit such as bananas can keep blood sugar levels stable . |
eaf6ff3461ef106ad96a67464b00908d1496ef30 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 19:59 EST, 28 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 02:41 EST, 29 May 2013 . NHS officials have been criticised for letting promotions company Bounty have access to women hours after giving birth . NHS officials have been attacked for letting sales people have access to new mothers just hour... | Parenting charity angry at hospitals giving access to promotional companies .
British Medical Journal claims Bounty profits by selling parents' details on .
Dr Margaret McCartney says parents are targeted in the hours after birth .
Some 2.6million Bounty packs are given out to new parents . |
eaf73c5d7efc1a9266ef04ec63bb3dc87bb224b2 | Culture Secretary Maria Miller apologised to the Commons in a 30-second statement . Culture Secretary Maria Miller today delivered a blunt, 30-second apology after being ordered to repay £5,800 in expenses. An investigation by the Commons standards . watchdog found she had overclaimed on mortgage bills in 2008-09, and ... | MP's allies insist she will be cleared on the charge of abusing allowances .
But she is expected to be told to repay around £5,000 in excess claims .
She bought a house in Wimbledon, London, for £234,000 in 1995 .
When she became MP she designated it as official 'second home'
Mortgage interest paid by expenses but she ... |
eaf7fc436b3af2864a279cc7e02b5079d94fd80a | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 21:13 EST, 12 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:11 EST, 13 January 2013 . The surgery that allowed Mark Cahill to once again use his hand was hailed as a landmark moment in British healthcare. But since being given a new lease after Britain's first ever hand transplant, a simple t... | Mark Cahill, 51, suffered gout and developed infection, causing paralysis .
On Boxing Day became first person to have the eight-hour landmark surgery .
He will never find out who the donor is due for data protection reasons .
But he thanked the man for the 'gift' which he said still felt like a 'novelty'
Revealed he an... |
eaf833c94726aa16034131be2c9f93cfb3beb6eb | By . Bianca London . PUBLISHED: . 08:54 EST, 10 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 03:40 EST, 11 July 2013 . Their skinny jeans have graced many a . well-toned leg - from the Duchess of Cambridge to Cameron Diaz, J . Brand's denim designs seem to flatter in all the right places. The American brand has over eight years of exper... | Jeans designed to make it look like you've been Photoshopped .
Fabric designed to resist the sag .
that forms in derriere region .
Label loved by Duchess of Cambridge and Cameron Diaz . |
eaf8768b17c4ff029e5186e627d16bb21d907b13 | A father lets out a sob of ecstatic relief as he clutches his son. A mother, her face a picture of joy, holds her precious child as she flees the scene of a bloody hostage drama in Paris that cost the lives of four innocent people. In 15 astonishing minutes, police brought a dramatic end to two sieges after three days ... | Hostages pictured fleeing Jewish grocery shop in east of the city where four people lost their lives .
Jihadi Amedy Coulibay was killed when commandos stormed the supermarket .
His girlfriend Hayat Boumeddiene, described as armed and dangerous, is still on the run .
Brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi were killed as they ... |
eaf89b00e1ee1f96fad98367623248fcaf616611 | Lauren Reid was left with a nasty wound on her arm and was hospitalised for four days after she was bitten by a spider in her sleep . A woman has told of her horror after she was hospitalised for four days and suffered paralysis following a spider bite in her sleep. Lauren Reid was left with a pus-filled hole in her ar... | Admin worker went to bed as normal at her home in Birmingham this month .
She felt something crawl across her arm and noticed 'black hair' in limb .
By the next morning she was in pain and had huge lump on her arm .
She was admitted to hospital after doctors were unsure how to treat her .
The 21-year-old says she fears... |
eaf8fbfea8cd44af706fd2fa2085be1a9f8de8e4 | By . Graham Smith . Last updated at 10:01 PM on 10th October 2011 . Kevin Flynn, 31, arrives at Chichester Crown Court this morning for his sentencing. He was sent to prison for 12 months . A chef who made a hoax phone call claiming his estranged wife was about to board a transatlantic flight with a bomb was jailed for... | Kevin Flynn, 31, made anonymous call after couple ended four-year relationship .
Officers were sent to Gatwick and Heathrow to intercept his wife .
Hoax call made from phone box in Bognor Regis .
'His motivation was to get her stopped and humiliated' |
eaf9593bfffe581998701fdf33698e445dd65b9d | (CNN) -- There was a time when Amy Winehouse was as talked about for her talent as she was for her behavior. Amy Winehouse has undeniable talent, but has become better known for her wild behavior. Her first album, 2003's "Frank," earned rave reviews in her native Britain for her unique voice -- an instrument that featu... | Amy Winehouse as famous for tabloid coverage as talent .
Winehouse broke through in America with Grammy-winning "Back to Black"
Singer undeniably talented, also in grip of life-threatening addictions . |
eaf98249eaf1bb7692e3e903bec9f20ac9f14973 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 17:32 EST, 21 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 18:00 EST, 21 August 2013 . Turns out Dr Mehmet Oz's appearance at a New York City accident scene wasn't the first time this week he's swooped in to help an ailing stranger. Ken Roosa said the celebrity doctor dashed to his aid last Satu... | Ken Roosa said the celebrity doctor .
dashed to his aid after he collapsed following a 5K .
race in Salt Lake City .
Dr Oz also helped Sian Green, 23, who was struck at Rockefeller Center by an out-of-control cab as she sat with a friend eating a hot dog . |
eaf9d36541a56cff1ed6720a0c8a96bb7d01a707 | By . Daniel Martin . PUBLISHED: . 06:10 EST, 21 December 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 06:29 EST, 21 December 2012 . The jobless are to be tracked online to see if they are looking for work. A . new website launched by ministers will remotely monitor whether . benefits claimants are making enough effort to find employment. Wor... | New website will monitor whether unemployed search for three jobs a week .
Benefits will be cut for those who do not do enough to look for work .
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith says website will match vacancies to jobless 'while they sleep'
Labour opposes 1% cap on rises in benefits . |
eafab42e0e1d1a218130ba413c5db9e629182cdb | When lawyer Alice Biggar made her new year's resolutions, it wasn't to give up alcohol or go to the gym more. Instead the 26-year-old took on a challenge that would see her living off recycled butcher's bones, foraging for wild berries and eating food destined for the supermarket bin in her hometown of Southampton. Mis... | Alice Biggar decided to take on a challenge to feed herself for £1 a day .
Lawyer said the key is surviving on supermarket own brand food .
She has foraged for berries and even got free recycled bones for soup .
Miss Biggar sticks to £7 weekly shopping budget and throws nothing away .
She said hardest part of month-lon... |
eafb2a088df1971ee42d27e914d53c492297ffc3 | By . Darren Boyle . Jubilant Arsenal fans will greet their team later today as they celebrate their record-equaling 11th time following a thrilling extra-time victory over Hull City. The team will hold a victory parade for the first time since Arsenal moved to their new stadium in 2006. The north London team had a hard... | Arsenal secure record-equaling 11th FA Cup victory with 3-2 win over Hull .
Arsenal plan victory parade through Islington to celebrate FA Cup win .
Players shower Arsene Wenger in beer moments after the thrilling victory . |
eafb7d775630373b6d85e16e0d0f9056ee82e93e | Dr Sally Norton warns a study that concluded most cases of cancer are the result of bad luck rather than unhealthy lifestyles could be detrimental to people's outlook on the disease . Most cases of cancer are just 'bad luck', not the result of an unhealthy lifestyle, diet or faulty genes inherited from our parents. Tha... | Dr Sally Norton says recent study blaming two in three cases of cancer on bad luck is detrimental to people's view of the disease .
Scientists in the US found in 65% of cases random mistakes in genes is to blame for the disease rather than poor lifestyle choices .
But Dr Norton argues while some cancers do strike out o... |
eafbafc108a1bd982792b37c96fd0f54bd31252e | By . Graham Smith . UPDATED: . 11:17 EST, 16 February 2012 . A team of builders renovating a vineyard facility in France were stunned when U.S. gold coins worth $1million rained down on them from the rafters. The treasure trove of 497 coins was hidden in the attic of an old building in the rural village of Les Riceys i... | Treasure trove of 497 coins found in former grape-drying facility in village .
Pieces were minted between 1851 and 1928 .
Unknown how they came to be in attic but building was owned by wine producer who traded with Britain and U.S. in 1930s . |
eafc85e3c3eac587ea807dc4fbaa2ca553d2c29f | By . Christopher Stevens . PUBLISHED: . 19:44 EST, 14 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 05:23 EST, 15 June 2013 . Knight and damsel: Tony Robinson, 66, with his wife Louise, 32 . It must be a cunning plan – for while actor Tony Robinson, who played Baldrick the downtrodden servant in Blackadder, is knighted in today’s Birthda... | Former star of Blackadder and Time Team has been awarded a knighthood .
Rowan Atkinson given a CBE in Queen's Birthday Honours today . |
eafd1c62d56b373dc27422184c07a88c862f3275 | A model village in a widow's garden that fell into disrepair after the death of her husband has been restored to its former glory by volunteers. Great-grandmother Pat Bullman and her husband Oliver, both 80, spent over 50 years creating the miniature attraction at their home in Wicken, Cambridgeshire. They started wit... | Pat Bullman and husband Oliver created village at home in Wicken, Cambs .
They began with a windmill and spent 50 years gradually adding buildings .
But the village fell into disrepair when Mr Bullman died in 2012, aged 80 .
Beverly Lorking and Tony Middleton have now helped renovate the village . |
eafd85f4c0e617ff3a8fdfb349b0db99fbcd4ed5 | By . Associated Press Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 14:32 EST, 17 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:32 EST, 17 February 2013 . Stanley Marsh 3, an eccentric millionaire artist best known for his "Cadillac Ranch" art display along an interstate in the Texas Panhandle, has settled lawsuits from 10 teenagers who allege he paid ... | Stanley Marsh 3 was charged with 11 felony counts of molesting children .
Settled Saturday, though no remuneration was announced .
He was released from a Texas detention center on $300,000 bail .
Known for putting Amarillo on the map with Cadillac installation and other eccentric works of art . |
eafd9465757bc2c9f2dd0dcbcb099e0e31dcf5b3 | Atlanta (CNN) -- Police gave the all clear Tuesday after investigating a suspicious package found at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The package was found in the lobby of a building at the CDC's Roybal Campus, located near Emory University northeast of downtown Atlanta, according to DeKalb County Police... | NEW: Aerial footage shows fire and other emergency vehicles responding to the incident .
The package was found at the CDC's Roybal Campus .
Offices near the package were evacuated . |
eafe2d4259734bd53ad13e8f53a61ce2fb18ff06 | Millions of Australians could be at risk of credit default, as changes in credit reporting regimes tighten the reigns on payment records. New reports reveal that 13% of the estimated 16 million Australians who use credit are at risk, with nearly 600,000 being considered facing 'high risk' of defaulting. This means that... | 13% of all Australians are at risk of defaulting on credit .
Highest at risk citizens are in Queensland, with 16% at risk .
Australians in their 30's and 40's are in the highest risk bracket .
Under new credit scheme defaults are recorded after 14 days instead of 60 . |
eafe58ae75c63273df8238ea8caa04ce4dd35358 | By . Amanda Williams . PUBLISHED: . 05:08 EST, 12 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 07:24 EST, 12 February 2013 . A pilot was forced to make an emergency mayday landing when a fire warning light came on in his cargo plane. But instead of a blaze on board, the alert seems to have been triggered by extra 'humidity' coming f... | Baffled crew had to don gas masks and make emergency landing after the alert was triggered over Irish sea .
It was later revealed to have been set off by 390 cows in the cargo hold .
Cows produce high levels of methane gas - the second-most-significant heat-trapping emission .
Korean Airways landing at Heathrow is one ... |
eafec7ce2fe599ccc09ec4b2ac2b5b8916af8c38 | Sleeping peacefully in the arms of her father, this is precious baby Maya born in jail to the woman facing execution in Sudan for marrying a Christian U.S. citizen. Our exclusive picture shows father Daniel Wani holding his daughter for the first time. Daniel's wife Meriam Ibrahim gave birth to Maya five days early in ... | Meriam Ibrahim, 27, gave birth five days early yesterday .
She has spent months of her pregnancy shackled to the floor .
Father, U.S. citizen Daniel Wani, pictured with baby girl in Khartoum jail .
Meriam sentenced to death for converting from .
Islam to Christianity .
Converted after marrying, Daniel, a Christian who ... |
eafef0c184f5693b7b73c37c460e0f82d8525dd3 | Two years after a shocking doping scandal forced him from the charity he created, former elite cyclist Lance Armstrong may start a new cancer foundation if he is not allowed to return to the iconic Livestrong brand. Armstrong, 42, recently told reporters he was weighing his options as the people in charge of Livestrong... | Disgraced former champion cyclist is 'almost certain' he won't be welcomed back .
Armstrong was banned in 2012 following revelations the former Tour de France winner doped .
Started the foundation in 1997 with roughly $7 million of his own seed money following battle with testicular cancer . |
eaff0dce0ce21e43056e764a8ebb41dfbcd58166 | (CNN) -- Leeland Eisenberg's latest jaunt away from authorities' watch lasted less than a day, police say. Eisenberg, who took hostages six years ago at one of Hillary Clinton's campaign offices, was arrested Monday morning at a community resource center in Manchester, New Hampshire, hours after officials learned he wa... | Leeland Eisenberg arrested in Manchester, New Hampshire .
Authorities say he was supposed to be at his Manchester halfway house .
Eisenberg will be charged with escape, Department of Corrections spokesman .
Eisenberg held hostages at a Hillary Clinton campaign office in 2007 . |
eaff41c7dcd28948232222d680767964794f3b79 | By . Mario Ledwith . PUBLISHED: . 06:51 EST, 9 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 01:47 EST, 10 April 2013 . There was speculation that North Korea may have pulled its ambassador out of Britain after a removal truck was seen at its suburban west London embassy yesterday. Boxes were loaded into a shipping container at the pr... | Large lorry with shipping container pictured outside North Korean embassy .
Country deny ambassador Hyon Hak Bong is quitting Britain .
Say huge removal van is for a secretary's belongings who is going back to North Korea after his term ended . |
eb005750b9e9d5e344728c1a7556993ed35a8072 | Nailed it: Cobbler, Charles Powell, 69, saw off the threat from Tesco, who withdrew their plan to open a new shoe repair outlet nearby . These days independent shops are all too often struggling and the future looked especially bleak for cobbler Charles Powell. With Tesco planning to open a shoe repair outlet in the su... | Charles Powell, of Cradley Heath, West Midlands, opened his shop, C&C Shoe Repairs, in 1984 and said it's his pride and joy .
The 69-year-old feared his livelihood was doomed when a nearby Tesco store announced plans for new shoe repair outlet .
He wrote to chain's chairman, Sir Richard Broadbent, to express concerns .... |
eb00885d33f758ad7d1a3b48ac21c4b173c44cbb | Washington (CNN) -- Major decisions abroad for President Obama, a peek inside Pat Roberts' new campaign playbook, and reminders of how important Nevada and Iowa are in national politics -- just some of the topics that emerged from our trip around the "Inside Politics" table. Plus, a digital extra from Politico's Maggie... | Chamber of Commerce a major player in the 2014 fight for control of the Senate .
Insiders in the Kansas GOP say Pat Roberts is shaking up his entire campaign .
Harry Reid turns his state's national political importance into a boon for local political causes .
No one expects a budget shutdown but GOP leadership is on pi... |
eb00d1a8e2005cf911e36b621119cd5a83f7d71e | Even grizzly bears let the catch of the day slip through their claws every now and again. These spectacular photographs capture the moment a huge brown bear struggled to get his paws on some fast food as he hunted salmon. The hungry grizzlies showed off their fishing skills just inches from the camera after descending ... | Grizzly bears captured salmon fishing at Territorial Park in Yukon, Canada .
Camera set up level with waterline by wildlife photographer Peter Mather .
Bears spend an hour-and-a-half hunting fish in the icy river water .
He said some bears were great at catching fish, but other had less luck . |
eb00f5419645ce9f777783e771f8fd93a36d5ddc | (CNN) -- When Amanda Berry screamed Monday evening for help through a crack in the front door of the house where she was being held, she set in motion an end to roughly a decade of captivity for herself and two other women. Berry's case had been publicized through the years, and when Georgina DeJesus was reported missi... | Amanda Berry tells relatives she's fine, a 6-year-old freed is her daughter .
A brother says Gina DeJesus "liked to dance a lot, crack jokes"
Michelle Knight, now 32, was reported missing in 2002 .
All 3 were allegedly held captive until Monday inside a Cleveland home . |
eb013dcc4b5491a815826aabd339f0a740a0f169 | (CNN) -- During a protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square a month after the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, Bothaina Kamel spotted a slogan supporting womens' right to be president of Egypt. She said: "At that moment, I thought we shouldn't just be saying that, we should be putting it into practice." A month later, Kamel ann... | Bothaina Kamel plans to stand as Egypt's first female presidential candidate .
She is an outsider to forerunners Mohamed ElBaradei and Amr Moussa .
Kamel is a news presenter who once resigned from state television . |
eb01a815c94b83a48062631b28c43c3459893df3 | (CNN) -- The fourth quarter of 2009 for the music and video game industries is shaping up to be all about the Beatles. And both could use some "Help!" The video game industry has high hopes The Beatles 'Rock Band' will pull it out of recession. The band, which released its last full album of original music in 1970, is ... | "The Beatles: Rock Band" video game, digitally remastered box release Wednesday .
Analysts expect spike in video game, CD sales, which have been on the decline .
Analysts say video game expected to attract buyers beyond 'hardcore gamers'
Real musical instruments industry watching the Beatles game release . |
eb01d2007737e33e8c7e61687bdf038ed91a6915 | Los Angeles (CNN) -- Ben Affleck's children are "freaked out" by photographers who camp near their home and follow them in public, the actor said. Affleck and his wife, Jennifer Garner, hope a beefed-up California law with keep the paparazzi at a distance when it takes effect on New Year's Day. "My kids aren't celebrit... | "My kids aren't celebrities. They never made that bargain," Affleck tells Playboy .
He wants a "bubble of safety" around his children, with cameras at least 100 feet away .
California outlaws photography that "seriously alarms, annoys, torments, or terrorizes" children .
A stalker who threatened to kill Affleck's famil... |
eb01f0880eed139dccc9c9ea42fb6a7a69a2ee28 | The ancient Incas were among the first victims of man-made greenhouse gases when Spanish Conquistadors forced them to mine silver at Potosi 240 years before the Industrial Revolution, it was claimed today. The earliest evidence of large-scale human-produced greenhouse gases in South America was found encased in ice in ... | Pollution created by silver mining 240 years before Industrial Revolution .
Spanish forced Incas to work in mountaintop mines of Potosí, now Bolivia .
In 1572 the Spanish introduced a new technology that boosted production .
Ice cores reveal it sent thick clouds of lead dust rising over the Andes . |
eb0259e90d6db44a17d9b5644fd244f7518cc6ac | A former Young Liberal vice president has been forced to quit the party after it was revealed he was once involved with a neo-Nazi organisation. Pictures have emerged of Scott Harrison making a 'Heil Hitler' Nazi salute at a skinhead event in 2010, while he's previously called on white people to carry firearms for int... | Scott Harrison campaigned for numerous marginal Liberal candidates .
He was revealed to have been a former neo-Nazi on Wednesday .
The Liberal Party said Mr Harrison resigned when they learned of his past .
Images have surfaced of him doing the Nazi salute at a skinhead gathering .
Vile messages he posted on white sup... |
eb03ca90e923ff9dcae4e546b38cd185a7321ce0 | By . Alexandra Klausner . A woman sobbed in court on Friday as she was sentenced to 30 years in prison after being convicted on two counts of vehicular homicide for killing both a mother and her 3-year-old son. Arica Vlach, 31, told the courtroom she 'was truly, truly sorry' and that she hoped that the family of Nicole... | Arica Vlach, 31, ran a stop sign on July 12 while driving drunk, killing Nicole Enderle, 42, and her 3-year-old son Alexander .
Enderle's 2-year-old daughter Zoe was in the car as well and survived the crash but suffered injuries .
Vlach was given consecutive sentences of .
12 and 16 years for the deaths of Enderle and... |
eb045256a331151967465af5f909d3730132124d | Pop songs which refer to alcohol brands could be encouraging young people to binge drink and have sex, experts have warned. Almost a quarter of chart music lyrics over a three-year period mentioned booze, analysts said. Four brands of spirits – Patron tequila, Hennessy cognac, Grey Goose vodka, and Jack Daniel’s whiske... | Rap, hip hop and R&B were most likely to mention alcohol .
Four brands of spirits made up more than half of references to labels . |
eb04725b15f78e1ab9f63de9db4c284a8b7c5edd | By . Sara Malm . PUBLISHED: . 14:00 EST, 7 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 15:27 EST, 7 November 2013 . Two young girls made a stomach-churning discovery when they opened a box of Weetabix to find maggots in the cereal. Cousins Ella Grix and Chloe Appleford were about to pour milk over their afternoon snack when they di... | Young girls made shocking discovery in cereal box from discount shop .
Ella Grix and Chloe Appleford found maggots in their chocolate Weetabix .
Grandmother Yvonne Read, 45, claims sell-by date was April 2014 . |
eb0486bad519eac94bcc3945c102d68be3138aea | By . Jason Groves . Traditional county names like Middlesex and Cumberland could become a familiar sight again on England’s roads after ministers yesterday lifted a ban on displaying them on street signs. In a move to mark St George’s Day, the Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said planning laws were being changed to ... | Communities Secretary Eric Pickles announced plan for St George's Day .
Claims it will make it easier for England to celebrate its rich heritage .
May also erect stand-alone signs highlighting ancient borders . |
eb0491d1b023d9b49019ab574806377e5fe34f69 | European migrants living in Scotland, including thousands of Germans, could hold the key to breaking up Britain. Polls suggest the referendum on Scottish independence is on a knife-edge – meaning the views of many of the 120,000 non-Scots EU citizens who live north of the border could play a pivotal role. Poles are the... | 120,000 EU citizens who live in Scotland can vote on future of the Union .
They include 33,000 Poles, 13,000 Germans and 4,000 from France .
Germany is particularly pro-EU, leading to tensions with Westminster .
Germans For Scottish Independence has more than 1,000 Facebook fans . |
eb059eda10a2250637255e6a5e4fca04213ffd81 | By . Jill Reilly . PUBLISHED: . 12:10 EST, 29 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 13:54 EST, 29 October 2013 . The maker of Sriracha hot sauce is under fire for allegedly fouling the air around its Southern California factory. The city of Irwindale filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court Monday asking a judge to stop p... | The city of Irwindale filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court Monday .
Asked a judge to stop production at the Huy Fong Foods factory .
Claiming the chili odor emanating from the plant is a public nuisance . |
eb05b14a0f7f09d40608b4eb930fb848b32e329c | (CNN) -- A judge on Thursday filed preliminary charges against Football Club Barcelona for alleged tax fraud in its purchase of Brazilian superstar Neymar, according to a copy of his writ viewed by CNN. Judge Pablo Ruz at Spain's National Court expanded his investigation against the club, as requested a day earlier by ... | Spanish judge looking into alleged improprieties .
Prosecutor alleges Barcelona football club avoided paying taxes .
Team had purchased Brazilian superstar Neymar . |
eb063a41cfbf42a4bac811a26fb3ec1ea8d8334c | England have been coming to terms with the ‘big loss’ of Owen Farrell for their entire RBS Six Nations campaign and bracing themselves for further upheaval, with Brad Barritt destined to be ruled out of the opener, at least. The RFU confirmed on Tuesday that the most experienced fly-half in the squad had sustained a ‘h... | England Rugby's Twitter account confirmed that Owen Farrell is set to miss the entire Six Nations campaign through injury .
It is expected that Saracens team-mate Brad Barritt will also miss the Six Nations Opener against Wales on February 6 because of injury .
Farrell and Barritt both picked up knee injuries in their ... |
eb06cb39efb2aa48f7eba2782b2e1a30b113da27 | By . David Baker . PUBLISHED: . 14:44 EST, 16 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 16:47 EST, 16 November 2012 . Thrill seeker: Jonathan Trappe poses in his cluster balloon craft before he took it out for a test run in Mexico . An adrenaline junkie soared through the air in a boat attached to hundreds of balloons today as pa... | Jonathan Trappe carries out test flight in Mexico in seven foot yellow rowing boat .
He hopes he is now prepared to make it across the Atlantic with the aid of just 360 helium filled balloons . |
eb06d8208c0d3327473bb9c4752c2a0652385071 | They are an ancient tribal group famed for creating beautifully ornate gold objects and then hiding rich hoards in times of enemy invasions and unrest. And it seems the Thracians, who were bordered by the Ancient Greeks to the south, were particularly skilled at making jewellery. Archaeologists have uncovered a haul o... | Archaeologists have uncovered a haul of ancient artefacts at the Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari in Bulgaria .
Gold earrings, delicate beads, ornaments and pottery were discovered at the third century BC tomb .
Thracian culture was inspired and heavily influenced by the Ancient Greeks in the Hellenistic Period .
Archaeologi... |
eb074a93eb182d727a5ab51eb16fcaa1c099b77e | More than five years after he resigned in disgrace over a prostitution scandal, former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and Silda Wall Spitzer are splitting up. "We regret that our marital relationship has come to an end, and we have agreed not to make any other public statement on this subject," Spitzer spokeswoman Lisa Li... | "We regret that our marital relationship has come to an end," they say .
Eliot Spitzer resigned as New York's governor over a prostitution scandal .
Silda Wall Spitzer famously stood by her husband during the 2008 scandal . |
eb07caa13fb0a88ec9c0b4558fcaeecdbd068e5a | When it comes to moving your life abroad, expats should head to Switzerland if they want to improve on their quality of life. But it's best not to move to the UK or US, both of which ranked near the bottom of the best places in the world for expats to live. Switzerland, Singapore, China and Germany were voted the best ... | Switzerland top of the pile for a high quality of life for expats .
Survey considered economics, experience, raising children abroad and expenses .
UK disappointingly finishes 33 out of 34 in overall table of countries submitted .
But UK has a high percentage where likelihood to find a partner is concerned .
China tops... |
eb07f1859670e3e9f27e7d5f9b12be79c3163758 | (CNN Student News) -- April 26, 2011 . Download PDF maps related to today's show: . • Missouri • Syria • Libya . Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: A color change, an egg roll, and an extraordinary talk show host. CNN S... | See how a basement stood up to a tornado that destroyed the house above it .
Learn why the U.S. government is making a change to its terror alert system .
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eb0816bd3c26b305c331fd8aa80bc8cd39d8a633 | National outrage over the racist . comments uttered on Big Brother last week haven't stopped the . contestants involved from spewing out more insulting slurs. After the eviction episode Thursday, Aaryn Gries targeted fellow housemate Candice Stewart by flipping over her mattress. After warning her not to flip her mattr... | The housemates who originally sparked outrage for racist comments aired earlier this week, uttered more remarks after the episode on Thursday .
Contestants originally mocked Asians and gays, with one even praising Hitler. On Thursday they targeted a black housemate .
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