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ee4c97685c28936350ed80dcf105ca83364d04cd | (CNN)The American and British embassies in Yemen suspended operations and moved staffers out Wednesday, and urged their citizens to leave the politically-unstable nation as well. The U.S. Embassy had already been operating on a skeletal staff since late January. The French embassy also said it would close its doors sta... | The troubled Middle Eastern nation has been without clear leadership .
The U.S. is worried about possible terrorist attacks on Americans . |
ee4ce5247962a888b54dd3dc0ca7ab47e551f6c5 | By . Australian Associated Press . Harrowing footage of the moments after Sydney police officer Bill Crews was fatally shot has been played at an inquest into his death. Constable Crews was 26 and a new recruit to the NSW Police Middle Eastern Organised Crime squad when he was shot during a 2010 drugs raid in the basem... | Constable Crews was a new recruit when he was shot dead in 2010 .
Inquest finds that Detective Senior Constable Dave Roberts fired fatal shot .
Video shows officers begging gunman to drop weapon for five minutes . |
ee4cfca62525a542418c6975025e4a63b3cec904 | (CNN) -- Cristiano Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic will go head-to-head for a place at the 2014 World Cup after Portugal and Sweden were drawn together in the European qualification playoffs. Portugal captain Ronaldo will lead his team out against Ibrahimovic's Sweden, with one of the star duo set to miss out on a ticke... | Portugal drawn to play Sweden in the European playoffs for 2014 World Cup .
Four of the eight teams in the draw will go to Brazil .
Each of the eight teams finished second in their qualifying groups . |
ee4d65636cabb2100e3675b5d9a55eb8a976f256 | By . Kerry Mcqueeney . UPDATED: . 08:46 EST, 30 November 2011 . Scrap-metal thieves are now targeting Britain's roads, plunging entire sections of motorways and dual carriageways into darkness because street lighting cables have been stolen. Motorists' lives are being put at serious risk as they are forced to negotiate... | Criminals move on to roads after ransacking the rail network .
Motorists forced to drive on highways without lighting and - in some cases - crucial road signs .
British Transport Police says crimewave is 'second only to terrorism' in its priorities . |
ee4de22ccfd894ecc1f5536ac0ed3ff947297cbd | By . Sarah Griffiths . PUBLISHED: . 06:05 EST, 4 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 07:36 EST, 4 December 2013 . Overall, humans are becoming increasingly carnivorous, but there are decreases in meat consumption in certain countries, the study said . Across the globe, humans are eating increasing quantities of meat. The ch... | French researchers have discovered .
‘significant’ links between the World Bank’s development indicators and .
the food humans eat .
A scientist from the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea estimated humanity’s median trophic level was approximately 2.21 in 2009 .
The study found that overall, humans ... |
ee4de99a87df820d212672388722a8f208edd4e0 | A controversial plan to segregate all people wearing face coverings inside Parliament House has been dumped. The security overhaul, which one MP labelled 'religious apartheid', was abandoned after mounting criticism. However, the Department of Parliamentary Services (DPS) which sets security protocols says all visitors... | Burqa ban dumped after outrage over 'religious apartheid'
New 'enhanced' security measures have been implemented .
Those wearing facial coverings and watching proceedings in Parliament House were to be restricted to a glassed-in area reserved for children .
New screening procedures are in place forcing anyone with a fa... |
ee4dfecb150fece98a0ace8c991a957e549649b2 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 00:56 EST, 3 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 09:24 EST, 3 December 2013 . A 13-year-old white girl was taken by Houston police Saturday from her two black, male guardians and placed in Child Protective Services without being given so much as a reason. Landry Thompson was visiting ... | Landry Thompson, 13, was visiting Texas from Oklahoma with her two male, African American dance instructors .
She was placed in handcuffs and taken away without being given a reason .
Houston police still won't say why they took Landry, but her mother Destiny is demanding an apology . |
ee4e509f5d4e3024acb8f0fcab1d2815688793e7 | Self-harm in indigenous Australians has increased almost 50 per cent in the past 10 years while juveniles are 24 times more likely to be sentenced to detention than their non-indigenous counterparts, according to a new government report. These were some of the findings in the Productivity Commission's Overcoming Indige... | The report was released by the Productivity Commission on Wednesday .
It highlights improvements and ongoing issues of indigenous Australians .
There was a 48 per cent increase of adults imprisoned from 2000 to 2013 .
But more youths were graduating Year 12 and getting a tertiary education . |
ee4e679c83f39fce6c3971a9a3e5f955e6b87ed2 | (CNN) -- A Navy SEAL killed in a parachute training accident this week in Arizona belonged to the same elite squad that includes those chosen to go after Osama bin Laden in Pakistan two years ago, a source familiar with the matter said. It was the second deadly military training accident in as many weeks and the third ... | NEW: The incident occurred during a "normal" parachute exercise, the Navy said .
Source: The late SEAL belonged to the same elite squad that went after Osama bin Laden, source .
Unclear, however, whether that SEAL was on 2011 Pakistan raid .
Fourteen Marines killed in two other training accidents recently in the United... |
ee4f50767dbb388110f951f2e72759257c814912 | (CNN) -- The list of relatives Widline Germain has not heard from since Haiti's earthquake seems like a town population in itself. "When you count our extended family -- the dozens of cousins and aunts and uncles -- there's several hundred of us in Haiti, and we don't know where most of them are," she said from her hom... | Haitian-American spent holidays in Haiti, returned day before quake hit .
She said her extended family in Haiti numbers about 400 .
"My family is there starving and thirsty, sleeping on the street," she said . |
ee4f66ec26fc7493a46cd711ada2a3184fd17118 | As many of us prepare to head abroad for summer holidays, many will be lamenting not starting their bikini diet months ago. But if the prospect of stripping off on the beach leaves you in a cold sweat help is at hand. Kayla Itsines, 23, from Adelaide, South Australia, has become an internet sensation with her bikini bo... | Trainer Kayla Itsines has gained over 1 million followers on Instagram .
Her worldwide following has developed an almost cult-like status .
Fans include Victoria's Secret Angel Candice Swanepoel .
Here she exclusively shares with Femail her pre-holiday body blitz .
Includes never-seen-before targeted workout and exampl... |
ee4fb8df26eb46c6095d99d350d9f8dbcf63673e | By . James Chapman . Prediction: Ed Davey . A Liberal Democrat Cabinet minister has predicted that his party will enter coalition with Labour after next year’s general election. Energy Secretary Ed Davey, who is on the right of his party, said he believes Labour will be the largest party after the election in May and t... | Ed Davey says Lib Dems can use experience in Coalition to get more power .
Many Liberal Democrats and Labour policies now align . |
ee4ff08823fd0d63f96261e3d9d7080f98fe3153 | BARCELONA, Spain (CNN) -- Google launched the latest salvo in the cellphone wars Tuesday with the unveiling of the newest handset to carry its Android platform. Google's Android platform goes head to head with Apple's iPhone. Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Vodafone's HTC Magic smartphone will make ... | Vodafone's HTC Magic handset will launch in western Europe in the next few months .
The first Android-capable handset, T-Mobile's G1, was launched last year .
New device includes a 3.2-inch touch screen display, navigational buttons, trackball . |
ee505a3d496a6cccc160fcf84539314ab5173202 | Fort Hood, Texas (CNN) -- The only question left for the jury considering the case of Army Maj. Nidal Hasan is whether he will live or die for targeting Afghanistan-bound soldiers in one of the largest mass killings of military personnel on a post on U.S. soil. Jurors deliberated less than seven hours over two days bef... | The jury that convicted Nidal Hasan in the Fort Hood shootings will decide his fate .
The penalty phase begins on Monday .
Death penalty "would be too lenient," says the husband of one victim .
Hasan has indicated the death penalty would allow him to become a "martyr" |
ee5065350dc82c470aa3c5f42df6120ff5829889 | England got the result they desperately needed against Samoa but Stuart Lancaster and his coaching staff did not get the performance they desired. Michael Cheika will bring his wounded Wallabies to Twickenham next week for England's final game of the autumn international series and serious improvement is needed if Lanc... | England laboured to a 28-9 victory over Samoa at Twickenham .
George Ford impressed at fly half .
England's midfield selection remains a big issue . |
ee507ea6b8f6ee497bf355f1aa6e5c01ac2200a7 | By . Snejana Farberov and Alex Greig . PUBLISHED: . 16:03 EST, 10 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 20:52 EST, 10 November 2013 . A 2,000lb satellite is expected to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere within hours. According to the European Space Agency, the Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) wil... | Scientists predict a 2,000lb satellite will break through the earth's atmosphere at 7pm tonight .
Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer, or GOCE, was launched in 2009 to map variations in Earth's gravity .
GOCE ran out of xenon fuel October 21 and has been losing altitude since .
Most of spacecraft ... |
ee5088db52eea6cf6b7d41f6361c36cc49a19cb8 | DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- The United Arab Emirates has refused to grant a visa to a female Israeli tennis player, preventing her from competing in the Sony Ericsson World Tennis Association Tour in Dubai, the WTA said in a statement Sunday. The UAE has refused to grant a visa allowing Shahar Peer to compete ... | NEW: Shahar Peer, female Israeli tennis player, says she's "very, very disappointed"
United Arab Emirates refuses to grant a visa to Peer .
Peer needed the visa to play in the Dubai Tennis Championships .
World Tennis Association unhappy, says move runs counter to its policy . |
ee50c806f1bd7a93416c80489e71efbdff7cbeed | (CNN) -- Her popstar boyfriend has written a song about her "heart of a champion," but Victoria Azarenka is struggling to get on court at the moment. The Belorussian is unbeaten in 17 matches this year, but she has now suffered her third withdrawal of the season after a late pullout at the Miami Masters on Friday. She ... | World No. 3 Victoria Azarenka pulls out of Miami tournament due to ankle injury .
She was also forced to withdraw at Indian Wells due to the problem .
Azarenka's popstar boyfriend Redfoo has released a song dedicated to her .
He is a keen tennis player and has entered qualifying for the U.S. Open this year . |
ee50d16ebbbca8e684b401df309b288255dd38f3 | By . Andrew Levy . When a severe storm threatened his boat on a dark winter’s night, Steve Kingston refused to abandon ship. Although council officials told him to get to safety, the captain feared his passenger ferry could be a danger to the public if she broke her moorings in the massive tidal surge while unattended.... | Steve Kingston, 62, runs a river ferry company in King's Lynn, Norfolk .
Moored his boat in the heavy storms this winter - and told the council .
They officials then ordered him to leave his ship in the bad weather .
But he refused - so police officers pepper-sprayed and cuffed him . |
ee510b06f56a25edf2ef1350faeee89e0867c757 | Prosecutors could have never won a trial to convict Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown and the grand jury's decision not to indict Wilson was the right call, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday. "I believe it was a correct verdict. In fact, I think it was the ... | Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani said the Ferguson grand jury decision reached the 'correct verdict'
The former mayor of New York City said the case against Darren Wilson failed two tests .
Giuliani was speaking Tuesday morning with CNN's New Day . |
ee5131ca0e70cdc978c392a693cdc432737f5740 | (CNN) -- More than 2 million U.S. troops have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001, and it has been estimated that one in five of those veterans are likely to be afflicted by post-traumatic stress disorder or major depression. Mary Cortani is working to help some of them enjoy life again. Through he... | Mary Cortani was named one of the top 10 CNN Heroes of 2012 .
Her group helps war veterans train their own service dogs in northern California .
These veterans are dealing with invisible wounds such as PTSD and depression .
Who should be the CNN Hero of the Year? Cast your vote now! |
ee51a1b0f8a609fd5fd413bdf879dd271d2b157b | Last year, Dennis Rodman sang him a bizarre rendition of happy birthday as adoring crowds clapped in unison during a basketball game in Pyongyang. With the former basketball star out of town, Korean dictator Kim Jong-un will have to settle for his usual entourage of fawning and fearful officials as he celebrates anothe... | Kim's birthday believed to be January 8 - though his exact age is unknown .
Last year's celebrations saw Dennis Rodman belt out happy birthday .
In three years as dictator, Kim has featured in collection of peculiar photos . |
ee52c9c0789a0c08f9546d7958c17bc4dab0f184 | By . Hugo Gye . PUBLISHED: . 12:04 EST, 23 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 13:33 EST, 23 December 2013 . The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are a step closer to moving in to their new country home after builders finished re-roofing the house. Anmer Hall, on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, has had its roof covered in t... | Anmer Hall on Sandringham estate is being renovated for William and Kate .
Roof has just been covered in traditional clay partiles rendering it orange .
But the home will not be ready for the couple to move in until new year .
Duke and Duchess will be spending Christmas at Sandringham with family . |
ee5307a9e7e6855f12278a0a8cf7132c306831a1 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . Controversial David Silvester - a member of Henley Town Council - spoke out at an extraordinary meeting last on Tuesday evening called to consider whether he should resign . A UKIP councillor who said the floods plaguing Britain were caused by the homosexual marriage law, has been expelled f... | David Silvester, 73, wrote a letter to the Henley Standard in Oxfordshire .
In it he said storms were God's punishment for legalising gay marriage .
Now, he has called on homosexuals to repent at a council meeting .
He has now been expelled from UKIP after his comments in the paper . |
ee533f0da02cee630679692e7429e52119df3d51 | (CNN) -- Manchester United were held to a 2-2 draw at Old Trafford by West Bromwich Albion in the English Premier League on Saturday. A mistake by goalkeeper Edwin Van Der Sar gifted the visitors an equalizer 10 minutes into the second half after Hernandez and Nani had given the Alex Ferguson's men a two goal lead befo... | Manchester United squander points at home to newly promoted West Brom .
Edwin Van Der Sar gifts West Brom a point after fumbling a cross in a 2-2 draw .
Arsenal and Spurs come from behind to beat Birmingham and Fulham respectively .
Strugglers West Ham and Wolves draw 1-1 to remain rooted to the bottom of table . |
ee5354cbdad3b0705cf2ff348bacb7bd8bc0e112 | By . James Rush . PUBLISHED: . 12:06 EST, 27 December 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 15:43 EST, 6 January 2013 . Internet sensation the One Pound Fish man has returned home to Pakistan a hero after being asked to leave Britain because his visa had run out. Singer Muhammad Nazir, who was bidding for the Christmas number one spot... | The One Pound Fish man returned home today to hundreds of adoring fans .
Singer Muhammad Nazir was asked to leave Britain by immigration officials .
He is now bidding for worldwide fame with his song about cheap fish . |
ee5365ccc0dc36d2edd927979bfcabb530cb00d9 | In April 2011, a woman who answered Salim's Craigslist ad called 911 to report being accosted by the doctor . Salim tried to hire aspiring model to paint internal organs on her stomach for $400 . By . Helen Pow and Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 17:17 EST, 25 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 00:43 EST, 26 May 2013 . Charg... | Pakistani-born Dr Ali Salim, 44, is accused of murdering pregnant Deanna Ballman and her unborn baby last summer .
Mother-of-two was found dead in her car on August 1 after man allegedly gave her a lethal heroin injection .
Family says Ballman answered an ad for housecleaning, but reports suggest she agreed to model fo... |
ee5382643a2fd6050b6d4262c5fc903e1bd1b5cf | (WIRED) -- It's one of the biggest data breaches in history. Now that Sony has come clean -- sort of -- on a computer intrusion this month that exposed personal information on 77 million PlayStation Network users, one obvious question remains: Who pulled off the hack? In the old days, the answer would be simple: some k... | Personal information on 77 million PlayStation Network users was exposed recently .
Here's the run-down of who might have done it .
A for-profit cyber-thief probably did the job . |
ee540cfcb22504dfd71a7a689229e43edb491066 | By . Associated Press . PUBLISHED: . 19:44 EST, 14 August 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 10:30 EST, 15 August 2012 . Convicted killer: Michael Hooper was executed on Tuesday after his 1993 conviction of killing his girlfriend and her two children . An Oklahoma death row inmate who tried to delay his execution by challenging the... | Michael Hooper, 39, was executed in Oklahoma on Tuesday .
Hooper, who shot his girlfriend and her two children in 1993, argued that a three-drug lethal injection was unconstitutional .
Had a last meal of fruit and coffee before being put to death at 6.14pm . |
ee5423f2d7f9c8d0bd617235b28432a0ec00ec57 | Beijing (CNN) -- Chinese police have busted two child-trafficking rings after a six-month nationwide investigation, rescuing 178 children and arresting 608 suspects, the country's Ministry of Public Security announced this week. Calling it "the biggest achievement since the launch of a national campaign against human t... | Chinese authorities rescue 178 children and arrest 608 suspects in a smuggling crackdown .
Traffic accident in May in southwest China unexpectedly led the authorities to network of child-traffickers .
China: Police have arrested almost 50,000 suspects, rescued more than 18,000 children since 2009 . |
ee547e460be7083801a3caff0c7262e6ec6779ce | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 01:14 EST, 11 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 01:14 EST, 11 January 2014 . An American diplomat has been expelled from Delhi as India kicks back at the U.S. after one of its diplomatic team was forced to leave. India's deputy consul in New York, Devyani Khobragade, was facing an in... | Devyani Khobragade given UN post that offers her diplomatic immunity .
39-year-old denies claims made against her in 20-page indictment .
Delhi hits back at 'barbaric arrest' and imposes restrictions on U.S. officials . |
ee54b0f08c9e313d632a11ae4843f8404717b2f7 | By . Sam Dunn . PUBLISHED: . 19:16 EST, 22 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 01:37 EST, 23 May 2013 . Consumers are turning away from scandal-ridden banks and opening 1,000 current accounts a day at Nationwide, Britain’s biggest building society. More than 365,000 current accounts were set up in the last 12 months – up 58 per ... | Nationwide is paying 5% interest on balances up to £2,500 to lure customers .
The FlexDirect account offer is more than any ordinary savings account .
Customers have deserted banks over poor service, high fees and mis-selling . |
ee555e0a3a0b0471ab1e10e673ee96112fd6ad40 | (CNN) -- A short video that has gone viral in Mexico asks a tough question of the country's presidential candidates: "Are you striving only for the (presidential) chair, or will you change the future of our country?" A young girl with brown eyes and long brown hair, wearing a simple white shirt, poses the question. Beh... | A video featuring child actors has gone viral in Mexico .
It shows children facing the challenges the country faces .
The video asks Mexican presidential candidates for real change .
Some of the candidates have seen the video . |
ee56b3e343a88c4c7ab75421ca55ee9aeb967196 | (CNN) -- Samoa will switch its driving from the right side to the left side of the road on Monday in a move opponents have called ill-conceived and said will lead to dozens of wrecks and fatalities. Proponents tout the change, which no other country has attempted since the 1970s, as making economic sense. Thousands of ... | Samoa declares Monday, Tuesday holidays for people to adjust to change .
Supreme Court rejected constitutional challenge to change .
Drivers in Samoa's biggest neighbors, New Zealand and Australia, use the left side .
Sweden, Iceland, Nigeria and Ghana switched from driving on left side to the right . |
ee56cc80c4ac5b6778fec2c6fec0494451f2bca6 | (CNN) -- For five years, Taliban militants held Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl captive. They released images of him from time to time. In one piece of footage, he appeared gaunt, eating slowly. In another, the soldier stood next to a bearded man with a gun and looked at the camera for a moment. Bergdahl's forehead was furrowed, an... | Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will take desk job at Army post in Texas, military spokesman says .
Bergdahl has finished therapy at an Army hospital in San Antonio .
Stress will "increase dramatically" for soldier, mental health expert says .
He was released in May after five years in exchange for the U.S. freeing five Taliban mem... |
ee5786733420cfcc3a714dae7bd640570af494e7 | Scotland's central defensive duo have vowed they are ready to do what Germany couldn’t and stop Poland’s rampant goal-machine led by the fearsome Robert Lewandowski. The Bayern Munich striker laid on the second goal for Sebastian Mila in a shock 2-0 win over the world champions in Warsaw on Saturday night as the German... | Poland host Scotland in their next Euro 2016 qualifier in Warsaw .
The Poles defeated Germany for first time in their history to top Group D .
Scotland defenders Russell Martin and Grant Hanley insist they can stop the likes of Robert Lewandowski and Sebastian Mila .
Gordon Strachan's side are currently third ahead of ... |
ee57b007cf8f6c2d7a17df5f1180b248986c6526 | By . Liz Thomas . PUBLISHED: . 11:13 EST, 20 July 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 11:52 EST, 20 July 2012 . Splashing about: Retailers of wet weather gear have profited enormously from the soggy weather . The washout spring and summer may have meant misery for the High Street shops as they were forced to start the sales early. B... | Marks & Spencer selling one mac every minute . |
ee57befef8a6f3194155a4358ef436d70109f617 | Officials in Idaho and Nevada have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stop same-sex marriage in those states, at least temporarily, by barring implementation of a federal appeals court ruling issued Tuesday. The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals struck down current bans on same-sex marriage in the two states, and later or... | A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down two states' ban on same-sex marriage .
Idaho and Nevada officials then asked the Supreme Court to intervene .
Idaho granted request temporarily; Nevada's pending . |
ee57e360bfcc8b0c94e46decc8e6eae760fa4c9a | Three men have been detained after taking a man hostage in an apartment in the Belgian city of Ghent today, sparking fears the siege could be linked to terrorism. Police have taken the men into custody - who left the building with their hands up - and the hostage has now been released unharmed. It was still unclear why... | Sparked fears siege may be terror-related after an Islamist fanatic takes hostages in Sydney cafe today .
Police sealed off wide perimeter around the area to keep bystanders away .
'We have no indication that there is a link to terrorism,' said a police spokesperson .
A police source told reporters they believe inciden... |
ee57f10e4dfafa3749f8596574ef9fc1a40a489e | LONDON, England -- Former Culture Club singer Boy George has been convicted of falsely imprisoning a male escort. The judge told Boy George he faced jail. Norwegian Audun Carlsen, 29, said the frontman with the 1980s band beat him with a metal chain as he tried to flee his London flat after a naked photo shoot. A jury ... | Boy George convicted by jury in London of falsely imprisoning male escort .
Norwegian Audun Carlsen said star beat him with metal chain after photo shoot .
Singer told police he handcuffed Carlsen while he investigated tampered computer . |
ee57f1d1e7ed1463cd8bf24a19500271fcb097ce | (CNN) -- A Food and Drug Administration review of data on the effectiveness of flibanserin -- a pill anticipated to become the first "female Viagra" -- resulted in questions about how well the drug will actually work in treating premenopausal women suffering from low sex drive. According to a report posted on the FDA w... | Flibanserin anticipated as 'female Viagra'
FDA review says results "not compelling"
FDA committee votes Friday on Flibanserin .
Some estimates say nearly 40 percent of American women have low sexual desire . |
ee580854890611998005504bdfde697ab26520db | By . Helen Lawson and Emily Davies . PUBLISHED: . 11:27 EST, 23 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 16:28 EST, 23 June 2013 . With gale-force winds, crashing waves and an iron grey sky, the coastal town of Southsea is a bleak reminder of our dismal summer. Yesterday the seaside resort in Hampshire was hit by choppy conditions a... | Showers covered campers awaiting show court tickets at SW19 today .
British temperatures should return to high teens by mid-week .
Met Office predicts low-twenties for Glastonbury and Silverstone next week . |
ee58649760f1b83be802f57fd0d4ee3bee87c6a2 | Presenter Cathy Newman says she was ushered out of the door of a mosque in Streatham, in south London . A Channel 4 news presenter said she was ejected from a London mosque yesterday despite being 'respectfully dressed' when she tried to make an open day visit. Cathy Newman turned up for the British Muslim Council's V... | Cathy Newman says she was ushered out of a mosque in Streatham .
The presenter later received a 'warm welcome' from another one nearby .
Mosques across the country are opening their doors to the public today .
Organised by the Muslim Council of Britain to show people how they run .
A South London Islamic Centre spokesm... |
ee58898e6e7a162893d7acfaa57c5aca08235e0e | By . Liz Hull . PUBLISHED: . 13:09 EST, 3 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 05:06 EST, 4 October 2013 . An investigation has been launched after £2million of taxpayers' cash was wasted on Beatles' memorabilia that was worth just £300,000. A publicly funded travel firm in Liverpool handed over the huge sum for a pair of Joh... | Includes pair of John Lennon's glasses and George Harrison's first guitar .
Lawyers raised concerns at the time over 'conflict of interest'
Valuer had been a company director with person who was selling items . |
ee58b71da7f4b1d01e0f52b290759b3461f0a18e | (CNN) -- Of all the inhumane conditions in the detention of immigrants, the most serious is simply the condition of being locked up. Detention means that parents are taken from their children and shipped hundreds of miles away to jails where visits are impossible. Immigrants who have lived in the United States for near... | Andrea Black: Release of hundreds of immigrants from detention centers is good step .
Parents are taken from children, she says, sent far away to jails with appalling conditions .
Black: Ever-growing detention centers run by private businesses with lobbyists .
Release people not subject to mandatory detention, she says... |
ee58ed36218760f5ef55debea360610f8bdb85ce | A man has been charged after counter terrorism police raided four properties on Friday morning in relation to an ongoing investigation. The raids were carried out in Sydney's southwest, in relation to Operation Duntulm which is part of the Joint Counter Terrorism Team, and allegedly seized a number of items including a... | Police conducted new raids in Sydney's southwest on Friday morning .
Police from Operation Duntulm seized material from at least one home in Greenacre where the 33-year-old man was arrested .
They raided other homes in Leppington, Condell Park and Punchbowl .
It was the same operation which saw the arrest of Elomar's w... |
ee597dc8f2dcf15ce2a92204e185a3d1c0c0e786 | By . Sarah Griffiths . Children who recognise the logos of fast food chains such as McDonald's (pictured) are more likely to be fat, a new study claims . The glowing neon signs of McDonald's, KFC and other fast food chains can be seen in almost every city across the globe. And now researchers have found that children a... | Researchers from Michigan State University also found that children who know the brand names of soft drinks are more likely to be overweight .
Previous studies found children who are overweight tend to stay that way .
Experts tested three to five-year-olds on their brand knowledge .
They found that children who could i... |
ee59aea68de9b1e9607fbd00e6978aad6da6de4d | Mystery: Leah Costa ran off with her boyfriend Christmas Eve--only he has been found . A 15-year-old Arizona girl police say ran off with her 17-year-old boyfriend on Christmas Eve was still missing on Sunday despite authorities have found the boy. Leah Costa of Buckeye vanished with the unnamed boy December 24, accord... | Police believe Leah Costa ran off with her 17-year-old boyfriend December 24 but have now only found the boy .
The unnamed boyfriend was discovered dehydrated and disorienting walking along a desert stretch of I-10 near Tonopah, Arizona .
The boyfriend said he'd last seen Costa at a nearby truck stop but said he couldn... |
ee5a0c6eb04457a171d63aa68a40cbaaaa25b3fd | We are spending so much time composing messages on emails, texts and tweets, that handwritten letters have become a rarity. But in a strange twist, digital technology rather than humans could help save the art of handwriting, if one robot system has its way. Dubbed 'Bond', the system combines MakerBot 3D printers, Mont... | Bond system combines 3D printers, Montblanc pens and a mobile app .
Users submit a handwriting sample online which Bond software studies .
One of 11 Bond robots will then write the text in a card with a real pen .
They imitate human writing using fluid movements and different pressures . |
ee5a26e24f05ac57bb96dbe4d5a6c99e0df4aa58 | It is an astonishing animation, letting you travel through the solar system at the speed of light. Riding Light is a 45-minute short film that attempts to recreate what it would be like to hitch a ride on the back of a photon. The realtime video allows viewers to travel from the core of the sun to beyond the orbit of J... | Realtime video allows viewers to travel from the sun to beyond Jupiter .
Uses accurate distances and speeds to show size of solar system . |
ee5a2eed37b163febdce2729bc51ad00fdcb67ff | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 10:55 EST, 9 August 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 00:24 EST, 10 August 2012 . A mother has been accused of drinking alcohol before losing control of her van, plunging it into a 30ft-deep reservoir and killing two five-year-old girls, including her daughter. Arlene Hernandez, 22, wept in ... | Lesette Silva died when her mother lost control of van on highway .
Trapped in vehicle alongside five-year-old Guiliana 'Juju' Figueroa .
Both girls airlifted to hospital but pronounced dead .
Lesette's mother Arlene Hernandez pleaded not guilty to DUI manslaughter .
Juju's father was also in the car and escaped withou... |
ee5a9ddaae07c1a12e65db7bb406b466378f166d | (CNN) -- Dozens of Chinese criminal suspects living in Angola were sent back to Beijing on a chartered flight over the weekend, state media reported. The 37 suspects were allegedly involved in a variety of crimes, such as kidnapping, human trafficking and forcing women into prostitution, according to the Xinhua news ag... | The 37 suspects were allegedly involved in a series of crimes, including kidnapping .
Authorities rescued 14 Chinese victims, who were sent home on the same flight .
They allegedly lured women to Angola with promises of jobs . |
ee5ae873c47870bbeddc23c0ed6f41bf6e95215e | Byblos, Lebanon (CNN) -- The ancient town of Byblos has long been a draw for visitors to Lebanon's picturesque west coast. Home to a fascinating history, it is believed to have been the first Phoenician city and can be dated as far back as 7000 BC. But these days Byblyos (or Jbeil as it is more commonly known in Arabic... | Byblos International Festival attracts music lovers from across the world .
World famous acts like Gorillaz and Snow Patrol have played the event over the years .
Instability in Lebanon and the wider region has caused headaches for the organizers . |
ee5b13878a4b285ed8a339d9e70d96929d9aeaa4 | One woman nailed a Jenga move that many have tried but only a trained master could muster. By some miracle the player removed one bottom piece from the whole wobbly stack. Reddit user Dkbobby's sister-in-law was one of those few players whose game defies nearly every law of gravity. Footage of the event was posted to Y... | Reddit user Dkbobby's sister-in-law removed one Jenga piece from the entire stack .
Footage posted to YouTube has nearly one million views .
She removes the brick by using a karate chop type whack . |
ee5b703df67f6c2c6b52f576fc4771eda36987f0 | England boss Roy Hodgson has suggested there's more to come from England after a bright showing that saw his side win 2-0 in Switzerland. In what was billed as the Three Lions' toughest Euro 2016 qualifier, Hodgson's team recorded a morale boosting victory at St. Jakob-Park in Basle thanks to two Danny Welbeck goals. T... | Roy Hodgson pleased with England side following 2-0 win in Switzerland .
Three Lions boss concedes that young squad is still naive but will improve .
Two Danny Welbeck goals sealed victory at St. Jakob-Park, Basle .
Former England manager Glenn Hoddle adds that England are made to play on the counter attack and will be... |
ee5ba1e5a4f7cc2f18b455167834fe07e43e1956 | By . Rob Waugh . Last updated at 8:56 AM on 30th December 2011 . On New Year's Eve the first of two Nasa moon probes, Grail-A, will go into orbit around the moon. Its twin, Grail-B, will follow on New Year's day. The $496 million mission has taken three months to reach the moon - travelling two million miles. The Nasa ... | 'We actually know more about Mars than we do about our own moon,' says chief scientist .
Window into moon's 4-billion-year history - was there once a second moon?
Will map interior of moon by sensing its gravity .
Could help future missions land on surface . |
ee5bb43bfe83207a687391bf3bd38db14ba86041 | A Utah doctor found . guilty of killing his wife in a trial that became a national true-crime . cable TV obsession will serve 17 years to life in prison, a state judge . decided Friday. The long-awaited sentence . comes seven years after prosecutors say Martin MacNeill knocked out his . wife with drugs prescribed follo... | Martin MacNeill knocked out wife Michele MacNeill with drugs prescribed following cosmetic surgery and left her to .
die in a bathtub .
Sentenced to 17 years to life in prison .
MacNeill had hired secret lover, Gypsy Willis, as family nanny .
Grieving family begs for toughest sentence possible .
Victim's sister, Linda ... |
ee5bff5b50b733dd3c8176a062182f2d099724eb | Luis Suarez has maintained he is not a racist and explained how his use of the word 'negro' during an argument with Patrice Evra was misunderstood. Former Liverpool striker Suarez was banned for eight matches and fined £40,000 for racially abusing the then-Manchester United defender in October 2011. And Suarez has open... | Luis Suarez has opened up on his argument with Patrice Evra in 2011 .
The former Liverpool striker says he is not a racist .
Suarez maintains his use of the word 'negro' was misunderstood . |
ee5c3820d194ebb6ddc2c8dbba1ce90d0dc9ac96 | Since the U.S unleashed the first nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki back in 1945 there have been a staggering 2056 nuclear tests recorded worldwide. It took almost a year until the next substantial tests took place but by the mid-50s and 60s, nuclear experiments were being recorded across the globe on almost a mo... | The map has been created by Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto .
It begins with the Manahattan Project's 'Trinity' test in 1945 in Los Alamos .
The video ends with Pakistan's nuclear tests that took place in May 1998 . |
ee5cc6e295ce6c8640153bd498be6e14ba05ad6f | By . Freya Noble . Sydney's extravagant VIVID light festival hit the harbour city with a bang during its Friday night debut. The Opera House was lit up in galactic-inspired designs, surreal snakeskin and multi-coloured digital patterns, with one stage of the sequence looking as though Jackson Pollock has taken to the l... | The sails of the Opera House have been illuminated with multicoloured digital, floral and out of this world designs .
The festival opened at 6pm, and an indigenous smoking ceremony was held aboard a ferry to cleanse the harbour .
Vivid runs until June 9 . |
ee5d4a2aef2019af12619d784559bb18356bd88a | When a woman purchased a record at her local thrift store in Colorado she never imagined she'd find a letter written from a soldier in 1944 during World War II to his love back at home to whom he was later married for 63 years. Ilene Ortiz of Westminster bought the old record, though she can't remember which one, six m... | Ilene Ortiz of Westminster, Colorado found the love letter in an old record but she can't remember which one .
'My darling, lovable, alluring, Bernadean,' said the letter, written on December 29, 1944 from Bill Moore to Bernadean whom he later married .
Ortiz tracked down the couple of 63 years' daughter who says she w... |
ee5d72fb3a7b25a1eeda46d6701b5f88e8656e20 | (CNN) -- A man whose left arm was bitten off by a 600-pound alligator is fortunate to be alive, thanks in part to five nurses picnicking nearby. The alligator was killed and the man's arm was removed from its belly, officials said. Bill Hedden, 59, was snorkeling in a South Carolina lake on Sunday when the 12-foot-long... | Bill Hedden, 59, was snorkeling in a South Carolina lake when the gator attacked .
Among picnickers were 5 nurses who treated victim .
Gator killed, arm removed from stomach for possible reattachment . |
ee5e82a6436ad0972ba2188c05e9aee62d1cffc2 | David Beckham was back to business, attending an awards ceremony with his wife Victoria, the evening after a car crash involving their son Brooklyn. The Beckham’s attended the 60th London Evening Standard awards held at the Palladium in London, a night celebrating the best theatre performances of the past year. The 39-... | David and Victoria Beckham attend awards evening night after car crash .
David Beckham was picking his son Brooklyn up following under-16 game .
Arsenal staff ushered onlookers away from the scene after the incident .
Beckham, 39, had been at the Arsenal training centre at London Colney . |
ee5e8e338bc941d49e62ba54ffd1a1c4d42149e8 | By . Kerry Mcdermott . PUBLISHED: . 06:26 EST, 2 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:09 EST, 2 August 2013 . This angler will be enjoying seafood suppers for weeks after landing an enormous 8ft halibut big enough to make 400 portions of fish and chips. It took Christian Johannsen, 45, and two other men almost five hours to... | Banker Christian Johannsen, 45, landed 428lb beast of coast of Norway .
Too three men almost five hours to reel in fish the 'size of a door' |
ee5e9ac720de5a39e0959f5e1f8e53fa221da879 | By . Katy Winter . PUBLISHED: . 06:48 EST, 4 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:48 EST, 4 July 2013 . The process of labour and delivery usually looms large in a pregnant woman's thoughts, with extensive birthing plans and preparation very much the norm. But in a story sure to terrify expectant mothers everywhere, a mother-... | Charlie Francis-Pape, 27, thought she had hours until the birth .
Was shocked to see the baby's head crowning as she went to the toilet .
Charlie was rushed to hospital suffering hemorrhaging, but fully recovered .
Baby Winter Ami was born healthy and was unscathed from her birth . |
ee5e9ebea6919c471b661db0a2f7d05afb644f37 | Newt Gingrich insisted Sunday that some illegal immigrants who have become full community members should be able to stay in the country, but he added that his policy would require 7 million or more to go back to their home nations before having a chance to return. Appearing on the CBS program "Face the Nation," the fro... | Newt Gingrich says more than 7 million illegal immigrants would leave under his policy .
The GOP presidential hopeful's immigration policy has been attacked by conservatives .
Citizen panels would assess which illegal immigrants were eligible to stay .
Only those sponsored by American families could qualify, Gingrich ... |
ee5ed59bec369a9fe0637679d453c1ec38ece0fc | Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- Somali pirates freed a British hostage Wednesday, nearly seven months after she was taken captive in a raid at a Kenyan beach resort in which her husband was killed. Judith Tebbutt said in a statement she was hugely relieved to be free and overjoyed to be reunited with her son, Ollie. She said h... | Judith Tebbutt was abducted by Somali pirates last September .
Her husband was killed in the raid at a Kenyan beach resort .
She says she was hugely relieved to be free again . |
ee5eece3b2238390c715cb2d74e14776d6aed188 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 13:43 EST, 3 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:02 EST, 3 September 2013 . A bungling burglar has been arrested after the homeowner posted surveillance footage on Facebook of the thief wandering around his home and a member of the public tipped off the police. Austin Jones, 23, a... | Austin Jones, 23, of Las Vegas, arrested following break-in last week .
Homeowner Ed Vidal posted the video of an unmasked man rummaging around in his house . |
ee5f4065b087381c7435806ee1ff6c493d1648a1 | (CNN) -- Members of Ukraine's newly elected parliament came to blows Wednesday amid accusations of changing political views, and the mayhem prevented the election of a new prime minister and speaker. The disruption started when members of the opposition tried to prevent two of its members from being sworn in because of... | First session of new parliament in Ukraine ends in fisticuffs; one member's ear is torn .
Fighting prevents the selection of speakers and prime minister, which will continue Thursday .
Five main parties gained seats in election held in October, and the ruling Party of Regions won . |
ee5fc292cedb07f38f796bf371b409604c569ecc | Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) -- Republican presidential candidates faced off twice in 11 hours on Saturday and Sunday in debates ahead of Tuesday's New Hampshire primary. While both debates were staged in the Granite State, it was clear that the rivals intended for their messages to go beyond New Hampshire. Here are... | Romney's opponents step up their attacks over the weekend .
Social issues will play a large role in South Carolina .
Gingrich, Romney tout their bipartisan efforts .
Paul repeats harsh criticism to opponents' faces . |
ee5fd4d5f933a8504748cdbadb1d1877ab6bb6d2 | By . Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor . PUBLISHED: . 11:48 EST, 28 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 13:30 EST, 28 November 2013 . BBC star Lord Sugar today called for the axe to fall on the Corporation’s ‘layers of jobsworths’. The Apprentice frontman said the BBC should axe the bureaucrats and managers who obse... | Apprentice star accuses the BBC of being obsessed with critics .
Complains that Corporation's management is 'heavily-overstaffed'
Calls for money to be redirected to developing new hit shows . |
ee601783b7f94c2c52c45d20467580ce3e2c8c85 | (CNN) -- Cristiano Ronaldo underlined just why Real Madrid agreed to pay him the big bucks on a scintillating evening of European football. The 28-year-old, who inked a new five-year deal with the Spanish club on Sunday, completed a brilliant hat trick as Real raced to a 6-1 rout against Galatasaray. Ronaldo had the fi... | Cristiano Ronaldo sinks a hat trick as Real Madrid beat Galatasaray 6-1 .
Wayne Rooney grabs his 200th goal for Manchester United as they beat Bayer Leverkusen 4-2 .
Defending European champions Bayern Munich see off CSKA Moscow 3-0 .
Manchester City defeat Viktoria Plzen in Czech Republic . |
ee60463534b2b7b69366e8d52372b82a012cdc84 | The grave of a woman who appears to have died in childbirth 7,700 years ago, has yielded a surprising new discovery, years after being found. Archaeologists studying the Siberian grave found evidence of twins who died during a traumatic birth, along with their mother. The bones are thought to be the oldest example of d... | Grave was uncovered in Irkutsk, Russia, near Lake Bailkal in 1997 .
It was thought to contain the bones of a young mother and her child .
In 2012, the foetal bones of twins were discovered in the pelvic area .
Expert claims woman died in labour, when one twin was partially delivered .
Position of the tiny bones indicat... |
ee60c1bc4069a24f67d27411b7857a016844fc68 | Your pizza delivery man could soon be out of a job. A Russian drone company has developed airborne robots which can carry up to 5kg of weight and fly up to 40km per hour, making them perfect for delivering takeaway meals. CopterExpress has been working with drones, multicopters specifically, for two years, explains a s... | CopterExpress drones can carry up to 5kg and fly up to 40km per hour .
They're also fitted with GPS systems so their journeys can be tracked .
Dodo Pizza in Russia, claimed to be first pizzeria to use drone delivery . |
ee6137631a6a91a9cf8c5f294a863d349befef25 | Zombies might be something you associate with modern popular culture. But for our ancestors in the Iron Age, it appears they too were fearful of ‘the walking dead.’ A female skeleton found in Wiltshire has all the signs of a ritual burial designed to stop her rising from the ground. An Iron Age woman was found buried w... | A skeleton of an Iron Age woman has been found in Wiltshire .
She was found alongside a child and two males with sword wounds .
The carcasses of sheep and goats were also found on her head .
It was most likely a ritual burial to stop her rising from the dead . |
ee634fde002033e6eaa56025b5584af1ab5951a7 | The blasted-out building where the Charlie Hebdo gunmen died after an eight-hour siege by police has already become a macabre tourist attraction. These dramatic pictures show the print works on an industrial estate 19 miles north east of Paris where Cherif and Said Kouachi made their last stand. The two-storey buildin... | Police stormed two-storey building in Dammartin after siege on Friday .
Since then it has remained cordoned off with the windows blasted out .
One Italian tourist took a selfie, saying: 'Some day this will be history'
Others lived locally and took photos to contemplate 'heavy atmosphere' |
ee637574084b7ecd92e0ebd7384a17b6a8154aba | By . Margot Peppers . The home where Jackie Kennedy Onassis lived until she was seven years old has hit the market - for an eye-watering $44million. Located at the posh New York address 740 Park Avenue, the four-bedroom, six-bathroom apartment features a paneled library, a 'sweeping staircase', two offices and four fir... | Jacqueline Bouvier and her family lived on the sixth and seventh floors of 740 Park Avenue until she was seven years old .
The co-up, one of the most famous and exclusive addresses in the city, was built by her grandfather James T Lee in 1929 . |
ee63b8c80d9600d1246384e073ccfd241d95fd4a | Lewis Hamilton has hailed Rory McIlroy as 'phenomenal' ahead of their Sunday night showdown for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. McIlroy has long been a clear favourite for the honour given his wins this year in The Open and USPGA, as well as helping Europe to victory in the Ryder Cup. But after claiming h... | Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton nominated alongside Rory McIlroy for BBC Sports Personality of the Year which will be held on Sunday .
Hamilton wished champion golfer McIlroy by text before the ceremony .
Jo Pavey, Lizzy Yarnold, Kelly Gallagher, Charlotte Dujardin, Gareth Bale, George Groves, Max Whitlock and Adam... |
ee63dc1c12588e3487c989f6f98a3bff1942f5d5 | The Church of England is advertising for low-paid jobs, including three at Canterbury Cathedral, the seat of Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby . The Church of England has been accused of hypocrisy for demanding a minimum 'Living Wage' of £7.85, despite offering potential staff as little as £6.50 per hour. In an unp... | Church last week hit out at the 'burgeoning' poverty of people in work .
Leaders 'backed the concept' of a £7.85 Living Wage in 52-page open letter .
Church is advertising for low-paid jobs, including at Canterbury Cathedral .
Jobs include waiting staff for £6.50 per hour and kiosk assistant for £6.70 .
DWP source says... |
ee6469990f0f9f2e1a1637088c399c8fe66ccc39 | (CNN) -- President Obama on Wednesday will assume the delicate role of comforting a nation still in shock in the aftermath of the Arizona shootings while also transcending the tragedy to move a grieving nation forward. As difficult and unique as the task may be, Obama needs to look no further than his role model Ronald... | Obama to speak at memorial service for victims of Arizona shooting .
"This is Obama's Challenger-Oklahoma City moment," historian Douglas Brinkley says .
Impact of speech depends on if Obama puts tragedy in broader context, professor says .
Speech writer says no matter what he says, Obama's words will be scrutinized. |
ee64a54c3eea13177fb180fd3a074ed5a2faf36d | By . Mark Duell . UPDATED: . 04:33 EST, 20 July 2011 . It was finally something for the Miami Heat to celebrate after a difficult year and provided everyone with a brief respite from the NBA lockout. Basketball star Chris Bosh, 27, held a lavish three-day wedding party costing an estimated $300,000 with his petite prin... | 6ft 10in Chris Bosh marries 5ft Adrienne Williams in Miami Beach, Florida .
Other Heat players including LeBron James and Dwyane Wade attend .
NBA gives executives and players special permission to be at party together . |
ee64c841b0d171b9a43b47e81f32252ee572fb70 | By . Thomas Durante . UPDATED: . 19:12 EST, 15 December 2011 . In a ceremony at the White House in September, President Obama told family and friends Sgt Dakota Meyer's tale of courage and heroism. The president described how Sgt Meyer charged through insurgent gunfire on five trips in a Humvee to save 13 Marines and A... | Sgt Dakota Meyer awarded Medal of Honor for his heroism on Afghanistan battlefield .
Report says claims of his deeds were inflated and exaggerated .
President Obama and the Marines stand by their decision to honor Capt Meyer . |
ee656a6f7095714881c0767ef004335506e6f9f9 | Tiger Woods has endured a disastrous return to the golf course after a raging fever caused him to be sick twice on the course over the weekend and he ended up finishing last. A profusely-sweating Woods vomited twice on the golf course in Florida as the former world number one finished the Hero World Challenge with plen... | The former world number one was hit by a vomiting fever at his Florida comeback over the weekend .
'I've been throwing up for hours,' explained the 14-time major winner .
Ended up tied for last place in his return to golf after four months . |
ee6609beb0935b90b646ade515873378f181a2f5 | By . Emma Glanfield . A prisoner broke out of jail after getting so fed up of hearing loud rap music being played ‘day and night’ on his wing, a court heard. Robert Stevens, 58, became so annoyed with the constant hip hop music played by his fellow inmates that he fled HMP Leyhill prison in Gloucestershire. The convict... | Robert Stevens got so fed up of loud rap music he fled HMP Leyhill prison .
The 58-year-old also told court he was 'pestered' to buy drugs off inmates .
Stevens has 21 convictions for 45 offences spanning four decades .
He was sent to the Gloucestershire prison in 2012 for commercial robbery .
After absconding from HMP... |
ee6622da29dcc1b4d5a0b5893de1005523064057 | By . Amanda Williams . Richard Otunga, 37, repeatedly plunged a knife into Shamim Gabriel, 33, in a 'horrifying' and savage attack at their flat in Northolt, west London . A jealous Royal Mail worker who stabbed his wife 32 times for texting other men before inviting her father around to show him her dead body was jail... | Richard Otunga, 37, repeatedly stabbed Shamim Gabriel, 33, in brutal attack .
Jealous husband had discovered his wife was getting texts from other men .
Ms Gabriel’s father found her lying in blood wearing only her underwear . |
ee672d19c45501841469bb3fcf4b68c212358245 | Men’s and women’s brains really are different. Researchers say that if both sexes had access to the same levels of education, they’d expect women to do best on tests of memory – and men to excel at maths. The prediction comes after an analysis of how the sexes’ abilities varied across Europe across time. More than 31,0... | Researchers say that if both sexes had access to same levels of education women would do best on memory – and men at maths .
More than 31,000 men women aged 50-plus from 13 countries were put through three tests of brainpower .
In northern Europe, women in their 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s outperformed men in memory test . |
ee6764fbe8237d584774ffb654b3751d087a9e97 | Colours have the ability to stir emotions - from red for anger, and blue for sadness - yet one artist has taken this a step further by converting these colours into music. Neil Harbisson was born with achromatopsia, the most extreme form of colour-blindness, which leaves him only able to see in black and white. He crea... | Spanish artist and musician Neil Harbisson uses music to ‘hear’ colour .
An 'electric eye' worn on his forehead turns colours to musical frequencies .
Harbisson hears these different frequencies via bone conduction .
He has composed music based on the colours of the Palau de la Musica .
In a world's first, a colour-con... |
ee67b89e51d3a87a8b4e6a90b533518d5e5f7799 | By . Kate Lyons For Daily Mail Australia . Bill Ryan has been arrested for protesting the Whitehaven coalmine in northern NSW . When Bill Ryan was 20 years old he fought for Australia in the Kokoda campaign. This year, at the age of 92, Mr Ryan was arrested for protesting a coalmine in northern NSW, work he believes is... | Bill Ryan, 92, a Kokoda war veteran was arrested in April this year .
He has joined a group protesting the Whitehave coalmine in northern NSW .
Mr Ryan joined the protest because he is concerned about global warming and the world he will leave for his grandchildren and great-granddaughter . |
ee67be3f1831692c65cbaef375079e96e99ed32f | By . Daniel Miller . PUBLISHED: . 06:41 EST, 2 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:54 EST, 4 February 2013 . A van driver was handed a £200 fine for not displaying a No Smoking sticker on his new vehicle four times more than if he'd been caught actually puffing at the wheel. Freddie Beasley, 28, from Cleankill Environmen... | Non-smoker Freddie Beasley had just picked up the new van from a garage .
Pulled over in a joint police and council clamp down on 'dodgy' vehicles .
Council officers then spotted that he didn't had a 'no smoking' sticker . |
ee67c4dd204e3fea9e79125f1ad0efe9d2fa1a5d | (CNN Student News) -- April 29, 2014 . Science, history and medicine are all making headlines today on CNN Student News. Following a deadly outbreak of tornadoes, a CNN meteorologist explores and explains the wreckage. And a Cold War boundary has been physically removed, but it continues to separate some wildlife in Eu... | This page includes the show Transcript and the Daily Curriculum .
Use the Transcript to help students with reading comprehension and vocabulary .
The Daily Curriculum offers the Media Literacy Question of the Day, Key Concepts, Fast Facts and Discussion Questions .
At the bottom of the page, please share your feedback ... |
ee68f91a12baa15c44cce446d832cdb6665e99c6 | By . Tara Brady . A football mad father has drawn the line at his wife interrupting his TV viewing of the World Cup by using his own version of the new vanishing spray given to referees. Officials have been using the disappearing marker to draw white lines on pitches in Brazil to stop players encroaching on free kicks.... | Officials have been using disappearing marker to draw white lines on pitches .
Father-of-two Mike Taylor, 39, decided to copy the tactic in his living room .
Whenever his wife Lisa approaches the sofa he sprays a line of shaving foam .
Lisa and daughters got their own back when they posted video on Facebook .
Mr Taylor... |
ee692645df016b2ab7917ed5f2ada215cdc7c82e | We're not bluffing, the Obama administration told Afghanistan on Tuesday in announcing for the first time it has started planning for the possible withdrawal of all U.S. troops by the end of the year if no security agreement is signed. Statements by the White House and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel showed President Bar... | President Obama calls Afghan leader to discuss security agreement .
Obama orders planning for bringing home all U.S. troops at the end of 2014 .
Afghan President Karzai refuses to sign a deal to keep some troops there .
The White House says an agreement could happen after Karzai leaves office in April . |
ee69c74f016623b23e5c1ceb8cd2b9f7a550b8cd | By . Ruth Styles . Elegant in summery pale green and pink florals, the Queen was on typically stylish form as she arrived at a school in London this afternoon and was met by crowds of cheering pupils. The Queen also revealed that she, like the Duchess of Cambridge, is a fan of recycling her outfits, after she arrived i... | The Queen visited Westminster School to open a new sports hall and was treated to a fencing display .
Wore a summery pale green Angela Kelly ensemble last worn to watch the racing at Royal Ascot last year .
The Queen is expected to make an appearance at next week's race meet which kicks off on Tuesday .
Has had a busy ... |
ee69ecbb4b3b8ffa1e8292f21a6e8a492d5fa0b4 | Scientists said 'safe' levels of dietary sugar - found in a can of fizzy drink, for example - could be having invisible adverse effects on people's health . Even 'safe' levels of sugar could be having invisible adverse effects on our health, American researchers. Researchers gave mice the equivalent of a healthy human ... | U.S. researchers gave mice sugary diet and found female animals died twice as fast as those eating healthy snacks .
Scientists from the University of Utah found male mice consuming the sugary diet were less able to hold territory and reproduce .
Strangely the animals showed no signs of ill-health including obesity or r... |
ee6a96d18070a07a67f9c3953c217ac1d842308f | Shawn Bair, the 22-year-old gunman who shot two women at an Indiana grocery store on Wednesday night, was a serial killer-obsessed loner who had suffered drug problems according to a friend of one of his victims. The killer's two victims have been named as 20-year-old Krystie Dikes, a supermarket employee who knew Bair... | Shawn Bair, 22, opened fire in Martin's supermarket in Elkhart, Indiana, on Wednesday night before being shot by police .
His victims were 20-year-old Krystle Dikes, a shop employee, and 44-year-old Rachelle Godfread who was shopping at the time .
No motive established so far, but a friend of Dikes has confirmed that s... |
ee6b415132c2b9bf92181354326a8ce818856fea | Atlanta (CNN) -- The day after little Jorelys Rivera's mangled body was found in a suburban Atlanta trash compactor, Ryan Brunn sat in a stark room for a police interview. He began with confidence, but ended with trouble. Keith Sitton, a special agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, hooked up the jeans-clad B... | Ryan Brunn tells an agent in Georgia that he had nothing to do with the killing of Jorelys Rivera .
The agent confronts him about some responses .
Later, Brunn pleaded guilty and described in court how he killed the little girl .
Brunn committed suicide after his sentencing . |
ee6b5f306bac9fd54ee2bbcddef5e0157937c601 | Roberto Martinez criticised referee Lee Mason and accused Bojan Krkic of tricking the official into awarding Stoke a penalty. Martinez was unhappy that Mason did not show Jonathan Walters a red card for tugging Leighton Baines’s shirt when he was through on goal moments before he awarded a penalty for James McCarthy’s ... | Everton beaten 1-0 by Stoke City at Goodison Park on Boxing Day .
Bojan scored the winner after he was brought down for a penalty .
Everton manager Roberto Martinez critical of referee Lee Mason . |
ee6c20f775bb82be62ce7239e059364e97197ae6 | By . Jill Reilly . At the end of a night of drinking many people wish they could quickly be at home in their beds rather than standing in line for a taxi. And now that dream is a reality with the creation of a studio flat in London which can transform from a mini-bar/private club into a cosy home. At just 30 square met... | Flat just 30 square metres (323 sqft) in size is one of the smallest apartments ever released on Mayfair market .
The sofa and drinks area, which includes bar stools and liquor shelf, converts into a bedroom suite .
Hidden within the bar is the kitchen area including hob, oven, drawers and bar stools which double as br... |
ee6c412740e1d06b31aa0fbf54bf8595f54fa80a | By . Louise Boyle . PUBLISHED: . 23:09 EST, 18 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 23:09 EST, 18 February 2013 . Millions of dollars earmarked for those struggling to get back on their feet after Hurricane Sandy has been held back from those in need because of banks' red tape. More than $200million of insurance money is bei... | Hurricane Sandy hit in late October causing $42bn damage to NY . |
ee6c8097da1bacaa86d36e70199749479c1d8539 | By . Sarah Griffiths . PUBLISHED: . 05:36 EST, 2 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:21 EST, 2 December 2013 . Archaeologists in China have unearthed the skulls of more than 80 young women who may have been sacrificed more than 4,000 years ago. The skulls were found in what appears to have been a mass grave at the Shimao... | The skulls were found in a mass grave at the Shimao Ruins, the site of a neolithic stone city in the northern province of Shaanxi, China .
Archaeologists believe the bones could be linked to the founding ceremony of the ancient city, 4,000 years ago .
The 80 skulls include 40 that the Shaanxi provincial government said... |
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