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When asked why it had removed the clip, @placeholder said: ‘We review the content of our social media channels on a regular basis.’ | British Airways first officer Sean Murphy, right, who is said to have broken his jaw during a fight with fellow pilot Peter Lytollis during a stopover in Texas Two British Airways pilots are under investigation after allegedly getting into a bar room brawl, it can be revealed. Senior first officer Sean Murphy, 39, and pilot Paul Lytollis, 43, were enjoying an evening out at a bar in Houston, Texas, with other staff during a stopover when they came to blows. According to sources, Mr Lytollis landed a punch on Mr Murphy which broke his jaw during the fight at the British-themed Sherlock’s Baker Street Pub in March.
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Sean Murphy and Paul Lytollis were at a bar on a stopover in Houston, Texas
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Thought to have come to blows during an argument while playing pool
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Mr Murphy's jaw was said to have been broken during the fight
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Both pilots have been suspended while BA investigate the incident | 15,600 | record_train |
Many worry the action will make @placeholder less safe, not more so. | (CNN) -- Kenyan troops are battling the Islamic extremist group Al-Shabaab in neighboring Somalia, westerners are being targeted at Kenyan tourist resorts and fears are high of terror attacks in Nairobi. What are the reasons behind the unrest and what is likely to happen next? What is the source of the unrest? A state of near-anarchy has existed in Somalia for more than two decades: the government has little authority, violent conflict has left thousands dead, and the country has recently been hit by a devastating famine. Pirates have taken advantage of the power vacuum to prey on vessels large and small off the country's coast, but over the past few months, Al-Shabaab militants appear to have added a new tactic: kidnapping foreign tourists and aid workers in Kenya (though some in Al-Shabaab deny involvement in the abductions.) Al-Shabaab already generates tens of millions of dollars a year, much of it by controlling ports along the Somali coast, according to a recent United Nations report.
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Somali pirates have started kidnapping foreigners in Kenya as well as hijacking boats
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Last month Kenyan forces entered Somalia, saying kidnappings threatened security
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Analysts warn Kenyan forces' mission in Somalia is risky
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Conflict is likely to hinder humanitarian efforts againsnt famine in the Horn of Africa | 15,601 | record_train |
This is the second video @placeholder has uploaded of their father-son drift-driving adventures | He has been branded the coolest dad ever for taking his four-year-old to the race track for a drift-driving session. Anton from Kazakhstan, who goes by the YouTube username of Toxa Avdeyev, uploaded a video showing his son's wide-eyed reaction to speeding around a race track while drift-driving. And his son Timofey screams in fear and delight as his father races around the track, performing screeching turns. Anton from Kazakhstan wins the award for coolest dad of the year, taking his 4-year-old Timofey drift-driving The little boy screams for the majority of the minute-long video, but it turns out that he was really enjoying himself.
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Anton created a viral sensation last year when he took his son drift-driving
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Viewers couldn't get enough of now 4-year-old Timofey's expressions
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Now the pair is back and are, once again, having the time of their lives | 15,602 | record_train |
@placeholder responded Thursday that he was "sure that this investigation will determine that, under my leadership, the administration acted appropriately." | (CNN) -- Florida Gov. Rick Scott met late Thursday with a group of several hundred Florida A&M students upset over his recommendation that trustees suspend the school's president in the wake of alleged hazing and "financial irregularities." Chanting "We've got questions. You've got answers," the students marched to the governor's mansion, promising to stay until Scott changed his mind. "We are not going to leave," said Breyon Love, the FAMU student body president. "Mr. Governor, with all due respect, we will be here all night, all day tomorrow until you apologize or rescind that recommendation." Appearing in a gray sweatshirt, Scott addressed the crowd through a megaphone outside the mansion, thanking them for caring and coming out.
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott wants FAMU president James Ammons to step down amid hazing investigation
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The FAMU trustees chairman says a "very difficult decision" will be made Monday
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FAMU has been a focal point since last month's death of a drum major after alleged hazing
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Authorities found evidence of "financial irregularities" at the school, a state official said | 15,603 | record_train |
My life in America has been very different from my life in Palestine and is much different from the lives of @placeholder and Palestinian youth today. | (CNN) -- I am an American, and I love my country, but I also love my heritage. I was born in Tampa, Florida, to Palestinian-American parents, but 70% of my family still lives in the West Bank, including my grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. When I was 3, my parents decided to move back to Palestine -- a choice that changed the course of my life. The purpose of the move was for me and my siblings to learn Arabic and our family's culture. Yet, the four-year experience offered much more than that. We lived peacefully in Ramallah, a West Bank city just north of Jerusalem, when we moved there in 1997. My father built a home in Area C, an Israeli-controlled region of the West Bank. During the first two years, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was at a quiet period. Our lives were pretty normal. My older brother and I attended a private school operated by the American education system, and my two older sisters went to a French all-girls Catholic school. In our free time, our days consisted of shopping in Ramallah, taking cabs to Jerusalem and hiking mountains.
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Naim Naif spent part of his childhood in Ramallah, West Bank
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Naif, 20, says that living under occupation "felt normal"
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70% of his family still lives in the West Bank
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@placeholder has been an established and popular name on the Internet over the last five years. | Found: Michael Brutsch, 49, has been unmasked as the Reddit's biggest, most controversial troll The internet troll behind a disgusting online message board where users post sexual photographs of unsuspecting teenage girls has been revealed as a cat-loving grandfather from Texas. Michael Brutsch, who uses the Reddit name 'Violentacrez', was the main moderator for the social network's 'Creepshot' forum which sparked outrage last month for encouraging the vile pictures. Now, after years posting offensive messages across the internet and earning the moniker of the 'biggest troll on the web', Brutsch has been found working as a computer programmer for a financial services company in Arlington, Texas by Gawker.
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Reddit message board 'CreepShots' came under fire for photos of women taken without their permission; around 40 per cent were underage
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User who moderated board now identified as Michael Brutsch, 49
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Branded 'the biggest troll on the web' for offensive posts
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Revealed as computer programmer and married military father
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Brutsch: 'I stand by exactly what I've done' | 15,605 | record_train |
Cloos refused to speculate on the prospect of further treaties, describing the @placeholder as a "living body." | (CNN) -- One of the masterminds behind the euro says Europe would have suffered a far worse fate if the single currency had never been created. The euro has struggled to shake the financial crisis which exploded four years ago but Jim Cloos, deputy director general at the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, said the problem lay in member states' adherence of rules. The continent, he told CNN, needs a "stricter system to enforce discipline" on the common currency's 17 members. Cloos' comments come as the Maastricht Treaty -- the accord responsible for the euro -- prepares to celebrate its 20th anniversary on November 1.
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The Maastricht Treaty is set to celebrate its 20th anniversary. It came into force on November 1, 1993.
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The treaty -- named after a Dutch city -- was responsible for the creation of Europe's single currency.
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Since 1993, the EU has more than doubled in size, including many countries in Eastern Europe. | 15,606 | record_train |
But the longshot candidate centered most of his attacks against @placeholder on the issue of immigration, arguing that the majority leader's support for small measures allowing some type of legal status for children of undocumented immigrants was "amnesty." | Dave Brat, an economics professor and former seminary student, pulled off the biggest political upset of the year by ousting the No. 2 House Republican Eric Cantor in a primary challenge on Tuesday night. "This is the happiest moment, obviously, of my life," Brat told his supporters at a post-election event in Glen Allen, outside Richmond, on Tuesday night. "The reason we won this campaign, there is just one reason, and that's because dollars do not vote -- you do." Brat, who raised less than $300,000 to the House majority leader's campaign war chest of $5.4 million, said, "It's not about David Brat winning tonight, it's about returning the country to its principles."
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Upstart Dave Brat beat heavily favored incumbent Eric Cantor
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Brat raised less than $300,000 compared to Cantor's $5 million
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Challenger's main argument was that Cantor had turned his back on conservative principles | 15,607 | record_train |
Dasang said he has heard of many people planning to protest in @placeholder against China's human rights record. | (CNN) -- Three protesters scaled the Golden Gate Bridge Monday and unfurled a "Free Tibet" banner, a likely precursor to large protests when the Olympic torch arrives Wednesday in San Francisco, California. Members of Students for a Free Tibet climbed the bridge to place these banners, said the group's spokesman. The banner read, "One World. One Dream. Free Tibet." Those who climbed cables from which the bridge is suspended are members of Students for a Free Tibet, said group spokesman Tenzin Dasang. The three were arrested along with four others at the site. All seven were charged with felony conspiracy and misdemeanor nuisance, said California Highway Patrol Officer Mary Ziegenbein. The climbers also were charged with misdemeanor trespassing. Watch protesters and banner hung from bridge »
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Protesters arrested after hanging "Free Tibet" banner from bridge
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The climbers come down voluntarily after three hours
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Earlier in day, protests in Paris, France, cut short Olympic torch relay
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China faces international criticism over crackdown on protests seeking Tibet self-rule | 15,608 | record_train |
Jamal said Mehsud was in a car with two or three other men when the @placeholder military arrested him. | By Associated Press PUBLISHED: 09:27 EST, 12 October 2013 | UPDATED: 09:31 EST, 12 October 2013 The U.S. confirmed on Friday that American troops are holding a senior Pakistani Taliban commander, a blow to the Pakistani Taliban who have waged a decadelong insurgency against Islamabad and were responsible for the failed 2010 attempt to detonate a bomb in New York's Times Square. Latif Mehsud, a leader of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, was captured by U.S. forces in a military operation, Marie Harf, deputy spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department, said in Washington. 'Mehsud is a senior commander in TTP, and served as a trusted confident of the group's leader, Hakimullah Mehsud,' Harf said. 'TTP claimed responsibility, as folks probably know, for the attempted bombing of Times Square in 2010 and has vowed to attack the U.S. homeland again. TPP is also responsible for attacking our diplomats in Pakistan and attacks that have killed countless Pakistani civilians.'
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Latif Mehsud arrested while driving along a main highway in Logar province
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Pakistani Taliban confirmed capture, but claimed Mehsud was seized by the Afghan army
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U.S. military in Kabul referred all question to the Department of Defense in Washington | 15,609 | record_train |
Studying this close encounter will be the largest fleet of orbiting scientific observatories ever flown to another world, orbiting around (and rolling on the ground of) @placeholder. | Nasa is preparing its fleet of martian scacecraft and rovers for a unique front row seat as a comet passes close by. Comet C/2013 A1, also known as comet Siding Spring, will pass within about 87,000 miles (139,500 kilometers) of the Red Planet on Sunday - less than half the distance between Earth and our moon, and less than one-tenth the distance of any known comet flyby of Earth. Researchers say it will provide an unprecedented opportunity to gather data on both the comet and its effect on the Martian atmosphere. Scroll down for video An artist's concept of Comet Siding Spring (2013 A1) and Mars. Closest approach to Mars is on October 19, 2014. Spacecraft will collect in a 'duck and cover' move to avoid dust from the comet
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Comet Siding Spring, will pass within about 87,000 miles (139,500 kilometers) of the red planet
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Will provide an unprecedented opportunity for researchers to gather data
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Siding Spring comes from the Oort Cloud, material left over from the formation of the solar system
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Spacecraft will collect in a 'duck and cover' move to avoid hitting comet | 15,610 | record_train |
products was born, including '@placeholder' - which is one of | Richard Montañez is a walking, talking American Dream. Working as a janitor at a California factory with no qualifications and barely able to speak English, the Mexican native's simple idea for a snack took him from mopping floors to meeting U.S. presidents and flying in corporate jets. It all started in 1976 at the Frito-Lay plant in Rancho Cucamonga, when a machine broke in the Cheetos assembly line. 'Some of them were missing the cheese because the machine had broken, so I took some home. I put some chili powder on it, and it tasted good, Montañez said. American Dream: Richard Montanez spoke at an annual Power of Diversity event and told the crowd how his 'PhD' - poor, hungry and determined - lead him to the position of executive vice president, multicultural sales and community activation, for PepsiCo North America
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Richard Montañez came up with the idea after the Cheeto machine broke in the factory where he worked
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The 55-year-old decided to add chilli powder to some unflavored Cheetos
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His colleagues and family loved it so he decided to pitch the idea to the president of the company
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He was named one of the most influential Hispanics in corporate America
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An inquest into her death has started in @placeholder today | By David Williams Hungary faced demands to allow Scotland Yard to investigate the brutal murder of a former British model after her inquest was told a local policeman was a prime suspect in the killing. The family of Eva Rhodes, a friend of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, claimed officer Horvath Zoltan Peter had a grudge against the 65-year-old and was linked to both her murder at the animal sanctuary she ran in a remote Hungarian town in September 2008 and an orchestrated cover up by the authorities there. The victim’s sister Judith Majlath, a Nobel peace prize winner, told how the policeman had even been part of the investigation into the disappearance and murder despite personally threatening previously Mrs Rhodes would be ‘eliminated.’
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Former socialite Eva Rhodes found dead in woods near her home in 2009
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Ran animal sanctuary and its caretaker admitted her murder a year later
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Inquest in London hears her daughter believes police had a hand in death | 15,612 | record_train |
£750million more than his own @placeholder but claimed this was ‘too | Virgin Trains lost its lucrative West Coast mainline franchise yesterday and its boss, Sir Richard Branson, immediately predicted the winning rail operator would ‘go bankrupt’ as a result. Virgin Trains has run the service from London to Scotland for 14 years, but was beaten by FirstGroup in a bidding process the tycoon described as ‘insane’. Sir Richard said the winning £6.5billion deal was ‘verging on suicidal’ and vowed never to bid for a rail franchise again unless David Cameron personally apologises to him. Scroll down for video Blow: Sir Richard Branson's train company has lost its West Coast franchise but has today vowed to run it for free if Labour manages to halt the contract being signed by FirstGroup tomorrow
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FirstGroup will take over the route from London to Scotland in December
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It said its bid was £5.5bn but it has now emerged that it's closer to £7bn
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RMT union warns of cuts to jobs, passenger services and rising prices
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It said decision lays bare the 'whole sordid enterprise' of rail privatisation
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Taxpayers are subsidising the railways by £3bn a year more than in 1994
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Sir Richard said the government was 'taking a risk' with the new contract
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He threatened to quit trains and said the bidding system was 'flawed' | 15,613 | record_train |
'We just couldn’t see how we could ever celebrate having the other two if we lost @placeholder. | By CLAIRE ELLIOT Last updated at 7:56 AM on 20th December 2011 Miracle triplets Holly, Cara and Kate Thirkell share a loving hug - after defying doctors who said they would never live. The outlook for the trio was bleak from the moment they were conceived, with medics giving little hope of all three surviving until the end of their mother’ s pregnancy. At one point their devastated parents, Anne and Lawrence, who live near Aberdeen, were warned that even if the girls did survive they would likely be blind or brain damaged. Flower girls: The cheery little girls share a group hug in the snow while wrapped up in fleece tops against the cold
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Doctors warned that IVF babies born 10 weeks premature could be blind or brain damaged
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One of the three developed an infection in intensive care and medics said she had less than a day to live | 15,614 | record_train |
Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate, @placeholder will become the first | By Associated Press PUBLISHED: 00:16 EST, 16 September 2013 | UPDATED: 11:20 EST, 16 September 2013 Former Treasury secretary and senior White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers, who was considered the leading candidate to succeed Ben Bernanke as Federal Reserve chairman, has withdrawn from consideration, the White House announced Sunday. Summers' withdrawal followed growing resistance from critics, including some members of the Senate committee that would need to back his nomination. A letter signed by 350 economists last week calling on President Barack Obama to nominate Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet Yellen to be the Fed's next chairman was designed to draw attention back to Yellen amid signs that Obama was leaning toward nominating his former economic adviser Summers.
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Former Treasury secretary Larry Summers has withdrawn his candidacy for Federal Reserve chairman
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He made the decision after facing growing resistance from critics
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The path is now relatively clear for Vice Chair Janet Yellen to become the first female chair of the Federal Reserve | 15,615 | record_train |
When @placeholder called out after the thief, the man shouted back that he would beat them up if they told anyone. | Neighbors and a bestselling children's author came to a 13-year-old boy's aid after the money he was raising to buy a dog was stolen from his lemonade stand. After months of begging his mother for a puppy, Spencer Bergman, from Loudoun County, Virginia, was told he could have a dog if he raised $500 to buy one himself. Enlisting the help of his 12-year-old friend, Spencer Tarbet, the two set up a lemonade stand. But as they were shutting up shop for the day, a shirtless man in his early 20s robbed them of their profits. Spencer Bergman, 13, was challenged by his mother to raise $500 to go towards buying a puppy, but money he had worked for on his lemonade stand was stolen from him
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Spencer Bergman, 13, was trying to raise $500 so he could buy a dog
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But a man robbed a day's earnings from his and a friend's lemonade stand
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Shocked neighbors and friends rallied around to raise the cash for the boys
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney heard their story and donated $150
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Just before he reached his goal, Spencer was given a dog called Coconut | 15,616 | record_train |
@placeholder's a top fighter, it was a very difficult fight, | Luke Campbell became Great Britain's 28th Gold medalist tonight as he became the first boxer from these shores to claim top prize in the bantamweight category since 1908. The battling boxer from Hull earned Team GB another gold and was in tears after a noisy Anglo-Irish tear-up. Campbell, 24, overcame Ireland's John Joe Nevin who had to settle for silver in the 56kg bantamweight competition. Celebrations: Luke Campbell can;t hold back the tears after claiming gold tonight Golden moment: Luke Campbell celebrates after wining the gold in the men's bantamweight 64-kg boxing Home favourite Campbell was cheered on by a passionate local support - equally matched by followers of Irish traveller Nevin.
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The boxer from Hull becomes the first Brit to win the bantamweight division at the Olympics since 1908
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Victory against Irishman John Joe Nevin follows success for Ed McKeever and track sensation Mo Farah
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After historic win he says 'I'm very proud to be from Hull, I really appreciate the support both there and in London' | 15,617 | record_train |
Early prototypes of @placeholder can be brought now but the finished version should be available next year | Someone was going to invent this sooner or later. A sex simulator that provides a fully immersive 3D experience has been created in Japan. The device was unveiled in Tokyo when the group, VR Japan, hosted a local Oculus Rift Game Jam. A developer recently created a sex robot by combining an Oculus Rift with a controller that triggers sensations on the body, called a Novint Falcon, pictured. The Novint Falcon, a type of grip-based, haptic controller - manipulates a Tenga. A Tenga is a Japanese device designed for self-pleasure which holds the user's penis Oculus Rift is an early model of a head-worn virtual reality display that is increasingly being used by developers who want to create new gaming experiences.
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System combines virtual reality headset with a grip-based haptic controller
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Controller manipulates a masturbator device which holds the user's penis
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Headset simultaneously displays a Manga character performing sexual acts | 15,618 | record_train |
Due to the large size of their family, the @placeholder have a deli counter in their kitchen | By Sadie Whitelocks 19 Kids and Counting star Michelle Duggar has revealed that she sticks to a $5 per person daily food budget in her bustling 20-person household. The 47-year-old, who has nine daughters and ten sons ranging from three to 26 years old with her husband Jim Bob, 48, writes in her blog for TLC that she spends an average of $3,000 a month on groceries. On her family's website she details some of the money-saving meals she likes to rustle up including Broccoli Casserole, Poor Man's Pizza and Three Bean Chilli. Keeping it cheap: 19 Kids and Counting star Michelle Duggar has revealed that she sticks to a $5 per person daily food budget in her bustling household
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The devout Christian spends an average of $3,000 a month on groceries
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Broccoli Casserole, Poor Man's Pizza and Three Bean Chilli are among the family's favorite money-saving meals | 15,619 | record_train |
@placeholder added: "[Prensky's] observations may describe a generation gap that the U.S. faced, but if you transplant the same definition to other parts of the world, natives are sometimes indistinguishable from immigrants." | (CNN) -- The war between natives and immigrants is ending. The natives have won. It was a bloodless conflict fought not with bullets and spears, but with iPhones and floppy disks. Now the battle between the haves and have-nots can begin. The post-millennial "digital native," a term coined by U.S. author Marc Prensky in 2001 is emerging as the globe's dominant demographic, while the "digital immigrant," becomes a relic of a previous time. The digital native-immigrant concept describes the generational switchover where people are defined by the technological culture which they're familiar with. Read more: China looks to lead the Internet of Things
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U.S. author Marc Prensky says that at no time in history has technology moved so fast
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Prensky defines digital natives as those born into "new culture" while the immigrants are old-world settlers
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Shah says that the works of science fiction may offer the most accurate insight into a futuristic society | 15,620 | record_train |
@placeholder has set up its own military police as part of a brutal crackdown on its soldiers amid reports morale has plummeted among fighters. | Up to 60 SAS fighters are heading to Iraq to hunt down Islamic State leaders after militants started learning how to avoid airstrikes, it has been reported. The full squadron of troopers had initially been dispatched to Afghanistan for a separate operation, but have been diverted to battle Isis fanatics. There have been reports this morning that one of their primary targets will be Jihadi John, the Briton believed to have killed British and American hostages in a series of gruesome executions. Scroll down for video There have been reports this morning that a primary target for the SAS will be Jihadi John (pictured)
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Squadron diverted from Afghanistan mission in a bid to target Isis leaders
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Executioner Jihadi John believed to be a primary target for 60-strong team
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Troopers will also pinpoint targets within Iraq to assist with air strikes
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Comes amid reports Isis fanatics executed 100 of its own foreign fighters
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Militants recruited from abroad killed for trying to flee from Isis stronghold | 15,621 | record_train |
@placeholder needs to go, and we need to look forward." | Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down Friday and handed over power to the military, his nearly three decades of iron rule ended by a groundswell of popular protests that began January 25. In a somber, one-minute announcement on state television, Vice President Omar Suleiman announced Mubarak's resignation and said the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces will "run the affairs of the country." As Suleiman spoke, deafening cheers erupted among tens of thousands of Egyptians who thronged the streets of Cairo. It was a moment they had sought throughout long, often tense days of demonstrations -- some of them violent -- that demanded Mubarak's departure.
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NEW: Moussa says it could take 7 months before state-of-emergency laws can be lifted
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U.S. has invested billions "propping up that dictator," Rep. Ron Paul says of Mubarak
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Obama says the "transition must bring all of Egypt's voices to the table" | 15,622 | record_train |
'I told him I hope his son @placeholder will come and see it with his family as well. | Prince William swigged a generous shot of rum today as he celebrated the £7m restoration of a WWII submarine. The prince downed the neat shot of 55 per cent proof liquor and was presented with a 'Dolphin' insignia as he became an honorary submariner following a rededication ceremony to HMS Alliance in Gosport, Hampshire. 'Where's everyone else's rum?' William joked as he took the glass of Pusser's Navy Rum from Chairman of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum Vice Admiral Sir Tim McClement and necked it in one. Scroll down for video He's certainly had practice! Prince William downs a tot of rum in one as he attends the Service of Re-dedication of the newly restored submarine HMS Alliance in Hampshire today
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Prince William celebrated £7m restoration of a WWII submarine
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Became honorary submariner on visit to HMS Alliance in Gosport
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Met descendants of those who died in submarine AE1 in 1914 | 15,623 | record_train |
The @placeholder letter also asserts there still is information lacking or discrepancies on other fronts, including: | A week before Congress is expected to finally hear from CIA contractors on the ground in Libya during the deadly Benghazi attacks, a Republican member said it is long overdue the American public learn the truth of "the murky events of September 11, 2012," that left a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans dead. "We know what the senior people have said but we don't know what the people who were on the ground are going to say and we need to get those answers," Rep. Devin Nunes (R-California) told CNN by phone Wednesday. In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner sent Wednesday, Nunes said if questions remain unanswered or "if some answers differ substantially from the established narrative and timeline of the attack, then it would be warranted to take new measures to complete the investigation and synthesize the information obtained by the Intelligence Committees and other committees investigating the Benghazi attack."
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California congressman raises questions for Benghazi hearing
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Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in attack
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Lawmakers have been pressing for witness accounts from the September 2012 attack
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The president "did not mention the word @placeholder for the first five months of his administration. | Washington (CNN) -- The Obama administration aims to cut the annual number of new HIV infections in the United States by 25 percent over the next five years, according to a nationwide HIV/AIDS strategy unveiled Tuesday. Federal officials are also seeking to combat a growing sense of complacency about the disease, partly by reducing the percentage of infected Americans who are unaware of their status. Specifically, the strategy focuses on three key areas: reducing the number of people who become infected, increasing access to care, and decreasing HIV-related health disparities. "The actions we take now will build upon a legacy of global leadership, national commitment, and sustained efforts on the part of Americans from all parts of the country and all walks of life to end the HIV epidemic in the United States and around the world," President Barack Obama said in a memorandum sent to a number of federal departments and agencies.
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A leading AIDS activist criticizes the White House for underfunding HIV/AIDS efforts
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The White House HIV/AIDS plan focuses on reducing infections and increasing access to care
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Roughly 1.1 million Americans are infected with HIV/AIDS
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AIDS accounted for 2 million deaths worldwide in 2008, the World Health Organization says | 15,625 | record_train |
New boy: Radamel Falcao is just one of the new faces at Manchester United since the @placeholder game | Louis van Gaal could hand Manchester United debuts to four summer signings on Sunday in an unprecedented revamp of the Old Trafford side. The Dutch boss will call upon Marcos Rojo, Daley Blind, Luke Shaw and Radamel Falcao as he seeks his first Premier League win against QPR. But Phil Jones is likely to miss at least a fortnight with a hamstring injury sustained on England duty. VIDEO Scroll down to see Bryan Robson's thoughts on QPR game Before and after: Manchester United could make as many as eight changes to the side who faced Sunderland on August 24 (left) when they host QPR on Sunday as Louis van Gaal brings in his new signings (right)
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Manchester United laboured to a 1-1 draw with Sunderland on August 24
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Louis van Gaal could change up to eight players for QPR match on Sunday
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Wayne Rooney, David de Gea and Phil Jones may be only three survivors
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Radamel Falcao, Angel di Maria, Daley Blind and Marcos Rojo have signed
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Van Gaal has spent £96m on new players since the draw with Sunderland
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Tom Cleverley has left the club and fringe players could well be dropped | 15,626 | record_train |
Race controversy: Target's in-store ads star a white model (left) who is wearing the collection's main piece, the same red dress worn by @placeholder star Quvenzhané Wallis when the line was launched (right) | Target is under fire from angry consumers over its use of predominantly white models to promote a new clothing line inspired by the recent remake of hit musical Annie, which is led by an African American actress. A Change.org petition issued by motivational speaker L'Sean Rinique Shelton, based in Bear, Delaware, calls for the retail giant to remove the 'disrespectful' in-store displays and apologize to the movie's 11-year-old star, Quvenzhané Wallis. 'In the current stench of racism and division amongst Americans, why would Target singlehandedly disrespect Quvenzhané Wallis and add more pain to injury as it relates to race relations?' poses Ms Shelton, a mother-of-three.
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Target launched a new kids clothing collection in August to coincide with the release of Annie, a film starring African American actress Quvenzhané Wallis
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A Change.org petition has taken issue with Target's use of predominantly white models to promote the clothing in-store
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More than 3,000 people have signed the petition, which calls for the ads to be removed and an apology to be issued to Quvenzhané, 11
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Since then, @placeholder is unbeaten in eight games and has kept six clean sheets. | By Jerome Pugmire, Associated Press France defender Mamadou Sakho and his teammates will be filled with 'rage' when they take on Germany in their World Cup quarter-final. Not because they have anything personal against the Germans, but because they are still feeling the anger and desperation after barely qualifying for the tournament in Brazil. Sakho has been France's vice captain since the second leg of the World Cup playoffs against Ukraine. With the team trailing 2-0 after a dire performance in Kiev, Sakho scored in a 3-0 win, and his passionate performance sparked a remarkable turnaround. Goal to goal: French players are put through their paces during a training session at the Santa Cruz Stadium
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Sakho says team-mates will be filled with 'rage' after nearly missing out on qualification for the tournament
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"I think the question is how soon can we get the @placeholder military up to speed to do what they need to do to hold those gains." | The top U.S. military commander in the fight against ISIS said airstrikes are working to erode the terror group's capabilities and warned militants that the U.S. military is listening to them. Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, who heads the U.S. Central Command, made those remarks at an event Thursday with the Atlantic Council, which was moderated by CNN anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent Jake Tapper. "I'm confident we're having the desired effects," Austin said of airstrikes in Syria and Iraq aimed at ISIS. "What we want to do is take away the enemies' ability to command and control, his ability to sustain himself, his ability to project combat power and his ability to move forces back and forth across the Iraq/Syria border."
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John Carmody, 32, the owner of the dog in question on Copley Avenue, hit back at the suggestion made about his dog while labelling the actions of @placeholder as 'ludicrous'. | John Carmody and his dog Bruiser which the Royal Mail claim was spotted loose on the street. He claims his dog is always kept in a fenced off garden A group of residents will go without Christmas deliveries this week after the mail service to their street was suspended because of a dog attack that occurred 17 months ago. Royal Mail has said residents of Copley Avenue, Meltham, must go to their nearest post office to collect their mail after it was claimed the dog responsible for the attack in 2013 was seen loose in the street. It is the second time deliveries to Copley Avenue have been suspended after postman Jason Lee was attacked.
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Royal Mail has suspended its mail services to Copley Ave, Meltham
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Local postman Jason Lee needed surgery after he was attacked by a dog
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'It is a problem for @placeholder if they did not pay attention to us. | By Ian Ladyman Follow @@Ian_Ladyman_DM After their wonderful dismantling of Italy on Friday night, the players of Costa Rica stayed locked in their dressing room at Recife's Arena Pernambuco for 45 minutes. Victory had placed them in the second phase of the World Cup with a game to spare, but time still had to be found for prayer. When they finally emerged, it was to the realisation that - for some - lives had changed forever. Back home, Jorge Luis Pinto's team will forever be known as the one that defeated a giant of world football and ensured that another - England - went home from World Cup 2014 early.
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Iran's detention and torture of her 33-year-old husband constitutes an assault against @placeholder national security, she said. | The wife of an American pastor imprisoned in Iran pleaded with a House subcommittee on foreign affairs Thursday to do something to free her husband. Naghmeh Abedini said that her husband, Saeed Abedini, went to Iran to build an orphanage but was imprisoned unjustly because of his Christian beliefs. She said that when her family's "nightmare" began, she anticipated having to fight the Iranian government. But she feels shocked and deeply disappointed because she's had "to battle my own government." U.S. President Barack Obama pushed for the release of Abedini and two other detained Americans -- Robert Levinson and Amir Hekmati -- when he spoke on the phone with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in September.
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Naghmeh Abedini says she felt she's had to fight Iran, and also her own government
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It is @placeholder's inner strength and his love for education that have brought together this high school class president and NFL star. | Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- The high school honor student and the NFL's highest-paid defensive back stroll down the destitute streets of Skid Row. "I can sell you something right quick," a drug dealer hisses. Another shouts, "Gonna whoop your ass!" More expletives are hurled. Seventeen-year-old Kenneth Chancey is giving a tour to Nnamdi Asomugha, showing the NFL star the streets that he and his sister used to walk to get to school while living in a Skid Row homeless shelter. Prostitutes, addicts and drug dealers scatter. "Camera! Camera!" they shout. The two make it safely past the park, one of the roughest areas of Los Angeles. An orange soda whizzes through the air, nearly hitting the teen and the Oakland Raiders' All-Pro cornerback worth $45 million.
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NFL star Nnamdi Asomugha decides to help homeless teen after CNN report
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Kenneth Chancey, 17, lived in homeless shelter, yet made all A's and is class president
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The latest killing, ISIS said, was "a message to the allies of @placeholder" -- a direct challenge to the United States. | ISIS beheaded another Westerner, a British aid worker. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry courted Middle Eastern leaders to join a coalition in the fight against the Islamist militants. And U.S. planes aimed at ISIS fighters near Iraq's capital. As world leaders struggled Monday to come up with strategies against ISIS just days after a high-profile beheading by the Islamist militants, the U.S. military targeted an ISIS position near Baghdad. An airstrike southwest of the city appears to be the closest the U.S. airstrikes have come to the Iraqi capital since the start of the campaign against the Islamist militants, a senior U.S. military official told CNN.
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U.S. airstrikes target ISIS militants near Iraqi capital
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International community will fight ISIS "by any means necessary," communique says
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The U.S. says nearly 40 nations have agreed to contribute to the fight against the militants
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@placeholder and a woman sit at a table outside a restaurant. | PUBLISHED: 09:23 EST, 23 December 2013 | UPDATED: 11:12 EST, 23 December 2013 The former boyfriend of Amanda Knox has been spotted out on the town with a mystery woman in the Dominican Republic. Raffaele Sollecito, 29, was pictured with the attractive young woman in the capital Santo Domingo. The woman was pictured putting her hand on his chest and also draping an arm around him as they walked along at night. Knox, now 26, and former boyfriend Sollecito served four years for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher before being freed on appeal in 2011.
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Raffaele Sollecito seen with attractive young woman in Santo Domingo
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29-year-old served four years in jail for murder of Briton Meredith Kercher
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abrupt departure comes a week after @placeholder reported that its | By Associated Press and Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 14:37 EST, 19 June 2013 | UPDATED: 18:09 EST, 19 June 2013 Retailer Men's Wearhouse has fired founder and executive chairman George Zimmer, the bearded icon of the retailer's television commercials for 28 years. Since the mid-1980s Zimmer had appeared in the company's TV commercials along with his slogan 'You're going to like the way you look. I guarantee it.' The retailer announced Zimmer's departure on Wednesday morning and afterwards he released his own statement in which he said that he and the board had disagreed about the company's direction for several months and the board 'inappropriately has chosen to silence my concerns.'
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George Zimmer has been fired from the company he founded 40 years ago
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Since the mid-80s Zimmer had also starred in TV commercials along with his slogan: 'You're going to like the way you look. I guarantee it'
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He and his college roommate opened the first Men's Wearhouse store in Texas in 1973
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Two weeks after her murder, Ms @placeholder's son, Minhas, was arrested over the killing. | By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 20:03 EST, 20 February 2014 | UPDATED: 20:04 EST, 20 February 2014 A former Texas high school student pleaded guilty Thursday to paying a classmate $4,000 to kill his mother. Danish Minhas was 17 when he offered to pay Nur Mohamed, then 18, to stab his mother, who he had complained was too strict. Mohamed has already pleaded guilty to the killing, telling a court last year how Minhas had driven him to the family home in November 2009. Plot: Danish Minhas, left, pleaded guilty to murder Thursday, as he admitted hiring fellow student Nur Mohamed, right, to stab his mother to death in November 2009
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Danish Minhas admits offering friend $4,000 to carry out murder
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Morton said the money will be forfeited in accordance with the laws of the nations where it was seized, with Colombia keeping $28 million and @placeholder getting $13 million. | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Mexican and Colombian officials working with U.S. agents have seized about $41 million in cash hidden in shipping containers, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency announced Monday. Colombian authorities seized $11.2 million in U.S. currency in Buenaventura, Colombia, on September 9. The U.S. agency, commonly called ICE, says the seizures were made September 9-18. It called them the largest seizure of cash ever found in shipping containers destined for Colombia and the largest for the agency since its inception. According to ICE: • On September 9, Colombian customs inspectors and Colombian national police, acting on intelligence reports, seized $11.2 million in U.S. currency hidden in two shipping containers. The containers were aboard a vessel that sailed from the Port of Manzanillo, Mexico, and was headed to Buenaventura, Colombia. Colombian customs inspectors said it was the most cash ever seized by police at a port in the nation.
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Joint operation nets about $41 million in cash hidden in shipping containers
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Mexican, Colombian authorities working with U.S. agents seize money in 2 ports
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@placeholder then explained 'I am sending you my autographed game jersey so you will know me when I am a famous NFL player. | A 7-year-old boy and self-described 'biggest fan' of NFL player J.J. Watt sent the football star a special gift - his own autographed Pee Wee jersey. The Houston Texans defensive end posted an image of the boy's letter and signed shirt on Twitter Tuesday. The letter said: 'Dear J.J.: I am 7 years old. My name is Anthony Tarantelli and I am your biggest fan. People call me J.J. because I also play DE and TE like you. It continued, 'I wear number 99 like you you too. I was the most feared rusher in my league this year.' Confidence: 7-year-old Anthony Tarantelli sent this message and jersey to J.J. Watt
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Anthony Tarantelli, 7, sent defensive end J.J. Watt a letter and signed shirt
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Included at the bottom of the letter was an illustration of Watt playing against Andrew Luck, the Indianapolis Colts quarterback.
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Cooperating with police still didn't get @placeholder out of trouble though. | By Ashley Collman PUBLISHED: 23:59 EST, 8 January 2014 | UPDATED: 06:21 EST, 9 January 2014 A New Hampshire man playing video games Tuesday night got a taste of real life violence when a rogue bullet hit him in the head. Josh Demeritt, 20, of Rochester was surprisingly uninjured by the bullet accidentally fired by his across-the-street neighbor Corey Field, 25, who was in the middle of cleaning his gun. But because Field tried to cover up the accident, he is facing two felony charges. Lucky: Josh Demeritt was playing video games Tuesday night when he was accidentally shot by his neighbor across the street who was cleaning his gun
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Corey Field, 25, was cleaning his gun when it accidentally fired and his his neighbor, Josh Demeritt, 20
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But rebels say the @placeholder are military personnel, an assertion Iran denies. | Tensions spiked in the Middle East on Tuesday as Iran extolled its "axis of resistance" with Syria, and the United States warned of proxy and terror activity. Saeed Jalili, a top Iranian official meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was cited by Syrian state media as saying he will not permit "enemies" to break what he called the "axis of resistance of which Syria is an essential part." "What is taking place in Syria is not an internal issue but rather a conflict between the resistance axis on one hand and the enemies of this axis in the region and the world on the other hand, with the goal being to strike Syria's resistant role," state media quoted Jalili as saying.
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Deals: Newcastle are targeting Tenerife's Ayoze Perez left), while Man Utd are to trial Vanja Milinkovic-@placeholder | By SIMON JONES Liverpool scouts set to run rule over Markovic again as Man United hover Newcastle United have opened preliminary talks with Tenerife over striker Ayoze Perez. The 20-year-old has been watched by the likes of Real Madrid, Manchester City, Arsenal, Everton and Swansea over the past 12 months and is considered a forward of good potential having scored 16 goals in 29 games this season in the Spanish second division. Newcastle are looking for at least two strikers for next season with Lyon's Alexandre Lacazette still a possibility while they are also among clubs to have asked about taking Arsenal's Joel Campbell on loan after his impressive displays for Olympiacos in the Champions League.
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Newcastle open talks with Tenerife over striker Ayoze Perez
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Manchester United set to offer week-long trial to Serbian goalkeeper Vanja Milinkovic-Savic
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Ricardo Rodriguez is a Fulham target if they beat the drop
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Sunderland forward Emanuele Giaccherini interesting West Ham, Hull and Genoa | 15,642 | record_train |
Last week, when Chen was still inside the embassy, @placeholder officials refused to confirm his location and Obama declined to comment directly on the case when asked about it at a news conference. | Washington (CNN) -- Iran, Syria and now China. President Barack Obama faces a third front of vulnerability on his administration's record of defending human rights with the muddled situation involving activist Chen Guangcheng. With his re-election campaign just hitting full stride, Obama hoped to capitalize on foreign policy successes, such as last year's raid that killed Osama bin Laden, to blunt Republican attacks on the sluggish U.S. economic recovery. However, the increasingly strange and challenging case of Chen provides potential fresh fodder for opponents to continue their attempts to portray the Obama presidency as soft or acquiescing to brutal regimes that abuse their own people.
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The administration tries to balance human rights with other issues in China dealings
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In neighboring @placeholder, plans are under way to provide psychological support to 60,000 children and families affected by Ebola. | Ebola has orphaned thousands of children in West Africa, and relatives are terrified of taking them in for fear of infection, the United Nations said. About 3,700 children in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have lost one or both parents to the disease, according to U.N. child agency, UNICEF. In addition to mourning the loss of caregivers in the three hardest-hit nations, the children feel abandoned and stigmatized. "Orphans are usually taken in by a member of the extended family, but in some communities, the fear surrounding Ebola is becoming stronger than family ties," said Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF's regional director.
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Ebola has orphaned about 3,700 children in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone
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"The fear surrounding Ebola is becoming stronger than family ties," a U.N. official says
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The @placeholder has already restricted access to benefits for migrants until they have been in Britain for three months. | Germany has guaranteed Britain will be protected from a more powerful eurozone as the two countries examine plans to kick out jobless migrants after three months. David Cameron yesterday signalled his support for the idea to send migrants home if they fail to find work. Now Berlin has offered a fresh boost to the Prime Minister’s plans to curb Brussels’ influence after Germany said the UK must not be put at a disadvantage by eurozone nations' moves to integrate more closely. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has offered David Cameron fresh support for his plans to reform the Europe Union
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London and Berlin form strong alliance on the future of the Europe Union
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Cameron eyes German report on kicking out migrants who do not get a job
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In the eight-minute video he is seen cross-legged on the floor with a pistol in his hand and an @placeholder gun behind him, authorities said. | Sami Osmakac, 25, from the former Yugoslavia, has been charged with an alleged plot to attack crowded locations in Tampa, including a nightclub A 25-year-old Muslim man born in Kosovo allegedly developed a bomb plot to attack crowded locations in Tampa with a car bomb, machine guns and other explosives. Sami Osmakac, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Kosovo - a disputed Balkan state once a part of the former Yugoslavia that declared its independence from Serbia in 2008 - was charged today with one count of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. Osmakac, of Pinellas County, Florida, allegedly bought explosives and guns from an undercover FBI agent, which had been made unusable.
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Sami Osmakac, 25, originally of Kosovo, 'caught by undercover FBI agent'
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'Former Kosovan tried to get AK-47 and Uzi guns; and Al Qaeda flags'
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It isn't the first time Michelle Obama has stepped out in @placeholder attire. | By Sadie Whitelocks PUBLISHED: 11:02 EST, 19 August 2013 | UPDATED: 16:35 EST, 19 August 2013 Michelle Obama wore a $55 dress to mark the first day of her summer vacation, proving once again that she's not afraid to mix up her wardrobe with budget-friendly picks. The First Lady arrived in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, with her husband on August 10 wearing a chic rose-print design which is currently on sale down from $169 to $55.99 at Talbots. A spokesperson for the classic womenswear label told MailOnline that her outing helped to boost sales and now the item is close to selling out with only a U.S. size 20 left in stock.
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At 12:45 a.m. June 7, @placeholder responded and told her to "leave now," Fulton said. | (CNN) -- A missing 17-year-old Ohio girl was found early Wednesday hiding in the attic of an apartment recently leased by her 20-year-old boyfriend, Norwalk police announced. Abbi Obermiller disappeared June 7 after trading text messages with her boyfriend that indicated the two were planning to run away together, police Sgt. Jim Fulton told CNN earlier this week. An anonymous tip alerted investigators early Wednesday to a New London apartment rented by Obermiller's boyfriend, identified by police as Robert "Bobby" Young, three weeks ago, according to police. Obermiller was taken to the Norwalk Police Department, where she provided the names of those who assisted her in running away and hiding her, police said.
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Abbi Obermiller had been missing since June 7
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But Manning refused to plead guilty to the most serious allegations, including that of aiding enemies of the @placeholder -- a charge that falls under the Espionage Act and carries a sentence of life in prison, if convicted. | (CNN) -- Is Pfc. Bradley Manning an idealist who became disillusioned by what was being done in Iraq and elsewhere in the name of U.S. national interests, as the attorney for the former Army intelligence analyst has argued? Or is he, as the prosecution contends, a traitor who leaked classified material to WikiLeaks that he knew could assist terrorists? The formal answers to those questions, at least, will come in the anticipated verdict by a military judge, who will decide Manning's guilt or innocence in a case that has been described as the largest leak of classified material in U.S. history.
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Bradley Manning, 25, is charged with violations of the Espionage Act
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"I was so surprised when I realized it was in @placeholder," said DiBella. | (CNN) -- They've been man's best friend since the beginning of time. And now, thanks to modern technology, two best friends are together again. When Giuseppe DiBella's beloved 6-month-old puppy Nika disappeared from his home in Newburgh, New York, he immediately plastered countless fliers around town showing pictures of Nika as well as the toy fox terrier's microchip number. But no luck ... time ticked on, and two years passed. While DiBella may have been devastated, he says he "never gave up." In mid-September, the 3-pound pooch showed up at the front door of a home in Ocala, Florida, more than 1,000 miles away.
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Giuseppe DiBella's puppy Nika disappeared from his home in Newburgh, New York
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The tiny toy fox terrier turned up in Ocala, Florida, 2 years later
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Scan at animal clinic found her microchip number, which led to DiBella
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@placeholder may find some comfort in the fact it was Australia who were the last team from the 'big three' they beat. | After Warren Gatland insisted he had picked his starting XV to face Australia based on form, his Wales squad looked focused in training ahead of the game on Saturday. Gatland has mixed up his squad ahead of the match at the Millennium Stadium as he looks to end Wales' poor record against the southern hemisphere's 'big three' - Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Gatland left Adam Jones out of the squad completely despite the prop's 95-cap experience, while 42-cap Bradley Davies and the Lions duo of Gethin Jenkins and Mike Phillips have been named on the bench. Sam Warburton (right), Jamie Roberts (left) and Leigh Halfpenny push themselves in a Wales training session
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Warren Gatland's Wales team looked focused in training ahead of their match against Australia on Saturday
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His side are looking to end a poor recent record against the southern hemisphere's 'big three'
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Wales have gone 20 matches since beating either Australia, New Zealand or South Africa
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The @placeholder added that staff had not received a pay rise for two years. | By Leon Watson PUBLISHED: 07:41 EST, 30 March 2013 | UPDATED: 11:30 EST, 30 March 2013 Post Office workers have gone on strike today in a row over jobs, pay and closures - saying they received strong support from the public over their action. Members of the Communication Workers Union in around 260 so-called Crown offices took industrial action in protest at plans to close or franchise 70 branches. The union said the walkout was 'solidly' supported by thousands of its members, with picket lines set up outside post offices across the country. Scroll down for video Five-year-old Josiah Barnes protests with Post Office workers outside Holloway Post Office in London where they are striking against jobs, pay and closures
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On the surface: An aerial view of the family property in @placeholder where the tragedy unfolded | Geoff Hunt killed his three children and wife with a shotgun before turning it on himself on their quiet NSW farm in a tragic murder-suicide last September, a coroner's inquest will confirm. Hunt, 44, drove down to the dam and took his own life after shooting Kim, 41, on the entertainment deck at the back of their family home, Watch Hill, near Lockhart - 80km south of Wagga Wagga. The couple's three children - Fletcher, 10, Mia, 8, and Phoebe, 6 - were shot inside the house. The shootings likely occurred in the evening of Monday, September 8. An insider familiar with the case has told Daily Mail Australia that the facts presented to the coroner will confirm a predicted finding that Mr Hunt, for reasons which are currently being examined, carried out the shootings.
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Geoff Hunt, 44, killed his wife Kim and three kids in Lockhart, NSW last September
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Supporters of @placeholder and his foreign policy agenda suspect sabotage and even violence. | (CNN) -- On September 27, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani had a 15-minute phone conversation with U.S. President Barack Obama. This was a historic moment, breaking a 34-year spell, and roundly applauded in Washington and Tehran. There was, however, one notable exception. Mohammad Ali Jafari, the head of the elite Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), promptly called the Obama-Rouhani phone conversation a "tactical mistake." The Iranian president, according to Jafari, should have waited to make such a call until after "America's sincerity" in negotiating with Iran "can be proven," as he put it. Many in Tehran interpreted Jafari's comment -- not as goodhearted advice on foreign policy strategy -- but as a slap on the wrist on President Rouhani. Anxious supporters of Rouhani now wonder if the Revolutionary Guards will soon have an open season against the eight-week-old Rouhani administration and kill off any hope for U.S.-Iran détente before it is given a proper shot. After all, the IRGC generals see themselves as the epicenter of anti-Americanism in the Islamic Republic.
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A September 27 phone call by the U.S. and Iranian presidents was the first in 34 years
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The head of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corp called it a "tactical mistake"
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Alex Vatanka says the IRGC generals see themselves as the epicenter of anti-Americanism
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He expressed confusion as to why @placeholder, a relatively small economic player, had been admitted into this group of global big hitters. | Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN) -- Marketplace Africa launched 100 episodes ago. That¹s one hundred weeks of African business news that brought our global audience a fresh perspective from a continent that has not normally been viewed as an investor-friendly destination. We kicked off the first show by interviewing Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was then the managing director of the IMF. His wife, Anne, was with him and he proudly introduced me to her, reminding me that both she and I were both broadcasters. She is a famous news interviewer in France. Then, I interviewed him on the stage at a local university theatre. It was a small and intimate setting, so very different from the glare of the global spotlight in which he later found himself.
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Having completed his second space station mission, @placeholder now has spent 334 days in space. | A veteran Russian cosmonaut and two International Space Station crewmates, one from the United States and one from Germany, returned safely to Earth this morning at 3:58am GMT (10:58pm EST). The parachute landing of their Soyuz capsule in Kazakhstan ended five and a half months in orbit aboard the International Space Station. Maxim Suraev of the Russian space agency, who was commander of the station during the mission, climbed into the Soyuz craft with Nasa astronaut Reid Wiseman and German flight engineer Alexander Gerst from the European Space Agency and departed the orbital outpost last night. Scroll down for video of landing
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Three crew members have safely landed in Kazakhstan after a three and a half hour journey from the ISS
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They departed the station in a Soyuz capsule on Sunday evening and returned early this morning
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Maxim Suraev, Reid Wiseman and Alexander Gerst were the three to depart the station
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They travelled in the same Soyuz that took them to the ISS on 28 May this year
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Rates for both start at several hundred dollars a night around @placeholder. | (CNN) -- Hey, big spender. New Year's Eve is coming up fast, but there's still time to think about an unforgettable getaway to usher in 2012. Maybe this is the year for the trip of a lifetime or perhaps you're looking to be somewhere out of the ordinary when the clock strikes midnight. If so, here are six luxurious itineraries that require deep pockets, but will set the tone for an amazing New Year. Can't make it this time around? Use the list as inspiration for New Year's Eves to come. Secluded Hawaii Celebrate in your own (almost) private paradise, far away from any crowd. It takes a 45-minute ferry ride from Maui to get to tiny Lana'i, a former pineapple plantation that has earned the nickname "Hawaii's Most Enticing Island."
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These itineraries require deep pockets, but will set the tone for an amazing New Year
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Escape the world on "Hawaii's Most Enticing Island;" party with the stars in St. Barts
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Vienna offers a romantic New Year's Eve, complete with an imperial ball
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@placeholder’s husband, cousin Matthew, was bowling home from the maternity hospital, where he had just kissed hello to his baby son, born a few weeks premature. | Millions of viewers were left stunned last night as Matthew Crawley was killed in a car crash moments after seeing his newborn son in Downton Abbey’s Christmas Day special. The much-loved character, played by Dan Stevens, died after swerving off the road to avoid another vehicle. The fatal twist was so unforeseen that it took the breath away. In Downton Abbey, after two hours of premonitions that Lord Grantham’s oldest daughter, Mary, would suffer the fate of her sister Sybil and die in childbirth, an entirely different tragedy occurred. It happened off-screen: an open-topped roadster on a country lane, a looming lorry, and then a cut to Maggie Smith in the Abbey drawing room, reflecting that ‘we don’t always get our just deserts’.
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Beaker folk lived about 4,500 years ago in the temperate zones of @placeholder and received their name from their distinctive bell-shaped beakers, decorated in horizontal zones by finely toothed stamps. | The genetic makeup of Europe mysteriously transformed about 4,000-5,000 years ago, researchers have discovered. An Australian team found the unexplained change while analysing several skeletons unearthed in central Europe that were up to 7,500 years old. They say the rapid expansion of the Bell Beaker culture, which is believed to have been instrumental in building the monoliths at Stonehedge, could hold the key. Researchers say the rapid expansion of the Bell Beaker culture, which is believed to have been instrumental in building the monoliths at Stonehedge, could hold the key to why the genetic lineage of Europe mysteriously transformed about 4000 years ago
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On Saturday, investigators finished 10 days of sifting through the crime scene and served a warrant at the @placeholder house for a third search for evidence, said Capt. | (CNN) -- Now that Caylee Anthony's remains have been identified, the search for the Florida toddler turns into a prosecution of her mother. Casey Anthony, 22, is accused of killing her daughter. Investigators say her alibi didn't check out. Although Orange County, Florida, Medical Examiner Jan Garavaglia said Friday she could not determine how Caylee died, she concluded the death was a homicide. The child's mother, Casey Anthony, 22, faces charges including murder in the disappearance and death of Caylee, who was 2 when she vanished last summer. The remains were found last week in woods about a half-mile from Anthony's parents' house and identified through DNA testing. See where Caylee's skeleton was found »
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Casey Anthony's defense team has big challenge, experts say
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At the same time, many @placeholder-American families started to move to Ferguson from St. Louis and surrounding communities. | Before Saturday's police shooting of an African-American teenager, Ferguson, Missouri, was known as one of hundreds of municipalities designated by a national nonprofit as a "Playful City USA," a place where children are supposed to have access to more opportunities to play in their communities. But the shooting death of Michael Brown, a college-bound 18-year-old, by a police officer has brought national attention to the mostly black community for another reason. Witnesses and residents say the young man was unarmed. Police say he tried to take an officer's gun. Authorities, citing threats and safety issues, have refused to identify the officer. Protests have turned violent. Tensions remain high after isolated looting incidents and dozens of arrests in the St. Louis suburb of 22,400.
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Ferguson, Missouri, was one of hundreds of municipalities designated a "Playful City USA"
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Speaking on This Morning, @placeholder's father George Kinsella said: 'The money that we got, just about paid | By Emma Reynolds and Suzannah Hills PUBLISHED: 11:52 EST, 28 January 2013 | UPDATED: 14:12 EST, 28 January 2013 Brooke Kinsella today broke down into tears as she spoke of the 'unjust' £20,000 police compensation payment to the father of one of her brother's killers. Michael Alleyne's son, also called Michael, stabbed Ben to death in north London in 2008 - but his father has now won a settlement over injuries he suffered during the Met Police hunt for the murderer. The family of Ben Kinsella received just half of that after the 16-year-old was killed outside a north London bar in 2008. At the time, £10,000 was the most the law allowed for criminal injuries compensation.
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Michael Alleyne Sr was pushed to ground during police hunt for his son
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Family of murdered Ben, 16, said they were horrified by Met Police payout
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'At around 9.30 am I heard him wake up and me and @placeholder went back upstairs and I sorted Kian out.' | By Martin Robinson A Facebook tribute to the little boy A toddler was killed in front of his mother after a television toppled onto his head as he tried to fetch a ball, an inquest heard. McKenzie Birkett-Waddington, who was 22-months-old, had spotted his toy in the bottom drawer of the chest which had a heavy set on top. But as he pulled at the drawer, the chest began to shake and the TV crashed down onto him leaving him with fatal head injuries. The freak accident happened in Burnley, Lancashire, as McKenzie's mother Jade Birkett, 21, looked on in horror as she tended to her youngest son Kian who had just woken up.
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22-month-old McKenzie Birkett-Waddington died in a 'dreadful accident'
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"This is probably a depressingly familiar story for most @placeholder. | (CNN) -- Analysts say the slaying of one of Latin America's best-known folk singers over the weekend shines a spotlight on problems with deep roots in Guatemala: violence, impunity and the pervasive presence of organized crime "It shows how far these groups have infiltrated. ... It's a very large blow first of all to the country's image, and secondly to its government," said Miguel Castillo, a professor of political science at the University of Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala City. Gunmen ambushed Argentinian folk singer Facundo Cabral when he was on his way to the airport in the nation's capital Saturday, authorities said. As investigators continued searching for suspects Monday, the high-profile shooting drew increasing attention throughout Latin America, where Cabral gained fame as a protest singer who pushed for peace.
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Gunmen ambushed Facundo Cabral in Guatemala City on Saturday
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Missions to @placeholder can only take place every 26 months or so, when the planets are properly aligned, and one suggestion is that a 'blast soil into space and scoop it up' mission could be staggered over separate launches. | By Eddie Wrenn PUBLISHED: 11:49 EST, 3 October 2012 | UPDATED: 01:55 EST, 4 October 2012 We are not going to visit Mars anytime in the next decade or two - so the next best thing is to bring some of the Red Planet back to us. So Nasa is now looking for ways to bring Martian rock and soil back to Earth, allowing scientists to study the soil composition for the first time and investigate for signs of if the planet ever had life. The Mars Program Planning Group is putting together different ways of returning a sample within the next 20 years, with Nasa potentially choosing which path to follow by next February.
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Mars Planning Group consults on different ways to bring soil back to Earth
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Kerry was the Democratic Party's standard-bearer in the 2004 presidential election and President @placeholder had campaigned hard for him in the final stretch of that campaign, even though he was recovering from major heart surgery at the time. | By Leon Watson PUBLISHED: 05:28 EST, 13 January 2014 | UPDATED: 06:55 EST, 13 January 2014 John Kerry topped a list of 'traitors' who Hillary Clinton's staff believed betrayed her during her bitter 2008 presidential primary battle with Barack Obama, a new book has revealed. The detailed list, which also included Democratic Party heavyweight Edward Kennedy, who died in 2009, was kept by Clinton's aides who ranked names on a seven-point scale, it is claimed. Kerry, who was Senator for Massachusetts at the time and went on to replace Clinton as Secretary of State in the Obama administration, was among those receiving the worst possible score, according to the book.
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Detailed list also included Democratic Party heavyweight Ted Kennedy
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The poster boy of the Brazil @placeholder has been handed the captaincy, and if his performances in that tournament, when he dragged an average side through to the semi-final before his injury, is anything to go by he will lead by example. | Brazil are in action for the first time since their humiliating 7-1 World Cup semi-final defeat and subsequent 3-0 thrashing by Holland in the third-place playoff. Their friendly against Colombia in Miami is the first match since those results exposed the reality of their poor team and dealt crushing blows to the World Cup hosts which knocked the national team to the ground. New manager Dunga, who replaced Luiz Felipe Scolari, has been tasked with hauling them back to their feet and turning them into the heavyweight world champions they once were. Here, Sportsmail takes a look at what changes he has made and what to expect...
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Brazil's World Cup squad diminished by less than half as just 10 of the 23-man group made the cut under manager Dunga
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Barcelona right-back Dani Alves and Real Madrid full-back Marcelo among those who did not make the cut for the friendly against Colombia
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Cruzeiro's attacking midfielders Everton Ribeiro and Ricardo Goulart and Corinthians centre-back Gil are the three new players introduced
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Injured Neymar and David Luiz return to shoulder responsibility for Brazil
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But the gleaming vehicles have have been angering many @placeholder residents who see them as a symbol of the gap between the haves and the have nots and complain they should not be allowed to use the city's public bus stops. | By Daniel Miller PUBLISHED: 05:31 EST, 8 January 2014 | UPDATED: 10:48 EST, 8 January 2014 They already enjoy massages, nap rooms, free gourmet food and one paid day every week to focus on personal projects. Now the pampered employees of internet giant Google can add a private ferry service to their envy-inducing list of workplace perks. While others endure long commutes through heavy traffic every morning, lucky Googlers can step aboard the Google boat to be whisked effortlessly across San Fransisco Bay to the firm's California HQ near Redwood city. All aboard: Internet giant Google has chartered a private ferry to take employees from San Fransisco to their headquarters near Redwood City
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Private passenger catamaran service launched across San Fransisco Bay
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It carries up to 150 workers to and from the Google HQ near Redwood city
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Firm's shuttle bus service had been targetted by angry protesters
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Somalia's current transitional government is trying to maintain control of the capital, with the help of the better-equipped @placeholder forces. | MOGADISHU, Somalia (CNN) -- Fresh fighting between Ethiopian-backed government forces and Islamic insurgents in Somalia's capital city of Mogadishu reportedly killed at least 10 people Sunday, eyewitnesses said. A man walks past the rubble of a building destroyed in Sunday's fighting The two sides pounded each other with artillery, sending children scurrying and bringing business at the city's main market to a standstill. "The fighting is so heavy and a barrage of mortar bombs is hitting many parts in Bakara market, killing people and causing heavy damages of buildings " said Ali Abdulkadir, a cloth trader at the city's main Bakara Market.
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Fighting between government forces and insurgents in Mogadishu kills at least 10
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Family members described Davis as an acquaintance of a family friend and said he had been living at the townhome complex at the time of @placeholder's death. | A man who raped and killed an eight-year-old girl before stashing her body in a dryer has been found guilty of ten counts including capital murder. Billy Frank Davis Jr, 31, snatched Ahliyah Nachelle Irvin from the living room of her Topeka apartment as she slept, before sexually assaulting and choking the little girl. Jurors will return to Shawnee County court in Kansas tomorrow to hear more evidence before deciding whether to recommend that Davis receive the death penalty or life without parole. Friends and family of Ahliyah Nachell Irvin weep as Topeka police detective Scott Dickey recounted details of his interview of Billy Frank Davis Jr., front center, who is charged with with killing and rape of the little girl
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Billy Frank Davis Jr, 31, snatched Ahliyah Nachelle Irvin from an apartment
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Kate, 31, is caring for @placeholder full-time but has been advised she will become exhausted by combining motherhood with her future royal duties. | By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 05:12 EST, 11 August 2013 | UPDATED: 06:35 EST, 12 August 2013 Prince William and Kate have asked his 71-year-old former nanny to help look after baby George, it was reported today. Jessica Webb is said to be considering the offer of coming out of retirement and being the 20-day-old prince's first charge. Young William and Harry were shielded from their parents' bitter divorce by the nanny who never married or had children of her own. Royal charge: Prince William is led by his nanny Jessica Webb at the Guards Polo Club in Windsor in 1988
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'Granny nanny' Jessica Webb is said to be considering coming out of retirement
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She shielded William and Harry from the screaming rows of their parents
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month when we’re in this sort of debt to @placeholder is completely | By Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor PUBLISHED: 05:31 EST, 8 August 2013 | UPDATED: 10:27 EST, 8 August 2013 The UKIP politician under fire for referring to ‘Bongo Bongo land’ today offered up yet another explanation for his remarks – he was talking about an antelope. Godfrey Bloom faced repeated accusations of racism after condemning foreign aid being sent to ‘Bongo Bongo land’, seen as a derogatory reference to Africa. But he insisted that a bongo is a ‘white antelope, lives in the forest, there is no connotation of racism about it whatsoever’. Critics were quick to point out that the bongo antelope is not white, it is brown.
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Godfrey Bloom confused why 'Bongo Bongo land' might be seen as racist
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'I'm 63, that's the sort of phraseology we used years ago,' MEP said
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He called aid programmes 'treason' when the UK is making cuts
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Doing so would remove the needless uncertainty created by potentially faithless electors and restore some confidence in the @placeholder process. | (CNN) -- While Barack Obama's and Mitt Romney's presidential campaigns rage on toward November 6, another campaign has been under way for some time, one that's mostly out of the public's eye. An investigation by The Associated Press last month revealed that as many as five Republican electors expressed uncertainty whether they would actually vote for Mitt Romney if he carried their state. These electors appear to be unhappy with Romney and continue to show support for his primary rival Rep. Ron Paul. In the wake of this news, one of the electors abruptly resigned her position. On another front, a Minnesota elector suggested that he may not vote for the Romney-Ryan ticket if the candidates fail to furnish their birth certificates (in an effort to put pressure on all candidates to furnish their birth certificates).
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Rogue electors can disenfranchise millions of voters, Robert M. Alexander says
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‘They have probably lost the way of @placeholder a little bit,’ said Phelan. | Manchester United will continue to be big spenders despite paying out a staggering £150million on new signings this summer. Although six players have arrived at Old Trafford — including Radamel Falcao and Angel di Maria — United expect to be busy in the next few transfer windows, according to senior club sources. There are concerns that Louis van Gaal’s squad still needs strengthening in defence and midfield, and Roma’s Kevin Strootman has already been lined up as a £25m target in January when the Holland star will have fully recovered from a serious knee injury. VIDEO Scroll down to Watch some of Kevin Strootman's best goals playing for PSV
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Manchester United will continue big spending after huge summer outlay
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Louis van Gaal's side have spent £150m in transfer market this summer
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Roma's midfielder Kevin Strootman on United's January radar in £25m deal
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The U.S. military presence and its impact on @placeholder residents have been a thorny issue over the years. | Tokyo, Japan (CNN) -- Four American teenagers, all children of U.S. military personnel, have been arrested on charges of attempted murder after a woman was knocked off her motorbike with rope strung across two poles, Japanese police said. The four suspects -- two 15-year-old boys, a 17-year-old girl and an 18-year-old man -- were taken into custody on Saturday, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said. They are accused of causing a severe head injury to a 23-year-old restaurant employee by stringing a rope between poles across a road. U.S. Forces Japan was informed of the August incident in late October, a public information officer said. There was no clear explanation for the delay in the handover of the suspects to police, other than it involved rules between Washington and Tokyo covering U.S. forces and their dependents in Japan.
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'I tried to give everything I could to fans of Boca, @placeholder, Villarreal and Barcelona, in the youth teams and the full team. | Legendary Argentina playmaker Juan Roman Riquelme has decided to retire from football at the age of 36. Riquelme ended his career with Argentine club Argentinos Juniors after also playing for the likes of Villarreal, Barcelona and Boca Juniors. He was linked with a move to the United States but speaking to sportscentre, Riquelme quashed the speculation by announcing his retirement from the game. Juan Roman Riquelme (centre) played 51 times for Argentina and scored 17 goals for his country Riquelme pictured celebrating Boca Juniors' Argentina's league championship, one of five that he won Riquelme waves to supporters as he leaves the pitch during a substitution in a game for Boca Juniors
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Legendary playmaker Juan Roman Riquelme retires at the age of 36
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He played 51 times for Argentina and won 5 league titles in his country
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Facebook bought Instagram in 2012 after an alleged bidding war with @placeholder. | Rumours suggest that Facebook is about to add video features to its photo-sharing app Instagram and will announce the changes at a conference later this week. According to an internal source, the social network has been recently testing a feature that would let Instagram users record and share five to 10-second video clips. If confirmed, the feature will rival video-sharing Vine app - which is owned by Twitter - that lets users record and share six-second video loops on Android and iOS devices. Facebook has officially revealed a new video sharing service. Called Video on Instagram, it will pit the firm against Twitter's hugely popular Vine service by letting users record 15-second video clips
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An internal source has claimed Facebook is testing a video feature for its Instagram app and will announce the plans at an upcoming event
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Facebook bought the photo-sharing app in 2012 and plans to let users record and share five to ten-second video clips
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"A little less than the administration and perhaps Speaker @placeholder has said ... the jobs created may be a little disappointing." | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Some Democrats are increasingly concerned about President Obama's $787 billion financial fix for the ailing economy, and are demanding greater transparency on further spending. Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-North Dakota, says there are big concerns over talk about a second stimulus package. With the White House seemingly comparing the nation's economy to a house on fire, some congressional Democrats are asking, where's the fire truck? One New Hampshire congresswoman said as much to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner on Capitol Hill recently. "I said, hurry, please hurry, because people are waiting and they are hurting, and they need the help now," Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, D-New Hampshire, said.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says a second stimulus package may be needed
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The Wikileaks founder says he fears he will be handed over to the @placeholder and face the death penalty if he is sent to Sweden. | Ricardo Patino said he has 'fundamental right to sunbathe' By Gerard Couzens and Amanda Williams PUBLISHED: 11:27 EST, 11 June 2013 | UPDATED: 11:28 EST, 11 June 2013 Britain is 'breaching the human rights' of controversial Wikileaks founder Julian Assange by not allowing him to leave his embassy hideout to go sunbathing, it's been claimed Britain is 'breaching the human rights' of controversial Wikileaks founder Julian Assange by not allowing him to leave his embassy hideout to go sunbathing, Ecuador's foreign minister has today claimed. The south American country claims the fugitive's human rights are being trampled on by being prevented from enjoying London's summer sunshine.
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Assange has been in Ecuadorian embassy in Kensington for nearly a year
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And that was very different from @placeholder for me -- Luxemburg is a very small place and there's not much going on, but in Florence there is so much energy. | (CNN) -- Tanya Gray, 28, works at a preschool in Florence, where she has lived for the last two years. She first moved to the city seven years ago from her home in Luxemburg, when she and a friend decided to travel to Italy's cultural capital to enroll as students. "Once you have seen the Duomo and some of the old buildings you can't really compare it to anywhere else." While there she fell in love, and over the following years she was either in the city or planning her next trip there. CNN: Hi Tanya. What were your initial impressions on coming to Florence?
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CNN spoke to Florence resident Tanya Gray about life in the Italian city
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After the Speaker's rebuke the @placeholder replied that he would replace the word 'idiot' with the words 'the man who left us with this enormous deficit and this financial crisis'. | By Damien Gayle PUBLISHED: 12:11 EST, 23 May 2012 | UPDATED: 07:18 EST, 24 May 2012 'Flashman': David Cameron, the Prime Minister, lost his cool with Ed Balls at Prime Minister's Questions today, calling the shadow chancellor an 'idiot' David Cameron dismissed Ed Balls as a 'muttering idiot' after losing his temper with the shadow chancellor during a heated exchange at Prime Minister's Questions today. The Prime Minister's unexpected outburst prompted a rebuke from Commons Speaker John Bercow, who told him to retract the slight as it was 'unparliamentary'. And Labour benches immediately leapt on Mr Cameron's loss of composure with cries of 'Flashman' - a reference to the bully in Tom Brown’s Schooldays.
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"Hopefully all the bad luck and bad crashes are behind the Tour, and hopefully @placeholder won't have any." | (CNN) -- It has been a bittersweet month for British sport. Andy Murray's bid to become the nation's first Wimbledon men's singles champion since 1936 was derailed, while the England football team suffered penalty-shootout heartache at the recent Euro 2012 tournament. But across the channel there is one Briton at the forefront of his sport who, through a series of peerless performances, is in line to become the UK's first Tour de France winner. Bradley Wiggins, with his mutton-chop sideburns and slim physique, does not instantly come across as an elite athlete. But the Sky Procycling rider is dominating the 2012 Tour de France, picking up the first stage win of his career between Arc et Senans and Besancon with an astonishing display of power to open up a lead of one minute, 53 seconds over second-placed defending champion Cadel Evans.
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The 99th edition of the race began on June 30 and will finish on July 22
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American cyclist Lance Armstrong won the race seven times between 1995-2005
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@placeholder footage shows an undercover detective, breaking one of the windows. | By Daily Mail Reporter A man who was dragged from his SUV and beaten by a group of motorcyclists following a frightening chase on a Manhattan highway has filed a legal notice saying he intends to sue New York City over the attack. Prosecutors say an off-duty police detective was among the bikers who pursued and beat Alexian Lien after a confrontation on the West Side Highway. The September assault was recorded by one biker and later posted on the Internet. Badly injured: Lien needed stitches after he was attacked by bikers in New York. He hit some bikers in a bid to escape them but they caught up and beat him. He is now suing the city over the attack
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Alexian Lien, 33, was attacked September 29 on a Manhattan street
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He was chased by motorcyclists after he accidentally hit a biker, Christopher Cruz, with his Range Rover in New York City
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Video showed Lien being dragged from his SUV and beatenTwo New York City police officers are alleged to have taken part in the attack
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He was not directly treating Ebola patients in @placeholder during this trip, but was delivering babies at a general hospital in Monrovia, Johnson said. | (CNN) -- Even as she prays for her husband's recovery, Debbie Sacra wants to remind the world that there are thousands dying in West Africa of the deadly Ebola virus. Dr. Rick Sacra is the latest American to become infected with the Ebola virus while working in Liberia for the aid organization Serving in Mission. He was admitted to an Ebola case management center over the weekend near the hospital in Monrovia where he has served for 15 years. "I am surrounded by friends and family and the body of Christ, who are a great encouragement and who are praying fervently for Rick's recovery along with me," Debbie Sacra said in a statement. "We are trusting in God to be with Rick and us through this difficult circumstance.
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Dr. Rick Sacra's wife Debbie says she is "praying fervently" for his recovery
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Nancy Writebol speaks for the first time publicly after surviving Ebola
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Obama: Military advisers will go to Iraq, but @placeholder not returning to combat | Washington (CNN) -- The candidate who campaigned on ending American-fought wars has become a president who finds himself repeatedly deciding on, planning for and sometimes declining military incursions. After authorizing a troop surge in Afghanistan, air support in Libya, and limited military aid to rebels in Syria, President Barack Obama has now decided to send advisers to Iraq, where Sunni militants are on the move. The tension that often exists between the executive and legislative branches over foreign intervention, however, is largely absent for now. Obama diffused any criticism from Congress by notifying it earlier this week that he was dispatching 275 troops to Iraq to bolster security at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
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When @placeholder left he told his subordinates: "I'm leaving now; you all have fun with it." | (CNN) -- Six Chinese Communist Party investigators have been sentenced to between four and 14 years in jail after they drowned a local official during a botched interrogation that has shone light on China's secretive extrajudicial processes. Cheng Wenjie, the deputy director of the Commission for Discipline Inspection in the eastern city of Wenzhou, received the longest sentence of the six for his role in the death of Yu Qiyi, according to a copy of the court verdict given to CNN by the victim's wife. All the defendants pleaded guilty. Yu, 41, the chief engineer at a state-owned company in the same city, died at a local hospital on April 9, a month after being detained over his role in a land deal.
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Six Chinese Communist Party investigators have been jailed after they drowned a local official.
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Yu Qiyi died a month after being detained over his role in a land deal.
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They repeatedly held him under icy water in a bathtub, verdict said
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Their botched interrogation has shone light on China's secretive extrajudicial processes | 15,686 | record_train |
@placeholder citizens were urged to defer all travel to the country. | Washington (CNN) -- The United States on Monday condemned the violence in Libya and called for a halt to the "unacceptable bloodshed" in response to civil unrest, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a statement. "The government of Libya has a responsibility to respect the universal rights of the people, including the right to free expression and assembly," Clinton's statement said. "Now is the time to stop this unacceptable bloodshed. We are working urgently with friends and partners around the world to convey this message to the Libyan government." It was the highest-level statement so far by the U.S. government on the accelerating strife in Libya, where reports Monday indicated a deteriorating situation with some military forces and pro-government allies attacking anti-government demonstrators.
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NEW: Clinton calls bloodshed in Libya unacceptable
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State Department has ordered the evacuation of all non-essential personnel
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The Obama administration is stressing the need to avoid violence against protesters
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Gadhafi's son has warned of a possible civil war if protesters do not back down | 15,687 | record_train |
He traded an extremely high volume and thus accumulated a long outright position on @placeholder. | London, England (CNN) -- Britain's financial regulator said Wednesday it has banned an oil trader after he made huge trades while drunk last year, causing global prices of Brent crude to jump to abnormally high levels. Steven Noel Perkins, a former oil futures broker in the London office of PVM Oil Futures, was also fined £72,000 ($108,400) for market abuse, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) said. He is now banned from working in the financial services industry on the grounds that he is "not a fit and proper person," the FSA said. Perkins' job was to trade orders on an execution-only basis in Brent crude futures contracts on the ICE Futures Europe (ICE) exchange for his firm's clients, the FSA said.
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Steven Noel Perkins traded Brent crude futures contracts without client authorization
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His trading pushed the price up to $73.50 a barrel -- the highest this year
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The FSA said the trading seems to have been a result of "extremely heavy drinking"
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Perkins was also fined £72,000 ($108,400) for market abuse | 15,688 | record_train |
And now, @placeholder lives on in this touching book -- as agonizing to read as it is imbued with hope and light. | (Parenting.com) -- What does being a mother mean when your baby is dying? How do you parent a child with no future? These questions needle the reader throughout Emily Rapp's moving and beautiful new book, "The Still Point of the Turning World." In January of 2011, when her son Ronan was just nine months old, Rapp learned he was dying from Tay-Sachs, a ruthless and heartbreaking disease with no cure. Ronan was given no more than three years to live. He had developed normally for six months until he simply stopped. He would very gradually unravel, fading away from her piece by piece, until his death in February of this year.
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Writer Emily Rapp's son was diagnosed with Tay-Sachs disease at 9 months old
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As her son lived out his short life, Rapp grieved through writing
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Rapp delighted in moments of joy with her son and learned profound lessons | 15,689 | record_train |
The U.S. government bailed out the automotive industry to the tune of $80 billion between 2008 and 2010 but that has done little to stop the financial decline in @placeholder. | In the futuristic 1987 film Robocop it was depicted as a crime-ridden city left in ruins after years of financial decline. The film's writer Ed Neumeirer scribbled 'the future left Detroit behind' on the first page of the script to sum up the city where the story is set. Little did he know, his prophetic note would become an apt description of modern-day Detroit after the city filed the biggest municipal bankruptcy in American history with debts of around $18 billion earlier this month. Scroll down for video On the brink: The 1987 film Robocop, pictured, written by Ed Neumeirer is set in a futuristic crime-ridden Detroit on the verge of financial collapse
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Futuristic film Robocop was set in a crime-ridden and dangerous Detroit
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Writer Ed Neumeirer scribbled 'the future left Detroit behind' on the script
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His note proved to be an accurate depiction of modern-day Detroit
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City has filed the biggest municipal bankruptcy in American history with debts of around $18 billion earlier this month | 15,690 | record_train |
"I am 100 percent committed to the mission of @placeholder and its future," Obama said to applause from the audience of space program workers. | Cape Canaveral, Florida (CNN) -- President Obama pledged his full commitment to the space program Thursday, outlining a new strategy that ends current programs while funding new initiatives intended to propel humankind farther into the solar system. In a speech at the Kennedy Space Center, Obama outlined his proposal to pump an additional $6 billion into NASA's budget over the next five years while halting a project to resume lunar missions. The new spending would be for research on a propulsion breakthrough to travel deeper into space, as well as development of technologies to allow humans to transport necessary supplies to work and stay longer, Obama said.
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NEW: Obama outlines his proposal to pump an additional $6 billion into NASA's budget
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NEW: President touts private-sector space initiatives, as well as a Mars mission by 2030s
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Well-known astronauts say cancellation of manned flight "is devastating"
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Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin says NASA needs to explore new frontiers | 15,691 | record_train |
'It looks to me like [@placeholder] is protecting one of his own.' | By Associated Press and Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 10:24 EST, 13 March 2013 | UPDATED: 14:52 EST, 13 March 2013 A woman who claims she was sexually assaulted by an Air Force combat pilot says she is 'absolutely stunned' after a top military commander reversed a conviction against her alleged assailant. Air Force Lt. Gen. Craig Franklin reversed a jury's sexual assault conviction against Lt. Col. James Wilkerson after reviewing the case over a three-week period and concluding 'that the entire body of evidence was insufficient to meet the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.' Wilkerson had been sentenced to one year in prison and he was dismissed from the service.
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Lt Gen Craig Franklin overturned a November conviction against Lt Col James Wilkerson, a former Air Force inspector general
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Kimberly Hanks, the alleged victim, says she was 'absolutely stunned' by the reversal
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Figures for 2012 show there were nearly 800 reports of cases ranging from inappropriate touching to rape - up 30 per cent from 2011 | 15,692 | record_train |
Despite these statements of breadth, @placeholder was practically the only act in town this week. | Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) -- Google doesn't have a booth at the Consumer Electronics Show, but the company's Android software is practically everywhere. As expected, smartphones maintain a major presence at CES. Despite Microsoft and Research in Motion showcasing their wares, the announcements and excitement is all around Google's Android. Every new 4G smartphone and tablet announced by the four major cellular carriers at or during CES runs on Android. Verizon Wireless showcased four smartphones at a news event on Thursday -- LG's Revolution, HTC's Thunderbolt, Motorola's Droid Bionic and a yet-to-be-named offering from Samsung. Touch-screen tablets were also on display with Samsung's Galaxy Tab and Motorola's Xoom.
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Google doesn't have a booth at CES, but its mobile products are practically everywhere
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During carriers' 4G phone and tablet announcements, only Androids were there
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Smartphone makers like Android because it's free for them to use | 15,693 | record_train |
@placeholder began his regular briefing more than an hour after its originally scheduled starting time. | In a tense standoff with an increasingly impatient White House press corps, President Obama's chief spokesman refused to answer a yes-or-no question about whether the president still has 'confidence' in Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki. During a press briefing on May 19, Jay Carney stated flatly that 'the president has confidence in Secretary Shinseki.' But on Thursday he dodged a point-blank dare to repeat that endorsement. And he calmly offered a contradictory set of guidelines about actions the VA and the White House should take in response to the brewing veterans' health care scandal. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO YES OR NO? White House press secretary Jay Carney ducked and dodged questions about VA Secretary Eric Shinseki's job security, refusing to repeat assurances from ten days ago about President Obama's confidence in the decorated war hero
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White House press secretary balks at 'simple yes-or-no question'
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Ten days ago he told reporters that 'the president has confidence in Secretary Shinseki'
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But now the VA secretary is reportedly on 'probation' and Carney won't say Obama is prepared to keep him
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Carney also insisted that the VA 'should not and must not wait for the current investigation of VA operations to conclude' before fixing things
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But in the same breath, he said Obama will wait until two separate investigations are over before deciding what to do
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There's an outside chance the president could act this weekend after Shinseki delivers his internal report on the crisis to the White House | 15,694 | record_train |
John O'Shea equalises for Ireland in the fourth minute of injury time in their qualifier against @placeholder | Germany are in crisis. Just three months after winning the World Cup in Brazil, Joachim Low’s team are already floundering in their Euro 2016 qualifying group. With one win and one draw from their opening three games, the team have recorded the worst start to a qualifying campaign ever from a German or West German side. Even the scrappy victory against Scotland was hardly anything to cheer about, while defeat to Poland and a shock to draw to the Republic of Ireland on Tuesday evening have firmly knocked the wind out of German sails. The German media are already restless. Tagesspiegel joked that Gibraltar, one of Germany’s next opponents, would be planning for victory. Bild, meanwhile, were asking: 'how bad is the atmosphere among our World Cup winners? '.
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Germany are floundering in their Euro 2016 qualifying campaign
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They have tasted victory only once in their opening three matches
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John O'Shea scored an injury-time equaliser for Ireland on Tuesday night
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German supporters are shocked and confused, but still believe manager Joachim Low is the right man to get the country back on track | 15,695 | record_train |
If the eight-state pickup margin holds, the @placeholder will have gained a national gubernatorial majority plus five. | (CNN) -- Republicans appear to have regained the majority of U.S. governorships, capturing 10 in states where the previous executives were Democrats, according to CNN projections of exit poll data. But Democrats scored two takeaways Tuesday night, including in California, where CNN projected that Jerry Brown will defeat Republican Meg Whitman for the governorship now held by Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is stepping down under term limits. The other takeaway states were Hawaii and Vermont. GOP women made major inroads, as New Mexico's Susana Martinez, South Carolina's Nikki Haley and Oklahoma's Mary Fallin all defeated their Democratic opponents. A widely publicized battle in New York ended with a projected Democratic victory as state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo slid past Republican favorite Carl Paladino, according to CNN analysis of exit poll data.
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NEW: Republican Paul LePage has narrow win in Maine
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Republicans have knocked Democrats out of 10 governorships so far
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Democrats score two takeaways from GOP in California and Hawaii
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Republican Susana Martinez wins in New Mexico | 15,696 | record_train |
@placeholder represents 95 percent of BA's 15,000 cabin crew members, but not all of them plan to strike. | London, England (CNN) -- British Airways cabin crew members went on strike Saturday, leaving thousands of would-be passengers' travel plans during the next two weeks in disarray. The strike came after British Airways Chief Executive Willie Walsh and the joint general secretary of the Unite union, Tony Woodley, emerged Friday from a meeting and announced the effort to avert the walkout had failed. "This company does not want to negotiate," Woodley said of British Airways. "This company wants ultimately to go to war with my members and the union." Walsh said he "deeply regrets" the inconvenience the strikes will cause to passengers but said the company will still try to operate as many flights as possible. "I am disappointed the union has not been able to see the sense of the proposal we tabled today," Walsh said.
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NEW: British Airways posts lists on its Web site of flights it plans to operate
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Besides three-day strike, Unite to strike for four more days beginning March 27
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Unite: Plans call for longer working hours, cut staff
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BA chief: Contingency plan will try to get customers to destinations | 15,697 | record_train |
The @placeholder report said the number of initial claims the VA annually completes has increased from the 1999 to 2008 fiscal years. | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Veterans Administration's handling of disability claims has seen improvements and setbacks, a congressional watchdog said Wednesday. Sen. Daniel Akaka says, "Our goal is to provide veterans with accurate and timely resolution to their cases." "Over the past several years, VA disability claims workloads at both the initial and appellate levels have improved in some areas and worsened in others," the Government Accountability Office said in a report. The Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee asked the GAO to present its preliminary findings on the processing of disability claims, which were under discussion at a committee hearing. "Our goal is to provide veterans with accurate and timely resolution to their cases," said Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, the committee's chairman.
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VA's handling of disability claims has seen improvements, setbacks, review finds
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Government Accountability Office presents findings at Senate panel hearing
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Number of pending claims at year's end has grown, GAO report says
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Report: Larger staff has led to increase in number of decisions VA issues annually | 15,698 | record_train |
@placeholder is writing the name in Arabic in a way that makes clear it is not the offensive word. | Abu Dhabi, UAE (CNN) -- France's new Socialist government is already causing ripples throughout a Europe struggling to balance government budgets without making ordinary people's lives miserable, but it has created a completely different problem in the Middle East. The prime minister's last name, it turns out, sounds like an Arabic slang word for penis. His name is Jean-Marc Ayrault. Pronounced properly in French, the last name is very much like a moderately rude Lebanese and Palestinian term that is widely understood in the Arabic world. The name has left broadcasters trying to determine if they should pronounce it as the prime minister does -- "ai-roh" -- or if they should resort to voicing the "L" and "T" in the written word.
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Jean-Marc Ayrault's last name sounds like a rude word in Arabic slang
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Arab broadcasters are trying to figure out how to handle the name on air
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We "have to deal with it" and be professional, an Al-Arabiya editor says | 15,699 | record_train |
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