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Both Facebook and Twitter were gaining a nascent foothold in @placeholder with their ground-breaking services when an uneasy Beijing abruptly blocked their sites in 2009. | Shanghai (CNN) -- One of the key issues the next generation of China's leaders will have to consider when they take the reins in November is whether to let social media continue to develop as an increasingly important force in shaping government policy. Early signs are strong that Beijing will encourage or at least tolerate the growth of microblogging sites like Sina Weibo, and instant messaging services like Tencent WeChat, which have been allowed to develop relatively unfettered despite their potential to become breeding grounds for critical public debate over social issues. Beijing is quickly realizing these fast-developing social media can be an important way to get public feedback on social issues as China goes through a wide range of growing pains in its transformation from a planned to a more market-oriented economy.
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Beijing blows hot and cold on social media and its role as a forum for public debate
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Home-grown sites like Weibo are valued as a controllable tool
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Facebook, Twitter remain blocked amid fears they could become hotbeds of dissent
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Current atmosphere of relative tolerance is likely to continue under China's new leaders | 54,300 | record_train |
For most of us, particularly those of us who want to know as little as possible about technology in order to use it, @placeholder has been a perfect answer. | (CNN) -- When does a cult become a religion? When the cult leader dies. Only then do L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics practitioners become the religion of Scientology, the followers of Joseph Smith become full-fledged Mormons, or -- by the same logic -- a few anti-establishment apostles become Christianity. What then of the cult of Apple after the death of its own leader, Steve Jobs? I like Apple products as much as any user, and respect the contributions that Apple under Jobs' leadership made to the co-evolution of human beings and their technologies. But all along I have also been aware of the closed nature of Apple technologies, as well as the leap of faith that has been required to accept Jobs' promise that doing things in some new way will be "fantastic." Without Jobs telling us to cross the chasm, will we continue to embrace each of Apple's future revolutions in hardware, software or both?
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Douglas Rushkoff: Now that Steve Jobs is dead, will cult of Apple endure?
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He says Jobs guided many into digital society with user-friendly computers
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He says Jobs told users what they did and didn't need; they trusted his judgment
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Rushkoff: As consumers rely on their own judgment, not Jobs', will they stay with Apple? | 54,301 | record_train |
@placeholder has announced a memorial service for Le on October 12. | (CNN) -- The suspect in the killing of Yale pharmacology graduate student Annie Le appeared in court in New Haven, Connecticut, Tuesday, but did not enter a plea, his attorney told CNN. Raymond J. Clark III appears in court Tuesday in New Haven, Connecticut, where he is charged with murder. Raymond Clark III, 24, a lab technician at Yale, is charged with murder in Le's death. Tuesday's scheduled hearing was continued until October 20. It is standard procedure for defendants in murder cases not to enter a plea until a later stage in the case, public defender Beth Merkin told CNN. Clark eventually will plead not guilty, she said.
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NEW: Yale employee Raymond Clark defers plea, attorney says
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NEW: Deferring plea is common practice in similar cases, lawyer says
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Clark and victim Annie Le were co-workers at university laboratory
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Le's body was found in wall of lab building on day she was to be married | 54,302 | record_train |
Read more: @placeholder vows to halt jihadist charge in Mali | (CNN) -- As Islamists in northern Mali threatened to "open the gates of hell," the United States is navigating one tricky quandary: how does it help in the battle against the militants without violating its own policy? U.S. policy prohibits direct military aid to Mali because the fledgling government is a result of a coup. Read more: Panetta: U.S. could provide logistical, intel support in Mali No support can go to the Malian military directly until leaders are elected through an election, said Victoria Nuland, the State Department spokeswoman. "We are not in a position to train the Malian military until we have democracy restored," she said this week.
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NEW: By fighting in Mali, "France is ... opening the gates of hell," Islamist leader says
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NEW: Islamist group says it's "excited," would welcome U.S. troops on the ground
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U.S. law forbids direct military aid because Mali's government seized power in a coup
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French troops are spearheading an effort to flush out the militants | 54,303 | record_train |
Under the weight of sanctions and the threat of war, Iran's leaders agree to a softened version of the @placeholder demands. | (CNN) -- It's been almost a decade since the United States accused Iran of actively working on a secret program to develop nuclear weapons. Since then, Iran has steadfastly proclaimed to a skeptical world that it only seeks to produce nuclear energy, while American presidents have repeatedly warned that the United States will not tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran. Over the years, the international community has demanded, to no avail, that Tehran end its uranium enrichment program. Iran's defiance, coupled with its threats to destroy Israel, have led Israel to consider the option of a pre-emptive strike. World powers have repeated their preference for a diplomatic solution reached through "sustained dialogue" as the possibility of negotiations surfaces once again. The statement came after Iran indicated it might let U.N. inspectors visit the military facility at Parchin, from which it had recently blocked them. But negotiations have failed many times without slowing Iran's enrichment activities.
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Israel is considering military option because of Iran's nuclear aspirations
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Frida Ghitis: No one knows how the standoff over Iran's nuclear program will unfold
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She lists several possible scenarios about how tensions will play out
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Ghitis: War may be avoided if Iran believes an attack from the West is a real possibility | 54,304 | record_train |
Officers recovered the pistol, which he had stolen from his step-father during a violent robbery in @placeholder. | Alert: Gregory Lewis fled his $1,000 bail in September and is suspected of at least six more violent sexual assaults across the country since The nationwide manhunt for a child rape suspect has come to a dramatic end after he was arrested in Upstate New York Tuesday night after crashing his Jeep into the Hudson River following a police chase. Gregory Lewis, 26, spent more than a month on the run after cutting off his GPS minoring bracelet in Massachusetts and fleeing across the country. Now, police reveal, he vowed to murder the 13-year-old girl who first accused him of sexually assaulting her.
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Gregory Lewis, 26, was arrested Tuesday in Fort Edward, New York, following a police chase that caused him to crash his Jeep into the river
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He pulled a gun on a witness who came over to help him as he fled his sinking car
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He was tracked and subdued by a police dog after a 20-minute search
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He has fled Massachusetts on September 15 after cutting off his ankle bracelet while free on bail for raping a 13-year-old girl
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Stole his step-father's Jeep Cherokee, his handgun and 200 rounds
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Is suspected of conducting a cross-country raping spree | 54,305 | record_train |
'When I left the hotel I was thinking there is something strange,' Mr @placeholder told police. | This the final photograph of poisoned spy Alexander Litvinenko, taken as he was dying in hospital shortly before he lost consciousness for the last time. The public inquiry into his death heard today that Mr Litvinenko agreed to have pictures taken during his final days, so that the world could see how 'he was poisoned by the Kremlin'. His friend Alex Goldfarb told the hearing that the image, which shows him gaunt and obviously gravely ill, was the last ever taken before he died from radiation poisoning at University College Hospital. The inquiry was also told Mr Litvinenko had a 'feeling' that two Russian men were planning to murder him during the meeting in which he drank tea laced with plutonium.
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Alexander Litvinenko drank tea laced with polonium while meeting Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun at a London hotel
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Fell ill later that day and died of radiation poisoning three weeks later
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He later told police 'I knew they wanted to kill me' as soon as he left hotel
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Two Russians have refused to give evidence to public inquiry
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Litvinenko fled his home country in 2000 and became leading Putin critic
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Boris Berezovsky gave money to the family but cut the amount after Litvinenko started working for MI6, hearing is told | 54,306 | record_train |
The population of @placeholder has more than halved in the UK since the mid-1980s and the breeding numbers in Scotland have declined by almost two-thirds. | By Kerry Mcqueeney PUBLISHED: 04:07 EST, 23 August 2012 | UPDATED: 05:11 EST, 23 August 2012 Numbers of a British seabird have fallen so low that experts fear the breed could soon become the first victim of climate change. One breeding colony of the Kittiwake in Scotland is now extinct and others are predicted to disappear within three years, according to wildlife experts. The sea bird, one of the most abundant in the world, is disappearing at an 'alarming' rate, the Royal Protection for the Society of Birds (RSPB) said. End of the road? Experts say the Kittiwake sea bird could face extinction in Scotland within three years
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Scotland's 'seabird cities' in Orkney see a 'staggering' 82 per cent decline in breeding pairs over last decade
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Orkney population fell from 11,000 pairs in 2000 to under 2,000 this year
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Experts say altered marine environment related to climate is to blame, with the North Sea's food chain profoundly affected | 54,307 | record_train |
@placeholder has a population of 65 million, including an estimated four | By Matt Blake PUBLISHED: 11:50 EST, 29 October 2012 | UPDATED: 11:51 EST, 29 October 2012 Hackers have attacked the French Euromillions website, branding it 'the devil's work' and replacing lottery-related information with verses from the Koran. A group, which called itself 'Morrocanghost', infiltrated the site on Sunday morning, forcing French operators La Francaise des Jeux (FDJ) to close it down. In a series of messages, in both French and Arabic, the hackers urged users to give up drinking and gambling because they are tools used by the Devil to 'sow hatred between yourselves and turn you away from God and prayer'.
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A group, which called itself 'Morrocanghost', infiltrated the site on Sunday morning
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French operators La Francaise des Jeux were forced to close it down
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Messages urge users to give up drinking and gambling because they are tools used by the Devil
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'Oh you believers. Wine, games of chance, statues all augur impurity and are the work of the devil' | 54,308 | record_train |
@placeholder also said 77 of its personnel were injured, while the provincial government said only 10 people were injured. | (CNN) -- All 77 NATO service members wounded in a Saturday attack against a coalition base in Afghanistan are U.S. troops, a spokeswoman for the International Security Assistance Force said Sunday. Two Afghan civilians were killed and 25 others also were wounded in the attack, which occurred on the eve of the 10th anniversary of al Qaeda's attack on the United States on 9/11, U.S. Army Sgt. Lindsey Kibler said. None of the injuries is life-threatening, ISAF said, and those wounded are expected to return to duties "shortly." The truck bombing took place in the central-east province of Wardak, and those killed were Afghan laborers, said Shahidullah Shahid, the Wardak governor's spokesman.
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NEW: All of the injured troops are Americans, an ISAF official says
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At least two Afghan civilians are killed in the attack
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Gen. John R. Allen: The attack says more about what the Taliban cannot do
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"Their only ability to influence the battlefield" is often to go for a high-profile attack, he says | 54,309 | record_train |
For this week's "@placeholder," producers put down their expensive professional cameras and shot the episode with iPhones and other Apple devices. | If you're reading this article while instant-messaging a friend and getting ready to Skype your mom, the latest episode of Modern Family will really strike a chord. The episode of the hit-comedy, which aired on Wednesday night, was shot completely using iPhones, iPads, and Macbook pros to show how relatives today stay in touch with the help of their high-tech devices. Show producer Steve Levitan says he got the idea for the episode while talking to one of his college-aged daughters on FaceTime. Innovative: Wednesday night's episode of Modern Family was shot completely on Apple devices (cast member Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who plays Mitchell Pritchett is pictured)
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Wednesday night's episode takes place on Dunphy family matriarch Claire's laptop, as she talks to relatives via video messaging
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Show producor Steven Levitan got the idea for the episode while speaking with his college-aged daughter on Facetime
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Episode 'Connection Lost' was shot entirely on iPhones, iPads, and Macbook pros - but Levitan says it's not Apple product placement
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Will air on ABC at 9pm ET/PT | 54,310 | record_train |
"By @placeholder, these girls will not leave our hands until you release our brothers in your prison," he said. | The girls sit quietly on the ground, dressed in traditional Islamic garb, barely moving, clearly scared. "Praise be to Allah, the lord of the world," they chant. The video, released by French news agency Agence France-Presse, purports to show about 100 of the 276 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram fighters nearly a month ago. It's the first time they've been seen since their abduction April 14. In separate shots included in the 27-minute video, a man says he will release the girls only after imprisoned members of Boko Haram are freed, according to AFP. The man identifies himself as Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau. Nigerian officials disputed that claim on Monday, arguing that Shekau is dead. Other experts say the notorious terror group leader is still alive.
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The United States sends surveillance planes, satellite images to help search
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All options are on the table to gain release of abducted girls, official says
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The comments come after Boko Haram video claims to show some of the girls
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Man thought to be Boko Haram leader says he'll exchange the girls for prisoners | 54,311 | record_train |
The couple are biking enthusiasts who both work in cycle stores in the Bay Area of @placeholder. | A California couple thought to be missing for a month during a trip to Peru have been located aboard a boat - and they didn't even know their families had been looking for them. Jamie Neal, 25, and Garrett Hand, 27, from California’s Bay Area, left for Peru in December for a South America bike trip, and had not been in contact with friends and relatives since late January. The couple was found on a boat that was traveling along the Navos River. Found: Jamie Neal (right), 27, and her boyfriend Garrett Hand, 25, had been missing since January 26 in Peru, but have now been located on a boat
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Jamie Neal, 27, and her boyfriend 25-year-old Garrett Hand, from San Francisco, last seen getting into a cab in Lima on January 26
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The couple had been regularly updating family with pictures on Facebook but have not posted for four weeks
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U.S. Embassy had issued alert for travelers over threat of kidnapping in Cusco and Machu Picchu area this month | 54,312 | record_train |
Well-wishers flocked to his home in @placeholder to leave flowers and cards, as his family mourned inside. | Despite knowing he was dying, Steve Jobs worked for more than a year on the products that he believed would safeguard the company's future. It was also revealed today that Jobs fought hard to get plans approved for a spaceship-style company headquarters in California. It will be big enough to hold 12,000 employees in a park-like setting near the existing base in Cupertino. He appeared at a town council meeting in June to plead for the planning go ahead. Visionary: Steve Jobs introducing the iPad2 in San Francisco on March 2 this year Jobs had a part-time job working for Hewlett Packard at the site when he was 13 and he ensured Apple bought the land when it became available.
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Blueprints for new iPod, iPad, iPhone and MacBooks in place
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Permission for futuristic new Apple headquarters secured by Jobs in June | 54,313 | record_train |
To calculate affordability, @placeholder worked out what the median household income needed to make a monthly payment on a median-priced home. | Brooklyn is the least-affordable housing market in America, where residents would need to spend 98 per cent of the average income to buy a median-priced home of $615,000. One in five U.S. housing markets are now less affordable than they were more than a decade ago, according to a recent study, and Brooklyn is the the most unaffordable, followed by San Francisco and Manhatten. According to a study of 475 countires by RealtyTrac through October, 98 areas weren't as affordable compared with the average level for the period starting in January 2000 Brooklyn, pictured above, is the least-affordable housing market in America, where residents would need to spent 98 per cent of the average income to buy a median-priced home of $615,000
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Brooklyn is the most unafforable market, followed by Manhattan
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New Yorkers priced out of Manhattan are said to be driving up prices
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As are investors and foreign buyers, as residents continue to rent
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In October the median rent in Brooklyn was $2,858, up 6 per cent on 2013 | 54,314 | record_train |
Carlos Vela punches the air after scoring his side's opening goal in their La Liga clash against @placeholder | Former Arsenal striker Carlos Vela made sure David Moyes’ reign at Anoeta started in style scoring a hat-trick in Real Sociedad’s 3-0 win over Elche. Despite the best efforts of fussy referee Carlos Velasco, Moyes picked up his first win and it was largely thanks to the Mexican international who scored twice in the first half and then again after the break to help Real Sociedad move away from the La Liga drop zone. Vela had the ball in the net inside three minutes when Sergio Canales tricked his way down the right and rolled the ball into Carlos Martinez’ path. The right back crossed to Real Sociedad’s leading scoring and he scored with a powerful header.
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David Moyes secured a win in his first home game in charge of Real Sociedad
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The former Manchester United manager led his side to a comfortable 3-0 win against Elche
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Former Arsenal forward Carlos Vela scored a superb hat-trick in just 53 minutes to give the hosts victory
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It was only the second win in 11 league matches for the struggling La Liga outfit | 54,315 | record_train |
Police arrested Dr @placeholder after the attack and a grand jury indicted him on one count of attempted aggravated murder, one count of attempted murder, two counts of kidnapping and two counts of felonious assault. | By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 12:54 EST, 12 September 2013 | UPDATED: 13:16 EST, 12 September 2013 A renowned doctor has been accused of trying to beat his neurosurgeon son-in-law to death with a pry bar outside his home as he went through a bitter divorce with his daughter. Dr Georges Bensimhon, 66, an anesthesiologist from Allentown, Pennsylvania, allegedly drove six hours through the night to Dr Seth Alan Hoffer's Cleveland Heights, Ohio home to attack him. Once there, he hid in bushes outside the home and when Dr Hoffer emerged just before 6am, the older doctor allegedly pounced on him.
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Dr Georges Bensimhon 'drove six hours to his son-in-law's home, put on a mask and hid in the bushes before attacking him with a pry bar'
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But Dr Alan Hoffer, 39, fought back and broke his father-in-law's arm
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He only realized who masked attacker was when Bensimhon shouted: 'Alan, get off of me! I can't breathe!'
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Dr Hoffer is in a bitter custody battle with Bensimhon's daughter | 54,316 | record_train |
President @placeholder and I were able to work on international financial crises, national security issues and other pressing topics no matter what political fights we were in. | (CNN) -- Friday's White House meeting with congressional leaders is a timid first step by President Obama toward learning to work effectively with a Congress that will now be controlled by Republicans. It will not be easy, judging from President Obama's and Sen. Mitch McConnell's post-election press conferences on Wednesday. Obama and McConnell both talked about cooperation. But both also were very confrontational about the possibility of the President issuing executive orders on immigration (McConnell appropriately so given the lawless and unprecedented nature of what the President is contemplating). President Obama's press conference was almost two different events. One was conciliatory and suggested to the voters, "I hear you." The other was confrontational and almost hostile, asserting that he will do what he wants through executive action unless Republicans give him exactly what he wants through legislation.
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Newt Gingrich: Obama meets with congressional leaders Friday but that won't tell the tale
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Obama, McConnell both took some confrontational stances in press conferences, he says
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Gingrich: President should meet with GOP leaders privately on a regular basis
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Former speaker says he and President Clinton found a way to overcome obstacles | 54,317 | record_train |
Excitement: Like @placeholder in Brazil, Charles was greeted by excited crowds all over Mexico during his third visit | Prince Charles is to spearhead the Government’s war on drugs when he visits Colombia later this month. The Foreign Office has asked the Prince and the Duchess of Cornwall to visit the South American country, one of the world’s largest producers of cocaine, to strengthen ‘co-operation in the fight against drugs and crime’ as well as expand trade links. During his four-day stay Charles will discuss co-operation between drug agencies in Columbia and the UK with President Juan Manuel Santos Calderon. Off to Mexico: Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall will visit Mexico and Colombia later this month The Prince and the Duchess will then fly on to Mexico, where they will visit four cities and stop off at the Museo del Paste – or Pasty Museum – in Real del Monte, which celebrates the Cornish delicacy bought to the country in the 1820s by Cornish tin miners.
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The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall will visit Colombia
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Charles is to spearhead the Government’s war on drugs during the trip
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He will discuss co-operation between drug agencies with President
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Clarence House said the couple will then fly on to Mexico for a few days
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This comes hot on the heels of Prince Harry's successful trip to Brazil | 54,318 | record_train |
@placeholder released a statement after the settlement was reached, in which she said 'This book was riddled with incorrect facts about my family — facts that could have been easily checked but were not.' | Schapelle Corby's siblings will be awarded over $300,000 as part of their defamation court case against the author and publisher of Sins Of The Father. Publishing company Allen and Unwin reached a settlement with the Corby family, Fairfax reports, in which Mercedes Corby will be awarded $175,000 and her brother Michael Corby junior will receive $150,000. The book, which was written by journalist Eamonn Duff and released in 2011, delves into the life of Schapelle and her family, including her father who died of cancer. Schapelle Corby's siblings, including Mercedes Corby (pictured) will be awarded over $300,000 for their defamation case against Allen and Unwin and writer Eamonn Duff
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Schapelle Corby's sister Mercedes received $175,00 in the settlement
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Her brother, Michael Corby junior, will receive $150,000
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The family sued publisher Allen and Unwin and author Eamonn Duff over the novel Sins Of The Father
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The book claimed Schapelle and her deceased father were involved in drug smuggling and breached copyright by publishing family photos | 54,319 | record_train |
Once constructed, Hakkens hopes that the Phonebloks handset will be built from components that can be 'clicked' together like @placeholder. | London, England (CNN) -- What if you could buy a smartphone that would last you for the rest of your life? This is the dream of Dutch designer Dave Hakkens, whose 'Phonebloks' concept has captured the public imagination and received celebrity endorsement from the most unexpected quarters. Phonebloks is a radical cell phone idea that aims to dramatically reduce global electronic waste ('e-waste') by offering users the opportunity to upgrade parts -- or bloks -- of their cell phone rather than having to replace the entire device. Hakkens says that he came up with Phonebloks as a response to the accelerating pace of technological waste: "I don't like the direction electronics are heading. They get more disposable and get a shorter life with every model. This gives a lot of e-waste."
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Phonebloks concept aims to reduce global e-waste
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The invention will 'click together' like Lego
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Global e-waste amounts to between 20 and 50 million tonnes a year
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Critics argue that modular phones could increase e-waste rather than reducing it | 54,320 | record_train |
After the economic crisis, they came to @placeholder in 2012 so he could find new work and moved to their current home in September 2013. | By David Wilkes A Romanian family of 17 is collecting more than £55,000 a year in state benefits – nearly three times as much as the father earns. Mihal Toma and his wife would require a pre-tax income of around £125,000 a year to maintain the same standard of living for their brood. His wages of £1,800 a month as an electrician and the fact that they have 15 children mean they qualify for a raft of benefits which they say total £55,200. Scroll down for video Place to live: Parents Mihai and Veronica Toma (pictured standing with youngest child Elizabeth) reportedly 'lied' to get a three bedroom house in Harrow, north-west London. Pictured from the left, back row, are: Andreia, 17, Ionut, 16, Daniela, 19. Middle row: Cristina, 11, Beniamin, four, Ana Maria, 15, Filip Elisei, two, Miriam, eight, and Iona, 13. Front row: Magdalena, 10, holding David, one, Iosif, six, Naomi, five. Mara, 19, is not in the picture
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Toma family arrived in Britain from Romania in 2012 'for a better life'
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Family of 17 struggled to find letting agents who would accept them
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They then told a landlord, there were only six family members
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Electrician father Mihai reportedly earns £1,800 a month
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They say they get £4,600 in monthly benefits due to the number of children
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Tomas want a bigger house, but councils says they are not eligible | 54,321 | record_train |
He and @placeholder have been seen together at black-tie events around the country over the past few months. | PUBLISHED: 08:58 EST, 17 July 2013 | UPDATED: 12:29 EST, 17 July 2013 Reverend Al Sharpton has been seen with an attractive young woman on his arm at various recent events and according to the woman herself, they're dating. Sharpton, 58, attended the New York County Democratic Committee Award Ceremony on Monday night accompanied by Aisha McShaw, a 35-year-old from Westchester, New York. It's the first relationship Sharpton has made public since the demise of his 24-year marriage to Kathy Jordan in 2004. New couple: Sharpton and McShaw were pictured together in February this year McShaw told reporters at Monday's event that she is a 'personal stylist'.
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Sharpton, 58, has been seeing 35-year-old Aisha McShaw
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McShaw told reporters that she is Sharpton's girlfriend at an event on Monday
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The activist and preacher was divorced in 2004 | 54,322 | record_train |
But it is with @placeholder that St Nicholas is indelibly associated, his image having morphed into that of the white-bearded, red-suited Father Christmas. | By Amanda Williams PUBLISHED: 06:52 EST, 12 December 2013 | UPDATED: 09:51 EST, 12 December 2013 Rev Simon Tatton-Brown, 65, questioned the existence of Santa in a special Christmas assembly A vicar has been forced to apologise after he told children at a primary school that Father Christmas doesn't exist and instead told them the gruesome tale of St Nicholas. Rev Simon Tatton-Brown, 65, questioned the existence of Santa in a special Christmas assembly and then went on to add that the kindly character was in fact based on a gory legend about the saint, who brought three murdered children back to life
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Rev Simon Tatton-Brown, 65, questioned existence of Santa in assembly
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Told pupils gory tale of St Nick - involving murdered and pickled children
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Parents have since complained after children came home 'crying'
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Vica at St Andrew's Church, Chippenham, since apologised for any upset | 54,323 | record_train |
"Our group has spread to other areas of @placeholder, and we've experienced great success because many people have come to know about us," Ruziga says. | MBOLA, Tanzania (CNN) -- Moved by a 2007 trip to Ghana, singer/songwriter John Legend joined the fight to end extreme poverty in his lifetime. And based on his experiences in poor, rural areas of Africa, he says, real change is possible. John Legend says "Mama" Mwadawa Ruziga's role in uplifting her community inspired him. "I don't want people to only see Africa as a bunch of victims," Legend says. "The people that I've come across in these extremely impoverished villages, they want to work. They want to participate in their own development." To help people lift themselves out of poverty, Legend founded the Show Me Campaign, named after one of his songs. Partnering with economist Jeffrey Sachs' Millennium Promise organization, Legend's group adopted Mbola, a remote village in Tanzania that has little access to drinking water and improved farming techniques, according to Millennium Promise.
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Legend's hero, "Mama" Mwadawa Ruziga, is lifting herself and others from poverty
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They met when the singer/songwriter visited Tanzania on an anti-poverty campaign
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Ruziga leads a business collective that makes products from local fruits, sells them
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This is the first time some members of her group have ever earned an income | 54,324 | record_train |
More chillingly, some have printed images of @placeholder with a single, bloody bullet wound through his forehead, while others have printed swastikas onto the Russian flag. | Russian president Vladimir Putin is despised so much in one Ukrainian city that his picture is regularly melded with an image of Hitler and printed onto products which allow locals to urinate and wipe their bottoms on his face. Adding the Nazi leader's distinctive moustache and side parting to a picture of Putin's face, the image has been posted onto urinals and printed onto toilet paper. Cheeky market stall holders in the pro-European city of Lviv have also printed the image onto T-shirts and bags and all sorts of other paraphernalia. A young girl carries a bag with an image depicting Putin as the new Hitler, complete with the Nazi dictator's iconic moustache and side parting. A range of similar items are available on market stalls in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, where hatred of the Russian leader is high due to his support for separatist rebels in the east of the country
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Stall holders add Nazi leader's distinctive moustache and side parting to image of Putin in the city of Lviv
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Russia's annexation of Crimea is compared with Hitler's annexation of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia
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Hatred for the Russian leader is high due to his support for pro-Moscow rebels in the east | 54,325 | record_train |
But when he reaches the company — through the switchboard — the operator tells him that no one by that name works at @placeholder. | (CNN) -- The co-founder of the popular social news site Reddit has called on the leaders of Google, Facebook and Twitter to help defeat a controversial cybersecurity bill that would compromise the privacy of their users if passed by lawmakers. "I'm hoping that all of these tech companies take the stand that their privacy policies matter, their users' privacy matters, and no legislation like CISPA should take that away," Alexis Ohanian, former owner of Reddit (Wired's parent company Conde Nast currently owns Reddit), said in a video posted last week. "If someone wants access to our private home or to our mail we would say, Well go get a warrant. Right? CISPA basically says, uh, not necessary. Your digital privacy is irrelevant."
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Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian is calling on tech leaders to help defeat CISPA
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CISPA bill would allow government and private sector to share info about cyberattack threats
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House passed the CISPA bill last week by a vote of 288 to 127; Senate is up next
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"If Democrats had kept the @placeholder, Obama would still be doing this," Carney said about Cuba. | Washington (CNN)The lame duck is loose. Little more than two years before the moment he stands next to his successor at the presidential inauguration of 2017, President Barack Obama is feeling unshackled from the constraints of eyeing the next election cycle after last month's disastrous midterms for Democrats. Simply put, top White House officials say, the President is on a mission to get stuff done. From his dramatic decision to open up diplomatic relations with Cuba to his executive actions on immigration, Obama no longer has to worry about the hand-wringing of endangered Senate Democrats concerned with reelection. "I think it's absolutely true," former White House press secretary and CNN political contributor Jay Carney said. "Having lost (the Senate), it does provide some liberation to him."
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President Barack Obama, freed from the burden of further elections, is hoping to get things done
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to protect the 1,200 Al-Ahly fans when 13,000 @placeholder hooligans armed | By Adam Shergold PUBLISHED: 07:31 EST, 26 January 2013 | UPDATED: 09:44 EST, 26 January 2013 A court in Egypt sentenced 21 people to death today for their involvement in a riot at a football match between Al-Masry and Al-Ahly last February. 74 spectators died in the world's worst football-related disaster in 15 years, when fans of Cairo-based Al-Ahly were attacked by rival club Al-Masry in the Mediterranean city of Port Said. Violence erupted moments after the final whistle when the home Al-Masry fans set upon travelling supporters in a killing frenzy that lasted 30 minutes. Many witnesses claimed policemen at the venue did nothing to stop the bloodshed.
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Families of those sentenced tried to storm jail in Port Said to free prisoners
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Two police officers and six protestors killed, according to reports
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Violence broke out during match between Al-Masry and Al-Ahly last February
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Another 52 defendants are due to be sentenced at a later date
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"Made in USA, made in @placeholder," several of the young men yelled. | (CNN) -- Amnesty International is demanding the United States stop allowing the export of arms and riot-control material to Egypt, where security forces have cracked down on protests. "U.S. arms shipments to Egypt's security forces must be stopped until there is certainty that tear gas and other munitions, weaponry or other equipment aren't linked to bloodshed on Egyptian streets," Amnesty's Brian Wood, who monitors conventional weapons and arms control, said Wednesday. An American company shipped supplies that feature chemical irritants and riot control agents, Amnesty International said in its statement, with arrival on November 26. The organization said another shipment in August had the "product code of bullets, cartridges and shells, but the latter was also described as 'ammunition smoke,'" which Amnesty said includes tear gas.
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Rights group wants to ensure the material is not linked to "bloodshed" in Egypt
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The @placeholder were running low on ammunition, and some of them were so badly wounded they were unable to move, Stafford said. | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A soldier who survived a Taliban attack that killed nine U.S. troops in Afghanistan last month described a scene of "pure chaos" in which he watched buddies die. Army Spc. Tyler Stafford is recovering from wounds he suffered in the July 13 attack. Army Spc. Tyler Stafford and fellow soldiers in the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team were establishing an outpost near the village of Wanat when about 200 Taliban militants attacked July 13. "They had 200-plus guys all shooting at us -- I mean, pure chaos," Stafford said. "You could hear guys screaming." Nine Americans were killed and 12 -- including Stafford -- were wounded in the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan in three years. Afghan sources said that up to 100 militants were killed in the attack.
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Survivor of attack that killed nine U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan recalls "chaos"
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Army Spc. Tyler Stafford, wounded in July 13 attack, says he watched buddies die
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Soldier recalls calling out to friend during battle, not knowing friend had died
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@placeholder, likewise, reported a 45 percent uptick in seizures of coca base and a 145 percent increase in the seizure of cocaine. | UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Coca cultivation and cocaine production have decreased in Colombia but increased in Bolivia and Peru, the United Nations reported. Workers help eradicate coca plantations in northwest Colombia in May. Colombian cultivation was down 18 percent, and production decreased 28 percent in 2008, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime said in a report issued Friday. But cultivation increased 6 percent in Bolivia and 4.5 percent in Peru, the report said. Likewise, production went up 9 percent in Bolivia and 4.1 percent in Peru. "The increases for Bolivia and Peru show a trend in the wrong direction," said Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the U.N. drug office.
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Coca cultivation, cocaine production decrease in Colombia, U.N. report says
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U.N. official: "Increases for Bolivia and Peru show a trend in the wrong direction"
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But if it had not been for @placeholder, it is unlikely there would be the United we know today. | (CNN) -- Air-raid sirens haunted the night sky. It was March 11 1941 and the Luftwaffe was on the attack. There was fear, panic, death and ruin. The northern English town of Manchester was under siege; Old Trafford was under siege. With each bomb that fell upon the old stadium -- home to one of the world's most iconic clubs Manchester Untied -- a piece of James Gibson's heart was shattered. The man who had built United up from financial ruin was left facing the destruction of a decade of hard work. The grandstand was obliterated, the stadium left for ruin like an ancient battleground. This was not the Theatre of Dreams, but the Theatre of Shattered Dreams.
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James Gibson is the man credited with saving Manchester United from financial ruin
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If you want to make an offer that @placeholder won't refuse, be prepared to pony up: She's listed the house for $2,895,000. | (CNN) -- The iconic home of Vito Corleone from the 1972 classic "The Godfather" is for sale on Staten Island, New York. While broker Connie Profaci said none of the movie's scenes were shot inside the home, its sprawling 24,000 square foot property was the setting for the Mafia epic's opening, one of its most memorable scenes: As his daughter's wedding reception took place out in the yard, Don Vito -- played by Marlon Brando -- held court inside with his capos and fielded requests from wedding guests looking to have someone whacked or strong-armed. The five-bedroom English Tudor, which has changed hands only once since the movie's filming, "was gut renovated in 2012," by its current owner, according to Profaci, and now it contains such modern amenities as a "man cave," a gym, and even an English Pub.
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The Staten Island home where scenes from "The Godfather" were filmed is for sale
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The 5-bedroom English Tudor and 24,000 square foot yard are listed for nearly $3 million
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For @placeholder, she's got 15 silver aluminum tinsel trees, along with pink, teal, gold and red varieties. | (CNN) -- A California music teacher's insanely elaborate "Star Wars" themed Christmas lights show is dazzling the Internet with its lightsabers and some 100,000 lights choreographed to songs from the movies. Tom BetGeorge, whose display was featured on a recent episode of ABC's "The Great Christmas Light Fight," even made massive instruments that play real notes, according to his YouTube description. He said he uses the display to raise money for the poor and homeless through his church. There's something about Christmas that brings out people's whimsical sides. Besides BetGeorge, we've come across some men and women whose traditions were so delightful we couldn't help but wish we were spending the holiday season at their homes. Vote for your favorite at the bottom, and hear why they go to such lengths to celebrate:
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The Arsenal defender appears to fall over quite dramatically as @placeholder throws his hands into the air | CLICK HERE to read Martin Samuel's match report of Arsenal's impressive victory at the Etihad Stadium. At some point in the near future we will have to ask whether honesty is the preserve of the English game or whether we are done with beating the integrity drum. The 24th minute at the Etihad, when Nacho Monreal brushed against Vincent Kompany to prompt a slow-motion collapse inside the penalty area, seems a good place to start. Arsenal’s left back looked like a sky diver, using the friction of Kompany’s body to launch himself into the night air and executing a safe landing with some cushioned rolls. It was tempting to applaud the audacity.
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Arsenal beat Manchester City 2-0 at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday
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Santi Cazorla's penalty and Olivier Giroud's header gave Gunners victory
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Nacho Monreal appeared to go down theatrically to win Arsenal's penalty
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He also suggested the @placeholder could have use for him. | Michael Sam vowed today to help win the Super Bowl for the Dallas Cowboys - but first he has to make the team. The first openly-gay NFL player suited up with the Cowboys this afternoon after coaches picked him for the practice squad as a defensive end. He has the option to make the team if he plays well enough. The decision by one of the league's most popular teams means that Sam's dreams of football stardom get another chance after he was cut earlier this week by the St. Louis Rams. In a press conference today, Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett said: 'We feel like he has a chance to come in at a position we’ve tried to address really throughout the off-season, throughout training camp, and compete for a spot... We just want to give him a chance to come in and see if he can help our football team.'
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Sam joined the team for practice Wednesday afternoon
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The dream move to his home state comes just days after he was dropped by the St Louis Rams ahead of the football season
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Despite an impressive pre-season, Sam’s name wasn't on the roster when the Rams announced its final pick for the 2014 season
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His shock departure sparked claims the gay star was dropped due to the unwanted attention surrounding his sexuality
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@placeholder warned employees to be on guard for unsolicited requests for private and financial information. | (CNN) -- USIS, a major contractor providing background checks for the U.S. government, said Wednesday that hackers suspected to be working for a foreign government breached its computer systems. Government officials said the attackers might have stolen information belonging to U.S. government employees. The FBI is investigating, and the Department of Homeland Security said it has halted providing employee data to USIS for background checks until it can be assured the data won't be compromised. The company said in a statement that experts investigating the breach "believe it has all the markings of a state-sponsored attack." DHS spokesman Peter Boogaard said, "At this time, our forensic analysis has concluded that some DHS personnel may have been affected, and DHS has notified its entire workforce, out of an abundance of caution, to advise them to monitor their financial accounts for suspicious activity."
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USIS is a major contractor providing background checks for the U.S. government
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It said hackers breached its computer system; FBI is investigating
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USIS said experts "believe it has all the markings of a state-sponsored attack"
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Abberton, who works as an assessor for an exam board, used his @placeholder | Michael Abberton was visited by Cambridgeshire police on Saturday after a complaint about a tweet An education official was visited by police because he had upset Ukip on Twitter. Officers knocked at Michael Abberton’s door to question him about a mocked-up poster he had placed online that criticised the Eurosceptic party’s policies. They asked him about his ‘intentions toward Ukip’ and suggested he should tell no one that the visit had taken place. Mr Abberton, a Green party member, said police had overstepped the mark. The Cambridgeshire force said it had acted over a possible breach of electoral law.
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Green party member Michael Abberton posted picture about Ukip 'policies'
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The blogger was visited by two police officers after complaint was made
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Police say they were investigating possible breaches of electoral law
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This was not the first time the @placeholder military has veered across the international boundary. | By Jessica Jerreat and Rosemarie Lentini Mexican officials have denied one of their helicopters flew into Arizona on Thursday, and blamed the gunfire on the drug smugglers they were tracking. The U.S. had claimed earlier this week that the Mexican helicopter had crossed into Tucson and fired at two agents before going back across the border. A border patrol spokesman said on Friday that Mexico had called to apologize for the incident, but the country's attorney-general's office has now changed tact. Dispute: Mexico is denying claims that one of its helicopters, not pictured, crossed the U.S. border and fired near government agents on Thursday
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The Mexican chopper was involved in an anti-drug smuggling operation
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Two US agents in the Arizona desert were shot at but not injured
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In many @placeholder countries, this charge averages 10 percent, but it's usually included in the price of a meal. | (Travel + Leisure) -- You're sitting in a hip Tokyo cafe, having a fish cake and sake. Your server has been especially attentive, so when the check arrives, you think nothing of pulling out some extra yen and leaving a healthy 20 percent tip. But suddenly things go horribly wrong: the server turns wide-eyed, becomes agitated, and walks away. What happened? ! You'll likely come across more people at a hotel that need to be tipped than anywhere else as you travel. Tipping in Japan and many other Asian countries is simply not a way of life. In fact, it's usually regarded as a vulgar display of wealth and a disregard for the culture. The same can be true in Europe and Latin America ... though not always. And in the United States, of course, tipping is expected (and sometimes demanded). With expectations all over the map, it's not surprising that anxiety and confusion about whom to tip -- and how much -- are commonplace for travelers.
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Tipping conventions overseas can be vastly different from those in the United States
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More people at a hotel will potentially need to be tipped than anywhere else
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Maradona has previously called @placeholder's hold over World Cup host countries as 'ugly'. | FIFA has denied claims by Diego Maradona that officials preventing him attending Argentina's opening match of the World Cup in the Maracana. The former Argentina player and manager, who is a fierce critic of FIFA, said he was forced to watch the match against Bosnia and Herzegovina on television in his hotel room. But FIFA's head of media Delia Fischer said there had been no report to them of any incident involving Maradona, who is accredited to cover the tournament for Venezuelan TV. VIDEO: Scroll down to watch some of Diego Maradona's best-ever goals Unhappy: Diego Maradona claims he was refused entry to Argentina's game with Bosnia
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Maradona says officials stopped him entering the Maracana Stadium
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World Cup 1986 star watched second half of game from his hotel room
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Of those cleared to leave, 47 are @placeholder and will likely have to be resettled in other countries, given the security situation in their homeland. | Five men from Yemen were freed from the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after more than a dozen years of captivity. Four of the men went to Oman: Al Khadr Abdallah Muhammad Al Yafi, Fadel Hussein Saleh Hentif, Abd Al-Rahman Abdullah Au Shabati, and Mohammed Ahmed Salam. One, Akhmed Abdul Qadir, was sent to Estonia, according to a Pentagon statement. It was the first time either nation accepted Guantanamo prisoners for resettlement. Freed: Five Guantanamo Bay prisoners were freed, Akhmed Abdul Qadir (left), was sent to Estonia, Abd al Rahman Abdullah Ali Muhammad (center), Mohammed Ahmed Salam (right), Al Khadr Abdallah Muhammad Al Yafi, and Fadel Hussein Saleh Hentif (not photographed)
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Five men from Yemen were freed from the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after more than a dozen years of captivity
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Four of the men were transferred to Oman and one to Estonia, this is the first time either nation has accepted Guantanamo prisoners
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The releases take the Guantanamo population down to 122
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'The location is outstanding, it's in one of the best parts of @placeholder,' he said. | By Kate Lyons It is strewn with rubbish, the ceilings are crumbling, and the carpets have rotted away. But when this uninhabitable dump goes under the hammer tomorrow, it looks set to sell for almost $800,000, a price which could be so high due to the overheated state of the Sydney property market. The two-bedroom art deco home in Stanmore in Sydney's inner-west has already received a huge amount of interest, with more than 150 email inquiries and 127 groups at inspections. The two-bedroom house in Durham St, Stanmore looks set to sell for close to $800,000, despite the fact that it is uninhabitable in its present state
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The two-bedroom Stanmore house looks set to sell for nearly $800,000
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Realtors have already removed nine truckloads of rubbish from the house
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It is strewn with rubbish and the ceilings have collapsed
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"It has been a great experience and I have enjoyed it a lot," said 31-year-old @placeholder. | (CNN) -- New world champion Jorge Lorenzo rounded off the MotoGP season with victory in the Valencia Grand Prix to break the record for points scored in a season. The Spaniard won his ninth race of a dominant year to take his tally to 383 points, breaking the mark set by Yamaha teammate Valentino Rossi of 373. Rossi finished third in his final race for Yamaha before riding for Ducati next seaon. Casey Stoner of Australia took second after leading until eight laps to go. It was an emotional farewell to the Japanese works team for Rossi, who went into 2010 as reigning champion but saw his title chances end when he broke his leg at Mugello in mid-season.
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Jorge Lorenzo wins the Valencia Grand Prix for his ninth victory of MotoGP season
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New world champion sets record for points scored in a season of 383
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When the woman's date objected, suggesting that Mike had overstepped his bounds and should back away, @placeholder became 'aggressive,' witnesses say. | It doesn't look as though on-again off-again couple Hilary Duff and Mike Comrie will be on again any time soon after his drunken night at a famous LA eatery. And Mike wasn't out for just a night of boozing. He was looking to hook up. And he was willing to pay for it. Actress and singer Duff, 27, and former ice hockey pro Comrie, 34, announced they had split a year ago after four years of marriage, despite remaining incredibly close and committed to their son, Luca, who turns three next month. And last September the singer did a Gwyneth Paltrow and insisted: 'We're uncoupled for now...If there wasn't a chance of getting back [together], we would have filed for divorce...'
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Hilary Duff and Mike Comrie separated last year after four years of marriage. They have a son who turns three next month
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Former hockey pro Comrie was 'tipsy' when he showed up at Mastro's steakhouse in Beverly Hills without his wedding ring
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He was drinking cocktails and shots of tequila at the restaurant
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'He blatantly and repeatedly hit on his waitress,' says an eyewitness
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He reached into his wallet and pulled out what looked like hundreds of dollars
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Police discovered @placeholder's body in a wooded area near the school, covered with leaves and debris in an apparent attempt to conceal it, the court papers said. | (CNN) -- Philip Chism, 14, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to murder, aggravated rape and robbery charges in connection with the killing of his high school math teacher, Colleen Ritzer. The Massachusetts teenager is accused of killing Ritzer, 24, on October 22 in the girls' bathroom of Danvers High School with a box cutter he had taken to school. In Wednesday's Superior Court hearing, Chism -- wearing khakis, a blue sweater, a white shirt and tie -- was ordered held without bail; his next court date was set for 2 p.m. on January 30. During the 11-minute hearing, he sat quietly, his hands cuffed in front of him.
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The Massachusetts teenager is charged with murder in the death of his algebra teacher
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He is ordered held without bail
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But even as the @placeholder has been updated over the years and remains ready for launch on short notice, the items that support it have grown old. | The nuclear missiles hidden in plain view across the prairies of northwest North Dakota reveal one reason why trouble keeps finding the nuclear Air Force. The 'Big Sticks,' as some call the 60-foot (18-meter)-tall Minuteman 3 missiles, are just plain old. The Air Force asserts with pride that the missile system, more than 40 years old and designed during the Cold War to counter the now-defunct Soviet Union, is safe and secure. None has ever been used in combat or launched accidentally. But it also admits to fraying at the edges: time-worn command posts, corroded launch silos, failing support equipment and an emergency-response helicopter fleet so antiquated that a replacement was deemed 'critical' years ago.
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The Air Force asserts with pride that the missile system is safe and secure
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The helicopters used to protect nuclear bases date back to the Vietnam war
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"It's light years from what I can buy," one @placeholder said of the cell phone cost. | HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) -- Cuba will allow its citizens to stay in hotels previously reserved for foreigners, the latest in a series of decisions to lift bans on goods and services that the average Cuban can't afford. The prohibition on staying in foreigners-only hotels unnerved many Cubans, who complained that foreigners were being afforded rights that were denied to ordinary citizens. Cubans will be allowed to stay in the hotels beginning at midnight Monday, said employees at several Havana hotels. Word of the change came from Tourism Ministry officials, the employees said. For most Cubans, the measure is largely symbolic, as hotel rates are unaffordable. Tourist hotels in Cuba can cost anywhere from $60 to more than $200 a night -- well out of reach for most Cubans, who earn fewer than $20 a month on average.
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Cubans make about $20 a month on average; tourist hotels start at $60 a night
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Cubans allowed to stay in tourist hotels beginning at midnight Monday
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But so does the @placeholder, and the indications are that Mexicans who migrate to the United States face particularly poor opportunities here. | The Mexican Senate has just passed, 72-2, an 8% tax on candy, chips and other high-calorie foods. It continues to debate a special additional tax of about 8 cents per liter on sugary soda. You can understand why Mexican leaders are worried about their nation's eating habits. Mexicans consume more sugary soft drinks per person than any other people on earth. Mexico suffers the highest incidence of diabetes among the 34 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Mexicans are more likely to be obese even than Americans, the next runner-up. Taxes on junk foods constitute just a part of a vast fiscal reform proposed by Mexico's new president, Enrique Peña Nieto. The overall plan aims to rationalize tax collections, curtail tax evasion and shift Mexico away from dependence on oil revenues. That's all a topic for another day.
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David Frum: Mexican Senate passed junk food tax and is mulling a tax on sugary soda
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He says tax on junk foods is part of Mexican president's fiscal reform
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Frum says such a tax failed in Denmark, but Mexico's problem is worse and worth try anyway
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The @placeholder javelin thrower was shocked when his wedding video went viral and made headlines around the world | By Katy Winter PUBLISHED: 09:01 EST, 14 March 2014 | UPDATED: 12:09 EST, 14 March 2014 A brave bridegroom who danced for the first time on his wedding night despite losing both his legs has won a starring part on Strictly Come Dancing. Nathan Stephens, 25, amazed show organisers with his YouTube dance on his wedding night after losing both legs in a train accident when he was just nine. And now they have given him a starring role with professional Iveta Lukosiute in a Strictly special to be shown on the BBC for Sport Relief.
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Paralympian Nathan lost his legs in a train accident aged nine
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The fact the Angolan economy is the most concentrated in @placeholder also makes growth vulnerable. | (CNN) -- Ten years after the end of its civil war, Angola, which is heading to the polls Friday, has been transformed into a regional African power with a strong economy, but poverty is still widespread. Angola experienced double digit growth in GDP annually in the period 2002-2008. In the last five of these years, average annual growth was at 17%, which more than doubled the size of the economy. The country is the second largest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa, and the third biggest economy, after South Africa and Nigeria. Do these tremendous growth rates mean that Angola has escaped the so-called resource curse, where oil resources are detrimental to growth? Is Angola likely to continue growing at these fast rates, and perhaps catch up to the largest economies in the region in a few years' time? Is Angola a success in terms of development and poverty reduction?
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Oil-rich Angola is holding its second peacetime elections on Friday
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The country has experienced strong growth in the years after the end of its civil war
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religious belief, but @placeholder's co-workers perceived it as one and that's | By Rik Sharma PUBLISHED: 04:59 EST, 3 November 2012 | UPDATED: 05:46 EST, 3 November 2012 A scientist who claimed he was sacked by Nasa because he believed in intelligent design has been tentatively ruled against in court. David Coppedge was fired from the Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, because they thought he was too combative and did not keep his skills up to date. Superior Court Judge Ernest Hiroshige issued a tentative ruling on Thursday saying he was leaning toward finding in favour of the lab. Dismissed: David Coppedge has worked at the Nasa lab for 15 years
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Tentative ruling backs space organisation who fired David Coppedge because he was too combative
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Blatter has faced calls to stand down and although @placeholder is yet to declare its official position, he clearly believes they are campaigning behind the scenes to depose him. | (CNN)Sepp Blatter has issued a defiant message to his rivals for the FIFA presidency and challenged European governing body UEFA to put up a candidate of its own in the election later this year. Blatter, who is seeking a fifth term at the helm of world football's governing body, told CNN in an exclusive interview that he still had unfinished business and would not step aside without a fight. "I have to say I have not finished my mission because it's a mission to be in football. We have started in 2011 with the reform process. The reform process is not over. I would like to have these four years to finish it and to show that football is more than a game."
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Sepp Blatter seeking fifth term as FIFA president
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But there will be showers today across @placeholder, especially in the eastern side of the country. | Bitter Arctic winds could plunge parts of Britain into the coldest spell of August weather for almost a century. Thermometers are set to plummet as a stubborn band of low pressure drags air in from the north - with two weeks of wet, windy and cold weather on the horizon. There is even a chance of snow and sleet over the mountains of Scotland as it dips to near freezing overnight. Government figures show the last time it was this cold in August was in 1919 when the mercury rose no higher than 8.9C for four days in Yorkshire and Cumbria.
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Forecasters have warned that Cumbria and Yorkshire could see the coldest August spell in 95 years
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BT and @placeholder, plus a monthly fee starting at £4. | By Sean Poulter PUBLISHED: 08:34 EST, 28 September 2012 | UPDATED: 19:57 EST, 28 September 2012 A new pay-TV service is launched today in the biggest challenge yet to the dominance of Sky. For a one-off payment of £49 and as little as £4 a month, YouView gives access to the 70-plus Freeview TV channels with the ability to ‘pause and rewind’ live television. The YouView box can also record and store 300 hours of programmes and lets you watch the previous week’s TV using BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, 4oD and Demand 5. Scroll down for video DVR for terrestrial TV: The sleek box can record one channel while watching another
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"He deserves my silence," @placeholder said in a March 2009 speech. | Washington (CNN) -- In President Barack Obama's two presidential campaigns, his predecessor loomed large; Obama and Democrats regularly laid the blame for the downtrodden economy at George W. Bush's feet. When pressed on their pledge to turn the faltering economy around, Obama and Democrats often pointed out that they had inherited the product of the Bush administration's policies. Bush, however, in his limited public appearances has stayed mute about his successor, maintaining a custom among former presidents that dates back decades. While not all presidents have adhered to the practice, it has created a mostly amicable brotherhood of former presidents.
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Former presidents regularly hold their tongue when asked about their successors
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"I don't think it does any good," George W. Bush said when asked about Obama
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Speaking in broken @placeholder, he walked into a town hall in the | By Allan Hall Updated: 10:09 EST, 19 February 2012 Forest boy: Artist's impression of 'Ray' who claimed he lived in the wild German authorities said the fate of the mysterious English-speaking ‘Forest Boy’ will forever remain a secret from the world. 'He wants no publicity and we have nothing more to say on this subject,' said a spokesman for youth authorities in Berlin. 'We will not enter into discussions about secrecy or otherwise. There will be no more information forthcoming on this case.' Despite the German taxpayer stumping up close to £5,000 a month for his upkeep, the spokeswoman said that his wishes 'come first.'
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Marc Willers QC, a human rights barrister, tweeted: '@placeholder ruined for me by totally unrealistic court room scenes. | Its first season won over audiences as a gritty and down-to-earth crime drama. But viewers seem to have turned on Broadchurch, criticising the new series' 'soap opera' plotlines and branding it a 'fancy EastEnders'. As character Joe Miller goes on trial for the murder of 11-year-old schoolboy Danny Latimer, many viewers have also been left frustrated by the 'unrealistic' court scenes. Scroll down for video Viewers of the second show of series two of Broadchurch complained about legal inaccuracies as the trial of Joe Miller, whose previous admission for killing 11-year-old Danny Latimer, was ruled inadmissible Millions of viewers have tuned in for the return of the ITV drama, starring David Tennant as Detective Inspector Alec Hardy and Olivia Coleman as his partner, DS Ellie Miller - also wife of murder suspect Joe Miller.
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Second episode of series two of Broadchurch criticised for inaccuracies
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When she talked about surprising @placeholder, she would light up, and that seemed very genuine to me," Shea said. | (CNN) -- It was written as a moving tribute to what seemed a promising love affair. But, in retrospect, even the songwriter acknowledges that the words to "You're Mine" -- written months ago for Montana bride Jordan Linn Graham -- are "a little creepy." "Everyone wants a safe place to fall, and you're mine," Elizabeth Shea wrote in the song for Graham, months before Graham would be accused of shoving her husband, Cody Johnson, off a cliff during an argument. The song was played at their wedding. "I used words like 'you helped me to climb higher for a better view. You're my safe place to fall. You never let me go,' " said Shea, who writes custom songs for a living. "And so now, when I hear those words, it's a little creepy."
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Montana bride accused of shoving husband to death commissioned a custom song
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"Everyone wants a safe place to fall, and you're mine," the song's lyrics say
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"It's a little creepy," songwriter Elizabeth Shea says
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Favored by celebs wanting a quiet escape, @placeholder's glamorous beachfront resort transports you to that cozy beach house of your dreams, with comfy throws and breezy interiors. | A summer road trip up California's Highway 1 wouldn't be complete without a top-notch selection of hotels to make your trip even dreamier. From hidden beach cottages to posh resorts, these are our favorite California coastal hotels, listed from south to north. Tower 23 San Diego's hippest beachfront boutique property guards lively Pacific Beach. Sleek rooms feature hardwood headboards, deep blue chaises and multicolored throws, all invoking the ocean just beyond your balcony. The JRDN restaurant lures model types and techies for liquid lunch meetings and well-curated brunches. Rates start at $300. www.t23hotel.com. Crystal Cove Beach Cottages These 1938 beachfront cottages and rooms occupy a slice of Newport Beach's Crystal Cove State Park. Initially developed as a movie set, these cozy houses, now repainted in lively beach hues, aim to retain that era of yesteryear with Murphy beds and open-beamed ceilings.
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The 1938 Crystal Cove Beach Cottages offer a cozy, nostalgic beach experience
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Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica is a favorite of celebs seeking a quiet escape
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The 75-year-old Mendocino Coast oceanfront Little River Inn speaks to romance seekers | 54,360 | record_train |
The images of the 11,000 detainees who died in @placeholder's concentration camps cry out for simple justice, not oblivion. | (CNN) -- The debate over what is happening inside Syria should now end. A new report by three veteran war crimes prosecutors, released exclusively by CNN and The Guardian, offers what appears to be irrefutable evidence of systemic war crimes by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Any fair observer can no longer doubt the prosecutors' findings of "the smoking gun" of widespread crimes against humanity. Syrian human rights activists have long been documenting cases of methodical torture and execution carried out by members of the Syrian regime. Organizations such as Human Right Watch have also documented shocking crimes from their own independent investigations.
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Ammar Abdulhamid, Ken Ballen: Report appears to show proof of Syrian regime torture
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They say the regime's violence is tantamount to genocide; al-Assad has sown sectarian war
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to be a very bad outcome,’ @placeholder Fire Chief Douglas Jackson said. | By David Mccormack and Associated Press Reporter PUBLISHED: 12:58 EST, 9 August 2013 | UPDATED: 16:43 EST, 9 August 2013 Two children are dead after a small plane crashed into their home near East Haven, Connecticut on Friday morning. The crash of the multi-engine, propeller-driven plane caused the partial collapse of two small homes in a working-class suburban neighborhood a few blocks from Tweed New Haven Airport. Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy has said that crews working at the scene of the crash can see two bodies, but neither has been recovered. Scroll down for video Two children are missing, feared dead, after a small plane crashed into their home near East Haven, Connecticut on Friday morning
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The multi-engine propeller-driven aircraft crashed into two homes on the approach to Tweed New Haven Airport on Friday morning
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Two children, aged one and 13, plus the pilot are missing presumed dead
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A neighbor says he heard a woman screaming that her children were inside the burning house
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Since joining the group, she's been contacted by dozens of people thanking her for sharing her story, including a grandmother supporting her addicted grandson who told @placeholder she was moved by her brave recovery. | Since coming clean a year ago, Jess has made her story public and become and ambassador for charity Febfast to inspire others to stop taking drugs When she was only 17-years-old, Jess woke up in a squatters' drug-house to find that she had no memory of the last five months. The teenager from Melbourne's inner west had been smoking ice every day for so long that she had lost complete track of time and believed her mobile phone, which displayed the date, was faulty. 'With ice, your sense of time disappears when you smoke and you think it has been five minutes but it has been five hours. Because I was smoking every day, my sense of time was completely gone,' Jess, now 20-years-old, told Daily Mail Australia.
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Jess, from Melbourne's inner west, began smoking crystal meth at 16
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Her turning point came when she realised she had no memory of a five month long period in which she had been smoking every day
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@placeholder would become the 27th state to allow same-sex marriage, up from 19 states just a week ago. | (CNN) -- Same-sex marriage became a reality on Thursday in Nevada, creating a nationwide majority of states allowing gays and lesbians to legally wed. West Virginia is expected to start soon. In Nevada, a private group that had led the legal fight to defend the voter-approved ban suddenly withdrew its pending appeal for a stay with the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices on Thursday quickly removed that case from their docket, apparently removing the last legal hurdle to allowing gay and lesbian couples to legally wed in the Silver State. Hours later, Nevada state Sen. Kelvin Atkinson tweeted at katkinson702 that he'd just tied the knot with his partner of more than six years, Sherwood Howard.
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Although not really "political" in that it offers few judgments, @placeholder's performance is nevertheless useful historical propaganda for a Conservative Party grappling with many of the same issues today. | (CNN) -- There's always been something about Margaret Thatcher that makes grown men go weak at the knees, particularly members of the Conservative Party. Perhaps she revives memories of stern schoolmistresses; perhaps they just grudgingly admired a strong woman telling them what to do. I suspect the same will be true of Meryl Streep's portrayal of the former British Prime Minister in the new biopic, "The Iron Lady," which the consensus appears to view as a pitch-perfect performance, accurately capturing the look, sound and general aura of the United Kingdom's first female premier. For many, the movie will be a nostalgia trip, whisking viewers back to happier times when politics was politics, there were heated ideological battles and elected leaders actually believed in something. "The Iron Lady" plays on all of those things, although without explicitly taking sides. There's no real attempt to analyze whether she was right or wrong during any highlighted episode.
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David Torrance: Margaret Thatcher biopic "The Iron Lady" a nostalgia trip
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Torrance: 1980s were a time "when politics was politics and elected leaders actually believed in something"
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McIlroy helps @placeholder line up a putt on the fifth hole during their Morning fourballs match | Phil Mickelson lost his cool with an on-course TV cameraman during his fourball tie on the opening morning of the Ryder Cup. Mickelson, paired with Keegan Bradley, snapped at the cameraman for getting too close to the action. Bradley's caddie Steve 'Pepsi' Hale warned the cameraman not to get too close to the action on the sixth tee, but an earpiece prevented him from hearing. Phil Mickelson (centre) and partner Keegan Bradley (left) speak with Team USA captain Tom Watson (right) on the sixth tee at the Ryder Cup Mickelson strikes an approach shot to the 5th hole at Gleneagles in the Morning Fourballs
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Mickelson then lost his temper, shouting: 'Just cover the golf. Don't interfere'
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It emerged Bendou - also a Frenchman - had helped kill @placeholder during a row over money. | By Sam Webb Four years of guilt: Sebastian Bendou, 36, stabbed and battered his housemate Christophe Borgye in 2009 A killer who got away with murder for four years until his guilty conscience forced him to confess to the killing was jailed for life today. Sebastian Bendou, 36, had stabbed and battered his housemate Christophe Borgye in 2009 before encasing his corpse in a homemade brick tomb topped with concrete. He and an accomplice who planned the killing then kept their crime a secret after police treated the victim’s disappearance as a routine missing persons inquiry and assumed he had returned to his native France.
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Sebastian Bendou, 36, stabbed and battered Christophe Borgye in 2009
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Dominik Kocher, 35, planned killing and was found guilty at earlier hearing
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A year after New Labour came to power in 1997, @placeholder famously said: 'We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich as long as they pay their taxes.' | Ed Miliband's plan to impose a mansion tax is 'crude' and would end up 'clobbering' people, Lord Mandelson warned last night. The Labour grandee launched a stinging attack of the party leader's flagship policy claiming it was 'short-termist'. To add further insult, Lord Mandelson, one of the architects of New Labour, said he preferred the policy drawn up by the Liberal Democrats to introduce extra council tax bands for high-value homes. Scroll down for video Lord Mandelson (right), one of the architects of New Labour, has described Labour leader Ed Miliband's (left) plan to impose mansion tax as 'crude' and 'short-termist' and said he prefers the Liberal Democrats proposal
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Lord Mandelson described mansion tax plan as 'crude' and 'short-termist'
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@placeholder himself was probably saved by the quickness of their actions,' she added. | A 21-year-old student who was shot three times by a paranoid attorney at Florida State University last week has been left paralyzed from the waist down, his sister has revealed. Farhan 'Ronny' Ahmed was one of three victims who were wounded by gunman Myron May, 31, a FSU graduate and an attorney, in the Tallahassee-based campus's Strozier Library last Thursday. He was struck by three bullets, one of which severely damaged his spine, leaving the lower half of his body paralyzed, Farhana Ahmed told reporters at a news conference on Monday. 'Ronny was studying for his finals when he was shot three times,' she said. 'He immediately knew something was wrong because one of the first bullets struck his spine.
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Farhan 'Ronny' Ahmed shot at three times by Myron May, 31, in attack
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Last season’s 3-4 defeat is the highest scoring away match that @placeholder have been involved in away from home since they reached the Premier League (seven goals). | Ahead of the final Premier League action of 2014, Sportsmail will be providing you with all you need to know about every fixture, with team news, provisional squads, betting odds and Opta stats. Here is all the information you need for Liverpool's home clash with Swansea... Liverpool vs Swansea City (Anfield) Team news Liverpool Simon Mignolet will return to the Liverpool goal at the expense of the injured Brad Jones when the Reds welcome Swansea to Anfield The Belgian had been "indefinitely" dropped by manager Brendan Rodgers, but was called upon from the bench when Jones suffered a thigh injury against Burnley on Boxing Day.
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in 1996, and @placeholder began their relationship in 2009 before breaking | By Sam Webb As someone who's famous for her role as an indestructible cheerleader on TV sci-fi show Heroes, Hayden Panettiere may seem an odd choice to become a pro-democracy campaigner in a former Soviet state. But yesterday she addressed protestors in Kiev's Independence Square with her fiance, Ukrainian boxing champion Vladimir Klitschko. The 24-year-old American, also famous for her role as an upstart country music singer on Nashville, encouraged Ukrainian protesters to 'keep fighting'. Scroll down for video Save the cheerleader, save the world: U.S. actress Hayden Panettiere, pictured with fiance Vladimir Klitschko, spoke to supporters of Ukrainian EU integration during a rally in Kiev
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Heroes actress spoke to crowd and told them to 'keep fighting'
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Jurors must decide if the death of @placeholder's character and the end of her employment was illegal workplace retaliation or just a creative decision unconnected to the alleged battery incident. | Los Angeles (CNN) -- Former "Desperate Housewives" actress Nicollette Sheridan returns to the stand Friday in her legal battle with show creator Marc Cherry and ABC over the TV killing of a character she played on the hit comedy series for five seasons. During Thursday's court session, Sheridan, 48, slapped her lawyer to demonstrate how she claims Cherry hit her during a rehearsal. Her wrongful termination lawsuit contends Cherry killed off Edie Britt, the sassy, blond woman Sheridan played, in retaliation for her complaints about being hit. Several of Sheridan's former castmates -- including Eva Longoria, Marcia Cross, James Denton, Felicity Huffman and Neal McDonough -- are on the list of witnesses expected to defend Cherry during the two-week-long Los Angeles trial.
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Nicollette Sheridan returns to the witness stand Friday in her case against producer Marc Cherry
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Her lawyer asks Sheridan to show on him in full force how she says Marc Cherry hit her on "Desperate Housewives" set
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@placeholder does not think American troops should return to the United States until Iraqi forces are capable of maintaining a safe, democratic state. | (CNN) -- While Sen. Barack Obama says he'll visit Iraq and Afghanistan before the election, he's staying consistent with his plans to start withdrawing U.S. troops almost immediately should he become president. Sen. Barack Obama says he'll go to Iraq and Afghanistan before November. Obama says the need to withdraw troops is twofold: "One is to spur more action out of the Iraqis. ... But the second reason for withdrawal is the fact that we're spending $10 [billion] to $12 billion a month in Iraq," Obama said Monday while on a two-day swing through Michigan. "The people here in Flint, Michigan, who I'm going to be talking to, would like to see some of that investment made here at home."
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Obama says he'll visit Iraq, Afghanistan before election
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The @placeholder management have been assailed by bad news and uncertainty at just the wrong time. | England have been coming to terms with the ‘big loss’ of Owen Farrell for their entire RBS Six Nations campaign and bracing themselves for further upheaval, with Brad Barritt destined to be ruled out of the opener, at least. The RFU confirmed on Tuesday that the most experienced fly-half in the squad had sustained a ‘high-grade’ medial ligament strain in his left knee during Saracens’ European Champions Cup defeat at Clermont Auvergne and would miss the championship campaign. That bleak bulletin was accompanied by updates on the state of other frontline casualties, including his clubmate Barritt, who was on course to start at inside centre against Wales in Cardiff a week on Friday.
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England Rugby's Twitter account confirmed that Owen Farrell is set to miss the entire Six Nations campaign through injury
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The @placeholder journalist who first reported the story was able to contact at least one of the soldiers by dialing a phone number found in the files. | (CNN) -- A man walks into a thrift store. A New Zealand man finds confidential U.S. military files on a used MP3 player he bought at a thrift store for $9. It sounds like the opening line to a bad joke. And this case was a bad joke -- for the Pentagon. Chris Ogle of New Zealand was in Oklahoma about a year ago when he bought a used MP3 player from a thrift store for $9. A few weeks ago, he plugged it into his computer to download a song, and he instead discovered confidential U.S. military files. "The more I look at it, the more I see, and the less I think I should be," Ogle said with a nervous laugh in an interview with TVNZ.
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New Zealander finds confidential U.S. military files on a used MP3 player
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succeed from their respective parties in Thursday's elections, and yesterday Mr @placeholder | By Jill Reilly PUBLISHED: 09:23 EST, 1 May 2012 | UPDATED: 13:28 EST, 1 May 2012 As the race to be the next London Mayor reaches its crucial final days, candidate Ken Livingstone is facing embarrassing allegations that he earned up to £1.2million over the past three years, but still used a tax loophole to save more money. The figure is thought to be more than his rival current London Mayor Boris Johnson, was earning at some points in recent years. It has been claimed that by funnelling his wages into his company, the Labour candidate may have paid as little as 18 per cent tax, which saved him up to £220,000, according to The Sun.
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In the run up to Thursday's London Mayoral election, it is an embarrassing revelation for Mr Livingstone, who called tax avoiders 'rich b******s'
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@placeholder's pre-emptive strike is part of the legal thicket confronting victims, where a patchwork of arcane and sometimes inconsistent laws will most likely make the ensuing litigation one of the most complex cases in American history. | Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- They are the first victims of the oil disaster that has devastated the Gulf region: 11 oil rig workers killed on April 20 when the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, torching the sky and puncturing the sea. Their remains have been lost in the Gulf of Mexico. At least 15 others were injured in the massive explosion. Victims and their families are suing BP and Transocean, the Swiss-based company that owns the drilling rig. But getting a settlement from Transocean, the world's largest offshore drilling company, could be difficult. Q&A on the legal liability of the companies involved in the oil disaster
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Transocean, which owns Deepwater Horizon, to use a 19th century U.S. law
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He says he's "excited that we're providing one step along the path of answering questions about whether life ever existed on @placeholder." | You may have heard it before: Billions of years ago, Mars probably looked more like Earth does now, with clouds and oceans and a much thicker atmosphere. It may even have had some type of microbes. But now it's a barren, frozen desert. So what happened? Where did the air and water go? That's what the spacecraft NASA launched Monday is being dispatched to find out. It's called MAVEN -- short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution -- and it's the first mission dedicated to studying the red planet's upper atmosphere. "We expect to learn how the modern Mars works, really in detail. To see its climate state, to understand how the atmosphere is lost to space -- how Mars may have lost a magnetic field -- to take that information and map it back in time," said NASA's James Garvin.
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But now more detail has emerged about how Pane came to be in a position to be entrusted with defending @placeholder from a potential pandemic. | A fraudster who won a contract from New York City to clean up after Ebola grossly exaggerated his experience after 'scamming' the grieving relatives of a haz-mat expert, a new report claims. Salvatore Pane, 32, the chief safety officer of Bio Recovery corporation, was called in when Dr Craig Spencer was diagnosed with Ebola to eradicate the disease from places he'd been. Photographs of him taping perimeters around Spencer's Harlem apartment, handling barrels of waste and speaking to news crews were beamed around the world, while in interviews he boasted of having 27 years' experience and took credit for cleaning up after anthrax attacks in the wake of 9/11.
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Salvatore Pane, 32, rode to the rescue when Ebola struck last month
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the stories of missing @placeholder girls Gina DeJesus and Amanda Berry, who were also found on Monday, | By Steve Robson and Lydia Warren PUBLISHED: 21:15 EST, 7 May 2013 | UPDATED: 01:38 EST, 9 May 2013 Michelle Knight, one of the three Ohio women freed from a decade of imprisonment, is reportedly suffering hearing loss and facial bone damage after years of vicious beatings to her head, it has emerged. The 32-year-old, who vanished in 2002, was found at a Cleveland home on Monday with two other women and a six-year-old girl - but she has not yet contacted her mother for a reunion. The first details about Michelle are emerging as images of her have finally been released. They show her as a teenager before she was kidnapped - at a time when she endured an often troubled relationship with her family.
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Michelle vanished on August 23, 2002 near her cousin's Cleveland home
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We presented the award as a gift voucher with the option for the winner to do what they want with the money in @placeholder. | By Janet Tappin Coelho In Rio De Janeiro PUBLISHED: 10:20 EST, 23 October 2013 | UPDATED: 04:16 EST, 24 October 2013 As the Brazilian contestants sashayed onto the stage in pink bikinis for a beauty pageant held in Rio de Janeiro’s João Caetano Theatre, their incredible figures drew a loud applause and cheers from a hyped up, excited audience. The wolf-whistles and shouts of appreciation were not just for the models’ feminine curves; they are also for the breathtaking courage of the leggy, high cheeked sirens, who in flaunting their bodies made an unequivocal statement that they are proud to be transvestites and transsexuals. All were born as men.
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Contestants sashayed onto the stage in pink bikinis for the Miss Trans Brazil 2013 contest held in Rio de Janeiro
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The daughter of Gen. @placeholder, a hero of Burmese independence, Suu Kyi has repeatedly challenged Myanmar's regime over the years. | Yangon, Myanmar (CNN) -- The younger son of political activist Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Myanmar on Tuesday for a long-awaited visit with his mother, from whom he'd been separated for a decade. Kim Aris arrived about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday at the international airport in Yangon, the former national capital, which also is known as Rangoon. Myanmar air force security officials escorted Aris, speeding his arrival without going through standard immigration. Suu Kyi, also escorted by security officials, was quickly able to greet her son. About 100 of her supporters were on hand for Aris's arrival from Bangkok, Thailand, where he had waited for weeks in limbo for a Myanmar visa. Mother and son left the airport together, bound for her home.
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Security footage shows an apparently masked thief on the premises near the @placeholder moving towards a large, unmarked crane, which Bowen police now believe may be the getaway vehicle | Thieves have taken off with the ten metre high Big Mango from a fruit-growing town in northern Queensland, Australia. The giant, bright orange replica of the famous Bowen mango is one of Australia's iconic tourist attractions, and was the pride of Bowen, before a team of robbers took off with it under the cover of darkness in the early hours of Monday. Security cameras appear to have captured the heist, in which the three-story painted metal mango was unbolted from the concrete platform on which it had stood since 2002, rolled on to a heavy vehicle and driven off down Queensland's Bruce Highway.
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Giant Australian tourist attraction stolen in the dead of night
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"They've started, they've made a commitment to proceed on the basis that @placeholder will take a huge amount of the power, but getting from here to there it's just a very long road," he adds. | The world will have seen nothing like it. It is being hailed as the holy grail for power, the biggest hydroelectric project ever built that would harness sub-Saharan Africa's greatest river and light up half of the continent. But will the ambitious plan to tame the mighty Congo River, a mega-project first conceived in the 1970s, finally get going and what will be its actual impact? Last month, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo announced in Paris that the construction of the first phase of a new set of energy projects at the country's Inga Falls would begin in October 2015. The new $12 billion development, dubbed Inga 3, is expected to have a power output of nearly 4,800 megawatts (MW), with South Africa agreeing to buy half of the electricity generated.
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@placeholder has denied he has anything personal against Pique. | It might have looked like the most flagrant case of tapping-up since Jose Mourinho met Ashley Cole in London’s Royal Garden Hotel in 2005 but it seems Gerard Pique’s Sunday evening meeting with his former Barcelona boss was simply the ultimate ‘Pep talk’. Pique has become increasingly exasperated by his situation at Barcelona and just 24 hours after another afternoon sitting on the sidelines in his new capacity as Luis Enrique’s fourth-choice centre back; who better to seek out for advice than Pep Guardiola. The Bayern boss was in the Catalan capital to cast his vote in the unofficial referendum on independence at the weekend and the two met and embraced in a quiet residential street close to Guardiola’s Barcelona home, the image was captured by a passing fan and soon spread throughout social media.
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Gerard Pique is currently fourth-choice centre back under Luis Enrique's regime at Barcelona
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Former Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola was in the Catalan capital to cast his vote in the unofficial referendum on independence at the weekend
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Pique and the Bayern Munich manager were spotted chatting in a quiet residential street close to Guardiola’s Barcelona home | 54,385 | record_train |
Almost 200 scientists and researchers signed a public petition and letter last month, which described meningitis and meningococcal disease as ‘a parent’s greatest fear’, and pointed to the @placeholder calculation as ‘underestimating’ the realities of the disease for both children and their families. | By Tania Steere and Tamara Cohen and Jenny Hope A revolutionary vaccine that can stop meningitis B from devastating the lives of children has been approved for use on the NHS. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt was expected to announce today that the Government is going to fund the Bexsero vaccine. Last October the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recommended that the vaccine should not be made available for free because it was not cost-effective. Meningitis jab: Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt was expected to announce today that the Government is going to fund the Bexsero vaccine But Mr Hunt has been under mounting pressure to ensure the vaccine is fast-tracked into routine use and the Mail understands that the JCVI is moving towards approving NHS use of the £75-a-shot vaccine as part of the UK’s routine immunisation programme.
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Jeremy Hunt expected to reveal Government will fund Bexsero vaccine
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He has faced pressure to ensure vaccine is fast-tracked into routine use
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JCVI is moving towards approving NHS use of the £75-a-shot vaccine
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118 leading doctors wrote letter urging Hunt to give jab the green light | 54,386 | record_train |
@placeholder - who has a striking resemblance to his £180,000-a-week superstar brother, 26 - was held in custody for more than 14 hours. | By Emma Reynolds PUBLISHED: 11:02 EST, 17 July 2012 | UPDATED: 03:31 EST, 18 July 2012 Wayne Rooney's brother was banned from the road today after being caught driving three times over the alcohol limit to buy booze for a party. The Manchester United striker's younger sibling Graham was found guilty of drink driving but blamed his friends. Dressed in a Team GB hoodie, the 24-year-old left Liverpool Magistrates' Court with friends after being handed a two-year driving ban, 150 hours community service and told to pay £650 costs. Community service: Graham Rooney, 24, leaves Liverpool Magistrates Court with a large group of friends after being sentenced for drink driving
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The 24-year-old was three times over the limit
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Given two-year driving ban and told to pay £650 costs and carry out 150 hours community service
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He claimed he was persuaded to go out to buy more alcohol during a party at his parents' house
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Police said he was 'aggressive' and threatened to sue them for trespassing on his parents' property
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Graham Rooney plays for East Villa in the Liverpool County Premier League | 54,387 | record_train |
But the lawyer for @placeholder and his former Dodgers management argued his clients acted reasonably, and called Stow intoxicated and aggressive before the assault. | (CNN) -- The lawyer for Bryan Stow, the San Francisco Giants fan severely beaten at a Los Angeles Dodgers game in 2011, argued Thursday that the former owners of the Dodgers went cheap on safety, and that played a factor in his client's debilitating injuries. The attorney for former Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, meanwhile, countered by claiming Stow was drunk and aggressive at the time of the brawl that left Stow brain-damaged and disabled. So went the opening remarks at a civil trial in which Stow is suing the Dodgers and claiming the team had faulty security measure and defective facilities that contributed to the attack.
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Giants fan Bryan Stow was beaten after opening-day game with the Dodgers in 2011
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Two fans face prison terms in the beating of Stow, who suffered brain damage
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Stow is suing the Dodgers, claiming the team had faulty security measures and facilities
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Opening statements begin in a courtroom just two miles from Dodger Stadium | 54,388 | record_train |
But shortly after his inauguration last year, @placeholder met with Chavez and pledged to wipe the slate clean. | (CNN) -- Venezuelan authorities have arrested a key ideological leader of the FARC leftist guerrilla group who is known as "The Singer" for his role as a musician promoting the rebel movement, officials said Wednesday. A Venezuelan government operation Tuesday captured Guillermo Enrique Torres, Colombia's president said. "Today he is in custody and (Venezuelan) President (Hugo) Chavez has told us that he will be handed over to us," Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said. CNN affiliate Caracol TV reported that Torres, 57, became famous "because he always carried on his shoulder, next to his rifle, a guitar." Several online video posts purport to show Torres, who is also known by the alias Julian Conrado, wearing military fatigues and cradling a guitar. In one, he sings about why he decided to become a guerrilla, and vows to continue fighting for the FARC "until death, for justice and peace, which is what I want."
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Colombia's president says Guillermo Enrique Torres was captured Tuesday
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Authorities call him an ideological leader of the FARC, noting his songs promoting the group
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The U.S. State Department had offered a $2.5 million reward for help capturing Torres
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The arrest comes amid improving relations between Venezuela and Colombia | 54,389 | record_train |
Mr Brennan said he wanted to remind the world that after the 9/11 attacks, America’s ‘hearts were ripped open’ and that the @placeholder ‘ached, it cried in pain’. | Demands were growing last night for a judge-led inquiry into Britain’s complicity in torture after a day of drama at Westminster. Three days after a US Senate report revealed details of the CIA’s barbaric interrogation techniques, MPs demanded answers to disturbing questions about the UK’s role. Senior figures from all major parties said the full truth must be known about the role played by British agents – and what the Blair Government knew about it. In a significant development, Nick Clegg broke ranks to say a full judicial inquiry may be needed. Scroll down for video Nick Clegg (pictured) yesterday declared a full judicial inquiry may be needed to establish Britain's complicity in the US torture programme
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Newly-released report revealed CIA's gruesome interrogation techniques
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But references to U.S. allies, including Britain, were completely redacted
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Now figures from all parties demand to know truth of Britain's complicity
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It has been claimed the Government frantically 'lobbied' report authors
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Prior to its publication, the Senate committee met UK diplomat 22 times
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Ministers and diplomats held 24 meetings with the Senate committee before the report’s publication;
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Those ‘lobbying’ the committee included Mrs May and ex-Labour security minister Lord West;
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Ed Miliband had to make an extraordinary defence of his brother David’s time as Foreign Secretary;
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No 10 said it was ‘urgently’ seeking the release of Shaker Aamer, the British resident who has spent 13 years in Guantanamo Bay;
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CIA director John Brennan admitted the agency’s methods were ‘abhorrent’, but claimed they helped to find Osama bin Laden. | 54,390 | record_train |
Double trouble: Daley Blind put @placeholder 2-0 ahead with his first ever goal for his country | Brazil's third-place play-off against Holland on Saturday was a chance for a redemption following their jaw-dropping 7-1 humiliation to Germany in the World Cup semi-finals. However, in Brasilia the horror show continued as they were comprehensively swept aside 3-0 by a far superior Dutch team. Goals from Robin van Persie, Daley Blind and Georgino Wijnaldum completed a miserable few days for the hosts as they try to repair their footballing reputation. Here, Sportsmail dissects how Brazil's media have reacted to the 3-0 defeat. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Pele on Brazil's disaster World Cup and livid Brazil fans Condemned: Brazil have been critisiced by their media following their third-place play-off defeat to Holland
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Brazil media react to the World Cup hosts 3-0 defeat to Holland in the third-place play-off on Saturday
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Correio na Copa and Agora Sao Paulo slam Luiz Felipe Scolari's side
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Goals from Robin van Persie, Daley Blind and Georgino Wijnaldum gave Louis van Gaal's Holland victory | 54,391 | record_train |
He says @placeholder's medical bills have tallied into the thousands of dollars and he's without work having to quit his job with the Wohl family out of fear for his life. | By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 16:39 EST, 13 April 2013 | UPDATED: 16:59 EST, 13 April 2013 Troubled: Jocelyn Wohl, 33, seen here in 2009, is accused of stabbing her life coach with a fork only six months after being arrested for choking her sober coach A New York socialite and daughter of a wealthy real estate attorney is accused of stabbing her life coach with a fork in the second shocking attack against her hired help in months. Joselyn Wohl, 33, who was arrested for choking and pulling her sober coach down a set of stairs in December, allegedly this time left a fragment of a fork in her victim's hand.
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Latest claims against Joselyn Wohl, 33, follows an arrest in December for allegedly choking her sober coach and pulling her down the stairs
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Attorney for Sajjadur Rahman, 31, says Wohl's most recent attack left a fragment of fork in his hand
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Joselyn is the daughter of wealthy real estate attorney Larry Wohl | 54,392 | record_train |
The @placeholder left a phone message Friday seeking comment from the diocese's attorney. | By MailOnline Reporter and Associated Press A Roman Catholic schoolteacher who claims she was fired by a nothern Indiana diocese for trying to get pregnant through in vitro fertlization, will have her day in court. U.S. District Judge Robert L Miller Jr ruled this week that former St Vincent de Paul school teacher Emily Herx deserves a chance to prove that she was terminated by the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend based on sex discrimination. This issue 'is whether Mrs. Herx was nonrenewed because of her sex, or because of a sincere belief (by the diocese) about the morality of in vitro fertilization,' Miller wrote in the 29-page ruling issued Wednesday
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Emily Herx, 34, claims she was fired from her position as a teacher at the St Vincent de Paul School for undergoing IVF
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A district court judge has now approved the case to go to trial
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If she wins the discrimination case, she could win damages such as back pay | 54,393 | record_train |
His wife of nearly 16 years, @placeholder, told the packed convention center stories from when she and Obama first met. | DENVER, Colorado (CNN) -- Sen. Edward Kennedy declared there was "new hope" for the nation in his surprise appearance at the Democratic National Convention, while Michelle Obama addressed critics of her patriotism and stressed her love for the country. Sen. Edward Kennedy makes a surprise speech before a roaring crowd at the convention. "Nothing is going to keep me away from this special gathering tonight," Kennedy told an arena of teary-eyed delegates as he pledged to see Barack Obama to the White House and his own return to the Senate floor. Before the convention, the ailing liberal icon had made only one public appearance since undergoing surgery for a brain tumor on June 2.
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Michelle Obama makes case for husband, closing convention's first night
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Sen. Kennedy addresses convention less than 3 months after brain surgery
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Barack Obama appears only briefly via satellite from Kansas City
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Hillary Clinton to headline convention's second night | 54,394 | record_train |
Distraught: Mourners cling to each other as many wept following the baby's funeral in @placeholder, Canada | By Louise Boyle PUBLISHED: 08:12 EST, 9 July 2013 | UPDATED: 08:38 EST, 9 July 2013 A grandmother is facing criminal charges after the death of her grandson who was left alone in a sweltering car. Leslie McDonald, 51, was charged on Friday in Ontario, Canada with criminal negligence in connection with the death of one-year-old Maximus Huyskens. Police say the boy died on June 26, a month short of his second birthday, after being exposed to temperatures of up to 90F for an extended period of time outside a home in Milton.
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Maximus Huyskens, one, was left in the vehicle in Milton, Ontario | 54,395 | record_train |
"@placeholder licenses are given rarely -- only to those with money and clout, and that means overwhelmingly men. | New Delhi, India (CNN) -- A light-weight gun named after an Indian gang rape victim has triggered a wave of criticism from advocates who call it "abhorrent." Last week, an Indian state-run gunmaker introduced the .32-calibre revolver, made of titanium alloy, calling it a "valuable contribution to women's security." The 500-gram firearm is called Nirbheek, meaning fearless in Hindi. The name was "inspired by Nirbhaya," said Abdul Hamied, the general manager of the Indian Ordnance Field Gun Factory. Nirbhaya is the name given by the Indian media to the 23-year-old woman who was raped and beaten by several men aboard a public bus on December 16, 2012. She later died. The brutal attack provoked outrage across India and led to calls for improved safety and treatment of women.
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New gun for women in India raises criticisms
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Gun is named after gang rape victim, who has been called "Nirbhaya"
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Gun control advocate calls gun "an insult" to women | 54,396 | record_train |
Other Latin American presidents have imitated @placeholder populist undemocratic style, intimidating opponents, restricting the media and subverting the judiciary. | (CNN) -- A few hours before he announced the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Vice President Nicolas Maduro repeated the claim that Chavez's fatal illness was caused by outsiders, and he labeled the opposition the "enemy of the nation." With that, he gave voice to one of the principal legacies of the Chavez era, one of divisiveness and scapegoating. The Chavez legacy, however, includes much more than animosity between rich and poor, between left and right. Chavez played a pivotal role in bringing the plight of Latin America's impoverished people to the top of the political agenda. It was as if the former paratrooper grabbed a continent by the lapels and shouted "You must fight against poverty!" And the continent listened.
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Frida Ghitis: Hugo Chavez played key role in focusing attention on the poor
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She says in the process of helping the poor, he undermined his nation's democracy
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Chavez hurt his cause with his cartoonish attacks on the U.S., she says
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Ghitis: Human Rights Watch documented erosion of freedoms in Venezuela | 54,397 | record_train |
New boy: @placeholder gets used to his new surroundings at Chelsea's Cobham training base | Chelsea's players are back in the familiar surroundings of the clubs Cobham training ground, but one particular player has come back looking a little different. Branislav Ivanovic has had the summer off after his native Serbia failed to qualify for the World Cup and it looks as though he might have had his razor blades confiscated from his luggage on the way back from a holiday. And the versatile defender's facial fuzz bears a resemblance to that of new Roma signing Ashley Cole during his final few weeks at the Stamford Bridge club. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Kurt Zouma give his first interview as a Chelsea player
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Rugged defender looks to have left his razor at home after summer break
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Ashley Cole grew some similar facial hair with Chelsea last year
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Blues returned for first training session of pre season on Wednesday
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Petr Cech makes return from last season's dislocated shoulder injury
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Blues loanees come back into the squad in preparations for new season | 54,398 | record_train |
@placeholder came to power in May 2012 amid a fanfare of promises to | French president Francois Hollande has been accused by one of his most senior political allies of running a 'paparazzi democracy' for ordering all ministers to publicly declare their wealth. Claude Bartolone - the socialist leader of France's parliament - told the president: 'The French don't want everything we have put on display.' While urban affairs minister Francois Lamy told France's Canal Plus television: 'It's an outrage. Do you think the public would also like to see a picture of my wife in the nude?' Outrage: The French president, left, has ordered all ministers to publicly declare their wealth. Urban affairs minister Francois Lamy, right, said: 'It's an outrage. Do you think the public would also like to see a picture of my wife in the nude?'
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Francois Hollande ordering all ministers to publicly declare their wealth
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Accused of running a 'paparazzi democracy' by Claude Bartolone
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The socialist leader made the defiant outburst on live radio
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Said: 'The French don't want everything we have put on display' | 54,399 | record_train |
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