"An 11-year-old girl in Mumbai, India, was hospitalized with pain in her stomach, and surgeons were forced to operate. What they found was a foot-long hairball. The mass of hair -- known as a trichobozear - -is a...
"The response by a critical mass of Sri Lanka’s artist community to the protests by South Indian artistes to the fighting in the North of Sri Lanka will be noted down as a shameful moment by future generations of creative Sri Lankans. While war lobbies have often recruited...
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"Thirty-six out of every 100 Korean male adults are obese, according to a report Monday. The consumption of high calorie foods and less physical exercise are responsible for the emergence of the overweight adults, the Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention said. It...
On the charges of armed insurrection, aiding terror group and illegal possession of explosives, a group of 86 people are to be tried at a Turkish court. The massive trial held near Istanbul is organised agaisnt Ergenekon group for about 30 charges, including membership...
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One of the UK's "golden age" piers was destroyed by a fire in the early hours of this morning. The pier in Lancashire was one of the first to be built in the golden age of pier building in Britain, which lasted from...
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"Financial Weapons Of Mass Destruction photo credit: laffy4k New York Times called the possibility of an AIG liquidation “as close to an extinction-level event as the financial markets have seen since the Great Depression.” We keep hearing that the current...
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This video is just incredible. The person who took it buried the tape (it is unclear whether it was a tape or a kind of memory card) because he feared it would be confiscated. Why would he think that? Oh, just the...
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In the UK, the ruling Labour government has seen its public approval ratings take a dramatic slide in the past year. At the same time, the rival Conservative party remains unpopular with voters. UK voters seem to think they have no good option, which frustrates the third...
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"WHILE denying that Catholic schools convert or “proselytize members for the Church,” Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal asked that they be unashamed in proclaiming Jesus’ truth. He said the words while celebrating mass during the Sacred Heart School-Jesuit (SHS-J)...
"EDGARTOWN, Mass. -- When Lev Wlodyka reeled in a massive 57-pound striped bass one evening last fall, it looked like he'd caught the biggest fish in the annual Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass & Bluefish Derby. Then judges cut it open."
"The man accused of last month's mass shooting in a Tennessee church was indicted yesterday on two counts of first-degree murder and eight other counts. It seems likely that Jim David Adkisson's public defender will seek an insanity defense. He wants the case in Knox County's...
This is just so sick.The funeral director and twelve other employees in Tuscany, Italy have been arrested for operating a crematorium scam, where they stored bodies with the corpses of cats and dogs, and burned them...
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This story is another reminder of the constant threat the we face from extremists everyday, regardless of whether we are American or German. In the following story, Aafia Siddique, a 36 year old graduate of MIT, was...
OPINION : Many has questioned the credibility of a report or of an article whethere there are factual information or merely heresays and telltales.. Getting excerpts from books and quatations without the acknowledgement of the contributors and/or the orignal writer is...
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"Matt Clark, he is a young industrial designer from Southern California. He showed me his bicycle creation, the IV-1 (for Innervision 1) : Here is the description of this unique bike: "This bicycle prototype is...