Monday, August 30, 2010

Song about sister's attack becomes iTunes hit

Song about sister's attack becomes iTunes hit

Song about sister's attack becomes iTunes hit

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Antoine Dodson's angry, head-shaking TV interview about an attempted rape against his younger sister in her bed has turned into a chart-topping iTunes song and YouTube hit and made the 24-year-old Alabama college student an Internet sensation.


Taped cellphones in bag lead to terror alert on plane

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Two United States residents of Yemeni descent who flew from Chicago to Amsterdam on Sunday night were detained by the Dutch police after landing on Monday in a bizarre episode that American officials feared might be a dry run for a terrorist plot.


Bedbugs crawl, they bite, they baffle scientists

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This month, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a joint statement on bedbug control. It was not, however, a declaration of war nor a plan of action. It was an acknowledgment that the problem is big, a reminder that federal agencies mostly give advice, plus some advice: try a mix of vacuuming, crevice-sealing, heat and chemicals to kill the bugs.


Pak floods: Thousands of Pakistanis return home

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Thousands of Pakistanis streamed back to the historic southern city of Thatta on Monday after authorities managed to hold off floodwaters that threatened to inundate it, a rare piece of good news after a month of devastation in the country.


Outrage at video showing beating of Thai pupils

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Secretly recorded cell phone footage has exposed a teacher at a Catholic boarding school in northeastern Thailand who whacked dozens of students on the buttocks with a cane wrapped with electrical wire.


Gunman goes on killing Spree in Bratislava, then commits suicide

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A gunman killed six people and wounded at least nine in an attack in a neighborhood of Bratislava on Monday, then committed suicide, police said.


China warns to strip citizenship if second child not registered

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With growing instances of affluent Chinese parents flouting the one-child policy norm, the Beijing government has warned people that the second child will not be given citizenship if parents failed to register them before November 1.


Carla Bruni branded 'prostitute' in Iran: Report

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French First Lady Carla Bruni Sarkozy has been branded a "prostitute" and a "marriage breaker" in Iran after she criticised a Tehran court ruling of stoning a woman to death for adultery, a media report said.


Gunman kills 6, wounds 14 others in Slovakia

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A gunman has killed six people and wounded 14 others in Bratislava, the Slovak news agency reported Monday. The news agency TASR said the shooting took place midmorning on the streets of the Devinska Nova Ves neighborhood on the outskirts of the Slovak capital. It said the man, who has not been identified, opened fire on passers-by and shot through windows into buildings. Local media reported later that the shooter may have killed himself, but police would not immediately confirm the report.


French Spiderman scales 57-storey building

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A French skyscraper climber nicknamed "Spiderman" was arrested on Monday after scaling a 57-storey building in Sydney without ropes or safety harness. Alain Robert, known for climbing some of the world's tallest and best-known buildings without any equipment apart from his bare hands, especially-chosen footwear and a bag of talcum powder to dry sweaty palms, was arrested at the top of the Lumiere building in the city centre.


Attempt to make the world's largest pizza in Poland

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Residents of the Polish city of Krakow on Sunday attempted to break the world record for the longest pizza in the world.


Ecuador: Atleast 36 killed as bus crashes off cliff

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A bus ran off a highway in Ecuador and overturned killing at least 36 people, officials said on Sunday. At least 12 others were badly hurt.


China's monster traffic jam rears its head again

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China's monster traffic jam has reared its head again, with trucks and cars backed up for up to 18 miles (30 kilometers) on Saturday on a highway north of Beijing, although that is a third the size of what it was.


Six daughters want to sue Saudi dad over marriage

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In an unusual legal fight, six Saudi sisters have decided to file a lawsuit against their father for repeatedly having turned down their suitors and not allowing them to get married. The women, all in their 30s, have written a letter to Sultan Bin Zahem, chairman of Saudi Arabia's Advocacy Committee, demanding that they be given the authority to get married.


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