Monday, September 6, 2010

Obama: 'They talk about me like a dog'

Obama: 'They talk about me like a dog'

Obama: 'They talk about me like a dog'

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US President Barack Obama has caused quite a flutter by accusing his Republican opponents of talking about him "like a dog" at a rally to launch his embattled Democratic party's election campaign.


SpiderDan arrested for scaling San Francisco building

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A man's long climb to the top levels of a skyscraper in downtown San Francisco ended with officers taking him into custody after he displayed a small American flag on the side of the building.


One killed, three injured as Nevada plane crashes

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A small plane crashed and burst into flames on a street in a southern Nevada residential neighborhood on Monday, killing one person and badly injuring three others, authorities said. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Sgt. John Sheahan said two males and two females were aboard the single-engine Piper Cherokee when it crashed in Henderson, just south of Las Vegas. He said it was a miracle no one on the ground was injured.


Obama unveils $50 billion infrastructure plan for US

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US President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs programme on Monday that would exceed $50bn to rebuild roads, railways and runways. Obama was addressing a crowd during a Labor Day speech in Milwaukee, in the US state of Wisconsin.


Rare video of WW II bomb attack in London found

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Rare colour film footage of the bomb damage inflicted on London during World War II has surfaced on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Blitz. The dramatic pictures show the destruction of several London landmarks, including the flagship John Lewis store on Oxford Street.


Smokers watch their potential heart attacks on video

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Sixty five -year-old Hank Davis is watching a video that shows what would happen if he had a heart attack. Davis had been trying to give up smoking for the past 40 years, but was unsuccessful.


British MP's wife found working as a sex worker

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A British MP's wife works as a prostitute charging 70 pounds "for oral sex without a condom followed by full sex with a condom", said a media report here. The revelation left the MP stunned as he said: "That's a horrible shock".


Austrian woman describes 8 years in a dungeon

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An Austrian girl who has suffered sexual, physical and mental torture as a prisoner trapped in a cellar for eight years has come out with an autobiography describing how she was forced to work almost naked, sleep with her captor and beaten 200 times a week.


Meet Mohammad Boota, New York’s Ramadan

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It was just past 4 the other morning when Mohammad Boota pulled his Lincoln Town Car into a service station on an industrial stretch in Long Island City, Queens, and bounded out — a typhoon of embroidered fabric, good cheer and unusual urgency.


Meet Edward, world’s shortest man

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A 24-year-old Colombian man has officially become the world's shortest man. Edward Nino Hernandez has been certified as the world's shortest living mobile male by Guinness World Records, measuring just 70.21 centimetres (27.46 inches). The previous titleholder was He Pingping of China, who was an inch or so taller and died on the 13 March.


Rice 'ordered Bush to stay out of Washington' after 9/11

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Condoleezza Rice "ordered" then US President George W Bush to stay out of Washington after the 9/11 attacks before hanging up the phone, the former national security advisor has revealed in a documentary interview. In a heated exchange, Rice had to argue with President Bush in Florida - who wanted to "be at the helm of ship" – not to return to the White House as it was a "potential terrorist target".


Dramatic footage of US troops in live combat in Kandahar

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US and Afghan troops were on patrol and engaged in live combat in Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan on Monday.


On Facebook, young Muslims turn away from Islam

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A handful of Pakistani Muslim youths are beginning to question the existence of God and in the process giving up Islam to become atheists. Still a small number, the trend seems to be telling of pressures that the image of militant Islam has had on them. A Facebook group has been floated for Pakistan's agnostics and atheists by Hazrat NaKhuda, a former Pakistani Muslim.


US expects to subsidise Afghan training

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The United States expects to spend about USD 6 billion a year training and supporting Afghan troops and police after it begins pulling out its own combat troops in 2011.


Thieves who taunted cops on YouTube jailed

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A gang of thieves in Britain, who made rap videos taunting policemen and then posted these on YouTube, has been caught and jailed. "Night Crawlers" gang led by Matthew Murtagh struck at 17 homes. They boasted they could never be apprehended, The Sun reported Monday.


Suicide attack in northwest Pakistan kills 20

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A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a police station in northwest Pakistan today, killing at least 20 people, including 11 policemen and four schoolchildren.


Mexico marijuana smokers demand its legalisation

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With the nation in the throws of a violent drug war, over 200 people gathered in a central Mexico City park to smoke marijuana and demand it be legalized, a reporter witnessed.


Guatemala mudslides kill at least 38

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Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala — some of them rescuers trying to save people already buried under a wall of mud.


American Muslims ask, will we ever belong?

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For nine years after the attacks of Sept. 11, many American Muslims made concerted efforts to build relationships with non-Muslims, to make it clear they abhor terrorism, to educate people about Islam and to participate in interfaith service projects. They took satisfaction in the observations by many scholars that Muslims in America were more successful and assimilated than Muslims in Europe.


She ate 181 chicken wings in 12 minutes

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The Black Widow of eating contests gobbled up nearly 181 chicken wings in 12 minutes, devouring the national championship record in Buffalo on Sunday.


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