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- Australian women set world record for fastest stiletto race
- How lucky? He's won the lottery. Twice.
- Iran's radar evading flying boats
- Vienna debate: Is SRK a symbol of religious unity?
- Long jail term for Iran’s ‘Blogfather’
- Mumbai style terror attack on London disrupted
- Eiffel Tower evacuated after bomb threat
- Al-Qaida insurgency in Iraq spells highest casualty toll in two years
- Obama's iPod has 2,000 songs
- Gunmen kidnap Nigerian school children, demand US $130,000 ransom
- Taliban have reached out to Karzai: Petraeus
- Israel halts Gaza-bound boat without violence
- Still few women in management: Report
- Russia’s President fires Moscow Mayor
- Move over bedbugs: Stink bugs have landed
- CIA steps up drone attacks in Pakistan to thwart Taliban
- Scientists find why women apologise so much
- South Africa: Indian-origin woman sues Bank of Baroda for discrimination
- Sikh gets life sentence in Vienna temple attack trial
- Soldier describes murder of Afghan for sport in leaked tape
- Karzai tearful as bombing kills Afghan official
- Spurned lover sparks bomb scare on Pakistan plane
- Most Americans would dump Obama in 2012: Poll
| Australian women set world record for fastest stiletto race Posted: Four Australian women have nabbed the world record for the fastest relay race in stiletto heels.
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| How lucky? He's won the lottery. Twice. Posted: The odds against winning $1 million in the Lottery: Astronomical. How about doing it twice? It happened to a man from Bonne Terre, Missouri Lottery officials said on Tuesday. Ernest Pullen, 57, won $1 million with a "100 Million Dollar Blockbuster" Scratchers ticket in June. And this month, he won $2 million with a "Mega MONOPOLY" Scratchers ticket.
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| Iran's radar evading flying boats Posted: Iran's state TV said the country's powerful Revolutionary Guard has received its first three squadrons of radar-evading flying boats. The development comes after Iran in 2009 said it had successfully tested the domestically made craft.
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| Vienna debate: Is SRK a symbol of religious unity? Posted: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan is seen as an icon of religious unity by many the world over and experts will deliberate upon the topic at a three-day conference from Thursday at Vienna University.
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| Long jail term for Iran’s ‘Blogfather’ Posted: An Iranian news Web site reported on Tuesday that Hossein Derakhshan, an influential Iranian-Canadian blogger who was arrested two years ago when he returned from self-imposed exile to live in Iran, was sentenced to nearly two decades in prison by a court in Tehran.
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| Mumbai style terror attack on London disrupted Posted: An Al-Qaeda-linked plot to launch a Mumbai-style terror attack simultaneously on London and major cities in France and Germany was disrupted by intelligence agencies, a report has said.
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| Eiffel Tower evacuated after bomb threat Posted: The Eiffel Tower was evacuated on Tuesday after officials received a bomb threat from a telephone booth, in the second such alert at the monument in two weeks. France is on alert for possible terror attacks on crowded targets.
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| Al-Qaida insurgency in Iraq spells highest casualty toll in two years Posted: This spring, United States military commanders said that the Al-Qaida in Mesopotamia was a group in disarray, all but finished as a formidable enemy after American and Iraqi troops had killed or captured more than three-quarters of its leaders.
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| Posted: US President Barack Obama's collection of 2,000 songs in his iPod mostly belongs to classics sung by Stevie Wonder and Bob Dylan and is a source of great pleasure to him.
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| Gunmen kidnap Nigerian school children, demand US $130,000 ransom Posted: Gunmen have hijacked a school-bus with 15-children on-board in a south-eastern state in Nigeria on Tuesday demanded a ransom of USD 130,000 for their release, a police official has said.
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| Taliban have reached out to Karzai: Petraeus Posted: The top American commander in Afghanistan said Monday that high-level Taliban leaders had reached out to senior Afghan government officials in the context of starting reconciliation discussions that could pave the way to end the fighting in Afghanistan.
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| Israel halts Gaza-bound boat without violence Posted: Israeli naval forces on Tuesday intercepted a catamaran carrying nine Jewish activists toward the Gaza Strip, encountering no resistance as they took control of the sailboat and escorted it to shore, the military said.
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| Still few women in management: Report Posted: Women made little progress in climbing into management positions in this country even in the boom years before the financial crisis, according to a report to be released on Tuesday by the Government Accountability Office.
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| Russia’s President fires Moscow Mayor Posted: The mayor of Moscow, Yuri M. Luzhkov, a dominant figure in Russia in the two decades since the Soviet collapse, was dismissed on Tuesday by President Dmitri A. Medvedev after questioning the president's fitness and thus rattling the tightly controlled government in Moscow.
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| Move over bedbugs: Stink bugs have landed Posted: When they retreated from the Battle of Gettysburg, Confederate troops passed by the area that is now Richard Masser's orchards. If only the latest enemy — the brown marmorated stink bug — would follow suit.
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| CIA steps up drone attacks in Pakistan to thwart Taliban Posted: The CIA has drastically increased its bombing campaign in the mountains of Pakistan in recent weeks, American officials said. The strikes are part of an effort by military and intelligence operatives to try to cripple the Taliban in a stronghold being used to plan attacks against American troops in Afghanistan.
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| Scientists find why women apologise so much Posted: If you think women say "I'm sorry" more than men do, you may be right, scientists say. Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, found that women tend to apologise more compared to the opposite sex but it doesn't mean that men are reluctant to admit wrongdoing.
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| South Africa: Indian-origin woman sues Bank of Baroda for discrimination Posted: A 24-year old South African Indian woman has taken the Durban branch of the Bank of Baroda to court, alleging that she was denied promotion as branch manage because of her age and gender.
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| Sikh gets life sentence in Vienna temple attack trial Posted: A radical Sikh man was convicted early on Tuesday in Vienna of having murdered an Indian sect leader there last year and was sentenced to life behind bars, the Austrian press agency APA reported.
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| Soldier describes murder of Afghan for sport in leaked tape Posted: On Monday, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in western Washington, Specialist Jeremy N. Morlock, one of five American soldiers accused by Army investigators of taking part in the murders of three Afghan civilians this year, appeared at a hearing to determine the formal charges against him.
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| Karzai tearful as bombing kills Afghan official Posted: A suicide bomber killed a deputy provincial governor and five others Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan, police said. Later, a tearful President Hamid Karzai decried the violence, fretting that young people will choose to flee their country.
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| Spurned lover sparks bomb scare on Pakistan plane Posted: A woman angry about her separation from her boyfriend triggered a bomb scare on a Pakistan International Airlines plane, forcing the aircraft to make an emergency landing in Sweden, a media report said.
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| Most Americans would dump Obama in 2012: Poll Posted: Most Americans don't like the way President Barack Obama is running the country, and if voters could have their say, only 38 percent would re-elect him, according to a new poll. The majority of Americans would consider replacing the president in the next election, found the poll by Politico/George Washington University. The poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters who identified themselves as "likely" to cast ballots in 2012.
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