Wednesday, November 10, 2010

She used margaritas to kill her boyfriend

She used margaritas to kill her boyfriend

She used margaritas to kill her boyfriend

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A woman drew a 23-year prison sentence, for killing her alcoholic boyfriend by lacing a jug of margarita cocktails with antifreeze at her apartment. "It's not as if you were captive in this house," Judge William Kocher said in imposing a near-maximum penalty on Cynthia Galens, who maintained that victim Thomas Stack was emotionally and physically abusive. "It's just senseless what you did."


Amazon under fire for sale of pedophile book

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Online retail giant Amazon has come under fire for selling a self-published digital book called "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure."


Fancy a pink diamond? Yours for about $38 mn

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A rare pink diamond goes on auction next week — and Sotheby's says the gem could set a new world record if it sells for its estimated price of $27 million to $38 million.


Renault gets green light to call its car 'Zoe'

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It could be the French version of "A Boy Named Sue" — a car named Zoe. A judge ruled on Wednesday that the automaker Renault can call its new electric car Zoe, much to the chagrin of some French women and girls with that first name.


‘The Onion’ strikes comic gold with Biden spoofs

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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has never smashed a Whac-A-Mole game in a drunken fit. He has never invoked Freedom of Information laws to find out a female federal employee's work schedule. And to the best of anyone's knowledge, he has never washed his car in the White House driveway.


Israeli fighter jet crashes during training, crew missing

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An Israeli air force F-16 crashed in the deserts of southern Israel while on a routine training flight, the military said today, adding that its two-man crew were missing.


Sixteen killed in Salvador prison fire

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A fire broke out in a prison north of El Salvador's capital on Wednesday, killing at least 16 young inmates and injuring 27.


Fashion icons: A new breed of Web-based reality stars

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Anna Dello Russo lives in a glass house — the virtual kind — her subtlest gesture or sartorial quirk scrutinized by her legions of fans. Pecking at their keyboards, those online viewers wax effusive. "She is like Coco Chanel to me," one admirer exclaimed on The Sartorialist, the popular blog. "Isn't she fabulous ... so jolie laide," gushed another on The Fashion Spot; a third posting on Ms. Dello Russo's blog, to her: "I love when you wear pink."


UK students protest proposed triple fee hike

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Tens of thousands of students marched through London on Wednesday against plans to triple university tuition fees, and violence erupted as a minority battled police and trashed a building containing the headquarters of the governing Conservative Party.


Yemen parcel bomb was set to explode over US: British police

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A parcel bomb sent from Yemen and taken off a cargo plane at a British airport last month was timed to explode over the eastern seaboard of the United States, Scotland Yard said today.


UK disputes Bush’s use of ‘waterboarding’ to save lives

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Counter terrorism experts in the UK have disputed claims made by George W Bush in his memoir that acts of torture against terror suspects after 9/11prevented attacks in Britain.


Letter from President Obama to G-20 Leaders

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President Obama sent the following letter to G-20 leaders yesterday. As we approach the Seoul Summit, the world is looking to us to work together to strengthen the global economic recovery, continue to repair the financial system, and promote the stability of global markets.


Strong US economy key to global recovery: Obama

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President Barack Obama said a strong, job-creating economy in the United States would be the country's most important contribution to a global recovery as he pleaded with world leaders to work together despite sharp differences.


Russian reporter 'staged his beating': Police

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A Russian reporter who claimed to have been badly beaten after writing about a controversial road project staged the attack and may be charged for filing a false police report, officials said on Wednesday.


Thousands of UK students protest tuition fees hike

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Tens of thousands of students marched noisily through London on Wednesday to oppose plans to triple university tuition fees, in the largest street protest yet against the government's sweeping austerity measures.


Minister makes a fuss over Michelle Obama handshake

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A conservative Muslim government minister admits he shook hands with first lady Michelle Obama in welcoming her to Indonesia but says it wasn't his choice. Footage on YouTube shows otherwise, sparking a debate that has lit up Facebook, Twitter and the rest of the blogosphere.


French bill to raise retirement age becomes law‎

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Retiring at 62 became law in France on Wednesday, a victory for President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative government and a defeat for the unions that waged massive strikes and street protests to try to stop the austerity measure.


Bush forgives Kanye West for racist remark

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Kanye West now says he "didn't have the grounds" to call George W Bush a racist and the former president says he appreciates the rapper's regret.


Car-struck deer flies through windshield, out back

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A Minnesota family heading for pizza on the first day of hunting season bagged a deer instead, when a small buck struck by an oncoming car flew through their windshield and out their rear window.


In Jakarta, Obama addresses Muslims

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In a much-anticipated speech focusing on development, democracy and religion, President Obama sought on Wednesday to strengthen America's ties with Indonesia, a rising Asian power with the world's largest Muslim population. But his intended audience was also elsewhere in the Muslim world, especially in the Middle East, where he began talking last year of a fresh start between the West and the Islamic world.


After Qantas, Singapore Airlines grounds A380s

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Singapore Airlines today joined Qantas in grounding several A380 super jumbos because of engine problems, piling more pressure on European aircraft maker Airbus and Britain's Rolls-Royce.


How Punjabi techie conned oil-family heir of millions

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A Punjabi computer repairman put the secret cult Opus Dei in Dan Brown's epic novel 'The Da Vinci Code' to great use to fleece a Latin Grammy-winning pianist and oil-family heir to the tune of $20 million. Thirty-six-year-old Vickram Bedi, and his girlfriend 39-year-old Helga Invarsdottir, of small town of Chappaqua in New York State were arrested last week and have been charged with grand larceny for duping Grammy-winning pianist and jazz composer Roger Davidson.


Insurgents arrested on Afghan plane to Middle East

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Four suspected insurgents managed to board an Afghan airliner bound for the Middle East before authorities ordered the plane to return to Kabul, Afghan and NATO officials said Wednesday. Authorities boarded the aircraft and arrested the suspects without resistance.


Smoking chimpanzee rescued in Lebanon, sent to Brazil

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A 12-year-old chimpanzee was heading to a sanctuary in Brazil on Monday after animal rights workers discovered him smoking cigarettes to entertain visitors at a Lebanese zoo.


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