"The first round of the country’s first ever multi-party election was conducted in a “highly transparent” manner, finds a Commonwealth observation team, in the Maldives throughout the polls.Yet in a recognition...
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After a period of calm, events in Thailand are heating up again, with protestors renewing their push to unseat the government."Thousands of anti-government protesters surrounded Parliament on Tuesday, trapping...
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"MOGADISHU (AFP) — Somali pirates who hijacked a Ukrainian freighter carrying military weapons defiantly demanded 20 million dollars in ransom despite being surrounded by three foreign warships on Sunday. The spokesman for the pirates, contacted by AFP via satellite...
" September 27, 2008 (by Otto Smyth) According to reports by Los Angeles car accident attorneys, the legendary actor, racecar driver and entrepreneur of Newman’s Own food line has passed away after his battle with...
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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Tesco, the UK superkmarket giant, has pulled out of a plan to build "ecotowns" in Britain. The towns were supposed to contain zero-carbon flats and be generally environmentally friendly. "Gordon Brown's plan for eco-towns was unravelling last night, with Tesco withdrawing...
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It was bound to happen... a spinoff project based on the ubiquitous Lonelygirl15. (If you haven't seen this yet, just search for it on Youtube; the first "episode" appears to the left)Unlike its vlogadelic...
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"Thousands of protesters have descended onto the streets of Bangkok to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej and his cabinet. They occupied the offices of the state broadcaster NBT and surrounded the main government offices, forcing most civil servants...
Oh how I love this fairy tale, but the guys got porridge now, what a nut case falling to sleep on the job. Any way his punishment is a hard bed in small cell. Can you imagine what his cell mates will say and now that embarising nick name Goldilocks. "There was no porridge on...
Crowd control is poor in India and stampedes are common. Maybe there were many lives could be saved if the procedure of this sort incident was improved by the authorities. Just like the survivor said the victims of...
Un-naturally large swarms of jellyfish have invaded France's Cote d'Azur, and over 500 people have been stung.Protective anti-jellyfish nets are being used, but hundreds of thousands of them have made it into the...
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"Badung Regency, south coast of Bali When the other rival kingdoms in south Bali were defeated by the Dutch in 1900, Badung Kingdom gained an expansive links trade. But it was last only for six years as Badung was finally invaded in 1906 through a massive battle known as...
"A gaudy neo-classical mansion, Ferraris and Bentleys in the drive, a painting by Salvador Dalí on the wall and royalty for neighbours. Welcome to the world of Gennadios Petrov, the alleged Mr Big of the Russian...
" TINY Emilie Darrigade is the world's youngest tattoo artist - after inking a design on her dad's arm at the age of just FIVE. Emilie etched the detailed picture of a bumble bee surrounded by a laurel crown on...
Famous Actor turned director hollywood director Sydney Pollack had died of cancer. Director of Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie and The Way We Were died on Monday, surrounded by family members, at his home in...
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