| Fatal complications from oral surgery are so rare that frequency cannot be calculated |
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| First-degree assault and gang assault charges remain against an undercover police detective accused of taking part in a motorcyclists-versus-SUV driver melee caught on video |
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| Researchers call cases isolated, but warn people with serious heart problems may be at risk |
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| Evacuations issued for 1,000 homes in foothill suburbs east of L.A. in advance of second major storm that has prompted fears of mudslides |
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| Fire official says 2 men went back into home for a phone so they could call 911, but only 1 came out |
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| Three Asiatic lions, one of the world's rarest species, born in French zoo |
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| Tiger cub takes a walk through downtown Lockport, Ill., with its owner, and even ends up at a bar |
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| The Guardian reports that British intelligence has been stealing sensitive images by intercepting video chats in an effort codenamed OPTIC NERVE |
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| Mich. teacher allegedly shot cellphone video of autistic student after he got his head stuck in a chair, shared video with others |
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| The first host of the popular game show died at his home in Mill Valley, Calif., Tuesday morning after suffering a heart attack |
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| The legally blind Florida man who shot and killed his friend after a drunken argument and was let free under the state's "stand your ground" self-defense law has been given his rifle and handgun back |
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| Watch: A Brazilian tourist visiting Indonesia had his GoPro camera stolen by a monkey who managed to open the case and take some video of itself |
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Robinson Cano singles on 1st pitch with Mariners, helps Seattle beat Padres 7-1
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AP Exclusive: Airport phone system didn't give location of Los Angeles airport shooting
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As the traditional pornography industry fades and people continue to look for ways to spice up their relationships, business is booming for personalized pornography. More and more couples are becoming interested in memorializing their moments of intimacy.
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Cracks in concrete force indefinite closure of $60 million Texas high school football stadium
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Explicit photos of a young teenage children posing with guns and large sums of cash have come to light after a 13-year-old boy was shot and killed, prompting an investigation on to how these minors obtained the weapons, officials said today.
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Wyoming leads in CO2 per person; top coal mining state is a reluctant enforcer of emissions
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| Former Labour Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt apologises for having "got it wrong" in the 1970s over a civil liberties group's links to a pro-paedophile group. |
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| The Aurora Borealis, normally only visible inside the Arctic Circle, have been seen lighting up UK skies as far south as Essex. |
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Homeland Security awards $145 million contract for series of border security towers in Arizona
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Wait till you read the advice she gave.
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No stranger to the national spotlight: A look at key moments in Arizona governor's career
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California Gov. Jerry Brown will seek re-election: 'There is nothing I would rather do'
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Boston, NYC mayors refuse to participate in St. Patrick's Day parades that exclude gay groups
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Egyptian Islamic preacher to testify at April trial in NY on charges he assisted al-Qaida
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With judge's order, same-sex marriage now legally recognized in Kentucky; related case ongoing
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Yankees SS Derek Jeter goes 0 for 2 in first spring training game, an 8-2 loss to Pittsburgh
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“I am a citizen of Ukraine, but I am Russian,” one protester says.
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Markus "Notch" Persson, creator of the beloved indie sandbox sensation, revealed on Twitter Thursday that Warner Bros. and his studio Mojang are bringing Minecraft to the big screen. [Read more]
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| As Danish toymaker Lego reports a 11% rise in sales in 2013, company CEO Jorgen Vig Knudstorp tells the BBC's Aaron Heslehurst he is ''very excited'' about the Lego movie. |
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Mormon church: Members not taught they'll get planet in afterlife, as told in 'Book of Mormon'
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| The Aurora Borealis, better known as the Northern Lights, is giving spectacular displays over parts of the UK, lighting up skies from Essex to south Wales. |
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Families file lawsuit on 2nd anniversary of Ohio school shooting that left 3 teens dead
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NY jury begins deliberating at Kerry Kennedy's drugged-driving trial
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| Southampton's teenage left-back Luke Shaw describes his England call-up against Denmark as "unbelievable". |
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Top 20 Concert Tours from Pollstar
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Don't try tampering with Boeing's new "Black" phone, cover your webcam to avoid government spies, and meet the Moov fitness coaching tracker. [Read more]
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Google's mystery barge headed to Stockton, Calif. after being ordered to leave San Francisco
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Prosecutor tells jury: 4 women were killed, treated like 'garbage' by Detroit-area man
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3 dead, 3 injured in small plane crash on Hawaii's Lanai Island
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SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) - The United States told Russia to demonstrate in coming days that it was sincere about its promise not to intervene in Ukraine, after armed men seized the regional parliament in a mainly ethnic Russian region and raised the Russian flag.
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| Police close off a south-west London road following flooding from a suspected burst water pipe. |
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USS Somerset, Navy's newest ship, bears reminders of Sept. 11 Flight 93 crash in Pa.
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Unprecedented: YouTube video purports to capture Supreme Court argument, protest
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| Adam Driver is reportedly nearing a deal for a Darth Vader-type role in the J.J. Abrams-directed new "Star Wars" movie |
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VIDEO: Asylum surge: Illegals using 'fear' to avoid deportation  |
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| Tom Hanks, U2, Chiwetel Ejiofor and other nominees spoke to CBS News over the last year about their now-Oscar-nominated films and performances |
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Hindu goddess dons green, infant roadside rescue, rebel retreat, Argentinian rice for Russian newlyweds, Olympic goal gets gold and more. 
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| Standard Life's announcement that it may move operations outside Scotland in the event of independence sparks a political row. |
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| Amid the smiles, cocoa farmers taste chocolate but soon they are calculating the markup. #cocoanomics is scandalizing the industry. |
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The H block auction comes to a close as the FCC reaches the reserve price of more than $1.5 billion, which will be used to help fund the building of a nationwide public safety network. [Read more]
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Seeing gaming "health bars" appear over people's heads in real life? Young hard-core gamers transfer virtual behaviors into actual ones, according to a new study. [Read more]
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| Tottenham produce a dramatic second-leg comeback to beat 10-man FC Dnipro and reach the Europa League last-16. |
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Even though the famous floating showroom is leaving Treasure Island for Stockton, it's still far from ready for prime time -- and Google is still on the hook for half a million dollars in rent. [Read more]
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| Baked azodicarbonamide creates compounds linked to cancer in rodents; industrial workers have also developed asthma, respiratory, skin problems |
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| Bayern Munich's Jerome Boateng and Thiago Alcantara dip into CNN's 'Stein of Secrets' and reveal dressing room secrets. |
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| Of Russia's 12 million immigrants, about 2-3 million of them live in Moscow, according to the U.N. It's a high proportion for a city of 11 million people. |
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| Russia conducts a series of what it calls "military preparedness drills" near the country's border with Ukraine. |
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| A bit of insiders' knowledge can help spot Oscar winners. |
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| Western nations urge Russia to ease tensions in Ukraine's Crimea after armed men take over key offices and Moscow carries out military exercises. |
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| Why Amnesty International is accusing Israeli forces of using excessive force in the West Bank. |
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| Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel urges Russia not to take action as ousted leader's ally scrambles fighter jets to patrol border |
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The recent OS X 10.9.2 update fixes a persistent Safe Mode bug for some, but there are alternative approaches to this issue for those still affected. [Read more]
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| The 26-year-old rapper faces a court date after being bailed by police following an incident outside an Essex nightclub. |
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| Author Jojo Moyes latest novel focuses love and economic class divide in modern Britain |
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Danah Boyd, principal researcher at Microsoft Research, talks with Larry Magid about her new book, "It's Complicated: The social lives of networked teens." [Read more]
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| The striker has now been suspended by his club after the FA ruling, which cleared the Frenchman of promoting anti-Semitism. |
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The Internet's biggest radio service has growing competition, but its roster of members keeps growing too. [Read more]
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BiteLabs insists it is growing meat from celebrity tissue samples. Oh, of course Kanye is one of them. It seems hard to swallow. [Read more]
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Don't want a card reader sticking out from the bottom of your handset? This one rides piggyback. [Read more]
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| The ex-Labour Cabinet minister breaks her silence over claims an organisation she was in charge of supported paedophilia. |
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| A vote of no confidence in the leadership of Carmarthenshire council amid "unlawful" payment claims fails. |
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| Unionists express "disgust" at a planned homecoming celebration for an Irishman who police suspect was involved in the 1982 IRA bombing of London's Hyde Park. |
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| A Japan-US satellite will monitor hurricanes, blizzards, floods and droughts to help scientists understand their impact on Earth. |
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 52 people were killed Wednesday as a motorcycle rigged with explosives detonated in Baghdad's Sadr City and militants targeted mostly Shi'ite neighborhoods around the country.
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Aimed at gathering data to help track and improve a dog's health, the wireless tracking device lands in PetSmart stores next week. And there's now an Android version of the app. [Read more]
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| Northern Ireland's First Minister welcomes a judicial review into the row over state-sanctioned letters sent to IRA suspects. |
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| Venezuelan baseball stars call for peace, sparking a Twitter exchange with Venezuela's President. |
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(Reuters) - Unusually harsh winter weather appears to be behind recent signs of weakness in the U.S. economy, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on Thursday, suggesting the central bank was poised to press forward in ratcheting back its stimulus.
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The Guardian newspaper said Britain’s signals intelligence branch is stealing screenshots from hundreds of thousands of Yahoo users’ webcam videos, including a massive haul of intimate photographs.
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| Love that chocolate Haagen-Dazs ice-cream? But what about the way its makers treat their farmers? How about KitKat and the way its production impacts the environment? |
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This is the little-known story of Lotus cars and the grassroots motorsport that inspired Colin Chapman to build super-lightweight race cars. Many folks may know a little bit about the original Lotus 7 from the 1950s, and their modern kit car incarnations, but what happened to the Lotuses numbered 1 through 6? [Read more]
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Researchers at England's University of Liverpool have created Chameleon, a virus that can proliferate via Wi-Fi as efficiently as the common cold infects humans. [Read more]
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| German chancellor Angela Merkel has been on a one-day visit to the UK during which she had tea with the Queen at Buckingham Palace. |
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| The deposed head of state, who is reportedly staying in a five-star hotel outside Moscow, is facing claims of theft. |
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| More than 100 people are caught up in a 96-car pile-up on a busy stretch of motorway in Toronto, Canada. |
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| A Japanese rocket roared into orbit early Friday (Thursday afternoon ET) carrying what NASA calls its most precise instrument yet for measuring rain and snowfall. |
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| Boos and cheers greeted cabinet names for Ukraine's new government. But can a mixture of technocrats, politicians and hardened activists bring stability? |
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| The government apologises after a woman from Rochdale was invited to try to find work when she had been in a coma for two months. |
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| Gunmen loyal to Ukraine's ousted president seize the Crimea regional government building -- as the deposed Viktor Yanukocych issues a defiant statement to Russian news agencies. |
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Bridget Carey is back in her first appearance of the year, and we're torturing her today with tales of meat made of celebrities, weird food from IBM's Watson Supercomputer, dog-to-speech translation, and facial hair transplants! [Read more]
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| Artisan in Elzach, Germany creates wooden masks in centuries-old tradition |
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| A 30ft (9.1m) crack appears along the cliff top at Birling Gap in East Sussex. |
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SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's economy ended 2013 on a upbeat note thanks to strong consumer spending and investment, providing a much-needed boost to President Dilma Rousseff as she tries to rebuild her credibility with business leaders and win re-election in October.
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| Spain's government starts selling part of its stake in nationalised lender Bankia, which was saved by an 18bn-euro bailout two years ago. |
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CARACAS (Reuters) - One month ago, Henrique Capriles was Venezuela's undisputed opposition leader, espousing a vision of dialogue and measured dissent towards the socialist government.
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| At least 30 people are killed in bombings around the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, according to officials. |
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| Stuart Broad calls on his England players to follow Joe Root's example in the limited-overs series against West Indies. |
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| Castaways are divided into three tribes based on their attributes, and things get off to a bad start for the brainy ones |
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A federal judge on Thursday signed an order directing officials in Kentucky to immediately recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states and countries.
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Venezuelans began the week-long national holiday for Carnival on Thursday with some unrest in the country's capital, Caracas, still simmering."How can you enjoy carnival when people are dying?'' read one banner waved by students at drivers in a wealthy section of Caracas. 
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| The fledgling International Premier Tennis League suffered a blow when two of the world's most recognized female athletes snubbed the event. |
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The Power Brick external battery pack doubles as a Lego-compatible building platform, letting you design your own ultimate smartphone stand. [Read more]
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A pro-Russian disc jockey dressed in traditional clothing looks at her computer during a rally outside the Crimean parliament building in Simferopol in Ukraine on Thursday. 
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| US Attorney General Eric Holder is released from hospital after being briefly admitted experiencing faintness and shortness of breath at work. |
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| Discover the real cost of treats: Tune in to CNNI 2100 GMT/2200 CET Thursday. |
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| Healthcare is in the spotlight at Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona. CNN's Jim Boulden reports. |
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| French soccer star Nicolas Anelka has been given a five-match ban and fined £80,000 ($130,000) by the English Football Association (FA) for making a "quenelle" gesture in a game last year. |
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NBC News' Jim Maceda questions whether Putin will play an old Cold-War card, offering "protection" to threatened comrades in nearby nations. 
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| When you're a city's "Communicator of the Year" and have hailed yourself as a "passionate advocate" for job-seekers, you probably ought not blast one of those job-seekers in a snide, dismissive e-mail. |
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| Controversial plans to get rid of the need for evidence in Scottish criminal trials to come from two sources are endorsed by MSPs. |
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| The word "motorcycle" conjures images of tattooed men. Not so in Marrakech. |
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BlackBerry BBM chief John Sims tells CNET about why there was "no choice" but to go cross platform, fixing BBM's sign-up process, and BBM's mobile banking potential. [Read more]
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| Video footage shows the 24-year-old passenger beating the bus driver, punching him in the head several times, after the driver tried to shove him off the bus |
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| Discover the real cost of treats: Tune in to CNNI 2100 GMT/2200 CET Thursday. |
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LONDON (Reuters) - Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch's former British newspaper boss, told a London court on Thursday she had sanctioned payments to public officials "half a dozen times" but denied approving the illegal sums for which she is on trial.
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In what Yahoo called "a whole new level of violation" for users, the GCHQ collected millions of images, many of them sexually explicit. [Read more]
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Whether it's Samsung's Gear gadgets, Sony's SmartBand, or the sci-fi-like Nymi, exciting wearables were in full force at Mobile World Congress. [Read more]
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| Use of smartwatches, fitness trackers set to go into overdrive. |
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| West Brom suspend Nicolas Anelka after he is banned for five matches and fined £80,000 for his "quenelle" gesture. |
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| What started as a prank of software writing fake nonsense academic papers in 2005 has taken on a life of its own |
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| The captain of the Costa Concordia went back on board Thursday for the first time since the cruise liner crashed into the rocks off Italy's Giglio island, killing 32 people. |
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Tablets aren't phones and phones aren't tablets. The tablet makers at Mobile World Congress should probably be made aware of this. [Read more]
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As pressure builds for more regulation of the virtual currency, new chief Janet Yellen says this one is beyond the jurisdiction of the Federal Reserve. [Read more]
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An exhibit in New York features the rarely-seen color work of legendary black-and-white photographer Robert Capa. 
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Li-Jin Lee of the Taiwan Philharmonic plays the music from Super Mario on an instrument millennia old -- and it sounds amazing. [Read more]
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| David Moyes can still succeed at Manchester United but he has made mistakes during his difficult reign, says Robbie Savage |
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Revelations from the late author Stieg Larsson in the killing of Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986 suggest a link to South Africa and the dark deeds of its apartheid-era security police.
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| Thousands of mourners, including Sir Bobby Charlton, attend the civic funeral of Sir Tom Finney at Preston Minster. |
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron announced on Thursday an independent inquiry into letters sent to IRA suspects, after an angry response to the freeing of an Irishman accused of a 1982 bombing that killed four soldiers in London.
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From fitness bands to highly secure phones via future tech, we honour the products that turned our heads at MWC. [Read more]
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Dozens of vehicles were involved in a huge pileup along Highway 400 north of Toronto. Aerials courtesy of CTV. 
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Armed men raised Russian flags over government buildings in Crimea Thursday, throwing the Black Sea province firmly into the center of what experts fear could become a deadly international dispute. 
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| A British man is charged with hacking into US Federal Reserve computer servers and stealing the personal information of users - adding to previous charges. |
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| First Minister Peter Robinson welcomes the inquiry set up by Prime Minister David Cameron to look into NI's secret letters row. |
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| Dozens of gunmen seize the regional government building in Ukraine's Crimea region, where pro-Russian demonstrators have faced off against rival protesters. |
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| The alleged activities by intelligence agencies in Britain and the US are described as "creepy" by civil liberties campaigners. |
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| 'The Guardian' reports surveillance agencies from the UK and U.S. intercepted and stored Yahoo users' web cam images. |
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Dozens of vehicles were involved in a huge pileup along Highway 400 north of Toronto. Aerials courtesy of CTV. 
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| Doctors should disinfect their stethoscopes after seeing every patient because the instruments are heavily contaminated by bacteria, a study says. |
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| When you're a city's "Communicator of the Year" and have hailed yourself as a "passionate advocate" for job-seekers, you probably ought not blast one of those job-seekers in a snide, dismissive e-mail. |
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| The captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, Francesco Schettino has returned to the wreck for the first time as part of his manslaughter trial. |
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| Why PM and Clegg did not wear headphones at Merkel speech |
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| Miles of sun-kissed beaches, breathtaking mountains and lush rainforests bathed in ethereal lights -- South Africa's varied and dramatic landscape has provided a photogenic backdrop for an increasing number of Hollywood productions in recent years. |
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Whovians, start building your best Tardis. Lego Cuusoo relaxes its ban on "Doctor Who" fan-submitted projects. [Read more]
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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney reads a statement on the Obama administration’s stance on Russian military exercises near the Ukraine. 
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| Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis tells the BBC that country legend Dolly Parton has been confirmed to play this year's festival in June. |
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The default widgets such as the clock just don't feel right in Nokia's skinned Android version. In fact, the whole OS feels "off." [Read more]
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| People in cities across the world stage protests in support of journalists from the al-Jazeera network who are being detained in Egypt. |
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Viktor Yanukovych, the ousted president of Ukraine, is in Russia. 
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Armed men raised Russian flags over government buildings in Crimea Thursday, throwing the Black Sea province firmly into the center of what experts fear could become a deadly international dispute. 
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| The game that everyone plays but no-one controls |
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| Schools and colleges face 10,000 violent attacks worldwide |
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| A footballer accused of raping a woman in a Newcastle hotel room took a photo of the bedsheets, a court has heard. |
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Manhattan US Attorney's office wants information from different Bitcoin exchanges concerning recent round of cyberattacks, says Reuters. [Read more]
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| An explosion at a restaurant near a gas station killed at least four people in Doha, Qatar, on Thursday, Qatar TV reported. |
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Egyptian writings, some thousands of years old, are discovered at Luther College in Iowa. KWWL's Michael Crowe reports. 
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday accused a U.S.-based cleric of conspiring against him with the opposition by faking recordings, and dared him to "stand up in the squares" and do his politics in Turkey.
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| In London, journalists and supporters rally to show their support for colleagues arrested on terrorism charges in Egypt. |
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| First Lady Michelle Obama unveils plans for the most sweeping overhaul of nutrition labels on US food packages in more than two decades. |
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| German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she can work with the UK to reform the EU but it will not be "a piece of cake". |
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| ... and four of them could support Earth-like life |
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JERUSALEM - A leading human rights charity accused Israeli troops of being "trigger happy" in a report Thursday that cited the growing number of Palestinian civilians shot dead over the past three years. 
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| Suspected militant Islamists killed at least 37 people during an assault on a town and villages in north-eastern Nigeria, witnesses say. |
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| The Royal Bank of Scotland, part-owned by the UK government, has posted a loss for the sixth successive year, causing its share price to fall. |
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LONDON (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Prime Minister David Cameron she did not support the kind of fundamental reform of the European Union he wanted, but said Britain should stay inside the bloc to help make it more competitive.
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| The three investigators want to access any messages which may have been deleted from the athlete's iPhone device. |
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| Why Scotland's new "rhubarb and custard" away kit has not met with universal approval. |
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| Watch bald weatherman get spooked by spider. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports on creature creep-outs caught on camera. |
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| The former Sun editor also tells a court that a controversial front page about Frank Bruno's mental health issues was a mistake. |
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| CNN's Carol Costello's Op-Ed asks: Why must Jesus be so sexy in new film? |
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A Cuban intelligence officer convicted of spying in the United States was released from a federal prison on Thursday after serving around 15 years.Fernando Gonzalez, 50, a member of the so-called Cuban Five, is expected to return to Cuba in a few days, the Spanish-language El Nuevo Herald reported. 
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Ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has planned a news conference for Friday in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, Russian news agencies reported Thursday.The news conference will be held Friday at 5 p.m. local time (8 a.m. 
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Ukrainian protester leader Vitali Klitschko, the former heavyweight boxing champion who has already announced his intentions to run for president, said Europe and the United States should freeze the accounts of ousted leader Viktor Yanukovych and return the funds to the state. 
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CAIRO - An extremist Islamist group disowned by al Qaeda has brought back seventh-century laws to govern Christians living in the Syrian city of Raqqa, which it took over last year. 
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| Rebekah Brooks tells the phone-hacking trial she approved payments to public officials - but only when there was an "overwhelming public interest". |
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(Reuters) - Sears Holdings Corp said on Thursday its sales fell in a "tough-to-terrible" holiday quarter but store closures helped narrow its losses and it made progress in generating more business via the loyalty program it is betting its future on.
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| The BBC's David Shukman goes behind-the-scenes at a waste-handling site in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, which is on standby to receive 150 tonnes of chemicals from Syria. |
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Orders for long-lasting U.S. manufactured goods excluding transportation and a gauge of business spending unexpectedly rose in January, offering hopeful signs for factory activity which has slowed in recent months.
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| The government updates its child poverty strategy - but the Lib Dems claim the Conservatives "vetoed" changes to the way it is measured. |
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| Mark Plotkin says the shamans of the Amazon rainforests possess centuries of therapeutic wisdom. |
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Viktor Yanukovych, the ousted president of Ukraine, is in Russia. 
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| North Korea launched four short-range missiles into the East Sea, the South Korea Defense Ministry said Thursday. |
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| Fernando Gonzalez becomes the second of five Cubans convicted of spying to be released from a US prison after completing his sentence. |
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| Just when it looked like Ukraine was settling down after toppling pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych over the weekend, tension flared again in Crimea, the southern part of the country where support for Russia is strong. Armed men seized regional government buildings in Crimea and hoisted the Russian flag. |
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| World focuses on Ukraine but Crimea should be main fear. |
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| On first impressions, David Mach does not appear to have much in common with the high society of Royal Ascot. But the Scottish artist has captured the pomp and pageantry of the renowned racecourse in a painstakingly-crafted collage that represents "what I love about being British." |
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| The creators of Spitting Image reveal why they picked David Steel as one of their characters in the ITV programme. |
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| A 62-year-old man questioned about the theft of police documents is a former senior investigator with the Historical Inquiries Team (HET). |
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OMAGH, Northern Ireland (Reuters) - Catherine Droogan turns 40 this year. That's one of the few personal details she can be sure of.
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Al Jazeera is calling for a Global Day of Action with a focus on social media Thursday to demand the immediate release of four of its journalists who have been locked up in Egypt's prisons for months. 
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| The captain of the Costa Concordia, Francesco Schettino, returns to the wreck for the first time as part of his trial for manslaughter. |
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| North Korea on Thursday showed off a South Korean man it has detained on spying charges. |
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| British spy agency GCHQ intercepted webcam images from millions of Yahoo users around the world, according to a report in the Guardian. |
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| Climate change is worrying scientists and governments around the world -- but can the action of individual countries form the framework of a global solution? |
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| Red Bull's hopes of getting their 2014 preparations back on track with a trouble-free final test evaporate on the first day in Bahrain. |
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| Russian military exercises near the Ukraine border are raising concerns that Moscow may be putting troops in a position to move across the border if such orders are issued, a senior U.S. official familiar with the most recent administration assessment told CNN on Thursday. |
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping is to take the reins of a government body for Internet security and aims to turn China into a "cyber power", official state media reported on Thursday, as the country steadily tightens its grip online.
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ISTANBUL, Turkey – Turkey’s extraordinary corruption scandal deepened Thursday with the publication of a new audio recording purporting to show Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan instructing his son to hold out for a larger bribe on a business deal. 
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ROME - When Capt. Francesco Schettino abandoned the Costa Concordia after the cruise ship ran aground on the Italian island of Giglio two years ago, a furious harbor master ordered him to “get back on board, damn it!”On Thursday, Schettino finally did. 
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A Russian Vishnya class warship docked in Havana on Wednesday without explanation from Communist Cuba or its state media. The Viktor Leonov CCB-175 boat measures 300 feet long, 50 feet wide and holds a crew of around 200. 
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| A pony is removed from a house in the Western Isles after two years of being stabled in the living room of the property. |
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SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) - Waving the Russian flag and chanting "Russia! Russia!", protesters in Crimea have become the last major bastion of resistance to Ukraine's new rulers.
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| Net UK migration rose by 58,000 to 212,000 in the year to September 2013 - dealing a blow to Tory hopes of cutting it to 100,000 by next year. |
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - South Sudan's government troops and rebel forces have committed serious abuses that may amount to war crimes during fighting in two oil-producing regions, with patients too weak to flee shot in their beds, according to rights and humanitarian groups.
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| Destroying Syria's chemical weapons at sea |
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The leaders of Ukraine's Crimea region further distanced themselves from last week’s regime change in Kiev by announcing plans Thursday to hold a referendum on its political future. 
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned Russia on Thursday that it must be transparent about military exercises on its border with Ukraine. 
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| Would he ever fly again, now that his feet and right hand were gone? |
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| Jacques Villeneuve has not competed in the Indy 500 since his 1995 triumph in one of motor sport's most iconic events but at the age of 42 the Canadian will return to the famous Brickyard for this year's race. |
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| Is Standard Life alone in planning for a Scotland exit? |
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| Climate change is worrying scientists and governments around the world -- but can the action of individual countries form the framework of a global solution? |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin put 150,000 Russian combat troops on high alert for war games Wednesday, rattling nerves in a neighboring Ukraine already consumed by upheaval. 
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| The word "motorcycle" conjures images of tattooed men. Not so in Marrakech. |
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| The time when pro-paedophilia campaigners operated openly |
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| This was a not a normal reserve team fixture for English second-tier club Doncaster Rovers, as One Direction star Louis Tomlinson made his debut accompanied by applause and high-pitched screams. |
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| A large survey looking into why young people self-harm has revealed that being bullied is the main reason they first injure themselves. |
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO defense ministers agreed on Thursday to plan for all options for the alliance's future presence in Afghanistan, including the possibility it may have to pull out all its troops at the end of this year, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Thursday.
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GIGLIO, Italy (Reuters) - The captain of the Costa Concordia, Francesco Schettino, went back on board on Thursday for the first time since the huge cruise liner sank with the loss of 32 lives just over two years ago, accompanying experts investigating the capsize.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland sought to shake off its reputation as Britain's pariah bank on Thursday with plans to cut more costs and reposition itself as a UK-focused retail and commercial lender.
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| Gene Seymour thinks Matthew McConaughey, who lost 50 pounds for his role, will win best actor. He says the Academy loves it when actors drastically transform their appearance |
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| The government is accused by a Tory MP of "sitting idly by" and allowing bonuses at RBS. |
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| The US accuses the Syrian government of undermining the Geneva II peace talks by detaining the relatives of opposition delegates. |
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| It's the Caption Challenge. |
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SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean missionary held in North Korea said he had committed crimes against the state in a bid to establish an underground church, according to video footage provided by the North's state news agency on Thursday.
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| A deputy head teacher who has previously admitted secretly filming children in a toilet appears in court to face 48 more charges. |
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| The Israeli embassy in Japan donates more than 300 Anne Frank-related books to public libraries in Tokyo, after many copies of her diary were found vandalised. |
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| Chinese internet companies are shaking up the traditional banking sector. CNN's Pauline Chiou reports. |
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| Two Indian sailors were missing Thursday a day after the submarine they were on filled with toxic smoke. |
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| Tourists arriving in Bangkok may expect to see troops guarding key buildings and intersections, while masked vigilante protesters patrol their own roadblocks built from sandbags, barbed wire, rubber tires and debris. |
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| Sex, museums, cheese: how France beats its rivals. |
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(Reuters) - Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc, the world's largest hotel operator, reported a 13 percent rise in quarterly revenue as increasing business and leisure travel pushed up occupancy and room rates.
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| Crimean authorities tell CNN that some 50 gunmen have seized parliament. CNN's Phil Black has more. |
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| An ultra-daredevil plans to plunge off the world's tallest summit while wearing a wing-suit. |
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| A car bomb exploded Thursday, killing at least nine people near Somalia's national intelligence headquarters in the capital Mogadishu, security spokesman Idris Aden said. |
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SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine/KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's protest leaders named the ministers they want to form a new government following the overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovich, as an angry Russia put 150,000 troops on high alert in a show of strength.
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| A rising manufacturer could help train a new generation of women. |
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| A photo of an infant holding a rifle is creating shock waves on social media sites. WTNH has more. |
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's anti-corruption agency weighed charges of negligence against Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Thursday as the leader of protests aimed at forcing her from power suggested a televised debate after weeks of refusing to talk.
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| Grand slam great René Lacoste is still making his mark on the fashion world --one crocodile at a time. CNN's Max Foster reports. |
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| Amanda Davies talks to Bayern Munich players Jerome Boateng, Thiago Alcantara and Manuel Neuer about their team's success. |
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| For six years Knox and her ex-boyfriend have proclaimed each other's innocence. That may be changing slightly. |
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VIENNA/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog planned a major report on Iran that might have revealed more of its suspected atomic bomb research, but held off as Tehran's relations with the outside world thawed, sources familiar with the matter said.
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| A previously unidentified female mummy was killed in a ritual sacrifice in South America, new research has found. |
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| India's navy confirms that two sailors who went missing after smoke was detected on board a submarine died in the accident. |
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's factory activity likely expanded only slightly in February, a Reuters poll showed, dropping to an eight-month low that would indicate a modest slowdown is continuing.
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| Sheffield band Arctic Monkeys win five prizes at this year's NME awards, while Sir Paul McCartney and Blondie are also honoured. |
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| A promising way to stop a deadly disease, or an uncomfortable step toward what one leading ethicist called eugenics? |
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| Accused of being a spy in the United States, Fernando Gonzalez can expect a hero's welcome when he returns to Cuba. |
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China and Japan must ease tension in the disputed East China Sea to avoid severe "unintended consequences", U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke said on Thursday, days before he steps down as Washington's first Chinese-American envoy in Beijing.
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| The BBC's Andrew North joins a team of hunters as efforts are stepped up to find a man-eating tiger that has so far killed 10 people in northern India, most of them farm workers. |
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| An exhibit at the Hong Kong Museum of History pays tribute to the iconic cheongsam. Some say the dress's appeal is fading. Others disagree. |
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| Daredevil Joby Ogwyn has been explaining his reasons for attempting to jump off Mount Everest wearing a so-called wingsuit. |
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| The celebrity chef, armed with a cash infusion from a wealthy backer, is hoping to draw tourists to her $20 million eatery in Tennessee |
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| Picture captures scale of vast crowd of refugees in Syria |
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| Power-sharing government appears in grave danger. |
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| Photographer sees city in black and white |
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| One Direction's Louis Tomlinson has played his debut match at Doncaster Rovers football club. |
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| French right struggles in race for mayor |
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| Boeing opens its factory floor for fans to see how the planes are built. |
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| Egypt's army claims it has invented a cure for AIDS and Hepatitis C, prompting an outcry from the medical community, which blasted the declaration as a "scientific scandal." |
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| Suspicion after a school attack has fallen on Islamist group Boko Haram. But who are they and what do they want? |
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| Arizona's decision on its "religious freedom" law -- whatever that winds up being -- won't end the move to pass similar laws elsewhere, observers predicted Wednesday. |
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| Most papers react to the sentencing of two men who killed soldier Lee Rigby, while others look ahead to the visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. |
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| Sex, museums, cheese -- here's what France does better than the rest of us. |
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| Compared with the Japanese kimono and Chinese cheongsam, Korea's traditional dress -- known as hanbok, and worn by women and men -- has remained under the international fashion radar. |
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| On 12 March 2014 the world wide web turns 25, and the Pew Research Center has collected data on how Americans have reacted to it through its brief history. |
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| Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoes a bill that would have allowed businesses in the U.S. state that asserted their religious beliefs to deny service to gay customers. |
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| Qantas CEO Alan Joyce announces 5,000 jobs will be lost over the next three years, calling recent huge financial losses "an unacceptable and unsustainable result." |
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| While women, on average, take more selfies than men, according to a new research project, after age 40 things begin to change. Is it a sign of women's insecurity -- or comfort -- with the aging process? |
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| A thief who stole a car in Denver went on a shopping spree with the victim's money before bringing the vehicle right back to where he took it from |
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| Our galactic neighborhood just got a lot bigger. NASA on Wednesday announced the discovery of 715 new planets, by far the biggest batch of planets ever unveiled at once. |
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| An exhibit at the Hong Kong Museum of History pays tribute to the iconic cheongsam. Some say the dress's appeal is fading. Others disagree. |
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| More than a week after their bodies were discovered, many open questions surround the deaths of Jeffrey Reynolds and Mark Kennedy. |
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| Uncovering what lies beneath the world’s most notorious prison |
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| June Squibb has been in show business for 60 years -- but it's only now, with her performance in the film "Nebraska," that she is getting wide recognition. |
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| Dozens of steel mills can no longer afford to operate in and around Tangshan, an industrial city of 7 million people in China's northern Hebei province |
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| Classic images of Academy Awards stars over the years |
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| Strong winds have helped temporarily clear the air over Beijing and residents could not be happier. |
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| Power companies are being refused insurance cover for cyber-attacks due to inadequate defences, the BBC learns. |
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| A husband and wife are reveling in their good fortune after finding some $10 million in rare gold coins buried on their property. |
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| A paper apologizes for a story saying recently deceased actor Philip Seymour Hoffman had a gay lover. |
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| Experts are calling for the term ''dyslexia'' to be scrapped, because they say it is unscientific and lacks educational value. |
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| Scientists say they've found a mechanism by which the scent of pine forests can limit the impacts of global warming. |
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| The science team sifting data from Nasa's Kepler space telescope says it has identified 715 new planets beyond our Solar System. |
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| Readers' photos on the theme of doors |
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| The number of UK teenage pregnancies in the UK has fallen to its lowest level since 1969, Office for National Statistics figures show. |
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| Exciting new features revealed on Samsung's new smartphone. CNN's Jim Boulden reports from Mobile World Congress 2014. |
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| The CEO of LVMH luxury consortium which owns Louis Vuitton talks exclusive to CNN about the brand heritage of adventure. |
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| What has Hollywood actor to do with empowering women? |
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| 24 hours of news photos: 26 February |
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| Hybrid images from the Museum of London |
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| Give an astronaut on the International Space Station a digital camera and you're bound to end up with some astounding images -- especially if they're flying above North Korea. |
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| A Beijing school constructs two domes to allow students to play outside and avoid smog. |
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| 24 hours of news photos: 25 February |
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| Mobile World Congress returned to form this year, with Samsung, Sony, and Huawei all choosing to launch flagship devices in Barcelona. These are my picks from the show: |
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| Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said WhatsApp, the mobile messaging app purchased by the social media giant last week, was "worth more than $19 billion" during a speech given at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Monday. |
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| Prospective models at a model agency in Cambodia |
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| Google has heard all the concerns about Glass, its digital headset expected to hit the market by the end of the year. |
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| Facebook is helping to roll out a pilot online education program in Rwanda, as part of its pitch to bring internet to the unconnected world. |
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| Sony has announced a tie-up with the estate of Michael Jackson, allowing them to use his music to promote the release of a new smartphone. But the announcement left some Jackson fans unimpressed. |
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| Today's smartphones are much more than phones -- they are powerful, networked multimedia computers, and over the next 10 years they'll get far more advanced. As a result, mobility is transforming many day-to-day processes -- including how we sell, communicate, collaborate, train, and educate. |
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| 24 hours of news photos: 24 February |
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| Air pollution in northeast China |
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| President Barack Obama met on Friday with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, despite China's appeal not to do so. |
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| What's life like when your father is a billionaire, your mother is an actress, and your sexuality becomes an international headline? |
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| News from around the world: 15-21 Feb |
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| Scuba divers were taking pictures of an octopus when it decided to grab hold of the camera. |
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| With a rapidly aging population, the death industry is booming in China. CNN's David McKenzie reports. |
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| Writer Chrystia Freeland explains how the "Great Gatsby curve" could spell disaster for social mobility around the world. |
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| Like countless Americans, I recently watched the entire second season of hit political drama "House of Cards" in one weekend after U.S. video streaming site Netflix released all 13 nearly hour-long episodes. |
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| Like many companies in China, Fu Shou Yuan uses celebrities to attract clients. Except, in this case, they're dead. |
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| On the Reporters Without Borders map of global press freedom, China appears as one big black spot. |
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| While their countrymen prepared to attend to the Olympic ideals of "citius, altius, fortius" -- faster, higher, stronger -- two Russian thrillseekers traveled to China to put at least one of those to the ultimate test by scaling the as yet unfinished Shanghai Tower in the city's financial district. |
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| The number of China's so-called "baby hatches" -- places where mothers can leave newborn babies anonymously -- is set to increase as the government tries to protect more of the country's abandoned infants. |
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| Hong Kong police plan to step up efforts against vice operations in the city following a massive crackdown on prostitution last week across the Chinese border, where police in Dongguan raided 2000 establishments and detained more than 900 people. |
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| Pro mountain biker Kelly McGarry takes us to New Zealand's Queenstown Bike Park which is 790 meters above sea level. |
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| See what life in outer space could look like at The Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station. |
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| Gaza construction worker finds statue of ancient Greek god Apollo. CNN's Nic Robertson reports. |
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| GoPro has released harrowing footage of Felix Baumgartner's world record 24-mile Red Bull Stratos jump. |
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| Thought the 111 million people tuning into the Super Bowl was a lot? |
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| There's little doubt which country Australia is targeting under its immigration scheme for the super-wealthy; the investment visa is called sub-class 188 and its permanent visa is called sub-class 888. |
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| Like millions of China's migrant workers, Chen and his wife left their only daughter behind when they went to seek work in the southern boomtown of Guangzhou three years ago. |
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| China's ruling Communist Party has expelled the former mayor of Nanjing for bribery and abuse of power, describing him as "morally corrupt." |
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| Hong Kongers are howling in disappointment as their potent -- if unlikely -- symbol of protest once again goes missing from the city's shelves. |
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| A growing number of Chinese are keeping their cash in their wallets this Lunar New Year as the traditional exchange of red packets of money is moving from the physical world into the digital space. |
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| Zhou Xia walks briskly and with a certain purpose. |
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| I thought I could drink. |
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| Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company founded by British billionaire Richard Branson, has barred Chinese nationals from applying for spots on its first commercial flights. |
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| The Lunar New Year gallops ever closer and with it the world's largest human migration. |
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| When Mr He, a 39-year-old furniture factory owner came down with flu symptoms late last year, he wasn't worried. |
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| It's that time again: Lunar New Year. |
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| Xu Zhiyong, a high-profile Chinese activist accused of organizing protests against official corruption, has been convicted and sentenced to four years in prison, a Beijing court announced Sunday. |
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