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The toughest place to be a binman - Jakarta and the surrounding metropolitan areas are home to 28 million people, and the Indonesian city is struggling to cope with all the rubbish it generates. What's it like for the binmen?Each day soon after sunrise, Imam Syaffi sets off with his hand-pulled cart to collect the rubbish from some of the more desirable residences in Jakarta.With his cheery cry

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A new study based on interviews with more than 200 North American Muslims concludes that a recent spate of state laws banning "sharia law" from the court system may be an overreaction to a non-existent threat.Oklahoma, Tennessee and Louisiana each passed laws or referendums to ban state judges from considering sharia and other foreign laws last year, and more than 20 other states have debated

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The global protests may actually undermine democracy rather than strengthen it - On paper, it isn't easy to reproduce the oddity of the Occupy the London Stock Exchange rally that took place on the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral last weekend. It's all very British—people are cooking pots of porridge on the sidewalk—yet reverent homage is being paid to the original Occupy Wall Street protests, too.

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A Picture of Democracy - How digital cameras and smartphones might reduce corruption in Afghanistan and elsewhere. With the deadline approaching for troop withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. is facing the unhappy prospect of handing off military and political control of both countries to thoroughly corrupt regimes. Of the 178 countries in Transparency International’s Corruption

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Gaddafi is Africa's latest "Big Man" to fall - Libya's Muammar Gaddafi is just the latest name to be struck from the list of Africa's so-called "Big Men", the dwindling band of strongarm rulers who are finding it ever harder to keep their grip on power.But while the death of Gaddafi was at least partly the result of outside intervention, it is domestic pressure from Africa's increasingly

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Ten Money Lessons From The Bible -- You probably won't find a copy of the King James Bible on the "business" or "personal finance" shelf of your local bookstore or library.But while the ancient nature of the text may not offer much insight for those consulting it for advice on the derivatives market or the moral underpinnings of Goldman Sachs(GS_) playing "both sides" of a deal, there are still

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Why do the media treat Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry differently? - Michele Bachmann has lately fallen on hard times. Since her big win at the Iowa straw poll in August, Bachmann has endured a lack of campaign funds, the insults of an ex-campaign manager, underwhelming debate performances, and, most important, the loss of supporters to Rick Perry. On paper, Bachmann and Perry have a lot in

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Is China More Powerful Than America? - A fascinating new book argues that the United States has already been eclipsed as the world's dominant economic power.According to Voltaire, the Roman Empire fell "because all things fall." It is hard to argue with this as a general statement about decline: Nothing lasts forever. But it is also not very useful. In thinking, for example, about American

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How bad can it get if the US falls into recession? — Are investors overreacting to the prospect of a recession?The slightly better jobs report on Friday notwithstanding, the odds of a recession appear to be climbing, and that's bringing back scary memories. Though stocks may look cheap thanks to record corporate profits, that was also true the last time the U.S. was heading into a downturn. Based

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The Palestinian Islamist movement in a new light - Sara Roy has spent 25 years engaged in some form of research on the Gaza Strip and West Bank. She has written “Failing peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict” and “The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development.” In her latest book, “Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza,” she tackles Hamas, focusing on its little known social

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It is time for the Palestinian people to gain their freedom and independence - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas filed a formal application with the U.N. on Friday asking for international recognition of statehood for his people.The formal request "reflects a loss of faith after 20 years of failed peace talks sponsored by the United States, Israel's main ally, and alarm at relentless Israeli

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Clergy Sex Abuse Victims File International Court Case Against Pope — Clergy sex abuse victims upset that no high-ranking Roman Catholic leaders have been prosecuted for sheltering guilty priests brought their claims Tuesday to the International Criminal Court, seeking an investigation of the pope and top Vatican cardinals for possible crimes against humanity.The Center for Constitutional Rights

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After Gaddafi, what next? - After months of see-saw battles in the Sahara Desert, Libya's rebels are now making their first serious push to Tripoli. Rebel fighters reportedly captured Jaddayim on Sunday, which places them only 25 miles away from the capital, where fighting has already kicked off. Late on Saturday, fierce clashes broke out in several neighborhoods in Tripoli and sporadic

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Where's Muammar Gaddafi ? - After an extraordinary night in which Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year iron grip on power seemed to crumble, there were fierce fighting in parts of Tripoli between the Libyan leader's die-hard supporters, and the thousands of rebel fighters who had poured into the city just 12 hours before. With crowds pouring into the streets to celebrate the end of Gaddafi's autocratic

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Warren Jeffs sentenced to life plus 20 years in prison as picture emerges of 50 brides, bred to worship the polygamous 'prophet' - Church leader sentenced to life plus 20 years in prison for two counts of sexually assaulting a child - Jury took less than half an hour to decide on the maximum possible sentence - Decision comes as photograph emerges of 50 of his wives, smiling for the camera in a

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Vatican recalls envoy to Ireland over priest abuse scandal -- The Vatican on Monday recalled its envoy to Ireland in the wake of a blistering report accusing church leaders of covering up extensive abuse of young people by priests.Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza was recalled to Rome "for consultations with the (Vatican) Secretariat of State," the official Vatican Information Service said in citing a

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Election bid a tough ask for China's independent candidates -- Kezai started receiving professional tennis coaching at the age of eight. Since then his father has worked hard to cover his training costs.Two years on and it all seems to have paid off. In June, a local Chengdu company reached out to Li Chengpeng, Kezai's father, with an offer to sponsor Kezai.Soon after, a professional photographer

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India Spat Causes Durex Condom Shortage -- Can you name a condom brand other than Durex? Many will find it difficult: Durex is by far the world's top-selling condom maker. But, in the short term at least, some consumers may have trouble spotting the multicolored Durex boxes in pharmacies and supermarket shelves.This is because Durex's supply of condoms from India has stopped since May, according

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Strategies for Success - Two years after shares hit rock bottom, investors are still grappling with risk. From the Greek debt crisis, political turmoil in the Middle East and the stalled US recovery to Australia's patchwork economy and fears about a carbon tax, it's enough to make investors crawl under the bed along with their savings.But that would be a mistake.In the boom years leading up to

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51st state? Small step forward for long-shot 'South California' plan - A Republican member of the Riverside County Board of Supervisors wants his county and 12 others to secede from California and form the 51st state. His colleagues gave him an unenthusiastic go ahead Tuesday to explore the idea.An effort to turn 13 southern California counties into the nation's 51st state took a small step

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Have YOU found your photo face? If you shy away from cameras, it's time to get a fail-safe look - Gathering dust in the attic are box upon box of pictures from my formative years — school, university, my first years living in London. They’re all pretty consistent: atrocious hairstyles coupled with an equally lamentable dress sense. The real stand-out feature, however, is that in most of them

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President Barack Obama is Dead -- Hackers took control of a FoxNews.com Twitter account on Monday and sent six false tweets saying that US President Barack Obama had been shot dead, prompting an investigation by the Secret Service."Hackers sent out several malicious and false tweets that President Obama had been assassinated," Foxnews.com said in a statement about the latest in a wave of

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Your boss won't 'like' this: Website lets you do this - Browsing Facebook at Work without Fear of Getting Caught - It is a constant battle at work - how to keep up with your friends on Facebook without risking your boss walking past your screen and catching you slacking. But a website developed by a sly Ivy League university student is attempting to change all that for good - or for bad,

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A close look at the American society - The “value system” of Jews and the traditional value system of America are NOT in line with one another. Jews have long held, and continue to hold a DUAL morality system: One set of values for dealing with other Jews, and another set for dealing with everyone else. In her early years, (most) people immigrating to America wanted ONE thing – the better

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In Defense of Sex Addicts - It's a feminist victory when men confess to the condition - On Saturday, a spokesperson for Rep. Anthony Weiner announced the congressman's plans to check into rehab. While Weiner hasn't specified what he'll be treated for, some speculate that, like Tiger Woods, he may be dealing with sex addiction. In a 2010 piece reprinted below, Hanna Rosin champions professional

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20 TIPS FOR WORKING AND BREASTFEEDING - Women have always worked and breastfed. The pioneer mother on the prairie had lots to do besides nurse her babies, and even modern mothers who are at home during the day struggle with the work of running busy households while responding to the needs of their infants. Combining working and breastfeeding is not really a new concept. In 1967 Martha

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Civil war looms as dozens killed in Yemen capital – Dozens of Yemenis were killed in overnight gun battles in the capital, government officials said on Thursday, as fighting aimed at ending President Ali Abdullah Saleh's three-decade-long rule threatened to ignite civil war.Residents were fleeing Sanaa by the hundreds, hurriedly fastening possessions to the roofs of cars, hoping to escape the

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Much of the southern and southeastern part of the state of Louisiana is delta. There are two, the larger Mississippi River delta and the Atchafalaya River delta, separated by wetlands of all description. For hundreds of miles, the coast of the Gulf of Mexico is an ever changing mix of marsh, mud flat, channels and swamp.As the record flooding of the Mississippi River flows southward, both deltas

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Sarkozy enlists tech A-list for Web economy forum – When the Internet world's titans alight in Paris next week for a two-day forum hosted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, two often clashing views on the digital world will be on display.One, typically espoused by new companies like Google Inc or Amazon.com Inc challenging the status quo, favours a hands-off regulatory approach and favorable

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Seven Habits of Highly Frugal People - The book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has sold over 15 million copies since it was first published in 1989, teaching people all over the world how to live a happier, more successful and more satisfying life. One of the prevailing themes of the book is the fact that to change your life you need to change your attitude because no one else is

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The terrifying moment a riderless horse jumped barrier and landed on unsuspecting spectators during prestigious steeplechase - Seven people were injured when a horse jumped over a fence and into a crowd of spectators at a popular carnival in Australia.Riderless Banna Strand veered off course during the race and jumped into watching spectators at the Grand Annual Steeplechase at the race in

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After Bin Laden: What might come nextAfter an extraordinary week of events in the United States and abroad, one thing is clear: Osama bin Laden's death at the hands of American forces has the potential to ripple out into global affairs in many ways — political and military, diplomatic and cultural, and of course U.S. national security.In these dispatches, Associated Press journalists from around

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Osama Bin Laden is top of the US most wanted list - He is accused of being behind a number of atrocities, including the 1998 bombing of two US embassies in East Africa and - most notoriously - the attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001.Since then, his al-Qaeda network has been linked indirectly to bombings on the island of Bali in Indonesia and its capital Jakarta, as well as

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Terminators to Tripoli - Killer drones in Libya: The global expansion of remote-controlled warfare - On Thursday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced the next stage of the most important military invasion of the 21st century. It isn't the invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan, or Libya. It's the invasion of warfare by unmanned vehicles.The invasion began quietly years ago, with scattered, occasional

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Why Twitter Wants to Acquire TweetDeck - Why is Twitter so interested in acquiring TweetDeck? To answer that question, one has to dig deeper into Twitter’s complicated relationship with “frenemy” UberMedia.The Wall Street Journal published a story Monday claiming that Twitter is in talks to acquire TweetDeck, the most popular third-party client on Twitter’s platform, for around $50 million. This

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At Home with the Pope: Inside Benedict XVI's Daily Life - Pope Benedict XVI isn't alone in his apartment at the Vatican. Four "guardian angels" help him, and recently there has been an addition to the personnel at his service.For the past six years, the Pontiff's Vatican apartment has been run by members of the Memores Domini, a lay association whose members practice obedience, poverty and

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Former Bishop Vangheluwe Downplays Child Abuse - The Belgian Catholic Church must have felt it hit a nadir last year when it had to face harrowing revelations of rampant child sex abuse among its priesthood. However, the church's reputation is now at a new low, thanks to the ill-judged comments of the disgraced former Bishop of Bruges, who in April 2010 admitted to abusing his nephew. Belgians

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Vatican sanctions Belgian bishop who abused nephew – The Vatican is using its new rules to crack down on sex abuse by high-ranking churchmen, revealing that it has ordered a Belgian bishop to no longer work as a priest while officials determine his punishment.Bishop Roger Vangheluwe, 74, admitted abusing his nephew and resigned a year ago, just as the sex abuse scandal was spreading across Europe

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Credit card debt consolidation and debt relief continue to be much-needed and sough-after today as Americans struggle with high unemployment, extended unemployment, and credit card balances that once again are on the rise. Fortunately, these types of debt relief and debt management programs are easier than ever to apply for and qualify for.How to get started with these programs will be discussed

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What a government shutdown means to you - The ongoing standoff in Washington over the federal budget is now less than three days away from its deadline, with Republicans and Democrats still locked in disagreement in the House of Representatives. If the parties can't pass a spending plan by the end of Friday, money will stop flowing from federal coffers, and the government will start to shut

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Lawmaker Criticizes Controversial Muslim Group for 2009 Fundraising Letter to Qaddafi - A letter from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, to Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi has added fuel to criticisms of the controversial group and what its critics say are some dubious fundraising tactics.In the letter, obtained by Fox News and dated Sept. 23, 2009, CAIR executive director Nihad

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The pictures that are worth more than a thousands words: Artist compiles stunning creations using only letters - Everyone knows the well-worn saying about pictures and words.But a Spanish artist has turned that concept on its head with these images which each contain up to 200,000 words of varying lengths, heights and colours.They are so detailed that from afar, each simply looks like a picture

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Kate was bullied at her £30,000 'insidious' girls' school 'for being too skinny and meek' - Kate Middleton may have been forced to leave a top public school by ‘insidious’ girls who wrote her off as skinny and meek, it has emerged. The 29-year-old spent just two terms at Downe House before leaving in April 1996 for Marlborough College.As day girl, not a boarder, she was in the minority in a

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What is the CIA doing in Libya? - Last Thursday March 24th, President Barack Obama, just back from a five-day trip to Latin America, convened his national security team for a White House meeting on Libya.The meeting came five days into the U.S.'s air strikes targeting Libyan air defenses and military sites. And some lawmakers on Capitol Hill were already expressing misgivings over what they said

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Former Air Force major forecasts UFO sightings at Prince William and Kate Middleton's Royal wedding - Prince William and Kate Middleton’s royal wedding is expected to be viewed by over a billion people around the world – but also by a few UFOs according to a retired Air Force major.Former military officer George Filer runs the National UFO Centre and says it’s common to see the

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The dangers of lumping our friends in with our enemies – Remember when your parents used to drag you out of bed for Sunday school? I do. Despite my best efforts to persuade my parents to let me sleep in, growing up in a religious, middle class, Muslim American home meant I attended mosque every weekend for nearly a decade. So when Rep. Peter King (R) of New York and others insist that 85

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Wal-Mart gets sympathetic court bias case hearing – Wal-Mart got a sympathetic hearing from several Supreme Court justices on Tuesday as the retailer sought to prevent female employees from bringing the largest class-action sex-discrimination lawsuit in history.The justices sharply questioned whether more than a million female employees can join together against Wal-Mart Stores Inc, accused of

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If Saddam Hussein were still in power, this year's Arab uprisings could never have happened - The most heartening single image of the past month—eclipsing even the bravery and dignity of the civilian fighters against despotism in Syria and Libya—was the sight of Hoshyar Zebari arriving in Paris to call for strong action against the depraved regime of Col. Muammar Qaddafi. Here was the foreign

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Hundreds of Africans reach Italy in boats – Boatloads of illegal African migrants have resumed setting sail from Libya for Italy, authorities said, overwhelming tiny islands and towns in southern Italy already struggling to host thousands fleeing unrest in Tunisia.Before dawn Sunday, Italian coast guard vessels escorted a boat crowded with 284 Somalis, Eritreans and Ethiopians to shore, the first

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"Operation Odyssey Dawn" breaking for Washington - The French strikes against Libya are not a French operation, but a subcontracting component of Odyssey Dawn Operation under the authority of U.S. AfriCom. Their objective is not to rescue Libyan civilians, but to serve as a pretext to pave the way for the landing of U.S. forces on the Black continent,It was France, the United Kingdom

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Justice Department sues on behalf of Muslim teacher, triggering debate — Safoorah Khan had taught middle school math for only nine months in this tiny Chicago suburb when she made an unusual request. She wanted three weeks off for a pilgrimage to Mecca.The school district, faced with losing its only math lab instructor during the critical end-of-semester marking period, said no. Khan, a devout

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Will Japan's nuclear crisis end in catastrophe? - To most of us, nuclear is an all-or-nothing word. Nuclear war is unthinkable. Nuclear weapons must never be used. Nuclear power plants must be perfectly safe. Nuclear meltdown is the end of the world. "Going nuclear" means you've hit the fatal button, and there's no turning back.The crisis in Japan is teaching us that this isn't true. Nuclear

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Atlantis, Lost City Swamped By Tsunami, May Be Found - A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago in mud flats in southern Spain."This is the power of tsunamis," head researcher Richard Freund told Reuters."It is just so hard to understand that it can wipe out 60 miles inland, and

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Tsunami center widens warning to include Hawaii – Hawaii and other parts of the Pacific are bracing for a destructive tsunami after a massive earthquake struck in Japan.Tsunami sirens were sounded and coastal areas were being evacuated in Hawaii, where the first waves were expected to hit at 3 a.m. Friday.The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center widened its tsunami warning beyond East Asia

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Major tsunami damage in N Japan after 8.9 quake – A magnitude 8.9 earthquake slammed Japan's northeastern coast Friday, unleashing a 13-foot (4-meter) tsunami that swept boats, cars, buildings and tons of debris miles inland. Fires triggered by the quake burned out of control up and down the coast.At least one person was killed and there were reports of several injuries in Tokyo, hundreds of

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" YUDHOYONO ABUSED POWER " - HEADLINE THE AGE (AUSTRALIA) - Secret US diplomatic cables have implicated Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in substantial corruption and abuse of power, puncturing his reputation as a political cleanskin and reformer. The cables say Mr Yudhoyono has personally intervened to influence prosecutors and judges to protect corrupt political figures and

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For people who happen to be members of the Ahmadiyah community, everything seems to be going wrong lately. In fact they could be compared to people stranded on an island on the point of being swallowed by a merciless ocean. What has put them in this precarious situation? "Resorting to violence in settling problems related to Ahmadiyah, in any forms, is something intolerable. In Islam,

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Mystery photo of 'English Loch Ness Monster' taken in Bowness - A MYSTERIOUS 'monster' - dubbed Bow-nessie - appears to have been caught on camera for the first time. A shape claimed to be a giant beast — said to be up to 50ft long — was spotted emerging from the depths of Lake Windermere near Bowness in Cumbria, last week. In the grainy picture, which is eerily reminiscent of classic

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Attack of the flying saucers! How six 'UFOs' sparked a nationwide panic when they landed in Britain in 1967 - The alien invaders arrived without fanfare. No gigantic spacecraft casting mile-wide shadows over our great cities. No death rays and no obvious threats to annihilate humankind.And for their beachhead on planet Earth, these unassuming extraterrestrials chose not Central Park in New

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What is an Earthquake Swarm? - The United States Geological Survey has reported a large number of earthquakes in central Arkansas with the largest quake thus far -- a 4.7 temblor -- occurring on Monday.This earthquake is the largest to hit the state in the last 35 years and understandably has nerves on edge. The earthquakes in Arkansas are being called an earthquake swarm. The term may sound

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Referee sets world record by showing 36 red cards in a single game (one for all the players, subs and coaches) - It was a game of football that would make even the most heated of Premier League clashes look relatively genteel.A referee has set a soccer record by whipping out a staggering 36 red cards in a single game.Argentinian official Damian Rubino sent off all 22 players plus the substitutes

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The ghost map: Yorkshire tops spook league with a third of adults claiming to have seen a spectre - Ghosts are busting out all over Britain, according to a survey which shows record-breaking rates of spooky experiences.Research by leading psychologist and paranormal investigator Professor Richard Wiseman reveals that a quarter of British adults - more than 11million people - claim to have

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'Zombie ants' controlled by parasitic fungus for 48m years - Earliest evidence of fungus that takes over ants' behaviour for its own ends found by scientistsThe oldest evidence of a fungus that turns ants into zombies and makes them stagger to their death has been uncovered by scientists.The gruesome hallmark of the fungus's handiwork was found on the leaves of plants that grew in Messel, near

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'No wonder he felt a little ruff': Metal detector finds 100-year-old diamond ring inside puppy - When a distressed woman couldn’t find her diamond ring, she decided to scan her puppy with a metal detector and discovered the pooch had swallowed it.Karen Woolley, from Thrumpton, Nottinghamshire, panicked when she noticed the priceless family heirloom had gone missing from behind her bedside

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Can your dreams predict the future? The intriguing book that examines the psychology of the paranormal - Aberfan is a small village in South Wales. In the Sixties, many of those living there worked at a nearby colliery that had been built to exploit the large amount of high-quality coal in the area.Although some of the waste from the mining operation had been stored underground, much of it

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Going to London for the royal wedding - London's tourism industry expects a major boost this spring when people from around the world flood the city to watch Prince William wed his long-time girlfriend Kate Middleton. The event, which could be the most expensive celebrity wedding of all time, is set to take place at Westminster Abbey on Friday, April 29.Navigating London travel during the

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Seriously? What is Paris Hilton doing in the Middle East? - As if we haven’t suffered enough from Paris Hilton overload in the United States ... she’s going international. Brace yourselves. According to news sources, Paris Hilton plans to make her show, ”My New BFF,” (that’s “Best Friends Fo-Eva") into a global franchise, next stop Dubai. Michael Hirschorn, the show’s producer, said that

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Paris Hilton Converts to Buddhism - Former socialite, Paris Hilton has now decided to convert to Buddhism, after sensationally converting to Islam last week, her press officer, Ian Brinkham has revealed."What can we say, Paris thought she was into that other religion last week but she gets bored all too easily. Besides, the praying five times a day thing with fasting was really getting on her

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Paris Hilton Converts to Islam - Saudi Arabia - Former American socialite, Paris Hilton has converted to Islam, her spokesman, Ian Brinkham, has revealed to CBS news."She has been toying with the idea for quite a while now and when she was imprisoned at Century Regional Detention Facility in 2007, she encountered a few people who had already converted," Mr Brinkham said.By converting to the

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The high church: Chapel that really IS that little bit closer to God - This is the church where religious leaders really are preaching from on high - perched 130ft on top of a pillar of rock.The tiny church sits precariously on top of a jagged cliff which has been eroded by weather over almost 14 centuries.It is believed that Pagans built the temple in the bizarre location as the pillar was

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Indian man with 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren - A 66-year-old man in India's remote northeast has 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren, all living under one roof. A family photograph of the 181 members of the Ziona family in Baktawang, Mizoram, India Photo: RICHARD GRANGE/BARCROFT The sons and their wives, and all their children, live

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Five Secrets From Tax Professionals - Traffic is brisk on the Internal Revenue Service website, with nearly 300 million visits in 2010, up 2.4 percent from the year-ago period. The online traffic at IRS.gov includes visits from professional tax accountants, who prepared about 64 million of the 99 million tax returns that were filed electronically last year."Tax laws change constantly. You have to

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Money Tips for Widows and Widowers - In her new book A Widow's Story, author Joyce Carol Oates writes about losing her husband of 48 years. Amid the grief, guilt, and learning how to live again, the topic of losing a spouse also raises financial challenges, which can compound the trauma of the experience. If your deceased spouse balanced the bank accounts, then how will you do so without him? If

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Excavating the Origins of Maya Civilization - There are various types of archaeology: small test pits, wide-area exposures, architectural reconstruction, regional survey, etc. Our strategy at the Maya site of Ceibal (also written as Seibal in English literature), in the tropical lowlands of western Guatemala, is decidedly a vertical pursuit. Dig deep and trace 2,000 years to Ceibal’s

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The Maya Archaeologists at Ceibal - Our team of researchers is international and interdisciplinary. Archaeologists and students come from the United States, Guatemala, Japan, Switzerland and Russia. Each of them is in charge of an excavation operation, directing a group of workers and documenting excavation processes and finds.One exception is me — I’m not too ashamed to claim the privilege

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The pioneering Brits who are heralding the dawn of the new Zeppelin age - When the Hindenburg blew up in 1937, so did the airship industry. So why is Britain building a fleet of the world's biggest, for the Americans, in our old Zeppelin sheds? A Hybrid Air Vehicles prototype; the first ships are due to be completed in 2012 2015: Regent’s Park International AirportA line of limousines and

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The secret letter that claims Charlie Chaplin was the son of a gypsy queen - A letter hidden for years by silent movie pioneer Charlie Chaplin has come to light which claims he lied about his birthplace and was in fact born in a gypsy caravan.The letter, written to Chaplin in the 1970s, claims he was born on the 'Black Patch' near Birmingham rather than in London as previously

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Secrets of hibernating bears 'could save lives' of stroke and heart attack victims - The secret of how bears hibernate could save thousands of lives, researchers say.They believe that if the mechanism can be replicated in humans, then the ‘golden hour’ – the vital window in which those who have suffered a stroke, heart attack or severe trauma need to be treated – could be extended to a ‘

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Junk food makes woman have orgasms - Domestic goddess Nigella Lawson made cooking a raunchy, sensual experience but she has nothing on Gabi Jones. When Miss Jones eats to excess, she has an orgasm.The 25-year-old has now ballooned in weight to 223kg (35st) after eating enough ice-cream, cakes and pizzas to reach the height of sexual pleasure.Gabi Jones, 25, has found that stuffing her face with

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Di Dunia Ini, Yang Salah Itu Adalah Islam ... ??? - Kalau ada bentrok antara Ustadz dengan Pastur, pihak Depag, Polsek, dan Danramil harus menyalahkan Ustadz, sebab kalau tidak itu namanya diktator mayoritas. Mentang-mentang Ummat Islam mayoritas, asalkan yang mayoritas bukan yang selain Islam - harus mengalah dan wajib kalah. Kalau mayoritas kalah, itu memang sudah seharusnya,

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Love Drug? Oxytocin's Tender Effects Questioned - With Valentine's Day just around the corner, love is in the air. Or is it oxytocin? This so-called "love hormone" is involved in social bonding, and it always seems to get a publicity boost around Feb. 14. But research suggests that oxytocin isn't all roses and heart-shaped chocolates. Oxytocin is marketed as an all-purpose

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Spoiler Alert: 'Jeopardy!' Man vs. Machine Tourney Concludes - Note to self: Never play "Jeopardy!" with a supercomputer.That's a useful lesson for me or any mortal who has followed the Man vs. Machine faceoff this week on the popular trivia game show, where on Wednesday the second of two exhibition matches sealed the deal: Watson, the IBM-created megabrain, officially buried his flesh-and-blood

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Scientists hope disc of older stars found in Andromeda will reveal the building blocks of our own galaxy - A thick stellar disc of older stars in the Andromeda Galaxy has been identified by astronomers for the first time.The discovery of the disc in Messier 31 - the nearest large spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way - will help scientists better understand the processes involved in the formation

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Teenage belly dancer embroiled in Silvio Berlusconi sex scandal cashes in on new fame by appearing semi-clothed in advert - The teenage belly dancer who Silvio Berlusconi is accused of sleeping with while she was under-age has cashed in on the scandal by appearing in an Italian TV advert.Karima El Mahroug, 18, strips to her underwear in a commercial for The Female Labyrith, a book by a former

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Curveball deserves permanent exile for WMD lies, say Iraq politicians - Defector Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi's hope of a political career met by scorn following admission he lied about Saddam Hussein's weapons programmePoliticians in Iraq have called for the permanent exile of the Iraqi defector, codenamed Curveball by his US and German handlers, who admitted to the Guardian he lied about Iraq

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Is this the real thing? Site claims to have uncovered Coca-Cola's top secret formula - Ever since the creation of Coca-Cola in 1886, the precise recipe has been a closely guarded secret.The only official written copy is supposedly held in a U.S. bank vault and only two company employees at any one time are said to know the whole formula that gives the fizzy drink its distinctive flavour.But

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Big strides for the little man: Magical moment three-month-old Tiny takes his first steps - Carefully balancing her son's hands in her own as he stares fixedly ahead, Tiny the gorilla takes his first ever steps under the watchful gaze of his mother.The straw on his head serves as a reminder to previous failed attempts by the three-month-old.At first, Tiny, who is only 1ft tall, clings on to

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'Doomsday' asteroid could slam into the Earth on April 13, 2036... but don't worry, we'll have seven years' warning - An asteroid travelling at 23,000mph could crash into Earth on April 13, 2036 killing millions and causing global chaos, scientists claim.In a plotline taken straight from a science-fiction film, astronomers in Russia are predicting that the 300-yard-wide Apophis could slam

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Nokia and Microsoft form partnership - Nokia has joined forces with Microsoft in an attempt to regain ground lost to the iPhone and Android-based devices.The deal will see Nokia use the Windows phone operating system for its smartphones, the company said.It means that Nokia's existing operating systems will be sidelined.Speaking at the launch of the partnership, Nokia's chief executive Stephen

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Fossil shows man walked tall 3 million years ago - It was a small step for an apeman, but a giant leap for mankind.Scientists have pinpointed the moment when our ancestors finally abandoned the trees to walk upright like modern people.In a breakthrough that helps rewrite human evolution, researchers have found a fossilised foot bone from an early human relative who strolled confidently on two

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Goalkeeper sent-off after 10 seconds - A lot of preparation goes into a football match - you train all week, you do all the pre-match stretches, and you psyche yourself up. Therefore, it is not exactly ideal to get yourself sent-off after just 10 seconds of the game itself.However, that is exactly what happened to Ebbsfleet United goalkeeper Preston Edwards last weekend in a Conference South

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Is Twitter Worth $10 Billion? - As Internet valuations climb and bankers and would-be buyers circle Silicon Valley in an increasingly frothy tech market, many eyes are on one particularly desirable, if still enigmatic, target: Twitter. Discussions with at least some potential suitors have produced an estimated valuation of $8 billion to $10 billion.Executives at both Facebook Inc. and Google

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Is the Effort to Send Messages to an Alien Civilization a Threat to Earth? - Earth's attempts to contact intelligent, extraterrestrial life could be too disorganised or cryptic for non-human beings to decode, US physicists have reported. In a submission to the international journal, Space Policy, astrophysicists Dimitra Atri, Julia DeMarines and Jacob Haqq-Misra suggested that a protocol be

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Is Bulletstorm the Worst Video Game in the World? - Parents had better beware: There's a Bulletstorm on the horizon. In the new video game Bulletstorm due February 22, players are rewarded for shooting enemies in the private parts (such as the buttocks). There’s an excess of profanity, of course, including frequent use of F-words. And Bulletstorm is particularly gruesome, with body parts

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What the Year of the Rabbit means for you - The tiger’s been tamed — and in its place, a rabbit roars. Thursday night Chinese people around the world celebrated New Year saying goodbye to the ferocious Year of the Tiger, a tumultuous period of financial turmoil, heartbreaking natural disasters and political upheaval to embrace a kinder and gentler era. “It’s the year of the rabbit,”

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People born under the sign of the Ox can count on a year of luck and stability at work.RABBIT 2011 1999, 1987, 1975, 1963, 1951, 1939 You are a people person and this year you will get a lot of help from the opposite sex. Nevertheless, this is also a “rabbit” year, which requires extra effort to get anything done as rabbits tend to lack energy. Hence rabbit people must rest well, eat

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Proof that money can't buy happiness : John Paul Getty III destroyed by his family's billions For three decades, John Paul Getty III had been condemned to life in a wheelchair — spoon-fed, dressed and bathed by round-the-clock nurses, unable to see properly, walk or speak, and able to communicate only by high-pitched scream.He had been in this wretched state since 1981 when, aged 24, he

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The Oscar curse: Best actress winners have a '63% chance of ending up divorced' - Hollywood stars have long talked about an 'Oscar curse', but now researchers have proved it really does exists.A study of all the Best Actress winners has revealed that they were more likely to end up divorced than others who had been nominated but failed to win a gold statuette.Researchers at the University of

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Mystery over claims of naked Silvio Berlusconi photographs - Lawyers for Silvio Berlusconi have filed legal actions over investigations that have allegedly found photographs of him naked in the company of young women.The pictures are alleged to have been taken by one or more of the showgirls who attended the Italian prime minister’s so-called “bunga bunga” parties at his mansion outside Milan.An

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Bing Accuses Google of Click Fraud - Without a doubt, the biggest storyline in search this week has been Google accusing Bing of cheating and stealing its results, Bing semi-denying this, and the back and forth that's gone on between the two dominant search engines.The whole thing came to light when Danny Sullivan posted an article detailing Google's "sting operation," which Bing would later call

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