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@placeholder's Bild newspaper, a sister publication of Bild am Sonntag, published an editorial Sunday criticizing the reported lawsuit plans. | (CNN) -- A woman convicted of murder and adultery and sentenced to die by stoning said Saturday she would sue the two German journalists who interviewed her son, Iran's government-backed Press TV reported. The men, identified only as a reporter and photojournalist, were arrested in October after they interviewed the son and lawyer of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who was convicted of adultery in 2006 and sentenced to death by stoning. Her case has drawn sharp criticism from the international community. No date has been set for her execution. Ashtiani told reporters in the northwestern city of Tabriz that she planned to sue the German nationals, Press TV reported. The men, who work for the Bild am Sonntag newspaper, are charged with espionage and are accused of working illegally as journalists in Iran.
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Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is sentenced to die by stoning
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She says she will sue two German nationals who interviewed her son
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An activist says the government pressured her to make comments to reporters
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A German newspaper describes the events as a "strange farce" | 2,400 | record_train |
The Bible commands @placeholder to wear a blue fringe on their garments. | By Ellie Zolfagharifard PUBLISHED: 08:50 EST, 2 January 2014 | UPDATED: 05:34 EST, 3 January 2014 A 2,000-year old textile containing a mysterious blue dye described in the Bible has been uncovered in Israel. The cloth, which displays one of the few remnants of the ancient colour ever found, was dyed using a snail known as the Murex trunculus. The gland of this sea-snail secretes a yellow fluid that, when exposed to sunlight, turns purple-blue and can be used to dye cloth. A 2,000-year old textile that contains a mysterious blue dye described in the Bible, has been uncovered in Israel. Researchers and rabbis have long searched for the enigmatic colour, called tekhelet in Hebrew
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Rabbis have long searched for the enigmatic blue colour, called tekhelet
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It was used in clothing of the High Priest, but the dye was lost in antiquity
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The fabrics may have been part of the property belonging to Jewish refugees from the time of the Bar-Kokhba revolt of 132-135 AD | 2,401 | record_train |
Police in @placeholder are now investigating the hacking claims as well as allegations of bribery of police. | London (CNN) -- A lawyer for numerous alleged victims of phone hacking by journalists has confirmed that he plans to launch legal action in the United States against media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Mark Lewis told CNN Friday he expects an initial hearing to be held in New York in about two to three months, as he seeks to begin legal claims in the United States. This summer's scandal around claims of phone hacking by journalists working for the now-defunct News of the World -- run by News International, the British arm of News Corp. -- rocked public confidence in the media, police and politicians.
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Lawyer Mark Lewis says an initial hearing may take place in New York this fall
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News Corp is the parent company of the publishers of News of the World
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Outrage over claims of phone hacking by the newspaper's journalists led to its closure | 2,402 | record_train |
Following the discovery of Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight and @placeholder, who had been missing for 10 years, languishing in the basement of Castro's home, there was a renewed focus on missing persons cold cases. | By Alex Greig and Hayley O'keeffe and Ryan Gorman PUBLISHED: 19:49 EST, 30 December 2013 | UPDATED: 08:30 EST, 31 December 2013 A neighbor of notorious kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro pleaded guilty Monday to hundreds of charges including murder, kidnapping and rape. Elias Acevedo, 49 pleaded guilty to 297 charges in total after previously confessed to the kidnapping, rape and murder of two women in a Cleveland neighborhood in the early 1990s, as well as repeatedly sexually assaulting his own daughters. The disturbed man was sentenced to 445 years in prison without the possibility of parole, WKYC reported.
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Elias Acevedo, 49, pleaded guilty Monday to the kidnap, rape and murder of two women who disappeared in the mid-90s
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At the time of the women's disappearance, Acevedo lived on the same block as Ariel Castro
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He also pleaded guilty to kidnapping and raping his three daughters over the past two decades
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Paternity testing shows that Acevedo fathered a child with at least one member of his own family | 2,403 | record_train |
@placeholder uses the cryptographic signature as a way to check that an app or program is legitimate and to ensure it has not been tampered with. | A 'master key' that could give hackers complete access to mobile phones and tablets running Google's Android software (logo pictured) has been revealed A ‘master key’ that could give hackers complete access to mobile phones and tablets running Google’s Android software has been revealed. The bug could allow hackers to hijack phones, allowing them to steal data, listen in to calls or send junk email and text messages. Researchers say the loophole has been present since 2009, and claim around 900 million devices are at risk. Jeff Forristal of Bluebox, the firm which uncovered the key, said the implications of the discovery were ‘huge’.
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A bug that has been present since 2009 allows hackers to listen in to calls and send junk emails from Android devices
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One research firm claims over 900 million Android devices are at risk from the bug that takes advantage of the way the operating system handles cryptographic verification of apps installed on phones and tablets
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Samsung Galaxy S4 handsets have a fix, but Google's Nexus phones remain at risk
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There is no evidence that the flaw has been exploited yet | 2,404 | record_train |
Breach of rights: Protesters say the policy is a breach of the human rights of people who deserve a better chance at life - something they say they won't get in @placeholder | By Matt Blake PUBLISHED: 11:28 EST, 22 July 2013 | UPDATED: 11:38 EST, 22 July 2013 The Australian government has sparked fury after it published photographs of asylum seekers weeping as they await deportation to Papua New Guinea - hours after arriving on a rickety boat from Iran. In one of the photographs a young woman sobs, her head in her hands, as she sits on the floor of a detention camp on Christmas Island moments after she was told she was to be resettled. They were the first boatload - carrying 81 mostly Iranian nationals - of refugees to arrive in Australia since Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that all unauthorised asylum-seekers will be sent to Papua New Guinea for resettlement.
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The 81 Iranian refugees landed on Christmas Island today in rickety boat
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They are first refugees to arrive since asylum deal was announced Friday
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The deal allows Australia to send all illegal refugees to Papua New Guinea
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In one of the photographs a young woman sobs, her head in her hands
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Immigration Department spokesman: 'I'm sure they regret coming here now' | 2,405 | record_train |
But critics have pointed to a number of flaws in the footage, as well as the hefty profit @placeholder has reportedly made from its success - up to a huge $52,000. | The brother of an apparent street beggar who became an internet star for spending $100 on food for other people claims his 'mentally unstable' sibling chose to be homeless and is awaiting a $150,000 inheritance. Kevin Nickel also said the man the internet knows as Thomas - whose online donation kitty has received more than $135,000 from members of the public - is actually named Kenneth Nickel, or Kenny, and that he wants people to know 'it's all a scam' so that the donated money can go to those who actually need it. 'He's sitting on money - he's sitting on an estate,' Mr Nickel told CBS Los Angeles.
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YouTube star Josh Paler Lin filmed himself giving beggar Thomas $100
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Video showed Thomas spending cash on food for his homeless friends
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Thomas' brother Kevin Nickel says his name is Kenneth Nickel and goes by Kenny
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Claims his brother is 'sitting on' money from their parents estate
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An online donations page for 'Thomas' has received over $135,000
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One witness who saw the video filmed said Paler Lin drove Thomas to the liquor store
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Thomas insists he had never met Paler Lin before, events were not set up
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Paler Lin told DailyMail.com the events were natural and not pre-planned | 2,406 | record_train |
Burgess crosses his arms and looks stern ahead of his debut - which @placeholder will be watching | This day was always likely to come; it was just a question of how soon. Sam Burgess is back in an England shirt again - this time in the code he is still hurriedly attempting to crack. When the Saxons take on the savagely-titled Ireland ‘Wolfhounds’ in Cork on Friday night, there will be all manner of Test players involved in what is, sadly, a rare ‘A’-team international match. In a World Cup year, so many fringe candidates for national service require these occasions to press their case, but most countries have dispensed with second-string sides - leaving a giant leap between the Under 20s and the senior ranks.
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Sam Burgess will make his England Saxons debut in Cork on Friday night
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Rugby league convert will play at inside centre against Ireland Wolfhounds
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Stuart Lancaster is flying across to Cork to keep tabs on his second string
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Bristol director of rugby Andy Robinson has displayed his ruthless streak
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He has banished Andy Short from squad for joining rivals Worcester
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Adam Jones may have retired from international duty with Wales, but don't bet against him wearing the red shirt again in the future | 2,407 | record_train |
At the time of the alleged encounter, @placeholder had only just turned 19. | By Alanah Eriksen UPDATED: 16:05 EST, 4 November 2011 Justin Bieber has spoken for the first time about allegations he fathered a fan's four-month-old child. Mariah Yeater, 20, claims in court filings that the star father her son Tristyn during a 30-second sex session in a bathroom backstage after one of his shows. She now wants to force the 17-year-old to take a DNA test and pay up to $260,000 in monthly child support. 'I would just like to say basically that none of those allegations are true,' he told the Today Show. 'I know that I'm going to be a target but I'm never going to be a victim.'
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The 20-year-old who claims he fathered her three-month-old child could face a statutory rape charge
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She considered giving the child up for adoption
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Photos have emerged showing intimate tattoos as she strips off for the camera
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It has been alleged she told her ex-boyfriend he was the father
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Ex boyfriend denied he got her pregnant and a fight left Yeater charged with Battery | 2,408 | record_train |
@placeholder's little helper, Prince George peers around the door with his parents and great-grandmother the Queen, as joker Prince Harry dressed as Father Christmas delivers gifts for his nephew | By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 18:45 EST, 11 December 2013 | UPDATED: 03:27 EST, 12 December 2013 Dressed in a reindeer costume, Prince George enjoys his first Christmas, surrounded by all four generations of the Royal Family. As well as delighted parents William and Kate, there’s uncle Harry in the role of Santa Claus. And the Queen, Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall also make an appearance. At first glance, you’d be forgiven for thinking you are privy to an advance sneak peek into the Royal family’s Christmas album. But not is all as it seems. For this Sandringham scene has been created by spoof photographer Alison Jackson, using lookalikes.
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Spoof photographer Alison Jackson imagines Prince George's first Christmas
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You could be forgiven for thinking the snaps are straight from the Royal family's album | 2,409 | record_train |
CNN: In "@placeholder," you play Jeff Ashton, the trial lawyer. | (CNN) -- It's been a busy month for Rob Lowe. His Lifetime movie "Prosecuting Casey Anthony" premiered Saturday with him as attorney Jeff Ashton. On Friday, Lowe will tread familiar territory when his indie flick "Knife Fight" hits theaters. The actor plays Paul Turner, a cutthroat political strategist who's trying to keep his candidates afloat amid self-sabotaging drama. Lowe also can be seen weekly as sad-sack health nut Chris Traeger on NBC's "Parks and Recreation," which is shooting its fifth season. CNN recently spoke with Lowe about his projects, his personal thoughts on the Casey Anthony trial, his dream of playing Ulysses S. Grant and working with Matt Damon on "Behind the Candelabra," the story of Liberace.
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Rob Lowe recently starred in a Lifetime movie about the Casey Anthony trial
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Lowe's also appearing as a political strategist in the indie film "Knife Fight"
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The actor is attached to a role he says he's wanted to play for years: Ulysses S. Grant | 2,410 | record_train |
According to the police report, @placeholder-Llach fled after he was confronted by police about 5 a.m. | By James Nye PUBLISHED: 07:36 EST, 9 August 2013 | UPDATED: 08:09 EST, 9 August 2013 The family of an 18-year-old Miami graffiti artist who died after being chased and Tasered by a pair of Miami Beach police officers on Tuesday are outraged after witnesses described seeing the cops high-fiving each other in celebration as he lay dying. The distraught father of Israel Hernandez-Llach has called for an investigation into what he called an 'act of barbarism and assassination' and Officer Jorge Mercado, a 13-year veteran of the force, has been placed on paid administrative leave - pending an investigation.
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Israel Hernandez-Llach, 18, was Tasered on Tuesday after Miami police caught him spray painting the front of a McDonalds
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The officers gave chase for ten minutes and cornered Hernandez-Llach
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He was hit in the chest by the stun gun - lost consciousness and could not be revived
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Witnesses reported seeing the officers who caught the teen celebrating wildly with high-fives as he lay dying | 2,411 | record_train |
@placeholder made certain of the victory with a stunning long-range strike into the top corner early in the second half. | (CNN) -- Carlos Tevez scored twice as Argentina beat Mexico 3-1 in Johannesburg, South Africa, to set up a meeting with Germany in the quarterfinals of the World Cup. The Manchester City striker opened the scoring after 25 minutes in controversial fashion when television replays, which were relayed on the giant screens in the stadium, showed he was offside when he received the ball from Lionel Messi and headed into the net. Despite protests from the Mexican players, the goal was allowed to stand. Argentina doubled its lead when Gonzalo Higuain rounded goalkeeper Oscar Perez to score his fourth goal of the tournament.
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Argentina beats Mexico 3-1 in Johannesburg to reach World Cup quarterfinals
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Carlos Tevez scores twice for Argentina and Gonzalo Higuain gets one
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Javier Hernandez nets a consolation goal for the Mexicans
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Argentina will play Germany in the semifinal in Cape Town on Saturday, July 3 | 2,412 | record_train |
The board decided that Chapman should remain imprisoned because there is a 'reasonable probability that [@placeholder] would not live and remain at liberty without again violating the law. | By Associated Press and Ashley Collman and Alex Greg for MailOnline The man who shot dead John Lennon outside the Beatle's New York apartment building detailed the intense planning that went into the murder, in a court hearing last week. Mark Chapman stalked the music legend for months before the shooting, shelling out on tickets to and from his home in Hawaii. Last week, the now 59-year-old appeared before a board who decided to deny him bail, perhaps in part because he continued to brag about the murder. When asked why he decided to target Lennon, Chapman said he couldn't resist the fame that would come with the crime.
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John Lennon's killer talked about the notorious 1980 murder as he appeared in front of a parole board last week
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Mark David Chapman, now 59, was denied parole for the eighth time
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Shot dead the music legend outside his Manhattan apartment on December 8, 1980 and sentenced to 20 years to life in prison | 2,413 | record_train |
Meanwhile, @placeholder -- a BP contractor -- was "responsible for conducting the cement job, and ... had certain responsibilities for monitoring the well," the report says. | Washington (CNN) -- BP, Transocean and Halliburton all share responsibility for the deadly explosion that resulted in the April 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to the final federal report on the matter released Wednesday. The three companies "violated a number of federal offshore safety regulations," according to the report, which includes a series of recommendations for improving drilling safety. The report, issued by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, concludes that a key cause of the explosion was a faulty cement drilling barrier at the Macondo well site. "The precise reasons for the failure of the production casing cement job are not known," the report states. But the disaster was "the result of poor risk management, last minute changes to plans, failure to observe and respond to critical indicators, inadequate well control response, and insufficient emergency bridge response training by companies and individuals responsible for drilling" at the site.
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NEW: While BP agrees with the report's conclusion, Halliburton rejects any responsibility
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The final federal government report on the Gulf oil spill blames BP, Transocean, and Halliburton
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The companies violated numerous federal safety regulations, the report says
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11 rig workers died and 200 million gallons of oil were released into the Gulf | 2,414 | record_train |
A big part of Christie's appeal -- an image he has carefully cultivated -- is that he's a Republican with proven ability to win over @placeholder and independent voters. | Barely a month after pulling off a smashing re-election victory, Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie finds himself fending off a local scandal that has become an early stumbling block on his road to a run for president in 2016. And despite Christie's cries of foul -- he claims Democrats are making a mountain out of a molehill -- all indications are that the Republican hopeful has nobody to blame but himself for his current woes. As he prepares to ascend to the national stage -- and the glare of the spotlight that comes with it -- Christie must change some of the funky, in-your-face combative style that serves him well in New Jersey but is likely to cause voters in places such as Iowa and New Hampshire to recoil in horror.
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Errol Louis: Scandal brings new scrutiny to Chris Christie if he decides to run for president
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The closing of roads leading to George Washington Bridge seen as political retaliation
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Two officials close to Christie have resigned, and he said, "Mistakes were made"
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Louis: The episode could bolster the perception that Christie's style is too assertive | 2,415 | record_train |
@placeholder wanted to go and Liverpool will have more games to play next season. | John W Henry is fond of talking about The Liverpool Way. But in one respect, the owner is moving away from the club’s traditional blueprint for success this summer by buying players in bulk order. When Liverpool dominated the football landscape, they used to tweak their squad with one or two quality acquisitions each summer. Now, with Luis Suarez gone and Champions League due to return, manager Brendan Rodgers has been given the green light to go for quantity – understandable in one way, but risky in another. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Emre can and Lazar Markovic dazzling before linking up with Liverpool
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Liverpool have signed six players already this summer
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Only Adam Lallana, Rickie Lambert and Dejan Lovren have Premier League experience
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Brendan Rodgers has opted to revamp his squad after the sale of Luis Suarez to Barcelona for £75million
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Tottenham struggled last season after spending over £100m on new players
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Mark Hughes experienced difficulties at Manchester City and QPR after bringing in a large number of new faces | 2,416 | record_train |
The order was made in Korean -- not likely understood by the Somali pirates -- and is thought to have helped save @placeholder lives. | Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- South Korea's foreign minister said Tuesday he wants five Somali pirates captured alive during the rescue of a hijacked ship last week to be put on trial in South Korea. "It's a given that we deal with pirates who have caused damage to our people and attack our military, and along those lines we are seriously weighing the possibility of bringing the pirates to our country," Kim Sung-Hwan said. The vessel, Samho Jewelry, was hijacked in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Oman earlier this month. South Koreans rescued 21 sailors, killed eight pirates and captured five others, according to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Kim Sung-hwan says possibility being considered of bringing pirates to South Korea
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South Koreans rescued 21 sailors, killed eight pirates and captured five pirates last week
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The Samho Jewelry vessel was hijacked in the Indian Ocean
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A ship captain shot in the stomach is recovering, Kim says | 2,417 | record_train |
Her mother, Honsch's 53-year-old wife Marcia, was found dead a week earlier in @placeholder. | By Joshua Gardner Finally brought to justice? Robert Honsch was arrested in Ohio Tuesday, where he lived under a new name with a new family. His old wife and daughter were murdered in 1995 and only 19 years later have police found their suspect A perplexing investigation into the murder of an Upstate New York mother and daughter that spans three other states and nearly two decades may finally have a resolution. Police on Tuesday arrested Robert Honsch for the 1995 murders of his daughter Elizabeth, 17, and wife Marcia. He'd been living in Ohio under the assumed name Robert Tyree along with a new wife and children.
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Police say Robert Honsch shot his daughter Elizabeth Honsch, 17, in the head before dumping her body near a Connecticut shopping center in 1995
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Her mother Marcia Honsch, 53, also shot in the head, was found dumped 40 miles away in Massachusetts
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Honsch, 70, was arrested in Dalton, Ohio on Wednesday where he was living with a new wife and kids under an assumed name
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The mother and daughter weren't ID'd until last month when a missing persons report was strangely filed by their relative nearly 20 years late | 2,418 | record_train |
The offers from @placeholder were more than they would likely see in their lifetimes -- estimated to be between $100,000 and $150,000 per player. | (CNN) -- It is a Sunday night in Bridgetown, Barbados. Here on this Caribbean island, and on the others that make up what's known as the West Indies, life revolves around one thing -- cricket. On this night, locals gather at historic Kensington Oval, which hosted the 2007 World Cup final. There are no national teams on display this time, but there is a local trophy up for grabs. It's enough to draw a large crowd of boisterous fans. In the concourse, a familiar face makes his way through the crowd. He is Franklyn Stephenson, and he is the best to have never played for the West Indies, all because of one decision he and his teammates made 30 years ago.
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West Indian cricketers shunned after touring apartheid-era South Africa
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They defied international conventions after being offered large sums of money
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Accused of strengthening apartheid's grip in South Africa by playing there
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But players say they made a difference in helping cause of black people | 2,419 | record_train |
DFAT warns that the new protocols in place by the @placeholder authorities will affect all Australians travelling to Thailand. | By Lucy Thackray For Daily Mail Australia and Louise Cheer For Daily Mail Australia An Australian couple have allegedly left Thailand with their newborn twins, born last month via surrogate, according to ABC NewsRadio. The report says that the same-sex couple are already in Singapore with their babies. The news come after couples from the US and Australia, who were flying out with surrogate babies, have been barred from travel by immigration officials in Thailand, as its local government continues its crackdown on surrogacy laws. A spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) tells Daily Mail Australia, 'The Australian Embassy in Bangkok is currently assisting Australians with children born by surrogacy in Thailand who have been prevented from departing the country in recent days.
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Reports couple left Thailand with their twins, born last month via surrogate
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Australian same-sex couple are allegedly in Singapore with their babies
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Thai officials are barring couples involved in surrogacy from leaving
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Australian Embassy in Bangkok is offering assistance to Australian couples and their newborns that are stranded in Thailand
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Four couples, from the U.S. and Australia, were stopped in Bangkok
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Two American couples have stopped by Thai officials in the past 24 hours
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It comes after Western Australia's David and Wendy Farnell created international outcry
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They were accused of abandoning a Thai-born child when they found out he had Down syndrome
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Instead they took his healthy twin sister, Pipah, leaving Gammy behind | 2,420 | record_train |
Outside of the boardroom @placeholder is just like any other teenager, he loves partying and having fun with his friends. | Came third in last year's Young Apprentice and is now selling Demi's range on his website Described photographs of him kissing girls in Mahiki 'tragic' By Bianca London PUBLISHED: 12:04 EST, 23 October 2012 | UPDATED: 12:00 EST, 24 October 2012 He is the baby-faced ladies man and self-proclaimed 'unrivaled intellect' who was left red-faced when he was sent packing on The Young Apprentice last year. But despite missing out on the much coveted title, 18-year-old Harry Maxwell has proven his critics (and Lord Sugar) wrong by launching a host of projects, one of which is selling Demi Moore's beauty range on his website.
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Described photographs of him kissing girls in Mahiki 'tragic' | 2,421 | record_train |
But a senior @placeholder strategist told me this week that it was the candidate's idea to lead this last hurrah. | Washington (CNN) -- We were somewhere down South in the back half of October 1996. I believe we were in a theater. I remember thinking how terrible the lighting was, how small and deflated the crowd. I remember the look on the candidate's face. Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole was on stage with Heather Whitestone, the first deaf Miss America. She signed, "I love you" to the crowd. Then he signed it, too. They said what they were supposed to say, but there was something wordless encapsulated in that moment. I remember for the first time thinking, "Dole knows he's going to lose."
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Politicians are like gamblers, wired to think they can beat the odds
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Bob Dole knew he would lose but went on marathon to help down-ballot Republicans
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Four years ago, John McCain told supporters, "The failure is mine, not yours"
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John Kerry in defeat: "... The next morning, we all wake up as Americans" | 2,422 | record_train |
The images also show what Beyonce would look like as the Queen - and the @placeholder. | By Katy Winter You might be forgiven for thinking ultimate power couple Beyonce and Jay Z have taken over the modern world, but now one cunning artist is making sure they leave their imprint on the art world, too. Displayed on Tumbler account The Carter Family Portrait Gallery, nearly every recognisable piece of artwork from the 1400s onwards has been given a makeover to incorporate the face of Queen Bey, Jay Z, and even little Blue Ivy. And while art aficionados may shudder to see such masterpieces as Klimt’s The Kiss, Vermeer's Girl With A Pearl Earring, and Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling defaced in such a manner, we can’t help but feel that, like most things, they are improved by the addition of the Carter family.
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Beyonce, Jay Z, Blue Ivy and even Kanye added to famous works paintings
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Work of hit Tumblr account 'The Carter Family Portrait Gallery'
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Shows Beyonce as Girl With Pearl Earring, Virgin Mary and the Queen
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Jay Z and Kanye West appear in Michelangelo's The Creation | 2,423 | record_train |
With European sales in decline and the @placeholder market only slowly recovering, China represents a beacon of steady growth at a time of economic uncertainty. | The world's car giants go head-to-head as the Frankfurt Motor Show opens to the public. Flaunting the latest releases, the show is a tapestry of hybrid and concept designs from some of the most illustrious marques. But while the German city plays host to glitz and glamor, manufacturers are eyeing a burgeoning class of car buyers more than 6,000 miles away in China, where 200 million cars now run on the country's ever-congested roads. The world's largest car market, China is the major battleground for European companies in the 21st century, as premium brands look to exploit a growing population of 1.3 billion people.
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China car sales increasing 11% in August year on year, according to the state-backed manufacturers association
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China's car market will almost match the combined size of the U.S. and western European market by 2019
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U.S. auto giants Ford and General Motors have reported record sales increases in China for the month of August | 2,424 | record_train |
@placeholder sent their evidence in, including photos and videos, back on February 23, but only now has the record been recognised. | By Alex Finnis for Mail online The humble hot dog - we know it as the cheap snack you can pick up for a few dollars on the street or during half-time at a baseball game. So you might be more than a little shocked if you decided to buy one from a food van in Seattle, only to be charged $169 (£102). The Junni Ban is what you might call a haute dog, and is the creation of Japanese food fusion specialists Tokyo Dog. World's dearest dog: Tokyo Dog's Junni Ban costs $169 and is topped with truffles, caviar and foie gras
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Tokyo Dog in Seattle have broken Guinness World Record with 'Junni Ban'
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Foot-long smoked cheese bratwurst is also topped with wagyu beef, teriyake grilled onions, maitake mushrooms and Japanese mayonnaise | 2,425 | record_train |
‘If the UK separates from the EU, I think will go a long way to derail the @placeholder project,’ he said. | By Tim Shipman PUBLISHED: 13:46 EST, 27 May 2013 | UPDATED: 19:19 EST, 27 May 2013 Obama officials have warned Cameron that they may not renegotiate with the UK if it pulls out of Europe Britain risks losing out on £10billion a year in trade deals if the UK withdraws from the European Union, the Obama administration has warned. US officials have told their British counterparts that a vote to leave would exclude the UK from a transatlantic free trade deal which leaders hope to thrash out later this year. American diplomats believe it will be very difficult to get the so-called Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – which could generate hundreds of billions of pounds worth of trade – through the US Senate.
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Europe and U.S. set to negotiate one biggest bilateral trade deals ever
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EU said it will be worth more than £400 to every European household
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Obama officials have warned UK could miss out on money if it exits Europe
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Said Washington unlikely to want to negotiate separate deal with UK | 2,426 | record_train |
Together: Nora and Aaron, who is holding @placeholder, are pictured above dancing at a friend's wedding | A 35-year-old father who died of an aggressive brain tumor handled his death with humor - by comparing his battle with the disease to a living a double-life as Spider-Man. Aaron Purmort, from Minneapolis, was diagnosed with a glioblastoma in 2011, and died this week - but not before writing his own obituary along with his wife, Nora. The piece, published Sunday in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, phrased his life in terms of Peter Parker's famous alter-ego, with cancer as the villain he tried to defeat. 'Spider-Man': Aaron Purmont's obituary, published Sunday in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, compares him to a superhero who fought cancer
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Aaron Purmort, 35, was diagnosed in 2011 and died this week
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He and his wife Nora co-wrote obituary which was published Sunday
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'Reveals' that he is Spider-Man and has battled villain named Cancer
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Then describes his real life, and adds their son, Ralph, will 'avenge' him
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Nora had written a blog charting family's struggle with the disease | 2,427 | record_train |
However, defense attorneys say Dunn never cursed at Davis and that @placeholder got much more explicit in their fight. | By Ashley Collman PUBLISHED: 21:38 EST, 6 February 2014 | UPDATED: 11:07 EST, 7 February 2014 As his girlfriend got out of the car to get food at a gas station, 47-year-old Michael Dunn turned to her and said 'I hate this music' - commenting on the loud bass coming from a parked SUV with four teens inside. Before she could get back to the Volkswagen with wine and chips, Dunn had shot up the SUV, eventually killing 17-year-old back passenger Jordan Davis. Opening statements in the white engineer's murder case began today in Jacksonville, Florida, with both sides revealing more details on how the fight about volume turned deadly in November 2012.
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Michael Dunn, 47, has plead not-guilty to first-degree murder for shooting dead 17-year-old Jordan Davis in November 2012
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Opening statements in the case started today in Jacksonville, Florida
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The defense says Dunn was defending himself after seeing Davis grab either a shotgun or a lead pipe
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@placeholder on Thursday said it is participating in the program, but added it is "not in favor of installing counter-MANPADS on commercial aircraft." | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In first-ever tests for commercial airplanes carrying passengers, as many as three American Airlines jets will be equipped with a shoulder-fired missile defense system. The Department of Homeland Security signed a $29 million contract with BAE Systems on December 21. BAE said Thursday it is working with American Airlines to put laser systems on the planes, which will be flying between New York and California. Since the contract calls for the planes to log about 7,000 flight hours, the tests will probably last from early spring, starting in March or April, until the end of the year, DHS spokeswoman Amy Kudwa said.
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Some American Airlines passenger planes will be equipped with anti-missile gear
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Lineker also posted a series of tweets during England's easy win over @placeholder, suggesting that the man who netted 48 goals for the Three Lions was not taking their opponents entirely seriously. | Gary Lineker has blasted 'silly' international games of Twitter in the wake of comfortable wins for both England and Republic of Ireland this week. The Three Lions put five past San Marino in an ambient stroll at Wembley on Thursday, while a Robbie Keane hat-trick paved the way for the Irish to thrash Gibraltar 7-0 on Saturday. And regular tweeter Lineker has had his say on matters, stating after Ireland's win that: 'Some of these international games are just silly nowadays. Not much more than pub teams.' VIDEO Scroll down for Hodgson's thoughts on how Estonia and San Marino differ
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Lineker takes to Twitter after easy wins for England and Ireland
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Refers to Gibraltar and San Marino as 'not much more than pub teams'
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Republic of Ireland beat Gibraltar 7-0 in their qualifying game on Saturday
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And on Monday, the company announced that the Xbox was getting a user interface refresh, with dozens of new content channels and the addition of a @placeholder app you can use to control your Xbox. | (WIRED) -- Microsoft released an Xbox Live app for iOS devices on Wednesday, bringing features of Microsoft's gaming service to Apple devices for the first time. My Xbox Live lets users edit their 3-D avatars, chat with Xbox Live friends and revel in their achievements. You can also check out more information about the newest apps and games on Xbox, as well as gaming tips and breaking news. Windows Phone users have had Xbox Live services packaged into their mobile experience for a while now, but now iOS users can get a piece of the action. And whether they like it or not, iOS users who download the app are also getting a screen similar to a Windows Phone-style user interface.
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My Xbox Live lets users edit their 3-D avatars, chat with Xbox Live friends
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iOS users who download the app get a screen similar to Windows Phone-style interface
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He worked as a taxi driver to supplement his income as a trainer prior to finding @placeholder success. | Mastermind of Grand National triple by Britain's favourite horse By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 7:29 PM on 19th September 2011 Legendary trainer Ginger McCain has died at the age of 80. McCain is best known for training Red Rum - winner of the Grand National in 1973, 1974 and 1977. Real name Donald, McCain also won the National with Amberleigh House in 2004 and retired two years later. McCain's son Donald took over the stable from his father in 2006 and followed in his footsteps by training the 2011 Aintree winner Ballabriggs. Late greats: Donald McCain, who has died at the age of 80, pictured with Red Rum on Southport beach in 1990
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Defeat for Spain, when it really mattered, was more profoundly devastating and all the harder to stomach because @placeholder helped inflict it on a number of his team-mates at Barcelona. | Take a bunch of red-hot Chile peppers, stir in a simmering measure of brooding Argentine volatility, bring quickly to the boil and pour down the throats of the European aristocrats who strolled in here as the champions of world football. Poor old Spain had no chance. They are going home choking on that fiery recipe. Chile's Argentinian manager Jorge Sampaoli refers to his players as 'my courageous rebels.' VIDEO Team Profile: Chile Gifted: Barcelona and Chile forward Alexis Sanchez played a key role in Spain's downfall When they play with the irreverent passion which lit up the Maracana on Wednesday night, Chile can indeed over-throw pretty well any established order.
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Chile beat Spain 2-0 to dump the World Cup holders out of 2014's tournament
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South American side have qualified for the last 16, despite being underdogs
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Fifteen years after its launch, @placeholder continues to be a worldwide hit that engages passionate young fans across multiple platforms." | Hong Kong (CNN) -- "Big Brother is watching you." This is the sinister maxim repeated throughout George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," his dark portrayal of life inside an authoritarian state characterized by its omniscient and paranoid leadership. Fortunately this kind of dystopian nightmare is confined to fiction for most of us -- or more recently the world of reality television with the phenomenally successful Big Brother show, where groups of hapless "housemates" try to outlast each in an isolated environment where their every move is monitored 24 hours a day. And now the show is coming to China's small screen, an irony that won't be lost on many in a country that purportedly has more people employed to censor the Internet than its army (the world's largest) has soldiers.
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Launching in early 2015, the first-ever Chinese version of Big Brother will air for ten weeks
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@placeholder officials at a news conference Friday were asked to compare the strain with the deadly 1918 virus. | GENEVA, Switzerland (CNN) -- The number of confirmed swine flu cases across the globe kept rising Friday, but some signs of hope emerged in the battle against the worldwide outbreak. Tourists sunbathe wearing surgical masks in the popular Mexican resort of Acapulco. The World Health Organization said Friday that the number of confirmed cases stood at 367 worldwide, including 141 in the United States and 156 in Mexico. Thirteen countries have confirmed cases, the organization said. Meanwhile, researchers worked to develop a vaccine for swine flu, which is also known as 2009 H1N1. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hopes to have a vaccine to manufacturers within a month, said Michael Shaw, lab team leader for the H1N1 response at the CDC.
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Virus has spread to 13 countries, with hardest-hit areas in the West
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U.S. Education Department says outbreak has closed 433 schools in 17 states
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Briggs disputed the estimate, saying that while @placeholder was "a great performer" companies decide which celebrities to align their products with based on "likability" as measured by "Q scores." | Los Angeles (CNN) -- Negative headlines about drugs and sex abuse charges greatly diminished Michael Jackson's earning potential, an entertainment consultant said. Jackson's album sales dropped sharply from his peak and his "likability" rating turned dramatically negative after "significantly negative headlines, drug abuse and other issues," Eric Briggs testified. Briggs' testimony in the wrongful death trial of AEG Live is intended to counter an expert hired by Jackson lawyers who concluded the pop icon would have earned another $1.5 billion from world tours had he not died while preparing for his comeback concerts. AEG Live placed a big bet on Jackson's ability to sell tickets when it signed him to a three-year deal for his "This Is It" tour. While the company worked hard to convince Jackson in 2009 to let them produce and promote the concerts, it paid Briggs more than $700,000 to prepare testimony for this trial questioning Jackson's star power.
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Michael Jackson's "likability" plunged in his last years, expert says
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Damages for Jackson's death could be based on how much he might have earned
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AEG Live execs bragged about how fast Jackson's first 50 London concerts sold out
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Upcoming witnesses include Jackson brother Randy, sister Rebbie, ex-wife Debbie Rowe | 2,436 | record_train |
mistake' after he used a term linked to the @placeholder word for 'oven' when | By Matthew Blake France's National Front descended into further disarray today after its founder threatened to expose his daughter and the party's leader for stabbing him in the back. Jean Marie Le Pen, who launched the right-wing party in 1972, accused his daughter Marine Le Pen of betraying him after the party pulled his video blog from the internet this week amid claims he made an anti-semitic quip. Police were also looking in to a 'mysterious' £800,000, reports last night indicated. Detective are looking at doantions to the National Front of more than one million euros, which Mr Le Pen insists are legitimate.
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Blog was removed after he implied Jewish singer should be baked in an oven
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Marine rebuked father at the weekend for what she called a 'political mistake'
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Party chiefs have begged him to destroy letter amid fears it could split family
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He says: 'If I get on their nerves, the only thing for them to do is to kill me. I’m not going to commit suicide'
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NASA televised live images of the @placeholder as it crashed into a crater near the moon's south pole. | (CNN) -- NASA said Friday's rocket and satellite strike on the moon was a success, kicking up enough dust for scientists to determine whether or not there is water on the moon. An artist's rendering shows the LCROSS spacecraft, left, separating from its Centaur rocket. "We have the data we need to actually address the questions we set out to address," said Anthony Colaprete, principal investigator for the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, mission. It will be awhile before all the data from the satellite can be analyzed to determine if there is water on the moon, according to LCROSS project manager Dan Andrews.
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NASA crashes rocket and a satellite into the moon's surface
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While studying evolutionary changes to the guppies' brain stems, one of the fish jumped out of a laboratory tank and into @placeholder' cup of iced chai, prompting closer scrutiny, she said. | (CNN) -- The world record long jump of 29 feet, 4 1/4 inches, set by American Mike Powell, has stood for nearly 22 years. That imposing distance is nearly five times Powell's 6-foot-2 height. But an athletic, evolved guppy would scoff at that accomplishment, if you can consider guppies athletic. And if guppies scoffed. The popular pet fish can jump up to eight times their body length, at speeds of more than 4 feet per second, according to a recently published research paper in the online peer-reviewed journal PLOS One. University of Maryland biologist Daphne De Freitas Soares and biology lecturer Hilary S. Bierman discovered the guppies' ability while using high-speed videography and digital imaging to analyze the jumping behavior of nine guppies from a wild Trinidadian species, Poecilia reticulata, related to the familiar pet-shop fish.
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U. of Maryland researchers say they've witnessed never-before-seen behavior in fish
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Guppies jump by swimming backwards, then changing direction and launching
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The biology professor and lecturer say the fish can jump eight times their body length
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The best human long jumper ever, Mike Powell, jumped nearly five times his height | 2,439 | record_train |
After the nearly two-hour talk, @placeholder said the two had "agreed that we need to see a cessation of the violence, that a political process has to be created to prevent civil war." | (CNN) -- U.S.-Russian sniping over Syria's growing conflict isn't the early frost of a new Cold War, but it highlights the chilly spots that remain between the onetime foes, longtime observers say. The Obama administration came into office promising a "reset" of relations with Moscow after the 2008 conflict between Russia and the former Soviet republic of Georgia, a prospective NATO ally. That helped pave the way for a new strategic arms control treaty, a revamping of U.S. missile defense plans that Russia opposed and greater Russian support for sanctions aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear development. "I think that the good ties that are associated with the reset came from an analysis from both sides that there were issues where both sides had a set of common interests, and both sides could pursue those interests and do business with one another," said James Goldgeier, the dean of the American University School of International Service and a veteran Russian analyst.
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Syria may strain U.S.-Russian ties, but they still need each other, observers say
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Syria "is a place where Russia has real interests at stake," Carnegie analyst says
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Benfica clinched a 2-1 victory at home, leaving the second semifinal evenly poised ahead of next week's return leg in @placeholder. | (CNN) -- Radamel Falcao fired four goals as Porto demolished Villarreal 5-1 on Thursday night to all-but ensure an all-Portuguese final in the Europa League. The Spanish club took the lead through Ruben Cani just before halftime after dominating the opening period, but had no answer in the second spell against the Portuguese champions. Colombia striker Falcao extended his competition-leading tally to 15 this season, matching German legend Jurgen Klinsmann's record total in Europe's second-tier competition, while Fredy Guarin scored the other goal. Porto, who won the tournament in 2003 when it was still known as the UEFA Cup, will face either Benfica or Braga in next month's final in Dublin if they successfully negotiate the trip to El Madrigal.
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Porto poised for Europa League final after thrashing Villarreal 5-1 in home leg
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Falcao scores four goals after Spanish team take the lead through Ruben Cani
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Benfica take 2-1 lead into second leg of semifinal against compatriots Braga
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Scottish club Rangers punished by UEFA for fans' sectarian chanting | 2,441 | record_train |
"When I first went to @placeholder to visit, I wanted to take them all home with me. | (CNN) -- As he watched wounded troops being brought inside the hospital on stretchers, Michael Conklin couldn't believe what he was seeing. "You see this stuff in movies, but I was watching it happen," said Conklin, recalling a 2003 visit to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. "There were so many casualties coming in -- busloads of them." Conklin made the visit to learn more about the needs of wounded servicemen and women. The needs were overwhelming. "When these guys come back from war, they are broken," he said, reflecting on the missing limbs, traumatic brain injuries and other devastating wounds he observed.
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Many disabled U.S. veterans don't have a family to help support them
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His scholarship program provides housing, education and whatever else is needed | 2,442 | record_train |
re-instate his visitation with Nahla after @placeholder obtained a protective | Halle's mother says she hopes 'things calm down' after fight Gabriel Aubry 'asks judge to ban Olivier Martinez' from contacting Nahla By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 14:56 EST, 27 November 2012 | UPDATED: 05:05 EST, 28 November 2012 Gabriel Aubry has failed in his bid to overturn an order banning him from seeing Nahla. The French-Canadian model appealed to a Los Angeles court on Tuesday to lift an emergency protective order issued in the wake of his brutal Thanksgiving fight with Olivier Martinez. The order banned him from going within a 100 yards of the four-year-old, her mother Halle Berry and Halle's fiance Martinez.
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Halle's mother says she hopes 'things calm down' after fight
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Gabriel Aubry 'asks judge to ban Olivier Martinez' from contacting Nahla | 2,443 | record_train |
For the vast majority of Jews, @placeholder ranks surprisingly low in their considerations as voters. | Mitt Romney is trying to cut into the considerable lead President Obama had among Jewish voters by showing that he is even more of a supporter of Israel than his rival. After suggesting the Obama administration threw Israel "under the bus," Romney made an even stronger warning to Iran not to go nuclear, and pledged to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Romney is hardly the only one who believes that the Jewish vote swings to the candidate in presidential elections who is the most fervent supporter of Israel. The same position was given voice in a 2007 book by two highly regarded political scientists, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, which suggests that Jews have undue influence over U.S. foreign policy by making campaign contributions, pressuring members of Congress, and by casting their votes to support Israel.
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Mitt Romney is trying to outdo President Obama in his support for Israel, says Amitai Etzioni
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It's a myth that the Jewish vote goes to whoever supports Israel more fervently, Etzioni says
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Only 4% of American Jews cite Israel as their most important voting issue, he says
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Looking up, seeing the lights: A stay at Aurora Safari Camp also means chances to see the @placeholder | Like twerking, Robin Thicke and the horse-meat scandal, glamping is so last year. Seriously. Look around you. You can barely move for luxury ‘camp’-sites where the ‘tents’ – if this is still the word – look and feel like a boudoir in the Palace of Versailles during the reign of Louis XIV. Lovely. Comfortable. But scarcely the ‘Great Outdoors’. Meet the locals: Matt gets up close and personal with two new canine friends on his visit to Swedish Lapland Onwards, into the snowy middle distance: Swedish Lapland is a great place to try a session of dog-sledding On the other hand, the ‘Great Outdoors’ comes with its downsides.
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Swedish Lapland is a great place for those seeking snow-based adventure
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Aurora Safari Camp, near Lulea, is a mixture of glamping and the wilderness
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A spokesman said: ‘The group strongly rejects the position or the portrayal of facts as set out in the order issued by the @placeholder.’ | By James Salmon PUBLISHED: 19:03 EST, 7 August 2012 | UPDATED: 02:12 EST, 9 August 2012 Critical: Sir Mervyn King criticised the New York state agency for its comments The governor of the Bank of England has today criticised a New York state agency for publicly accusing UK bank Standard Chartered of money laundering for Iran and terror groups. Sir Mervyn King said the New York State Department of Financial Services was wrong to make the claims when other regulators were still investigating any wrong-doing. Standard Chartered was accused on Monday of laundering £160billion and promptly saw its share price plummet.
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New York State Department of Financial Services went public with its claim as bank was still being investigated
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£160billion of illegal transfers alleged...but bank says it was no more than £9million
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Standard's share price recovers slightly after £6billion was wiped off its stock value yesterday
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Britain's top financial regulator revealed to have worked at Standard Chartered during period of alleged transfer irregularities | 2,446 | record_train |
But @placeholder knows that the player he faces today is a different proposition. | By Laurie Whitwell Follow @@lauriewhitwell As the tremors from Grigor Dimitrov’s earth-shattering defeat of Andy Murray began to fade on Thursday, we were left to wonder whether the tectonic plates of men’s tennis still had further to shift. Can this 23-year-old Bulgarian break new ground and beat another one of the Big Four? Novak Djokovic will hope the answer is no on Friday and the Serb certainly has experience on his side. Dreamland: Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov celebrates beating defending Wimbledon champion Andy Murray In control: Dimitov started far faster than Murray and never looked like letting his early lead slip
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The 23-year-old looked comfortable during his win against Murray
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His coach says there is 'no ceiling' on what the Bulgarian can achieve
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Djokovic leads 3-1 in previous encounters between the pair | 2,447 | record_train |
The result, @placeholder (roughly, the "voice of Chhattisgarh") is a voice portal that allows anyone with a mobile phone to record or listen to news and items of interest. | As a journalist hailing from the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, the epicenter of a violent Maoist insurgency, Shubhranshu Choudhary was regularly confronted with the shortcomings of his profession. The uprising, described by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2006 as India's "single biggest internal security challenge ever," drew much of its strength from the disenfranchised indigenous communities who are a majority in Chhattisgarh. Numbering perhaps as many as 100 million across India, the "tribals" live in impoverished rural conditions comparable to or lower than those prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the United Nations. Yet despite their centrality to the conflict, the voice of the tribal people was almost completely absent from the national media conversation.
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Citizen journalism project using mobile phone technology to reach India's tribal communities
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The state where the service operates has been the center of a violent Maoist insurgency
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CGNet Swara allows people in remote areas to file and listen to reports from their mobile
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Founders say it has given a voice to an excluded community | 2,448 | record_train |
Pillay said the report concluded that "the abuses and human rights violations going on on the ground undermine the proclaimed reform package," and that she had recommended Syria be referred to the @placeholder "because all the evidence produced by the commission's report support a finding of widespread and systematic violations of human rights -- equaling crimes against humanity." | (CNN) -- A humanitarian mission from the United Nations will travel this weekend to Syria to look for effects of President Bashar al-Assad's protest crackdown, a U.N. official said Thursday shortly after the release of a damning report. "We have been guaranteed that we will have full access to anywhere we would wish to go," Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos told reporters after delivering to the Security Council the report. "We will want to concentrate on those places where there have been reports of fighting so that we can see for ourselves exactly what is going on." The mission will last three or four days, during which the group anticipates being accompanied by a representative of the Syrian Red Crescent, she said. Rashid Khalikov of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs will lead the mission, she said. "It's an initial mission and we would hope to go back in to do detailed assessments."
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Mission urges Security Council to consider bringing case to International Criminal Court
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Syrian government rights violations include murder and disappearances, report says
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U.S. and European leaders call on Syrian President al-Assad to step down
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U.S. executive order blocks Syrian property and bans U.S. investments | 2,449 | record_train |
Trailled by hecklers calling him '@placeholder scum' Mr Johnson eventually turned and bellowed his own insult back at them. | By Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor PUBLISHED: 11:02 EST, 31 October 2012 | UPDATED: 09:31 EST, 1 November 2012 This is the hilarious moment Boris Johnson gave as good as he got when a heckler cocked a snook at him. When faced with the gesture, more commonly found in school playgrounds, London Mayor quickly raised a thumb to his own nose and told protestors to ‘bog off’. He also faced cries of ‘Tory scum’ and ‘pleb’ as he went on a walkabout on dockyard but responded with a cry of 'lefty t*****s!' Scroll down for video Schoolboy error: The protestor pretended to want to shake the London Mayor's hand, but quickly raised his thumb to his nose. Boris swiftly returned the favour.
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Boris Johnson was supposed to be drumming up support for Tory candidates in elections next month
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@placeholder was carrying 291 passengers and 16 crew members when it crash-landed on July 6 on the runway after striking a seawall. | Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- Asiana Airlines says it will proceed with its planned lawsuit against an Oakland, California, television station, but it's not going to pursue legal action against the National Transportation Safety Board. Over the weekend, the Korean airline had said it would sue both entities after an intern at the NTSB mistakenly confirmed "inaccurate and offensive" names as those of the pilots of Flight 214, which crash-landed nine days ago at San Francisco International Airport. The bogus names that phonetically spelled out phrases such as "Something Wrong" and "We Too Low" were read during KTVU's noon broadcast Friday. The airline called the report "demeaning" and said it was "reviewing possible legal action."
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"We respectfully ask" the @placeholder government to "work cooperatively with us" on the Levinson investigation, Kerry said. | Seven years ago Sunday, American Bob Levinson disappeared after traveling to Iran. He's now one of the longest-held American citizens in history. Recently, the 65-year-old's family has said publicly that he worked for the CIA. Their decision to speak out came after news stories published in 2013 said Levinson worked for the spy agency. For years the family kept it quiet that Levinson was working for the CIA, because the United States government had warned them that revealing it would put Levinson in more jeopardy, they said. On Saturday, Levinson's son Dan Levinson talked in person with CNN in Abu Dhabi.
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Dan Levinson wants the U.S. to do more to help find his father
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@placeholder called the newspaper's foreign editor before dawn and said he was "extracted" in a commando raid after a fierce firefight, according to a report on the Times Web site. | KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A New York Times reporter who was kidnapped last week was freed Wednesday in a pre-dawn military raid in Afghanistan that left a British commando, an Afghan journalist and several others dead. New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell was abducted Saturday while covering a NATO airstrike in Afghanistan. Stephen Farrell was rescued by NATO's International Security Assistance Force, known as the ISAF, the British Foreign Office said. A British commando died in the operation, the country's Ministry of Defense said without offering further details. Sultan Munad, an Afghan journalist accompanying Farrell, also was killed in the raid, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said.
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New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell freed in commando raid
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Afghan journalist killed in raid, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says
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As yet, there are no awards for airlines flying to @placeholder. | Hobbits might not need the extra legroom, but they know a good airline when they see one. Air New Zealand, the carrier that has regularly pressed the diminutive denizens of Middle Earth into service in its advertising campaigns, has been named the world's best airline. Australia-based safety assessment website AirlineRatings.com says the airline came top of its 2015 "airline excellence" chart because of its reputation as a "trendsetter." It also led the website's top 10 airlines for 2015. This is the second year in a row the airline has scooped the Airline of the Year prize. AirlineRatings said Air New Zealand had been honored for "its award winning in-flight innovations, record financial performance, operational safety and motivation of its staff."
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@placeholder speeds away, but immediately the angry bikers follow and it takes a matter of seconds for them to catch up. | Pictured: Alexian Lien drove through a swarm of motorcyclists in his SUV on a New York City highway, apparently in fear of his safety and that of his wife and 5-month-old baby Video has emerged showing the shocking moment a Range Rover driver apparently drove through a crowd of motorbikes as it fled with its family inside for fear of being attacked. Police have revealed the bikers started to damage the vehicle after the driver, 33-year-old Alexian Lien, hit a motorcyclist. Fearing for the safety of his wife Roslyn Ng and young child, aged five months, the SUV driver then sped off, hitting several bikers in its path.
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Alexian Lien's Range Rover was the man attacked by motorcyclists after he accidentally hit a biker
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Lien, 33, then crash through the mob in his vehicle, fearing for the safety of his wife Rosalyn Ng, and their 5-month-old child
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Bikers chase the SUV, carrying couple and young child, and try to attack it
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Lien speeds off hitting motorcyclists for the second time
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In the week since Bergdahl was released by the @placeholder, a controversy has grown over whether troops were killed, directly or indirectly, in the search. | Hailey, Idaho (CNN) -- The FBI is investigating threats against the parents of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the latest development in a case that has put the spotlight on the circumstances surrounding his capture in Afghanistan and release by the Taliban. "We are working jointly with our state and local partners and taking each threat seriously," FBI Special Agent William Facer told CNN in an e-mail on Saturday. Facer declined to detail the nature and severity of the threats, and a military spokesperson for the Bergdahls declined to comment. Bergdahl's parents have not been seen publicly since the announcement last week that the soldier had been freed from five years in captivity at the hands of the Taliban in exchange for the release of five detainees at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.
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Bowe Bergdahl's parents have received threats, the FBI says
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Bergdahl should be put on trial to "get the truth," mother of killed soldier says | 2,456 | record_train |
Grin and bear it: The news was depressing for @placeholder, pictured today | By Hugo Duncan PUBLISHED: 05:50 EST, 21 March 2012 | UPDATED: 11:25 EST, 21 March 2012 The economy will grow by more than expected this year but the crisis in the euro is ‘a major risk’ to Britain, the Chancellor said today. George Osborne said growth forecasts for 2012 have been nudged up from a paltry 0.7 per cent to a still feeble 0.8 per cent. Delivering his third Budget, he said Britain would ‘avoid a technical recession’ with a return to growth in the first quarter of the year. Scroll down for video Mr Osborne said the economy has ‘carried a little more momentum into the New Year than previously anticipated’.
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February's borrowing figure was expected to be £8.9bn but jumped to £15.2bn
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By the end of last year, 2.5million Syrians had become refugees in neighbouring countries while more than 6.5million had been displaced within @placeholder. | The number of people forced from their homes by conflict and persecution has passed 50million in a year for the first time since the Second World War. Some 51.2million sought shelter last year – the equivalent of almost the entire population of England. The figure, revealed by the United Nations, is up six million from 2012, largely due to Syrians fleeing civil war. Iraqis who have fled the violence in their hometown of Mosul line arrive at Khazir refugee camp outside of Irbil north of Baghdad Sunni militants captured a strategic city along the highway to Syria on forcing many to flee
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More than 50million people are refugees according to United Nations figures
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Mrs Patterson said: '@placeholder and I met online and a year later I proposed to him and we began planning our life together. | By Jill Reilly A couple held their tiny baby son for the first time as newlyweds just minutes after tying the knot in a horror themed wedding. Margaret, 28, and Ross Patterson, 31, said their vows and then rushed to visit eight-week-old baby Drake in a hospital's neo-natal intensive care unit. Drake had been born 14 weeks premature and needed round the clock medical care as medics feared he may not survive. Margaret, 28, and Ross Patterson, 31, held their tiny baby son for the first time as man and wife just minutes after tying the knot in a horror themed wedding
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Margaret Patterson, 28, gave birth to Drake 14 weeks earlier than due date
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She feared her goth wedding to Ross Patterson, 31, would be cancelled
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Took their wedding photos with their son Drake who was eight weeks old
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It added: "A scientific study conducted during 2006-2007 found that @placeholder's elephants had an activity profile that closely matched behaviors, exercise and foraging activities of wild elephants." | (CNN) -- A female zookeeper was seriously injured Friday after being "pinned" to a post by a young male Asian elephant during a routine training session at Sydney's Taronga Zoo. Two other keepers rushed to the woman's aid after they heard her cries and moved the elephant away, the zoo said in a statement. The woman was taken to hospital in a critical condition, but is now stable in intensive care. She has not been identified out of respect for her family's privacy, the zoo said. The elephant involved was a two-and-half-year-old male calf called Pathi Harn, which means "miracle" in Thai. The calf was given the name after being born alive, even after experts pronounced him dead in the womb following a difficult eight-day labor.
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Zookeeper crushed after elephant pins her to post in Australian zoo
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Taronga Zoo investigating why the elephant "challenged the keeper"
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READ MORE: Syria rebel group's dangerous tie to @placeholder | (CNN) -- Two Syrian Orthodox bishops remain missing two days after being kidnapped, with each side in the civil war blaming others for the snatching. The whereabouts of the two prominent clergymen, Greek Orthodox Bishop Paul Yazigi and Syriac Orthodox Bishop John Ibrahim, remain unknown, despite some reports to the contrary, Greek Orthodox Bishop Mousa Khoury told CNN. There have been several kidnappings of Christian clergymen in Syria but the two bishops are the most senior church figures who have been abducted since the beginning of the uprising. The Syrian regime's Ministry of Religious Endowment issued a statement blaming "this brutal act" on Chechen mercenaries operating under the mantle of Jabhat al-Nusra and al-Qaeda. The government did not provide evidence to back up the claim.
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Two prominent Syrian Orthodox bishops have been missing for two days
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The opposition and the government each blame others for the kidnapping
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Another bishop tells the Vatican news service that money, not politics, is the motivation | 2,461 | record_train |
In this way, Apple is taking a page from @placeholder, which also allows audio and video messages. | (CNN) -- It didn't get a ton of attention Monday, but Apple's next mobile operating system means significant changes for how iPhone users send and receive messages. If you're an Apple user, this is a big deal. Messages is the most frequently used app in iOS, and is how most users share texts, photos and videos with each other. With iOS 8, coming this fall, Apple is borrowing features from popular messaging platforms like Snapchat and WhatsApp while unveiling some new tricks of its own. Here's a quick look at the new messaging features announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. We'll find out in a few months whether they catch on with users.
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Apple's iOS 8 will bring big changes for how iPhone users send and receive messages
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Apple is borrowing features from popular messaging platforms like Snapchat and WhatsApp
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Audio and video messages within iOS 8 will automatically vanish within a few minutes
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Group messaging threads will feature a "Do Not Disturb" function | 2,462 | record_train |
Zwanzger says: "There's no theme park in or around @placeholder whatsoever. | You don't have to be a Soviet wheat farmer to realize that five-year plans aren't much fun. Unless, that is, you start scheduling in new theme park openings. A worldwide construction boom is currently underway that will bring in a slew of incredible new rides, slides, sights and frights over the next half-decade. Stefan Zwanzger, aka the globetrotting Theme Park Guy, has been keeping an eye on what's coming so he can be among the first in line. Here's his list of the best of attractions of the near future. Shanghai Disney Resort (China) Concept: Chinese re-imagining of the classic Disney concepts on vast site close to China's richest city.
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Construction boom set to bring numerous theme park openings over the next five years
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China and the UAE lead the theme park building charge with multiple major projects underway
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Moscow and London also getting their first major branded theme parks | 2,463 | record_train |
A federal law enforcement official said @placeholder waited until daylight to clear the device | The owner of a small drone that smashed onto the White House grounds early on Monday has contacted the Secret Service to say he didn't mean to fly it over the complex. The unidentified man, who is from Washington D.C., came forward after the pre-dawn incident triggered a major emergency response and raised fresh questions about security at the mansion. A U.S. official said that the man contacted the Secret Service after reports of the crash spread across the media, and he told the agency he had been flying the drone for fun. Agents are now interviewing other people to corroborate the man's story but don't currently have any reason to doubt it, the official said. He is cooperating with authorities.
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Secret Service agents recovered the two-foot-wide commercial drone after it landed in a tree just after 3am on Monday
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The incident triggered a major emergency response and raised fresh questions about security, which has been breached in recent months
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@placeholder works really hard and is a great role model for girls, she says, while Serena has become a close friend. | (CNN) -- "Do I look like Serena? Like, come on. Seriously?" Sloane Stephens understandably rankles at such a comparison with one of the world's greatest tennis players. "You know, it's kind of crazy, but it's really not that bad. But when you hear it, it's like, 'Oh my god, did they just say that?' " Only the laziest of observers could mistake the 19-year-old rising star for a Williams sister off the court. But on it, the similarities are striking. Blessed with natural athleticism and steely determination allied to a powerful serve and forehand, Stephens shares many of the attributes that have helped Venus and Serena dominate the women's game over the past 15 years.
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Sloane Stephens has enjoyed a successful year on the tour and is hotly tipped for success
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The 19-year-old will play Italy's Francesca Schiavone in the opening round of the U.S. Open
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She is the daughter of former NFL player John Stephens and ex-swimmer Sybil Smith
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Rising star looking to build on promising runs at Wimbledon and the French Open earlier this year | 2,465 | record_train |
"We can help them realize their dream, which is the @placeholder dream, I want to provide as many people as I can with a safe place to call home." | While President Barack Obama discussed the need to fix the nation's immigration problems during his inauguration speech last week, Sister Cathy Buster is already doing something about it. She was all smiles at Wednesday's grand opening of Casa San Juan Bosco, a "green" affordable housing development that will give Florida farmworkers unprecedented access to a safe and healthy place to live. "I dream a lot, and people all think I'm nuts when I tell them what I intend to do to help," said Buster, a member of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary of the Woods Congregation. "But when they see events like today and realize I can help make it happen, this is wonderful."
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Hired farmworkers are one of the most economically disadvantaged U.S. groups
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Records show it was delivered to @placeholder in March of last year. | (CNN)Passengers aboard a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Denver got sick from a cabin pressure issue that forced a quick landing, according to an airline spokeswoman. United Airlines Flight 1218 took off at 9:01 a.m., but shortly after it reached 15,000 feet, the pilot took it below 10,000 feet and returned to O'Hare International Airport, according to tracking website FlightAware.com. Below 10,000 feet is a safe altitude for an unpressurized plane. "The flight landed safely, and we requested paramedics meet the flight to assist a few customers who reported feeling ill," said United Airlines spokeswoman Karen May. Seven ambulances met the plane and 175 patients complaining of ear pain or nausea were checked out, according to the Chicago Fire Department.
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A United flight returned to Chicago shortly after takeoff
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175 passengers complaining of ear pain and nausea were checked out by medics
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Players whom @placeholder coached were pushed to a breaking point, Obiala said. | (CNN) -- Julie Hermann promised to help Rutgers' athletic program bounce back after an abuse scandal rattled the university and drew national attention. But now the woman tapped to turn around the troubled program is facing abuse allegations herself. Hermann's appointment as the school's athletic director came more than a month after a video of a Rutgers coach hurling basketballs and yelling homophobic slurs prompted the coach's firing, the resignation of the school's athletic director and sharp criticism from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. "It is a new day," Hermann told reporters on May 15. "(The problem) is already fixed, and there is no one that doesn't agree about how we treat young people with respect and dignity and build trust."
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In the 1990s, players said, Julie Hermann called them "whores, alcoholics and learning disabled"
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Hermann picked to usher in a new era at Rutgers; officials praise her focus on students | 2,468 | record_train |
Hound: A guard dog stands behind a fence in @placeholder. | Nowhere in Germany signifies the rise of the far-Right more than Jamel in the economically-depressed east of the country. Dotted around the tiny village, which sits in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on the coast of the Baltic sea, are murals depicting Aryan families emblazoned with the words 'Free, Social, National', while targets showing charging soldiers are riddled with bullet holes. The vast majority of residents are neo-Nazis - and proud of it. There have been reports of pro-Hitler parties here during the summer where attendees chant 'Heil' around a bonfire. 'Their aim? A nationalist upbringing outside the mainstream,' said German magazine Der Spiegel in a report on the rising tide of neo-Nazism.
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Jamel in east Germany is almost exclusively populated by neo-Nazis
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One way to mark this extraordinary life and contribution would be for the @placeholder to be renamed from one prime minister who never set foot there to another who liberated it.’ | Port Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands, should be renamed Port Margaret as a tribute to Baroness Thatcher, senior figures in the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence are suggesting. The idea is being backed by MPs and is also attracting considerable support on the islands, which Lady Thatcher was responsible for liberating in 1982. The proposal is likely to trigger fury in Argentina, which has been ratcheting up the rhetoric over the sovereignty of the Falklands around the 30th anniversary of the conflict. Our heroine: Margaret Thatcher with troops in the Falklands in 1982. One islander said: 'We owe everything to her'
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Idea is backed by MPs and attracting considerable support on the islands
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@placeholder, the nephew, said his uncle was proud of his service, though "he didn't talk about it much." | (CNN)The Tuskegee Airmen -- the proud, pioneering group of World War II African-American fighter pilots and service personnel -- lost two more members last week. Clarence Huntley Jr. and Joseph Shambrey both died in Los Angeles on January 5. Their deaths were confirmed by Craig Huntly, Clarence Huntley's nephew. The two men, who were lifelong friends and born within six weeks of one another, were 91. "They were friends before they joined the Army," said Huntly. (The different spelling is deliberate, he said, a product of family tinkering.) "They didn't go to school together, but in the black community in Los Angeles, mostly everybody knew everybody."
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Two Tuskegee Airmen died in Los Angeles last week
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The president did not communicate with @placeholder over this trip.' | By Reuters Reporter and Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 11:23 EST, 11 April 2013 | UPDATED: 10:04 EST, 12 April 2013 Boasting Jay-Z today took a swipe at critics of his and wife's Beyoncé's recent trip to Cuba in a swaggering new rap song. The song, 'Open Letter' calls out the politicians who questioned the legality of the fifth anniversary vacation, which was approved by the Treasury Department, when the rapper says, 'Politicians never did s**t for me, except lie to me, distort history. They wanna give me jail time and a fine. Fine, let me commit a real crime.'
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Rapper and mogul released song, Open Letter, Thursday following outrage from politicians over trip licensed by the Treasury Department
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Republican members of Congress asked for information on what type of license they obtained
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U.S. trade embargo against Cuba prevents most Americans from traveling to the island without a license granted by the U.S. government
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Jay-Z also raps about his decision to sell his share of the Brooklyn Nets | 2,472 | record_train |
@placeholder mainly uses a helmet mounted GOPRO3+ camera to capture these photos and videos | Would you believe that these breathtaking photos were seen through the lens of a kayaker's GoPro camera? Intrepid Tomasz Furmanek spends his spare time away from the Institute of Marine Research gliding atop the waters in some Norway's most idyllic beauty spots. For 10 years, Tomasz, a software developer, has visited many of the fjords in western Norway, inland lakes and the areas around Lofoten Islands in the northern part of the country. Scroll down for video Tomasz Furmanek spends most of his spare time atop the waters of Norway's most idyllic nature spots Using a GoPro camera fastened to his kayak, Tomasz snaps photos of the fjords he sees in his travels
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Adventurer Tomasz Furmanek photographs Norwegian fjords from a kayak
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For over 10 years, he's been documenting his travels around the country
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On July 18, hospital officials reported that Mubarak had fallen into a coma, but one "that did not last long," @placeholder told CNN. | Cairo (CNN) -- Ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak is depressed and refusing to eat as he awaits trial on charges of ordering police to kill anti-government protesters, a state news agency reported Tuesday. Mubarak is consuming only liquids and juices, is weak and has lost a lot of weight, Mohammed Fathallah, the head of the hospital where the ex-president is being held, told the state-run EgyptNews. Fathallah's deputy, Dr. Asim Azzam, told the agency that the former leader's vital signs were semi-stable. The 83-year-old Mubarak ruled Egypt for more than 29 years before a popular uprising drove him from office in February. He has been hospitalized since April, after suffering heart palpitations.
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Doctors told a state news agency that Mubarak is weak and has lost weight
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Interested: @placeholder has been busy trying to arrange deals to strengthen Hull this summer | By Simon Jones Hull City have made an offer to take Carl Jenkinson on a permanent deal. The 22-year-old can leave Arsenal and was initially set to leave on loan. Arsenal signed Calum Chambers from Southampton on Monday in a £12million deal that could rise to £16m, and it is clear Jenkinson is now surplus to requirements. They have also signed right back Mathieu Debuchy from Newcastle for £10m. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Mathieu Debuchy signs for Arsenal from Newcastle for £10m Temporary exit: Hull have confirmed an interest in signing Carl Jenkinson on loan from Arsenal New arrivals: Mathieu Debuchy and Calum Chambers could keep Jenkinson out of the Arsenal team
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Jenkinson looks set to leave Arsenal after signings of Calum Chambers and Mathieu Debuchy
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Jenkinson's preference is to stay in London and West Ham may make bid
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Over Iraq, @placeholder-based airlines can fly as long as their planes are above 20,000 feet. | (CNN) -- When passengers boarded Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 last week, they couldn't have known they were about to fly over a battlefield. But hours later, at 33,000 feet above eastern Ukraine, a missile ended the lives of 298 innocent civilians. That flight wasn't the only one in the corridor that day nor was it the lone one to fly above a conflict area. After MH17 was shot down the Federal Aviation Administration told U.S. airlines they could no longer fly in that region. And after a rocket launched from Gaza landed within a mile of Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, the agency banned flights from the United States to Israel for 24 hours.
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CNN aviation analyst says airlines can go above and beyond government regulations
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The accuser said he finally had enough in 2009 and asked his mother to pick him up from the @placeholder house. | Bellefonte, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- The prosecution's final accuser Thursday refused to look at Jerry Sandusky when he pointed to him minutes after telling jurors the former Penn State assistant football coach sodomized him and forced him to perform oral sex while he stayed in Sandusky's basement during visits. The sexual abuse occurred during a number of visits, the witness, now 18, testified. "There was no fighting against it." "Alleged Victim No. 9" said he screamed during one incident, hoping Sandusky's wife might hear him from upstairs. There was no answer. "I think the basement is soundproof," said Alleged Victim 9, becoming emotional during portions of his testimony. CNN generally does not identify alleged victims of sexual assault.
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Another accuser says Jerry Sandusky touched him inappropriately
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"@placeholder was quiet," said Baldelli, adding that at the time, there was still a level of denial in the capital. | (CNN) -- By the time photographer Luigi Baldelli arrived in Sierra Leone early August, the Ebola epidemic had spread like wildfire. Contagion and death rates grew exponentially during those summer months of seasonal rainstorms while, strangely, an eerie calm prevailed in the capital city of Freetown, he said. That's when Baldelli, on assignment with Italy's Corriere della Sera daily, trekked through the muddy roads of the West African nation, straight into the eye of the storm: the village of Kenema on Sierra Leone's porous border with Liberia and Guinea, an area cordoned off by presidential decree for its alarming rate of Ebola cases.
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Photographer Luigi Baldelli documented the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone in early August
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Baldelli was only allowed to shoot no less than a meter away from his subjects
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@placeholder will pick up a majority of the state's 158 delegates. | PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton claimed victory in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, beating out Sen. Barack Obama after a bruising six-week campaign. Sen. Hillary Clinton addresses supporters following her win in Pennsylvania. "It's a long road to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and it runs right through the heart of Pennsylvania," she told supporters in Philadelphia. "I'm in this race to fight for you ... You know you can count on me to stand up strong for you every single day in the White House." Clinton commended Obama and his campaign, saying the two are in many ways "on this journey together." Watch Clinton claim victory »
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Clinton holds 10-point lead with about 99 percent of precincts reporting
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The movie really showed Watson as a trusted companion to @placeholder, coming to Holmes' aid in times of need. | New York (CNN) -- Certain groups of die-hard fans are protective of the characters they hold on a pedestal. "Star Trek" has its Trekkies and "Star Wars" has the Jedi religion. Sherlock Holmes has the Sherlockians, scholars of the canon of books and short stories written by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Many Sherlockians are members of the invitation-only literary society, The Baker Street Irregulars. Group members have historically been critical of on-screen adaptations of their beloved consulting detective and his faithful sidekick, Dr. John Watson. While they, by nature of their adoration, saw flaws in the Guy Ritchie "Sherlock Holmes," which opened in theaters Friday, the consensus among these experts was that the film is a fun -- and even occasionally faithful -- romp through Sherlock lore that the author himself would have enjoyed.
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Sherlockians are serious Holmes fans; many belong to The Baker Street Irregulars
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The backpack began as a school project that required her to solve an everyday problem; for @placeholder, the standard issue IV pole was her own personal everyday issue to overcome. | By Margot Peppers for MailOnline An 11-year-old who fought and survived cancer three years ago has made it her mission to help other kids fighting the disease. Kylie Simonds, from Naugatuck, Connecticut, was just eight when she was diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare bone and soft tissue cancer, and she says the heavy IV pole she had to cart around during chemo sessions made the whole experience harder and scarier. So the savvy tween came up with a solution: an IV backpack specially designed to accommodate a pump for chemotherapy or transfusions. Scroll down for video Genius invention: Cancer survivor Kylie Simonds, 11, from Naugatuck, Connecticut, has invented an IV backpack that makes it easier and less scary for kids to be hooked up to the IV during chemo
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The backpack has the pole and IV bag attached to the upper corner so that children can be mobile and do activities while receiving chemotherapy
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So far, Kylie has raised more than $46,000 via a Go Fund Me page, with an ultimate goal of $50,000 to fund the manufacturing of a usable IV backpack | 2,481 | record_train |
likely to fuel more questions over whether minority Muslims can find justice in overwhelmingly Buddhist @placeholder. | By Sam Webb PUBLISHED: 14:03 EST, 29 May 2013 | UPDATED: 12:24 EST, 30 May 2013 Hundreds of Buddhist men on motorcycles waved iron rods and bamboo poles in a northeastern town in Burma today, the latest incident to spill over from simmering religious tensions in the country. The intimidating display in Lashio came a day after a mosque and a Muslim orphanage were torched after reports that a Muslim man set fire to a Buddhist woman. Residents said a cinema was burned as the mob sped around the town as part of a new wave of violence targeting the religious minority.
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The @placeholder entered into force on 21 October 1950 and have gradually grown in recognition to become universally applicable. | London (CNN) -- The Red Cross's declaration Sunday that Syria is engaged in a civil war -- or in the organization's legalistic phrasing, a "non-international armed conflict" -- may have struck some observers as a case of stating the obvious. But the assessment from the Geneva-based body is significant. It means the violence that has plagued the Middle Eastern nation since early 2011 has crossed a legal threshold whereby combatants throughout the country are subject to the Geneva Conventions -- and as such can be prosecuted for war crimes. Who are the Red Cross? The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is the guardian of the Geneva Conventions, which set down the rules of war.
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The Red Cross has determined that Syria is in a state of civil war
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The Geneva Conventions, overseen by the Red Cross, govern behavior in war zones
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Simply the best: @placeholder's goal had everything - an outrageous piece of skill on a huge occasion | Tim Cahill's super-strike has been hailed for its brilliant technique that left fans around the world purring and showed that there is nothing better than a sweetly struck volley. But did it rank among the best volleyed efforts of all-time? Sportsmail looks back on the best volleyed goals that rival Cahill's in a list of football's greatest volleys. Crash, bang, wallop: Cahill showed there's nothing better than a sweetly struck volleyed goal Brazil-liant: But where does Cahill's goal rank among the all-time greatest volleyed strikes? 1 Marco van Basten: Holland v Russia, June 1988 (European Championship final) The enormity of the occasion and the tightness of the angle mean Van Basten's iconic effort might never be beaten. Waiting for the ball to drop over his shoulder, where most would have panicked the Dutchman produced a moment of magic, hooking the ball back across the 'keeper and into the net.
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‘I know the situation because @placeholder is a fantastic goalkeeper but I will fight to play. | By Chris Wheeler Follow @@ChrisWheelerDM Manchester City’s new £6million goalkeeper Willy Caballero has warned Joe Hart that he has not joined the Premier League champions just to sit on the bench. Caballero, 32, accepts that he will start the season as No 2 to the England international after agreeing to move from Malaga and play for his old boss Manuel Pellegrini. But it is understood that Pellegrini wants Caballero to fight Hart for a first-team place and the Argentine is up for the challenge. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Liverpool v Manchester City highlights Fresh start: Caballero joined City from Spanish side Malaga in a £6m deal earlier this summer
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Willy Caballero signed for Man City in £6m deal earlier this summer
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The practice has been used since the 1980s - but has reportedly accelerated under @placeholder, who seized control of the country following the death of his father in 2011. | Kim Jong-un has appeared in public sporting a retro haircut that appears to have been inspired by Will Smith's character in 90s American TV show The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. The modish monocrat debuted his 'high and tight' crop during a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in North Korean capital Pyonyang yesterday. Although he went for his signature severe shaved sides, Kim also appeared to have spent a long time crafting and blow-drying the top of his hair into a distinctive wedge that left the trendsetting tyrant looking somewhere between the Fresh Prince and early 90s heart-throb Jason Priestly.
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@placeholder's seniors were one of three classes celebrating their commencement ceremonies at the facility. | Moore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Five days ago, Miranda Mann huddled in a science classroom at Southmoore High School. She should have been filed with pride, relief and excitement about her upcoming graduation. Instead, she was filled with fear as a devastating tornado powered through her central Oklahoma city. The 18-year-old has been literally picking up the pieces of her life since. Her house was unrecognizable, except for her and her mother's cars, after the twister destroyed it Monday. Her family sifted through rubble and salvaged some things, only to see many of them -- such as her prized book collection -- ruined by torrential rains.
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Second-ranked Djokovic was due to play in @placeholder, but pulled out at the last minute due to the right wrist injury which first hit him in Monte Carlo. | (CNN) -- Injury doubt Novak Djokovic has confirmed his participation, new dad Roger Federer is a maybe, but they will go into the Rome Masters next week in the knowledge their old nemesis Rafael Nadal is finding his feet on clay again after some shock recent defeats. Nadal booked his participation in his 90th ATP Tour final with a 6-4 6-3 win over fellow Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut at the Madrid Open Saturday -- always in command in the one hour 43 minute clash. Nadal, who is the defending champion at the Masters 1000 event, lost in the quarterfinals at Monte Carlo and Barcelona to David Ferrrer and Nicolas Almagro to show rare vulnerability on his favorite surface.
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Mr Kelsall called on Birmingham city council to act on the cases of three head teachers allegedly ousted by @placeholder plotters. | By Tom Mctague, Mail online Deputy Political Editor Former Education Secretary Michael Gove warned of the danger of letting school pupils be radicalised Hardline Islamists involved in a ‘Trojan Horse’ plot to radicalise pupils are still working in Birmingham schools, a teaching union boss has claimed. Rob Kelsall, of the National Association of Head Teachers, said the union was investigating 28 secret deals with school principals - amid fears that some may have been forced out of their jobs unfairly by radical governors. The union said at least three so-called 'compromise agreements' had ‘all the hallmarks of Trojan Horse pressures’.
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Hardliners allegedly infiltrated school governing bodies to radicalise pupils
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Six schools were put in special measures following a shock report
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Investigation led by former Scotland Yard counter terror chief Peter Clarke
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Governors implicated in the plot quit or were forced to resign
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But head teachers' union said there were some plotters 'still operating'
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Three principals may have been forced from their jobs by radical governors | 2,489 | record_train |
The IOC's executive board on Wednesday decided to reallocate the results of the events that @placeholder participated in. | (CNN) -- The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday stripped China of a bronze medal in the women's team event at the 2000 Olympic Games after finding one of the team's athletes was underage. The United States will be awarded the bronze medal instead, the IOC said in a news release. The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) in February decided to cancel all results obtained by gymnast Dong Fangxiao at the Sydney, Australia, Games. "The FIG conducted an inquiry which showed that the athlete was only 14 years old during the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games," the IOC said. Under FIG qualification rules, athletes must be 16 in the year of the Games in order to compete.
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China stripped of bronze medal from women's team event at 2000 Olympics.
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Gymnast Dong Fangxiao found to be underage during the Games in Sydney.
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Dong's results canceled as United States awarded bronze medal in China's place. | 2,490 | record_train |
As a specialist for photo agency @placeholder who creates 360-degree images, he needs to consider different aspects for successful delivery. | Sochi, Russia (CNN) -- "This one is for you," says Yana Romanova, the photo manager at the RusSki Gorki Jumping Center. She hands over a blue, numbered armband-come-sleeve which signifies to all at the Sochi Olympics venue that its wearer is a working photographer. "Let me take your name as well, we might need it if I have to take away your accreditation," she adds with a smile, before revealing the fate of a photographer who recently made the mistake of crossing into a no-go zone. "He ran onto the landing area of the ski jump to help an athlete who had fallen ... It was dangerous and against the rules, so last I heard he'd been barred from the rest of the Games."
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Henry Stuart specializes in producing 360-degree pictures for Getty Images in Sochi
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He captures the skier with multiple frames at different points all the way down the hill
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Stuart says he wants to get "the sense of the steepness and the speed of the skier"
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He takes around 40 pictures per jump and will use about 20 in the final composite image | 2,491 | record_train |
No fewer than 11 incidents resulting in passenger deaths involving ATR turboprops have been recorded around the world, including @placeholder's recent crashes. | (CNN)Following Wednesday's tragic crash in Taipei, its Civil Aerospace Authority (CAA) has grounded all Taiwanese-registered ATR 72's for safety checks to assess whether they meet the agency's standards. The checks affect aircraft in the fleets of TransAsia, the airline at the heart of Wednesday's fatal incident, and Uni Air, another local carrier. TransAsia operates six ATR 72-500s and four ATR 72-600s including the ATR 72-600 which crashed Wednesday. Uri Air has 12 ATR 72-600s. Fred Wu, President of TransAsia Airways, told journalists that the airline was complying with the temporary halt of the company's ATR 72 fleet. "The airline, as requested from the CAA, is specifically checking all ATR aircraft in the fleet. They have not finished checking one until this morning," he said. "Once we have one finished, CAA will confirm the results before we start flying that aircraft again."
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Taiwanese Civil Aerospace Authority (CAA) has ordered all Taiwanese-registered ATR 72's grounded until safety checks can be made
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Wednesday's fatal accident the second fatal TransAsia incident involving an ATR 72 in less than a year
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Despite several fatal accidents over its time in service, the "workhorse" has good reputation among pilots | 2,492 | record_train |
The kidnappers - believed to include three @placeholder men and a Ukrainian woman - were arrested by Ukrainian security officers (stock image) | A British man was freed by Ukrainian secret services after being kidnapped and tortured while seeking a potential 'bride' through a dating agency in Odessa, it was revealed today. The man, aged 58, was abducted by a 'criminal gang', believed to be Muslim, after arranging to meet a young woman. He has been named as Martin John, but he could be John Martin as Ukrainians often give the surname first. Scroll down for video A British man was freed by Ukrainian secret services after being kidnapped and tortured while seeking a potential 'bride' through a dating agency in Odessa (pictured)
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A man named as Martin John, 58, was kidnapped by Muslims in Ukraine
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He was held in a cellar for three days with the gang demanding a ransom
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He was told he would be killed if his family did not pay £3,700
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Ukrainian secret service officers freed him and arrested the gang | 2,493 | record_train |
As one of only seven original @placeholder cars left in existence, the car has been put up for sale for £96,000 - but it could fetch far more as fans battle for a piece of film history. | By Sam Adams PUBLISHED: 12:40 EST, 5 September 2012 | UPDATED: 01:58 EST, 11 September 2012 It may look like any old Volkswagen Beetle to some - but this little car was one of the Hollywood stars of its day. With its famous red, white and blue stripes, and big '53' badge, Herbie is instantly recognisable to film-lovers of a certain age. And after playing the starring role in the classic Disney series about a VW Beetle with a mind of its own, this version of the Love Bug - as it is nicknamed - is now available to buy for fans with deep pockets.
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Volkswagon is one of seven originals left from the Herbie films
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Sale price of £96,000 should attract interest from fans worldwide
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Car has flashing headlights that 'look left and right' and a hydraulic hood | 2,494 | record_train |
'She¿s not going to get out when she goes up for (parole) anyway': @placeholder said he was hoping for a 40 year sentence but wasn't concerned when the judge gave Shoaf (pictured) 30 years | A 17-year-old West Virginia girl was sentenced Wednesday for helping her friend stab and bury their high school classmate in the woods in 2012 as part of a teenage murder plot that captivated the nation with its ice cold senselessness. While Rachel Shoaf asked the court for its forgiveness just before she was handed 30 years in state prison, her chilling admission that they'd done it 'because they didn't want to be friends with Skylar anymore' still resonate, especially with Skylar Neese's father. 'She’s not sorry—she’s sorry she got caught,' said a shaken Dave Neese following the case's second, and last, sentencing. 'That’s the only thing she’s sorry for.'
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Rachel Shoaf, 17, of Morgantown, West Virginia apologized for killing Skylar Neese in July 2012 before she was sentenced Wednesday
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Shoaf and her friend, Sheila Eddy, lured their 16-year-old from home, stabbed her to death and dumped her body in the Pennsylvania woods
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Shoaf told police they did it 'because they didn't want to be friends with Skylar anymore'
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Skylar's father Dave said Shoaf is 'absolutely not' sorry and hopes the killer remains behind bars well after she's up for parole in 10 years | 2,495 | record_train |
The country's known reserves are the largest in @placeholder and fourth-largest in the world -- sufficient for 85 years at the present output. | (CNN)Following Libya's revolution, oil production has been restored and the country has slipped from the front pages. Once more, Libya has become North African rather than southern Mediterranean, and news dispatches surface only when Western government's worst fears appear close to being realized. As most Libyans admit that after four-plus decades of Moammar Gadhafi, it will take time to build a mature democracy. Yet Libyans remain hopeful that progress is being made. For travelers, this means a renewed opportunity to explore one of Africa's most interesting states. 1. It's vast and empty At 679,362 square miles, Libya is second in size only to neighboring Algeria among North African countries. It's two and a half times bigger than Texas, almost 85 times the size of Wales and 90% desert.
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Libya is two and a half times bigger than Texas and 90% desert
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Alcohol is banned, but there's smuggled booze and bokha, distilled from dates, figs
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Gasoline is cheaper than water in this oil rich but extremely dry Sahara nation
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Ancient ruins from the Greek and Roman eras are spectacular | 2,496 | record_train |
Messi and @placeholder were all smiles before fighting it out for the main Ballon d'Or prize | Ballon d'Or: Cristiano Ronaldo Women's player of the year: Nadine Kessler Puskas award: James Rodriguez Men's coach of the year: Joachim Low Women's coach of the year: Ralf Kellermann FIFA presidential award: Hiroshi Kagawa FIFA fair play award: FIFA volunteers All three players shortlisted for the FIFA Ballon d'Or award were unsurprisingly selected by their peers to be named in the 2014 FIFPro World XI team. Lionel Messi, Manuel Neuer and ultimate winner Cristiano Ronaldo were among seven 2013 team members who retained their places in worldwide voting by 23,000 members of national players' unions. Manchester United winger Angel di Maria was the only player in the XI that is currently plying his trade in the Premier League, although his selection will have been based on his performances for Real Madrid and Argentina last year.
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Manuel Neuer is selected as the goalkeeper after winning World Cup
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Defence is Sergio Ramos, Thiago Silva, David Luiz and Philipp Lahm
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Andres Iniesta, Toni Kroos and Angel Di Maria form a three-man midfield
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Lionel Messi, Arjen Robben and Cristiano Ronaldo complete the line-up
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Real Madrid superstar Ronaldo won his third Ballon d'Or trophy | 2,497 | record_train |
When another wave of Abu Ghraib torture photos became public in 2006, the reaction wasn't as strong because it seemed by then that the Arab world had given up on @placeholder. | (CNN) -- There is hardly anything in U.S.-Arab relations that screams scandal louder than the torture pictures of Abu Ghraib: The abuse that went on behind these gates hardened Arab opinion against the United States. Naked hooded male bodies in the fetal position, piled up on top of each other in a pyramid shape, next to them U.S. soldiers in uniform smiling and giving two thumbs up. Naked males made to touch their genitals on camera, others beaten so hard that paramedics are at hand to treat their wounds in preparation for the next round of torture. For the Arab world, the human body is a taboo, a sacred temple that should be covered and respected. For many, exposing the naked body is a sin. So it is no surprise that taking pictures of the naked, hooded men was seen as a sick inexcusable act. The United States was already unpopular in the Arab world, mainly because of its war in Iraq. After Abu Ghraib in most quarters, it became despised with a vengeance.
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The scandal took the U.S. from unpopular to despised in the Arab world, Nasr says
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Many had not believed stories of abuse in Arab media before the photos came out
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Now, many think the worst of the U.S.; new photos would not change that, Nasr says | 2,498 | record_train |
His tweet went viral instantly, ballooning his @placeholder following by more than 100,000 followers over the next couple of hours. | (CNN) -- I get asked by political candidates all the time "what can I do to learn how to grow my Twitter following?" After last night, I have a new and simple answer. "Watch NASCAR." Or at least, watch and emulate NASCAR's savviest tweeter. NASCAR drivers and politicians have the same objective on Twitter: grow an echo chamber of supporters for unfiltered communication to build loyalty. In one incident during Monday night's Daytona 500, a 28-year-old NASCAR driver named Brad Keselowski delivered perhaps the most useful campaign schooling on the keys to effective use of the fastest growing social media tool.
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Brad Todd: NASCAR driver's viral tweet Monday could be instructive for politicians
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He says tweet of track fire spiked driver's traffic; made him instantly a most-followed
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He says politicians should try more to connect with voters in this same "in-the-moment" way
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Todd: Politicians should write their own tweets; they should be organic | 2,499 | record_train |
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