(CNN) -- The election of a pope from Latin America shows the emerging influence of the region in the Catholic church and the world, church officials and world leaders said Wednesday. "His selection ... speaks to the strength and vitality of a region that is increasingly shaping our world," U.S. President Barack Obama said. Obama said he looked forward to working with the pope to advance peace and dignity for people, regardless of their faiths. "The election of a pope from the 'new world' is an occasion of genuinely historic proportions," Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said in a statement.
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Argentine president hopes the pope will have "fruitful pastoral work"
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President Obama says selection speaks to emerging role of Latin America
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Mexican bishops say it is a sign of love for pilgrims in the region
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Francis should make preventing child sexual abuse a priority, survivors group says

Question: "For two weeks, the @placeholder of the world have been without the spiritual father of their family.


Alex Salmond relaunched his political career yesterday with a boast that his party could hold the balance of power at the next General Election. The former first minister announced that he intends to stand for Parliament by seeking the SNP’s nomination in the constituency of Gordon. But he said his Scottish nationalists could emerge as power brokers if no party wins an overall majority in Westminster. Scroll down for video Alex Salmond, who quit as SNP leader hours after losing the independence referendum, said he would 'step up to the plate' and stand for election in the Gordon constituency. He announced the decision at the Buchan Hotel in Ellon (pictured)
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Former First Minister to stand for election in Gordon constituency
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Decision comes after he stood down in wake of independence referendum
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Insisted he would 'step up to the plate' for the 2015 general election
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But rules out the SNP working with a Conservative government

Question: Returning as leader in 2004, he guided the SNP to a narrow Scottish election win in 2007 and then led a minority government as he became Scotland's first @placeholder First Minister.


Cuban weapons found in July aboard a North Korean ship trying to cross the Panama Canal violated United Nations weapons sanctions, Panamanian officials said, citing an unpublished U.N. report on the incident. Cuban officials said Thursday that they had no comment on the Panamanian allegations. In July, Cuba's foreign ministry issued a statement that said the undeclared shipment discovered aboard the ship consisted of obsolete weapons being sent to North Korea for repairs before being returned to Cuba. But Panamanian officials have said that under 10,000 tons of Cuban sugar, they found operational weaponry, including MiG fighter jets, anti-aircraft systems and explosives.
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Panama says it found fighter jets, explosives aboard North Korean ship in July
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Cuba says the weapons were going to be repaired and returned
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Panamanian officials cite unpublished U.N. weapons inspector report
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Shipment may have been intended to bolster North Korean defenses

Question: According to the @placeholder statement, the crew rendered the ship inoperable during the struggle to keep customs authorities from boarding it.


Police in Rio de Janeiro have declared Ray Whelan, the English director of FIFA's ticket and hospitality partners MATCH, to be 'a fugitive' after they attempted to re-arrest him as part of an investigation into ticket touting. Officers arrived at the Copacabana Palace hotel with an arrest warrant, but Whelan was not there and police said they had CCTV footage of him leaving through a service door. MATCH has stuck by Whelan and insisted he has played no part in any wrongdoing. 'Fugitive': Ray Whelan, the director of MATCH services, is said to have fled through the service entrance of the lavish Copacabana Palace an hour before Brazilian police were set to re-arrest him
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Ray Whelan left the Copacabana Palace before he was set to be re-arrested
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Police say they have CCTV of him walking through the service entrance
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Executive of MATCH is embroiled in a World Cup ticket touting investigation
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Has been described as the 'facilitator' who sold tickets at inflated prices
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Was arrested on Monday and questioned for nine hours before his release

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President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin crossed paths Tuesday during a summit of world leaders in China -- but little else. The world leaders registered just a few chats during the daylong Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meetings in Beijing despite both flanking Chinese President Xi Jinping throughout most of the event. National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan confirmed the brief encounters between Obama and Putin in a statement Tuesday. "On three occasions throughout the day, for a total of approximately 15-20 minutes, President Obama had an opportunity to speak with President Putin," Meehan said. "Their conversations covered Iran, Syria, and Ukraine."
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President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin are both in China
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A National Security Council spokeswoman said the two met for about 15-20 minutes total
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U.S.-Russia Relations have descended to a new low over the last eight months

Question: Russia has not only armed the separatists in the region, but has reportedly deployed Russian military personnel to Eastern Ukraine -- with Ukraine accusing @placeholder most recently of sending 32 tanks across its border on Friday.


Simferopol, Crimea (CNN) -- A deadline Ukraine's acting President gave Crimea's separatist leaders to release hostages came and went without apparent incident Wednesday, after pro-Russian activists stormed the former Soviet state's navy headquarters in the region. Amid signs the uneasy standoff between pro-Russian and Ukrainian forces could ignite into bloody conflict -- a day after Moscow claimed Crimea as its own -- almost 300 armed pro-Russian supporters took over the naval base in Sevastopol, said Marina Kanalyuk, assistant to the commander of Ukraine's navy fleet. "They are everywhere here, they surround us, they threaten us," she said, adding that she was sure that Russian security forces were involved.
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NEW: "Business as usual is not an option," says NATO secretary general
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NEW: He warns of the organization's fear that Russia may move into eastern Ukraine
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Ukraine says prepared to evacuate military personnel and family members from Crimea
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On visit to Baltic states, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden slams Russian "aggression"

Question: ET) deadline for @placeholder to release all hostages and stop all provocations, a statement on the presidential website said.

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Question: Members of the @placeholder parliament and the new Crimean legislature met Wednesday morning in Moscow to discuss the details of how the region will join Russia.


Marc Muniesa wants to be a centre-half – on this evidence the former Barcelona starlet could find himself at centre-forward. Stoke are yet to score at home in the Barclays Premier League this season but are unbeaten on the road and their Spanish left back was the unlikely hero, scoring twice to sink last season’s beaten finalists. The 22-year-old is seen as understudy to Erik Pieters at Stoke but his two emphatic strikes at the Stadium of Light could have the likes of Peter Crouch and Mame Biram Diouf looking over their shoulders. American striker Jozy Altidore opens the scoring for Sunderland, assist was from Will Buckley
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Stoke beat Sunderland in Capital One Cup third round
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Steven Fletcher and Emanuele Giaccherini missed out through injury
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Jozy Altidore scored his first goal of the season for Sunderland
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Mark Muniesa equalised for Stoke before half time
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Muniesa then grabbed his second with 20 minutes left

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CLICK HERE to see all the stats from the game at Greenhous Meadow. It is games like this, just as much as Champions League matches, when Jose Mourinho illustrates his mastery of the substitution. Having just seen his team concede a remarkable equaliser 13 minutes from the final whistle that seemed likely to send this Capital One Cup tie into extra time, the Chelsea manager immediately threw on Willian and Nemanja Matic. In his first involvement, the Brazilian conjured a goal that spared any blushes. He raced down the left and produced a cross so troubling that Jermaine Grandison diverted into his own net with Didier Drogba lurking.
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Chelsea went ahead early in the second half when Didier Drogba converted Mohamed Salah's through ball
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But Shrewsbury equalised through substitute Andrew Mangan in the 77th minute
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Jermaine Grandison headed into his own net four minutes later to seal victory for Jose Mourinho's side
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The result sends Chelsea into the last eight of the Capital One Cup

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(CNN) -- Bears riding motorcycles, tigers jumping through flaming hoops and pigs leaping off diving boards. Just some of the "entertainment" that can be seen at circuses, zoos and safari parks in China, according to a report by Animals Asia into animals cruelty. The Hong Kong-based animal rights campaign group visited 13 safari parks and zoos in China and according to David Neale, Animals Asia's Animal Welfare Director, found that the animal shows "portray the animal to the public in a humiliating way" and have no educational value. "There is a misunderstanding really within China at the moment about what these animals are experiencing," Neale told CNN.
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Report into Chinese zoos and safari parks found abuse of perforrming animals
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Animals Asia campaign group visited 13 parks across the country
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"Animal cruelty is happening in every country of the world," says David Neale

Question: However Neale points out that in China there are currently no animal protection laws, a reason why @placeholder have worked with Chinese academics to draft legislation not just for animals in captivity, but all animals.


(CNN) -- Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo will miss the final race of 2011 MotoGP season in Valencia this weekend as he continues to recover from a finger injury. The Yamaha rider required plastic surgery to repair a damaged ring finger on his left hand after a crash in Australia three weeks ago. Lorenzo, 24, is guaranteed second place in the world championship due to the 48-point lead he holds over third-place Honda rider Andrea Dovizioso. Australian Casey Stoner has already secured this year's world championship. Japanese test rider Katsuyuki Nakasuga will replace the 2010 world champion for Sunday's race in the Spanish port city.
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Jorge Lorenzo will miss the final race of the 2011 MotoGP season
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The Spaniard is still recovering from plastic surgery on his finger
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Sunday's race in Valencia is the first since the death of Marco Simoncelli

Question: In addition, riders will gather on track prior to Sunday's season-ending race to their own tribute to @placeholder -- who raced for the Honda team.


NEW YORK (CNN) -- Before heading out for a trio of well-publicized meetings with foreign dignitaries Tuesday, Sarah Palin received a briefing from the director of national security, Adm. Michael McConnell. Gov. Sarah Palin is in New York to meet with leaders from around the world. The appearances with world leaders, taking place on the sidelines of the United Nation's General Assembly meetings in New York, come as the campaign of Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain tries to convince voters that Palin is ready for the world stage. Palin's top foreign policy adviser informed reporters of the meeting at a small briefing after Palin's visits with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
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Palin meets with world leaders on sidelines of U.N. world summit
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Meeting with Kissinger stretches into an hour and a half
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Palin debates Sen. Joe Biden next week in St. Louis, Missouri
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Palin has had to defend herself against charges she lacks foreign policy experience

Question: With @placeholder, she listened for about 20 minutes as the president discussed the country's security situation and its handling of guerrillas.


Herculean: David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. He has portrayed the Belgian detective since 1989 and wishes to film all of his adventures penned by Agatha Christie Agatha Christie could not stand Hercule Poirot. The little Belgian detective with the waxed moustaches brought her fame and wealth, but she found him ‘insufferable’. The actor David Suchet, luckily for us, can’t get enough of the character. He has been playing Poirot since 1989, starting with 50-minute adaptations of short stories — Christie was endlessly inventive, and wrote more than 30 novels and 50 short tales featuring the pompous little sleuth with the egg-shaped head.
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Author Agatha Christie found her most famous creation 'insufferable'
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But Suchet, who has portrayed detective since 1989, shows no sign of waning

Question: Suchet’s genius is that he can deliver everything @placeholder found so exasperating, without becoming a caricature — he minces, he trots, he fusses, he talks endlessly of himself in the third person.


LONDON, England (CNN) -- Claims by Diana's former butler that he knew a mysterious "secret" about the late princess have been trashed by the coroner in her inquest. Diana's former butler has given conflicting information at the enquiry into her death. The coroner said the information was already in the public domain and some of it was even mentioned in one of Paul Burrell's own books. Considered the first star witness of the inquest, Burrell's appearance Tuesday was delayed after the coroner asked him to retrieve the last letter the princess gave him. Monday, the ex-butler -- once described by the princess as "her rock" -- told the inquest the letter contained a "secret," which he claimed he could not remember.
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Claims by Diana's butler that he knew "secret" about her trashed by coroner
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Paul Burrell asked to testify about the last letter the late princess gave him
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Coroner revealed Burrell's "secret" was Diana planned to buy property abroad
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But coroner said the revelation is "fairly and squarely in the public domain"

Question: Maggie Rae said at the inquest that @placeholder also believed there was a plot to seriously injure her in an accident.


Tokyo, Japan (CNN) -- Four American teenagers, all children of U.S. military personnel, have been arrested on charges of attempted murder after a woman was knocked off her motorbike with rope strung across two poles, Japanese police said. The four suspects -- two 15-year-old boys, a 17-year-old girl and an 18-year-old man -- were taken into custody on Saturday, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said. They are accused of causing a severe head injury to a 23-year-old restaurant employee by stringing a rope between poles across a road. U.S. Forces Japan was informed of the August incident in late October, a public information officer said. There was no clear explanation for the delay in the handover of the suspects to police, other than it involved rules between Washington and Tokyo covering U.S. forces and their dependents in Japan.
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Suspects range in age from 15 to 18 years of age
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They are accused of stringing a rope between poles across a road
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A restaurant employee, 23, received a severe head injury
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Incident occurred in August, follows other crimes connected to U.S. military personnel

Question: The U.S. military presence and its impact on @placeholder residents have been a thorny issue over the years.


Johan Cruyff has given a damming verdict of the Ballon d'Or and described Cristiano Ronaldo's last two titles as 'absurd'. But the Barcelona icon is not dismayed at the Portuguese attacker's victories because of his affiliation with Real Madrid, as Cruyff is adamant Ronaldo's club team-mate Toni Kroos should have taken the award. The 67-year-old hailed Kroos' achievements with Bayern Munich in 2013, where  Pep Guardiola's side cruised to league victory by 25 points, before lauding him for his attacking displays at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, a tournament he said Ronaldo was 'invisible' in. Cristiano Ronaldo should not have won the Ballon d'Or, according to Johan Cruyff
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Dutch legend Johan Cruyff says he 'cannot this FIFA award seriously'
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He believes that Toni Kroos should have won the award at least once
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Cruyff feels Ronaldo's World Cup performance should have ruled him out

Question: 'In 2014, @placeholder was again decisive in the team that won the World Cup, and yet he was not in the three finalists.


(CNN) -- The Middle East may be awash with cash, but that didn't stop the region's stock markets being swept up in the global gloom that engulfed investors around the world this week. Traders at the Kuwait Stock Exchange in happier times -- this week Kuwait's main index fell four percent. The region's share markets tumbled in a Mexican wave of selling that started in the U.S. and quickly spread to Asia and Europe. In the Middle East, the Saudi stock market suffered some of the biggest falls; dropping ten percent in Tuesday's trade, its largest one-day slump on record.
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Mideast indices swept up in global stock sell-off as foreign investors bail out
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Gulf central bankers follow lead from U.S. Federal Reserve, cut interest rates
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Sell-off expected to create buying opportunities for sovereign wealth funds
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Maratheftis: Flow of funds will help correct current global imbalance

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Oakland, California (CNN) -- "What is it like to bury both of my kids?" Dinyal New's voice trails off, unable to continue. She sits in the same pew of her church, listening to the same pastor on the same subject -- the loss of a child. Her two boys, Lee and Lamar, were shot to death, 19 days apart, young victims of Oakland, California's relentless street violence. With a population of nearly 400,000, Oakland has long been known as a Bay Area pocket of urban violence. Its proximity to drug corridors and high poverty are fertile breeding grounds for gang violence.
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Dinyal New buried her only two children last month
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Both sons were shot and killed within three weeks of each other
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She lives in Oakland, California, one of the most violent cities in the U.S.

Question: Oakland police will not say whether the murders of @placeholder's sons are gang-related, but because they are brothers, police say their deaths "are possibly related."

Question: Walker says that even the horror of Dinyal New's story will fade after @placeholder is buried.


Baghdad (CNN) -- Iraq's Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, who fled the country months ago, was sentenced to death Sunday, an official said. The verdict came on a day when a wave of violence across Iraq left at least 79 people dead and 270 wounded. Together, the death sentence and the violence raise questions about the stability of the country just nine months after U.S. troops were withdrawn. Al-Hashimi was sentenced to hang "because he was involved directly in killing a female lawyer and a general with the Iraqi army," said Abdul Sattar al-Berqdar, a spokesman for Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council.
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NEW: More than 79 people were killed in violence across Iraq
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Iraq's top Sunni politician is convicted over the killing of two people
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He's accused of other crimes, including running a death squad
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He says the charges are politically motivated

Question: "Everybody knows that my case is a political case, from beginning to end, and that the charges against me are fabricated and far from the truth," @placeholder said in May.


Two Palestinians, including a 13-year-old boy, have been killed by Israeli soldiers carrying out raids linked to the search for three teenagers believed to have been abducted in the West Bank. Mohammed Dodeen, whose funeral has already taken place, is believed to have been killed by a bullet to the chest during army raids in Dura refugee camp in the Palestinian territory this morning. The army also opened fire during a raid in the nearby Qalandiya refugee camp, leaving three Palestinians seriously wounded, and killing 23-year-old Mustafa Aslan - bringing the total number killed during raids by Israeli soldiers this week to three.
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Mohammed Dodeen, 13, and Mustafa Aslan, 23, were shot dead by the Israeli military during raids this morning
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A total of three Palestinians have been killed during raids by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank this week alone
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Deaths come as Israel cracks down on Palestinians linked to Hamas following alleged abduction of three teens
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Over the past week, troops have searched hundreds of locations in the West Bank and arrested 300 Palestinians
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Deaths come as Israel condemns United Nations for refusing to say the missing teenagers had been abducted

Question: The gesture has become popular on social media among Palestinians and others who support the abductions of @placeholder.

Question: A military spokesman said @placeholder paraphernalia was confiscated as well as computers and databases, which are now being searched


(CNN) -- The Secret Service scandal has all the elements of a salacious story: Sex, alcohol, national security, politics, exotic tropical settings and sex -- or did I already mention sex? But beyond the breathless coverage and oh-so-shocked commentary lie some serious repercussions. The scandal originated in the Colombian city of Cartagena when an agent allegedly refused to pay a local woman the agreed fee of $800 for her sexual services at the historic white-arched hotel where American taxpayers paid for him to sleep while traveling on official duty. Colombia has asked the White House to issue an official apology for tarnishing the country's image. The city of Cartagena, the country's top tourist destination, is a UNESCO world heritage site. Its residents are bristling under the harsh and damaging spotlight.
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After the Secret Service scandal, Colombia asked President Obama to apologize
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Frida Ghitis: Obama shouldn't apologize, but he needs to start taking Latin America seriously
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She says the U.S. has been ignoring, at its own peril, a region amid its renaissance
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Ghitis: Obama should push for stronger economic ties and partnership with South America

Question: That's because @placeholder has truly performed a miracle, emerging from half a century of armed conflict and horrific violence to a position of strong economic growth.


Thousands of people including women and children are being held illegally and tortured by rebels who helped oust Colonel Gaddafi, according to a UN report. Around 7,000, many of them foreigners, are behind bars in private prisons and makeshift detention centres, beyond the control of the new Libyan government and without access to any legal redress. The report by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will be embarrassing for Britain and other governments which supported the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime despite concerns about who would take power in their place. Racism? Rebel fighters hold captive a sub-Saharan African man Many of the detainees are sub-Saharan Africans whom their captors accuse of being Gaddafi mercenaries, based in some cases purely on the fact that they have darker skin. The women and children are being held with them, under the control of male-only guards.
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UN raises concerns of torture and ill-treatment
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Many held simply because they have darker skin

Question: Most policemen have failed to return to work in the lawlessness that grips @placeholder while the court system has been paralysed by a lack of security and absenteeism by judges and administrative staff.


Washington (CNN) -- Obamacare -- the law that refuses to die -- is suddenly under attack again. Republicans will take full control of Congress in January and repealing Obamacare will almost certainly be one of their first priorities. The GOP is seizing on leaked tapes in which MIT professor Jonathan Gruber, an architect of the law, said the "stupidity of the American voter" and a "lack of transparency" were vital to its passage in 2010. And, perhaps most importantly, the Supreme Court is poised to rule on subsidies that are central to the law. "We have to take it very seriously. It is hard to predict how the Court will ultimately decide," said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, an advocacy group that campaigns to sustain Obamacare.
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New challenges have arrived for President Barack Obama's top domestic achievement
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Supreme Court again holds law's fate in its hands
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Republicans will struggle to 'repeal and replace'

Question: The law has already survived one key @placeholder challenge and millions are now insured because of the legislation.


(CNN) -- The evolution of Tamerlan Tsarnaev from aspiring Olympic boxer to apparent radical jihadist may have been influenced by a friend in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "This person just took his brain. He just brainwashed him completely," Tsarnaev's uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, told CNN from his home in Maryland, describing the friend as an Armenian convert to Islam. While Tsarni did not give the friend's name, The Associated Press reported that other members of Tsarnaev's family said the friend goes by the name "Misha." Asked about those reports, Elmirza Khozhgov, a former brother-in-law of Tsarnaev, told CNN Tsarnaev once introduced him to someone by that name who was an Armenian convert. He said he was not told Misha's full name.
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NEW: Islamic Society of Boston has not found a "Misha" by that description so far
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The suspects' former brother-in-law tells CNN he met "Misha."
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The suspects' uncle did not name the friend, but said he began influencing Tamerlan in 2009
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Source: Interviews with Dzhokhar suggest the brothers are self-radicalized jihadists

Question: "Tamerlan told me that he quit boxing and music because Misha was teaching that it's not good in @placeholder to do those things."


A mass exodus of senior staff has taken place today at The New Republic after the Facebook billionaire owner vowed to create a 'digital medial company' and overhaul the vision of a magazine built over a century. Top editor Franklin Foer, and literary editor, Leon Wieseltier, who has been at the Washington D.C.-based magazine for three decades, resigned on Thursday and were quickly followed by ranks of their senior staff. The digital media editor, Hillary Kelly, resigned while on honeymoon in Africa. The exits, a total of 48 staff and contributing editors, came after a deep divide in opinion over the U-turn planned for the title by  owner Chris Hughes.
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A total of 48 senior staff members resigned this week from The New Republic including editor, Franklin Foer, and literary editor, Leon Wieseltier
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Mr Wieseltier, who has been at TNR for  31 years, told staff through tears that the magazine was 'the best thing I've done in my little life'
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Foer reportedly found out he was being replaced before he resigned
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The exits came after a deep divide in opinion over the new direction  for the title owned by Facebook billionaire Chris Hughes
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CEO Guy Vidra reportedly riled staff by his apparent lack of care for the magazine's 100-year history and his intent on 'breaking s***'

Question: Rumblings of trouble in the @placeholder newsroom have been growing since Hughes took over in 2012.


At least 40 people were killed and about 100 were wounded after a bomb exploded at a bazaar in Peshawar on Sunday, officials at a Pakistani hospital said. A car carrying 220 kilograms (485 pounds) of explosives detonated in the city's historic Qissa Khawani bazaar, destroying at least 10 shops and several vehicles and leaving a huge crater, said Shafqat Malik, chief of the bomb disposal unit. The Pakistani Taliban, Tehrik-i-Taliban, condemned the attack and denied any involvement. Alamzeb Khan was working at a nearby tea stall Sunday when he felt the earth shake. The impact of the blast knocked him to the ground.
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One family loses 18 members in the attack
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The Pakistani Taliban denies responsibility, condemns attack
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At least 40 were killed and about 100 wounded in an attack on historic Pakistani bazaar
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Witness: "Everything was on fire. Women and children were burning"

Question: Sunday evening, after a meeting of provincial officials, the creation of task forces to help maintain peace in @placeholder was announced.


Washington (CNN) -- A magazine designed for and by gay military members may soon be displayed at military installations worldwide, an advocacy group announced Monday. "Our first objective with the magazine is to let all the gay, lesbian, bi, and trans members currently serving know that they are not alone," an active-duty officer who goes by the pseudonym JD Smith said in a statement. Smith, along with co-director Ty Walrod lead the organization known as OutServe, the group describes themselves as an underground network of actively serving military members of the United States Armed Services who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
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Gay magazine to appear to selected military bases, statement from publisher said
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Magazines objective is to support LGBT members in the military, said group's leader
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OutServe says it is an underground network of actively serving members of the military

Question: "Visibility is key," @placeholder said, who added that OutServe hopes to have its next version available in print at "some larger military bases."


(CNN) -- Steve Carlotta's family-owned camera store is struggling along with other mom and pop stores. But he's found a way to compete with Internet stores and big-box chains. A sampling of one and five BerkShare notes, courtesy of Jason Houston Photography. Carlotta's store accepts BerkShares -- a local currency in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He credits it with helping keep local customers coming back to his store. And as U.S. dollars and credit vanish in this economic crisis, more communities are looking into printing their own currencies. This concept isn't new. During the Great Depression dozens of complementary currencies flourished as thousands of banks failed. Today, it's estimated there are at least 2,500 complementary currency systems around the world, says Bernard Lietaer, a co-founder of the Euro and a local currency proponent. Watch how one town uses their own currency »
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Some communities are printing their own currency for local use
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It's legal as long as currency doesn't resemble U.S. dollars and is paper only
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Any income from business conducted in local currency is subject to taxes
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Some businesses say local currencies keep people spending locally

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By Daniel Martin, Whitehall Correspondent PUBLISHED: 16:53 EST, 24 September 2013 | UPDATED: 18:47 EST, 24 September 2013 Critical: Johnson said well-off Britons should give their wealth to charity rather than passing large homes on to their children Boris Johnson yesterday criticised well-off Britons who buy large houses to pass on to their children instead of giving their wealth to charity. He said the country needed to adopt a culture of philanthropy like that of the US, where there is a ‘culture of giving and being recognised as givers’. Despite owning a large house in Henley, Oxfordshire, and a £2.3million home in a fashionable part of North London, the father-of-five criticised those who ‘desperately’ aimed to amass property wealth to pass on to their offspring ‘for some unknown reason’.
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Mayor of London said Britain must adopt a culture of philanthropy, like US
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Johnson owns a large house in Henley, Oxfordshire, and a £2.3million home in a fashionable part of North London
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Former MP earns £143,911 for Mayor role, plus £250,000 as columnist
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Johnson's comments hypocritical given his upbringing, critics say

Question: ‘The sooner people get over their lust to buy great schlosses in the home counties – or indeed grouse moors – and give to great causes in @placeholder, the better.’


Jose Mourinho can boast title triumphs in England, Italy and Spain but he ranks the prizes won with Porto as his greatest achievements. Mourinho, who left Porto for Chelsea in 2004 after two Primeira Liga wins and a Champions League success, was back in his homeland after being named Portugal’s coach of the century. He won the Premier League twice in his first spell with the Blues before claiming two Serie A crowns with Inter Milan and a La Liga triumph with Real Madrid. VIDEO Scroll down for Jose Mourinho named 'Coach of the Century' at Portuguese awards Jose Mourinho poses for a photo on the red carpet as he is named Portugal's coach of the century
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Jose Mourinho won the Champions League with Porto in 2004
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He also lifted league titles, domestic cups and the UEFA Cup
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Mourinho left his homeland to take charge of Chelsea in 2004
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His Blues are still battling for four trophies this season
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Question: 'I have not been here for 12 years, 12 years away, but even in being away I have always tried to dignify my country and @placeholder soccer.’


HEBRON, West Bank (CNN) -- Jewish settlers are on a "terror" rampage in the West Bank city of Hebron, angry over the Israeli military's seizure of a disputed home, the city's mayor said Thursday. Israeli police struggle to remove Jewish settlers from a disputed house in Hebron on Thursday. "What's happening in Hebron is terror by the settlers," the mayor, Khaled Osaily, told CNN. "They are attacking houses, setting fire to property and injuring people." Some of the settlers opened fire on Palestinians, critically injuring one, Palestinian sources told CNN. Five other Palestinians have been wounded in the rioting, the sources said.
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Settlers riot after Israeli police seize disputed home in Hebron
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Palestinian sources say six Palestinians wounded in rioting
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Twenty people slightly injured as police remove Jewish settlers from home

Question: The settlers inside the residence had ignored court orders to vacate the house, which a @placeholder man claims belongs to him.


By Sara Smyth PUBLISHED: 16:25 EST, 8 August 2013 | UPDATED: 18:03 EST, 8 August 2013 Attacker: Yuri Zarutsky today said he acted alone in the acid attack, which is a contradiction of previous statements The man accused of throwing a jar of sulphuric acid in Sergei Filin's face said he acted alone and top Bolshoi dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko did not pay him to commit the assault. In a reversal of previous statements, Yuri Zarutsky, who was alleged to be the hired 'hitman' who became involved in the attack on Mr Dmitrichenko's behalf, said he initiated the attack independently.
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Yuri Zarutsky is the alleged hitman who was hired by top ballet dancer
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In surprising development, Mr Zarutsky said he acted alone
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Has called for star soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko to be exonerated
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Move means the men could be tried as individuals and face shorter sentences

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By Jonathan Block A college student who more than two years ago suffered massive brain injuries in a horrific car crash and was in a coma has made an amazing recovery and is back to playing basketball again and attending college.The recovery made by Sam Schmid, 23, of Tucson, Arizona has been described as a 'Christmas miracle' by his mother. On October 19, 2011, Schmid, who was a junior at the University of Arizona at the time, was involved in a five-car collision.He was returning home from coaching the basketball team at a Catholic school he had attended. A van hit the Jeep Schmid was in, sending it flying through the air and hitting a light pole, before coming to rest on its side.
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Sam Schmid, 23, was a junior at the University of Arizona in October 2011 when he was involved in a five-car collision that almost killed him
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He was in a coma for about two months before he woke up shortly before Christmas
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Doctors had discussed the possibility of donating his organs with his parents before Schmid came out of coma
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Schmid's recovery at the Barrow Neurological Institute took two years as he left the facility last month
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He has returned to college and is playing basketball again
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His mother calls his recovery 'a godsend' and says God had a huge part in Schmid's rehabilitation

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Mexico coach Miguel Herrera will allow his players a small celebration after what he regarded as one of the best days of his life. A 3-1 victory over Croatia courtesy of goals from captain Rafael Marquez, Andres Guardado and Javier Hernandez ensured Ivan Perisic’s well-taken consolation three minutes from time came too late to save the Europeans, who had Ante Rebic sent off even later. The win puts Mexico into the last 16 to face Group B winners Holland but in the immediate aftermath of victory Herrera wanted to enjoy the experience. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Mexico defender Miguel Layun get kicked and hit in training
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Mexico beat Croatia 3-1 to qualify behind Brazil
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Goals from Marquez, Guardado and Hernandez secured progress
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Herrara celebrated with his players on the sidelines
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Mexico face Holland in the last 16

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(CNN) -- If director Ron Howard hopes religious controversy will help sell tickets to "Angels & Demons" the way it boosted his "Da Vinci Code," the Catholic Church is not playing along with his script. Tom Hanks reprises his role as professor Robert Langdon in "Angels & Demons." Howard, who premiered the follow-up in Rome, Italy, this week, said there was "residual antagonism from 'The Da Vinci Code,' " but Vatican officials ignored the movie by not responding to suggestions that the church was offended. The first movie based on Dan Brown's mega-selling novels earned $750 million worldwide in 2006.
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"Angels & Demons," new Ron Howard film, based on Dan Brown novel
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Brown's "Da Vinci Code" was controversial book made into controversial film
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Howard believes Vatican holds grudge; priest says Church barely aware of "Angels"

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Question: "While I haven't read Dan's next installment of the @placeholder adventures, I'm dying to," he said.


(CNN) -- He might be fighting it out with Lionel Messi for the title of the world's top soccer player, but Cristiano Ronaldo is in a league of his very own when it comes to social media followers. Tuesday saw the Portuguese superstar top 100 million "fans" on Facebook -- way ahead of the nearest sporting opposition. He is adding fans at the rate of nearly one every second, 54 per minute on average. The next best tally is not an individual but a club, FC Barcelona, which has over 76 million 'likes' -- just edging ahead of Ronaldo's own team, European champion Real Madrid.
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Cristiano Ronaldo passes 100 million Facebook fans
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Biggest social media following among top sports stars
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He gets one new 'fan' ever second and has over 30m followers on Twitter
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Media analysts working to put a value on social media footprint

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(CNN) -- Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth was charged in Florida on Wednesday with killing a pedestrian while driving under the influence, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade County state attorney's office said. Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth has been charged with DUI manslaughter Authorities charged Stallworth, 28, with DUI manslaughter in the death of Mario Reyes, spokesman Ed Griffith said. Stallworth is expected to surrender in court Thursday, Griffith said. The charge is a bondable offense, and bail is expected to be set at $200,000. If convicted, he could face up to 15 years in prison. According to Griffith, Stallworth's blood-alcohol level after last month's accident was measured at 0.126 percent, higher than the state's legal limit of 0.08 percent.
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NFL player is expected to surrender in court Thursday; bail expected to be $200,000.
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Donte Stallworth's blood-alcohol level was 0.126 percent; state's legal limit is 0.08
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If convicted, Stallworth could face up to 15 years in prison.

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Cairo (CNN) -- An Egyptian police brigadier general was killed and five others were injured in bombings Wednesday outside Cairo University, the Interior Ministry said. Three blasts rocked the area outside the university campus -- the first two in quick succession near the faculty of engineering and a third a little later near the main gate. Hundreds of police and security officials cordoned off the area, where forensic experts and sniffer dogs were brought in to investigate. Ambulances also arrived on the scene. Attacks targeting security forces have become increasingly common in Egypt since the army deposed Islamist President Mohamed Morsy, who hails from the Muslim Brotherhood, in July following mass protests against his rule.
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A third bomb explodes outside Cairo University
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Egyptian police brigadier general killed, five people injured, Interior Ministry says
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It says that two explosive devices were in trees in the area
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Egypt has been in turmoil since army ousted Islamist president in July

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Question: In recent weeks, the area around the university has become a battleground for clashes between police and @placeholder supporters.


Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- The nightmare in Libya's war-torn city of Misrata intensified Monday amid more shelling on the city and desperate measures to get medical care, an opposition spokesman said. "The aid coming from outside is not enough. There is no hospital," said the spokesman, who wanted to be identified only as "Mohammed" for safety reasons. He said 23 people were killed and 104 were injured in shelling Sunday in Misrata. Another person was killed and nine were injured Monday, Mohammed said. "The shelling and destruction by Gadhafi's forces has not stopped since yesterday," he said. "They are shelling mortar shells, cluster bombs and splinter mortar shells. The splinter mortar shells explode and throw lethal shrapnel, which has caused most of the tragedies."
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NEW: Death toll up to 24 Sunday and Monday, a witness says
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NEW: Misrata residents are "let down by NATO," a witness says
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U.N. official: Gadhafi's regime gave "no guarantees at all that the violence would cease"
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Britain to help 5,000 escape Misrata

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(CNN) -- Bruce Wayne would never stand for BatKid getting cut from the Oscars, and the Internet hasn't either. Rumor has it that the March 2 Oscars ceremony was supposed to include 5-year-old Miles Scott, aka "BatKid," but didn't due to rumored tension between the show's producers and "The Amazing Spider-Man" star Andrew Garfield. Now the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is supplying an explanation. "Due to the nature of a live show, hard decisions sometimes must be made," a statement from the Academy says. And those difficult decisions, the statement continues, "require the Academy to cut segments due to the logistics of production."
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Miles Scott, aka Batkid, had a planned appearance at the Oscars that was cut
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He was supposed to appear with "Spider-Man" actor Andrew Garfield
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Reports said tension between actor and producers let to bit being pulled
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However, Garfield and the Academy have disputed that claim

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A happy couple have tied the knot - despite the fact the husband is just two days younger than the bride’s father. Annie and Gary Reed met three years ago when Annie was 18 and Gary was 49, while when Annie was a barmaid in Gary’s pub. Despite their 31-year age gap the couple's relationship has gone from strength to strength. They have two children together - Teagan, two, and Kai, seven months and last month tied the knot in their hometown of Doncaster. Annie and Gary Reed met three years ago when Annie was a barmaid in Gary's pub and married this August (pictured cutting the cake left)
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Annie and Gary met three years ago when Annie was 18
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Couple from Doncaster now have two children together
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They tied the knot in August in their hometown

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By Lillian Radulova They might look very different but Blue and Trooper clearly believe they are from the same pack. The Rottweiler puppy and kangaroo were filmed having a tumble at their home in Perth on Thursday. Their owner, Ed Trindall, who filmed the encounter, said that the two creatures have a developing 'relationship'.Scroll down for video Unusual playmates: Perth man Ed Trindall filmed his Rottweiler Trooper and his companion Blue the Kangaroo having a bit of fun on Thursday 'Blue the roo and Trooper my rotty pup, best of friends. This video I would like to share with you as it shows an amazing relationship between two species. I hope you enjoy it,' he wrote in the video’s description.
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Ed Trindall shared a video of his dog and a kangaroo playing a game of tag
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Trooper the Rottweiler puppy and Blue the kangaroo have an amazing relationship according to Trindall
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The duo could be seen teasing each other and happily bouncing about

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Ahead of this weekend's Premier League action, Sportsmail will be providing you with all you need to know about every fixture, with team news, provisional squads, betting odds and Opta stats. Here is all the information you need for Stoke City's home clash with Chelsea... Stoke City vs Chelsea (Britannia Stadium) Team news Stoke City Stoke forward Bojan Krkic looks set to be fit for Monday's Barclays Premier League clash with leaders Chelsea at the Britannia Stadium. Bojan, a stand-out performer of late, sustained a hip injury in Saturday's 1-1 draw at Crystal Palace, but the Spaniard has trained this week and Potters boss Mark Hughes expects him to be available to face the Blues.
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Stoke City host Chelsea at the Britannia Stadium (Monday 8pm)
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Bojan Krkic looks sets to win his fitness battle for the Potters
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Thibaut Courtois should be fit to return for Chelsea on Monday night
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Stoke have failed to score in five of their last six games against Chelsea

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(CNN) -- When a man with hands drenched in blood stands just feet away from the body of a person he just hacked to death, still holding the murder weapons, we want to believe he must be crazy. How else can our minds grasp the evidence that someone would carry out an act of such inconceivable brutality? We don't yet know all the details surrounding Wednesday's killing in London. But the fact is we have seen this type of attack before, and even before one of the suspects started ranting to passers-by, we had a pretty good idea what to expect. This killing of a young British soldier was not an act of insanity. It was part of a pattern that has struck in many parts of the world before. This was the product of extreme Islamist radicalism we have all come to recognize.
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Frida Ghitis: We want to believe hacking suspects are crazy to explain the atrocity
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Ghitis: But it appears, as it has so often, radical Islamist ideology fueled attack
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Islam, Muslims or terrorism are not the enemy, she says. It is this murderous ideology
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Ghitis: We need campaigns in Muslim communities everywhere against its appeal

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(CNN) -- Ireland --- once Europe's 'Celtic Tiger' -- was last year felled by its black hole of a banking sector, and forced to tap Europe's bailout fund. The country continues to live off bailout funds -- yet in September internet giant Twitter announced its intention to set up headquarters in Dublin. It will join Facebook and Google, which both have their headquarters in the Irish capital. The move suggests Dublin could again become a major player in the technology industry, despite the country's financial woes. According to Noel Ruane, head of Dogpatch Labs Europe -- which likens itself to a 'frat house for geeks' -- the city has enough of an internet community to rival Silicon Valley.
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Twitter announced in September it would set up shop in Dublin
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Google and Facebook have their international headquarters in Ireland
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Dogpatch Labs Europe provides space for entrepreneurs
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Its head Noel Ruane believes Dublin can rival Silicon Valley

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(CNN) -- Having established itself as Apple's top tablet competitor by going smaller and cheaper, Amazon will now go head to head with the category-defining iPad on its own turf. Even as Google's new Nexus 7 challenges the Kindle Fire for dominance in the small-tablet category, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Thursday introduced a new, 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD. That pits the new device, which will ship in late November, against a device with which Apple has, thus far, squashed all direct competition. No tablet that has tried to match the iPad feature-for-feature has gained more than a token foothold in the market.
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Amazon's Kindle Fire HD goes head-to-head with the iPad
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The Fire wins on price, coming in $200 less than Apple's cheapest tablet
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Both tablets offer high-definition displays

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By David Kent Should Manchester United sign Juan Mata? Wayne Rooney was pictured arriving at Manchester United's Carrington training base on Tuesday morning in a boost for the ailing champions. The England striker, whose future at Old Trafford is uncertain, hasn't played for David Moyes’s side since their 2-1 home defeat against Tottenham on New Year’s Day. Rooney was sent to Egypt to speed up his recovery from a long-standing groin injury and returned to training at Carrington on Friday last week. Look who's back: Wayne Rooney was pictured at Carrington for the first time since his warm-weather break Timely: Rooney's return will boost David Moyes's hopes of getting United's season back on track
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First photographs of Wayne Rooney at United HQ since his Egypt break
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Strike partner Robin van Persie nears return to the fold
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Manchester United have lost four of the last five games in strikers' absence
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United face Sunderland in Capital One Cup semi-final second leg
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Black Cats goalkeeper Vito Mannone claims his side have nothing to fear

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(CNN) -- Violence rocked two major Iraqi cities Wednesday, including Baghdad, where a car bombing near a wedding party and two other bombings killed at least 20 people, police said. In Mosul, a Sunni activist known to demonstrate against Iraq's Shiite-led government was assassinated, one of 10 people killed or found dead from acts of violence Wednesday in the northern Iraqi city, Mosul police officials said. The slayings come amid an uptick of political and sectarian violence across Iraq, where more than 350 people died in acts of violence in May, according to a CNN tally. And Wednesday's attacks come on what is becoming an especially deadly week in the country -- at least 110 people have been killed since Monday.
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NEW: Four bombings kill at least 20 in Baghdad on Wednesday, 16 of them at wedding party
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10 also killed in Mosul, including activist shot to death, two killed by car bomb
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Three bodies, apparently tortured and hanged, recovered from Tigris River in Mosul
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More than 350 people killed in Iraq in May as Sunni-Shiite discord rises

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(CNN) -- Almost 70 years after the U.S. military dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, effectively ending World War II, the site of the devastation remains one of the most popular tourist attractions in the country. And it appears to be getting more popular. According to a recent report in The Japan Times, visits to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum by foreign tourists hit a record high of 200,086 in 2013. Local officials confirm that the memorial site is attracting an increasing number of tourists to study the burnt wreckage, painful witness testimonies and human shadows left permanently visible after the atomic bomb explosion's incandescent destruction.
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The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is one of TripAdvisor's top Japan travel sites
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The museum attracted a record number of foreign tourists in 2013
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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum features photos, films, scientific explanations of the explosion

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Suspicion that a Norwegian citizen was involved in the deadly Westgate Mall attack in Kenya last month "has been strengthened" but is not yet confirmed, Norway's security service said. The Norwegian citizen, said to be of Somali origin, is believed to have ties to Mohamed Abdikadir Mohamed, known as Ikrima, who is regarded as one of the most dangerous commanders in the Somali terror group Al-Shabaab. The Norwegian security service, PST, said its investigations in Norway and Kenya were ongoing, and that despite some media outlets reporting a name for the possible Norwegian suspect, it was not ready to confirm his identity.
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Suspicion that a Norwegian was involved "has been strengthened," security service says
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The Norwegian citizen in question has not been named by authorities
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Norway's security service is investigating in Kenya and Norway
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The suspect is believed to have ties to a top Al-Shabaab commander, known as Ikrima

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Rory McIlroy's booming drives helped him birdie both the 17th and 18th holes on Wentworth's West Course to win the BMW PGA Championship last Sunday. But if you thought the Northern Irishman hit the ball a long way you've seen nothing yet. Former world long drive champion Joe Miller has starred in a remarkable video produced by the European Tour which shows just how easy those two holes can be (providing you blast the ball around 450 yards off the tee). Yes, that's right: 450 yards. McIlroy is one of the game's biggest hitters but in the cold English air he could perhaps expect to send his best drives 320 yards down the fairway. Miller shows in this video how he can blast his tee shots well over 100 yards longer than arguably the best player in the world.
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Wentworth hosted BMW PGA Championship last week
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Rory McIlroy won the European Tour's flagship event
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Course closes with two signature par-five holes
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Former world long drive champion Joe Miller hits massive drives to reduce both to short two-shot holes

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(CNN) -- Monday morning, as we scrambled to get Luna off to school, there came a moment when the timeline of my life leapt into fast-forward. I was carrying around an iPad turned to CNN, checking in to see what news awaited me at work, while Luna danced around me, knowing my partner or I would turn off the TV if watching it slowed her down. Then, suddenly, something brought us to a halt. "President Barack Obama is speaking at Barnard College today," the news reader said. Our eyes widened, and we shot each other a smile. The president was speaking at Mama's school.
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Barack Obama spoke Monday at Barnard, Rose Arce's alma mater
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Arce recalls that when a dorm mate said she had two mothers, other students fell silent
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Her daughter, Luna, wants to follow in her mother's footsteps by attending Barnard

Question: @placeholder was a long step better, but on the first day of college, my dorm mates fell into silence when one young woman delivered this news: "I have two mothers," she said.


Pakistan crushed Australia by 356 runs in the second and final test to complete a 2-0 series victory in Abu Dhabi on Monday. Having set the visitors an impossible 603-run victory target, Pakistan claimed the remaining six wickets in a little over a session on the final day to secure their first test series victory against Australia in 20 years. The win also helped them rise to No 3 in Test rankings. The Pakistan Team celebrate with the trophy after winning the series 2-0 on day five of the second Test Misbah-ul Haq and Azhar Ali (right) proudly hold the Haier Cup after their 2-0 Series victory
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Pakistan beat Australia by 356 runs to win second Test and clinch series
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Victory was Pakistan's biggest in terms of runs, beating the previous largest margin of 341 runs, achieved against India at Karachi in 2006
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It was Pakistan's first series win over Australia in 20 years

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(CNN) -- They're stunning, dynamic and dangerous, plus they can teach you a thing or two about the Earth's history. Volcanoes possess undeniable allure, doubling as living laboratories and tourist attractions. Volcanologist Rebecca Williams spends every second she can studying and relaxing near the Earth's lifeblood: lava. "I had a real geeky fascination with volcanoes as a kid," says Williams, who is a member of the science faculty at the University of Hull in Yorkshire, England. Share your photos of volcanoes Across the globe, travelers are discovering their inner geek, joining scientists like Williams in exploring the geological formations capable of producing incredible natural beauty and unparalleled destruction. Volcanoes are the earth's natural ventilation system, unpredictably capable of jettisoning steam, ash, molten rock and lava.
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Mount Etna, Europe's highest active volcano, erupted 200 times since 1500 B.C., experts say
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Kilauea, home of Hawaiian deity Pele, means "spewing" or "much spreading"
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Pantelleria is home to the cave where legend says Calypso kept Ulysses for seven years
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Mount Erebus is the second tallest volcano in Antarctica and is home to an active lava lake

Question: Here's a list of volcanoes @placeholder says should be at the top of your must-visit list.


(CNN)  -- President-elect Barack Obama, President Bush and all of the surviving past presidents got together Wednesday for a historic meeting at the White House. Barack Obama meets with President Bush and past presidents in the Oval Office on Wednesday. "One message that I have, and I think we all share, is that we want you to succeed. Whether we're Democrat or Republican, we care deeply about this country," Bush told Obama before lunch with the former presidents. Bush and Obama were joined by Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Obama thanked the president for hosting them and said he was grateful for the opportunity to get "advice, good counsel and fellowship" from the group. Watch what Obama says about the meeting »
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Obama and Bush meet with Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter
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Obama says he's grateful for chance to get "advice, good counsel and fellowship"
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Last time all the living presidents met at White House was in 1981, Perino says

Question: Obama's press secretary said the presidents had a "very constructive conversation" and @placeholder appreciated "the spirit of bipartisanship they showed" in wishing him success.


From Poundland  to Poundstretcher, Poundworld and 99p Stores, they seem to be mushrooming. Poundland - the trailblazer - now has 460 stores in the UK. And where Poundland leads, it seems others follow. Each of the variously named discount stores offers its own unique combination of household goods, supermarket fare, beauty products, homeware, and car accessories. So, do they all sell the same products? And just how do they keep their prices so low? Bags of bargains: Tessa with her shopping from Poundland The chain was founded in 1990 by Steve Smith and his father, Keith, in Burton-on-Trent. After changing hands numerous times, it's now the biggest bargain basement chain in Europe.
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Poundland is best for health and beauty, Poundworld for cleaning products
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99p Store was Tessa's favourite

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- With the election of the next president a year away, Sen. Hillary Clinton remains the person to beat, a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday suggests. As the countdown begins to November 4, 2008, the New York Democrat continues to dominate the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, and comes out ahead when voters are asked whether they prefer her or the GOP front-runner, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. But Clinton's path to the White House is in no way certain. Clinton was criticized for her performance during a debate last week, and her rivals for the Democratic nomination have stepped up attacks that she has equivocated on her position on Iraq, Iran and other major issues.
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Sen. Clinton supported by 44 percent of Democrats polled, down from October
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Clinton beats Giuliani 51 percent to 45 percent, the poll found
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Only 42 percent think things are going well in the U.S., according to the poll

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Question: "Only 27 percent of Republicans say they would feel enthusiastic if Giuliani won the @placeholder nod, and the remaining GOP candidates fare even worse," he said.


(CNN) -- In his first New Year's address, the young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told the nation to embark on "an all-out struggle" to overhaul its destitute economy, while striking a conciliatory tone on relations with the South. Broadcast on state media, the speech Tuesday was a break from the approach of Kim's father, Kim Jong Il, who died more than a year ago and never made televised addresses during his 17 years in power. Although Kim Jong Un has cultivated a much less austere public image than his father, he has still maintained the strong emphasis on advancing the reclusive state's military capabilities, and putting a renewed strain on ties with the United States and South Korea.
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Kim Jong Un wants a "radical" change in North Korea's economic development
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His New Year's address is the first by a North Korean leader since 1994
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He says "confrontation" needs to be removed from relationship with South Korea

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(CNN) -- FIFA's anti-racism Task Force proposed the attendance of officials to specifically "identify potential acts of discrimination" at matches when the newly-created body first met on Monday. Chaired by FIFA vice president Jeffrey Webb, who presides over the continental CONCACAF body, the Task Force also suggested the possibility of points deductions and/or relegation for "reoffenders or for serious incidents". The Task Force will present a draft resolution at the FIFA Congress in Mauritius at the end of the month whereupon member associations will vote on the measures. "We have a special responsibility in the way we can impact football and society," said Webb during his opening remarks in Zurich.
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FIFA's new anti-racism Task Force meets for first time on Monday
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Initial proposals include attendance of officials to monitor racism
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Points deductions and enforced relegation also on the agenda

Question: A second @placeholder meeting is planned for later in the year to discuss how to educate those in football in a manner which reduces discriminatory acts in the game.


By Chris Parsons PUBLISHED: 03:58 EST, 24 April 2012 | UPDATED: 08:14 EST, 24 April 2012 Dramatic CCTV footage has been released showing the final moments of a groom-to-be who was stabbed at his engagement party while breaking up a fight between his brothers and a restaurant. Newly-engaged Antonio Lacertosa was fatally stabbed with a butcher's knife after a melee outside a Staten Island bar last month. His alleged killer, Albanian Redinel Dervishaj, was captured on camera in a heated violent row outside the bar which saw him being thrown over a car by one of Lacertosa's party. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO
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Antonio Lacertosa stabbed with butcher's knife after street row at his engagement party
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(CNN)Kenji Goto had every reason to stay home in Japan. A successful career. An adoring mother. A loving wife. A pair of young daughters, one of them just 3-weeks old. Yet, in his mind, he had to go into war-torn Syria. The experienced journalist explained why in a video shot in October from southern Turkey. He felt compelled to tell the stories of war in all its trauma, complexity and humanity. "Syrian people (have been) suffering for three years and a half. It's enough," the 47-year-old Goto explained. "So I would like to get the story of what ISIS wants to do."
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Kenji Goto's mother says she doesn't want her tears to spawn a "chain of hatred"
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Journalist crossed into ISIS-controlled Syria to cover what's happening there
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ISIS captured him, and a purported video from the group threatened his life

Question: The fact the two Japanese men's paths had crossed again became public January 20 in an @placeholder video posted to social media.


By Ellie Zolfagharifard PUBLISHED: 06:38 EST, 31 July 2013 | UPDATED: 09:21 EST, 31 July 2013 Homes made from mushrooms could one day be the answer to sustainable living. This is the vision of Ecovative, a U.S. company, which has embarked on a radical experiment to grow a miniature house from fungus. Founded in 2007 by classmates Gavin McIntyre and Eben Bayer from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Ecovative makes use of a part of the mushroom known as ‘mycelium’ to grow sustainable products. Scroll down for video Ecovative uses mycelium to bond together agricultural byproducts like corn stalks into a material that can replace plastic foam. Ecologically, mycelium's function is to break down waste. As it does this it secrets various products including enzymes, lipids, proteins, which act as glue and hold things together
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U.S. firm Ecovative uses mycelium - the vegetative part of a fungus - to grow structure of the house
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Mycelium is made up of millions of tiny fibres and used as 'growing glue'
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The 'fungal flat'  claims to be self-repairing and has its own immune system

Question: Founder @placeholder said that the fungal flat is self-repairing- if a tree fell on the house, the wall would have to be rebuilt, but the insulation would grow back.


TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -- Ordered to sacrifice themselves for the nation by crashing their planes into U.S. warships as Japan vainly battled to stave off invasion in the final months of World War Two, some young pilots instead returned alive. Young pilots from the Japanese Royal Navy drink cups of sake before their kamikaze suicidal attack mission. As a documentary released in Japan on Saturday shows, not all the young men trained for the suicide missions that struck terror into U.S. servicemen faced their almost certain death gladly. "I wanted to live," Kazuo Nakajima, one of the now elderly 'failed cherry blossoms' tells the filmmakers with an embarrassed laugh. "I didn't want to die."
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Documentary shows not all kamikaze pilots faced their death gladly
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Film found veterans were not just fanatics but had mixed emotions about the past
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Director found veteran who criticized the emperor for not surrendering sooner
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4,000 kamikaze pilots died and 34 U.S. ships sunk in last months of the war

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Denial: Andrew Hamade, brother of Bryan 26 (pictured), has denied accusations that his brother leaked nude celebrity pictures online An American software engineer has denied stealing nude photos from celebrities’ iCloud accounts and claimed his life was being ruined after being identified as the hacker online. Bryan Hamade, 26, was named as the source of the shocking leak after he tried to sell intimate pictures of actress Jennifer Lawrence in return for internet currency Bitcoin. She and 100 other celebrities have been named on a list of victims after their accounts on Apple’s file sharing service were allegedly hacked into.
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Bryan Hamade, 26, was named as source of leak of nude celebrity photos
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He tried to sell intimate pictures of Jennifer Lawrence in return for Bitcoin
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He posted images on Reddit and allegedly tried to sell them for $100 each
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But he was forced to deny that he was original hacker users identified him
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Admitted he had been an 'idiot' and that photo he had tried to sell was fake
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A total of 101 celebrities have been named on a list of victims of the hack

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By Alasdair Glennie and Rosie Taylor PUBLISHED: 17:42 EST, 7 October 2013 | UPDATED: 09:20 EST, 8 October 2013 Lady Carnarvon said she would 'prefer to watch nice things on a Sunday night' Downton Abbey was accused yesterday of using a sickening rape as a gratuitous plot device to liven up the ITV drama’s script. A controversial scene on Sunday night in which a housemaid was subjected to a brutal assault by a valet sparked nearly 100 complaints from disgusted viewers. Domestic violence campaigners said the show’s creator Julian Fellowes had depicted rape in an obscene and irresponsible manner.
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Domestic violence campaigners accused show of being irresponsible
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They said any victims of sexual assault could have been traumatised after watching scene
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During the episode servant Anna Bates was beaten and raped by valet Mr Green played by former Eastenders actor Nigel Harman

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(CNN) -- Vivienne Tam has become well known for creating clothes that appeal to all ages, ethnicities, and income levels. She has earned the reputation for offering a stylish and high-quality product while at the same time inviting the consumer to experience the inspiration behind it. As a designer of clothing that "suggests tolerance, global acumen, and a Fourth of July faith in individual expression," Tam, in the words of fashion critic and curator Richard Martin, possesses an "idealistic globalism that transcends politics and offers a more enchanted, peaceful world." Born in Canton, China, Vivienne Tam moved to Hong Kong when she was three years old. Her bi-cultural upbringing in the then British colony was the first stage in the development of her signature East-meets-West style.
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Vivienne Tam was born in Canton, China, moved to Hong Kong when she was three
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Her Mao and Buddha collections were launched in 1995 and 1997
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Items of her work are featured in museums in New York, Pittsburgh and London

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(CNN) -- Martin Luther King Jr. fought and died so blacks would no longer be viewed as inferior but rather enjoy the same inherent rights given to whites in America. Yet in 2014, 50 years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the West View News thinks it's appropriate to publish a story about our first black president, Barack Obama, with the headline, "The Nigger in the White House." Oh, the times we are living in. All I could do was feel sick to my stomach when I read the headline that the monthly newspaper serving Manhattan's Lower West Side published. And it brought up the pain my family went through nearly four decades ago.
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Crystal Wright says the use of the n-word to describe the President was reprehensible
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An 86 year-old writer used the term in a recent headline in a New York newspaper
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In 1977, Wright's family was refused admission into an all-white country club

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Los Angeles (CNN) -- Michael Jackson died because Dr. Conrad Murray failed to notice that his patient had stopped breathing while he was hooked up to an IV drip of the surgical anesthetic propofol, an expert anesthesiologist testified Thursday. Dr. Steven Shafer, probably the last witness before the prosecution rests in Dr. Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial, said Murray should have realized Jackson had stopped breathing about 11:45 a.m. on June 25, 2009. "When you're there, you see it, you know it," Shafer said. Phone records and testimony showed that Murray was on the phone with one of his clinics, a patient, and then a girlfriend about the time that Shafer calculated the oxygen in Jackson's lungs became depleted, causing his heart to stop beating.
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NEW: A doctor demonstrates IV drips he believes killed Michael Jackson
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NEW: Murray could've saved Jackson if he was watching him, prosecution expert says
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"It's just a crazy scenario," doctor says of defense theory Jackson gave himself propofol
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Murray's lawyers should start their defense Friday

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Sometimes there are those days when everything just seems to drop into place. Those who need a goal are confident and clinical, those paid to keep them out are focused and alert; and Aston Villa are in town. Theo Walcott invited ninth-month-old son Finley along to his first game and was able to mark the occasion with his first goal in the Barclays Premier League for more than a year. 'In the second half, I can't think of a more one-sided game,' said Walcott, swept up in the euphoria of a fifth successive win, and the joy of being fit.
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Olivier Giroud opened the scoring for Arsenal after a superb flick from Mesut Ozil
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Ozil had a goal disallowed in the first half but did score in the second
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Theo Walcott scored a well-taken third goal, set up by Santi Cazorla - who scored the fourth
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Hector Bellerin then compounded Villa's misery with a fifth goal
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New signing Gabriel was named on the bench for the Gunners

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(CNN) -- The terrorist attacks on America on September 11, 2001, gave his administration a clear goal and him the resolve to find out who was responsible and "kick their ass," former President George W. Bush writes in his new book. In "Decision Points," Bush describes his reaction when his then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice informed him of the crash of a third airplane into the Pentagon. "I sat back in my seat and absorbed her words. My thoughts clarified: The first plane could have been an accident. The second was definitely an attack. The third was a declaration of war," the former president writes in his 481-page book, which goes on sale Tuesday.
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His blood was boiling after the 9/11 attacks, former president writes
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Bush said response to Hurricane Katrina clouded his second term
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He feared news of 1976 DUI arrest would cost him the 2000 election

Question: In his memoir, Bush writes, "Not disclosing the @placeholder on my terms may have been the single costliest political mistake I ever made."


Hong Kong (CNN) -- Panasonic halted operations at three factories in China after angry protesters ransacked Japanese businesses over the weekend amid rising tensions over disputed islands in the East China Sea. Violence against Japanese companies was seen in Xi'an, Dongguan, Changsha and Guangzhou, according to local media reports. A Panasonic factory was set on fire and a Toyota dealership in Qingdao were damaged on Saturday, and a Jusco department store was ransacked. In Guangzhou, demonstrators broke into the Garden Hotel and attacked a Japanese restaurant on the second floor, according to the South China Morning Press. Panasonic has suspended work at three plants in China until Tuesday, after factories in Qingdao and Suzhou were damaged by protesters, company officials told CNN. Panasonic also halted operations at a factory in Guangdong province until Tuesday as some local employees staged a strike as protest against Japan's claim to the island chain, called Diaoyu by China and Senkaku by Japan.
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Panasonic halted operations at three factories in China after violent protests
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Protesters ransacked Japanese businesses and damaged Japanese vehicles
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Panasonic reported two plants were damaged by weekend anti-Japan protesters
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Chinese economist: "The Sino-Japanese economic war has officially begun"

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Question: @placeholder dispatched the ships after the Japanese government bought several of the islands from a private Japanese owner last week.

Question: Japan formally recognized them as @placeholder sovereign territory in 1895.


By Ashley Collman PUBLISHED: 17:04 EST, 15 November 2013 | UPDATED: 17:30 EST, 15 November 2013 A larger-than-life sculpture of the the famous Times Square kiss at the end of World War II got a special visitor this week at its home in Sarasota, Florida. The statue is based not on the famous picture taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt and published on the cover of Life, but an alternative picture of the couple snapped from a different angle by a Navy photographer and published in the New York Times. Carl 'Moose' Muscarello of Plantation, Florida, is one of several men who claims to be the sailor in the famous image
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Carl 'Moose' Muscarello is one of several men who claim to be the kissing sailor in the famous Life magazine cover
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He visited the larger-than-life sculpture reproduction of the famous V-J Day kiss in Sarasota, Florida this week
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When the end of World War II was announced on August 14, 1945, Mr Muscarello was on leave in New York and walking around Times Square with a friend
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He says he was so overcome with emotion that he kissed everything in sight, even a few men

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By Claire Ellicott PUBLISHED: 18:49 EST, 17 February 2013 | UPDATED: 06:04 EST, 18 February 2013 Hounded out: David Bowles said he told Sir David Nicholson that United Lincolnshire Hospitals was being put under 'huge pressure' to meet non-urgent targets A whistleblower wrote to the head of the NHS to warn his trust was ‘slipping into Mid Staffordshire territory’. David Bowles told Sir David Nicholson that United Lincolnshire Hospitals was being put under ‘huge pressure’ to meet non-urgent targets. He said patient safety was being compromised as it had been in Stafford where 1,200 lives are thought to have been lost needlessly.
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David Bowles told Sir David Nicholson United Lincolnshire Hospitals was under 'huge pressure' to meet non-urgent targets
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Said patient safety was being compromised in same way as Stafford
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Hounded out of job as chairman just like Gary Walker

Question: He claimed staff at the strategic health authority ‘resorted to harassment and  bullying’ and ‘demanded without caveat... an unequivocal assurance or guarantee the non-emergency 18-week targets will be met in a manner which could be construed as an attempt to bully me and my trust into becoming a @placeholder and so put patient safety at risk’.


By Deni Kirkova for MailOnline A cat-crazy couple wanted to ensure that their new kitten felt welcome when they brought him home. So Mike and Megan, from Michigan, built an assault course-style installation including ropes and a bridge for their new pet, who ended up playing on it constantly. Little did they realise that this would lead them to open their very own online cat furniture shop, aptly called CatostophiCreations. And their two cats Ickle and Heisenberg quality control all their creations. Scroll down for video Mike and Megan opened cat furniture online shop CatostophiCreations, which sells cat hammocks
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Mike and Megan, from Michigan, built Indiana Jones Bridge for first pet
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Ended up starting online cat furniture shop CatostophiCreations on Etsy
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Sell items such as water fountain, shelves, bridge and wall installations
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Their two cats Ickle and Heisenberg are very eager to test out new ideas

Question: 'Little did we know that @placeholder would completely fall in love with his bridge and would be sleeping on it almost every night.'


The RFU are cashing in on a Rugby World Cup on home soil by bringing out six different England shirts in little more than 15 months. The rampant commercialism prevalent at Twickenham saw England kit suppliers Canterbury launch two shirts, which featured the controversial Victoria Cross motif, last September. These will be followed on to the market by another two World Cup shirts before the start of the tournament in September. And then there will be another double kit launch by England ahead of the 2016 Six Nations. England players wear an England rugby home kit released last year, which caused controversy over its design
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The Rugby World Cup is hosted on home soil this year from September
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The new strips start at £50 and go up to £90.99 for an exact replica
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Canterbury will release the two new shirts in time for the World Cup

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By Helen Pow An 84-year-old man has allegedly shot dead his chronically ill wife and daughter-in-law before turning the gun on himself in a tragic 'mercy killing.' Dan Crabtree, 80-year-old Carol Crabtree and 62-year-old Rita Delehanty were found dead in the elderly couple's home in Hacienda Heights, California, on Wednesday morning. Jim Crabtree, 55, the couple's son and Delehanty's husband of 25 years, said all three suffered from chronic illnesses, which is what led to the apparent murder-suicide. 'This is the classic ending of three people with terminal illnesses,' he said. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO Dead: Dan Crabtree, 84, pictured, allegedly shot dead his elderly wife Carol, right, and daughter-in-law before turning the gun on himself in a tragic 'mercy killing'
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Dan Crabtree, 84, Carol Crabtree, 80, and Rita Delehanty, 62, were found dead of gunshot wounds in the elderly couple's Hacienda Heights home on Wednesday morning
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Jim Crabtree, 55, the couple's son and Delehanty's husband, said all three suffered chronic illnesses, which led to the apparent murder-suicide
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Delehanty was in the mid-stages of Alzheimer's and Jim Crabtree dropped her at his parents house most mornings so he could go to work
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Son said he was sad but somewhat relieved after the death of his wife who no longer knew who he was or that they were married

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It's an international air disaster in a war zone -- a commercial flight with almost 300 people on board shot down in eastern Ukraine. As new details emerge, here is a look at basic questions about the tragedy: Was the plane shot down? All evidence so far says yes. President Barack Obama declared Friday that a surface-to-air missile blasted the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 on Thursday over the Donetsk region of Ukraine near the Russian border. According to a senior American official, a U.S. radar system saw a surface-to-air missile system turn on and track an aircraft right before plane went down.
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Donetsk rebel official: Plane shot down, but not by us
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Malaysian official says the crash site's integrity has been compromised
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President Obama says evidence points to a missile strike by pro-Russian rebels
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Russia could face increasing international isolation and tougher sanctions

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By Ted Thornhill PUBLISHED: 04:07 EST, 25 December 2013 | UPDATED: 04:08 EST, 25 December 2013 A lawyer for an Indian diplomat whose arrest and strip search in New York City drew angry responses from officials in India accused U.S. authorities of bungling the investigation. On Tuesday attorney Daniel Arshack said the agent who drew up charges against his client made a key error in reading a form submitted on behalf of a domestic worker for Devyani Khobragade, India's deputy consul general in New York. She was arrested two weeks ago and charged with submitting false documents to obtain a work visa for her New York City housekeeper.
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Lawyer for Devyani Khobragade claim's officials mistook her listed base salary for what she intended to pay her housekeeper
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'It's incredibly unsexy kind of information, but it does go right to the heart of what this is about,' he said
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Khobragade was arrested in early December, charged with submitting false documents to obtain a work visa for her New York maid
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Her detainment and subsequent strip search has soured U.S-India relations

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Wimbledon legend Dave Beasant has criticised his former team-mate John Fashanu over claims he made during a recent documentary about the infamous Crazy Gang. The documentary followed the path of Wimbledon from their arrival in the old First Division in 1986 to their FA Cup success in 1988. The programme portrayed the dressing room as violent and often cruel place dominated by a few individuals, but former goalkeeper Beasant was keen to point out that certain aspects had been exaggerated. Wimbledon players celebrate pulling off one of the greatest FA Cup final upsets in modern history Former Wimbledon goalkeeper Dave Beasant was talking about the show  while on BBC One
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Dave Beasant has criticised John Fashanu over a recent documentary
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The show followed Wimbledon's Crazy Gang for their FA Cup success
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Fashanu spoke about his relationship with Lawrie Sanchez
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Beasant said many of the claims were 'self-promotion'

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(CNN) -- Bruce McLaren was eerily portentous when he made his famous statement: "I feel life is measured in achievement not in years alone." His eponymous McLaren Formula One team celebrates its 50th anniversary Monday, some 43 years after the New Zealander was killed on the racetrack. McLaren was only 32 years old when he died testing a car for the Can-Am championship but in his short life he broke new ground in motorsport as a popular racer, team manager and forward-thinking engineer. His legacy races on today as the McLaren race team -- winners of a record 182 grands prix and eight team titles in motorsport's elite F1 series.
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Bruce McLaren founded his eponymous race team in 1963
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The late New Zealand racer won his first Formula One race with a McLaren in 1968
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The McLaren team has now won a record 182 grands prix
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The McLaren creative brand also produces sports car, high-tech equipment and cartoons

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(CNN) -- The death of an Indian dentist who died after a miscarriage in an Irish hospital was the result of medical misadventure, an inquest jury ruled Friday. Savita Halappanavar, 31, was 17 weeks pregnant when she died in October at University Hospital Galway. The inquest jury heard seven days of evidence from staff and expert witnesses, as well as her widower, Praveen Halappanavar. A pathologist, Professor Grace Callagy, told the inquest the cause of death was septic shock, E. Coli in Savita Halappanavar's bloodstream and a miscarriage. In his evidence, a leading obstetrician said Halappanavar's life could have been saved had a termination been carried out a day or two before her miscarriage.
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Inquest jury in Galway returns verdict of death by medical misadventure
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Savita Halappanavar, 31, died last October after suffering a miscarriage
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Coroner offers Ireland's "deepest sympathy" to Savita's widower, Praveen
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He says his wife's treatment in hospital was "horrendous, barbaric and inhuman"

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. troops or contractors who commit "major and premeditated murders" in Iraq while off-duty and outside U.S. facilities would fall under Iraqi jurisdiction, according to a copy of a draft U.S.-Iraq agreement obtained by CNN. Shiite demonstrators protest a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact Saturday in Baghdad. All other crimes -- including murders committed inside U.S. facilities or by on-duty forces -- would fall under American jurisdiction, according to the draft, which would govern U.S. troops' presence in Iraq. The issue of whether U.S. troops would remain immune from Iraqi prosecution has been a sticky one for negotiators crafting the Status of Forces Agreement draft, which Iraqi lawmakers are reviewing. The United States had preferred its troops and contractors retain immunity.
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NEW: U.S.-Iraq draft: Troops committing murder in Iraq could face Iraqi prosecution
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Iraq's ruling United Iraqi Alliance found several "points" needing more discussion
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Ruling bloc did not make clear what issues they had regarding troop agreement

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The United Nations and the United States are calling for an immediate investigation of Syrian activists' claims that the Bashar al-Assad government used chemical weapons in an attack on civilians. Anti-regime activist groups in Syria say more than 1,300 people were killed in the attack outside Damascus, many of them women and children. Video footage and witness reports appeared to bolster claims that chemical weapons were used. President Barack Obama has directed the U.S. intelligence community to urgently gather additional information to try to assess whether chemical weapons were used Wednesday, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Thursday. At this time, she said, the United States is unable to "conclusively determine" chemical weapons use, but is focused on trying to nail down the facts, along with its international partners.
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U.S. military "continues to refine options" says a senior defense official
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German minister says Russia, China blocked U.N. Security Council resolution
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Syria is urged to give a U.N. chemical weapons inspection team access to the site
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Al-Assad government says claims it used chemical weapons are "completely baseless"

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Suspected Islamist militants have killed at least 15 people in an overnight raid on a Kenyan coastal area. The attack comes just 24 hours after a separate raid in a nearby town left 53 dead. The bodies of 15 people were discovered among the remains of torched houses in Majembeni and neighbouring Poromoko, which are on the Kenyan coast between Mombasa and the Somali border. Scroll down for video Brutal: Kenyan residents at the scene of one of the bodies of those killed in nearby Mpeketoni on Sunday. Police believe the Poromoko attack was carried out by the same group of Islamist militants
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Suspected Islamist gunmen killed 15 people in Majembeni overnight
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Their bodies were discovered among the burnt out remains of houses
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Al-Shabaab have claimed responsibility, but say they actually murdered 20
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However Kenya's president has blamed the massacre on local politicians
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Says attacks were 'ethnic violence' inspired by domestic political leaders
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Police and locals continue to search the village for undiscovered victims
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Attack comes just hours after 53 people were killed in nearby Mpeketoni

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Paris (CNN) -- The former chief of the International Monetary Fund who resigned after being charged two years ago with sexually assaulting a maid in a New York city hotel has lashed out at his treatment by police -- particularly his forced participation in "the perp walk." "I think it's a terrible thing, frankly," Dominique Strauss-Kahn told CNN's Richard Quest in his first English- language television interview since he resigned as head of the IMF in 2011. "The problem is, it's a moment where in all European, American society you're supposed to be innocent, you're supposed to be innocent until you're convicted."
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"I think it's a terrible thing, frankly," the former IMF chief tells CNN
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"Perp walks" are standard fare in the United States
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Question: Underscoring the cultural differences between France and the United States, many @placeholder recoiled from images of Strauss-Kahn being paraded before the news media in handcuffs and in court -- photographs that would be prohibited under French law to protect the presumption of innocence.

Question: Underscoring the cultural differences between France and the United States, many French recoiled from images of @placeholder being paraded before the news media in handcuffs and in court -- photographs that would be prohibited under French law to protect the presumption of innocence.