By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 18:02 EST, 5 March 2014 | UPDATED: 18:33 EST, 5 March 2014 An Ivy League lawyer has been convicted of the first-degree murder his girlfriend after the violent attack was unintentionally recorded on a friend's voicemail after a pocket dial. Jason Bohn admitted to killing his live-in girlfriend Danielle Thomas but he had hoped to be convicted of manslaughter as opposed to murder. The Queens jury ruled against him, however, and apparently found his tales of childhood abuse were not enough to convince them to decide on manslaughter. Awaiting his sentence: Jason Bohn (left), was found guilty of strangling his girlfriend Danielle Thomas (right)
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Jason Bohn, 35, has been found guilty of the first-degree murder of Danielle Thomas, 27
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He now faces up to life in prison without parole
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During opening statements last month, prosecutors said Thomas returned home on night of murder to protect her dog, Schnoozer, from Bohn
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One of their phones accidentally pocket dialed a friend during their fight and recorded Thomas being strangled

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By Martin Robinson PUBLISHED: 11:20 EST, 31 August 2012 | UPDATED: 11:28 EST, 31 August 2012 'Relax: Foreign Secretary William Hague said in an interview that Britain should move on from its past and look to the future Britain should abandon its 'post-colonial guilt' as the rest of the world does not care about the old empire any more, William Hague said today. The Foreign Secretary also said most countries will have a positive view of the UK because of the Olympics, adding this can be used to be more ambitious on the international stage. He added that Britain belongs to a 'networked world' where old grudges against us are dying out.
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'I think we should just relax. It’s a long time ago,' The Foreign Minister said.
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Mr Hague added the UK should instead build on the international goodwill built up by London 2012

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Madrid, Spain (CNN) -- Police early Friday arrested 13 people suspected of trying to rebuild a youth wing of the outlawed Basque separatist group ETA, which was dismantled a year ago with dozens of arrests, the Interior Ministry said. The youth organization, also outlawed and known as SEGI, is considered the "training ground for the terrorist group," the ministry said in a statement. The latest arrests came as police continued their crackdown against ETA and its supporters, despite ETA's cease-fire of "armed offensive actions" announced last September 5. The Spanish government and major political parties have said the cease-fire is not enough because ETA has broken them in the past.
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Arrests came in northern Spain
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Youth group considered "training ground" for ETA

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By Ted Thornhill Last updated at 7:58 AM on 17th August 2011 A remarkably preserved Iron Age road dating back to 75BC has been discovered in East Anglia. Archaeologists found a 13ft-wide timber structure complete with stabilising posts running for 1,600ft (500m) across wetland near the River Waveney at Geldeston. The wood is in such good condition that it almost looks modern, according to experts, who believe that the structure could be the work of the Iceni tribe. Scroll down for video Road to nowhere? University of Birmingham researchers investigate the Iron Age structure Wood you believe it? The 2,000-year-old structure was very well preserved
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Experts believe road was made by the Iceni tribe
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Wood is in such good condition it looks almost modern

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(CNN) -- New York City has seen a jarring last-minute twist in the race for mayor, in which the current mayor, Michael Bloomberg, may have given a crucial boost to the person he would probably least like to see succeed him in City Hall. Bill de Blasio, who surged into the lead among the Democrats running for mayor, has been campaigning for months as a progressive bent on governing in a way that alters or reverses many of Bloomberg's cherished policies -- starting with de Blasio's proposal to raise taxes on households earning $500,000 or more per year. De Blasio, who is married to a black woman, has also made a series of campaign ads that include his biracial teenage children.
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Errol Louis: In interview NY Mayor Bloomberg called de Blasio's campaign "racist"
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His comment that de Blasio using mixed-race family in campaign backfired, Louis says
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He says de Blasio campaigns to upend many Bloomberg policies, mayor likely chafing at this
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Louis: If de Blasio wins primary, it will signal Bloomberg's 12-year tenure truly coming to close

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Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN) -- An elite South African police squad has arrested 19 suspected Congolese rebels in a remote corner of northern South Africa, an official said, in a raid that may have headed off a coup attempt. "The grouping's objective was to receive specialized military related training to overthrow the current DRC government, under the leadership of President Joseph Kabila," Makhosini Nkosi, a spokesman for the National Prosecuting Authority, said in a statement Tuesday. Read more: Why the world is ignoring Congo war The alleged coup plotters were tracked to a remote area of Limpopo province, suggesting long-term surveillance by South African law enforcement.
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Police seized 19 suspected Congolese rebels in South Africa, an official says
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They are accused of plotting a coup in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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A Congolese government spokesman says the suspects have links to the M23 rebel group
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The M23 rebels seized the city of Goma late last year

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Rome (CNN) -- A boat carrying as many as 500 people capsized and caught fire off the Italian island of Lampedusa, the nation's coast guard told CNN on Thursday. At least 110 people died, a doctor with the local health department said. Antonio Candela said that 154 people had been rescued in the ongoing operation. Lampedusa's boat people: One man's story Lampedusa, not far from Sicily and the closest Italian island to Africa, has become a destination for tens of thousands of refugees seeking to enter European Union countries -- and such deadly shipwrecks are all too common. The latest boat to sink is thought to have been carrying up to 500 people. Those aboard include Eritreans, Somalis and Ghanaians, the coast guard said, and the boat is believed to have launched from Libya's coast.
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NEW: 154 people have been rescued after boat capsizes and burns, a doctor says
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Pope Francis calls for concerted action to prevent future tragedies like this
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Lampedusa is a major destination for refugees seeking to enter the EU from Africa

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George Galloway’s former secretary has been arrested - along with her anti-terrorism officer husband - on suspicion of data protection offences. Aisha Ali-Khan and her husband, Detective Inspector Afiz Khan, were both arrested on Wednesday on suspicions relating to the mis-use of police databases. It follows Galloway's allegations in October of 'dirty tricks' by the pair - although the arrests are not believed to be connected to his specific complaints. Accusation: Mr Galloway accused Aisha Ali-Khan (left) of a dirty-tricks campaign against him with her husband, Afiz Khan (right) Mr Galloway suspended mother-of-one Miss Khan, 32, from her role in October - claiming the couple ran a smear campaign against the Respect MP for Bradford West, including encouraging the Guardian newspaper to run a piece against the party.
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Senior Met officer Afiz Khan arrested on suspicion of mis-using Met database
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His wife, George Galloway's former secretary, arrested 'on suspicion of data protection offences'
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Respect MP claimed in October the pair were running a 'dirty tricks' campaign against him

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Kathmandu (CNN) -- A fight for supremacy between two octogenarian climbers is heating up on the slopes of the world's highest mountain. Eighty-year-old Japanese national Yuichiro Miura is on his way home after becoming the oldest climber to reach the summit of Everest on Thursday. But his achievement may soon be overshadowed as his old rival, veteran Nepali climber Min Bahadur Sherchan, 81, acclimatizes at base camp, ready to reclaim his title. The two mountaineers first clashed in 2008, when Sherchan, then 76, reached the 29,028-foot (8,848-meter) peak a day before Miura, then 75. However, it was Miura's ascent that made it into Guinness World Records, forcing Sherchan to travel to London to set the record straight.
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Japan's Yuichiro Miura, 80, is on way home after becoming the oldest climber to scale Everest
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Record may already be at risk as 81-year-old rival acclimatizes at base camp
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The pair have a longstanding rivalry since Sherchan claimed the title in 2008

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(CNN) -- A scathing review of policing in Boston found that in a city where about a quarter of the population is African-American, two-thirds of police stops involved black residents, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. The report, titled "Black, Brown, and Targeted," is based on the preliminary results of a study commissioned by the Boston Police Department -- which analyzed 204,000 "Field Interrogation and Observation" (FIO) reports from police officers between 2007 and 2010. "The fact that blacks make up about 25% of Boston's population, but are stopped 63% of the time raises serious concerns of racially biased policing," said Nusrat Choudhury, an attorney with the ACLU Racial Justice Program.
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In Boston, 25% of population is black, but 63% of police stops involve blacks, study finds
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ACLU report is based on study commissioned by Boston Police Department
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Findings come in the wake of troubling police incidents across the country

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Ukip's hopes of a significant breakthrough at the general election have been dealt a blow by polling showing it is not on course to win any of a series of key target seats. Detailed constituency polling commissioned by Lord Ashcroft in Ukip targets found the party behind the Conservatives in all of them. They include Boston and Skegness, where Ukip won its biggest majority in last year's council elections. Scroll down for video Polling by Tory peer Lord Ashcroft in four Ukip target seats found the party behind the Tories in all of them Ukip Leader Nigel Farage receives a Whitstable Bay Beer from local landlady Aileen O'Leary during a walkabout in Sandwich, Kent
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Polls by Tory peer Lord Ashcroft show Ukip trailing in four target seats
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Party is behind in Ukip stronghold of Boston and Skegness, Lincolnshire
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Ukip is also trailing in key seats in  Cambridgeshire, Essex and Kent
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Ukip's vote is likely to be squeezed between now and May, pollsters believe

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Some traditions are carried through the ages, but others are neatly dropped, such as the presence of the Home Secretary at the royal birth to ensure the true heir was not replaced with a usurper. Here we chart the extraordinary changes in how the royals have arrived into the world over the centuries. Prince Charles On the evening of November 14, 1948, Prince Charles was born in Buckingham Palace’s Belgian Suite. The Queen Mother with the then Princess Elizabeth, aged eight months, (pictured left) before anyone thought she might one day be Queen. Right, Princess Elizabeth with baby prince Charles at his christening at Buckingham Palace in December 1948
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Diana broke with tradition by choosing to have her baby in hospital rather than a palace
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Prince Philip arrived on a kitchen table in a rented summer villa called ‘Mon Repos’ in Corfu
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Until the middle of the 17th century, royal childbirth was a strictly women-only affair

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A Dutch mother has defied safety warnings and travelled to Syria in disguise to rescue her daughter from the Islamic State. Wearing a burka, the woman from Maastricht - named only as Monique - crossed from Turkey into the Syrian city of Raqqa to save her daughter Aicha, 19. Aicha had appealed to her mother for help last month after converting to Islam and marrying Omar Yilmaz, a notorious Dutch jihadi. A Dutch mother named only as Monique has defied safety warnings and travelled to Syria in disguise to rescue her daughter from the Islamic State The teenager married the former soldier, after seeing him interviewed on television, the Telegraph reports.
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Woman from Maastricht crossed from Turkey into Syrian city of Raqqa
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'Monique' defied warnings and travelled in disguise to rescue daughter
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She begged mother for help after converting to Islam and marrying jihadi

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(CNN Student News) -- August 19, 2010 Download PDF maps related to today's show: • Pakistan • South Africa • Georgia Transcript THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Well, you've made it to Thursday. I'm Carl Azuz. This is CNN Student News! Your hearing: Listen up, 'cause we're gonna be talking about that in just a bit. We start off today, though, in Pakistan. First Up: Pakistan Aid AZUZ: Severe flooding has left 20 percent -- one fifth -- of the country underwater, and officials are worried about the threat of disease. A lot of the victims are walking through dirty flood waters, and that can lead to the spread of things like cholera or typhoid. Experts are estimating that as many as 3.5 million children are at risk of getting sick.
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Learn about the U.S. role in efforts to get aid to flood victims in Pakistan
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Find out why experts are excited about newly-discovered Civil War artifacts
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Use the Daily Discussion to help students understand today's featured news stories

Question: In fact, some scientists think a huge collection of artifacts that was recently discovered in the state of Georgia could offer clues about what life was like in a @placeholder prison camp.


(CNN)  -- Before I explain why I believe the time has come to start a stop-the-war movement, I should say that I am not one of those intellectuals who has never worried about the fate of their loved ones or gotten his own boots dirty. My son completed a five-year stint in the U.S. 1st Armored Division. As an Israeli commando, I saw a lot of fighting during Israel's war for independence. My unit started fighting with 1,100 members; when the fighting stopped, 700 were dead and buried or wounded. And we killed all too many on the other side.
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Amitai Etzioni was Israeli commando, son served in U.S. 1st Armored Division
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Etzioni says U.S. goal, to rid Afghanistan of al Qaeda, has been met; only 100 remain
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Etzioni says people should not die for fraudulent elections, corrupt regime
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Afghanistan must resolve Taliban issue itself, he writes, and U.S. should pull out

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(CNN) -- Over the past few months, newspapers, websites and cable news programs have implied 2010 would be a year of remarkable progress for women in politics. With a record number of women running for the U.S. House (138) and U.S. Senate (15), pundits, pollsters and politicians assumed it was the dawn of a new day, one in which Democrats and Republicans understood the importance of electing women. High-profile female candidates, many with interesting personal stories and personality traits, fostered the speculation that 2010 might very well be another "Year of the Woman." But it wasn't. In fact, Wednesday morning's headlines did not even mention women. Obviously, Democratic losses and Republican's ascent correctly took center stage. But some important points about women in politics slipped through the cracks.
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Jennifer Lawless: Number of female candidates made 2010 seem like big year for women
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She says shift in House pushed Democrat women out of leadership positions
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Lawless: Women winning governor races significant, but not same as overall gains

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By Adam Shergold PUBLISHED: 07:32 EST, 19 November 2012 | UPDATED: 07:51 EST, 19 November 2012 Many of us spent hours of our childhood playing in a treehouse - but how often did your parents allow you to sleep in it? Well, now you can make up for it, thanks to a unique hotel in Sweden. The Treehotel, located near Harads, a town in the north of the country about 40 miles south of the Arctic Circle, is about to open its largest tree room yet. In fact, it will be the biggest in the world. Tree top design: An artist's impression of the new 'Five Leaf Clover' room at Treehotel in Harads, northern Sweden
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The 'Five Leaf Clover' room at Treehotel, near the remote northern Swedish town of Harads, 40 miles south of the Arctic Circle, opens next month
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Weighing 20 tons and sleeping up to six people, it is attached to half-a-dozen pine trees and suspended above the forest floor
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It offers spectacular views of the Lule River pine forests and even the Northern Lights

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Roberto Martinez is confident Everton have finally resolved the hamstring issue that has ruined James McCarthy’s season. The Republic of Ireland midfielder had been Everton’s outstanding performer but he has spent much of the past two months on the sidelines. He missed six games after being injured in a Europa League tie in Wolfsburg on November 27 but then returned for two matches against Stoke and Newcastle but was substituted in both. VIDEO Scroll down for Sportsmail's Premier League preview: Everton vs Manchester City Roberto Martinez is confident Everton have got to the bottom of James McCarthy's recent injury troubles
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Everton's James McCarthy has missed six games since November
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Roberto Martinez believes McCarthy's hamstring problems are sorted
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Everton take on Manchester City in the Premier League on Saturday

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By Suzannah Hills PUBLISHED: 04:17 EST, 12 September 2013 | UPDATED: 17:19 EST, 12 September 2013 Scores of homes have been destroyed and at least three people killed after heavy overnight rainfall sparked flash flooding across Colorado in the early hours this morning. Flooding was reported from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs, more than 100 miles south. Boulder County, including the city of Boulder, was one of the hardest hit areas, with as much as six inches falling in just 12 hours overnight into this morning causing rock and mudslides. Four more inches are expected to fall today, prompting local officials to call in the National Guard and FEMA.
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Flash floods caused by six inches of rain in Boulder and Jefferson Counties
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Mandatory evacuation orders issued for parts of Jamestown and Fourmile
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At least three deaths have been reported
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Flood warnings for Broomfield, Adams, Weld, Larimer, and El Paso counties

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By Sarah Griffiths for MailOnline If you've ever watched a James Bond film and thought you could do better job at thwarting villains, then this is the game for you. GCHQ, the British intelligence agency,  has set a new challenge to find to find the best computer hackers in the country - who could one day protect Britain from real cyber terror attacks. It has launched an online game to test cyber warriors’ abilities to stop a fictional attack – and top scorers will be invited to take part in secret face-to-face reconnaissance missions. GCHQ has set a new challenge to find to find the best computer hackers in the country, who could one day protect Britain from real cyber terror attacks
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GCHQ launched game to test public's ability to stop fictional online attack
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Members of the public must register here to play the game online
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Players must protect a fictitious aerospace technology company threatened by imminent attack from cyber terrorists called The Flag Day Associates
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High scorers could take part in secret face-to-face missions
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Previous high flyers have been rewarded with a job at GCHQ and beyond

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By Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor PUBLISHED: 07:10 EST, 12 August 2013 | UPDATED: 15:31 EST, 12 August 2013 Sensible: International Development Secretary Justine Greening defended giving aid to Nigeria, which has launched a space programme Britain giving millions of pounds to Nigeria while it embarks on a space programme is a ‘sensible investment’, the government insisted today. The oil-rich country, which has accepted £300million from Britain in aid this year alone, has set in train ambitious plans to launch its own rockets and even put a man into space. But International Development Secretary Justine Greening was backed by Downing Street after arguing that it was money ‘well spent’ by Nigeria.
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International Development Secretary Justine Greening defends aid cash
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Oil-rich country has accepted £300million in aid this year alone
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Plans for Nigerian astronauts to join missions within next two years
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But 70 per cent of the country live below the poverty line of £1.29 a day
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Row ignited by UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom's 'Bongo Bongo land' comments

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By Matt Chorley PUBLISHED: 10:16 EST, 8 May 2013 | UPDATED: 12:13 EST, 8 May 2013 Britain is to sign off taxpayer-funded ‘propaganda’ to promote the virtues European Union despite growing calls to quit Brussels altogether. Tory MPs had called on David Cameron to bring forward legislation in today’s Queen’s Speech for his promised in-out referendum. But instead, buried in the small print, was a plan for the UK to authorise the Europe for Citizens scheme which aims to ‘develop understanding of the EU’. David Cameron, pictured walking from the Commons to the Lords today, is under pressure to take a tougher line on Europe to see off the threat posed by UKIP
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Cameron under pressure to bring forward in-out referendum
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Buried in Queen's Speech is European Union Approvals Speech
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It authorises Europe for Citizens scheme developing 'understanding' of EU

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Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. official in charge of investigating fraud in Iraq said Monday he is carrying out a third audit to see if it might determine what happened to $6.7 billion in cash that was flown into Iraq eight years ago and is now missing. "It has not been properly accounted for," said Stuart Bowen, special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction. The money -- which belonged to Iraq -- was part of a sum of $20 billion that was shipped into war-torn Baghdad in bricks of hundred-dollar bills. They were shrink-wrapped and stored in the Central Bank of Iraq to pay for reconstruction.
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Stuart Bowen's job is to try to find out what happened to $6.7 billion in missing funds
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The money belonged to Iraq, but U.S. taxpayers might be on the hook
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"The system was too loose and unregulated in 2003 and 2004," Bowen says

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The Government has spent £80,000 of taxpayers' cash flying Eastern Europeans back to their homelands. Picture shows a policeman escorting a Romanian away from Park Lane The Government has spent £80,000 of taxpayers’ cash flying Eastern European vagrants back to their homelands – only for many to return weeks later. More than 200 people were flown back to Romania and Bulgaria in the first three months of this year – using tickets paid for by the Home Office, according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The migrants returned to Eastern Europe after a crackdown ordered by David Cameron on foreign EU nationals begging or sleeping rough in the UK.
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More than 200 people flown back to Romania and Bulgaria in first three months of this year
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The Home Office has spent £80,000 of taxpayers' cash to pay for the tickets
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By Riath Al-Samarrai Follow @@riathalsam In the moments following his demolition of Luke Saville, Grigor Dimitrov launched a ball high into the Centre Court crowd and very nearly hit a lady who had not been paying attention. It’s conceivable that the man known as Mr Sharapova was sending a wake-up call. Soon enough, he’ll have made a name in his own right; soon enough the established order of men’s tennis will start to fear the Bulgarian creeping up on them, if they don’t already. For make no mistake, the 11th seed who dates Maria is a special player. Volley good: Grigor Dimitrov beat Luke Saville of Australia on Centre Court on Wednesday
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Bulgarian cruises past Australian Saville in straight sets, 6-3 6-2 6-3
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Grasscourt star now into third round at Wimbledon
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Washington (CNN) -- When the race is done, the balloons have wilted, and the confetti has been swept up, Campaign 2012 may be marked more by its failures than its triumphs. But here's the starkest failure in these final days before the vote: Neither candidate has made a convincing enough argument for his presidency to break free of the margin of error in the polls. No matter who is elected, close to as many Americans will have voted against him as for him. Sure, Barack Obama has generally stayed a point or two ahead of his rival in most battlegrounds, but despite his mighty pushes and the advantage of the bully pulpit he has rarely done any better. And Mitt Romney, while he has managed to relentlessly nip at the president's heels like a dog chasing a car (as opposed to one riding on top), he has never been able to decisively bridge the gap from "also ran" to "front runner."
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ANALYSIS: Both Romney and Obama have been unable to break through to unite voters
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Romney has been trying to recover from being pulled from the right early in the campaign
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Obama has seemed like an unwilling participant in his own re-election

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(CNN) -- Horror-meister, Stephen King calls George Pelecanos "perhaps the greatest living American crime writer." His stories are set in Pelecanos' hometown of Washington, D.C., but this is not the side of the U.S. capitol that you see portrayed on TV with white marble monuments, lawyers and lobbyists. Pelecanos is more interested in working families struggling to get by, the racial tensions in its ethnic neighborhoods and the low-lifes on the edges. His crime-writing peers call Pelecanos the "undisputed poet" of Washington's gritty side. The best-selling and award-winning author is out this week with his 17th and latest novel, "The Cut." It's the first in a new series featuring Iraq war veteran and private investigator Spero Lucas. When he's not working for a Washington defense attorney, Lucas recovers stolen property for a 40% cut. Now, a high-profile crime boss hires Lucas to find out who's been stealing from him, and it could turn out to be Lucas' biggest payday or an untimely end.
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Author George Pelecanos returns with his new novel, "The Cut"
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The first in a new series features Iraq war vet and private investigator Spero Lucas
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Washington (CNN) -- While 39 House Democrats voted with Republicans on a proposed fix to canceled insurance policies under Obamacare on Friday, sources on both sides said more would have defected without President Barack Obama's mea culpa over the mess. As it is, the vote is an embarrassment for the President, but it could have been worse. Another 18 defectors could have given Republicans a veto-proof majority and ammunition to really pressure the Democratic-controlled Senate to take up the measure. But senior Democratic aides said that might have been possible before Thursday. That's when Obama took action on his own, met with reporters to talk about it, and dispatched his Chief of Staff, Denis McDonough, to Captiol Hill to meet with Democratic lawmakers.
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NEW: Obama and CEOs discuss steps to address policy cancellations, White House says
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The House votes on a bill to address canceled insurance plans
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Biden campaigns in NC with Sen. Hagan, who has pushed for changes to Obamacare
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Thirty-nine Democrats vote for GOP House bill aiming to reverse canceled policies

Question: "I feel deeply responsible for making it harder for them," @placeholder said on Thursday about Democrats who supported his bill and now face tougher reelection bids because of the law's difficult beginning.


(CNN) -- Sweety High co-founder Veronica Zelle remembers a young girl who wanted desperately to sing and share her voice, but was so afraid to show her face on camera that she would cover it with a dark towel and sing in the background. But through the encouraging words of her friends and peers on Sweety High, an online community exclusively for tween and teen girls, she was able to pull back the curtain and showcase her face and voice in tandem. It's a social gaming site that combines aspects of a site like Facebook with a call to be creative in an environment that includes contests with rewards and points.
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Sweety High is a social gaming site for tween and teen girls between ages 8 and 16
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The site encourages and rewards girls for their positivity and creativity
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Users can post videos, writing, artwork and photos to win prizes

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By Neil Ashton Follow @@neilashton_ Carlo Ancelotti hailed Gareth Bale as the best player in the world ahead of his homecoming in Cardiff for the Super Cup tomorrow. The Real Madrid coach, who won the Champions League with the club last season, claimed the Wales forward is now one of the elite. Real Madrid, who won their tenth European Cup against Atletico Madrid last season, face Europa League winners Sevilla in the UEFA Super Cup at the Cardiff City Stadium. VIDEO Scroll down to see Ronaldo rattle one in off the underside of the bar in training The best: Carlo Ancelotti has hailed Gareth Bale ahead of the new campaign
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Ancelotti hails Bale as the best in the world ahead of Super Cup
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The Welsh midfielder is set to return home to play at Millenium Stadium
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Enjoyed superb first season in Spain winning the Champions League

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By Alex Ward PUBLISHED: 07:14 EST, 25 August 2012 | UPDATED: 11:03 EST, 25 August 2012 A woman is facing a jail sentence for slashing her dog’s head, nose and body 31 times before cutting herself and telling police it was an intruder. Kim Edmonds, 21, carried out the cruel attack on her springer spaniel Stig which left him mutilated with lacerations and burns in what a RSPCA inspector called the ‘worst attack’ she had ever seen. The unemployed woman from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire was found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to the dog on Friday and, pending a psychiatric report, the judge did not rule out a maximum sentence of six months in jail.
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Kim Edmonds was found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to her dog
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She slashed her two Springer Spaniels, one sustained 31 lacerations and burns
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Pending a psychiatric report, Edmonds could serve a maximum of six months in jail
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After the attack she made an emergency call to police, claiming an intruder had attacked her and her dogs
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Investigators discovered her injuries were self-inflicted

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Despite the ray of good news in Thursday's Geneva agreement on steps to de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine, President Obama was right to sound a note of caution, observing that "I don't think we can be sure of anything at this point." The deal, reached by Russia, Ukraine and the West, called for, among other things, disarming illegally armed pro-Russian demonstrators in eastern Ukraine, and the surrender of the government buildings they have seized. These are good and essential first steps, but unless they can now be implemented as a basis on which the parties can move to further, bolder steps to reverse underlying trends, Ukraine could still slide into civil war. If this happened, how would it affect American national interests? Could Ukraine become a 21st century echo of the Balkans in the 1990s, when the collapse of Yugoslavia saw a decade of war between Serbs, Croatians, Bosnians and Kosovars? (No one should forget that just a century ago Ukraine was sucked into a tragic, bloody civil war shortly after gaining independence in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.)
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Graham Allison: Geneva deal on de-escalation in Ukraine a ray of hope
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He says West does have an interest in stalling Russia-coaxed incursions
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Allison: If Latvia, part of NATO, were next, U.S. could be compelled to enter conflict

Question: @placeholder military, security and police forces are so impotent, demoralized and compromised by Russian infiltration that their response has so far been pathetic.


She most recently provoked mothers by saying breastfeeding was 'vile and borderline incest'. Now NHS boob job scrounger Josie Cunningham, who gave birth to daughter Grace in September, is saying she wants to get pregnant again by Christmas - to save on the school run. The unemployed wannabe-model, who fell pregnant with her third child after a stint as a £1,000-a-night hooker, wants another child in the same school year as Grace. Scroll down for video Would-be glamour model Josie Cunningham, 24, seen leaving hospital with her new baby daughter Grace earlier this month, left, wants to have a fourth child to make the school run easier
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The 24-year-old mother-of-three gave birth to daughter Grace in September
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Wants fourth child in the same school year as Grace to save on school run
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Recently described breastfeeding as 'vile' and 'borderline incest' on Twitter
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She caused outrage after getting free taxis to take her children to school

Question: Showing off her platinum blonde locks, @placeholder pole-danced in a nightclub, before flashing her pink bra and falling over several times in the street.


A 'master key' that could give hackers complete access to mobile phones and tablets running Google's Android software (logo pictured) has been revealed A ‘master key’ that could give hackers complete access to mobile phones and tablets running Google’s Android software has been revealed. The bug could allow hackers to hijack phones, allowing them to steal data, listen in to calls or send junk email and text messages. Researchers say the loophole has been present since 2009, and claim around 900 million devices are at risk. Jeff Forristal of Bluebox, the firm which uncovered the key, said the implications of the discovery were ‘huge’.
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A bug that has been present since 2009 allows hackers to listen in to calls and send junk emails from Android devices
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One research firm claims over 900 million Android devices are at risk from the bug that takes advantage of the way the operating system handles cryptographic verification of apps installed on phones and tablets
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Samsung Galaxy S4 handsets have a fix, but Google's Nexus phones remain at risk
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There is no evidence that the flaw has been exploited yet

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By Matt Blake PUBLISHED: 11:28 EST, 22 July 2013 | UPDATED: 11:38 EST, 22 July 2013 The Australian government has sparked fury after it published photographs of asylum seekers weeping as they await deportation to Papua New Guinea - hours after arriving on a rickety boat from Iran. In one of the photographs a young woman sobs, her head in her hands, as she sits on the floor of a detention camp on Christmas Island moments after she was told she was to be resettled. They were the first boatload - carrying 81 mostly Iranian nationals - of refugees to arrive in Australia since Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that all unauthorised asylum-seekers will be sent to Papua New Guinea for resettlement.
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The 81 Iranian refugees landed on Christmas Island today in rickety boat
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They are first refugees to arrive since asylum deal was announced Friday
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The deal allows Australia to send all illegal refugees to Papua New Guinea
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In one of the photographs a young woman sobs, her head in her hands
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Immigration Department spokesman: 'I'm sure they regret coming here now'

Question: Breach of rights: Protesters say the policy is a breach of the human rights of people who deserve a better chance at life - something they say they won't get in @placeholder


The brother of an apparent street beggar who became an internet star for spending $100 on food for other people claims his 'mentally unstable' sibling chose to be homeless and is awaiting a $150,000 inheritance. Kevin Nickel also said the man the internet knows as Thomas - whose online donation kitty has received more than $135,000 from members of the public - is actually named Kenneth Nickel, or Kenny, and that he wants people to know 'it's all a scam' so that the donated money can go to those who actually need it. 'He's sitting on money - he's sitting on an estate,' Mr Nickel told CBS Los Angeles.
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YouTube star Josh Paler Lin filmed himself giving beggar Thomas $100
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Video showed Thomas spending cash on food for his homeless friends
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Thomas' brother Kevin Nickel says his name is Kenneth Nickel and goes by Kenny
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Claims his brother is 'sitting on' money from their parents estate
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An online donations page for 'Thomas' has received over $135,000
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One witness who saw the video filmed said Paler Lin drove Thomas to the liquor store
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Thomas insists he had never met Paler Lin before, events were not set up
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Paler Lin told DailyMail.com the events were natural and not pre-planned

Question: 'They go to a homeless person and make a feel-good video because they know that's going to get views,' said one YouTube user, referring to the site's personalities, such as @placeholder.


By Alanah Eriksen UPDATED: 16:05 EST, 4 November 2011 Justin Bieber has spoken for the first time about allegations he fathered a fan's four-month-old child. Mariah Yeater, 20, claims in court filings that the star father her son Tristyn during a 30-second sex session in a bathroom backstage after one of his shows. She now wants to force the 17-year-old to take a DNA test and pay up to $260,000 in monthly child support. 'I would just like to say basically that none of those allegations are true,' he told the Today Show. 'I know that I'm going to be a target but I'm never going to be a victim.'
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The 20-year-old who claims he fathered her three-month-old child could face a statutory rape charge
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She considered giving the child up for adoption
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Photos have emerged showing intimate tattoos as she strips off for the camera
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It has been alleged she told her ex-boyfriend he was the father
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Ex boyfriend denied he got her pregnant and a fight left Yeater charged with Battery

Question: Before @placeholder: Mariah looks sweet and innocent in her school yearbook photo from 2006


(CNN) -- It's been a busy month for Rob Lowe. His Lifetime movie "Prosecuting Casey Anthony" premiered Saturday with him as attorney Jeff Ashton. On Friday, Lowe will tread familiar territory when his indie flick "Knife Fight" hits theaters. The actor plays Paul Turner, a cutthroat political strategist who's trying to keep his candidates afloat amid self-sabotaging drama. Lowe also can be seen weekly as sad-sack health nut Chris Traeger on NBC's "Parks and Recreation," which is shooting its fifth season. CNN recently spoke with Lowe about his projects, his personal thoughts on the Casey Anthony trial, his dream of playing Ulysses S. Grant and working with Matt Damon on "Behind the Candelabra," the story of Liberace.
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Rob Lowe recently starred in a Lifetime movie about the Casey Anthony trial
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Lowe's also appearing as a political strategist in the indie film "Knife Fight"
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The actor is attached to a role he says he's wanted to play for years: Ulysses S. Grant

Question: CNN: In "Prosecuting Casey Anthony," you play @placeholder, the trial lawyer.


By James Nye PUBLISHED: 07:36 EST, 9 August 2013 | UPDATED: 08:09 EST, 9 August 2013 The family of an 18-year-old Miami graffiti artist who died after being chased and Tasered by a pair of Miami Beach police officers on Tuesday are outraged after witnesses described seeing the cops high-fiving each other in celebration as he lay dying. The distraught father of Israel Hernandez-Llach has called for an investigation into what he called an 'act of barbarism and assassination' and Officer Jorge Mercado, a 13-year veteran of the force, has been placed on paid administrative leave - pending an investigation.
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Israel Hernandez-Llach, 18, was Tasered on Tuesday after Miami police caught him spray painting the front of a McDonalds
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The officers gave chase for ten minutes and cornered Hernandez-Llach
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He was hit in the chest by the stun gun - lost consciousness and could not be revived
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Witnesses reported seeing the officers who caught the teen celebrating wildly with high-fives as he lay dying

Question: According to his internal affairs record, @placeholder has had six complaints filed against him ranging from excessive and battery to violating the department's code of respect.


(CNN) -- Carlos Tevez scored twice as Argentina beat Mexico 3-1 in Johannesburg, South Africa, to set up a meeting with Germany in the quarterfinals of the World Cup. The Manchester City striker opened the scoring after 25 minutes in controversial fashion when television replays, which were relayed on the giant screens in the stadium, showed he was offside when he received the ball from Lionel Messi and headed into the net. Despite protests from the Mexican players, the goal was allowed to stand. Argentina doubled its lead when Gonzalo Higuain rounded goalkeeper Oscar Perez to score his fourth goal of the tournament.
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Argentina beats Mexico 3-1 in Johannesburg to reach World Cup quarterfinals
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Carlos Tevez scores twice for Argentina and Gonzalo Higuain gets one
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Javier Hernandez nets a consolation goal for the Mexicans
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Argentina will play Germany in the semifinal in Cape Town on Saturday, July 3

Question: Javier Hernandez pulled a goal back for Mexico with a powerful left-footed drive after 70 minutes, but it proved to be little more than a consolation for the Mexicans as @placeholder easily claimed the victory.


The world's car giants go head-to-head as the Frankfurt Motor Show opens to the public. Flaunting the latest releases, the show is a tapestry of hybrid and concept designs from some of the most illustrious marques. But while the German city plays host to glitz and glamor, manufacturers are eyeing a burgeoning class of car buyers more than 6,000 miles away in China, where 200 million cars now run on the country's ever-congested roads. The world's largest car market, China is the major battleground for European companies in the 21st century, as premium brands look to exploit a growing population of 1.3 billion people.
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China car sales increasing 11% in August year on year, according to the state-backed manufacturers association
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China's car market will almost match the combined size of the U.S. and western European market by 2019
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U.S. auto giants Ford and General Motors have reported record sales increases in China for the month of August

Question: With European sales in decline and the @placeholder market only slowly recovering, China represents a beacon of steady growth at a time of economic uncertainty.


A 35-year-old father who died of an aggressive brain tumor handled his death with humor - by comparing his battle with the disease to a living a double-life as Spider-Man. Aaron Purmort, from Minneapolis, was diagnosed with a glioblastoma in 2011, and died this week - but not before writing his own obituary along with his wife, Nora. The piece, published Sunday in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, phrased his life in terms of Peter Parker's famous alter-ego, with cancer as the villain he tried to defeat. 'Spider-Man': Aaron Purmont's obituary, published Sunday in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, compares him to a superhero who fought cancer
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Aaron Purmort, 35, was diagnosed in 2011 and died this week
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He and his wife Nora co-wrote obituary which was published Sunday
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'Reveals' that he is Spider-Man and has battled villain named Cancer
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Then describes his real life, and adds their son, Ralph, will 'avenge' him
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Nora had written a blog charting family's struggle with the disease

Question: Nora said @placeholder, who will have his second birthday in January, now associates her father with Spider-Man, a comic-book figure his father loved well into adulthood.


By Ashley Collman PUBLISHED: 21:38 EST, 6 February 2014 | UPDATED: 11:07 EST, 7 February 2014 As his girlfriend got out of the car to get food at a gas station, 47-year-old Michael Dunn turned to her and said 'I hate this music' - commenting on the loud bass coming from a parked SUV with four teens inside. Before she could get back to the Volkswagen with wine and chips, Dunn had shot up the SUV, eventually killing 17-year-old back passenger Jordan Davis. Opening statements in the white engineer's murder case began today in Jacksonville, Florida, with both sides revealing more details on how the fight about volume turned deadly in November 2012.
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Michael Dunn, 47, has plead not-guilty to first-degree murder for shooting dead 17-year-old Jordan Davis in November 2012
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Opening statements in the case started today in Jacksonville, Florida
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The defense says Dunn was defending himself after seeing Davis grab either a shotgun or a lead pipe
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But police found no evidence of a weapon in the vehicle and the prosecution says the men did not threaten Dunn
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The case could conclude as early as February 14

Question: However, defense attorneys say Dunn never cursed at Davis and that @placeholder got much more explicit in their fight.


Hong Kong (CNN) -- "Big Brother is watching you." This is the sinister maxim repeated throughout George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," his dark portrayal of life inside an authoritarian state characterized by its omniscient and paranoid leadership. Fortunately this kind of dystopian nightmare is confined to fiction for most of us -- or more recently the world of reality television with the phenomenally successful Big Brother show, where groups of hapless "housemates" try to outlast each in an isolated environment where their every move is monitored 24 hours a day. And now the show is coming to China's small screen, an irony that won't be lost on many in a country that purportedly has more people employed to censor the Internet than its army (the world's largest) has soldiers.
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Launching in early 2015, the first-ever Chinese version of Big Brother will air for ten weeks
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Will follow the format of the hugely successful reality show popular across the world
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Comes at a time when China has been clamping down on "excessive, vulgar" content

Question: Fifteen years after its launch, @placeholder continues to be a worldwide hit that engages passionate young fans across multiple platforms."


By Matthew Blake France's National Front descended into further disarray today after its founder threatened to expose his daughter and the party's leader for stabbing him in the back. Jean Marie Le Pen, who launched the right-wing party in 1972, accused his daughter Marine Le Pen of betraying him after the party pulled his video blog from the internet this week amid claims he made an anti-semitic quip. Police were also looking in to a 'mysterious' £800,000, reports last night indicated. Detective are looking at doantions to the National Front of more than one million euros, which Mr Le Pen insists are legitimate.
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Blog was removed after he implied Jewish singer should be baked in an oven
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Marine rebuked father at the weekend for what she called a 'political mistake'
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But he says she 'stabbed him in back' and is trying to freeze him out of party
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Party chiefs have begged him to destroy letter amid fears it could split family
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He says: 'If I get on their nerves, the only thing for them to do is to kill me. I’m not going to commit suicide'
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French police are also probing a 'mysterious £800,000' donated to the party

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(CNN) -- The world record long jump of 29 feet, 4 1/4 inches, set by American Mike Powell, has stood for nearly 22 years. That imposing distance is nearly five times Powell's 6-foot-2 height. But an athletic, evolved guppy would scoff at that accomplishment, if you can consider guppies athletic. And if guppies scoffed. The popular pet fish can jump up to eight times their body length, at speeds of more than 4 feet per second, according to a recently published research paper in the online peer-reviewed journal PLOS One. University of Maryland biologist Daphne De Freitas Soares and biology lecturer Hilary S. Bierman discovered the guppies' ability while using high-speed videography and digital imaging to analyze the jumping behavior of nine guppies from a wild Trinidadian species, Poecilia reticulata, related to the familiar pet-shop fish.
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U. of Maryland researchers say they've witnessed never-before-seen behavior in fish
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Guppies jump by swimming backwards, then changing direction and launching
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The biology professor and lecturer say the fish can jump eight times their body length
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The best human long jumper ever, Mike Powell, jumped nearly five times his height

Question: While studying evolutionary changes to the guppies' brain stems, one of the fish jumped out of a laboratory tank and into @placeholder' cup of iced chai, prompting closer scrutiny, she said.


By Laurie Whitwell Follow @@lauriewhitwell As the tremors from Grigor Dimitrov’s earth-shattering defeat of Andy Murray began to fade on Thursday, we were left to wonder whether the tectonic plates of men’s tennis still had further to shift. Can this 23-year-old Bulgarian break new ground and beat another one of the Big Four? Novak Djokovic will hope the answer is no on Friday and the Serb certainly has experience on his side. Dreamland: Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov celebrates beating defending Wimbledon champion Andy Murray In control: Dimitov started far faster than Murray and never looked like letting his early lead slip
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The 23-year-old looked comfortable during his win against Murray
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His coach says there is 'no ceiling' on what the Bulgarian can achieve
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Djokovic leads 3-1 in previous encounters between the pair

Question: But @placeholder knows that the player he faces today is a different proposition.


KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A New York Times reporter who was kidnapped last week was freed Wednesday in a pre-dawn military raid in Afghanistan that left a British commando, an Afghan journalist and several others dead. New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell was abducted Saturday while covering a NATO airstrike in Afghanistan. Stephen Farrell was rescued by NATO's International Security Assistance Force, known as the ISAF, the British Foreign Office said. A British commando died in the operation, the country's Ministry of Defense said without offering further details. Sultan Munad, an Afghan journalist accompanying Farrell, also was killed in the raid, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said.
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New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell freed in commando raid
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Afghan journalist killed in raid, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says
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British commando also killed during raid; woman, child die in crossfire

Question: @placeholder called the newspaper's foreign editor before dawn and said he was "extracted" in a commando raid after a fierce firefight, according to a report on the Times Web site.

Question: Farrell's citizenship played a role in the @placeholder decision to stage the rescue, said a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense.


By Hugo Duncan PUBLISHED: 05:50 EST, 21 March 2012 | UPDATED: 11:25 EST, 21 March 2012 The economy will grow by more than expected this year but the crisis in the euro is ‘a major risk’ to Britain, the Chancellor said today. George Osborne said growth forecasts for 2012 have been nudged up from a paltry 0.7 per cent to a still feeble 0.8 per cent. Delivering his third Budget, he said Britain would ‘avoid a technical recession’ with a return to growth in the first quarter of the year. Scroll down for video Mr Osborne said the economy has ‘carried a little more momentum into the New Year than previously anticipated’.
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February's borrowing figure was expected to be £8.9bn but jumped to £15.2bn
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Extra loans mean Britain's debt mountain now stands at almost £1trillion

Question: Grin and bear it: The news was depressing for @placeholder, pictured today


The number of people forced from their homes by conflict and persecution has passed 50million in a year for the first time since the Second World War. Some 51.2million sought shelter last  year – the equivalent of almost the entire population of England. The figure, revealed by the United Nations, is up six million from 2012, largely due to Syrians fleeing civil war. Iraqis who have fled the violence in their hometown of Mosul line arrive at Khazir refugee camp outside of Irbil north of Baghdad Sunni militants captured a strategic city along the highway to Syria on forcing many to flee
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More than 50million people are refugees according to United Nations figures
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Down to largely Syrians fleeing the civil war in their country
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Shows the strain facing aid agencies trying to help those forced to flee

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(CNN) -- Two Syrian Orthodox bishops remain missing two days after being kidnapped, with each side in the civil war blaming others for the snatching. The whereabouts of the two prominent clergymen, Greek Orthodox Bishop Paul Yazigi and Syriac Orthodox Bishop John Ibrahim, remain unknown, despite some reports to the contrary, Greek Orthodox Bishop Mousa Khoury told CNN. There have been several kidnappings of Christian clergymen in Syria but the two bishops are the most senior church figures who have been abducted since the beginning of the uprising. The Syrian regime's Ministry of Religious Endowment issued a statement blaming "this brutal act" on Chechen mercenaries operating under the mantle of Jabhat al-Nusra and al-Qaeda. The government did not provide evidence to back up the claim.
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Two prominent Syrian Orthodox bishops have been missing for two days
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The opposition and the government each blame others for the kidnapping
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Another bishop tells the Vatican news service that money, not politics, is the motivation

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(CNN) -- "Do I look like Serena? Like, come on. Seriously?" Sloane Stephens understandably rankles at such a comparison with one of the world's greatest tennis players. "You know, it's kind of crazy, but it's really not that bad. But when you hear it, it's like, 'Oh my god, did they just say that?' " Only the laziest of observers could mistake the 19-year-old rising star for a Williams sister off the court. But on it, the similarities are striking. Blessed with natural athleticism and steely determination allied to a powerful serve and forehand, Stephens shares many of the attributes that have helped Venus and Serena dominate the women's game over the past 15 years.
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Sloane Stephens has enjoyed a successful year on the tour and is hotly tipped for success
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The 19-year-old will play Italy's Francesca Schiavone in the opening round of the U.S. Open
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She is the daughter of former NFL player John Stephens and ex-swimmer Sybil Smith
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Rising star looking to build on promising runs at Wimbledon and the French Open earlier this year

Question: @placeholder works really hard and is a great role model for girls, she says, while Serena has become a close friend.

Question: Smith and Stephens divorced when @placeholder was a child, and she saw little of her father while growing up.


Would you believe that these breathtaking photos were seen through the lens of a kayaker's GoPro camera? Intrepid Tomasz Furmanek spends his spare time away from the Institute of Marine Research gliding atop the waters in some Norway's most idyllic beauty spots. For 10 years, Tomasz, a software developer, has visited many of the fjords in western Norway, inland lakes and the areas around Lofoten Islands in the northern part of the country. Scroll down for video Tomasz Furmanek spends most of his spare time atop the waters of Norway's most idyllic nature spots Using a GoPro camera fastened to his kayak, Tomasz snaps photos of the fjords he sees in his travels
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Adventurer Tomasz Furmanek photographs Norwegian fjords from a kayak
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For over 10 years, he's been documenting his travels around the country
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Using a GoPro camera, he uploads his stunning images to Instagram

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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton claimed victory in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, beating out Sen. Barack Obama after a bruising six-week campaign. Sen. Hillary Clinton addresses supporters following her win in Pennsylvania. "It's a long road to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and it runs right through the heart of Pennsylvania," she told supporters in Philadelphia. "I'm in this race to fight for you ... You know you can count on me to stand up strong for you every single day in the White House." Clinton commended Obama and his campaign, saying the two are in many ways "on this journey together." Watch Clinton claim victory »
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NEW: Clinton: "I won that double-digit victory that everybody on TV said I had to win"
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Clinton holds 10-point lead with about 99 percent of precincts reporting
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Obama congratulates Clinton, looks ahead to next contests
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158 delegates at stake in Pennsylvania

Question: According to CNN's latest count, @placeholder leads in the delegate count -- 1,694 to 1,556.


Tim Cahill's super-strike has been hailed for its brilliant technique that left fans around the world purring and showed that there is nothing better than a sweetly struck volley. But did it rank among the best volleyed efforts of all-time? Sportsmail looks back on the best volleyed goals that rival Cahill's in a list of football's greatest volleys. Crash, bang, wallop: Cahill showed there's nothing better than a sweetly struck volleyed goal Brazil-liant: But where does Cahill's goal rank among the all-time greatest volleyed strikes? 1 Marco van Basten: Holland v Russia, June 1988 (European Championship final) The enormity of the occasion and the tightness of the angle mean Van Basten's iconic effort might never be beaten. Waiting for the ball to drop over his shoulder, where most would have panicked the Dutchman produced a moment of magic, hooking the ball back across the 'keeper and into the net.
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Cahill scored a wondergoal as Australia went down 3-2 to Holland
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His Van Basten-esque volleyed effort ranks among the best of all time

Question: Simply the best: @placeholder's goal had everything - an outrageous piece of skill on a huge occasion


Moore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Five days ago, Miranda Mann huddled in a science classroom at Southmoore High School. She should have been filed with pride, relief and excitement about her upcoming graduation. Instead, she was filled with fear as a devastating tornado powered through her central Oklahoma city. The 18-year-old has been literally picking up the pieces of her life since. Her house was unrecognizable, except for her and her mother's cars, after the twister destroyed it Monday. Her family sifted through rubble and salvaged some things, only to see many of them -- such as her prized book collection -- ruined by torrential rains.
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Three high school classes in Moore, Oklahoma, have their graduation ceremonies
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"It's ... the closing of one chapter and the opening of another," a student says
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Funerals continue to be held for some of the 24 killed

Question: Like Mann, he's a @placeholder senior; like her, he no longer has a place to call home.


(CNN) -- Injury doubt Novak Djokovic has confirmed his participation, new dad Roger Federer is a maybe, but they will go into the Rome Masters next week in the knowledge their old nemesis Rafael Nadal is finding his feet on clay again after some shock recent defeats. Nadal booked his participation in his 90th ATP Tour final with a 6-4 6-3 win over fellow Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut at the Madrid Open Saturday -- always in command in the one hour 43 minute clash. Nadal, who is the defending champion at the Masters 1000 event, lost in the quarterfinals at Monte Carlo and Barcelona to David Ferrrer and Nicolas Almagro to show rare vulnerability on his favorite surface.
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Novak Djokovic to return to ATP tour in Rome after injury
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Rafael Nadal on course to defend Madrid Open title
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Nadal plays Kei Nishikori in Sunday's final
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Maria Sharapova to play Simona Halep in women's final in Madrid

Question: Second-ranked Djokovic was due to play in @placeholder, but pulled out at the last minute due to the right wrist injury which first hit him in Monte Carlo.


A British man was freed by Ukrainian secret services after being kidnapped and tortured while seeking a potential 'bride' through a dating agency in Odessa, it was revealed today. The man, aged 58, was abducted by a 'criminal gang', believed to be Muslim, after arranging to meet a young woman. He has been named as Martin John, but he could be John Martin as Ukrainians often give the surname first. Scroll down for video A British man was freed by Ukrainian secret services after being kidnapped and tortured while seeking a potential 'bride' through a dating agency in Odessa (pictured)
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A man named as Martin John, 58, was kidnapped by Muslims in Ukraine
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He was held in a cellar for three days with the gang demanding a ransom
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He was told he would be killed if his family did not pay £3,700
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Ukrainian secret service officers freed him and arrested the gang

Question: 'He was particularly excited about the architecture of @placeholder; this year alone he had visited the city twice to study local architectural monuments.


(CNN) -- Women stood at the forefront of the Arab Spring, taking to the streets shoulder to shoulder with men in an effort to overturn oppressive old orders. But while their efforts have seen dictators ousted and reforms introduced, the greater rights for women many hoped would emerge from the upheaval have not materialized. Indeed, says Lebanese activist Diala Haidar, the rise of political Islam throughout the region in the wake of the uprising has raised the specter of hard-won gains for women being lost. Haidar and four other women's rights activists across the region started a campaign, The Uprising of Women in the Arab World, on Facebook in October 2011, to highlight injustices against women throughout the region.
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Women took to the streets during the Arab Spring demanding greater rights
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But activists say women's rights have fallen off the agenda after the uprising
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The say the success of Islamist parties is further jeopardizing the status of women
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An online campaign is fighting to keep women's rights in the spotlight

Question: "@placeholder took place under the banner of freedom, dignity and equality, and the three can't be established if women are left behind," said Haidar, 28, a laboratory supervisor.


(CNN)She couldn't read and she couldn't write. She was remarkably bad at public speaking. Yet mention the name "Laika" to any Russian of a certain age, and their eyes will light up with patriotic fervor. Laika was, of course, a dog. Or to be precise, the first dog to be sent into orbit. "There was this whole propaganda industry built around Laika and her canine comrades," says Damon Murray, editor of the new book Soviet Space Dogs. "Pictures of the dogs appeared on children's books, posters, toys, stamps, matchboxes, postcards, all over. It was a real cult thing." Dogs or monkeys?
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A new book provides an insight into the bizarre world of Soviet space dogs
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The first living creature to be sent into orbit was Laika, a stray dog from Moscow
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The Russian dogs became propaganda icons, portrayed as sacrificing themselves for the good of the USSR
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The Soviets switched to monkeys in the Eighties, but it is the iconography of the dogs that is the most enduring

Question: Murray's book draws together a collection of ephemera from the period, providing a window into the eccentric world of pop art from the @placeholder.


Paris, France (CNN) -- Western Europe was dealing with the aftermath of violent weather Monday after a winter storm dubbed "Xynthia" battered at least six countries, leaving at least 58 people dead, authorities said. Hardest hit was France, where at least 47 people were killed, according to the Interior Ministry. French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited the departments of Charente-Maritime and Vendee on the nation's west coast Monday, where the extra-tropical cyclone hit. "It's a national catastrophe," French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Sunday. "Many people drowned, surprised by the rapid rise of the water." The combination of hurricane-force winds and high tide inundated parts of the coastal region.
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At least 55 deaths from extra-tropical cyclone, 45 of them in France
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High winds -- at times spiking to 200 km/h (124 mph) -- reached as far as Paris
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At least 100 flights canceled at Paris-Charles de Gaulle International Airport
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Deaths also reported in Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Germany and England

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi has been indicted on charges he promised to support legislation in exchange for a land deal that netted the Arizona Republican more than $700,000, the Justice Department said Friday. In a 35-count indictment unsealed early Friday, Renzi, 49, is charged with conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering, extortion and insurance fraud. Also named in the indictment is Renzi's former business partner and real estate investor, James W. Sandlin, 56, of Sherman, Texas, and Andrew Beardall, 36, of Rockville, Maryland. Renzi's attorneys, Reid Weingarten and Kelly Kramer, denied their client had done anything wrong. "We will fight these charges until he is vindicated and his family's name is restored," the attorneys said in a statement.
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NEW: Rep. Rick Renzi received $733,000 from land deal, indictment says
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NEW: Renzi's attorneys say their client has done nothing wrong and will fight charges
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Indictment says Arizona Republican pushed land swap benefiting former partner
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The 35-count indictment names Renzi, two other businessmen as defendants

Question: "We are disappointed that the @placeholder would not allow a decent amount of time to pass to allow a son to mourn the passing of his father," the statement said.


By Gerard Couzens Kate McCann contemplated suicide after a 'smear campaign' by a Portuguese police chief who claimed she had covered up daughter Madeleine's death, a libel trial heard today. A British psychologist who counselled Mrs McCann revealed she confessed to secret 'dark thoughts' after disgraced detective Goncalo Amaral's shocking book was followed by a TV documentary based on it. Alan Pike, a trauma expert who has been helping the McCanns since Madeleine's May 3 2007 disappearance on the Algarve, told a Lisbon court: 'Kate thought about not being around anymore. Defamed? Kate McCann, pictured speaking to press outside Lisbon's civil court last week, has brought a case of libel against the former police chief in the country who she says launched a 'smear campaign' against her
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Alan Pike, Kate McCann's psychologist, told a civil court she confessed 'dark thoughts' to him after the former detective's book was published
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Police chief claimed the McCanns hid their daughter's body after a car crash
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Kate's psychologist Alan Pike said she experienced a 'second trauma'
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Evidence heard in Lisbon in £1million libel case against Goncalo Amaral

Question: '@placeholder in particular wasn't very well and she shared with me some very dark thoughts which she hadn't done before.


Terryl Gene Peters Sr, 67, also was sentenced on Friday after raping a seven-year-old girl in Arizona The husband of former U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for raping a seven-year-old girl. Terryl Gene Peters Sr, 67, also was sentenced on Friday to lifetime probation for one count of child molestation and two counts of attempted child molestation, according to Maricopa County prosecutors. Peters pleaded guilty to one count of molestation of a child and two counts of attempted molestation. Peters, of Peoria, Arizona, was accused of sexually abusing the child in April 2008.
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Terryl Gene Peters Sr, 67, sentenced in Maricopa County, Arizona
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He admitted raping the child in April 2008 while his wife was working at the White House in the Bush administration

Question: Shock: @placeholder husband has been jailed after sexually abusing a child during the period she was serving as US Transportation Secretary


(CNN) -- A Republican-appointed commission in Florida could turn the 2012 GOP presidential nominating calendar topsy-turvy Friday if it goes ahead with plans to shift the state's primary to January 31. The move would flout Republican National Committee rules that forbid any state -- other than the first four early voting states -- from holding a contest before March 6, likely sparking a chain reaction as those states move their contests into January to protect their roles in the process. Florida's representatives on the RNC approved the current calendar rules at a meeting last year. But top Florida Republicans have since demanded that their state go fifth in the 2012 process, after the first four "carve out" states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina.
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Florida aims to move primary date to January 31
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Traditional early states would then be forced to leapfrog their dates into early January
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Republican leadership could penalize Florida by limiting delegates seated at convention
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States must submit their primary and caucuses to the Republican National Committee by Saturday

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By Lizzie Edmonds Britons can expect high temperatures of up to 19C this Easter weekend - hotter than popular holiday destination Greece. Forecasters at the Met Office say the south east will see dry and settled conditions throughout the week with temperatures hitting highs of 18C on Wednesday. By Easter Sunday, those in the region will be basking in highs of up to 19C - well average temperatures of 13C for April. Ready for the sun: Mia and Leo Rogers brave the waves in Bournemouth, Dorset. The south can expect high temperatures of up to 19C this Easter weekend Hollie Butterworth, 11 months, gets stuck into playtime at the Dorset beach. The weather is expected to top popular holiday destinations in Greece - which will see highs of just 17C
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Clear and sunny with highs of 19C on Easter Sunday in the south east
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North will be more unsettled but chances of rain - but still 15C
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Average April temperatures for south is 13C and north 10C
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Athens in Greece will be just 16C on Easter Sunday and Rome, Italy 9C
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Comes as Met Office predicts six-week heat wave in late April early May

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Fotokol, Cameroon (CNN)A Cameroonian soldier lies in a trench, the tip of his Kalashnikov rifle pointing toward the Nigerian town of Gambaru, which has been taken over by Boko Haram terrorists. A pickup loaded with Chadian troops crosses the bridge into Gambaru to reinforce their peers locked in an hours-long heavy exchange of gunfire with Boko Haram fighters. A suspected terrorist attempts to cross the El Beid River, which separates Gambaru from Fotokol in Cameroon, but is hit by a bullet from a Cameroonian soldier. That battle took place on February 11, but "fighting here has become a daily occurrence," says Maj. Nlate Ebale of the Rapid Intervention Battalion -- known as BIR -- of the Cameroon military.
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Cameroon and Chadian forces fight Boko Haram militants across the border area with Nigeria
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In battles for border towns and a bridge, attacks take place daily, colonel says

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By Associated Press Renisha McBride's phone contained several selfies of her with a gun, with marijuana and with cash Jurors in the upcoming trial of a Detroit-area man who shot a young, drunk woman on his porch won't see selfies of the victim with a gun, marijuana and cash, a judge said Monday in another defeat for the defense. Theodore Wafer's attorneys want to show the photos from Renisha McBride's cellphone to demonstrate that she had an aggressive side. But Wayne County Judge Dana Hathaway said there could be a 'million reasons' why the 19-year-old posed that way. 'There is nothing in the photographs that establishes a reputation for violent or aggressive behavior,' Hathaway said.
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Renisha McBride's cell phone contained pictures of her with marijuana, a gun and flashing cash
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She was killed outside Detroit by Theodore Wafer after she knocked on his door following a car crash on November 2, 2013
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Wafter's defense lawyers are trying to establish that she had 'a reputation for aggressive behavior'

Question: Separately, @placeholder agreed to approve subpoenas to get access to social media sites that the victim may have used.


PUBLISHED: 04:46 EST, 11 July 2013 | UPDATED: 18:51 EST, 12 July 2013 Millions of Europe's unemployed youth are moving to more wealthy countries in the European Union as they desperately try to find work. New figures have revealed that the number of Europeans who have moved to better off countries in the north to find work has doubled since the economic crises first hit four years ago, with Britain and Germany topping the list of choices. Almost a quarter of the EU's under 25s  - some 5.6million - are now unemployed. New figures have revealed that the number of Europeans who have moved to better off countries to find work has doubled to five million since the economic crises first hit four years ago, with Britain and Germany topping the list of choices.
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Almost a quarter of the EU's under 25s are unemployed - some 5.6million
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Number moving to wealthier countries doubled since recession first hit

Question: But @placeholder has actively attempted to lure promising workers from abroad after it decided to welcome well qualified workers from the south of Europe.


(CNN) -- You know you've reached a special level of fame when you're known by just your first name. For R&B superstar Usher (full name Usher Raymond), achieving his place among the entertainment industry's first-namers has come with the sale of tens of millions of records and multiple Grammy Awards. "I'm definitely living my dream to the fullest... What I do is very positive and an indication that if you simply believe in your dreams, you can make it," he told CNN. When not performing the man who recently visited the gambling city of Macau during his first tour of China is a more modest character.
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U.S. R&B superstar was friend of Michael Jackson
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Usher has sold over 40 million albums
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Passing on the advice of "King of Pop," he's now mentor to teen sensation Justin Bieber

Question: "I would definitely say there is a difference between the @placeholder that's on stage and the Usher who balances the regular life of being an entertainer," he said.


(Entertainment Weekly) -- In a sound-bite sure to be re-watched in years to come by the eight kids Jon and Kate Gosselin have brought into the world, Jon Gosselin told Good Morning America, "I despise her." Jon Gosselin speaks out about his bitter break-up with his wife in a new television interview. Kate, said Jon, "beat me down... like a lame fish." Speaking to interviewer Chris Cuomo, Gosselin, always the less voluble of the couple and recently better known for pictures of his post-separation partying than his pithy statements, let loose. "Stop feeding into the frenzy," he responded when Cuomo asked if he had a message to Kate.
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"Our relationship will never be fixed," Jon Gosselin says in a television interview
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Jon and Kate Gosselin have been going through a bitter break-up
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The pair star in the reality TV show "Jon & Kate Plus 8"

Question: Asked why he doesn't still wear his wedding ring, as @placeholder wears hers, he said, "She took my ring."


The number of Muslim children in England and Wales has doubled in a decade, according to the most detailed study of its kind. An analysis of 2011 Census data carried out by the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) suggests the Muslim population increased by more than a million in the ten years from 2001, rising 75 per cent from 1.5 million  to 2.7 million. The research shows that one in 12 school-age children is now Muslim, and a third of all Muslims are aged 15 and under, with half under the age of 25. A new study undertaken by the Muslim Council of Britain has analysed the 2011 Census to reveal details of Britain's growing Muslim population - as seen in this info graphic
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A third of all Muslims in England and Wales are aged 15 and under
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Analysis of 2011 Census suggests Muslim population has risen by 75%
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Number in UK increased from 1.5 million in 2001 to 2.7 million in 2011
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Research was carried out by the Muslim Council of Britain
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In some parts of Birmingham more than 80% of school pupils are Muslim
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The Muslim prison population is 'disproportionately large', according to researchers, with Muslims accounting 13 per cent of prisoners within England and Wales
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There is a higher rate of unemployment among Muslim women compared with the wider population
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Almost half of the country's Muslim population was born in the UK

Question: 'What's not in doubt is that British @placeholder can be proud of the contribution they make to our country.


Jeremi J. Alicea, 27, of Bedford, Ohio is accused of pandering child pornography and he is also accused of possessing a criminal tool By Alexandra Klausner and Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 17:53 EST, 31 January 2014 | UPDATED: 18:27 EST, 31 January 2014 The nephew of the Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro followed in his uncle's sexually deviant footsteps and was charged on Thursday with 22 counts related to child pornography. Jeremi J. Alicea, 27, of Bedford, Ohio is accused of pandering child pornography and he is also accused of possessing a criminal tool. The court records say that Alicea's laptop was his 'criminal tool' and that the alleged crimes occurred on Sept. 17 2013, and Oct.8, 2013.
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Jeremi J. Alicea, 27, of Bedford, Ohio is accused of pandering child pornography and he is also accused of possessing a criminal tool
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Alicea's uncle Ariel Castro kidnapped and brutally raped three young women (two underage) over a period of 10 gruesome years that 'seemed like an eternity'
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Unlike Castro's nephew who seems to have issues of his own, Castro's son Anthony has spoken out publicly about his father's behavior and has labeled it atrocious

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By Sam Webb PUBLISHED: 12:20 EST, 25 January 2014 | UPDATED: 13:28 EST, 25 January 2014 A mother-of-three who was told she had beaten a rare form of cancer is now preparing memory boxes and birthday cards for her children after being given the devastating news she has just three months to live. Debra McNaughton, from Waltham, Lincolnshire has prepared three memory boxes for each of her children, and has hand-written cards congratulating them on their future birthdays, weddings and first jobs. Just 21 days ago the 39-year-old believed she was cancer-free after beating a rare form of appendix cancer in June 2013.
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Debra McNaughton, 39, thought she had beaten appendix cancer
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Disease returned and doctors have told her she has just three months left
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She has prepared memory boxes and cards for her children
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Connor, 17, Courtney, 16, and Oliver, two, will get cards at major landmarks

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Daniel Bradshaw, a young barber at Platinum Kutz in central Des Moines, hovers over a customer's half-trimmed head, clippers in hand, talking about the good old days of 2008. "Yeah, I was all for Obama. He was the man!" proclaimed Bradshaw, 32, whose friends call him "Mr. Puerto Rico" and whose colleagues sometimes refer to him as "Mr. Steal-Your-Client." As he brushed the hair clippings off his apron, he goes on: "I even got to meet him, once. He was all that." Or so he thought. Bradshaw, like many of his fellow Democrats, feels let down. The promise, the hope, the dream of the first black president has stalled in the reality of a stubborn economy, two wars and a Congress engaged in full-contact politics.
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Obama won Iowa's caucuses in 2008; now he's seeing some frustration from his base
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Says one dismayed citizen: "I'm not going to vote at all this year."
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Iowa Democrats are mounting an aggressive effort to energize voters for Tuesday night
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Republican candidates continue to pummel the president on the economy, health care

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Washington (CNN)Vice President Joe Biden, in a closed-door meeting with black clergy in South Carolina on Tuesday, referred to himself as "the only white boy on the east side of Wilmington" as he recalled his days as a Delaware public defender and pressed faith leaders to elect Democrats this year. He offered a candid critique of Republicans, calling the tea party "crazy," according to a detailed readout of Biden's remarks provided to CNN by a person in the room. "This is not your father's Republican Party," he said, according to the source. "This is a different breed of cat, man. I am not making a moral judgment, but I will tell you that they have no judgment."
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Joe Biden met with black clergy in South Carolina on Tuesday
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Biden to ministers: "This is not your father's Republican Party"
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South Carolina is an early presidential primary state

Question: Pointing to the enactment of strict voter ID laws in GOP-dominated states, Biden said @placeholder have been successful in discouraging Democrats, especially African-Americans, from voting.


Los Angeles (CNN) -- China is poised to become the world's largest economy within a decade, according to some economists. Rising giant India already has a middle-class population that is larger than the entire United States population, according to others. Such nuggets fuel an industry of prophetic warnings of decline, exemplified by the phrase "How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented" in the subtitle of Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum's recent best-seller. The rapid growth of China and India and other Asian tigers does not mean that the United States has "fallen behind," however. It takes a panicked perspective to even ponder the point.
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The rapid growth of China and India does not mean the U.S. has fallen behind, Rob Asghar says
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Both face major environmental and infrastructural challenges within the next decade, he says
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Many East and South Asia societies are facing resistance to progress, Asghar says
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Asghar: U.S. may sabotage its tilt toward innovative growth if political dysfunction continues

Question: Meanwhile, @placeholder is the best at being America, because America is the closest thing to a society that unambivalently enjoys being American.

Question: @placeholder culture is peculiarly tilted toward valuing disruptive new ideas and welcoming the immigrant who brings such ideas into its society.


Beijing (CNN) -- China's legislature meets this week to seal a power transfer to new leaders, but don't hold your breath for signs that the new team will ease up on the tough Chinese foreign policy that has ruffled feathers in its neighborhood recently. As the National People's Congress opened in Beijing, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Fu Ying warned that the country had sent an "important signal" to the region that it would respond "decisively" to provocations on territorial disputes. That means we can expect Beijing to continue with its "reactive assertiveness" foreign policy tactic. China has perfected this approach in its ongoing maritime disputes in the South and East China Seas.
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China has warned it will respond "decisively" to provocations on territorial disputes
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There are signs Beijing will stick to its policy of "reactive assertiveness"
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China's leaders are meeting at the National People's Congress in Beijing
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Xi Jinping is expected to formally assume China's presidency

Question: If there is any perceived slight, no matter how minor, expect @placeholder to pounce.


(CNN) -- Libya's government called for calm Tuesday after heavy fighting between local militias around the Libyan coastal city of Zuwara killed at least 17 people and wounded dozens more. The roughly 80 reported wounded filled Zuwara's hospital and included several civilians, said Ayoob Sufyan, a spokesman for the city government. Many of the wounded were severely hurt, and an appeal for blood donations went out on local radio. "The situation is terrible," Sufyan told CNN as sporadi explosions and gunfire echoed in the background. "It is a real war now." Sufyan called the violence the worst in that stretch of western Libya since the revolt that toppled longtime Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi in August. Fighting broke out several days ago between factions from Zuwara, a largely Berber city near the Tunisian border, and the nearby Arab-dominated towns of Raghdalin and Jamail.
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NEW: Local officials say 17 dead and dozens wounded
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NEW: NTC leaders urge unity and "self-restraint"
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Fights have raged between rival groups since the Gadhafi regime was toppled last year
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People from the largely Berber town of Zuwara are clashing with residents of Arab towns

Question: The latest hostilities started when @placeholder fighters were among a group of more than 60 who were driving back home recently from the Tunisian border where they were posted, Sufyan said.


In what could be considered the ultimate in wearable technology, a biohacker has inserted a computer under his skin. The biometric sensor is fitted into German-based Tim Cannon’s forearm - between his skin and tissue - and tracks changes in his body’s temperature. This sensor can connect wirelessly to any Android device, produce readouts of the temperature changes and send Cannon a text message if he’s suffering from a fever, for example. Scroll down for video German-based biohacker Tim Cannon fitted the biometric sensor, pictured, under the skin on his forearm. It connects by Bluetooth to an Android tablet. The sensor tracks changes in his body's temperature. If the temperature reaches a certain level, a text message is sent warning him of a fever
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Hacker Tim Cannon inserted the chip to track changes in his temperature
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He fitted the Circadia 1.0 biometric sensor under the skin of his forearm
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The sensor links with an Android device and can even send text messages
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Would-be hackers will soon be able to buy the sensor for $500 (£313)

Question: @placeholder is protected inside a protective case and has a battery that can be charged wirelessly.


Los Angeles (CNN) -- The 1997 murder of Christopher Wallace, the rapper also known as The Notorious B.I.G. and Biggie Smalls, remains an unsolved crime despite Los Angeles police and FBI investigations that lasted for years. The FBI, which joined the case five years after the shooting, opened up its files this week by publishing hundreds of pages of investigation reports and notes from its probe on the agencies website. Readers get a behind-the-scenes look at the FBI and LAPD's work, but the documents are heavily redacted, hiding the names of sources, investigators and suspects. The drive-by shooting, in front of dozens of witnesses who were leaving a music industry party in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997, spurred several conspiracy theories, but no arrests.
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Hundreds of pages from the FBI files are available on the FBI website
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The documents are heavily redacted, hiding names
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The FBI investigated suspicions a rogue LAPD officer was involved
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The rapper was gunned down in Los Angeles in 1997

Question: The agent notes in one report that he would not contact a certain source "because he/she is one of the main witnesses" in the civil suit against the @placeholder.


(CNN) -- Steven Spielberg and Ridley Scott. John Goodman and Kevin Spacey. "Doonesbury" cartoonist Garry Trudeau and "Robot Chicken" creator Seth Green. It's a diverse list of entertainers with a pile of Oscars, Emmys and Pulitzer Prizes between them, not to mention dozens of big-screen blockbusters and enduring fan favorites. But they, and a growing list of others, have something new in common. All are part of projects being developed and released by tech companies known more for making products that deliver entertainment than producing the entertainment themselves. Microsoft is the most recent tech titan to confirm such plans. This week, the computing giant unveiled Xbox Originals, a dozen original television series, from documentaries to sci-fi epics, that will be available exclusively on its gaming consoles and other Microsoft devices.
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Microsoft announces Xbox Originals, a slate of original TV series
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The move is part of a tech trend toward producing original streaming content
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Yahoo also announces two comedy series this week
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Netflix led the way with shows like Emmy-winning "House of Cards"

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By Ellie Zolfagharifard and Press Association Sony is going head to head with Microsoft after it announced that its $99 (£60) Playstation TV will be released in the U.S., Canada and Europe this autumn Sony is going head-to-head with Microsoft after it announced its $99 PlayStation TV. The tiny streaming box, launched last year as PS Vita TV in Japan, will let users play games on a TV that is not connected to a console. It will be released in the U.S., Canada and Europe this autumn, but local prices have not been announced. It follows the release of Microsoft's next-generation console, the £400 ($500) Xbox One - described as an 'all-in-one entertainment system for a new generation.'
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Announcement was made at E3 video game convention in Los Angeles
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It lets users play games on any TV, even if it's not connected to a console
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The streaming box will also show a range of television shows and films
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It follows release of Microsoft Xbox One entertainment system last year
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Sony plans to create its own shows that will be exclusive to the PS TV
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First of these shows, called Powers, will appear at the end of the year
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The box was originally launched in Japan and will go on sale in the U.S., Europe and Canada later this year

Question: This will allow PS4 owners in the living room to continue playing a game on a @placeholder TV system in their bedroom.


Spielberg, Austria (CNN) -- Inside the Red Bull Ring -- home to the returning Austrian Grand Prix -- Mercedes toreadors Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton were effectively left to slog it out by their peers in Sunday's race. Hamilton flew from ninth to fourth by the end of the first lap to once again put himself into a fight with his teammate and chief world title rival. The two Mercedes circled each other like silver sharks in the final 20 laps around the undulating circuit but each time Hamilton bit into Rosberg's lead, the German responded. There was to be no final attack and Rosberg took a third win of the season to stretch his lead in the 2014 Formula One drivers' championship to 29 points.
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Nico Rosberg extends world championship lead with victory in Austria
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Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton finishes second as both nurse cars home
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Williams team claims third and fourth with Valtteri Bottas and polesitter Felipe Massa
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Red Bull struggles on rebuilt home circuit, hosting F1 race for first time since 2003

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