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Define Britishness? It's like painting wind

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:24
Define Britishness? It's like painting wind
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2 French journalists who escaped Syria return home

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:24
VILLACOUBLAY, France (AP) -- Two French journalists smuggled out of a war-torn Syrian city where they were trapped for nine days returned home Friday, one injured and carried from the plane on a stretcher, the other smiling broadly and punching his fist in the air....

A Point of View: The language of ties

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:24
The decision to wear a tie can be a sartorial minefield for politicians and the public alike, says historian David Cannadine.
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Can you build a human body?

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:24
How machinery is replacing body parts
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VIDEO: Edith Bouvier returns to France

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:24
Two French journalists who were caught up in shelling and smuggled out of Homs into Lebanon have been flown back to a military airport outside Paris.
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Oil boom and a kidnapping alter Montana town

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:24
SIDNEY, Mont. (AP) -- Sidney isn't the first small town in the West to get run over by a gold rush, in this case black gold - more than 16 million barrels of crude being pumped every month from the massive Bakken oil field beneath eastern Montana and western North Dakota....
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Red Cross convoy stopped in Homs

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:24
The ICRC says Syria has refused to allow a humanitarian convoy to enter the bombarded Baba Amr district of Homs, a move it calls "unacceptable".
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Spelman's son 'took sports drugs'

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:24
The Environment Secretary's son is not appealing against a High Court decision to lift a privacy injunction about his use of banned substances following a sports injury.
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What is hate? Rutgers webcam case rekindles debate

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:24
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- A week before Dharun Ravi was sentenced to jail for using a webcam to spy on a gay college roommate who later killed himself, supporters rallied in his support, arguing that New Jersey laws should be changed so that someone in his situation could not be found guilty of a hate crime....
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Obama to address economy in political important NC

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama will travel to Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday to speak about the economy....

Spain to extradite Egypt tycoon

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:24
Spain's National Court orders the extradition to Egypt of Hussein Salem, a close associate of former President Hosni Mubarak.
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NHS apology in donor cancer case

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:24
The body which oversees organ donation apologises to two patients from Merseyside who developed a rare blood cancer after kidney transplants.
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In interview, Obama says he's not bluffing on Iran

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama warned that he is not bluffing about attacking Iran if it builds a nuclear weapon, but in an interview published Friday, Obama also cautioned U.S. ally Israel that a premature attack on Iran would do more harm than good....

In interview, Obama says he's not bluffing on Iran

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama warned that he is not bluffing about attacking Iran if it builds a nuclear weapon, but in an interview published Friday, Obama also cautioned U.S. ally Israel that a premature attack on Iran would do more harm than good....
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In interview, Obama says he's not bluffing on Iran

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama warned that he is not bluffing about attacking Iran if it builds a nuclear weapon, but in an interview published Friday, Obama also cautioned U.S. ally Israel that a premature attack on Iran would do more harm than good....

Report shines rare light on Somali gov't finances

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:24
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- While tens of thousands of its citizens were dying from famine, the U.N.-backed Somali government spent only $1 million on social services despite having $58 million in revenue, according to a report by a former Somali government official....

Dahmer hunting grounds tour stirs backlash in Wis.

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:24
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A planned walking tour providing a peek into serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's life and the Milwaukee haunts where he met and stalked his victims is drawing protests, even prompting online deal-maker Groupon to cancel what some called a creepy promotion....
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Mystery witness in US webcam case

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:24
A man allegedly secretly filmed kissing a US university student, days before he killed himself, tells a court he noticed a webcam in the dorm room.
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Vote for me, I know nothing

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:24
In the public imagination, knowledge is associated with wisdom. But in his regular column, Michael Blastland asks if ignorance is the new clever.
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Game company breaks from Facebook

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:24
Zynga, the company behind Facebook game CityVille, is launching its own gaming service so users don't have to play through the social network.
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