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Last.fm suffers password breach

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-19 18:03
Music website Last.fm has notified users of a password leak, just a day after a similar breach on social network LinkedIn.
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Rescues as 60mph gales sweep in

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-19 18:03
A woman and two children are "lucky to be alive" after a huge tree crushes their car as gale-force winds batter the South West.
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Sharapova wins to book final spot

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-19 18:03
Maria Sharapova secures a place in her first French Open final and moves up to world number one with victory over Petra Kvitova.
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From floor-scrubber to Harvard-bound

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2025-05-19 18:03
Dawn Loggins, 18, abandoned by her drug-abusing parents, became homeless last summer. Yet she worked hard her senior year -- both as a student and as a janitor. Now she's Harvard-bound.
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Opinion: Return 'blood antiquities'?

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2025-05-19 18:03
Mark Vlasic and Tess Davis say NY's Met museum and Sotheby's hold ancient figures believed looted during civil war. Why would anyone want to keep stolen art?
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UK ministers to boycott Euro 2012

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-19 18:03
UK government ministers are to boycott England's three group games at Euro 2012 over Ukraine's human rights record.
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Stamp duty to change in Scotland

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-19 18:03
The Scottish government wants to change stamp duty on house and land purchases from a percentage charge to a progressive tax.
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Pitfalls, promise for Obama and Romney in Nevada

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 18:03
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Nevada is up for grabs in President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney's general election battle....

THE RACE: Obama, Romney grapple with euro crisis

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 18:03
President Barack Obama is out of the country for a few days but hardly off the campaign trail....

THE RACE: Obama, Romney busy laying groundwork

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 18:03
Both presidential candidates are tending to essentials at this stage in their campaigns....

Europe's relief from Greek vote likely fleeting

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 18:03
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's election result has eased fears of imminent financial disaster for Europe, but the continent's leaders are still searching for a way to contain a debt crisis that threatens the global economy....

Merkel urges gradual political union in Europe

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 18:03
BERLIN (AP) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for Europe to take a gradual path towards political union, frustrating the appeals of many of her colleagues for quick, bold moves to fight the continent's raging financial crisis....

Merkel urges gradual political union in Europe

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 18:03
BERLIN (AP) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for Europe to take a gradual path towards political union, frustrating the appeals of many of her colleagues for quick, bold moves to fight the continent's raging financial crisis....

Merkel urges gradual political union in Europe

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 18:03
BERLIN (AP) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for Europe to take a gradual path towards political union, frustrating the appeals of many of her colleagues for quick, bold moves to fight the continent's raging financial crisis....

Merkel urges gradual political union in Europe

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 18:03
BERLIN (AP) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for Europe to take a gradual path towards political union, frustrating the appeals of many of her colleagues for quick, bold moves to fight the continent's raging financial crisis....

Officials worry about creatures on tsunami dock

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 18:03
When the tsunami hit the northern coast of Japan last year, the waves ripped four dock floats the size of freight train boxcars from their pilings in the fishing port of Misawa and turned them over to the whims of wind and currents....
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Officials worry about creatures on tsunami dock

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 18:03
When the tsunami hit the northern coast of Japan last year, the waves ripped four dock floats the size of freight train boxcars from their pilings in the fishing port of Misawa and turned them over to the whims of wind and currents....
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Lauryn Hill charged over taxes

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-19 18:03
US prosecutors say the singer owes £1.3m after failing to file income tax returns.
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