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Do we really want to talk to strangers?

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:26
A new site allows users to video chat with strangers. But do we really want to talk to people we don't know, asks Sophie Robehmed.
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Family escapes injury in arson

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:26
A couple and their baby escape injury after a bin was set on fire at the back door of their home in east Belfast.
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Lauryn Hill defends tax charges

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:26
Former Fugees singer Lauryn Hill says she failed to file income tax returns in the US for three years as she had gone "underground".
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England band stopped from playing

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:26
The England Supporters Band was unable to play at the Euro 2012 match against France after its instruments were confiscated.
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Surprise fall in factory output

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:26
There was a surprise fall in UK manufacturing output in April, official data from the Office for National Statistics show.
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Afghan earthquakes 'killed 80'

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:26
More than 80 people are believed to have been killed in a landslide triggered by two quakes in northern Afghanistan on Monday, officials say.
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Hague in Pakistan stability talks

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:26
Foreign secretary William Hague arrives in Pakistan for discussions on how to stabilise the region.
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AU summit is moved to Ethiopia

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:26
The African Union moves its next summit to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, after Malawi refused to let Sudan's Omar al-Bashir attend.
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VIDEO: Colorado wildfire 'moving fast'

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:26
A fast-moving wildfire near Fort Collins in the US state of Colorado has scorched nearly 37,000 acres (14,973 hectares) of land, officials say.
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Cops leave home after search for Auburn suspect

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:26
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Authorities in Montgomery left a home early Tuesday where they believed the man charged with fatally shooting three people near Auburn University might have been hiding....
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Cops leave home after search for Auburn suspect

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:26
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Authorities in Montgomery left a home early Tuesday where they believed the man charged with fatally shooting three people near Auburn University might have been hiding....
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Planning Google Search's future

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:26
Boss of Google Search on how to make it more intelligent
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U.S. to sue Florida over voter rolls purge

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:26
The Justice Department is challenging the legality of the state's plan to remove names from voter rolls months before the 2012 presidential election.
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Crying teen: Sandusky put mouth on me

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:26
The man whose accusations of sexual abuse helped trigger a criminal investigation, upending the storied Penn State football program, said Tuesday that he stayed at Jerry Sandusky's house more than 100 times as a boy, where the former assistant football coach repeatedly sexually abused him.
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Gorillas use 'baby talk' gestures

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:26
Gorilla mothers use "baby talk" signals and gestures when they play with infants, according to scientists.
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Ethnic strife continues in western Myanmar city

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:26
SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) -- Gunshots rang out and residents fled blazing homes in western Myanmar Tuesday as security forces struggled to contain deadly ethnic and religious violence that has killed at least a dozen people and displaced thousands more....

The myth of a shareholder spring

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:26
The myth of a shareholder spring
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England can dominate - Richards

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:26
West Indies legend Sir Viv Richards says Andrew Strauss's England have all the ingredients to dominate Test cricket for years.
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River basins 'vital for growth'

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:26
The world's top river basin regions have a vital role in the future in terms of sustaining economic growth in the future, a report suggests.
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Russian opposition figures interrogated

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:26
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's top investigation agency has summoned several key opposition figures for questioning in an apparent bid to disrupt the first massive protest against President Vladimir Putin since his inauguration for a third term....
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