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Just act natural! Woman caught behind on-camera reporter awkwardly freezes in panic before making ditch to the floor - Perhaps it would have been best if she had known to act natural but then there wouldn't be such an awkwardly funny video.Responding like a deer in headlights after catching herself mistakenly on air, a woman at a University of Florida TV station froze for nearly 10 seconds

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Argentina train crash in Buenos Aires kills 49 - At least 49 people have been killed and more than 600 injured in the worst train crash in Argentina in 40 years, officials say.The train hit the end of the platform at Once station in the capital Buenos Aires during the morning rush hour.The BBC's Vladimir Hernandez: "This is one of the busiest parts of the rail system""We assume that there was

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Real or fake? “White people stole my car” is big on Google - For the past week, the phrase “white people stole my car” has been Googled like crazy.Perplexingly, though, there were few results yielded by this popular search and most links lead to some fairly nasty malware. Finally, the above screenshot surfaced, which seems to at least solve the mystery of why the phrase was so popular on Google.

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Crocodile swallows Indonesian girl - A wild crocodile swallowed a 10-year-old girl while she played in a river with her father in eastern Indonesia, the second death in the same place in two months, a local official said Friday.The girl was swimming in Wailolong river on Thursday when the large crocodile suddenly appeared, swallowed her instantly and disappeared into the water, said Viktor Mado

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Indian teacher stunned by $10bln bank balance - An Indian high school teacher, with a monthly salary of around $700, was astounded when a routine online check of his bank account showed a balance of almost $10 billion.Parijat Saha, from the town of Balurghat in West Bengal state, said he had checked his State Bank of India account online last Sunday to confirm reception of a 10,000 rupee ($200)

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Indonesia Islamists protest over alcohol - Hundreds of radical Muslims attacked the offices of Indonesia's home affairs ministry on Thursday to demand the government maintain by-laws banning alcohol in certain districts, reports said.Around 500 protesters, including members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), hurled rocks and eggs at the office complex in Jakarta to reject a proposal to revoke

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Few part-timers, but more are working multiple jobs - ... Hooray! There are fewer of you working part time. .... Boo! More of you are working multiple jobs. The job market continues to be a mixed bag for millions of workers across the country.On a positive note, when workers are able to clock in more than 35 hours a week after being forced to take fewer hours because of the tough economy, that’s

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Muslims clash with China police who destroyed mosque - Hundreds of Muslims fought with armed police who demolished a mosque in north China, local police and a human rights group said on Monday, with several people injured in the "riot".The violence between local Muslims and roughly 1,000 armed police began after police declared illegal a newly renovated mosque in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

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Chinese Muslims clash with police over mosque - Hundreds of Muslims in a northwestern China village trying to prevent the demolition of their mosque clashed with police, causing several deaths, Hong Kong media and residents said on Tuesday.Fighting between police and members of the largely Muslim Hui ethnic group broke out on Friday in Ningxia region, adjacent to Inner Mongolia province, after

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Muslims skip NYC mayor's event to protest spying — Some religious leaders attending Mayor Michael Bloomberg's interfaith breakfast Friday expressed solidarity with Muslims upset about police department surveillance in their communities while more than a dozen leaders boycotted the yearly gathering that is meant to be a showcase of tolerance."I wouldn't like it to happen to my house of worship,"

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Scots woman gives birth to UK's biggest baby girl - Petite mum is just 5ft 2in - A Scots woman has given birth to what is thought to be the UK's biggest ever baby girl. Farrah Gallagher weighed 12lb 9oz when she was born - nearly twice the average weight of newborn girls in the UK. Proud parents Karen and Robert Gallagher said their daughter's size had been something of a surprise to them,

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NYPD shadows Muslims who change names — Muslims who change their names to sound more traditionally American, as immigrants have done for generations, or who adopt Arabic names as a sign of their faith are often investigated and catalogued in secret New York Police Department intelligence files, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. The NYPD monitors everyone in the city who

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Feng Shui Guru Is Denied Appeal in Hong Kong — Hong Kong's highest court on Monday rejected an application by feng-shui adviser Tony Chan to hear his appeal against a ruling that denied him the multibillion dollar estate of late businesswoman Nina Wang, who he claims was a longtime lover. The decision by the Court of Final Appeal thwarts any hope for the 51-year old to overturn decisions made in

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Chinese toddler left bloody in hit-and-run dies — A toddler who was twice run over by vans and then ignored by passers-by on a busy market street died Friday a week after the accident and after days of bitter soul-searching over declining morality in China. The Guangzhou Military District General Hospital said that the 2-year-old girl, Wang Yue, died shortly after midnight of brain and organ

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Taiwan professor accused of spying for China — A Taiwanese political science professor was detained Friday for allegedly providing Beijing data on visiting Chinese activists by tapping into police computers, a prosecutor and media reports said. Wu Chang-yu of Central Police University was detained pending the filing of formal charges, prosecutor Huang Mou-hsin said without elaborating. The

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Twin Terror Attacks in Norway Kill at Least 87 - Police now say 80 people were killed during shooting at youth camp; 7 more in Oslo bombing. UPDATE NO. 48/11:10 p.m.: Police have IDed the gunman as Anders Behring Breivik, a Norwegian man they characterized as a right-wing domestic extremist with no ties to jihadi terror groups, the New York Times reports. UPDATE NO. 47/10:26 p.m.: Norwegian

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New Australian law to make Muslims lift veils — Muslim women would have to remove veils and show their faces to police on request or risk a prison sentence under proposed new laws in Australia's most populous state that have drawn criticism as culturally insensitive. A vigorous debate that the proposal has triggered reflects the cultural clashes being ignited by the growing influx of Muslim

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US government threatens to arrest US flotilla participants - As 38 US citizens prepare to join hundreds of others from around the world on a humanitarian aid mission to the Gaza Strip, the US State Department issued a statement that their participation in the ‘Freedom Flotilla’ of aid ships could be a violation of US law, and threatened to arrest those participating. The statement by the US

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Don't look now: Website for 'beautiful people' hit by virus that allowed ugly applicants to sign up - A social networking site for 'beautiful' people has been hit by a Shrek virus which allowed tens of thousands of ugly applicants to sign up. Members of BeautifulPeople.com must pass a strict rating stage where existing users vote on whether someone is attractive enough to be accepted into

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Residents wait, watch rising waters of the Missouri - The talk around town here these days isn't so much about bushels of corn per acre. It's about cubic feet of water. After weeks of worrying about the rising Missouri River, people are fluent in the language of flood and names like Oahe, Fort Randall and Gavins Point. Those are the dams that control what happens here and downstream along the

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Libya says NATO airstrike kills 15 west of capital — Libya's government said a NATO airstrike early Monday on a large family compound belonging to a close associate of Moammar Gadhafi has killed at least 15 people, including three children, west of Tripoli. A NATO official in Naples, Italy, said the alliance has not conducted any strikes in that area in the past 24 hours. The official spoke on

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Wife of jailed China dissident 'detained' — Angelina Jolie traveled to the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa on Sunday and thanked its residents for welcoming in the estimated 20,000 migrants who arrived after fleeing unrest in Tunisia and Libya. Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, toured a migrant holding center, chatted with some refugees and then

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Jolie visits refugees who fled Libya, Tunisia — Angelina Jolie traveled to the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa on Sunday to thank its residents for welcoming in the estimated 20,000 migrants who arrived after fleeing unrest in Tunisia and Libya. Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, toured a migrant holding center, chatted with some refugees and then

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America plans full-scale invasion of Libya - The news website infowars.com owned by a popular American TV presenter Alex Jones, has received alarming reports from the military stationed at Ft. Hood, Texas, confirming the plans by Obama’s terrorist government to initiate a full-scale American-led ground invasion in Libya. The invasion is presumably to start this October, after the deployment of

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Same-sex marriage goes down to legislative wire in New York - Supporters and opponents of gay marriage made 11th-hour appeals on Sunday as state lawmakers weighed a vote on making New York the sixth state -- and the most populous -- to legalize same-sex marriage. The measure that would make gay marriage legal, introduced by Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat and strong advocate, is currently one

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Trapped between Two Walls - A five-year-old boy found himself stuck between a rock and a hard place - literally - when he became trapped between two walls only 20 centimetres wide in northern China. Xiao Yu was playing between the gap of two walls, which were narrower at one end, on Saturday when he became stuck between them in the Jiajie village of Taiyuan City in Shanxi Province, the

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No Strong Commitment from Govt to Protect Indonesian Workers? -- The Indonesian government must have a firm attitude towards the Saudi authority’s decision over Ruyati, a domestic helper who was executed on Saturday on charges of murder, a legal observer said. Professor of international law of the University of Indonesia, Hikmahanto Juwana, said here on Sunday that the government needed to take

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Saudi Beheads Indonesian Woman Convicted of Murder - - An Indonesian woman was beheaded by the sword on Saturday after being convicted of murdering a Saudi woman, the interior ministry said. The woman named Roiaiti Beth Sabotti Sarona, according to a transliteration from Arabic, was found guilty of killing Saudi Khairiya bint Hamid Mijlid by striking her repeatedly on the head with a meat

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Nato bomb 'kills nine Libyan civilians' as stray air strike is blamed on 'system failure' - A Nato air strike hit a civilian house in Tripoli and killed nine residents, the Libyan regime said yesterday. Nato admitted on Sunday that its weapons destroyed a house in Tripoli in an incident likely to sow new doubts inside the alliance about its mission in Libya. The strike on the house was the

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Bin Laden deputy Zawahri to lead al Qaeda - Al Qaeda's long-serving number two, Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahri, has taken over the leadership after the killing of Osama bin Laden, the group said on Islamist websites on Thursday. Bin Laden's lieutenant and the brains behind much of al Qaeda's strategy, Zawahri vowed this month to press ahead with its campaign against the United States and its allies.

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Famous hacker attacks - Hackers Lulz Security have launched an attack on the CIA website after targeting Sony and PBS. Here are some other audacious hacking attacks: 1. In 1990 teenager Kevin Poulsen hacked the phone lines of the Kiss FM radio station in Los Angeles to become the 102nd winning caller on the station’s “Win a Porsche By Friday” contest. He also allegedly used his hacking skills to

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