Friday's Top 100 World News & Stories
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As Ukrainian separatists and Kiev deny shooting down Malaysia Airlines jet, Russia claims "activity" at Ukrainian military missile site
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Morning after Israeli troops move in and missiles hammer tiny Palestinian territory, Gaza is a ghost town, but Israel says it's mainly targeting "terror tunnels"
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Same company that 8 million people logged on to when Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 fell off the radar is now putting its efforts toward Flight 17
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Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine -- prime suspects in downing of jet carrying almost 300 -- are controlling access to crash site
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Lasers, lights and luxury -- it's not easy keeping a 500 kg sports star in shape.
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Messages of shock and grief have been flooding social media, sent by the friends and relatives of passengers on board Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, shot down on Thursday over Ukraine.
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The downing of the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 was seen as adding impetus to calls for tighter sanctions against Russia over its role in Ukraine.
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Accident waiting to happen for jet flying over eastern Ukraine?
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NEW: Pro-Russian separatists fired missile - U.S. intelligence Ukrainian PM demands justice against "terrorists" responsible Putin points finger back at Ukraine 298 passengers and crew onboard, from all over the world
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Deadly clashes broke out after Israeli tanks drove into Gaza and launched a ground operation that escalates the conflict with Hamas.
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Newly released 3-D images of two mummified baby mammoths provide a window into the lives of creatures that roamed Siberia 40,000 years ago.
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Questions swirled over the custody and condition of the critical onboard devices that could answer questions about the fate of the Malaysian flight.
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"We were not able to evacuate all the patients," hospital's director says.
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Photographer Adrian Steirn and his team have spent the last six years photographing South African personalities. Finally completed, the exhibition of their work has opened in Jo'berg to rave reviews.
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Australian loses family in both Malaysian flight disasters; 'it's ... ripped our guts again'
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China’s top broadcast regulator has instructed Internet TV providers to remove any programming they are not authorized to broadcast, in what analysts see as the latest step for greater control of online media.
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For most of the day, Jason Biggs wasn't letting the Twitterverse judge whether his sarcastic quip about the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash was funny.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Broadway marquees will be dimmed in memory of a Tony- and Emmy-winning actress who epitomized New York and the theater world.
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MELBOURNE/LONDON (Reuters) - The world of AIDS research was in a state of shock on Friday after dozens of leading experts in the field were feared killed when a Malaysian plane was shot down over Ukraine, dealing a blow to hopes of curin...
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The Israeli prime minister said the ground assault could expand “significantly,” as at least 20 Palestinians were said to have been killed, and one Israeli soldier.
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing restrictions that would essentially block development of a massive gold-and-copper prospect near the headwaters of a world-premier salmon fishery in Alaska.
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BERLIN (AP) — German artist Otto Piene, known for his colorful paintings and gigantic open-air sculptures, has died at age 86.
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KIEV, Ukraine — Pro-Russian separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine pledged safe access Friday for investigators seeking to enter the crash zone of a downed Malaysia Airlines jet, international monitors in the region said, but the Ukrain...
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Ex-general alleges massive vote fraud may cost him victory in Indonesian presidential election
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A wildfire burned into the outskirts of a small town along the Columbia River late Thursday, prompting urgent warnings to residents to flee.
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JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that he has ordered Israel’s military to prepare for “a substantive broadening” of its ground offensive into the Gaza Strip, declaring that tunnels built by Hamas could no...
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A super typhoon slammed into China on Friday killing one person, as the government ordered an all-out effort to prevent loss of life from a storm that has already killed at least 64 people in the Philippines.
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HRABOVE Ukraine (Reuters) - World leaders demanded an international investigation into the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner with 298 people on board over eastern Ukraine in a tragedy that could mark a pivotal moment in the worst cri...
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Israel said it would target tunnels that could infiltrate its territory after cease-fire talks failed to de-escalate the air war that had raged for 10 days.
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Israel’s military is prepared for a 'significant expansion' of its ground offensive into Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today, as troops pushed deeper into Gaza to destroy rocket launching sites and tunnels.
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MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian appeals court on Friday overturned Silvio Berlusconi's conviction on charges of abuse of office and paying for sex with a minor, in a significant legal victory for the former prime minister.
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The fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 raises questions over whether planes should have been flying over war-torn Ukraine.
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As experts warn we are heading to a "post-antibiotic age," what diseases do we have to fear?
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MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian appeals court on Friday overturned Silvio Berlusconi's conviction on charges of abuse of office and paying for sex with a minor, in a significant legal victory for the former prime minister.
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Working with a qualified financial professional can help take the burden off you to figure it all out.
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Ever feel like US news shows are a more of hotbed for wild, gaffe-filled drama than a place where you get information? Well, guess what: it's not just an American thing. The yelling, hitting, falling, misspeaking, and abrupt exits happen...
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GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel stepped up its land offensive in Gaza with artillery, tanks and gunboats on Friday and declared it could "significantly widen" an operation Palestinian officials said was killing ever greater numbers of ...
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A tourism boom means Iran's capital is running out of hotels.
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U.S. officials say Flight MH17 was shot down, but in violent, war-torn Ukraine, investigators will have a hard job determining that for sure.
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First there was the Google driverless car. Now there's the Rolls-Royce "robo-ship." Are unmanned cargo vessels the future of seafaring -- or will it be the beginning of the end for one of the world's oldest professions?
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Latest financial results and board room changes at some of tech’s top companies are moving stocks.
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Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine agreed Friday to allow investigators access to the scattered crash site of a Malaysian airliner that was shot down, killing all 298 aboard.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai faced repeated questions Friday about whether the route that Malaysia Airlines chose to fly over rebel-controlled areas of Ukraine was safe. Read full article >>
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French president Hollande visits Niger on 3-nation tour of Africa focused on troop reshuffle
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Catering to contemporary sippers who seek a more complex, agave-forward tequila, Patron offers Roca Silver, Reposado and Anejo.
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Israeli campaign in Gaza could 'significantly widen' Israel stepped up its land offensive in Gaza with artillery, tanks and gunboats on Friday and declared it could "significantly widen" an operation Palestinian officials said was killin...
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SYDNEY (AP) — In an almost incomprehensible twist of fate, an Australian woman who lost her brother in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 learned on Friday that her stepdaughter was on the plane shot down over Ukraine. Kay...
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Safe-haven benefits for gold prove short-lived, and one analyst expects it will move back below $1,300 an ounce.
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Waves could reach up to 43-feet high in northern parts of the South China Sea. Around 30,000 people were evacuated from low-lying coastal areas.
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'Elements' of the so-called 'Trojan Horse' plan to seize control of governing boards were present in 13 schools, the report by Birmingham City Council found.
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A Malaysian Airlines passenger plane has been shot down on the Russian-Ukraine border in an 'act of terrorism', killing all 298 people on board including 28 Australians.
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The former Italian premier, 77, had been sentenced to seven years for his involvement with Karima-El Mahroug when she was 17, but judges have overturned the conviction.
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The two cleaners thought the body was just a Halloween hoax - until landfill workers in the Tampa Bay area realized it was actually a human body.
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An expert believes that MH17 was downed by a missile fired from Toez in eastern Ukraine - and a BUK launcher has been pictured rumbling into the town.
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The Scotland Yard experts will join a Dutch-led emergency team after a request from the country's prime minister Mark Rutte. A separate team of air-accident investigators have been put on standby to help an international investigation in...
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The World Wide Web has long been a haven for numerologists and conspiracy crackpots peddling alternative analyses of the events that shake the world.
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Four of the nine British victims on board flight MH17 including Richard Mayne, pictured, have been named. The others are Newcastle fans John Alder and Liam Sweeney and Glenn Thomas from Blackpool
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A federal grand jury indicted FedEx on 15 counts, accusing it of conspiring with two illegal online pharmacies.
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Flight MH17, a Boeing 777-200 aircraft, exploded into flames at 33,000ft as it was hit by a surface-to-air missile over territory near Donetsk held by pro-Russian rebels.
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Glenn Thomas, 49, pictured, was among the 298 killed when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a surface-to-air missile yesterday. Mr Thomas was a World Health Organisation media relations officer from Blackpool.
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Sgt. Eitan Barak, 20, from Herzliya, was killed deep behind enemy lines as hundreds of Israeli troops and tanks rolled into Gaza City, backed by a massive air assault that pummeled the Palestinian metropolis.
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Marlene Pinnock, the 51-year-old woman seen on video being viciously beaten by a California Highway Patrol officer alongside a Los Angeles freeway on July 1, has filed a civil rights lawsuit.
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TV personality Samantha Armytage took to Twitter on Friday evening to post a personal and heartfelt tribute to one of the Australian victims of MH17.
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Queensland woman Kaylene Mann who lost her brother Rod Burrows and his wife Mary (pictured) when MH370 disappeared has been struck by tragedy again.
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Fears that Americans were aboard doomed Malaysia Airlines flight 71 lingered into Thursday evening as the nationalities of 41 of the 298 dead remained unverified.
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Catholic nun Sister Philomene Tiernan, from Sydney, was among the 28 Australians on board flight MH17 when it was shot out of the sky in a terrorist attack.
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A former Kingston University student began the clear-up in 2011 and it has become an annual event but the volunteers pulled one ton more this year than the same stretch of water last year.
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Malaysian man Md Ali Md Salim, 30, reportedly posted footage of the plane's routine pre-departure process on Instagram on July 17 before the plane crashed near the Russian-Ukraine border.
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Luke Potter, from Hanley, has been given a three-year community order with supervision after using women's photos so he could pose as a lesbian on dating websites. The 20-year-old was already subject to a sex offenders order.
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An extreme cold snap has seen a white blanket of snow dusting over parts of Victoria and NSW and causing chaos in the process.
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A 5-year-old girl was found wandering the streets alone after she was dropped off at her Brownsover, Rugby, school when it was closed on strike last Thursday.
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Prince William spoke of his sadness at an event at Australia House in London to remember British explorer Captain Matthew Flinders.
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Nikola Bradford, of Leigh, Lancashire, had problems with Nurofen which began following a bad breakup in 2005 and after she fell down stairs in 2010. But an inquest heard why she took a cocktail of illicit drugs that led to her death, rem...
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Bulgaria's Ombudsman Konstantin Penchev said he received plenty of complaints from people whose salaries were blocked in the troubled Corporate Commercial Bank (KTB). “I can't help them,” Penchev told the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR)....
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The gruesome discoveries emerged on Thursday after authorities spent months investigating Massachusetts funeral home director Joseph O’Donnell (pictured).
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The rare and valuable vehicle was supposed to ferry the Prince around after he arrived in the city for a key World Wildlife Fund meeting in 2001.
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Lightning struck more than 3,000 times last night as thunderstorms hit nearly the whole of the UK ahead of what forecasters say will be the hottest day of the year today
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Dolores Aveiro tried drinking warm beer and running until she dropped when she was pregnant with Christiano Ronaldo after doctors refused to help her abort the pregnancy. She made the revelation in a biography released today.
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The 17-year-old victim from New Mexico told police in Las Cruces that her mother, Magdo Haro, 40, forced her to undress to check she was a woman and then coerced her into performing lewd acts on herself.
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Giuseppe Sperlinga, 62, who lives in Belgium and is the boss of Grand Prix Racewear (GPR), was jailed for 15 years at Canterbury Crown Court today for drug smuggling.
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It's an astonishing twist of fate - a Malaysian air steward is dead after swapping himself onto flight MH17, months after his wife, who is also a steward, saved her own life by swapping herself off the missing Malaysian Airlines flight M...
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The Berkshire home where Sir Edward Elgar composed some of his finest pieces has been put up for sale for £2.25 million.
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The priest of a quiet village in northern Italy has been arrested on suspicion of dealing drugs.
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A candlelight vigil has been held in Melbourne in honour of the world's leading experts in the battle against HIV who were killed while travelling on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 en route to an AIDS conference in the city.
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The rescue of the small pup in Multnomah County, Oregon, was captured on video, which showed the moment the owner burst into tears after he was told Bear could have died sitting in the 100-degree car.
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Harry Jones, 20, was found dead on the sofa of drug dealer Sharon Nuttall’s home in Blackpool, Lancashire, after spending the night babysitting her two young children.
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In what is viewed as an attack on democracy, Socialist Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said mass demonstrations planned for the weekend should be halted.
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About 650 people fled the small community of Pateros. A hospital in nearby Brewster was also evacuated as firefighters struggled to slow blaze.
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State General Reserve Fund of the Sultanate of Oman, one of Corporate Commercial Bank (KTB) shareholders, is free to take steps to save it, Bulgaria's Finance Minister announced. Minister Petar Chobanov explained in an official statement...
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The two unidentified men were five stories above an Olympia, Washington street when their window washing platform began to malfunction. One of the workers was bleeding from the head when firefighters arrived.
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The downing of a Malaysian airliner over eastern Ukraine could be a turning point for the Ukraine crisis, if it convinces reluctant Europeans to get behind tougher sanctions long sought by the US.
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Courts will have the power to issue the U.S.-style electronic tags, which record the wearer’s alcohol intake by measuring sweat every 30 minutes.
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Grant Hackett says Ian Thorpe did not meet his full potential as a swimmer, because he was forced to retire due to the 'unbearable' secret of his sexuality.
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A woman whose brother went missing on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has lost her stepdaughter in the Ukraine plane crash.
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Three Perth children and their doting grandfather Nick Norris, 67, were returning to Australia from a holiday of a lifetime in Europe when their flight, MH17, was shot down on the Russian-Ukraine border.
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The allegations, which the Pakistani High Commission labelled as 'sketchy', were revealed in a list of 14 'serious and significant' crimes allegedly carried out by diplomatic staff in Britain this year.
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US criticises Russia for arming rebels Airlines change flight paths to avoid Ukraine Newcastle United fans among nine British victims US officials say surface-to-air missile caused crash Ukrainian, Russian and rebel leaders deny involvem...
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Ms Lowry was one of 54 finalists in the portrait competition who was finally chosen for the $75,000 prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
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President Putin calls for a ceasefire in the Ukraine conflict after 298 people, including nine Britons, are killed in a jet crash.
