- Official says shells slam into school sheltering civilians, killing 15 Palestinians, amid Israel's most intense bombardment yet
- BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The European Union and the United States on Tuesday announced further sanctions against Russia, targeting its energy, banking and defense sectors in the strongest international action yet over Moscow's sup...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Reuters: World NewsGAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel killed at least 19 Palestinians sheltering in a school in Gaza's biggest refugee camp on Wednesday, a U.N. official said, as Egyptian mediators prepared a revised proposal to try to halt more than three ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — WellPoint's second-quarter profit fell 8.6 percent as expenses climbed.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from The Globe and Mail - World RSS feedThere were indications that unrest had spread by Wednesday to Kashgar, a popular tourist site especially during the summer
- Good morning! We're due for a wonderful day of weather here in New York — Sunny with a high of 82. Let's look at the news: Twitter delivered earnings that crushed expectations across the board. The stock went crazy after hours jump...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalSpain's prime minister meets Catalonia president ahead of effort for secession referendum
- LONDON (Reuters) - Two more senior journalists from Rupert Murdoch's defunct British tabloid the News of the World have been charged with phone-hacking, prosecutors said on Wednesday, weeks after the paper's ex-editor was jailed for the ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldTOKYO (AP) — Nintendo Co. sank to a worse-than-expected loss for the fiscal first quarter on lagging Wii U and 3DS video-game machine sales.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from The Business InsiderVladmir Putin's next move could be to block the transit of gas through Ukraine to Europe, write Morgan Stanley analysts. This could cause energy prices to spike in Putin's effort to retaliate against the world for imposing economic sanct...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalThai junta approves budget for rail upgrade, plans high-speed high links to China
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington PostKIEV, Ukraine — For a fourth day, the international team of investigators on Wednesday abandoned their effort to reach the Malaysia Airlines crash site in eastern Ukraine due to heavy fighting, and a Ukrainian official said the approache...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from CNN.comJames Shigeta, a prolific and pioneering Asian-American actor whose 50-year career includes the movies "Die Hard" and "Flower Drum Song," died in his sleep in Los Angeles on Monday, his agent said. He was 81.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesTwitter is shining in premarket, driving up Nasdaq-100 futures, as other stock futures rise ahead of data expected to show a rebound in economic growth, while a Fed decision looms.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from The Globe and Mail - World RSS feedRuptured water main unleashes 20-foot-tall geyser, stranding motorists and sending water surging down the stairs
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from CNN.comNineteen people are killed and 126 more injured as five shells strike a U.N. school at a refugee camp in northern Gaza, a U.N. official says.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from CNN.comIf you're wary of chicken and beef products after a major meat supply scandal in Asia, the McDonald's in Japan could have an alternative for you -- tofu and fish nuggets.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalHospital officials say 33 dead after stampede at rap concert on beach in Guinea's capital
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Reuters: World NewsISTANBUL (Reuters) - Hundreds of Turkish women posted pictures of themselves laughing on Twitter on Wednesday to protest against comments by Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc who had urged women not to laugh in public to "protect moral ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from NYT > WorldIt's no wonder we're the country of favelas, and houses of cardboard and tin.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from CNN.comWhen Typhoon Rammasun swept through the South China Sea in July, a tiny ship was trapped in its path. The deadly storm whipped up waves over 10 meters high and winds approaching 200 miles per hour. Any regular boat would have been smashe...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from CNN.comWeeks of brutal Israeli strikes on the heavily-populated Gaza strip have seen a number of political actors come forward to present a cease-fire plan.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalOfficials: Pakistani troops foil militant attack on Afghan border post, kill 6 militants
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesComplaints about online pet med companies jump 60%.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesPolitical dynasties are at work in seven of the nine Senate seats considered to be toss-ups in this year’s election, Darrell Delamaide reports.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesA new map traces the jobs numbers of the last six presidents, from Carter to Obama.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from World - latimes.comMinutes after the barrel bomb eviscerated the crowded market, those still alive had to contend with matters of survival — and collecting what little remained of the dead.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from ABC News: International1 man killed, 5 injured in Germany 'Cold Water Challenge' goes awry, digger hits group
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesNew, tougher sanctions on Russia weigh on European stocks on Wednesday as investors analyze the potential consequences of the measures. Spanish stocks, however, outperform after better-than-expected growth data for the country.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from NYT > WorldPresident Paul Kagame must set the country on a path that leads to a democratic transition.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from World News & AnalysisFiat Chrysler reported a sharp fall in net profit as a better performance from its luxury brands failed to offset weakness in Latin America.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from The Business InsiderThe Bureau of Economic Analysis will release its first estimate of Q2 GDP at 8:30 a.m. ET. The average economist on Wall Street is looking for 3.0% growth , after the 2.9% drop in Q1. Citi, Barclays, Nomura, Goldman Sachs, and UBS are am...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Reuters: World NewsBEIJING (Reuters) - Two influential former Chinese leaders gave their consent for President Xi Jinping to investigate ex-domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang, sources told Reuters, a sign the corruption probe will not open a rift in the...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington PostGAZA CITY — Israel pressed ahead with its escalated campaign against the Gaza Strip Wednesday, slamming shells into a crowded U.N. school being used as a shelter for refugees in the conflict, killing at least 16 people and wounding dozen...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Top NBCNews headlinesCrews backed by an extensive aerial fleet have increased the El Portal wildfire's containment from 19 to 34 percent.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from CNN.comTributes flow for Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, who died of Ebola contracted while he fought to save others from the outbreak.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from CNN.comA doctor who was on the front lines fighting the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone has died from complications of the disease, Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from NYT > WorldThe investigation into Zhou Yongkang has provided an opportunity to question whether it is more about a clash of leaders than about corruption, and whether his fate could spell trouble for other retired officials.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from The Globe and Mail - World RSS feedThe OSCE observers turned back to the city of Donetsk after discussions with rebels
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from CNN.comThe death of an American from Ebola fuels fears of the further global spread of the virus.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from CNN.comPatrick Sawyer had one stop to make before heading home to Minnesota to celebrate his daughters' birthdays: a conference in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from CNN.comThese "techno archaeologists" are using DIY engineering to revamp NASA's early moon pics.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from CNN.comAlmost two weeks after MH17 was blown out of the sky, Dutch investigators have yet to reach the wreckage. So what will they find when they get there, and how useful will it be?
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Top NBCNews headlinesThe strike in the Jebaliya refugee camp came amid Israel's heaviest air and artillery assault in more than three weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from World News & AnalysisRussia's MICEX Index rallied 2 percent in morning trade, despite news of the toughest sanctions against the country since the end of the Cold War.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from CNN.comThe U.S. and EU are imposing new sanctions on Moscow -- but will they have any effect?
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from USATODAY - World Top Stories
Explosions lit up the sky as Israeli forces hit the only power plant on the Gaza strip on Tuesday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Gaza of a "prolonged" military campaign as the fighting continues in the region. &...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from CNN.comPalestinians and Israelis are living under a daily barrage of attacks. How long will it last?
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from USATODAY - World Top Stories
As many as 40 houses may be buried, according to a local official.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from World from NewserThe mother of a Mexican teen shot at least eight times in the back by US Border Patrol agents firing over the border is going to court to find out who killed her son. Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, 16, was shot by at least one agent in Oc...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineGerry Agar said she wrote the 25-year-old a letter encouraging her to wean off drugs, while others turned 'blind eyes' to her heroin habit.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineCruz (pictured) and Bardem are among a group of actors who have penned an open letter in a Spanish newspaper calling for Europe to condemn Israel's bombing of the Gaza Strip.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineDrew Barrymore's half-sister, Jessica Barrymore, has been 'found dead' from a suspected suicide in California just days before her birthday. The 47-year-old was found surrounded by pills.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineNortherner John Clarkson, who runs Mister Eaters Eating Emporium in Ribbleton, near Preston, Lancashire, has launched deep fried ‘shots’ alongside the more traditional meal of fish and chips.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe team behind the event spent weeks building a replica of Hill Valley, the town where the film starring Michael J Fox was set, close to the Olympic Park in Stratford, London.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineScott Carmitchel is accused of robbing a casino cashier of $43,500 at gunpoint at the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas on Friday night before later using the cash to pay prostitutes.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineMother-of-two Nicole Mwamba and her second husband William Kapuya kept their marriage a secret to illegally claim benefits on four properties in London, Caterham, and Selhurst.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe weapon-wielding robbers burst into the Welsh Valleys home before carrying out violent attacks with a knife and crowbar on each family member.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineWARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT The strike hit the UN school in Jebaliya where hundreds of Palestinians had sought shelter from intense fighting and Israeli tank fire.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineIncredible photos taken 100 years ago of British Tommies preparing for the First World War have been brought to life with digital colouring.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineUsain Bolt came under fire from Scots today after he reportedly claimed the Commonwealth Games are 'a bit s***' and the Olympics 'were better'.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlinePilot Simon Wood, 54, from Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, is said to have assaulted girls and young women at African schools and orphanages during BA stopovers.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe man believed to be responsible for sabotaging the bike trails in the Nerang State Forest in Queensland has been described as Caucasian, in his 40s, with dark short hair and solid build.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)The Bulgarian Socialist Party proposes that the Bulgarian Deposit Insurance Fund start repaying deposits of up to EUR100 000 two months after the suspension of activity of a bank. BSP MP Yanaki Stoilov explained Wednesday that the party ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)Moody's Investors Service said it has downgraded the long-term local- and foreign-currency deposit ratings of Bulgaria’s troubled Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank). ”The downgrade was prompted by the increased risk of losses to deposi...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineAn investigation by The New York Times has claimed European nations are the main culprits, with France alone paying £24m for four hostages who were freed last year.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThuthukile Zuma has moved from a role as a public liaison officer to the powerful position of chief of staff within two months.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineUkrainian President Petro Poroshenko asked President Lukashenko to host them and to focus on securing access to the site where the airliner was brought down.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineShaun Green was taken to hospital and placed in a medically induced coma following the attack on Sunday in East New York. He has now been described as being in a critical condition.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe aviation industry is angry that assurances it was safe to fly over Ukraine were proved to be wrong, after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was downed by pro-Russian extremists.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineKadek has been locked in a room for the past twenty years. The tiled floors are smeared with her faeces and urine and there are no windows for ventilation. She spends most of her days sitting in her own bodily filth, behind a metal door ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineJordan Ramos, from Liverpool conquered the massive feat to defend his own world record of 7.75m for the longest slam-dunk from a trampoline
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe main ruptured near University of California, Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon shooting a geyser that flooded a huge swath of campus.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe clip was posted on Facebook by a university student in Taiwan at the start of the month and has already clocked up more than 2,000 'likes' and shared nearly 20,000 times.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineAhmed Muthana, from Cardiff, claims his sons Nasser, 20, and Aseel, 17, were given a copy of the video game by extremists in a bid to groom them with violent fantasies.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineVanessa Hardaker has told of last moment she saw her husband Mark before he was killed in a horrific fishing boat accident off Mana Island. In an interview with A Current Affair the now widowed mother of three recounted the moment her be...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe exciting scene attracted a crowd of 100 spectators who cheered as fishermen Chad Runnalls and Dylan Brooking set the massive fish free 1km from where the struggle began at the Urangan Pier on Sunday.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)Bulgaria is one of just three EU member states where over 50 percent of people do not feel like European citizens, a Eurobarometer survey has shown. About 53% of Bulgarians, 50% of Italians and 51% of Greeks do not regard themselves as h...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineShared on social media, the contrasting images attract hundreds of thousands of likes and comments.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineNettie Raenetta, of Florida, was sent home to die when her mother, Rachael Garner, made a desperate bid to save her life using cannabis oil. Ms Garner says without it the 19-month-old would be 'dead today'.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe Met Office has said the unsettled weather will begin today, with grey clouds covering parts of England before scattered showers arrive later on this evening.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineShadow Chancellor Ed Balls Mr Balls also warned interest rates could rise early because the coalition has failed to build enough homes.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineMichelle Spencer, from Stockport, blew £18,000 worth of savings on her doomed marriage to 22-year-old Tunisian toyboy Rami Slemi, who she met online.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe cub was photographed in his pursuit for a comfortable spot by Canadian wildlife photographer Megan Lorenz, 38, while she was watching the family relax at Georgian Bay, Ontario.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineFive-year-old Sadie Miller from Phoenix, Arizona can't get her head around the fact her baby brother Carson will one day grow up and she breaks down in tears.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)A survey of the German statistics service found that the vacation of the Germans in Bulgaria is by 52% cheaper than in their country. Second cheapest are Hungary and Romania – Germans there would pay by an average of 43% less for hotels...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineDetectives are still hunting the gang as a video emerged of the moment the kidnappers targeted delivery driver Segundo Tevez in Moron, Buenos Aires.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineA woman is being tested for the disease in Hong Kong after returning from Kenya. It comes as Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond today declared the virus poses a 'very serious threat' to Britain as he prepares to chair an emergency meeting.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe crowd has gathered to watch Guinean rap group Instinct Killers at a beach in the Ratoma neighborhood of the capital, Conakry.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineSenior Constable Leanne Rissman (pictured) was disciplined by the Queensland Police Service after an internal investigation confirmed she had racially abused Aboriginal activist Joyce Capewell under the alias, Anne T Sharia.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe 251-page script for the Hollywood classic starring Scarlett O'Hara and Clark Gable was acquired by a film fan who ran a book shop in Hollywood.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineFrederick Morton, 79, was returning to his car after an appointment at St Marks Hospital in Maidenhead, Berkshire, when the car rolled down the hill.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineForeign Secretary Philip Hammond said ministers will examine measures which need to be taken in the UK or at diplomatic posts abroad 'in order to manage the threat'.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineA survey by the Institute of Education, NatCen Social Research and the University of East Anglia found that the number of British families made up of a male breadwinner and a female who did not work was falling.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThey were rising stars in the Australian boxing world. Now Mohamed Elomar is fighting for an Al-Qaeda off-shoot in Syria and Ahmed Elomar is locked up for bashing a police officer in the 2012 Sydney Islamic riots.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineChris Quick, 58, and her husband Keith, 61, of Southsea, who died this month, had paid for a trip to Benidorm to celebrate their 38th wedding anniversary.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineIt is believed that the gulls have been acting strangely because the formic acid in the ants’ bodies has been reacting with their stomachs.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlinePittsburgh Steelers player Cam Thomas, 27, is being sued for allegedly giving his ex-girlfriend genital herpes and lying to her about the disease.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)Center-right opposition GERB has stepped back and has announced it is against the update of Bulgaria's state budget. Leader Boyko Borisov has declared the party will not attend any more Parliament sessions until August 5, when the last m...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from BBC News - WorldRolf Harris's five year and nine month jail sentence over sex offences will not be referred to the appeal court, despite 150 complaints over its "leniency".
