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Former beauty queen, boyfriend arrested for Whidbey Island murder A former beauty queen accused of helping kill a man during Christmas on Whidbey Island in 2003 has been arrested in New Mexico on a murder charge. Authorities said Monday that 45-year-old Peggy Thomas, a former Ms. Washington, was captured Saturday night.7/12/2011 5:44 AM
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WikiLeaks: Assange returns to court over rape allegation WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned to a U.K. court Tuesday for the latest installment in his fight against extradition to Sweden, where the Australian is accused of rape and molestation. Assange, 40, denies any wrongdoing.7/12/2011 5:39 AM
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'Good friend' kills brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai Ahmad Wali Karzai, a brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and one of the most powerful men in Afghanistan, was assassinated by a bodyguard and friend on Tuesday. He was a controversial figure, but his assassination will leave a dangerous power vacuum in Kandahar.7/12/2011 5:24 AM
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Rupert Murdoch's sky falling in The Murdoch empire's expansion plans have taken a massive blow, with Britain's Deputy Prime Minister imploring Rupert Murdoch to do ''the decent and sensible thing'' and abandon his bid for control of the UK's pay television market. 7/11/2011 3:47 PM
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New York Hotel denies conspiracy The security chief of the French Accor group, which owns the hotel where Dominique Strauss-Kahn was accused of trying to rape a maid, was on the phone to President Nicolas Sarkozy's palace within minutes of learning of the alleged assault, he has confirmed. 7/11/2011 3:43 PM
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Keep your money, Pakistan's military tells US The Pakistan military declared it did not need US military aid after the White House confirmed that it would withhold $800 million in assistance to the country's armed forces. The row will worsen the already poisonous relationship between the two ''allies.'' 7/11/2011 3:41 PM
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Obama says no debt deal without GOP compromise U.S. President Barack Obama raised the stakes Monday in budget talks aimed at preventing a first-ever U.S. debt default, saying there would be no agreement if Republicans did not compromise and he would not sign a short-term agreement.7/11/2011 3:13 PM
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Kate, William depart U.S. after charming Hollywood Following a nonstop weekend that included a few chukkers of polo, time with Hollywood's own version of royalty and several events that raised millions of dollars for charity, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge headed back to the U.K. on Sunday.7/11/2011 2:57 PM
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News International papers targeted British PM Gordon Brown Journalists from across News International repeatedly targeted the former prime minister Gordon Brown, attempting to access his voicemail and obtaining information from his bank account, his legal file as well as his family's medical records.7/11/2011 12:02 PM
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William and Kate close their North American tour Will and Kate closed their North American tour by lending their unstoppable cachet to jobless war veterans. "This is the last event on our tour of North America, and in my mind it was one of the seriously most important."7/11/2011 6:23 AM
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Britain's Tabloid scandal: Slain girl's kin demand resignation The family of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler met with Britain's deputy prime minister Monday to discuss the hacking of her phone by the News of the World tabloid. The paper is best known for its lurid headlines exposing misadventures of the rich, royal and famous.7/11/2011 5:30 AM
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Volga disaster: 110 bodies trapped in sunken boat, many are children Divers searching the wreck of a Russian Volga river boat reportedly saw more than one hundred corpses trapped inside the pleasure craft when they recovered eight bodies Monday. An estimated 110 bodies, including 30 children, remained in the sunken ship.7/11/2011 5:26 AM
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Rupert Murdoch swoops into UK tabloid offices With the last edition of Britain's News of the World tabloid in hand, Rupert Murdoch descended on the U.K. Sunday to face the growing phone-hacking scandal. Britons were snapping up the last edition of the News of the World.7/10/2011 6:52 AM
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Argentinian singer/author Cabral killed in ambush One of Latin America's most admired folk singers, Facundo Cabral, was killed in an ambush by gunmen in Guatemala on Saturday. The Argentinian singer and novelist was on his way to Guatemala's main airport when three carloads of gunmen opened fire.7/10/2011 6:50 AM
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William and Kate leave stars starstruck at Los Angeles dinner It was the night when Hollywood royalty came to meet British royalty - and there was no question who were the more starstruck. On the last night of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's tour of north America, the big question was who would bother to turn out.7/10/2011 6:47 AM
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Australia unveils carbon tax Australia has unveiled a new carbon tax that will force its 500 biggest polluters to pay for emissions, the country's biggest economic reform in a generation. Coal miners, steel makers, and electricity generators will be among those that have to pay.7/10/2011 6:23 AM
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Shuttle crew checks for damage on final mission's 1st day The crew used the Canadian robot arm to examine the vulnerable shield to see if any tiles suffered debris strikes from Friday's launch at Cape Canaveral, Fla. They did not discover any problems on their first viewing of the shield.7/10/2011 6:15 AM
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Fire kills 16 at Ukrainian senior home A fire tore through a home for the elderly in western Ukraine Sunday, killing 16 people. The Emergencies Ministry said 11 others were injured in the fire in the village of Bile, some 300 kilometers (180 miles) west of the capital Kiev.7/10/2011 6:00 AM
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Attacks in Afghanistan kill 3 NATO troops; 6 abducted Afghan deminers killed A roadside bomb attack in southern Helmand province killed a Danish soldier who was on patrol, while two other NATO service members were killed in insurgent attacks in the south and east, according to NATO and the Danish government.7/10/2011 5:57 AM
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Muslim women will have to remove niqabs and show faces in Australia 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.7/10/2011 5:55 AM
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Celebrities flock to L.A. polo match to mingle with Will and Kate VIP tickets to the event cost $4000. The cheap seats, with no chance of meeting the couple were $400. Proceeds from the event will go to the American Friends of the Foundation of Prince WIlliam and Prince Harry.7/9/2011 1:06 PM
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William and Kate arrive in Los Angeles (Video) Prince William and his wife, Catherine, arrived at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday afternoon for the beginning of their tour of L.A. The royal couple were greeted at the airport by Gov. Jerry Brown and Britain's ambassador to the U.S. 7/8/2011 5:09 PM
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NASA's space shuttle blasts off ... for the last time ever For the last time in history, a space shuttle and its crew rose heavenward from NASA's spaceport on Friday, defying gloomy weather and the deeper gloom over the end of a 30-year era of spaceflight. 7/8/2011 3:11 PM
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˜Tiny belly' ads part of billion-dollar scam, U.S. government finds The ubiquitous "1 Tip for a Tiny Belly" online ads are a front for a billion-dollar diet scam the U.S. government has been fighting for months to shut down. "Nearly everything about these sites is a fake," the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said.7/8/2011 2:58 PM
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Plane crash in Congo: 127 dead, 51 survive An airliner plowed into dense forest as it tried to land during a rainstorm in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, killing at least 127 on board. Congo has one of the worst air transport safety and security records in the world. 7/8/2011 2:42 PM
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Peeping Tom jailed for secretly taping 260 women A Maryland man has been jailed after breaking into homes and secretly recording videos of hundreds of unsuspecting nude women. Prosecutors say Charles Novak, 35, had 2,282 video clips of 260 different women. 7/8/2011 6:05 AM
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Michigan gunman dead after killing daughter, ex-girlfriend, 5 others A man suspected of killing seven people ended a hostage standoff late Thursday by shooting himself in the head, Michigan police said. Rodrick Dantzler had engaged in a gunbattle with police, and a high-speed chase before taking three people hostage.7/8/2011 5:55 AM
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Texas Rangers fan dies trying to catch ball Almost a year after a similar incident, tragedy struck again at a Texas Rangers game Thursday night when a fan fell over a railing while trying to catch a ball. He fell about 20 feet -- crashing head-first.7/8/2011 5:53 AM
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Pamplona: 1 gored, 6 others hurt in running of the bulls An Australian man was gored in the leg and six other people were injured Friday as daredevils ran with fighting bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona. The man had waved his arms at the 1,200-pound bull, then slipped and fell and was attacked.7/8/2011 5:50 AM
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British PM's former 'Spin-Doctor' arrested in Murdoch tabloid scandal A former senior aide to British Prime Minister David Cameron was arrested Friday in connection with a phone-hacking scandal that prompted Rupert Murdoch to close Britain's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper. 7/8/2011 5:48 AM
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Take a look! Storm as wide as Earth rages on Saturn The Great White Spot has been imaged in unprecedented detail and is yielding clues to how this titanic storm may have formed far earlier than thought. The staggeringly powerful thunderstorm is about 6,200 miles wide, and has a tail of white clouds.7/7/2011 3:57 PM
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Phone-hacking scandal likely marks end of media baron's control of British politics For decades, the tabloid newspapers of Britain have determined the political fates of governments left and right and held politicians hostage by threatening to expose their personal lives. It is an awkward and needy relationship.7/7/2011 12:01 PM
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Murdoch shuts best-selling tabloid as phone-hacking scandal grows In a stunning move, Rupert Murdoch's media empire announced Thursday it was shutting down the News of the World tabloid, Britain's bestselling newspaper, because of an alleged phone hacking scandal that has triggered a major public backlash here.7/7/2011 11:32 AM
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Casey Anthony to be released from jail next week (Video) Judge Belvin Perry sentenced Anthony to four years in jail, one year for each of her four convictions of lying to police, but with credit for the approximately three years already served and good behavior, her release date was set for next Wednesday, July 13.7/7/2011 10:59 AM
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Last Shuttle flight: The Russians win the Space Race with U.S. Circling the Earth every 90 minutes, the International Space Station is the most expensive project ever assembled in space. Within days, it will hang by a single, costly thread. And Russia, the U.S.'s historic rival in space, is holding it.7/7/2011 7:43 AM
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Harry Potter fans camp out for final film (Video) There may have been pigeons and gulls rather than dragons and owls wheeling across the moody skies over Trafalgar Square early on Thursday, but to the faithful, who clutched umbrellas and wands, neither the birds nor the weather were of the slightest consequence.7/7/2011 7:41 AM
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Facebook unveils video chat with Skype In a bid to become the hub of communication on the Web, Facebook, the world's largest social network, is partnering with Skype to offer its 750 million users the ability to have live video chats with one another for free. 7/7/2011 7:32 AM
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More U.S. agencies implicated in Mexico gun-trafficking probe The embattled head of the ATF has told congressional investigators that some Mexican drug cartel figures targeted by his agency in a gun-trafficking investigation were paid informants for the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration.7/7/2011 7:31 AM
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Obama, Boehner try to make headway on budget deal Congressional leaders will converge on the White House for Thursday's summit on deficit reduction, but the burden for advancing the talks and averting a fiscal crisis increasingly has fallen on two key negotiators: President Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner.7/7/2011 7:27 AM
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Spain confronts Decades of Pain Over Lost Babies What may have begun as political retaliation for leftist families during the dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco appears to have mutated into a trafficking business in which doctors, nurses and even nuns colluded with criminal networks. 7/7/2011 7:18 AM
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Casey Anthony Sentenced to 4 Years Casey Anthony, who earlier this week was found not guilty of killing her daughter, was sentenced on Thursday to four years in jail, not including the nearly three years she has already served.7/7/2011 7:15 AM
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Changing face of America's youth The United States is walking a path to greater diversity. And younger people are leading the way. For the first time the majority of young people in two states, California and New Mexico, now identify as Hispanic, according to census data released this year.7/7/2011 6:39 AM
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North Korea paid Pakistan for nuclear weapons tech The founder of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program claims that in the late 1990s North Korean officials paid kickbacks to senior Pakistani military figures in exchange for critical weapons technology. 7/7/2011 6:03 AM
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Maid's lawyer tells New York district attorney to quit Strauss-Kahn case Relations between the maid in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case and the New York district attorney's office appear to have irreparably broken down after her lawyers accused the office of leaking damaging information about her.7/7/2011 5:32 AM
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US and Russia stir up political tensions over Arctic The seventh ministerial meeting of the Arctic Council in May looked set be a mundane affair, with its focus on signing a new search-and-rescue agreement and handover of the chairmanship to Sweden.7/7/2011 5:30 AM
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US and Mexico end cross-border trucking dispute The 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement called for Mexican trucks to have full access to US highways, but they were kept to a border buffer zone, citing concerns of their ability to meet US safety and environmental standards.7/7/2011 5:26 AM
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British tabloid 'hacked' into phones of families of dead soldiers According to the Daily Telegraph, the phone numbers of relatives of service personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan were found in the files of private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who had been working for the News of the World. 7/7/2011 5:22 AM
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African drought: 12 million face 'fight for survival' Witness the outbreak of famine or drought and you'll usually see that there has been an outbreak of war nearby. In this case, the lawlessless of war-torn Somalia is driving people into neighboring Kenya. 7/7/2011 5:17 AM
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Grizzly Bear in Yellowstone Park kills hiker in rare attack A man hiking with his wife on a Yellowstone National Park trail was mauled to death by a bear on Wednesday, the National Park Service said, noting it was the first such fatality in 25 years. 7/7/2011 5:15 AM
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Pyeongchang named host of 2018 Winter Olympics South Korea will be just the second Asian country to host the Winter Olympic Games, after the IOC on Wednesday named Pyeongchang the winning bid city for the 2018 Winter Games. Pyeongchang won over Munich and the French city of Annecy.7/6/2011 12:30 PM
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