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January 26, 2012
An Afghan mother yesterday gave birth to six babies at a hospital located in Mazar-e-Sharif, a city in the north of Afghanistan.
The woman wasn't aware of the fact that she was carrying such an amount of children and hadn't received fertility treatment. Medical experts say that the mother turned up ...
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Tags: Afghanistan, Mazar-e-Sharif
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World News
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January 19, 2012
The widow of an ex-England footballer has stated that the FA has failed to accepted how the 'beautiful game' contributed to her the death of her beloved husband.
Jeff Astle, a player for Midlands-based outfit West Bromwich Albion throughout the 60s and 70s, passed away 10 years ago. The coroner ruled ...
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Tags: FA, Fifa, Jeff Astle, West Bromich Albion
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World News
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January 12, 2012
Joran van der Sloot yesterday pleaded guilty to murdering a 21-year-old woman from Peru at his long-awaited trial, which took place in the South American country's capital - Lima.
Van der Sloot first went on trial at the start of the year for the killing of Stephany Flores, a young lady ...
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Tags: Joran van der Sloot, Lima, Peru
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World News
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January 05, 2012
Shadow Health Minister Diane Abbott today apologised for any offence that was possibly caused by the comments she yesterday made on Twitter, following claims that they were racist.
Abbott said that she didn't mean to generalise after writing that: ''White people love playing 'divide & rule'". The comments came as a ...
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Tags: Diane Abbott, labour party, twitter
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World News
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December 29, 2011
A reality show on American Muslims has revealed that its penultimate episode is to address responses to this year's 10th anniversary of 2001's 9/11 attacks.
Living in the suburban town of Dearborn, Michigan, the characters have been reported as containing a wish to tackle the touch topicy, as confirmed by US ...
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Tags: Dearborn, Detroit, Michigan, TLC, US
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World News
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December 22, 2011
The United States is offering a $10m reward for information that leads to the apprehension of an alleged al-Qaeda facilitator and financier.
According to the US state department, Yasin al-Suri is a Syrian national currently operating from Iran. This mentioned bounty aims to smash a financial network that has been operative ...
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Tags: Al Qaeda, Iran, iraq, Pakistan, US
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World News
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December 15, 2011
Journalists at a leading Russian newspaper today signed an open letter that protests against two top executives being fired over an supposedly insulting photo of Vladimir Putin.
Over 60 staff at Kommersant, which is a liberal business daily, gave their signatures to the letter after Alisher Usmanov, the owner, sacked the ...
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Tags: Russia, Vladimir Putin
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World News
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December 08, 2011
Carrentals.co.uk reveals 12 Days Of Christmas initiative, in conjunction with StreetSmart
Goodies such as iPad 2s and London Eye tickets are on the line as part of a new festive competition from Carrentals.co.uk that supports Britain’s front-running homeless charities
6 DECEMBER 2011 – The 13 lucky winners of Carrentals.co.uk’s ’12 days of ...
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Tags: Carrentals.co.uk, Streetsmart
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business
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December 01, 2011
The BBC should fire Jeremy Clarkson for the "appalling" comments he made about killing public sector workers that are currently on strike, according to trade union Unison.
The union said that it was considering whether or not it should report the Top Gear presenter for comments he made on The One ...
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Tags: BBC, Jeremy Clarkson, The One Show, Top Gear, Unison
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business
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November 24, 2011
George Michael been forced to postpone a string of concerts, including a couple that were scheduled for this weekend in the Welsh capital Cardiff, after being rushed to hospital to receive treatment for pneumonia.
The 48-year-old singer was meant to perform in Vienna on Monday but cancelled just two hours before ...
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Tags: Careless Whisper, Czech Republic, George Michael, vienna
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Shows, Events & Gigs