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October 20, 2011
French President Nicolas Sarkozy described yesterday's birth of his baby daughter as an experience of "profound joy" that was also private.
Mr Sarkozy arrived at La Muette clinic in Paris several hours after his wife Carla gave birth. He had been at the clinic earlier on in the day, but had ...
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October 13, 2011
Eight people were shot dead at a salon in Los Angeles yesterday afternoon, authorities say.
The fatal shooting took place in Seal Beach, California, which has a popular retail area just off the Pacific Coast Highway. Initially, six people were confirmed dead; however, two others died later from their injuries. Local ...
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October 06, 2011
Two people have been rushed to hospital after the "world's hottest curry" contest at an Indian restaurant in Edinburgh.
The emergency services were called out to Kismot restaurant on St Leonards Street at the weekend after some of the competitors became "very unwell". In order to compete, people must eat what ...
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September 29, 2011
Manchester United star Rio Ferdinand today lost his privacy action in the High Court over a story published by the Sunday Mirror regarding an alleged affair.
Ferdinand, an England international, sought substantial damages from the Mirror for misuse of his private information. An article was published by the paper’s Sunday edition ...
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September 22, 2011
German fashion company Hugo Boss has apologised for its maltreatment workers in forced labour conditions throughout WWII, during which time it supplied Nazis with uniforms.
The fashion giant issued an apology to coincide with a release of a new book that details the history of the company when Hitler was in ...
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September 15, 2011
Manchester City's blushes were saved after Aleksandar Kolarov's free-kick rescued a point against Italian outfit Napoli, on what was their debut Champions League match.
Roberto Mancini's side might have overcome all those put before them this season domestically, but they found this match a lot harder against an Italian side. City ...
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September 08, 2011
John Galliano, the disgraced fashion designer who has admitted to hurling anti-Semitic insults in Paris towards a couple eating in a restaurant, was given a suspended fine of 6,000 euros in court today.
The designer, who was fired by Dior over the affair, explained that he isn’t a racist and claimed ...
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September 01, 2011
An Italian businessman, along with his wife, has been arrested and faces charges of blackmailing Italy’s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, over an alleged use of escort girls.
Mr Giampaolo Tarantini has admitted that he paid for the prostitutes to attend the AC Milan owner’s bunga bunga parties. Police say that he ...
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August 25, 2011
Police in Austria today arrested a man that is accused of imprisoning then sexually abusing his two daughters for over 40 years.
The suspect, now 80, all-out denies the abuse, which, according to sources, allegedly started once one girl turned 12 years of age and while the other was only four.
Police ...
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August 18, 2011
IBM has developed a new microprocessor it claims has come even closer than ever before to replicating a human brain.
Its new system is capable of fully "rewiring" its connections while it encounters new information, in a similar fashion to the way all biological synapses work.
Scientific researchers believe that through replicating ...
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