Funeral prayers echoed across a small Turkish town Sunday after a pair of car bombings that killed dozens of people, an attack that government officials are blaming on Syria. The families of the dead huddled under umbrellas in the town cemetery to lay their loved ones to rest, while others cried in the middle of [...]
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Actress Angelina Jolie announced in a New York Times op-ed article on Tuesday that she underwent a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carries a mutation of the BRCA1 gene, which sharply increases her risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer. “My doctors estimated that I had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer [...]
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CLEVELAND (AP) — The man accused of holding three women captive for a decade in his home terrorized the mother of his children, frequently beating her, playing twisted psychological games and locking her indoors, her relatives say. Several relatives of Grimilda Figueroa, who left Ariel Castro years ago and died last year after a long [...]
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The Cleveland man accused of kidnapping and holding three young women captive for the past decade will make his first court appearance this morning. Ariel Castro, 52, is charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape. He will appear in Cleveland Municipal Court for an initial hearing. Ariel Castro, principal suspect dans [...]
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World-record carp caught twice in a week by different anglers Colin Smith landed and released a 100-pound, 8-ounce common carp at lake in France, then John Thorpe caught same fish less than a week later A fisherman in France reeled in an incredible 100-pound, 8-ounce common carp that, if approved by the International Game Fish [...]
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The Atlantic Wire – Dennis Rodman Will Return to North Korea on August 1 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is tapping his friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to ask for the release of a Korean-American man sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in the North. “I’m calling on the Supreme Leader of [...]
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Robert Downey Jr is set for another huge payday from a mega-hit Marvel movie, this time Iron Man 3. I’ve learned he’s already made $35 million from the actioner which grossed $680 million worldwide in its first 12 days. He should exceed his biggest payday to date — that $50M from The Avengers which I’ve learned was more like $70M-$80M now that the film [...]
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Reuters – Google founder Sergey Brin poses for a portrait wearing Google Glass glasses before the Diane von Furstenberg Spring/Summer 2013 collection show during New York Fashion Week September 9, 2012. REUTERS/Carlo SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s wearable computer, the most anticipated piece of electronic wizardry since the iPad and iPhone, will not go on sale [...]
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Police investigating the abduction of three women for about a decade in Cleveland, Ohio, are due to carry out in-depth interviews of three male suspects. A judge granted them an extra 12 hours to file charges, and they now have until Wednesday evening local time. Correspondents say police have been put on the defensive by [...]
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The harshest and most detailed set of accusations made during Obama’s administration is the frank assessment, made in an annual report to U.S. lawmakers on Chinese military capabilities. Pentagon has accused China of trying to extract sensitive information from U.S. government computers, the latest in a series of rhetorical skirmishes between the two countries on the issue [...]
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