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The U.N. Security Council will hold closed-door talks Friday afternoon on the situation in Syria, the British and French delegations reported Thursday night on their respective Twitter feeds. The discussion -- set to start at 3 p.m. -- comes as members weigh a draft U.N. resolution on Syria, obtained by CNN this week, that calls on "all states" to take steps similar to Arab League sanctions

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The mother of a South Carolina toddler missing since Thanksgiving is pregnant and should be released from jail because she needs prenatal care, the woman's attorney argued in court papers filed this week. Hemphill Pride II also said in the motions filed Tuesday in Columbia that Zinah Jennings is mentally ill, has been ordered to have treatment for a year and has been told to take Risperdal,

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African Union Commission Chairman Jean Ping has offered a defense of AU policy on Libya during an opening address to the continental summit underway in Addis Ababa. Ping is favored to win re-election as chairman, despite a strong challenge from South Africa. Speaking to Africa's foreign ministers Thursday, Chairman Ping said the AU's difficulty with handling the Libyan revolt was that it did

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He was the youngest prosecutor in Norwalk, Conn. He worked for the NFL and was an analyst on Court TV. But if you Google Matt Couloute, the first thing that comes up is: Liarscheatersrus.com, a site that warns women web-surfers about men who lie and cheat in their personal relationships. “It’s unfortunate,” said Couloute, as he walked in front of the Federal Courthouse in downtown Manhattan. “

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Until now, the change to the new-look Facebook, has been voluntary. But Facebook’s 800 million users around the world no longer have a choice as Timeline has been made compulsory. From the point when a user clicks 'get Timeline', they have seven days to play around with the new profile. However, the new look will become compulsory for all users "within the next few weeks". First announced by

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Pinterest is an image-based website that allows users to create their own virtual pinboards based around specific interests, such as football or music, or even discrete projects, such as decorating a house. You can 'pin' images to your Pinterest page and add a short note to remind yourself why you saved it. You can follow other users, which might help you to find inspiration, and they can

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The men and women who run the world’s most popular websites in 2012 are in many ways a pretty drab bunch, publicly at least. They all speak the same bland corporate patois and avoid personal publicity whenever possible. For instance, turning Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire co-founder of Facebook, into a big enough character for cinema in The Social Network must have tested the screenwriting

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Anyone who has ever signed up for a website or online service will almost certainly have had to agree to “terms and conditions”. Legalistic, jargonistic and entirely unread by consumers, many companies have now stopped even showing the “Ts&Cs” to users – you’re asked merely to confirm that you’ve read them, even though you almost certainly haven’t. Such was one company’s certainty that the

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Gabrielle Giffords, 41, resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday in an emotional ceremony on the House floor a little more than one year after she was shot in the head at an event for her constituents in Tucson, Arizona.  Republican and Democratic lawmakers joined to give the Democrat repeated standing ovations and tearful embraces, and unanimously passed a border security bill

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A Texas environmental group on Wednesday expressed public health concerns over reports of a "river of blood" flowing from behind a well-known meat-packing plant in Dallas. Fox affiliate KDFW-TV reported last week that a criminal investigation is under way at Columbia Packing Co., Inc., after photographs surfaced showing what appeared to be pig blood flowing in nearby Cedar Creek, which feeds

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Maybe it's time to look beyond claims of virginity in the oil aisle. Because you see, our 20-year love affair with olive oil has had fallout. We've forgotten that there's a whole world of oils that don't come from the olive tree. And they can do a heck of a lot more than just saute and make a fine dressing. OK, maybe we didn't forget. Maybe we didn't know about them at all. It's not as though

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Tim Cook, chief executive of Apple, said the company had sold 15.43 million iPads in the final quarter of last year. According to Gartner, HP sold 14.7 million PCs in the same period. Obviously, HP isn't the only computer manufacturer but the comparison shows how significant iPad sales have become. Cook said: "There will come a day that the tablet market is larger than the PC market." Cook

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Tens of thousands of Egyptians poured into Tahrir Square Wednesday to celebrate - and carry forward - their revolution of one year ago. For many, being on Tahrir Square once again has brought the memories of last year's revolution flooding back. Doctor and former protester Rabie el Khouly brought his wife and children. "My family as a whole, my son Mohamed, the youngest one, was sleeping here

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There is a dusty box at the back of a cupboard in my bedroom stuffed with mementos from relationships past. A crumpled letter here, a frayed ticket stub there, a hideous “I luv u” teddy and heart-shaped trinkets – all carefully preserved as a poignant ode to romances that are, thankfully, now a distant memory. But, call me sentimental, none of that worthless tat is ready for the bin just yet.

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A North Carolina man sentenced to prison recently as part of a homegrown terrorist ring has been accused in a federal court document of plotting to kill witnesses who testified against him at trial. An affidavit unsealed in federal court Monday accuses Hysen Sherifi of plotting against the witnesses from his jail cell. Authorities say an FBI informant posing as a hit man met with Sherifi's

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Police in Nigeria's second largest city, Kano, are keeping a low profile after Islamic militants struck their offices and killed many of their colleagues in a series of daring bomb attacks.  The official death toll from Friday's attacks stands at 185, but news agencies suggest it could be much higher. Abuja reports the attacks revealed glaring weaknesses in Kano's security setup. Days after the

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Starbucks is realizing that coffee and wine do mix, it hopes.   The world's biggest coffee chain introduced beer and wine to a Seattle café in October 2010. Buoyed by that success, it announced plans Monday to sell booze in as many as 25 locations by the end of the year. It says it will focus on new or remodeled stores in California, Atlanta and Chicago. Starbucks, which has 10,700 U.S. cafes,

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A gang of heavily insulated scientists has wrapped up its Antarctic expedition, with its members thawing out from the experience, but pleased to have bagged more than 300 space rocks. They are participants in the Antarctic Search for Meteorites program, or ANSMET for short. Since 1976, ANSMET researchers have been recovering thousands of meteorite specimens from the East Antarctic ice sheet.

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Mitt Romney attacked surging conservative Newt Gingrich in a Florida debate and prepared to face questions Tuesday about his tax returns being released under pressure in a crucial week for the Republican presidential race. In the spirited Monday night debate at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Romney questioned the former House speaker over his record in Congress and alleged lobbying

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The company behind the doomed cruise ship that crashed this month off the coast of Italy, killing at least 15, has sparked renewed outrage, this time for its attempts to make amends -- in particular its offer to survivors of a 30 percent discount on future cruises. The offer was made as Costa Cruises attempts to stave off lawsuits and limit liability from the deadly crash of the Costo Concordia

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African Union summit meetings officially kicked off in Ethiopia’s capital Monday with ministerial gatherings, and an agenda that includes a leadership battle. The session in Addis Ababa began with a minute of silence dedicated to the late Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai and the late African commissioner Elisabeth Tankeu. African Union spokesman Noureddine Mezni said Monday's and

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Egypt’s lower house of parliament convened Monday for the first time since democratic elections ushered in a new crop of lawmakers, many of them representing Islamist parties. Following his nomination last week, Mohamed Saad el-Katatni, who previously served as Secretary General of the Freedom and Justice party, was voted in as speaker of Egypt's lower house with 399 votes on Monday. Freedom

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The 68-year-old former speaker of the House, twice left as presidential road kill this cycle, won the South Carolina Republican primary in more commanding fashion than either of the two prior GOP nominees. He doesn't look, talk or act like any major party nominee since the dawn of the television era: too big, too bombastic, too old, too much baggage, too little discipline on the trail. But yet

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The Aerosmith frontman, currently a judge on "American Idol," was on the receiving end of some harsh judgments himself after performing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the AFC Championship game in Massachusetts. The 63-year-old, famous for rock anthems such as "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing," managed to "butcher" the US national anthem at Gillette Stadium, sports website Bleacher Report declared.

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Too many think that the smear test is "irrelevant" for them, according to a YouGov poll for Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust, because they wrongly think the cancer is just caused by sleeping around. Cervical cancer claims almost 1,000 lives a year in Britain. Its profile has risen in recent years, partially due to the introduction of a vaccine for teenage girls, and partially due to the death in 2009

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On Tuesday, President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address to the U.S. Congress.  Obama provided a preview of the speech he will deliver in one of the most difficult economic and political environments any president has faced in decades. The economy will be front and center as the president makes the trip to Capitol Hill to address a joint session of Congress. Unemployment is

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Former U.S. congressman Newt Gingrich has won the Republican presidential primary in the southeastern state of South Carolina, shaking up the party's campaign to find a candidate for this year's presidential election. Vote tallies showed Gingrich with about 40 percent of the vote. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney trailed in second with about 28 percent.  Gingrich touted his victory

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Two Islamist parties won about 70% of the seats in the Egyptian election for the lower house of parliament, according to electoral commission figures released Saturday. The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party won 235 seats and the conservative Al Nour party gained 121 seats in the People's Assembly, according to final results. The assembly consists of 498 elected members. Ten others

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Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney battled into the final moments of the South Carolina primary Saturday, taunting each other with campaign stunts as the candidates anxiously awaited the verdict from the first-in-the-South contest. The state has a reputation as a tie-breaker in the Republican primaries, often setting the winner on a relatively smooth course to the nomination. But Saturday's contest

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Chevron filed an appeal with Ecuador's National Court to review a ruling that it must pay billions of dollars in damages for oil pollution in the Amazon rain forest. In addition to the $8.6 billion ruling, the court said that Chevron must publicly apologize to Ecuador, and if it fails to do so, the fine will be doubled to nearly $18 billion. The ruling Chevron is appealing was handed by an

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The governor of Cameroon's Far North Region on Thursday said threats posed by militant Islamist group Boko Haram were "very critical." Speaking in Mokolo, Gov. Joseph Beti Assomo told reporters that all senior state security officials, divisional heads and religious leaders have been put on the alert. Some 600 soldiers in the Far North region have been ordered out of their barracks and

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At Camp Penal maximum-security prison in Dakar, Amadou, who withholds his real name to protect his identity, is talking to his sixth and last group of prisoners about AIDS. Since early this morning, the young Senegalese activist has spoken with more than 150 detainees -- men from all over the world, some from as far away as El Salvador and France, imprisoned for everything from petty theft and

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The RedPad Number One costs twice as much as the top of the range iPad 2. Encased in decadent leather and loaded with special apps, Communist Party members can use the Android tablet to verify identification cards, and monitor the media and state-owned firms, all without fretting that a bourgeois Apple device could ruin their credibility among their peers. The eye-popping price has set China's

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The new set of apps are in a bid to boost the appeal of Facebook’s new profile, which allows people to share their life story in a single page and carry out various activities, such as sharing music, without leaving the social network. British apps which were announced at the Facebook press event yesterday in San Francisco include: Autotrader – which allows people to talk about their desired

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Mr Burnham's comment came after the Royal College of Nursing and the Royal College of Midwives announced that they have joined the British Medical Association and the Royal College of General Practitioners in outright opposition to the Government’s reforms to the NHS. The shadow health secretary urged the Government to abandon their NHS reforms because "even the Royal College of Nursing and the

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The “Koobface gang”, as the quintet are known, are accused of infecting social network users’ computers with a malicious software “worm”. The global network of up to 800,000 remotely-controlled machines became a lucrative business for the gang. Other cyber criminals would pay them to bombard their victims with adverts for fake anti-virus software, or to hijack Google searches to deliver traffic

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A pagan mother's challenge to the distribution of donated Bibles at a local school has prompted the Buncombe County Board of Education to reevaluate its policies regarding religious texts. Ginger Strivelli, who practices Witchcraft, a form of Paganism, said she was upset when her 12-year-old son [who did not wish to be photographed for this article] came home from North Windy Ridge intermediate

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Brazilians who receive work e-mails or phone calls after office hours could be eligible for overtime, according to a new labor law. The law says e-mails and calls from companies to employees is the equivalent of direct orders from the bosses. The legislation, signed by President Dilma Rousseff in December, has generated many questions, doubts and arguments, according to Brazil's Labor Ministry

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Some of the most popular sites on the Internet have gone dark, part of a protest that appears to be making some inroads with U.S. lawmakers on Web piracy measures. Online encyclopedia Wikipedia blacked out its English language website for 24 hours, alongside blog Boing Boing.  Social news website Reddit plans to go dark for part of the day, and popular search engine Google has replaced its

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The wait for news is growing more desperate for relatives of passengers still missing from the cruise ship that ran aground off the northwest Italian coast. Rescue workers suspended their search of the Costa Concordia Wednesday after the cruise ship shifted slightly.  Divers who have been trying to search submerged parts of the ship describe difficult conditions, most notably poor visibility.

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Wikipedia was among several websites to shut down Wednesday in protest of anti-piracy bills now in Congress that critics say could amount to censorship. Instead of the usual encyclopedia articles, visitors to Wikipedia's English-language site were greeted by a message about the decision to black out its Web page for an entire day. "Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge," said the stark

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Can the world live without Wikipedia for a day? The user-driven online encyclopedia is one of the Internet's most visited sites, and at midnight Eastern Standard Time it began a 24-hour "blackout" in protest against proposed anti-piracy legislation that many leading websites -- including Reddit, Google, Facebook, Amazon and others -- contend will make it challenging if not impossible for them

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Democrats are moving the final day of their national convention to the 74,000-seat Bank of America Stadium, a move that will allow organizers to fit more spectators -- and also potentially sell pricey tickets to donors in the scramble for cash. The decision to move the entire affair from the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., to the home of the Carolina Panthers on the final day echoes

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If EveryChild didn’t send fund raisers, or as many people disparagingly call them ‘chuggers’, on to the streets of London, we wouldn’t be able to protect so many of the 24 million children growing up vulnerable and alone in the developing world. It’s as simple as that. It might sound melodramatic but it’s true. Like many other charities, face-to-face conversation is one of our most effective

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in West Africa, where she met with Ivory Coast's leader Alassane Ouattara about efforts to reconcile divisions remaining from the political crisis over the country's disputed presidential election. Clinton and Ouattara met at Abidjan's presidential palace for talks meant to underscore the Obama administration's commitment to democratic governance in

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The nationwide strikes that brought Nigeria to a standstill last week are over.  Although fuel prices have been reduced, many feel the solution is merely cosmetic. After President Goodluck Jonathan announced Sunday night that the price of fuel would be reduced by 35 percent to around 60 cents per liter, Union leaders halted strikes.  The president called on the population to “get back to work"

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Spain's best-known judge, Baltasar Garzon, went on trial Tuesday in Madrid accused of abusing his judicial authority in an investigation into financial corruption. The trial before a seven-judge panel at Spain's Supreme Court began Tuesday morning and if convicted, Garzon, who was suspended in 2010 pending the trial, would not go to jail but could lose his right permanently to be a judge in

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Previous studies have shown that the elderly are twice as likely to have unintentional falls if they are taking two or more such drugs, than if they are taking nothing. Now new research, published in the journal Injury Prevention, has found a similar relative effect in young and middle-aged people - although in absolute terms, those in these age groups are far less likely to fall over than the

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An early warning radar station that is part of NATO's controversial missile defense system in Europe is now operational in Turkey, a foreign ministry spokesman said Monday. The station is located in the city of Malatya, about 400 miles southeast of the capital Ankara, and is manned by both Turkish and U.S. personnel, the spokesman said. Turkey is one of five countries that have agreed to

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A New York man identified as a suspect in the murder of his estranged wife initially insisted that she be buried in Israel, which her rabbi says would have thwarted her exhumation and a resulting autopsy ruling that said she was strangled, sources said. The rabbi and the brother-in-law of slain Shele Danishefsky also accused her husband, Rod Covlin, of pouring salt into her grieving family's

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He dropped an F-bomb mid-show, took aim at Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber and poked fun at his bosses on national television, and yet Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais somehow managed to seem more toned down at this year's show, in spite of the fears of Hollywood's elite. "Let's get this in perspective: They're the wealthiest, most privileged people in the world," he told Esquire ahead of the

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Connie Fisher - who won BBC show How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria in 2006 - had been told by doctors that she would never sing again. Fisher found fame in 2006 when she beat thousands of hopefuls to win the BBC show and take over the role made famous by Julie Andrews in the 1965 film. She played Maria in the Sound of Music in the West End on and off for five year to excellent reviews.

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Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman withdrew his bid for the Republican presidential nomination Monday, saying that the "toxic" and negative environment in the presidential race is hindering the common goal of getting a president in the White House who can reignite the economy. Offering his support for Mitt Romney, Huntsman announced his withdrawal Monday at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center in

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Occupy Wall Street protesters announced with great fanfare last month that they moved a homeless family into a “foreclosed” Brooklyn, N.Y., home — even though they knew the house belonged to a struggling single father desperately trying to renegotiate his mortgage, The Post has learned. “They’re trying to take a house and say the bank is robbing the people because the mortgage is too high — so

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The captain of the ill-fated Costa Concordia may have made "significant" errors that led to the vessel's wreck Friday and subsequent deaths of at least five people, the cruise line said late Sunday. "The route of the vessel appears to have been too close to the shore, and the captain's judgment in handling the emergency appears to have not followed standard Costa procedures," Costa Cruises said

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Israel and the United States are "supporters of state terrorism" and will suffer a "punitive response" at an "opportune time," Iran's Press TV cited a top Iranian general as saying Sunday, days after an Iranian nuclear scientist was killed. Iran will hold "the U.S., Britain and the Zionist regime accountable for their actions," said the deputy chairman of Iran's Joint Chiefs of Staff, Brig. Gen

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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has announced the government will cut fuel prices, after a week-long nationwide strike and protests against soaring costs. Jonathan said in a televised address Monday that given "hardships being suffered by the Nigerian people," fuel prices will drop to about 60 cents per liter.  That is a reduction of about 35 percent, but remains higher than the 45 cents

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European leaders hit back Saturday at the downgrade by Standard & Poor's of the credit ratings of nine European nations, calling the move unfounded and inconsistent. From Larnaka to Brussels, European Union officials were on the defensive Saturday, downplaying the downgrades while vowing to push through fiscal reforms. In a widely anticipated move, the rating agency downgraded by a notch the

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French Prime Minister Francois Fillon insisted Saturday that France is a safe bet for investors, a day after the country's credit rating was downgraded by a ratings agency amid concerns over debt and low growth. France was among nine euro area countries to be downgraded by Standard & Poor's Friday, losing its AAA rating in the process. Austria also had its top-tier credit rating lowered by one

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High-street practitioners regularly see children with teeth worn away to little more than stumps due to the youngsters' mouths being bathed in the acidic drinks day-in, day-out, said Kathryn Harley, dean of the Faculty of Dentistry at the Royal College of Surgeons. National surveys show half of five-year-olds exhibit signs of 'tooth wear', caused by acidic drinks dissolving and softening enamel

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Piracy off the coast of Somalia has cost many lives and billions of dollars lost through ransom demands and stolen cargo. However, a report out Friday by the London-based think tank Chatham House has calculated that it has also brought widespread economic development to the poor, war-torn country. Normal state infrastructure that exists in other countries has fallen apart in Somalia, but the

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Mr Lansley said firms should "step up to" and offer free surgery. But Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, suggested legislation might have to be changed "to force these companies to face up to their responsibilities". Private healthcare firms Harley Medical Group, The Hospital Group, and Transform Cosmetic Surgery are refusing to pay for operations to remove or replace the French-made implants,

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Authorities said Friday that two men in the Dakotas were being questioned in connection with the death of a Montana math teacher who vanished last weekend when she left her house for a run. Sidney police Chief Frank DiFonzo said a 47-year-old man was in custody in the Williams County jail in North Dakota, while a 22-year-old man was being questioned in Rapid City, S.D. He did not identify them

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Robert Kyncl, YouTube's head of content, told the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that in December last year 700,000 Android handsets were activated every day. According to the United Nations, around 300,000 babies are born worldwide every day. Kyncl joked that Google would now have to look for customers on other planets. With more and more mobile handset manufacturers launching

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The complex relationship between China and the United States will be tested this year, as both countries face leadership change, or potential leadership change. The first major challenge to the relationship, though, may come from possible leadership change resulting from presidential elections in Taiwan on Saturday. Taiwan has been separately governed since Nationalist forces fled there in 1949,

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Uncertainty about health is debilitating. I spent Christmas with low back pain and stiffness that woke me every morning at about 5am. Like every doctor, I was long ago taught that these are symptoms not of a mechanical problem, but of inflammation, which can be altogether more serious. After a few days, I had almost convinced myself that I had a malignant deposit in my spine. I need not have

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After allegations of election fraud during the last presidential election surfaced in Indiana, dozens of Republican county and state officials in Indiana are taking lessons on how to prevent mischief in the presidential nominating petition process. A seminar in LaPorte, Ind., for Republicans was called after the revelations of what is alleged to have happened in the Hoosier state four years ago

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Speaking at a radio industry event called 'Redefining Radio', today at the Houses of Parliament, Karla Geci, head of strategic partner development at Facebook, said radio companies should be the top of people’s music experiences on the social networking site. Last September at f8, Facebook’s annual developer’s conference, Mark Zuckerberg, the sites founder, unveiled a new type of social app

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The most radical ever shake-up of the rules governing Top Level Domains means addresses ending in “.coke”, “.ford” or “.google” could appear online next year. ICANN, the international quango in charge of the web’s addressing system, opens the application process today after six years in development. As well as "dot brand" TLDs, new "open" TLDs - whereby once up and running anyone could buy a

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The co-founder and president of Arm Holdings – the Cambridge-based chip designer which arguably ranks as Britain's foremost technology company – was talking about rival Intel, and its declared ambition to move into smartphones. Mr Brown and his colleagues will be taking Intel's boasts a lot more seriously now. After two years of talk, Intel has used the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

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Australia says it will ease sanctions on Burma because of “positive steps” that have been taken towards democracy. Canberra has suggested that more restrictions could be lifted, if such progress continues. Campaigners say they are disappointed at Australia’s actions because of allegations of increases in serious human rights abuses by Burmese military authorities. Australia says it will reduce

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited Cuba Wednesday and called on developing countries to unite against "imperialism and capitalism." "Why are the Iranian, Cuban and Latin American people punished by the United States?" he asked the audience attending his speech at the University of Havana. "Have we attacked them in some way? Have we asked for more than we are owed? Never, not once. We

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War games. Threats to close a key oil passageway and block a U.S. aircraft carrier from returning to the Persian Gulf. An American sentenced to death in Tehran, accused of spying. And now a breakthrough in Iran's nuclear program. The developments portend what officials see as a momentous year ahead in the standoff between Iran and the West, as Iranian leaders appear to grow bolder despite a new

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Taiwan's incumbent president, Ma Ying-jeou, has earned recognition for easing tension with longtime rival China.  But as he campaigns for re-election this week, he is now fighting to maintain a lead in public opinion polls.  The campaign trail the pro-independence main opposition is charging a lack of achievements by the current administration. At this musical rally Sunday in the Taiwanese

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Australia has welcomed Japan's decision to release without charge three anti-whaling activists who boarded a Japanese whaling support vessel two days ago.  The Canberra government has warned protest groups that they might not receive such lenient treatment in the future. The three Australian activists were expected to be taken to Japan to face criminal charges.  But authorities in Tokyo have

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Chinese authorities in eastern Jiangsu Province have launched a massive manhunt for a suspect in a deadly armed robbery, according to Chinese media. The suspect allegedly shot and killed a man who had just withdrawn 200,000 yuan ($31,700) from a bank in Nanjing's Dongmen Street on January 6 and then fled the scene in a car, China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Nanjing Public Security

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pledged closer cooperation on Monday, vowing to fight poverty and imperialism. The two leaders signed a series of accords in the areas of industry, science, technology and politics, the state-run AVN news agency reported. Sitting side by side in front of a room full of reporters, they presented a united front in their

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President Malam Bacai Sanha of Guinea-Bissau died early Monday, according to an official at the West African nation's embassy in Paris. He was 64. The official said Sanha was in Paris for treatment, and died at Val-de-Grace Hospital. Sanha became president in September 2009, months after the assassination of President Joao Bernardo Vieira. Sanha had served as interim president and defeated

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When the World Bank's arbitration body weighs in on a dispute between Venezuela and ExxonMobil, President Hugo Chavez says he won't respect the decision. The oil giant and officials from the South American nation have been feuding since 2007, when Chavez's government nationalized a joint project in the country's crude-rich Orinoco belt. A case before the World Bank's International Centre for

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Police said Sunday that there have been no arrests or suspects identified in the death of a central Oklahoma woman whose body was found along a dirt bike trail. Homicide detectives finished their work at the scene in Oklahoma City where the body of Jaymie Adams, 25, of Blanchard, was discovered Saturday by a biker riding near Lake Stanley Draper, police Capt. Lisa Camacho said. "We completed

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The body found on Queen Elizabeth II's estate in Sandringham last week was a 17-year-old who had been missing since August, police said Sunday. DNA tests helped detectives identified the woman as Alisa Dmitrijeva, Norfolk police said in a statement. Police had been offering a £5000 reward for information leading to the missing teen. Police have not said what caused her death, but said

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A northeastern Nigerian state was under a 24-hour curfew Saturday following three days of violence that left more than 30 Christians dead. The curfew was placed in effect as fears rose that Christian youths could launch reprisal attacks, said Tomborokai Gajere, chaplain to the Adamawa state government. On Friday, 11 men and one woman were killed in the city of Yola. The militant Islamist

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A Nigerian court has issued an order seeking to prevent a general strike against rising fuel prices. Labor unions said indefinite strikes will start nationwide Monday despite the order, which they say is invalid. Angry protesters marched in the capital, Abuja, Friday chanting anti-government messages while police blocked their progress. A number of demonstrators carried placards. One

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The White House has declared the government of South Sudan eligible to receive weapons and defense assistance from the United States. President Barack Obama issued a memorandum Friday saying that the ability to provide defense materials and services to the government of South Sudan is in the national interest of the United States and could promote peace in East Africa. The determination does not

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A U.S. Navy ship has rescued 13 Iranians being held hostage by pirates in the Arabian Sea, days after Iran warned U.S. vessels not to return to the Persian Gulf. The U.S. Navy announced Friday that it detected the pirates' skiff alongside the Iranian fishing vessel, the Al Molai, on Thursday after receiving a distress call from the Iranian ship. The Navy said a team of military personnel from

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The 17 eurozone nations are facing a new wave of negative economic indicators, a further signal that Europe's currency bloc is headed toward a recession. The European Commission said Friday that executive and consumer confidence dropped in December to the lowest point in more than two years. Factory orders in Germany, with the eurozone's strongest economy, fell nearly 5 percent in November,

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When Carbon Motors first announced the purpose-built E7 police car in 2008, the Atlanta-based company created quite a stir. The sleek, diesel-powered cruiser was designed with integrated law enforcement equipment, including “weapons of mass destruction sensors” and then cutting-edge automated license plate readers. A wireless network would connect each E7 to a central police command station and

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Foreign election experts have arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo to discuss a possible review of disputed November polls. The U.S.-based National Democratic Institute and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems say they have dispatched a team to Congo at the request of politicians there. International observers have said the polls were deeply flawed, especially in the

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The sponsored blog posts, which had identical content, linked to the Google Chrome home page, boosting its position in Google search results. Paying for such links is in breach of Google’s guidelines because they artificially boost a website's rank. The firm's search algorithm is designed to find high quality, original content that has been linked to without money changing hands and Google

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Opposition groups have accused the Syrian government of misleading Arab League peace monitors by taking them to loyalist areas, changing street signs to confuse them and sending supporters into rebellious neighborhoods to give false testimony. Activists in the cities of Idlib in the north, central Homs and Daraa in the south Wednesday said the army had hidden heavy weapons in urban areas even

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Another top Iranian official weighed in Wednesday about the tensions brewing between his country and the United States, the latest salvo in the war of words over the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf. "We have always stated that there is no need for the forces belonging to the countries beyond this region to have a presence in the Persian Gulf," Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi said Wednesday, the

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China is voicing strong opposition to U.S. sanctions against Iran. Authorities in Beijing say Chinese interaction with the Middle Eastern country does not violate United Nations resolutions and therefore should not be affected by the latest sanctions. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei repeated China's position that, on Iran, it prefers dialogue to sanctions. Hong specifically said China

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Clashes erupted Tuesday in Libya's capital between militias from Tripoli and Misrata, killing four people, officials said. The clashes were over control of a building that previously housed an intelligence center under former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, said Col. Abdul Monem al-Tunsi, spokesman for the Interior Ministry. However, former rebels in Tripoli provided different, and conflicting,

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Amid mounting criticism over the effectiveness of its observer mission to Syria, the Arab League has called an urgent meeting Saturday to discuss the future role of its team. France's foreign minister and Syrian opposition groups say the League mission has done little to quell violence against civilians. Women in the Syrian city of Daraa told Arab League observers Tuesday about an alleged

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With Islamist parties dominating the process, Egyptians in rural areas started voting Tuesday in the third and final round of elections to choose lower house of parliament members. Voting began Tuesday in nine provinces, including al-Gharbiya, North Sinai and South Sinai, the last areas to hold polls in a series of voting that began in late November.  The two-day vote is part of Egypt's first

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The militant Islamist group Boko Haram has issued an ultimatum giving Christians living in northern Nigeria three days to leave the area amid a rising tide of violence there. A Boko Haram spokesman, Abul Qaqa, also said late Sunday that Boko Haram fighters are ready to confront soldiers sent to the area under a state of emergency declared in parts of four states by Nigerian President Goodluck

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The cruise to the moon took 3 1/2 months and covered 2 1/2 million miles -- far longer than the direct three-day flight by Apollo astronauts. Over the New Year's weekend, a pair of NASA spacecraft arrived back-to-back at their destination in the first mission devoted to studying lunar gravity. Mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory did not toast with champagne -- there's a

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The 2012 Tournament of Roses parade went off without a hitch Monday morning in Pasadena, then thousands of protesters followed in its wake carrying a 250-foot-long banner representing the U.S. Constitution and a 70-foot-long octopus representing corporate greed. The chanting marchers intended to walk the entire parade route. Behind them were three truckloads of Los Angeles County sheriff's

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Glittering fireworks lit the night skies from Sydney to New York and capitals across the globe, as tens of millions of revelers welcomed 2012 with star-studded celebrations, prayer, and hopes for a better future. Skies erupted over Moscow's Red Square, Rio de Janeiro, Hong Kong, London, Paris and Rome.  At the Vatican, Pope Benedict urged tens of thousands of tourists and pilgrims to pray "for

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Hundreds of pro-democracy protesters gathered in Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square Saturday night to commemorate those killed in the uprising that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak. Some in the crowd sang patriotic songs, waved Egyptian flags and held a candlelight vigil to remember the dead. Others held photographs of family members and friends who were killed in the political upheaval, deadly

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