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  Elle Woods would approve of Reese Witherspoon’s gracious acceptance of responsibility for the incident last month which landed her husband with a DUI and her in handcuffs for disorderly conduct. Witherspoon pled no contest to charges and her husband, Jim Toth, pled guilty. She will pay a $213 fine and Toth will perform...
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  An anti-terrorist court in Rawalpindi ordered two weeks judicial remand for the former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in the Benazir Bhutto’s murder case on Tuesday. Pervez Musharraf was not presented in the court due to security reasons. Talking to reporters after the hearing, FIA’s special prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali alleged that Musharraf was...
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A Canadian woman said Tuesday her 17-year-old daughter hanged herself after she never recovered from an alleged rape by four teenage boys that left her deeply depressed and bullied in her community, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported. Leah Parsons, of Nova Scotia, said she took her daughter, Rehtaeh, off life-support Sunday after she...
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Google’s stock price topped $800 for the first time Tuesday amid renewed confidence in the company’s ability to reap steadily higher profits from its dominance of Internet search and prominence in the increasingly important mobile device market. The milestone comes more than five years after Google’s shares initially hit $700. Not long after breaking...
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General Motors’ Cadillac ATS has been named 2013 North American Car of the Year by a jury of automotive writers, Reuters reports. Chrysler’s Ram 1500 pickup, which was extensively redesigned for model year 2013, was named North American Truck/Utility of the Year.
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Twitter Inc and NBC Universal’s move to suppress a British reporter’s tweets related to the network’s Olympics coverage may have backfired after the incident became fodder for Twitter chatter around the world on Monday. The microblogging service suspended Guy Adams, the Los Angeles correspondent for London-based daily The Independent, after he sent a tweet...
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Maeve Binchy, one of Ireland’s best-loved writers, has died after a short illness, aged 72. The books of Binchy, a former journalist, sold 40 million copies and were translated into 30 languages. Her novels included Circle of Friends, which was adapted into a 1995 film starring Chris O’Donnell and Minnie Driver. Her novels and...
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A commentary by the official Xinhua News Agency said Mr Romney’s statement that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel could worsen an already tense Middle East situation. It said that Mr Romney’s “hawkish remarks” ignored the sensitive nature of Jerusalem. It said the comments disregarded the Palestinians’ claim to the war-won eastern sector of...
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Ross Levinsohn is not sticking around for the Marissa Mayer era at Yahoo, free meals or no. Levinsohn, appointed as interim Yahoo CEO after Scott Thompson got forced out earlier this year, is leaving the company. The news, confirmed by Yahoo, was first reported by AllThingsD, which cited multiple unnamed sources. “Ross has done...
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Romney:Russia Our Number One Adversary
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Barack Obama’s family tree just got a little more storied. Researchers from the genealogy website Ancestry.com released evidence Monday which the group says proves that America’s first African-American president may be related to the country’s first documented African slave. “We have two of the most significant Africans in our country’s history being directly related...
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The traveling press secretary for Mitt Romney lost his cool and cursed at reporters who attempted to ask questions of the Republican presidential candidate in a public plaza near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw Tuesday. After Romney paid his respects to Poland’s war dead and shook hands with a small gathering...
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Google on Tuesday dedicated its doodle to the London 2012 Men’s Rings. The artistic illustration features a man and not a female as Rings Gymnastics is a discipline only for men that requires tremendous strength. The London 2012 Artistic Gymnastics Men’s Rings doodle is artistically designed in which the two ring grips represent the...
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To mark the third day of the London Olympics 2012, Google has replaced its usual logo with a new doodle – London 2012 fencing. The new doodle shows two fencers fighting against each other using bladed weapons. The letter ‘L’ in “Google” is shown as one of the bladed weapons being used by one...
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The president of Uganda said in a special broadcast that 14 people have died from the Ebola outbreak that started in the western part of the country three weeks ago, including one in the capital of Kampala. Yoweri Museveni said to avoid physical contact, because that’s how the disease, which has a mortality rate...
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UPDATE: Colorado prosecutors on Monday charged James Holmes, a former neuroscience graduate student with 24 counts of murder and 116 counts of attempted murder in the shooting rampage at the midnight showing of the new Batman movie. James Holmes will appear in court for the second time Monday to hear the charges against him....
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Medal Counts Olympics 2012 Check here for London Olympic live medal count updates
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Former President Bill Clinton is set to play a central part in the Democratic convention, aides said, and will formally place President Obama’s name into nomination by delivering a prime-time speech designed to present a forceful economic argument for why Mr. Obama deserves to win a second term. The prominent role of Mr. Clinton,...
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Mitt Romney told Jewish donors Monday that their culture is part of what has allowed them to be more economically successful than the nearby Palestinians, outraging Palestinian leaders who called his comments racist and out of touch. “As you come here and you see the GDP per capita, for instance, in Israel which is...
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European stocks were on the rise Monday morning, with both Spain and Italy seeing steady bond yields. Both countries are anticipating more stimulus from the European Central Bank and the U.S. Federal Reserve this week. Over the weekend German Chancellor Angela Merkel and fellow European leaders made a joint declaration that they’d do everything...
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