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According to the latest theory of the Portuguese police, Madeleine McCann four-year-old died after smashing the back of her head on a ceramic flagstone at her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz and that her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann,panicked fearing they would be charged with manslaughter they got rid of the body, possibly [...]

Pop singer George Michael has admitted on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that his marijuana use can be “a problem” and said he is “constantly trying” to smoke less of the drug.

Ibrahim Gambari, the U.N.’s special envoy to Myanmar met Sunday with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi after meeting with Myanmar’s military rulers as he sought a peaceful solution to the government’s crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators.

SECURITY FIRM Sophos has warned that an email doing the rounds and purporting to be written by the Dalai Lama has a malicious attachment.Beware of this kind of email
“Dear Friends & Colleagues, Please find enclosed a massage from His Holiness the Dalai Lama in support of the recent pro democracy demonstrations taking place in Burma. [...]

After the Pakistan Supreme Court ruled in favor of President General Pervez Musharraf’s eligibility to run for a second term in office, government forces laid siege to the Supreme Court grounds, where several hundred lawyers had taken refuge after a vicious attack on a peaceful protest in the capital, Islamabad.

A 24-year-old Argentine man, Reinaldo Waveqche,has married a woman Adelfa Volpes, 82,that is 58 years his senior.Watch the Video

Dominique Strauss-Kahn,58, France’s former finance minister and one-time Socialist presidential candidate, was confirmed yesterday as the next managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

 Fiji dump Wales out of the World Cup and set up a quarter-final clash with South Africa.

After a juvenile court judge set bail at $45000,Mychal Bell, a black teenager accused of beating a white classmate and who was the last of the “Jena 6″ behind bars, was released from custody

You’ve probably heard that line before – no doubt fairly recently, thanks to a bogus e-mail that unfortunately received wide circulation on the Internet this summer with promises of Mars being as big as the full moon.
But this fact is absolutely true: Mars, the only planet whose surface we can see in any detail from [...]

President Bush said that he is going to use his veto to the $35 billion major expansion of a children’s health program despite its overwhelming approval by Congress.

A girl who was shown on a videotape, made four years ago, being sexually assaulted has been found and is safe, officials in Nye County, Nevada, said Friday.”We have found the child, Madison. She’s safe. The detectives say she is in good condition,” Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo said.

“We have trumpeted these young lads a lot, so what has happened tonight was a big shock for us all,We didn’t cope with the battle at all – it was just a very bad performance.”said a flabbergasted Sir Alex Ferguson after Man Utd loss over Coventry in the Carling Cup.
 

Microsoft Corp said late Wednesday that “Halo 3″ has broken the US sales record for a new video game by garnering an estimated US$170 million in its first 24-hours on sale.The game also drew over a million Xbox Live members to play online in the first 20-hours on offer, making it the biggest day for [...]

EQO (pronounced “echo”) is a cool, new way to use your mobile phone. It’s free software for your mobile phone that lets you make calls around the world at local rates, send text messages, and access all of your IM buddies on AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ and Jabber. So you can save up [...]

The Diocese of Little Rock announced on Wednesday that Six Catholic nuns have been excommunicated for heresy after refusing to give up membership in a Canadian sect whose founder claims to be the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary