Category: News
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Experts Agree Giant, Razor-Clawed Bioengineered Crabs Pose No Threat
Experts Agree Giant, Razor-Clawed Bioengineered Crabs Pose No Threat There’s going to be a lot of flash photography… Check it out here.
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Mugabe Allies Intensify Bid to Take Farms of Whites – washingtonpost.com
The targeting of Stockdale Farm, where unarmed squatters have done little more than plow one field and hang around, is part of a surge in recent attempts by cronies of President Robert Mugabe to confiscate the last of Zimbabwe’s white-owned properties, farmers’ advocacy groups say. Check it out here.
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At the Heart of North Korea's Troubles, an Intractable Hunger Crisis – washingtonpost.com
Under the leadership of Kim Jong Il, the country cannot feed its people. Perennially dependent on food aid, North Korea has become a truculent ward of the wealthy countries it threatens. It is the world’s first nuclear-armed, missile-wielding beggar — a particularly intricate challenge for the Obama administration as it begins to formulate a foreign…
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Hostage held for 10 hours with Sega light gun – Boing Boing Gadgets
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CIA Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years
A report released Tuesday by the CIA’s Office of the Inspector General revealed that the CIA has mistakenly obscured hundreds of thousands of pages of critical intelligence information with black highlighters. Check it out here.
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Tactical Success, Strategic Defeat – washingtonpost.com
Exactly what happened next is disputed, but shots were fired and a man inside fell dead. Four other men were grabbed and arrested. Then the soldiers departed, leaving the women to calm the frightened children and the rumors to spread in the dark. By midmorning, hundreds of angry people were blocking the nearby highway, burning…
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3 Sierra Leoneans Guilty Of Multiple War Crimes – washingtonpost.com
The charges against all three include amputation, murder, enlistment of child soldiers and sexual slavery. They also include forced marriage, the enslavement that countless young girls suffered when their villages were raided and they were forced to “marry” a rebel. Wednesday’s convictions marked the first time that the forced-marriage charge was successfully handed down in…
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Crime Watch: Of Axes and Car Hackings
A few years ago, while hanging out at my future wife’s apartment, I opened a cupboard in her cramped bathroom. To be sure, this is not a habit of mine, and I can’t recall my exact motivation. What I found hanging in this cupboard above the toilet, however, made me uneasy: a small ax. …
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Politkovskaya Suspects Walk Free
A jury on Thursday acquitted three men charged in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, winning praise from Politkovskaya’s family for not accepting what they called a poorly investigated case. Check it out here.
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Inside human parts market in Lagos
A week ago, our reporter posed as a juju priest who was in dire need of human body parts for urgent rituals. After about four hours of waiting and being passed from one “contact” to another, and played around like ping-pong, the reporter got a dealer who “booked” him. The rule here is, if you…
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I Am Jesus – ThankGod Chukwuma
If you are a believer of the prophecies in the Christians holy writ, then we are indeed in the end time. Barely two months ago, Sunday Sun exclusively reported the story of a man in Lagos, who claims to be Christ’s only viceroy on earth, revealing the unpleasant happenings in his enclave. Yet, before our…
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Police Say School Shooter Had Troubled Past, History Of School Shootings
Police Say School Shooter Had Troubled Past, History Of School Shootings Check it out here.
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Typo In Proposition 8 Defines Marriage As Between 'One Man And One Wolfman'
On the heels of the historic typo, voters in Utah passed a similar referendum a week later, defining marriage as between one man and 23 wolfmen. Check it out here.
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In Russia, a Grisly Message Marks Rise in Hate Crimes
The e-mail that arrived Monday night in the inboxes of two organizations tracking hate crimes in Russia carried a disturbing message and an even more disturbing photo — that of a man’s severed head resting on a wooden chopping block. “This surprise was prepared for Moscow officials by concerned Russian people who can no longer…
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Iranian Woman Blinded by Spurned Suitor Persuades Court to Punish Him Similarly
“At an age at which I should be putting on a wedding dress, I am asking for someone’s eyes to be dripped with acid,” she said in a recent interview, as rain poured against the windows of her parents’ small apartment in a lower-middle-class neighborhood of Tehran. “I am doing that because I don’t want…
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The Top 10 Everything of 2008 – TIME
Top 10 Election Photos Top 10 Editorial Cartoons Top 10 Oddball News Stories Top 10 Photos Top 10 Non-fiction books Top 10 Fiction books Top 10 Gadgets Top 10 iPhone Apps Top 10 Awkward Moments Top 10 Fleeting Celebrities Top 10 Magazine Covers Top 10 T-shirt Worthy Slogans Top 10 Viral Videos Top 10 Open…
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American Airlines Now Charging Fees To Non-Passengers
FORT WORTH, TX—Cash-strapped American Airlines announced a new series of fees this week that will apply to all customers not currently flying, scheduled to fly, or even thinking about flying aboard the commercial carrier. Check it out here.
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Marry a dwarf? – The Sun News On-line
The best assistance I could ever render to dwarfs is to be their friends, perhaps if they happen to be my course-mate. Aside that, I cannot shop for dwarfs, com-m-on. Though I like to watch them in their very funny statures because they are quite funny and portable to walk with. I also like them…