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UFC 160 live blog Fighters from around the world competing at MGM Grand
Dennis Bermudez pounds on Max Holloway on his way to a split decision win in their bout at UFC 160 Friday, May 24, 2013 at the MGM Grand Garden ...
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China is now worlds second largest moviegoing country
May 25--Related: Mayor Villaraigosa off to China to promote business Movies are bigger than ever. At least, they are in China. The nation of 1.35 billion became the second largest filmgoing market on the planet last year, its box office receipts of $2.7 billion muscling out Japan from that spot. That was a whopping 36 percent higher than the 2011 ticket sales in the People's Republic, and ...
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5 soldiers killed in western Iraq
Five soldiers were killed in a bomb attack in the Iraqi volatile province of Anbar on Saturday, a provincial police source said.The attack occurred in the afternoon when a roadside bomb went off near an Iraqi army patrol near the town of Heet, some 160 km west of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, killing five soldiers, including a lieutenant colonel, the source told Xinhua on condition of ...
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6 Iranian pilgrims killed in car bombing in Iraq
Six Iranian pilgrims were killed and some 20 wounded in a car bomb explosion in Salahudin province north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Saturday, a provincial police source said.The attack occurred in the afternoon when a booby-trapped car struck a bus carrying Iranian Shiite pilgrims near the city of Samarra, some 110 km north of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.The ...
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Cars torched police attacked in new Stockholm riots
Cars were torched and police facedstone-throwing youths in Stockholm's immigrant-dominated suburbs on early Sunday,but the nightly riots that have raged for a week appeared to be easing, ...
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Remove kids at birth from criminals
told The Star drastic action was sometimes needed "because crime runs in families" and that it was "frightening" he is now seeing in his courtroom the grandchildren of criminals he prosecuted or defended 40 years ago.Instead, the children of prostitutes, drug addicts or wife-beaters should be taken away earlier, to prevent them from languishing in the care system and turning ...
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French soldier stabbing UK copycat
THE stabbing of a French soldier in Paris might be linked to the brutal killing of a soldier in London by Islamic extremists two days ...
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Tornado-Ravaged Town Celebrates Graduates
Students who lost their caps, gowns and tassles in the tornado were given replacements free of charge so they could still participate in the rite of passage and walk in their ceremony. Seven tornadoes had hit the area during the lifespan of the class of 2013, but many of the graduates said they planned to stay in the area as they moved on to the next chapters of their lives. "I ...
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Real World Economics U.S. tax policy has winners and losers
Problems in the U.S. system of taxing corporate income were front and center this past week as senators grilled Apple CEO Tim Cook about his company's tax minimization measures. Yet no one argued that Apple has violated U.S. tax laws or even that it is particularly aggressive or egregious in its tax avoidance. It is simply large, well-known and highly global in its operations. And this ...
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Amanda Bynes
>Editor's note: This story contains graphic language.(CNN) -- Amanda Bynes has had a rough few days -- some might say, a rough few months -- landing in jail after allegedly tossing a marijuana bong out of her 36th-floor New apartment window. On Saturday, the 27-year-old actress took to Twitter with a simple message: "Don't believe any reports. "And she didn't stop there.var ...
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Bynes Cop sexually harassed me
>Editor's note: This story contains graphic language.(CNN) -- Amanda Bynes has had a rough few days -- some might say, a rough few months -- landing in jail after allegedly tossing a marijuana bong out of her 36th-floor New apartment window. On Saturday, the 27-year-old actress took to Twitter with a simple message: "Don't believe any reports. "And she didn't stop there.var ...
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Pro League Awards The Nationals best international players
Pro League website, conveys that during the past two seasons he has found the net 30 times in 32 league matches; a ratio of a goal every 1.06 games. Compare that to the tallies across the same span of the league's two best frontmen, who play for two best teams, and it makes Kabi's contribution more impressive. At a goal every 0.75 league ...
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Book Review The Girls of Atomic City The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan
Now in their 80s and 90s, the girls of Atomic City are no longer in the dark about the jobs they took during the summer of 1943. But back then, as employees of the Clinton Engineering Works, they knew only a few things for sure about the place they would call home.The work site had belonged to 1,000 East Tennessee farming families up until 1942, when the government seized 60,000 acres of their ...
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Correction France-Cannes Notebook story
CANNES, France - In a May 24 Cannes Notebook item about jewelry at the Cannes Film Festival, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the Swavorski earrings Milla Jovovich wore cost $321,000. They cost $321. A corrected version of the story is below: Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival At the Cannes Film Festival: Swavorski not worried about thefts, Baldwin criticizes press By ...
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China closes the gap with Europe
Premier Li Keqiang concludes a historic free trade agreement with Switzerland that promises to tighten ties with Europe, China's largest trade partner. The free trade agreement between China and Switzerland will benefit both nations and bring the second largest economy in the world closer to Europe, Premier Li Keqiang said during his visit to Bern on Saturday. Both countries can tap the ...
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Fifty arrested ahead of Paris anti-gay marriage rally
Fifty opponents of gay marriage were arrestedin central Paris on late Saturday, police said, on the eve of a major protestagainst a new French law allowing homosexual couples to formally tie the ...
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Bridge collapse a wake-up call
An upside down vehicle rests in the water after a portion of the Interstate 5 bridge collapsed into the Skagit River in Washington state in the US ...
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Polanski Feminism is a bitter Pill
Veteran director Roman Polanski says the birth control pill has had a "masculinising" effect on women and that the levelling of the sexes is "idiotic", in comments made at the Cannes Film ...
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France probes Woolwich terror link
President Francois Hollande said the identity of the attacker who stabbed the French soldier in the throat ion Saturday was unknown and warned against jumping to conclusions about the assault in the busy La Defense shopping area. The 23-year-old soldier's injury was not life-threatening, the Interior Ministry said.British soldier Drummer Rigby, 25, was hacked to death in broad daylight in ...
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Niger Attackers came from Libya
Niger's president said suicide bombers who carried out simultaneous attacks on a military installation and a French-run uranium mine came from southern ...
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Road collapses after train crash
Burlington Northern Santa Fe train at a rail intersection. Derailed rail cars then hit columns supporting the highway overpass, causing it to buckle and partially ...
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Missouri highway buckles after train hits overpass
Officials survey the scene just east of the Route M overpass where several train cars derailed on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe train near Rockview, Mo. on Saturday. (Fred Lynch/Southeast Missourian/Associated ...
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This week the World Affairs Council
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Rape isnt always rape outrage
FORMER UK TV presenter Nick Ross has provoked outrage by suggesting "rape isnt always rape" when the victim is drunk, with a boyfriend, or has gone "too far" in leading a man ...
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Amanda Bynes I Was Sexually Harassed During Arrest
Amanda Bynes Threatens to Sue Media Over Recent Reports "He lied and said I threw a bong out the window when I opened the window for fresh air," Bynes wrote of her arresting ...
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Austin among the leading US cities emerging from recession
The financial crisis, now refered to by some as the Great Recession, has battered cities across the country, but Austin has become a pocket of hope where jobs are available and the population is growing, suggesting that the city may be among a few in the US leading the country out of the recession.
Austin has been ranked in the top 20 US cities with strong population growth, the study was done by the Census Bureau, this is a reflection of the sound economic performance of Texas as whole (the state had several of its cities in the top 20), and subsequently may be given four additional House seats following the 2010 census. Read more
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