60 Dead in Bombings Near Pakistani Capital

"WAH, Pakistan, Aug. 21 -- At least 60 people were killed and 100 were injured in coordinated suicide bombings Thursday at Pakistan's largest army munitions factory, the latest in a series of Taliban attacks against government targets. "

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Third official quits mayor's team

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Postcard delivered 79 years late

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Meet Ivy Bean - the world's oldest Facebooker aged 102

"Ivy Bean is a great-grandmother with a difference. At 102 years old she has joined the social networking revolution and become the oldest person on Facebook.The former mill worker, who was born in Bradford in 1905,...

The Michael Phelps Diet

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Big Brother Britain

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Cow escapes from abattoir

And now for something completely different........"it's.""Cow escapes from abattoir A cow has escaped from an abattoir, leaping down a manhole and fleeing for a mile through a town's...

Change We Can, Change We Shall says Maldives politician

"MUSING ON INDEPENDENCE Today is our 43rd Independence Day. I am sitting at home, enjoying a rare day with my family. Just now, the children are playing with their cousins as my little nephew is celebrating his...

I Am Become Death: Atomic Bomb Dropped 8/6/1945

"Am Become Death: Atomic Bomb Dropped 8/6/1945 Posted on 06 August 2008 by Kevin Today in history, on this day August 6, 1945, U.S. bomber, the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima Japan...

Rescuers reach Italian after 11 die on K2

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US Implicates Pakistani Agents in Kabul Bomb Attack

US officials accuse the Pakistani government of aiding terrorists. Officials here also said that they have solid evidence implicating the Pakistani government's intelligence agency, which has been accused of aiding terrorism before on numerous occasions by the Indian...

Green Party Protests that the Washington Post Won't Cover them, says the Post

The Green Party protested outside of the Washington Post building complaining that the Post Doesn't cover them, said  the Washington Post today. " A group of about 15 protestors and candidates from a...

23 people including 10 Taliban killed in Pakistan

Pakistan's innocent residents in the restive border areas along the Afghanistan are getting caught in the crossfire. Today a shell hit house of  a resident and killed all his 6 family family. "Thirteen people have been killed when mortar shells fell on two houses in...

US Killer Machines Visit A Small Town In Ireland!

When I came across the quote below I decided that it might be worth paying a visit to Bray to see what US killer machines look like and maybe I could get some photographs of the protest. When I arrived in Bray on the...

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