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 Dunkin' Donuts accused of promoting terrorism WHENDunkin' Donuts, the coffee and carbohydrates chain, shot a smilingly wholesome celebrity daytime TV host and chef for their latest latte ad, it hardly imagined
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 France looks at ways to curb 'fat cat' salaries across EU FRANCE, which takes over the presidency of the EU on 1 July, will ask finance ministers to consider a European directive to curb disproportionate bonuses
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 Mission Accomplished II: Go on, pull the other one SO AL-QAEDA is "almost defeated", is it? Major gains against al-Qaeda. Essentially defeated.
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WMD advice for new US president THE NEXTUS president will get advice about how to prevent a nuclear attack, researched and written by top experts on weapons of mass destruction.
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UCLA director 'sold body parts' THE former head of the University of California's cadaver programme and a businessman are facing eight charges involving black market sales of human body parts
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 Wanna-be president who sounds like Dr Evil and looks like Mini-Me JOHN McCain, the Republican presumptive nominee for the presidency, planned his strategy well.
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Tibet temple reopens TIBET'S holiest temple has reopened two months after a violent uprising in Tibetan areas throughout China led police and armed troops to surround and close
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 Cellist of Sarajevo threatens to burn his instrument over novel ABOSNIAN musician, famous for playing his cello during the siege of Sarajevo, and now resident in Northern Ireland is threatening to stage a protest outside
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 Man loses leg in order to be rescued after four days buried under rubble IT WAS an agonising 100 hours from the moment the quake struck until rescuers pulled Liu Deyun from the rubble of a fertiliser factory on
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 Nation looks to Grandpa Wen for comfort HE HAS shouted through a megaphone to survivors in the rubble, hugged rescuers and rescued alike and urged the People's Liberation Army on to even
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 Communists see red over Indiana Jones 'propaganda' RUSSIAN Communist Party members have condemned the new Indiana Jones film as crude anti-Soviet propaganda that distorts history, and called for it to be banned
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 Thousands flee earthquake area amid fears of lake bursting its banks THOUSANDS of Chinese fled to the hills on Saturday amid fears a lake formed near the epicentre of this week's earthquake would burst its banks.
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 Burma death toll soars as military government refuses foreign aid With about 2.
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Suicide bomber kills five in Afghanistan A SUICIDE bomber blew himself up in eastern Afghanistan yesterday, killing four Afghan soldiers and a child, government officials said.
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Californian wine pioneer dies ROBERT Mondavi, 94, the vintner who built his career and helped an iconic Northern California industry blossom by insisting that Napa Valley wines could compete
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 What will Hillary settle for? WHAT do women want? Or, more specifically, what does Hillary Clinton want?
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 Teddy Kennedy hospitalised after suspected stroke U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy was airlifted to a Boston hospital yesterday morning after falling ill with "stroke-like symptons" at the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport, Massachusetts.
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Climate change may be the end of the truffle THE black truffle, one of the most exclusive and expensive delicacies on the planet, is under threat from climate change.
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 China quake toll could top 80,000 CHINESE premier Wen Jiabao said yesterday that the death toll from last week's earthquake had passed 60,000 and could rise to 80,000.
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 Tsvangirai alleges assassination plot ZIMBABWEAN opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday postponed his expected return home to contest an election run-off after his party said it had discovered an assassination
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