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    Pope hopes for 2013 of peace
    Pope Benedict said in his New Year’s message on Tuesday he hoped 2013 would be a year of peace and that the world was under threat from unbridled capitalism, terrorism and criminality. The 85-year-old pope rang in the new year with a mass for about 10,000 people in St Peter’s Basilica on the day the Roman Catholic Church marks its World Day of Peace with initiatives...
    January 1, 2013 21:47
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    In Indian student’s gang rape, murder, two worlds collide
      One of hundreds of attacks reported in New Delhi each year, the gang rape and murder of a medical student caught Indian authorities and political parties flat-footed, slow to see that the assault on a private bus had come to symbolize an epidemic of crime against women. In the moments before the December 16 attack, the 23-year-old woman from India’s urban...
    December 31, 2012 19:00
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    (Հայերեն) Աշխարհի ամենամեծ կատու տիտղոսի հավակնորդը
    December 31, 2012 12:18
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    (Հայերեն) Հիլարի Քլինթոնը հոսպիտալացվել է
    December 31, 2012 12:09
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    The fork that talks! New Japanese gadget makes bizarre sounds while you eat
    First they made the toilet talk and now a new invention fromJapanhas brought the power of speech to another everyday item. Perfect if you find mealtimes a little dull, this new invention is certain to inject a bit of interest in to your  lunch … it’s the fork that talks to you. Kind of. The EsTheremine is a fork-like instrument that likes to play sounds as...
    December 30, 2012 7:03
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    Greece uncovers tourism scam, looks for unaccounted millions
    Three Greeks were arrested on suspicion of trying to defraud the national tourism board, police said on Saturday, and the finance ministry is investigating a suspected 12-million-euro hole in the state agency’s books. Tourism is one of cash-strapped Greece’s few remaining money-spinners and the EOT tourism board is in charge of funding several promotion campaigns...
    December 30, 2012 6:55
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    Saudi says budget surplus hit $102.9 bn in 2012
    Saudi Arabia said on Saturday that its budget surplus hit 386 billion riyals ($102.9 billion) in 2012 as oil-dominated revenues surged, according to state television. Revenues were expected to reach 1.24 trillion riyals ($330.4 billion) by the end of the year, while expenditure would be 853 billion riyals ($227.5 billion), Al-Ekhbariyah TV reported, citing the finance...
    December 30, 2012 6:51
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    Two killed as Russian passenger plane splits apart after landing
    A Russian passenger plane with up to 12 people on board split into three pieces after sliding off a runway and crashing into a highway outside a Moscow airport on Saturday, officials said. A photograph posted on the Internet showed a wrecked plane on a highway outside Vnukovo airport, with smoke billowing from the back end and only a mangled part of the front half visible. “After...
    December 30, 2012 6:49
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    Death of India rape victim stirs anger, promises of action
    A woman whose gang rape sparked protests and a national debate about violence against women in India died of her injuries on Saturday, prompting a security lockdown in New Delhi and an acknowledgement from India’s prime minister that social change is needed. The six suspects held in connection with the December 16 attack on the 23-year-old medical student on a New...
    December 30, 2012 6:44
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    French 75% tax rate on rich ruled unconstitutional
    France’s highest constitutional authority on Saturday struck down the 75 percent tax rate on earnings over one million euros, one of the centrepieces of Socialist President Francois Hollande’s 2013 budget adopted by parliament. The Constitutional Council also also rejected new methods for calculating the wealth tax, the council said in a statement.
    December 30, 2012 6:35
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    Two men and a woman arrested after severed pig’s HEAD left at doors of Muslim community centre on Boxing Day
    Two men and a woman have been arrested after a severed pig’s head was left at the doors of a Muslim place of worship. Police were called on Boxing Day morning after the sick gesture was discovered at the entrance to the community centre in the Thurnby Lodge area of Leicester. Shocked Muslim locals today expressed their disgust at the ‘attack on their culture’...
    December 30, 2012 6:25
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    Get ready for the iWatch: Apple rumoured to be developing gadget you wear on your wrist
    Apple is believed to be secretly developing a ‘smart watch’ with a touchscreen. Chinese online sites have reported the computer giant is working with chipmaker Intel on a wrist-worn gadget that has a 1.5inch screen and uses Bluetooth to communicate with other gadgets, which could include an iPhone. The ‘iWatch’ will go on sale next year, the report...
    December 29, 2012 0:05
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    Is this the most disgusting anti-smoking advert yet? Cancerous tumour seen growing inside cigarette in New Year campaign
    This gruesome image of a tumour growing from a cigarette is part of the Government’s latest attempt to get millions of Britons to stop smoking. The new Department of Health campaign launched today is in response to statistics which show more than a third of smokers still think the health risks are greatly exaggerated. This is despite the fact that smoking is still...
    December 28, 2012 23:09
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    Man, 20, dies after eating 28 raw eggs in a row for a bet
    A Tunisian man died after eating 28 raw eggs in one go for a bet. Dhaou Fatnassi, 20, allegedly wagered a friend he could eat 30 raw eggs in a row, for which he would receive an undisclosed sum. Mr Fatnassi, from Kairouan in north-east Tunisia, managed 28 eggs before he collapsed with severe stomach pains. He was rushed to a nearby hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival,...
    December 28, 2012 22:17
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    Netanyahu set to win Israel election but rightists gain
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party is set to win a parliamentaryelection on January 22 although the popularity of a far-right party opposed to Palestinian statehood is growing, polls showed on Friday. Two out of three surveys showed the right-wing Likud losing voters to political newcomer Naftali Bennett’s religious party Bayit Yehudi (Jewish...
    December 28, 2012 22:14
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    Putin signs ban on U.S. adoptions of Russian children
    President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Friday that bans Americans from adopting Russian children and imposes other sanctions in retaliation for a new U.S. human rights law that he says is poisoning relations. The law, which has ignited outrage among Russian liberals and child rights’ advocates, takes effect on January 1. Washington has called the law misguided...
    December 28, 2012 22:06
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    Egypt’s Mubarak to stay in army hospital as health worsens
    Egypt’s deposed leader Hosni Mubarak, who is serving a life sentence for his role in killing protesters during a 2011 revolt, will stay in an army hospital for at least two weeks after his health deteriorated, his lawyer said on Friday. The state of Mubarak’s already fragile health has been the subject of intense speculation in Egypt and he has spent much of...
    December 28, 2012 21:37
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    (Հայերեն) Մյանմարի ընդդիմության առաջնորդի հյուսած սվիտերը վաճառվել է աճուրդով 50 հազար դոլարով
    December 28, 2012 21:34
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