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Amy have to stay in an hospital for many days, because she often collapses. So said her father, Mitch...
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George W Bush has been forced into an embarrassing climb-down by his new attorney general within days of his appointment.
Michael Mukasey, who was sworn in Tuesday, has reopened a dormant inquiry into the US government's warrantless wiretapping program..
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Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein lived very similar lives. They were both born in New York, edited their high school newspapers and studied film at university. And both were adopted in 1968.
It was only at the age of 35 that they discovered each other..
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A scientist has put forward the bizarre suggestion that there are two dimensions of time, not the one that we are all familiar with, and even proposed a way to test his heretical idea next year.
Time is no longer a simple line from the past to the fut..
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Scientists complain about "sins of omission," reports Roger Highfield
The world's best known wildlife broadcaster, Sir David Attenborough, has called on the BBC to stop Christian fundamentalists from deleting references to evolution from his documentar..
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Ringed by a clutch of Zimbabwean soldiers clicking automatic weapons, Charles Lock handed over the keys to his farm and drove off his land for the last time.
Scores of white farmers, the last survivors of President Robert Mugabe's land grab, and thousa..
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The United Nations special envoy to Burma has met the opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon, but was snubbed by the leader of the junta that crushed democracy protests last week.
Ibrahim Gambari, a former Nigerian foreign minister, arrived in the..
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American diplomats have been ordered to compile a dossier detailing Iran's violations of international law that some fear could be used to justify military strikes against the Islamic republic's nuclear programme.
Members of the US secretariat in the U..
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ran has threatened to retaliate with missile attacks if Western forces launch raids against the Islamic state's nuclear programme — putting on a defiant show of military force to back up the message.
The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, addres..
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Saudi Arabia has refused to cut interest rates in lockstep with the US Federal Reserve for the first time, signalling that the oil-rich Gulf kingdom is preparing to break the dollar currency peg in a move that risks setting off a stampede out of the dolla..
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Female chimpanzees are "selling" sex to the males that gather the most fruit, according to new research.
Behavioural psychologists found that female chimps mate with the males that give them the most fruit, while male chimps steal "desirable" fruits su..
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An art lover was charged with criminal damage in France yesterday after kissing a £1 million painting while wearing glossy red lipstick.
Sam Rindy, 35, said that she had been "overcome with passion" for the immaculate white, untitled canvas by the Ame..
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Rupert Murdoch has succeeded with his $5bn (£2.5bn) bid for Dow Jones, owners of the Wall Street Journal, according to a report in The Business.
Negotiations are finished and the board is confident the terms of the deal will be accepted by the Bancrof..
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A group of 45 Muslim doctors threatened to use car bombs and rocket grenades in terrorist attacks in the United States during discussions on an extremist internet chat site.
Police found details of the discussions on a site run by one of a three-strong..
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It failed to bring Jim Carrey happiness in the award-winning film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but scientists have now developed a way to block and even delete unwanted memories from people's brains.
Researchers have found they can use drugs..
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Babies born into some Indian tribes in the Amazon are being buried alive, a practice that is being covered up by the Brazilian authorities out of respect for tribal culture.
The tradition is based on beliefs that babies with any sort of physical defect..
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Living in the heart of Paris, Janine di Giovanni sees daily evidence that French mothers are strict with their children to the point of cruelty. But it does seem to work...
A New Zealand friend, a mother of three, recently texted me: "I am in the park..
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British men are too afraid to pay women compliments, according to a survey last week. What are they afraid of? If Adam Lusher's experiments in compliment-paying are anything to go by, it could be British women.
She is blonde, with the warmest brown eye..
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Nigel Jones reviews After the Reich: From the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift by Giles MacDonogh
Giles MacDonogh is a bon viveur and a historian of wine and gastronomy, but in this book, pursuing his other consuming interest - German history..
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Tony Blair promised yesterday that he would stand down as Prime Minister "in the next few weeks".
The announcement was a late attempt to avert a large protest vote against Labour in tomorrow's mid-term elections.
He is planning to announce next Wedn..
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