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SF Gate
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A Bay Area sixth grader captured the world championship in chess for the under-12 division after a final two-hour match Wednesday in Antalya, Turkey.
Daniel Naroditsky, of Foster City, had the highest score of the 160 boys in his division after 11 roun..
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MSNBC
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He wears a $15 watch, flies economy class and does not own a house or car. For years. few guessed that Chuck Feeney was one of the world's biggest philanthropists, secretly giving away his billionaire fortune.
Born in New Jersey during the Depression t..
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Daily Mail
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A 12-year-old has caused a media frenzy after she was chosen to front one of the world's largest fashion shows.
Blonde-haired, blue-eyed Maddison Gabriel was picked as the official ambassador of Gold Coast Fashion Week in Australia and has also worn a..
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Telegraph
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The world's oldest person has died aged 115, just six weeks after inheriting the title...
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Reuters
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Julie Winnefred Bertrand, the world's oldest woman, died early on Thursday at the age of 115 in a Montreal nursing home, CanWest News Service reported...
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Reuters
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Tough sentencing laws, record numbers of drug offenders and high crime rates have contributed to the United States having the largest prison population and the highest rate of incarceration in the world, according to criminal justice experts...
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MSNBC
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A gorilla recognized as the world's oldest in captivity celebrated her 55th birthday by munching down a four-layer frozen fruit cake and banana leaf wrapped treats.
Jenny's caretakers at the Dallas Zoo say she's having a few joint issues and her eyesig..
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SF Gate
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Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to stand atop the world's highest mountain, was remembered Friday as a deeply driven but unassuming man who strived to help the people of Nepal in the decades after his ascent of Mount Everest.
Hillary, who died Fri..
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CBS News
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Presidential politics and the health of ground zero workers loom over the former World Trade Center site this Sept. 11 perhaps more than at any other anniversary of the attacks.
The firefighters and first responders who helped rescue New Yorkers on Sep..
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Yahoo News
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A 114-year-old Indiana woman who became the world's oldest person this week celebrated the distinction Thursday with a slice of her favorite cake.
Edna Parker, who has outlived her husband, children and siblings, was confirmed as the world's oldest kno..
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Alter Net
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Watch television in countries with supposedly primitive media, and after a while you will be shocked at the technologically mediated and shape-shifted image of the world presented to Americans.
On televisions you see police cars surround the car of a "..
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CNN
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Millions of people around the world have taken part in ceremonies marking the 100th anniversary of the Scouting movement. Dawn celebrations involving 28 million young people took place across the globe, from Ecuador to Bhutan.
In southern England, 40,0..
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CNN
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Frank Buckles is 106 and not as spry as he used to be. But try to help him from a chair to his feet, and he will bellow a loud, clear "No." Ninety years after the headstrong teenager lied his way into a uniform, then into the European theater of World War..
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CNN
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The Great Wall, the Colosseum and Machu Picchu are among the leading contenders to be the new seven wonders of the world as a massive poll enters its final month with votes already cast by more than 50 million people, organizers say.
As the July 6 voti..
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BBC News
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The 52nd Venice Biennale, the world's oldest and highest-profile international art exhibition, is to open to the public in northern Italy.
Seventy-two countries are competing for the top prize - the Golden Lion.
For the first time there are separate..
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FOX News
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Marking the 63rd anniversary of the D-Day landings that turned the tide of World War II, Defense Secretary Robert Gates evoked emotional images of a bloody beach assault that "unfolded as if it were a lifetime" for the young men who braved German guns...
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FOX News
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A California man smashed the world record for hot dog eating at a contest Saturday, gobbling up more than 59 franks in 12 minutes.
Joe Chestnut, 22, of San Jose, shattered the record held by Takeru Kobayashi of Japan by downing 59 1/2 "HBDs" — hot do..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Besides seeing the demise of Paul Wolfowitz, one of the principal architects of the war in Iraq, we are at last able to imagine a country without Tony Blair at the helm. The forced resignation of Wolfowitz at the World Bank and of Blair as Prime Minister..
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FOX News
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A boy born in the mountainous enclave of San Marino in northeast Italy will likely live to 80, the world's longest male life expectancy, but newborn girls in Japan and 30 other countries have even better prospects, the World Health Organization said.
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Los Angeles Times
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IT WAS LATE JUNE in Sarajevo when Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife. After emptying his revolver, the young Serb nationalist jumped into the shallow river that runs through the city and was quickly seized. But the events he set in..
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