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BBC News
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A Chinese couple are to sue the operators of the Shanghai metro after video footage showing them kissing at a tube station appeared on the web.
The couple say their passionate embrace was taped by metro staff and uploaded onto video-sharing websites wi..
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CNN
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Canoe Man" John Darwin, who was presumed dead until he walked into a London police station earlier this month, appeared in court in northern England Monday. The 57-year-old appeared at Hartlepool Magistrates' Court accused of making an untrue statement to..
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BBC News
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Tens of thousands of people are protesting in Venezuela this weekend as a TV station critical of the government is taken off the air.
President Hugo Chavez has refused to renew a licence for Radio Caracas TV, claiming the station actively tries to unde..
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CNN
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A teenage boy holding a severed head appeared at a police station in northern Japan on Tuesday, saying he killed his mother, an official said.
The 17-year-old boy turned up at the police station in Aizu Wakamatsu city in Fukushima prefecture (state) Tu..
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FOX News
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Italian TV stations on Sunday repeatedly showed videos of two women sought in the slaying of a young woman who was fatally stabbed in the eye with an umbrella on the subway platform of Rome's main train station.
News programs played video from surveill..
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A curry that was boiled up with a rat in the pot has been served to 18 people at a noodle stand at JR Shin-Koiwa Station in Tokyo, the operator of the stand said.
Nippon Restaurant Enterprise Co. (NRE), the operator of the noodle stand, has apologized..
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MSNBC
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The death toll from a devastating cyclone has risen to almost 4,000, a Myanmar state radio station said Monday.
The radio station broadcasting from the country's capital Naypyitaw said that almost 3,000 more people are unaccounted for in a single town..
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BBC News
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Police in Australia, New Zealand and the US are searching for the parents of a three-year-old girl abandoned at a train station in southern Australia.
Qian Xun Xue - known as Pumpkin until she was identified on Monday - was found in Melbourne on Saturd..
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FOX News
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez defended his decision not to renew the license of a popular opposition-aligned television network and warned Tuesday he might crack down on another TV station, accusing it of trying to incite attempts on his life.
Chave..
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CNN
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Venezuelan police on Sunday used water cannons and what appeared to be tear gas to break up thousands of demonstrators protesting the government's decision to close the country's most-watched television station.
The protest began in front of National T..
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CNN
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President Nestor Kirchner yanked a private company's concession to operate two major rail lines on Tuesday, a week after commuters rioted over delays at a busy station in the Argentine capital.
"We will keep all the workers on the job and ticket prices..
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BBC News
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Tens of thousands of Venezuelans have rallied in the streets of Caracas to protest against President Hugo Chavez's plans to close a private TV station.
The head of the RCTV station addressed the marchers, urging them to defend freedom and "free indepen..
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Al Jazeera
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The heart of the Korean peninsula is beating again," he told a crowd at South Korea's Munsan station, 12km south of the Demilitarised Zone that divides the two countries.
Kwon Ho-ung, North Korea's senior cabinet councillor, said the two Koreas "shoul..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Like many abused women, Lakeesha Sexton had known for some time that her life was at risk. The last time her estranged husband Kenneth attacked her, his assault began at a petrol station. He bundled her into her car and then forced her to drive to the San..
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BBC News
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A teenage Japanese boy has walked into a police station carrying a severed human head and claiming to have killed his mother.
The 17-year-old went to a police station in the town of Aizuwakamatsu, north of Tokyo, carrying the head in a sports bag, Japa..
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BBC News
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Two women have been detained in Italy over the killing of a young commuter who was stabbed in the eye with an umbrella tip at Rome's main station.
Vanessa Russo, 22, died from wounds suffered in the stabbing at Termini station on Thursday morning.
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BBC News
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Riots at a train station in the French capital, Paris, have become an issue in the upcoming presidential election.
The government's candidate, Nicolas Sarkozy, said police were justified in arresting an alleged fare dodger - the action that sparked the..
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BBC News
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Up to 13 people have been arrested after an argument over a ticket in a Paris metro station sparked riots.
Police used tear gas to disperse up to 100 youths at the Gare du Nord, one of Paris's major transport hubs.
Rioters smashed windows and attack..
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CNN
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A fire near a south London train station halted all Eurostar train services between Britain and continental Europe for 24 hours on Friday.
Eurostar, which links London to Paris and other European cities, said it had to suspend its entire operation unti..
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Yahoo News
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A Berlin commuter train rear-ended a stationary maintenance vehicle at a busy station Monday, injuring 33 people, two of them seriously, officials said...
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