16 April 2008
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According to local news reports a successful Hong Kong architect fell 19 floors trying to prevent childhood friend to commit suicide.
Leung Kam-kong was 28 years old. He was honored at an Design awards ceremony just a few hours before the tragedy, the South China [...]
16 April 2008
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At least 47 people, nearly all children heading to school for final exams, drowned yesterday when their bus plunged off a bridge in western India, According to Reuters.
Distraught parents rushed to the scene of the disaster in Gujarat state as rescue workers struggled to find survivors in [...]
16 April 2008
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An alleged stand-over scheme at a Kings Cross strip club involving two burly brothers and another man nicknamed “fat boy” whom police say is a member of a large cocaine ring … it was as if a Raymond Chandler novel had come to life.
But [...]
16 April 2008
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A mother has made a heartfelt plea for an end to hospital-focused childbirth, after describing her birth of a child in hospital as by far the most gruelling.
Liz Schipper has had four children but told the commission of inquiry into hospitals yesterday that by far [...]
16 April 2008
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THE key witness in Australia’s biggest terrorist trial lived a life of luxury, communicated with birds and saw a she-devil, a court heard yesterday.
The witness, Izzydeen Atik of Newport, told the court on Tuesday the group’s alleged leader, Abdul Nacer Benbrika, told him the group planned to [...]
16 April 2008
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A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA’s estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth after spotting the boffins had miscalculated, a German newspaper reported.
Nico Marquardt used telescopic findings from the Institute of Astrophysics in Potsdam (AIP) to calculate that there was a [...]
12 April 2008
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Texas child welfare officials have brought in mental health professionals and behavioral experts as the agency tries to ensure a sense of normalcy for the more than 400 children removed from a polygamous sect’s enclave, an agency spokeswoman said.
But for all their lives, the [...]
12 April 2008
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Associated Press news agency reports today of a miraculous survival in Switzerland.
Swiss police say a baby suffered little more than a bump after being blown onto railway tracks and being run over by a train.
The incident happened Wednesday in the northeastern Swiss town of [...]
12 April 2008
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HER mother always knew. From the moment Julie-Anne Hand was told her pregnant daughter’s body had been found in the Blue Mountains in January 2006, she was certain her son-in-law was guilty of the murder. She had already suspected that he had tried to poison her daughter, [...]
11 April 2008
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Abuse of government-issued credit cards is all over the headlines this week. A Canadian bureaucrat made news by charging $230,000 to her state-issued credit card to buy souvenir coins from the Royal Canadian Mint which she then deposited in her personal bank account.
Veronica Topic, 24, later withdrew [...]
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