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Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing above Scotland which killed 270 people, has died at his home in Libya.
Colin Montgomerie has said golf fans in the United States are "not as knowledgeable" as those in Britain.
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US singer Donna Summer, famous for disco hits including I Feel Love, Love To Love You Baby and Love's Unkind, has died at the age of 63.
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It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes God smiles on us. Last week, he smiled on investigative reporters everywhere, when the lawyers for Goldman, Sachs slipped on one whopper of a legal banana peel, inadvertently delivering some of the bank’s darker secrets into the hands of the public.
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Wrong man was executed in Texas, probe says
Wartime Photos, 1941-1942
A retinal implant - or bionic eye - which is powered by light has been invented by scientists at Stanford University in California.
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Meet Masanobu Sato, the officially recognized world’s biggest masturbator. This Japanese guy was masturbating for 9 hours and 33 minutes at the Masturbate-a-thon – a bizarre annual event where both male and female participants masturbate to raise money for charity.
Crows recognise familiar human voices and the calls of familiar birds from other species, say researchers.
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Few stories have the power to captivate us more than those that remain unresolved. Codes, puzzles and cryptic public art tease us with their intrigue: Why is their message coded? What great secrets might they hide?
The Pulitzer Prize-winning combat photographer who carved out new standards for covering war with a camera became one of the world’s legendary photojournalists in nearly half a century with the Associated Press.
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Many people – young and old – all over the world model their lives and beliefs after the Lennon icon, and they really, really shouldn’t. Here’s why:
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For the better part of the last decade, a small cabal of self-anointed counterterrorism experts has been working its way through the U.S. military, intelligence and law enforcement communities, trying to convince whoever it could that America’s real terrorist enemy wasn’t al-Qaida — but the Islamic faith itself.
‘The two Hindenburg-class airships were passenger carrying rigid airships built in Germany in the 1930s named in honor of Paul von Hindenburg. They were the last such aircraft ever built, and in terms of their length and volume, the largest aircraft ever to fly.’
Remember the War
In the intelligence community, "tradecraft" refers to agents' advanced espionage tactics. That meant creating clever disguises, conducting surveillance, using concealments, procuring secret information and exchanging secure messages with other agents.
The Red Cross has done some great humanitarian work in the 149 years they've existed, but did you know they're also responsible for some seriously great artwork? These recruitment and fundraising posters from WWI show an amazing variety of artwork over only a five-year time span.
The previously undisclosed meeting in November 2009 also shows how Mr Cameron was being assiduously courted by News Corp executives beyond the Murdoch family, as the company was gearing up for its bid to take over BSkyB.
The Newton building at Nottingham Trent University has been the home for the last ten years to a breeding pair of peregrine falcons, who nest on a ledge outside near the top. The nest site has been successfully used to raise 16 chicks over the past five years.
In 1975, a combination of malevolent and misguided governments managed to enshrine in a United Nations General Assembly resolution the defamatory accusation that Zionism is racism. That libel was rescinded by the General Assembly in 1991, the only time that one of its resolutions was revoked.
Rupert Murdoch has been deemed 'not a fit person' to run a major international company
It is like a huge snowball fight and it is taking place in the outer Solar System around Saturn.
Labour has called for Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt to resign after Leveson Inquiry evidence appeared to show his support for News Corp's bid for BSkyB.
Rangers' administrators Duff & Phelps have accused the Scottish FA of "prejudicing the survival" of the club.
Opposition parties have called on Alex Salmond to "come clean" about an offer to speak to the UK government about News Corp taking control of BskyB.
The guys with the guns say, ‘This is important’, and the guys with guitars don’t have a chance.”
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