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Doritos, the Arch West's creation was the first national tortilla chip brand in the U.S. and is now amongst the most well-known brands in the world

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Arch West, the creator of US most popular snacks, the corn chips Doritos, has died on September 20 of natural causes at the age...
British Airways found a rival Virgin Atlantic plane in the company's new TV advert, “Aviators”

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The new British Airways campaign cost £20 million ($30 million) and was supposed to usher in a new, mistake-free era. But British Airways found a...
A 30 year-old man has been arrested and charged with filling packs of Nurofen Plus with anti-psychotic and anti-epileptic drugs

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A man has been arrested and charged with filling packs of Nurofen Plus with anti-psychotic and anti-epileptic drugs, London Police have revealed. Unemployed Christopher McGuire,...
Facebook Timeline will allow users to see which of your previous “friends” at some point decided to end the relationship along with every picture, message and app used

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Facebook's new Timeline feature looks set to really enrage users after it emerged the ability to anonymously “defriend” people will become a thing of...
Lady Gaga and Sting at iHeartRadio Music Festival

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Dubbed “the biggest live music event in radio history,” iHeartRadio Music Festival has taken over Las Vegas this weekend.   The inaugural iHeartRadio festival, hosted by...
Occupy Wall Street demonstrators were arrested, cuffed with plastic tags and dragged on to sidewalks

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“Occupy Wall Street”, the anti-capitalist protest demonstrators clashed with police in New York yesterday after beginning an impromptu march up Wall Street. New York police...
Todd and Sarah Palin have been offered $1 million if they pass lie detector test over Joe McGinniss' book claims.

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Sarah Palin has been offered $1million if she passes a lie detector test over claims made a Joe McGinniss's book about her. In Joe McGinniss's...
The study shows that prostate cancer death rate was 30 per cent lower in the group taking radium-223 and patients survived for 14 months on average compared with the other group which survived 11 months on average

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  A new prostate cancer treatment (a powerful alpha radiation drug) trial has been so successful researchers have decided to stop it early. Specialists at London's...
Ofra Strauss has been seen so often in Tony Blair’s company that the Israeli press has even speculated openly that they are having an affair

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Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister has developed a close personal friendship with one of the richest and most controversial women in Israel,...
"The Muppets were a family" for Jim Henson.

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Google celebrates Jim Henson 75th birthday anniversary featuring a doodle with 5 Muppets.     The logo is HTML5-powered and it is interactive, clicking on the circle...
NASA's satellite "penetrated the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean". Where the satellite landed is not known precisely yet.

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NASA's decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) hit the Earth last night.   NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite UPDATES: "The Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg...
Pope Benedict XVI prays during the Mass held in Erfurt after the shooting incident.

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On Saturday morning a man fired three air gun shots in Erfurt, Germany, around one mile (1,6 kilometers) from the city's main cathedral (Saint...
Elizabeth Taylor Collection of gems, gowns and art is unveiled at Christie's in London today

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Elizabeth Taylor Collection of gems, gowns and art is unveiled at Christie's in London today. Elizabeth Taylor was renowned for her impeccable taste in jewellery,...
The scientists at CERN found that neutrinos are travelling 60 billionths of a second quicker than the light speed limit allowed

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Physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the international nuclear research facility near Geneva, Switzerland, are saying that an experiment in which...
The falling satellite is one of the thousands of objects in Earth orbit being tracked by NASA

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A new post on NASA's official Twitter account  said of the falling satellite: “Re-entry prediction now later than expected - tonight or late Saturday morning,”...
Over 120,000 people attended LovEvolution in 2008 in San Francisco.

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The largest single day electronic dance music event, LovEvolution: A Dance Music Parade and Festival is hosted at the historical stadium O.co Coliseum and...
Thyroid cancer's risk is higher in women with diabetes

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There were studies suggesting that diabetes increases a person's lifetime risk of developing thyroid cancer, and a new report published shows this linkage for...
Lawrence Russell Brewer arriving at court in a bulletproof vest in 1999

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Lawrence Brewer’s over-the-top meal, who was executed on Wednesday night for the dragging death of James Byrd, meant the end of the death row...
Gop Presidential debate

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Texas governor Rick Perry engaged in persuasive dispute with his rivals at Thursday night's GOP presidential debate in Orlando. Social Security, immigration, border security...
Medusa, the world’s largest snake weighs more than 300 lbs (135 kg), is 25ft (7.5 meters) long and it takes 15 people to hold her

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Medusa, the world’s largest snake weighs more than 300 lbs (135 kg), is 25ft (7.5 meters) long and it takes 15 people to hold...
Sleepbox is the first temporary bedroom which can be rented out for half-hour periods and was just introduced into Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow

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Sleepbox is the first temporary bedroom which can be rented out for half-hour periods and was just introduced into Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow. Sleepbox...
The six-ton Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite will crash to Earth this evening

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A satellite, weighing six tons and currently out-of-control, will strike Earth at 18,000 mph and could land almost anywhere this evening – NASA warned...
Carla Bruni smoking during her activity as model

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Carla Bruni says she is desperate to give birth, but the French First Lady has confessed that her urgency is not driven simply by...
Kweku Adoboli will face a second count of fraud in addition to two charges of false accounting over three years at UBS

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Kweku Adoboli, the suspected UBS rogue trader said today that he was “sorry beyond words” for the record $2.3 billion losses suffered by Swiss...
Troy Davis was put to death in Jackson, Georgia, last night

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Rhonda Cook from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, JoAnn Merrigan of WSAV News in Savannah and Greg Bluestein of the Associated Press, who all have covered...