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Kraft Foods has claimed its controversial Oreo breastfeeding baby advert was “never meant to go public”

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Kraft Foods has claimed its controversial Oreo breastfeeding baby advert was “never meant to go public”. Kraft Foods said the provocative picture of a child...
Daphne Selfe, the oldest world’s supermodel, agreed to pose as Madonna in her prime

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Daphne Selfe, the world’s oldest supermodel, agreed to pose as Madonna in her prime. And if that were not enough, Daphne Selfe, 83, is wearing...
Spirituality is a complex phenomenon and that multiple areas of the brain are responsible for the many aspects of spiritual experiences

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For many years, scientists have speculated that the human brain features a “God spot”, one distinct area of the brain responsible for spirituality. University of...
A man has been found dead with gunshot wounds after overnight clashes with police a day before Sunday's Bahrain F1 Grand Prix

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Activists in Bahrain say a man has been found dead with gunshot wounds after overnight clashes with police a day before Sunday's Formula 1...
Meow is 2 years old and tips the scale at nearly 40 pounds

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Meow, a 2-year-old orange and white super-sized cat tips the scale at nearly 40 pounds, and the Santa Fe Animal Shelter is on a...
The UK Food Standards Agency warns food companies that everyday products such as instant coffee could contain the cancer chemical acrylamide

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Food companies in UK have been warned about the presence of acrylamide,  cancer-risk chemical, in everyday products ranging from crisps and chips to instant...
Boxun has reported for several weeks on the scandal surrounding Bo Xilai

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Boxun.com, the US-based Chinese-language website that has reported extensively on the Bo Xilai scandal in China, says it was crippled for several hours by...
During The Kardashian Kollection launch at the Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, Kim Kardashian posted several pictures of herself, including one of her pulling faces for the camera

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Kim Kardashian has seemingly gone a little too far with her latest bronzing regime as her bright orange dress was almost hard to distinguish...
Rich Ross, the head of Disney film-making studio, has resigned as chairman a month after the film John Carter became one of the company's biggest flops

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Rich Ross, the head of Disney film-making studio, has resigned as chairman a month after the film John Carter became one of the company's...
Anonymous online conversations between Starbucks former employees and coffee obsessives are scattered around food blogs and photo sites with tips as to where to order what and how to make sure you get it

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Starbucks tops the coffee charts when it comes variety: grande, hot, decaf, triple five-pump vanilla, non-fat, no foam, whip cream, extra hot, extra caramel,...
IsAnyoneUp was set up at the end of 2010, originally as a way for Hunter Moore to write stories about his own experiences with women, as well as post pictures

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26-year-old Hunter Moore's business plan was simple: he got rich by publishing indecent pictures of men and women without their permission. He would encourage visitors...
In the fifth day of his trial, Anders Behring Breivik has described how he shot people during Utoeya island rampage

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In the fifth day of his trial, Anders Behring Breivik has described how he shot people who were "begging for their lives" during Utoeya...
YouTube could face a huge bill for royalties after it lost the court battle over video clips in Germany

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A German court in Hamburg ruled that YouTube is responsible for the content that users post to the video sharing site and it could...
A tsunami recorded by the ancient historian Herodotus did indeed protect a Greek village from Persian invaders, say geologists

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German geologists from Aachen University found evidence that a tsunami recorded by the ancient historian Herodotus did indeed protect a Greek village from Persian...

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San Mateo, Calif.– Marketo announced on April 18, 2012 that it has redefined marketing automation with the acquisition of Crowd Factory, Inc., a leading...
Rihanna has revealed she has not been offered the role of Whitney Houston in a planned biopic of the late singer

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Rihanna has revealed she has not been offered the role of Whitney Houston in a planned biopic of the late singer. However, Rihanna, 24, admits...

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Kelley Lynch, Leonard Cohen's former manager and partner, has been jailed for 18 months for harassing the singer-songwriter. Kelley Lynch, 55, was found guilty by a...
Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa of Bahrain says the weekend's Formula 1 Grand Prix will go ahead despite protests

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Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa of Bahrain says the weekend's Formula 1 Grand Prix will go ahead despite protests. "Cancelling the race just...
The Bhoja Air plane, believed to be a Boeing 737 carrying 118 passengers and 9 crew members, was making its final approach to the airport when the crash happened

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A Bhoja Air jet carrying up to 127 people has crashed in a residential area near Islamabad international airport in Pakistan. Aviation officials said the...
From the moment Nicolas Sarkozy took office in 2007, no French president in modern times has been the object of such blatant dislike

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From the moment Nicolas Sarkozy took office in 2007, no French president in modern times has been the object of such blatant dislike. It is...
Heidi Klum has tweeted one of her earliest modeling snaps and she looks completely different to her appearance now

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Supermodel Heidi Klum has tweeted one of her earliest modeling snaps and she looks completely different to her appearance now. In the picture, taken in...
Nestle, the world's biggest food group has reported rising sales but says it is having a "challenging year"

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Nestle, the world's biggest food group, has reported rising sales but says it is having a "challenging year". The Swiss company said its sales in...
Researchers have succeeded in mimicking the chemistry of life in synthetic versions of DNA and RNA molecules

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Researchers from UK Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology have succeeded in mimicking the chemistry of life in synthetic versions of DNA and...
Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy. Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision of World Peace by Peter Janney

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The suspicious death of Mary Pinchot Meyer, one of President John F. Kennedy's mistresses, just months after his death, has sparked numerous conspiracy theories. A...
Chinese police panicked when they realized Neil Heywood case could be linked to top politician Bo Xilai

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According to a senior Chinese journalist, police knew British businessman Neil Heywood had been murdered in Chongqing last November and that a cover-up began...