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A regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission revealed that Tim Cook will not take up his Apple dividends

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Tim Cook, Apple CEO, has turned down a payout worth about $75 million. Apple will pay a quarterly dividend of $2.65 per share from July,...
Rachel, 28, posted a photo of herself in hospital on the “Ask Me Anything” section of Reddit

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A photograph of a woman recovering from a lung operation has gone viral after hundreds of thousands of viewers are clicking on to see...
A gunman fired from the rooftop of a house in Hyvinka killing two people and injuring seven others

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A gunman fired from the rooftop of a house in Hyvinkaa, a southern Finnish town, killing two people and injuring seven others, the authorities...
In the book, Barack Obama The Story, David Maraniss calls the future president “Barry” and reveals he “was known for starting a few pot-smoking trends”

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A new book by biographer David Maraniss that delves into Barack Obama's teenage years gives fresh insight into the president's marijuana-smoking days as a...
The Easter Island Statue Project (EISP) has been carefully excavating two of 1,000-plus statues on the islands, doing their best to uncover the secrets of the mysterious stones, and the people who built them

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A research team has discovered that the mysterious heads on Easter Island have full bodies, extending down many, many feet into the ground of...
Buranova Babushkas, a group comprises six pensioners from a church choir in rural Russia, will perform Party for Everyone, a cross between a traditional folk tune and a dance track

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Engelbert Humperdinck from UK will open the proceedings as 26 countries compete in the final of this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Baku tonight. The...
Janet Jackson arrived at amFAR's Cinema Against AIDS annual ball at Cannes in a stunning bright white Pucci by Peter Dundas gown that showed off her slim, toned frame

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Janet Jackson arrived at amFAR's Cinema Against AIDS annual ball at Cannes in a stunning bright white Pucci by Peter Dundas gown that showed...
Escaped penguin 337 has since been spotted several times swimming in rivers running into Tokyo Bay, but had eluded keepers

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A one-year-old Humboldt penguin which escaped from a Tokyo aquarium has been caught after more than two months on the loose in the Japanese...
Facebook’s Camera photo sharing app offers users similar tools to Instagram which the social network is in the process of taking over

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Facebook has launched a new photo sharing smartphone app called Camera. The software allows users to take multiple pictures and share them at once rather...
Italian media have named the arrested man in Vatileaks scandal as Paolo Gabriele, a personal butler and assistant to Pope Benedict XVI and one of very few laymen to have access to the Pope's private apartments

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The Vatican says it has detained a person, named by Italian media as Paolo Gabriele, who is suspected of leaking a series of confidential...
SpaceX unmanned Dragon cargo ship has been successfully attached to the International Space Station (ISS)

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SpaceX unmanned Dragon cargo ship has been successfully attached to the International Space Station (ISS). Astronauts onboard the platform used its robotic arm to grasp...
Veteran comedian Joan Rivers believes it isn't too soon to joke about Whitney Houston in her grave

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Veteran comedian Joan Rivers believes it isn't too soon to joke about Whitney Houston in her grave. In her book, I Hate Everyone… Starting With...
Scientists used carbon dating to show that the flutes were between 42,000 and 43,000 years old

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An international team of researchers has identified what they say are the oldest-known musical instruments in the world. The flutes, made from bird bone and...
Kim Kardashian was seen reapplying her foundation, fiddling with her nails and even flossing before she left for amfAR Gala Cinema Against AIDS in Cannes

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Kim Kardashian stunned when she showed up to the amfAR gala with a classic, Old Hollywood style look in a canary yellow gown to...
Arta Dobroshi shows her derriere in embarrassing "Marilyn Monroe" moment at Cannes Film Festival 2012

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Kosovar Albanian actress Arta Dobroshi ended up being the centre of attention at Cannes Film Festival 2012 thanks to an unfortunate “Marilyn Monroe” moment...
Experiments in mice found that gene Katnal1 was vital for the final stages of making sperm

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A new male contraceptive pill could be developed after researchers in Edinburgh, UK, have identified a gene critical for the production of healthy sperm. Experiments...
Huawei accuses InterDigital of "abusing" its position and demanding "exploitative" fees to use its patented technology, said to be essential to 3G in mobile devices

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Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei has filed a competition complaint against US firm InterDigital with European Union regulators. Huawei accuses InterDigital of "abusing" its position...
A policeman has been killed and 17 people have been injured in a suspected suicide bomb attack outside Pinarbasi police station in the central Turkish province of Kayseri

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A policeman has been killed and 17 people have been injured in a suspected suicide bomb attack outside a police station in the central Turkish province...
The 1.5 billion-Euro SKA's huge fields of antennas will sweep the sky for answers to the major outstanding questions in astronomy

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Australia, New Zealand and South Africa will host the biggest radio telescope ever built. The nations belonging to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) organization took...
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan lived up to her title of “the world’s most beautiful woman” at the AmfAR Cinema Against AIDS gala in Cannes last night

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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan may have been criticized in her native India for not losing her baby weight fast enough, but she looked nothing short...
Bankia, which is Spain's fourth-largest bank, was part-nationalized two weeks ago because of its problems with bad property debt

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Trading in shares in Bankia, Spain's fourth-largest bank, has been suspended in Madrid. Bankia asked them to be suspended ahead of a board meeting this...
Google has been asked by Microsoft to remove more than 500,000 links from its index in the last month

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Google has been asked by Microsoft to remove more than 500,000 links from its index in the last month, figures show. The vast majority of...
Kayaker Rafael “Rafa” Ortiz took the plunge at Palouse Falls in Washington State, and paddled himself down the 189-foot fall

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Rafael “Rafa” Ortiz is the second person to kayak over a Washington waterfall, which is higher than Niagara Falls. Kayaker Rafael “Rafa” Ortiz, 24, took the...
The vial said to contain a sample of the late President Ronald Reagan's blood has been withdrawn from sale by an online auction house

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The vial said to contain a sample of the late President Ronald Reagan's blood has been withdrawn from sale by an online auction house. The...
When the scientists examined their haul back in the lab, they found examples of a limpet (Lepetodrilus gordensis) thought to live only on the Gorda Ridge existing also on the Juan De Fuca Ridge

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Experts urge deep-sea explorers to take care not to spread deep-sea creatures around the world during exploration of the remote ocean floor. Scientists using the...
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