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Syrian government forces have taken full control of strategic district Salah al-Din in the biggest city, Aleppo, after fierce fighting

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Syrian government forces have taken full control of strategic district Salah al-Din in the biggest city, Aleppo, after fierce fighting, state media say. However, rebel...
Bo Guagua, son of sacked Chinese politician Bo Xilai, says the "facts will speak for themselves" when his mother, Gu Kailai, goes on trial for murder

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Bo Guagua, son of sacked Chinese politician Bo Xilai, says the "facts will speak for themselves" when his mother, Gu Kailai, goes on trial...
Facebook will allow app developers to advertise their products on its members' mobile-device news feeds

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Facebook will allow app developers to advertise their products on its members' mobile-device news feeds. The network will charge a fee for every time users...
Madonna has appealed for the release of three members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot during her MDNA show in Moscow

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Madonna has appealed for the release of three members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot during her MDNA show in Moscow. Madonna told a...
The MDA Show of Strength, previously known as the MDA Labor Day Telethon, is an annual telethon in the US to raise money for the MDA

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None of the local TV stations in the Mobile, Alabama-Pensacola, Florida TV market are expected to broadcast the MDA Labor Day Telethon scheduled for...
Khloe Kardashian looked sizzling in a red “mullet” dress as she arrived at the MDA Labor Day Telethon in Los Angeles last night

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Khloe Kardashian looked sizzling in a red “mullet” dress as she arrived at the MDA Labor Day Telethon in Los Angeles last night. Although Khloe...
Egyptian army helicopters have fired missiles on suspected Islamist militants in Sinai peninsula

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Egyptian army helicopters have fired missiles on suspected Islamist militants in Sinai peninsula, security officials say. Twenty people were reported killed in Touma village, while...
In May, superhero movie The Avengers smashed the record for the biggest US opening weekend, taking $200 million

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The Walt Disney Company has reported higher profits in the second quarter of this year, driven by the success of films such as The...
At least 16 people have died in severe floods in Philippine capital, Manila

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Philippine officials say that at least 16 people have died in severe floods in the capital, Manila. More than 80,000 people are in emergency shelters,...
Bingo Friendzy, Facebook’s first real-money gambling app, has been launched in UK

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Bingo Friendzy, Facebook’s first real-money gambling app, has been launched in UK. Developed by London-based online gambling operator Gamesys, the Bingo Friendzy app allows users...

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Recent pictures appear to show Macaulay Culkin in anything but good health, as he feels the urge to be sick in public. Macaulay Culkin was...
Elton John is suing The Times for libel over articles he says falsely linked him to immoral tax avoidance

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Elton John is suing The Times for libel over articles he says falsely linked him to immoral tax avoidance. In two articles by-lined "the secrets...
Composer Marvin Hamlisch, who wrote the scores for films and shows including The Sting and A Chorus Line, has died in Los Angeles, aged 68

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Composer Marvin Hamlisch, who wrote the scores for films and shows including The Sting and A Chorus Line, has died in Los Angeles, aged...
Pfizer has paid the US government $60 million to settle charges alleging it paid millions of dollars in bribes to build its business in Europe and China

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Pharmaceutical company Pfizer has paid the US government $60 million to settle charges alleging it paid millions of dollars in bribes to build its...
YouTube app is missing from the next version of Apple's iOS6 operating system

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YouTube app is missing from the next version of Apple's iOS6 operating system. Apple said the app had been removed because its license to produce...
The Paris catacombs are a 200-mile network of old caves, tunnels and quarries and much of it is filled with the skulls and bones of the dead

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Below Paris' 12million residents lay the remains of 6 million others - known as France's Empire of the Dead, a world which is brought...
Vladimir Putin reacts awkwardly as a priest bows to kiss his hand during a visit to country's northern Valaam Island

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Russian President Vladimir Putin reacts awkwardly as a priest bows to kiss his hand during a visit to country's northern Valaam Island. Vladimir Putin visited...
British cyclist Jason Kenny powered to victory over Frenchman Gregory Bauge in the men’s sprint in front of 6,000 baying fans

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Team GB stormed to yet another cycling gold yesterday as the forlorn French said the British riders are hiding their “magic wheels” after the...
Robert Pattinson is scheduled to give his first interview next week on August 15 since news of his cheating girlfriend Kristen Stewart surfaced

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Robert Pattinson is scheduled to give his first interview next week on August 15 since news of his cheating girlfriend Kristen Stewart surfaced. Robert Pattinson,...
German magazine Der Taggspiegel pointed out that accused theater shooter James Holmes and Norwegian mass murder Anders Behring Breivik have common ground in their lack of Facebook profiles

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Facebook has become such a pervasive force in modern society that increasing numbers of employers, and even some psychologists believe people who aren't on...
Natalie Portman pictured dancing with her new husband Benjamin Millepied and walking around the grounds of the private residence in Big Sur

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Natalie Portman couldn't stop smiling as she was pictured dancing with her new husband Benjamin Millepied and walking around the grounds of the private...
Influential Australian art critic and writer Robert Hughes has died in New York after a long illness aged 74

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Influential Australian art critic and writer Robert Hughes has died in New York after a long illness aged 74. Robert Hughes made major contributions to...
Pictures from the Mars Descent Imager (Mardi), even in their thumbnail form, have now allowed engineers to work out Curiosity's precise position on the planet

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Images of the surface of Mars taken by the Curiosity rover as it made its historic descent yesterday have now been released. NASA has provided...
Bapineuzumab, made by Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, was designed to halt build-up of plaque in the brain

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US pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson say they will stop development of Alzheimer's drug bapineuzumab, because it failed in two late-stage clinical...
Half of Manila had been hit by floods, with water up to waist and neck levels in some areas

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Flooding caused by torrential rain has paralyzed parts of Philippine capital, Manila, forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes and closing schools, offices...
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