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Dressing up on Halloween comes from the Celts

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1. Halloween is still the Wiccan New Year. Halloween originates from a Celtic tradition called Samhain, a festival that marked the end of the Celtic...
Rolf Harris has lost the first appeal against his conviction for assault

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Rolf Harris has lost the first appeal against his conviction for assault. The 84-year-old disgraced entertainer was jailed in July for nearly six years for...
President Blaise Compaore has resigned following violent protests at his attempt to extend his 27-year rule

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Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore has resigned following violent protests at his attempt to extend his 27-year rule. Blaise Compaore issued a statement saying the...
Gottfrid Warg has been found guilty of hacking into computers and illegally downloading files in Denmark

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Gottfrid Warg, the Pirate Bay co-founder, has been found guilty of hacking into computers and illegally downloading files in Denmark. The Danish court found Gottfrid...
Flight MH370, from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappeared with 239 people on board

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Malaysia Airlines and the Malaysian government are being sued by two children whose father, Jee Jing Hang, was on MH370 flight that disappeared on...
Doctors Without Borders has 270 international and 3,000 locally hired staff in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone

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Doctors Without Borders has warned some mandatory Ebola quarantine measures in the US are having a "chilling effect" on its work. The charity group has...
Linn Massinger and Ashton Kutcher hooked up in June 2012, a few months after he and Mila Kunis started dating each other

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A new report claims that Ashton Kutcher cheated on girlfriend Mila Kunis in the early days of their relationship. Another report, however, is debunking that...
The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism

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The Temple Mount/al-Haram al-Sharif has been reopened by Israeli police after its closure amid tensions following the shooting of prominent right-wing Jewish activist Rabbi...
Suge Knight and comedian Katt Williams stole a celebrity photographer's camera in Beverly Hills

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Marion "Suge" Knight may remain in a Las Vegas jail at least through the weekend following his arrest as a fugitive in a California...
Burkina Faso army has announced emergency measures after a day of violent protests

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Burkina Faso army has announced emergency measures - including the formation of a transitional government - after a day of violent protests. Protesters angered by...
Galway Kinnell was among the most celebrated poets of his time and wrote more than a dozen books spanning five decades

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Poet Galway Kinnell has died at his home in Vermont after suffering from leukemia, his wife Brabara announced. He was 87. Galway Kinnell, who died...
Roman Polanski has been freed in Poland after being questioned by prosecutors

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Roman Polanski has been freed in Poland after being questioned by prosecutors. The film director has been wanted by US police since 1977 after fleeing...
The US economy grew at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in Q3 2014

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The US economy grew at an annual rate of 3.5% in Q3 2014, the Commerce Department has announced. That was better than the 3% pace...
Kaci Hickox returned to the US from Liberia on October 24, landing at Newark International Airport

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Nurse Kaci Hickox has defied the Ebola quarantine order, leaving her house in Maine for a brief bike ride. She returned from treating Ebola patients...
Angry protesters in Burkina Faso have set fire to parliament

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Burkina Faso protesters angry at plans to allow President Blaise Compaore to extend his 27-year-rule have set fire to parliament. Correspondents say the city hall...
Rabbi Yehuda Glick is a campaigner for greater Jewish prayer rights at the Temple Mount

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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has described the closure of the disputed Jerusalem holy site Temple Mount as a "declaration of war", his spokesman has...
Tim Cook says that he is proud to be gay

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Tim Cook has publicly admitted he is gay. Apple’s CEO says that he is "proud to be gay". Tim Cook, 53, made his announcement to try...
Pfizer’s vaccine Trumenba protects against serogroup B, one of five forms of bacterial meningitis

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a vaccine for the first time for the deadly type of meningitis that affected the students at...

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Starting your own business is something that many people dream of doing, but not many people actually achieve. Starting a business takes a great...

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Duck Dynasty’s Jep Robertson has been released from hospital and is now at home with family and doing a lot better. Jep Robertson, 36, was...
Liberia is the country hardest hit in the Ebola outbreak

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Liberia, the country hardest hit in the Ebola outbreak, is seeing a decline in the spread of infections, the World Health Organization (WHO) has...

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The Fed is ending its quantitative easing (QE) stimulus program begun in 2008. The central bank said it was confident the US economic recovery would...
Manuel Noriega had tried to sue Activision after a character based on him featured in the title Black Ops II

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Panama ex-military ruler Manuel Noriega failed in his attempt to sue Activision, the publisher of the Call of Duty video games. Manuel Noriega had tried...
China is launching its own version of Big Brother, with the housemates' exploits to be broadcast on popular video site Youku Tudou

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China is launching its own version of Big Brother, with the housemates' exploits to be broadcast on popular video site Youku Tudou. The reality show,...
The White House unclassified Executive Office of the President network was attacked

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The White House unclassified Executive Office of the President network was attacked, according to the Washington Post. Authorities are reported to be investigating the breach,...
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