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Danielle Mitterand, former French First Lady, dies at 87
Danielle Mitterrand, the former French First Lady and widow of Francois Mitterrand, has died at the age of 87. Danielle Mitterrand died in Georges-Pompidou hospital...
NASCAR crowd boos Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden
First Lady Michelle Obama and the Vice President’s wife, Dr. Jill Biden, were booed before kicking off NASCAR’s season finale in Florida. Michelle Obama and...
Occupy Wall Street leaders checked into five star W Hotel Downtown
Peter Dutro and Brad Spitzer, two leading figures of the Occupy Wall Street movement, who moonlight as businessmen, have eschewed the campfire comradeship for...
Video: police pepper sprayed into face the passive protesters at UC Davis
A shocking footage of police forcefully pepper spraying a group of Occupy demonstrators staging a sit down protest the University of California, Davis, has...
Egypt: two killed and more than 670 injured in Cairo and Alexandria clashes
Two people have been killed and more than 670 injured after protesters clashed yesterday with security forces in Cairo and Alexandria. The latest clashes came...
Occupy Best Buy: bargain hunters camped in front of the store for Black Friday deals
Tito Hernandez and Christine Orta have set up a tent outside the entrance of a Best Buy store in St Petersburg, Florida, in an...
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has been captured in Obari, southern Libya
Saif al-Islam, the fugitive son of colonel Muammar Gaddafi has been captured, Libya's interim justice minister says. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, 39, is said to have...
Max Holland about JFK’s assassination: “Digital technology proves Oswald did act alone”
A team of historians and retired Secret Service officers led by historian Max Holland has used new technology to categorically confirm in their minds...
Occupy A Desk: Derek and John Tabacco protest against Wall Street demonstrators
New York is facing now major disruption as tens of thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters are expected to flood into Manhattan, as the...
NY faces major disruption as Occupy Wall Street movement celebrates two months today
New York City is facing now major disruption as tens of thousands of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are expected to flood into Manhattan as...
Benetton’s Unhate kissing on mouth campaign slammed by Vatican
The Italian clothing company Benetton has been heavily criticized by the Vatican for using an image of Pope Benedict kissing an imam on the...
Kuwait: protesters stormed parliament building asking PM to resign
Hundreds of people were protesting outside the Kuwaiti Parliament, when dozens of them stormed the building late on Wednesday. The protesters were demanding that Prime...
Japan: rice with high level of radioactive caesium found near Fukushima
Japan detected radioactive caesium in concentrations above the safety level in rice for the first time since the nuclear crisis began at the Fukushima...
Vladimir Putin and Yevgeny Savchenko took photos at dentistry
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took a picture pretending to give Yevgeny Savchenko, Governor of Belgorod, an oral hygiene check at a dentistry center...
“Beauty Pays” by Prof. Daniel S. Hamermesh: good looking people are paid more
Beauty Pays, a new book by economics professor Daniel S. Hamermesh at the University of Texas-Austin, reveals what the world of advertising has known...
Diaspora* founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy dies at 22 in San Francisco
Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the social networking pioneer and Internet privacy advocate who dared to challenge Facebook and Google, died on Saturday in San Francisco. Ilya Zhitomirskiy,...
Occupy Wall Street: Zuccotti Park was cleared and more than 70 people were arrested
More than 70 protesters have been arrested early this morning as police mounted a raid on the Occupy Wall Street camp at Zuccotti Park...
Actress Piper Laurie: “Ronald Reagan was a rude, insensitive show-off in bed”
Actress Piper Laurie, one of the former U.S. President Ronald Reagan's lover claimed that he was a rude, insensitive show-off in matter of heart. Piper...
Mario Monti is the new Italian PM
Mario Monti has been appointed as the new Italian Prime Minister and has been asked to form a new government to tackle an acute...
The real cost of iPhone 4S is just $173
Sales of Apple’s iPhone 4S topped 4 million in just 3 days following last month’s launch, and it’s still the must-have smartphone this winter. Out...
Map of nukes and warheads on mainland America
5,113 atomic warheads currently scattered across America and on U.S. submarines around the world, according to Mother Jones magazine. In 2009, President Barack Obama spoke...
Chuck O’Rear, the photographer of Windows XP background
The former National Geographic magazine photographer, Chuck O’Rear, was driving to visit his girlfriend when he was struck by the beauty of the Californian...
Michael Moore’s $1 million mansion revealed, while he is the booming voice of Occupy protests
Michael Moore is the booming voice of the Occupy protests, encouraging activists to continue their battle against the wealthy one per cent of Americans,...
Silvio Berlusconi has resigned!
Silvio Berlusconi has resigned as Italian prime minister. President Giorgio Napolitano is likely to accept his offer and appoint Mario Monti, a technocrat, as his...
Italy: lower house of parliament voted austerity measures, as Berlusconi is preparing to resign
The lower house of Italy's parliament voted in favour of austerity measures package demanded by the EU and designed to restore markets' confidence in...
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