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• Festive Feast for Britain’s Frontline Troops

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  The Ministry of Defence (MOD) sent over seven tonnes of festive food – including a tonne of sprouts – to Afghanistan give British forces a taste of Christmas while on operations. The tonne of sprouts accompanied: -Two-and-a-half tonnes of Christmas cake; - Nearly one-and-a-half tonnes of turkey; - Over a tonne ...
  4 days ago

• Lucknow sees prayers, feasts for poor on Vajpayee’s birthday

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  Lucknow, Dec 25 (IANS) This Uttar Pradesh capital, once regarded as the political bastion of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Friday saw members of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrating the ailing leader’s 85th birthday Friday with prayers for his long life and feasts for the poor.BJP cadres in ...
  5 days ago

• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
  6 days ago

• Next Bastion strategic exercises to be held in 2012

  
  C U B A P O L I D A T A — Authority: 123
  Army General Raúl Castro also announced in his speech before the National Assembly’s closing meeting on Sunday that the next Bastion Strategic Exercises will take place in mid-November 2012, continuing its four-year cycle.
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
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• Illicit affair drives man to hatch his wife’s killing

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  Mumbai, Dec 17 (IANS) An illicit affair with a relative drove a man to get his wife eliminated by making it look like a case of fatal stabbing during chain snatching while out on a morning walk.The Mumbai police Thursday cracked the shocking case of the husband giving a contract to kill his wife.The incident [...]
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• ‘Night witches’ or mere symbols? India debates induction of women fighter pilots

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  By Ritu SharmaNew Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) As India hotly debates whether to induct women fighter pilots, a look around the world reveals they have been so fearsome in some places that they came to be branded “nigh witches”. Pakistan and China already have them, but they have never faced direct combat.“If women are ...
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• Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Saved From Complete Boredom

  
  Hamster's Wheel — Authority: 137
  My night at work last night was saved from being 12 hours of boredom by a simple speaker. The day supervisor had found a speaker that we can plug into the computer so we can have sound. This meant that throughout the night I could watch BBC iPlayer . I got through both sections of last nights Strictly Come Dancing , ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sarah Palin: Charm and Staying Power (Cuda Wins Over Gridion Club Membership)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Sarah Palin may not be your huckleberry when it comes to the presidency but she came to town the other night and proved once again what has been undeniable for some time: She has more political appeal than anyone on the scene with the exception of Barack Obama. The former Alaska governor and last years much maligned ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Koalition Presents… Flashtrack Fridays

  
  The Koalition | The Video Game & Hip Hop Authority — Authority: 496
  Wagwan people. It’s time for another Flashtrack Friday. The weather is getting colder and I been sick all week, but that hasn’t stopped me from listening to music. I came across this old Kingdom Hearts track that I listened to a lot in the past and that’s what I have decided to make this week’s Flashtrack. The ...
  3 weeks ago

• First Southern Woman Elected to Senate Dies

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 165
  Paula Hawkins, the feisty, self-described "housewife from Maitland" who in 1980 became the first woman elected to a full Senate term without a family political connection, died Friday. She was 82. Hawkins had been in poor health recently, having suffered a stroke and a fall, said U.S. Rep. John Mica, a close friend. ...
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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• Cuba conducts war games with U.S. invasion in mind

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Cuba began its biggest military maneuvers in five years on Thursday, saying they were needed to prepare for a possible invasion by the United States. Despite a thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations and assurances last week by President Barack Obama that the United States has no intention of invading the island 90 miles from ...
  4 weeks ago

• Amusing Paranoia, Goofy Silliness

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 165
  “Man doth not live by bread alone.”  He also needs some laughs amidst all the dire warnings and true dangers in our world to make that bread more palatable. Fortunately, mankind being what it is, someone is always out there who will temper the serious with some chuckles, intentionally or not. Amusing ...
  4 weeks ago

• Conclusion of Bastion 2009

  
  C U B A P O L I D A T A — Authority: 123
  Army General Raúl Castro congratulated participants of Bastion 2009 Strategic Military Exercises, confirming they had accomplished previous goals.A video conference with principal organs of direction, commands of the Western, Central and Eastern Armies and presidents of provincial defense councils, served as the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  4 weeks ago

• Proper use of English could help virus dodge security

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  London, November 28 (ANI): Security researchers have pointed out a basic weakness in antivirus tactics, saying hackers could escape computer protection by hiding malware within ordinary English-language sentences.Josh Mason of John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and his colleagues found that the ...
  4 weeks ago

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