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Monday, July 11, 2011

News of the World 'paid police officer for royal family details'

By Mirror.co.uk 11/07/2011: The News of the World bought information about senior members of the Royal Family from a police officer responsible for their protection, it was claimed today. Emails uncovered by News International in 2007 suggested that phone details were obtained from a source within... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, June 17, 2011

China's "Born in the USA" Frenzy

By Zhang Yan / Economic Observer / Worldcrunch – Thu Jun 16, 1:45 am ET: This post is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global - news site that translates stories of note in foreign languages into English. The article below was originally published in Economic Observer. When Liu Li boarded a... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Michael Jackson has Mad Cow Disease

crazy-news: What many people always thought, was yesterday confirmed by a large team of doctors. According to doctor Thomas H Johnson (head of the team), Michael Jackson suffers from the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), widely known as the Mad Cow Disease. A few weeks ago they came to the... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Experts say cellphones are possibly carcinogenic

By MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer: LONDON – A respected international panel of experts says cellphones are possible cancer-causing agents, putting them in the same category as the pesticide DDT, gasoline engine exhaust and coffee. The classification was issued Tuesday in Lyon, France, by the... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Married couples in less than half of US households

By NIGEL DUARA, Associated Press – Sat May 28, 6:23 pm ET: PORTLAND, Ore. – Three mornings a week, when Becky Leung gets ready for work, her boyfriend is just getting home from his overnight job. When her mother drops hints about her twin sister's marriage, she laughs it off. And when she thinks... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

The Truth About Genderless Babies

Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Date: 25 May 2011 Time: 02:52 PM ET: Beyond the online condemnation for two Toronto parents who reportedly refuse to make public the gender of their youngest child, there's a deeper question on how gender forms, scientists say. Though there are no solid... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Pondering Death Can Alter Behavior

LiveScience Staff Date: 21 May 2011 Time: 10:14 AM ET: In what may seem an obvious finding to many, how one thinks about death can affect behavior in life, a new study finds. "Death is a very powerful motivation," said Laura E.R. Blackie, a Ph.D. student at the University of Essex in Britain.... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Top Failed Doomsday Predictions in History... Including May 21st, 2011

Top Failed Doomsday Predictions in History (Including May 21st, 2011 by Harold Camping) [VIDEO] By Daniel Lee | May 21, 2011 7:56 AM HKT: Doomsday refers to Christian eschatology that is concerned with death, an intermediate state, Heaven, hell, the return of Jesus, the resurrection of the dead, a... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Postal Service reports billions in losses

JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press – Tue May 10, 6:25 pm ET WASHINGTON – The Postal Service is continuing to hemorrhage money, reporting a loss Tuesday of more than $2 billion over the first three months of the year and warning it could be forced to default on federal payments. Such a default would... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, May 6, 2011

Bin Laden's wife spent 6 years in Pakistani house

By MUNIR AHMED, Associated Press: ISLAMABAD – One of three wives living with Osama bin Laden has told Pakistani interrogators she had been staying in the al-Qaida chief's hideout for six years without leaving its upper floors, a Pakistani intelligence official said Friday. The woman, identified as... Sign in to see full entry.

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