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Cabinet maker 51 sues furniture company after homophobic campaign of abuse from colleagues who left carved You are gay sign on his workbench
The tribunal heard the entire cabinet making department was branded 'the queer ones' while Mr Crowther was nicknamed 'gay Mark' by colleagues and a ...
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Moors murderer Ian Brady smeared fellow patients chair with jam and honey and remains chronically psychotic says doctor
Killer: Brady, sketched at the tribunal yesterday taking notes, is not allowed a pen while in the secure hospital in Merseyside, after he carried it as a ...
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Lydia Warner 7 makes shock recovery after mother donates part of her liver in pioneering op
Lydia Warner, 7, had pancreatoblastoma - a rare cancer of the pancreas. She has now been given the all-clear after receiving part of her mother, Kate's, liver during a life-saving transplant ...
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Older men make better fathers and even tolerate infidelity
the aging male beetles made better fathers even when they were unsure whether the offspring were theirs - perhaps because they knew they had little chance ...
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Fears of postal chaos as Royal Mail workers vote to stop handling competitors letters and parcels
The threat of massive disruption to postal services looms over Britain after Royal Mail workers voted in favour of boycotting competitors’ mail and strongly rejected the Government’s controversial privatisation ...
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She finally said yes Retired miner Chris Green 75 from Tamworth Staffordshire will marry partner of 40 years Ann Turner
When retired miner Chris Green from Tamworth, Staffordshire, dropped down onto one knee in front of his partner Ann Turner, 72, at his 75th birthday party in the local pub, he received the best present he could have hoped for when she said 'I will' to his ...
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12 killed after Somali Islamist rebels al-Shabaab launch deadly attack on UN compound
Daniel Howden is Africa Correspondent for The Independent. He has reported from more than 50 countries covering everything from wars and elections to natural disasters and environmental crises. Special interests beyond Africa include southeast Europe, Latin America and global forests. A former Athens correspondent he has returned to Greece regularly during the European debt crisis. Now based in ...
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Daycare owner accused of drugging children
(Fotolia) An Ohio daycare operator is facing charges of child endangerment after allegedly feeding children in her care pancakes spiked with medications that cause drowsiness. Tammy Eppley, 37, is accused of crushing up Benadryl and melatonin and mixing it into the food of the six children she looks after at her home daycare, Caterpillar ...
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Prosecutors plan more charges against accused Cleveland kidnapper
Cleveland women held captive 'like they were POWs' CLEVELAND - Prosecutors want to bring additional charges as soon as possible against a former Cleveland school-bus driver accused of holding three women captive in his home and torturing them for a decade, authorities said on Wednesday. Ariel Castro, 52, has pleaded not guilty to more than 300 charges against him including rape and ...
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Analysis Edward Snowden versus the dragons
NSA leaker says he will fight extradition One measure of our culture’s disdain for whistle-blowers like Edward Snowden can be culled from the pages of a thesaurus. Beyond "source" and "leaker," few neutral antonyms exist to describe people who divulge alleged wrongdoing by the government or other organizations to the press, while negative synonyms abound - spy, ...
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Search for Hoffas body continues a third day
OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Investigators looking for the remains of former Teamsters boss, Jimmy Hoffa, in a suburban Detroit field continued their search for a third day Wednesday, seeking to verify a mobster’s claim that the labour leader was buried alive on the property in 1975. The search of the 40- to 50-square-yard (33- to 40-square metre) area would continue for at least another 48 ...
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Japan Agrees Nuclear Power Plant Safety Rules
Japan's nuclear watchdog has approved new safety requirements for atomic power plants, paving the way for the reopening of facilities shut down since the Fukushima disaster. The new measures, approved by the Nuclear Regulation Authority, will take effect on July 8 when operators will be able to apply for inspections. If plants pass the inspections - a process expected to take several ...
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Japan to Overhaul Nuclear Safety Guidelines
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Analysis Putin basks in isolation over Syria as Obamas charm falls flat
Russia's President Vladimir Putin gestures during a media conference after a G8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland June 18, ...
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Greek coalition parties meet to try to settle state TV row
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's ruling party leaders met on Wednesday to try to agree when and how to resume state TV broadcasts, two days after a top court ordered the immediate reopening of the state broadcaster ERT, abruptly closed by the government a week ...
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FBI No sign of Jimmy Hoffas body in Detroit suburb
Robert Foley, special agent in charge of the FBI's Detroit division, addresses the media in Oakland Township, Mich., June 19, 2013, where he announced the FBI was ending search operations for the remains of Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared from a Detroit-area restaurant in ...
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GOP Sen. Murkowski backs same-sex marriage
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, on Wednesday announced her support for marriage equality, becoming the third Republican senator to take that position just days before the Supreme Court is expected to announce decisions on two groundbreaking cases addressing the legality of same-sex marriage. In ...
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Report Okla. teen vanishes while hiking in South America
CBS affiliate KWTV, authorities in South America believe the teen may have been kidnapped. U.S. officials with the American Embassy in Ecuador told the station that they are monitoring the situation closely. In a phone interview, Chris Reiger told the station that an extensive search is underway. He said the family was hiking on a mountain near their resort hotel when August walked ahead of the ...
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Americas endangered historic places
President Barack Obama, left, walks around Gay Head Lighthouse while on vacation on Martha's Vineyard in Aquinnah, Mass., Aug. 27, 2009. The lighthouse is on The National Trust for Historic Preservation 2013 list of 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. It was the first lighthouse built on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts and now is in danger of toppling over the edge of the Gay ...
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Juneteenth Where to honor slaverys end
>Editor's note: This story was first published on June 19, 2012.(CNN) -- Maj Gen Gordon Granger of the Union Army announced to the assembled crowd at Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, "In accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. "It was June 19, 1865. Never mind that President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation had been written and ...
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Elephant killings surge funding terror
>Editor's note: Mark Quarterman is the research director of the Enough Project, a project of the Center for American Progress to end genocide and crimes against humanity.(CNN) -- The accelerating pace of the slaughter of elephants for their tusks has put African elephants at catastrophic risk in the coming decades. To make matters worse, some of the region's most notorious armed groups are ...
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If It Saves One Life...
CNSNews.com asked DeGette, "Many Democrats, when they were arguing for gun control in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting said even if this saves one life it will be worth doing. Why not support this bill then, if it undoubtedly will save lives of babies that have been carried throughout 5 months of pregnancy?" DeGette said, "Well, this is, this is. We already have laws in ...
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Obama Warns Against Rising Oceans Climate Change—Global Threat of Our Time
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Kyrgyz Judges In Hiding After Jailed Opposition Lawmakers Release
BISHKEK -- Three Kyrgyz judges who acquitted three convicted opposition lawmakers have apparently gone into hiding. A spokeswoman for the Kyrgyz Supreme Court told journalists on June 19 that the judges have not come to work since the previous day and their whereabouts are unknown. Dozens of activists have demanded that judges explain on what grounds the three leaders of the opposition ...
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Top cop We need immigration reform
>Editor's note: George Gascón is the district attorney of San Francisco, and the former chief of police in San Francisco and Mesa, Arizona(CNN) -- Members of the law enforcement community must sound their voices in support of comprehensive immigration reform for the sake of public safety and for the sake of our country. I write this as a former police chief in Mesa, Arizona, who ...
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Lack of City Council commitment to streetcar?
Fort Worth looks like it may be a long way off until the city has a proper streetcar system if current commitment to the project by local government is anything to go by.
In July of 2008 the City Council of Fort Worth decided that a modern streetcar system might be beneficial to the rapidly growing city, a solution was needed to urban intra-city mass transportation and plans went into the pipeline, but two years on little progress has been made, it seems instead that the city council lacks the commitment to carry out the necessary work to see a streetcar system come to fruition. Read more
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