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BOSTON (AP) -- An animal welfare official says a wayward manatee that was rescued from cold Cape Cod waters died on the way home to Florida....
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Omar strengthened into a hurricane and took aim at the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on Wednesday after drenching the southeastern Caribbean.
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Tropical storm Omar had strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane and was on a northbound path heading straight for the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico Wednesday.
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Police say a U.S. Virgin Islands woman with a history of mental problems killed her 16-month-old son by stabbing him repeatedly with a pair of scissors.
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MORE than a hundred tourists were praising the efforts of locals who rescued them from the Wicklow Mountains yesterday after tour buses got stranded in a blinding snowstorm.
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A hawksbill sea turtle that was attacked by wild dogs in the Virgin Islands has arrived for treatment at the Turtle Hospital in the Florida Keys.
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A former Interior Department official has been charged with accepting payments from business leaders in exchange for arranging meetings with government officials in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Three bombs exploded in Indonesia's Moluccas islands early on Monday, including one outside the governor's office. Indonesian authorities have stepped up security ahead of the imminent execution of three Muslim militants for 2002 Bali bomb attacks.
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After the serialisation of my new British seasonal food book over the past two weeks, some of you may be wishing that I could give the British theme a bit of a rest. With that in mind, here are some ideas for a simple Italian dinner party that was inspired by a recent research trip to Milan and Turin with Ewan Venters from Selfridges.
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American video-game tycoon Richard Garriott has become the world's sixth space tourist, taking off for the international space station from a launch pad in Kazakhstan.
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Virgin Atlantic may have "disappeared" if Halifax Bank of Scotland had gone under, Sir Richard Branson has revealed.
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A woman is rescued from the River Dee in Banchory after driving her car into the water, police confirm.
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Four people are rescued after their speedboat ran aground and began taking in water off the Moray Coast.
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Two men and a woman are rescued from two separate flats after an arson attack in Londonderry.
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Three divers struck by decompression sickness off the Sussex coast are flown to Hampshire for treatment.
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A fishing boat crew rescues three people from the sea after their speedboat capsizes near Padstow in Cornwall.
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Elton Brand’s off-season signing with the 76ers carries the potential to disrupt the balance of power in the Eastern Conference.
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A man dies and his son is seriously injured when they are hit by a car during a family trip to collect conkers in County Durham.
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A woman and two children are rescued from a house in Greater Manchester after a fire broke out.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked RBI governor D Subbarao to cut short his US visit. The change in Subbarao's travel plans — after finance minister P Chidambaram and commerce minister Kamal Nath were asked to call off their trips
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First-graders in San Francisco took a field trip to City Hall to celebrate the marriage of their lesbian teacher on Friday, but opponents of same-sex marriage in the state say the field trip was an attempt to indoctrinate the students.
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Shiny designer hotels have been popping up in Manhattan’s downtown with almost improbable frequency.
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Did you find Sunday's "Mad Men" episode to be pretty weird? After I watched an advance DVD early last week, the episode resonated in my head for days.
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Brandon Jennings is considered the best point guard prospect of the high school class of 2008. And if he opts to play in Europe next season, it could cause a ripple effect.
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A woman is taken to hospital after being rescued from a house fire in Ballymena, County Antrim, the fire service says.
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Argentina star Lionel Messi will not face Scotland at Hampden, the South American country's football federation have confirmed.
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The most important task of the Federal Reserve and the Treasury right now is to restore confidence in bank solvency -- hence the Treasury's move to spend the first $250 billion of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) buying ownership stakes in a range of banks. Nonfunctioning markets and dried-up liquidity are symptoms of universal suspicion of insolvency, and lending among banks will resume in earnest only when banks are known to be solvent.
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Worcestershire are handed a trip to Ireland in the draw for the group stages of the 2009 Friends Provident Trophy
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has canceled a planned trip to a Middle East conference because of the global crisis in financial markets, the State Department said Tuesday.
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Virgin Atlantic has cut its fuel surcharges taking up to £26 off the price of a longhaul return ticket.
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WIN a trip for you and three friends to go to this year's Melbourne Cup, including flights and accommodation.
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As part of plans to expand its routes network, Virgin Nigeria Airways has put all arrangement in place to begin flight operations this week to two new destinations, one regional and one domestic route respectively.
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Minister for Foreign Affairs, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, has disclosed that to add impetus to the recent friendly partnership between Nigeria and Cameroon, Virgin Nigeria and Bellview Airlines have been granted operating rights in Cameroon.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice canceled a visit to the United Arab Emirates this week to stay home and help the Bush administration tackle the financial crisis, her spokesman said on Tuesday.
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BA and Virgin Atlantic are to cut their fuel surcharges for most passengers in response to a fall in the price of oil.
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The airline is trimming the surcharge on economy and premium economy tickets for the first time since June, increasing pressure on British Airways to make a similar move
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has canceled a planned trip to a Middle East conference because of the global crisis in financial markets, the State Department said Tuesday.
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British Airways has followed Virgin Atlantic in cutting its fuel surcharges as airline passengers finally benefit from the fall in the cost of oil.
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