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POLICE are investigating after a young rugby player, paralysed after a training accident, travelled to a Swiss clinic to kill himself in an "assisted suicide".
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The high cost of using mobile phones abroad has seen Go-Sim record a huge boost in turnover
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Google said today it is partnering with LIFE magazine to make more than 10 million images available online from the magazine's photo archive.One of the most interesting things about the project is 97 percent of the photographs have never been seen by the public. The collection contains iconic images from the 20th century with works from LIFE photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Gordon Parks, and W.Eugene Smith.read more
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The Belams found a deal through an online travel agency that priced a 21-day cruise to Brazil at $2,200 per person — a good value. Or so they thought.
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SBI Life Insurance has taken up the initiative of educating its customers on the effects of the current economic crisis so that they know how to deal with their investments.
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The founder of an investment fund that lost US$1.4 billion with Bernard Madoff was discovered dead Tuesday after committing suicide at his Madison Avenue office, marking a grim turn in a scandal that has left investors around the world in financial ruin.
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We are watching a lithe, beautiful assassin packing serious heat and a supreme sense of cool as she teaches a nervous young man how to shoot. Serenely confident in her macha swagger, the assassin, aptly named Fox, embodies all that is predatory, ruthless and lethally sexy.
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German billionaire Adolf Merckle has committed suicide after his business empire, which included interests ranging from pharmaceuticals to cement, ran into trouble in the global financial crisis, his family said Tuesday.
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Adolf Merckle’s speculation in volatile Volkswagen shares pushed his sprawling empire to the edge of ruin.
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German billionaire Adolf Merckle killed himself, "broken" as his business empire crumbled under a growing burden of debt, his family said.
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Adolf Merckle’s speculation in volatile Volkswagen shares pushed his sprawling empire to the edge of ruin.
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Starting today, Japanese company Cyberdyne will mass-produce its HAL ("Hybrid Assistive Limb") exoskeleton: The 22-pound battery-operated computer system is belted to the waist. It captures the brain signals and relays them to mechanical leg braces strapped to the thighs...
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The real world: where, precisely, is it? That is the faintly disconcerting puzzle that an encounter with Bruce Parry triggers. He is the explorer and television presenter who redefines the concept of suffering for his art.
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The home I grew up in... was a one-bedroom, ground-floor space that regularly flooded during the monsoon season in Mumbai. My brother, sister and I squeezed together on the bed and my mum and dad slept on a mattress on the floor. Aged nine, we moved to a two-bedroom flat in Hong Kong. It was like moving to a mansion.
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There is something about reproductive health that makes some Americans froth and go crazy.
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As a long-term Scottish Nationalist, albeit one who rather implausibly can't stand haggis, Stagecoach chief Brian Souter is no stranger to the political world.
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Sean Lineen's irrepressible optimism was tested to the limit yesterday as he announced that neither Dan Parks nor Thom Evans will play in today's vital Heineken Cup opener in Newport.
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Regulators fears over sector's stability as market turmoil slashes the value of the stocks and bonds they hold to guarantee pension payments
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Search for Martina Cole in print or on the internet and you will find almost nothing about her, except that she is one of Britain's best-selling novelists.
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Briton Lewis Hamilton secured pole position for Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix, in a bid to extend his World Championship lead. The McLaren driver will start ahead of Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen on the front row.
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The video community cuts back on developers, citing "market conditions and the recession."
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Regulatory board will immediately begin asking nurses about any convictions when they seek license renewals. The agency will also work to expand fingerprinting. California regulators have announced emergency measures to investigate the criminal backgrounds of all registered nurses in the state, days after The Times reported that dozens of nurses had kept their licenses for years despite multiple convictions.
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Rachael Mullenix, 19, expresses grudging remorse as she is sentenced for conspiring with her boyfriend to stab her mother and dump her body into Newport Harbor. Rachael Mullenix, the Huntington Beach teenager who conspired with her love-struck boyfriend to murder her mother and dump the slashed body into Newport Harbor, expressed only grudging and limited remorse Friday as a judge sentenced her to 25 years to life in prison.
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OLYMPIC silver medallist Kenny Egan and his parents were left 'shocked' and 'distraught' after intense speculation over his private life.
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AFTER a week of quite extraordinary financial events in which the word ‘unprecedented' became commonplace, it was with delight that I received a diverting email from a popular City restaurant which had noted a change in the eating habits of its customers.
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McLaren's Lewis Hamilton has claimed pole position for the Japanese Formula One Grand Prix.
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The Rays have finally escaped their ghost — the ghost of Greg Vaughn.
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Colgate’s Jordan Scott may be the leading rusher in the Football Championship Subdivision, but even his coach says he’s not that great. Still, he’s more than good enough.
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Jamie Livingston started taking one picture a day in 1979. The project ended 18 years and more than 6,000 photos later with a self-portrait on his deathbed on his 41st birthday.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spaniard Albert Montanes has been awarded the third and final wildcard for the Madrid Masters along with Russian Marat Safin and Italian Fabio Fognini, the tournament organizers said on Saturday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Saturday removed North Korea from its terrorism blacklist in a bid to revive faltering denuclearization talks in the final months of the Bush administration.
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The director first dismissed 'Bees,' only to later fall in love with the book and bring it to the screen. SIX YEARS ago, when Gina Prince-Bythewood was first offered "The Secret Life of Bees" to adapt into a screenplay and direct, she blew it off without even reading the book. Never mind that Sue Monk Kidd's novel about a young white girl growing up in the civil-rights-era South was a bestseller. Prince-Bythewood had just come off directing two movies without a break and she was exhausted.
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The actor worried about the political fallout from Oliver Stone's Bush biopic, but in the end he couldn't pass up the challenge. FRIENDS told him not to do it. He'd even turned it down once already. The possible maelstrom of partisan controversy weighed on him. But in deciding to play the Decider for Oliver Stone's new satirical biopic, "W.," Josh Brolin relied on a very non-George W. Bush-like standard: doubt. Unlike the 43rd president of the United States, a man fatally confident of his actions, Brolin wasn't sure he could pull it off.
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The morning appearance in the Rose Garden kicks off a weekend of high-stakes meetings between world finance ministers and central banks. President Bush and the finance ministers of seven of the world's most powerful economies stood shoulder to shoulder in the White House Rose Garden this morning and pledged to work together to resolve the crisis that has paralyzed global markets.
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Fatmata Jalloh's body lay on a rusting metal gurney in a damp hospital ward, a scrap of paper with her name and "R.I.P." taped to her stomach. In the soft light of a single candle -- the power was out again in one of Africa's poorest cities -- Jalloh looked like a sleepi...
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